skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so you want to develop some "high quality" social network then. Why not just create one on Ning? Ning allows you to create your own social network.

And so what if you create this "high quality" social network. What is the added-value that someone cannot get through personal messaging, forums, e-mail, and current social networks.

You also talked about integrating your own identity. How is this different than MyspaceID, Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and Open ID? These services allow you to be interconnected so that your reputation and presence among other social networks is constant.

Lastly, I believe we're going to see a transformation of social networks. I agree with that part of your initial statement. But this transformation will arise from a gap in a practical need. You have not fully convinced me that there is a gap.

So just to give you some brief, unsolicited advice, I would say that you should look for problems that you encounter in your daily life, and create some tool to fix them. If its important enough, then your userbase will follow. I would also research all the different types of social networks and how they currently function, especially from a technical point of view.

You tend to throw a lot of technical jargon around. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you have to be clear about your terminology. For example, when you mention "signal-to-noise" ratio, I think gaussian noise and signal processing. :)
How Apple, Google and IBM Got It Done
Serving the interests of the people is not a binary phenomenon. Microsoft still employs 1000s and produces popular consumer products. Just how much do they need to do to serve the interests of the USA? Shouldn't their taxes take care of that?
Best Buy opens API for pricing, reviews, and images.
Local News Beware: ESPN Launches a Blog Network
That's not what "trolling" means. See http://www.curezone.com/forums/troll.asp or http://captaininfinity.us/rightloop/alttrollFAQ.htm for more details.
Agreed; neither of the translations use monads, because monads are a semantic hand-job proscribing order within a declarative language. However, Scheme is not a declarative language, therefore order is implied in the structure, therefore monads aren't necessary.

>> Your print-n-times doesn't return an action...

Nope, look again. It returns the results of applying `void'. Who knows what (void) may return in a loosely-typed language?

>> ...it's an imperative function that performs an action.

Well, considering Scheme is an imperative language with side-effects, it's hard to dodge such criticism.

>> The naive translations to Scheme would be as follows...

That's not a translation from Haskell to Scheme, that's writing Haskell using a prefix syntax.

>> Also, both your examples rely heavily on non-strict evaluation. 'and' and 'or' are both macros that non-strictly evaluate expressions.

I went back and re-read your original post:

>> ...you'll note that the translation, strictly evaluated, gives infinite recursion.

Mea culpa--I completely missed your point that translating from a turing complete language to a non-turing complete language might have some pitfalls.
Until we can remove the leverage that intellectual property holders currently have, they will fight ruthlessly to retain 'their' property.

Compare the economically optimum copyright length (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/research-optimal-...) with the actual changes in length within the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg). This increase in terms coupled with the ease of patent filing surely is purely marginal decision making.
They broke the story, so I think they deserve the link.
Chicago TechStars Meetup tomorrow at Threadless HQ
And this is Clarence Thomas sleeping at said Inaugural:
http://img.skitch.com/20090127-jr8uwqqb5dqyu81u6u81egxt2m.jp...
Yes, it is a legal tool that may help you against your competitors, but I'll have no part of it. Its basically mugging someone.

Love it. Legal does not mean moral. Or right. Putting on a suit and using a paper weapon doesn't make it any more respectable than hiding in an alley and using a steel one.

I'm looking forward to Mr. Carmack's position paper.
Change is hard, but to change we must.

Hmm isn't intellectual ability the ability to adapt to your environment? If you think working from home is nice and you find out it's crap then use your fucking mind.
This is good news. Theora (the open-source video codec whose development Mozilla is supporting with this grant) is mature and there is an irrevocable license to free use of the original patents covering the compression technology, so there's at least a good chance that it truly is "patent-free".

The downside of Theora is that its compression quality is a generation behind H.264 or the latest Windows Media codecs. But web users in general are not sticklers about video compression artifacts: YouTube was for a long time limited to 320*240 video compressed with Sorenson Spark (a H.263 variant of worse quality than Theora), and that didn't hinder its success. If wide support by next-generation browsers makes it possible to start delivering compelling content in Theora, it has a chance.
Wow this is an unbelievable read. It describes the Vista project at MS from the point of view of a single developer trying to implement the Vista shutdown menu. He says that there were weekly meeting of 20+ to pass judgment on what he was doing/supposed to do, plus another 20 managers in the decision tree. It took him a year to do 200 lines of code and it still wasn't complete when he left. I would chalk this up one disgruntled guy, but there were other MSers, even a manager commenting that they had similar experiences. If it really this bad throughout the company, I would say that MS is not long for this world, unless they do a massive overhaul quickly. Probably firing 90% of the managers would be a good start, and I don't mean that as hyperbole.
Apple Awarded iPhone and Multi-Touch Device Patent
Well, the jet can probably only be used by one executive (or one team) at a time. Thus each of these 400 hours your executive could save would have to be worth $125000 USD. Oh, and remember these jets cost upwards of $15000 per roundtrip, too...

