skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these points are definitely valid (kudos to ActiveState, yeah parallelism could use a boost, and we're definitely no longer in Kansas when it concerns perl 6).

However, I do agree with the notion that perl should just stay perl. Do we really need opaque objects? hygenic macros?

The backer issue is relevant though. I always wondered if Objective-C would have died off in a corner somewhere if not for the iPhone and Apple backing it. Perhaps strong backing from a powerful modern company would do the trick. I'd cast my vote for Amazon :)
Government unfortunately - they are still very slow moving. And those that have moved have just moved to IE7..which doesn't help that much.
can't wait to put this on my penis!
Yeah, but if you get one of those responses to every post about your language/framework of choice, then maybe it's time to read the signs on the wall.
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5 things to do before the big sales meeting
LEO wasn't mechanical it was electronic (Lyons Electronic Office), as was Colossus(Bletchley park)

Babbage's computer was mechanical, but it was in 1832 - before even the 8008 was popular. Remember at this time, silicon Valley was still Mexican!
Sometimes re-write is easier.
Having worked with a few Zip libraries, I can't bring myself to use any library that has an O(n) memory requirement as it relates to archive size. I can't see how this would avoid that because of the way the file is delivered to the client.
Game of Life in Clojure (Screencast)
Can someone please explain a little about HCI? For example, how it applies to real world, types of things you learn in class etc.
Unfortunately, Blackboards' patents preclude this from becoming a reality. For the next 15 years, Blackboard has an exclusive right to practice this "virtual classroom" business method.[1]

Their patent pledge[2] promises that they will not assert their rights against any open-source or home-grown initiative, which is why Stanford et al. are able to get away with hosting their own content in this format.

It's a harsh reality that by itself makes the case for patent reform.

[1]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

[2]: http://www.blackboard.com/about-bb/patents/patent-pledge.asp...
I largely agree with you, but, I feel that the in class presentations, when recorded well, are more engaging.

Personal opinion being what it is for me I find it far easier to listen to Professor Sahami's recorded lessons (CS 106A) for an hour than I do Prof. Widom's into to DB classes. This is not intended as a slight to any person at Stanford. The real difference comes down to watching someone engage an audience and some one speaking to a camera.

Strictly my opinion based on a very small sample pool.
Yes, that's a button The Kindle Touch reviewed
Good explanation here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/86#comment-3806

But you have to read it slowly.
Yes it certainly is. And its so obvious that I bet the trial would take less than a year. But that's a year where Samba doesn't have a web page now.
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Faster: Friction is reduced.
You should contact Thrun and Norvig who are running ai-class, they've started http://www.knowit.com/
French government procuring two million euro worth of open source support
Mine lisp-peen is too small.

Now, off to study!

Thanks, btw.
> so you have all sorts of researchers trying to create cultural experiences for their mice in order to get better results.

Can you give an example please?
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Hear that iTunes? Google Music is playing ‘Eye of the Tiger’
Etsy, Flickr and Vimeo could be in trouble if SOPA passes
'Nymwars' debate over online identity explodes
Yeah but I would have to convince them that they need some random dude in Sweden :)
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But, what's always baffled me is the insistence on the Nouns as a central point of focus in our programs

As opposed to what? LISP has lists, C has structs. These are both nouns, and they are represented as memory-backed data structures in exactly the same manner that objects are. The boxes on a turing machine tape are nouns. What mystical language or platform supports verb-only development? I am completely missing the point of your objection to nouns, here. Please enlighten me.
This is my big question too: as an employer, what should I be doing with job listings that are always open (specifically, we are looking for as many good SW Devs as we can find). Should I post the position once and wait forever? Post every few weeks? Every few months? Something else?
A touch interface, like iPad's, which he also criticizes, is like one giant bloody affordance.

99% of the touch targets are obvious.

There have been videos of babies, 5 year olds and autistic kids using an iPad just fine.

As for the 1% of the rest you can just discover them in time. Not everything needs to be in your face, especially if it's a secondary function. And iPad has tons of discoverability, especially how you can't really mess it up whatever you do, just delete an app and reinstall it in the worst case and you're where you left.
Perl 6 sucked some air out of the room, too. The final, official decision to keep Perl 5 alive indefinitely and declaring them to be separate languages is still relatively young.

But I tend to agree that to a large degree, it's done. Many new features that were mentioned would require major overhauls to the language. You can't just bolt "better parallelism" on to a language, for instance. And macros would make what is already a fairly large language even larger, along with the fact that it wouldn't really buy you that much vs. what you can already do.
And banks. I work with several banks and they are all on IE7. IE9 should be rolling out in another couple of years, maybe.
Love the design of this deck, but that may be the problem. They look almost too nice to play with.

