skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reia is interesting, but ultimately misguided.

Erlang's syntax is not a problem. It can actually help editors like Emacs to indent the code more intelligently. Eg if you're in a clause of a case expression and you pressed Return without pressing comma first, the editor can infer that this is the end of the expression and indent the next line accordingly (to line up with the `case` above).

More generally speaking, if you're not willing to overlook minor issues of syntax in order to get to use tonnes of awesome stuff that it gives you access to... well, in my eyes you're more of a fashion-conscious fanboy than a pragmatic engineer.

If you have trouble remembering what comes when, here's how it works: comma is "and", semicolon is "or", and full stop is "end of definition". These are Prolog's legacy.

Throwing out single assignment and introducing workarounds for pattern matching to still work is a bad idea. So is introducing loops. There are very good reasons for why Erlang is the way it is. The language was not designed by a committee; most of the design decisions have been driven by user requirements. Single assignment is one of such decisions -- it wasn't made because Joe Armstrong was a fan of functional programming, it was made because it made the programs easier to read and debug, enabled hot code reloading, and made the GC simpler. And loops? Loops are close to worthless when you can have higher-order functions like map, filter and fold. I've never missed loops in a year of writing Erlang; come to think of it, I rarely use loops in the Ruby code I write anymore.

LFE is a project with much more potential. It stays close to Erlang semantically, while adding features that Erlang does not have, like real macros, and that's where the real added value is.
You score major points with me just for having a duck in the logo.

Also, my search results were quite relevant. I'd reduce the font size a bit, and maybe lose the styling on the search button.

Good for a first try.
It would be debatable if they weren't ready to put someone in this exact position.
Not sure what you mean. I was just thinking about saying something like "$100 for any coverage on a tech/finance site with an alexa > 100,000, to anyone who can"..something to that effect..
"The industry will catch up some day, it pretty much has to."

Best quote of the whole thing. This is a setback for now, but Muxtape's death led to Opentape's creation. Soon enough, things will get too huge for music companies and something will change. Perhaps not soon (though I'd hope it does), but it will happen.
Demand for Telepresence Solutions is Exploding
Very cool. It's useful, nice and neat. I wish I had something like this in college.

I'll definitely use it when (if?) I start a Masters degree.
Cheers to Justin & Muxtape. Fuck the RIAA.

I'm going to enjoy every minute watching the RIAA & the big record labels burn to the ground; it's already happening. And when one of those unaccountable suits apply for a job at a Company I'm working at...well, good luck.

I wish he had a donation link on his website, because I, and many others, would be more than happy to help.
I really like the results. I'd like to invest :)
You make a great point.

The profit margin on the product may be very low, yet the developing world (which this effort seems to be targeting primarily) is a huge market, and the investment will pay off greatly. Plus, the product will be for a good cause. Win-win situation.

Secondly, Google is harvesting the wisdom of the crowds with this call. No doubt there will be several great gems from the fringes. I am looking forward to see the top 100 list. I am also confused a little. Google states that the Google employees will go over all the submissions and choose the top 100 list. Wouldn't that be incredibly tedious? I wonder what tools they will use to speed things up. I think this would make a great job to submit to the Mechanical Turk.
This quote says it all:

"I always told myself I’d remove any artist or label that contacted me and objected, no questions asked. Not a single one ever did. On the contrary, every artist I heard from was a fan of the site and excited about its possibilities."

So the talent loved it and the suits complained. I see.
right, but i'm saying, if this were a more automated process or could guarantee better results, would you be willing to pony up more than $100?
JDIC to the rescue! First given definition of "soshiki" (そしき) [組織]

組織 【そしき】 (n,vs) (1) organization; (2) structure; construction; (3) tissue; (4)
system;

(1) 役員評議会が組織されて新提案を協議した。
An executive council was formed to discuss the
new proposal.

Looks like そしき is a nominative word which can be used as part of a compound verb, as in 組織する [to form an organization]. (soshiki-sarete in the example given is in the tense "was-formed / was-organized").

I love variety in both human and computer languages.

Digressions aside, I like the name. And the site itself looks fantastic. Good luck!
Article excerpt:

Demand for Telepresence solutions is exploding reports Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight online newsletter at www.tpandvc-insight.com; this is confirmed in an extensive Interview with the Director of Marketing for Cisco TelePresence solutions.

The online Specialist Newsletter Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight has greatly increased its coverage of Telepresence in the last six months. A total of 70 news stories about Telepresence have been published including 40 user application case studies. ...

Cisco announced customers had ordered 500 Cisco Telepresence Systems units in April 2008, and in less than five months that number has doubled. ...

Cisco sees two main drivers today for the interest in Cisco TelePresence. The first is the trend around globalization and the need for faster decision making. The second is the increasing costs of travel and the need to curb CO2 emissions.

