skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you only care about your own personal transportation and the weather and roads are good in your area you could consider a motorcycle. A used motorcycle shouldn't cost you much. They are very fuel efficient, easy to park and great at getting past traffic.
Not forgetting those letters claiming that you have to renew your domain with some iffy company for £100. I wonder how many people fall for those and inadvertently transfer their domain to these scammers?
I think most career-scientists don't fabricate research, they're just very conformists. They have to publish x papers a year in respected journals, so there's not much wiggle-room (in astrophysics, x is roughly 3-10).

For a good rant, see "What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common?" at

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0310368

"[Chandrasekhar] used to say, ironically, that the increasing velocity of the paper number is higher than the speed of light, but there is nothing to worry about for there is no violation of any physical law because these papers carry no information."

PS: I'm a PhD student in physics.
I did end up setting up my startup domain with GMail. It made me want to make a "regular" GMail account, but I still couldn't get past the name thing.
This works so long as you only have .uk domain names. Which I do so its not a problem. I think its a far nicer system myself.
From hashes you'll recognize the fingerprint of the hash function but not the underlying data. Here is an example of random UIDs, generating a few user's in a row and it's obvious that it's random:
random.sample(xrange(10000), 10)
[88, 3833, 6353, 8113, 8983, 4280, 7878, 3050, 9409, 404]
For those options, get the newer car; it will almost certainly be more environmentally friendly than an old one. If you do not care about such things, cars in need of body work will save you a decent amount -- just make sure there is no structural/mechanical damage.

What does "required to drive 30 miles" mean, though? The first thing to check, of course, is whether you could relocate closer (at least part of the time.) Do the math on the car cost, insurance, gas, other upkeep and see if it might be worth it to just shack up closer by instead.

The second thing, naturally, is mass transit: trains, buses? If the nearest station is a couple miles away, that is an easy bike ride (I think suggesting taking the bike 60mi/day would be a bit optimistic if you are not already cycling?)
I wish I could downvote propaganda.
> Perl-beating and PHP-matching

Which is interesting considering Perl beats PHP on both axis in the linked article.
I can tell you know what you're talking about, since you included Honda Civic but left out Toyota Corolla. (The Corolla is a pretty good car, but it doesn't belong in this set.)
Come on, it's just another vendor. Being tied to a vendor is a choice we've always made, the beauty of Unix is the abstraction. Present an attractive abstraction and developers will come, not only because of the strength of your provision but because we also have to recognize how hard it would be to change environment providers.

The Unix model presents files and folders, it is a fantastic model with a few operations. You present me with a file system and I'll manipulate it. We've spent 30-40 years building tools to manipulate files grep, sed, awk, join, sort etc.
This is not very surprising, "Science" is a human playground as many other fields: scientists produce publications, and are confronted to other schools. So yeah, they can slightly cheat sometimes. Moreover even something as big as the Sokal hoax can happen...

The important thing is to keep the field intellectually stimulating and honest enough to 1) keep progressing in the average case 2) keep the most brilliant ones in.
Check out insurance auctions. If you can find a car that was totalled from hail damage or extensive scratches you can pick it up for cheap ($400-$1000) and still have a realiable vehicle for the summer. In college, I had a '96 Jetta with 80k miles and pockmarks on every panel that set me back $400.
I disagree on the extensions market not being lucrative until a critical mass has been reached. The 'robot' feature is a killer - you can host your own bot that watches and performs operations on a given wave. There are going to be some very compelling bots built right out of the gate, that companies are going to be willing to pay for (think: 'HIPAA compliance bot').
I read your first example (CA), which states:

In Reynolds v. Bement, 36 Cal. 4th 1075 (2005), the California Supreme Court
observed that, “[U]nder the common law, corporate agents acting within the scope of
their agency are not personally liable for the corporate employer‟s failure to pay its
employees‟ wages.” Id. at 1087.

Now I'm finished reading, and, hopefully, talking about this. Like I said, it's extremely unlikely that the owners, investors, or officers of a VC-funded company would be on the hook for salaries after the company went bankrupt. That's a good thing. Surprisingly few things need to go wrong for a company to BK. Who'd start a company if that event meant they'd lose their house?
Indeed. It's surprising how deeply eliminating return changes the language semantics.

I've postponed learning Javascript until recently, because my work hasn't usually been web-oriented, but it's interesting how similar Javascript and Lua are. They seem to have been aimed at the same target, but for historical reasons Javascript's development got frozen early, while Lua had time to iron out many similar design flaws.

