skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at Mirah[1] a statically typed ruby-like language that runs on the JVM, by Charles Nutter, the main jRuby developer.
Here's an article [2] with short descriptions of Mirah and other Ruby-dialects or Ruby-inspired languages

[1] http://www.mirah.org/

[2] http://www.igvita.com/2010/12/14/beyond-ruby-mirah-reia-rite...
I think someone said this the last time someone posted something about the Go language. Considering that we talk about the Go language here a lot more than the game, it shouldn't be a surprise.

I'm gonna tag this message so I can point it out the next time someone expresses their disappointment. Not so easy to search for the word go. :-)

TAGS: golang, disappointment, go, melling
This sounds neat, but I want to ask others here as I am not (yet) a Cocoa developer - is all Cocoa code this ugly?

I am a Cocoa developer, and I have to say that the presentation of this idea on the blog leaves something to be desired. It seems to be oriented towards people already familiar with Reactive Programming and FP, but it doesn't set up that expectation at all. At the same time, it's very confusing and a little unintentionally off-putting for devs who aren't familiar with those notions, even for those who already know Objective-C and KVO.

It still might be a good idea, though.
Our flying little alien quadcopter
At Long Last: Compartment-Per-Global (in Firefox)
It appears to be personal, but for many the answer is yes... that's why RubyMotion is a big deal.
bought it earlier today was able to get all sample apps running on the simulator in couple of minutes, lot eadier than getting started on objective C and xcode.

plan to spend time in weekend in getting some small project ported, will update
I have several friends living in China. They use Chinese version of Yelp, Facebook, etc. They are aware that the government spies on their online activities. But they use these services anyways, albeit with much care. I believe most Americans easily forget about this.
Which leads me to wonder, why do they need surveillance of the common man. The government does not trust its citizen. Is it because it knows it has turned its citizenry into something that can be manipulated?
Sorry to say, but I disagree with the premise of this article. You still need R to answer many of the questions the author of the article is proposing to answer.

On top of that, having a degree in AI will prepare you for a lot of real-world problems because you've been lots of data sets. I'd prefer to have an PhD-level researcher who knows why my support vector machine is overtrained, than a guy with real-world experience who is likely to overtrain and bias the model.

Furthermore, the author's example of weight and height correlation isn't one of a bad model. It would be a perfectly fine model if that was all the data you had. If you ignore lots of input data to build a crappy model, you're going to have a bad time... But everyone with a PhD and now "real world experience" would know this.
Original source:

http://tuxradar.com/content/learn-hack-was-pulled-barnes-and...

Techdirt is the third-hand source here.
The title of the article is misleading. One may think that R is a tool is worse than other alternatives. It's more like "current methods (or simple methods) are not enough". R is as good for data science as any other tool (and arguably is even better thanks to its extensive library of packages).
Well, we're all the protagonists of our own story. I'm sure some people think I'm a surly bastard.

My job can be pretty stressful too, but I rarely have to deal with a washroom stall covered in filth from the most disturbing case of explosive diarrhea ever.

Likewise I'm not usually expected to escort out a distraught, screaming homeless person who is having a psychotic episode in the middle of a busy convention center.

Hakuna Matata.

Just assume someone has dealt with something like that or worse and it gets easier to be nice to them, even when they're behaving like right old pricks.
To be fair, $\Phi$ is actually not the same as Φ (U+03A6). Not to mention all the other advantages of LaTeX, which I am not going to rehash.
A lot of this has to do with the fact that app discovery on the iOS platform is broken. Granted it's a lot better than Google Play (or whatever that market is called now), but it's still skewed. Small indie developers without huge marketing budgets or paid people in China to download their app stands little chance of cracking the top 1000, or 100, where the financial goal of "break even" is achieved.
The jobless model
If you think hippies have removed all the regimentation and repetition from schools, can you please explain the existence of repetition and regimentation in schools. Or am I imagining it?
YC promotes their own; it's their house.

