skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no experience building languages, but as someone who has to build relatively performant code and longs for a clean, DRY language, I completely agree with you about picking a target language that closely fits the semantics. Rolling out your own libraries and runtime seems like a gargantuan endeavor too likely to fail, and portability (not to mention performance) will likely suffer.

I think the CoffeeScript approach is the way to go: syntactic sugar that generates human readable code. I'd be happy to have an elegant language that would compile to C++ simply adding some DRYness and elegance (for example not having to write headers), but without trading it for performance/portability (for example without abstracting pointers or new/delete). I would happily use a subset of C++ if required.

This in C++:

// in file MyClass.h //////////////

class MyClass: public ParentClass
{

public:

int myInt, myInt2;
float myFloat;
Arr *myArr;

MyClass() { }

MyClass();
void doStuff();

};

//in file MyClass.cpp //////////////

#include "MyClass.h"
MyClass::MyClass()
{
self->doStuff();
int poop = 321654987;
myInt = 112233 * poop;
{
// new scope here
}
}

void MyClass::doStuff()
{
int myNum = 123;
poop *= myNum;
}

Could relatively easily be generated from this syntactic sugar:

class MyClass < ParentClass

int myInt, myInt2
float myFloat
Arr *myArr

void initialize(args)
self.doStuff()
int poop = 321654987
myInt = 112233 * poop
// new scope here

void doStuff()
myNum := 123;
poop *= myNum;

And wouldn't generating such readable code bypass the need for a debugger?
> I think that this study fails to address that they may confuse cause and effect. What is the reason for a telecommuting arrangement?

From another angle: companies that are open to the idea of remote workers are more likely to show healthy levels respect and trust for their employees.
For the First Time Ever, Apple Tops Nokia's Lead in Smartphones
Live video of writing a GLSL raytracer in 24 minutes
$200 million for a domain as an investment? Only one domain has ever sold for more than $10 million. You get below the $1 million range before you're even out of the top hundred. Domains are not as valuable as people think they are, and the rules change entirely once the new TLD system hits.

For the record: Color.com was purchased for $350,000
Taliesinb, you really should be disclosing the fact that you work for Wolfram Alpha, in this comment thread. It is not at all obvious from glancing at your profile.
it seems JSTOR is not pressing charges.
$200 million isn't cool. You know what's cool? Uh, $0 million.
Why Are Entrepreneurs Afraid to Focus?
What I usually do is give other person (assuming they are busier than me) 2-3 wide options than a specific time. Example "I am available Monday 9am - 1pm, Tuesday 10:30am - 2pm and Wednesday 2:30pm - 8pm. Let me know what works best for you."
Compact Tally Method
I agree to an extent, its not the idea of capturing a location as so much a collective at a specific moment in time. Example: Yelp/Gowalla collect pictures of food and venues and really it doesn't matter so much when they were taken. Color is cashing in on capturing moments in time that are relevant to a group of related or unrelated people, but the real question is how often is this relevant and even for times that are relevant, as a fleeting moment, will 90% of the pictures provided even matter to a user. I can tell you honestly I get bored after looking at the first few pictures of random people I care nothing about.
The scary part isn't that scofflaws and pranksters exist, which (as you say) is practically inevitable. But what if we as a society may some day depend on them to preserve our freedom?

Viewing my world in terms of black and white has always been more of a comforting illusion than a reasonable approximation of reality. I realize this. But either these self-styled hacktivists are rationalizing their hooliganism with noble-sounding platitudes or they honestly believe that their way is the best way to fight against corporate corruption and government abuse of its own constituents.

If the former, it's becoming less obvious. And the latter is a frightening thought indeed. One day I might have to choose between a government agency whose actions have transcended public accountability (as in the Instapaper raid), corporations who will gladly sacrifice me on the altar of their own convenience (as in the Peter Adekeye case), or a capricious band of anonymous malcontents who might fight for my rights or might hold me up to public mockery and exploitation "for the lulz".

But what really scares me is that the choice will be made for me.
Single Person Start-ups. Two - Founders Start-ups. Three - Person Start-ups. etc. It's all about context. Are you a rock and roll band? With or without a drummer? Are you making a film? Are you starting a cricket team? Are you opening a restaurant? Are you starting a media group? There is no magic number, never was, never will be. It's a simple equations of what skills are needed to start, and how many people at a minimum are needed. Are you Evils, The White Stripes or the The Beatles.

