skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Theil funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
I recently read dfranke's "Code free or die" essay from couple of years ago... and now this. More evidence that hackers are libertarian.
I was responding to jinushaun's comment on how Node.js is easy to develop on. CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript. Give http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ a good read and you'll convert too!
No, just fraud.
Singaporeans are super-professional and have an excellent blend of some of the best of Han Chinese and British values. The place is orderly, well-run, and efficient. People work hard and are exceedingly polite, friendly, and professional.

Maybe the only knock you could say about it is people greatly prefer stability over striking off and doing something crazy - it's similar to Japan in that way. But that's a relatively small thing. I think anyone who has been to Singapore and connected with Singaporeans wouldn't think twice to work with them if there's a good fit.

The JooJoo thing was a clusterfuck because it was a clusterfuck; it doesn't seem indicative of Singaporean culture at all to me. Clusterfucks, of course, happen everywhere eventually.
I haven't had a chance to check out the site yet, but I can tell you from personal experience that putting these filings in a more usable form is definitely an area that is underexploited at the moment.

I often comb through filings for the super regional banks. The majority of my time is spent looking for a few key items and arranging the data into a useable format. If you are looking for more ideas on how this area could be improved, I'd be glad to fill out a survey or give you additional comments.
http://medicmobile.org/
Interview with Philippe Le Hegaret of the W3C
Thanks, I'm looking into that.
Terraforming is not necessary for settlement. It isn't even obvious to me that Martians will choose to do it down the line.

(I feel like I should be using terms like "minimum viable settlement" around here!)
Thanks. I've known about the iPhone application programming course from previous semesters, so this looks promising that they may offer it again this fall. I didn't have a mac until recently, so it will be nice if they do since xcode has changed a lot from what the courses available to download now use.
Too bad Jobs' reality distortion does not work on the european courts.
It doesn't matter where you live so long as you can be there during a similar timeframe as the rest of the founders.

All startups are recruiting to varying degrees, but recruiting the right people is hard, and so we tend to prefer recruiting through contacts.

From a job seeker's position, getting involved requires contacts in order to reach founders, and contacts come from socializing. Go to some of the many startup mixers that happen in the area and get to know some influential people. They're the ones who will introduce you to the right founders.
Like, Common Lisp? (Clozure)

? (defun plus (&rest x) (apply #'+ x))
PLUS
? (defmacro mplus (&rest x) `(plus ,@x))
MPLUS
? (flet ((plus (&rest x) (apply #'* x))) (mplus 4 9))
36 ;; Uh oh, looks like my function was rebound
? (plus 4 9)
13

How about functions in the CL package?

? (defmacro mplus (x y) `(+ ,x ,y))
MPLUS
? (flet ((+ (x y) (- x y))) (mplus 8 4))
4
This sucks, the country cannot do this. We have to allow for peaceful protests.
Are the patents in question known?
How to market your startup or new product without spending a penny
My Wine Weekend in Las Vegas: Charlie Palmer's Aureole
iOS only, really? I mean I wouldn't have any use for this most days but this could be nice come black friday.
If 1% of sign ups complete the course .. that's still 5800 people. Which is pretty good reach. And then add in all the people who didn't complete, or look at the materials afterwards, or who are otherwise affected by the project... These people don't have enough drive to get the full benefit, but they do get some benefit for sure.
I don't think this is a reasonable article. Among other things, he offhandedly dismisses Common Lisp. Common Lisp does have at least one implementation that is pretty Mac oriented. Clozure I believe, but don't quote me on that.

He is right that the JVM library set has helped Clojure. I hope to see a Common Lisp port to .NET one day.

One thing this world doesn't need - IMO - is another Lisp trying to be an industrial standard. If Common Lisp by itself doesn't cut it, DEFMACRO your way to what would cut it. If it requires compiler-level modifications, start working on contributions to the best compiler in the area you are working in (I think SBCL is the premier CL implementation, and should be centralized on, but that's just my opinion). Please don't write another Lisp, helping to fragment the market even further. (this is my primary beef with Clojure, too. :-) )
IOS Design Weekly: Launch Story and Statistics
Wouldn't it help if Google sued on behalf of all device makers now that it has much larger trove?
Mizuno JPX 800 irons
You can use TunesViewer [1] to view iTunesU media and podcasts in Linux.

