skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Redis is a DSL? The basic 'verbs' and the command structure is taken from the Tcl language. See lrange, append, set, and many others. But it's not a full featured language of course, just a domain specific one for manipulating ADTs. But why is this DSL thing so important for Redis? If you look at the internals you'll discover Redis is in many ways an interpreter. So I think this is really important to stress to understand what Redis really is.

In the Redis manifesto there is no place where I claim we support all the kind of ADTs. We just have random access arrays, lists, sorted sets (trees), and dictionaries.

There was no marketing intention in the Redis manifesto.
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Generally only when I'm watching TNT.
It turns out to be a pretty complicated problem. Every single email client and device formats email forwards differently. The technical challenge is to take the input from a fwd'd thread, account for which client it's coming from and then reformat it in a way that makes sense. Not to mention the fact that the text towards the bottom of a forwarded thread (the earliest messages) is messy and can be difficult to comprehend. Parsing garbage and turning it into something useful is a hell of a challenge.
Ha ha, I've been here a couple of years now and hadn't noticed it - I don't really look at my own profile ... Funnily enough this is a feature I thought was lacking.

Looks like some UI design changes might be needed.
Vanquishing the "reply all" button. Go micromobs!
Exactly. Please note I'm not speaking English natively and used phrase 'my take' according to my knowledge how to use it. My point was rather a digression comparing to the original article. In fact, I sympathize with the author and I put my 2cents what IMO causes the situation described.
I agree with both points. The only gotcha with liking the photo before drilling into it, has to do with the fact the their API returns a truncated result of all the likes on the media when using any endpoint other than /media/{id)/likes.

The reason that's a problem, is that there's no way for me to know for sure if you already liked something or not. I could A) Assume most people are only clicking on the heart to like something and not to unlike something they already liked, or B) Make a request to /media/{id}/likes for every image on the page. Given the two, I think it'd be safe to assume they just want to like something.

Leaving a comment should be pretty simple ;)
This is seriously very encouraging. Yes you are right, at-least, I owe to myself. I will try my best to reach there. Really appreciate your thoughts
This makes no sense.

NTT is a telecom, and analogous to one of our companies: Verizon. They specify things to all manufacturers too, but things like V-Cast and buttons that "accidentally" launch the internet on their phones.

I think this has less to do with the "closed model" Evans idolizes, and more with a culture that embraces technical innovation, even at the corporate level. (Remember, he's ex telecom.)
No it is horrible but it is something better than nothing to help me with issues with IE
I have no problems without using Alfred, Mail is always open :
cmd+tab

I would have no use for the original app in the link, I mean how hard is it to just do cmd+tab and cmd+n in Mail ?
That would be a reasonable counterpoint if 70% of the public did find rape socially acceptable.
It actually does look kinda interesting. But what's with all the spambot comments?
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That home screen reminds me of Android. While there's nothing wrong with that, the point of Apple products is that they're aesthetically pleasing.

The lock screen just displays your wallpaper, and is actually one of the only places you can see your wallpaper without clutter. It's clean, simple, minimalist. Adding widgets and text and shit all over it is the exact opposite of that.

And frankly, that's a big selling point for the iPhone (and apple products in general). That's actually the point.
Mashable article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2276651
Um, yes it is.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004OR1XGK?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Nice piece. I have a question that comes up every time I read a "we came up with our Y-Combinator demo in the last weekend and got funded" story--is this rare? It seems like I hear it all the time, but maybe most of the "last 24 hour" demos don't get mentioned.

It's surprising to me to think it might be common, because my gut reaction is that this means the founders don't actually have a viable product, but because they got funded before they could figure that out, it will now take months or years for the founders to move on (or pivot significantly). I'd love to hear why that's not what's going on, though.
We all know Apple planed the iPhone 7 from day 1 and are simply staging it over a series of years to maximise profits.

I expect Apple will start allowing screensaver/wallpaper type apps in the not too distant future. It'll open up another revenue stream for them.

We know it's almost ready to be rolled out (by looking to jailbroken iPhones) but Apple will want to iron out memory problems before releasing it (at least that's what they'll say).
I wasn't really referring to the article in particular; I was more just ranting about something that I was thinking about before that the article reminded me of.

I think the problem runs a bit deeper than people thinking they're experts when they're not, though. I think when most people try to diagnose themselves, they look online for symptoms and such. If they already have some conviction in their diagnosis, they might think that they should also have other symptoms when they don't, or start noticing borderline things that they otherwise would easily ignore. Then, when they finally go to the doctor, their list of self-reported symptoms is no longer a list of what they independently noticed but a laundry list of whatever they read on webmd.

