skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CINT was designed to be a scripting language for the ROOT analysis environment. CINT is neither C nor C++ -- it departs subtly from both, but there is no exhaustive documentation of these departures from the respective standards (see http://root.cern.ch/root/html/cint/limitati.html for a few of them).

From their own site, one of the main goals of Cling is to be backward compatible with CINT. This will also mean propagating CINT's numerous idiosyncracies, reducing Cling's scope considerably.
"TLDR, it is the author feeling the content is lacking in a dense section of text more than the reader having a limited attention span that leads to TLDR's."

There is no evidence that "feralchimp" (who wrote the TLDR here on Hacker News) is the same as "codacorolla" (who wrote the original comment on Metafilter).
I am engaged in a one-year course of self-study. My focus
is on quantitative, numerical subjects. So far I have not
narrowed it any further. I was raised in an atmosphere of
"well-rounded generalism." I would welcome any suggestions
on how to overcome a congenital inability to specialize.
Plutocrats love building libraries because they get to put their name up top. But the cost of building a library is peanuts compared to the cost of running them properly. (Or should be).
The grammar alone on this site is just dreadful, who the heck says "Codes"?

I see this quite a bit in the scientific community, and find it somewhat annoying. Of course, the people who use that form are the same who insist that "data" must always be used as a plural.
How long is a piece of string.

Read definitions of a startup and then formulate your own opinion.

Heres one to get you started. By Eric Ries.

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/06/what-is-startup...
I agree I don't get the syntax argument. I am sure that as one of the other posters mentioned that one is more favored than the other, but once you know the limited syntax of a Lisp it becomes fairly readable. For me it's all about figuring out scope, once I know what denoted scope, it is fairly easy to format the code into a readable format for my mind. The thing about the Lisp dialects is the rules for syntax are so simple that once understood they become perfectly readable, at least to me they do.
PC here as well. Sure, you can drive over all but the nearly vertical mountains... but hit the slightest bump and the Mako is like a superball. Mako was fun at first, but planetside gets tedious fast: loading screen - bounce - bounce - hit anomoly 1/2/3 and do same minigame for all - bounce - short, unsatisfying vehicle firefight - loading screen. ME2 was much better - here's a planet, grab the resources, if there's a special mission, then you get a loading screen.
Don't know about Air-to-Air shootdowns, but Ground-to-Air shootdowns already happening:

http://thetandd.com/animal-rights-group-says-drone-shot-down...
The fact that one person wrote a TL;DR is not an indication that we need one. And besides, usually a TL;DR of someone else's post is an opinionated summary, not a simply condensation of facts.
I'm going to have a break doing exactly this while trying to make something out of my ideas starting in July, and I'm aiming for six months before I'll see if I need a job or have something working on my own.

So if anyone in Frankfurt wants to hang out or have some tips on available coworker offices feel free to send me an email.
This has some interesting ramifications- some network security appliances (I work for a company that makes one) look for suspicious sets of DNS requests that match the Domain Generation Algorithms that malware like Conficker use to find a command and control server.

These "random" requests look almost exactly the DGA for Murofet- a Zeus variant. This has caused some problems for us (and other vendors, I would assume) in the form of massive numbers of false positives. In short, it's been kind of a PITA.

I wish they wouldn't do this, but it is definitely a tough problem to solve and I can't think of a better approach off of the top of my head. The ultimate culprit is the ISPs that return an A record for a DNS request that really should return NXDOMAIN. These ISPs are essentially breaking the Internet, and we're all just scrambling to put band-aids in place to get it to work again.
Huh, I guess that'd change the question to one of: why doesn't MacPorts ship a native gimp?
Out of curiosity, what distinguishes a Drone from a hobbyist RC aircraft?
The usual solution to this problem, when you're short on cash and need to push out a lot of gigabytes to a lot of people, is to put up a torrent. They're not just for piracy!

