skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me hoping against hope, or does it look like the world really could start shifting into a more functional paradigm?

Or at least the parts of the world that doesn't bill by the hour/LOC..
Deathmatch: Palm Pre versus iPhone
Is the poster trying to make a point other than that it's more aesthetically pleasing to have it white?
Mobile deathmatch: Palm Pre vs. iPhone, side by side
"Today we order $50m of furniture here from Russian factories. In the future want to buy at least ten times that amount," said Dahlgren." -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1836004.stm (2002)

There are over 30 Russian factories working for IKEA. How does this correlate with your theory of IKEA killing local factories?
It's just the way cycles work. Few years of over exaggerated OOP hype, then few years of over exaggerated functional hype.

Some people just like taking things to extremes and seeing things in completely polarized viewpoints - good vs evil - rather than recognizing that both are great in different circumstances.

It's a lot less tiring (and more productive) to use whatever tool fits the job best, rather than whatever tool is currently in fashion IMHO.
I like to think the shift is occurring, but at times I feel like my view comes from spending most of my time in an insular community that finds FP exciting. When I meet with other programmers I become less hopeful.

-m
when Microsoft hired him - Interesting, but I'm not sure that will be a very cost effective strategy for Microsoft.
Russia is Fed Up with IKEA.
Are you implying Ikea would want anything else than normal, civilized treatment from local authorities? If not, why on earth would Ikea need to slander the local government for anything? I'm sure this is not the kind of publicity either one wants.
‘Toy universe’ may solve mystery of life’s origins
Ikea would interest us as a company trying to do business without paying bribes in Russia. No matter what the quality of its products, it does not deserve to be extorted by corrupt authorities. So don't mix up the quality of its products with the corruption issue.
Even better: make the page background black. (I did notice testing of a "turn off the lights" button, but I no longer see it.)
Ning Exposed - Tech Company Scams its Clients
Nude photos in iPhone apps show trouble with policing Web content
Who is lupoleboucher.livejournal.com and why are their trolls showing up on HN now?
For anyone interested, I have posted a link to Mr. Fry's tribute to P.G. Wodehouse, written in 2000.

It is entitled "What ho My hero, PG Wodehouse."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689217

Notable quote: "Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today."
You might like IKEA, or not.

There is an easy argument to make that they are a net destroyer of taste and destroy culture. I am not certain, personally.

But as a business, IKEA is as serious as a heart attack and is a competitor that seems unbeatable; an inspiration for all.

IKEA builds and manage an incredible amount of stores everywhere -- without any serious security problem. I've never read any article that IKEA complain about bribes in other countries.

Be grateful that the company risks billions of dollars by becoming unpopular among violent criminals like Russian politicians. It is bettering your country; economists claims that corruption destroys a country.

You don't help your suffering country by defending your politician-thieves, which even makes the politicians of my home country seem mild.

(Sorry for wasting space by beating a dead horse.)
Do you see the title of the original article: it includes the expression "fed up". It implies they have been fighting corruption issues before, but until now managed to stomach it. Now, however, they are fed up with it, resorting to going public. See?
Have you considered applying to the YC program with this/variant of this idea?
Hi HN. What do you think about my new startup - Karminator.com
I would have seen this as good news, if I hadn't read this article the other week: http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/03/ning-exposed-tech-comp... . I noticed Marc stopped blogging just before the first questionable action that's reported in the article. Marc's blog posts in 07/08 were fantastic stuff, but the behaviour of his current business, with no reasonable response that I could find, undermines his otherwise good reputation. Does anybody know more about what's going on here?
Yeah, Yariv points at what I suspected, that the Erlang model is a bit more robust. However, I wonder if Scala is, in practice, 'good enough'.
Porsche to Launch Cayenne Hybrid in India
Free Bollywood Movie Download: Sankat City (2009) music track Mp3 Songs
Backup plan to get NASA to moon cheaper
I was expecting a commentary on whether or not this was more green, so I was a little shocked seeing the spartan page that awaited.

I think it LOOKS a lot better. Without the benefit of commentary from the author, I can't say whether that was his intent or not. From the stills, I can say that it takes a little away from the video, in that it isn't clearly framed as the main content on the page, but I'm guessing that motion video would make that problem go away.

