skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People got confused by your somewhat unclear (at least to some people), off-topic comment

What actually happened: People read the first line, jumped to a conclusion, and further reading/brain activity was a fail.

I think it speaks volumes when you have to comment with this level of "tl;dr" mentality in mind. I did not have to do that in days past.

I long for the days when I could simply express thoughts needing 3 or more sentences for complete expression on HN. This used to be the big advantage of commenting in text over speaking. Now, I have to treat the first line of each comment like a headline, because the pool of readers has already jumped to a conclusion.
I'm around $150 a month with my android apps, Most of my apps are free with donation versions, but I just released my first paid only app 'POV Live Wallpaper' and curious to see what it will do ;)

All my apps https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Kudzu+Mobile
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Just wondering, if the graph would look like http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/26/Mobile-Mon...
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HPC Applications Acceleration engineers, CUDA/GPU programming, Software tools and systems programmers, FPGA/Hardware engineers, Systems Administrators.

http://www.maxeler.com/careers/
Excellent article.

My take is that what kills Lisp is a common allergy towards anything related to so-called release management. The Lisp technology helps with it - it encourages staying within an image and putting all new stuff there. The problem is, it can and often does create an attitude "it works in my image and I don't care, you should know how to put it together by yourself or maybe you're not skilled enough". Well, it partly true. But the proponents of such elitist view tend to forget that today's software is so interdependent and relying on moving parts each of different quality, that actually we don't have the luxury of having "works for me" attitude. Even a genius can bang his head against stupid obstactes. It's not intelligent (and counter-hackish) to repeat the same mistakes again, or allow others to do that.

We as a civilisation invented cool things like semantic versioning, encapsulation, TDD & BDD. Please, Lispers, do follow this movement. Some people like creator od Quicklisp do a tremendous work in the area of release management, but are they a majority?

Sharing is part of creating. Making something shareable counts as well. Not being able to share makes people bitter, because we're social animals after all..
It's a design choice to value explicit naming (and easier nesting) over brevity.

Anaphoric macros are not idiomatic in Clojure (there is only one: proxy), implicit introduction of locals is frowned upon (and you have to fight the hygienic macro system to create them).
Introducing lightpanel. The LED java + ruby panel.
Has your senator been Feingold or a Republican since the passage of the Patriot Act? Or did you not vote for one? If an anti-patriot act Libertarian ran against a pro-patriot act Democrat, who would you support?

You can support the lesser of two evils without being called an evil, right? Who are we (Obama incl.) giving aid to in the Middle East? Why do you hold the Kochs to such a high standard? Bachmann has a higher pro-free trade rating than any of her viable opponents did... are they supposed to let her lose to someone they dislike more??

BTW, Rand Paul and Ron Paul are Republicans and against the Patriot Act.
Love to hear your "dipshit company" story. Do a post?
Congrats on the sale first!

Have you thought about setting aside, let's say 5 or 10% of it for (angle) investing in a few promising startups?

HTH
Per the footer note: "Sadly, this app doesn't exist. If you think it should and write cool Mac apps, email me, or message me on Twitter."
I've never written any Lisp, but after how much I related to this article I feel like I should be!
The site (awesomely) says that most of the code powering it is openly available on Github (https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9) - out of interest, which parts have you developed separately for your service?
This is based on ACE, which was formerly known as Skywriter, or Mozilla Bespin.

http://ace.ajax.org/

http://c9.io/about.html
The pace of adoption of SaaS solutions from SMBs is accelerating. These are good recommendations for businesses looking at affordable and easy to use apps for CRM, project management or email marketing.
It was scary how much this article made me think of myself. Probably, no coincidence then that my favorite class at school was my first CS class, taught in Scheme, from SICP, and that my GPA was quite low.
Agreed. The article is mostly ragging on "misuse" of the word passion.
A lot of great points raised, but there's still something to be said for working in a field you enjoy. Forget the semantic dance around the meaning of the word "passion" for a minute.

Let's take the author's hypothetical example of the person who's really into composting. Maybe this person isn't "passionate" about composting to the point of stark-raving obsession, but pretty much anywhere just shy of that mark is feasible. This person is probably better served working in the gardening industry -- maybe as a landscape designer, or an executive at a home & garden brand, or starting up a community or zine or product line around gardening, etc. -- than in, say, the auto industry.

What determines whether or not this person should actually pursue his "passion" for composting in the professional arena? The degree of love for the subject, certainly, but also risk tolerance and perseverence. Those are the two critical, but oft-overlooked factors that the "follow your passion!" self-help gurus gloss over.

