skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like fiddling around with weird languages... but...

You find it. Then you start walking forward, looking for a closing parenthesis.

This is the worst way to work with Lisp code and is unfortunately the most naive way. It happens to be the way most people immediately jump to when editing Lisp code and hence how we end up with the pernicious "parenthesis" meme.

The way most Lisp programmers handle parenthesis is by using a smart editor. The "parens" structure the code very closely to the AST of the actual program. Computers love trees and editors can therefore readily manipulate them with little effort. You rarely edit the text of a Lisp program this way and instead edit it's tree.

Note: See the 'paredit' package in emacs for an example.
Excellent video btw, I will read into spaced-repetition.
I can't seem to find this app.

What I want is a graphical representation of the tone of my voice (over time).

I've been told that my voice is monotone when I speak Western languages so I don't really have a good feel for what I need to do to speak in a high or low tone. If I had a graphical representation of what I was in fact doing then I think I could gain control over the tone of my voice more easily.

I guess the obvious alternative is to record and play back my own voice.
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Apparently they keep a block list somewhere.
Jason Scott DEFCON Documentary Preview
One of the most devastating things about this disease is that the majority of its sufferers refuse medication, based on the fear, distrust, and paranoia brought on by their condition.

To be sure, medication is not always effective for schizophrenia, but the disease's course without medication is a terrible one.

I'm not sure how schizophrenia is handled in other countries, but in the US you can't force medication except in a hospital (often via the ER). And there is a dire lack of facilities that specialize in treating and supporting people with schizophrenia.
IE10 below 1% market share, Firefox back under 20%, Chrome recovers from losses
"I live in the UK. We've had a variety of different disability benefits over the years. Unfortunately those benefits have not kept current with modern treatment; nor with modern political directions; and now we're in the unpleasant situation of needing to cut our massive welfare bill, but not having any suitable alternatives for people yet, and not having adequate support for disabled people."

One thing that is being tried is more direct scrutiny of people on various disability benefits who are certainly capable of working and caring for themselves, but got 'in' under a more permissive system when the bills weren't as high.

I know this because of some acquaintances I know in the UK who have been on various disability benefits for some years, and they update us on the hoops they're having to jump through to requalify every so often. Keep this up and weed out the people who are capable, so there's more resources to go to those who truly need it.
I think it's fairer to say you got around to it because they're not checking.

Even with a single machine it's still better to have redundant DNS. You want to be able to move around the machine to a new connection / IP, without having to wait for the registrars to update the IP of the DNS server; similarly when your one DNS provider is DDOSed, your site will stop working, but not if you had 2 different providers. So to answer your question: you as the operator will care, because you want to get things back up quickly ...

I think for small servers it's much preferable to run a hidden primary (not publicly listed in DNS), and let secondary DNS servers update from there. That way you have complete control over your DNS, even when your machine goes down.
This is a wild guess, but a pair of radio buttons on a registration form is a good start.
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And my profile in topcoder.com:
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Ah thanks! We should make that clearer.

For each publisher it breaks down to one of these methods:

1) submission via their online form. we do this automatically via POST.

2) if their form has a captcha, we queue it for manual submission by a human being (most don't have a captcha though - it's just the big guys)

3)email. the majority of sites encourage submissions via an email address.

4) twitter - worst case scenario is we tweet their account for you

5) publishing partner. similar to (3) email, except the publisher can set their preferred time to receive.

All of the above except (2) is automated. I'd guesstimate that for about 95% of the publishers we support, the submissions are all handled by the software. We want to build it as scalable as possible.
Great story...
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iOS / Android app development.

I'll build you an app that will literally figuratively blow your pants clean off. Also, I'll do it from $2000.

Reasons:

I've done a few of these now but the majority are in-house apps and as such I have little to show. I need to build up a bit of a portfolio that folks can actually see.

Also, due to personal circumstances, my hours are all over the place so I'm not Johnny Officehours.

