skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the post is pointing out that there's less magic involved in writing a compiler than one may initially think.
Old-school mechanical engineers say "codes" when referring to FORTRAN programs.

But in the case of this article I think he means PHP.
Apple needs some way to differentiate themselves then. If Grand Central is ridiculously better (just for example) than anything the competition have, then it might be work it. If you just want to run JBoss or something tho', buy a stack of beige boxes and just throw them away when they break,
spend more time with my kids: hiking, skiing, building robots, volunteering with school.
Then do it again, except this time I want to control the money AND the math.
Throw the launch mindset to the wind.

I think our preoccupation with a huge launch owes more to its sexiness than to its practical importance for a startup. You may catch lightning in a bottle with a launch that's met with a ton of fanfare. But you can also build an enduring success by focusing your time and energy on sale #1, then #2, and so on.

Your odds are long one way or the next (and granted things change when you need to observe network effects to succeed) but it seems it's almost always the better shot to build fast, iterate faster, and lean into whatever success you find along the way.
Crazy world, we have web2.0 attack of the clones, now in finance:

http://stockpickr.com
http://alphaclone.com
http://zecco.com, that's not counting virtual stock market games where you can sell you strategies to others.

Funny how people pile on these "top pickers" and create a self-fulfilling prophecy bubble and then wonder where all the money went.
anyone else felt reading that article was a waste of time? anyone seen any brilliant tip here that will let you learn a language faster than you used to?
A cruise missile is a controlled. The future "robots" will be autonomous. There are plenty of UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicle) used in different theaters but very few (public) UAAV's (unmanned autonomous aerial vehicle.) A UAV has a pilot at a ground station in Florida, a UAAV has none. It is given a mission and it has objectives with priorities and, if it faces resistance or bad weather it thinks for itself.

The "killer robot" headline is silly. The interesting trend is that autonomous weapons systems are operating with fewer and fewer men in the loop.
The full letter is scanned-in here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_letter
IMHO, Seth is over rated, that is unless you love boring articles and consensus opinion.
Although Schneier mentions the need of discussing the rules in his post, the whole "killer robots" already has me losing hope for following rule one.
The Echo Nest was co-founded by a member of her group at the media lab.
Your comment caught my attention (I studied logic with Esther's mother years ago) so I looked up Fluidinfo. This is impressive stuff, and Terry Jones is a singularly impressive, engaging, understated guy. After browsing his blog for a while and watching part of some videos, I'm sure I want to see more.

I'm curious how you found out about this, and what you think of it?
I see no brilliant tips...in fact, the rush to connect to the DB seemed odd to me. I am all for cookbook type approaches to learning, but this one seems inherently limited in focus. Maybe if I know Python and i'm trying to learn PHP? I'm trying to imagine where that is applicable.
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Expecting and embracing startup rejection
APL is only troublesome in that it uses bizarre characters (and is also one of those powerful paradigms that is fundamentally different from everything else).

Malbolge is just... aptly named. (Malbolge is a ring of hell)
But as soon as you get into building extensions to mod_php, you've lost everything that's great about PHP: the deployment story / execution model.
Minds, young one, minds...
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W moved to the next word and . repeated the wrapping command.

Now do the same 4 more times, and you have the whole line wrapped:

Blasphemy! You mean do this: 4W.
Ubuntu has the strongest chance to take Linux mainstream
Any specific reasons why you'd recommend it over, say, a wordpress.com account?
Books with syntax highlighting, or why I prefer reading code from screen than paper
I recently noted an odd phenomenon. Maybe it's just me, but I suspect it's not.

One case: I own the paper Book of DJango. But I keep noticing I prefer to read it from the screen of my laptop. I also read newspapers, but prefer to read those from paper.

The reason for wanting to read code from screen is because I've become so used to syntax highlighting, whether in vim/gedit/TextMate/eTextEditor or on websites. I've come to expect it from he internet, where I do most of my learning. Going back to textbooks, black code on a white background seems like a massive blur of text.

Thing is, I'd happily pay for The Book or DJango, or any other text, in full color with syntax highlighting.

Am I the only one?
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No!

That will

"move 4 words" and then "repeat"

instead of

"move word" and "repeat", "move word" and "repeat", "move word" and "repeat", "move word" and "repeat".
This is a good blog post about why visionaries don't get funded. But what's really interesting here is the author and his own visionary project, which is hands down the most interesting new thing I've run across in quite a while.
Here are my previous thoughts on the subject:

http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/press-for-startups-10...
http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/the-importance-of-lau...
"... SO IM LIKE SQRT WIT N OK? ... IZ BIGNESS ARGZ OK KINDA LIKE 1? ..."

