skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And please don't take this as an attempt at some sort of great schism of the audience here, it's not. I'll still surf this site no matter how popular NHN gets."

It didn't seem to me a knee jerk reaction to the quality of submissions, but rather a public service because people are understandably complaining about political posts being made that are not "hacker news".
But with the very key addition of moderation.
emkay is my non-hacker news account.
The "Hidden features of PHP" section is pretty damn funny actually, but not in a good way. I can summarise it for you if you're lazy:

"ZOMG - PHP has arrays! Arrays are like, super cool!"
I have a biz/financial news site that used to be for my personal use but everyone's welcome to sign up and use it. It's running Arc + HN forum soft. It's still heavily beta as I use it as a testing ground for some AI/NLP stuff that I'm writing in Arc.

I dig out a ton of great links but only a fraction are god for HN, hence a new site for biz & finance. In my past life I used to work in finance so I'm still attached to that field. I am also trying to round off some of my business knowledge as well and there's really no good business sites out there that have stuff that's past the 'news' category.

Enjoy: http://www.newmogul.com/
I was half joking, I actually did read the FAQ. Personally I would go the other way. I would rather keep the intellectually gratifying articles from the NYT magazine, salon, TED, the new yorker, marc cuban's blog, edge.org, etc. and get rid of the esoteric programming articles and cliche business advice. To me what makes hacker news boring is all the front page articles about erlang libraries and cloud computing.
In a time like this, what newspaper are doing is basically nothing. The World Association of Newspapers -- trade org of more than 18,000 newspapers worldwide -- recently talked about their dismay with Google and Yahoo controlling 90% of the online ad market. That's not even the problem.

The problem has been Google's ability to scan and index newspaper archive/content and making money by running ads against that. Eventually they'll wake up and realize what's going on and sue the bajeezus out of Google.
Well, then you'll enjoy NHN.
Agreed - on both points. I guess I took the removal of Prakash's submission from the front page to mean: point taken, let's move on.
I noticed. It's now a mod.
Sounds like a brilliant idea to me, but I was confused by one point. He says she drops the food off twice a week. Is it only two days worth of food or is she batching up 3-4 days of food and delivering it all at once?
Sounds pretty cool. After ingredients he is probably paying 100 dollars. That's between 2 and 3 dollars a meal, which is about right for something made from farmers market grade ingredients.

However, for 100 dollars I could probably order out to a set of restaurants to eat for a week. (5 orders of 2 dishes each, should be 20 per an order. That leaves me with 10 restaurant meals which would be about as much food as 12-15 meals from his cook, I suspect). Still, deciding what I want each time, calling, paying the delivery guy... that takes more time.
Hehe.. technology is finally getting touchy feely! :)

But I'm not sure how much a value-add this is over bluetooth which, although a tad slow, serves the purpose of short range communication for things like printing, sharing photos, business cards, etc.

Good thing is that a "touch" might serve as an indication of willingness to communicate and removes the need to press buttons as well as the initial handshake - for really specific applications like using coupons, or payments or to find out details about a product from its tag.
If you stop and think this is almost the best time to have the economy go south. You have no dependents and aren't close to retirement. You're used to being poor from college, and you'll have time to apply the lessons you learn in this recession in the future.

Should be "thank god the economy tanked before I bought a house".
If I was less of a germo, I'd be totally down for this. :)
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This is just a wrapper around the actual slate piece.
I actually almost did this a month ago, but for whatever reason it slipped my mind. That just kind of reminded me.
Sorry about the unwarranted criticism. I think that one annoyance was that the titles presented programming in a way that someone would present video game cheat codes or easter eggs, when they were (of course) nothing of the sort. I realize that those were the original titles and you can't really be blamed for that; it is a reflection of the current population of stackoverflow, though, and is one example of why I don't exactly rate its submissions highly.

I am also sorry that I made a false assumption about the reason for the submissions, especially since that is what bothered me the most. I had assumed that you were a "loyal" member of stackoverflow and were trying to encourage us to join in on the discussion over there, which seems somewhat counterproductive as far as the community here is concerned. Coupled with the numerous stackoverflow comments I've seen to the effect of, "If something is wrong, why don't you go fix it?" (also not your fault), it just touched a nerve I guess.

