skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with your approach is that you separate creative and non-creative persons. And everyone could be creative, if given the chance.
List of resources for first-time entrepreneurs
What disgusts me is all the "C is faster" talk. Common Lisp was used with bare metal on a particular type of machine. In fact, the Movitz OS still deals with bare metal but on x86 and it's so so strange to see a bunch of hex mixed with Lisp code.
EU nations approve highly skilled visa plan
I like his his closing sentence from a presentation: "This project was a huge waste of time! And it’s not ﬁnished."
http://tlug.jp/meetings/2008/11/serving-dynamic-webpages-in-...
M-g M-g runs goto-line as well ( on my default installation ).
You don't invest in a car, like you invest in a business. You buy it for it's utility value, like you buy a gallon of milk.
Twitter coming to television in form of series
the fact whether or not minimum wages affect employment is undecided amongst economists.

Income minus expenses still equals the bottom line, right?

I mean if you have two businesses on the internet selling the same product and one has three times the labor cost of the other, math doesn't suddenly change because economists can't get their act together, does it? Some real, live businessperson still has to add and subtract to eek out a business model, right?

Or perhaps I missed something. It sounded like you were making a macro-economic argument in response to a micro-economic one.
If MS won't support PHP than they are big bad boy of the IT world, if they do they are wrong again???

If you bag MS please make it worth while...
This. Model.transaction do ... end is not that hard.

Also, in Rails 2.3 you can do .find_each, which will iterate over each record in 1000-chunk batches.
For the last time: NO.

Most of the articles on TC are boring, so I don't subscribe to their RSS feed. The few interesting ones do get posted to Hacker News.

So instead of banning this site or that site, just focus on making sure good articles get the to front page, and flag the TC articles that you feel aren't worthy.
New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app)
As far as I'm concerned the schools are just putting all their eggs in the basket of kids who can do well in the system vs the abstractly intelligent ones who do well when they are so inspired/inclined.

For all the gifted and unique snow-flakes out there, the sooner they learn to cope with a system (and a world) which doesn't cater to their extraordinary talents, the better off they'll be.
Old. Here's a random blog entry about it from a year ago, for instance:

http://glasnt.blogspot.com/2008/06/kayak-across-pacific-ocea...
Any data of how many founders who fail go start the second startup? I think that probably 90+% startups fail but founders failure rate is probably much lower.
For me definition of founder failure would be giving up and going back to big company and not trying again.
Common Lisp is sometimes frighteningly more bare-metal than C. I spent all last night moving stuff from kernel-space, into user space, messing with them in Lisp and sending them back up stream to the networking stack. By hand :-)

In C, even though you work with low-level memory regions and system primitives, you're not interacting with them. By the time you see side-effects the process has long exited. In Lisp you can have open descriptors floating around in your shell where you can echo and read stuff to them; you can share a working buffer with a unix system call or signal, and see it get filled, changed and emptied! To realize that you can layer higher-level conceptual tools over these primitives, including the entire CLOS metaobject protocol, is something that's utterly gorgeous.

See what iolib does to Unix, specially see the multiplexing framework; that's right, first class CLOS classes as wrappers for poll, select, epoll and kselect; your choice. Writing specializing methods for system calls is something no C programmer could ever imagine, much less enjoy ;-)
Do you think it's reasonable or fair to expect the public school system to be the ones to develop an extraordinary child?

How many resources should they apply to the top 2% of children?
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I think it runs deeper than simply the assumption of bad faith. When growing up children go through phases of conforming to their parents and then distancing from them, and also conforming to their peers and then distancing from (most of) them as well. This seems to be a part of the personality formation process - at some point people feel compelled to disagree in the most confrontational form (and even demean their opponents) not to look for truth, but to define their own self. They also often engage in group identity defining behaviors, such as rallies about persecution, "real men/hackers/programmers never/always do X" posturing etc. Also voting on agreement/disagreement axis (instead of useful/wasteful axis) is one of those. Incidentally, 18 yo is the typical drafting age for many draft armies, this is when "us vs them" mentality can be readily utilized.

What's remarkable is that with the advent of the Internet we have places where this process never ends. Rather than growing up, slashdot community is in perpetual adolescent disagreement mode. The most mature members are leaving and going elsewhere, to be supplanted by the newcomers.

I'm not necessarily right, but this narrative helps me make sense of what's going on and provides a perspective on the community dynamics.

The two questions that interest me now are:

1. Where are new HN members coming from?

2. Where are they going to when they leave?
Spending a billion just 'to keep AAPL in minds of the executive crowd' would be pretty dumb decision making and would put Apple right on the path of Sun.
Hacker News + Primary Sources > TechCrunch.
Regardless of your fan-boy affiliation, this article is a fun read.
But don't waste your time if the following quote is not your cup of tea.