So while I do appreciate the anecdotal stories, I'm not sure the unequivocal conclusions are really warranted or necessary.
or drupal.
My girlfriend manages grant money for a large research institution where a sizable majority of the funds come from taxpayer-backed grants. You would be surprised (well, or maybe not) how often the researchers on the grants yell at her for not letting her have unfettered access to "their money". Even our friends who are researchers for other labs will get heated with her when she defends the casually-maligned administrators of their own grants. It's all very ugly and wrong-headed.
That's what I figured as well, but the execution was too confusing as it turns out.
Pre-expense "profit" is called revenue.
A trite leftist screed ripped straight from the Bush years.
I'd love to read more about this... what the average person thinks versus the reality of a deal.
Well, even with local farmers you do not escape the mass food production industry, really. AFAIK there are hardly any farmers left who do NOT grow their vegetables and fruits with actual, natural seeds but rely on those genetically modified super-seeds from Monsanto and other companies. These do not bear usable seeds, you cannot plant them in the next year. Plus they need all sorts of chemicals and pesticides to grow, still.

> We've been doing it this way for thousands of years

And for the bigger part of those thousands of years, on average we barely made it to the age of 30, let alone 40. It is good if you can trust local folk but it is better to have professional inspections because there is a lot that can still go wrong in farming and your local farmers might just miss or not know about something crucial. Or maybe I am just used too much to the German way of things already.... inspections and checks for everything.
I actually find it distracting. There was another style Apache Index that looked quite gorgeous. It wasn't fancy, none of that JS / HTML5 stuff, but it was fast and pretty.

I don't recall what it was called. If anybody knows the link?
To me, that's the definition of hypocrisy. They pretend to be acting from a moral (or at least societal) high ground and roundly condemn the actions of anonymous. However, both are engaging in the exact same behavior. Now that's hypocritical!
A Mathematician's Lament [pdf] [2002]
It's not only sticker price that counts. Maintenance, expected lifespan, expandability, training, financing, familiarity of your sysadmins...

Actually, I was quite naïve in my OP. Networking equipment and software selection is rarely conducted by people who can understand what they are doing. The person who makes the sale usually ends up being the one who wined and dined the most high-ranking exec in the client.
Money is overrated in terms of attraction. Perceived status is what matters (for men), and money is often correlated with status but doesn't directly lead to it. A socially skilled entrepreneur who's broke but confident will do far better than a highly paid socially inept geek.
You forgot larger industrial research lab-y companies, e.g., Google and DuPont.
HTML is the document format of the future.

Yes, I've been saying that since about 1992. I'm not disagreeing with you, mind; I really like the idea of a lightweight WYSIWYG tool that lets me create complex documents without having to fiddle about with code.
Wolfram Launches a New Document Format: Real-Time Computation & Interactivity
I find a nice way of look at it is to think of it as looking at the back of a two-dimensional 'slice' of what is in front of the mirror.
There's already a system somewhat like that in place and it was actually referenced in the article. Wikisource (http://wikisource.org) is run by the same nonprofit as Wikipedia, and has a pretty robust system for pairing up side by side transcribed texts and scans. Someone's already started the germ of a Phil. Trans. library (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions). At present the first volume is done and about forty volumes (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Philosophical_Transactio...) are uploaded and ready for users to transcribe.
CloudFlare users: Beware
Double rainbow guy running for President.
Votocracy: “Your Personal Campaign Machine”
A great interview with him: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/14/roger-mcnamee-loves-t...
The way I see it, the mirror does flip up and down, at least by the measure of the same experiment used to prove that it flips left and right.

To prove that it flips left and right, imagine a vertical pole between you and the mirror. The pole has a card attached to it with the front facing the mirror. The two dots, red and blue are painted on the card and you can see their reflection in the mirror.

In the reflection, the blue dot is on the right and the red dot is on the left.

If you rotate the pole so that is facing you and you can now see the front of the card you see that the blue dot is really on the left and the red dot on the right.

This proves that the mirror flips left and right.

To prove that it flips up and down, imagine the same pole in front of you with the card facing the mirror, but this time the pole is horizontal.

in the reflection you see that the blue dot is at the top and the red dot is at the bottom.

If you rotate the horizontal pole so that the card is now facing you, you see that the blue dot is really at the bottom and the red dot at the top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
Aren't you missing something here? LulzSec also claims to have a morally reasonable agenda. Indeed, LulzSec claims to be entirely in the right, morally speaking. Now, reasonable folks can disagree about whether they are actually in the right, but it's false to claim that they are not "pretending" or claiming to have a morally reasonable agenda. They are, quite clearly, making that claim.
We're new to town, but we're already hiring like woah in our new office in downtown Boston.

In particular, we're currently highlighting two clutch roles for a Ruby on Rails Engineer and a Data Engineer.

We were recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're newly venture-backed, we've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ).

