skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though Kevin Rose was pretty tight-lipped with respect to product, I think it will be interesting to see Digg move in a different direction later this year, with him hinting at an emphasis on real-time search. Whether or not this is the future though, despite everyone swooning over Twitter, remains to be seen. It makes me wonder whether the supposed importance of real-time search will be a self-fulfilling prophecy (with these large companies jumping on the bandwagon, and pushing it to mainstream importance) or if it will reach that state in its own right.

On another note, I don't think Arrington's reference to Hacker News as a competitor to Digg is particularly accurate, as they clearly have separate goals. HN is trying to maintain what Digg wasn't able to - namely a civil, intelligent community. Oddly enough, he preceded that topic by first commenting that Digg has done a good job with trolling, and asking how they'll combat it as they continue to grow. Seriously? Has he checked out the comments on Digg lately?
1) can you not do any hardware yourself, and choose to license it to someone else?
2) if you must do hardware yourself, can you have anyway of scoping product, doing google adwords, anything to assess demand and product fit?

The hardware business is BRUTAL. It is going to be exceedingly tough to get financing for your project, given high capital requirements and low profit margins.
That is from last may and it still represents the entire public knowledge of this mysterious product, despite it having been "released" weeks ago.
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I find interesting that you assume that disparity within nations is caused by differences in intelligence. While this is true (i.e.: differences in intelligence make a difference, sorry for the joke) there are many, many, other causes for differences: geographics (easy), social (not all the countries are permeable to social status changes) and so on... I feel this "all is caused by the intelligence" a bit ingenuous. But may be it is only my european culture speaking...
Checked out IP in Wikipedia. Not only do I understand it, I'm fascinated by this approach, and have fiddled with similar ideas for years. Yay wikipedia!
IANA chemist, but couldn't you solve the oxidation problems by getting rid of the oxygen? In the article, he talks of a vacuum to avoid friction.
It is probably a mistake to treat language design as computer science, just as it is a mistake to treat motorcycle design as physics. Languages are tools for people to use; a language is good if people love it (it is a given that some people will hate it, and likely that more people will hate it than love it).
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From one of the comments. Joke aside (and it is a good joke), is this true?
Assuming this actually exists and mere mortals can one day get their hands on it, I predict that at best, it will eliminate some of the boilerplate gruntwork common in enterprisey programming and at worst, it will just be another over-engineered FactoryFactoryFactoryFramework productivity killer with an aggressive cult following.

I understand the concepts involved and they are sound, but as with any pie in the sky invention, the devil is in the details. Until they show us how they handle those details, they don't really have anything to say.
This just horrifies the ever-living fuck out of me. The cumulative effect of these drugs cannot be good for you. And the guy who considered it an incredible achievement to be able to correlate the idea of harmony as a religious value to the idea of harmony as a political value, it appalls me that anyone considers this to be the sign of a bright person. That's like a kid being proud he can tie his own shoes.

I believe taking LSD made me a better programmer. I'm not going to tell anybody that you shouldn't take risks or explore. However - reading a shit-ton of books on programming probably had more to do with it, and a one-time (or several-time) dramatic shock to the system carries different risks than an ongoing habit. The risk of addiction is an insane risk to take.

I think the question of what the government's policy should be is stupid and irrelevant. Nobody who reads Hacker News has to comply with drug laws. Drug laws only exist for harassing poor people, and everybody who reads this is a child of privilege. The whole point of drug laws is that if you criminalize something everybody does, then you can arrest anyone you want. Taking drug laws literally is a sign of incredible naivete.

But the question, "is it safe?", that's an important question. There's no way in hell substantially altering your neurochemistry on a daily basis with unproven chemicals could be safe over the long term. There's always the chance that it could turn out OK, but there's no way in hell it could be safe. It is inherently risky, and the research necessary to determine just how risky, and what specifically those risks are, would take decades.

