skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually talked with people about this. The ones who express safety concerns tend to be concerned by trucks and most don't consider cars at all.

And, yes, I'm concerned with the prevalence of truck-sized vehicles. Thanks for finally getting on the same page, only requiring me to repeat the phrase 3 times. (Though you seem to do this by claiming the concept as your own.)

I know a lot of people who have these vehicles, so I'm not assuming anything about them. I know that the vast majority use close to their vehicle's capacity an interesting amount of time even though they also do a lot of single-passenger driving.

Your sample size is, what, 12? 24? Look, I'm not pretending to have a significant sample size, or rigorous methods, but in terms of people I've observed in Houston Rush Hour, it's more like 100's. Also note that I'm not assuming anything about any individual. I'm just thinking: "My god, there are a lot of those goddamned things!"

Just because you know a handful of people who use their big vehicles a lot, doesn't mean you have anything resembling a refutation of my position. At most you have some relevant anecdotes. Please remember "anecdotes are not data." Recalling a few anecdotes then declaring the someone wrong on their basis is an all too common display of mental fluffiness.

I certainly don't know why taking a couple of kids requires more equipment than invading France.

Been over in Europe lately? We Americans just like driving much bigger vehicles than we really need to. The marketing strategies of US auto manufacturers were designed to exploit this specifically. Why is it some random guy in Tuscany can run a plumbing business with a little mini-pickup as small as an econobox hatchback, while my friend has to have his Ford Ranger to run his? He'd love to spend 1/3rd as much on gas, but his customers would look at him funny.

By and large, the populace is brainwashed into doing things against their best economic interests. I suspect that choice of vehicle is one of these cases.
Being the altruistic guy that I am, I read the article for you. :-) (Not to mention that I was wondering my self.)

My take on LLVM is that it is a low level interpreter, near to the actual hardware. Parrot probably is itself, but the big bonus with Parrot is that it inherits a huge library from Perl and CPAN. That's the advantage for somebody developing a new language: an already existing massive library. Like the advantage the Java VM has with all the class libraries. This advantage is not so great if you are developing a language where the library violates the constraints of the language, e.g. immutable objects.

I surmise that Google went with LLVM for Python because Python already had that massive library and didnt need Perl's. Both Parrot and LLVM are register based interpreters which give a nice speed improvement over stack based interpreters, like CPython and JVM. The registers are an abstraction and dont have anything to do with the available machine registers. Even compilers targeting real hardware use abstract registers internally.

A minor misstatement in the article. Writing a parser is not hard. There are a huge number of tools out there. Parrot's is just one more. And if your language is simple, hand coding a recursive descent parser isn't all that difficult. It just isn't worth the effort.
My suggestion is to do your marketing up front, concurrent with development, to get incremental buy-in and iterate concepts until you find a good one, instead of on the back-end. I find you have much better results that way. You can arrive at something that 'sells its self' by aggressive customer contact and pre-selling. But in fact, it didn't 'sell itself,' you just did your marketing up front to make sure you built something people wanted to pay you for.

As to marketing being able to sell bad products, I reply: New Coke. ;)
There was an entertaining exhibit of fabricated housing at MOMA last year, including some "working prototypes." The "micro compact home" was incredibly cool. The attention to detail and slick, functional design was really inspiring. I left with an "I want one of those" feeling, a little like you'd experience after seeing an exciting new gadget.
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You submit a binary to the app store, not source code.
The mx.dateTime python module exhibits this behavior too. It bit me hard.
I am strangely reminded of Douglas Adams' Vogons.
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i like this one, thanks
I wonder what part of invasiveness you don't like.

So...you don't want your brain to be invasively housed in a super strong skull that can survive being stomped on by tanks, underwater pressure, and extreme variances in temperature and environment?
Its just like the first rule of bank loans. The best way to get a loan is not to need one.
Good stuff. I often wonder what it takes to be a PR bot. I think there are two ways of doing it:

1) The PR bot is actually a thinking human, and knows full well what he/she is doing. Just as ATB has done a PR-to-Human translation here, the PR bot does a Human-to-PR translation before posting.

2) The PR bot comes to sincerely believe the PR. This could be because he/she is just stupid, or because his/her salary depends on whatever is being pushed and this has subconsciously affected his/her brain.
"But you'll never find it using boring Safari. (So get rid of it, or get lost.)"

....

"Ditch the web browser you're using. If you try to find the $10,000 with Safari, you'll get nowhere."
"It's not as stupid as it sounds." - Lol.

