skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making the assumption that you'd lose that functionality if you moved to a language integrated query? Not so.

Take a look at the Linq implementation for a good example. Or, look at something like JSON in javascript.
The fading rabbit misleads the eyes. At the start I didn't even notice there were those two tiny lines of text (the threads) way above it.
This looks like a close competitor to CoApp (http://coapp.org/) - both are FOSS package managers for Windows, although it appears Chocolatey places less emphasis on libraries and other developer-focused packages. That is, CoApp is emphasizing shipping both source and binary packages, and provides more help to package maintainers still trying to make their programs build on Windows.

Chocolatey will probably get more users early on though, because of its association with the ever-popular NuGet (watch for the Scott Hanselman blog post...).
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"What's the "Occupy movement", exactly? Is it really a protest against the wealthiest 1 percent?"

It's not a protest against wealth, it's a protest against how:

* Deregulation allowed the financial sector to run wild, then

* get bailed out by the taxpayer when it all blew up in their face, then

* continuing the party as if nothing had happened (record bonuses paid from taxpayer bailout money)

* while their customers (from individual families to those families' pension funds) got screwed in ways that are demonstrably fraudulent on a massive scale

* while no-one in the industry gets punished

* while regular people continue to get screwed, even if they did everything right (get a degree, no jobs - save up a down payment, still can't get a mortgage - need business capital, still can't get a bank loan)

These guys on the left are angry at Wall Street in the same way that the right is angry at the Government. Their lives have become massively worse since the crash, while they see the people they perceive to have caused the mess continuing to party on taxpayer money.

Regular people in this country are pissed at the ruling classes in a way they haven't been for generations, the only difference is in who they're blaming.

Should both movements cross paths, it will be our Arab Spring/French Revolution.

Turbulent times ahead.
I had high hopes when I saw the title. I was expecting something for getting MinGW precompiled libraries like openssl, curl or boost; which I find needing more than often.
Cost of War: $4 trillion and counting
So Facebook must be on those $3 per month servers... right?
The only thing you said that make sense is the last sentence.
I think this is a good idea. PHP solves a niche of small sites with slightly dynamic templates.

(To some extent it owes more to rebol than to php - it has a large grammar and a notable amount of literals.)

It makes first class what other languages embed in strings - sql, urls, html, etc. In doing so it can solve a large class of security problems that plague many php projects - you don't need to worry about sql injection when the language handles the query parsing.

PHP was successful for a number of reasons, one of which was that it was embedded and exposed a number of cgi specific features into the language ($GET, $POST, etc), this continues in this vein to embrace urls, sql and html as part of the language. The programmer no longer has to deal with escaping or transforming or sanitising strings. This is cool.

Given it runs on the jvm - it should be possible to layer this atop of heroku or google app engine without worrying too much either.

This approach isn't new either - philip wadler tried in a similar way with the functional language 'links'.

(disclaimer: I think php is a terrible, terrible implementation of some good ideas - the library, language and implementation are notable examples of bad ideas in programming)
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Jobs had a decent amount of electrical engineering experience before starting Apple; he helped Woz with some of the RAM layouts in the earlier computers they made. The argument is bogus.
I don't see the problem with someone who didn't know Steve Jobs personally simply addressing how a change in leadership of Apple Computers affects him and his causes.

The change in leadership at Apple occurred in mid-August when Jobs officially stepped down. You could even argue it happened back in January when Jobs took his final medical leave and turned day-to-day operations over to Tim Cook.

Where was RMS's sigh of relief then, when Jobs effectively relinquished his role? No, he chose to post this right after Jobs died. I find his post tactless and highly offensive. I've never been a fan of RMS, but this takes the cake.
From the phpreboot code.google.com site page:

"What's missing ?
...
- ports of all useful PHP functions"

Seems a bit premature to call it "phpreboot". In the present factor, the programmatic constructs identified have equivalents in nearly every language I can think of.

Maybe once it has some PHP functionality incorporated, it could be called phpreboot.
Steve Jobs’ Philosophy of Life
Easier said than done, power can be cut in an instant or even automatically (triggered by unauthorized entrance to a facility, for example).
I think that VCs that restricted themselves to only 'social introductions' are indeed so desperate to have a way of meeting new people on the Internet. Also it looks like they don't know how to do it without an artificial engine and cannot understand how to do it without the facebook identity.
You realize they all have this sort of thing prepared ahead of time?
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php
"a product manager is more or less the CEO of a product line"

I haven't met a single product manager who had the chops to be something grandiose like "CEO of a product".

In my ideal company, the product manager role would rotate among the developers. As many as possible should be doing, not creating powerpoints and writing emails.

