skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea how to begin to read that...

How is this better than something like this:

gen-hosts config-file > /etc/hosts

?

See this gist I just made: https://gist.github.com/1274379

That script is (1) more understandable to a programmer, (2) unambiguous with respect to output, (3) idempotent, (4) super extensible.

I suspect your Puppet script is doing some other stuff, but I can't begin to mentally parse it...

EDIT: Just wanted to point out that I didn't try to make that script either correct or identical to your script. Just wanted to give an impression of the flow of things.
My Motorola s305's are pretty decent but are very sweat/moisture phobic - the buttons stop working if it gets wet enough. Also they don't do well in wind at all (impossible to use voice commands while on a bike for example).

But for ~$30 they are pretty decent... I'd love to see alternative A2DP headsets.
I had never heard of this Kathy Griffin before you mentioned her, and never heard nor read of any connection between her and Woz until now. Wozniak is almost completely absent from almost all the the media[1] I consume - I don't think he has much mainstream fame and attention except as colour commentary when Apple is doing or has done something.

Are you sure that you aren't actively looking for Woz stories, that there isn't a bias at work?

[1] Mainstream media for me is a range of UK Guardian, Telegraph and BBC website, Economist, NYT and occasional WaPo, WSJ and FT.
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Anyone know if this will be available in Newstand on iOS5? The "Store" link on my GM seed doesn't work yet.
good point, it seems like you and akkartik both got it after spending a minute digging around. I'll update it to have some content open on page load
It's cool to do it as a prototype language, but I doubt someone would make use of it over php. Until someone ports drupal or wordpress to "the next php language", php in the current form probably isn't going anywhere.
Negged for an elitist snob comment that adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.
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(presuming you meant https://stripe.com)*

Heh, yep. Total brain fart.

I'm not sure about the HTML stuff, but I thought that they do have a js drop-in that should require minimal coding.

Don't quote me on that, but at the very least, it's not as nasty as Paypal seems to be.
Live a Little Less Like Steve Jobs
As encoderer said, you can definitely do that in Linq. The query operators basically just map to methods, which are overridden by the different providers... The SQL ones basically create SQL statements for you behind the scenes (as log gable strings).

I thought it was all kind of weird and wrong at first too but now it's probably my favorite c# feature next to the (very much related) lambda expressions, especially for non-SQL collection queries. Of course this doesn't mean PHP needs integrated queries or anything, but it is a very nice feature to have if done right. XML/json literals, on the other hand, do feel kind of wrong to me though (although I bet they are handy still, as many vb.net devs will probably attest to).

[Edited for spelling - damn ipad keyboard!]
If you're serious about this moving forward, I very strongly suggest renaming it. PHP.reboot is a very hostile, aggressive name that is clearly trying to steal thunder. Call it a reboot of PHP informally, playfully base the name off of PHP somehow, but don't outright call your language "PHP.something that Google won't correctly parse as part of the same word so the search will still pull up nothing but PHP results". In addition to the hostile nature of the name, being effectively Google-blacklisted isn't a great way to start.

Also, admittedly off of just a glance, beware the specialized syntax sinkhole. Can I easily take two XML snippets and compose them together somehow? Can I easily take two SQL snippets and compose them together? A lot of times these specialized syntaxes make for cute-looking demos but in practice work out worse than just using language constructs because they are so highly specialized you can't do anything with them but exactly the one use case the author had in mind. I'd submit there's a reason that basically no large-scale successful language has this sort of specialized syntax built into it, and you may want to ponder on those reasons until you understand them. It isn't because it's hard to write the grammar or anything implementation-related like that. (And I'm not saying don't do it. Personally, I think it's a solvable problem. Look to LINQ for what is probably the closest to date. I'm suggesting you try to spend some time understanding why the obvious solutions haven't worked before you go too far down what can be a language-killing rathole.)
I don't think so, you can have some middle men to be in charge of that and just shout very loudly if the things turn different. Obviously in this case you need a top team that is hard to find and build and was key in the Apple's case.
It took me 15 minutes to make this.
I use my own framework that collects tweets based on hashtags and posts to Tumblr and other social networks.
Probably its my way of remembering the man who gave the world the device from which I am typing this.

I bought livelikesteve.com for $7.49 from Godaddy and the ads are there just to get me back that cost. Waiting for DNS propagation.
What is the defensibility for this idea? Shouldn't be that in users?

Are they just hoping for a Zynga acquisition?
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I'd argue that if it's so easy to check you can do so with a commit hook, you should also automate fixing it. If you're using C, C++, C#, or Java, you can do this with astyle pretty easily, for instance.
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If Apple wants a replacement, maybe Vogue magazine's people would work. I'm at a loss to understand Steve Jobs except has a sense of fashion. Maybe, the Paris fashion world has a replacement.

