skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very sympathetic to this exact problem. I love writing code in a Lisp, the language is a beauty. Working in rendering/visualiztion, there are no real lisps that are usable for the performance characteristics that we need, which is a problem in itself, but I do find that I am able to write much of my personal code in more dynamic languages.

For a while I was trying to get practical code written in scheme, but it then became clear that there were probally about 40 people in the world trying to write actual usable code in scheme, and not just using it academically, eventually, I gave up, and started using CL, because at least, there are and/or have been, people trying to create real products with CL, and there are real sets of libraries.

But again, every once in a while, I decide to write a side-project in Ruby, due to one reason or another, existing libraries, or working with others, and the simple fact of the matter is that atop of Ruby being a reasonable approximation of everything I want from Lisp, macros aside, it has, simply a much more mature set of libraries. In my experience not only am I more likely to find a specific library for Ruby, but it is much more likely to be well tested and production-ready.
I was the first developer hired at an early stage startup and I knew no one in the metro area where I eventually ended up working. It's unfair not to give someone a shot to interview based on a perceived notion that the best hires only come from your personal network.
The project is named "CMUCL."

Sorry you had trouble. I'm glad to say there are more libraries available now than in 2006, and the picture, both in terms of volume and quality, keeps improving.
May there be many more. Through our ingenuity, we have learned how to live with less, much less. We continue to reduce the resources necessary to sustain a single human being, while repairing the damage done in prior generations. On top of everything, the increasing population is accelerating innovation. More brilliant people are coming into the world every day and their numbers are increasing, which increases the opportunities for collaboration exponentially. Amazing times!
That was the easiest and most intuitive app I've seen, well since ifttt.com, but a lot mor useful.
KDE 4, Semantic Desktop
Show HN: The world's most advanced echo server.
Data suggests that close to 60% of all skilled $90k+ jobs are found through networking. (Sources: http://meeteor.posterous.com/why-job-postings-are-useless-fo...)

Shameless Plug which is why we built Meeteor.com - our aim is to get you warm introductions into the companies you're interested in, through your friends.
Nearly every OWS gathering I've seen pictures of, and nearly every proposed OWS list of things they want changed, has included strengthening or reinstating regulations aimed at stopping them from cheating.
I like his candor and think his "axes" add something to his coverage of horse-race politics. He's a valuable perspective to have following random Presidential candidates.

But for material like this, if you want a market skeptic, you probably want to be reading 5 Felix Salmon posts for every 1 Taibbi piece you consume.

My politics are probably very similar to Taibbi's (it's hard to tell, given Taibbi's gonzo Russian period). But bullshit is bullshit even when you want to agree with it.
I don't think they plan to. From their website:

"At Nest, what matters to us are homes and the people inside them. We’re changing the way you think about your home and the way your home thinks."
I'm not selling yet, no. I've released one app in the market (pressureNET, a crowdsourced barometer network for tablets) that I'm looking to monetize over the next few months and I'm hoping selling weather prediction apps will be possible :)

I'm still in the very early stages of the free app, though, so there's lots of room and little data from my end on selling paid apps.
The Verticalization of the Interest Graph
Love it. The "just email me" option is very appealing — no hassle.

To some extent, though, you are going after the Craigslist market by focusing on one-time sales by individuals. Not easy. I wonder at which point an online store becomes more sensible to users than the classifieds model?

Any thoughts about where precisely in the e-commerce sphere you see yourself fitting in?
For reference, All time #6 is the NEA with $37M, #7 is Goldman with $36M.

If you look at people counts, the NEA has about 3.2 million people. Goldman has about 36,000 employees. Two orders of magnitude more contribution per person.

As a smaller business, their interests in the law are more targeted. And their lobbying is also very effective.

You can speak freely to politicians, but getting them to listen is not free. You buy their ear with campaign contributions and you hold the hammer of future contributions as you make polite suggestions about how the law should be changed in your favor.

I don't think it's fair to put politicians under that pressure. There's clear evidence that our system has failed in that way and we need to change it to move forward.
I noticed that the Nest asks you for your zip code. Maybe it uses the Wi-Fi connection to pull weather information so it can make adjustments like this?
Two Low-Cost Tablets for India's Schools
Client-side face-detection with jquery
I'm very sorry, but I heavily object to the notion that we should treat everyone like criminals.