I also have many, many years of web app dev and design experience. Happy to go into more detail via e-message and discuss all the bits & pieces.

Email is in my profile.
Instabridge’s Android + Facebook Connect lets you share Wi-Fi
That's very interesting! Do you just append the bundles to the executable and then have it read itself? I didn't look at the code, admittedly.
Right now it's pretty specific to iPhone / iPad.

Reason being, in order to pre-populate the templates for a customer, we search the iTunes API and grab data about their app (screenshots, name, price etc).

I guess to support "any" app including web apps, there could just be a manual override for this step. I'll put it on the ideas list!
Nice work. It's about time delicious made a comeback!
You really don't have a clue what the rest of the OEMS are doing. Anything at the ultra book level is essentially two pieces. Your huge mega laptops are still user serviceable (like a bricky T class), but not say....a carbon.
Hello Robots, Goodbye Fry Cooks
The entire subject is somewhat "first world problems", so ignore that.

So really your issue is with UI, maybe they could allow you to change which price point is shown to you? Because reducing down to a single price point, sure it might be good in that they're playing less mind games, but if you end up paying higher prices it surely isn't a good change.
Hacker News - In Your Terminal
Looks great! Only two remarks: I think the app icon would look nicer without shine + without the white line at the bottom of the icon.
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Product Design. Specializing in user interface, user experience and visual design for web and mobile apps. Also skilled in front-end web app development.

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j.fulghum at gmail.
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We're ticket search engine (i.e. "Kayak for sports/concerts").

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⇒ Android Developer: Looking for someone to lead the development of our Android app: http://goo.gl/tW3y4
In 1893, when there was no consensus whether there might be sea or land around the north pole, the polar explorer Fridjof Nansen had a theory that there is only sea, and that the currents flow the ice over the polar region from Eastern Siberia, over the pole, towards Svalbard and Greenland.

So he set up an expedition, 12 men and food for 5 years, sailed north of Eastern Siberia and deliberately stuck the ship in the ice. Then waited ...for 3 years, and yes, finally emerged from the ice on the other side, near Svalbard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition
Someone needs to build an online Gource viewer: give it a repo URL and get your video rendered and streamed back to you.
It was never just an image host for reddit. MrGrim made posts on both reddit and Digg hoping to entice users from both sites to use it as a replacement for Photobucket/ImageShack.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com#
I have a friend who used to be very into sleight-of-hand. He described some of his time at a magic camp once, apparently it was a mark of superiority if you managed to putpocket another magician, so they would spend some effort on doing it to each other. I think it's a great mental image -- some poor magician emptying aces out of his pockets in the evening, "damn it, damn it."
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What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2013?
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I disagree. This is how you learn things deeply. It may take more effort and focus initially, and feel harder - though that's a bit of the point -- you remember things better during stressful situations, and the additional information allows your mind to connect more different pieces together, and in different parts of your brain (visual and langage). It might take a year of review before it starts to really click, and understanding the process of learning and so setting your expectations accordingly is how you can be more successful, faster.
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PHP/Javascript/HTML5 Generalist to Help Lead Startup to Glory

A New Chapter

DivShare is seeking a driven developer to join the team. A guru on the frontend with chops on the backend. Specifically, HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript on the front and PHP and SQL around back. You will assist with current code troubleshooting while primarily leading development of the reiteration of the service. A great opportunity to work with a creative startup en route to disruption. This is a temp-to-perm position. 30-40 hours a week ongoing; the more the merrier. DivShare is based in the Motor City but you are based anywhere. Pay commensurable with experience. Ideal Pay/Equity split.

The Ideal Teammate

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Your Experience

- Proficient in PHP and Javascript
- Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve PHP and MySQL bugs
- Large user systems and media streaming
- XFS, Lighttpd, Apache, Linux, MySQL
- Building for the mobile web
- Responsive web sites that gracefully degrade across devices
- Up-to-date on HTML5 and enthusiastic about implementing the latest standards

Bonus Experience

- Java
- PostgreSQL and/or Nginx
- Payment systems
- Implementing third-party APIs
- Building highly scalable architecture

Let's Chart New Territory!