Another important question: does it work? Most people who waste their time on this kind of insane bullshit are people who don't get enough sleep and don't know anything about meditation or deep relaxation. I think it'll be a really long god damn time before any pill comes along that can compete with meditation, deep relaxation, and getting enough sleep.

These people are just asking for trouble. And all this bullshit at the end of the article, about, well, what if you're 56 and your competition's a 26-yr-old in Singapore taking cognitive enhancers? That's a good thing. I wish all my competition were inexperienced, naive, drugged to the gills, and incapable of speaking English. That would be fucking fantastic! Of course in an ideal world, my competition would also all be severely mentally retarded, but you can't have everything, and many of them code in Java, which is close enough.
Don't forget about the other side of the wall....

Also, I wouldn't want to build something where a single seal failure would mean the entire thing is destroyed. Plus, how would you construct it.
... but .... but, infinite karma is within your reach! How can you ignore that? :)
Because when you write everything in "plain english", your text suffers from mainstream journalist information degradation syndrome.
Instead of learning how to manage his time and show some discipline in committing to a reasonable schedule, this kid took neuroenhancers to help compensate for "partying all weekend, or spen[ding] the last week being high." Just as the kid who reads Cliffs Notes instead of The Iliad deprives himself of an intellectual experience, this guy deprived himself of the opportunity to train himself to develop natural work habits that he will need as he embarks on a career.
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I'm not sure. If you do this the right way, you could build a Smalltalk the way it should have been. And that's not really an over-engineered enterprisey thing by itself is it?
"If you do this the right way you could build a Smalltalk the way it should have been"

it all depends on the details of "the way it should have been" and "the right way". which I believe was the grandparents original point - the devil is in the details. So far all we have is lots of hype and a video or two.

I personally believe the whole "multitide of dsls" angle, which is where Mr.Fowler is coming from, is a load of fluff wrapped around a genuine engineering principle (linguistic abstraction - see SICP). The fluff is the "enterprisey" part.
There's two parts to Atom, Atom itself which is like a better RSS and AtomPub. He's talking about the latter.

From Wikipedia: "The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub or APP) is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources."

Atom itself is doing fine. Readers have to cater to RSS for historical reasons but for most producers, particularly in non-standard (not "blogging") contexts, it's a waste of time.
I don't think they're going to do any more abstraction. What you'll be able to do is query quickly in another database. So for example build a web app with access to the company's legacy accounts database or something. No abstractions over schema free DB's.
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Didn't we have this poll just last week too? I'm certainly feeling a bit 'deja vu' :)
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"ethernet will never work" 1974 memo (also at PARC) http://i.techrepublic.com.com/blogs/19740305-xerox-ethernet-...

Interestingly, the criticism turned out to be helpful for Metcalf and Boggs (inventors), as the memo author relates: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-12847-0.html?forumID=102...
More commentary:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070615164202/http://bytecoder.c...
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=714

The memo strikes me as not just frank - but harsh. Needlessly so. And yet... some of its points were accurate, and turned out to be constructive for its targets. It reminds me of one of my PhD supervisors - an attacking attitude and insightful and helpful. And of some comments I see on Hackernews...

I don't think that insightful, helpful criticism needs to be harsh.
But the two often seem to do together. Why is that? I don't think I'm imagining the harshness: I have an objective view because it's not directed at me; and the authors choose words with negative connotations, instead of neutral ones. Maybe it's just easier to be honestly critical, if you go on an all-out attack? (as in an adversarial legal system). Or maybe sweet people won't criticise in the first place, so it's only the meanies who'll be honest... brutally. :-)

The old lesson: listen for the grain of truth hidden in harsh criticism.
I think any fully fledged script would use its specific variables rather than forking to another script.

This is after all, mostly just appending to a list.
And you can step through an internal script representation in a debugger
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Looks very interesting, and relatively affordable...but, how are you supposed to get it to hover in mid-air like it appears to need to be used?
Not completely true. You need energy to start, and then you waste it (or try to recover it) when you stop.

