skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's running under CrossOver, which is basically a paid version of Wine/Darwine.... which means it doesn't really count.
Mix KVO with assignment in Obj-C?
good looking is not the point.

If you want people to forget the MacBookAir, then good looking is very much the point
I am trying to imagine what a conversation between him and Leonardo da Vinci would be like.

also wondering how he got the funds to dedicate his life to science. was he a heir? or he was sponsored by kings and sultans?
If a game no longer requires DirectX, then it would seem to be an easier task to port it to many operating systems.

I don't think this is what is holding back Linux games. Many game companies already design their games to not rely on DirectX -- none of the games on the PS3, Wii, Mac, or various portables require DirectX.

But they will only port to platforms where they think they can make money. Linux's low gamer population doesn't help, nor does the "everything's free" user expectation.
Very interesting, but the timing is a little awkward. The current disaster in the banking sector doesn't really speak to the brilliance of an unregulated free market, does it? (Or at least, there wasn't much regulation when the banks took greedy, foolish risks, but now that it's all gone south, guess what? Time for government intervention, by golly!)
My X300 is, bar none, the best laptop I've ever used. Unlike the MacBook Pro or T-series laptops (my previous all-around faves), it doesn't attempt to be a desktop replacement, but it's worlds more capable as an all-around travel computer than the Air, due to the internal optical drive, onboard Ethernet, and numerous USB ports.

The 301 looks like a very minor, but worthwhile, upgrade.

Of course, the fact that the Air runs OS X, while the X300 runs Windows or Linux, will make the decision all by itself for most potential buyers. Personally, I find that the X300 running Ubuntu makes for a nearly ideal mobile development system.
Sponsored by the Empire. See my other comment for the long version.
He saw me through many coding sessions -- good man, too soon.
only a minority of people feel comfortable thinking in s-expressions

I think that everyone coming to Lisp for a period of time experiences this discomfort. It's a completely new way to think. I don't believe, however, that only certain people are capable (with practice) of comfortably programming in S-expressions. I think it just comes down to who is willing to experience the discomfort for the length of time it will take until they have their first "aha!" moment.

For me, I had some minor "aha!" moments while programming in Lisp, but not enough to switch. It was only later, when I wanted more powerful compile-time capabilities in C and when I joined python-ideas and started seeing the plethora of syntax proposals (often followed by lengthy debates which usually led to no changes) before I realized just what makes Lisp a more powerful language.
No, Scheme would not be a better fit, speaking as someone who codes Scheme day and night. Yes Scheme is smaller, but that's in reality, which makes it totally unrelated to the reasons for rejecting CL.
If it weren't terribly off topic and likely to lead to pointless flame wars, that might make for a fun poll. "At what age did you go through your Ayn Rand phase? How long did it last?"
They have a prisoner's dilemma because the first country that drops the dollar (in a big way) wins. The last guy holding the dollar (the prisoner who doesn't snitch) takes the worst of it. If they all hold steady, they all lose--somewhat.
Is it limited to 100 devices? I read the article so that you need at least 100 devices to be eligible to use it. Surely there are companies with more than 100 devices?
I quit JPL and started a new career as a VC :-)
Lisp at the very least is excellent for initial prototypes.
Quality Score improvements to go live in coming days
You could say that he was a hacker ;)

This notion of course goes against the mainstream interpretation of the hacker persona (the geeky, socially recluse male that is more familiar with computers than he is with his own body). But if you peruse the articles here at Hacker News, it encompasses a very diverse range of subjects (anything from health, math, science, business, charisma, etc.) that are not doubt, interesting to hackers.

I would go a step further and say that what hackers today have in common with Bīrūnī is that the diverse subjects he was most interested in were somehow overlapping with one another.
I'm not sure what "count" means in that context. It's real software you can run, and it's really running on OS X and Linux. So it does what it advertises.

But yes: this is basically advertisement. Google released a big piece of notable windows software with an open source license, and Codeweavers took the opportunity to show how you could get that source base running on other platforms in a matter of days using their product.

I'm not rushing off to download it, but still: this is a good hack, and a great piece of marketing IMHO.
Ask HN: Concerned Citizen
Why don't all the really good hackers get together and remove all child pornography from the web. Who better to do good for this country?
I suspect the upvotes on this post answer this genuinely-asked question, but.. is it considered okay to post links to random interesting Wikipedia articles on HN? There are a lot of good ones.
Sometimes life proves your point... or does it?
For what its worth, that's probably a pretty good sign that they don't really understand what makes languages slow. (Or that they in "cheap shot" mode.)
why don't all the really good police officers get together to remove drugs from the country?