As a complete aside, I almost love the lack of commentary from the author. I certainly don't recommend it for every post, but it's almost like blog art, in that the resultant conversation is free-form.
Check "resource curse theory" on Wikipedia. Really fascinating.
uh, the first system mentioned is CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System). So what exactly are you talking about?
Now you can "buy" Twitter followers
Steve mcnair's wife photo
None of your posts here contains a single fact, just rage. Moreover you are using lexicon (in russian) that unacceptable here. Stop trolling, please.
BeepMyStuff:Organize Your CD/DVD Collections W/Your Webcam (useful tools review)
does it need to have another point? are design matters unwelcome at HN?
I don't think the article is directed at people worrying about their own BMI, but when it is used by say, adoption agencies or insurance companies, etc. I seem to remember a case here in the UK where a couple weren't allowed to adopt because the man had a high BMI because he was a gym enthusiast or something.
Ubuntu is a Microsoft product
'Mafiaboy': Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown
This seems to be the point. "How to get noticed by passively trolling internet communities." He's doing an excellent job, I've certainly noticed him and devoted a portion of my day to being irritated by his continued presence.
Ask HN: What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You?
I was fascinated by the recent "Hacker Hacker News" post. Looks like a really cool idea. But the poster said that the "real" hacker news was about science, math, and languages.

Really? I thought the "real" Hacker News was about startups and things related to the startup culture.

Without posting the link, or quoting it (you all know the one), what is Hacker News to you? I know the PG quote, and I'm not interested in repeating it. Obviously HN means a lot of different things to different folks. What with all of the newcomers, I was wondering: why does everybody hang out here?
It's certainly more involved than plain ol' utterly insecure DNS--but my impression is that it's orders of magnitude easier and cheaper than DNSSEC.
Because people here generally seem interested in the same things as me.

Or more importantly: everyone here seems to go "oooh shiny" at the same things as me :)
Meta-discussion: I feel like we should avoid single images if we want to avoid becoming yet another news aggregation site.

What's next, {"Top N [Nouns] to [Verb]" | N > 1}? :(
Wolfram Alpha: The Use Cases
Steve Jurvetson: Only investing in the unknown
Twitter backend processing was rewritten in Scala.. Though I dont have specific opinion yet about Scala, that is a point to be noted.
I agree 100%. Despite Scala's hype and functional influences, it's most exciting to me simply as another option for the JVM, and another "tool in the toolbox."

Assuming you consider something JVM-based an eligible tool for a job, you have a wide variety of programming languages on a common platform to pick from. While it's probably not a good idea to apply them all in a project, it's nice to know that in the future the probability of you being able to reuse code in disparate languages increases.
lots of advertisements makes me feel like you made a cheap site to make money. sure, it looks 2.0-ish and has a nice personable reason about why i should login, but now that i've added an achievement only to be rewarded with a new set of ads, that thin vaneer has become dirty. i feel used. you can do better.
"The venture capital market should stop whining about Sarbox and other factors that are hurting their ability to take companies public."

Excellent point. Whenever anyone turns what should be a speedbump into a roadblock, you can bet there are bigger hidden issues. SOX is just the excuse du jour.
Yeah, it's ok when you know the answer (e.g. when you have to provide a proof of some theorem), but when you have a excercise section at the end of the chapter some books do not provide answers to those excercises. It's like having unit tests without knowing if the correct solution is e.g. 2 or 5.
How about training people in the skills they will require for their new position?
I ditched firefox for the new IE a long time ago, but then I installed chrome.
I think you've stumbled on something that Hacker News needs: Categories.
'Using this software, a low-cost PC with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad CPU can encrypt and authenticate 50 billion packets/day to 500 million clients.

The total load on .com is 38 billion packets/day from 5 million clients.'
I don't feel your concept is compelling. Assuming I did feel the concept was compelling, I would use a text file as suggested, and not your site. The page feels extremely bare, which I imagine is due to my having enabled Adblock Plus.
This is just an indicative that HN should go back to the roots.
And doesn't the third translate to "3. You can't get out of the game"?
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I didn't understand the purpose of your site just by visiting its front page - provide a short explanation.
i'd love to see pictures of the final output, too, in addition to performance results.
IPhone App Design: The Design of "Lent"
HN is a highly focused & highly intelligent community that shares links and information on topics which interest me. Usually surrounding technology, science, entrepreneurship and the Internet.
One possible next step would be a userscript (for Greasemonkey, Chrome, Fluid, etc.) that removes any story not on Hacker Hacker News from Hacker News itself. That way HHN fans could continue to use all the features of the main site.
Society is hierarchcal. It is even more interesting to apply the suggested methods to pick a president in USA.
My first thought was, "ok, what does this do?" I then tried to figure out the site's purpose based on the limited posts but that wasn't sufficient. I then had to click to the About page. In my opinion, that's way too much thinking to just figure out the purpose of the site. Don't make a user think too much upon the very first time entering the site.