One of the largest challenges for the TelePresence market is the need to experience it at a personal level. ...

What is the difference between Telepresence and High Definition videoconferencing? The widely held view is that it is just that - the experience. Telepresence is an immersive experience, meaning you actually feel like you are sitting around a table in the same room with the other participants who are at another site, perhaps 6,000 miles away.
Muxtape is (finally) dead. Long live muxtape
:shrug: I didn't write the original article, nor the title. I copied it verbatim from the article, since the original title of the YC post was "5 Ways Google's Android is Better Than The iPhone" or something.
100 billion goes to speeding up immortality and cryonics research a lot. i don't want to die, and i'd rather you didn't die either. 10 million (or whatever) pays for aubrey de grey, and anyone he recommends, to be my advisors for using the 100 billion effectively.
Find the 299 most influential people in the world and pay them 10m a year for twenty years to do my bidding. Hold on the last 2 billion for reserves in case they turn on me.
Very impressive with the relevancy of the results!

Here's one not-so-nice search, however:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=jace

See other searches to get an idea of what you're missing:

http://www.google.com/search?q=jace
Good job. You're finding quality stuff in the field I care about, and ignoring some irrelevant junk. Keep it up!
The only one of these you could afford for $700b is Equatorial Guinea... :P
Reminds me of Google's command line interface - http://goosh.org
Spoiler Alert: If you wait long enough, all fascist countries are eventually run by retards.
Don’t alienate developers
I'm surprised no one has mentioned buying Microsoft or Apple and "open source"-ing them. That would be $300b if you buy them at market cap value.
Heck yes.

That is all.
$700b is almost certainly insufficient to do this; the Catholic church has around 4 times this amount by itself (most of it is illiquid, though--a large fraction is in real estate).
Giving up on Google App Engine
Tons of home builders to read about and an interactive map that takes you to home builders in each state and city. Search home builders by the type of homes they offer
I predict this story will evolve into one of (lasting) success, and be inspirational to other entrepreneurs.

Strangely enough, I'm already inspired, even though Muxtape hasn't yet gotten off the downs and back into the ups.
I agree about the name, but at the same time, DogPile was able to be successful for a time (maybe they still are? I have no idea) with what is arguably a worse name.
I'd take two billion too, set up the rest of the money as a trust to fund four specific areas:

1. get people in the developing world clean water, access to enough food, and healthcare

2. give people money to get themselves out of debt (with accountability)

3. lobby the US government for various tax (simplicity is needed), healthcare, and humanitarian laws

4. funding for major energy research results
So that's what was missing! I knew something was disrupting my normal flow of analyzing search results... and now that you mention it I realize I usually look at the URL's, sometimes even before the article title.
Honey Dipped Patch Tuesday
I know one %) http://www.chunder.com/text/ididit.html
Can I administer the breast enhancement program?
Family size for $50k to qualify under the federally mandated definition of poverty is 12.

In fact, $50k is approximately the median household income (for 2007), with mean household sizes in that income bracket at about 2.6.
but you will never be a "German" in their eyes, even if the passport they give you says so. Who is the one being phony?
protip: It takes one to be led by one.
Why rats can't vomit, and why humans do
Fantastic, clean design. I'm adding courses now, I'll let you know how it goes by the end of the term, heh.
No worries, in college I was renting a house. Now I am renting a two bedroom apartment.
The big button on your front page says "Take A Tour". "Sign Up" is tucked way down at the bottom and requires scrolling (it is also in the top menu bar sure, but it isn't as visible there). I knew I didn't want to take a tour since I figured I got the service from the blurb, but wasn't sure what else to do from the home page.

The largest button is not only the most visible activity, but it's also an implicit suggestion to your users. Do you want people to sign up, or do you want them to take a tour? Plant the idea in their mind with design.

Smaller notes: I have no idea how to generate that funky calendar I saw in the tour, or to tell the system that I've completed an assignment once created. Also - just to be picky - the header colors really don't work for me. Blue and green and another blue, and another blue and dark grey and light grey? Multiple borders and banners? If you aren't working with a designer, try keeping the site simple and iterate towards a more attractive site. Design that adds complexity works against the impression of simplicity and usability (it communicates money). I believe your logo against a simple white background would be more attractive to potential users than the ruckus up there now. Simpler design would also call more attention to the content you really want users to see.
Interesting. No wonder their ads also talk about shopping victoriously - the more the item seems for, the better off the sellers are so they'll sell more AND ebay gets a higher amount of fees.

