skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the fascinating general trends in that respect, which I don't think the reasons for are fully settled yet, is the tendency of languages to simplify grammar over time. Ancient Greek and Latin had more complex grammatical features than modern Greek and Italian do, for example, and similarly with Sanskrit and its descendants. Of course, it can't be a universal trend, because the complexity must have arisen at some point as well.
Big drug companies are CONSTANTLY exploring new areas, trust me, they looked into DCA and found it wanting.

I can't personally attest to the amount of R&D dollars spent by pharma on R&D, but it has been EXTENSIVELY studied, just checked out pubmed (gov't funded research).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=dichloroacetate

If DCA were an effective agent, they would have handed the U of A a handsome check for that use patent. They didn't, so what does that tell you?
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I had an Anime site a few months ago that we listed as the management was contemplating selling due to PIPA/SOPA. We got no bids. We were getting similar stats. Now one of the original 4 Executives is the only one in charge and he merged the site with another site.
Awesome to hear that you're making good use of filters & saved searches... we'll be making those even easier to use going forward.
My first computer was a C64. 30 years ago, I learned to program Basic and assembly language with it. God bless
Changing of allele frequencies can occur by creation of new alleles (ie. mutations), but it doesn't have to. The definition encompasses both possibilities.
Spending endless nights building and selling companies is laudable, and well rewarded already. "Taking that money to invest" is an entirely unrelated task and needs to be done on the same playing field the rest of the investing public has to play on.

You're saying essentially that the ethics of how you spend money change depending on how you got it. How can that logic possibly work?
"your arguments are flawed: my friends shared everything"

(1) that doesn't respond to his argument.

(2) no they didn't share everything. Presumably they shared what they wanted to.

And here's the problem with Facebook, explicitly: If you upload something to facebook by mistake and it's something you didn't want to share, Facebook winks and says "ok we deleted it" but this has been shown false too many times for users to trust that they actually have control over their own content.
Funny, because there are research compilers that do exactly that.
It may have also been a way to force Facebook to play it's hand. Scare Facebook into going through with the acquisition to avoid future competition.
> it is not like they support it correctly in one single platform.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Example?

>Also it is not like the problem isn't relevant with using QEMU, it remains relevant.

Which problem? Being consistent across multiple platforms? QEMU is fairly good at this.

When I say there are problems with the simulator, I mean like the whole audio api wasn't working on the simulator for awhile. This isn't a small difference, this made it so that I couldn't even test the app. (Not to mention the other hardware support I needed, accelerometer/gyroscope data, wasn't supported either).
> Personally, I can't stand [...] I also hated [...] it drove me nuts [...] I found it was just as ugly [...]

https://www.google.nl/search?&q=haters-gonna-hate&tb...

As explained before in this thread "shakespear-text" is the plain-ERB of Yesod.

To unmix code and markup i'd advise simply use you discipline; it's far to handy to use it sparingly but avoid it otherwise. (But that's my opinion)

I think your contribution of a tag-based template language (like Snap's Heist, or JSP) integration with Yesod will be well received by the Yesod community.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shakespeare-text-1.0.0.1

http://www.yesodweb.com/book/shakespearean-templates
I use RestClient. It needs more code, but is more flexible.
http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-weakest-of-the-great-me...

Pretty interesting to ponder one's life from this perspective. "Keeping up with Augustus", I suppose :)
I used AResource for several projects, that are still alive, so it impacts when updating to a new version of rails.
Mubsub: Pub/sub for Node.js and MongoDB
Yet here we are. :/
I can echo this enthusiastically.
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Black HN bar for Jack Tramiel on HN today?
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Agreed. Or perhaps "we are usually only sexually attracted to people who we believe are or might become sexually attracted to us".

My point is that with a very few exceptions[1], apart from the occasional mis-fire or unrequited crush, we go through our life sorting people into "romance target" and "not-romance target", we tend to be very discriminating in our sorting, and gender is not the only criteria used for sorting.

[1]: The exceptions mostly involve very high hormones and/or very poor social skills. Example: A heterosexual male, borderline Asperger syndrome, 19 years old, just off to university to study computer science, far far too shy to actually talk to a girl is very prone to being quasi-obsessively attracted to a large number of inappropriate targets[2]. But this is not really a typical human experience[3].

[2]: Yes, I do speak from experience. :)

[3]: At the risk of stereotyping, it's probably a little more common among the HN readership than elsewhere though. :)
Performance testing in any case has to be done on the target device. Neither iOS Simulator nor the Android Emulator are appropriate.
I know this is off-topic but I need to rant against Google/Blogger's mobile version of their platform since I keep running into it whenever I'm browsing HN on my iPhone.

When I view this article on an iPhone 4S, Blogger adds in a swipe feature that goes to the next article (or previous article if you swipe left).

