skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't work out if that was a genuine question, or a troll. But HN doesn't have many trolls, so I thought I'd answer you straight. I also thought at the same time I'd explain the downvote you got from someone. Ive upvoted you to cancel that out for now. We'll see what other people do.

Try this search on Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=clojure

The very first hit is: http://clojure.org/

From that site, the home site of Clojure, we get:

Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets
the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ).

...

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, ...

See that? In one search and one click - there's the answer to your question. And the reason you got downvoted was because your question/comment added nothing of value, and it showed that you didn't do any homework.

So I hope that's been useful and constructive.
But the switch would not be immediate, a least giving providers some time to move to other frameworks. As you say, from a slightly different angle, it is the immediate effect that is the problem with relying on facebook or a similar network for your business: if they fall over tomorrow or simply change their rules so your product does not comply, your revenue stream stops that instant and until you can design and implement changes in the product or business model.
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My experience is very limited. I've not yet worked through all of Chapter 3 of SICP, and I've not had the opportunity to hack any real code in any lisp dialect since I implemented LispKit one weeked in 1989. However ...

I think there is merit in the simplicity, clarity and purity of Scheme in helping put someone "in the right place" for grokking the real value and real power of Clojure. On the very few occasions I've written in Clojure I've known I've not been really "getting it" and that there's more, but I've felt (pause) overwhelmed is one word ... by the completeness of Clojure. It's a proper language for proper work.

I think I've gained a lot from going back to Scheme's purity and elegance.

It's a bit like "lies to children." We know that Newtonian mechanics is wrong, but we still teach that first because it's easier to grasp, easier to do the sums, and more directly in line with our own experience. But if taught properly (and that's another story altogether) it lays the foundation for being able to do the sums and do the work "properly" in Relativity.

I think Scheme can help to create the functional mindset in an elegant way, before having to worry about real world nastiness.

YMWV, because everyone is different and comes with different skills, deficiencies and baggage.
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Ask HN: Contact form. Serious enough?
Is it worth to implement contact form? Are people so lazy to contact with you via regular email?
Opinions?
I don't know a whole lot about text analysis and the mentioned algorithms, can this be used to analyze articles and determine which are dealing with the same subject? Techmeme-ish? Or what would be a good starting point for this? (Or would this be better off in an 'Ask HN' post? I am one of those horrible new people on here.)
Try convincing 500 of your rebel friends to meet in a poorly lit restaurant before you march the capital by yelling out the window.

Now try telling them on your facebook wall.

Lets see who pushes change.
He's recommending to read/watch SICP and do the examples, which are in Scheme. I think it's good advice to have a Scheme REPL to follow along so that you don't have to worry about the additional overhead of translating to Clojure.
Thanks for the feedback.

> Where did the initial datasets themselves come from?

Public domain. :-)

Edit: You can also check dict.org for sources etc.
My comment was not directed to you only. Such things rising to the front page is, in equal part, our(voters/commenters) fault also.

A year back HN front page was all I needed for my daily dose of interesting tech stories(I hate Twitter). Now really good content is buried away in later pages most of the time.
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Sell through ad agencies. They'll want a brutal cut of your profits, but if you're flagging maybe it's worth it. Ad agencies are already selling and have established relationships with those sorts of companies.

Ad agencies quite often also have splits between "above the line" and "below the line" campaigns. Traditionally they call their "below the line" departments Agency Name DIGITAL (for some reason). Basically "below the line" refers to any campaign that isn't print, radio or television. Things like bluetooth proxy marketing, SMS, trade promotions and competitions, that kind of thing and the below the line guys are always on the lookout for hot new tech that they can flog into their client base. Bluetooth proxy marketing never took off because there were problems that were embedded in the market (most people have bluetooth off or hidden and then iphones came out without bluetooth and really screwed the pooch) but that didn't stop a hell of a lot of marketing agencies selling in bluetooth proxy campaigns to some pretty major brands.

If your technology is actually good think how excited they'll be!
Ask HN: What are some platforms for remote mobile apps' testing?
Testing platforms I know are:

* Nokia Remote Device Access :
http://www.forum.nokia.com/Devices/Remote_device_access/ // Free of charge

* Device anywhere : http://www.deviceanywhere.com/ // maybe the leader in the market?

