skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And rbanffy's tweet: "Because we all know two bricks float better than one."
I just spent a few hours searching but can't find a Lisp for Arduino. Does anyone know a Lisp for Arduino or a Lisp that could produces C code small enough (<32K) for it?

After some tries neither Chicken scheme nor Pico Lisp qualifies and PicoBit does not seem to support the Arduino architecture.
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I could imagine the Daily Show's faux promo video: "Coal. It kills less people at a time! Politicians love it!"
Stipple is a Product Tagging Platform with Massive Potential
Going crazy with to_proc - Adventures with Ruby
Rackspace has live chat too...
T-Mobile is even better by giving you free tethering on any mobile data plan, and afaik they don't restrict Android firmwares to remove the tethering and wifi hotspot options. I've been using the tethering on my android phones for almost two years and never had to pay anything beyond the standard data plan.
Yes, bad table designs and poor practice will make your code slow regardless.

Still though, while I don't dispute that SPs (frankly, databases in general) have issues with version control and deployment management, there are still options for managing that sort of issue that don't require the blunt instrument of the ORM tool generating its own set of dependencies and inappropriate SQL for the job, leading to the sort of performance issues that the article talks about....
If I stole a priceless Stradivarius would I be punished any differently if in court I claimed to have thought it was just a cheap bit of wood with some strings attached?

Quite possibly. Intent often matters, e.g. involuntary manslaughter vs murder.
I completely agree. I didn't even realize the "N+1 Selects Problem" was a problem because it should be referred to as "My Training Wheels Fell Off and Now My Bike Falls Over When I Sit On It".
If you think nuke energy is "safe", may we deposit the radioactive waste in your backyard?
Many people's brains are "broken" without drugs--depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc. The default state isn't always perfect. Who's to say the drugs are the bug? Maybe they're a patch.

Thank you. I've tried explaining this to various people when discussing my on drug use. There's a common presumption that a person's brain, in its default state, is "OK", and that any messing with it is bad. Yet people typically do not have this same view of the (rest of the) body; few people get bent out of shape over diabetics shooting insulin. The brain is a meat machine sitting in a chemical soup and is no more or less inherently perfect than your heart, blood, or pancreas.

The stigma attached to drug use is horrendous and keeps many people from getting proper treatment or even understanding that they may need help.

People whose brains are broken by default end up self-medicating, or living miserable lives, or both, often because people believe that "drugs breaks the way your brain is supposed to function."
By this standard we should not read a VC who is writing about a portfolio company, or in extremis, a founder talking about her company.
Jeff Jarvis on Surviving 9/11 and How Twitter Broke the Bin Laden News
Definitely a misleading title and kind of unfair to Rackspace. I founded Slicehost (with Matt Tanase) and I absolutely think this is the right thing to do and definitely is the best thing for existing Slicehost customers.

Given that this is a public plan now I feel like I can share that during the acquisition process of Slicehost we debated heavily what the right thing was to do with the brand. It was honestly a very very tough call and at the time the thing we all (Matt, me and Rackspace) were most sensitive to was to not disrupt the Slicehost community. We succeeded in that goal but the net effect (unintentionally so) was to disconnect Slicehost from Rackspace's cloud roadmap and effectively strand the product.

Unfortunately I think in hindsight I can say that our decision was probably the wrong call. I honestly think everyone would have been better off if we just ripped the band-aid early and tried to figure out how to make the core Cloud Server community out of the incoming Slicehost customers.

Control panels, features, pricing, etc all change and in the long run are only ephemerally important. What matters is having your interests be in the direct path for the company that is serving you and as a Rackspace Cloud customer you'll have that, while as a Slicehost customer you did not (post acquisition).

I definitely can see this from all sides and for Slicehost customers, all I can say is that at no point along the way did anyone (at Slicehost or Rackspace) ever have less than the best intentions for the brand and the community. There are some serious champions of Slicehost at Rackspace both in the form of former Slicehost employees still there (Paul Tomes, article site creator) and long time Rackers. Trust me that these guys are really working for the best for you all.
In India, the male worker doesn't have to spend his time. It's the wife/mother that does it. Even if the woman works, it's assumed she'll cook 3 hot meals a day.
If you think that nuclear power has a fair amount of tail risk (very small probabilities of catastrophic accidents) then any safety considerations based on historical data is meaningless.

