skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I told a friend how I was going to implement my next project in Lisp. He immediately thought I was nuts to do so -- that it would never get acquired or it would be too hard to hire people to work on when it grows. All of the tried-and-true objections to using Lisp for a "real" project.

Then I read an article like this and realize I've been explaining it all wrong.

This is a great read and a real eye-opener.
You should be able to do it in TeX with \kern.
Do you have any examples handy? What I often find when people say this (particularly engineers) is that they're weighting solely on theoretical engineering superiority and under-valuing things like price, life-cycle use, and common user experience.

I'm not saying you're suggesting this, I just always see things like "Betamax vs VHS" trotted out. Where the engineers spend undue time comparing visual quality specs and completely ignore things like the simple fact that Betamax tapes didn't hold enough video to record the types of things that consumers wanted to record. (movies, sports, etc)
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That's clearly inconsistent, it should be:

print "some text," function(,) "moretext;"
I'm still using an ancient 12 megapixel camera, and I have yet to encounter a situation where I was unable to produce a great photo due to an insufficient megapixel count.
4 Ways to Persuade and Influence Others
You win one hundred posteriors.
Local Discovery is Broken
How three design flaws with current LBS platforms are hindering the development of a great tool for local discovery.
Hah! Never knew that one. I meant Earth specifically, though.
Or perhaps 10 is 2.5% more efficient and saves money up front as well. Go evolution!

http://www.epa.gov/smartwaytransport/transport/documents/tec...
That's what I was thinking. Also means that Apple is more likely to go to bat for the indie devs, in case that might happen.
Nope, those are real cuts. And really, it's at the very least, 1 in 50, since the budget at the state level in WA is being balanced by axing a lot of school funding. Federal funding is also way down this year.

Our school district has had to cut teachers for the last few years(I think 5 by now). They do it based on seniority, within each endorsement. Now, there are no teachers with less than 14 years of teaching experience in the district.
Uhh, Newtonian laws have really nothing to do with this. Its more information theory, you can't get more entropy from what you put in. Also, it is clear now that the Newtonian model is not an accurate view of the universe, and that there are fairly random events such as radioactive decay.
Atom Servers Save Money, Power for Mozilla During Firefox 4 Launch
What do CRUD apps have to do with Lisp macros? The points are disconnected and points are introduced with no evidence or logic to back them.

The only thing I can gather is this guy is about to become a billionaire, because he has found a way to rid the world of spreadsheets and CRUD apps... apparently with steel mills.
Really? Meet Mike Diana, convicted for drawing comics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana
Dating Denial of Service Attack was simply the work of a troll
The entire spec for the magstripe on their tickets, and a preliminary spec for the new 2D self-print and phone tickets that are being introduced.

Edit: I have yet to obtain a valid 2D ticket myself, but the promotional image released is at least similar to what the spec describes, and the pre-amble is a match.
Eh, in lazily-evaluated languages such Haskell, there is much less need for macros.
> "But a lot of times all I really want added to my DSLR is more software options"

I'll second that. A set of user-definable presets, tap to focus, auto-HDR capture ... that would be so great.
It's frankly frustrating that Canon, Nikon, et al can be so far behind $1 software on consumer smartphones.
That's a good point, it kinda does.
Phone Drone -- Arduino/Android control board.
There was a story about that here a while ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065604
I don't see how this is constitutional under the first amendment. Even if it passes, it will probably be overturned after wasting vast amounts of taxpayer and non-profit (ACLU, EFF) dollars.
Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire
I've commented on the politics behind the proposed act in the other thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545486
Ask HN: Follow my start-up from soup-to-nuts?
My co-founders and I have recently begun work on a new start-up. I've learned so much from the community here, in particular the articles from other start-ups describing their processes and techniques. It occurred to me that it might be interesting to follow a start-up from soup-to-nuts, from the very beginning to wherever it may lead. My team and I are therefore considering journaling openly on a blog about the details of our internal operations and progress, including the type of 'family business' you wouldn't ordinarily be privy to hearing about in a start-up. Before we dive in to this, my question to the community is would this content interest anyone? Could following our progress at a low-level give some color to even less-seasoned founders than ourselves about what goes on and help them in some small way? Thanks for any feedback.
AOL was originally a closed bulletin-board system, unconnected to the Internet. They had chat rooms, games, and lots of other good stuff, and could charge quite a lot, especially because -- as the largest of a number of closed networks -- you could communicate with more people more easily there than you could on, say CompuServe.

Then, as the Internet became more widely used, AOL had to connect to it, and increase their integration with it. Generally-accessible Internet services become more compelling for AOL users than the closed AOL services, so were less willing to pay a premium for AOL, decreasing their profits. Eventually people started seeing it as just another ISP, and their original value-add was eroded -- hence their decline.

