skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ajim Premji, an Indian software mogul, not some oil sheikh

Well, Wipro(Western India Vegetable Products Limited) did start out as manufacturing vegetable fats and oil among other things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipro#History

Does that count as an oil business?

I kid. :)
related by Hewitt (1973) and Agha:

http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/01/maybe-monads-might-not-m...
I was inspired by http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e... to write my own Pratt parser* and I figured the easiest way to start would be to implement Bob's "Bantam" language in CoffeeScript.

I understand why Bob chose Java (as he says, "if you can write it in Java you can write it in any language"), but I think the CoffeeScript version is easier to understand.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_parser
Don't you think that the engagement factor for subscribed ads can be really, really low? Did you talk to potential advertisers or ad networks about this idea? Are they willing to spend their money on promoting their ads via this channel?

My concern is that without putting ads in any context (like embedding in conversation) people will just ignore them, completely. Also, any advertiser would like to know much more about users to target ads more precisely, a set of interests should be just a starting point.
Kivy: python UI framework. GPU accelerated, multi-input (win,osx,lin,android)
Kivy 1.0.7. was just released.
kivy is the most awesome framework (for any language) for creating stunning user interfaces with support for a wide variety of input modalities like multi-touch, object/marker/fiducial tracking, kinect/gestures. Packaging for windows (exe), osx (.app/.dmg), and android is now available for easy distribution of kivy apps. It's licensed under the LGPL, so you can use it in both open and closed source projects.
Info, downloads, and extensive documentation available here: http://kivy.org/
official github repo: http://github.com/tito/kivy
From the release notes: Kivy is a full featured framework for creating novel and performant user interfaces, such as multitouch applications, under the LGPL 3 license. The framework works on Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Android. iOS support is coming soon, and available to brave hackers in repos.
DISCLAIMER: I am one of the kivy developers, so I am obviously biased in how awesome I think it is. That said, please check it out to see why I am so excited, before knocking me for posting such a shameless plug.
حكم وأمثال العدل - فلسطين المسلمة
I echo spiffworks.
Here's what Google had to say about the exact same product decision in their social network Orkut in 2009:

"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click."

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/orkut-slows-hemorraging-to-...

Google was right then, and Facebook is right now. You have a right to download the data you put into Facebook, but not the data your friends put into Facebook: their photos, status updates, check-ins, and yes, contact information, are all technically readable to you, but this is information your friends have contributed, not you. Providing bulk download of other people's data would be widely abused, and lead some of the same critics of Facebook's "lack of openness" in this decision to complain about Facebook's "disregard for privacy" if it were reversed.

I work for, but don't speak for Facebook, just my opinion, etc.
Would be great if worked with Ruboto on Android.
I think they just finally saw the 007 movie Goldeneye.
I think the right term has 4 letters, starts with a j, ends with an e, and has an ok in the middle.
> The reason we have copyright and a patent system is very simple: they're optimizations to make society better at producing more new stuff. The big question is, do they work?

The simple answer is "no." There is no evidence that any patent or copyright monopoly has led to greater production of knowledge and culture. These laws are optimized for control, not for the expansion of knowledge.
Hi! I can see that you're brave enough to be open about this weakness of yours here. That's a good trait of an entrepreneur, kudos!

As I see it, you don't want to "fail the first time you do it" - so you don't want your visitors to get negative initial impression simply because of some poorly written texts, which translate to being unprofessional. If you already have co-founders/teammates/friends, that have good communication skills, it's better to have them proof-read ALL your texts. Again, as I guess, you don't have one yet, that's why we are here.

If at this phase of your startup, you are willing to recruit co-founders/teammates to handle your communications, go ahead, it will make your product and your presentations (for your investors) language error free and better. However, I will not recommend that you choose them just for this purpose; your co-founders/teammates have to, primarily, help you build your product and your business – these two are the most important things about your startup.

So I strongly suggest that you focus on building your product and marketing/business strategies first, and not worry about English technicalities. Launch it, achieve your investment level, and setup your operations. Once you have the money, you can hire quality marketing personnel to help you make your texts smarter and effective. Good luck!
Functional dependency in Haskell
The Clockwork City
What about when the strategy of the aggressors is explicitly to hold on for long enough that they can use exactly this argument to keep what they've appropriated from their victims?
My interpretation was that he thinks the design is bland and the site no fun to use, implying no causuality.
48.8% by size in the drivers directory:

linux-3.0-rc7$ du -sc * |sort -nr |head -2
505508	total
246524	drivers
Chaos Camp 2011 - Gathering of Hackers
Ah, right. Thanks for the clarification.
I find myself asking, who is this guy? Honestly who ever thought that Quora was a facebook killer - or anything more than another Yahoo answers with different userbase? Also, who makes a thesis, then gives examples to show that their thesis is wrong (the twitter example etc)? The whole thing seems incredible and contrived.
For the lazy:

http://kivy.org/

http://github.com/tito/kivy
However, I think it's fair to discriminate between true productivity gains in technologies that eliminate the need for certain types of work to be done in the first place, and simply outsourcing work to more desperate countries.

