skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAICT, the implementations have usually been closed-source (with the exception of A+ (http://www.aplusdev.org/), which is GPL'd; Arthur wrote it before K), and most research on APL implementation is locked behind the ACM paywall.

I suspect part of the style comes from APLers typically being mathematicians as well as programmers, and drawing more from mathematics than typical "software engineering best practices" style.
I disagree.

I opted for ABNB literally 5 out of 6 times this past February. All successful.
Digg Makes a Play for Relevance, Increases Front Page Speed 75%
Most people use IE because they dont know other browsers exist. This applies to MS Windows only.
TL;DR - Work for your customers, avoid the boss/investor.
When do we get the new square Chrome logo? :)
Thai webmaster jailed for 13 years
Program design in the Unix environment, by Pike and Kernighan
I sense a backlash growing. It seems like the only time people take you seriously these days is if you're in your 20's, have a spiky-haired asian dude as one of your founders and are launching a social/mobile/streaming video app in a weekend. That's what they cover on TechCrunch but not what the vast majority of us out there are doing.

Sidenote: I have nothing against asian dudes, spiky haired or not.
I've completed my data-gathering-phase and need coffee too!

This has gone viral!
In case it's not obvious from the URL, this is a screenshot of the now-deleted repository's commit.

I didn't notice before I posted a duplicate copy of the URL, myself :)

This is the developer in question: https://github.com/devinross/
Microsoft Wins 'Most Ethical' Award - Google, Facebook, Apple Don't
how many African Americans applied?
Windows CE -- from a kernel and userland foundations perspective -- is quite solid. It's a hard-RTOS, it supports pervasive SMP as of 7, the kernel is modular as hell and well designed, and it's very performant. There's nothing in the CE design that would make updating difficult in the least.
$3.2M in prizes for predicting hospitalization
Very cool. Glad to see other developers creating an easy way for people to stay connected, provide aid, and keep information about the cleanup and humanitarian efforts in one place.
True, that is what's happening. The cool thing is that dimensional (in J terms, it's 'rank') overloading is inherent to the language.

Most operators have implicit dimensional looping or respond different to differently ranked inputs.

Take for example integers (i.):

i.3
0 1 2
i.3 3
0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8

(That's kind of a dumb example, but I think it at least hints at the expressive power of rank.)
Brian Regan comedy sketch about that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kThoZpF_U
Wow, I just realized I can take out any comments on my commits just by making some trivial change, rebasing, and push -f -ing.

(Incidentally, if you want a lot of watchers on your project, you can add people as committers. They then become watchers of your project without any intervention on their part.)
I'm all for free range kids, but your neighbors seriously have a toddler and no gate at the top of their stairs? On the third fall he went to the hospital? My god... what's wrong with those people.

I lived a rough and tumble childhood, and I'm better for it... but that's just lunacy.
You're not wrong at all. The tech folk really have their own set of get-togethers: WWDC, Google I/O, Drupalcon, Embedded Systems Conference, SIGGRAPH, DEF CON, hundreds of others.

SXSW has struck me as a gaggle of marketing types that think they're pushing the limits of tech.
I'm just not sure why someone would think it was OK to remove someone else's name from their work.

That demonstrates a surprising, brazen disregard for propriety and makes me wary regarding the providence of Devin's other work.
Why Fukushima Daiichi won't be another Chernobyl
There are so many more subtleties to actually having a stranger come and stay in your house than there are to sending a stranger a book, guitar, etc via USPS.

So, PG is a good salesman, and he hit the nail on the head with this comment:

Just wait till all the 10-room pensiones in Rome discover this site.

If you ever read a Rick Steves guide (which are not exactly the scariest guidebooks on the planet -- they're fairly comfortable middle-class NPR stuff) or tour around Europe in backpacker mode you will become familiar with the pension, aka the German zimmer or the English B&B. These are rooms. In pubs, or very tiny hotels, or people's homes. Which get rented out. They are very common, they have been a tradition forever, and they aren't very formal. Maybe you call ahead. Sometimes that doesn't even work. Sometimes you call ahead but then the landlord forgets your reservation. But ultimately you turn up, meet the landlord, get taken to the room, you look around for two minutes, you say "si" or "no" and fork over a night's rent, and there you go. It's not like buying a house or getting married or anything.

Yes, it's a bit more subtle to rent a room than to deal in used books. But it's not that subtle.
Great site and I immediately sent it to a bunch of friends. It's be great if the site had some embedded mechanisms to share (Tweet, Email, 'Like') it so, you know, it was easier for more people to see it.

This is brilliant. Good luck, chas.
I love it, and am glad to see you're planning on adding specific words next. Also, appreciate the concise and helpful docs on adding new rules.

