skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead, many of these companies take a cue from the way Facebook rolled out with a deliberate controlled pacing that allowed it to scale as it went from just Harvard, to include Ivy League schools, high schools, work places, and eventually the world.

Did Facebook really have controlled pacing or did the product actually just start out as a niche product and grow? I thought the latter. The difference being did Zuck actually have even a blurry plan of its growth?
Yeah, I wrote this as my own tool for similar reasons (actually I just wanted to use it locally, http://domainzomg.com/ is for when I'm not on my own computer and for friends who want to use it).

But it's soooo much faster if you run it locally, it's not even a comparison. Maybe I'll open-source this so other people can just run it locally and not worry that I'm stealing their BRILLIANT DOMAIN NAME IDEAS. ;-)
Do well enough in school to keep everyone happy (including yourself). Spend the rest of your time learning deeply about something that genuinely interests you. Everything will work out.
Game loops on IOS
-sigh- ipad 'autocorrect'

s/dong/don't/
"You're letting the terrorists win! You scientists need to just go back to your ivory towers while the rest of us real Americans stand up for freedom!"
This is very similar to a minor plot-point in PK Dick's "The Galactic Pot-Healer." The protagonist is a typical Dick character, out of place in his world. His pastime is to use the language translation feature of the global computer system (which is appreciably less than perfect) to translate, and re-translate famous sayings and the like enough times to obscure the original, and then submit the mutated phrases to his friends, to see if they can guess the original.
Then where is it?
Don't worry, though, there will be drugs that you can take for life for things like cancer, HIV, etc.
My elementary school had an interesting practice here, starting at the end of the 6th grade you could take a calculator drivers license test, which once passed allowed you to use your calculator on any assignment. The test had two components, the first required you to demonstrate an ability to do estimation, that you had a general understanding of the scale of numbers following various operations, and the second required you to perform the actual calculations.
Wikipedia is about power and the kick you get out of it.
JRuby: Apples and Oranges
How one-men teams beat corporate ones (John Britten v Ducati)
Get him to at least read a few of PG's articles on startups.

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html
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How many of the folks who commented on the notability of the programming languages in question actually had the qualifications or knowledge to do so?

I'm not questioning your actions, although I think deletionism is a prima facie bad thing; I just doubt most people who would comment on such things are knowledgeable about them.
If you try if with just the European languages, the translation actually comes through pretty well. Adding Persian or one of the Asian languages is where things get messed up.

Which means... if you want to expand your market, you could probably provide sufficient support to European countries using Google translate to communicate with customers.
It makes me feel a bit sick to recommend a Symantec product but PGP Desktop is pretty much the standard crypto product. You can integrate it into your mail, use it to share on a local network or encrypt files and share them any way you like (dropbox, email, carrier pigeon).

The Free alternative, GPG4Win is pretty good for Windows (or GPG for other platforms) but might be less intuitive for the less technical, and you don't get whole disk encryption thrown in.

You're not going to be able to access GPG/PGP from a phone, but if you're using something like Google Apps for domains you can ensure that everything's encrypted in transit over SSL.
Look, you're preaching to the choir. He is part of the establishment, but there are a lot of parts to the establishment, and a lot of others with enough power to challenge his. Not that I find this anywhere near a valid excuse for his frankly criminal abuses and negligence, but he doesn't have a free hand. He got where he is by pleasing the powerful. It's probably difficult in our time and perhaps any other to find a ruler of a powerful country who hasn't committed criminal abuses and negligence. That's the sort of person who achieves those positions. Now he himself is one of the powerful, but still risks a lot by going against the line, even as president. Is it unlikely that he will change? Yes. But it would still be nice if he did. I believe it's possible, to some extent, though not very probable. Stranger things have happened.
Yeah, in practice I always run this in its own tab, so it's not a thing that has ever bothered me. I put that in because it did bother me that I couldn't Cmd-(L+C) to get a paste-able URL to show other people. In the long run, I might change it to have a time-out, maybe use `history.pushState` where available to make cleaner-looking URLs? It's not high on the priority list, though. Ultimately it's just about making a tool that does exactly what I want it to do - if it works for other people, they're welcome to use it, if not, there are only 500 million other sites that do almost the same thing, but with a slightly different take on it.
It seems to me that most people on HN are programers with rather broad interest.. So I don't think the programer who only lives to code is the majority, although it might seem this way during graduate school
So after all this outrage, do you agree that maybe you took it just a little bit too far?
The Unhappiest Bull Market Ever
There is a link on this page to http://www.googledemolition.com/ also, which looks like another project waiting for a takedown notice..
College sophomore here working on a SaaS web app. I always wonder where the other people my age are.
You both make good points but this blog post still smells like a cheap marketing stunt.
her 2nd book was recently published, I started reading it today and so far its pretty good
I've been doing contract work from abroad for the last 2 years (first Brazil and now SE Asia), but right now I'm rotting in a hotel room in Chiang Mai going out of my mind with boredom. I sent you an email at the address listed in your profile, let's chat.
There is no "somewhere else". This was borrowed money to begin with. Look at the list: http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRe...