To learn more about our very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, fun company culture, and small arsenal of office helicopter drones, check out: http://www.earthaidjobs.com, and send us an e-mail at jobs at earthaid dot net
I didn't try the iPhone application, but it has 1411 ratings with 2 stars. How is this a good idea if people don't actually like it?
Advice for founders who are not in incubators
Thanks. Just wanted to make it clear. Because technically revenue in this instance could have referred to total before Shopify takes their cut...which was not my intention. In addition, most developers that release a theme are not actually paying someone else to built it, thus they are not in my position of paying expenses and therefore it would be profit (and Shopify refers to it as such in the partner account).
The line is creative expression. Copyright restricts copying of original, creative expression.

Copyright law does not restrict copying of facts or ideas.

"(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#102

Thus, you can freely copy the facts (information) in google maps.

Google may be able to claim copyright on map images it produces, but I'd expect courts would find that they are just a mechanical reproduction of factual information, limiting the copyright to just the presentation choices (colors, fonts, styling, etc.)

From the same reference: "(b) The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material. The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material."
What I'm excited for is organizations adopting the mental model of Infrastructure as a Service internally.
Most frightening is how the DPRK regards their neighbors to the south and how they have militarized their border to prevent the free flow of people.

To start a war with another country, draw a line in the sand, militarize it and then imprison people because they want cross a line in the sand to be repatriated with their families is the mark of a very totalitarian regime. If it weren't for their military I don't think anyone would put up with this kind of behavior. The really cruel thing is that their people are impoverished by their military spending and then told that there isn't enough money for basic medical care. Even sadder than that is that what little is left after military spending is spent to fund the lavish lifestyle of the politically well connected in a futile attempt to make some pretense that their economy has not failed the vast majority of their populace.

What kind of country would buy more tanks while their vetrans, women, and children are left homeless?

What the world is proposing, namely that the DPRK stop spending so much on their military and take care of their people is really rather modest.
Show HN: Ticketometer Beta Launch Offers Group Buying for Indie Concerts
Ticketometer allows artists to create shows that only happen if a minimum number of tickets are sold. Artists can gauge fan interest in a city before committing to play, enabling them to find new cities to play in and eliminate shows with low ticket sales. Additionally, artists sell tickets before finding a venue and can use guaranteed attendance to negotiate better deals with venues.
Mac OS X Lion Downloaded More Than 1 Million in Just One Day After Launch
Furthermore, I take offense at the core premise: "You can't be a startup founder and date"

I'm about a year into this startup, I've probably been on 40+ "dates".

If you have to work so hard that you can't find one night per weekend or one weekday afternoon to get out of the office and spend time with someone, maybe you're not smart enough to build a smart up...
i've not noticed this paywall at all. do anti-tracking plugins (adblock, ghostery, disconnect) zap the cookies or whatever that it uses? or is it perhaps only for americans? (i realise it's not immediate, but i follow links there fairly regularly and have never exceeded any quota).
That's cool, and compared to writing the code to do that manually, it's compact, but I'm having trouble imagining a worse syntax and naming scheme for achieving that task.

Give me this:

stream = OpenVideoStream(device)

render1 = stream.surf()
render2 = stream.sift()
etc.

display(outDevice, stream)
Bitdefender Steps Up Against Social Network Spam, Releases New Security Suite
wow, thanks for the screenshots.. I didn't expect that pic. Expected a japanese character or something. Wow. We don't need that.
Nice overall. A few thoughts:

-More color hierarchy. (Maybe too much tan?)

- the 2nd photo is nice but the 1st and 3rd don't jump out at me. Invest in great photos.

- Uncertain about who you are and what you're selling. It says "browse our villas" but they aren't really your villas, you only find the best ones right? If that's the case you should mention somewhere on the main page the hours and hours you've spent looking for only the best deals to save me time.

-the word villa seems really specific. A little intimidating since I'm not 100% sure how a "villa" differs from other accommodations.

good luck!
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Wolfram Launches a New Computable Document Format
You need to enable emoji. There are several free App store apps that will do it. One is Emoji Free! By Awesomest Inc.
How to find a CEO for your startup?
Does anyone has experience with finding/hiring a CEO (technical or non-technical) for your startup. If, yes then please share your good/bad experiences. What were the terms, how did you find one.

Basically, someone who can do the salesperson role in getting funding be the front-face of the company.

Thanks,
What template system are they using?
I'm no legal expert, but I'd guess it's illegal to sell what is in the public domain. Why hasn't anybody done anything?
Skipping all the details, it's because you have a left eye and a right eye, not an up eye and a down eye.
Agree on the tan. It feels like the attentive draw between the main and side columns should be better managed. As it is, it's too easy to drift between the two, which detracts from what you're trying to present in the main column.
argh. please don't do this. not because lisp is sacronsanct, but because a better thought-out (consistent, transparent, inter-operable with macros) approach already exists - http://www.dwheeler.com/readable

really, there's a long history here. people have worked out the details. it just needs implementing...
I couldn't disagree more. Look at how many people Color's already gone through. Look at how atrocious their apps were (that they were pulled and still are). The only thing they have going for them is the "photos-after-the-fact" experience that others have detailed here. (Go to a concert, come back and see hundreds of photos of the band, maybe even you, etc, without even doing anything)
Grumble.js
‪Lamborghini vs Jet - ランボルギーニ対ジェット - 兰博基尼VS李连杰 2011‬‏ - YouTube
He lives in Carmel, which is just south of Half Moon Bay. and yes, he's very aggressive in defending his right to publicity - not least because he largely avoids adverts and endorsements completely.