I applaud your efforts to improve the community and to help shift it away from its recent politics/economics trend. As you can see from the link you gave, I submitted an article today, too, so I am in the same boat that you are (in terms of trying to improve the HN community). I am not much of a blog reader and don't often have much of value to submit, but since I did today and I had improving HN on my mind, I was glad to have something to contribute. I am certainly grateful for members like you who get the ball rolling with many good contributions, I just get disappointed when I feel that the community is overvaluing a submission without a lot of substance. (For example, I liked your "PHP vs. Lisp?" submission, however slanted it was, better than the stackoverflow ones.)

Also, I realize that your link was mostly a swipe at my lack of submissions, but that does not mean that I am not an active, contributing member. Nearly all of my 800+ karma has come from commenting, and I feel that buried in there are some gems with useful personal experiences, educated opinions, etc. In addition to that, I spend a decent amount of time lurking... reading submissions and voting them up if I feel they are "Hacker News"-worthy, reading countless comments and voting up/down based on my opinion of their value to me and to the community as a whole, and heading over to the "new" page when I have some time to kill.

Surely there is something to be said for members who contribute not as a primary filter (initial submitter) but as a secondary filter (up/down-voter who reads and votes on the submissions and comments) or as a commentator, adding insights to the discussion provoked by the article. After all, many of us are here at Hacker News for not only the low signal-to-noise ratio but also the unparalleled quality of discussion, and there are many non-submitting members who are doing this work behind the scenes without a lot of recognition.
true == "0" == 0 == false

This is untrue.

> true == "0"
false
> "0" == 0
true
> 0 == false
true
> true == "0" == 0 == false
false
As I understand it knol gives authorship of articles on first-come first-serve basis? This seems pretty braindead to me, does anyone know why they chose to do it this way, or if there's any automated way to change article ownership?
Do you think a lawsuit will be the endgame? How will they explain away 10 years of willing participation?

I completely agree with this article. Newspapers just got outsmarted. They thought their readers cared about the stories when most of them just wanted the headlines. Google serves up headlines that it steals from people who make them at great cost.
I'm in.

Btw, are you raising any capital?
On the whole macro debate, whatever one thinks the default behavior should be with respect to variable capture, the syntax-case macro system in scheme works on a representation of program code which is at a higher resolution than what lisp macros works on.

The macro can find out for instance, if an identifier used in its input is a free-variable, or if two identifiers share the same binding.
Hence, it is possible to write a relatively short program to define defmacro in terms of define-syntax & syntax-case, but not the other way round. (a pretty short implementation & most of it is error checking - http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/collects/mzlib/defmacro....)

This also strikes me as a inconsistency in arc(albeit easily correctable), as it goes against the rule of not imposing restrictions on the user, by default. Even, if the default macro interface is something simple, the user should be able to write macros which work with syntax at a higher resolution if needed.

Also, if you use the most popular distribution, PLT scheme, you have all of reader macros, native hash tables, keyword arguments, a package repository. There is a really nice module system, along with other neat stuff like contracts, lazy modules, frp & of course the continuation based web-server. For OOP, there is Swindle, an analog of CLOS(not having used it, i don't know if it's just as good).

After R6Rs, there is a common module system and standard libraries for hash-tables even in the scheme spec.

The main flaw, it seems, is the relative lack of libraries as compared to other mainstream languages.
In particular, what i miss is something like wxPython for scheme.

EDIT : turns out i spoke too soon, defmacro does have an environment object(http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aad...) as a parameter, so it has some access to lexical info of its input form. To implement define-syntax, one would also need some way to output a syntax object and not just a s-expr. Couldn't find any defmacro implementation of define-syntax on the net.
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I actually wish someone just throw up a vbulletin install for all the off-topic discussions. That's really what people want. All these Ask YC/HN stuff, people wanting profiles or avatars, etc.
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I think the problem has more to do with sarcastic comments - people take them personally and start useless wars, and then memes.
Slinkset rocks! This is a perfect application of a totally amazing piece of software.
We're currently working on building a community around Luvfoo. So far we have a few guys from around the world helping us out. I estimate that we are about a month away from having something that is easy for 3rd parties to deploy. Right now the project is centered around Teachers Without Borders as they are providing funding for the project. However, there is a need to make it easy to deploy the same system for other groups and so that is a focus. Now to be fair I have met the guys behind Elgg. Both of them are very smart and great guys. I think that project is still in development. Wordpress is working on a social networking project called buddypress which looks very promising. If you want something fast it is hard to beat Ning (but it is a hosted service). In the Rails world Acts as Community looks like a great project. Best of luck in your choice. There is a lot of really great open source software out there.
I've always wondered why laundry/maid service isn't more popular too. if your time is worth $30 an hour+ you lose money by doing menial chores such as laundry and cleaning.
If I remember correctly, the glove lowers the air pressure to keep the blood flowing.
What I read out of it is the tyranny of the "one truth," which is inculcated in many religious people. You know, I believe in the Holy Ghost, but not ghosts, or Islam produces fanatics, but let's proselytize around the world fanatically. It's about justifying your own, and eliminating all else -- how else do you get heathens to convert?