This "feature" is driving me nuts because there are tables that break the screen on the iPhone where I cannot move around to view it because Blogger automatically assumes I want to read the next article.

If someone from Google is reading this, or even better Blogger. Please take this feature out. It is a really annoying experience.
looks cool. but there is no way to give feedback or contact.
My favorite in the day was gotAPI (http://www.gotapi.com/html) because you could quickly type what you were looking for. Sadly they have not kept up.
This is the Netscape IPO of the app economy.
Non-native speaker here: It took me quite too long to figure out that the boarding you are all talking about has nothing to with planes *doh
http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

This isn't reddit, please spare us the memes and +1s. I think the odds of such a contribution being well received are quite low given the hostility to that notion the developers of yesod still display. Given that I can't see any benefit to using yesod, it seems like a waste of time for me to contribute an unwanted template engine to it.
I would say "yes". But that's pure speculation. However I wouldn't be surprised there was a bidding and that big names like Google or Apple might have been in the loop.

Time will tell, or maybe not.
Camera Awesome from SmugMug is pretty good. There are some things I don't like but they have traction and a solid reputation as a company that will remain independent and VC-free.
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And, at least according to the article, a larger torrent of positive (if not all public) reaction as well.
No, VCs generally don't recycle their wins. A VC fund is at it's heart a company that is expected to live for ten years; first raising capital, then investing the capital, and then spending it's final years collecting the proceeds of the exits, as the successful investments get acquired or IPO.

Note: VC firms will have many different funds, each with different origination years, so while the fund might last a very long time, the individual funds are not supposed to remain illiquid forever.
Kevin Systrom went all in at an earlier point. Discussed in more detail by the two of them here: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2745 (video)
On the surface, I don't see anything wrong with people/corporations being on the side of "stopping online piracy". So just saying a new bill is being introduced to stop online piracy or that a corporation is going to funnel money to legislators writing it should not be enough to break out the pitchforks and assemble in the town square. Just because SOPA was a dog turd doesn't mean that every attempt to stop piracy is going to be the same. If the next bill fixed all the problems that people had with SOPA/PIPA and still managed to combat piracy, would that be a bad thing? Is it so crazy to be against piracy? Isn't piracy illegal?

EDIT: just to clarify... I torrent the hell out of movies and CDs. I just won't ever claim that doing it today is legal. Would I be sad if it all went away? sure. But I don't think I'm entitled to any of it. And I don't buy the "I'm poor... so I have to pirate it" argument.
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You are right. I did not mean that sequencing shouldn't be done, what I meant was that the simple idea of sequence -> nearest match -> most appropriate treatment won't work due to the massive amount of variance involved. So the sequencing will be more useful at higher level. So more understanding patterns and devising strategies than personalizing cocktails.
"Delight users" - the founding of Instagram [2011] (audio/video)
I'm really surprised Russia Today links are even allowed here.
Someone can and has run with it:

http://langpop.com

"Unfortunately", that someone now has a house, two kids, and more work than he can handle, and is thus looking to exit the fun and flame filled world of language popularity.

Based on Instagram's valuation, I guess I'd settle for a million for it;-)
Exec is definitely positioning itself as the "more exclusive" TaskRabbit, or at least the "more professional" TaskRabbit.

At Everlane we used TaskRabbit all the time for random, around-the-city tasks, including fetching things from IKEA (the nearest one is across the Bay Bridge in Oakland), bringing them to the office, and assembling them.

Very cost effective, and can save hours of work.
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In my opinion, there isn't really a palpable benefit to be gained from totally re-engineering GUI event handling. Processes that are so CPU intensive they cause the GUI to lag are uncommon (and easily dealt with when they do occur). Even if a re-engineering of the GUI event architecture did occur, that would be a systems level issue, and most developers could remain oblivious.

I like Clojure, I think Rich did a great job with the data structures. My only gripe is that it would be a lot more elegant if the notion of transients went away completely. I think transactions with automatic commit and branching on reference creation would be much nicer (and faster). Still a very well engineered language by and large.
It is too expensive. 1TB of bandwidth costs about $120. A project like adblock plus will be consuming about 3 - 4 TB a month which will add up to around $450 a month.

Adblock list subscriptions are maintained and hosted by individual people who do at their spare time. They mostly pay for the servers out of their pockets. As one of the co-author of popular adblock list, I wouldn't want to break my bank to pay for S3 hosting. Our current solutions works out and when we reach our bandwidth limit, we could just simply buy addition TB of bandwidth at a much cheaper price than S3.