The Microsoft "program manager" job description is one I respect.
I think the laptop, rather than tablet, form factor is going to dominate in the medium-term future, because the portability vs usability tradeoff just doesn't encourage giving up your keyboard.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the laptops of the future will have a full-featured OS rather than a locked-down iOS-style OS. I mean, I'm sure yours will, and mine will, but will your mother's?
On the night of Steve Jobs's death I stopped by the Fifth Avenue cube just to see what the mood was like (it was pretty much normal with a small crowd outside and some flowers) and I ran into a former colleague who now is a reporter at Businessweek. She told me that this week's issue was literally ready to go to press and then the news of Jobs's death broke, so they threw it out and she was there at 11PM getting customer comment on the event, and everyone else was putting in another 12 hour shift to re-create the issue (of course, some of the content had already been assembled in the event of Jobs's passing).

Great to see that their hustle and hardwork paid off. It's an entirely different thing to redo a weekly magazine the night of publication than it is a newspaper or website.
Would recommend changing the "cinst" command to something more memorable like "choc".
Never thought uClinux would be used for such purpose.
Gosh. You mean allowing billion-dollar-poker by professional gamblers who have a six-orders-of-magnitude speed advantage over regular investors, and are also indemnified against any and all losses, might be dangerous? I'm shocked. Truly shocked.

No fucking duh. If ANYONE with any power were serious about fixing society or the world economy, this shit would be banned. Yesterday.
Leave the guy rest in peace for a while.
I agree with the sentiment. I work on computer vision systems that have application to this area and there's a line beyond which I won't go. I'm not sure where it is exactly. For instance, there are researchers working on human detection for these systems, which can have applications in attacking and in avoiding; the tech is independent of intent.

IMHO the discipline of robotics is facing some of the same agonizing choices that atomic physics faced in the 1930s-1960s. The moral dimension of their work took the physicists largely by surprise. It would be a naive roboticist who did not see the same questions coming this time.
It’s time for Python 2.7
programming skills are primarily useful to a Product Manager as a communication technique

Huh? This whole article is a bunch of semi-circular fluff.

Having a PM who can't code is akin to having a college-fresh MBA running a factory. Will it get the job done? Yes. Is it wise for the long-term health of the company, the fluidity of operations, and the happiness of the workers? Probably not.

A PM who can't code is a PM who doesn't understand why feature A takes an hour, while feature B takes three weeks. Do you want your engineers spending stressful hours upon hours explaining how and why things are, or do you want them working?
Is it any more apparent once the categories have more items (for example the noTag category)? What changes would you suggest?
Wierd... because i think those are the same.
I think that perhaps devs saying pms should be able to code is really more like devs want pms to have a deep sense of what can be done with software, what can't, and roughly how difficult things are. You can have that knowledge without being able to code yourself, but I'd bet the fastest way to acquire such knowledge is to learn to write software yourself.

So while Jobs might not have been able to code, he'd done some engineering and I think had a keen sense of where the approachable borders of software lie.
I also have researched requirements for becoming a licensed money transmitter, while considering starting a payments solution. From looking over your website and your company's topic in Quora, you are clearly more educated in this than I am.

However, from what I know, I believe that you are mischaracterizing the law. Perhaps this is because you feel that you have been victimized by a bureaucratic process. If what you say here and elsewhere is true, I think that it should have been possible to reach a solution that both satisfies the law and allows you to continue doing business.

It's very surprising that, in so many places across the web, you have been unable or unwilling to vocalize the possibility that the law has a legitimate intent. Even the language you use to describe your company's lack of presence in CA is misleading:

The California Money Transmission Act has forced this merchant to stop accepting FaceCash payments. You can still pay with other payment methods.

No. You have decided not to comply with the law because you object to its passing, to the entities you perceive to be backing the law, to its constitutionality, and to its implementation.

As evidenced by the fact that other startups do tackle the payments space, and will in the future, we can conclude that the situation has more to do with you than with the Act.
"Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

From the article in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3087492

You're wrong. Don't worry, he's snowed a lot more knowledgeable people than you. I would call it the key to his success.
This is a great video the BW guys put together showing how they produce an issue of the magazine:

http://vimeo.com/22746195

I'd be shocked if they hadn't already seen the compliments, but I'll pass them on just in case :)
An iron-clad law of the internet: if you complain about how X sucks in country Y, you'll inevitably just wind up with a thread full of comments about how X sucks in the USA.
Only when using transforms and only when using 3D transforms (though iOS5.0 may support hardware accelerated 2D transforms as well)
Yeah. Already it's hard to remember why it wasn't clear. Maybe you should open up an example of thread and responses. Have the app show stuff to engage with right from the first page load, don't rely on people to click twice to see how it works. There's 12 things to click on the first view. Don't rely on them clicking the right thing.

