skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another good place to start would be Haskell. Real World Haskell is a good book, and there are several resources to get you started on the web (http://learnyouahaskell.com/ , http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/YAHT ).

I just started immersing myself in RWH (had to take a brief break from it because I switched clients) but I really liked the book.

Naturally I agree with apgwoz that SICP is another good place to start if you decide to go with Scheme. It is definitely a book every programmer should read, so you do get two for the price of one ;-)

Good luck.
My dad's generation used IBM and I don't even use their stuff, let alone future generations.
the last recording of <good news>These cookies are delicious</good news> is amazing. 'delicious' sounds almost human.
scratches head I tried to convert my site (http://www.shiveringkittens.com) and just got back the original form, with no apparent PDF document to download. What'd I miss?
Paper review from OSDI '08: FlightPath, a BAR tolerant peer to peer streaming protocol
Thats fair, but if you ask anyone in the music community, it doesnt look like myspace is going to be out of the race anytime soon. Its their job to make this strength (perhaps the last one they have) work to revive them.

Personally, I dont think the issue is leaving users, becuase facebook will deal with that too eventually (or at least hoards of inactive users). Rather, I think the issue here is the inability to reinvent themselves / make big changes becuase of their fun corporate overlords.

There are probably some awesome designers and developers that know the massive changes that needs to be made at myspace to make it a winner again, but are being given no incentive (or negative) to go after those changes.

The best part about BEING #2, which has served facebook, but which could also serve myspace in the future, is that you can learn on #1's dime. Look at their mistakes/problems, and fix them. Facebook has had notorious issues with their ad targeting system, their developer platform, etc. Myspace has bigger issues to fix first, but if given enough leeway they could fix their own issues and grow again.
Vermont has an interesting "virtual" company provision now which could attract you if you intend to have a geographically dispersed board and do not wish to come together for meetings.
A Tcpdump Primer
So this is a one-man project that offers it for free and someone has the balls to complain because it doesn't support (for valid reasons or whatever) his particular (broken) browser?

If it's so important to "business types" to support IE here's an idea: make them pay a fee so it covers the extra development costs (this is not outrageous in general; there are open source projects that cost money for the Windows version).

This is not a government site or an Amazon that has to please everybody. I bet none of the people complaining have ever suffered trying to code around the IE compatibility problems.
I believe they are saying time is a concept that is useful for explaining certain local experiences, but under certain more global circumstances, the defining characteristics of the concept of time could potentially change, causing us to need a new concept to describe it.
The cash rewards always really turned me off from DJB - it sounded like borderline crackpot behavior. The fact that he actually paid it out instantly puts all doubts to rest about his seriousness. I'm of course a long time fan of qmail and djbdns daemontools etc..
I understand his motivation to provide incentives for people to find bugs in his software. Question: how do you provide incentives for people to break your system and report it to you without sounding like a crackpot, other than hiring them?
Well the thing to remember is that everything is checked twice and there's a 1.5 safety factor on top to protect against mistakes but the state of the industry is poor.

Engineers often get away with creating monstrous spreadsheets that are difficult to follow:

- scattered logic
- methodology obsficated with complex excel formulas
- magic numbers that you have a hell of a time tracking down the source of
- links all over the place. Are they still valid or have they gone bad due to all the copy/pasting? etc etc

As a programmer who has to write something that has logic and no ambiguity for a computer to understand it, it makes you want to beat your head against a wall trying to understand and check someones work.

Until recently (victim of the downturn) I was in a small dev team looking to automate and improve things. We had some good wins but it's a struggle.

If someone like toyota starts making aircraft seriously and develops more standardized methods rather than simply employing piles of engineers to punch numbers wildly into excel they may be able to crush everyone else in time to market.
Have a reputation. Nobody who is qualified to review djb's code is going to get him confused with a crackpot.
Yes, I've read that. And it supports my point: the coffee-shop wasn't able to make a profit, and it went out of business.
They should go back and study Alexander Bell's work on human physiology and the voice. I wonder if it would be possible to use virtual models of human vocal anatomy to inform the production of more accurate sounds in realtime?
Icelandic logic behind the meltdown
"Look, nowadays we have powerful IDEs that help programmers do their job."

There is a very good one for Lisp called SLIME.

(I suppose it's actually SLIME + Emacs, but that makes my point less concise so I will leave this as a parenthetical remark.)
Could Texting Slang Be Good For Kids?
Actually I learned it for 2 semesters before coming to Vienna.

After 6 months in Vienna I could speak basic German but definitely not work & live without using English most of the time.

There is a big difference between being able to exchange pleasantries & understanding the menu at a restaurant and being able to conduct an intelligent conversation or explain complex ideas in it.