So do I. Automating facial recognition seems preferable to broadcasting mugshots and perp walks. The technology already abounds in the private sector anyway; if you can take a photo with your phone and have Facebook or Picasa ID and tag the people in it, it's unrealistic to demand that law enforcement abstain from using technology available to teenagers.
You have to be South Asian to be a match. Lots of South Asians in South Asia, but not a-lot in the NYC tech community. This is a numbers game.
You just need one of those Escher staircase thingees...
Ask HN:Advantages of using Beta launch service vs creating your own beta page?
Hi All,<p>I'm just curious about what are the benefits of using a beta launch services such as Unboucne or LaunchRock vs creating our own custom beta page with Google analytic?<p>We create our own page at (http://www.diglig.com) and embedded Google analytic on beta page. Are there any additional benefits which we might be missing?<p>Thanks,
I'm pretty sure various law enforcement agencies already have access to Facebook's data.

Edit: downvotes? FB provides law enforcement with step-by-step instructions on getting this information. https://www.eff.org/node/58178
That is so accurate I wish I could upvote you more.
I think Alan Kay would disagree with you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...

The basic idea here is not to bash the current state
of things but to try to understand something about the
progress of coming up with fundamental new ideas and
principles.

I claim that we need really new ideas in most areas of
computing, and I would like to know of any important and
powerful ones that have been done recently. If we can't
really find them, then we should ask "Why?" and "What
should we be doing?"

Which sounds to me like "The real fundamentals of computing happened a long time ago."

Perhaps there will be a more significant revolution in our future but that doesn't contradict the above statement.
Brilliant. Needs a mobile app that lets me take a pic then post it as a listing. Then I'd spend an afternoon clicking pictures of everything in my attic.
He was the only one beating this drum until the Occupy movement showed up. Being the only political writer to recognize something while the rest are covering inside-the-beltway gossip girl is, well, you could call it axe-grinding but you could also call it being perceptive.
America's Demographic Opportunity
This is fantastic. Nice and simple, and it does exactly what I want it to as a seller. Great job!!!!!

Be careful about feature creep. The reason why Craiglist works is because it doesn't try to do too much. I think this can definitely have a similar sort of success given how freaking easy it is to use!
Great stuff, only problem: I couldn't figure out how I GET money from customers
I've seen people react at this figure in horror, as if there is some fixed limit to the number of humans that earth could possibly support. But earth's resource problems are really problems of distribution, not scarcity. And at least one of those 7 billion will figure out how to enable the earth to support 8 billion and more.
How Amazon's New Browser Will Upend The Open Internet
Falling with style.
I thought it was called "facebook"[1].

[1] http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
Obligatory iPhone 4S video looks better comment (it does).
Show HN: Kippt.com - Bookmarking made simple
Cheers for the feedback, these are all things we need to think about and your suggestions for the cart are spot on.
In terms of shipping, we stripped it down in the seller config to just postage is included in prices, with a dropdown to specify where you shipping to. We'll sort out options for postage prices by item/ by order later on.
I wanted to reply to this because my experience was somewhat similar to yours. I dropped out of school to do a startup and realized that I actually WANTED to learn my major (CS stuff). I also missed the academic environment. Luckily for me, I was far enough ahead with credit hours that the time I took off didn't mess up my graduation time.
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Kippt guys here. The current way of discovering, storing and reading web content & other information seems very random and scattered. We wanted to create a better way to save, manage, read and share things that are interesting or important for you.

Eg. As a designer, my library of UI screenshots, UX flows and articles are really valuable for me whenever I'm working on something. So having a library and finding new things is important to me.

This is our first attempt on the problem, focusing on bookmarking. We would love your feedback. We're currently working on Delicious importer, developer API and mobile version. If you're interested testing them out, hit us an email hello@kippt.com

-- enra & jorde
"A lot of programs already do that."

That's my point - in my book this is a solved problem. The GUI vs CLI thing tends to be a religious argument, which (in computing) always means that you actually want both.

I agree the original article is pretty nonsensical, I was just trying to prevent my having to read an overly familiar argument again.
Things You Thought Were True - ThisOrThat
Open sourcing @pushmail - Manage your emails on SMS
this is very cool! i love it. Suggested feature: Automatically find a suitable image for the item via google and have it uploaded by default.
Then I suppose my comment was a correction to the correction.
I don't have anything more to contribute but I want to make a point of saying thanks for helping me understand this so clearly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/23/why-popula... <- the article
Do we really need a separate highly secure Internet?
Open invite to HN - halloween party at WePay (Palo Alto) this Friday 
Who (will be there):
-Hackers
-Founders
-Press
-Friends

What (is this all about):
We want to celebrate the phenomenal growth we've seen over the past year, and thank our team, investors, and community for the important role they've played in it.

Where:
WePay HQ
455 Portage Ave. Ste. B
Palo Alto, CA 94306

When:
Friday, October 28th, 7pm 'til the po-lice shut us down, down...