Btw, i just made a rough calculation using AWS simple monthly calculator. So correct me if I am wrong about S3 pricing.
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Congrats.
Just deleted this account.
Que? I would love to find some sweet old lady to watch my dogs for free rather than pay $25-50/night to board my dog in a box not much bigger than my CPU. I would pay a nice commission to the site to connect me with such a benevolent, non-crazy old lady such as this (if it does in fact exist).
If by default you mean only available, yes :) Non-code review is really what is driving my delving into non-crlf delimited diff elements. Breaking prose into big enough chunks to diff well and still find small copies is my current target. Once it works for prose I might try to use it on code.

I've been itching to figure out how to combine perceptual hashing, computer vision like opensurf, and stable marriages to do something really interesting for image diffs, but until I can shed some less sexy responsiblities I don't think I'll get to play with that.
Spotwag is in the same space. They're differentiated by leveraging your Facebook friends and friends of friends in order to find care takers. Pets are like children. Do you really want to trust them with anyone?

http://spotwag.com/
The fact that there exist weak and unprofessional sites representing successful companies is not a counterargument against my evaluation of Exec's design. I never claimed that Exec was doomed to fail, or even that they imperatively need a redesign. I didn't make any kind of point about how much impact visual design has on a business's success.

My point was about the relationship between two designs: the original Exec design and the "facelift." The facelift is much more professional, and looks much less thrown-together. To add some context, too, I'm not "coming out of the woodwork" to criticize the company. I was responding to what seemed like a lot of misplaced negativity about the facelift.

I think it's definitely possible for a company to do very well without a well-designed website. But that's not really what we're talking about, is it?
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While none of these are exactly the same as Exec, they do let you hire people remotely to do things.

http://www.taskrabbit.com (see also API at http://taskrabbit.github.com)

http://www.zaarly.com
http://www.gigwalk.com
http://www.gigboard.com

Exec differentiates on up front pricing ($25/hr), fast fulfillment (within 10 minutes), and on positioning toward executive assistant services. There's an interesting comparison table to be made with columns like "number of active workers," "geographic regions covered," "pricing model," "top 5 tasks" etc.

There's also craigslist, of course, which is highly liquid and has high reach. Craigslist doesn't have a great experience, though, for hiring people.
Hard to believe you can do a billion dollars worth of due diligence over the weekend.
An outline of the plan
http://classfy.tumblr.com/post/20711443868/outline-for-class...
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It's just modern day religious conceptualization.

In the past, people hoped in "God" to handle the very obviously unfair world they could observe around them every day. The idea that "you'll get yours in the end, and it will be grand" is the basis of pretty much every religion on the planet.

Recently, the modern western world has fallen away from religion; a drive through the American Bible Belt notwithstanding. The problem is that people have not been able to adjust to the concept of living in a world that is not only unjust, but without purpose. It's a very difficult concept to reconcile with and maintain a sense of sanity - but this is what religion had been providing to us all these years.

Accepting life isn't fair by default means that you must accept that you have very, very little control of things. Humans hate not being in control; we're programed that way.
Google added the same "feature" to the mobile Reader app and it caused the same problem. It happened to me every time I used it. Solution? I stopped using Reader. Well done, Google.
I have a little hunch that any parallelism "answer" is going to be derived primarily from ever-more-grand exploitation of its strengths, not patching of its weaknesses.

We know that in a formal reasoning sense, an asynchronous system is less powerful than a synchronous one, because you can implement any async design in a sync system, but not the other way around. Yet in practical use, asynchronous, "hard" decoupled systems are the ones that scale better and are easier to maintain. So we keep telling ourselves, "decouple everything" and have invented a gross array of patterns and techniques that add "decoupling pixie dust."

We know this, but usually don't extrapolate it to its natural conclusions: we're using brute-force engineering to attack our needs from the wrong direction - trying to break arbitrary sequential computations into parallel ones via sufficient smartness, instead of folding parallel ones back into sequential ordering where it produces wins, and breaking out the "sequential toolbox" only if the problem really taxes our abilities of algorithm design, as in the cases you have outlined.

Of course, adhering to parallel designs from the beginning is hardly a silver bullet either, but there are real wins to be had by exploring the possibility, and a good number of them can be experienced today simply by working that style into "ordinary" imperative or functional code with abstractions like actors and message-passing.
imagine the dev team who takes over the project after you leave. Iron discipline doesn't exist over long periods of time, that's why it needs to be built into the language.
I am not an Instagram user, but after checking it out on my Android though it seems like if FB was playing keep away it was more likely to be trying to keep it out of Twitter's hands.
but there is a problem with bittorrent. Most Schools and works places block bittorrent. We would need to fallback to http or any other method that works in restricted places.
Your nickname suggests you associate yourself with people who struggled for the right of voicing their opinion; but then you actually suggest some opinions should be discarded right away without looking on per source basis.

