skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few well-placed curses can emphasize a point and convey emotion. It's all too easy, though, to use too many expletives, and communicate all emotion and no content.
I knew Erlang was, but Oz too? Interesting.

Erlang and Oz are both from Sweden, and Sicstus Prolog (of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science) is one of the most prominent Prolog implementations. Perhaps Prolog is/was more popular there than elsewhere?
Well, if the opponent is weak to water-type, surf could help. (I played too much Pokémon.)
Doh, yeah, right you are. Forgot about that cut.
The Greenback Emissions Problem
http://thesisprocrastination.com/2008/04/05/graphing-songs/
Back in 1987 i wrote a toy interpreter for Scheme in Prolog. Well, a Scheme-like language with a Prolog-like syntax. I kept the files, which are at http://umbc.edu/~finin/sip/.
Hi. We've built things in a way that will allow for multiple front ends. The HTTP interface is just the first. We'd like to do XMPP next, but haven't started on it.
Notes on Dan Weinreb's Lisp-at-ITA Google tech talk
The value of martial arts training for parents and for kids is that it distills the value of respect into kids. Everything from "Yes, sir" to thanking your parents after each class.

When it comes to fighting, the thousands of repetitions of self-defense moves should and could help in a situation where you don't have time to think about fighting. For example, one of my fellow classmates was walking down a street in Kingston, Jamaica and a guy grabbed his arm and he quickly and automatically broke the hold and put the guy in what is like a police hold.
That's because the design of the language is so strongly skewed towards unification and search. It's great as a database / ruleset query language, for example, but it's not as general-purpose as e.g. Lisp or ML. It makes a lot of sense to embed it in something else. (I wouldn't try to write a web server in Make, either, but Make is quite useful in its specific domain.)
Would this work better for niche financial markets - like angel investing for instance?
A-Z of Programming Languages: Scala
to be fair, the article says "the future of application development" and doesn't mention startups at all.
If it is really the future of application development or just riding the hype is another question.
The most useful things I learned from martial arts was how to fall without damaging my self and how to restrain drunk people without using pain or causing damage.
In what way? As far as I can tell point 1 is true memory allocation in C# is faster than in C++. Point 2 not so much unless you are starting out fresh and have no libraries beyond the standard library, and really how often is memory allocation really such a bottle neck that you write your own allocator? Point 3 true of pretty much every language that isn't C. Sure there are bridges to specific languages like boost.python but nothing general. Point 4 is pretty much true C++ doesn't have a strong module system. So outside of not knowing the technical term for ABI, what is really so poor about the article? I would have thought most of what he brought up was obvious and not worth the submission.
Anytime Address Labels
In an effort to make the process less of a mess and more fun for those unmoved with the prospect of memorizing a pocket dictionary worth of French, Italian, Spanish and German wine terms, here is a list of the top ten things to look for on a wine label.
UK users can save another £5 if you buy Vista Home Premium from Amazon before Windows 7 comes out as you get a free upgrade and Vista is cheaper.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000321063
Options on early stage companies
Death by PowerPoint
Cool, though there is no Windows or Mac support (so far).
Yep. Complaining about the natural evolution of language is a sign that you're being a crank.

But at least language cranks are good for a laugh, because in the throes of rationalization they invariably make up these hilariously broken rules. Today's rule seems to be that "unique things should be capitalized in English usage", which is certainly how the World should be. Why, my Mother would cringe if she saw such terrible usage.

Or maybe I'm misstating the rule: It's "if your word was once part of a proper noun, its proper-nounishness should be preserved henceforth". Which means that whenever I accidentally drop my Sandwich, or a Hamburger, or even a Frankfurter on a pile of Xeroxes I should use a Kleenex to clean up the mess. And you have to really watch out for those backformations, lest you write Crap when you really mean to write crap. (Though it looks like "crapper" -- or should I say Crapper? -- might in fact be derived from a proper noun, if the following link is 100% correct... which, frankly, is not too likely.)

http://www.theplumber.com/crapper.html
Can you name the most used passwords of all time?
There are some good points raised here one's well worth remembering in many scenarios be it to investors, colleagues or academic Peers. The best preseners I've seen almost never use PowerPoint.
I got 4. (No, I'm not that kind of hacker.)
Ask: Enterprise Heirarchy/Phone Navigation HOWTO?
Whoever is good at this will most likely keep their cards close to their chest, but let's change that, shall we? What are your tips, tricks and techniques for navigating the bureaucracy and getting through to the specific decision makers?

I know about hotel chains; they're easier to get through outside big countries. For example, if you want to break into the Hilton or Marriott hierarchy, I recommend you call their offices in a country where they have just one hotel, and milk their representative there for information, instead of hitting the U.S. head quarters or a major European country. And from there you move to the regional representative; it costs dimes to call the Caribbean on Skype, and I found it a very interesting experience, learning everything I needed to know about their corporate business practices.

