skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you can develop a native Mac UI for TeXmacs (A WYSIWYG TeX/LaTeX killer)!
From the main author, Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoeven@texmacs.org>:

Hi all,

On the CVS version of TeXmacs, I just completed the abstraction of
the graphical user interface for TeXmacs. This should make it relatively
easy to port TeXmacs to other operating systems (Windows, MacOS)
and use standard toolkit libraries (Qt, Gtk, Aqua, etc.)
for a more native look and feel.

The code has been reorganized as follows:

1) Abstract layers in src/Graphics/Gui and src/Graphics/Renderer.
2) The old X11 interface in src/Plugins/X11.
3) The default TeXmacs widget library in src/Plugins/Widkit.

The font system in src/Graphics/Fonts and src/Graphics/Bitmap_fonts
will be reorganized later.

There are three ways in which external plug-ins can provide
functionality to TeXmacs:

1) By providing a new implementation of renderer.hpp, you can connect
your favorite graphics library (e.g. Cairo) to TeXmacs.
2) By providing implementations of gui.hpp, window.hpp and renderer.hpp,
you can port TeXmacs to another environment where you don't have X11.
3) By providing implementations of gui.hpp, renderer.hpp and widget.hpp,
you can use your own widget library instead of the native TeXmacs widgets.

It should be noticed that no implementation of window.hpp is required
for ports of type 3. However, we highly recomment to always start with step 2
before diving into step 3:

A) Making Widkit available for your new environment will enable you to do
systematic testing that all features have been well implemented.
B) Widkit should be replaced later by a typesetting-based widget library
based on similar system requirements.
C) Porting window.hpp costs less time than porting widget.hpp anyway.

Some very short documentation of the required functionalities has been
added to the header files. The widget library has currently been kept to
a minimum: just what is needed outside Widkit. Later on, we plan to further
improve the interface and add other widgets; this will probably require
a few subsequent changes in the API.

If someone would like to do some porting, then don't hesitate to
ask further questions. A list of particular difficulties that
you might encounter would also be helpful for us (it might be
nice to work out a short tutorial on how to do the porting).

Best wishes, Joris
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I am from Florida, 'diss' still works here.
I'm amazed new parents would have time and energy to catalog every aspect of the kid's early existence with twitter like updates.

Also I really hope the content you post is downloadable in some form. It would suck to have a hard drive crash on this site and erase the first two (painfully documented!) years of your kid's existence.
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Looks like Winer is pretty much in line with many in the YC community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75433

Might this be the milestone we look back on and eval:
(not (not (= google evil)))
Bayesian classification works a bit like this: You have a set of inputs and a set of targets. By having seen a history of elements of the powerset of inputs and its manually tagged classes, the bayesian classificator learns how to classify new elements of the powerset of inputs.

Thus, a bayesian classifier has to know the classes and the inputs before. It cannot extrapolate from the sets it was trained on, since the bayesian approach does not see numbers as something that some operations are defined on, but only as symbols.

A simple backprop neural network can learn addition, though.
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One of my co-founders worked for Google this past summer. He didn't have one negative word to say about it.
For some reason I imagined these things would be way bigger! It's even cooler than I thought.
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I'm not sure about suffering, I got Leopard at 6pm the day it came out and have been using it successfully ever since. I think far too many people like to complain these days about every single thing that Apple does. Having Spaces and Time Machine is worth the upgrade for me. No suffering here. But to anyone complaining, go use Vista for a week and then come back to Leopard.
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Once in a blue moon an entrepreneur will try to play partners at a venture firm against each other - much like a child plays his mom against his dad...
I like the idea but it's hard to make something that is generic enough to be useful, easy to use and not too expensive: you can't both provide a complete framework and promote quick prototyping of innovative devices (by definition, a framework is constraining).

At the moment, it looks like a few expensive blocks that, once assembled, don't do more than some high-end phones.

Microcontroller programming is not necessarily complicated; there are easy to use tools that let you focus on the application (Arduino boards and IDEs, MikroElektronika boards and IDEs, PICbasic/Propeller modules, PSoC Express, etc.)
Google doesn't have to keep your data for you. The OpenSocial API is just a specification. Google's own applications implement the specification, and you can too. The API is designed to be able to work with data on any host. It's in the very nature of the addressability of the API's data. Look in the documentation, and you'll see lots of URIs that look like:

http://{domain}/feeds/people/{user-id}

Notice that "domain" is a variable. In any case, why would you worry about Google being able to store data that is publicly accessible through a standardized API?
Are you saying that a neural network can learn addition symbolically? Can you recommend a book or site to read about this?
"Facebook would consider joining Google's OpenSocial platform; Jim said that the company isn't philosophically opposed to what Google is trying to do..."