This is amusingly confusing.
You could be right. As I mentioned at least one side of this trade gave up money so that the Series B investors could get a quick 100% profit, and I am not sure which. I assumed it was Facebook because of (1) the seemingly high purchase price (2) the way the rumored final price was a neat 2x multiple of the Series B valuation (3) the fact that Facebook by virtue of being a much larger company with much more shareholders would seem to have longer and more nebulous fiduciary duty connections than Instagram.

But I admit, all of those reasons are quite speculative. I could be wrong. It could be that the Instagram shareholders knowingly gave up some of the purchase money in order to have funding in case the deal fell through.
Last time I looked it was a maze trying to figure out FF extensions. A painful long learning curve. I wrote my first chrome/safari extension about 5 mins after I read the intro.
:P oh yes, i miss that... will add one soon..
As an owner of 2 (very active) dogs I agree. This is one of those times where I smack myself wondering how I didn't see this opportunity.

This is a money maker.
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I know who Paul is. While I certainly admire him and would like to thank him for Gmail, I hope I am still allowed to have an occasional mild argument with him.
Dog boarding is indeed expensive, but I can't imagine using such a service for my dogs.

It's one thing to get an apartment trashed with a service like AirBnB - that stuff is usually replaceable, but the last thing I need is for one of my dogs to get sick/injured/lost/worse from some stranger I found on a dog sitting site.

My wife and I are crazy dog owners who treat our dogs like family, but I think we'd rather overpay someone we trust than use a service just to save money.
this. the PAC's agenda could be to pay politicians not to sign these bills, also.
I'm building Spotwag.com. Lots of people watch dogs for free, even better when you know who said people are.
i hate using the metric of downloads or users.. the most important metric that we don't get from mobile app companies is daily active users. Filters on android have become commodity, and I imagine a lot of users just installed to try and see what the hype is about.
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Your traffic means absolutely nothing
This situation reminds me of when Facebook was worried about Twitter: most of the worry ended up being unfounded. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Facebook was eyeing Instagram, as Facebook's photo viewing UI is now fairly similar to Instagram's. But I wonder if the worry about Instagram merited the $1B exit. Either way, given how small the Instagram team is, they must feel mighty satisfied right now.
Buyers > Visitors
What Now: Freemium or Paid?
Notably, this would only happen if you have data in the user's session that the user themselves cannot get to by using the site. I confess I can't think of any such session data, but I suppose it could exist.

And yes, some sort of HMAC is pretty much mandatory if you're going to do client-side session storage securely, no question.
> FWIW, since I only really have experience with Snap: When comparing to Ruby frameworks, you could roughly say that Snap is to Yesod what Sinatra is to Rails.

I've used both and this is pretty from my experience.

If I can make comparisons I think:

* Yesod is like Rails w/ haml+sass (but type-safety throughout)

* Snap is like Servlets+JSP (especially wrt templating, besides that it is quite similar to Yesod)

* Happstack is like Zope w/o the frontend (mainly because it is the oldest (has a pre-Rails feel to it) and has its own in-haskell ACID db (Zope has ZoDB))

> Snap is relatively simple and as such easy to fully understand. But since it is a relatively simple framework, you have to mix and match other packages to get the functionality that you want.

I found it as hard a Yesod to get it up and running. Both suffer from old docs/tutorials/examples, both needed me to climb the daunting haskell learning curve.

> Yesod on the other hand is very elaborate - it contains a lot of functionality and relies fairly heavily on the use of Template Haskell and Quasi-Quoting.

How is that a problem? I say: "Template Haskell and Quasi-Quoting FTW!"
DSLs or little interpreters are great in reducing code-size.
Reducing code size is great, arguably nr.1, in reducing bugs.

> As with Ruby and Sinatra, it is mostly a matter of taste.

I suspect you mean "Rails and Sinatra".

It is not a matter of taste: Rails and Sinatra both build on the Rack interface and have several options for http servers (mongrel/webrick/thin/etc).

With Yesod and Snap you find they both have their own "Rack". Yesod has "WAI" and an http server "Warp" -- these blow every other option out of the water in terms of speed and seem to have a more clever design.

But it could be just my opinion. (I did remember reading somewhere that the Snap devs envy Yesod's speed and try to make their solution faster which is a good thing)

> Some people prefer lightweight frameworks and add the components they need, while others like to do things within one well-integrated framework.

This is mostly a matter of how you build your app: "from scratch" or "scaffolded". Both Yesod and Snap allow both ways. Scaffolding with Yesod brings you much further along the axis of "well-integratedness" then scaffolding with Snap which is obviously a win those preferring the scaffolding approach.
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One thing that differentiates this from AirBnB (besides being for dogs) is that they are booking locally. This means that once owners find a place that they like, they are likely to try to book the same place multiple times, assuming availability.

Also, it makes it more likely that people might try to make future transactions directly without using the site, unless booking through them provides value beyond discovery.