The hard truth is that not everyone's cut out for following his or her passion. Some have the drive, the obsession, the work ethic, the aptitude, and the right mix of circumstances to make it happen. Some don't. The real trick isn't testing how strong your passion is; it's testing how strong you are.
The morality of doing this type of stuff has been discussed before.
Do you think the genius poet would have been inspired living in a mansion, every need catered to by servants?

You validated my point. The best poet was not motivated by revenue, and althought I do not know, was probably not worried of others disseminating their work.

Creating art for art's sake, not to pay for the offspring's tuition bills.
gutting. clever though.
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Barbie is a computer engineer now.

My wife is in medical school, and there are more females in medical school now than males.

In order to change these kinds of things we need to move on from the past and look forward, and stop worrying about what color toys our children have.

Personally I think we need to overhaul what kind of education is valued. As in, encourage all kids to get STEM degrees, or alternatively become lawyers or doctors. Stop encouraging kids to go to university and major in english or philosophy or... any number of majors that lack hard math / science classes.

If we get kids to major in the right kinds of things in college, I think we can stem the current unemployment recent grads are feeling (nobody is looking to hire a liberal arts psychology major, except restaurants (waiters)).
Just to throw my 2 cents in. With the new Mac App Store, it's not just about mobile apps only. There's good money to be found in all flavors of app stores. http://www.10millionapps.com/2011/02/anatomy-of-a-mac-app-st...
morality? hardcore...wouldn't think morals would even play a role
I understand why MS has been trying to merge the feature sets of the two languages. There is just too much legacy VB code out there to ignore. However, I think that because the two languages share the same runtime, and that IMHO C# is the more modern language, VB needs to head towards deprecation. I find that they are similar enough that any VB programmer should be able to read C# with out too much hassle, and things could move forward more quickly if they werent maintaining two languages.
Yes, please do!

Edit: Added: I'm sure many here would benefit from this.
The right sort of open
Test Driven Development for JavaScript: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
The tool used to ssh in parallel is http://code.google.com/p/csshx/
Thanks dloft, I appreciate the response. I know you can't really answer why _I_ got rejected, I was just curious if there was something in particular they were looking for. Applying to companies and getting rejected tends to give very little feedback, and I'd like to know what I should be focusing on improving. I guess that's kind of par for the course though.
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If Hackers Steal a Bank's Quant Code, Do We Still Have a Functioning Market?
Thanks for the reply. I do like the idea and it is interesting. I'll look into Cloud9's OSS project as it would be really useful to have, for instance, Cloud9 installed on a development server, then be able to login from anywhere and edit the code (though security wise it could be hazardous).
I like it. I hope this gets built.

Unfortunately, there's not really any more room in my menu bar. http://cl.ly/4vlI
My wife is in medical school, and getting a masters in public health, at the same time. Meanwhile, many of her friends have dropped out of MBA programs, or stopped working full-time to be pregnant / get married / be a home-maker.

However, there are more females in medical school now than males, it's just a matter of time as the older generation retires.

Personally, I think there would be more doctors if it didn't cost $200k+ and 4 years to get a medical degree (compare the opportunity cost vs working as a software engineer for 4 years with only a bachelors).
Uh... we get calls when our Internet is down too. Always did. We're not using Vonage or something. I think the verdict is that there have been companies doing exactly what TellFi does for many years now, and many of them appear to be significantly cheaper.
I don't get whats so outrageous that some people can say things that others can't. Context is everything, especially in language. I see this argument all the time when it comes to race and sex, and I just don't get it. It seems completely disingenuous to me. Confusion explained the difference well so I won't repeat it.

Let me ask you this, why is it so outrageous that its worth calling her out and making assumptions about her motivations just because she said something that you couldn't get away with?
I doubt it. Most of these warnings and previews that you mention are the direct result of piracy. I also don't think the movie and music industry are going to play that game anymore.

in 1999 when Napster came out, everyone said music was too expensive (so they pirated it). Later, it was because there was no "try before you buy" and because the artists were getting screwed by the record companies.

Now that we have services like last.fm, pandora, and grooveshark to preview songs and you can buy songs for less than $1 (which is pretty damn cheap). Hell, you can even get DRM-less music and artists can easily sell their own music without a label.

Has piracy stopped at all? no. It's gotten worse and so have the excuses. Why can't people just admit that they don't give a damn about the artist and just want free music/movies?
I don't think I can become a angel investor yet, but I will be using some of the money to fund my own future ventures though.
There seems to be a validation on the second "All that apply" question preventing no answers. That seems a little strange as I would hardly say those are universal and everyone has to feel at least one.
You read that entire article and your takeaway is a theory about why Lisp isn't popular? I got something entirely, completely, and utterly unlike that. I read an article that was about the author's students, but I recognized the same thing in myself, in people who have devoted themselves to playing Bridge full time, and many other corners of society where extremely bright people hang out.