[1] http://tunesviewer.sourceforge.net/
I think an interesting challenge scaling the class won't be the professor's time but the TAs'. I'm assuming that assignments for free students won't be graded as rigorously depending on problems sets (time consuming) vs coding assignments (potentially automated).
Funny entries in last.fm's robots.txt
I would be just fine with banning Daring Fireball from HN, if it meant we could avoid the biweekly DDoS on HN's intellectual capacity sparked by tens-deep threads arguing about Gruber's pro-Apple bias.

Only on HN or Reddit is Gruber's pro-Apple stance not the most boring conceivable topic. It's embarrassing to see ostensibly smart people pick it apart, as if it was faceted and nuanced.

I myself love Daring Fireball, because Gruber is an f'ing good writer. But I could give a sh!t about discussing him on HN. Anyone else want to just start flagging these things off the site? Look at these silly comment threads. You'd be doing a lot of people a favor by nipping them in the bud.
I don't think it's the downloading anyone objects to.
Google launches catalog search (2001)
Download??? Why? Why not put it all online?
It's a shame that one would have to pay such a large amount for such a data set. Let's not forget that the SEC exists largely to protect investors. Somehow, today's SEC framework/accounting rules seem to favor the filers of financial information rather than the users of financial information. This is a fundamental problem of the system today.
I think there are a lot of these checklists and top 10 things because they're easy to write and get a bit of traffic. In reality, 99% of people on HN already know everything in them. It's a great way to procrastinate, for the checklist writers and the readers alike.

How about we stop these checklists and all get to work on something interesting instead?
The author takes the old saying "time is money" too literal and then trashes the straw man and capitalism too. Here is a different author who explains how time and money are the same because they both are the basis of teleological (ordinal) measurement.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/teleological_measurement.h...
My thought exactly. For a couple of years now I've been thinking "meh, working for someone is slavery". It sure feels this way to me. It really is hard for me to imagine it could be different for some other people (but it could). And so, while I'm not successful yet, I have the freedom to work alone and not bullshit anyone. If I could do it forever, I probably would. If I ever have to hire someone, I think I'd have to invent some kind of framework that justifies that I'm hiring this person and profiting over his work. Because honestly, even though I understand why companies are looking for passionate people and are giving them interesting tasks it still looks like fraud to me.
We were using TIBCO with JMS API to process data as a part of batch job. The batch job would send a message to a JMS Queue; the listener would then process the message and insert it into a db. Replace the system with Netty based RPC servers. Now the batch job makes async RPC calls to the Netty RPC server. The overall system is now several times faster. And the error handling is now much more elegant . Not to mention that not having to deal with our enterprise infrastructure(Tibco team) guys is an added bonus.
I think cancelling the paid account is bad, but not disastrous. Deleting all of his backups, however, is petty at best, criminal at worst.
What Powers Pivotal Tracker: Client side architecture
Agile Methods and Startup Companies
I'm assuming this new suit is based on patents HTC acquired from S3?
seems like a great product for a pain that most people have. i don't seen professional investment firms or bulge bracket banks would use this, however; at citi we use factset and capiq and even those services don't reveal everything and have errors sometimes. the analysts, at the end of the day, usually goes through the filings no matter what.

like other comments posted here, professional investors, on the other hand, generally already have another service they pay for, or proprietary data/information (for hedge funds or prop shops at least) that aggregates the specific data they are looking for.

not quite sure what the target audience of this is; if its investors with the intention of condensing data to just q/q and y/y operational performance, then the financial information technology space is already pretty crowded.
That's the super-heavy, which they have proposed as a competitor to a shuttle-derived (super-expensive) super-heavy.