Maybe if you're a construction worker your requirements are different, but you cannot work as a (good) software developer without sharing a high level of understanding of at least one language with your coworkers.
I wish it had auto-scroll like some of the other reading apps on the iPhone which scroll faster when you tilt more and slower when you tilt back.
Nice 1 line patch... I'm surprised it could be fixed so easily.
The why and how of voice portals
The kind of advertising immunity people have built up in this day and age is pressuring brands to move farther off the beaten path in order to get noticed.

Humans notice things that are new and different, and leveraging that irrespective of whether the difference is positive or not can be an advantage to some brands, especially ones that are trying to usurp an incumbent, well-established brand.
English is West Germanic (like German) but have had most of its vocabulary replaced by a Latin-derived one (see: the Norman invasion of Britain).
Maybe a good reason to always have a small virus on a USB stick with you at all times, that could be used to spread the information quickly.
Contradictory Observations
I think that leaves Haskell and Python?

The Python indentation thing was an inspired choice and usually works very well, but sometimes fails in a way that would be solved neatly if everything was delimited with parentheses. But it is a pragmatic compromise much in the spirit of the rest of Python (or "Pythonic" as they say). There is a lot of use of delimiters in data collection literals and list comprehensions, though, which are commonly used parts of the language.

Haskell, to me, demonstrates the problem of getting rid of almost all delimiters. I have a hard time scanning Haskell code and discerning the structure or figuring out what is being applied to what, etc.

I like Clojure's approach: mix up the delimiters to provide cues for mentally parsing the code at a glance. If you see [], it is usually a place where variables are defined and destructuring can happen. () is function or macro application or a special form. {} is mapped data. Along with consistent indentation, I find it quite readable.

I credit you, though, for declaring your hate of all delimiters equally :). I find the people who abhor parentheses while never noticing all the {};<> in their preferred language a bit maddening.
Probably, but I don't think I should try to hide my biases and personal opinions on social news sites.
Without Lisp, I am nothing :)
I can't get into specifics per confidentiality at my job, but I'll tell you this: if you saw some of the things being done in the financial sector with Excel that I have you'd cry and go into a fit of rage.
Maybe we are wasting our time discussing this. I agree that discussing this makes us feel intellectually satisfied, but nothing really worthwhile comes from this discussion.

I think 'Is time an illusion' is akin to asking 'define love'. I know it is corny.
Kudos to Amazon for not letting Kindle's success delude them about their real business (selling books) or from doing right by customers yet again.
"3) My time is very, very expensive -- I shoot for $100 an hour." - Aren't sales the life blood of your business? Is there anything else more important? Do other sales channels cost you less time and produce a higher return on investment? It almost sounds like you're looking for the goose that lays golden eggs. It's like you want to make a sale without any effort at all or if you do put time/effort in - you want paid "extra" for your time - doesn't the sale of product pay your salary?

p.s. I have no affiliation with stormpluse - although I love their site.
Small security patches aren't uncommon -- offhand, I'd guess that about 75% of FreeBSD security advisories are fixed by patches of 5 lines or less.
Why Nevada over Delaware if you're self-funded?
Why the quotes around "programmers"? I think Facebook is mostly PHP (or at least was initially?) and I am definitely not going to claim no one working at Facebook is a programmer.

I understand that PHP is an atrocious language (although I haven't tried it myself). But if someone uses it to create a product that people want and satisfies a need, more power to them, right?
You're wrong. For titles available on the Kindle, more than 10% of sales are now via the Kindle [1] That's significant and about to increase now that content can be accessed on an iPhone.

[1] blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2009/02/09/amazons_jeff_bezos_explains_th.html
I suspect that it's more important in the long run for Amazon to create the de facto DRMed ebook format than to sell the Kindle hardware. With this move, they've probably just checkmated every other competing ebook format and guaranteed that they will remain the first place people go to buy books for a long time.
Does anyone know how much this is going to cost? Is it a premiumm on top of Ec2 or something like that?
Conduct Standing Meetings
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enjoy these a bit more when they are a bit more thorough and dont have such an obvious bias
That looks really interesting...but what's with all the ruby-only stuff? I haven't seen enough of a reason to move from python to ruby, and they both seem like appropriate technologies for something like this.
Why don't you do a music + pitch combination. Get an unknown band to play, get a series of people to present their idea. It would be more interesting than just a bunch of unversed, poor presenters reading powerpoint slides. If people get used to the idea of a pitch being infotainment, they will start to do them correctly. A pitch is an advertisment, and and advertisement should not be a guy just reading some text.