I'm not supporting the idea that 'YC alumn eats an apple for lunch' is indeed noteworthy, just providing an explanation.

I used to think HN front page was heavily gamed. That is you had to have a network of insta-voters in order to build up enough momentum. And while that is probably true for some stories, I honestly believe it's just a matter of good timing, luck, and persistence. If you keep having something to say, you'll eventually get lucky with good timing!
NYU ITP Students Build a Nightmarish Kickstarter For for Wartime
Peak Oil is Here: Now What?
I don't think Forbes magazine is targeted at the same person as Hacker News.
Startup design resources
Deploy Node.js app on CloudFoundry
Venture Capital: What does Ashton Kutcher bring to the table as an investor?
Priceonomics Raises $1.5 MM, Users Unfazed
Should you accept personal email addresses on your sign up forms?
Seems to me that he's saying it's obvious he didn't do a good job at not getting caught considering he got caught. Nothing really about people not being able to change. I may be wrong though, but hopefully that clarifies.
Telescopes show that Venus displays phases like the moon while Mars and Jupiter don't, which is important evidence for heliocentrism and the order of the planets relative to Earth.

Telescopes also show that Jupiter's satellites experience eclipses, which isn't direct heliocentric evidence, but does tell you that Jupiter and its moons shine by reflected sunlight rather than intrinsic luminosity.

Telescopes also show sunspots, leading towards the discovery that the Sun is an active body, and to some notion of its size and mass. Telescopes can also show Venus transiting the Sun giving you a great idea of their sizes, which happened in 1639. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus#First_scientif...

The switch to heliocentrism didn't happen overnight or as the result of a single observation or event, but telescopes brought in many different streams of evidence for it.
If you're looking for a site that has a great interface I'd try http://www.plug.dj/. They update the site very often and have a bunch of cool features that you probably won't find anywhere else. Playlists, song and video imports from SoundCloud and Youtube, unique avatars, room customization options, etc. It's also available internationally and provides real-time chat translation so you can interact with users from different countries without there being a huge language barrier.
Can you attach a real USB keyboard to the iPad?

(Note the project on Kickstarter that seeks to make and iPad look like a MacBook.)

If you can't attach a keyboard, why did they do this? (The) iPad would make a good portable display.

Of course, an iPad makes a good coffee table piece. Pick it up, touch the screen, gaze at it, put it down. Wow, amazing.
Oh I definitely am just responding to this headline and article; I won't pretend to be any sort of expert on Penrose's views.

Personally I agree with you that consciousness is an emergent property of certain complex systems. I think some folks would like to rest free will on the probabilistic uncertainties we see in quantum equations. But IMO that is not necessary since we know through chaos theory that deterministic systems can still produce unpredictable results at high levels of complexity. And the brain is pretty damn complex.
Being locked away from society for years, your life destroyed and likely abused or even raped seems beyond "cruel and unusual" to me

You know that politically-correct killjoy who always speaks up about how distasteful and offensive prison rape jokes are? I'm that guy.

That seems like a compelling case for reforming the prisons into a place where you're punished for your infractions against society, but not abused or raped. Prison shouldn't completely destroy someone's life, either. We need to have meaningful ways for prisoners to re-enter society as productive citizens. Otherwise, things never get better.
iOS app success is pretty much guaranteed - if you're smart enough to take your skills and start selling them at market rate to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to hit the iOS lottery.

In a gold rush, the guys who do the best are the ones selling picks.
Where do you live so I can get one of those sweet jobs?

Jeez, the Dean of the University Libraries in University Of Southern California pulls down $250,000, but you do know that isn't really a common thing?