* Perfecto Mobile : http://www.perfectomobile.com

Note: Those platforms use real devices for testing, not emulators or simulations
I think newer users are conditioned by other sites to use voting as a way to agree or disagree with what is said, rather than as a way to rate the quality of the point being made, regardless of what the point is.

It hasn't just been new users. Rather it has been nearly everyone since the beginning. See what the founder said 1103 days ago about downvoting for disagreement:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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The most promising point in this article is that they're mentioning that the newer PHP frameworks are trying to work out how to make components reusable.

Most of the good (and 'modern') PHP code is 'jailed' in frameworks right now or quite hard to find, hidden away in github repos that aren't getting any attention. Really wish PHP had a central place for new libraries like rubygems, based on phar. (And yes, I know PEAR but that's not very PHP5 at all.)
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We have several sites where a contact form and direct email address are displayed on the same page.

Very few (<20%) use direct email.

YMMV - HTH.
Great, great post. To honour it's spirit: it should also be the last post I read on HN. Before long another four years will have passed by.
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sprotcore.com -> sproutcore.com

Thanks for the list :)
Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50
Hey HN. This is a weekend project of mine. It's an idea I had after seeing so many comments here about the lack of available .com names for startups.

As PG once said: "Take a luxury and make it into a commodity"[1]. So, I decided I'd try turning name consulting from something only large corporations could afford to something anyone could. I hope you'll take me up on it :)

If you'd like to see a few examples of my work, just check out the links in the footer. Thanks for your attention.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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This is a weekend project of mine. It's an idea I had after seeing so many comments here about the lack of available .com names for startups.

As PG once said: "Take a luxury and make it into a commodity"[1]. So, I decided I'd try turning name consulting from something only large corporations could afford to something anyone could. I hope you'll take me up on it :)

If you'd like to see a few examples of my work, just check out the links in the site's footer.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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Try the following link, it is supposed to really delete your account:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_a...
To each their own, of course. I enjoy reading something from someone who knows what they're talking about, and although I could have guessed most of that myself, I found his answer thorough and interesting. <shrug>
I'd like to see some posts on practical experiences in cases where there's enough perceived benefit in switching from LAMP to justify the effort. I have experience a generation back, moving from proprietary stacks, and learnt two contradictory things:

1. Re-engineering projects constantly fail the catch-up test (the legacy system picks up speed under threat)

2. Legacy systems kill great companies slowly but surely

In that contradiction you also have the startup gap - if your v1 does a tenth of the incumbent's v100 and you can pick up some market share, you can win on pace and focus alone.
This would actually be an interesting way to learn Clojure: Follow SICP, do the examples in Scheme/Racket and immediately after that the same example in Clojure (the differences should not be abysmal).

At some point though, as Scheme and Clojure diverge, this method would start to become less useful. But at that point, I would argue, you already know enough to take off in Clojure.
Ask HN: Feedback on XP Mobile Web App Training
Hey Guys,

As part of my dev business I'm starting to think about offering some training around how to build cross-platform mobile web apps.

Would be interested in feedback / info on a couple of fronts:

1 - Does the high level course structure sound sensible? I've put a post up on the topic at - http://www.distractable.net/mobile/cross-platform-mobile-web-app-developer-training/

2 - Experience from other HN folks who have diversified their businesses to include a training element in their professional services offerings. Whether that has worked, been a distraction, etc.

As I mention in my post, my reason for thinking about doing this is that I definitely get a kick out of skilling up other devs, and I'm pretty passionate about cross-platform mobile so helping others get up to speed seems like a great way to both help grow that industry and also make a living for myself (at least in part).

Thanks for your time and comments.

Cheers,
Damon.
How many organisations could stand having thier emails trawled through though...
I was thinking of doing this with my answering machine, simply put the '9' MP3 at the beginning or end of my message so that if my wife isn't in and I forget/lose my keys that I can still get in the building.

Although it's a little redundant as I know so many people in the building that I'd probably be let in before the voicemail played the right tone. Plus my in-laws aren't a far walk for me to crash on their spare bed or pick up my spare set of keys.

However, I basically just want to do it to see if it works.
Another "why" that was left out in the article, something that is of great concern to a lot of projects, is computational performance. A whole lot of good can be said about both Python and Ruby, but "swift performer" is definitely not one of those things.
You also lose all indication of the total content length, which is IMHO a bad thing in many contexts.
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Good God. MDB2?