How many impassioned pleas based on a context-free analysis can you make from that list?

And it's not enough cutting. After all this we're still immensely in the hole. Immensely.

We're not in a situation where the household making $100,000/year has $10,000 of discretionary spending last year, and they're being jerks and not giving some of it to a good charity. We're in a situation where the $100,000/year household has spent $149,200 dollars last year[1], and has been doing this for a while. Government debt isn't quite the same as household debt, but it still isn't magic. You're complaining about a $74 reduction in spending!

We can't cut from defense "instead", we need to cut defense in addition to. Which has been seriously proposed in a way that may actually politically happen, it just isn't happening all at once.

Stop thinking about government spending as if there's a magic money fountain and start thinking about it like it's your own money. Yes, it would be great to spend twice your income on a better car, but the mere fact that it would be a great car, a really great car, man nobody should have to live without this car car does not make it a good idea. Nothing that science research is going to feasibly produce is better than having a country that is still fiscally sound, and that goes for a great deal of other things that need to be cut.

What is a bankrupt society supposed to do with the results of this research, anyhow?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budg... : 2010 Revenue, 2.381 trillion, 2010 expenditures: 3.552 trillion, 3.552 / 2.381 = 1.49181...
Fun and interesting project. Reminds me of http://www.translationparty.com/

You should totally enable linking to the language setups, now it's hard to share an interesting result.
> ...if I had any confidence there was anybody left in the education system that actually has any clue about what "math" is anymore

Yes, I think you are right. Reminds me of Richard Feynman's views of the education system as expressed in his book, Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman.

http://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&lpg=PA60&#...
Start a company and create jobs

Edit: Even if you can't hire poor people, you probably will need services from them, like cleaning for your buildings, construction of them, etc. It is more about the implying effects than the direct effects.
It's likely Zuckerberg had some vision very early on of just how big it could become (and the value of a real identity - not a false identity [1])

According to Robert Scoble, the controlled pacing is still going on:

"Here’s the phases of Facebook:

Phase 1. Harvard only.

Phase 2. Harvard+Colleges only.

Phase 3. Harvard+Colleges+Geeks only.

Phase 4. All those above+All People (in the social graph).

Phase 5. All those above+People and businesses in the social graph.

Phase 6. All those above+People, businesses, and well-known objects in the social graph.

Phase 7. All people, businesses, objects in the social graph."

http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/21/why-facebook-has-never-list...

[1] http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html
Spanish Design Student Creates Sleek New Spotify Gadget
> A PhD student isn't an idiot

I have met a few PhD students who weren't the most notable programming languages in the wiki if you get my drift...
> There is also a small US Army base between Roppongi and the Aoyama graveyard, right next to the new National Museum.

Thanks. I finally found an article mentioning it : http://www.jpri.org/publications/friends/mcneill_JT_05-09-06...
Let's put aside the insanely weird idea that one person has the ability to derail the creation of information unilaterally, without a vote, and without any oversight to focus on the real problem...

Jesus, does Zed Shaw live on another planet? I've never edited a Wikipedia article in my life and even I know that when an article is nominated for deletion, there's a big hullabaloo where everyone votes and argues about it before it's actually deleted.

Also:

It's sort of impossible to say that the Esoteric programming languages page should not have a description of every "notnotable" programming language.

I do not think "impossible" means what you think it means.
A pertinent question to the author (who, quite rightly, seems to be quite emotive at the issue) : if you don't want your colleages to lose their jobs, at which other government dept should the jobs go? Some say defense, might be a good idea, but to say - oh those 1 million defense jobs, they're not as valuable as my 1 million scientists jobs. It's an impossible calculation to make. It's just as heartbreaking for every family where the jobs go missing, no matter where they are employed. I would also ask if this person has shrugged of hearing of several million jobs in constructions, or banking, or wherever, have been lost. Uncomfortable as it might be for government employees, they are totally dependent on the real economy for their jobs. If that real economy isn't firing, then they too, must inevitably feel the effect.

It's quite understandable for people to react strongly, but the target of the outrage is always the person making the cuts, not the person who squandered the money away in the first place.

I am hopeful, however, that some time in the future if a lot of skilled people are released into the jobs market that something new and exciting arises as a result. That's no consolation for a department facing the axe, of course, But surely some of them have a hot new idea that hasn't been pursued because of the stupidity in leaving a well-paid job to chase a dream. Perhaps now someone will chase that hot idea they've had for a decade and change all of our lives forever. I admit it's a long shot, but you've got to hope for something.
Wikipedia Fails at Life
> It also plays like a specific issue trying to be painted into a gender issue, which it really isn't.

