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Well, what I'm saying is that, knowing roughly how to make duck confit but being unsure of the proportions, I was able to find out what I needed to know easily. You, on the other hand, weren't able to find out something you already knew; that doesn't sound like a problem to me. If you know exactly how to make something (or you don't know at all how to make something at all) then your right, don't bother using this app.

A good test for an app that is designed to teach you how to make a dish is: do you know how to make it now? But that's a bad test for this app, which helps you build recipes that you already know something about.
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I actually love this based on easy of finding cool programmers in my area using languages I can play with. Yea, this sounds silly if you're in SF, but in Columbus, Ohio, finding cool programmers that dig FoSS and interpreted languages is tricky. Too many people doing Java, .NET and Oracle stuff at Nationwide and similar. Too few people doing fun things.

THANK YOU to whoever made this.
that's one of the benefits and drawbacks of them, really. it's great to have flexibility, but it makes learning them more difficult because there's no hand-holding. it may require someone that has already formed opinions, to guide you through the learning process.
Seeing that you still don't grok the basics discussed here, this is probably my last answer to you.

You still fail to understand that the `map` (and other methods) are far more flexible in Scala, making them play well with sub-typing and inheritance (and in fact with stuff like `String` and arrays which don't implement any collection methods at all).

With your examlpe above, what result collection type would you get when you map with `Int -> String` over a `BitSet` or with `Char -> Int` over a `String`?

> You should also realize that the speed of the JVM has nothing to do with the static-ness of the language.

You have obviously never seen the mess JRuby and Clojure employ to run on the JVM.
It looks like they are still crawling the GitHub pages.
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godamn it this is Hacker news!

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is 8th submission in 7 minutes of stuff from mainstream news sites. If we want to know how is the US doing we can open USA Today ourselves, thanks. Flagged
It's a TV program.
What proportion of the TV viewing public are more interested in the entscheidungsproblem compared to sex and death ?

On the other hand, at least it wasn't BBC. Then it would have somebody on a bike doing zany things (cos science is fun) that fit in a specific section of schools curriculum (so they meet their public service quota)
Have you actually spent a little moment to at least really RTA?

The author states that even with the restriction lifted, it wouldn't make much sense, as with all the extension that it requires to meet the author's need it would take 4GB.

The situation would be pretty much the same in Android, despite it being rooted in Linux. The article is not so much about Apple as it is about LaTeX.

If you would like to make a point, at least read the article.
I would like to know who those 100 users are.
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Is it this one :) ?

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Sure. For example:

http://www.githire.com/user/tom3q has a bunch of repos and a score of 2.79.

http://www.githire.com/user/ukanga has basically nothing and a score of 5.33.
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(If you haven't seen it, that subreddit is just "look how rich I am" silliness.)
I watched it and was disappointed not to see them taking a stab at explaining what a Turing Machine does and why it's so important. Instead all we had was stock footage of old computers and some BlinkenLights.

What was the point of showing the paper Turing Machine model thing, without even attempting to describe how it works?

Maybe I was not the target audience, as the director was more interested in the view of that apple tree out of the trick cyclists window.
@seltzered_ you make a good point. we do need to cast the net wider.

one of the problems is that other professionals are typically less likely than your average hacker to attend a new type of event. as such, the hope is that everyone invites a few of their professional friends from these other industries who are curious and open to the experience.

@neosavvy and i are actively inviting these types of people from our own networks, to augment the high hacker contingent.

if you have other suggestions of ways to get the concept out to those on the fringe of their professions, please let us know.
I have run into errors like this and share your frustration. I mitigate them as follows:

0) I think problems like this are often fixable if you are an APT wizard, which I am not. But sometimes a look at the Debian docs makes an inscrutable error scrutable. I also usually get more helpful (and current) advice on the debian-users list than search engines turn up. [1]

1) I run Debian stable. I think errors like this are fairly common on unstable and mixed systems; I don't know how common they are on Ubuntu. But I believe I have never run into a problem like this on the stable release.

2) If trying to compile everything from source, the deb tools can help a lot, too (apt-get source, apt-get build-dep). It's only if you get to the point of downloading a source tarball from a third party that you have to completely leave the cozy world of APT. (And even then, I find I have better luck than on other platforms, because I can still use APT to install dependencies. No such luck on, say, OS X, at least not without a third party package tool.)