I'd be interested in hearing if you think this is actually the case, since you definitely have more experience and knowledge in it than I do. I'm basing most of this off of the personal experience of a few of my friends and the modicum of knowledge I have from a few clinical psychology classes I took in college.
I'm not sure you're about some things you wrote. "nerd pride"? Really?

> In this particular case, Redhat/Linus/kernel hacker's obstinate refusal to add it to the stock kernel.

Why obstinate? Xen is not a part of a kernel in some ways. Some capabilities of the system have to be maintained in parallel in both the hypervisor and kernel. And it's not like it was rejected because it was a VM solution - another one was proposed and accepted into mainline (KVM).

> They exhibited NIH and did KVM (which surprise surprise was owned by Redhat).

LKML has a lot of talk about "why"... it wasn't simply NIH. Regarding "owned by Redhat" - it was included first, then owned by RH:

* "The Linux kernel 2.6.20 release (February 2007) was the first to include KVM." (wikipedia)

* "In September 2008, Red Hat announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. The acquisition included Qumranet's virtualization solutions, including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform" (http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/)

> KVM is doing things totally different than everybody else (no hypervisor), and I'm not 100% sure that KVM's way is better.

KVM relies on the idea that if the current kernel already does the work, why duplicate the effort? Apart from minimal, verifiable hypervisors idea not being possible... what are your actual objections?

I'm not saying KVM is better / worse here... but let's cut the FUD at least.
Did you just call me stupid? :)

But seriously, thanks for the feedback. We're probably not going to go after the HN crowd with Yak... my hunch is college students aren't as impressed with minimalism as techies.
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no idea. apparently spam bots love us.
Ah,

You are looking at the situation from a pure semantic point of view and from there, you are correct.

I think the parent is looking thing from the point of view of effective computing and they are correct from their point of view.

The viewpoint are perhaps incompatible.

One thing to consider is that I would say that I "can't" implement a recursive descent parser in Ruby because Ruby is too slow. Thus from the point of view of effective computing, adding features that make Ruby slow also removes some power.

I wouldn't say either position is "correct" but I think you have to take both into account.
I don't think they're bots. I recognize about half the names, and though they may not be regular HN contributors, they're real people (some of 'em, at least).
Or stop measuring one's success against arbitrary standards.
Meh. I spent a lot of time shopping for mobile phones in Japan last year. Nothing was even close to the iPhone (other than the iPhone).

Some aspects of Japanese cell phones were better than some aspects of American phones. Simplifying it to DoCoMo having a lot of sway is, IMO, ignoring an awful lot. Tokyo has tremendous population density. Demand was high for mobile Internet access because not everyone has the space for a home computer, and people spend a lot of time out and about. People send emails like mad because it's cheaper and because it's more polite than yelling into your handset while on the train. Payment chips got integrated because the local McDonald's might pass a hundred times the number of customers per day than your local American one.

Of all the things driving Japanese cell phone technology, the ones listed seem pretty minor. Give that sort of focused demand to US carriers and I think you'd see far faster adoption of specific technologies.

By the way, my Japanese cell phone has a built-in TV receiver and recorder. And as near as I can tell, SoftBank voicemail isn't voicemail at all; it's an actual answering machine built into my handset. Weird.
I don't know about everyone else, but this is the first time in a while where TC comments are actually readable, and are not troll-ridden. This is a good thing.
> Well I don't know, what happened to slavery in the south of the united states?

That was supported by the majority of the whites. It's a bit different if you count the opinions of the slaves as well.
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What if the reason people are 'smart' is because of the way their brain has organized itself over the years in response to learning so much? Then it isn't that dumb people are dumb, just behind.
In Germany, Denmark and France (the only places I was employed for more than 3 years), if you have no incomes, you are automatically covered. Of course as a consultant, if you have no incomes in a given month, you still need to pay. If you do not want, you need to switch to officially unemployed for the month, which is not worth it.
And at 30:15 he talks about the potential implications of Facebook entering the comments space. His point is that it validates the market.
Zuck has stated several times that Facebook only acquires for talent. So if you love your product, don't sell it to Facebook :)
A small nitpick on the landing page: your testimonial should have the opening quotation mark as a &ldquo; and the closing quotation mark as an &rdquo;. Right now they're both &rdquo; and it looks a little strange.
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It can not be stressed how much LockInfo changes the way you use your phone. It is the most I've ever paid for an app, and it is by far my favorite app.

