skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Functional programming is admittedly fun, at least for those who are mathematically inclined. The problem is that it's hard, at least at this stage, to justify using a functional programming language as your main tool.

Want to develop web applications? Nothing from the functional programming camp comes even close to the polished experience of using Ruby on Rails. Yes, I know about Play and other web frameworks for Scala, Clojure, and Haskell, but - and I repeat - they aren't even remotely close to the level of support, libraries, plugins, and documentation that you can get from the Rails world.

Want to develop mobile apps for iOS or Android? That's typically Objective-C or Java territory. Yes, you can develop Android in Scala, but you are a pioneer then (and you are virtually on your own if you encounter any issues with the stack, as very little documentation and community support is available for it).

Want to develop desktop applications? Again, functional programming languages are rarely the best supported option. C#, Objective-C, C++, or even Object Pascal (Delphi) are all fine choices. Opt for Scala, Clojure, or Haskell and you'll find little documentation and support, and in the case of the first two, you'll have GUIs that look anything but native.

So what are these functional programming languages good for? So far I've only found them to be good at doing heavy lifting in the back-end or in GUI-less scripts. An important spot for sure, but not the most prominent one to justify adopting either as my main tool.

I love functional programming languages and I wish I could drop everything and write web apps in Clojure or Haskell. But the hustler in me wants to get stuff done and cannot justify the world of pain and waste of time I'd experience, especially when there are already tools that are simply better suited for the task at hand.

Should a project of mine scale to the point of needing a fast functional programming language for core functionality in the back-end, I'll be happy to employ it there.
I hate how IE butchers these new CSS tricks, it always looks good in every other browser besides IE and it just so happens that the person that I'm working for now is an avid IE user and expects rounded corners on just about everything and the layout has to be pixel-perfect in IE. Annoying to say the least
Freelance Writer Needed for Gis.to 
We're looking for a freelance writer to post summaries for http://gis.to, a directory of summaries of long-form content on the web. We're looking for someone to write about 7 to 10 a week and the summaries should be about 200 words long.

The role would require you to read a long-form piece of content (1000 words+) then to write an abstract that is minimally biased. We will pay $5-10 dollars per "gist" depending on quality.
> I'm not convinced that there are really two distinct sets of people in the world: stupid and not stupid. In my experience, most people are pretty good at some things and stupid with other things.

I've read a quite thorough explanation similar to this in one of Scott Adams' books : most people are somewhat intelligent, but behave stupidly at times - In fact, we may assume most people behave stupidly most of the time.
Maybe he called that the "Dogbert principle" or something similar.
Why, when people are accused of being overly sensitive an icon like the flag or the image of the king, etc, does someone come along and say "The ___ is almost sacred to the ___ people."?

Why do sacred cows get such respect?
What about nacl? http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
Although, to be fair, in the strictest sense of what he said, it still stands correct. None of the examples you have given hold up to the rule. All of the sites (Google, Facebook and YouTube) are not in a 'perfectly competitive' market due to network effects (even though Google and YouTube deny this).

If they were, none of them would own 60% of the total market. There would be many more market participants and there would be no barriers to entry. That's what he was referring to.

In a market where there are no barriers to entry (i.e. perfectly competitive), the long-term price will tend to zero.

Now that I am thinking about it, even though the internet is 'free', and has very low barriers to entry for some businesses, I can't think of an example of some sub-industries (search, social networking, video hosting, etc.) online where the market is perfectly competitive. There is always an inherent advantage and some outsized competitor, relative to everyone else.
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After months of reading/planning/coding I'm close to launching my first startup. Please signup and spread the word. I'll share with HN before the live launch.
Some of us never thought it stopped being fun.
Judging by this: https://apps.mozillalabs.com I sure hope so!
What would be nice if the "you" in your sentence referred to "you, the end user." So the user chooses if they want permissions up front or in context.
I was wondering how long it would take for this to happen: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7#issuecomment-200563...
The Story of a Bootstrapped Startup..
Thanks for all the excellent info :-)
Which is what you want someone to do if they even think there's a fire. Even if they're only relaying the news without checking.

Imagine if I a guy came rushing out of the bathroom shouting 'Fire' and a bunch of people went in the check before anyone would evacuate. Obviously many more people could die. The downside? One unnecessary evacuation that probably needed practice anyways.

It seems like the world is full of authoritarians though, seeking to punish everyone for everything.
I guess they'll use open web standards whenever they can, and propose new ones where none currently exist.
I'm interested in how this is going to compare with WebGL.
thanks, I appreciate you like my spare time work :) productive weekend, yep g
I found this article to be very informative actually.