The correlation between the personality and Lisp programming is very interesting, but I have to say that Lisp having a terrible "UI" for sharing--if true--doesn't strike me as being connected to the article.

Maybe you could help me connect the dots between what the author is saying and what you are saying?
You can't put a price on your dignity. It's sad, truly sad, that people spend a fortune on university to pick up a career using...BASIC.

This is different from being a C# or Java mercenary.
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no. Because the people that don't want the term piracy used think that way because they don't feel what they are doing is wrong.
Well, the idea is this: Normally you have all your stuff on your own computer. You'll install all the software you need, like your database and runtimes and any SDK. With Cloud9 all that stuff lives in the Cloud. It's hosted and it's accessible for you from anywhere.

So, like any cloud service, the hosting costs money. We are offering this for free when you work on open source projects. But when you are doing a commercial project for a customer and you like the benefits of being in the cloud with not only your editor, but your entire test environment, then you pay something for it. One of the advantages of cloud services is that you have flexibility, so with the pay per day we offer the flexibility to only pay for the use of the platform when you need it. Our thought is that if you're doing a project that makes you a couple of hundred dollars a day, 50 cents for the editor is not much if it saves you a lot of time.

With that said, we still have some way to go before all the time savers we have planned are in Cloud9. We're working on a very cool Git UI, great deployment integration and many many other features. More important for you is the Ruby support that is upcoming, including step through debugging. In the mean time use cloud9 for your open source projects and see how it feels for you.
I find in practice that even more important than figuring out which tools to use to solve your problem is figuring out what your problem is in the first place. The importance of measuring tools is often vastly under-represented in this discussion. Doing so properly almost always involves writing some custom profiling code, and having a good understanding of where resource bottlenecks are likely to be in your systems (and then ignoring that when the numbers tell you otherwise).
In that case, here's a very generic method for reading a specific number of lines:

$ mkfifo /tmp/pipename
$ (echo "C"; echo "D") >/tmp/pipename &
$ { read A; read B } </tmp/pipename
$ echo "$A"
C
$ echo "B"
D
$ rm /tmp/pipename

Using named pipes does introduce the issue of cleaning them up afterwards, but if you're managing this yourself you can do that manually. I'm still investigating fun alternative solutions to this problem.
"participate" needs to be defined.

I consider using and spreading the use of as participating. I'm sure many do not. (btw neither they nor I are wrong)
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Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78739

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187867

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859669

All have comments.
Maybe you live in a bubble. That never happens though.

But more seriously, maybe none of your friends have had the experience of buying an LP, then later paying again for the same music on cassette, (and maybe 8-track and minidisc) and then again on CD.

And then maybe they weren't aware that the industry conducted a huge PR campaign to let people know that when they buy music, they are just paying for a license, not for the physical artifact. Of course they only did this after people had already switched to CDs. If we had known this before, we could have asked for crossgrades of the license from LP/single/tape/8-track/minidisc/whatever to CD.

And maybe your friends didn't hear about things like "Plays For Sure(TM)", Microsoft's DRM scheme that tricked millions of people into paying for music which Microsoft then decided would not play any more.

For those of us who did hear about these things, after paying for the same music three times, we're ready to just download our fucking songs that we already paid for.
Minister steps down after crowdsourcing finds plagiarism in doctoral thesis
I don't know anything about LULZ, but given the content of the HBGary emails it's entirely possible that "personas" are deployed on this and other noteworthy forums

Such bot sockpuppet swarms had been around for years before HBGary Federal ever tried to sell them to corporations and the government.

on HN it would be difficult for these to be "botted out", due to the usually higher quality commenting

You don't need that much commenting to manipulate HN. Just getting karma up to the point of being able to submit on a number of accounts is enough to enable a lot of manipulation. Being able to recruit 20 or so college aged users for a several days would be enough to get you started. Increasing the speed of submissions past a certain point reduces the influence of the established population and increases the power of voting cabals.
Sorry to burst C# fanboys and VB haters out there, but I would have to say NO. Especially if you're quite good, productive and bring a lot of innovation using the language.

Coding should be language agnostic. What should matter is how you could easily devise an algorithm using any of the available language. In a lot of ways, VB.Net has made it quite easier to write and read the codes. The only problem with this is the fact that VB coding has allowed a lot of bad codes to be easily written. I think it is fair to say that those who have switched to C# may have been driven in part by having to maintain poorly written codes in VB.Net and the fact that there is so much hype in using C# because of its resemblance to Java.

And the other thing to point out is that VB.Net has carried the stigma of applications coded in VB6 which were the curse of developers in the MS platform.
I'm interested to know why you think this is a problem?

I, for one, didn't become a teacher because the pay is terrible, I make more annually my first year out of school (programmer) than most highschool teachers make anually.