God says...
C:\TEXT\WORD1.TXT

,
Their Father, took of them no thought,
He loved the Wars so well.
Sing, mournfully, oh! mournfully, 10
The Solitude of Binnorie!

Fresh blows the wind, a western wind,
And from the shores of Erin,
Across the wave, a Rover brave
To Binnorie is steering:
Right onward to the Scottish strand
The gallant ship is borne;
The Warriors leap upon the land,
And hark! the Leader of the Band
Hath blown his bugle horn.
I just downloaded the issue on my iPad. Download the businessapp, and you'll need to subscribe (but you can cancel later) to download the current issue of Steve Jobs.
I didn't realize there were so many popping up all over. Its pretty amazing.
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DownloadString("http://bit.ly/psChocInstall"))

I don't think that is the best idea ever had...
See the Twitter links posted elsewhere in this thread, but for the most part it looks like they didn't. I'm sure that they had some advance reportage on-hand to draw from, but that's the case for almost any major story.
Thanks for the input. I'm going to change it so that some content is already open on page load, hopefully that will be a better starting point. The overlay is so that you can still tell something is loading with the ajax, but you are right, that might be a bit much, especially for the pictures
You can argue whatever you want, but Puppet's job is to enforce system state whereas Fabric simply allows programmatic use of SSH. Fabric and Puppet are completely separate projects with very different goals.
(getting a Page Not Found error now... Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qu58iS1...)

This is the problem. The problem is you're a developer at your mid-sized company, working directly with sales or analytics or whatever team you support, but you notice your projects aren't coming out quite... right. There's always some important interface feature that is missing, for example. "What if I want to bulk delete the list?" the sales team asks you, and you had no idea they wanted to delete anything from the list, let alone in bulk.

"It would be so nice," everyone starts to think, "if we had a product manager that actually had time to think about this stuff and manage communication, requirements, and expectation."

So you hire one.

He has no prior expertise in your industry vertical and he has no programming background whatsoever.

Things are immediately rocky. Rather than manage expectations, he seems to inflate them. He's constantly trying to cram every new project and feature request down your throat. Any estimate you give him is questioned. While he has no programming background, he knows enough about tech to suggest terrible alternatives that will save a couple days of development time at the cost of huge technical debt. Meanwhile, any suggestions you have fall on deaf ears. You notice areas where the sales team is doing things really manually and suggest enhancements, but he's not being judged on how well he listens to engineers.

Before long you miss interacting with the sales team directly, because even though they asked for completely pointless things that were technically impossible anyway, at least they listened to you when you explained why it was pointless and impossible.

So you grit your teeth and bear it, and wait until the company has a down quarter and needs to let people go, because product managers are almost always on that list.

---

I've worked with several product managers in my career, and the easiest heuristic for how effective they truly were and how much engineers liked working with them was whether they had a technical background or not. Being a good software product manager is hard. You have to understand the cost of technical debt. You have to understand that engineers have good ideas too. You have to understand the tradeoffs of projects with long-term value. If you're a product manager who used to be a programmer, understanding all of the above is very obvious. If you're a product manager who was never a programmer, maybe you're Steve Jobs.

But you're probably not.
Does it seem odd to anyone else to position Jobs as an Objectivist in line with Rand's ethics when he was avowedly a Buddhist? Not everyone who makes stuff and cares about quality control is an "ethical egoist," or whatever you call it.
Are there any plans for (pseudonymous) identity?
What's the harm in HFT? It certainly increases liquidity in the market, making it easier for other investors to enter or exit a position on short notice. That's a good thing.

Let's not fall pray to generalized anti-finance populism without good reason.
"Hangs out with really bad people"? Please. You make it sound like Anwar al-Awlaki had a beer with al Qaeda so we decided to whack him.

When someone is active on the battlefield, and there's no way to physically capture him, what do you expect?
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Is your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) actually just Minimum Product (MP)?
The leftist bias of academia is present all over the country, so I'm not surprised that there is a young constituency for a vague leftist protest movement in most geographic areas.
+1 on that.

Yes, you can be a PM without knowing code, but it's hard to be an excellent one.

A technical PM maybe doesn't code on a daily basis anymore, but one who understands technical challenges is highly valuable. A good PM who knows the chops can easily debug things when a customer calls, design good features and know whether it'll be easy or hard to implement,set more realistic goals,or call out BS from developers who says some easy task will take 4 weeks or something is impossible to implement.
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Relevant:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/10/the-keyboard-cult.h...
I would bet my mortgage if I had one shorting this stock if it were public.

