skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people have a gleeful need to be mischievous; but they also feel bad about it, and so they immediately reveal their mischief, well, gleefully.

Note that this hackernews post - and your reply - increases the publicity. But on what basis could anyone possibly object to his tactics anyway?

http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com http://flushirts.spreadshirt.com (I'm not him, just making a point)
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I think this is the power of twitter - to be able to hear word of mouth, and influence it. Like any communication, it doesn't need to be done in a misleading way.

This might be partly why twitter gets so much mainstream press/TV: it is a good thing for their advertisers.
Yep, my introductory programming course at university was also based on Oberon (actually, it was the second course, the first one was based on Miranda).
I absolutely loathed the interface with the interclicks and crummy text editor.
The concepts in the system were good. In my opinion it was just an utter usability failure.
That's a bit cynical. The only reason he'd do such a thing would be to increase buzz.
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Young's is nice, but the Subversion concept is orders of magnitude more awesome because it populates the city on the fly, as you approach. Like a fractal.
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Is this game going to grow bigger and bigger?
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No-one in the Python world has anything invested in a 100% Python solution to anything

PyPy? http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/
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> welcome to the community!

Now thats the first time I have heard a lisper say that.
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We provide an open source version of the language (Component Pascal = Oberon V2) and a runtime environment (BlackBox) running on Windows (http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html). Regards, tamberg
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+1

And try to surround yourself with other developers who share that passion and drive. Nothing kills motivation than working with folks who view software development as an easy paycheck.
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The most you can hope for is market returns with this technique. That's good in itself. But I would not call it 'steady'.
Wired usually has more thoughtful articles than this. The selling points for the Kindle are the battery life and outside-viewable screen. The Tablet iPhone won't address these at all.
Title should read "Google provides an easier URL to http://mail.google.com/mail/contacts/ui/ContactManager (since April)"

Sorry for the sarcasm but sth like this is also stated in one of the first comments.
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Perhaps you can fit it to the following form (twiddling with parameters a and b):

life expectancy = (maximum life expectancy) - a * exp(-time*b)

If yes, you could still call it exponential in a certain sense of the word. But I doubt that will be very helpful.
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FYI: If you want to upvote, just do it. Comments that add value to the discussion seem to be received much more warmly.
In most browsers you can simply open bookmarklets as you would any other bookmark--the location doesn't matter.

Also, in Safari, the first 10 bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar folder can be activated by pressing Cmd-1, Cmd-2, etc. even when the Bookmarks Bar is not visible.
Like running a criminal monopoly.

The problem with monopolies in the technical area is that they have a business reason to be incompatible (otherwise, they'll be cloned). That means they build over complex systems which have finicky compatibility problems.

For a typical example, see this:
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadshee...

The monopolist's need for obscurity and complexity doesn't just cost the developing company money, it hurts people trying to use their systems or interact with their systems.

Also, it hurts the speed of technological change. When an area is owned by a monopolist, the development investments are moved to an area that isn't owned yet -- paid for by milking the safe income. That means the owned areas (like web browsers) languish.

In short, unethical monopolies hurts my life quality in multiple ways, since I get to work with worse systems (well, not that I work with Windows any longer).

Edit: Grammar, clarity.
It's extremely sad to see how much investigation effort is done nowadays behind stories. More stories is not always better.
That's an example of how architecture trumps language.
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just stop reading him if it bother you a lot... for me you're not seeing all his articles objectively, since you criticize pretty much all codinghorror articles.
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Ask HN: Would a visual way to browse related and similar projects on ohloh/sourceforge be useful?
I'm thinking a project would list its dependencies (or even better they could be discovered automatically from the code, makefiles, autotools files), and you could navigate those dependencies with a map-like interface. Potentially you'd be able to follow the map all the way to libc at the north pole ...

Why? Because it'd be a great way to visualize the way projects fit together. It may even help us better identify projects that bridge the same gaps, which may be an opportunity for collaboration between the teams. Or it may shed light on an especially sparse area, where more projects need to exist. If anything, it could be a great way to become more acquainted with things we indirectly use on a daily basis.