(For reference: it's a very old, very deprecated DB abstraction library; it'd be like building GNOME apps with GTK v1.)
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The op makes an extremely valid point: php works for his company. Clearly they're more concerned about the end result than the means through which it's accomplished. And isn't that the way it should be?

We're not talking about a freelance web developer here, who can easily experiment with different languages for each new project. It's a company with a large existing code base, which needs to function properly and, as it happens, so it does. Why throw all that in the bin just to be cool?

Remember, the op does say they experiment with other languages at the company. They have yet to find one whose advantages are amazing enough to be worth a complete rewrite of the company's code base. That's not unresonable. So why all the "they're just can't be bothered to change" comments?
Ask HN: Company dictating use of LinkedIn
Posting anonymous due to this being linked to my job.

The MD of the company has recently sent around a directive to the company saying that any recommendations of company staff regarding work done at the company must be approved by our line-manager or the MD first - just wondered if this was normal, or even something that could be hoped to be enforced?
If you spend your life watching the waves, you're never going to catch one let alone make one.

But if the first time you've seen the sea was when you ran into it with a brand new board, the waves are going to catch you.

I engage in my own startups as if there were nothing else in the world. But the instincts I have come from my own participation, and also by consuming startup news in time I can easily afford.
There may be another point: the author asserts PHP is just glue "between the front and the back" of a web application, I guess with the implication being that it's not really important. However, I don't believe the glue analogy is valid. Typically, the server-side scripting language implements the business logic, the real data structures (as opposed to what's being saved to DB) and a large part of the layout. That's not just the glue, that's pretty much the whole neocortex.
Because that angle has been tried repeatedly and is usually shrugged off by conservatives as 'too European, too socialist'. So, this is an attempt to point out that we're not in great shape and shame politicians into doing better for the people.
I love version control, and I love Github, but when is the proper time to introduce students who have never programmed before to version control?
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I believe the question was honest. Someone unfamiliar with Lisp would not know it is a language with dialects. You never hear about a random language being a Java.
I definitely disagree that Clojure introduces "real world nastiness" which would prevent a beginner from learning it "the clean way". Clojures data structures are very elegant and easy to grasp (e.g. you don't have to think about pointers or define equal operators, it's all there already). And you can define functions just as clean an "pure" as in Scheme.

I do agree that Clojure is very comprehensive, and can be overwhelming for a beginner. But you could buy a book, which will use only a subset of Clojure at the beginning.
And when you get to the point where you can use the basic data structures and map, filter, reduce them, this will get you very far.
Kind of look like reddit/hn or whatever, only now they also host your blog (and for people who want to earn a little money via ads, that won't cut).

Wondering if they would also add the "readability" button, who get the shares of those up-votes?

So just as the recent posts about hacker news and how to solve them (http://al3x.net/2011/02/22/solving-the-hacker-news-problem.h..., hn:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152) it seems that there are a few more cases where people would like to make new things with to solve them once and for all.

For this case, I wonder if there are any tagging system implemented to sort, the topics are just too board.
I just realized that my system appears to work the same way. I always wondered why the caller ID showed a different number for my buzzer from the rental company main lines, so I'll have to program it into my cell phone and see if this works for me.

Great insight, my mind never jumped to this idea. I was thinking of putting the '9' tone on my answer machine.
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I'm a big fan of Yii, and I use it a lot in my own projects. (The fact that it has an nigh-direct clone of Rail's ActiveRecord helps.)

It does, however, have the same problem that a lot of other PHP frameworks have in that, unless you're really careful, your components are "trapped" because of the Yii idioms and base classes.

I think Mr Spatula's point stands. Code reusability in PHP is nothing like what it is in the Ruby world.
That was my idea for this trick, I was wondering if the sound would come out too distorted to trigger the system.
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Why submit the Engadget link? They sourced it from [0] who saw it as a YouTube video [1].

[0] http://www.androidcentral.com/android-activations-visualized...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFpq9WXbJo
Absolutely. If such a thing would happen, I would actually dance a jig. This more than just about anything is my last major gripe with PHP.
Cool!

At this price, I'm sure many will go for it.

One quick question:

Do you check/ensure the .com domain availability of the names you find?
It'd be nice to put in another curve for 'value of HN comments in shaping startups.'

Do those peaks feed periods of frenzied success (inspiring people to do better stuff faster)?