So yes, the Internet killed AOL. An open system where anyone could connect and start running any kind of service they liked killed a closed system where only the owner was allowed to say what people could do.
No, that's not my question. It's only the title of this text. ;)
I absolutely loved the first book in that series you're reading from, "The Shadow of the Lion", and would strongly recommend it to anyone who thinks the words "historical fantasy" could appeal to them.
I doubt PRNG is the issue. PRNGs satisfy the criteria for equal likelihood of being selected which I believe is what they want. A truly stochastic process is not necessary.
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I agree with loosening immigration controls.

Another thing that would help would be for government to get out of meddling in the higher education market. It's so bad now that people think they have a right to higher education (I'm not sure how lower education became a right). Politicians need to grasp that there is a limited supply of education, and a limited demand for the skills that it produces. By subsidizing it, you get a lot of highly skilled labor that there's no demand for. That's a big part of the "skill gap".
A huge percentage of crud business apps are .NET. That might not seem important (the 'boring' part of software development), but that just hooks a huge amount of business to the whole Windows platform.
The marketing idea that consumers could judge a camera based on 'how many megas it has' died a while back. It was definitely dead in 2009 when Sony released cameras with Exmor backlit sensors and competed with a similar Fuji offering.

In the professional market, however, it's possible to get an 80 megapixel medium format sensor and there are post-production advantages that make this worthwhile for professional use. I wouldn't be surprised if sensor resolution continued to creep up in prosumer cameras as well.

There are still benefits for consumers from higher sensor density and resolution, as long as it can be done without introducing noise. For example, slightly less awful digital zoom and the ability to liberally crop.
Historically speaking, your statement is not well supported. Essentially all cryptosystems proposed before 1970 have been cracked. Most cryptosystems proposed since then have been, too. Any particular cryptosystem might turn out to have a hard and usefully high lower bound on the difficulty of cracking it, but we can't even prove P ≠ NP yet, so we aren't even close to proving such lower bounds on cryptosystems.

Large amounts of money can and do buy the time of legions of sharp mathematicians who devote their lives to devising and cracking new cryptosystems. There are good reasons to suspect that this no longer gives the US government the kind of advantage that it used to enjoy, but hard evidence of that is also hard to come by.

There's also the possibility of using large amounts of money to trick someone into using weak encryption, a policy which was very successful with Crypto AG.
I've been using AuthLogic (https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic) for a long time now and appreciate how it does what I need from the beginning but also grows with the application. There was a period where the author was not working on it but now he has committed to continue developing it.
Thanks for posting that. I've fantasized about a Leica M9 but the body and the glass would run about $8,500. Looks like a (much) lower priced alternative.
I'll probably regret asking this, but what is the tweet he's referring to?
Errr... With a typical RDBMS, doing a full table scan depends on the current stats (e.g., number of rows, are the stats current, state of the index, possibility to use an index, presence of cached data, previous query performance etc.). It does not depend only on the query and the data structure, so it is near impossible at development time to be certain that a table scan will occur during production. In fact, a table scan might occur today and not tomorrow for the same query, but with different data.

Many developers have been burned by trying to optimize their queries and indexes too early. The query planner, although sometimes unpredictable, is generally better than developers at predicting the performance of a particular execution plan. Table scans are also preferable in certain situations.

Relying on the fact that RDBMS have sophisticated query planner (as opposed to MongoDB) is not a sign of "reactive development". It just means that you should test your queries (and your indexes) with close-to-production data, and, as the data grows and evolves, continue to test, because the best execution plan might change.
That's a fallacy. Vaynerchuk could really be part of that 0.5% of social media experts who actually know what they are talking about. Someone has got to and Vaynerchuk has a pretty good track record as an entrepreneur and business strategist.
Richard Feynman: Inconceivable complexity of nature
Here's a thought: let's subsidize trade schools by not subsidizing colleges!
A Twitter crime thriller, and why laptop tracking could save you some heartache
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This 26-Year-Old Just Sold His Company [OpenFeint] For $104 Million
Vitaly Borker of DecorMyEyes Pleads Guilty
I get the technical distinction, but the general purpose is still primarily to visualize no?
Hypothetical tweet. It was more for illustrating how retweets can take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
Thanks for the responses everyone!

So far, Project C is the winner. Frankly, I am surprised about the positive responses to it. I was hypothesizing that A would get the best response. So, I am a bit surprised. But, pleasantly surprised nonetheless. :)

Now, I am going to start sketching out details about just what Project C would be and how it would work. I'll let HN know when I have something to review.

