skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussions on functional programming--particularly Lisp and Erlang--seem much more prevalent then than now. Which is really too bad: functional programming seems to have gotten significantly more awesome in the recent past.

As a simple indicator, there are only two articles about functional programming on the front page, and they're both fairly shallow, general and not current. They're also related: same author and similar subjects.

I'm sure it's just a function (heh) of HN's growing userbase and more diverse audience. Still, I really would like more functional programming stuff. I even vote on interesting FP articles on new, but it often isn't enough, especially because the new page moves fairly quickly and I don't go there that often.

But yeah, ignoring the relative proportions of subjects, the front page actually seems fairly similar to the current one.
Sounds like an excellent elevator pitch.
My background is as an Olympic-style weightlifter. I'm a licensed sports power coach under the Australian Weightlifting Federation.

> High rep oly movements = dumb? In what situation?

In all situations. This is never a good idea. Ever.

> With what intended training effect?

If it's to improve technique, do more sets. If it's to improve cardiovascular conditioning, do something else.

> a periodized training program

Oh, you mean the kind of "voodoo science" that Crossfit HQ specificially eschews and that every top level Crossfit Games competitor nevertheless follows?

> If the exercise is stopped when form breaks down, I see nothing wrong here.

I'll say it again: quality control and exercise selection.

> If you've built up to it and have no achilles issues, this is not a concern.

And yet I see middle-aged housewives doing AMRAPs on box jumps.

And it's not just repetitive strain injuries. Misjudge the jump (because, I dunno, you're really tired from high rep box jumping), land on toes, fall down, snap.

A lot of Crossfit is fine. The problems still remain that quality control is explicitly non-existent and that exercise selection is hit-and-miss with a genuine fondness for stupid ideas.

Basically, no good and safe Crossfit gym has any resemblance to Crossfit HQ's vision except to pay a licensing fee to use the trademark.
Can't agree more. In a lotta cases is up to the programmer to keep solving the desired problems (interesting programming), we tend to say yes to too many things and this sends us to the path of perdition!. You gotta fight to keep doing the cool stuff.
Although LINQ is basically pure syntatic sugar. I actually prefer the method syntax as it's consistent with the rest of the language. Extension methods are all that is needed for it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397947.aspx
Your theory directly contradicts the actual history of Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.

Larry and Sergey's first hires were for people to replace the crumbling hacks they wrote to launch Google.
It is ineresting that their indiegogo campaign has an upper funding limit, as all of their goals are limited in size. Is it due to some sort of production limitations? I think it's strange, given that they've surpassed their goal already and still have 52 days to go.
Dad builds Android video baby monitor for £50
This looks pretty awesome especially with the SDK. The hovering looks a little unstable compared to the hummingbird (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/...), but still very impressive. If they add support for wireless charging, you could have a pretty cool home monitoring system where the dragonfly roams about your home and returns to a charging station when needed
Don't do this if you value your teeth (or maybe rinse out after).
Beautiful performant code does not exist in a large system. The languages just don't exist to express it.
A small (3.4K) but powerful JavaScript framework
Ah yes, the second system. To great effect. See the Netscape 5 rewrite, a great example.
Who would buy a combover technique anyway?
Sure, but the poster said "this" mistake.
> but using a license that looks very much like the MIT license but grants you a much smaller set of rights (a set which puts it on the other side of a line that, while in many ways arbitrary, is of great practical relevance when it comes reusing code in the wider internet community) is not nice.

So what is he supposed to do? His options are either use the MIT license unchanged, or invent his own? He liked the MIT license, and he wanted to add one of his own conditions. It's as simple as that.

As another commenter pointed out, the cognitive dissonance is the free software community is mind blowing. We are all for freedom and choice, as long as you are playing by our rules. We are against regulation, but only bad regulations. Ours are meant to do good and you are supposed to follow them.
> By my reading of the five claims here, in order to be sued for this patent, you would need at least three sections of hair in your combover process (back and 2+ sides), you would need to comb over the back part before the sides, and you would need to put your hand down on each combed section as you applied hair spray.

Do you really think that these arbitrary specifics make it any more novel of an idea? The claims are the source of controversy even in software patents, because they are usually just as silly as the title makes them out to me.
Looks like you can attach a debugger to Zune, but if you try to play DRM'ed files when doing so, it will fail with an error.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2009/02/24/window...
As the saying goes, bad code falls apart in 3 months. Google code falls apart in 6 months.
I was unclear. I am saying that since it is not the job of a president to micromanage, it is legitimate to criticise him for fuckups he was not directly involved with.