Or do they lag periods of success (pearls of wisdom come out when people are past the sweat-soaked white knuckle phase)?

Or is there some other correlation?
Python is generally a bit faster than PHP though, and while Ruby is dog slow, both languages are in the heavy end for their class.

Ref: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...
What's interesting in this case, compared to Mac vs. PC, is how the roles have changed - and I don't mean "Apple is on top", either.

On the desktop, the OS that ran on commodity hardware was the dominant force, even though there was no 'dominant' hardware supplier. And this made sense, since the desktop is very 'general-purpose'.

With tablets, the hardware is inextricably linked to the OS. The experience between different Android tablets is more variable than Windows ever was, as well as being largely dictated by the manufacturers - both by locking down the OS and the lack of hardware customisation.

Maybe this will settle down in a few years, but Apple have always been in better control of their experience, so naturally they're far ahead on this one.
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Yeah, I learned a chunk of stuff from that when I started writing the book as well...
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I wonder if anyone else is getting the similar results. It's only happening on firefox.
careful though, if you take into account equivalent abstractions (rails vs symfony vs django) this argument may toggle against php.
I do. Dot com availability is one of the major items on my checklist.
This is awesome. I can't think of anything it needs except, for your own sake, maybe a visible logo. I'm sold.

Questions:

(1) Are you using ExtJS, GWT, jQuery?

(2) What's on the backend?

(3) How will you make money from this?

(4) Since your source code is out in the open, do you have the (a) will and (b) resources to sue people in far corners of the world who will simply copy your js file, make a few tweaks and set up a competing business (assuming you have an answer to (3) above)?

Regardless of your answer to (4), I assume the problems inherent in that issue are the same reasons more people don't build businesses on the basis of a client-side js file.
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Or, if you're just interested in the metadata, that dataset is available too. See the FAQ http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/faq "What are song / aggregate / summary files?" question. (It's a 300MB file)
I might have missed the option, but a way to import additional images / vectors would be nice. Either just an upload or a creative-commons image search. Also, real-time editing with other users would be superb.

Nice work!
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So why isn't Google better at search? Seriously. They're like tax legislators, constantly surprised that people game the system. Only they have less excuse, because there's no transparency in Google's 'laws,' and no coherent way to distinguish 'white hat' and 'black hat.'
To me, the "real world nastiness" is the Java cruft surrounding it. You don't have to deal with it except to get a nice programming environment running. At this point the options are much more complicated and uglier than DrScheme.
Then why not do a search?

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before
You know that people are getting similar results... you commented on a duplicate thread ~1 hour ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2257496
Connections between shapes aren't obvious. I expect to be able to choose a connection, click and hold the mouse over one shape and drag to another. After 5 minutes, i still can't figure out how to connect shapes. Really nice clean design. I will definitely use this.
Double cool!

One suggestion, though: A quick look through your home page did not reveal this. You might want to revise the copy to mention this (prominently).

HTH
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I am very excited that we released this feature. This had been #1 requested feature. Revenue per visitor (or per conversion) is much closer to actual business goals as compared to plain conversion rate. With this feature, you will be able to see effect of your A/B test directly on your revenue which is much more eye-opening as compared to conversion rates.
"server side language is just a glue between the front end and the data source"

I agree. Front end work is dominating my time in web app. development. Server side is getting less important day by day.
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This sounds like a great idea. I find shortish domains all the time and try and squeeze an idea into them, but I have real trouble finding something properly appropriate (for .com anyway). I've signed the forms :)
On the contrary, it's useful because it points the way to something that's worth putting effort into testing and number-gathering for.
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Same here. I built an isometric strategy game in canvas but had to abandon it because I couldn't get over 12 fps on firefox on a reasonably resolution.
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My gut reaction is "as early as possible."

I'd be curious to hear arguments to the contrary.
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I can't figure out how do connections work. It worked twice for me when the connection types dropdown was open. Then it stopped working completely... or maybe I'm doing something different now. Anyways - the connections dropdown doesn't behave like a button (can't leave it pressed after I choose the type). The other connection button doesn't seem to do much either since I can drag items around when it's pressed.

Don't see an option to actually display the grid (minor point but I kind of like it).
I want to know how widespread it is though, because apparently through Asia you get it, but if you proxy through the US you don't. And a friend in Australia didn't get it either.