Thanks again everyone!
I wasn't suggesting that it was the issue. I was pointing out their QnA section uses the phrase "truly random" to explain why that specific set wasn't valid. Which semantically, "truly random" disqualifies all of their previous sets and not just this one. Their QnA section probably should have been more along the lines of "not appearing random enough".
The Dacia Logan targets exactly that market and has sold well, although it's not available in the US.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dacia_Logan
It has most of the features you list (not sure about power windows).
Canon, Nikon, et al are making those cameras for photographers, not smartphone users. The interfaces may be alien to a newcomer but are really just power tools for working photographers.
Some background HN discussion links

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946085

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977048
Ah, that wasn't clear. Thanks for the clarification :)
For some countries those electronic files are being treated to a 'border inspection' also... It may seem like Tin Foil Hattery... But I remain unconvinced that this doesn't happen for some / a lot / most countries...
The Kitchen-Table Industrialists
Why Bother with what people in NY are doing. You think Chineese startups are craving to be NY or they do their own thing in a market they know best. I can bet if you moved to NY you'll regret your decision.

You should be thankful that India is not like the US where everyone and their grandmother wants to want to make ''apps''.Atleast in India you have breathing space to perfect your craft and product without much competition.
Coral cached version:

http://www.loper-os.org.nyud.net/?p=401
Having done extensive work on both old ('64 Ford Falcon, '68 Ford LTD) and new ('99 Eclipse, '00 S4) old cars are WAY easier to work on.

The first issue is simplicity and access. Old cars have big engine bays with everything spread out, easy to see, easy to get at. There are very few wires and it's pretty obvious (to a gearhead) what each component, wire, hose, etc... does. New cars have way more "stuff" packed into way less space. You can't see most things, and can't get at most things. There's a million wires, mostly run through harnesses, and plugged into various computers, etc...

Rebuilding a carb, while not easy, is easier than trying to diagnose if your poorly running engine is because of: bad MAF, bad O2 sensor(s) (some cars have 4-6 of these), bad O2 sensor wires (good luck tracking those through the various wire looms, etc...), bad computer(s), bad injector(s), bad FP, etc... Troubleshooting a throttle cable is easy compared to issues with a drive-by-wire system.

New cars are safer, perform better, handle better, etc... but working on them is a pain.
Learning a lot of these skills is easier than ever.

I wasn't raised doing a lot of around-the-house stuff, but in the past five years I've learned to do everything from recaulking a tub and rewiring lamps to fixing bicycles and repairing vintage rangefinder cameras.

I buy tools on craigslist and learn the steps online. Sometimes there's an unintended consequence to deal with (water spraying out of the sink, burned chicken, stripped set screws) that forums, skillshares, and hackerspaces are great at helping with.

None of this makes for a vocation, and I'm not advocating that people learn welding from eHow. But there's a lot to be learned from 'do it yourself' rather than 'do it for me'.
When Should I Incorporate?
"The people that are using digital innovations to solve real world problems like energy, health care, agriculture, and transportation are ahead of the curve."

Those are all capital intensive. Most 20 year olds don't have that much capital. It would be great to see more investment in this space, though.

I'm sure someone straight out of school could write software to improve healthcare records management, but the cost of maneuvering through healthcare regulations would be higher than most could afford.

My point is that people fresh out of school who want to be independent are tackling the biggest problems they can on a budget of $1-2000/month.
But surely now you're the sarcastic one!

If you two really believe that this stuff is revolutionary, I am embarrassed by how low the bar is for my generation.
Could've been a bad shuffle implementation. There are lots of ways to do that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle#Im...
My guess is that there is a NIST definition of "truly random" which they failed to satisfy.
You have a [1] but forgot to include the footnote.
True, but can't we say that about every non-trivial PL feature? For example, we could say that:

In OOP languages such as Smalltalk, there is much less need for macros.

The author's point is that programming languages are great when you're cutting with the grain, when you're working in the domain the author optimized the language around. But when you leave the domain, macros are an important tool.

Don't get me wrong, I think that lazy evaluation is an incredibly valuable tool for separating what from how. But I wonder how it obviates the need for macros any more so than a well-defined OO system or any other non-trivial language feature.
But PDFs aren't cloud. Don't you like the cloud?
I don't really agree. It's more that innovation isn't publicized and talked about as much as companies that are looking to score big. It also takes longer to mold innovation into something that can be sold; in the end, we still need to eat.

Also, why America? How is it different in other countries? Genuinely curious.
Or, for a more direct analogy, the various tiers of support you get from any help line.
Well if you got the glass cheap enough, but really you'd probably be spending closer to $10k.

These are in and out of stock quickly right now. I preordered two months ago and I'm just now getting it shipped from B&H.