Another card game with nice design is the SEO card game SERPs & Spyders: http://SERPsandSpyders.com - you learn and build SEO tactics and strategies in Magic the Gathering style gameplay.
Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets, Expert Says
I'm not sure hygienic macros are gonna be that much of a top-seller in user code, I agree. But there are situations where it would be very handy, especially as library developer. Macros would for example make optimized code generation a lot nicer.

I feel it's the same with the work towards a core MOP. It will be hard to convince regular users why the new thing is better, but for people writing extension, auto-documentation tools, or other introspective systems it'd be a huge relief (at least to me). The difference I see is that instead of extending OO in the sense of a framework on top (Object::Tiny, Class::Accessor), you compose in behavioral extensions.
Ask HN: Web developers sharing their portfolio
Hi,

I have an idea of an easy to use and practical website for web developers to share their portfolio and expertise area, not the traditional listing portfolio, but a more visual one. And I thought I would make the profiles of web developers private/public, so they can share the private ones only with a key.

Do you know if such a website exists?
Or as a web developer would you use one to share your experience/work done with your future employers?
Quite a bit of work is still being done on Perl 5.

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/05/perl-514.html
I imagine they would if the project itself is still worth something and they are donating to a non-profit.
Actually, this is great. If visa/mastercard/banks etc will start blocking heavily every shady business, these businesses will have to move to bitcoin and other non-goverment-controlled currencies/payment systems. In the long run this benefits us all.
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Programmatically Customizing a Forwarded Email
You mean they can just sit on the general idea of virtual classrooms? What a bunch of dicks!
Why does this article get so many comments ( so much attention)? I try to read it but it is so poorly written, even the profanities doesn't work. I've tried to find out more about his achievements, but couldn't find anything impressive. What do I miss here?
Thank you. It's about $60 a month to host all my sites. Including http://ihackernews.com and http://ronnie.me
Ask HN: Stop spamming us? (Google Plus)
It seems like Google Plus has been labelled as a spam site? I just tried to submit a link from plus and I received the message "Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time" which after some investigation[1] appears to be related to a site being blacklisted by the admins. Is this by intentioned decision or some mistake?

[1] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2660975
I'm claiming that you can't just say "oh we had some big downturn in educational quality so we're adding tests to insure that teachers do their job right".

Some amount of quantitative results measuring makes sense in any situation. But remember, whatever you measure, that's what you get more of. Kloc, issue tickets, or standardized test scores. I'd say in all cases it's important to leave a lot of leeway for professional judgment along with the thing you're measuring.
How conversations with a client always end up.
Catch up to who? Intel, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Sun, IBM? None of these were the prime inventor of their products either. There were semiconductors before Intel, search engines before Yahoo and Google, OSes before Microsoft, and computer hardware before Sun or IBM. So no product companies don't need to catchup to anyone in the invent new stuff space. They need to design, develop, and sell products that people are willing to buy.
The author is Reginald Braithwaite; the movie has a character named Braithwaite who begins the plot. I wonder if this whole post is autobiographical or if the Williams/Kelly is just an old joke and Braithwaite is a coincidence.
Regular Expressions for Improved Productivity
The Internet will see SOPA as damage and attempt to route around it. Expect a lot more articles & technologies like this to suddenly get attention if that thing passes.
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Boo, either crashed or offline? I can't seem to access it.
Architecting a Network for Hadoop
The successor to Perl is Ruby. System administration used to mean Perl, now it means Ruby. Fast web development used to mean Perl, now it means Ruby or Python. The successor to Perl is Ruby.
CXO Guide to Moneyball
Exactly. I think the primitive language contrasts with his high expectations.
AWeber & PayPal: Turn Customers into Subscribers
Others here have said that SOPA, or other forms of it won't go away even if the current bid to censor does not succeed. Lobbyists spend so much time and money pushing these bills down our collective throat. They do this under the impression that there are no other recourse for us, right? Explain BitTorrent. Explain BitCoin. Technologies like these may not always be successful, but they are created by people who are very passionate and intelligent. I'd argue that these visionaries are more mobilized than lobbyists, perhaps more passionate as a big cheque isn't being paid to them.

Lobbyists fight wars in self interest, hackers innovate for the people. In the end, evolution always wins.
>Right, so the timetable doesn't include any latitude for delays.