Making it possible to get the same output with less work is a good thing (as long as external costs are factored in).

Exploiting peasants with a "subsistence" deal is evil. Now some "free market", disaster capitalism patsy is going to jump me...
البرازيل وباراجواي
البرازيل وباراجواي
True, that was not very well written. I meant to say that not solving a well-defined problem is not always a death sentence (see: Twitter, Reddit, etc.), but that it's still not a very encouraging sign.
The claims being made on the site that the median score of the whole population is 27k words is not substantiated anywhere else. E.g. http://iteslj.org/Articles/Cervatiuc-VocabularyAcquisition.h..., which references 'proper' studies (but I haven't tracked the references), says

"Based on previous research, Nation and Waring (1997) estimate that the receptive vocabulary size of a university-educated native English speaker is around 20,000 base words, while Goulden, Nation, and Read's (1990) intervention indicates that the receptive vocabulary size range of college-educated native English speakers is 13,200 - 20,700 base words (Goulden, Nation, & Read, 1990), with an average of 17,200 base words."

I'm a non-native speaker and got 18 700 words, which I found rather disappointing when I read that that was, according to the site, roughly equivalent to (or even below) the average 15 year old native speaker. Thinking a bit about it however I'm quite sure that that is nonsense - I am regularly asked by native speakers to review their English texts and scholarly articles and am relatively often commented on my broad vocabulary. When people review mine and I push them on why they suggested certain grammatical or stylistic changes, almost invariably it turns out that they are influenced by personal style preferences or local customs (as in, local to the area they grew up in). Now I'm not God's gift to the world and I'm sure that there is much to be improved on my English, but still I'm quite sure I can outperform the 5th percentile of the general population on English vocabulary knowledge. (I mean - that's people with an iq of 80 or less ffs, again not to say that I'm a genius but I find the proposition that I would score worse than most native speakers that qualify under many definitions as mentally retarded to be preposterous).

I'm highly skeptical of the site's claim that the 50% percentile knows 27k words. It seems to be from their own test takers, and I didn't find any references to other researcher's results, of which there are several.
I can't wait to see this progress when emacs gets lexical scope and threading. Having a lisp machine as an asynchronous web server is amazing.
Really? I don't remember getting an invite to Quora, in fact I think I just signed up on the site
> that much words

that many

I only got an estimate of 11500 words, yet I can still correct you :). My native language is (Swiss-)German, spent a couple years in Montreal where you don't really have many chances to improve your english (at least not the vocabulary), otherwise only used the language in written form.
How John Perry Barlow gained enlightenment and lost his mind on acid
I think there is something to it. In any case, kids (as well as adults) need to remember that dreaming is only part of the deal, that they still need to reach towards the goal, not just imagine it. Working towards a dream has to become a habit.
But the average 3-year old Chinese speaks infinite better Chinese than I do (I can't even pronounce 'ni hao' correctly I'm sure, despite my colleagues kind praise of how I say it very understandably); I don't see how that's humbling. Language knowledge is imo rather useless; languages is a very inefficient idea transfer mechanism, and the amount of energy we collectively waste on translations and learning languages is staggering. I see languages as an unfortunate side-effect of human's poor natural communication traits, and I hope that we can do away with most of them asap.
My point is that some sites are fun to use because of their visual design, some because of their interactions, some because of game mechanisms… but Quora has none of these.
Facebook itself lets you import your friends into Yahoo! mail. Can you please explain how this is consistent with your above post?
As a point of note, domestic air conditioning is close to universal in Japan ... but in the UK, less than 3% of dwellings have a/c. Even in parts of southern Europe that get pretty hot, such as Italy and Greece, domestic a/c is relatively uncommon (with penetration in the 20-40% level despite regular 32-42 celsius temperatures on summer).

The nature of the housing stock is partly responsible, of course. The average British dwelling is 75 years old; retrofitting central aircon to a cramped dwelling with stone or brick walls that wasn't designed for it is a lot hairier than installing pipes for hot water radiator driven central heating.
That's true, too. But you need to have a good reason for disregarding any given threat, at least some evidence that there's no substance behind it. I have not heard any such evidence regarding EMP, so I have to consider it at least a possible threat. Granted it's probably blown out of proportion and used as a football (like any threat regardless of legitimacy), but that doesn't change the reality.