Of course, this is all a bit academic since the name of the product can change. But it's a good excuse to suggest reading a bio of Clint Eastwood, who's a great role model for anyone on HN - a smart, skilled person who also turned out to have shrewd business instincts and worked his way to the top in a very competitive industry.
It depends how regularly. If you visit more than 20 times a month (in the same browser, see my other comment) then you should hit it.
We didn't think we even had a choice! From: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/3420/MNL-1130....

"The X8SIL/X8SIL-F/X8SIL-V supports up to 16GB of DDR3 ECC UDIMM or up to 32GB of ECC DDR3 RDIMM (1333/1066/800 MHz in 4 DIMM slots.)"

Below are what we assume are ECC errors from an i3 based Backblaze pod, when this happens it is usually bad RAM (bad enough to crash the pods, replace with fresh RAM repairs it):

### IPMI LOG: ####

ipmitool sel elist | grep -v "Fan FAN"
69 | 01/04/2011 | 20:21:52 | Memory | Correctable ECC | Asserted
73 | 01/04/2011 | 21:15:50 | Memory | Correctable ECC | Asserted
Government Might Begin Regulating Health And Medical Apps
I like to maintain a clean namespace, which means that generally, instead of recording data on DOM objects, I wrap it in closures. For those circumstances where I absolutely cannot do that (and it is rare), I try to be as local as I can and use a wrapper name...

DOMObject.my_special_site_id.specific_data1
DOMObject.my_special_site_id.specific_data2

Nasty global variableses...
You're very welcome. Feel free to drop me a line via gmail anytime.
I agree although I think this sort of visualization does provide some perspective of how much "trillion" actually means which can be hard to grasp when just seeing the zeroes.
Reading your comment is just depressing and is a prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect. I have a PhD in economics.

Is this supposed to say anything other than "you're stupid and I'm smart"? I would just say it that way. It takes fewer words and is more direct.
Mirrors don't flip left and right, or up and down. They flip front and back.
I would consider removing either the dropshadow and/or the beveled borders on the images. I feel like it's drawing too much visual strength in relation to the rest of the content. The images already take up a large portion of the screen, no need to emphasize them any further. Other than that it looks great.
Staying in Shape for Busy Professionals
Well, for most of the JSTOR documents that's probably not the case.

But yes sharing with large academic datasets is a real and only partially solved (IOW not solved at all) problem.
Durham Launches Startup Stampede 2.0 For New Companies
I like how the prices are all in the $80-$200 range, it shows that there's value in a good design.

Sometimes I wonder how the world would be different if iPhone app developers had originally priced their apps at $10-$50 instead of $1-$5.
Here is the comparison with other formats (PDF, JS, Flash, etc).

There are many marketing lies in it! For one, it claims that PDF is not embedded in the browser and CDF is yes? "Full page within a browser" is yes but not for JS? "Dynamically interactive charts and diagrams" is partially supported??

Could anyone please explain to me what I am missing here?

http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/compare-cdf/how-cdf-compares.html
What's wrong with debt? With loans I was able to speed up my progress. I took loans two times and ready to take it the next time. You'll need just to be certain that you'll pay off. There is risk, but risk is everywhere you do business.
A Request for 'Fans' on Facebook for my startup
Please Note: If this is uncool to make a post like this then just write a comment saying so and I'll delete this post if enough people don't like the idea.

So basically my startup needs to hit 25 Fans on Facebook so we can do direct emailings within Facebook along with getting some other bump/upgrade of our companies Facebook page. My partners have asked me if I know anyone on Facebook and I just don't know many people.

So long/short - if you are on Facebook and don't mind helping out a struggling startup, please fan our page!

Thanks!

Here is the link as well:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Company-Access/220717611277983
I think HN is much better than TechCrunch/Mashable/etc in that regard. The big tech blogs seem to have a vested interest in promoting the idea of huge acquisitions. People here seem genuinely interested in the details and the detailed outcomes.
I am not a lawyer or expert either but I do not believe it is illegal to sell something in the public domain. That's sort of the point of Public Domain. No one can tell you not to sell it.
Looks like http://www.liquidmarkup.org/