Two things I'd like, one simple & one hard:

- hide level option: level 1 would be comments as they're hidden at present (Comment hidden - excess stupidity. show?), level 0 would be to just hide them completely, with just a 'some comments were hidden' notification at the top.

- a 'hide this comment' option that either locally or back on the server would try to infer new rules from the common features of manually-hidden comments. And hey, why don't you throw in a universal semantic classifier on the side, because that would be easy...oh wait.

Great work. I think you have the seed of a great product here.
Just tried ZetaBee Text, it's really great! Switched from WorkFlowy.

Feedback:

1. Why you have to limit length of the title?

2. Please add line-based bold, italic and color support. When list gets long I really needed them!
Little Azz team, Kick Azz idea, Big Azz market...brilliant
Did you follow best practices for outreach? I've got some links at http://bit.ly/nwenctr2
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
I guess he's talking about revenue. Don't forget to take into account infrastructure costs, health insurance for yourself, taxes etc.
Meh. Conspiracy thinking.
The chutzpah of saying he'd have to see if he could share that information with Congress is insane. The subtext is that the NSA operates above them. To publicly state that is...wow.
Then, forgive me for harping on this, how could this discussion have already happened numerous times on HN? And by "this discussion" I mean the C style used to implement APL-derived languages, not the style one uses to write programs in APL-derived languages.
"the chances of building a $10k/month webapp business is pretty high"
is this true? oh god, what am I doing with my life?.
Yup. $10k/month revenue is exactly what I mean.
They had two girls before him who never fell down the stairs. So of course, at that point falling down stairs can't happen.
Bon Jovi says Steve Jobs is killing the music business
There seems to be some surprise across the web at this result. Putting aside whether it is a valid result due to UIWebView bugs or the fact that the iPhone processor is clocked lower etc., I would have thought most people would have assumed a browser made by Google would be faster than a browser made by Apple. Google seemed to ignite, and often lead this browser speed competition that makes headlines so often these days.

I regularly see Chrome, Opera, Firefox and recently IE9 boasting the best times in a bunch of dubious benchmarks. Indeed the one that seems to get the most play these days is Sunspider, Apple's own javascript test which you would assume favors them to some degree. Apple's Safari, I don't see so much of. Why would these expectations be reversed in mobile?
What I learned pitching 300+ times in 4 days
You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using chrome, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition.
Yes it's high if you work at it for a year or two.
David Heinemeier Hansson had the exact same conversation with Jason Calacanis and Jason just could not understand why DHH felt that building that kind of business made sense..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGHxO6N3Ms
Also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335555
The point is that the phrase "exception that proves the rule" should only be used when talking about man-made rules and laws, not inductive hypotheses. You don't get to use evidence against your hypothesis as evidence for your hypothesis!

Put another way, when used correctly, "the exception that proves the rule" is a valid rhetorical phrase regardless of how many exceptions there are. Whereas if there were 500 successful startups using non-open-source tools, you wouldn't say that they were the exceptions that proved the rule.
Apple's 1st Big Publisher: NY Times Subscriptions To Be Sold Via iTunes
The fallout - Japan's hydra-headed disaster
Just because people understand businessspeak doesn't mean it's good to use. You would know what I meant if I typed "teh" instead of "the", but we all try to write "the" anyway.
Actually he did explicitly say no a few weeks later. Fred is pretty good in that department.
That's significantly because turbines have vastly worse throttle response than reciprocating piston engines though.

This does look like nothing more than a new turbine design, I agree, but frankly a turbine driving a generator and a battery is by far the most energy efficient means of running a vehicle from a combustion fuel source anyway; that's been the case for years, and if this tech helps get us to that point then all the better.
In this case the dedication factor is "Improve skills of average driver to the level of skill required by an airline pilot" (not an airline pilot driving his car, an airline pilot doing his "day job") and the time factor is "wait until that happens".

Subverting the dedication part using a highly reliable software solution is acceptable (self navigating carplanes).

Once you've got that down you've solved 90% of the flying car problem. IMHO of course.

EDIT: Of course - the real "end run" around the problem would be to answer the question "why do you want a flying car?" and address THAT instead of building a flying car. Would someone want a flying car if teleportation was available? I'm guessing "no".
Peter Thiel for the first time in Germany
He posted about the licensing header on commit message. I don't think he would do that if it was intentional.
Best fix is to use the NoScript extension for Firefox and in Advanced->ABE add the following so FB crap only loads when you visit facebook proper:

Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net
Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net
Deny INCLUSION(SCRIPT, OBJ, SUBDOC)

To be fair, isn't Facebook moving towards using iframes (similar to what this article talks about) and away from fbml - facebook markup lang?
They've mostly involved the "J Incunabulum" prototype and A+. See e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2178177 .
This guy I like.
I'll play devil's advocate to claims of illegality.

He said the "requirement" could be broken and convertible to any demonstration of creativity. Which is not a restriction on a protected class.