Play a major role in sailing the ship of an established startup. Advancement encouraged. Let us know what you've done and what you'd like to do.

Important: tell us why you would be the perfect fit and what your ideal career looks like. Are you determined to ship good code fast? What are your key strengths? Weaknesses? What's more important, pay or equity or a combination of both? Be honest!

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Some of the listed titles, since the site seems to be under heavy load:

Books:

* Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume I and Volume II

* Philip K. Dick, Minority Report

* Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever

* Fred Gibson, Old Yeller

* Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues

* Alan Lerner, My Fair Lady

* Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

* John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

* Dodie Smith, 101 Dalmatians

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Movie titles:

* Around the World in 80 Days

* The Best Things in Life are Free

* Forbidden Planet

* Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

* It Conquered the World

* The King and I

* The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 remake by Alfred Hitchcock
of his 1934 British film)

* Moby Dick

* The Searchers (1956 film version with John Wayne from Alan Le May’s 1954 novel)

* The Ten Commandments (1956 version by Cecil B. DeMille, who also directed a similar film in 1923)
wow, just... WOW.

I've never seen a simulation of Game of Life in several levels; it's yet more impressive than I thought Game of Life could be per se.
http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/11/5-simple-exerc...
wow!

http://wurstcaptures.untergrund.net/music/?oneliner=t%20%3E%...
In addition I would like to point out that according to TIOBE C is the number one language of the year and C# dropped a place. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Wilson I've finished the Y2K fixes
Oooh, so it's a notation, called Z? Sounds familiar...
Lessons from hustling college note packets
Unless you're the police- then unmanned drones are totally safe right?
I'll take two! It seemed to perform very well.
How a rotating space would help the problems with lack of gravity? I mean, our gravity is up-down and the acceleration from a rotating environment would be lateral. Doesn't that make difference to our body?
I've been using the SeatGeek iPhone app for the past week and it's genuinely outstanding. I'm not an iOS developer, but if I were, it is something I would happily dive into.
VividCortex, Charlottesville, VA (global workforce) - Hiring Front End Developer (salary + options)

We are building a SaaS Platform for systems administration. We are initially focusing on MySQL administration, as we have years of experience building leading tools for the industry. Our beta clients are very well-known, leading tech firms that use MySQL. Our team has years of experience building web applications and with high performance MySQL management.

We are also building a killer UI that will be the primary value for our customers. You'll be focusing on making that UI a reality. Ideally, you have expertise in modern web application development including JavaScript frameworks, building responsive designs for mobile/desktop, API client development, MySQL, and the Symfony2 PHP framework. It wouldn't hurt to be a good sysadmin, good with The Cloud, have some other devopsy buzzwords thrown in too... you get the idea.

If interested, email stuff to jobs@vividcortex.com . We are fun! ;)
The costs of weeding out the capable are high. Not just financially; you have to interview and assess people who might have severe and enduring mental illness and who might be very anxious about that interview and assessment process.

Unfortunately at the moment the assessment, while with a real doctor, is merely a box ticking assessment. You turn up in a clean shirt and tie (because you have a crippling OCD)? You don't get points. You turn up unshaved, unshowered, in an unclean t-shirt? You get points. At the end someone adds up all the points you get. If you get more than X (for physical problems) or more than Y (for MH problems) you get the money, otherwise you're fit to work.

Very many people who are deemed fit to work go on to win their appeals.

And that's the fundamental problem.

Is a wheelchair user able to work? Obviously, yes, there are many jobs someone in a wheelchair can do. Is a person who is totally blind able to work? Again, yes, there are many jobs that person could do. It's the same for people with mental illness; they might be able to work in a quiet office but not do anything customer-facing. The might be able to do many jobs, but need a bit of help to get those jobs.