I've always wondered if David has ever been approached by Apple to work on iPhone notifications. He deserves some recognition for delivering such an essential feature set while Apple has taken their time.
Hakyll 3 is mostly inspired by nanoc. The key differences between nanoc and Hakyll are:

* type-safety of Haskell prevents you from doing I/O where this could be dangerous;

* while nanoc layouts can contain code (erb), Hakyll templates do not support this -- all code needs to go in the Haskell configuration file;

* Hakyll uses pandoc for document reading/conversion, nanoc usually uses kramdown and other ruby libraries;

* Nanoc uses a separate DSL for "routes" and "compilation rules", in Hakyll these are defined in the same DSL;

A more in-depth comparison would indeed by very handy. The author of nanoc lives near me, so I'll see if we can come up with a decent comparison together.
> When you think about it from the perspective of big sites like TechCrunch, requiring that people use their true Facebook identity would virtually eliminate nasty comments overnight.

Quite possibly by decimating the comment boards. The chilling effect of potentially having your FB history being subpoenaed is quite strong.

Does this go along with AOL's new business model?
You can argue that removing features can make a language more powerful, even if you don't add another feature.

Basically, if removing your feature, like side-effcts, allows you to give more guarantees about sub-program, you can do more with your sub-programs. Like use equational reasoning.
Articles that compare the market share of free products are always a bit weird. If you are selling something, you naturally want it to sell best. But for a free product (free as in free speech) the main concern is giving users choice. There mere existence of choice changes the game. Debates about the most installs miss the point.
They're real people (at least the ones I know) :)

The other startups in Founder Institute try to support each other wherever possible (as do YCers obviously), but I think there are a few folks less familiar with the "substantive comments only" mantra on HN. But they're not bots.
And if you'd actually like to do something like this, get an Android phone. You can't replace home or lock screens on an iPhone.
Does that change the truth and/or relevance of what they're saying? Sure it's partially an add for Terralien, it's on their domain for crying out loud. But they're still making good points and observations that hold whether or not you ever work with (or even talk to) Terralien.
Appear to be uncrawlable by Google/Bing - the closing of the web accelerates, sadly with the full consent and cooperation of users and websites.
Cameras are generally one of the main reasons.
You should listen to Guy Steele's talk he gave on 2009's ICFP: "Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution: or, foldl and foldr Considered Slightly Harmful" (http://www.vimeo.com/6624203).

He drives the point home, and adds that you also need appropriate data structures.
He is an 800-lb gorilla that thinks he is stronger than all the other 800-lb gorillas.

Always interesting to see two beasts battle.
A few of them, yes. The rest are newly-created accounts and others (like billshander) are around 3 month old but with shady comment history.

Interesting.

Edit: I suppose the occam's razor explanation is that someone emailed (or twitted) the link around asking for people to show them some support in here, instead of an intricate botting conspiracy.
I don't really see how much damage hackers could do with quant code if they don't have the capital to execute significant trades.

If they're working independently, there is no way they could have anywhere near the amount of capital as Morgan Stanley. If they're stealing the code on behalf of the Chinese government, we should probably be more worried that the Chinese government is actively trying to steal from American banks.
Some of the companies with "unknown" status are definitely no longer running. From the first batch:

- Half of MemAmp was merged into reddit and half went back to gradschool.

- Simmery shut down after the summer

- Firecrawl shut down after the summer (though went immediately into another startup after)
Jewish men and women are a precocious bunch :) I'm sure you'd find that US-born Jewish founders are relatively younger too.
One bad movie pays more than a year in the lab.
wheres the rest of the story? i was soo into in lol! really good writing
Definitely some spam: the trevania, salimmadjd and gavrielh accounts were created less than 30 minutes ago. Billshander has had an account for some time, but only posted in this and one other Micromobs thread, both less than 30 minutes ago.

It's distasteful.
Solid Advice, I was looking up T-Bills, and I think the return is 1.5% (http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/tbill.html)

Any advice on which firm to talk to about the financial advisor?
Beware the rebound
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Introducing LedHill
Interesting mashable quote -
Realistically, Micromobs will need to tinker a bit more before it finds the right balance between one-to-many communication and inbox harmony. As it stands, the startup offers a compelling way for users to do a quick e-mail data or conversation dump. But, ongoing Micromobs usage will do little to eliminate inbox clutter.