This doesn't seem insanely different than asking programmers to complete problem sets or coding scavenger hunts to apply. Here the assignment is social engineering rather than technical. For VCs, meeting people they are assumed not to know ahead of time to get in on deals is the core competency.
NYT concedes defeat to the Huffington Post and Drudge Report
is there something like an async like button? quick google search didn't turned anything up
If you read my reply again you'll find the answer to both 'how' and 'why'.
Is there a way to make this work with Netflix in Canada? The content offered for instant play is different.
OTOH, there are a lot of for-profit educational ventures, and they all seem really skeevy to me -- places like Kaplan or Phoenix University, for instance, or frankly a lot of educational software.

Perhaps a pro-market explanation is that the bureaucracy itself undermines the market, creating a market that is not truly driven by stated goals (education) but other factors. I'm not sure I believe that, but it's possible. The difficulty of procurement might in part mean that heavy up-front marketing costs dominate, and once you've made a sale it's both fairly large and neither increases nor decreases based on the quality of the product -- poor products tend to be maintained based on the commitment of the administration even when in practice they don't end up being useful.

It would be interesting if teachers were allocated money to purchase products themselves. While it seems somewhat chaotic, and challenging with student turnover (which is generally very high in the US in particular), it seems like the only way to actually have a market driven by real experience and taste rather than politics or theory.
Hey, I'm in my 20s have spikey blue hair, and we started Answer in 30 (streaming video Q&A site w/ heavy social media integration) on Startup Bus, launched in private beta after 72 hours. No one takes us seriously which is why we're out there hustling and interviewing people so when we launch we have 1000+ videos. (Half way there!)

Here's our startup bus pitch video.
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartupBus#p/u/8/k4mixo4-SMs

Show me an investor who takes us seriously and we'll be there to pitch within 24 hours. Or if you know TechCrunch people who are interested, we got wired coverage but it's not like it's 96 and people still read wired.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/meet-startupbus-buspr...

That said, it's a lifestyle business that pays the bills and allows me to do crazy stuff like startup bus.
that actually made me LOL :)
The only problem here is that entrepreneurs are humans and as such they tend to swing for the fences. I know I do. Its the come big or go home mentality. Its the American way. Whatever you want to call it, its in our genes to do it that way.

Yeah we could all become the equivalent of craftsmen who had to then organize into guilds/unions to get a decent wage. Why do that when we can go home millionaires with the right idea/right money.
Scribd files patent on PDF-to-HTML5 conversion
In theory, I'd value someone with varied experience as well, but we're talking about the technology industry here, nothing else, and albeit a somewhat enlightened community, the same social paradigms exist within as the do without to a varying degree. The same prejudices exist but what may be different is the way in which they're projected, perceived and handled.

The fact that the author found this shocking was, well, shocking. Coming from a lightweight, non-technical background and spouting off about what the startup scene should or shouldn't be based on her assumptions is very naive.

I wouldn't assume to delve in her decision-making process in regards to her current employment, but again, from what I've read, it seems that she has a bad case of founderitis and that shit gets old after a couple of minutes. It's embarrassing when people regard that as some sort of status symbol when they don't even have a half-baked app to show for it. Male or female.
Great overview post. A really useful, related post might be what goes into a VC pitch and examples of great ones and some not so great ones (just as a reference).
I guess my complaint is more to do with the submission title :)

However... there is an intriguing idea that you might be more successful by only doing it the dropbox way. It seems counterintuitive to restrict your options, but then you really would be productizing the dropbox approach - you'd be offering not only the implementation of it, but also a guide to it, an explanation for why it works etc. Not technology, but valuable business guidance. It would also be simpler and more convenient, by being less customizable to use; and more definite and concrete in your marketing materials, making it easier to understand and pass on, and be stickier.

But developers hate artificially limiting their technology; and I'm far from able to guarantee it would sell better (or, indeed, at all).

I guess you could simulate it, by having a form/wizard, that guides the user through the issues of a dropbox-style referral - sort of like "referral model advice" - but one that ideally would also create the system on the spot! I'm thinking that many people have much less idea of referral programs than you do (and value their ignorance); making the choices simpler is a big plus for these folk. Of course, I don't know if referral systems are well-understood enough yet to be reduced to simple rules that always work (or work reasonably reliably, well enough for a first iteration for the client).
It doesn't matter how fast it loads or updates if it reads like a bizzaro-world version of the headlines of the magazines at the supermarket checkout.
Honey is also the best cough medicine for adults, especially mixed with lemon juice and decongestant essential oils. Cough medicine is generally to be avoided unless you're trying to get high.
Didn't try it, but looked at the site: Is it just an alternative to weebly.com?
"Students doubted the relevance of an obsolete 30-year-old operating system written in an obsolete programming language"

And an operating system not used in the industry but just used for teaching is going to be more credibly relevant?
There's plenty of variety in Portland. There's the farmhouse inspired offerings from Upright, a wide range of sour beers from Cascade, all the quirky experiments coming out of Burnside Brewing, and the strong, complex, barrel-aged from Hair of the Dog.