I read another article(http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/confirmed-myspace-to-jo...) which illustrates it like an immature high school bully of some sort, which I think is a pretty misleading presentation of facts. Clearly this is a much and long needed initiative that solves the problem that the users have always yearned a solution for, and I think it would be rather selfish,irrational, and/or childish to refuse to cooperate in its endeavor. I, for one, is strongly in support of this initiative and I'm very curious to find out how Google will organize it.
Can you recommend a book or site to read about this?

David MacKay wrote a good intro book on Bayesian, neural networks, and related topics: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
First of all, an online to-do list probably does not qualify as a good idea.

And secondly, good hackers can be hired too; it is possible to replicate most things.

I think that valuable web entrepreneurs are, in general, good hackers and good businessmen. A lot of hackers think the business end isn't important and a lot of businessmen think the technology isn't important. They are wrong. You will probably have serious competition and you need to be prepared to compete.

This isn't a kind industry. A lot of teams get crushed. Your team ought to be able to compete on both the business and technical fronts.

edit: I noticed you are one of the founders of DropBox. I don't know a great deal about your product. But, as far as I can tell we agree. DropBox seems like a straightforward, simple, focused application.
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As far as I can tell, Adobe isn't an unincorporated collective of cash-strapped college students. That is an awful comparison and you should know better. Adobe is not a start up.
I don't see anything obviously wrong with these APIs, but they don't live up to the hype about "opening social networks". OpenSocial does nothing to break down the identity silos and their network effects.
Are you referring to the "JavaScript API" or the "Data APIs?" Because the Data APIs are pretty plainly based on the Atom Publishing protocol, with only a few extensions. Yes, many of Google's APIs are now based on Atompub, but that isn't something that Google invented from whole cloth.
No offense, but that is the worst idea I've ever seen in my entire life. Nobody in the whole world would ever want to use that.
Wow. His writing style is exceedingly annoying. And, either as a result of that or not, I feel as though this is the fifth installment of something he wrote of which I haven't read the preceding parts.
I use Vista more than a week and never look back on OSX Tiger (yes, I know it's not Leopard).
On a random note, I was first introduced to Paul Graham's writings by his article on the Bayesian spam filter he wrote.
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What the holy h* has this got to do with startups or hacking?

As for what they did, it was highly irresponsible. Some people (like me) are very sensitive to that kind of thing.
but at this point I think if there will be any standards it would be OpenSocial, i.e. Google, rather than Facebook with their platform. I dont think it will be that easy to pull off what Microsoft did, for anyone else, the web is open and no one can create a competitive advantage by setting standards anymore. There will be standards but only those that are open and not locked down by one site or company.
I'm confused....is the conclusion that we should listen to the one dissenting scientist in ten thousand because he gets a few column inches in the Wall Street Journal?
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From a scientific standpoint, we shouldn't listen to one scientist any more than we should listen to a thousand of them. Science is about models and reproducible experiments. Not consensus.

Since this was an op-ed and not a description of a model or an experiment, it's about opinion and politics. I believe the conclusion is that some scientists have different opinions and political views than others, right?
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Indeed. 99.99% of the world's scientists, based on careful interpretation of many thousands of peer-reviewed studies, agree that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.

A vanishingly small handful of scientists happen to disagree with this assessment, based mostly upon their opinion and politics.
Agreed, that's an entirely useless article with little information save his opinion.
Repeat after me: model and reproducible experiment, model and reproducible experiment. All science is provisional and must maintain falsifiability for it to be called science.

Statements about how many scientists believe any thing, from phrenology to aether to gravity, is an interesting observation about the current opinions and politics of those who practice science. It is not science itself.
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I think its kind of true... I am starting to get the same feeling from Google that I used to get from Microsoft... but the irony is that Microsoft is now actually with Facebook... for some reason the bigger Google gets, the better I am starting to feel about Microsoft... but I am usually a fan of underdogs :)
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Thousands of peer-reviewed studies (that means models and experiments) have come to the conclusion that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.