(Fun fact: if you host files on Amazon S3, it will also generate a torrent file and handle the seeding and tracking.)
Sort of, but only in a trivial and uninteresting sense - similar to how f(x) = 0 is its own derivative, but is much less interesting in that sense than f(x) = e^x.

A string has no additional structure, so if you want to do any transformations beyond simple string/regex substitutions you have to parse it into a more suitable format.
I use kmplayer for the same reasons.

I have yet to test VLC 2.0 though.
I liked this post. If you are the author you have a few grammatical errors:

because I hanged with a guy / because I hung out with a guy

I tell them you need to relax; get your head out of the book. / I tell them they need to relax; get their head out of the book.

over the long hall it works out./ over the long haul it works out.

I'm not trying to be a downer, just offering some HN feedback. :)

Keep on rocking. With a little refinement I think this post would make a good counter to "Did you hear we got Osama" but as it stands it's not as clear cut. I ass/u/me you are not a native english speaker but nonetheless I got your gist.

Just playing devils advocate: You suggest to your friend "Get your head out of the book" but is not HN/etc the "proverbial" book?
Is it really so hard for you to imagine prisoners dilemmas and tragedies of the commons?

I'm willing to pay $1 for a public good if everyone else pays $1. But it is utterly irrational for me to pay voluntarily for this public good, for at least two reasons: 1) since most people won't be paying for it, if I want it I'll have to pay much more, and 2) whether or not it exists is entirely independent of my actions anyway, so why pay a thing?

In order for fundamentalist libertarianism to work it will need to come up with a solution to the free-rider problem. Got one?
"Standard"? Isn't it called "imperial"?

It's not standard if there's only one industrialized country left in the world that uses it :)
They probably accomplish stuff faster than you but I don't think it's impossible for you to develop robots like those bees. It just that it required hard work chipping away at those little microproblems.
I've got a similar problem with http://www.LiveFanChat.com in that our live sporting chat sites need "Density" with multiple people visiting at the same time in order for it to be effective.

We have plenty of people "Sign up for accounts" but it frustrates me no end to see someone sign up and then not post anything into the chat room only to log out 60 seconds later...as someone enters the same chat room...and doesnt say anything either :)

Luckily both of the founders have "Real jobs" and we're happy to keep paying for servers etc from other income but yeh "build and they will come" is as problematic online as it is in baseball when it comes to chatting about sports at http://www.LiveNascarChat.com
http://www.LiveFootballChat.com
http://www.LiveBaseballChat.com etc etc.

I guess the only answer i have is if you were just a "Designer" or just a "Coder" you wouldn't let someone get away with moaning so maybe now people in startups understand that "Promoter" is the third leg of the stool.

I look at Dennis Crowley with FourSquare and marvel at the volume and depth of the press he got in the first 6 months so possible we shouldn't be dissing Catrina Fake but looking at how we can add to our own skills.

Just a thought.
I consider self-study to be a key part of entrepreneurship. In particular, extended self-study has worked very well for me whenever I've wanted to change careers, geographies or industries. Indeed a major professional change justifies this effort.

However, given the current pace of technology, it might be a better idea to develop a discipline for continuous learning and try to fit your educational/updating needs into a conventional agenda.

As far as "not earning" goes, granted, it sucks, but consider the option of doing this while freelancing, writing a book or starting a new company... there are many, many ways to skin a cat.
"[1] Technically the new rendering engine, Gecko, predates the Phoenix Firebird Firefox project. When Phoenix 0.1 was released in September 2002, Netscape had been using Gecko since November 2000's version 6. By that time IE was over 85% of the web, though."

Why do people always forget Mozilla (the browser, not the organization itself) ?
Are you validating any of these ideas with even 10x random strangers of your target demo? I mean with potential users vs pitching the plans to schools or potential investors.