...oh wait

but seriously, the idea is noble, but the fact is that child pornography is already widely controlled. if you actually want to obtain it, you have to be on the inside of the situation, just like drugs. you can't buy heroin at walmart. you have to know who to go to in order to buy it and jump through some serious flaming hoops to get it. we can't police things on thumb drives and encrypted emails/connections. and if we could, would we even want to? it would be hugely big brother that would be removing the rights of the law-abiding many to prosecute the few. (which i guess isn't that foreign under the current administration)

but thats just my $0.02.
The destruction of Baghdad - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258) - by the Mongols certainly didn't help. That said, how do you respond to the charge that the Islamic Empire was merely borrowing the cultural and scientific achievements of the peoples whom they conquered? This guy, Avicenna, al-Khwārizmī, were all Persian. I can't think of any famous Arab scholars from the period (not an expert though - let me know if there are any). It wasn't _Islam_ that was funding this research and learning, it was the remnants of the Persian empire.
Where's Pacific Bell (PacBell)? As a kid in California, I recall going from PacBell to SBC to AT&T ...
100 devices across your Apple account - so if he had 10 apps with 10 adhoc users each, that'd be it. At least, that's what I've been told by an iPhone developer.
Whoa, yikes. Can you give me a reference for that? (Or even tell me which 20?)
Ad Hoc isn't what companies are supposed to use. Ad Hoc is for developers and classroom situations. The solution for the enterprise is another distribution method all together that's not publicly available (only for companies > 500).

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/distribute.html

And as for little known, I have no idea why they went for that angle. Steve Jobs presented all three methods in his keynote. Ad Hoc is used by almost all developers, but has very very limited use outside of that (thanks to the 100 user cap, which is utter bullshit).
17, 6 months

I would be interested in knowing how many are still under the baleful Eye as well.
Well, both Pownce and Twitter send these, and I pretty much ignore them. To the extent that they are expected, they are expected because we are used to being treated badly, not because they are a good thing.

I'd try communicating via a blog and also via one-off messages sent to users the first time they log in after a change. Both of those provide information without being too pushy about it.
Nasty window style, nasty.

I'll wait for the mac native version, thank you very much. Not interested in such non-mac windows on my pretty macbook.

Still, an impressive turnaround from Codeweavers.
Making Lisp run faster would almost certainly involve making it closer to SML / OCaml. Beyond algorithmic changes, speed optimization in Lisp usually involves type declarations, or sometimes inference, as in ML. (See: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.imecs.pdf) Give Lisp a really powerful, inferred static type system and you're most of the way there. (Give it a better module system, while you're at it.) And if you want to talk about a type checker catching bugs...

I wish OCaml had kept the s-expression syntax, but it's a very interesting (and powerful) take on improving Lisp. (I think it also helps that they don't call it Lisp. It flies under the radar as far as Lisp's reputation.)
Need for speed: Accelerators pick up where incubators left off
Well, I'm not sure if this a troll or not, but if it isn't, then it seems to hail back to the longstanding misunderstanding of what 'hacker' means. Hacker News is for people who want to a) build cool things, and b) make money. Not so much about vigilante justice.
Announcing: Real-world Functional Programming in .NET
Giga Omni Media Acquires The Apple Blog
The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time
I'm glad I never bought an iPhone.
Richard Baraniuk of Connexions (mentioned in the article) talked at TED a while ago:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_...
This happened again, more recently, in the machine learning community. Here is the resignation letter from the editorial board of the _Machine Learning_ journal, as they left to start an open journal:
http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html

The new "Journal of Machine Learning Research":
http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/
Edit: Flagging this for duplication; the other link's title isn't so misleading.

Wow, I was running Chrome from day one using VMWare Fusion. Between Fusion and Parallels, us Mac users are pretty much covered. I still have nightmares about Wine, though...
Islam is a religion - religions don't fund anything :) But I assume you meant the Islamic Empire itself, so in that case:

The Mongol invasion was the beginning of the end, to use a cliche. The Islamic Empire was indeed "borrowing" the talents of the people they conquered, but (the majority of) the accomplishments only took place after the conquest by the Islamic empire. More importantly than who did the thinking (it was basically a mixture of different cultures and races, the majority of which were not native Arabs) is the fact that that sort of scientific expeditioning was not discouraged and that the scientists were given as close to free reign as possible.

Contrasted with the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church's aversion to scientific discovers (Galileo anyone?) you can see that the Islamic Empire played the role of encouraging godfather quite well. Obviously it's not the government nor the religion that makes brilliant people, rather it just sets the stage for the accomplishments to take place.

It's a common misconception that the Islamic Empire == Arabian Empire, since the empire dictated that anyone to enter the folds of Islam would be considered the same "class" of citizen regardless of race or culture (and history can attest to the enactment of these beliefs) - it was the non-muslims that were considered to be second-tier citizens with respect to certain freedoms. Keeping that in mind, Persian or Arab or Kurd doesn't really matter.....