That's why I came here to comment. Is the author trying to say that all men want to live in the cs lab, and all women don't? That's the kind of sexism that is the problem. On the other hand, if there are others who eat, breathe and live CS, yes, they will be ahead of you. What do you expect? It's just like anything. You'll never be the best, so be what you want to be.
I like how they kind of poke fun at their own use of stock photography.
haha I quite enjoyed that
Depends on how good you believe your high school school is. I went to a terrible school, so I dropped out. Am I feeling any consequences? Not yet, I guess. I got into a mediocre four-year anyway (that turned out to have an amazing math department) but came back to community college to transfer to a good public school.
I think, were I to do it again, I'd drop out of high school as early as possible (16), start community college full-time, and transfer into a good public four-year, two years ahead of everyone. This is best done in California.
Disclaimer: Don't listen to me.
Christopher is a PhD student at Princeton under advisor Dave Walker.

If anyone here has connections to Princeton or Dave Walker, I really encourage you to bring this to his attention, as he is hopefully someone Christopher respects enough to listen to advice from. Given that Dave's CV includes designing several esoteric programming languages, I suspect he would have a personal stake in this issue.
This would be more fun if I could use it with my NES gun
This is not Hex-rays output. It is much better than this. This is boomerang, which is a free decompiler that hasn't been maintained much lately. You'll note that not much has been updated on their page since 2006.

http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/

This github project is pretty much useless for those who want to learn about Stuxnet. Better to load the binary into IDA Freeware instead.

Stuxnet does appear to be an unusually large project (base classes, ungainly modular structure) for malware. This reinforces what I said earlier about its lack of stealth for the payload.

http://rdist.root.org/2011/01/17/stuxnet-is-embarrassing-not...

It does not appear to be sophisticated in any way except for its payload, which some evidence seems to claim was carefully constructed (e.g., with a PLC testbed). The "embarrassing" fact I was referring to in the above post is that its lack of stealth revealed its payload to the world, and no competent intelligence agency has that goal if the purpose of the worm itself is to do some damage.

Perhaps the worm is a way to draw the heat off the real deployment method. Or it is industrial sabotage gone awry. There is still not enough evidence to come to any conclusions on it, except this is not what an eleet cyberweapon would look like if you were to find one.
I was merely suggesting that scientists get out more and make the public aware of the important research going on.
No, it is not merely an Embassy. It is a U.S. Military presence. I finally found an article with a photo and more concrete details : http://www.jpri.org/publications/friends/mcneill_JT_05-09-06...
> Still, Wikipedia's deletionism is arrant nonsense up with which we should not put.

Everyone's a deletionist about something.
looks like you can just pay $150 bucks for HD 595 on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD595-High-Grade-Premiere-H...
I admit to being idealistic and closed-minded about AIR and Flash, but that's 84 million too many in my opinion.
Try tonido or tonidoplug. It is a good web based file server and has a p2p collaboration server as well.
That's a good idea! I'll see if I can do that tomorrow. It's 1:23am here and I have school tomorrow :(
If I was going to quit my job, Google would be on the top of my list of places to apply to. But since I have a job I really love and get to work with a great team where I am now, I wouldn't consider leaving.
The content? Considering the HuffPo hires dangerous quacks left and right, the content is a massive failure.
Class useless(xkcd):
> I also highly recommend taking the translation back to English after each other language, so you can watch how each translation changes it.

That observation will change the translation though... Unless you went:

A -> Spanish(A) -> English(Spanish(A)) -> German(Spanish(A)) -> English(German(Spanish(A))).

Otherwise you'd be doing:

A -> Spanish(A) -> English(Spanish(A)) -> German(English(Spanish(A))) -> English(German(English(Spanish(A)))), etc.
Maybe one should take a clue from The Shawshank Redemption: I am coming up for rejection next week :)
Hex-rays is much much better than this. You'll have to see the actual output to understand, but at least here are some examples. It does not do such a bad job with type identification, although it certainly isn't perfect.

http://www.hex-rays.com/hexcomp11.shtml
"I love you" does not lose meaning in translation.
If i'm remembering right, that's largely because proceedings from EU and european courts are used as the data for many of these translators, since there is such a copious amount of text that is well translated between the languages and recorded.
I'd read http://guides.rubyonrails.org since its constantly updated and its breadth of coverage is unsurpassed. However, Agile Web Development with Rails 3 is also good for its depth.
If the problem is pollution of the main lists of programming language articles by entries that Mr. Monsanto considers to be inappropriate for listing...wouldn't an appropriate compromise be removing them from these programming languages lists? This seems like a shortcoming in Wikipedia's policies? This way the data is preserved, but not related to the main search spaces. If you look a language up on Google, it will still be there because it will be indexed.