The mixed audience will also give the presenters feedback from non-technical people.
New wing invented in Belarus. Look for the pictures.
Its 40-60% better for almost any type of airplane
But the application doesn't scroll, it pages. That would only make sense if you're trying to flip through pages quickly (which is quite rare)
All I got from that was that he _really_ likes Java
This is great for people who buy Kindle books from Amazon. But Amazon does not let you sync all the content on your Kindle - it leaves out, for instance, the free/public domain stuff that you didn't buy from Amazon. Non-Amazon content is a large part of my Kindle library - partial sync makes this app useless for me, unfortunately. Stanza/eReader are much more useful from that perspective.
Its 40-60% better for almost any type of airplane, including the big ones
I have played with heroku in the past(what is now herokugarden.com) and I have to say I have been keeping an eye on this. It seems they have abandoned the whole web-editor idea and focused solely on the ruby\rails hosting-in-the-cloud aspects. Good way to go IMHO. The web-based editor was cool and all, but most people still wouldn't use it and just upload their apps or use git.

I just registered for a beta-invite, so here goes!
Meanwhile, Canadians are still telling jokes of the form, "It cost me around five bucks, which means about 7.7 million of your dollars."
All Aboard the Twitter Bandwagon
IIRC, Nevada is pretty light on state taxation.

Quick look at Wikipedia notes that there are no personal or corporate state taxes.
That's brilliant looking, and I bet it gets rid of drag from wingtip vortices and stuff.

How cool! I hope this makes it into airliners, it'll be all Jetsons!
Indentation reader for Scheme:

http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~anc505/code/sugar-read.scm

Some less-parenthesised forms for Scheme:

http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~anc505/code/macro-sans-par...

Scheme mode for Emacs will fade out any remaining parenthesis :)
Even if you just modeled a lung and rhythmic breathing, that could be really useful in figuring out when to put in more natural pauses.
Broadcasters seek changes for 'broken' industry
damn, that's fast
Kindle for iPhone is disappointingly basic and glitchy. Yet still amazing.
Your job posts on the main page look like google ads for some reason.
I also like the reduced cross section of the plane...
Dispatching With "with"
Routing mesh? Dyno grid? Compiled slugs? A Dyno has SEVEN layers? Grey font on grey background?

Man I feel old.
I'm impressed, and that doesn't happen so often.

The ruby and database lock-in need to go away - then you have a winner, hands down.

This is actually my only recommendation to you guys: Don't limit yourselves to being the AppEngine for rails. Open up a bit and you'll wipe the floor with RightScale & friends, too.
Kindle for iPhone. Well played, Amazon.
What are the engineering advantages of this kind of wing?
Check out http://tiddlywiki.com - They do dynamic display of content very quickly, very well. You should be able to learn from their approach.
Does it really matter? You can always switch your corporation's state at a later date.
We used to make paper planes a bit like that. Paper tubes, actually: http://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes/...
Don't care about their style, its a very nice service, I wish somebody do it for Django+Python (or maybe a improvement to Google Appengine)
They deny this "backside" money pretty emphatically on their home page. However, the mortgage industry's reputation is so shredded at this point that I scarcely believe them for no other reason than they're in the mortgage business.
Do I also have a moral obligation to click on the ads, in case the ad purchaser is being paid by the click instead of by the audience size?

If I watch a TV show with commercials, do I have a moral right to go to the bathroom during the commercial breaks, even if I won't be able to hear the commercials from inside the bathroom?
I like it!, they are going to be huge!, if they add Python + Django and maybe PHP they'd be the most awesome service.
More intrusive? Could you cite examples?

There is a business model that would afford the sites that are valuable to users to continue being operational: charging people. If ads can be circumvented, as we know they can, and your site relies on ads, maybe you should charge people outright for your content. If you can't make money by charging people, who cares if your site goes down but you?

The value of a site cannot be determined by the operator of it. Only the users determine the value.
OR you could just go the old way and buy hosting and use something that scales well.
That makes no sense. A: Email is free already so who needs a 'poor mans' email? And B: Twitter is nothing like email in terms of it's function and use.
from the article:

1) it increases the angle at which army planes can attack (now its only 13%, but will be twice more)

2) it stands up to 2 times stronger side wind

3) reduces fuel spending

4) easier to make as the normal wings have a lot of mechanicks in them

5) less space needed to take off, also can take off on uneven surfaces
Python: I am sick and tired of these mother----ing snakes on this mother----ing plane!

I just had to, OK?
Try to define time. Or just go to the wikipedia article and listen to them try to define it, and digress into a discussion on how some people don't believe in it.

It's very hard to describe time without using the word time: A series of events -- What's an event? The best one I have is: Why can't two object occupy the same space? Well, they can, but at different times. Not really an explanation, but I think it's a good illustration.