What are people's take on universities, hospitals, governments, airlines, banks and the like? How long does it take you to get to someone who has the authority to sign a check?
Quest for perfect Search Engine (Semantic Search)
^^^ This. My experience of people at college could classify them into 2 types. Those that were dealt a shitty hand in life and were doing everything possible to get a new deck. And those that knew the game and were just playing along. Do X and you'll receive Y. Good grades means a good job. College is, predominantly, made of the later. The third group of slackers doesn't really count and were gone by the 2nd year.

I was dealt the shitty hand. Single working mom with more kids than resources to handle them. A broke elementary school. I learned early on the social contract between jobs and employees was broken when my mom was laid off and we were constantly fighting the water, electricity, and telephone company to maintain basic services. I signed up for every afterschool program available because I hated having to go to an unairconditioned home in the Florida heat. God must have a wicked sense of humor, my reluctance to stay home meant I did academically well. And eventually getting into a good uni.

When I got to university I was incredibly envious of those around me. Who had the resources to buy a computer when I certainly couldn't. They had everything in life handed to them. I wished I had a tutor but it was expensive. I wished I had a scheduled life because it seemed easier than trying to figure it out. I wished my family wasn't 1000 miles away because for the first time I felt alone. All of these things meant I had to fend for myself and take nothing for granted.

When I see how life is for kids lately I feel sorry for them. Everything is planned out around them with little input from them. You rarely see a kid sign up for basketball or soccer without the parents nearby. I remember signing my moms signature on so many things that when she really did sign something they thought it was a forgery. I remember forging health insurance forms because I couldn't play soccer without it and I knew we didn't have it. God if I would have gotten seriously injured we would have been fucked.

They are told to complete a task and expect a reward. I was told to do something because it had to be done. As my mom would say, "Go to school or I will beat your ass!". Life is actually like that. It can be rewarding, but fundamentally life doesn't reward you for doing a good job. You are trying to avoid getting your ass kicked by life.
Yahoo has a fee structure planned (http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/fees.html) for BOSS.
Great article - nice to know my misfit credentials are finally useful.
I advise you to keep your criticism constructive, your opinions rational.
It's just an op-ed piece from a less than tech savy business observer. He misses many of the details, but his overall political points are right on in my opinion.
EDU 2.0 website membership numbers, would you have given up after 12 months ?
EDU 2.0 website membership numbers, would you have given up after 12 months ?
Seriously funny, but aren't we wandering into Digg teritory
I'm very very far from a good public speaker, but when I do come out of my hole and give a presentation my one simple rule is:

The slides should never stand on their own.

In other words, I try to use the slides as a supplement to the talk.
I did these, too. The goal wasn't the podium, though. It was graduation.
People who take issue with string theory do so precisely because what you're asking is impossible (in their view, anyway). Various technical properties of the theory (like the fact that it represents only a description of an uncountably infinite class of possible mathematical theories) make it impossible to disprove. See, for example: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

None of which has anything to do with the problems in the video. Those are more of the "subtle, pernicious category mistake" variety.
it's a nice article, but nothing new. lots of bookmarklets work this way (p.e. the official posterous bookmarklet).
FWIW, for hotels, if you want a residency music gig and want to book a band for a hotel, you need to ask for "Food and Beverage", get the person's name, stalk them on facebook or myspace and befriend them slowly then show them your band's repertoire.

Booking bands is an entry level sales project for hotels. But if you can get a band through, you can get more things later.
As Gene Hackman told Willem Dafoe in Mississippi Burning, "This was fucked up before we got here."

Nothing wrong with a little fun before it gets flagged.

I really love the connection between popular culture and things only we can appreciate, flow charts, Venn diagrams, bar charts, etc. In addition to the laughs, makes the world seem a little smaller.
I agree, slides hold your presentation together. They should give your audience a way to link the different parts of your story to the whole idea.
True, and excellent point, but that does not change the fact that if you are receiving some form of compensation that is on par with the work being done than it is not volunteer work in the traditional sense. It is, as was said, much closer to a government job.
"we can do better.;-)"

ROFLCOPTER ??
Kung Fu People - putting all people who do kung fu on a map
It's also customary to get such deals through the local entertainment publications. Most big cities have a free newspapers about nightlife; the editors of those papers are bored 40-somethings, from my experience, and if you have a band, you can offer them a commission; if their band is booked within a month from a referral they make X amounts of dollars, to them personally, not the paper. The editors will plug your band and will mention you and your musicians to hotel chain managers. Nightlife papers are not exactly official newspapers, and their journalists are easy to play ball with. However, they guy as much access to local happenings as regular newspapers, if not more.
Actually I never said it took me a week :P And I did ask for help because I was learning Haskell as I was implementing the game.
Things to do before you Die: Falls Creek
Who defines what words mean? The people who created them, or the people who use them? I can't see any pressure to reverse the trend shown in this video, and so I predict that "browser" will come to mean a search engine (but don't worry, there will remain a vestigial secondary technical meaning of, a kind of software application for accessing the web.)

But it does illustrate Chrome's positioning challenge: how can google have a browser, when it is a browser?
The TCAP transaction would be retried approx. ten minutes later, up to three times (on the networks I've seen, anyway).
Requires javascript?

I like it, it's an incredibly good way of determining what the use cases are - what are people coming to the site for? Well we have a couple of weeks of data showing exactly what people are trying to find.

I'd be very interested to see bounce and pages per user metrics from before and after (and during).
This article, as several comments note, is kind of a non-story, but the referenced article that supposedly was the target of suppression is a good read: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ar...
HN: Check out my Arduino Project - An Ultrasonic Hat
What a stupid interface - it counts 'pass' as a hit when you're typing 'password' etc.
Automatic door (FAIL)
In other words: we're looking to update our top password lists that we use for site cracks &c., please give us your top passwords, check your own isn't there (go on what harm can it do) - we promise we'll tie those to your history profile via the referer information (and js history hacks!), then we'll run an automated attack against all the top social sites using your passwords you entered.

If we're really lucky we might be able to sniff a username cookie and badda-bing, we're in.

Have a nice day!
Couldn't it be because of different default configurations of notebooks in US vs EU?

I noticed this recently when buying Thinkpad. At the first sight, EU prices looked crazy high compared to US, but when I tried to configure exactly the same specs, the price difference was minimal (~10% more in EU). The trick was that US default configurations were much worse than few preconfigured EU models.
Often done--a list of what is important in language choice, followed by the choice we wanted to make anyway: "Nethertheless, we choosed C++ as our language." C++ is slow, but in time to learn or write, but not necessarily in execution.
Tire As A Gift
In addition to the bad music (something hamster-dance-related perhaps), you also need a variety of pop-unders.
I was with him until he blamed the Macintosh. If "basic computer skills" are things like saving a file in a particular path, what is bad about an interface that makes that abstract concept more accessible to most people?

(But I guess I'm thinking of the original, spatial Finder, not the current one. I am not an Apple user.)
For every complaint about the benefits of seniority, networking, etc., there's an older guy (and usually it IS a guy) who is laid off so a cheaper kid can be hired to replace him.

Of course if you've got a liberal arts degree from a diploma mill, that won't be you.
Joy in Factor
I think the core argument here is that if the majority of the users don't understand the implementation details of the software/hardware they're using, then selling them new stuff might actually involve spelling out the benefits in practical terms that users can relate to. I really can't see the problem with that.

I also can't see why the Car analogy is somehow invalid because cars only do one thing. For years having a car was essential for living in many (not all) modern cities, without a car you couldn't get to work, visit family or buy groceries. It was an essential tool for living in much the same way as computer will be in coming decades. People did not generally understand the inner workings of fuel injection, anti-lock brakes or catalytic converters, but that didn't mean engineers weren't able to introduce those things. They just had to articulate the performance/safety/economy/environmental benefits in terms that people understood and cared about. The same will be true for computers.
My prolog is certainly rough, but am I correct in thinking that this doesn't do closures? Or is there some aspect of the state-passing that I am missing?
You make a good point, but we can use empirical data to settle it. Look at the greatest writers in a given language. Ask if they were monolingual or not.

For one instance, I (personally) am not aware of Shakespeare knowing any languages other than English; however, it may be that all educated people in that era knew Latin, and so the many great English writer so the past support your hypothesis.
All this hinges on the fact that functional languages are only now being appreciated: functional languages seem to be popping up like daisies now either via stand-alone languages such as F#, multiparadigm languages or even in OOP languages (I believe I read somewhere that C# is integrating ideas from the functional paradigm). Still I can't pretend that any functional language has so far become as remotely popular as say Java or C++. Due to this the work done on functional programming and games is quite a niche area which is often explored to do a fun project while learning a language.
Scientists prove one microkernel's security
One vertex, one edge.

I wonder how many other elementary graph structures also have popular songs.

K2 (directed) is a good model for Fatboy Slim's Funk Soul Brother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBClImpnfAg
I think this is a slightly more detailed version:

http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/docs/IEEE_Softw...
Life is too short to be good at two fringe programming languages, however similar they are! :-P
As far as I know there is nothing non-trivial that I had to use apart from introducing state when it was needed by the game via monads and muteable variables. At first they were tricky because I was used to taking such things for granted.

What I can tell you is that the backend (which really needs no state) is much more easier to write in Haskell IMHO.
I thought Sequoia was a bank. After poking around for a moment I realized they were VC. If I didn't know about VC firms, I never would have figured it out. I guess their target market is only people who already know who they are and what they do.
The iPhone Spy Hurts Innovation
The new iPhone Black Box is a spying device that will hurt innovation and will further alienate Apple from openness.
Corporate Event Planning
Sounds like the author has little understanding of the technologies at play. Some of his suggestions at the end:

• End phone exclusivity. Any device should work on any network. Data flows freely.

Sure, great idea. Except that we already have competing standards (CDMA, GSM, etc.) Should every handset maker have to incur the cost of building/testing/certifying multiple hardware iterations? An iPhone can't just magically work on a Verizon network in its current incarnation. Someone has to fund the effort to make the radio compatible with Verizons network.

• Transition away from "owning" airwaves. As we've seen with license-free bandwidth via Wi-Fi networking, we can share the airwaves without interfering with each other.

So all of these large competitive companies will play nicely in a shared, non-owned space? As we've also seen with Wifi any number of other common devices can effectively dampen or block the signal entirely. Not exactly what I want for my cellphone service.

• End municipal exclusivity deals for cable companies.

Almost every municipality already manages their contracts with cable companies in a non-exclusive fashion. Except that when you do all the math, the cost of building a cable plant actually takes a very long time to recover. There is little incentive for secondary and tertiary carriers to come into almost any market because there just isn't enough subscriber base for the them all to divide and still make a profit on that area. I've been on telecommunications boards and negotiated/discussed this very topic and concept with multiple MSO's.
Why does it take a presentation expert to say PowerPoint presentations are often boring?

Tens of thousands of victims, er, people could have told him that over the past 15-20 years.
It's good stuff, but it never gets around to talking about higher dimensional space; it feels unfinished.
The Singularity Summit 09
If there's too much structure for the developers alone, then we need to enable the community to contribute that structure, in addition to content. But can the application be genericized enough to cover all of the shopping domains without being completely washed out?

Think about the different kinds of web content that you read when making buying decisions. Off the top of my head, there's recommendations/searches (to discover things), consumer reviews/ratings (to evaluate them) and expert "buying guide" type articles (to gain a deeper understanding of a non-trivial decision). Currently, using all of these sources involves a lot of Googling and jumping from site to site. What if a single site could encapsulate all of them?

This site would aggregate prices and host reviews of individual products. Products could also be tagged as belonging to any number of "aisles" of varying degrees of specificity like "Sporting Gear", "Wall Sconces", "Gifts for Mom", "2 Inch Tapered Drywall Screws", "Eco Friendly", and so on. The aisles would be user created and could be just about anything. Individual users can have their own personal aisle for things they own or want. Stores can have their own aisle too (which would be a likely area for monetization). Each aisle would have a hub page showing the highest rated products, sub-aisles and related aisles, external links, and user written guides, faqs and whatever else they want to write. The idea would be to make the content model flexible enough to adapt to the needs of any special domain and to the different situations consumers find themselves in.
I think it depends on whether you want to practice the skill of coding, or the skill of problem solving.

For me, coding is a means to an end: I want to solve a problem; I want to create something that does something useful; I want to breath life into a figment of my imagination.

I try to immerse myself in the problem; and then I find examining almost anything in related areas will inspire me with new perspectives.
> “Imagine what he’d be like,” said a reporter after emerging from a Jobs drubbing, “if he hadn’t studied Zen.”

Ok, that was funny.
Yeah you're forgetting C.
What They Brought to the Table
I very much doubt it, you'd think they would have chosen a rate close to the minimum boundary rather than completely outside of it. In Sept 2008 the rate was about $2(USD) =Â£1 (GBP) and had been reasonably stable for a time.

A divisor of $1.5 (USD), so a $75 music player would be Â£50 would then still have been more profit (sales taxes excluded).
Thank you for posting some actual content. This is a really neat trick.
It's difficult to imagine games being written in Java or C# and being faster than C++.
20 Foods That Make You Smarter
Hey, thanks for the pointing out. Very nice bib there.

Keep on the good efforts man, I think the immensity of JS will eventually spill out some deserved attention to Self.
You might be amazed how many corporations have a dial by name directory accessible from their auto attendant.
Assuming this to be true it showing that MS believe the buying power in the UK to have shrunk considerably, isn't it. I expect the price in Kenya, say, to be lower still.
Tapping a Legion of Smart Developers
KeyCue helps you find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts for your Mac apps
I think it's pretty bad if their parents and teachers let "College boy" believe that for so long. This [TED talk](http://ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentl...) might be of interest.
Thinking of startup investments as options seems to make a lot of sense but as one of the commenters there noted: "Black-Scholes is probably a poor model choice to price start-up options as the return distribution is clearly not normal."