LOLCODE hands down ~ http://www.nsquaredsoftware.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?id=challen...
+1

I want everyone to understand that this blog is about generating ideas. So I don’t consider these perfect.
They’re just a few suggestions that Apple should keep in mind.

So, add “+1″ if you’re in favor of a more open iPhone and “-1″ if you’re not. Then we’ll see what you have to say;
which is what really matters imho.

What a concern-trolling asshole. For all the "open-source community" bonafides he professess to have, it doesn't seem as if he's written any code his whole life. It looks like he was just another new-media douchebag making CDROMs in Macromedia Director in 1997, and happened to be in the right place at the right time as that bubble burst: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...
> Your "How to install" blurb needs a couple s/surround/repeat ;)

fixed: s/surround/repeat/g

> Thanks for another useful plugin I was completely unaware of!

you're very welcome :)
You are mixing being forced to do something with doing something.

I do a lot of stuff just for fun with other people or without at our own tempo (usually faster). Occasionally I also visit lectures in philosophy. And they would not teach you unicycling, juggling, and walking on a slack rope anyway.

(And it's not math/code in university for me, it's math and math only that I have to do to get my degree.)
What was so wrong with this question?
Can someone explain what they did? If I read this correctly they took away all the shares from everyone and gave them to other people? Is that right? Because it doesn't make sense, so I must have misunderstood it.

How can you just wipe out the value from existing shareholders? Don't they own the company? How can you just take that away?
One piece of advice: make sure you keep your social elements concentrated if you want people to contribute/comment. Nothing kills a site like a big empty forum.
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I'm not much of a fan of politics on this site, but I thought this was just "interesting", rather than something likely to provoke the libertarians (or non-libertarians) into reliving that timeless debate about how much the government ought to be involved in the economy.
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I agree. Right out of school I took the plunge and it didn't work out. Now I have a decent job and a comfortable life. I'm happy to do that for a while and then take another plunge when the Next Big Thing comes along. After all, the first one didn't kill me, why would the second?
PHP is a tool. Just like all other programming languages. If PHP can be used to solve your real-world problems then okay - Go for it. It's free, easy to use, the documentation is the best there is And lots of frameworks to choose from. If not, then use something else. But for me, after a few years of coding PHP, I haven't had anything that PHP can't do for me (in terms of web development). Especially these days that Code Igniter, Zend Framework and the likes are going more mainstream...

EDIT:
just wanted to add that I have been wanting to use Tools like Ruby on Rails, but when I think of it -- it is so much easier to do this and that in PHP.

i have read books on RoR, etc. but haven't find the time to implement on a real-world project yet. maybe it's just me or that i'm too lazy :D
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I've been reading the Pragmatic Programmer and the copy I have is in black and white, and I've noticed the exact same thing.
RubyFringe presentation
You say "trend ... fewer and fewer men in the loop." and I say "smooth transition to robots".
http://sivers.org/blog
There are going to be some major-league blowups related to this site...some novice investors are going to learn the hard way that past performance is no guarantee for future performance.

That being said, I'm glad we finally get a chance to publicly review the performance of a group of hobby investors. An experiment like this one should usually run over the course of 50 years, but it will be interesting regardless... Perhaps we will learn something about investor performance, the need to wear a suit to perform well etc. I'm pretty skeptical that investors in a public forum will be able to beat the market over a long period - after all, their investment methods are very visible and will be copied if successful (which will break any model).

Machine-readable statistics, lots of users..I've been subconsciously wishing for a site like this for a long time. Even Prosper gave me a lot of new insights about the workings and not workings of finance.
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"... In Australia, we pride ourselves on our passion for equality—we have popularised the word 'egalitarian'. That passion is an attractive part of the Australian personality. But it is getting harder and harder to square Australian pride in equality with the realities of the Australian system of public education ..."

You could also argue that the ability to work and become leaders in foreign companies is just as aggreable to Australians. All except NewsCorp where nepotism has replaced meritocracy.
Real men read in hex.
Brief history of an idea
Heavily disagree. And unlike Jeremy I can rationalise that opinion!

- They have no clue on user exerience. The desktop and user interface is the ONLY thing joe public users really care about. Ubuntu spends no time on it's menu structures / namings or on the design (which looks awful!).

