skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea, running into a bug though. I'm getting a "Compilation Error" message on my submission, but it compiles fine locally, and clicking "Compile Message" to see the error just brings up a blank window. (Username: andrewbadr, using Chrome 13 on OSX)
Black Hat: Document Exploits continue to evolve
I am not sure of his respect for science, but I have seen abundant evidence of his contempt against religious obscurantism.
It also breaks my back button (Chrome), which drives me crazy.
Http://gifts.freebiejeebies.co.uk/380325
John Carmack QuakeCon 2011 Keynote
Even if you collected all the atoms that made up a person's brain, the most important information is lost. For starters, how would you know how those atoms were configured?
Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 5 to Developers
Doesn't this UX guy know what he's worth?
Isn't it on his head to decide where he's going to work, at what pay? Of course his belief in this founder's dedication plays into that, he's trying to find a job that'll last. But let the UX guy decide what he needs to take, from whom. You don't know him, what motivates him. If he's even -interested- in work at such a startup, money likely isn't what he's running for.
Clojure is going to provide the true test to see if CL and Scheme's failure to take over the world is due to inherent problems with lisp or just inertia due to lack of 3rd party library support.

With startups like BackType and FlightCaster getting acquired, it's a positive sign.
Retirement accounts aren't usually held entirely in cash except very near the end. For younger people the bulk would be invested in equity i.e. funding businesses and thus being fed back into the economy.
I’m really not sure how you would even begin to compare the two.

They are very different but both very great at what they do.
Only the RTML page templates were left as Lisp. That was very simple code. Plus they pretty much had no choice about leaving at least that much of the program in Lisp: individual users had created their own custom templates (through an easy template editor that generated Lisp on the back end), which means porting the templates would have meant testing not just the default templates but each user's custom templates as well.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/store/edit/ad...
Well, it's completely possible to setup a company where the real investors of the company - the shareholders - actually are the founders and early employees. Simply have them work for equity.

There are companies setup like this. It's fairly common for companies founded by people who have already made their money (as finance people, executives, previous entrepreneurs or early startup employees) to be self-funded. The problem is that if you require everyone to work for stock, you're cutting yourself off from a big portion of the talent pool, basically everyone who requires an income to live.

Investors get a share of the company in exchange for providing salaries for the people who can't live without them. If you don't need those salaries, you don't need the investors. But it seems like it's better to have the option to take that investment and pay people than it is to require that everyone work for no pay to get the startup off the ground.
The scenario described in point number three is possible, it is also possible that MS and Google could have negotiated a cross-licencing deal of sorts to help their Bing and Android businesses. So we just don't know.
What's there to stop blogs with problem solutions or how-to's from popping up?
While I'm an avid supporter of space exploration, it is not the cure for our economic stagnation. Much better are infrastructure improvements: replacing aging bridges, high speed rail, high speed communications, electrical transmission lines. Better to support solar, wind and nuclear energy than to wage wars in the middle east.
man, I love hearing what Carmack has to say about anything SW related.
They are not, but they make interesting stuff possible, unlike for example the audio/video tags which right now are close to useless unfortunatly.

WebGL/WebCL etc. are not part of HTML5 either, doesn't mean that they are not as game changing as the biggest features in HTML5.
advertising revenues probably went down since then
Ask HN: Wht do u think of our redesigned results page? How would u improve it?
"weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience" .. the level of hyperbole .. i worry .. i worry ...
If forming groups wasn't (or isn't) legal, sue them.
Maybe you should give VMail a shot (http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html). I haven't tried it yet, but it looks really interesting for someone used to the Vim keyboard bindings.
I would have thought a customer not purchasing the product because it doesn't meet their requirements (or some part of their requirements) is a net win. If the OP was correct that his technical specifications were exhaustive and accurate, a prospective purchaser would be in a good position to make the purchasing decision.

Are we now encouraging sales through obfuscation and sales-person trickery?
It's funny how the author argues that the browser is everything, and then goes on to describe the cross-platform apps he uses. But that is the beauty of the current paradigm. For most people it doesn't matter and as we move to more cloud/managed storage, it will matter even less.