[1] See http://lists.debian.org/search.html to search the list archives.
There is no real evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of depression, in fact the meme about chemical imbalance was begun by pharmacuetical companies to explain how SSRI's work. That, and the failure of many of the new reuptake inhibitors, suggests that depression is not caused by chemical imbalances.
Interesting to note that normalized for population, New York seriously lags behind CA and MA.
So does the calendar app, and perhaps the texting app. I think that's the whole reason Siri came along, to help alleviate the shortcomings of the smartphone interface.
Jesus, downvotes for mentioning Google Wave.

I was specifically responding to this part:
>A web where re-sharing of content is limited by the platform, not by the
capabilities of your client. A web where you cannot comment on an
article unless registering in a corporate namespace (which kicked you
out if you happened to choose a name they do not particularly like).

The point was that Google tried it open, it didn't work. Facebook is closed, they tried that. Is it working?
I don't know if android and iOS will be matched any time soon. One day, cars could fly (more frequently than they do now).

I'm with you on the essence of the article being worth a blurb or a micropost of some sort. It was an objection article, without any substantiative data.

I think my root motivation here was the desire to see that substantiative data, which I think another poster in this comments has provided.

The numbers ARE pretty low in comparison by that data point.
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NB: It seems you have your DNS/subdomains set up incorrectly. githire.com returns nothing while www.githire.com works. Be sure to set one of them to the canonical url for seo purposes.
It isn't that congresspeople (or voters) don't understand, or like, technology. The funding chart in your post is all the explanation that is necessary.
Israel got its territory the same way practically every other country in the world got its territory - they obtained it through a treaty, or they won it in a war.

You know, there's a term for holding Jews to moral standards no other nation on earth is subjected to.

And as far as 'extreme human rights issues' are concerned - in the Palestinian National Authority, the freedom to criticize the government is a sham, journalists are regularly killed by governmental authorities, selling land to Jews is a crime punishable by death, there's regular violence against non-Muslims, honor killings take place regularly and are considered acceptable, homosexuality is illegal, and women have to wear a headscarf to enter a government building. And you're not doing business with Israel?

People like you confound me. I can't tell if you're anti-Semitic or just completely brainwashed and blind to the facts on the ground.
It's understandable that my comment was inferred as being anti Israel. You can't say anything about Israel without it being inferred as such. However, I was merely pointing out some news that I thought was important; the kind of news that would never be covered by our media.

I like to be informed seeing how recessions and wars can directly and indirectly affect my business. Things are heating up over there and Israel is one to follow.
FYI -- the presentation says "temporal data" is a bad use case for Cassandra, but that's a misuse of the word temporal. "Ephemeral data" is a better way to say that.
Attended Rick's presentation last night. It was so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend taking one in.

The md5 hashing to shards around a keyspace ring and the read/write quora were particularly interesting. Definitely going to be browsing the Reddit source (https://github.com/reddit/reddit) for ideas on how to use Cassandra.
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This article is pretty poor. I had the opportunity to attend a presentation from Professor Shmuel Ellis, from Tel-Aviv University, where he discusses exactly about this, how Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub. In his research, he could trace the growth of this entrepreneurial culture to a few things. Now, I won't remember all of his words and reasoning, but I do remember some of it and my own takeaways from the talk.

First of all, Israel is a country that went through alot of challenges right after it was formed. Its population doubled in less than 5 years (due to imigration), so there were big problems in building the infrastructure to support this tremendous growth in such short timeframe, which required extreme levels of coordination and a wide set of skills to make this possible. This challenging start, with the imigration of very capable and educated people (many of which had a science background), alongside with the Israeli tradition of debating and questioning (which can be seen even inside Israel's army, according the the talker), led to strong learning, generation of ideas and knowledge. This culture with the funding jump-start from the government gave birth to the first few technology companies in the country.

Later on, government support, influx of new, capable and educated work-force (Israeli families value good education and Israel has some of the best education institutions) and the beginning of the first Israeli VC companies (many of which were funded by imigrants from the U.S., where they acquired the expertise by working in this industry) set a very favorable environment to entrepreneurship. But this wasn't just it, Professor Shmuel Ellis then introduces his research in the genealogy of Israel's tech companies, and manages to show how the first technology companies in the country gave origin to hundreds of new start-ups that were formed either by the parent's company founders, its employees or a mix of both. It wasn't just the environment culture that was favorable to being an entrepreneur, but these companies themselves inspired their own employees to also have an entrepreneurial posture and estimulated the creation of new companies. His genealogy graphs are amazing and I fortunately found some of them here (ppt - slide 22 on): http://www.leadership.umn.edu/news/ppt/Droripowerpoint.ppt