No, I think citigroup suffers from the same illness as GM and Ford - their top management has completely disconnected from reality, long ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7SKTheO2k
Startup Provides Commercial Support for Lucene-based Search
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 Now Available
Why it sucks for the writer of the blog post? He's an extrovert, and he didn't realize it.
A classic CureZone troll is trying to make us believe that he is a genuine skeptic with no hidden agenda. He is divisive and argumentative with need-to-be-right attitude, "searching for the truth", flaming discussion, and sometimes insulting people or provoking people to insult him. Troll is usually an expert in reusing the same words of its opponents and in turning it against them.

That's not the same as wearing a shirt and saying, "I get why you'd think it's offensive, but I think it's funny, and it's my right to wear this shirt."
Netflix live streaming to the XBox is really awesome. I just wished more movies were available for it.
iPhone Memory Management Links and Resources
He obviously doesn't use a pseudonym on slashdot.
As it turns out, this is actually one of the selling points used by the manufacturers: "If time is money, then the time saved jetting from continent to continent is money in the bank." --- http://www.gulfstream.com/products/g650/

They're not generally selling to engineers so AFAIK they don't try to make the argument rigorous and quantitative, but there it is.
So, let me get this right, you're using no-framework, pure JavaScript at the moment?
Give every Masters/PHD student a green card with their diploma. Then let them find a job, start a business, whatever. Else it's only a matter of time before they move a a country that gives them this freedom.
I just tried papayawhip on the navbar of my blog :)
Well, that post is about 3 and half years old. So don't hold your breath waiting for his position paper :).
NZ Escalator Workshops booking up fast
Uh, effect -> affect.
Ask HN: Is Content Management a solved problem?
As part of one of my hacking for fun projects, I decided to take on the task of building a lightweight CMS for Ruby on Rails. It's more of an exercise to stretch myself beyond my current experience than anything else.

As I started doing research and building it out, I realized how many CMSs exist out in the wild today[1]. I also determined that this is a project that doesn't scratch my own itch, which makes me nervous about making design decisions.

None of these things will deter me from finishing my project, but some of them may deter me from publicly releasing it.

What does Hacker News think about content management? Is it a flawed system needing radical rethinking, or is it merely a landscape littered with half-baked options? Any reflections on having non-technical people update dynamic content would be appreciated.

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems
Whoops, it's on CBS.
Yeah, you're right. I was just trying to summarize. Either way, still very rare for network TV.
First dedicated Lucene/Solr support company launches
There's no computers in it, but Coppola's "The Conversation" is a classic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation - it's about electronic surveillance. There's a great scene near the end that reminds me of debugging - the wikipedia article has a picture and descriptive caption of that scene:

"At the end of The Conversation, Gene Hackman, as paranoid audio surveillance expert Harry Caul, plays the saxophone in his apartment, which he took apart piece by piece trying to find a bug. The scene vividly illustrates Caul's complete emotional isolation by having him literally tear away practically every vestige of the material world that surrounds him, shattering the safety and security of his carefully-constructed womb."
Point, since you seem to know so much about me, may I ask who you are?
When humans become flying squirrels
You show a lot of interest in me.
60 sq ft... 5.5 sq m? Well, probably yes. 15~20 sq m studios are common.

If you're willing to share an apartment (having your own bedroom), you could get by with about U$600 in central Tokyo, and as low as U$400 in the suburbs.
Not having to commute is a big benefit, but of course it's possible for a company to make it so much of a hassle that it's not worth it.
I've assumed that this was how all good stand-up comedians come up with quality new material since seeing Comedian, the documentary about Seinfeld.
Did you look at the videos, or just the static pictures? The static pictures are just screenshots taken halfway through the videos.

You can see my videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZPSbImvFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_VFZ_ON0A8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbyQomrJSeU

Due to time constraints (I underestimated the time it would take to write a fast bitmap/polygon library) I only let those simulations run for ~1 hr each.
Then maybe I'm misunderstanding the point of your reply. I was pointing out how monads are inconvenient to use in strictly evaluated languages. Why did you follow up with an example about how not using monads is convenient?
Perhaps you should have suggested "Acme Stoner Toys." ;)
The author of this article links to that same post and gives credit to Roger Alsing.

He was just using it as a demonstration of Clojure, nothing more.