Just my view.
I live in a big building so by the time I go down the main elevator, walk through the lobby, take the parking elevator to my car, drive around 3 levels to find the exit since i park on the lowest floor and make it to the street, that's 15 minutes gone already. Therefore I really appreciate not having to leave unless I have to, or having a friend pick me up. I think I may try something like this..
For those who just want quick and efficient solutions to lots of bit-hacking problems (rather than try to become a bit-guru yourself): http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
Isn't that your old logo? Might be a good idea to shoot a new media packet over there to TC, especially at the rate you're growing it'd be good to keep the brand wrangled.

Congrats!
This is basically right, though I'd reserve a special place for unlikely but not paranormal beliefs like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Those don't violate any physical laws, and there's nothing irrational about thinking they might exist. Enough supposedly long-extinct creatures have turned up in hunter's traps and fishermen's nets that I wouldn't be shocked to find, say, a relic population of prehistoric primates scraping out a living in the Pacific Northwest.
I am most impressed at how easy it is to set up. I'm having some problem with the domain names, but it might by my fault or dynadot's.
I'm really aiming for something else. No Ask YC kinda stuff.

You're right though, that stuff is very forum-like.
One thing that's pretty clear at this point in time is that "net worth" is a pretty elastic value. Google stock is under the same pressure (as a "media property") that newspaper stocks are under. Ok, maybe not the same, but as they look more like a media company, they increasingly face the same pressures.
Ha, not for that site. It's just for fun. Slinkset may be though, I don't know. And if we become a burden on them, I might toss up a donation jar and/or some unobtrusive ads to cover their expenses.
Two suggestions - totally personal, so curious what other's think:
1) get rid of the front page dominating "welcome", I think it's unnecessary and annoying - people will click on the link and read more if they want to.

2) make the interface exactly like hacker news. For instance I think the bold titles is a bit distracting, esp after navigating over from hn.

3) one of my favorite features of hn is that I can often just type "n" into my browser address bar and the browser autocompletes to news.ycombinator.com. This is particularly useful on my mobile. Would be cool if the name of non-hn had some similar sort of name that leveraged autocomplete.
Wait 24 hours and it should be all kosher. DNS is always a PITA.
Thank you. I have found myself in an odd spot, enjoying the economic and political discussion but trying not to lower the S/N by fueling the fire with submissions.
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Congratulations! I lurk on the STS list and didn't see an announcement there yet.

And I agree with dustineichler, I haven't used RescueTime long, but it is already helping.
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Looking above, we see that you admitted that your question was answered. Lisp "executables" typically require run-times, just like "executables" in many other languages.

However, now the goal posts are moving.

The original question was how to deploy a lisp program. That typically requires the relevant run times, just as it does in every other language that uses dynamic linking and/or interpretation. (Emacs is not required to run lisp. Heck, it isn't even required to write it. Likewise, slime is a development convenience. If it's too much trouble, don't bother.)

I mentioned other languages to demonstrate that the problem is not lisp-specific.

To write a program in any language, someone has to install a compiler or interpreter and their dependencies. Folks who can't/won't do that themselves are stuck with whatever came with their system.

Again, this is not lisp-specific.

It would be nice if a reasonable lisp came pre-installed as part of linux distributions. But, like lots of other languages, it doesn't.

If you can't or won't install runtimes, there are lots of things that you can't deploy. (That's why I asked about an installation system to help automate this work.) If you can't or won't install a compiler and/or interpreter, there are lots of languages that you can't write.
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Rice, beans and cut vegetables. Cook them together, add little pepper and salt. This won't take much time either.
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Checking it out.. But why are the contents of the welcome post on the front page itself?

Ps. I can be a moderator if you still need another one. Id: Anant
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Almost all windows applications are installed by running a specially built setup program. Often that program is itself a single exe, but not always. Occasionally there's a whole pile of files that the setup program moves to various locations.