In that case, most of the deaths & cost that occurred in the past would come from the single most sever accident (and this seems to be the case [1])

Moreover, the worse accident (Chernobyl) is not a good guide of how bad things can go: if the probability distribution of number of deaths per accident is fat tailed, then if an accident occurs that is worse than Chernobyl it will probably be much worse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents
A reduced bug report would be good. We haven't seen any reports of this elsewhere (and the jQuery test suite runs to completion in IE 6) so I'm not entirely sure what could be happening here. Any insight you can provide (and a bug report) would be appreciated.
NFS and Git are exactly why i don't need dropbox. agglomerating large chunks of free space on all devices into universally-accessible paths without wasting any bytes on duplication or synch daemons, and a proper VCS for stuff that i want surgical branching/merging/history and redundancy
A priceless stradivarious is a totally different ballgame than a very easily priced amount of gigabytes of 3G transfer. Some sense of market prices for what she actually used should have weighed in here, but obviously it didn't.
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This is seriously the best thing that can happen for JQuery Mobile, assuming he does release some apps. If anyone can push the technology as far as it can go, it's John.
Review our app. Qwiki like movie information search - theaterex (2nd iteration)
Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem
Do you have more details on this? Can you file a bug report? Thanks!

http://bugs.jquery.com/
VB is not a religion, it is an atheism:
no strict rules, nothing to be afraid of, it is very forgiving. Anyone who is lazy enough to be a follower of an organized structural system, can claim to be an expert in VB.
Why is any of that hard? Stored procedures and database schema changes are all written in SQL, which goes into source control nicely. Schema changes are easy in an environment like that. Parallel development on multiple dev databases rolling changes into a single staging server is easy in an environment like that. Just check in your code and let the automated build do it's thing.

Nothing has changed in the last 10 years to make it harder. Granted, many shops weren't doing it well back then, thus the misconception that versioning SQL databases is hard, and that schema changes are hard.

That stuff was only ever hard because people declared it to be so, and built crazy bureaucratic organizational limitations to stop developers from changing the database (because that's hard and therefore not something that developers should be doing.) Once you start thinking of it as easy and build your tools around that fact, you'll notice that it actually is easy.
I've known more than one colleague that has commuted from Portland to the Bay Area. In each case they were older men with wives and children that didn't want to (or couldn't) leave Portland. They rented small, cheap places during the week then spent the weekends at home with their families.
Oh right, I forgot all restaurants have already been opened and no new ones need POS systems. And they all want the cheapest method to handle one of the most important factors of their business, the money handling.
These articles that describe how to "build your own dropbox" all ignore the client. For me, the beauty of dropbox is the simple, straightforward client. Backing up on my own hardware/cloud might be interesting, but not if I have to monkey around with shell scripts in a CLI.

When someone reverse-engineers the dropbox protocol so I can use the official dropbox client on my own infrastructure THAT will be news.
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Well, what's their incentive to set something like that up? It would hurt their bottom line to be that good of a citizen.
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Ask HN: Looking for lead gen SaS
Having built lead gen software, that is software to collect leads(info) off forms, stick in DB, then send various bits of data out via soap/post to other servers based on filters etc. There has to be a company that is doing this as SaS as opposed to me recreating it again. Any suggests or recommends? so far I have only found something like leadmesh.com. I need something that I can collect and push millions of records into and then filter out where the data gets posted/sold to etc.
Your number looks the same, 72GB/day = 8,859GB over 4 months.
I couldn't find a number for how much he got from the Gates Foundation, but he got $2m from Google for their 10^100 contest.
Alex Payne plans to move to Portland with his wife next month, while keeping his job at San Francisco-based Twitter Inc.

Thought he was with Bank Simple?
When Bill Gates uses your product to teach his kids, asking for some grant money probably isn't much of a problem.
Seen those, but it's still not that like the macbook (or any laptop).

It's actually a bit surprising to me that no one makes a wireless keyboard that replicates a good laptop keyboard without the screen.

Many of us have spent years with laptops - get this - on our laps, and usually a touchpad in the center of it. Moving to any sort of desktop system, you're stuck with lightweight keyboards - everyone's in a rush to make the lightest/slimmest wireless keyboards (Apple included) but ignore the fact that these do not sit well on your lap while typing. Pressing any keys not in the dead center of the keyboard cause too much movement.

A nice solid sturdy 4-5lb wireless keyboard with a nice trackpad would be awesome. I'm still waiting. :/
But.... every single CRUD is normally not a huge amount of code and relatively simple to generate from the information schema if you know a bit of SQL Server. Do it that way and you've got your sprocs just sitting there for later use, primarily OK to be used straight out of the box but available for modification as soon as you need something different.
This is from April of 2010
This is a follow-up article to an article previously submitted on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508819
Hubspot (http://hubspot.com) has made a pretty big business out of leadgen, but only for certain vectors.
I'd accept that nuclear can be safer, if I had any faith in the operational model for the plants.