Median salary for librarians is about $50,000, which isn't bad but not "retire on $250K for life".
Why Atlassian is to Software as Apple is to Design
Downvoting. What does the nationality of the crappy app author have to do with anything?
YouAreDaChef 1.0 released
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896699
I was being facetious. Sorry.
I'm thinking that people that cant afford, or thinks that 50$ is overpriced, are correct.
Just as those paying for it are also correct. Just as those that would pay even more.
Fixed prices is a tradeoff that is needless nowadays. Try a better way.
● Spread the book far a wide on torrents everywhere. Make the Book also freely downloadable from
your site.
● This maximizes the number of readers.
● This maximizes the number of readers that wants more books.
● Tell them that that next book is planned, it will cost this much to write. Donate here.
BitCoin, Flattr, PayPal, etc.
(It's no more begging then begging for 50$ per book)

The upside is far more readers and thus far more potential payers. And variable payment makes it affordable for everyone.
The cost of writing is also payed in advance, no more worries about how the book may sell.

And finally, zero piracy. =O
here is my interface:

if FBI wants to violate the constitution {
here_is_your_hand_grenade
make sure to pull pin before inputting your data request
} else {
hackers saved you thank us later
}
The FBI focused on Greenpeace in the aftermath of 9/11. Including adding the names of some members to the 'no-fly' list.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/09/hbc-90007642

An incident that comes to mind immediately with Greenpeace & law enforcement is the killing of one of its activists in New Zealand by the French Secret Service in 1985 when they sank the 'Rainbow Warrior'.
Datalist landed in Chrome Canary
>I'd venture that most criminals are not exactly tech savvy

Even if this is currently true; it will change.
Do not fear, subjects. If you have done no wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Sleep safely in your beds. The government is watching over all who might do you harm.
I agree that if I'm looking for an app that finding it can be a pain right now. But, are there really scores of amazing apps from small indie developers that are languishing because they can't afford to pay people in China to get them into the top 1000?

I feel like what you are describing are the faddish/scammy types of apps that people attempt to make a quick buck on and not the great indie apps by a small team. Great apps will be found and bubble to the top. Bad apps that are trying to make a quick buck by just being popular are always going to be fighting an uphill battle.
YC Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel
It's not so bad if you give it space to spread out a little. The wrapping in the column makes it much more difficult to follow, especially when used with Xcode's unusual indent style.
My favorite book for learning Go (the game)...

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Go-Masters-Ultimate/dp/1453...
Personally I like the article, and I agree with his concluding paragraph that there must be coherence preservation somewhere.

You need to look at one of the pillars of quantum mechanics he mentioned, where the observables of a system are only the probability, and this is due to 'decoherence' from a measurement. What he's trying to point out is that the coherence in the system must be preserved somehow, otherwise where could it go? It seems that this is very central to the difference between quantum mechanics and general relativity, and that the tiny connections to marry these two are yet to be found. His position is clearly 'it's in the details' not 'we must change everything' of string theory.

This argument reminds me very much of Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet about information paradox.

PS: fascinating development in quantum weak measurement, where trading off measurement accuracy provides a window into coherence of a system.
This is probably the best funding announcement I have ever seen: self deprecating, funny and actually useful to the reader.

Congrats guys, rock on!
Keep working on it, but use their app too. See what it does and doesn't do that yours would have. Use it to continue to add features to yours that you would build into theirs to perfect it. Watch their reviews, see what people like and don't like about it and try to make those people happy if it aligns with your goals. Ignore the idea that down-the-line, their app will get better. I've noticed that a lot of the time, despite feedback, the developer(s) end up going in a direction that their users don't find value in anymore and start to look elsewhere.

I'm constantly downloading similar apps in bulk to compare/contrast, and I know I'm not alone. Put it out there and see what happens.
Don't we have successors such as XeTeX which are capable of handling unicode?

How do you type Φ in LaTeX?
Hmmm... Instant brainstorm mode... What startup ideas involving prisoners can we think of?

Maybe some kind of Mechanical Turk esque web site where their earnings get paid out to them upon release?

Or some kind of Learnable tailored to inmates?