(In Lua, undefined and null are both nil, nil and false are "false-y", and everything else, including 0 and "", are truthy.)
I bought a 94 civic for the exact same problem and I've had zero problems, find something old and reliable (I paid very little)
Actually I think I would rather work at Yahoo. You would have more freedom but less job security which suits me just fine.
CIRA, the manager of the .ca TLD, also does this for free. They just show the name servers, status and dates in their whois records.
Yes. Playing around with Metalua[1]'s anonymous functions[2] which allow you to shorten

function(arg1, arg2, argn) return some_expr end

to the much more concise

|arg1,arg2,argn| some_exp

makes me wish they were part of core Lua.

1- http://lua-users.org/wiki/MetaLua

2- http://metalua.luaforge.net/manual003.html#toc3
What I meant by that comment was, "If I were writing a database, I would avoid C and save myself hundreds of thousands of lines of test code... at the cost of not working well under low-memory conditions." Obviously, it is very useful that there is a public-domain SQL database that works under these conditions, but using C came at a (IMHO, unreasonably high) cost.
This is great.

If you've looked at Peter Norvig's spell checker shootout you won't be surprised much. Ex., the story on Common Lisp and Scheme implementations is the same here: MzScheme is the mediocre best of an unimpressive lot. (I want to see Clojure and Arc on this.) Python looks great again. F# looks weak here but wins big in the spell checker with reasonable-looking code. Sounds interesting.

What's the deal with Squeak? I had thought that it very concise.

The meta-message here is best of all: people are measuring language conciseness.
Or even cheaper, a moped
Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 100x Faster
It would be a useful to include the language name where it is not obvious. For example, he mentions Haskel, but I cant tell which one it is.
umm...dude...60 miles on a moped?
I sent these to my lawyer for review as well.

Unfortunately, his advice costs hundreds of dollars an hour, and yours is free.
Ask HN: How do you search for CS results online?
When I want to learn about the CS research in a particular area, Google is not my friend. Most search results are overrun by weeds: junky bibliographic sites that can only be called academic spam or publishers who want payment. I'm not going to spend $25 on a 1% chance that a paper is relevant to my problem. (An example of the kind of search I'm talking about is http://www.google.com/search?q=%22quad+view%22+finke).

So far, the best solution I've found is to use Google and Amazon's book search, augmented with some unsatisfying hacks to partly get around their restrictions. There must be a better way. What do you guys suggest?

Update: what percentage of CS research does the ACM Digital Library provide online? If it were close enough to 100%, I might fork out the $200, swearing loudly.
Indeed, and it would be better if everyone just read Peter Drucker's Innovation & Entrepreneurship: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887306187/squeakland...
What about the non-cloud version? Is it easy to move 20TB from one storage system to another. What about to a new data center? What about to a cloud provider?

I think if you have 20TB of data that you need to have online all the time, things are going to be hard regardless.
It's "ghc", in the chart.
Russian Facebook clone (Vkontakte.ru) sells vanity URLs for a price about 1k euros. I'm not sure about the official reselling policy, though.
Well, arc's running on top of MzScheme, so it's likely to be a bit slower. Also, Stalin in the left column is a Scheme implementation, albeit one that is very restrictive for sake of raw speed.

Also, it's worth noting that the features in a language that make large systems' codebases manageable (such as good module systems) are different from the features that allow you to pare down small scripts further. It's hard to show features supporting conciseness-in-the-large in a one page benchmark, so IMHO the latter is often greatly overemphasized. Being able to knock 2 lines off 20 is often just a parlor trick, though, while 50kloc off of 200kloc can mean life or death for a project. The programming world would be a happier place if the size of every legacy C++ / Java codebase were cut by a double-digit percentage.
Yes, but if you have your own datacenter and some spiffy new software or device comes on the market, you can buy it and set it up. You can take advantage of innovation from anywhere.

If you are sitting in Cloud A and Cloud B introduces some new thing... you're out of luck until Cloud A (who knows you're not going to move) decides to offer something similar.
anyone have a good privacy service they can recommend for .com's ? i'm not sure if they all work in the same manner, but those i've looked at (1and1, godaddy) seem to be registering the domain in THEIR name, then providing you with a contract that states that you're entitled to that domain thru them. Which seems rather sketchy. Am i being paranoid?
I think it's for the blue-collar employees, rather than the creative ones. It also is probably effective. My first job ever was as a janitor, and the preferred way of killing time (to avoid work) was walking slowly from where you were working to the storage closet (etc.). It really wasted a lot of time unnecessarily.

I am also a big fan of not using chairs at meetings -- everyone gets too comfortable, and people start reading blogs or whatever instead of focusing on the meeting. The end result is spending 8 hours on something that should have taken 20 minutes.

With that in mind, though, if I were Canon, I'd make sure that the employees subject to these rules got above-market pay and benefits -- otherwise, they'd just leave for less-strict competitors. (Maybe that's not an option with Japan's societal rules right now -- but I'm sure in a generation or so that won't be a problem at all.)