They also use their emails to put a sense of fear into you. Like, hey you've been outbid - you better go bid more money. Or else. Bad things will happen! You'll be sad!
MixWit.com is the new Muxtape. Same thing, just a bit different UI. and it's a YC company, i believe.
How could you automate getting writers to cover a story?
half of $1295? i.e. $650?

or $1295 * 2 = $2600?
how many (and how often) of the major tech blogs are sourcing articles from hacker news?
i think it would be useful to have public lists of schools/class numbers that are created by users in those classes. then allow adding public assignments so anyone else in that class can just "join" the class on the site and have the list of assignments automatically shown to them. sort of like adding a public calendar to ical (btw, does your site export to ical format?)

last.fm shows you calendar events for concerts by artists you listen to. when another user adds an upcoming concert for that artist, you're automatically notified of it just by being a listener of that artist. your site would probably have these group memberships more defined, but same concept. that way you eliminate the duplication of data by 10 users in the same class entering the same assignment, and the 1 user that wasn't paying attention in class automatically gets notified of the new assignment.
Next-gen MacBook, MacBook Pro spotted in matching outfits
Bleagh... Cato Institute -> Politics.

There are far better economists arguing different points of view on this; all he seems to be saying was "sure, fine, hand over the money, it's not a problem". There are good technical arguments as to why it should happen, but this isn't one of them.
Awesome work. I just graduated last year or else I would be using that right now.

One suggestion would be to have the Tour be a multi page process, so there isn't so much scrolling, also I am a sucker for videos demonstrating functionality. Just something real simple showing how to do each of the different functions.

I work at a university so I will be recommending it to any students I meet. Great work.
Subnit stories like thse over at http://www.newmogul.com/

nickb's there to keep'em coming

:-)
its simple, but thats the little idea i just had, how to do that :p
Whoa - are you serious? Are these documents public? I want to see them. What about the Deferred Liability on their balance sheet for "Child Molestation"?
You mean like a web-based service that helps people get coverage for a fee? Automated as in, fill out a form of what you want..etc?
Russian town smiles at Google Earth
What's also hilarious: even though I can't code for shit I'm regarded as the "tech dork" or "geek" or "nerd" in the majority of my friend circles. I take it as a compliment.

Tom can definitely play the game when he needs to. You should see him with VCs or Irish women. They look like they're talking to a Monarch or something.
I disagree. I think it's an interesting experiment for a number of reasons:

- Sure, syntax doesn't matter that much. But it does, some, and something like Ruby is more convenient than Erlang for me and my tastes. Syntax does matter for something like html templates - Ruby beats Erlang for that hands down.

- The objects are an interesting touch. Not sure how they'll work out in the grand scheme of things, but it's an interesting idea. Erlang could use a few higher level constructs like that.

- Single assignment? There are certainly some good reasons why Erlang is what it is, but perhaps this language might make it easier to do other things with Erlang as well. For instance I would never use it for sysadmin type tasks as it stands now (Erlang STILL can't read from the proc filesystem with read_file, as of whatever ships with Hardy Heron). Maybe they'll even be able to retain some of the Erlang strengths that lay underneath and make it easier for The Masses to use.
Yeah because of this sometimes you end up paying more for a used item than it costs to buy it new from the store.
The odds of Muxtape being profitable is pretty darn slim. Subscription or advertising fees would not recoup the costs, licensing, and development of the site.

The RIAA acted in its best interest when presented with a chance for new opportunities; it would rather ensure its existing sales channels is well protected instead of risking on unknowns.
I agree with you. I really like it. Worked well for me. I'm also incredibly impressed with the results. Is this a search engine grown from the ground up with its own crawler or is it using an existing dataset? If self-created this must be worth something right now
I think the issue is that it has never been 'his own time and money', but instead the Florida taxpayers' money and the justice systems time.
Are you scraping wikipedia as a "top priority" node set in your search algorithm? Actually not a bad idea. I typed "Alyssa Milano" in there, since I am a HUGE 'Charmed' fan - anyway - that returned me a wiki article, as well as images, and facebook links, basically everything I really would need to know if I were writing a paper on her, including publicity images and so forth, all right there in one result page.Maybe it is just me, but I thought the colour scheme was kind of fun - different anyway - something for a change - I can definitely see people using this at least as a supplement to google! Good work! :-)
hey lemony. don't follow - are you saying we got this from hacker news?
The problem with estimating the net worth of the Catholic church is that an overwhelmingly large fraction of its wealth is in buildings (the many churches it owns throughout the world), real estate (the land those churches are built on, plus the Vatican), and art. That said, this article (http://www.zenit.org/article-1900?l=english) gives some indication of the magnitude of their income/expenditures.

Note: Most of the figures in the attached article are in lire, with a conversion rate of 2000 lire to 1$US--the annual in and outflow of the Catholic church is on the order of hundreds of millions of $US; it is only their total assets that are on the order of trillions.
It's nice to talk about being non-partisan, non-political, non-ideological, etc., but it's a lot easier said than done. One way might be to fund a series of huge prizes for the company that first achieves one of your goals.