5x different ideas x10 targets = 50x engagements, not out of the realm of an intensive time-suck. Could eventually lead to an alternate plan point of focus.
Part of executing on your vision is marketing. As a techie myself, it's my weakest area and my main goal for this year is to become better at it. I've seen people start with no connections but they built up the connections they needed. You need to do the same thing and not make excuses.

I've been interested in hyperlocal as well and had a website in the space years ago. I consider it an obvious idea that techies really like, which means there are tons of people working on it. The idea is simply waiting for the market to come around, but once it does, you'll have even more competition including established companies like Foursquare. If a well-known entrepreneur simply getting funding irks you, then you're going to be in for a bumpy ride.
Bankers have more power and influence in Switzerland than in the US. UBS handed Phil Gramm a vice chair position. They've bought into Casino Capitalism hook, line, and sinker.
Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy
The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Berkeley DB
Where I live most coffee shops have tables outside (is there a name in English for that space?), so you can work while you watch street vendors, people walking around and grandparents with children, not to mention the sun, trees, etc. It doesn't have a work environment, but it's very reinvigorating to stop for five minutes and appreciate the surroundings.
War costs are hidden and spread throughout the system. It's far more than the official numbers.

All those injured vets get tons of welfare, well before their elderly years instead of how the system was designed for as a safetynet.

You cannot eliminate the safetynet for poor and elderly - well you could, but whomever does it would be a heartless bastard and march our nation right into hell itself as crime becomes exponential.

You can however eliminate war and the TSA and all these billions of dollars we are wasting to spy on every American.
Drones wouldn't have people in them.
Thanks, a combination of lack sleep and food the last couple days. See the last line, I knew there were tons of mistakes but up in the sky so hard to see them.

___

It means attack the problem from a point of interest. Ergo, can mean reading that same book ;), back to front maybe :D
> You can implement a macro system in 30 lines of Lisp. All you need is read, and it’s easy.

The linked pastebin isn't a macro system. It's merely a macroexpansion system, it needs to be evaluated. And it's not as simple as merely wrapping it in 'eval' because of subtleties in getting at the right lexical scope.

More generally, no fair claiming macros are easy because you managed to build them atop a lisp. You're using all the things other comments here refer to; claiming it's all 'read' is disingenuous.

I'm still[1] looking for a straightforward non-lisp implementation of real macros. The clearest I've been able to come up with is an fexpr-based interpreter: http://github.com/akkartik/wart

[1] From nearly 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1468345
Seks is prettig en gezond - Xead.nl
Indeed. Although here in the UK, I find it frustrating that whilst we use metric for literally everything, we use MPH and miles for distance. It's illogical.

If I utter kilometers to anyone, they look at me funny.

I spent 5 years training myself to unlearn imperial in about 1990.
Thank you for this comment. This is one of the best posts that I have read on HN (the original one) and I think it behoves everyone on the better off side of the digital divide to consider how this gap can be closed.
I sincerely hope that the compassion in this world has not be drowned out by the noise of 'entrepreneurism'
Looking at the great entreprenuers of the 19th century, nearly all were characterised by following a vision and giving back to the community.
Nice to see others who rather take some time to study instead of only working.

I studied business and landed a job as a Project Manager. Meeting developers, I felt the urge to learn to code and become a programmer. While doing Project Management work at day time, I used my evenings to practice and learn coding. I loved working with developers because I could learn from them.

But there is only so much you can do working full time, taking care of your other stuff in life and find as much time to learn and practice coding. I thing it's easier if you can focus full time on something instead of the learning being too much spread out.

So I talked to my boss and asked to work 4 days a week and have three days for learning and coding (with less salary of course). I did this for five months and my skills really improved.

After five months, it was clear for me I was ready to earn money from developing. So I stepped down as a Project Manager, had to give in some more salary and started as a programmer (junior).

It was one of the best decisions in my life.

For me, it's not relevant for the moment to stop working and study, because I learn so much working as a dev. But I can imagine myself stop working for a couple of months if I reach a plateau and want to focus and learn in a specific field.