Any ideas, people? :)
I really have to read this book, since I've heard this sort of thing before and it never made sense to me why this matters. I mean, of course quantum mechanics is involved in the operations of the brain; it's involved in the operations of literally every single aspect of physical reality except gravity. People say things like "the brain uses quantum mechanics" and I think "yes, but so does Coca Cola, erosion, and rust."
We might understand the joke, but we're only an insignificant part of the voting population. The vast majority of American voters don't understand that their ability to sleep at night free of terror comes at the chipping away of their freedoms elsewhere. They don't make the connection between feeling up someone else's kids in an airport and the loss of freedoms in general.

The things we talk about (encryption, backdoors, etc.) seem trivial to us because we're buried in it every day or at least have some context to place it in. But Joe the Plumber or Betty the Housewife doesn't. They don't even really have a place to start to get simple, concise information on how to start understanding it in a way that fits in with their daily lives.

It's not that they can't learn - they don't have the resources or the time.
Then Java, Chrome, Ruby, Rails, Bash, Curl, Python, Apache, Lynx, Scheme, Unity and dozens of other project names must infuriate you :).
Good comment, except the xenophobic racism.
Gmail is https by default.
Gmail is kinda a tricky one - bear in mind that even if you personally quit, then even if you communicate with gmail users, Google is still getting your communications data there and able to build a profile (albeit not a complete one).
Since you're arguing by authority, I've been doing this for 15 years.
well back in the early/mid 90's in the Uk Forbidden Planet used to have Mondo 2000 and Wired in the rack next to Skin 2.

Skin2 is a famous Fetish Mag - for those you who don't get out much.
Doesn't seem quite as easy as copying a script tag into your index.html and clicking a link...
Here is an O(N) functional solution in C# LINQ: http://pastebin.com/fvdmQBFC

Making the solution "functional" was by far the most time-consuming part of the exercise.
How many small businesses don't get off the ground and end up closed shortly after opening?

How much higher do you think that number would be if it only costs $100 to get store space in the local strip mall instead of thousands?
Heroku boss: 1.5M apps, many not in Ruby
I'd add some theories cynically stating that the education, at times, designed to sustain replenishment of industry and nothing more.

I guess i'm more individualist than pluralist, but it seems too much of a society-impeded existence rather than growing of the inner self. I'm also tempted to bet that this layered approach you experienced, by providing tension between layers, is endebting us more in the long run.
There's a huge difference between molecule-scale quantum chemical phenomena (as in photosynthesis) and quantum computation. Finding the former in the brain would be very cool, but it wouldn't be terribly surprising or revolutionize cognitive science the way the latter would.
Yes I think the author of the article desperately wants "hack" to have its old MIT usage - I am afraid that train has left the station decades ago.
Twitter Says Farewell To Adam “MCA” Yauch
mdda just meant: If he was really so good, he wouldn't have been caught.
Groupon is Losing Top Sales Talent
They have an Inkscape and GIMP book. Are these any good? They look interesting. Wish I could pre-order the one that ships in August.
Um, I don't see that in the original remark. Hopefully the op will clarify.

Thanks.
Rest in Peace Adam.

Gratitude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw
Or, in the context of an interview, thats also a skill on the part of interviewee, to ask these/similar questions that will help her/him get to the solution.
They must think it's about woodwork with axes or for people who have chronic coughing problems.
Feeling Happy Greatly Improves Chances Of Success
RubyMotions looks even uglier for me. It's just like someone stripped all the beauty of Ruby with libraries that weren't meant to pair with it.
Interestingly, this fizzbuzz (not the inverse) is used in several contexts in my current project. But you are right, 99% is probably a very good estimate of dead simple stuff
You make a good point. In my earlier post, replace "universe" with "solar system." Then, I can represent the states of the solar system in some subset of the universe, and I'll place this computer sufficiently far from the solar system so it doesn't interfere. Now I should be able to predict what happens on earth, unless you think that variables outside of our solar system significantly affect activities on earth, right?
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson lied about his computer science degree
> most stuff measured about humans is distributed like a power law

twitch

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/390.html
I think Big Data is about convincing companies they need to upgrade their "tools" and purchase your software or services, or convincing managers in other departments you, the Big Data team, are doing valuable work. It's primarily hype-driven. Classic IT.