Anyway, according to this (http://recanati.tau.ac.il/_Uploads/Personnel/cvellis-March20...) his research on this subject is still in progress, but he already gives alot of insights in his talks.
I imagine many HN visitors develop websites. Developing a website using IE or Safari would be a miserable experience.
Yes, I agree on the travel anywhere thing. I actually don't have a car now, but it does come at a cost in terms of freedom.
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Scala, with its “type-level programming”, crazy operator overloads and weird DSLs, is at a similar precipice as C++ was back when people started doing insane stuff with template metaprogramming (around the time of Alexandrescu's “Modern C++ Design”, 2001 maybe?).

Unfortunately, I don't think many Scala users were around at that time or in that community, so lessons of the past might be learned the hard way again.

There are many encouraging signs too, though, toward better and simpler practices. We'll see which way things go.
> the guy could skip steps 4-7 and just tap on Remind Me, as the screen looks exactly the same at step 4 as it does at step 8 and as you can do on every cell with a right pointing arrow.

If this were any other manufacturer, I think people wouldn't mind. With Apple, you come to expect refined UX. This is because Apple (and Jobs) have a history of denouncing crappy UI with OCD precision. This is what Apple does best.

If Google's search index quality goes down - while it is probably minor - you cringe because you know this is what Google is supposed to be good at.

> actively looks for subtle defects everywhere to prove they are smart.

Sometimes. But I think in this case it is valid as much of Apple software is nonsense-free.
I don't see the big problem, to be honest. Besides, they were never 100% anti-hardware. For example they are working on driverless cars, which definitely seems like hardware to me. They also own lots of glass fiber and build their own computers.

But I don't think they will now march into the Motorola offices and try to Googlefy them (install lava lamps everywhere and what not). They will just treat them as an asset.
I wouldn't think so. The only thing that's changing is the requirement to plug an iOS device into an iTunes-running PC to do OS updates and backups.

And there's a very large contingent of users who rarely (if ever) did those things after the initial setup anyway. So if cutting that cord was going to negatively effect sales, I'd expect that's long since been reflected in the numbers.

All that said, I have no idea what discovery mechanisms people think are so key in iTunes vs Android market. The only apps I "discovered" via iTunes were in the top lists and dev picks; features I'm pretty sure every app store has in stand-alone marketplace apps, on-device apps and web stores.

The big difference to me, between iTunes and Android marketplace is that when I search for an app in iTunes I don't really even think about getting the 'right' one. Sure, there are some "Angry Bird Cheats!" sorts of apps out there, but precious few apps are of the shameful knockoff/deliberately misleading variety.

With Android marketplace, last I waded through it, there remained significant confusion over knockoffs and misleading apps and non-trivial effort required to try to ensure that I'd found the 'right' app and then all sorts of doubt raised by those UAC prompts. (why would a social game want access to my call log? was this really the right app? what the hell did i just install?)

If Google really wanted to sell more apps, I think they'd clean that up. But (as I've said before) I get this feeling that Google really doesn't care for apps. And would much prefer it if people just used the browser.
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I agree, and as such my comment served the thread by warning those visiting HN, that unless they were looking for a melodrama, it was probably not worth watching. Just my opinion, but that's (part of) what comments are for.
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Guile is worth mentioning here. Mature, LGPL and widely used. It supports R5RS and most of R6. It has hygienic macros. If you're looking to use a Scheme in production, you probably want Guile.

Stalin and Chicken Scheme might also be worth a look if you aren't faint of hearth.

http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/
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"Another example is Boxee. The five Israeli founders decided from the get-go to headquarter the company in Delaware in the United States, but locate the company's research and development office in Tel Aviv."

How many other "Israeli startups" are registered as US businesses and pay tax to the US government, let alone sell-out to US corporations, and funded by non-Israeli sources?

Israeli entrepreneurs? Yes. Israeli startups? hmm.
what do you want me to do? i was less aggressive than you are. i gave links to references. i posted from my own account rather than hiding behind a new one. herd behaviour and sunk costs are good explanations for the kind of response i was replying to - everyone knows that technology creates "fan boys". so what, exactly, are you criticising in what i said?

i don't understand your anger, apart from the fact that you don't like to be wrong.
i'm not sure what the phrase "in any way" means any more then.
Thanks for contributing nothing but personal insults to a very serious argument. LaTeX is extremely useful, while the computing is going more and more mobile. How do we reconcile the situation and enable people to use LaTeX going forward on devices they like is I believe I an important issue.
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I couldn't really follow your example. I can't see how this solves race conditions where multiple threads can intermingle those instructions at will.
That's the basic problem with lock-free algorithms.