I also would like to point out that it's not possible to be smart in every area. As Mark Twain said, "we are all stupid, just on different subjects".
It is built on WebGL.
This is pretty cool, I'd love to see it work with Dvorak!

I don't know if this is something you want to do, but if you'd like to add Dvorak I mapped the coordinates for it here: https://gist.github.com/1195948

Thanks!
Looks like they are working on a game as part of the development process: https://github.com/mozilla/rescuefox/

But I haven't looked further than that, so I don't know if its anywhere near functional, but the readme does say

We expect to have live instances of both the develop
and master branches for playing up before too long.
If 95% of people were not fraggles, sheep and spectators, then a lot of things in this world would not get done as quickly as they do now. People think that the innovation phase of a project is the hard part, but in some ways, it's just the seed, you need an army of autonomous humans to do the mundane work to make the innovation take root and flourish.

If everyone on Earth had (and acted upon) Earth-shaking visions like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Ford, then the world would be full of amazing ideas that never get carried out to their potential. We need the drones, workers and the queen. Too many queens and the hive dies.
It's a WebGL framework; same as Unreal or idTech is an OpenGL framework.
Feature Bloat and Usability - Choosing features for your startup
Have you seen KeySnail[0]? It's aimed at Emacs users, but you can use it as a general-purpose key binder.

[0]: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki
Care to upload a clip of you talking? I'm sure the native English speakers here can evaluate your progress
I have struggled for a while to get PeepOpen and MacVim working together. I can run :PeepOpen, and it will switch to the running peepopen application, but it doesn't load up with the project files. I've tried all sorts of .vimrc config settings that the internet has to offer, but none worked.

What's in your config for it?
404 on the screenshots.
Hacking the PLoS Article-Level Metrics API Server
Interesting that they use this strategy. Essentially, high variance is good when the expected value of the game is negative. It increases the chances of success in a bad situation.

The maths of this can be found in the article "A Rule of Thumb (not only) for Gamblers." Currently, this article is available free here:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.55.3...
Did this really get upvoted? I can find any details on the attack...
Gibson guitars slips up resulting in federal raid.
I've been reading quite a bit about this story, which is a few weeks old but it's fairly scary. There are a ton of articles out there but this highlights the issue at hand. Making a mental note to never import anything.

This is a video in which the gibson rep gives some details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-taqM5Sk0
Mozilla will develop small games to test and enhance the engine.

You can try the first one, Rescuefox (not really a game yet, but it kinda works) [1]:

$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/rescuefox.git && cd rescuefox
$ make

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/rescuefox/
Our local bookstore regularly publishes top 100 lists in various categories which often have good selections. Goodreads is pretty good for that as well, and Amazon as mattm suggested.

Asking people for suggestions is a good idea too - obviously that's what you're doing here... I recently read 'A Town like Alice' by Nevil Shute which I really enjoyed. Maybe you could check that out?

Good luck!
>When you're teaching people Ruby on Rails you would/should be teaching them what exists in the framework by default.

this was exactly my point. You introduce RSpec rather than rails unit testing.
It's ironic that many authors resort to using the blatantly sexist 'she' to avoid being called sexist.

I would love to see any evidence that the usage of 'he' somehow harms females, and I would support any evidence-supported solution that is suggested (for one thing, I wouldn't want it to harm my wife and daughters), but so far this whole issue seems to be completely locked in the realm of hypothesis, and it's without the feeblest suggestion of evidence.
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Roadrunners played to death and interchangeable young people to replace bad luck Wile E Coyote The same could be said and was the first four films in the series And the people behind the franchise will follow the same cartoon over and over again.
Probably because so many people are reasonable until there's seventeen cents towards their wishlist on the table and then they'll shill for anything to get it.

An Amazon link doesn't save as much time as it would have in the 90s and the message looks spammier for it.
The largest reason I can think of why it might not be compatible is that Firefox uses a version of JavaScript that includes a lot of "standard" functions not found in other implementations. If they base it on their expansive version of JavaScript, that would render it incompatible.
Thanks. Netflix is going to go on a second list since they have few good and recent movies, its strength is in tv series and documentaries.
How does owning a kindle effect what books you should read? if you did not want to read them before why would you want to read them now?
Localno.de - serve a local site with no deployment:
that's an interesting idea, I think I'll add a dvorak view in my next session :)
Youd should:

- Implement your VM

- Release the source code for inspection

- Provide a way for anyone to upload code (e.g. via the web) into an instance of the VM on a server you control