I take a pessimistic perspective. It's better to take most threats seriously and be laughed at than get blindsided when something horrible happens that you weren't prepared for because you blew it off when someone warned you.
Some excellent points made here, but they still don't dismiss what Tim O'Reilly tweeted. The legislation that broadcasters are trying to put in place is down right greedy. Placing intellectual property copyrights on content they didn't even create? It's a defensive act to block anyone and everyone out and it's difficult to watch. If something like this were successful, content creators could lose the right to have their work on anything but the original broadcasters network (in this case cable, satellite, and some Internet outlets). There may be a lack of understanding for why this isn't ok, but that doesn't make it alright.
emacs already has lexical scope.

https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode/blob/master/elnode.el#L...

that's how you turn it on. you need a fairly recent version.

My bitbucket repo is here https://bitbucket.org/nic/emacs

but of course, the official bzr repo is good as well
It seemed to me that the article wasn't saying it was the only important thing, but that it was the one thing most likely to be missing.
Bottle: Single-File Python Web Framework
Without documentation it is of limited use whether or not it has killer features.

Hopefully they will have by version 1.0.0.

Open source projects live or die by their documentation - not their features.
Actually, the SAT also employs multiple choice, and quite successfully. You see, multiple choice can not only give you hints, but can also be used to lead you astray. In the end, it balances out.
Answer to number 1: Standard demographic information, sure, but also what kind of phone they have. This would make it easier to push advertisements for apps

Answer to number 2: No, because I think the age of "interruptive" marketing is over. However, if I could get a free phone and some kind of basic service plan and I was low on funds, I would absolutely do it.

Answer to number 3: You're in Kenya... the advice you get from people in other countries may or may not apply, so take everything with a grain of salt (including what I'm saying). Also, I think your business will be made or broken by the agreements you can make with carriers.
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى والوداد المغربى بث مباشر
مدونة يلا جول الرياضية تقوم ببث واذاعة مباراة الاهلى المصرى والوداد الرياضى المغربى بث مباشر فى دورى ابطال افريقيا 2011 اليوم الاحد 17/7/2011 وموعدها الساعة 21:00 بتوقيت القاهرة لو بدك او عايز تتفرج على الماتش ادخل و وشاهد المباراة على النت بدون تقطيع اون لاين
الاهلى المصرى vs الوداد البيضاوى الرياضى المغربى
True, the injustices committed against Native Americans are within the lifetime of the current generation. Look at the history of AIM and incidents that occurred in SD and the governments ignoring of current problem with reservations on the Mexican border. Heck, a court settlement on land use fees that didn't get paid (thanks Department of Interior) is just now circulating.

Some cultures still live by the stories of their elders. The education includes all the old stories. Now add a government that tried to destroy all native languages and traditions, move unprepared members to cities (90% suicide rate). Then add a rediscovering of the old history and attempts to pull themselves back up and find what it means to be in this new world. Some tribes did better, some did worse.

I suspect if a culture was based on the passing of stories from the former generation to the new, continuity breakage problems will be large. The USA isn't really that way, but some cultures inside it are. Add to that some of the rhymes we teach kids that made no sense to the parents of the now "properly" schooled children ("Jack and Jill went UP the hill to fetch a pale of water" doesn't inspire confidence you are teaching proper survival skills to a kid).
الحلقة الاخيره من مسلسل ايزل التركي مترجم 
الحلقة الاخيره من مسلسل ايزل التركي مترجم
Twitter arguably solved a problem we didn't know we had. Reddit - that solved a problem we did have, same problem as HN does.
The problem for most of us in the US is that we can't control how much they refrigerate moste public places. We keep our home ~80F(it makes going outside in south Texas much more comfortable), but that makes my office very uncomfortable at 74F.
Flashing buttons? Sounds like you're frequenting some dark alleys. Make sure your anti-virus is up-to-date.
yeah, i think that you should probably leave that point out unless you have a good way to connect having an obvious purpose and success.
I'm interested... but lazy :)

I'd like to see some kind of manifesto on the main page that describes what was so cool about Plan 9, what happened to it, and what your big ideas are for it in the future.
I think it is a relatively simple matter of Quora developers not understanding what their product could ultimately become.

Someone with influence and vision needs to step in and set s course.
If only my jeans had triangular pockets...
Bast: Combined bash and batch scripts.
I don't think StackOverflow is really trying to be a general, mainstream Q&A site, largely because there is no mainstream when it comes to Q&A sites. When you go to one of these sites, you don't want your question to be answered by a generalist, you want a specialist with domain knowledge to answer your question.

Looking at it that way, the StackExchange model makes sense. Make a number of very specialized communities that experts can congregate in. Make a points system that rewards experts for their time and effort. Finally, invest in making the site friendly to search engines, so that non-experts can find the experts and ask questions of them.
Neat concept. I can see one problem, though...