Otherwise, Mr. Monsanto has every right to push his agenda on Wikipedia insofar as it is within the bounds of legal play on the site. Attacking his character gets nobody anywhere, and probably adds credence to whatever he's doing. If you're really concerned about deletions of your favorite PL articles, sit on them. If a request for removal/deletion (I don't know the wiki-jargon) pops up, just dump all over it. Even better, improve the articles. He can't get something deleted that's not mediocre. Agents like Mr. Monsanto will actually improve the quality of your average article one way or the other. I'm impressed that somebody would bother reading so many articles and post meta-data about them....especially on a topic that so few people engage in.

It's curious that pages that don't meet Mr. Monsanto's criterion of having been cited in a 'top-tier' publication. There are so many articles on Wikipedia that do not have ties to anything real. Is it really fair to hold PL topics to academic-level standards? What if somebody considers PL an art, or something other than semantics and formalisms? This does happen, and people who create new languages from languages that aren't considered much in the PL community might actually fall into these categories.

I think Mr. Monsanto would do well to spell out his criteria for what isn't desirable in precise and formal terms.
If the last thing we cured was polio, how does that justify the money the government spent of research in the decades since?
My favorite part is how he admits the rules he's enforcing are inadequate, and yet continues to enforce them.

Sounds like furthering a cause. By the specificness of that cause, I would have to bet:

- Had an article he wrote on a small programming language, possibly his own, deleted for not being notable enough.

- Feels that less notable languages than the one in question were not treated similarly.

- Perceives injustice.

- Takes action.

Hopefully nothing other than some quality encyclopedia writing and anti-deletionist attitude (space is very cheap) comes from this. I don't like how ugly this is already becoming.
Ask HN: Building Custom Hardware
Since I started frequenting HN, I've always enjoyed reading about software startups, but it has only recently occurred to me that I really have no idea how to get into brick-and-mortar manufacturing. A lot of sweet software ideas require custom hardware manufacturing -- e.g how did they build wakemates and the JooJoo and fitbits? How do we commission a factory, or more simply, purchase prototypes? And I'm not beyond going ahead and trying to manufacture them myself if it isn't too far-fetched.

Just unanswered questions in my mind, was wondering if HN could shed some light.

Even knowing what kinds of people in college would learn how to do this stuff would be useful. (e.g what majors? ECE? EE? I'm specifically talking about electronic hardware.)
Koss has lifetime replacement warranty.

http://www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/warrrepair5

If they are broken, get a replacement, I think you only have to pay shipping. I read about people taking advantage of this all the time on their older headphones.
None of the articles I nominated for deletion had any reliable sources to back them up.

Alice ML has more than a handful of papers on its design, semantics, implementation, and related concepts. Are peer reviewed publications not reliable? As a PhD student, I'm sure you disagree.

The best you could do is add those citations to the article, instead of the chosen course of (in)action.
Great idea! It's just what my partner and I need for our start up!I wonder if there is a company out there like this?? .
This is what we get as a nation for encouraging a political culture that doesn't value the work of government.
"The vast majority of deleted pages are utter crap."

So fucking what?

Bits are so cheap they're damn near free, and we have pretty good search technology these days. Who gives a shit if there is some crusty data that nobody cares about lying around?

Who precisely is hurt by this?
If I embarked on a "clean-up" project like this and found others' reactions weren't as I predicted, I'd consider that maybe I'm not representative of others; that others may use Wikipedia differently from myself. I would undo what others see as harm and find a less contentious way to improve a shared resource. Rather than trying to fit Wikipedia guidelines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability) to my own preference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...), I'd consider that maybe my interpretation of those guidelines needs to be re-examined.

In the case of Nemerle, a cursory search of academic and practitioner sites demonstrates it deserves a Wikipedia page. Put it back and go hack on that better wikipedia UI you mentioned.
Though, I can see Christoper's Point of view, I wonder about the cost-benefit of this kind a cleanup would be. The main reason seems to be to unclutter the listing of topics in wikipedia. How many people navigate Wikipedia through lists, isn't search more often used? In which case the central argument behind deleting factual information would be more costly than beneficial(even though it doesn't live up to wikipedia' notability standard).

BTW, Why the hostility? and the mob mentality. I thought he articulated his arguments clearly and quite well without malice.
I don't think it would necessarily crash, unless you intentionally wrote code to target a specific bug in Hex-rays itself.

You can certainly get Hex-rays to output confusing information on purpose without actually targeting it. If this was obfuscated, you'd expect that would be much more likely.