Read the article before criticizing.
Well, they've certainly come a long way from the secret in-house site to this — looks promising, but relies on the willingness of developers.
"The man from earth" was awesome, I wish more movies explored topics like this. As cheap as the movie was obviously made, I was glued to it the whole time.
For other Netflixers around here: please try out a service I created: http://feedflix.com
I personally prefer LaTeX to any other typesetting or word processing software and I use the Modern CV template to be found at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...
Azure: Microsoft's 'You Get What You Pay For' Cloud
I write my resumé in LaTeX. I did not use any template. What I did was:

a) I collected a few sexy-looking resumés from various illustrious academics.

b) I selected the features I liked the most from each of those sample resumés.

c) I created my own LaTeX document from scratch, including the features I liked the most from the collection of samples. It takes some work, but you get exactly what you're looking for.
but would people perceive it as being a "low fi" alternative given they are used to the higher quality now? (sure it worked in the past, but we will see).
Because C# is a very good language.

How many security holes have been found in the asp.net stack vs the php stack? I recall seeing a php security issue on reddit or news.y about once a month (anecdotal of course). But you don't have those problems with asp.net.

Yes php provides simplicity in the language but complexity in the configuration. You have to be pretty handy with *nix to get it all working right. Remember facebook showing all it's code to the world?

Asp.net windows configuration can be easier especially if you have a windows background.

In the end though, if you know php use that. If you know python use that.
My personal experience is that there is a lot half-baked shit out there for CMS systems and few, if any, really deliver on the dream.

Part of the problem (IMO) is that they're trying to allow very non-technical users to do pixel-precise web layouts and the technology just isn't there yet.
They sure did! Flex is the first truely buggy language and runtime I've ever had the displeasure of working with, and I keep a list similar to this (but far less safe for work). I keep mine private since I don't want my name to be associated with it, but I'm cheering this guy on.

I'm focusing my energy in a far more positive way - I'm switching to Haxe, which lets me independent of the Flash tools, and also swap away from Flash Player/swf when a better alternative comes along (it wouldn't be hard to make one, it's sad that their only real competition is from the even less competently made Java for the web).
This was also discussed in an essay in The Mythical Man-Month. Funny how a lot of things have been discussed before...
Why Theora and not lets say Dirac?
Anyone with more knowledge can comment?
I'll dive into Python 3 once Django moves to it (soon I hope).
We have a core.js file that is approaching 4 years old. As we're relaunching the site channel by channel and on the frontend, we want to use jquery for everything
Content management is very definitely NOT a solved problem.

Even if you restrict the domain to just blogging software, there are a ton of unsatisfied people (myself included). Blogging software is still bad enough that a bunch of people are still writing their own.

A possible solution is something that's more than a framework but less than a fully functioning software package. I think that's the general idea behind drupal, but during the limited time I spent with it I wasn't very impressed.
Choosing the Nokia E71
On choosing a new phone and upgrading to a Nokia e71 from a Sony Ericcson k750i, including impressions from a test drive of the e71.
This is quite the intriguing science mystery. I really enjoyed it. And it ended with a possibility of some pragmatic benefits too:

Oklo also demonstrates a way to store some forms of nuclear waste that were once thought to be almost impossible to prevent from contaminating the environment. Since the advent of nuclear power generation, huge amounts of radioactive xenon 135, krypton 85 and other inert gases that nuclear plants generate have been released into the atmosphere. Nature’s fission reactors suggest the possibility of locking those waste products away in aluminum phosphate minerals, which have a unique ability to capture and retain such gases for billions of years.

Excellent!
The modern "conservative" is someone who wants to turn back the clock thirty years. Since the schools and universities are solidly leftist, the country as a whole moves left over time. The "conservative" of today is thus liberal by the standards of forty years ago. For instance, can anyone name one issue on which Bush was to the right of John Kennedy?

You can basically define yourself along the right-left continuum by stating the year to which you wish to roll back the American political system. Progressives want to keep on marching forward. The folks at the National Review want to roll back our political system to the Reagan era. Ron Paul wants to roll back the system to 1900. Mencius Moldbug wants roll it back to 1687.

What's interesting is that some phenomena that we now view as "arch-conservative" - such as evangelical Christianity - turn out not to be very conservative at all. In 1900, the evangelicals were firmly in the camp of the left ( think William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, or Richard Ely).
Hi, I write for TechCrunch and figured I could add a few thoughts (this is a great article, BTW).

Don't say things that are clearly bullshit. I'd rather hear a 'no comment' than an outright lie. Example: I once asked a CEO who had laid off most of his staff how many employees he had left. His response after an awkward pause: "I don't know". Uh, right.

Stats are great and can definitely help your cause, but don't take them from an obscure source or try to make them sound better than they are.

Regarding the competition: know who's out there, what they're doing, and how you're different. If I ask you about the competition and you say you're not sure, I know you're either lying or incompetent.

Also, to the people saying that it's okay to ask about seeing an article before publication, let me reiterate: don't do it. It immediately makes me think you're a jackass, even if you do it politely.

If you know your website or company has a major flaw, you're taking a risk whenever you try to hide it. If the journalist misses it, then great. But if we stumble across it later then there's a good chance we'll get annoyed. I prefer a tactic that lawyers tend to use: preempt the tough questions by pointing out your flaws ahead of time and explain how you're going to fix them.
If you just start using jquery would anyone know besides yourself and the other frontend developer?