With this you don't need to provide all that initial energy to get you going. You just have to handle the friction.
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And the according project on Amazee's platform: http://www.amazee.com/amazee-vs-amazon
My guess is they tried for a while, and never managed to get a usable version working well enough, and the company now exists as a portfolio of patents waiting for someone else to improve it.
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How about using a text editor. Random accesses/updates and search . emacs is my to do list manager :)
Perhaps voting down is one way of saying that the above information is incorrect. It would be more helpful, however, to provide the correct information.
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I think you'll find that the "X number of browsers" you need to check for and use fallbacks from HTML5 are "various flavours of IE". So please, let the griping continue.

This is because Microsoft has, for a long time, dragged its feet regarding the web because the web is a threat to its core business. In fact two main strands of HTML5 development are reverse engineering IE peculiarities and making them a standard so that others can interoperate and investigating ways to fix up IE with javascript shims so that it can support HTML5 without any help from Microsoft.

This is not the "right way" to do things but when the monopoly browser (and OS) producer varies between apathy and antagonism towards the web that's how progress gets made.
But an Internet-savvy sample of one.

I just learned about it yesterday after researching the iDEAL system in The Netherlands. I bounced upon an online payment system of my bank which accepted the German Giropay. It said it was like the Dutch iDEAL. So I just had to ask :)
> 8.9 File headers, revision history

This is shocking on so many levels. People should let a VCS to keep the revisions.
I frequently use http://tineye.com to find images in a bigger resolution. Its also very handy if you want to find the author of a particular image/picture. Their bookmarklet is also extemely useful.
You misread his statement:
> The overall result would be to flatten the income disparity about nations. (But it would have no effect on the disparity within nations, since that is caused by differences in intelligence, and that won't change.)

He's saying that local effects of a nation would quickly be brought up to par, whereas the distribution in nations wouldn't likely change.
This book has some good advice:

http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/1/how-to-bring-a-prod...

As I said in the comment though, the summary isn't great because the book is not a hand-wavy business book, but has a fair amount of advice. Worth a look at the library to see if you like it.
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No, that's productive programmers. Productivity != competence, and I've seen plenty of examples of this first hand.

Besides which, that approach is not suited to all aspects of programming. If you think in terms of a utility programmer - someone who just tweaks here and there when others aren't capable - it swings the other way. Being able to get the client to show you how they do things and attacking the problem that way can save an eternity of poking around trying to trace a problem.
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Silly. It took us 24 years to get 12km straight down, and that's the best we've ever done.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567
Ah, that's another good one. Thanks.
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It's hard to say. Maybe it's a mix.
Here's a counterexample: http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&qtyp...
There was a project, I think back in the late 90s, with the goal of adding XML output and parsing options/ability to many of the UNIX command line utilities to do more robust things than is possible with flat text. I can't find it right now though.
You were pretty casual in your dismissal of a scientist the American Physical Society recommended as an impartial judge.

Do you even have the faintest clue what organization's judgment you have so casually dismissed?

You better go look.

http://www.aps.org/
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My Uncle married a Maltese lady, and they have raised their children to speak English and Maltese over in Malta. Likewise, my Dad re-married a few years back (to a Belgian lady), and my step-sister is being raised speaking Flemish and English.

I think both my Uncle and Dad continue to speak to the children in English, and the wives speak to them in Maltese/Flemish. It's definitely an interesting way to approach it (especially as my Dad didn't speak Flemish, so has also had to learn as he went along).
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> "Twitter can become big but is it big enough given the hype?"

Yeah I totally agree with that lots of effort have into these companies and they will be profitable one day. I am not trying to say its pure hype. Its just overhyped. And its not like twitter is saying hype me, its just the bad ecosystem around it :).

Lets say a service like yelp, will you be willing to pay to use it. I would. They might not charge but still its solving a definate pain-point.