I live in Albany, NY about 80 miles from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, a Mark 1 GE reactor whose operator has a history of bad practices, like operating at 120% of capacity for extended periods and regularly releasing tritium into the Connecticut River. The facility has exceeded it's service life, and the operator is suing the State of Vermont for a license extension to make some more money on the place before having to clean up the site.

While coal plants in Ohio and Western NY probably pose a greater health hazard, there are other risks as well -- if a black swan event causes a serious incident at this aging facility, I live just outside of the "no humans allowed" zone. My family and relatives are in that radius and would be financially ruined by such an event.

I want a non-profit, quasi-military like organization operating plants in a transparent manner. I want aging reactors replaced by designs where operating safety was a bigger consideration in the design of the reactor. Operating these facilities with a bias towards making money for the operator is not in the public's interest.
My Fall 2009 iMac is virtually silent, even with all 4 cores fully loaded. Sometimes, late at night, when the house is very quiet, I'll notice some fan noise, but it's very soft - nothing at all like the MacBook Pro (which I also own)
AKA How to make crapy products that no one will buy - there are enough followers of this cult already.
That's a non-sensical statement. Stored Procedures are always parameterized. It's the only way to pass in arguments.

What I'm talking about is a special stored-procedure called sp_executesql. It takes varargs for parameters and executes your query.

Open up Query Analyzer. Run SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1;

That's an ad-hoc, not parameterized query.

Now run: sp_executesql 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = @id', @id=1

(My MSSQL may be a bit rusty :p, so syntax issues aside)

That's a parameterized query. That's what runs when you use the classic ADO.NET .addParameter interface.

Queries executed that way have their query plans cached.

I spent a couple seconds on Google and came up with this. Looks like a decent overview: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/07/02/sql-server-2005-comp...

If you can actually measure a significant difference between sp_executesql and a stored-procedure call that's news to me. Definitely not my experience, and not what the actual documentation indicates. I'd go so far as to bet that unless you came up with some kind of pathological example you're mis-remembering or misunderstanding what I'm trying to say.

To keep it simple: If you use the .AddParameter interface you should see no appreciable performance advantage to Stored Procedures. If you simply interpolate your parameters (or your O/RM does it for you), then you will pay the price for generating the execution plan each time. Probably not a significant different for 100ms queries, but it could be quite a substantial cost for a <10ms query.
What amazes me is why didn't the power company used a Prepaid SIM card instead.

A $150 recharge on Telstra for their prepaid mobile broadband gives 10 GB of data allowance and has an expiry of 365 days.

Seriously, how much data can the smart reader be sending back?
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The SIM plan used by the electric company might come from a contract that favors small amounts of data transfer. A meter probably won't use many kilobytes or megabytes per month. If I were such a company I'd try to negotiate for expensive $/byte ratio and very low if negligible monthly fee, knowing I will only ever transfer small amounts of data.
We added the little twitter buzz block followed by someone's advice that we cannot call it an information experience without including twitter !!
Great post, but dammit, now I'm going to have "You’re The Best" by Joe Esposito stuck in my head all day.
GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse (Final Release)
Vinil Arenado o Pavonado en Vidrios en Perú  - Frosted Vinyl
Wow! We're thrilled that this happened. Today is another great day for education. The greatest day was probably when Salman Khan quit his job and went home to upload his videos full time. We use Khan academy almost every day, for our children and ourselves.
This should be linked to or listed directly in the OP.

Really, most people reading the changelog care about "how do I make my existing code work with this"--and the details listed are conceptual, but not all practically relevant.
Wufoo (YC W06) Aquired by Survey Monkey
What kind of numbers did this estimate use as 'deaths by nuclear power'? I bet they used that two-digit death toll for Chernobyl. Look it up on Wikipedia. Estimates range from less than a hundred to one million deaths.
Sure, a technical solution can and, probably, will be looked at at this point. That said, your blithe assumption that it's twenty minutes of work does belie an ignorance of how this stuff works. And you're castigating them for not putting one in place when it hasn't been, to the best of my knowledge, a significant issue in the past. Had there been a previous rash of SIM card thefts, something very well may have been done in the past.

In other words, I am reasonably certain that you have decided on your conclusion and are working backwards from there (see your nonsense about "cackling maniacally"). I am rather certain that this is an unacceptable way of looking at business or law.

As for whether the fine is equitable--well, let's see:

* The overage charges were part of a legal contract and agreed to by both consenting parties.

* An third-party agent--the thief--unlawfully incurred charges on behalf of the power company (charges that, one can presume, would have been an acceptable, if regrettable, cost of doing business had they been incurred, for example, due to a software fault in their power meters).

What do you think should happen? Do you think the telco should not be paid according to the agreement for their account? Should the power company pay it despite the SIM card against which the charges were levied being stolen? Or should the fine be levied against the thief who committed the wrong?