What do you think?
The C DLL was one of RSA Data Securities reference implementations from about a decade back. The Smalltalk guy could ask the VM implementor for goodies -- like 32 bit and 64 bit bit-arrays and various primitive operations on them.

So long as you keep an entire algorithm in one method, and restrict yourself to certain optimized operations, the resulting JIT-ed code will look like it was produced by an unoptimized C compiler. There will be no Smalltalk message sends. (This approach is a bit fragile, though, since you have to have esoteric knowledge to maintain code like that and keep the same level of optimization. Most of the time, you'd just implement a speed-critical operation like this as a DLL in C to be called from Smalltalk. Smalltalk/X has a different approach -- you just inline C code in your Smalltalk method.)

Combine that with naive memory management in the C code, and you have C code that loses a benchmark. Mind you, that was bad C code -- reference code only has to be correct, not fast.

"Smalltalk is Slow" usually a sign of ignorance or trolling. For lots of problem domains, the advanced commercial Smalltalk VMs are pretty darn fast.
that's odd. I doubled the size of mine (two rows). Is there some other solution to having one click access to your most visited sites?
It doesn't "border harassment", it is harassment. It's also perfectly reasonable that you should be getting harassed when withholding people's livelihoods due to your incompetence. Stop your whinging today; pay up today (through another means, if needs be); then sort your failure of a payment system out. Anything less is a harassable offence.
Not sure if the Kindle e-books would have the same advantage though, because there would be no such thing as a used book anymore.

But there will be something better: The copied book.

Amazon will ofcourse lock the kindle down in every imaginable way to prevent the precious goods from escaping. And given the obscure hardware plus the proprietary encryption/DRM machinery they might very well succeed - for a few weeks.

Eventually eBooks will become a common good to pass around among friends just like music and movies are today. A small but thriving ebook "warez" community already exists. It will grow proportionally to the mainstream penetration of e-ink devices.

It's just another step towards making the knowledge of the world available to everybody. Even to the 3rd world kid who may not be able to afford it today.
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This is solving the wrong problem. What I really want is a service that tells me if a particular link is NSFW. How about a Firefox plugin which links back to a database of NSFW links on a server somewhere. Then, whenever I click on a NSFW link on Reddit, a little box can pop up saying "warning, don't view this at work" and I have the choice to wait till I go home to visit it.

Seriously, it's a great idea and I would totally implement it if I had the time/motivation.
There is a Unix port of Acme as part of Plan 9 from User Space (http://swtch.com/plan9port/).
I find it strange how the imminent demise of another makes me reflect upon myself: I found myself wondering what I would write in the same situation, and then realizing that this is a fate that I cannot escape.

I like to watch Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech, every now and again, to remind me of that fact:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Transcribed:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Was the first question that sprung to mind for anyone else on a few of these not whether it was accurate or not, but whether it actually opens an exploitable space?

Myth #6 particularly, I have a lot of reason not to doubt this, and if true it reads to me like "People are so incompetent by and large that outside the structure of a very large bureaucracy nothing will ever get done". The author even goes so far as to actually cite a counter example of exactly what I'm talking about with lisp efficiency.
Demanding a dollar amount and judging marketing campaign's effectiveness at this early stage in the game is pointless. If (s)he made, say, $250 up until this point, that could potentially grow to $2,500 in 2 weeks or $25,000 in in 2 months, all as a result of the same campaign.

The SEO from the influx of new links is just kicking in, the public awareness of the products needs to sink in, customer base is still unstable, etc.

Success or failure at this point is just... unknown.
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It's a little embarrassing but I know a lot of guys on this site have successful e-commerce sites, or develop them. It'd be great to speak with a 'mentor' on the issue who is available by email or msn or skype for some basic top level guidance. I really want to give this a go but want to spend my money wisely! Currently I don't know where to start! Off the shelf, SEO, outsourced web dev....