But anyway, here are just a couple of famous Arab-Muslim scholars:
Ibn al-nafis, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Battuta, Al-Kindi, Ibn Al-Haythan, Averroes/Ibn Rushd, Ibn Yunus, Ibn Al-baitar, al-idrisi, hunnayn bin ishaq, jabbir bin hayyan.......

Full list is here, you can click through to see the ethnicity of these scholars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_scientists
I tried it and it renders the fonts really poorly. It's actually makes it unusable.

Either way, it's probably easier to find a windows box to try it on then use this.
PG: how do you feel about the term accelerator?
Pretty crude... lots of widget flickering, font issues, spurious scroll bars etc but it works and you can test your site in it without starting VMware/Parallels. Definitely not suitable to be used as a default browser but it's great for quick testing.

But most of all, this is a great example of advertising your product by latching onto some new fad.
The iPhone is a very neat phone. I used to have a Windows Mobile phone and I'm a total convert now.

Too bad Apple as a company is full of shit.
Yes, PLoS is a huge step forward for science, and I hope other journals also adopt free access.

But they still charge a hefty fee to the author for publishing.
It's not native, but it's pretty darn good. I like it.
Are New Programming Languages Bad?
I'm quite fond of that drawing in the article on phases of the moon. Theres just something about it that appeals to me, I can't put my finger on it though.

It is a real shame even some "modern day scientists" don't share his particular views on scientific method.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppjYDj9JUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Q8p3GqPqQ
Poker at Snaptalent/Disqus: Because nobody wants to lose $20 bucks on a Mario Kart game.
Come on people, running an app in wine is not "porting"
For VMware, an Uncertain Future
I'm sorry, I was yawning. Are we still talking about browsers that don't matter and never will?
what time? i think that is earlier than the game.
Another predictor of bad news I have observed is when the human resources (HR) department stays late.

Usually, they are the first to leave. When I've seen them stay late, the next day there were layoffs. They were busy preparing all the layoff packets.
Renewable energy is critical going forward, but the technology isn't there yet to flip the switch and say good-bye to oil

Bullshit. The technology for electric cars is viable right now, certainly more so with the price of gas sky high.

Now the will - with a multi-billion dollar industry dolling out kickbacks like they are going out of style and a public with an insatiable need to buy the biggest damn car on the road - that's another thing.
I'm Giving a Talk at the Freebase User Group Meeting This Wednesday
Have you heard of Freebase? With their intuitive API, they're making it possible to start making some Semantic Web killer apps.

I'm going to be talking about my experience with the Freebase platform, how it compares to some other platforms, and discussing their new soon-to-be-launched application hosting environment. Free bizza and peer, er pizza and beer!

Here's event information:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1075549

Bump if you're going to come, and we can do a HN meetup after at House of Shields. First round is on me.
I recently started using a small, lightweight, linux umpc for all my internet usage and development work. The one thing I missed was Lotus Notes [Notes-haters just hold your tongues!] To my very pleasant surprise I could run it under Wine and it's as fast as running it on my Vista laptop (and the Vista laptop has twice the ram and twice the processor power). I hadn't looked at Wine for maybe 5 or 6 years. It's come a very long way.
I see the humor police are out in force. For those of you who are unable to resist clicking the little down arrow on comments that seem vaguely negative, let's be clear: the whole point was to demonstrate that it's possible to be sarcastic while still agreeing with someone. Yeesh.

In particular, when you "agree" with something that you have quoted out of context, it's quite easy to paint it with the opposite of its intended meaning. That's what the OP did -- he took a remark that wasn't intended to disparage the MBA degree, and turned it into something that did.

That's called sarcasm, whether wikipedia is your authoritative reference on the subject, or not.
Facebook isn’t a social network
Or he is just relieved that it is over. I can't imagine working in a place like that would be fun - it could only really be about the money (and perhaps some comraderie). So when its all ending, there is kind of a release...
Never were truer words spoken, well done.
No surprise. Arabs back in those days have been known to have an excellent memory. At a very young age, Arab kids were able to memorize hundreds if not nearly a thousand of mid sized poems. This is probably why he was able to accumulate a deep knowledge in so many fields. Muslims have inherited this from Arabs. I have several friends who have memorized the entire Koran to the point where you open a page, start to read and they take it from there.

Arabs also were very well traveled individuals due to their commerce. They went from place to place, spending time with different communities and keeping notes. This is why they had a vast knowledge.