As is likely apparent, I am of the opinion that the thief should be forced to make good on her damages. They are not illusory damages; _someone_ will be made less than whole if the thief is not expected to provide compensation. And, no, I don't expect her to pay it back. But it is her obligation to make whole those she has wronged. Doing otherwise is neither reasonable nor fair.

The unforeseen cost of her action is quite high. That's unfortunate. But, at the end of the day: if you commit a crime against another person or entity, you _are_ culpable for the results. If she did not want to be held responsible for the results of stealing another's property, she shouldn't have stolen it.
You make a fair point, and we can only reason from what we've seen.

What I've seen is a LOT of false enlightenment in a certain subculture. Hang out for a few hours with the drugged-out burnouts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to get a sense of it. There's a certain arrogant, self-congratulatory nihilism in the "hipster" culture, and if it's taken more seriously than it deserves, it leads to some very bad places. Is it the drugs or the casual sex alone? Of course not, because drugs and sex are generally harmless (if not possibly beneficial) in moderation. It's a certain self-centered experience-chasing mindset that, for a variety of reasons, is very attractive to young people whose personalities and ideas haven't yet formed.

If people want to use drugs, then I have no problem with that. Certainly I think these chemicals should be legal and that their possible benefits should be researched. But the false enlightenment that I've seen some people fall into is dangerous. It kills a person's work ethic and leaves that person prey to mental illness. Does everyone who uses drugs fall into this pattern? Obviously, no. Do a lot of people who don't use drugs fall into it anyway? Certainly. I think that drugs make people who are exposed to that mentality and culture a lot more susceptible to falling into it, and that's the primary danger.

For the record, I think drug prohibition (which is immoral and should be ended) makes these drugs a lot more dangerous. A lot of people have to be connected to a depraved culture even to have regular access to these drugs. I've often thought that less dangerous than the chemicals themselves are the sorts of toxic people you can end up surrounding yourself with if you want regular, frequent access, due to the drugs' illegality.
I want a non-profit, quasi-military like organization operating plants in a transparent manner.

A quasi-military / government organization operating transparently? Good luck with that.
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Not sure why this is OMG SO DEEP!!
The CFTR test you mentioned is a PCR test, the Illumina arrays are hybridization, correct?. If so, the two tests are not directly comparable in terms of error rates.

I know that hybridization assays have good error rates, but that errors in calls do happen. Any time you test that many SNPs, errors happen. Do you also get the confidence measures for each call? But, I agree, this isn't really the issue.

As I said below, I'm not trying to say that 23andMe shouldn't exist. I actually like them very much, and think that they've done a great job at getting the general public to understand how genetic variation affects your chances of developing a complex disease. I also think that they have an amazing data set that they can use to mine more genotype/phenotype interactions. I think that 23andMe are one of the good guys in this.

But I do think that there needs to be a line between performing genotyping and giving out medical advice. I don't know where that line needs to be drawn.

For example, the 'A/A' variant you used may be reported to be involved in diabetes in one paper, and then later explicitly found to not be involved in another. So, what do you tell the person who has the variant? What about after the second paper is published?

Here's another example: a single deletion in CFTR (well, triad causing the loss of a phenylalanine) is responsible for 70-80% of cystic fibrosis cases. The remaining 20-30% are caused by hundreds of other variants. What if someone was concerned about being a carrier, and used one of the personal genetics services to find out. What if they had one of the rare variants and it wasn't on the array? They should have a medical professional help them interpret their results in order to make sure that they know the limitations of that testing.

Final case: Let's say someone submits their DNA for genotyping and are told that they have the Huntington's variation. It would be grossly negligent to tell someone this without some degree of medical/genetic counseling follow-up.
Doesn't really matter that it was a person either.

"Use of stolen 3g card lands organism in jail" /scrubbed
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Eureqa doesn't help in this regard. As the OP said, you will eventually find a giant model that is a brilliant fit for the data. What you need is some notion of regularization. To answer your comment, it doesn't deal with overfitting.
Agreed.

I'm still hoping for e-ink monitors. I'd be willing to shell out decent money for a large e-ink screen. It'd need color and would have to be faster than current screens. For writing and for reading mostly-text webpages, I think that a just slightly faster e-ink screen with 16 or 32 colors would be a real boon.
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Ask HN: How to make most of 3 month (internship) in SV
I'll be spending this summer interning in SV at a startup doing product management type stuff. Outside of work hours, I want to really soak up everything SV has to offer and want to do it in a meaningful way. Attending a few meetups here and there is one thing but really embracing the community and getting something out of it would be huge. I also would like to bring an idea and turn it into a real product/startup by the end.

I would love to meet tons of great people, create actual relationships, and make a lasting impression.

I welcome any and all tips/recommendations!
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