This seems to be true regardless of the source language(s) of said application.

There are some nice tools to build said setup programs. That's why I asked whether they would be useful.
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Not that there's much to sue --> But my understanding is that say if someone put up the HD DVD key - if you moderate - then you lose the "it wasn't us - it was the users" defence.
Ask HN: Tech jobs in US vs. Canada
I'm a dual Canadian-American citizen and a senior at a US college. The jobs I'm considering most seriously after graduation are technical program manager positions at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other large tech firms.

Although macroeconomics is one of my weak subjects, the current economic situation has got me questioning whether I would be better off in terms of prosperity and job stability if I looked to start a career in Canada instead. What do you think?
This article quotes Nielson Mobile research to assert that the US has the greatest mobile internet usage.

This isn't true - The US is top of the 16 countries Nielson actually measures. There are a number of countries with high penetrations that are not listed - Japan and Australia just to name two.

Taken from the Nielson site:
Nielsen currently tracks mobile Internet penetration in 16
countries. Among these countries, the US leads in mobile
Internet penetration among wireless subscribers...
http://www.nielsenmobile.com/documents/CriticalMass.pdf
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I don't see any of Google, Microsoft, or Facebook letting technical people go anytime soon, whether you're in the US or Canada. On the flip side, now is a bad time to get a job in investment banking regardless of whether you're in the US or Canada.

I don't think you'd find inherently more stability in either country, but you would probably have more options in the US.
By the way, one of the challenges I see in working in Canada is finding a software company that can compare to Google and Microsoft in terms of being both innovative and established. RIM is the closest I can think of.

Here's a neat ranking of Canadian tech companies.

http://list.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/tech100/2008/q1/pe...
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Working in Canada != working at a Canadian tech company

I'm not sure about facebook, but Microsoft & Google (and others) definitely have offices in Canada.
A career isn't a job - it's a series of jobs. Sometimes at the same company, usually not.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the far off horizon just yet - I'd focus on getting into the right roles where I'm challenged and can learn.

The economic slump is going to hurt, but there will be opportunities too. For example, US-based development probably will become more competitive with offshore development. Might take a while, but could actually stimulate parts of the IT economy.

If I were you I'd stick to the kind of role and experience I was after and leave worrying about stability down the track... I had several jobs after university, many of which were after the dotcom bubble. All good experience, and I got a lot out of it in the long run. If I'd tried to stick with stability in those times I'd have probably ended up somewhere very dull indeed (dull in my terms anyway).

But in the end that's just a matter of preference.
The moral of this story is: Amazon asks candidates some poor questions. Very difficult sort of a problem to solve on your feet, especially since "random" and "stochastic" are so related in people's minds.
True, but as far as I understand, Microsoft's main Canadian development center in Vancouver is mainly set up as a place where Canadian engineers can work for a few years until they get visas to work in Redmond.

And Google's offerings in Canada seem thin:
http://www.google.ca/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.ht...
"Not" doesn't have much appeal. Good luck, though!
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Reducing carbon is not being productive? Isn't it saving the world and whatnot? As long as care is taken when creating offset credits. Like, don't give someone a credit for not buying a hummer. But if they buy an electric car.. or make one.. why not?
Does anyone else find this whole "outsource your life" movement a little disturbing?
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Care to post any citations for that? Because it doesn't match what I know about how muscles work.

I've never heard of muscles breaking down proteins, nor have I ever heard of proteins causing liver damage (that doesn't make any sense).

Muscles do release lactic acid, which will eventually cause enough pain to make you stop, but I never heard of any serious damage caused from it. And this cooling method won't prevent that feedback.

It's obviously possible to inure a muscle, but it will hurt, and this cooling method won't affect that.
I would like to point out that not all hours of the day are spent "generating value".
Here is even a better way...

$br = "<br />" && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'] && !stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && print("Remote Login Denied!" . $br;) || print("Success!" . $br);

I always code like this and call it if-less programming. No matter how smart the new grad is, they find it very hard to follow:-) Job security dude.
We do - you're right. It's kind of odd, but even after thinking about it, I still see a distinction, but I can't place my finger on what it is.
They make a partial vacuum in the glove that basically sucks the blood to the surface of the hand where it can pick up the coldness.
Yes, but if the intent is to find a safe haven in Canada from the US economy... well... you're in trouble either way as it'll affect everything... but if that was your intent you'd probably stick with Canadian tech companies.
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