Maybe you could add a small bit of copy under the title briefly describing why the site is there. Or perhaps some catchy slogan that describes the purpose.
My route to Hacker News was:

Slashdot -> Digg -> Hacker News

Basically each of those stopped serving my purpose as they got cluttered with what I'd basically describe as irrelevant nonsense. Hacker News has managed to present content that is unique, fresh, interesting, mature, and useful to anybody that's more interested in learning something new than watching some video with cats. To me, Hacker News is a blend of content about technology, science, business, and startups. It's kinda the website version of the magazine 'FastCompany', and it's where my interests are right now ...
How And Why We Get Bored
What makes you weird?
Er I hadn't considered that. I will generate all possible substitutions of someFunc with (+,*,-,/) and all possible substitutions of w,x,y,z with the set of arguments.
The Potential For Charities On Twitter
This caught my eye: "We have the ability to invest between $50 thousand and $50 million in a company, depending on the stage and the opportunity." Somebody sees an opportunity!
As I just commented in another comment I will generate all possible substitutions of someFunc with (+,*,-,/) and all possible substitutions of w,x,y,z with the set of arguments.

Now what I am trying to work out is that I am not assuming equal priorities of operations for w sf x sf2 y sf3 z. I see you've reoganised the nested approach, would this still satisfy?
This is the first link on google for "delete facebook account"

It works. They deactivate your account for 2 weeks and then permanently delete it. Worked for me.
I didn't think of that, quite honestly. You're quite right.

On the other hand, don't you agree that the actual problem in cases like that is rigid policy making with no regard for circumstances, rather than BMI itself?
Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)?
Do Men Take Too Many Risks?
My thoughts as well though I'll add that I feel there's been an increase in content that doesn't deal with subjects down to their minutia over the past few months.
In what way is society hierarchical?

Hierarchy is generally a poor way to organize things, unless you happen to need to fill space (which is how nature uses it). If you arrive at hierarchy as a solution to a problem, you have most likely misunderstood your problem.
Believe it or not, I'm more interested in the people here than the content.

Sure, content is important, should be high quality, and needs to be somewhat restricted to what interests us. But AFAIC, the purpose of the content is to build the community. Almost any article I find here I can find somewhere else. But I can't find the same quality of discussion as here.

I do use data from hn as a resource in my work, but only minimially. Most of what I do requires long hours and hard work, not outside input.

I have had the great opportunity to form many friendships here, most on-line, but quite a few in person too, through meet-ups, etc. I don't make many friends who are in the same line of work as me, so I really value relationships here.

Like many hackers, I spend long periods of time alone. Hacker News does a great job serving as my virtual water cooler/break room. Having cool things to talk about is a nice bonus.
Further commentary at: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-case-of-quant-tradi...

> Major developing story: Matt Goldstein over at Reuters may have just
> broken a story that could spell doom for if not the entire Goldman
> Sachs program trading group, then at least those who deal with "low
> latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing,
> strategy, and order submissions." Visions of swirling, gray storm
> clouds over Goldman's SLP and hi-fi traders begin to form.
HashValue: an object for holding MD5 and SHA hashes
I was expecting an article by someone arguing this point. Sadly it is just a screenshot of a typo on the internet.
I've long thought that the only real benefit to BMI is psychological - it gives doctors a way to tell their obese patients that they need to lose weight in a way that is less likely to hurt their feelings.

Let's face it, if someone is fat, you don't need BMI to tell you that. The important point is that many Americans are fat, have a terrible diet, and need to lose weight - not that the fatness formula is slightly off and gives a few too many false positives.
There's very little crap here, both in the comments and the links.

Crap is my personal distaste in news, namely celebrity obsession, fluff, non-informative articles, time-wasters, fashion trends and the like.

I love the occasional article on 14'th. century Venice and biology as much as the ones related to hacking and startups because they aren't crap if they rise to the frontpage.
This is especially true in technology companies, where the people skills needed in managers are generally not those possessed by the most high performing leaf nodes (who may tend towards dweebery. You know who you are).
Same here.

I came into HN as a place where other people in the startup/hacker culture hang out. I figured if nothing else some of that goodness might rub off on me. It's been a great virtual water cooler so far.
It should probably be noted that this is several months old (March w/ what looks like updates through April)
While we're at it: the backend of the Facebook chat is coded in Erlang. 1-1.

No peculiar opinion about any of them either, btw.
This is about a (rather bad, I think) paper investigating a really extreme version of the Peter principle: what happens if competence at one level is totally uncorrelated with competence at the level below? In that situation, duh, it turns out that you want to promote the worst-performing people. (Because they'll do just as well after promotion as the best-performing people, by hypothesis, but promoting them out of the lower level makes things better at that level.)