The Falcon Heavy can throw ~ 53 t into a low-Earth orbit, and its list price is 80–125 M$ (http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php).
Plask is a multimedia programming environment
Ah yes, I got sidetracked halfway through writing that :) What I was thinking (as opposed to writing) was that Falcon could launch 10 000kg to Mars orbit, being three times more than what an Atlas V could launch on Juno's orbit, which actually goes beyond Mars.

So yes, three launches, not 14, making the total cost for Mars Direct less than US$2 billion. But I made the same mistake for Atlas calculations, so it still ends up costing 3 times as much in launch costs...
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48% of Google+ users haven't posted yet
Video: Ray Bradbury (2001) 'teaches' the art of writing

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Literature/Cont...
Software pirate gets two-years in prison for selling counterfeit software
On second thought (too late to edit), it's quite likely that I would not even bother with a define for this, but instead just set the size directly in the code, e.g. char buffer[5 << 20], then rely on sizeof buffer in the call where the buffer's size is needed. I prefer sizeof whenever possible.
So who really cares about status? Really? In your heart of hearts... it does afford the opportunity to "make a difference", but at a price. I've seen good men go bad that way. It's really dark in Plato's Republic, and the Massive Sorting Machine is an very good sausage grinder.
2. How is SEE being funded?
SEE’s pilot program was funded by Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that helped launch Cisco, Google, Yahoo, NVidia and many other successful technology startups.

They deserve a shoutout.
Great explanation--the light bulb finally went on for me regarding node.js.
Regarding the other framework event models (esp. EventMachine), is it beneficial or wise to use node for the I/O intensive stuff and another framework (e.g. rails) for the rest? Or does it make more sense to stay in the Ruby world? I'm sure there are lots of caveats to this question but it would be nice to see how node.js can integrate with existing web frameworks rather than trying to build everything with node.
Your second example throws an error for me. (SBCL)

The first doesn't (it appears flet doesn't trigger the error in this situation) but the package system still mitigates the damage in practice. I've written a lot of macros and haven't yet accidentally rebound a special function with flet which a macro relied upon.
Sleights of Mind: Neuroscience of Magic
Google first launched their online catalog service in 2002, but shut it down in 2009. Browse via the Wayback Machine here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080828155311/http://catalog.goo...

Interesting to see that they've revived it as an iOS tablet-only product. It does make sense that the tablet crowd would have higher disposable income than the general internet population. Given the emerging popularity of eBooks on tablet-style devices, catalogs are the logical next step.
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Hey guys, pwpwp wins. Thanks for playing!
An excellent suggestion, I mentioned this type of approach above. Acquisition, development and retention of technically competent staff would go a long way to helping the situation. I think this type of discussion is really what the government needs to encourage better practice, and also possibly stimulate the industry in the UK.
This is why, as a startup or small business, it's crucial to have that guy/gal on your team who is just superb at support and dealing with customers.

They should be the type of person who has the ability to not take insults or criticism about the company personally, they should have a very thick skin, and generally they should almost always be happy and upbeat. It's rare to find this person but even more rare for them to be one of your founders.

If you're in the business of having customers who require support I suggest hiring this person before almost anyone else when you have the ability to do so. It's a game changer.
W3C Launches Community Groups; Agile Track to Speed Web Innovation
I don't think it's ever been as clear as now that the patent system is broken. Everyone is suing everyone else, and if anything innovation just goes on in the background regardless of patents.
Motorola is already suing Apple(and Apple is suing Motorola) over Motorola's patents. That shouldn't change with Google's acquisition, and any resolution of the suit would probably make Apple a licensee of the patents, making them immune to any suits over them.
Firefox 6 for web developers
Romanian government tender prohibits open source
The worst part in this case is that he's shooting fish in a barrel. The article he picks apart isn't deserving of the analysis.

Sometime Gruber posts interesting theories or observations, and in that case I'm all about discussing them, but this article is just filler for his core demographic.
The Android strikes back! Start of the patent apocalypse.