If his job were micromanaging, then "Hey, he wasn't in the room" would excuse him of responsibility, but that is not the case. Since his job would be pretty much the greatest opposite of micromanaging I can conceive of, there can be no excuse. The failure of his campaign is his failure.

That still seems a bit unclear to me actually. Not sure how to effectively reword this.
I like Husk very much. I used its TCO/K approach for my own little hobby Lisp. Great fun.
I wonder if that person chose the baby or the startup.
I think Holder claiming the email having words "Fast and Furious" doesn't talk about Operation Fast and Furious, and his and Obama's refusal to comply with document request is ample evidence of coverup going on.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20115038-10391695.html
Read the docs yourself and try to explain how comes Holder says he did not hear about F&F until 2011 when these documents are from 2010 and are addressed to him and his immediate subordinates.
Only one explanation is logical - Eric Holder flatly lied to the Congress. And got away with it. That's the coverup, and if seeing it with your own eyes is not a proof, then I don't know what could prove it.
On both Windows and Mac you need to download a new keyboard layout for Colemak. It's not that much more work to go for a fully optimized carpalx layout.
The Plaid Programming Language
> I'm not saying this is an insurmountable problem, I'm contrasting the difficulty.

Fair enough. I'm not claiming there's no homophone ambiguity either, just that it's a relatively easier problem compared to, say, the stuff Microsoft is doing.

Yeah, when I say "normal speech" I don't include pop music lyrics.
Which makes this particular idea even better.
Originally, RethinkDB was to be a MySQL storage engine, which made C++ the natural choice.

They pivoted away from MySQL after my short stint in the beginning so I can't speak to why the storage code was kept (though I can't imagine it's because my code was so great they couldn't bear to throw it away).

Storage people tend to stick close to the metal, in general. This means C or C++ in most cases, for better or for worse.
Wait, according to some commenters here this means Obama is completely incompetent and unfit to be president? I wonder if these people want to rethink their position...
So , if you run a business or are a student or whatever and use gmail/google apps for email and have your important documents in google docs it's just FU I guess?
Parenthetically speaking, are you aware of the issue with your parentheses?
Michael Arndt Writing 'Star Wars: Episode 7' Screenplay, Pre-Production Begins
Are you or do you plan to be certified by the CA State Bar as a lawyer referral service?

http://rules.calbar.ca.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=mKEKxX4... [pdf]

Note that a lawyer referral service is defined as: "'Lawyer Referral Service' means an individual,
partnership, corporation, association, or any other
entity, or a service or agency of an entity, which
operates for the direct or indirect purpose of referring
potential clients to lawyers, whether or not the term
'referral service' is used."

I imagine other states have similar licensing requirements.
Screenwriter Michael Arndt confirmed to write 'Star Wars Episode VII'
JavaScript libraries that will help you with parallax scrolling
I've gathered some amazing libraries that will ease your work at build astonishing projects with parallax scrolling
Infringing on what?
I know that feeling. So often, especially when things are busy or deadlines are tight, I feel bad for wasting time surfing the internet or slowly tinkering on some unimportant task no one cares about. The big job is getting no attention. "The programming" is just gone, I'm hanging around killing time.

And then something flips and you get that flash of inspiration; and you dig into the program as fast as you can. In the end, you come out with a little piece of code that's relatively clean and maybe extensible and it works.

And you know... you did it... that's why you're here. Moments like that keep you going and boil your blood if you're in the world of TPS reports and their ilk.
> but we can still have the opinion that he's a childish asshole.

We can also have the opinion that people who believe that someone who wrote a free software and gave the implementation for free should play by their rules and only use license which plays nice with their software are childish, entitled assholes.
clang is better than gcc, IMO
You could try asking the kids which they'd prefer.
Most of the issues come from kernel differences. Some are relatively big, like epoll vs. kqueue, and some are very subtle (some syscalls have subtly different behavior on strange edge-case scenarios). I don't think building this natively would be too hard, but in the context of everything else left to do, it isn't an absolutely trivial project.
Groupon is a whisker away from having lost 90% of market capitalization

- Good thing they took ~$1Bn out before the IPO.
Michael Arndt signed to write script for Star Wars Episode VII
So something like Clojure, but that runs on the CLR and Javascript as well?

CLR - https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr
JS - https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript
Python - https://github.com/halgari/clojure-py
Lua - https://github.com/raph-amiard/clojurescript-lua
C - https://github.com/schani/clojurec

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
http://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=gmail.com
Create and share visual ideas online
Lucasfilm confirms Michael Arndt as Star Wars writer
All comments had points back then:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071110123222/http://news.ycombi...