Why (should I go):
-You want to meet other cool startup people
-You want to drink and eat for free (we'll have an open bar, and the party is catered by Popeye's Chicken)
-You want to take advantage of our photo booth/set, so you can take home a photo of you and your sweet costume.

Link to facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=289782027698784
This is slick. My mom could figure this out in less than a minute. Amazing.
Triton Media: How to use mobile to move radio from broadcasts to conversations
My WebGL version: http://zokier.net/stuff/webgl-quasicrystal/

Almost literal translation from the Haskell version.

edit: And in amazing technicolor: http://zokier.net/stuff/webgl-quasicrystal/color.html
A billion dollar budget and 15 minute query times? What happened to the government having mindblowingly awesome tech?
I don't understand why they couldnt leverage location services for iphone users and just lower the tempature whenever no one is home automatically.

Of course, I have a dog so..
Do you use Rails? Email me at my username at gmail.
I'm more inclined to view it cynically, China have already said they want to be the world leader in alternative power sources, a move like this could be seen to deliberately destroying foreign competition, stopping any incentive for non-Chinese companies to invest in R&D leading to a Chinese monopoly on the technology.

At best China will collapse a-la Russia under its own evil government, at worst this will help prop them up for many years to come.

Scary thought.

I'm not thanking any nation involved in such wholescale thought control. Let's not forget it's an evil nation, they're liberty and freedom hating bastards. This seems to be a lost thought recently in the capitalist land rush that's been going on the last decade.
You're right, it's hard here to tell if their product is driving the growth or if it's their marketing.

It would be nice if iubenda does something similar a few months after they exit private beta to show us what numbers are real and what is just success theater.
Why should you be able to "select the pretty green color from a photo" via the CLI?

That's my point - just because it's the wrong tool for some hyperspecific job doesn't imply anything useful in general.

But if you really want to pursue the analogy, we could in fact come up with a command line that selects the green color value from a certain area of an image a lot easier than one could edit a non-image file using MS Paint (though I've seen that done too).
Ahhhhh this makes me sad because I've had something very close to this idea months ago and have been slowly picking away at it. Great job though.
Glfx.js: Core Image Style Filters in the Browser with WebGL
Daily Mobile Minute: Think simple when looking at starting in mobile
I think the "problem" he's referring to is the learning aspect. Web based thermostats and home automation have been around for over 10 years.
Philadelphia recently installed credit-card meters, and they're terrible. They almost always refuse to scan either of my two cards correctly, a problem I never have with any other card scanners. I don't know if it's because they're exposed to the elements or what, but they just don't perform as advertised. NFC would be great in this scenario, as you can fully protect the sensor from the weather.
Drinking coffee may reduce risk of skin cancer, study suggests
No, I will not publish your press release
It's not the same model, every application has to be accepted by me personally.

I've got enough designers (about 250) compared to the number of job offers currently on the site, so I've decided to close sign-ups for now.
> PERSON ON FIRE ... NOT CARE ABOUT MONEY

the best for them to invest in and make money on.

signed: BURNT OUT
Its also interesting to note how much the demographics of the world has changed and will be changing over the next 40 yrs or so.

These are outdated links, but take note of the top 10 most populated countries in 2050. The fact that Nigeria, Ethiopia and DRC are projected to enter the top 10 list will lead to interesting consequences for Africa.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/world2050_rank.html

http://www.kulzick.com/pop100.htm

Also since independence in 1947, Pakistan's population has grown to 177 million today from around 30 million (a six-fold increase). And is estimated to end up at a whopping 270 million over the next couple of decades. Similarly, Nigeria is also witnessing a population explosion starting off with around 55 million in 1971 and right now at ~150 million.

Edit: The UN has a nice website where one can get much more detailed information about population projections.

http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/p2k0data.asp
You should pre-populate the images with stock photos found on google images. Removes one more barrier if I'm going to use stock photos anyway. (Obviously clearly mark it as "stock photo", still make it easy to upload my own). This is really cool by the way.
That story is not true at all. Bill Gates's mother set him up with IBM years after he dropped out. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_...
YC Application Video: http://listy.posterous.com/74768699-97655
1 minute long / we talk about purpose and target market.
Standard fare SV events, pitch competitions, cocktail parties etc. People in the hardcore entrepreneur circles don't care much about bootstrapping at all - it is almost as they see it as a sub-optimal way of starting a business. Well, it is probably sub-optimal so I can't really blame them, can I?
Next milestone: back to 6 billion as the developing world moves to western demographics
I think that's being a little too naive. Let's face it. The trend is turning USA into a police state. How isn't that not clear by now? Every other day they add new stuff like this, or breach more privacy or expand TSA in other areas, and so on.
Sure, but do you really want to point this guy at your friends? Your friends could easily find really awesome jobs.