Most money will be made not by exploiting actually the "big data", but by exploiting the perceived need to collect and exploit it. We'll succeed in the former, but not necessarily in the later. It's more about keeping pace with one's competitors. "If they're doing it, we need to be doing it too."

Lots of meetings with presentations that will use "big data". But few results that ever come out of that data.
Very cool! Is there any hope of a slime / nrepl unification? I think a lot of people would like to be able to slime-connect to this remote repl from Emacs.
I would like actual stand ups. We need to start doing something about this as a community.
Keep reading. ;)

Seriously, if you're only 200 pages in, you haven't read chapter 3 yet, which delves deeply into the implications of introducing mutable state, and spends quite a lot of time exploring those implications, especially for concurrent programs. There is also some exploration into object oriented programming and alternative semantics and paradigms, including logic programming and laziness (chapter 4, iirc)

In short, I definitely don't think of SICP as an absolute reference to functional programming, especially since there are newer languages and approaches to these problems (STM in Clojure and Haskell, actor based concurrency etc) but SICP is an absolutely brilliant introduction, albeit a long one.
More clarification on Skype supernodes
That's 40% odds to break even, not to hit the jackpot.
I prefer cheaper conferences because the attendees tend to pay for their own tickets, rather than being sent by their company, resulting in a more passionate group of people.
There's this pattern I've noticed, whenever I make an argument on HN and cite the constitution, people respond by characterizing me, rather than responding to my arguments. And its always the top voted response. Yuck.

>the Constitution clearly states... it's in plain text, black and white.

Sure sounds like something you'd be able to quote... and why didn't you? What possible reason could you have for choosing not to quote something that is "in plain text, black and white"? This makes me think that the purpose of those assertions is to pretend like you're making an argument, when your real purpose is ad hominem. You could have dropped the ad hominem and just given us the quote and an argument.

After all, its not like I didn't explicitly ask for such a quote in my post! (but ignoring that is necessary to pretend like I've said something I haven't your response is predicated on.)

I really think its a shame that you feel comfortable making ad hominem attacks like this on Hacker News, because by doing so you have derailed any possible discussion about the topic and made me the topic. I think this is anti-intellectual.

I think your down vote brigade is shameful as well. This response is being down voted for pointing out the ad hominem while the ad hominem is up voted. My original post has dropped 5 points in only a few minutes....

The sad thing is my crime is trying to find common ground with liberals. Which means it is nothing that I actually said that you object to, but the very existence of a different way of thinking.
That seems to be pretty good odds. What percentage of startups actually succeed? I'm in the wrong app business.
The topic was the non-existence of drivers in other platforms, you brought quality up. Node itself isn't 1.0 yet. I don't see how not having anything is better than having something in development.

transloadit.com, from the module mantainers, has been using it for an year+. I don't have any magic insight into what modules sites use, but judging from the activity in their repo it's quite popular (~1000 watchers, 100+ forks): https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql
I'm seeing TLS connections with google, both inbound and outbound:

Anonymous: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)
209.85.214.42 mail-bk0-f42.google.com
209.85.160.42 mail-pb0-f42.google.com
209.85.213.170 mail-yx0-f170.google.com
209.85.214.198 mail-ob0-f198.google.com
Having the event in February helps. Off-season and it's not in Dallas itself, but in Garland.

If you're flexible about the when and where, you can get a decent price. Lots of events don't have that flexibility.
I don't know about anyone else here, but I am getting sick and tired of this. I personally think we as a community need to start a movement.

This is ridiculous.
If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating