skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racket is one other good example but he was responding to the "all other lisps" claim. Racket pretty unusual in many regards, so I think the Dwightian "False" was unnecessary here. Or anywhere, really.
From the article they published in Advanced Materials, it seems the ink actually contains silver (the element) nanoparticles in a colloid. I'm surprised that the resistance is still that high.
Interesting that that graph shows none of the effects of either the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution. In other words, it's quite inaccurate. Also note that neither of the two resultant graphs show the period requested (1950-1980). One shows 1970-2013, the other 1600-2013.
Now I'm curious: how do you send a class 0 SMS to a phone?
And in case there was any doubt, it's one of my favorite Zaps :)

It uses the awesome HNSearch API to poll for new mentions of phrases and triggers a Zap whenever it finds one. (I have it send me an SMS).

Here's a better, more direct Zap Template: http://zpr.io/gsjS
Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Intro To Modern C Programming
what happens when you put too much current through? Does the notebook go up in flames? Having seen many fellow classmates flip polarities to watch caps explode, i can see them lighting up their notebooks with this..
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=coffeemachine...
The Declaration of Independence says "pursuit of Happiness" and anybody can pursue it. I've never met anyone who thought it was a guarantee even with hard work and I live in the area of the country that still believes in the American Dream.

Of course, I also live in the part of the country that doesn't measure happiness by the size of the bank account when you shuffle off the the great beyond. Although the farmers and vocationally trained in the area are doing pretty darn well.

Hard work seems to give one a better chance at reaching your goals, much like exercise seems to help with keeping you healthy. Some folks live a long time without exercising and some die early even when exercising regularly.
I would send them an email outlining, in a positive way, all the things which you just mentioned and explain how you're capable and qualified for the position. Be polite and professional, and if they can't get their crap together, keep looking at other positions.
For the most part I support the views of RMS, but I'm not a particular fan of the copyleft model in all cases. I prefer using a BSD license, instead.
There are other uses of the word "Free" outside of the GNUniverse. If he wants to call this "free software", he's just as entitled to do so as RMS was when he redefined the term.
I think it is a bug with jsfiddle. It render you code:
<font color=”red”>Red, anyone?</font>
like this:
<font color="”red”">Red, anyone?</font>
And if you try like:
<font color=red>Red, anyone?</font>
it works.
Unintentionally also an HN parody generator.
The education is still free. They're still offering all the course materials they did before, they're just adding on the mentoring and certification tier.
Zero Based indexing in the real world
A Tesla Road Trip
Sidebar:

Argh.

I've played with alpha several times and each time gave up in frustration.

Just now I wanted to know "What's the history of the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in ounces of gold over the last 50 years?"

Spent 15 minutes fooling around. Finally got the pricing data in working separate queries, but couldn't combine it. So I asked to download the files -- only to be bugged to sign up.

Must be a totally awesome system. I can't make heads or tails of it.

Meh.
No, but the biological bond is started while the child is still in the womb. The child is born with a knowledge of the people around the mother from hearing them while in the womb. If I was in the office, I could site some recent studies, but they should be pretty easy to find. Talking into the belly looks dumb, but it is a pretty good idea for the father.
This tender is just for monitoring publicly-available stuff on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.

Every big brand already does that. For example, Starbucks almost certainly has software watching for mentions of the word "Starbucks." They probably have people to respond to questions on Twitter, etc. It's known as "Social Media Monitoring."

One of the big companies offering a Social Media Monitoring suite is Radian6; they're now part of Salesforce.com. There are lots of other companies offering similar services.

The Canadian Government wants to pay closer attention to what people are saying publicly online? I have a hard time finding problems with that. (Eavesdropping on private communications without a warrant is another matter entirely; it's not what this tender is for.)
I really wish Udacity would clarify their approach going forward. Will their classes become solely vocational, or will they continue to develop conventional courses? It's not either/or.
Cryptosphere - Encrypted P2P web application platform
This is bullying
Facebook Grill
I use it extensively for any files I touch that I do not share with anyone else, especially configuration files. Comes included in NetBSD, so no need to install anything else.
Start a company dude (or chick), you've got no excuses
Because the university approach is working perfectly. No humongous debt or diminishing returns issues at all.

..The current university system is just as untenable. It's just established.
Yeah, it will be fine for high impedance signal paths, which are by far the majority of traces, but not so much for power. I'm not sure what to use for the power traces and hope they come up with some solutions or suggestions. As an EE I know where it is appropriate and where it's not and would hope that design/layout software could make that mechanical just because it's easy to do.

I jumped on the project as soon as I saw it and will be thinking about a solution myself.
Pause time is a form of overhead. It reduces both latency and throughput.

Furthermore, the RC updates needed for DRC have to be thread-safe in a concurrent scenario. I understand that Nimrod has chosen not to have a thread-safe GC, but I don't think that'll scale for systems programming: too many algorithms want shared memory, and manual memory management is much more difficult in a concurrent setting. Once you go thread-safe, RC updates become extremely expensive, while concurrent GC is well-studied and performant.
It's still proportional to the live set in the general case. In practice cycle collectors tend to have to scan a lot, leading to some severe pause times (30ms in Firefox used to be common until the ad-hoc ForgetSkippable was added). Heuristics that cycle collectors use tend to fall down a lot in practice, unfortunately.
It's interesting computation, but how often is it useful to quickly estimate how many people were living in China between 1950 and 1980?

Not to pick on that one example, but I do think this is part of the reason that Wolfram Alpha has not taken off at consumer scale. It seems to me that the things it can do that Google cannot, while technologically impressive, are not particularly valuable to most people.

After completing their schooling, most people don't need to solve equations every day. If they do, they already have ways of doing it (Mathematica, for example).

And most people don't need to look up census data, or historical GDP tables, or the location of the ISS. And if they do, they already have ways to do that.

Basically, Wolfram's approach seems like a great way to organize and make useful knowledge that is fully known. But the most value is pushing the edge of the unknown, and that means continuously taking in, indexing, and presenting new information. Facebook does this, Twitter does this, Stack Overflow does this, etc....and Google indexes all of that.
> and could not find any other reason but Christopher outright lying about the financial status of his business.

None? I would think the growing number of users would translate into increased costs. Bandwidth, hardware, lawyers, etc? Do any sites show decreasing costs with increasing popularity?

> some even think these income streams far outdo the cost of running the chans.

Some? Do you have some links to share on the matter?
http://bit.ly/1bZIDCk

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yeah this was a big one for me too
Jesus christ. The guy gives away his hard work for free and still gets shit for it.

Stay classy, HN.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9123125/class-0-sms-flash...

EDIT: This support forum for software mentions some docs http://www.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/3360.html
I'm surprised nobody's pointed this out yet --

Windows Chrome, the #1 Google Fonts browser, pretty much sucks at rendering Google Fonts. Which means you probably don't want to use Google Fonts yet.

An outstanding issue [1] for the past few years has been that it can't antialias fonts correctly. The results are sometimes just so-so, and sometimes horrible, depending on what version of Windows you're running and what settings you have enabled. Small fixes have dropped but the fundamental issue remains.

When I first added Google Fonts to my site, I got word from several readers saying text was illegible. Thats when I discovered that tons of other designers had the same issue and it was Chrome's fault (search 'chrome windows fonts' and enjoy). I went back to Helvetica/Arial and every day this issue persists a little part of the designer in me dies.

When a company espouses a newfound interest in design [2] [3], but lets a major design issue on the largest platform for their products just sit there (visibly) unaddressed, you get a sense they don't have the right people in the right places to get stuff done yet.

Don't get me wrong, I love Google Fonts, it's a fantastic service for the design community. And Google has been building a lot of great design tools [4] that help push the web forward. Just.. close the loop on fonts already.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
[2] http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016268/google-the-redesign
[3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-ho...
[4] https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
Internet-of-Things with Intel Galileo
sure, advertising. but the goal here is to make the web more user friendly and useful for people, through better looking design/readability etc. That helps us all, and if then in turn they can keep the ad platforms alive, good on them I say.
You might want to take a look at this: https://github.com/virtualabs/ZeroSMS

Edit: DanBC linked to the SO question that links to this
You're all right: this is a terrible article where a main descriptor is by definition subjective (important: to whom, for what, and for what reasons?). But why is it hacker news?

While we're at it, yes it needs a continental section, among many other improvements. This is a problem with tree taxonomy in fields of ideas. Anyone really feel like they really care about fixing this? Is that why someone posted it here?
"They" is me, a solo author who gave up six months of consulting income to produce a book to help Rails beginners. Would you care to contribute to the Kickstarter campaign so the book can reach the people who need it? What do you wish to offer in exchange? How about even offering a thank you? Or do you feel you are entitled to enjoy my work, offering nothing in exchange, and encouraging other people to act with no respect or thanks?
They trust me.
RJS was a great technology in 2006. But now RJS is a dead-end and its time to let it go.

Replace RJS with jQuery (and the like) and focus on solving modern problems like concurrency and meteor-style push.
It's clearly Stallman-shaming.
Yup, down 50% already
Pretty classic software drama.
Ask HN: How Do I Improve My Postcard Sending Service?
I posted this in a Show HN a few days ago:

https://www.postperfect.co

I'm not really sure if it's because of the quality of my product or because people aren't really interested in paying $2 to send a postcard to somebody, but I'd love some feedback here on why I haven't made too many sales. Obviously I haven't done much promotion of the product either. But in general would just love to hear your thoughts.

The problem I'm trying to solve: many postcard sending services are really complicated and you need to bring your own photo. I wanted to make it incredibly simple to send a holiday card or general postcard from a short list of options on the site. I think it takes about 3 minutes to send a card this way if you have your address and credit card ready!

Any feedback is appreciated! You can reach me on Twitter or Github at @zachfeldman.

If you want to try the site out, use the code 10OFF for a 10% discount on a card (which is already only $2 domestically and $3 internationally).

Special thanks to the new Lob API and the old standard, Stripe!
That's gotta be the most egregious product placement I've ever seen.
I was going to go search through the forum archives to find relevant threads, but he took them down. Though, if memory serves, he'd deleted most of that ugly firestorm anyway, particularly the parts that one could use to paint him in a negative light.
Wouldn't this be bad reproducibility wise ?
I mean, the language spec is essentially changing on a rolling basis.
Ugly Side of Viral Media: Operation Blue Virus
On a cool side note, I don't know if this is old, but if you Google "Conway's Game of Life", an actual game of life is run on the page: https://www.google.com/#q=conway's+game+of+life
4chan is one of the worlds largest discussion forums, with sections covering a variety of topics (mainly comics, manga, games, nude girls, cooking, fitness).
The decisions to which he refers are the sort of policy changes and choices faces by anyone who operates a web community - requiring a captcha to post, offering accounts rather than pure ephemeral anonymity and so on.
Statements are pretty rare in any of the Lisps since the basic syntactic form is the s-expression.

I believe immutable values are a result of programming style. A person can choose to use Clojure's Vars, Refs, Agents, and Atoms [1] even though Clojure tends to encourage a functional programming style. Clojure inherits the functional programming tradition from the larger Lisp family (as does Racket).

That said, Rich Hickey has a great of describing how to avoid unnecessary mutation - usually you want the next value so just make a new one rather than changing the existing one.

[1] http://clojure.org/vars
BSD was not "clean-room", and AT&T sued when it was freely distributed, because they didn't believe that all AT&T code had been removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
Sure, but using Free (especially with the capital) is misleading, since the term already has quite a bit of precedent.
These articles tend to miss a new development in JavaScript: sweet.js (http://sweetjs.org/), hygienic macros for JavaScript. It is essentially scheme's syntax-case/rules completely for JS, and it's done really well.
too bad it hasn't been updated in a half a year :/

I would really like to find an active version of something like this
Racket is a Scheme:
Racket is still a dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. The tools developed by PLT will continue to support R5RS, R6RS, the old mzscheme environment, Typed Scheme, and more. At the same time, instead of having to say “PLT's main variant of Scheme,” programmers can now simply say “Racket” to refer to the specific descendant of Scheme that powers PLT's languages and libraries.

http://racket-lang.org/new-name.html
There is literally no reason to not allow cross-compiling. From one language into Objective-C. From one library into Cocoa. The ONLY reason to prohibit that, is to try to force people to stay inside your walled garden, with no way to climb out, allowing you to simultaneously develop apps for multiple (non-iOS) devices.

It was a dick move, and thank goodness they got called out for it.

And yes, it was to try to enforce a monopoly.
Ask HN: Which has more job openings RoR or Django?
I know that Python is very popular for data and scientific stuff so there is probably more job openings for Python than there are Ruby. But what about Ruby on Rails vs Django as far as how many companies are using them and which is a student more likely to get a job in?
RJS was removed in Rails 3.1, IIRC. It hasn't been considered best practice for some time.

That said, an article has been on the front page all day about not using shiny new tech by an author that recommends the use of Rails 2.3 and RJS today, soooo...
How so? I started out in Java, then did a lot of Scala for a couple of years, and have been mainly working in C# for the last 6 years afterwards. The only things I miss from Java are anonymous inner classes and some of the better debugging features (hot code replace) that Visual Studio hasn't really matched yet (edit and continue is not as robust).

I miss many things from Scala in comparison, but C# has some good features that almost make up for it.
Now everyone is fighting to perfect the concept and the definition.

Bikeshedding I say!

If we're just making something interesting and different, not shooting to replace all search, imperfect definitions are a wonderful place to start.
If you don't NEED to support GET requests with JSONP / JS to be evaled, then don't.

If you do need to, then the trick is to prefix what the script returns with something that will always throw a syntax error or discontinue evaluation, the idea being that your script (same domain) can cut off the prefix and then evaluate the JS, but the attacker relying on a <script> tag cannot.

for(;;);

http://blackbe.lt/safely-handling-json-hijacking-prevention-...
Aren't khan academy videos pretty cheap to produce, but quite good( except for some pedagogical errors khan is doing because he isn't a teacher, but that's easily solvable) ?
In my post RJS implies JS responders. RJS doesnt exist anymore
Thank you, your comments mean a lot to me. I agree that when I'm in social situations I'm not comfortable with, like parties, I tend to pull out my phone and move away from the center. Writing is the way I choose to try and cope, but the only way I'm going to ensure I stop dwelling on the past is by doing as you've said and walk through the fog of fear.

Thanks again
F# is primarily functional, Scala is much more of a hybrid of both OO and FP; so Scala has things like traits that are actually advanced OOP constructs, while F# tries to push you more in the direction of pure FP.

The tradeoffs are different also. F# focuses a lot on performance in the spirit of Caml, whereas Scala is a bit more free to dive into more powerful features that go against that spirit. This is my grock at least of my conversations with Don and Martin over lunch when Don was doing his sabbatical at EFPL.
Uh... the real story is that she gave them the printout.

"Why are you coming to the US?"

"I'm going to be an au pair. See..." [hands over printout]

"You did not apply for a work visa. Goodbye."
Seriously, the criticism on here gets ridiculous sometimes.
I used to be into powerlifting and bodybuilding, dabbled in olympic style lifting as well, so for my hobby I would need a good gym. I agree though, it's just that's not what brings me joy, I much rather push heavy weights.
"The pursuit of happiness" is an attempt to express human rights in a positive way. That is, rather than say what the state cannot stop you from doing, it attempts to say what it is you are supposed to be allowed to do. This is important because many people will want to say "I agree with human rights but why would you ever want to do X". "The pursuit of happiness" is an expression of what we are trying to protect: people freely choosing the lifestyle that they feel is best.
An Evening with Dante and Adrian 
Silly comedy
Not a single one of those are even remotely relevant to this discussion, other than the fact that they aren't behind a contact information 'paywall'.
I think people generally are interested in sending postcards. But I don't think people are interested in sending postcards with generic photos and printed text.

There are really 3 parts to a postcard. The photo, the message, and the stamp (where it came from). What you've done is removed all traces of a human having been involved in making it which removes a bit of the charm from the postcard.

Personally, for a postcard to have any value you must either hand-write the message or send a custom photo (of yourself, one you took, ect). Otherwise it basically goes into the trash next to the junk mail I already get that looks a lot like postcards.

Right now at this stage of my life, the only time I would consider send a postcard would be during the holidays to share a family photo to my parents and siblings. I would probably say that the custom photo is even more important than the actual message too these days.

Hope that helps!
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That is precisely the prisoner's dilemma. People have some interest in making society better, but not nearly as much interest as they would have had in improving the well being of their biological children.
Clojure is a more opinionated language. It has a BDFL who has really stamped his mark on it. This is very much reflected in the standard library and the built-in syntax for the standard collections. Sure, nothing is stopping Racket from doing everything Clojure does, however defaults do matter. Once a language reaches critical mass, it becomes very difficult to change without breaking everything.
Python 3.4.0 beta 1 released
How in the world is it bullying? I personally find it hilarious but I could see calling it mean, or immature, or silly. But bullying?
The answer may depend on geographic location and market (Oil & Gas, Medical, Manufacturing). Some cities (within the USA) have great paying opportunities with open source languages (such as Python, Ruby, Java), while other cities generally hire Microsoft programming skills (C#, asp.net, vb.net).
Ask HN: How do you solve wierd CSS issues/browser issues?
As a backend developer learning more front end I sometimes encounter weird browser issues. What do you do to solve them? Wondering what other people do when your not an expert with CSS yourself. Do you pay someone to help you fix it things that are time sensitive?
Green Friday (Or Anti-Black Friday)
That's not analogous at all. A TV show has to pay for multiple professional actors, sets, special effects, a large filming crew, etc. Post-production/editing costs would be a relatively small portion.

Top-notch educational materials require a single instructor and a single camera, and no matter how much production you do it should still come out substantially less expensive than a scripted TV show.
It depends on the territory in my opinion and what your personal goals are.

For example, in the Midwest USA, there isn't much for Django jobs, but I see Django job posting fairly often in the US for the west-ish jobs. Like Silicon Valley and all.

Here is a dirty secret, though: If you want a well-paying, salaried job without risk, you want to look at .NET jobs in the Midwest. For example, Union Pacific pays well for .NET devs in places where the cost of living is much lower. Senior devs in some companies here (when you account for cost of living being much lowe) pay the Silicon Valley equivalent of $500K. It just isn't sexy to talk about .NET railroad infrastructure apps when NPM and Ruby are the hot topics on Hacker News.
Wow I was typing my response so I didn't see yours, but yes, the geography plays a surprisingly big role.
A Mercenary Approach to Botnets
More importantly isn't this solved via authentication (basic auth).