Thinking about this, it's pretty easy to see a solution in this space, though it's not clear how an inbox "feature" is going to make for a compelling company...
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I have to ask: have you ever used a lockscreen notification app? Once you do, you'll realize the value of having all the information that you might want to see at a glance immediately on your lockscreen.

LockInfo, for instance, lets you choose the type of information to display as well as how to display it. You don't see anything you don't want to see.

Then once you use something like it, you can't go back. There are a ton of people who jailbreak just to install LockInfo. That's how good it is.
>I'm not aware of any broader literature or even editorials describing what value, if any, is added by the current system.

I can just imagine the challenge of getting such studies published.
Are you trying to sell a product?  Or sell your business?
Time to ditch that soda..
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Is Apache a DSL?

I agree that the manifesto doesn't explicitly claim to support all kinds of ADTs. It just wasn't clear.

Manifesto without a marketing intention... interesting :)
I had the same thing happen to a loaf of bread I purchased recently.

Never have understood why people in software equate dormancy with worthlessness.
I would have loved to see Bieber succeed without any help. With phenomenons like him I'm never sure if it's really them or if it's the puppeteers being smart (in this case Usher and his record label).

The internet seems to have the power to bring anyone to superstardom, but most of the time that happens accidentally or is done clumsily. What if a talented programmer with a knack for marketing took a few years off to learn how to act, sing and dance (and to get few plastic surgeries ;)) and then promoted themselves on the internet? Next time I find myself without anything to do for a few years I'll make sure to try that :) And I'm only half-kidding.

Please excuse me now, we're going on a company excursion to see this movie.
Met this guy sitting outside of Facebook a few months ago. Nice kid, smart, savvy. We chatted about Greplin and it sounded like he was making good progress... Let's hope he keeps it going...
This is actually an old link baiting title formula. What x can learn from y where x usually is outlandish or unusual in relation to y.
Beluga is an amazing app. I hope it's functionality gets left intact or someone clones it immediately :)
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The 'Ecstasy' refers to their oddly named new feature that allows to sort by 'Ecstasy', which is a combination of reviews, price, etc.
> Why are people obsessed with weather widgets?

Would you by chance happen to live in California?
One nit pick I just found when doing a hotel search is the tip was still flight related... "Tip #4: Drag the black triangle to hide flights."
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This is a really good conversation with smart people weighing in on the issue from multiple POVs. Hopefully more people will jump in and add their perspective!
I recently discovered Hakyll and the DSL sold me. If you can hack on an xmonad config, you can build an amazing site with Hakyll.
Glad to hear that you guys listened to and enjoyed Clay and my talk with Russ. It was a lot of fun doing it. The sound quality issue is a long story. We started out Parallel Programming Talk on a shoe string and set it up as just recorded phone calls figured it out a we went. We pushed really hard and finally got a real studio. You can check out our new "clearer audio" broadcasts at http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/parallel-programmin...
Thank you for watching the show!
Aaron
Are you looking for a full-time, yet remote employee or would you be amenable to someone doing this in addition to a full-time job? I have a child on the way and can't drop or switch my insurance at this stage, but this sounds interesting and lines up with my academic background far more than most of the work I do.
My circle of friends had started using Beluga recently, and it's really so much more than the sum of its parts. I hope Facebook doesn't kill it or break what's great about it.
I actually think there needs to be an explicit tag for landing pages on HN. This sort of thing seems to be increasingly common, for example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2260581

Personally, I don't think a web page saying that you might make something, together with an e-mail signup, is news. That said, people are free to disagree (as with, e.g., Offer HN posts). I just think we need clear labeling.
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Physical Review Letters recently adopted a system where authors can pay a fee to have their submissions published under a Creative Commons license. The fee replaces journal subscription/paywall revenue.

http://prl.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release
A lot of these books, while they may be useful, have a reputation that exceeds their contents. Reminds me of "cult classics" in film.

Also, I can't help but wonder how many people are recommending books they haven't read.
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Kindle software for the blind/braille readers is something I can see amazon supporting.
I like Natalie. I can't help but wonder, genuinely, if some of her academic success was influenced by her star stature. I've seen evidence that she is indeed quite bright. On the other hand, how many profs are going to give Natalie Portman a B?
Does anyone know if this is peculiar to HFCS in soft drinks? The study came out of the U.S., where HFCS has a stranglehold on the sweetener market due to government subsidies, yet HFCS has several side-effects that sucrose ("table" sugar) doesn't.
I love the irony of large corporations trying to lecture me on ethics and morality. Totally agreed, if someone invented the Library today they would be sued out of existence, and look at all the good that public libraries have done to our culture.