The PC vs Mac argument really comes down to more of a Ford vs. Porsche (if you haven't driven a new Ford, check out the most recent Focus, I rented one and it is amazing what you get on an entry level car). They both run very well, have hardware that is suited to most tasks.

At this point it seems the hardware the average person buys is more about cache (that's with an accent).
There are none. Jews did it again to another country.

That's why our times will be called "Neo-Middleages". If you say truth, you are finished.
Checking it up right away.
Regardless of why snitches talk, it's a basic assumption that their collaboration will be rewarded by the protection against retaliation by those they inform on.

If those snitches are helping the investigation of violent crimes, it's really, really irresponsible to release their identities.
Very little. However, if companies are making their own problems and the same set aren't used for every job posting, it would be harder to make a general how-to for every problem on the site. It also would probably not be that hard to determine which problems have publicly available solutions, or if the solution an applicant uses is publicly available - for that matter, if I were an employee of this company I might advocate for creating fake solution websites (with flawed solutions), so that applicants who were simply copying code could be easily detected.
Except it says "Report a Crime" before, which would imply it's not people avoiding prosecution, but people knowing of a crime and then contacting the authorities. For example a family member of a criminal or friend.
I'm not sure that this effectively replaces any part of the traditional process (resume--phone interview(s)--onsite interview(s)). I guess it comes closest to replacing the phone screen, but my understanding is that the goal of the phone screen is to establish "can this person actually write code" which I don't really think this does given how easy it would likely be to cheat--either by finding a solution online or by getting someone else to do it for you.
Git.js: A Git Implementation in Pure JavaScript
"The reason we have social security is because people don't save what they need to."

Have a law forcing people to put the money into a conservative retirement plan of their choosing.

"I don't think the Social Security program is at all broken; what's broken is that we've used the Social Security surplus over the last 20+ years to help fund a general fund spending deficit."

Absolutely true. But we've also used that surplus to spend much more on current retirees than they ever put in.
I'd finger the snitch list. If those are active in violent crime investigation, they'd better run.
http://tickerforum.org/

Search for 'Genesis'. Ignore the political discussions, and don't bother with context, just find the few posts where he elaborates enough that you don't need the context of the rest of the thread. Or start reading his blog, http://market-ticker.org/ starting back at the beginning around 2006.

He's unabashedly conservative/libertarian, but he has had the strongest grasp of the mechanics of the financial crisis going all the way back to 2006 of anyone I've yet seen, even vs famous economists like Krugman. Originally an engineer, made his fortune as an entrepreneur, now manages his money from Florida, blogs about the crisis, and runs that discussion forum for investors.
>Has[ve] there been ANY programs written in lisp that has risen to the status of anything more than novelty?

Yes.
The US pays a very low interest rate on its debt. If you made $250k per year had a 3% interest rate mortgage of $200k, would you pay it off any faster than you had to? Of course not. You'd spend the money on things that would give you a much better return.

There is absolutely no need for the US to pay down inflation. GDP growth will naturally reduce the effective value of the principal. The problem is the run-away increase in the debt over GDP ratio that we've been seeing.
"Yeah, just read through about half of these. Most of them are along the vein of "My neighbours keeps to themselves, therefore they do drugs". Fuck these people"

If anyone wonders why I flag stories like this, here's a good example.
It's the nature of the beast, you're a startup ... you can't pay people what they would make on the open market ... People who wind up working for you, either believe in you and/or your idea.

So embrace that constraint.

I'm kind of surprised that you're looking for a UX guy full time, Is that really necessary in your estimation? Don't you think you'd do better with a freelancer billing out hourly?
I learned Common Lisp to see what all the fuss was about, and I don't regret it. I think most claims in its favor are hyperbole, but the Lisp implementations are very nice pieces of technology, providing features comparable to CPython with approximately the performance of Java. I almost always find myself missing some feature of the Common Lisp environment when working on more lucrative endeavors.
Hi-tech and modern feeling until the end of each ad, with a logo from the 90:s and a Windows 98:ish sound. Samsung really needs to get a better audio jingle.
thanks for reporting it. did not notice that issue. has reported it as a bug.
>I don't think Sagan's love for the audience could be the byproduct of the chemicals he used.

Here are Sagan's own words about how cannabis use has increased his own love and empathy for others:

"The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before. The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down." [...]