- Give an increasing bounty for each security bug found

- Publically state that you are encouraging people to try cracking it

That would be fun :-)
I suspect if you replace 'man' with 'human' and 'manliness' with 'humanliness' it might an easier read for you. The original author in the thirties was was writing in the style which was deemed 'proper' at the time, and I am sure that if they were alive today they would agree that 'women' are just as susceptible to 'spectatoritis' as men are.
New Hope for The Ruby Specification
Interesting, but, would the first hut (abode) have ever been built without men needing to impress a woman? Perhaps that was the proverbial byte of the apple? ;)
Namaste MotherFucker - Funny
thank you, I'll add it in my next session :-) (haven't heard from dvorak yet but it seems really interesting)
Share you localhost without need to install any tools on your machine. Just use Chrome.
W3TC integrates with varnish and supports a number of backend web servers.

The permissions changes it asks for are because caching plugins need to create files on the server and most servers are either poorly configured or managment of groups:users is difficult, so temporarily requesting that users modify permissions so that the caching plugin can create the files for the user improves the installation experience via lowering the technical experience needed and the number of steps required.

I don't recommend suPHP in practice as it's quite slow, similar if not better security can be realized by using a reverse proxy, and then running PHP in fastcgi mode for example with a backend web server.
My Go teacher once told me that the truely great players will hold a game in near perfect balance throughout. Concerningy, are the computers really at 4 dan now? I ain't never going to beat the machines.
I've spent some time with jQuery mobile and the performance is just too poor for it to be usable. What's crazy is that regular jquerymobile.com is more responsive than the 'Docs and Demos' section that is built using jQuery mobile on my phone (Nexus S).

I've seen the same sluggishness in jQuery Mobile apps I've tried building on the iPhone4, Palm Pre and a couple of Android devices. It's too bad really.
And there are rumours that they are now working on a new commercial OS codenamed midori, possibly based on Singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
Heroku | No such app

There is no app configured at that hostname.
Perhaps the app owner has renamed it, or you
mistyped the URL.
Depends. Some people revel in the frustration of failure. I still remember learning how to unicycle. It was two weeks of constant failure, but in the end I could do what few other people manage.
While I hate patent trolls as much as the next small technology business owner, the trolls themselves aren't the problem.

Completely non-novel patents being awarded by the thousands is the real problem. If the "trolls" were really just enforcing interesting and valid patents on behalf of individual inventors, that's one thing. But they're instead finding the most broad patents they can and using them to extort money from companies who are successful, sometimes regardless of applicability of the patent to the companies in question.

The fact that software can be patented at all is questionable in my opinion -- anything sufficiently complicated to be worthy of a software patent would be copyrightable. Anything less complicated should be held to an extremely high standard of novelty before being allowed a patent -- and even then I would put the time limit on such a patent at 5 years or less.

Just having an "idea" that no one has happened to already patent yet and sitting on until someone else thinks of it and implements it doesn't "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", which is the underlying mission of all IP protections in the US at least.

The patent database is full of so much noise that no one is mining it for ideas and creating software based on it at this point; instead everyone is coming up with similar ideas, and pretty much BY DEFINITION those patents shouldn't be valid.
great article, good reminders of how to build a great competitive game, which is applicable to me!
Nope SteveJobs is still working on it...
https://github.com/stevejobs/Windows-8
See, this is why people my age are too old to become soldiers :) I've actually got friends with chronic injuries, so I've seen what it's like. You don't "go out" when you get chronically injured, especially these days when we have decent medical care. What happens is that you spend the rest of your life in pain. Or perhaps you end up with a pain that only bugs you when you try to do something ambitious, like walk half a mile or raise your hands above your head.

The whole "flame of glory" model sounds really awesome when you're a healthy person, but you'll find that it tends to break down pretty catastrophically about two seconds after the flame goes out.
If one could monitor number of ctrl+f or cmd+f hits, it could probably indicate how difficult was it to locate content on the page.
> No demos? Isn't it a bit too early to advertise a game engine when all there is to show is a github repo?

It isn't being advertised that I can see.

Work is being done on github in the open, and some random person saw it and posted it. Or do you know that the poster is involved in the project? (I don't see him/her in the list of contributors, nor in the paladin IRC channel.)
Availability. In two directions.

One, not everything is available on Kindle, so it's worth asking for suggestions from the subset of materials that are available.

Two, local and immediate availability. Kindle greatly increases convenience by allowing you to have a selection of books with you much more often than you would otherwise. This can (and in my case has) lead to more reading than you might otherwise have done.