Much like an Englishman debating an American, Google
is trying to keep the level of discourse high and
sophisticated. Our American Microsoft, on the other
hand, has just sucker-punched the Englishman in the
mouth and yelled "YEAH WHERE'S YOUR VOCABULARY NOW?"

DISCLAIMER: I find this article amusing and witty.
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Its amusing how often slashdot summaries are wrong and no one reads the original article...

the actual quote is:

"It is faster than all(?) other web application frameworks for serving
small dynamic webpages. Please let me know if you have a case where
another framework is faster!"

Not once does he say it is faster than nginx or anything of the sort, just a bad summary and away people go with it.
Way to ruin my elaborate disinformation ploy. :-)
I didn't see your response until this had fallen off my "comments" list, and since I'm sure very few people will read this comment now, I'm going to forego the detailed response.

You can catch me via email (check my profile) and I'll take a SWAG at an answer; if you find the answer remotely compelling, I'll turn it into a blog post and thank you for the prod.
You're right, I'm being imprecise.
I dropped out of school at 16 (in the UK), and I did a deal with the school whereby I'd take just 5 exams (maths, english, history, double science). I got C's in them, not enough to get into a good college.

I tried a computer course, failed after year 1, and took Media Studies for 2 years and passed.

A few years passed, and then I completed my first ever computer course (eg, having never passed any computer course) which was a 3-year degree.

It is possible to do higher learning further into adulthood, and easier!

[Edit] What has this to do with creativity? Well, not a lot. But I've written stories all my life. I also think excessive use of alcohol kills creativity, and these days, a degree is half about getting drunk and socialising.

My only advice is: Keep writing, even if it means missing out socially. Also try and keep things interesting. I signed up to help a computing legend with his software before my degree, and that was no end of fun. I was volunteering at an ACM conference when I was barely into my 2nd year of University, thanks to this work. He also guest lectured at my University, which was really strange.

In short - find a mentor, even if it doesn't pay.
This reminds me of Nietzsche's "Three Metamorphoses"[1]. I wonder what he would have thought about the internet where most individuals can perpetually choose whatever values they want.

1 - http://nietzsche.thefreelibrary.com/Thus-Spake-Zarathustra/3...
great article! Vote it up!
Kinds of attention
The author tries way too hard. There is no nuanced wit; it's like a stand-up comedian going on stage and yelling, "LOL BALLS."
slashdot community is in perpetual adolescent disagreement mode

I see it as Freud's Narcissism of Small Differences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences
It's not so much that there is or isn't a better source of news about startups. It's that the stories from TechCrunch that make it over here and get voted up have a high probability of being linkbait ("X Will Kill Y!") or about some Arrington-induced/centric drama. That they're allowed to persist here goes against the Broken Windows strategy of preventing social decay.

Is banning TC necessarily the best solution? Maybe not, but we don't have another solution available that's doing the job. There might also be some throwing the baby out with the bathwater here, which seriously depends on how much TC is a source of news (for HN, specifically) that can't be had anywhere else. I'm not inclined to say that they are a significant source of such news for HN.
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This is not a bil in cash; they're most likely adding up the retail price of their own hardware sitting in warehouses and other stuff they can "license" to themselves for free.

If we say the cash cost to them is about half of that, I think 500 mil can be recouped selling their services to about 50 or so large corporations and governments.

Apple has cash to burn and it needs another business leg to hedge against its consumer offerings. 500 mil in R&D and insurance sounds about right. We will have to wait to hear what they tell their shareholders, in any event.
um...the fact that the vast majority of taxes are federal taxes that the states can't do anything about?
Don't go native UI on your mobile web app
As mentioned elsewhere, is this currying? Or partial application?

Currying:

lambda { |x,y| x + y }.curry => lambda { |x| lambda { |y| x + y } }

Partial Application

lambda { |x, y| x + y }.apply(2) => lambda { |y| 2 + y }

And given #curry, #apply is trivial:

class Proc; def apply(param); self.curry.call(param); end end

...or at least, that's my understanding...
Sammy: JavaScript framework inspired by Sinatra
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Apple is already in the CDN business, they invested in Akamai in 1999.
Flare: Tokyo-Cabinet-based DHT with transparent redundancy and partitioning
While I think reading Slashdot comments is bad for you're outlook on the world, saying that they are just now "discovering" Lisp is pretty ignorant.
But a community doesn't suffer when it lets its more extreme members ignore the things that would provoke them.
The article considers two situations where group wisdom is tapped using a simple democratic process, and shows that it works in one instance and doesn't work in the other. A more interesting question, and one that is far broader in scope, is to try to identify which community structures amplify individual wisdom and which structures diminish it. Wikipedia and Slashdot would probably be extreme examples -- the former has built something remarkable by leveraging the collective wisdom of unremarkable individuals, whereas the latter has managed to take people who are smarter than average and reduce the discourse to juvenile banter. This should be interesting to people here, since Hacker News is an experiment in this vein. But I think the issue is important enough to merit rigorous study, so that people who are building various types of social sites can start with an idea of what kind of features to put in and what to leave out.
What made you abandon mefi for reddit? I've never had time for mefi, but from casual browsing had the impression that its quality was higher than what I'm seeing at reddit.
Schools receive their incentives for (1) high standardized test scores, and (2) promotion/graduation rates. There are no incentives for producing creative, literate, and critically thinking people. Until that changes, schools will continue to break our kid's minds and corrupt their way in the world.
To everyone here at HN (because we know SkyNet will be built by someone within today's hacker community). Please remember to program a kill command in an area of memory in which SkyNet has no access.