So much better than no comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246
There are other ways to drive the economy beyond essentials rather than through just consuming. Infrastructure is one, wars are another. But really, we could focus our resources on getting to the moon, getting to mars, and just lots of crazy R&D that would pay off greatly in the future. We could also spend more time in cultural endeavors, supporting more artists, writers, musicians, movies, and so on.

Buying a cheap shirt from Zara hardly does much more than buy someone's lunch in a Chinese factory.
Oscar-Winning Scribe Michael Arndt To Pen 'Star Wars Episode VII'
No. E.g., you could write r.table('foo').update(lambda row: row.merge({'bar': row['bar'] + 1 })). A shortcut for this is r.table('foo').update({'bar': r['bar'] + 1 }). Neither is referentially transparent, and both work.
Michael Arndt Writes 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Treatment
Star Wars: Michael Arndt to steer sequel trilogy
full picture of their worth as a candidate

-- argument about character, not policy

but yes, your are generally right: better to be one part of a composite judgment that a simple pass/fail test.
I would point at the campaign manager as the person who should be responsible. The Campaign Manager is the CEO, the candidate is actually the product being sold. Granted, the candidate is being sold with promise that he or she will be a good CEO, but, during the campaign the CM is the CEO.
Michael Arndt will write 'Star Wars Episode VII'
Will Michael Arndt Write Next Star Wars?
How about providing the ability to set merge handlers in Lua for different data types / keys?

Or if there are 3 different and well known strategies, somehow let users pick one and set it as a default. If not let users run Lua scripts that will be executed to resolve conflicts in a custom way.

I do this for CouchDB, it has a very convenient changes feed that can also stream conflicts when they appear. So there is a custom (and separate) conflict resolver process that resolves conflicts in an application specific way.

For consistency though you'd need a way to run those synchronously somehow as soon as you detect the conflict.
Michael Arndt to write new Star Wars movie
then, here's an old classic for you: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.lang.l... ;)
This is the same problem that afflicts online communities, where you end up with a bunch of people standing around agreeing with each other[1]. If you spend too much time with like-minded people, you lose perspective.

[1] Euphemism, use your imagination.
In the same vein, one could claim use of humans to write code was a mistake. After all, the project failed, this means they made a mistake, so obviously they should have used trained hamsters instead. Do you see where your logic failed you?
Study: Malaria vaccine a letdown for infants
If Romney has to pick n reliable deputies for various things, then for sufficiently large n, he's inevitably going to make a mistake you can pounce on, even if he's really good at picking out people. Good judgement is not an all-or-nothing dichotomy.
Did pg give a reason for not wanting to remove the account or did he ever write about why he wouldn't delete accounts? I have my guesses but I'm curious what his specific reasons would be.
Update: Wang's Presidential states & shares have been added, but not his Senate races.
If gargling XYZ is too fussy, An apple works.
...you posted this eleven times.
This is as stupid as a software patent. I guess software patents are not the only problem and there are much deeper problems with our patent system.
If you accidentally infringe a patent you didn't know existed, it's not willful and the damages are lower. Since it's basically impossible to write software without infringing lots of patents, it's much better not to read any patents, so that you cannot be fined at a higher rate for infringing wilfully.
> Harrison Ford recently admitted he is ''open'' to the idea of returning to the 'Star Wars' franchise.

Wow this is finally happening. Hopefully the sequels will surpass the prequels.
Michael Arndt to Write 'Episode VII,' Lucasfilm Confirms
I don't know about the baby, but he definitely quit his startup.

2007:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071012022938/http://www.shelfma...

Now:
http://www.shelfmade.net/
Teenage Hacker 'Cosmo the God' Sentenced by California Court
Or what if the ones implementing the system were the 'sympathizer group'. They wouldn't have to do any sort of jamming or anything, just give out insufficient instructions in how to use the system, incorrect passwords and make sure the system crashes a bunch.

Intercepting field reports? By the sounds of it, Team Obama had all the info they needed and this just opens the door to serious legal problems.

In general I haven't encountered too many Republicans in software development. Libertarians, yes. Republicans, no.
Ask HN: Is there any directory that lists online communities by their industry?
Is there any website that provides list of communities/forums/etc according to industry.
Or it means that whoever came up with the name was aware of Narwhal and thought it fitting that their system should also be named after a cool-looking whale. If this had not been a political issue, would you have been slower to reject this obvious innocent interpretation?
Hahah don't be naive. Use homebrew. Macports has been broken for years.
Nowhere does it even suggest it. It asks if it could close the gap and expresses hope that it was impossible - which is not the same at all as claiming it could. Presenting this: "If this had worked could it have closed the gap? I sure hope not for my sanity's sake." as suggestion that it is a key reason for the defeat just does not hold water.