Edit: What's that rabbit for, anyway? Why is the header/logo/mascot on the bottom right? Why does shit overlay it without covering it?
I "humbly" agree with the point that Jobs was apple to appreciate deep philosophical ideas; unfortunately, prevenient grace is not one of them

Not trying to make any value judgements on Christianity in general, but prevenient grace is an Augustian idea, and as such is one of the more repressive ideas of Christian theology

It directly contradicts Buddhist teachings of Karma
>If you look back many hundred years, the Church had outlawed usury (charging interest on loans)

Correction: Usury was the charging of interest on an unproductive loan. If the principle of the loan was meant to buy food for a family, then the lender could not charge interest. If the principle was meant to start a business then the charging of interest was not usury.

The big problem was that, for a long time, theologians followed Aristotle on the question if money, itself, was "fruitful" or not. Aristotle said that it wasn't. In the later Middle Ages, theologians made a distinction between money and the uses of money. That distinction led to the conclusion I gave in the previous paragraph.

Okay, I'm nitpicking, but this medieval usury issue is a pet peeve of mine.
"Knowing the code base is a pretty hefty requirement... even seasoned developers don't know everything about their product... so it would be nigh impossible for a Product Manager to do so. It's more important that their minions think they know the whole code base, to try to keep the lazy virtuous developers honest."

I let the "CEO of a product line" slide, but the above comment had me seeing red. A product manager thinking programmers are his minions? I guess it might be true if the programmers are so incompetent that they can't see through a blowhard who pretends he knows the code base.
You're right: I do object to the law's passing, to the entities that have been documented to be backing the law (see http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2751-2800/ab...; the members of The Money Services Round Table are clarified at http://www.federalreserve.gov/SECRS/2006/August/20060829/R-1...), to its constitutionality, and to its implementation. That doesn't mean that I "have decided not to comply with the law," which is quite a charge to levy.

Just to compare notes, I'd like to see your list of startups that have applied for and are licensed under the California Money Transmission Act. As far as I can tell, based on the DFI's monthly summaries (see http://dfi.ca.gov/publications/summaries/), one startup (Venmo) has applied, and zero startups have licenses to date. This is now ten months after the law went into effect.

As for the law's intent, the statute claims that it's "consumer protection." I doubt anyone who claims that a money transmitter needs $1 million to $80 million of net worth and $750,000 of surety bonds in order to safely transmit $1.

Good luck with your startup. You should do some more research. Right now you sound like an apologist for multi-billion dollar financial corporations.
First off, business value can change quickly.

Sudden events happen. You can think of dramatic events such as terrorist attacks or death of an important executive; but there's other information, such as the public announcement of a new product (e.g. 'Apple are making a new type of device!', perhaps rapidly followed by 'Google have just said they'll support it!') that also result in fast changes.

But, most importantly, the market price provides information that influences further decisions. Maybe I'm not an expert on oil prices, but I believe if it goes below $70 a barrel, its a signal that the world economy is slowing down, and I want to dump my Google stock, because I'm only willing to accept a certain level of risk in my personal investments.

The fact that I can see the price of the oil provides me with a signal (maybe noisy), derived from aggregated intelligence of other investors. This is a useful function.

Its completely legitimate to want to sell my Google stock in response to other market signals, and as quickly as possible, in response to the new information they provide.

The fundamental value of holding the Google stock, to me, has changed, fast, because of other information that's become available.

So fundamental business value can change fast, for a variety of reasons, and it can add value to be able to respond to quick changes quickly.
Yes, legally it was a performance for hire. It's up to Stanford if they want to make it public domain.
Has the home button on your iPhone 4 stopped working?
A product manager who doesn't understand implementations will not be able to negotiate when an implementation bears on interface design or scheduling decisions. Conflicts arise all the time between implementation, interface and schedule. To resolve them one has to understand all three.

This doesn't mean the product manager must understand code. It means there's a trade-off. If they don't understand software implementation, they need somebody on the team who does (what the article calls a "Technical Product Manager.") Adding another person is possible, but it hikes up the overhead and communication costs while dragging down the speed of development and decision-making.

The best case is a product manager who can understand a given implementation if and when it bears on decisions about what is possible in the interface or the production schedule. That person can make informed decisions because they understand all the factors.

It's fine that not everybody can do all three, but imo we should stay conscious of the trade-off and keep the bar high.
Thanks!