It is a lot of fun to be able to focus on something and improve fast. So if you can afford it and you want it, I think you should do it. It's not only a lot of fun, but you probably be worth more on the job market.
As a Canadian in the U.S., believe me when I say that in America you would be paying more to get even less.

The amount of inefficiency, conflicts of interest, hypocrisy, bureaucracy, and redundancy in the U.S. system beggars belief.
It's not obvious that the freedom to criticize the government in public is more important than being able to walk anywhere, anytime, day or night, without fear of being robbed. You have the former freedom in San Francisco, but not the latter; in Singapore, it's the reverse. It would be nice, of course, to have both, but when governance is of consistently high quality, the right to criticize the government isn't as important by definition. I can't think of any time it's not important not to be mugged.

As far as caning and hanging go, I'm pretty sure they do their best only to do those things to convicted criminals. Keep your nose clean and you'll be fine.

For what it's worth, I still think SF is a better place to be an entrepreneur than Singapore. Among other things, Singaporeans are loath to take risks on small unproven startups, whereas SF/SV is startup Mecca. The 'ease of doing business' metric suggested by the article isn't the same as 'best place to be an entrepreneur'.
There's also FFTW and parts of SuiteSparse, which are GPL.
Isn't it obvious? Torment wasn't a game, it was an interactive novel in disguise. The most interesting stuff in the game doesn't happen in the top half of the screen, it happens in the long lines of narrative and dialog at the bottom.
RTFOP
Just because government can or does provide a service does not mean you cant as well.
Execution of web programmer in Iran may be imminent
A friend of Mine just graduated with a Degree in Literature and we talk about the futures of libraries all the time. We often ask what would happen if libraries opened up a small coffee shop/stand inside of them? With enough "marketing" would people go to libraries instead?
> There's strong community support to keep the libraries open but the city is broke.

Not quite. The city is spending its money on other things.

I'll bet that Detroit is cutting library spending while continuing to spend money on things that are less important than libraries.
"A computer programmer from Canada faces imminent execution in Iran for the actions of another person, which he had no control over, a human rights group says. Saeed Malekpour wrote a program to upload photos to the Internet, an accomplishment that could cost him his life, Amnesty International reported Friday. Authorities in the Islamic Republic claimed his program was used by someone else to upload pornography and charged him with "insulting and desecrating Islam.""
Full disclosure: I'm a CareerCup interviewer.

+1. CareerCup is run with a lot of love by Gayle, who really cares about providing the right content and advice.
This is one of the reasons I decided to move to New York instead, after having lived in the suburbs for my entire life, I just couldn't take it anymore. There are so many more things to do in Williamsburg (where I live now) and the easily accessible areas of Manhattan (East Village, SoHo, Union Square, even Midtown if you really feel like that) than there were even in college.
good points, thanks, I'll make some changes
I think one of the problems with Windows is monoculture. One of the great UNIX ideals is 'reject all claims of the one true way.' Microsoft always advocates the one true way--Windows, Visual Studio. Everything Microsoft. But because no-one-true-way is built into UNIX's philosophy, it becomes whatever people want. You want minimal? You can use small command line tools. Reject minimalism? Use perl and emacs. UNIX is the Borg. Apple can spruce it up into a consumer operating system. Linux can go every direction at once and not collapse, and OpenBSD can go fanatical about security.

I think, ultimately, openness, and no One True Way make UNIX evolve and survive. Whatever ultimately supplants UNIX, it's a lesson worth remembering and applying everywhere. Even when the One True Way is grafted onto UNIX (i.e., Apple with OS X), the Way of UNIX makes it possible, and ensures that it will survive over whatever temporary One True Way appeared superimposed on it.
I believe he means a negative correlation (not a negative personality); as in, the more famed celebristatus the less "success" which, was not supported in his original post.