And get out to vote effort is much bigger than any application, which is only a small part of the picture. So the other claims are equally shaky.
I sure hope they didn't use Facebook's HTML5 expertise in building the BB10.
I've had a number of my WebKit bugs fixed by folks at RIM recently (hopefully not because they caused them!). Thrilled that they're contributing.

I really hope their work lasts much longer than RIM.
There's two big problems I can see with your argument that we need more consumption.

But first, I agree that consumption is one of the factors that has helped raised the standard of living worldwide.

The first problem is the broken windows fallacy. Just because buying cheap t-shirts to throw out generates a lot of beneficial economic traffic doesn't mean that its not very wasteful. The 27 extra t-shirts being thrown out each year require a substantial amount of resources to produce: if redirected elsewhere that might be another space shuttle, or something else slightly grander than a bin full of discarded linen. (Of course some of it gets trickled down to other countries to provide more clothes).

But the bigger problem is the idea that the rest of the world only lives because America consumes. This is like a fable of an island with 50 people. A dozen fished each day, a bunch grew crops, etc, etc.. and from the hard work of all of these 20% was gathered and the final person consumed it. Without that final person, the demand for all those goods would go and the entire economy would suffer. Everyone else would have much less work to do.

Why would any group of people happily put up with one of them 'doing their share' by consuming, consuming, consuming while all the others work to provide? In the short term its due to stability emerging from the historical processes that led us to this point. And also the hard and soft power of the US. But its not an endearing quality.
TRADEMARK VIOLATION
Holden limited is a car manufaturer. Are you sure you can share their name and fame with no consequences ? They have a mens apparel line which is merchandised quite close to your concept. Adding a "From" might not be acceptable to Holden Ltd., and you might also be in violation of USPTO rulings.

BUSINESS PLAN
I have worked with Lauren and Oscar knit product from inception to delivery. There are some serious holes in your business model, if you are planning to sell a comparable product, made in USA, delivered by mail, at $8.00.

Your management team has impressive credentials but very little hands on knowledge of the apparel industry. Simply stated, The Devil Fears Prada.

1. The minimum wage in CA is $8.00. The effect of the minimum wage kicks in twice when costing your product, first at the stage of fabric manufacturing (where it is built into the fabric price) and than at the cut and make process of garment.

2. Knit fabrics can be a nightmare at the finishing stage. If not finished correctly you will get :
a) Skewing in the garment (when garment is laid flat, side seams move to the front
or back).
b) Shrinkage from 7% - 14% resulting in pukering problems also.
c) Color variations in bulk fabric lots.
d) Color fastness issues.
e) Variation in feel after wash and hiking of garment (riding up)

When working with factories in Asia, if fabrics fail testing protocol we issue a "refinish fabric" and sure as hell they refinish. However, given the minimum wage in USA and the price you intend to market your product, refinish will not be an option, so you leave no margin for error. That is if you are aiming for a fabric comparable to the brands you are trying to compete with.

3. Unfortunately, vanity creates brands and brands have become smart enough to offer basics at low prices. That is where they make their big dollars. Men do like to sport the logos too, and will pay those few extra dollars for it. Also, the money back guarantee on brands you are looking to compete agianst make them attractive. Do you accept returns ?

Looking at the Timeline you have posted on KickStarter, your garment gets dyed after construction. The finish will never be uniform in this case, certainly not like the pics you have posted or a Lacoste product; in which case your site should project an Abercombie and Fitch or Urban Outfitters image.

Also, since you are planning to sell by the piece, have you accounted for postage ? Warehousing and projection of units are a dangerous territory too. Many established companys have sunk with their inventory.

A garment comparable to Lacoste or Burberry, by mail at $8 for a T shirt, with all components and construction made in USA, in the absense of a sweat shop is not possible !! If you can manage it, hats off to you !!

Your basic idea is to supply a comparable product at a cheap price. However, you are working with knit fabrics which when finished to meet standards you are aspiring for cost muchos $$$$.
I highlighting this feature for this particular crowd because the same bits that make the html web applications work on BlackBerry10 is what drives the new Chrome. This means that the guys making the chrome _really_ do care that html applications work well.

As for overhead the browser team has always concerned itself with keeping its footprint down both in memory and cpu and by using JS+HTML our total overhead was actually reduced compared to running another framework along side WebKit just for the Chrome. Checkout the above second video for more in depth presentation on this.

Disclaimer: I am part of the WebKit team at RIM these opinions are my own
Same licensing that 10gen uses for MongoDB (AGPL) and drivers (apache).
Actually, you broke it. telnet sends CRLF line breaks like you're supposed to. nc will just send LF. A strict web server won't talk to you.
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When they do, they are extremely hard to dislodge!