Kindle is one of those things that's made a bigger difference to my habits and choices than I expected prior to owning one.
Microsoft’s Surface Garage: A Cross-Department Dev Team, With Pizza And Beer
>_< apparently adding www is throwing it off. For what it's worth...please use http://thecitybee.com as I can't seem to edit the URL in the link.
The Method Behind the GOP's Obstruction of Government
Funny Office Survival Guide
Yes, it will use web standards. Mozilla is a nonprofit whose goal is to promote the open web.
This is an old project... and even Microsoft is now using HTML5 for Metro UI in Windows 8... what happened to WPF? Ask Windows 8: Lack of perfomance!. I can't imagine how useless this operating system would be. What's next, a kernel based in Javascript?
Injection attack should not be an afterthought worry, but just a standard you follow as a matter of fact when you're coding. The funny thing about this all thread is that in ColdFusion you have built in immunity as long as you build your queries using sql parameters.
As for the rest - efficiency and scaling are not hard to deal with if you just form the habit to consider them as, again, a matter of fact task to perform.
Interesting, but the objdump output is very primitive compared to more advanced disassemblers, which should be able to provide string cross-references etc in-line.
This isn't the first extortion attempt we've read about over the past few years, and Yelp's excuse is always their so called impartial "algorithm". Google, for their part, extorts Yelp in much the same way, as they used to do with Experts-exchange, until that racket became too obvious. If Yelp reviews were not so useless they'd probably have been sued for racketeering by now. That said I bet the first Federal RICO case they go up against will put them out of business.
The problem: The browser on a mobile phone is an app, not the platform.

Apps and the little icons on the phone's main page are like bookmarks to a website. If adding bookmarks to your phone were as OBVIOUS as adding an app, mobile apps would take off more.

Also, the phone vendors want to push their own middleman-marketplace to make money.
TextOnly - Read Clutter free webpages from anysite like Instapaper
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Why does the website keep reloading the page and screwing up my back button?
I would recommend taking a look through all of the free classics available on the Kindle store. There are thousands of old books that are out of copyright and are completely free to download. You can find stuff like the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, papers by einstein, Gulliver's Travels, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and lots of other really great reads.
Don't feed the trolls, please.
Not from the USA.
My fathers family has a history of 700 years in former Prussia, 1200 years in what can be called Germany. My mothers family has a history of 500 years in Germany.

BUT:
My eye color is blue, the gene came into existance at the Mediterranian Sea 10.000 years ago. My blood type is B-, the gene came into existance at the Himalaya 10.000 years ago. Thats a distance of 6.000km these genes migrated.
I love the way you guys offer $100 dollars for new signups and $200 off longterm sublets. Such a great way to get people excited to use the site. My dad has done rental properties for years so I've watched as the market has evolved. What you guys are doing and the way you are doing it is epic!
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Day[9] (the author of the original essay), is easily the "go to" place for this sort of thing. He has a great amount of analysis scattered throughout his dailies, but here is a link to his most recent daily focusing on "how did I lose" (assuming I remember this daily correctly).

http://blip.tv/file/5460268

Also,

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Day9_Daily

has a good list of his videos, with their subject, etc.
Is it More Difficult to be a Creative Entrepreneur than a Creative Employee?
Working with OS X and Emacs by Ryan McGeary
0. I immigrated within the EU, though. If "not an immigrant" had been a choice I would have probably picked it; other than a language difference - eased a lot by the fact that I moved to a country where EN is a vehicular language - I encountered no cultural, social or bureaucratic (eg. visa) barriers whatsoever.
How to transition from employee to entrepreneur
Steve Blank: Why Governments Don't Get Startups
Could Netflix buy a bunch of oil using their stores of local currency and then ship that oil to the states and resell it?

Just a thought. I doubt Netflix wants to get into the oil shipping business. :)
Not the only ones. I have no power to leverage or gain via a transparent society and yet I advocate it. Or, at least, no personal gain that everyone else would not also share.

To me it merely seems inevitable and if we acknowledge that we can make sure it's actually a transparent society, instead of just a glass-walled prison.
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I'm currently reading this one, so far so good:

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This is a small list of books I want to read:

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Unfortunately, there are tons of people out there still running 32-bit Windows. Microsoft had a chance to cut the cord with Vista and 7 but they blew it.
> It is desirable property in a game, that there is no obvious strongly dominant pure strategy.

Unless it's a game of skill. E.g. you win a race by running faster than other people. That can still be fun.
A new game engine, by which they mean a copy of two existing open source projects mashed together, Cubic.vr and Ammo.js
My least favorite part when reading and writing x64 code has to be the calling conventions.
PIT mutation testing