skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of eye candy. I'm afraid the packages are just not bleeding edge.
none of these are especially encouraging signs but they're not reasons to dismiss an opportunity immediately either. not many early stage startups can afford private offices, aeron chairs, great views or high salaries
New battery could change world, one house at a time
Yodlee and Wesabe are compatible with the canadian market.
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Yes, but for a more practical example, this is defective in that it cannot be syntax highlighted correctly.
I'll put my vote in for this being a poor explanation of what eigenvalues are.
You got it. Yodlee doesn't support non-US banks; Mint's built on top of Yodlee; ∴ Mint doesn't support non-US banks.

(Full disclosure: I work for Wesabe.)
JQuery Comment Preview
I used to use my school's webmail. When I switched to gmail, I leaned about gmail notifier, which tells me as soon as I get an email. Instead of checking twice a day, I respond immediately. Are you talking about differences in response times on this time-scale?
Do you also download attachments?
Growing up in the suburbs of Houston left me with the same impression, but now I think the only reason I like Austin so much more is because I live right in the middle of the city. The central parts of Houston don't seem that irredeemable, and Houston has far more of the typical "cultural" attractions (e.g. museums, theaters, etc).

If you're looking for a tech environment, Austin is clearly the better choice. Otherwise, urbanites in both places are similar to each other, as are the suburbanites.
Don Becker On The State Of HPC
I'm not sure I agree with you. You do have a point though:

1) Any programmer who writes this line of code as anything other than a lesson in obfuscation should be taken out and shot.

2) Speaking as a Perl programmer who has maintained others' code, _many_ Perl programmers should be taken out and shot.

How about: "Except for pathological constructs that should probably be avoided anyway, the Perl that most people write can be parsed just fine." As I see it, the Perl attitude is that these constructs should be forbidden by social contract rather than by the language itself. Sort of like the farmer who refuses to put a lock on his fuel pumps in case someone really needs to fill a tank in an emergency.
> discuss politics with the inhabitants of Hacker News? The community here is the best on the web by far.

I have a suspicion that these two things are mutually incompatible.
Windows 7 - enabling massive parallelism to the masses
Or, more to the point: http://hackernews.com
Is 'whatever / 25 ; # / ; die "this dies!";' an example of the perl most people write, or just an example of what perl detractors claim most people write?
I still remember the following question on my linear algebra test in college:

"Prove that A and A-Inverse have the same Eigen Values and corresponding Eigen Vectors."

The solution to this made no sense, but I managed to memorize it so that I could pass the test.

Forest through the trees?
Yes, lazily. You open them, they get downloaded, and then remain on your phone permanently. If you have a PDF or something that you always want with you, just open it in reMail and it'll be on your phone.
can you please point to a real example of code like this?

just because a pathological case is possible, doesn't mean that it's actually common, or even existent.
Imagine a team of Linus, RMS, JWZ, and Miguel de Icaza; probably a pretty ineffective team

I doubt that. One common attribute of great hackers is that they remain effective even in the face of personal disagreements. The LKML is a good place to witness that in the wild.

If they fail to compromise they would probably simply divide the problem space according to the individual strengths and preferences...
Actually, I'm drawing my inspiration from the idea of separation of church and state.
Thats good to hear - most of the flywheel densities that I haven't been so high. I can't find any commercial wheels of that density for individual use, tho (many references to start-ups making them for central power utilities).

Satellites are a special case, as they have enormous budgets, plentiful solar power (so cycle lifetime is more important than capacity), and have the additional benefit of using the flywheels as a rotational propulsion device (usually in counter-spinning pairs).
Centmail - pay 1 cent per sent email from yahoo... would you use it ?
$700-900. Hmph. Might as well buy a MacBook.
This is cool. But I really want to use the Mac mail client with your database. I assume I have to use your mail client too?
Adroll is looking for a Lead Interaction Designer

http://tinyurl.com/om9n4b
And syntax highlighting normally only requires lexical analysis, not syntactic analysis.
New startup incubator in Cambridge, England
If an actual rockstar ever becomes a programmer, they are going to be in very high demand.
Shark Tank on Hulu - A Fun Investor Reality Show
Money Matters: The American Experience With Money
I think the "College Foxes Hauling Boxes" guys screwed up. They probably shouldn't ever have gone on the show at all but since they didn't take the offer all they've done is broadcast their business model to millions of people across America.
Whoever has the cash has the power. Why would the content producers want to miss out on a major source of their revenue so that Justin.tv can stream their stuff for free? The advertisers and end users don't care, but everyone else in the chain has a monetary incentive to shut down illegal streams like JTV.
Good point, corrected my post. My point isn't "don't worry about scaling" (in fact, large scale distributed computing is pretty much my own area of expertise/interest). My point is that there's a lot of glory stories of grand technological challenges, but they do not occur at your typical early stage start-up. If you want to solve these kind of problems, you're best off joining a company that's experience them (and not joining an early stage start-up and wishing they would: been there, done that).
Introduction to modern reverse engineering?
It depends--do I receive 1 cent per email received at yahoo?

In all seriousness, the micropayments concept has been floated long ago as a spam-fighting measure; the first problem is that just about every provider has to do it before it becomes useful enough to warrant the cost--which incurs a large first-mover penalty.
FWIW, johns wasn't responding to my comment, he was actually responding to a comment at the same level of mine that has now been deleted. The way the nesting dealt with it makes it a little confusing.
Agreed:
Key thing is that RMS and JWZ did build something together at one point, their views just diverged later (GNU/Lucid/XEmacs emacs split).

And of course, just typing this post I am using work of all of these: Firefox (JWZ heritage), on Linux (Linus), using GTK (Miguel), compiled with gcc (RMS).
The Spaceship Down The Street
iPhones are 10 times more expensive than other cellphones out there, but they're still selling like hot cakes wouldn't you say?