"The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men. And at other times, there is a different sense of the absurd, a playful and whimsical awareness. Both of these senses of the absurd can be communicated, and some of the most rewarding highs I’ve had have been in sharing talk and perceptions and humor. Cannabis brings us an awareness that we spend a lifetime being trained to overlook and forget and put out of our minds." [...]

"I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into social issues, an area of creative scholarship very different from the one I am generally known for."

source: http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/
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Has there been ANY programs written in lisp that has risen to the status of anything more than novelty?

The program you used to post that question is written in Lisp. HN probably counts as more than a novelty by this point.
That's the information part. I really don't need his own atoms, just the precise pattern they were arranged on a given moment in time. Unless we can find differences between individual atoms of a given isotope, any atom of the right kind will do. Or, if we want to reconstruct just a digital model, we can forgo the atoms and run the simulation on the state representation.

But, like I said, it's a problem to be solved by our smarter successors, not for us.
You know what? I agree.

<anecdote>

Ruby is going the way of Java and for the same reasons. Rails originally made easy things easy and hard things possible. Now, for novices, easy things are harder. Java went the same route largely as a result of the debacle know as J2EE.

Java suffered the problems that it did because there was the "one true way" of J2EE until Spring eventually came along and made it (marginally) better.

Merb provided that for Rails. Now there's no more Merb.

</anecdote>

The point: we, the Ruby community, are suffering our own success. Popularity leads to people leads to bureaucracy leads to mediocrity. See "JSF".

As a result, this "fork" makes sense to me. Unfortunately, it's just a drop in the bucket. Ruby.next is coming and it's called Javascript (by way of Node) and Clojure (by way of those Rubyists who are LISP obsessed and still use Java).
How is this different from Codility?
Kind of like how the internet has become the "cloud", all things related to the browser are now "HTML 5".
> I'll take your bet, but you might want to look at this chart before you hand me your money.

Yes, there was a serious recession in 2009. In 2010, world GDP increased by 3.9%, according to preliminary World Bank figures.
Thanks. I know it works as you said. But, to some people who do not have enough money to cover the rent,expenses or mortgage, shares/options are just not immediate enough.

I have met a lot of talents in this situation. That is why I wish I could retain them better. It is important to give the team member a peace of mind, right? Otherwise, they need to worry about money all the time, and it probably is not good for the productivity.
Version 1.1 is out.

Fixed a major issue with the last date being incorrectly set if it was selected.

Also added an option to set the currently selected date either as a date or an offset from start date. The selected date is also shown in the calendar with a different style.
I just calls em as I sees em. In a country where it is impossible to be innocent, those individuals who use the law against their neighbours for their own gain are the worst sort of people.

Example:

"A couple of years ago it was known among a few Fox community
residents that Ronnie Callahan, who now owns the Fox store, was
hauling in large amounts of pseudofedrine from Mexico.He has log
trucks and cattle trucks and doesn't look like a dope
dealer/trafficker, just looks and talks like a good ole boy. He was
supplying meth cookers, don't know if he was cooking the stuff
himself. No idea if he is doing this anymore, but is involved in all
kinds of underhanded dealings. He constantly harasses, in very subtle
ways, one of his neighbors...builds fences to block off land that
isn't his. In the past no law enforcement would do anything about it
when she filed complaints. He is worth watching at least.
(The info about the pseudofedrine came from the brother of a young
man who was on meth real bad and told where it was coming from.)"

It should be pretty obvious who submitted that report... and why. Emphasis my own, in case it is not.
Given sufficiently god-like technology, you could run a simulation of the entire world repeatedly, modifying variables until you get a world with a copy of Sagan who fits exactly all the historical information available with him. Something like this is implied to be happening towards the end of Stross's Accelerando, which I highly recommend (there's a free ebook edition).

However, note my use of the term "god-like". Anything capable of doing this is so close to being a god that it makes very little difference from our point of view. There's also the theory that our universe is a simulation run by such an entity - the argument is something like "if it is possible to run a simulation of the universe, it is statistically far more likely that we're in such a simulation." Sort of makes sense, if you have the right mind-set or tilt your head and squint.
The Boiled Frog
You raise an interesting point. As difficult as it is continuing to be to hire top technical talent in the Valley, I wonder if some talented people might have sufficient leverage, particularly in a situation like this one where the employer is a small, underfunded startup, to get themselves options on preferred stock rather than common stock.