IE8 isn't that bad. Sure it's slow, but most everything you'd need is implemented. I don't like the haughty tone of the contest, but meh. Firefox fans have run similar campaigns, e.g. http://wedontsupportie.com/
The real innovation in these products is the ecosystem of attribution they've built into the marketplace. When you view a particular image you can see what images it is based on, what images build on it, etc.
If anyone is interested, here is a more detailed write-up about the crop circle. It was put together by a group of us a few years. If you zoom up really close, you can see us laying in the field nearby. Awesome to see it still getting used. :)

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/events/firefox/crop-circle
The Future of Valuation
Remember to vote down any ExpertSexChange pages in Google.

Hopefully, they would eventually go way down in the search results.
I think the idea is that, basically, the Starbucks "experience" is what city life in general now feels like for these people. Starbucks is no longer differentiating on personality, because now everything else is just like Starbucks. they need a new schtick.
The GI is narrow we need a holistic view of food. What we're really after is long term glucose/insulin sensitivity. The GI too focused on one aspect of food. We know of cultures (e.g Chinese, Kitavans) who thrive on high GI foods [1]. I don't follow the glycemic index much.

That said, it is relevant. Eating low GI and low carb generally is good for the obese and overweight. It'll do wonders against prediabetes and metabolic syndrome because they're insulin insensitive.

[1] Against the GI: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search?q=glycemic
Many people already live in sheds to save money. They are called "trailers."

+1 to ellyagg for the "stuffwhitepeoplelike.com" call
I'm not so sure that parsing / syntax is the bottleneck - didn't that regex engine get most of its improvements from JIT compiling the regexs?
I don't believe reducing our energy consumption is going to have much effect on global warming. I think the sun is way more powerful an influence on our climate than humans.
I think Joel and Jeff also though ExpertsExchange was lame, and that's partly why they created StackOverflow.
Also, along with the scare quotes around HTML5, notice that he calls them "WhatWG proposals" in an effort to belittle them. The W3C is involved now, too. Sorry, Adobe.
It was patched in memory, not on the disk.
"some great spin" is being put too mildly.
Looks like they don't know what HTML5 is nor the state of its support in current browsers: pretty much all (but IE, of course) already have some support for it. Not sure how that makes minority of browsers, not to mention, that browsers on the new smartphones which are worth something are Webkit based—and that means support for HTML5. Apple specifically advertises HTML5 and CSS3 on its Safari webpage ( http://www.apple.com/safari/what-is.html ).

I completely fail to see how the release of iPhone "helped to radically increase the number of phones with Flash support". If it did help something this is to realize that we can do
just fine without Flash.

So no, you don't need to wait ten years before HTML5 arrives, it is already on your doorstep (have you seen Google Wave?). There will be no wait, so "during that wait, Flash becomes more and more powerful" doesn't come to fruition. Adobe still cannot make Flash to run without hogging resources on anything but Windows, do they think I will buy this "more powerful" crap?

I don't think that HTML5 will kill Flash though, but if it forces Flash out of the places
there it does not belong (full flash sites, flash navigation, etc.) Web will be a better place and I will be a lot happier.
I'm unsure of what you mean with "long term glucose levels". But runners carb-load. And bodybuilders eat "spikey" carbs after lifting to get the best recovery.

While not the greatest thing to do (carbo-load), they burn it off so it doesn't matter much.
Also, No hot backups. For companies that need email without downtime this could be a deal breaker.

I administer the CE version at my work and it is a mostly no fuss package and was much better than the collaboration platform that we were using.
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Writing an ebook is something which many web content producers may consider doing. When thinking about taking this step in web content production, one may hesitate in doing so simply because they think that an ebook will take too long to produce.
A pity there isn't a list of something like this for Canucks - I've looked.
The rule of thumb for instruction set design is that an instruction which is worth 1% in overall performance is worth considering. (That's how one game processor got a 2x2 matrix multiply instruction.)

It's unclear why VM design would be significantly different. In other words, if a specialized regex engine provides a significant performance boost, why not add it? Applications that can use it get faster, applications that can't stay the same.

Of course, one often discovers that redesigning the previous solution so it does the right thing for the special case is even better.
I'm sure there could be al sorts of interesting applications for this if it was cheap or if it was relatively easy to transport . Teenagers, parents, renters, students, vacation homes, tourist flats.

But I don't see why this is better/different from having a unit or cabin built by a builder. You can do this even in the bay area. The only difference is they call it a shed.
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"...and composition of programs is a fundamental concept to both users and programmers..."

This sounds like a nice vision, but I think you must have different users to me, even given 30 years evolution for them too.

Anyway, 30 years is half the life of the whole of software ever, over again, just about. Not wanting to get too Kurzwailian, but anything could happen by then.
"Metaclasses won't fly in this case, since the order of struct members has to be kept."