This camera is really the answer to Leica's X1, and most people think it's better than the X1 for various reasons. The general consensus is that it's an awesome camera with some firmware glitches that need to be ironed out. I've been shooting with a Canon S95, and although it's an amazing little camera, I realized just how much you really need a viewfinder. But the Fuji is going to be everything I've really been wanting: a smaller camera with a fast semi-wide lens lens (35mm) with great low light performance.
Steve Wozniaks advice to young people on how to change the world
Last summer, when I got one of the then best Android smart phones on the market, from all the cool features and interesting capabilities, the question I got asked the most was: "How many megapixels does it have?".

It took me some time to get used to it, and not get annoyed every time. People like to focus on a single number for quality measurement.
Try writing a parser that recognizes punctuation inside the quotes, then try to write one that recognizes it outside. It's quite clear that the latter is cleaner and simpler.
Mobile computing in 1997
Clearly we need to import better programmers.
Inter process window snapping component for .net winforms
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Wow! I didn't realize Skype had over 600 million users.
I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation selling ads, making social media startups – slaves with white collars. Internet hype has us chasing VCs and tweets, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no AI Winter. No Project MAC. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be Zuckerbergs, and Bill Gateses, and rock star programmers, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
Zlib is not shipped with Lua. I am sure more stuff will get added though as time goes on.
Interview with Kasper Hulthin, co-founder of Podio
You're exactly right. The barriers to entry are significantly higher when trying to innovate in "real world" problems (vs entertainment based ventures). Hopefully incentives, incubators, and resources will come into play to help navigate those challenges. Some are there already but don't really receive the media coverage to inspire others to follow suit.
I'm pretty sure even a "real" photographer would appreciate being able to change the focal point mode in less than 5 button presses through a 80s-era menu interface.
A Java CSV File Reader
A critical thinker would try to find a sentence that sounds best in the active voice, then try to find one that works best in the passive voice. Succeeding both times, he would then conclude that both are useful.

Specifically, the passive voice allows you to mention the action while omitting the actor. This is sometimes useful, other times harmful.
I try to think the best of people. With no code to Loper OS that I can find and a writing style that perpetuates lisp elitism using peculiar analogies to the Industrial Revolution without any evidence that this elitism is warrented--I use lisp, I like lisp but it's one tool in a bag--I find it hard to believe that Mr. Datskovskiy is serious. Surely this is brilliant satire?
An encrypted mailbox service would be nice, considering our privacy is pimped out by the big guys.
So you're asserting that HTTPS use in a Pakistani city like Abbottabad is so unbelievably rare that any usage would be an instant red flag?

Do you have any basis for this belief?
I recently started a rather large Rails project and am using Devise. Currently with authentication being pretty low on the list of things to do, it has helped get something in place rather quickly. Can you expand on the disadvantages of using Devise over time (and maybe compare it to your experiences woth Sorcery)?
Last time I checked it was Sweden and Japan. Dunno if more countries have seen the light since. :-)
I've recently had occasion to work on

1986 and 1990 Honda Civics: a PITA: just no space to turn a wrench in the engine compartment. Replacing a radiator took an absurd amount of time (and oh my aching back!)

1998 Toyota Sienna: replacing the radiator (w/engine cold) took 30 minutes the first time, 15 the second and third. My 13yo son displayed some interest so we did it an extra time :-). Changing the rear-cyl-bank O2 sensor (wedged against the firewall and crossmember) was a PITA.

1995 Camry w/same V6 engine as above Sienna: changing the same rear-bank O2 sensor was a breeze (bigger engine compartment).

Access is the key.

BTW I own two 1973 Toyota trucks, bought because they're simple to work on and exempt from CA smog testing (points ignition might survive the anticipated solar EMP!). And I agree that working with carbs is a black art with minimal feedback available, and EFI (real-time feedback!) is a major advance. Maybe EFI engines will "find their way" into these trucks :-)
This is damage.

I can't wait to see how the internet will re-route around it.
Bummer you got downvoted seemingly arbitrarily. :( We work really hard on it.

But glad you like it! Thanks for reading!

- Ernie @ShortFormBlog
First you need to resolve the other bottlenecks or more megapixels will only make the inadequacy of the lenses more obvious.

The lesson to learn here is that the camera needs to grow more organically, it's useless to grow megapixels so much without improving lenses or the size of the sensor, instead, as the article states, it makes it _worse_. Like megahertz, megapixel is a nice single number that many customers associated with performance but it's pretty far from truth. A more detailed sensor will only see what the lenses let go through and a smaller sensor will become that much less sensitive. It is cheaper however.
That's assuming that you can even break into the industry. Beyond regulations, most healthcare companies and hospitals have contracts with companies that basically prevent any sort of real competition. Much like the health insurance industry, health technology is in dire need of a revamping.