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This isn't even a real argument, just a bunch of muddled thoughts from a person angry that people aren't giving him enough status- based on a certificate he received for sitting in a room for two days.
fravia's writings were a big part of my motivation to learn how computers work when I was just a fledgling programmer.

So long and thanks for all the info!
Here's the relevant quote from the acme paper by Rob Pike, "Cedar was, however, the major inspiration for Oberon [Wirt89], a system of similar scope but much smaller scale. Through careful selection of Cedar’s ideas, Oberon shows that its lessons can be applied to a small, coherent system that can run efficiently on modest hardware. In fact, Oberon probably errs too far towards simplicity: a single-process system with weak networking, it seems an architectural throwback.

"Acme is a new program, a combined window system, editor, and shell, that applies some of the ideas distilled by Oberon. Where Oberon uses objects and modules within a programming language (also called Oberon), Acme uses files and commands within an existing operating system (Plan 9). Unlike Oberon, Acme does not yet have support for graphical output, just text. At least for now, the work on Acme has concentrated on producing the smoothest user interface possible for a programmer at work. "
What's the story behind the name of your startup/company ?
It would be interesting to know what influenced the choice of name of your company ? What other names were amongst the candidates and why they weren't chosen ? Is there a story behind your company's name ?
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Integrates even better with other programs...
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I don't see how that could be anywhere near harassment. If that's the case we all get harassed daily with hundreds of spam emails. I don't remember any lawsuits against spammers on basis of harassment.
From my post here: http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2008/11/11/intentional-soft...

Back in 2002 I thought of "Intentional Software" as a company name. It was supposed to imply that we wouldn’t be creating haphazardly designed products. But then again, I'd only been coding for a year or two at the time, which doesn't seem like enough time to be doing anything other than haphazard development.

All of that is beside the point, because Charles Simonyi came along a few years later and started a company of the same name. He was born well before me so he had a killer head-start. Plus, as the originator of "hungarian notation", he knew how to not program all willy-nilly.

My ideas for a company name progressed, especially once I stopped using the space bar. Out came "Greaterscope" as a possibility. The encapsulation of optimistic, forward-looking, expansive ... a chord was struck. Or rather, a saw was wobbled to make a sound. But don’t worry, the saw’s teeth are clean. (Yeah, that was a stretch, but I had to reference Scope mouthwash somewhere, since you probably thought of it upon seeing our company name)
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I also highly doubt he designed his own site. More than likely, he told someone he knows in the publishing world that he wants a web site, they made one and showed it to him in their browser, and he put the stamp of approval on it. I doubt I see Glaser sitting next to a computer designing web sites...
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There are no ads on the site and I can't find a duplicate link to this Time magazine article. Check your facts.
That's right. And it could have motivations in Egypt different than fighting a flu.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-05-04-egypt-swine...
"...in order to reduce shoplifting and employee theft..."

Shoplifting, maybe. Employee theft, no. The Hasidim already have the world's best deterrent to employee theft: you are banned for life from the community. Period. No warnings. No discussion.

Imagine if wall street had that rule.
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How do they know who has done the theft ?
Maybe we have different dictionaries.
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Wow. If only this had been the link about generating buzz instead of the black-hat SEO swine flu blog post.

The video certainly made me look at grasshopper.com for a few minutes.
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Doesn't matter, that's the point.

Would you be willing to risk everything important to you, not just your job, but your family, friends, home, and community, on the chance that someone may have seen you take a $5 item?
That's a lot of work for a perfect desktop. I think the title should be "The Perfect Linux Desktop".
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So, wouldn't it be awesome if this were the main question people were deciding right now?
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I find it regrettable that Wikipedia, which has lengthy pages on cartoon and soap opera characters, feels the need to save bytes by deleting a page about a real person who publicly contributed knowledge to the community.

(Google cache still has it, as of today)
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When a user flags a post, please immediately hide the story from them. This will help lower their blood pressure. They can see it again by turning on ShowDead.
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Probably no one is ever going to see this, but a cool idea just occurred to me: what if your ability to attend is stochastic?