Couldn't you use a creation counter in a metaclasses and assign order to the attributes as they are added? (like Django's forms use to keep track of field order)
it's an issue of resolution. Using actual neuronal signals is much more precise than sampling brain waves from outside the skull.
You can get free wifi at starbucks without any AT&T setup at home. The steps:

- buy a starbucks gift card ($5 minimum)

- register the giftcard online

- use the registration info when prompted when you connect to the network at SBUX.

- you must make at least one purchase each month on the giftcard, e.g. a tall coffee for $1.50.

- you can only use two MAC addresses on that card. Otherwise they'll lock your account, but you can call and get it unlocked.

- with said giftcard you also get free refills and free flavorings of some type too, even if you don't use the giftcard to buy the coffee in the first place.

I go to starbucks pretty much every day and that's how I get online there.
If you've ever watched The Diving Bell & the Butterfly you can understand that this could be a big deal to thousands of people.
$300 isn't very much when you look at the loaded costs of setting up and running a coop. Offices are expensive.

And if not an office, I'm not sure how one would ever create a 24 hour coffee shop. A typical Starbucks lives off of customers who spend $100/mo and take up no room -- $5/latte by 20 working days and five minutes in and out. How would some coffee shop ever survive by charging three times as much for someone who takes up 100 times more time lounging around in chairs?
> Why should a distant seller have an 8+% cost advantage over local sellers? Why should extra fuel/pollution/time be expended because of that jurisdictional anomaly?

Part of the argument for sales tax is that it's recovering costs that the state pays to support the biz. You know, things like police and fire.

Amazon doesn't use any NC services.
You might find this entertaining, if you have not already seen it.

171 Starbucks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwYxuV2dVzw
They miss a big point when talking about fragmentation: one thing what HTML5 is trying to achieve is to standardize the
things which browsers _already_ do, i.e. to document current
behavior where it is consistent and to make it as consistent as possible if it is not. It is the work largely based on
how web and browsers work _now_, so the result will be quite an opposite to fragmentation.
My guess is "gmail.com", not "google.com".
Yes, Joel took quite a few potshots at the "hyphenated site", as he put it, during his talk at Google about StackOverflow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ).

Also, Jeff mentions it in his intro to StackOverflow Coding Horror post (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html):

Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming)
It is important to note that IE6 didn't suck at first relative to its competition. It just didn't improve while the rest of the web did at the speed of light. I know it's hard to remember that when you're trying to find workarounds for lack of png transparency or figure out why your divs aren't where they should be.

Firefox clearly started happening before they found such a great way to monetize, but I have a hard time believing it would be what it is today with tens of millions of dollars less coming in. Now there's so much money in it that there are multiple decent competitors to IE.

All of Microsoft's settlements seem to have had no impact on their browser strategy really. Every copy of Windows still has IE on it, just like it did before, and requires a download of Firefox or any other competitor. I don't think their "anti-competitive practices" or the cessation thereof have made any difference at all. Hence my original post.
Some requests for Oracle:

- switch to apt for package management.

- bundle standard gnu tools, etc. by default and drop the old solaris ones.

- release the entire solaris codebase and intellectual property too the open source world.

Why would any business want to risk its future on an old, dying operating system for a few percent better performance in niche workloads?
The unladden-swallow page says they're using the LLVM JIT compiler in order to be able to compile Python / bits of Python to machine code.

So it's less about choosing a VM from LLVM / Parrot / JVM / etc and more about using a feature of LLVM to get a speedup.
Ask HN:  What makes a programming language fun?
I'd never really put much thought into it, but lately I've been thinking a lot about what it is that makes a language fun to use. I've put a lot of thought into what it is that makes a language useful, but not so much about what makes a language fun. So I figured this would be the best place to ask.

So let me put it to you this way, what features would you want to have in a language that you would hack with in your spare time? What features would make you not want to hack with it in your spare time?
That's correlation at best, not causation. And the significance of the difference is questionable at that.

I presume there are other programmer websites in the world than stackoverflow and expertsexchange. The miniscule decrease you note can hardly be attributed to stackoverflow, just because stack overflow is the other company on the graph.

It needn't even be competitive forces at play. It could be that expertsexchange got slower and Google fed it less traffic for a while, which is something that might be permanent or transient. Attributing this to anything based on this graph will be a fruitless labor.
The median home price in Detroit was only $7500 a couple of months ago:

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jan/29/nation/chi-de...
His claim that it'll be 10 years until HTML5 works is absurd. Adobe makes some of the worst software in the software industry. Great marketers though.
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> vote down ... in Google.