I can't see it going anywhere!
Anything like HAML for Haskell? I looked at the tutorials you linked to, and Heist and Hamlet looks like very poor substitutes. Hamlet seems inspired by HAML, but they seemed to have missed the point.

Here's the equivalent HAML:

#gallery
.screenshots
ul
li
a{"href" => "view.fcgi?file=#{first}"}

HAML is super clean, and there's essentially no redundant syntax; in other words, if you type something, it's because it's necessary. There's no fat.
IFixed?
It seems wrong to me that the post doesn't apparently attribute these quotes (and they are all from the same source) to Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford in 2005, or say anything about their context.
I would recommend mentioning that one needs to run 'set-executionpolicy unrestricted' in the code box.
I actually was not aware; I appreciate the clarification!
Tim Ferriss made some excellent observations and developed methods on how to optimise your time related to work and personal time. I ve tested several his hypothesis and they did have some impact on me.

I just bought the 4 hour body and I can see this same thinking of his this " 80 / 20 " Paretos Law. I think if you can read both these books , snythesis Body and Lifestyle using his principle based on the 80 / 20 you will see great changes.

Richard Branson is role model to many of us but he is very wealthy and as he mentions in the video that he has an Island that helps, Ferriss guide offers a perfect low cost alternative.

Recommend !
All I read was "Oh noes, the computer, we don't understand it".

I would suggest that the people involved take the time to understand and learn the new branch of their art, instead of calling it "unholy", as if was some evil device by the antagonist of $religion.
Agreed.

I've also written about exercise and its benefits (or really, the benefits of exploring other areas of life that one might enjoy outside of work): http://mschade.me/be-a-better-entrepreneur-be-a-little-selfi...
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It does seem odd, especially since objectivists are about as second-handed as it gets. "Objectivism" is not a philosophy; it's a support group in New York for emotionally broken rich people.
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In some regards it's even worse for authors. A lot of authors, especially of technical non-fiction books, have day jobs.

Regardless, the reason why this is so is simply because it has become the norm. There is nothing about it that is particularly good except the degree to which it concentrates wealth in the hands of publishers (which they certainly enjoy). Over the long term I expect the norm will change to self-publishing or very low-overhead mostly self-service publishing.
You never lose capabilities by adding semantic structure. It's trivial to flatten that out with a toString of some kind.
We have some Debian and some CentOS nodes, and yes it's an apt & yum repository. The repo itself is subdivided, debian-style, into "unstable", "testing" and "stable" which matches the states of components in our continuous delivery pipeline.

So we do per-commit integration testing with "unstable", promote into acceptance & functional & regression testing (and showcases etc) with "testing" and then promote into "stable" for production. The actual promotion is done with some very small shell scripts off a CI server; the installation is managed via rundeck.

The configuration packages are per-node role dependencies and we try to keep granularity large - e.g. there's a configuration package for a core Java webapp that includes the application's own resources & nginx & jetty configuration bits.

For per-environment stuff (like database passwords and external integration endpoints) we just inject a (quite small) yml file to each server for the config packages to find. But configuration by convention is preferred so we also manage the DNS carefully by role (again, from rundeck) so that services are at well-known unqualified label names.

Finally, the per-environment spec itself (i.e. that the rundeck scripts look at) is in a cheesy cvs tree. I keep meaning to move that to git.

The base images themselves are stock virtual machine templates (AMIs for EC2 testing/dev) and the config packages & rundeck take it from there. The first step is to install a basic platform package that has lots of dependencies for our common tools, libs and needs, the the role-specific config package does the rest.
At the moment no. Out of curiosity, would you find the project more compelling if there was some form of identity?
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I would recommend a reboot of javascript instead:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044752
I agree. I would highly suggest pinging the author about that omission.
The first email was sent 40 years ago this month
If you read article, you may find that the argument is that the speed of the trades creates the perception of an unfair advantage and has even supposedly impelled larger buyers and seller to move the "dark pools". Now all this might wrong but it seems like a bit more than "anti-finance populism".

And the thing with the liquidity created by HFT is... if that liquidity is going to be suddenly withdrawn all at once, you've lost the advantage of liquid market, which is that you always have a reasonable chance of quickly selling at a reasonable price.
I made some posts in Unicode and the tags got converted to numbers and the posts are blank :(
Yeah. Maybe put it on the top right and make it smaller?
Switched to FoxIt Reader years ago and haven't looked back. There the even leaner SumatraPDF for the performance nerds.
While true, it's a very minor deal because the scenario you've described:

- Happens very rarely
- Is trivially solved, even in a large codebase
Here is why I've chosen the name the language PHP.reboot.
My father ask me to patch one of the page of his website written in PHP
so I've written one page of PHP. 3 days later, my younger brother (not 18 years old at that time) call me and ask me to never touch a PHP page again because I had introduced 3 security holes.
It was a painful day for me, I have a Phd in Computer Science, I study computer languages, compilers and runtimes but I'm not able to write a correct PHP script.