I believe ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA will suffice.
Here's a Hacker News Feed with the main link being the comments
I submitted a suggestion to Hacker News a few days ago, saying that it made more sense to me to have the main link of the RSS feed be to the comments page rather than to the news item. You can see it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=618412

People seemed 50/50 on the idea - with several good suggestions that it would make a good additional feed, but the current feed shouldn't be changed.

Davertron suggested Yahoo Pipes as a way of creating a new feed from the existing one, so I took his example and enhanced it to produce one:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews

It also gave me a chance to play with Yahoo Pipes, which turned out to be pretty flexible and easy to use.

Feel free to use the new RSS feed - and if you decide to clone the pipe I created to enhance it further, then just leave a comment!
I've been writing a blog for 8 years. I'll probably be writing one 10 years from now.

Facebook? Not so much. Twitter? It'll probably pass in a few years.
Legally, Apple only allows you to virtualize OSX Server, and it has to be on Apple-branded hardware. I suppose the main hurtle for MacMiniColo customers would be affording the license ($499 minimum). That said, MediaTemple is experimenting with this exact setup:

http://mediatemple.net/labs/xv/
Oh, and here is the author's twitter Handle : http://twitter.com/liebke
> How many resources should they apply to the top 2% of children?

Resources spend on the cleverest kids will probably provide a bigger return on investmant than for other kids, so about 5%
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The Ginsu knife is a product most famous for the activities that were used to promote it. It was made famous through a series of long-form advertisements in the 1970s and it is claimed paved the way for the modern day infomercial with its use of quirky catchphrases, comical quips, and urgent call to action, including the phrase "how much would you pay...don't answer" and "but wait, there's more". ~via Wikipedia

The target audience understands that very well.
The prevalence of linkbait Coding Horror, TechCrunch, and Rails-Drama articles has resulted in a significant reduction in my daily reading of HN. I'm interested in reading and commenting on informed, insightful articles.

TechCrunch, Coding Horror, and Rails-Drama are not insightful, often factually incorrect, always incendiary -- linkbait flytraps for junior technologists.
Just remember, when these attitudes were translated to actions (both military and commercial), the Americans won.

Never count out the quick and dirty in the software world. Sometimes a determined half-wit can beat the pants off a high-minded academic even with inferior technology.
As an American, that's how we won the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and saved your asses from invasion in World War II.

Yeah, it's Memorial Day, and I'm punchy. I grew up in VA hospitals. Wanna fight, limeys? :)
i think you're right.
The question is now, how to sell open source?
Yes! That's the clip I linked to within the post - embedding isn't allowed. And it's a great example of the bland use and commodity elements of business cards.

Joel Bauer is a character - nice way not to call him an ass :) And although his video on the business card is funny, there are a lot of truths in it. Common wisdom is to put name, rank, and serial number on your card. The problem is, no one really cares...just corporate egos worrying more about their titles than their message.
After learning about these concepts in Haskell, the Ruby code seems downright ugly (I never thought I'd say that)... but still probably quite useful in some cases.
Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?
Hey all.

I was just wondering if there's a site out there that's like hn but dedicated to art and design instead of tech and science. I saw a few things here about design and typography, but it's mostly tech and science.
I don't get it. Do we really care if Microsoft and a bunch of incompetent developers enjoy epic fail on the Azure platform?
I couldn't find one. If there's not a site like that out there already, there really should be!
http://undrln.com/ is advertising, marketing and design.
Weather Underground does the annoying 'on/off' copy for their site (Options menu). Very annoying.
In here the destination article is showing up just as text without the link to it. Maybe you can add it too? Just to avoid cutting/paste...

Besides that, I like the idea. I generally prefer to read the comments (even though I don't post often) more than the articles itself.

[ddbb]
> the War of 1812

I thought Canadians handed your asses to you in that one.
I case of Wikipedia, it's a collective effort but the actual work per article is done just by few people or even an individual.