It may be "interesting" that one guy in Alabama disagrees with the overwhelming scientific consensus on this issue, but it's certainly no more interesting than the members of the flat earth society, or my great uncle Fred, who happens to think that radio waves cause cancer.
Whether you're interested in the book or not, don't miss this page:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/Potter.html

Should you buy the MacKay text or one by J.K. Rowling?
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It is not true that there is overwhelming scientific consensus about the probability of climate change. While I would agree that most scientists think that it is most likely that "global warming is real", there is a great deal of uncertainty among even the worlds leading climate scientists about the probability of global warming.

A few years ago I ran a betting game among students and faculty in the MIT climate program, the idea was to develop some feeling for the 'community consensus' of the likelyhood of global warming. The conclusion: ~71% chance of global warming over the next century.

http://www.sethjohn.com/PAOC%20CFM/slide1.html
You said you were confused about the point of the article. I believe I have explained the purpose of op-eds.

Now I believe you are trying get into a discussion about global warming. My suggestion is that if you are still confused, the topic of your confusion should be "why op-eds about my pet causes bother my sensibilities"

I'm afraid I do not have an answer to that question. I'm not trying to be a flip with you, it just seems your initial post was not as clear as it could have been. I'm sure there are lots of folks who would like to argue global warming with you. I am not one of them.
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"So I've been watching with great interest as the band "Radiohead" pursues its experiment with pay-what-you-want downloads on the Internet. In the near term, the goodwill has inspired lots of people to pay. But I suspect many of them are placing a bet that paying a few bucks now will inspire all of their favorite bands to offer similar deals. That's when the market value of music will approach zero."
Is Google guilty of early optimization? :)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"That hypothesis was tested by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords "climate change" (9).

The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.

Admittedly, authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point.

This analysis shows that scientists publishing in the peer-reviewed literature agree with IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the public statements of their professional societies. Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect."
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The only "pet cause" that I have, is to debunk the notion that outsider opinions in science should be given consideration because they are in the minority.

I'm sorry if you were confused by my use of rhetoric. However, it gave you a chance to lecture me on the properties of science ("models and experiments"), so perhaps it wasn't time wasted?
The original author is arguably the world's best mathematician. He certainly hasn't gone nowhere. It may be worth considering that he knows what he's talking about.
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I know this is cliche, but it wouldn't hurt to add social networking capabilities. This is actually an idea of mine I applied to YC with two cycles ago. It was a social network for product reviews and product prices where users would gather in interest groups (gaming pc's, music rigs) and bookmark the products they have, or want, on their profiles. Users would then jump from user to user to see what set up others are using. Each product would have it's own page with a rating, reviews, and scour the internet for the best prices. Not only would you index new products by scouring the net, but users would be motivated to find new products and submit them to your site.

More realistically, however, I think a feature that allows users to bookmark products and receive alerts when new lower prices have been found would increase stickiness. Imagine a user coming to your site, bookmarking a product and sort of forgetting about it, only to find an email alert telling them a lower price has been found, and they're back.
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It may be worth considering that I am talking about chess.
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There are really a couple of separate issues here. First, it is important to distinguish between the general scientific agreement about past climate changes and the greater confusion about the probability of future climate changes. One of the main reasons why there is such broad agreement among the community is that scientists have tended to focus on the answerable questions such as "has the earth been getting warmer over the last X years" rather than the thornier question of "what caused the earth to get warmer" and "will the earth continue to get warmer." Very few scientific papers have been written that make predictions on the question of future climate.

It is also important to remember that while there is generally scientific consensus that global warming is "probably" happening (whatever that means!) or that it is "probably" caused by humans, there is a great deal of uncertaintly about exactly what the probabilities are. If you could get all scientists to agree that there was about a 71% chance that the next century would be warmer, does that count as "scientific consensus that climate change is likely"?
You made an analogy to Facebook, so you weren't just talking about chess.
The economic argument from the AGW advocates (Stern report) is that we should spend $100 today to avoid spending $95 (or less) in the future.
Read the article.

What caused the earth to get warmer?

"the National Academy of Sciences report, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, begins: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise" [p. 1 in (5)]. The report explicitly asks whether the IPCC assessment is a fair summary of professional scientific thinking, and answers yes: "The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue" [p. 3 in (5)]."

Will it continue?