Arabs loved knowledge. They were great scholars. One of the teachings of the prophet of Islam was that Muslims are recommended to travel all the way to China to acquire knowledge. Back then traveling to China was probably like asking someone to bike from San Diego to Canada going through the mountains and desert.
You could even charge way, way more than that if you could somehow sell them retroactively.
What do you mean? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
What MySpace Music means for Amazon
How would you suggest democratic reform be completed then, votes depending on income? Surely you can see how utterly disastrous that would be?
File under "what could go wrong?"
Me neither. I had the pleasure of watching Roger Waters a year ago at Earls court, magic stuff but clearly missing the others.

Given that Syd and now Rick have gone, I guess it's only a matter of time before the piper, the prisoner shines on...
How I Became A Happy Ubuntu User
I am excited to see how this works as social software.

I hate "karma" systems in discussion forums. As soon as you introduce karma points, your forum is now dual purposed, part for the original intent (say, discussing Hacker News) and part for playing the karma game.

I accept that karma points are at least a known working solution to spammers and trolls. But if it wasn't for that, I'd much rather read a conversation without the built in popularity contest.

At stackoverflow, they've turned that all on its head. When I read the reputation rules (see the unofficial FAQ) I thought, "this is all karma game". And then I thought a little more and realized that for the purpose of the site, that might work perfectly. If the guy with the question is the one who hands out the karma, the incentives of the guy and the karma gamer are nicely aligned. Very clever.

I saw someone talking about the closed beta, and he described it as "fun". Well, that sounded strange, but now I believe it. Jeff and Joel turned karma gaming into an actual game, with the incidental effect of generating good answers to technical questions.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder,
and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer.

I like to code to Pink Floyd, even when I code like a dog ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?q=pink+floyd+dogs
I'm not sure how the Linkedin leak is noteworthy. Preexisting information:

1) Apple uses ARM in the iPhone
2) Apple buys a company who makes ARM CPUs

Would it not be negligent for Apple to not at least have a small team exploring this? Just because some chip engineer has a job doesn't mean that so much as one IC will ever come from it -- companies investigate multiple options all the time. That said, it's still likely that this would happen; this seems like as good of a reason as any for Apple to have purchased a CPU manufacturer.

I wonder if it rubs Jobs the wrong way to be making components for missles and other weapons. The media commonly portrayed him as a flower child a while back (decade plus ago).
:(

There goes my last hope of seeing a reunited Pink Floyd...
On the mathematics of the Rubik's cube
"We haven’t even yet said what the really Big feature of Sapphire will be - the thing that motivated us to develop it in the first place (we will only give the full details when we are closer to having a working implementation)."

I will do such things - what they are yet I know not - but they shall be the terrors of the earth.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)
These are all great computers, now if only people thought about price. All of these 3lb 13" notebooks are cool and really what I want for a notebook, but can anyone afford them?
I think you owe it to the memory of Richard Wright to give it a try tonight.
Store Finders and Locators
The Fourth Quadrant: a Map of the Limits of Statistics (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
To be honest, I'd rather have links to random interesting Wikipedia articles - knowing that there's a high probability that they've been selected by people with similar interests to me, but that I might not have found them on my own - than links to random blog posts about tech stuff that probably won't even matter half a year from now.
My wife is in school now and it seems that the publisher uses a unique ISBN for each school the books are marketed to. This is to hamper inter-scholastic used book trading. Her accounting bundle of one text and one workbook were $190. Overall, she spent over $600 on textbooks we tried to find online and couldn't. And its not just that the books are expensive, but they aren't that great quality either. She is required to have the text and do problems from them, but for one of her classes, is getting more value out of a little $10 reference book than the $125 text book.
nice pick, that's my favorite Pink Floyd song
Apple is officially part of the military-industrial complex.
I'm feelin' comfortably numb...

Rest in Peace Rich, the world is a darker place without you.
It matters to me. I use Firefox mostly, but I honestly use Chrome religiously to play Weewar. It's like night-and-day difference in speed for playing that kind of an ajax-heavy game.
"... nice pick, that's my favorite Pink Floyd song ..."

Yeah one of mine as well. Still remember the "big pig" bobbing around last time I saw them in concert.
Note that I said genuinely agreeing, as his first comment seemed to be and his second specifically stated he was. You can't be sarcastic while genuinely agreeing.
Ubuntu-Firefox EULA dustup reignites OSS licensing debate
Official Google Blog: Search evaluation at Google
It's free as in beer, and it works well enough for me to make this comment with it right now. So it kinda counts!

That said, there seem to be several issues with fonts not FITTING _

um< i guess i am being shown up _ literally as i type this it seems to have convinced my macbook that shift is being constantly held down. and it breaks with expose. beware!
Pac Bell was part of the Pacific Telesis branch.
Who Wants to Be a Facebook Millionaire?