The paper takes a purely empirical approach (simulate an organization with given performance characteristics and promotion rules, and see how well it does according to an ad hod measure), and it doesn't even seem that its authors have understood why it's obvious that under what they call the "Peter hypothesis" -- which is not in fact quite the hypothesis Laurence Peter made, and neither is their version of the Peter principle correct -- promoting the worst performers is best.

The paper also considers a "Common Sense Hypothesis", namely that competence at different levels is strongly correlated. Unsurprisingly, the authors find that promoting the best performers works then.

Of course, reality probably doesn't quite match either the overoptimistic "common sense hypothesis" or the overpessimistic "Peter hypothesis". The authors apparently think that a good way to deal with this is to ask what minimizes your worst-case losses if you know that one of those hypotheses holds but don't know which. So they recommend either promoting at random, or alternating between promoting the best performer and promoting the worst performer.

It might be interesting to do a study like theirs using more realistic models of employee performance at different levels of the hierarchy, but I don't see much value in what they've done.

(Let me speculate mischievously that the authors are probably quite good at what they mostly do for a living; perhaps the apparent lack of correlation between that and their success in investigating the Peter principle is itself evidence for their version of the "Peter hypothesis"...)
I don't really see why there would be, in your mind, any difference? If you sell desktop apps and will sell them on the web, then you too are a "web startup" in many minds. Even if you put that aside, I don't get how it matters that you aren't a web startup. I think of HN as more of a tech startup resource rather than a web startup only resource. I posted a question about merchant accounts the other day and got some great answers. There's nothing "web startup" about that - if you want to accept CCs, you need a merchant account. I asked also about virtual PBX accounts, project mgmt site recommendations and more. It's a great community to tap into for any tech startup IMO.
I'm saying that "Simply throw your waste into a bin in your back-yard, wait 3 months and you have fresh earth" doesn't work. Size isn't isn't the only difference between "a bin in your back-yard" and "industrial size anaerobic digesters".

Take a walk in the woods. You'll see plenty of "not fresh earth" that has been dead for more than 3 months. As I discovered when I used composing to get out of some yard-waste disposal work, composting requires actual work. (I've actually done this a couple of times, the most recent with worms.)

I'm a big fan of "actually earth friendly" as opposed to feel-good. If you cherry-pick the easy stuff (mostly large metal objects), it's actually quite hard to do significantly better than a landfill. And, in a couple of decades, landfills will be a great place to find resources. (We're already harvesting methane from them and it's viable to harvest other things now.)

The US has a waste disposal "crisis" because it created one. Do the arithmetic - the total amount of trash generated in the US over decades could fit in a small corner of Nevada and no one would even notice.
Aside from whatever security weaknesses the specific implementation has, it would be very inconvenient to use this unless it became standardized, as you wouldn't be able to use any browser that didn't have the plugin (like on your mobile device) for secure sites.
"What is the black magic stealth technology behind feared Goldman Sachs and its whispered microseconds-fast automated trading systems?"

Apparently SNMP.
Thanks for mentioning that theory, yeah I'd heard about it.

I don't really buy it, though. It strikes me as being too cute by half and I can think of any number of counterexamples. For example, Norway, Canada and Australia have immense resource wealth per capita and no-one would say they're bad places to live. And Canada has 3x Russia's oil reserves, with 1/5th the population!

I think resource wealth is just a multiplier. If you have a bad government, it can make it even worse, but with good management it can provide a useful flow of income.
thats the exact definition of the "Pewter Principle" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
Everyone are promoted to their level of incompetence.
If you are good at something, you'll get promoted until you are not that good anymore (i.e. its 'too big' for your skills)

in other workd (wikipedia): "anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. "
I guess nature misunderstood the problem domain of organizing the body:

http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Modularity.pdf
To a certain degree, HN is a source of procrastination to me - which it is really bad for because almost every link requires a substantial amount of time to consume. I still go to Reddit to click on a few [pic] links every now and then, but HN is much more inspirering.
I agree with you though - I generally consider the interesting topics to be the less technical and more startup-related ones.
Making the page black by default would make comments harder to read (imo). Then again, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
Read the article carefully before you upvote.

The author brings up some valid questions (such as highlighting the de-emphasis on social networks and the supposedly low numbers of network owners relative to the company's earlier claims) but it's ridiculous to suggest that Ning is a "pyramid scam". It's poorly sourced and poorly argued accusations like this that undermine the credibility of the entire post.
A few days ago I loaded up IE6 on a company machine (to download Firefox, natch) and noticed that Google displays a message on the main page, in a box in the upper-right corner, encouraging me to download Chrome.

It doesn't seem to appear using any other browser.

So they're getting pretty close to doing that; perhaps less obtrusively than you suggest, but the intent is there.
kinda like YAML? www.yaml.org