Edit: OP edited with the Quora post, which links more successes (or celebristatus) leads to more success.
Totally agree. The poor are lazy entitled pricks. Lucky duckies, as the WSJ aptly coined a couple years back. How dare they get some form of entertainment?

If they really need to find some way to amuse themselves besides staring at the wall all day, they can walk their fat asses two blocks down the street to borrow a book and improve themselves at this place called the...

Oh, right.
Interestingly the original coffee houses of London where used in somewhat simler ways, as places that merchants would meet and conduct buisness (not exclusively of course).
The coolest incubator you've probably never heard of
I'm more concerned with visualizing the data than with compiler optimizations or types/operators.

I see that d3.js is included in the package, but a cursory glance at the docs and I didn't see any examples of how to generate a chart.
And also that the wrong incentives can do more harm than good.
I totally agree with the premise here and it was pretty much my first reaction to the original but I feel like this kind of rambled a bit. But oh well, the point is tuning out is not a good idea. It's great for information overload but not in generall on the other hand I disagree that it's alright to consume the amounts of information given as examples in this post. At a certain point you either have to scale back your consumption or go quench your thirst for knowledge. This article was closer to a good idea than the one it was written in response to but I must say it again: Balance. Strike a balance between learning and being around for opportunities to arise and pure stoppage of all input.

This should be common sense. Learn and be knowledgeable but don't get consumed and paralyzed.
Sure, pedigree undeniably opens doors, but I think the reason we pile on this attitude is the same reason I believe in practice over intelligence or free will over determinism: it's just not a useful to dwell on as an entrepreneur.

Building a successful business from scratch is incredibly difficult no matter who you are. Getting a lot of publicity in tech circles in no way translates to success. It can be useful sure, but it won't help without a sticky product to begin with, and if you have a sticky product then there are plenty of other avenues for promotion. There are plenty of ways to bootstrap, and a lot of them will yield more paying customers than getting a flurry of fickle hipster attention from tech blogs.

It's easy to come onto the scene and look around and think it's all been done and how can you ever break into this world with so many brilliant serial entrepreneurs around, but realize every serial entrepreneur once had their first venture. In reality there's never been a better time to do a startup. The field is not "full"—a lot of successful founders lose their hunger and go on to angle investing, which actually increases your odds of getting funding, and in any case the horizon for new ideas is constantly receding.
> I could attempt to prove to you that "conventional syntax" is inherently superior to Lisp syntax, but that would be a waste of both of our time.

Yes, trying to prove falsehoods is a waste of time.

Conventional syntax is neither conventional nor suited to humans. (If it's "conventional", why isn't there more agreement as to what it is? If it's suited to humans, why aren't there more than 100 who actually know it for any given language?)
> Otherwise it sucks

Seriously? I mean, I know you are very excited about your work on PyPy, but why do you have to go around saying baseless stuff like this? There are many, many thousands of people who write lots of Python code every day that rely on Numpy, Scipy, and Matplotlib to get their work done, and who seem to be quite pleased with it. There is a lot of work left to do on all parts of that stack, but that's a far cry from "it sucks".
Very nice and relaxing music. It's also nice that there is a podcast. But they could definitely make a simple cue-sheet or track list with song lengths – it is difficult to find a name for current song. Maybe miss of such metadata is a weakness of a podcast but at their site only a single track can be found.
The only thing I can think of for libraries to do, is to morph into some kind of generic public meeting place.

Maybe something like a coffee shop/coworking space/social club hybrid.
> the majority prefer a language that is closer to the human

Closer to "the human"? Do you know more than 3 people who know C++ operator precedence?

Humans don't handle operator precedence very well.
So, I have a question. After reading this article and thinking about homoiconicity and macros, I remembered the Python source for the `namedtuple` function: http://dpaste.com/704870/

Is this considered a macro? Is it homoiconic? It's code as data and using input variables to generate code based on that input. It struck me as weird the first time I read through it but figured since I'm pretty stupid that there's a good reason for it.