Moving people off disability (disabled and not working; (we also have "cover extra costs of living because you're disabled benefits which get paid if you're in work or not)) benefits probably just moves them onto different benefits. They might still qualify for housing benefit and tax credits; the person caring for them might qualify for carer's benefit; etc.

Benefits and Tax in the UK is a mess. :-(
For one thing, digital publishers have the same problem that record labels do: piracy

This is not new and it existed before the e-book publishing started to grow. I remember reading a digital edition of the Lord of the Rings 15 years ago. Found it on the 'net. Somebody OCRed the paperback. This is still happening.

What helps the publishers is that with the new reading devices it's easier to buy an original e-book than pirate it. What doesn't help them is that many times the original e-book you buy is actually worse than the one OCRed by the fans. I saw original e-books that lack images or they offer only low-res versions, while the pirated one looks better and contains every image at high resolution.
would you guys hire a non ruby/rails developer(willing to learn of course, i can read/grok it but i've never written anything in it). my background and knowledge only applies to java/c#/python/coldfusion/javascript/xpath/xquery/xslt(i do know backbone/coffeescript which is listed on the job post). thanks!
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WEB development.
PHP, CSS, HTML5, JAVASCRIPT, CSS3,
IOS, ANDROID.
BLOG POSTING, LIKING POSTS ON FACEBOOK.
LOGO DESIGNING, PHOTOSHOP WORK.
COST: WHAT EVER YOU CAN AFFORD.
BANGALORE
remote ok.
Besides the story of unconditional love, I'm completely amazed that it happened through Craigslist, of all the places in which you can meet someone today
The "human side" of this [1]: My little sister is absolutely crushed that her pet, Tyko, is going to go away forever. She was in tears about it last week.

1. Yes, I realize the real human side of this is the people getting laid off.
Trap street
There is a person with schizophrenia who posts to HN, who is shadowbanned due to the comments they leave, which are nonsensical due to their illness. Turn 'showdead' on in your profile, then hit http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos and now http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS .

They've been writing their own operating system in assembly for the last few years: http://www.losethos.com/ and now http://sparrowos.com/

For more: http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html
God bless you.

I have worked with people like this, seen marriages to schizophrenics (somewhat less severe that Sally), and seen families supporting children with severe autism. Many of these are wonderful people and you are blessed to be able to see this.

But you, yourself, are going to need help to make this work.

Doing this for 18 months is one thing but you are going to need to build serious structural support for yourself to make the long haul. Build friend and family relationships where you can talk about what you are going through and which are committed to helping you through it. Make money, save as much as you can and avoid debt like plague, you already have enough stress in your life. Get a life insurance policy, get a will that creates a trust for Sally and receives the proceeds of the policy. If you are of any faith consider building up your church community.

You are essentially married to a not-normal person. You're going to have not-normal problems. It's okay to feel sad and tired and frustrated. Have people around you to help carry the load.

You have taken on a vocation as mental health advocate and social worker. Case management, navigation of the health system, is actually a profession, if you look around you'll probably find tools and practices to help you deal with the enormous administrative overhead involved with services.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but you should go get yourself checked out for psychological and emotional dysfunction. You are clearly yourself not-normal, which is awesome, but take seriously the possibility that you've got weaknesses of your own that need work. If you had ADHD or depression meds would make enormous improvements in your functionality. Even if it's all good, being in therapy, even only once a month, might not be a bad idea. Having a professional who knows you and can spot signs of depression or stress or anxiety could be handy.

I can't say enough how much I admire your vision and determination. My apologies if all of this has already occurred to you. Please take care of yourself.
This made my day.

I need an electric sheep style screensaver for my watched repositories.
Patent Arms Race Fuels Mobile’s Doomsday Machine
> When you do "var B = Object.create(A);", should B be called a clone of A or a copy of A?

Neither. In Self lingo, A is a mixin of B. The least bad wording would be centered around composition, but I guess it could also be understood that B is an extension of A.

It can't be a clone or a copy, because changing A will still impact B, they don't become independent objects.