- Their package management is poor. You end up being upgraded by default to the newest releases - which is fine to a point but a) if I want to stay with an older release (I prefer the .04 releases - plus I dont trust this newer kernel) you have to fight it and b) it messes up the upgrade so much, a lot of my .04 rigs now report as .10 incorrectly... they need to fix their package trees and tagging

- The user support isn't wonderful. The forums have improved but they are FAR from easy to use (as an experienced forum user I have trouble at times) and the website is far from accessible.

Ubuntu has done a good job making a big noise about itself - but it's flashy, showy and gives Linux a bad name... it wont make us mainstream.

I keep saying that to go mainstream Linux needs 3 things:
- #1 a dedicated, funded, team to make a decnet stable base distro like Debian but without the huge waits (4month release cycle).

- #2 a good UI engineer to take a look at the layouts and designs and change a lot of it

- #3 some benefactor millionaire willing to promote and pay/support a distro into the mainstream. I know it is a free product but no one can trust it if there is not some sort of culpability....
Exactly.

It's much easier to lecture people to provide Undo with everything than it is to actually implement it in a worthwhile way.
I think it's easy to criticize Ubuntu for being less than perfect, but if you look at what they've done over the years, they have made impressive strides in terms of making Linux more usable, in many ways.

BTW, sorry for the post title - it should really mention Jeremey Allison, not Ubuntu, but I submitted it and then got busy and now it's too late to change it.
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We're a pre-commercial enterprise startup, with very limited marketing cash - so favoring open source - it could be the way to go given the b2b market's response to the downturn, with IT budgets focussed on cost-cutting rather than revenue maximisation. Then launch a superior product at the start of the upturn and start to charge.
Vulnerability in IE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (updated Dec 15, 2008)
I don't get it. It sounds as if somebody is forcing you to do an internship and go to class. Who is it? Who are you complaining to?
Nah, I have no problems with non-syntax-highlighted code. I'm sure some people do, but I'm quite comfortable reading black and white code.
Yeah i find it really hard to read non-highlighted code. Incidentally, give kate a try if you use gedit. You might like it more.
hi hbien, I would be curious to know a few more details about your project. I like it! If I may, how many visitors do you get? What percentage of visitors choose your webfaction recommendation?
I don't know, isn't that confusing sometimes? I know that I hate those menus with greyed out items and no explanation why a certain option is not available at the moment. Not even seeing the option at all might be even more confusing, because then I might start looking everywhere for the option to show up.
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WSJ blog: discussing net neutrality (or as GEvil as it gets)
Python Isolated Environment (PIE)
The real problem is not being able to grep books.
it isnt about "to the core", there are obviously non associative things that should be warned as such, but seeing as you use photoshop as an example

edit a photoshop file, quit, it will warn you to save changes blah blah, it is annoying, but also stops you deleting stuff, load it again, history is lost

Use lightroom, another adobe product for editing photos, edit a photo, quit, no dialog, its already saved, open the file again, and the history is preserved

its a much nicer experience in a lot of situations
7 Good Rules to Log Exceptions
Credit cards are exploiting holes in our rationality: classical, well known rational choice failures like irrationally valuing x dollars now more than 2x dollars some time in the future - experimental economists found this, but I can not retrieve references right now, my googlefoo is failing. This is a textbook case for regulation. A similar case is car insurance : your (irrational) choice is to not buy it. However, as this increases the cost on society, and (I think) on yourself in the long term, regulation is imposed - in the form of compulsory insurance.
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Even worse, it's misguiding, just try to apply it to say Haskell. Good luck! ;-) Writing code is THE way to go.
They issue new shares. Let's say each shareholder has 100 shares, they might issue 10,000 new shares to sell which means your shareholding gets massively diluted unless you buy a large portion of the new shares.
Oh yeh I agree it has done a lot (some of which I disagree with :)) - but that wasn't the point of the post..

Everyone get so excited about Ubuntu and how it is "ready" for "mainstream". It isn't and probably never will be :) IMO

Besides: only via criticism can it improve surely :D

(Edit: for spelling)
Hi there! First of all, thanks a lot for the nice webpage and code. I have uploaded a modified version at http://www.breidt.net/Image_evolution.htm with an additional button to produce SVG (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics) from the current polygon data.