I'd start with a couple billion to the first company to achieve sustainable low-cost access to low Earth orbit.

I'd also hand out lesser amounts to p+B11 fusion projects (EMC2 and there's another one I can't remember right now), to fund their research, with maybe $5B to the first to get a 1GW commercial plant on-line.
On the contrary; an incompetent leader is easier to manipulate, and therefore more likely to be favored by whatever secondary powers arise as the fascist nation stagnates.
For me, it sounds like an excuse for buying expensive services. Oh, I'm not a snob, I don't buy social capital... I enjoy nice people.
it redirects me to pricegrabber? a serious general search engine would never do that! you lost me...
A few years ago I attended a talk by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, professor at Columbia University who was commissioned by the UN to develop a program to end worldwide poverty with sustainable, long-term initiatives -- Note this is not the standard aid, but stuff like microcredit and micro-entrepreneurship.

He traveled the world and came back with the price tag: $1 trillion. That is not to relief, but to END poverty worldwide.
It may be good to be a geek, but looking at those who took the path of self-destruction is not a good judgement on drug use or socialization (with those profoundly different). When one seeking knowledge does drugs, they usually become bored of the escapism quickly (unless they are depressed, or hate their life, etc to the extent that they would rather never accotiate with another human, and retreats into themself), and finds the other use of psychoactive substances: 'Hacking' the mind. Different psychoactive substances highlight different parts of the mind, some open doors, some help you understand others, most[NOT ALL!!!] have value if you learn from the experiences like you learned to use a computer. Socializing with those profoundly different then yourself can teach you things about yourself you could never learn alone.

Of the people I commonly interact with, maybe 10% are 'geeks' (in the stereotypical sense) and the rest run the gambit, from cleptomania, to borderline psychotic to bipolar to disturbingly happy and sure of there own 'normalness' and everything inbetween.

I've learned something from these people: sanity, normality and reality, are all subjective; defining people into groups is pointless and damaging. Being sure of your own superiority for taking a more societally acceptable path no doubt is 'normal' to you, but there are many on this earth who would rather die a thousand deaths then spend more then the tiniest fraction of their lives coding or solving problems in a 'made up world'.

Do what makes you happy, or what makes you feel fufilled, or fill whatever else your need might be. But don't judge others for doing the same.

I do not know you, and cannot judge you, but I would recommend, however, that if you truely have a desire for knowledge, to endevour to understand why others choose the path of feel-goodism and why others shun the path of knowledge and understanding (and the many other paths for that matter, but this one is likely particularily relevent). (Look beyond, they are duped, or they have problem x)
HN Feature Request: Individual users RSS feeds
Are there any plans to offer per user RSS feeds on Hacker News? There are a handful of users who's submissions I consistently enjoy and would like to be able to be notified of these without having to check back or doing screen scrapping.
Money's pretty boring stuff. It's a good feeling to get some, but give me a good book and a good cup of coffee and I'm happy. Now competition, success, etc: That's what's always keeping me going.
the correct answer is 70 million chicks at the same time.
and that represents the majority of attractive women alive today.
I hear cuil.com is available...
Hire a mercenary army to conquer some third world sh*t hole, then give it a modern infrastructure, education system, etc., and turn it into a capitalist/libertarian utopia.

With some of the profits, I'd pick another country and iterate.
Is going the other way possible? That is, could erlang's strengths be expressed through macros in lisp?
"Maybe cause I was smarter than 92% of them or I never had a fundamental reason for enjoying their company"

Maybe they didn't care much for you because you looked down your nose at everyone.
I think the oposite. With Eclipse, you can do what the f. you want. You can build your own plugin, if ADD is not good enough for you.

With x-code, I am not sure how extensible is it (is it open source?).

Java is way much better and faster to develop than object-c. Problem is run-time speed, (C/C++ are clearly better for games that java), and the second problem is the Android API set is a mess, and bloated. It could have been a lot nicer, but still it way better than Object-C. It allows almost full access to the system.

X-Code is a lot more polished, (and prettier), while ADD is ugly, and functional, and more open.
Bottom line, depending on your background you might like one or the other,

I feel using C/C++ and Object-C is a step backwards, were you have to take care memory managements/leaks, and afraid not to crash the whole phone.
While in Android, everything is sandboxed, to minimize risks to the underlying system. Plus there is already android (dalvik vm), running in Symbian, and potentially other OSes down the road.

History repeats itself. Few years ago we had the BREW (C++) vs J2ME (Java) battle, and J2ME won by a large margin.
http://www.ycfeeds.com/
Contrasting the iPhone and Android development kits
You will need a better design and a hell of PR
There are plenty of lawyers out there who'll take any case...especially considering the fact that a case with him would mean free exposure