They could also meet the employees half-way and install a moving walkway that moves 5 meters in 3.6 seconds. Then the employees could just stand there and be equally productive.
I'm using Opera and i can't get away from the overlay screens that appear.
I can throw in a hood and some seats.
According to some comments here http://ask.metafilter.com/17191/Fake-contact-info-in-domain-... using fake information can be grounds for confiscating your domain. I wouldn't risk it.
peter123, what's up with the tracking stuff in the URL ?

www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/31/prepare-for-the-facebook-vanity-url-landrush/?awesm=tcrn.ch_2tJ&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_source=direct-tcrn.ch
The electrical engineers that design the cell-phones and networks probably aren't subject to a minimum walking speed.
Read Masters of Doom. One of my favorite books.
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
I think you hit the nail on the head earlier. It isn't "return" as such, it's expressions vs. statements. Backus got it right. What's surprising is that the superior way gets the tiny minority of usage. (Not so surprising if you know the historical reasons.)

JS is not so bad. We're lucky that what we're doing (writing high-level FP code that compiles to JS and runs in pretty much every web browser in the world) is doable at all.

JS even has its own version of progn: "(a,b,c)" evaluates to c (after evaluating a and b). We use that pretty heavily. Alas, it has two problems: there are some things you can't do inside the block (like declare new variables or have for loops), and it makes the JS harder to read and debug. Otherwise we'd probably just compile everything that way.
People in power use the power for their own benefit? That's something society has never experienced before...
You're not paranoid; that sounds like a bad idea. You want to find a service that puts your name as the contact but hides your email and postal address. NetSol does this, although their pricing is 4X the industry standard.
I don't think amateur-vs.-scientist-vs.-genius is a very good set of names for the distinctions he is trying to make, especially if you're going to reach back to Herschel's time. To pick some influential folk who fit into that period, consider Babbage, Darwin, Mendel, Pasteur, Boltzmann, Cantor, Semmelweis, the Wright Brothers, and Wegener. Consider also their rivals and critics. (Since I included a number of controversial folk, various of their rivals and critics are still remembered.) We can come up with generalizations about what the influential folk did right, but I don't think it works to say that, e.g., they were scientists while their critics and rivals were amateurs.

Or consider all the advice in an essay at the level of Hamming's "You and your research." It doesn't seem to me to be useful to try to boil down the multiple properties discussed there into boolean predicates "is this person a scientist" or "is this person an amateur," or even to try to choose particular points in those multidimensional property spaces as typifying "scientist" or "amateur" or "genius."

I wholeheartedly approve of people writing about some of the principles in this essay, notable the ones often summarized as "genius is 99% perspiration" and "a month in the lab can often save a day in the library." Those are very important principles, and very often people don't appreciate them enough. But trying to define the amateur/scientist/genius terminology on top of those principles doesn't seem very sensible.
In Canada if you drive someone else's car, it is automatically covered by your own insurance. Some conditions apply, but in its core is like this.
30 miles on a bike in traffic is not really a good idea. + chances are he doesn't know how to ride, or doesn't want to become an organ donor
It looks like Techcrunch are using a URL shortening tool at http://awe.sm for their http://tcrn.ch domain. The utm_* is for Google Analytics tracking. I imagine peter123 didn't mean to submit the whole URL, but just got to the article through the shortener
> The most interesting shape, to me, is Io's

There seems to be a mistake. If you compare Io to JRuby [1], you'll find that Io is always the slower one, even though the picture in the article suggests otherwise.

[1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...
If an experiment is not repeated, it's not important.
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Is First-Class Travel Really Necessary?
Same thing here. (dns.be)
Thanks for the link to this very important article. The submitted article describes the worst case in "hard" sciences. What I encounter in my community volunteer work as president of a statewide organization about education of gifted children is commonly believed statements that have no research base at all. Many plausible ideas that are widely believed are nonetheless wrong and without any empirical support.
Get a scooter or get a newer car. Most old cars are sold because they started to give their owners problems. I have had many used cars and found Japanese cars to be more reliable and better engineered and after owning them for several years I sold most for nearly what I paid for them.
My information is real. I also have a listed phone number. I'm quite easily findable by Web searching. I have controversial opinions on some issues, and used to be harassed at my home phone number and home address (different from today's address and phone number) a few times in the 1990s as a customer of a commercial online service, before most members of the general public used the Internet. I don't worry about it. I still stand up for what I believe and enjoy learning from people who disagree with me.