Martin
One thing we did on launch to put some traffic through the system was to setup a small budget on Google Adwords and drive some targetted traffic to the site. This was very helpful in:

(a) Working bugs out of the system

(b) Giving us an idea about what features people would actually used (and how)

(c) Allowing us to see what keywords converted best (useful in helping to drive future marketing)
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Calcalnis has a reputation as a publicity hound, and putting it on his personal blog gives him traffic and attention even though it's about his company.
Who issues shares? Isn't the company owned by the people who have shares? So aren't those people the ones issuing shares?
Facebook Value Drops To $2 Billion
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Misleading title. This is an anti-anti-missile system, not a killer robot.

Geesh. I was expecting the terminator and I got Star Wars.
That is pretty sweet. On a much less cool level, I've been designing a similar system to do some basic formal verification of my java code.
That reminds me... I recently used my old, inherited book of my grandmother's cake recipes. I know there's a recipe for a cake I like in there, but for the life of me I cannot find it (the book is huge).

I cursed about seven times before giving up.
SlideShare Sends PowerPoint To The Cloud With New Plugin
Wow, never seen that before.
You know, this would be a good thing. Imagine that countries had robots that where so overwhelming in force, agility and firepower, that no army could resist them. No combination of tanks and airplanes could defeat such a fleet of robots.

In that case, there is no need to kill the civilians any longer. If two technologically advanced nations battle each other, and the robot fleet of one of the nations is destroyed, the battle is lost. Still fighting would be pointless, because you lose people, and the other guy does not even lose machines.

So we'd just have a huge robot battle in the desert that we could watch on TV, and when our country lost, we'd resign ourselves to the invading force and just give up (or run).

I guess the strategy then would be to wait till the human military administrators come in, and then start a low level insurgency.
I'm using similar technique in the Scheme implementation Gauche. Gauche compiles Scheme into VM instrunctions, but VM itself, some foreign bridges, and performance-critical pieces are in C. I started from plain C, then gradually moved to C-in-S-expression. Here's my experience:

* As others pointed, ability to use powerful macros are huge relief compared to the crude macro of C.

* I can manipulate a piece of C code (in S-expr) programmatically. For example, I can automate VM instruction fusion (create a piece of code that combines two or more basic VM instructions).

* I can mix Scheme code and C code more naturally, allowing me to micro-tune inner loop and/or reducing overhead of FFI.

Of course, if you have really good native Lisp compiler on your target platform, you won't need this kind of stuff.
I like reading from the book most of the time.

One reason could be that I've paid for it and feel like I've made a commitment and learn it, so it gives me some more motivation.

I can doodle, and write down thoughts easier than doing it on the web or using one of the features in any pdf viewing app.
Not quite what I had in mind.
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Well I certainly agree with your comment about the editorial page, though it was far better years ago, even including serious opposing views for balance.

However I would even caution readers with respect to the articles in the rest of the paper. I could no longer read an article about chinese mayors and give it any credence given Murdoch's ownership.

It was a sad day for me. The WSJ was the only online journal I ever paid money for.
The Economist is great, the writing is concise and packed with content. It's tough to get through a lot it on a regular basis.
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Ask HN: What is your favourite queuing service?
Hi HN!
I'm just playing around with some stuff that needs the be processed asynchronously. Looking for some solutions, I am uncertain whether i should develop my own solution or use beanstalkd.

The decision would be easier to make if beanstalkd had support for any kind of persistence.

Anyways, what's your fav solution?
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My guess is it either has thrusters on an angle to the plane that we're not seeing, or it has an internal gyroscope.
Creating Virtual Machines With vmbuilder On Ubuntu 8.10
Except, when you get credit cards, you get screwed. When you don't get insurance, everyone else is screwed. That's why credit cards are a classical case for information, not regulation. It's a sad sad slope that regulation is incresingly used to protect people from themselves, rather than each other.
This reminds me of a killing robot developed for the Israeli Military and completed last year:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/viper-the-israeli-murder-machi...
And if you have the capability and good reasons to build your own extensions, deployment probably isn't much of a concern. But building and loading extensions into PHP is not very difficult, assuming dependencies are already met.
Step 1: Read Peter Norvig's essay about how there is no shortcut to learning how to program. Now your expectations should be tuned to a realistic setting.

Step 2: Read and write code as often as possible.

Step 3: Wait at least 10 years.

Step 2 is the important one. You'll know you're getting close to learning how to program when you don't need a top 10 list to learn the syntax for a new language in a programming paradigm you are already familiar with. You'll only need a quiet long weekend.