Here is a way to abolish patents -- overload the court system with it.
Grandparent (patio11) has not implied they were. Are you assuming that selling web hosting services for $3 a month must be a satisfactory business model?
I remember getting a Windows 95 PowerToy for it; I didn't see the point of it, previously being an Amiga user which had click-to-focus also.
Yep, this baffles me. The iOS product will bring in more ad revenue due to the success of the iPad but I'm surprised that they didn't develop and release an Android version as well. It's a bad sign for Android tablets when Google starts giving priorities to the rival OS.
I actually think it should be a good lesson not to tell people to go fuck themselves when you still need something from them.
One reason was scale... The improvements the team saw were staggering. They went from running 15 servers with 15 instances (virtual servers) on each physical machine, to just four instances that can handle double the traffic. The capacity estimate is based on load testing the team has done.

Though Rails is not known of being high performance, this sentence rings a warning sign in my mind that something must be terribly wrong with their Rails implementation.
Here's one thing that never made sense to me: lets say a request comes in and data needs to be collected from 3 different sources, A, B, and C before a response can be given back to the client. You say that it would take max(A, B, C) in order to retrieve all the data. Consider this pretty standard snippet:

function get(source, callback) {
var result = getData(source);
callback(result);
}

get(A, function(result) {
get(B, function(result) {
get(C, function(result) {
// CREATE RESPONSE WITH A, B, AND C HERE
});
});
});

Wouldn't you have to wait for the data to be retrieved before running the next callback resulting in a time of A + B + C anyways? Am I missing something about the way to retrieve data from multiple sources? I don't see how max(A, B, C) is possible while still knowing for sure when all the data has been collected.
One article I read suggested "two of which HTC acquired through a $75m purchase of ADC Technologies in April. (The third was homegrown at HTC.)"

US Patent #7,417,944 (ADC)
US Patent #7,672,219 (ADC)
US Patent #7,765,414 (HTC)
... 580 people ...
This checklist focuses on not buying junk/scam books. I read it because I'm interested in buying good books, those that I want to keep on my bookshelf, will use frequently, and would recommend to friends. This post doesn't help with that.

Also, the post discriminates strongly against self-published books. While this may be a simple strategy to avoid potentially scammy books, the potential sacrifice isn't worth the benefits to me.

Also, there's a typo at the end in It really feels like hard word to choose a good book - s/word/work.
I bet ~5% will complete the course

here is the number of views for Andrew Ng's Intro to machine learning course on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E )

lec 1, 206612

lec 2, 91234

lec 3, 49000

lec 4, 36823

lec 5, 27782

lec 6, 26347

lec 7, 22075

lec 8, 20713

lec 9, 15665

lec 10, 14142

lec 11, 16573

lec 12, 14296

lec 13, 12401

lec 14, 15022

lec 15, 12290

lec 16, 10760

lec 17, 8986

lec 18, 13639

lec 19, 10219

lec 20, 11373
Apple releases $69 OS X Lion thumb drive, ships in 1-3 business days
Chrome and Safari extension to rehabilitate disruptive footnotes.
Wall Street doesn't expect Google-Motorola deal to affect Apple
It might not be that easy. See the discussion on this Rocketpunk Manifesto blog entry for more information than you ever wanted on the near term prospects for Mars missions:
http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/2011/08/destination-mars...
Minecraft for Android (exclusive for Xperia Play)
thats a ton more people than the usual number of stanford enrolled students, it's a win for education in my book.
Ah interesting - I look forward to your benchmarks!
What Google lost—and gained—by not buying Motorola in 2010
CodeMirror 2: Online Coding with Autocomplete
About the questionable evidence images:

The actual Samsung aspect ratio (of the full device) is about 1.46, while the photo makes it look closer to 1.36. The iPad's image is more accurate at around 1.3. The vertical lines in the image (closer together around the Galaxy) probably make the aspect ratios appear even more similar.