P.S. Yes, the information in my Hacker News profile is all genuine, and, yes, I don't mind all of you knowing that information. I sometimes check HN profiles if I want to know a person's basis for knowledge after I read a comment here on HN.
I almost didn't click on it because there are so many useless blog posts with this kind of title. But this is a great story! A fast-food restaurant owner ends up creating a valuable software company. And the programmer gets rich. Most people here would enjoy it.
Won't let me view the article.
For this sort of comparison, mostly-functional multi-paradigm languages like SBCL and Ocaml should be run through the benchmarks twice; once with imperative code, once in the functional idiom. The often-repeated complaint (of which I'm skeptical) about functional languages is that they're only efficient when ugly imperative features are used, and it would be good to confirm or dispel that suspicion.
here is another option. buy a newer used car for the price of a cheap older car.

how? At least until about 9 months ago, used hyundais of the post 2005 vintage were steals.

hyundais post 2005 are extremely reliable, yet people still feel it has the reputation of a 'unreliable car'. reality is out of sync w/ perception.

most people try for a reliable older car w/ a solid reputation. these cars have more miles on them and are, well, marked up b/c many people do this

part of the cheapness of hyundai elantras comes from the fact that resale values are absolute garbage for older models. w/ improving brand perception and reliability of the products itself, resale values for post 2005 cars will be much higher than ppl expect.

lower popularity means less chance of being stolen compared to an older vintage honda or toyota. i have had my older honda1993 stolen and had the police officer who took down the report brag to me about how he could've stolen my car w/ one hand tied behind his back too.

Finally, if you look at the depreciation schedule of an average car (resale value over its lifetime) the steepest drops happen between years 1-3. then it flattens out to about year 10 or so. so best place to buy is year 3 or so, and sell it around year 10-12. (actually cheapest is to run it into the ground)

My suggestion:

buy a 2005 model hyundai elantra w/ low mileage (old drivers are awesome), with one previous owner only. You can find dealers on craigslist.

I bagged on w/ 30K miles on it, which means I still have 20k miles of warranty left on this sucker for a bit over 7k out the door (you can do better in this current economy. got mine over a year ago).
The Rise of Digital imaging and the Fall of the Old Camera industry
The rise of digital imaging put an end to the camera industry as we knew it. Many established players have gone out of business or balanced at the brink of bankruptcy for several years. The main reasons for this seem to be the explosive nature of digital technology, along with the fact that many firms had a position and a competence base that was rendered obsolete. While digital imaging has both popularized photography and taken it to new heights, this has been accomplished through the destruction of thousands of jobs and entire companies. Chairman Mao once said that “A revolution is not a tea party”. Those people who have worked at Kodak, Polaroid, Hasselblad, Contax, Pentax, Agfa, Leica, Fujifilm, Mamiya, Bronica and Ilford are very well aware of this.
http://blog.easydns.org/archives/268-Whois-Privacy-brings-a-...

Now that domain proxy agents are being held liable for the actions of the originating registrants... I don't think proxy registrations are going to be a popular offering.

If you are truly concerned. Register an LLC, have it own the domain and get it's mail at some mail receiving station.

That way all the information is correct. But J. Random internet loser who decides to come after you because you said something mean about his living arrangements is going to wind up showing up at a strip mall someplace rather than on your doorstep.
Well, it might work with Windows, but it's really a no go on distributions which are using package management and un-privileged user accounts.
are high end cars really necessary? as long as there is consumer demand (and there is)... then of course.
Maybe that's because Ruby 1.9 isn't being used in production yet. I tried using it but many gems are still incompatible with it.
Nothing speaks better of Carmack's genius than his magic number: http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9
Quantifying SEO Effect of Facebook's Vanity URLs: 100-300m mo/visits
Motorcycles aren't as helpful for avoiding traffic outside of California. You can't split lanes anywhere else.
The invention machine
You can't privatize WHOIS information for .us domains, which is what I have. But I haven't had anyone contact me based on my WHOIS information.
Is it necessary to use character attacks for what should be a technical discussion on the project management of the python base?
This study might be a fraud ;)
And where are your patches?
Europeans say the same thing about Americans. :)
http://tinypaste.com/9f701
"Ruby, for example, shoots out from the bottom right - to me, this says, ... if you know what you're doing, you can get reasonably good performance" Sorry, but it does not say you can get reasonably good performance, it says this version of Ruby is slow, one of the slowest languages in the Shootout. And the graph itself says nothing about the skill level required to obtain the exhibited performance.
This is a myth. The iPhone is much better than any of the weird phones available in Japan.
"1 MySQL Server (one big 8 core box) and 1 slave. Slave is read only for statistics and reporting."

is twitter really running on only one mysql server, or is this information outdated? no sharding, nothing?
I have barely glanced at Scala, but I assume that it has HTML templating libraries. You can then make your controller pass whatever data structure you want to the template, which then takes care of rendering the view.

Microframeworks are appealing in that way: you can pick and choose which components to use, and they let you adapt MVC to whatever fits most naturally to your application. It's hard to argue with the brevity of the underlying code and the clarity of the example.