Did you maybe suggest to add one more indirection so all variables in a transaction are in one memory block behind a single pointer which can be atomically updated to newly allocated code?

I wonder what the overhead of that would be. All the allocations plus either keeping track of references or doing garbage collection...
Ah thank you very much for pointing that out! It must have broken when I switched from Apache to Nginx+Memcached. It's fixed now.
honestly DNS still confuses me a bit. I have a CNAME record pointing www to the ec2 public url. What do I do for the naked domain?
Sounds pretty neat. Sort of like Odyssey of the Mind[1] or Destination Imagination[2] for hackers. Although only one having one afternoon might make it somewhat tough. Or am I missing something?

[1]: http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/learn_more.php
[2]: http://www.idodi.org/index.php/the-organization
I'm sure you're working to fix a couple of issues with your app, so I'm not trying to pile on here. Love the idea, and I just wanted to report two bugs:

1. githire.com/user/acompa returns my account, while www.githire.com/user/acompa returns someone else.

2. Clicking "Add Info" on my profile

githire.com/user/acompa

takes me to the profile of user "edit" via

githire.com/user/edit

You might need to construct your URLs more consistently, it seems?
It is, but then again that's what most humans have lived their entire lives doing, living in small communities where everyone knew everyone else since childhood.
Thanks for pointing out the mixed up screen shot. Just fixed that. I don't think the flaws here are all that subtle and this is a huge waste of time for me at least three or four times a day. Drawing attention and encouraging discussion of said flaws hopefully gets the attention of the powers-that=be to fix them.
> It will mask sleeping problems, and can increase stress and anxiety which lead to a loss of sleep which leads to more caffeine!

It's either: be dependent on caffeine to start the day and help me go through it, or be dependent on alcohol to end a lousy and stressful day. I chose caffeine.
>I doubt (a lot) that it's something endemic or "taboo" among startups, but any time we can make any group of people more aware of the signs and symptoms of clinical depression, let's do that.

Indeed. Also keep in mind the symptoms can be extremely subtle, likely suppressed due to shame, and potentially impossible to notice without some active probing, accidental or otherwise. Ilya's recent suicide that seemed to take everyone by surprise was a reminder of that.

Brings to mind the saying, 'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.' Some moreso than others.
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This is a straw man argument. Very, very few people will ever be in such a situation.

However, what is unfortunately much more common is day to day hunger. I'm willing to bet that most people (myself included), after a few days of not eating, would rather have the Big Mac than the Austen book.

I love literature, but it won't keep me alive.
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Set up an A record and point it directly at the IP address.

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It's unfortunate that there a number of very smart people from the Haskell community that are trying to mold Scala in Haskell's image that also appear to be very prominent and active in the community. Other than having some negative effect on Scala's public image, however, there's nothing wrong with what they are doing. People work on open source projects that interest them, and it is an interesting exercise for some to find out how different Haskell constructs can be encoded in Scala.

However, the rest of us lesser mortals use Scala very differently, and we far outnumber these people. If you pay attention to Martin Odersky, the creator of the language, you'll notice that he is more interested in serving our needs than those of the Haskellites. He's outright refused to make IO monads a core part of the language, for instance, even though they have pushed for it. He's also said that scalaz is on another planet entirely, and he's asked publicly that people stop using symbolic method names in their libraries unless they have external meaning beyond the library. This guy gets it. He really has created a language that is powerful, but also practical, an excellent language for writing code that is readable, maintainable, efficient, and concise.

The author of this article admits that Scala doesn't feel right to him. He then proceeds to try to justify that feeling in his mind with some very weak arguments. For instance, his module argument oh so coincidentally happens to play into fantom's strengths alone, as No other JVM language is trying to tackle this problem right now. He is right about the lack of tests and binary incompatibility, but these are known issues that already have been addressed to some extent and are continuing to be addressed. They are not core issues with the language itself.

Scala is lightyears ahead of Fantom and Fantom will probably never catch up. If Fantom can't win on technical merit, then apparently the next best strategy involves negative blogging!