Isn't time sort of like goodness, so fundamental that it's indescribable with invoking itself?
There was a (contested) claim against qmail, where Georgi Guninski found an LP64 integer overflow that would only have been exploitable if you explicitly configured your system to allow qmail to consume huge amounts of memory. The code was imperfect, but the deployed software was safe. So far as I know, DJB didn't pay this out. I'm ambivalent about it.
Google sets up Code Labs for for early-stage developer products
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I changed it to a standard format. Sorry about that!
If you resides in California, don't you still need to pay CA business taxes?
Sounds worth it if it allows Google to auto-opt-in all authors into having their books digitized.
time isn't an illusion here where we are now, but it doesn't exist outside of this physical life-space.
I don't think the guarantee was a win.

I think most non-security people have roughly the same initial reaction as you did; it sounded silly, especially because lots of commercial enterprises have offered "security guarantees" and held "hacking contests" and weaseled at the results.

I know most security people don't care about the guarantee. We try to beat up on DJB's software because it is so hard to find security flaws in it, everyone knows that, and so a finding is a major reputation win. Nobody cares about the $1000; that's significantly less than a day's bill rate for the class of researcher that is likely to find these flaws.

The moral of this story is, don't bother with the guarantee:

(1) You will end up being asked to pay it out, because you are not Daniel J. Bernstein, and you will not write software as solid as qmail.

(2) It isn't going to impress anyone you care about.

(3) It isn't going to motivate hard-core researchers.
Start your company with a credit card and a cloud
Mysql Sharding For A Site That Gets 5 Billion Views Per Month
I'm just saying that the demographic here is more people that think they can get rich off some PHP app than hard-core Lisp hackers. I am not saying that there are no PHP programmers, merely that the PHP-lovers here don't do much programming.

I am being unfair to PHP, though... Java sucks too.
Google translation of article:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vsr...
Does it actually fly? It's not airborn on the pictures.
Whenever I think about the financial sector at all, I cry and/or go into a fit of rage already. So it's probably for the best that I don't know.
Google CEO Admits Economy is “Pretty Dire;” Hands Executives 6-Figure Bonuses
Um, message board geek? I just agreed with you. Take a xanax.
reminds me of Fanwing. http://www.fanwing.com/
Yes, easily. If browsers all had a big button for stripping ads and rendering pages in a "reader-friendly" style, all the major content sites would break all their stories into 10-page flows with timed interstitial ads.
Poor Man's Email?
Its ready for manufactoring. The work started 15 years ago.
Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
I just got one and am the biggest evangelist of it to my friends. Also have spent over 100 in the last week of it.
Nonsense.

If you make the content of your site freely available with the knowledge that users can access your site in a way that circumvents your business model you've signed up for a business model that isn't dependable.

This is no different than a street musician wanting money from people that stop to listen to the music they play. Maybe the listener, having heard the music, determines it's not of any monetary value. Are they obligated to pay anyway? No, and the street musician knows this. They understand that only a certain percentage of people that stop to listen will actually pay anything. It's true, too, that maybe someone will listen to the music and be unable to pay. Should they block their ears as they walk past because they cannot give what the musician would like to receive for his service? In the case of a screen reader, maybe the user doesn't even know the ads exist.

If the street musician decides his business model isn't supporting him as much as he'd like, maybe he'll stop playing music. And will the public that decided to not pay him anything really care that he doesn't play it anymore? No. They decided it wasn't valuable enough to pay for.

If you feel your content is worth something or you need money to continue providing it, you should charge people for it outright, or make an explicit request for donations. If people find value in your content and are able to, they will pay for it.

It should not be expected that when you put content freely available somewhere, whether it be publishing a blog or playing music in the street that everyone who reads or hears it finds it of equal value or is willing and able to pay for it. You, as that site owner or musician do yourself a disservice if you expect otherwise.
When I dug into this when I was setting up, my understanding was that, in Delaware, there is established case law dealing with multiple shareholders that investors really like. But in Nevada, privacy laws are supposedly stronger (I believe they don't share corporate info with the IRS) and it is advertised that Nevada courts are less likely to pierce the corporate veil. A recent googling just turned up this counter-argument to that (http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/forum/f2-general-business/d...) so YMMV.

I believe the costs are pretty comparable if you're an out-of-stater: You'll get hit with annual registration fees (slightly higher in Nevada, I believe) and the need for a registered agent in either location, but you'll get hit with a franchise tax in Delaware (not sure if it offsets the Nevada registration fee off the top of my head). Either way, if you're not operating in Nevada or Delaware, the state in which your business is operating is going to want taxes, so it doesn't really help in that regard. (And, as an aside, if you're in California, taxes really suck).