It appears the rings are organized by urban function... parks on one ring, industrial on another, etc. Let's say I'm at my house and I want to go to my friend's house on the opposite side of the residential ring. Then what?
I want interoperability of social networks, not portability.

Being able to share info across social media services would change the way social networks are used in a significant way for every user, every day.

Portability is a backup plan you hope to never use.
Interesting. I always felt Quora was overdesigned, as if I couldn't move my mouse anywhere on the page without triggering some sort of hover effect. Drove me absolutely crazy.
Agreed, though I like the humor.

How about having a domain alias that's a bit more polite and, when the site detects that you've come via that domain, tones down the language on the site?

Also, could it use something like TinEye to try and find probable matches with geotags?
Build your own operating system
I agree, security in Web Socket must be robust/comprehensive in both ends. This post says so too: http://blog.kotowicz.net/2011/03/html5-websockets-security-n.... Thanks!
I don't trust global corporations much, though. Maybe it's time to get the king to stop favoring the East India Tea Company so much.
I can't imagine that the percentiles are reflective of the general population...I got 27,000 which it claims is the median score, and from practical experience my vocabulary is quite a bit larger than most people's. If this is measuring, say, the HN crowd, then perhaps it's accurate.
HTML 5 meets XQuery
This application is entirely written in XQuery. Because of its first-class support of HTML and its rich module libraries, we believe XQuery is the perfect technology when it comes to building HTML 5 apps.
This looks promising: https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite
I was wondering if you could help me win Lenovo's Tech Trip Contest? Normally I wouldn't ask, but there are people there who are clearly gaming the voting, and I really want this. This is a link to my essay in the contest. If you could retweet it, post it as your status update, or if you have any other ideas, please let me know. http://apps.facebook.com/techtripcontest/contests/124325/vot...
> Twitter didn’t solve any real problem

I automatically discounted your entire argument based on those six words. If you're still unable to see the problem that Twitter solved, then you shouldn't be writing about tech, media or related.
You can open windows in apartments higher than 3 stories. I remember opening windows on the 12th floor of apartments.
Dbug, an iPhone app showing HTML/CSS for web developers
It's funny, but this could have been me. I also wrote a toy OS in 2001 and I learned by using many of the same resources you listed.

One thing that makes this all SO much easier these days is the Virtual Machine. I remember back in '01 I didn't really know much about them and so, everytime I wanted to test my OS, I would dd it to a floppy and then boot it on a crappy laptop I had lying around. I probably would have stuck with it had I used a VM and some scripts.
Top Gear Season 17 Episode 4
Top Gear Season 17 Episode 4 Summary : 3 handsome man who likes to challenge James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, trying to make train travel cheaper,
Here are some nice introductory ones:

Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Tim Gowers): http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Short-Introduction-Timothy...

The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible (Keith Devlin): http://www.amazon.com/Language-Mathematics-Making-Invisible-...

What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Richard Courant): http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-...

They give brief but interesting glimpses into several areas of higher math, so they could help you decide what you want to pursue in more depth.
From the same quote: "Google Contacts syncs with Orkut, so users can export their Orkut friends’ email addresses from Google Contacts", so it's technically wrong that Google didn't let you export your friend's mail addresses anymore. They just made it more difficult, ie didn't bundle it with the Orkut csv file people used to import everything into facebook.

And I think that's actually Google's point: They feel Facebook should offer reciprocity; if people can switch from Google to fb easily, fb should be willing to provide the same feature to their users.

Personally, I also don't agree with your point: I doubt the option to export your friends' email addresses in a useful file format would get abused, as it's only your friends that have access to it. You willingly added them, and thus gave them access to your email address. If you voluntarily tell a friend your email address, shouldn't he be able to remember it regardless of what social network he currently uses?
Again, emphasizing I'm not an official spokesperson here: but Yahoo! is a reputable company who is not going to sell your email contacts to spammers. The same cannot be said for every random application that gets created. So it's a whitelist, not a blacklist.

Why isn't Google on that whitelist? I don't really know, but I'd be curious what Google's side of that story is.
Angry Birds, now in a school near you
That's a very disingenuous argument. The same statement you're citing clearly points out that "Google Contacts syncs with Orkut, so users can export their Orkut friends’ email addresses from Google Contacts," which is the only other piece you need to rebuild the social graph.

The funny twist on this is that Facebook never would have experienced such rapid growth had email providers like Gmail not allowed users to easily export their contact lists. So, it seems the lesson Facebook learned here is to deny any potential competition the same advantage that more open providers gave them--otherwise it would be too easy to abandon Facebook.
> it's only your friends that have access to it.

...and whatever apps your friends have authorized.
I find it funny that all of the end-of-technology-as-we-know-it criers never talk about bicycling and local farming.