The wisdom of the crowd still lies in the invidual knowledge, skill and effort -- not in guessing or voting the right answer.
What is it with Korea and Japan and this exclusionary attitude? You can't even use wifi based on nationality, no matter how many lattes purchased?
These people are having way too much fun.
Why is it then so controversial today that IBM sold computers to the Nazi regime?
Ask HN: FAQ Pages useful?
I just put together a FAQ page for http://browseology.com to help clarify the new technology. We found that people are often times associating real-time collaboration with signups, installs, and such, so that's what they keep looking for on our page, when all they need is to click a link to get the screen sharing ability for the web. Trying to explain how simple something is in a world that's not accustom to it is hard, so we put up a FAQ to see if it would help.

Do you guys think a FAQ is useful for a site?

Should you actually be solving the problem of why a FAQ even exists?

IF you need a FAQ is your product too hard to understand to begin with?

Let's hear your thoughts, and please review my FAQ page as well.
http://browseology.com
Good point. I'd hazard a "No, we don't"
Wasn't that the French and Indian War when they really took it to us? But, yeah, I think we lost Toronto in 1812.
Let's get crazy and ban comments that suggests we ban comments suggesting we ban polls about banning TechCrunch. -> not funny anymore I guess :-)
My issue with the 10% rate is that the population of startups is not homogenous. Put differently, many startups are essentially doomed to failure at the time of the founding, and others have much better chances.

At least, that's the main thing I got from this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

If one takes serious measures to belong to that second group of startups which are not (necesarily) doomed to failure, then the really relevant question is: what is the success rate in this group? 25%? A third? A coin flip?

Of course there's also a non-trivial chance of belonging to the first group, but not acknowledging or being aware of it.

So with all of that in mind, it would be really interesting to see an update to the conclusions from http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Assuming we agree that the list is factual or at least objective (I don't), and that there are valid issues in the list (I don't think so), and we agree that there is a problematic gender disparity that should have "awareness raised" (and I don't agree at all), which do you think is more effective...

* laying it out as List Of Privileges People With Penises Have And Don't Realize They Have, and posting it on "news" sites dominated by young men, or...

* keeping the list to yourself, and doing something about it?

Everything I know about being powerful, and being effective, says "For the love of god, take door #2."

Weak people lay out all their cards and say, "Fix it for me" and "Let's have a discussion." Strong people work behind the scenes and fix things so nobody even knew they were broken to begin with.

The bonus of the "strong and silent" choice is that it doesn't lead to these stupid kind of tail-chasing, bitchy, whiny, finger-pointy, divisive "discussions." It just creates... change.

Also, to say that the tech industry is a community - it is to laugh.
> that's how we won ... the War of 1812

Your history needs a tune up.
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Uh huh I see. Except I'm Texan, so I use my limes for Dos Equis, not to fight scurvy.
Do you guys think a FAQ is useful for a site?

Yes, it is one of the first things I look for on a site introducing a new technology or new service. It is a clue I use to determine how committed the company is to user-friendliness.
Honestly, I wanted somebody to catch me so I could find someone I could trust and respect. I needed somebody like that in my life.

But it never happened. Go figure.
Agreed, but I actually would rather have 2 links to TechCrunch than one to NYT. At least, TC is about technology and start-ups. Should we ban NYT?
The article actually says that they're going to go with Windows and Office unless various groups (Socialist Party, Free Software fans) can kick up enough fuss about it.
Pretty cool idea.I would totally be interested in that.
The Fear... of the Internet
Somewhat unrelated to this post, but I'm finding the debate over web vs. native mobile apps to be very interesting.

I'm a huge proponent of web apps for desktop apps. Most software is simple enough to work well in a browser and you can't beat being able to use the same app on any computer without ever installing or upgrading. This advantage seems to disappear on mobile phones though. I carry my phone everywhere I go, so portability isn't really an issue. Most phone platforms provide an easy way to install and keep your apps up-to-date, so that concern fades away too. Most importantly though, I see native mobile apps having a much better user experience than web apps (regardless of whether or not the webapp was written for a mobile platform). On the desktop, I can keep a web app loaded and running all day. That seems a lot harder to do on a phone.

Palm is unveiling their webapp based phone soon. Google says it wants to make more apps using HTML 5. It will be interesting to see how these strategies pan out.
Don't you think bragging about WWII is just a tad past its use by date? Geeze, can we have a statute of limitations on that, please? Anyway, Russia was (at least) an equal partner in the defeat of Germany.

America's military record since is terrible. It's difficult to think of a single conflict in the last 50 years where the US hasn't been chased away, tail between its legs, from a politically motivated, trumped up, hubristic misadventure off in some godforsaken hellhole it never had any business meddling with in the first place. Hell, at least the Brits managed a single unambiguous victory, over Argentina.

Oh look, North Korea, probably the worlds' worst country, in the news again. Wonder who we have to thank for that.