At my current job I've found the old adage that its better to ask for forgiveness than permissions works wonders.
Barclays Premier League - World's Soccer Hub
I agree. There are also constant give/take issues attacking it: Simplicity vs This feature, Power vs Eas of Use, Good tools for non technical people vs Fexibility etc etc.

None seem to have gotten it down yet.

Basically I agree. Content management is a lot less solved then spreadsheets or word processing.
If there's a 100 different systems out there that's a pretty amazing sign that CMS is not a solved problem. I think part of the problem is there is no way to build a one-size fits all solution. Any solution will need to be customized by a technical person.
"Conceptual Integrity" is the term used there.
I can get away with working from home, but either I don't need much human interaction, or I do need it but I've never had it so I don't know what I'm missing.
Actually that's also how we solve it in Canada for relatives of immigrants. In order to bring kin over into Canada one must sign a commitment to cover their social welfare expenses (if any) for a period of 10 years. This has done wonders to curtail people bringing in elderly relatives who do nothing but sit on welfare checks. This also holds someone accountable without leaving someone behind.
Humanity's Prosperous Destiny
...don't forget to add the "middle finger to the rails comumnity"
Flash sucks on OSX; For me, World of Warcraft uses the same amount of CPU as an average flash game…

This thing rocks, just wish I could choose the panels on the OSX dashboard version...
This is an important point to consider in frameworks.

Does $abstraction make things easier because you don't have to learn about $technology, or does it make things easier because it eliminates the repetitive parts of $technology?

Keep in mind, the former reason is entirely fine/admirable -- so long as the abstraction is not unnecessarily leaky. Why learn something you don't have to?

I hav skepticism over Cappuccino because, as someone who does a lot of web and Obj-C/Cocoa development, I see a lot of my Mac dev friends attracted to it not for its merits as a solution for making web apps, but because they don't want to learn anything about web technology. Still, I have a lot higher opinion of Cappucino than ASP.NET :)
Here's what I learned from the interviews I did on Mixergy:

Jon Bischke told me he launched his community on eduFire by asking his personal contacts to add content first.

Seth Godin told me that you need a heretic message. (Yelp's message was that communities trump experts.)

Jason Siminoff told me he had Google alerts go off when bloggers talked about his industry--and then engaged them personally.

Jason Fried said 37signals decided to teach what they knew as a way of drawing people in.

Mateo Gutierrez told me that he always searches his sites' records for influencials and then he gives them power so they can encourage other users to participate.

Derek Sivers said launch your site and don't worry if it's crappy and no one uses it at first.

Douglas Atkin told me that he studied cults and noticed that the ones that let their members talk to each other were more likely to grow.
Major instances where profitable ideas have been lifted
My downloads directory has about 20 different insanely interesting sounding PDF books that I know I'll never get a chance to read :(
Cms is a feature of a wider business organizational tool in the same way GTD is a feature. It is the wider business context that makes these features truly useful.
Even if it was, why wouldn't you release?
You'll need to add a clause where a certain share of the stock (I assume you own 100%) to be bought back by the company each year. The percentage will take in account of the risk since the company will keep on growing. In any case, you'll have to have to have a business attorney to write the term sheet due to legal wording and general liabilities. Your best bet is to find a good template and have the attorney modify it - that way you save the attorney's time and your money.
here's a book he wrote... 18 years ago. there's great stuff in there. how to build a computer out of rod logic. how get pure sources of elements by cascading filters... armatures for assembling individual atoms.

http://www.amazon.com/Nanosystems-Molecular-Machinery-Manufa...

Richard Feynman apparently had recursive ideas, use a lathe to make a tiny lathe, use the tiny lathe to make a really really tiny lathe... all the way down.

This is the future... but probably a long way away.
"Content management" is too broad to be "solved".
For certain types of content it might be, but the types of content you can have is endless, even for the web.
I think there are enough specific end-user needs to justify tons of specific CMS instances. It's funny to me how much wordpress is hacked up in order to try and accommodate more business oriented clients. I think tons of freelancers sell their clients hacked wordpress sites because it gives their clients CMS access, even if all they are doing is "updating a blog post".

A CMS is just a tool, not a solution. So rather than asking if CMS is a solved problem I think a better approach would be asking what problems need which kind of CMS and building from there.
That's an interesting perspective I never considered. I guess I was restricting my domain to 'enthusiast' applications like delicious, reddit, digg, etc. Facebook, I agree, is one place where these links would benefit the user.
Optimize for Lynx and it will probably look OK everywhere, even the worst mobile browsers.
> When the boss asks why his charts and headers don't convert over, show him how easy it is to fix that in the wiki.

The rational response to that from the PHB's point of view is to ban wikis.