Here's a larger image of the evidence: http://blog.webwereld.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/screensh...
I mentioned Footnotify before on HN but I'm resubmitting it now as the Google Chrome version of Footnotify was just released.
My comment was prompted by the trend for at least one HNer to promote CoffeeScript in comments on an article related (however tangentially) to JavaScript.
I'll try dumb it down, not perfect but here goes. Node.JS is just an async framework that runs on v8. A good use-case (as you can see in the article) is for handling web requests, just like rails.

Services are software built to handle requests. You can build both consumers and providers of requests using Node.JS.

Tried to at least give you some small idea to get you started. The explanation is NOT perfect by any means. In fact I think I may have down played it. Either way, read the docs.

I enjoy Node.JS alot.
Police accessed BlackBerry messages to thwart planned riots
The funny thing is, this whole court decision has made me aware of the new GalaxyTab 10.1 in a way I would not have been if it was not for Apple's litigation. I checked out reviews on YouTube and compared it to the iPad, etc.

Isnt it counter-productive for Apple to make customers aware of their competitor's products that way? A lot of customers are gonna think "If they are sueing them, that alternative tablet must be worth checkin out."
Just to clarify: These aren't the same thing as the ai-class (http://www.ai-class.com) that has gotten all the buzz. This program has been around for a while and only(1) offers downloadable materials (videos of lectures + pdfs of assignments/handouts etc.)

(1) "only" seems a terrible way of putting it. The materials/lecturers are amazing even if you never have your assignments graded.
Not so:

> "The trading shops saw that the lowest-latency solutions would only be possible with Linux," Lameter said. "The older Unixes couldn't move as fast as Linux did."
It's not related to the dodgy photograph of the Tab.
There are links to them in this article:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/16/htc-sues-apple-patents/
MeetingBurner aims to disrupt the online meeting biz by giving itself away
Asimov's 3 laws of robotics more like.
I would be interested in hearing how LinkedIn gets around Node.js issues .For example

Isn't Node.js single threaded ? Would it not under-perform , say compared to Erlang or Netty, in a multi-core CPU.
MIT Media Labs launches new Center for Mobile Learning
This method has basically turned an async request into a synchronous request. One idea is that you make requests A, B, and C concurrently, parse the data, then have a handler which waits for the 3 to complete and then combines them into a single response, as opposed to cascading all the callbacks.
Smart!

If you link to Google Plus, we'll Ban Your Ap! That way you can just build your ap into Google Plus.

This strategy should work well long term. sarcasm
Ha. If you think the current round of IP wars is insane, just wait until we have cheap and effective 3d printers.
The appeal here is that the course is free, ergo, _anyone_ with a basic internet connection can take it.

If you require payments, you then have credit card companies and Paypal restricting who (i.e. which countries) gets access to it.

Income from donations isn't guaranteed, and thus provides a weak incentive for universities to provide these kinds of courses. I'd also wager that donations would fizzle out as this sort of thing became more commonplace.

US Government grants would provide guaranteed incentives for American universities to offer these kinds of courses, which would educate your populace and bolster the appeal of your higher education institutions to potential overseas students. The latter point would lead to many knock-on economic benefits (e.g. immigrant students deciding to stay in the US).

(oh, but rabble rabble gubment rabble bad rabble rabble because this is HN where libertarian capitalists roam free)
This call to arms is actually very concrete. It promotes Cilk Plus language extensions to C/C++. The author is trying to build momentum for baking Cilk Plus into GCC.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus-ope...
Author's dismissal of CL and Scheme stands opposite to the fact that most CLs as well as Racket have tons of libraries right away; plus the general tone in their communities is "Racket/SBCL/whatever is for the doers".

That people speak from their experience. It would seem that the OA just repeats some heard opinions.
The cynic in me says that will just lead to a bigger court system as they hire more lawyers and judges to handle the increased load.
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China Treads on New Turf
...which are exactly the numbers I used. 3 x (53,000kg/80-125M$) = 159,000kg/240-375M$.
Not a Node.js expert myself. But, maybe you can put a cluster of Node.js instances behind a load-balancer like Nginx?