I thinking having an option to monetize using ads have led lots and lots of developers to just build stupid products and not focus on trying to solve a pain-point and provide enough value to the user that he says: "I like your product. I use it daily. Here you go $10, this months fees."

I think that would be the day :).
You aren't a skeptic. You have already made a decision that this palladium/deuterium nuclear effect is invalid. Since you've made that decision without looking at the most current data, that means your decision is based on nothing but your faith that that process is broken.
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MySpace has been around for about 10 years, and make large profits consistently.

Quite honestly I'm not sure they belong in the same discussion as facebook and twitter.
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I understand the concept of intentional programming in this way:

1) start with Lisp, complete with macros

2) add multiple skins: some of them are basically a C-syntax representation of the program, some might be visual programming (connecting diagrams or spreadsheet-like), they can be of different level of abstraction and can be mixed freely. Remember, lisp macros pretty much do this, only they are constrained to S-expressions while intentional programming should be freely skinnable.

3) they claim the result is great

If it is, I'd be surprised. They developed it for what, 10-15 years, without showing it to the public, and even without using an axiomatic approach (they didn't start from Lisp, they started from C and built APIs to manipulate the syntax trees).

The most important things about their system:

- how easy would it be to build new abstractions in this environment

- how easy is it to mix and match abstractions developed independently and unaware of each other

- how comfortable are hackers with the requirement for heavy supporting tools from a single vendor

Early previews don't really say much about these points.
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That has nothing to do with it. There are specific guidelines for accepting a specific organization based on their proposal, their community, their willingness and ability to become involved with the students.

The organization also has to apply.
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why is Django at GSOC news and not any of the other 149 organizations? or any of the other 994 accepted projects?
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There was work done on similar things to this in the 1970s, however it all went classified. The term is "subterrene" - a tunnel boring machine that keeps the drill tip at high temperature, melting the rock and allowing a smooth glassy tunnel to be made.
What do you mean by "the way it should have been" ?
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I may be totally mistaken, but doesn't the result depend on X and Y unit (or alternatively on the standard dev of the gaussian) ?
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Amazon?
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Have a look at a globe. (or google earth or whatever) The direct line between DC and Moscow is surprisingly shallow. The exact number does seem too low by a factor of 1.5-2 though.
I really like this idea. Felt it was worth more than an upvote. Great way to get a little bit of market research without much cost or effort.
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Because its a shitty deal. A good developer wouldn't take it.
It *could* just be coincidence
Indeed, a wise and benevolent dictator could be much better than democracy in general.

Besides, the democracy we have now in western countries doesn't really make governments particularly accountable. Compared to some insane African tyrant, sure, but as much as appropriate? Not even close.
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I don't get it? How does painting with light improve intimacy?
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I'm really sick of seeing this guys howtoforge.com spam show up in the RSS feed.
I'm willing to check in on Scoble occasionally to see what he thinks is up. But what does he offer of substance about this?:

"I’ll broadcast it live in video. Watch my friendfeed for links. See you at about 4 p.m. Pacific Time."

Right! Bait me to friendfeed him (whereat, by the next day it's not an easy thing to spot link to video). Not to mention: who wants a video. Give me a friggin summary of the new service - enough to know whether spending real time with video is likely to have any payoff.

I'm doubting it: he and wife are off Tweetsie Railroading to Santa Cruz to cover twits. Ah, for the day when he used to follow more than blithering twittering. </rant>
>>> create a good user experience <<<
>>> User interface is customer service for the computer <<<
>>> centralized planning, in contrast with the old culture that let Windows subgroups set their own agendas <<<

seems like to me that not only are they moving towards a more "mac-like" focus on user interface, easier-to-use software. They are also copying apple's approach to software/hardware design, which is centralized around steve jobs.
Hard to tell until you've tried. I guess you can imagine it's your lover touching you.
And the relevance of a random category on some news aggregator is of relevance to a site like HN is... what?