I play basketball too, and have had 'hot' nights and crummy nights -- and subjectively, on the few really good nights I've had, I knew when shots are going to go in, and when they were going to miss, and I knew, much more clearly than normal, where the hoop was and how to get the ball there. This did not feel like post-hoc rationalization of a successful basket. I was predicting accurately which shots would hit, and which would miss, before the ball when in.

Yet, analyzing players' performance, their streaks are indistinguishable from what would be expected statistically.

The explanation that reconciles both set of observations is that the ability to attend to salient data (weight of ball, position of feet, etc.) is itself a random process.

Note also that this attention may not be conscious: your motor control circuitry is doing huge amounts of processing that you're not at all aware of during a game.
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Ours is a tale of the sunk cost fallacy. Back in 2006, we started working on a social network aggregator called BlueSwarm that was very similar to FriendFeed or SocialThing. We originally called it BlueSwarm.org, because the .com was taken, but just before we launched in Summer 2007, we bought the .com, paying way way more than we should have. Stupid. Anyway, the launch went OK, but after awhile, we realized that the space was crowding fast and it was a difficult idea to monetize, so we put it on the back-burner.

Meanwhile, we launched a little side blog called MightyBrand that covered personal branding through social media. We posted there occasionally, but not much. It was one of those spur-of-the-moment ideas you do on a weekend that gradually lose steam over the next few months.

In early 2008, we decided to take the codebase from BlueSwarm and re-purpose it to be a social media monitoring platform for brands. This is where the sunk cost fallacy comes in: because we paid so much for the BlueSwarm.com domain, we really wanted to use it, so our social media monitoring platform for brands and companies was also called BlueSwarm. We went through these mental marketing gymnastics trying to relate it to what we were doing: "Who's swarming around your brand?" We launched an alpha prototype under BlueSwarm and applied to YC as BlueSwarm.

Finally, about six months later, we realized that it probably wasn't the best fit, and it suddenly dawned on us that MightyBrand was actually a pretty good name for what we were attempting to do, and would grow with us as we expand because just monitoring. So when we launched our public beta in Jan 2009, we had completely re-branded as MightyBrand.

PS - If anyone wants to buy BlueSwarm.com, .net, and .org, email me. :)
And they have more vacations :(
I am not a fan of socialism. If you want it, go out and get it. Don't live off other peoples hard work and thats just what people in these countries do.

Yes, people need support, but don't sit at home every day playing video games at your parents house. I would expect everyone who is unemployed to fill out at least 5 applications a day for jobs.
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Really? I'll spend a max of two mins on this.

(a) Which global task force does this fall under?

(b) Who pays for the research, prosecution, and housing of inmates?

(c) Who pays for the astronomical travel/M&E costs for traipsing the globe to catch ip addresses?

(d) Is what they are doing actually illegal in the country they live in?

(e) Who pays for the legal teams who have to go to every single ISP and ask for records?

etc, etc, etc
names are mostly irrelevant. domains however, are not.

Make sure you get the .com, make sure you get all the typos (if you haven't bought ~10 domains you're doing it wrong).

Avoid stuff like "getx" (getdropbox) no one remembers the get and that'll piss users off, you'll also have to deal with dropbox.com being a competitor/spammer/something bad down the line.

If you can get a name that vaguely tells what you do, awesome. If its clever, awesome. Be wary of long names - we love Broadersheet, but it is rather long. We'll see.

Don't do the d.o.t thing, its lame, annoying, hinders your audience, maybe even hurts your SEO. Yahoo bought delicious.com, and note the techy audience initially.

I have this belief, you know you've found a great name (eg "how about z?") when you then type z into a domain checker and the .com is available -- I take that as a sign of yes!
Do you guys think that there is getting to be enough backlash about this that developers might start looking at targeting Android / Blackberry / some other smartphone platform?

I know it would make me pretty nervous dedicating all my time to iPhone development if I thought this is how Apple was going to do business.
The data in the article mentions that the startup time for the C, C++, and OCAML programs were in the noise. So there's at least one data point which suggests that HLL programs do not necessarily start slower than C programs.