It's also worth pointing out that Emacs and Emacs Lisp need not be multithreaded in order to implement specific asynchronous operations. If aio did not exist, there's nothing stopping you from creating a thread (from C), doing your blocking save there (and nothing else), and sending a note back to the lisp side when it's done. It's generic threading that adds complexity, because that would require all state-changing operations to be threadsafe, which can be very difficult to "bolt on" to a complex system like Emacs. (Not to mention locking overhead; see Python's GIL debate.)

A good example of this approach is the 0MQ messaging library. While it is internally threaded, it does not care what the application does about thread safety; there is no way that you can ever "see" its threads. It simply requires that you pass ownership of blocks of memory to the library, thus avoiding locking and issues of thread safety while still using threads.
Given the description, I was expecting it to automatically infer the content of images and categorize them.
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Hi guys,
I'm the author of PHP.reboot and also one of the guys that worked on JSR 292 (invokedynamic in Java).
First, I don't know based2 and please don't be too serious, PHP.reboot was written as a small prototype to see what can be done on top of invokedynamic. It was also used to debug the hotspot implementation of JSR 292.

The language is tailored unlike any dynamic languages. Instead of adding features and wondering how to optimize them after, I have worked backward and carefully pick/design features only if I was able to optimize it to be at least as fast as Java.

The hidden jewel of PHP.reboot is its runtime which first interpret the script and then use a type inference/type checker algorithm to try to emit exactly the same bytecode as javac.
So some parts of the language are quite fast, but not the whole language because some parts still run in interpreted mode only.

As a demo, I've taken the mandelbrot benchmark from the Computer Language benchmark[1] and write it in PHP.reboot
(I hope with no mistake). Here is the result on my laptop:

[forax@localhost phpreboot]$ time bin/phpr.sh test/mandelbrot.phpr >/dev/null

real	0m34.189s
user	0m34.087s
sys	0m0.088s

You can compare with your favourite dynamic language :)

cheers,
Rémi

[1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/performance.php?test=m...
If they get to it in time, that probably won't matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/technology/22chip.html
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What's with the color comment in the title? The article does not attempt to prove or refute a thesis, but merely explain the premise of a book. Why call "bullshit" on that? It's slightly inflammatory for no real good reason.

I have no vested interest in the subject matter, so maybe that makes a difference, but I dont want to see HN turn into Fark.
Given the perceived importance of the iPad (and digital publishing) to the future of the magazine industry, one might say this is a canny strategic move on Newsweek's part.

As I've said several times here, Jobs and Apple have made contributions across sufficiently many sectors of society that I do not attribute strictly self-interested motives, but given 1) all the cultural and historical significance of his passing and 2) the value of a bit of kow-towing, the action on Newsweek's part doesn't entirely surprise me.
Steve Jobs dropped out of college, had zilch technical skills but still managed to be employee #40 at Atari.

The best rule in life is "there is only one Steve Jobs".
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Steve Martin is truly an icon of comedy From his stand-up his time hosting Saturday Night Live.
Using Gephi to understand Gephi
YC application tips- collection of links
It's all scattered, so I thought this would be useful for others applying:
http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/yc-application-checklist
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html
http://valleybot.com/blog/2011/10/2/deconstructing-a-successful-yc-application.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855057 --> http://scotchi.posterous.com/
> PHP has only one feature going for it: it already exists.

What about, you can throw it into your HTML real quick and it'll work?
Based on the IRC chat, most of the battle is tackling our biggest test cases and finding an algorithm that fits into our memory and runtime limits.
after initially being totally bemused - 'what is this?','how do i get it to do something'? 'what am i supposed to click?'

.. i returned here, read this comment and then after about 3-4 clicks I finally got it to actually deliver what i am after, which is actually seeing some content.

if this is about sharing / showing people some content - show people some content ! right from the beginning! then let them filter or whatever to dig in deeper and start posting their own etc
Not to discount Businessweek's release, but the reality is that media organizations devote enormous amounts of time to prepare for the imminent death of a popular/famous figure. I'd bet that weeks of effort were put into what consists of Businessweek's release on Jobs' death while Steve was alive. What they produced doesn't come together in a couple days.

Remember the Bloomberg accidental 17 page obituary release for Steve Jobs in 2007?

Don't discount the media's efforts when being the first with the "extensive article" on the death and past history of someone important puts you first out of the gate.
Where was Facebook Music in 2004? Being excessively patient.
I don’t think it’d be fast enough. Even in damn-near-perfect signal conditions I have a RTT over 100 ms when I’m on AT&T 3G. That and how lame would it be if Siri ceased functioning entirely (not just the maps/other network-requiring bits) when you had no coverage?