I'd wager that we have a greater diversity of beer being brewed in Portland than just about any other city on the planet.
For me this was something I missed when I started with Go about a year ago (at that point my brain was still filled with years of C# dogma). I was not very familiar with Go's own way of doing things back then. Go may seem familiar at first glance, but there are some peculiar little differences which offer new and novel ways of dealing with a problem. Unfortunately these are very difficult to explain to someone who is not already familiar with the language.

At this point I don't miss generics at all. The benefit they would give me are marginal enough to not consider it a vital component.

I've found that when you become proficient in Go, you will write different code that does not really require generics to be present. At least 99% of the time.

Having said that, I am still hoping that we might one day get unions. Unfortunately there is little hope of that at this point. It has been considered, but they would have to be type-safe in order not to circumvent Go's type system. And doing so, would differentiate them very little from Go's existing 'interface{}' type. There is a small benefit to unions, but apparently not big enough to warrant implementing them.

As far as generics go, they are not out of the question. The problem so far has been that nobody has yet offered a generics proposal that doesn't partially or completely mess up the language and generally make things more difficult for everyone.
Command-tab exposé trick on Mac OS X
Ubisoft ‘Pirates’ Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Music From Demonoid
Good suggestions. But maybe the headline should be about whether you've 'sold ten units' or 'made ten sales' - 'sold ten products' sounds like ten different products, whereas you seem to be talking about the first sales of a single new product.
Unless there was a core misunderstanding about what is, and is not, appropriate when dealing with other's work.

I can't see how he'd do this (intentionally!) otherwise.
Actually, I think you are right that they probably mean $100K a year, although the article doesn't say that. (My startup does >$100K annually too now, but I guess that would limit the potential candidates quite a bit)
HABTM scopes are pretty in Rails 3
I've been taken aback by some of the concepts of Haskell recently as well. Hooray for obscure but insanely powerful languages!
Me, too. so LOL
His timeline includes a fragment of an apologetic comment from the now-deleted repo:

https://github.com/devinross
Cool post, but I have a question:

How do you actually get a meeting in the first place? (and how hard is it?)

I'm applying to YC this week. If I don't get in, maybe I'll try hitting up some VCs or angels. Do I need to know someone who knows someone?
"The chances of building a Google, YouTube or Facebook and scaling to the millions of users required to be “considered” for VC investment are vanishingly small. We’re talking in the region of 0.0001%."

You don't need millions of users to be considered for VC investment. More like 10,000 users if the service is free, or 100 paying customers. And it's really not that hard to do that, it just takes enough perseverance to make it through the first few iterations.
Tech Start-Up Bliss: Dogpatch Labs
So what?

It assumes that whomever wants to get your $3 program can:

* Know exactly what the rules are under the GPL (which as we have just seen, even smart software developers can't).

* Knows somebody who already have access to the software so he can get the source code.

* Trust the person whom he gets the software from.

* Knows how to compiler source code (or his friend has to), which means there has to be at least one programmer at some point. Programmers (especially with mobile programming experience) are not cheap.

* Is able to install the software, which again requires above average computer skills (many people don't know how to activate the menu)

Edit: formatting

* You will most likely be stuck with an out-of-date version, since Android programs are updated fairly often

So unless you sell something where the majority are computer programmers, or are selling for a very high price, you properly wouldn't be able to get it for free.

Edit:formatting.
Blaze admits Android to iOS Webkit speed comparison was flawed
Wait, what?

> The absolute truth is that each and every one
> of us can build a business that can support us.
> ...
> In truth, there is no reason to fail – other
> than failing to learn from your mistakes.

Yes, maybe we can - eventually. But while we're building it, we still need a paycheck. Building a profitable business doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can do in your spare time, unless you're willing to sacrifice absolutely everything else in your life.

> But even better, once you have the knowledge that comes
> along with building a succesful $10k/month business, you
> also posses the exact same knowledge that it takes to
> build a $100k/month business.

And then, why not a $1M/month business? And then $10M/month! Etc! Etc!

I'm pretty sure that a $100k/month business is an outlier, too, it's just closer to the center of the bell curve than Facebook, but still pretty dang far away from everyone else.
Great utility! This makes even more sense to a viewer like me who has shifted entirely to streamed content. The devices I own as part of home entertainment setup play my shows at a time I want (simple yet effective idea of giving your time back to you).

This easily is the future of TV viewing, and moki.tv fills a very visible gap of connecting the viewer to the content.

My best wishes for your growth. You just got one new registered user.
if you work at it for a year or two

so this 10k/month figure is averaged from how many years?