Wait, what? You can vote for/against google search results?
These are always fun to read, but it's always so difficult to believe them. There are so many different ways to measure them and different surveys always yield totally different results.
Broken pipe and the score went to /dev/null. Makes me want to pick a fight with a shopkeeper :)
You make it sound like they're interested in telling the truth!
This has been in my bookmarks for quite some time now. It's a really good guide to hosting your own repositories.
I agree, but there's always wishful thinking!
If you log in, you have access to "search wiki" features. But as far as I know, it just affects the pages that you see.
I've noticed that Yahoo and AOL have both been starting a lot of new services and shutting many of them down. It makes them look desperate.
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> Returning CO2 levels to historic lows, or blocking solar radiation, might not be able to return the system to its original state: these reactions may not be reversible.

I thought that it was generally agreed that CO2 levels had been much higher in prehistoric times. If so, it's unclear why recovering from lower levels in the future would be irreversible when we got here from there before.
FYI, multiply by 10 to roughly convert sq.m to sq.f
Planet Facebook: Is social-networking site a phenomenon or a fad?
U.S. (finally) Says Treasury Bonds Seized in Italy Are Fakes
After working with Flash Lite for way too long, I gotta agree.

I'm still convinced it's all about <video>. All this clamoring for Flash on iPhone, Flash on Android, Flash on GE Ovens etc is all about people getting their video (cough cough PORN) on their handsets.

Give them H.264 and a <video>-tag enabled browser, throw in a little JQuery for animating menus and eye candy, and we'll leave Flash in the dust for good.

Javascript is the new bytecode.
We need someone to win the contest using Firefox (changing their user agent) and just viewing source when appropriate (to avoid IE "compatibility" bugs that hide things).
Are there any plans to refresh the appearance to better fit with Vista? It looks quite ugly, especially compared to Chrome (which does an excellent job of integrating well with the look of Vista -- quite surprising, coming from Google).

Tweaking the icon is nice and all, but what's the point if the browser itself looks bad?
And of course, the caveat about reading other people's evaluations is hinted at up near the top: "or my favourite CouchDB".
Now, has someone checked to see if $10K had been recently buried at that location?
Also check out http://programming.nu/.

It's a sort of S-expression-based functional language that leverages the Objective-C runtime.
I think that's the default for any user agent they don't recognize. For some reason I get "that browser" when I use Firefox on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Ask HN: Do you have to pay for the iPhone SDK for each developer?
Is there a link to how I can get the 3.0 SDK without having to pay a second time? I'm joining another guy at my company on a project.
Apple's new Find My iPhone feature is cool, but kinda quirky.
" If you want to get a promotion at work to best place to start might be doing something as simple as taking everyone's lunch orders and getting them right. "

Dang, that is good advice.
Except the unique visitors to hyphen also includes those that go there from Google, find they have to sign up and immediately go away in disgust.
"Applied Picoeconomics": bargaining with your future self
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Google said when they launched search wiki that "right now" it wouldn't do anything for anyone else, but you know that Google can't resist using data they have for too long.
Microsoft says Google tool breaks Outlook
Oh, OK, good to know. The article made it sound like using Objective-C was a requirement for developing for the iPhone, and the only reason I could see for that to be the case is if they needed the source code. That said, why not just target the architecture directly? Why make a pit-stop at C?
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Market share always adds up to 100%.
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Who needs a bookshelf when you've got the Street?
Maybe Google Isn't Losing Big Bucks on YouTube After All
This seems to only work when coming directly from Google to ExpertSexChange.
Breakthrough in smart, high-density memory at Oak Ridge National Lab
I hope some enterprising reporter is able to figure out the whole backstory.
That's cool and is about the perfect (if not more) amount of space I need. However that is ridiculously expensive for just that alone. You could build one of those for next to nothing compared to their prices fairly easily.
I've never understood the nickel and dime-ing of customers. Ok, I can understand it from certain perspectives but... here's the deal.

Wireless carriers? Want to gain a large amount of market share ASAP? Give every 1000 text messages free/month and make unlimited like $5.

I'm 27, so I almost never text. However if I date some 23 year old, she'll text me incessantly. Kids? Yeah, we're well aware. They can't live without it.

Every carrier can charge and co-exist peacefully, but the first one to knock down that wall will get a good surge of conversions. Sure, other carriers will eventually follow, but now people may not have any motivating reason to switch back, plus the possible inertia of the contract they're in. Their overall revenue will hopefully be around the same, and they've managed to damage their competitors who were slow to follow suit.

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Next year's WWDC, the big iPhone "boom" feature? My guess is the must-have feature for the USA will be AT&T no longer being the exclusive carrier.
There's a difference between the bare necessities we need and space we need to be happy and satisfied.

Sure, I could live in a closet, but I'd be pretty damn miserable most of the time.

(This is, of course, considering bachelor hackers. If you're living in a car, your priorities have to be rearranged and your happiness might have to be deferred for awhile.)