I'm sure that raises a host of complications vis-a-vis the cap table etc., but it nonetheless seems an intriguing possibility.
Carl Sagan tried to recruit Tyson to Cornell for undergraduate studies after he read his application essay. (He decided to go to Harvard though.)

So if he is good enough for Sagan, he is good enough for me.
No no, not looking for a UX guy full time at all. We want him as a contractor, to have him 1-2 days a week. But, the rate he is charging other people is too high to us. He deserves that rate though. I know he would comprise and charge us a discounted rate, but I just feel a little bit bad that I could not pay a fair rate for him, and for other team members who have worked so hard for MinuteBox
The idea of an "MMA fighter" is a very modern notion. MMA started as a contest between practitioners of different martial arts, but it quickly became apparent that Brazilian Jiu Jitsu trumps any other style. The first UFCs were effectively a debunking of almost all martial arts. MMA fighters all derive their style from the Gracie family because that was the only way to beat them - combine Gracie techniques with stand-up skills derived from Thai and western boxing.

Either something works or it doesn't. Tradition doesn't, precisely because it's tradition - a rapidly evolving style will easily beat one stuck in the fourteenth century. The Gracies dominated early MMA because they had decades of experience in Vale Tudo matches, fighting all comers in bouts with few or no rules. They knew what worked and what didn't through bloody, painful experience.

Martial arts in the traditional sense are simply woo, no better than homeopathy or divining. They have been tested and they don't work. There might be some value to what is essentially a form of dancing dressed up as combat, but take it into a ring, a cage or a pub brawl and the best you can hope for is that it is useless - most traditional arts are actively harmful.
68% of high school graduates go to college, but nearly half (45%) fail to graduate within 6 years.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/03/55-percent-of-college...

So, of high school graduates, only 37% (68% x 55%) get a Bachelor's. And only 85% of young adults graduate high school!

https://depts.washington.edu/uwbhs/docs/HS_Graduation.pdf

85% x 68% x 55% = 32%

So we only expect about 32% of 30-year-olds to have a Bachelors. That means that there's only about a 5% difference (as in 32%-27%) between your data (about current yound adults) and the OP's census data (which is weighed down by old people). So I think the OP's conclusion is more or less right.

That said, my prediction before I read the article was 25%, so I wasn't too surprised. This is a classic case of what happens when you're surrounded by people who are a lot like you (i.e. educated): you assume everyone is like that. And there are a lot more educated people with blogs than uneducated.
Hi Paul. Since you are, maybe you can shed some light on how the rewrite actually happened? Was it the comb-over syndrome that raganwald described in a sibbling comment to yours or was it a more conscious decision?
Or every generation of programmers gets larger and more varied than the last because of increasing computer penetration (there was a time when they weren't in most governments, now they're in most pockets), the lure of jobs and exposure through school.

As your population grows, your average usually goes down unless there are more smart-and-deep people than not. That's why each generation of college grads is dumber, for example: more people go as a percentage but more people aren't super-smart as a percentage. Even if you have more S&Ds than not, selection effects might bring you down over time because they were the first adopters, leaving the remaining pool worse on average.

Never ascribe to character what can be more easily ascribed to population.
I don't recall this part of the bubble 'At the end [of the bubble], companies turned on their developers, lashing out at them and everything else as being responsible for the failure...'

As I recall, the entire fault was put on the shoulders of the entrepreneurs and their poor business accumen (or gold rush mentality).
I'm sad to learn that I'm among the more cynical - jk. But, is it possible to write this while not considering how it's going to influence the prospective hire? I don't think so.
I liked what you said. Yes, I want him to focus on UX 110%, and not worry too much on the money. But, the fair rate to him is too high to us. That is the struggle. I am sure we will find a fee we are both fine with. But, I just wish that I could pay him, or anyone in the team, the rate reflecting their value. That is it. :)
No. The idea behind intents is that the calling app doesn't know (or care) who handles the action. You just fire off a message that says "Hey, someone handle this", and the OS takes care of the rest. You would need to prompt the user to install an app to handle the intent if they don't have one already.