Sounds like something a joker would say!
RIAA Wants To Shutter Torrent Sites, And More
A good example is that the background noise can apparently have an effect on the mice, including things that people might not even notice like a computer fan running in the corner of the room or whatever. Another example is timing, apparently you can get bad results if you're not running the experiments at the same time each day. A third example is the way the mice are selected for the experiment, apparently you can get better results if you practice picking up the mice and injecting them with saline each day for a week before you start injecting them with the actual drug. Apparently there are even people who will sing to their mice because they think it makes a difference. Not to mention things like whether your mice are waking up to natural light or an artificial light being turned on, how much ability they have to exercise, whether you are petting them each day, how much you're feeding them and how nutritious the food you're giving them is, etc.

Cultural experiences was probably the wrong term, but basically what's happening is that large portions of the protocol, which are apparently essential to obtaining the results, can't actually be written about in the paper, meaning the results can't actually be reproduced. (Although if you actually look at the Rat Park experiments and think of each environmental factor in terms of the larger whole, perhaps culture is the best metaphor after all.)

And even if you completely standardized the handling of the mice, there are all sorts of reasons why they mice model is still dubious beyond the many reasons discussed by the article. For example, some researchers have reported a 'tall left-handed blonde effect', where the results can only be duplicated by tall left-handed blondes. I think this is why historically such a large percentage of our medicine is derived from plants originally used by shamans or that otherwise had a historical ethnobotanical use, and why even today so many of the most promising compounds are also things that come to the attention of scientists based on anecdotal evidence. (E.g. MDMA for PTSD, LSD for cluster headaches, cannabinoids for treating cancer, etc.)
Clojure/core — (second conj)
The parent was referring to how they didn't start from 0, so it seems 160 degrees is 5-6 times larger than 90 degrees.
Mont Blanc project: European Exascale HPC platform
he needs a serious hug.
> I think it's about time we standardized it.

Great, more teaching to the test....
What patent attorneys think startups should know about the new patent laws?
Let's be honest, Python and Ruby have eaten Perl's lunch. All it's got left to argue for it is CPAN. The first startup I worked for, in 1999, was built entirely on Perl. At the time it was a good choice. It isn't now.
That's cool! Is there anything stopping it from being used for anything else besides furniture?
Here's an AOP-style comefrom syntax you can play with by setting DrRacket's language to R5RS:

(define-syntax comefrom
(syntax-rules ()
((comefrom function expr ...)
(let ((old-function function))
(set! function
(lambda args
(begin expr ...)
(apply old-function args)))))))

(define (square x)
(* x x))

(define (hypotenuse a b)
(sqrt (+ (square a) (square b))))

(comefrom square
(display "I'm a square!\n"))

(hypotenuse 3 4)

The example in the Wikipedia article is more like this:

(define-syntax comefrom
(syntax-rules ()
((comefrom function)
(call-with-current-continuation
(lambda (here)
(set! function here))))))

(define (noop)
; Do nothing
#t)

(define (main)
(let ((i 0))
(comefrom noop)
(if (< i 5)
(begin
(set! i (+ i 1))
(display "Hello world!\n")
(noop)))))

(main)
This won't crash most modern browsers.
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It's actually "An actual example in INTERCAL would be too difficult to read[citation needed]"

Some people have a wicked sense of humour
The chart on their website: http://www.neverwet.com/product-characteristics.php shows 50 degrees more hydrophobicity.
People Behind Debian: Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s founder
I guess I'd need to know the definition of 'startup'. It's a word so abused these days many people consider themselves a 'startup' when it's just a guy and an idea.

Do you mean someone with $x in funding and a revenue stream looking to grow?

Do you mean someone with an idea who works on it at night?

Do you mean "facebook" (which some people will continue to consider a 'startup' until they IPO)?

The only problems I faced with doing govt work so far is the paperwork. It seems convoluted, but really isn't generally that much more than a contract any mid-size company might require.

Many smaller companies (and what we'd now call 'startups') I've worked with give me the "gosh, we just spent $42k on this other company and they weren't any good and now we don't have any budget, but if you do this work for us we'll pay you back later with some more work or great referrals!". That's the situation I used to run in to more often than not. That tended not to happen with larger companies. Well, the wasting of money might have happened, but they'd find money in some budget to engage me if they wanted me.
That seems (in the US) to violate one's constitutional right to a trial. That is, exercising one's right to a trial should not increase the potential punishment, as doing so is a deterrent against exercising that fundamental right.
Who are these people?