It had nothing to do with gender, more to do with money.

Also, my mom is a highly advanced math teacher (teaches AP courses, grades AP tests etc), so I think she provides a good rolemodel for women and men who want to be good at math.
> a larger school can have a wider range of facilities because they can defray the cost per student over a larger base to cover the lower-interest offerings.

Yes, a given smaller school can't have as many different things as a large school, but that doesn't imply that the range of things at a set of small schools is necessarily smaller than the range at a large school.

When 10 kids at a school with 400 kids want something, it may not happen. When 10 kids at a school with 100 want something, it's more likely.

That's the advantage of choice - those 10 kids can "gang up" on a small school if they get to choose where to go.

> significant undesirable side-effects that ... at best drive up the gap between best and worst by pushing at both ends of the spectrum - it doesn't just improve the top.

Just improving the top would increase the gap, which you seem to think is bad.

I'm not convinced that choice hurts the bottom. I think that it exposes the real bottom, the folks who drag down the average. When they're split out, they're more obvious.

The big advantage of separating them is that then they don't drag down other folks.

There are lots of poor parents who do all that they can to keep their kids away from trouble. Why are we forcing them to send their kids to school with trouble?
This is an interesting idea. Have you thought of using Sieve [1] to let people manage the rules directly from their mail client? Depending on how you set this up server-side it might not be possible, or indeed useful.

As a sysadmin my initial thought is that I would rather do this myself on a mail server I control, but I can definitely see value in both a hosted and on-premise version.

EDIT: I hope you don't mind some constructive criticism on the logo. Conceptually it works very well, but there is too much whitespace. I appreciate this is a landing page, so perhaps you have something else planned already.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3028.txt
Note that deb and rpm packages are available, too.

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging
http://rpm.datastax.com/
Well the cold hard truth is that Qt Creator looked good on every system i used it in (Windows XP/Seven, Gnome, KDE) while KDevelop looks quite bad/unpolished on its only platform (KDE)
The platform code is private, but you can always run the IDE locally, or on your own open-source webserver.
They are basically the same macros, but without the use of bindings (more brevity).

So if-let and when-let are not really anaphoric.

In Common Lisp, I use b-when and b-if that Kenny Tilton wrote:

(defmacro b-when (bindvar boundform &body body)
`(let ((,bindvar ,boundform))
(when ,bindvar
,@body)))

(defmacro b-if (bindvar boundform yup &optional nope)
`(let ((,bindvar ,boundform))
(if ,bindvar
,yup
,nope)))

Usage:

(b-when foo (plusp 1)
(frob foo))
Your pay most likely comes from sales of goods and services, buyers of which are taxed at a lower rate. They are using after tax income, so it is double taxation there, too. But value was created in those instances, so one can say that the government helped create that value to justify it. I supposed the value of the stock can also be viewed in that manner, but why should it be taxed as much as income, when goods and services aren't?
Extradite.vim: a git commit browser plugin that extends fugitive.vim
If tax laws were reasonable, then people would not find it acceptable to break them.
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Nvidia Tegra Zone officially launched, takes Android to new dual-core heights
Time, identity, and transition in Clojure
Why Bytemark didn't use Xen
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Max Klein?
I like these kind of projects/efforts and it looks great, but this thing is quite buggy. And some parts, like the sign up process might not even be buggy but just bad workflow.

And it's too expensive IMHO. You need to make money, but for what it offers now, at least to me, it's not worth it.

Other than that, hopefully you'll improve it and make it a real online IDE.
Underproduction is simple. You'll notice it when you find yourself lurking on the 'Net to find something that would suit your desires, and find none (or spend a long time until you find something). When there are too many such cases (so it's not just picky guys lurking for rare things) — it would mean that there's an underproduction.

For example, at some time you feel a desire to watch some hard sci-fi present-to-past accidental time travel causing an alternate war history movie¹, but don't know any, except for those you've already watched. And you fire off a new tab and start lurking around.

Not exactly kids on the steets begging for MP3s, but someone spending considerate amount on time begging^W searching for something they want, but don't know.

___

1) Hopefully, that — while still being somehow generic — would be a quite narrow definition where not too many movies would fit.
I mean "selling a product that doesn't exist yet to test the market". Can't find the links though...
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Thanks for posting this, I missed FOSDEM this year.
'Companies by Batch' ... Label Y axis or title 'Number of Companies by Batch'
Still poking around it. Looks nice.
The taxes are so high in Denmark, I'm not surprised. Most people don't have that much money left over to spend on things like music and movies.
actually, for me the revenue is steadily growing. That's the advantage of ad-based revenue
Try Keith Richard's "Life" - things are definitely different now.. sigh Real rocknroll is just too good to be true nowadays.