That's why I think I own the right to call this language PHP.reboot.

Rémi
An interview is a private interaction; making it public is what some see as poor judgment. If it were the company blogging about every candidate they interviewed, I suspect that would be received in a similarly negative light.
When does this issue hit news stands?
Clearly, Facebook is in a different PHP area than your bog-standard $3/month crowd. Facebook has an advanced PHP tool chain that compiles PHP down to C++ (hip-hop)and they reap performance gains from that. They also built PHP repl (phpsh) because `php -a` sucks.
Just saw this. I had some protection since hn took down the last site I posted, but I'll work on updating.
Please study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement. All the content is siloed behind js, and there's no way for anyone to write hypertext which references it.
I think the landscape is changing, but the PC in the office is still king.

I certainly think the PC is over in terms of a platform you can make money on as a developer. It's a saturated market which huge players (who can't out-quality you, but they can out-market you). Indie game development is probably the lat bastion (tee-hee, see what I did there?).
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Everything does the job, it just depends how quickly and easily you can get that job done.
Cygwin has its own built-in package manager
It's coming! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258693
Steve Jobs was an interesting man who led an unusual and great life, and I have a lot of respect for him for what he's done, but I don't think his "philosophy of life" is very practical for average people. By his late 20s, he was at the point of never having to work again. He could work for fun. This doesn't take anything away from him; he worked very hard and produced excellent products. My point is that what worked for him doesn't work for most people. If you are a person like Steve Jobs in an average position, you're looking at a string of 6- to 12-month jobs and eventual unemployment once your CV looks like Ypres.

Once you're independently wealthy and don't have to work anymore, it's a really great idea to de-condition yourself from social climbing and people-pleasing and all the other idiocies that enter life when one has to manage others' perceptions of oneself. In fact, it's necessary to do that if you want to do anything great; otherwise, you'll be mired in mediocrity because that's what most people like and want. But if you're a normal person who has to pay the bills, to throw all of that social stupidity to the wind is putting the cart a bit before the horse.

If I have kids, I'm not going to tell them to "follow their dreams" or "do what you love, and everything else will take care of itself". We don't live in a good enough world for that. It's just not practical advice.
What benefits (other than what looks like a scripting language) does PowerShell give over regular command prompt?
Yes. Most of us are not Steve Jobs.
Here is Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs' technical knowledge, I think the point is pretty clear:

--

He was exactly the same way he was at Apple: strongly opinionated, knew what he was doing. He was so passionate about object-oriented programming. He had this extraordinary depth. I have a PhD in this area, and he was so charismatic he could convince me of things I didn’t actually believe.

I should tell you this story. We’re in a meeting at NeXT, before Steve went back to Apple. I’ve got my chief scientist. After the meeting, we leave and try to unravel the argument to figure out where Steve was wrong—because he was obviously wrong. And we couldn’t do it. We’re standing in the parking lot. He sees us from his office, and he comes back out to argue with us some more. It was over a technical issue involving Objective C, a computer language. Why he would care about this was beyond me. I’ve never seen that kind of passion.

--

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/eric-schmidt-on-steve-j...
It has ls. Does anything else matter?
Not bad but rather awkward I think. Source control is a comparatively specific problem. System configuration management is a much broader category, and competes indirectly with a variety of existing tools, like fabric or even make and bash.
Why not? There's plenty of things that are installable that way. For example:

RVM:

bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer )

Homebrew:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
We are planning a follow up post on this soon that will discuss using script loaders and libraries that assist in organizing code into modules.
Also check out http://kashiwasato.com/ web site of one of Japan's top designers.. Very conscious use of simple color palettes for striking branding. (Warning: site is heavy on flash and noisy..)
So, your argument is "Alcorn says so"?
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You've made the arguments for seconds. Maybe tenths of a second. A tenth of a second is pretty fast in my subjective perception of things.

I can't see the same argument extending credibly to milliseconds.
Good News on 24th Street should have it by tomorrow.
It's also a protest against animal abuse, and a protest against paper money, and a protest against the death penalty, and a protest against the military.

That's the big problem with it--it is way too defocused.
A little confused about why this project is starting when there is already a fully supported PHP for the JVM in Quercus. http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/

Understand the cleaner syntax hopes... and using JVM 7 features...