Directly from the IPCC report:

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/035.htm#temperature

"Global mean temperature continues to increase for hundreds of years at a rate of a few tenths of a degree per century after concentrations of CO2 have been stabilised, due to long time-scales in the ocean....If greenhouse gas concentrations were stabilised (even at present levels), sea level would nonetheless continue to rise for hundreds of years....The loss of a substantial fraction of the total glacier mass is likely. Areas that are currently marginally glaciated are most likely to become ice-free."
You have an infinite loop when i < 2^30.

static int nextOne(int theInt) {
int answer = 1;
while (answer < theInt && 0 < answer) {
answer <<= 1;
}
if (answer < 1) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Sorry, " +
theInt + " is bigger than 2 to the power of 30 (1073741824).");
}
return answer;
}
I've looked at the chapter on neurall networks. It does not seem to address operations with symbols, only numbers...
Can someone explain why this got upmodded to #1? It reads like it was written by a 23 year old who just got turned down by google's HR department. And then:

Don't get me started about the developers. They hardly do any work, they get quoted in the press all the time as if they're gods, and make millions of dollars, and I do all the work

Huh? Satire? I can't tell...
Where do you find ideas? How should I go about finding ideas for software to make?
Why or how is it going to get cheaper to deal with if we procrastinate?
Thanks for your input! Not everyone will enjoy this, but we hear both sides of the fence.

Sleep.FM was a semi-finalist for TechCrunch40 and recently chosen out of 20 companies(they pick 6) to present to a crowd of 400 where Microsoft and Facebook will be present.
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What was wrong with sicp?
Did I mention this..?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/brintoul/tiredofgoogle.html

"It reads like it was written by a 23 year old who just got turned down by google's HR department." -- this is exactly what I would expect to hear from a Fanboy.
I think the design is fine. It's silly to classify this as Web 2.0, that doesn't make any sense.

As for what it does, on the homepage: Generate, Manage & Track New Leads. All in one place. That's 9 words and one symbol. This is a sales tool, you labeling it as something that's related to marketing makes it clear you're not part of the demographics.
Did I mention this? :

http://s3.amazonaws.com/brintoul/tiredofgoogle.html
The Ali G pitch to Trump is hilarious.
"We're not worthy" ... right?
Damn, I'm going to be in Seattle this time around. But I'm sure my co-founder will jaunt up. Roll, YC start-upper dudes!
I am not sure how many times I have seen this video, I love it, I love this man, I love his speech and I truly can't get enough of it... sometimes I have some doubts and there is few things that can clear them out for me, this video might be one of them ... I just watched it again, and I am pumped
Of course! Who could forget the membrane keyboard!?
Did I mention..?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/brintoul/tiredofgoogle.html
Did I mention...?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/brintoul/tiredofgoogle.html
Yes, we have a Windows Mobile prototype working and it will be finished soon. iPhone in Feb. when they release their SDK.

We definitely are aware of of other uses of The Social Alarm and will be detailing that in a presentation on Tuesday.

There are a ton of things to be done by meshing the alarm clock(or an audio alert system if you prefer to classify it as such) with the Internet. We plan on implementing a lot more to this concept!

Again, thank you everyone for your comments and honesty!
I love the phrase "trading at a not-preposterous 55x earnings"

Let's look at P/E ratios of their competition at the top:

XON 13

GE 18

MSFT 24

AT&T 30

Citigroup 8

Let's look at some other big web/software firms:

Oracle 26

Adobe 42

Yahoo 60 (40B market cap)

Amazon 100 (but only a 30B market cap)

Google's Market Cap is 220B. The older big software companies (Oracle, Adobe, MSFT) seem to have been stuck between 20 and 40 for a while now. I conclude based on this rigorous analysis that Google's eventual ideal P/E is around 30, and that investor hype has inflated its value by around $110B, or about 1% of US annual GDP.
For your particular search, "Dell Inspiron Laptop", I would expect our current product to return a bunch of batteries and accessories. Only because Dell sells computers like J. Crew sells clothes. That is, if you want to buy a J. Crew Sweater, your best bet is to walk into a J. Crew store.

Sony is a different case. You'll see their systems at many retailers. So, if you search "Sony Vaio"- http://bountii.com/search.php?item=sony+vaio , you'll find our results are more than adequate.

The major strength of current product is that it is great at finding the best prices for people who know what they want. We're in the process of improving our browsing capability as that's the way a lot of people like to shop. And, since we also want that to be one of our big strengths, we'll have to include "Dell Inspiron Laptops" from Dell in our index.

-John