How you can you tell what's an awesome job? Well, for starters they don't need desperate huckster/telemarketers to shill for them, by and large.
The alcohol + caffeine equation is confusing correlation with causality.
XP is still common enough that I wonder how many enterprises will opt for custom support in 2014 (costs $200,000 for first year, more every year after).
I'll attest to that.

Long ago I used Autocad regularly for work. When someone gets really productive with it they tend to use one hand on the keyboard for selecting menu items and typing short CLI commands and the other for picking points and dragging selection boxes.

That kind of interface really does attempt to combine the best of both worlds, but at the expense of a big learning curve.
I'm not sure that IE6 was the problem; was it really that much worse than Netscape 4 or IE5?

I think it is more that Microsoft didn't update their browser for such a long time after releasing it, resulting in a large percentage of users having an old browser (which wasn't updated like others to implement standards). That is what Microsoft should be apologizing for.
Application Error

An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
So now Steve Jobs gets credit for everything well-done? :)
Instead, I will give credit to the two guys who made such an easy-to-use service. Good job on this!
First Solar stock plunges 18% today
Many people at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and others have retained their souls along with their $80+K new-grad salaries.
Ed Lee is 2 Legit 2 Quit (Hammer, Wilson and more)
I'm more curious / concerned about how we'll be able to manage all the resources needed to support another billion without stripping the earth to the point that we find ourselves in a collapse because we've run out of water / food / oil / etc.

Of course, the same thing was said when the global population hit 1 billion, and so forth... thus I do agree that given we're an innovative species there is a good chance we'll survive.
Throbbers
You should still do it This is a big world, and there is lots of space for people to take different whacks at similar ideas.
Fair enough. That's the most use I've heard of anybody getting out of recruiters. Well done!

It's probably worth putting up a blog post somewhere about it :-)
Thanks for the catch. I'll check the logs and find out why it's doing this.
They sense three things: (1) light, (2) motion (close-range) (3) motion (wide field/longer range). Presumably if nobody turns on the lights at night or walks past in a while, it decides nobody is home and gradually lets the temperature drift closer to the "nobody is home" range. Then brings it right back up as soon as it senses activity.

It makes sense to start out selling this as just a thermostat, but I wonder how long it'll be before they add a "burglar alarm" module?
..Then Person on fire must not have wife and kids, or rent or need to eat, or need to take subway etc.
Everyone has to care about money on some level...whether or not they are on fire.
F# and Mono, Best Friends Forever
I hate to break up perfectly good hand-waving with numbers but I put together a test. On my Core i7 with an 18mb input, which is a large novel duplicated many times, the performance factors, normalized to the if-based version are:

if: 1x
byte-based lookup: 0.83x
int-based lookup: 0.84x
bit-vector based lookup: 0.93x

http://pastebin.com/5twfXfEt
I don’t see your point. I think we have to go back to basics.

GUIs can be and are widely used for expression. I already listed many examples that touch on wide array of human creativity and creation.

I’m not trying to bring down CLIs. I take issue only when people claim that GUIs are not for expression.

Why does Photoshop have to be good at word processing in order for it to be a valuable tool for expression?
I suspect you'll get downvoted for this, because the tone of your comment insinuates developers need recruiters. While this may be the case for the lowest percentile, the fact remains that companies need recruiters to locate and hire that top percentile of talent.
NoSQL or SQL? Do you have to choose?
Passive walking has been around for years and years - this is simply another very well designed version of it. =)

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~artkuo/Passive_Walk/passive_w...
There are an infinite number of metrics to compare devices. But this is a pretty general one.

You could also do profits, users, developers, developer income, apps available. Give it up, it's arbitrary and you're not doing much more than justifying the conclusions you've already made about the platform.
Unfortunately your theory is silly and doesn't line up with the demographic studies that have been done.

No doubt you could find some interesting examples or some specific subgroups (my guess: the farmville playing middle aged mother on facebook with little technical aptitude, which is not an insignificant demographic) that have been pulled onto the net by facebook.

The numbers just don't show the kind of massive effect that you seem to be promoting here. It's hard to overestimate facebook's effect, it's a giant. But by saying that it's pulling up the entire rest of the internet you actually managed to do it.

What on earth is this theory based on?
We were complete amateurs back then, we literally emailed hundreds of sites asking for links. That didn't work so well but it was enough to secure some organic traffic. We tried doing a few press releases and in retrospect, the content of those releases was rather embarrassing - but hey we were learning by doing right?

The PR generated quite a few back links but it is hard to assess how effective it was. We also tried to buy links and that didn't work out at all (too expensive).

I will check our AdWords account to see if I can retrieve our PPCs ads text.