"we limit whales. When we were getting guys that were spending $20,000 a day in our game. (Editor’s note: Yes, we were incredulous about this figure too. But we double-checked with A Thinking Ape by e-mail on this and they said $20,000, as in real – not virtual – currency.)"
Very nice, I guess this would be pretty useful for online template creation sites, so they can download their modified html/css files as a zip.
How Stack Overflow scales SQL Server (video)
This slides without voice/video are useless, since most of them are images...

Also, mulberry ads everywhere
If 70% of all American teenagers have had sex by the time they are 19, I'm not at all surprised virginity is not the norm in a open no-holds-barred class on sexuality. The class targets is audience, as it should.
True. I worked for a few banks and used Flex in one project. I cannot say that I loved the tech, but I saw many people struggling to make html/js/css applications work with IE and it was a relief to not have to worry about it.
The problem with your example is requirements are not that strict. You don't need to move data from DB1 -> DB2 within a single clock cycle. And if you did some systems would think they saw the same data in both systems due to latency and caching etc. Thus the compromise of using a hidden intermediary (or blocking DB access) is not only reasonable but necessarily.

For stuff like this the absolute worst case is you update one or more legacy systems. But, that's just part of the cost / benefit / risk analysis.
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I think it is about making a good design of your product.
Wait, is this the work-around? People use their credit cards to withdraw money everywhere in Germany? I should check my mastercard policies but I believe most CCs charge you...
Tesla battery's still get hot, just not as hot as they would get with more limited cooling.
Chrome shows me the Oops, crashed tab. Does it crash the entire browser for you? (Windows XP, 15.0.874.120 m)
Yes, but we don't have a completely free market. We can (and do, all the time actually) put in place rules and regulations that make favorable things which would not be under a completely free market. This can include laws against doing things you could do for free, such as copying some digital media and giving it away for free.

I personally don't think it's an unreasonable restriction until some way is figured out to compensate creators of digital media for their efforts that doesn't care about digital piracy. I do have a problem with some of the efforts that are being put in place to enforce these rules though, much in the same way I have a problem with the TSA.
But it's true.
Do you think ownership was a 20th century anomaly, then? Prior to the 20th century, ownership of most real property was owned by the landed classes. And personal property was not that great for most people.
... until SOPA Reloaded kills Bitcoin
I'm now worried about the future of Apache... Will all abandoned projects go there?
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Does Your WAN go to 11? Lessons from Spinal Tap for WAN Optimization
Or slower, since you cannot "push" so much water with hands and feet as it "slips" through. Who wins: lower friction or lower viscosity?
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I'm always ashamed of my code.
Minute by minute coverage of the Startup Conference
That's not a bad idea. I might do that :)
IE8 only supports 32Kbytes; not sure about other browsers:
https://sharovatov.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/data-uri-browser...
With Node.js, you should use the built-in zlib support.
The Brain Acts Fast to Reappraise Angry Faces
wa-hoo.
Yup! I created it for hacker news. While I was making http://ihackernews.com (HN for mobile), I wanted an easy way to view the text of articles, so I made VT.
You are comparing apples to cantaloupes here.

He's talking about imitating or drawing inspiration from other websites for the visual elements of a particular website. Everyone does this.
temporary move or permanent? If you find a company interested in hiring you, it should be easy to get a working visa. A permanent move may be more difficult.
I might be looking at this wrong, but it seemed like Google was just pointing out an example of how this tactic has been effective in the past. They don't say anything about whether they condone the use of this strategy for the specific case of Wikileaks.
This is unbelievably useful if you need to have the client download multiple files with one click just using the client-side. This wasn't possible before. Great job!
It was difficult to recognize and distinguish them quickly. Like an interface without icons.
> Lithium is worth a lot

That doesn't tell us anything about the relatve costs of production and recycling lithium that was used in batteries, which happens to be the relevant question.
Even if a novel is unlikely to have great commercial value, I see a great benefit to short term copyright that provides meaningful but limited control over the work to the creator. It's difficult to know what will be valuable in advance.

Now, the current copyright of "life of the author plus seventy years, and oh, wait, is that expiring? on second thought, let's go ahead and add another fifty years unless we decide to go ahead and tack on another fifty years at some point in the future"... that is utterly unjustifiable.

But keep in mind, even the EFF put out a comic satirizing both extremes IP protection ("information, like, wants to be free").
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I meant what I wrote.

Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness are natural rights of man, not [1] 'contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable.'

Human-centric, perhaps. Not ethnocentric.

[1] cut and pasted from wiki to save typing.