It's about the perceived value. I literally want a bigger version of my iPhone so I can do work on the fly. $700-900 is a steep price, but I am really considering it.
thanks for the comments and that link.

definitely not disappointed - i wasn't implying it was a tool as much as wanting to know whether or not people would say 'you must have the seobook toolbar' or 'mozrank changed my perspective on valuing links', etc...
Also see:

http://speleotrove.com/decimal
Gene May Determine How Much Sleep You Need
There's no way to extend iPhone Mail (e.g. like you can extend Outlook). If you send emails from reMail, however, they will be sent through iPhone Mail.
God will be switching the angels over from harps within a week.
Interview with creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson
Crap, I need 10-11 hours if I'm going to be productive.
I learned Perl in a single week to do a dirty job that needed doing in the 90s. I'd use Python for the task today.
I watched an old documentary about Les Paul the other week. He's really fantastic. (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2607255)
You'll find that I believe VCs say many things that don't necessarily make sense. They do invest in people, but really, they invest in teams. That team has to work well together.

I very much believe that a solid team of developers (not a huge team) is WAY more than the sum of it's parts. There is not enough that can be said about a great team dynamic of very good programmers over bad or even typical team dynamic of "rockstars." Further, rockstars, in my experience, tend to exacerbate organizational dynamic issues.
Exactly...the TEAM must work well together. It matters a lot.
Exactly, and given the relative success of spam filters such as gmail's, the market would strongly shift away from anyone who charged.
Why a bigger iPhone and not a smaller macbook? Unless your job is almost 100% read-bound (or sketching, I guess) I can't see this being a good replacement for "doing work"...
There is a disproportionately high number of very very good developers in those centers. That in no way states that there aren't awesome developers elsewhere. They are everywhere. Finding them is hard, and you certainly increase your chances when in a tech center like Seattle, Boulder, Boston or the Valley. Non US countries that have great talent? The Nordic countries have amazing developers, and former USSR countries. Wow. ODesk has some great resources in that regard.
This is a case where I believe there is a tablet coming out, but this is simply another unsubstantiated claim about a conversation with some dude who's playing a dude who's playing another dude. Unless someone has an actual freaking picture of one of the damn things, its all bunk and blog bait.

What I would really be interested in seeing are the log leaks that directly revealed the first versions of the iPhone. I forget which site did it, but essentially some smart admin looked through their web server logs and saw a handful of user agents that matched up to the then unreleased mobile Safari. Or maybe this was for the unibody Macbooks, I forget.
iphones are not 10x more expensive than any other competitor. compared to the pre, g1, blackberry storm, HTC touch series, sony experia, the iphone is actually the cheaper alternative.
The Utah teapot is used in 3d demos because of it's topological properties, though it does make a cameo in Toy Story.
Google releases Neatx NX server
What is "open" and "openness" and why should I care? Would your target audience know?
I think there are fewer and fewer apps that people need that are not cloud based. The only ones I can really think of for most consumers are the MS Office suite. Any most of these people will be happy with a cloud or open alternative if they give it a shot.

Especially given that most OS dependent apps (i.e. Photoshop) are not really practical for netbook processors limits.
Linear algebra felt like the same thing stated in 5 different ways.
How about some sort of browser plugin that works with Amazon or other sites and automatically shows your openness numbers for whatever device I'm looking at?
FacebookConnect for the iPhone has UID Overflow Bug (with fix)
Thanks, I hadn't heard of the griffon project before.

I do need to learn a lisp. Clojure's probably the most practical one to learn.
My guess is it's going to be called the Newton ][.
Uh, who got fired in this one.
Yea me too. It takes me a few seconds to even recall the topic of my last math class.
He's got a model of Stonehenge and it's not 18" high.
The article (very long...) mentioned the price for a battery at $2,000 and did the cost analysis but I didn't see anything on the product's availability. Did I miss it?
though if you are lucky you get to sit on these comfy sofas in Starbucks....but i think i would be willing to let that go for the library anytime
I bought reMail 1 and just bought 2? this was not a free upgrade? Either way worth it. Downloading everything is very cool.

Also is it possible to have multiple accounts in the app? My gmail and IMAP? or 2 gmails - regular and corp.
RockMelt: Netscape's Andreesen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser
Not to me unfortunately. Can you explain some of those terms? I googled around, but how is Business Objects sold?
I'm going to say that it doesn't really matter but, PLT is probably a great place to start.

If you want to learn Scheme then make sure to use the R5RS setting on PLT. When I write for portability, that's the setting I use.

Most of my writing however, is in PocketScheme for my iPaq.

I've messed a bit with Kawa however that just led me to ordering a copy of 'Programming Clojure' so I can see what the hype is all about.
Glad to see they are keeping it light with a bit of humor, but not too over the top.

Though I did like the longer rails envy format. I actually learn while driving to work.
I heard a great story about Les Paul's invention of multi-tracking in an old (long ago defunct) basement coffee shop in Harvard Square called Passim, featuring Guy van Duser (guitar) and Billy Novick (whistle, vocals).

Guy is a local Boston guitar phenomenon, playing stride guitar with 3+ parts at times. (Rounder Records carries his stuff--highly recommended.)

Anyway, Guy told the story of growing up adulating Les Paul, struggling for years to learn to play some of his recordings, until he got it right. He finally got to meet Paul, told him of his admiration, and showed Paul his licks. Paul's jaw dropped as he told Guy, "I double-tracked that recording!" Of course, that left Guy floating on air...
But if you are in it for the short run, go for profits. By short run I mean those hit-n-run entrepreneurs (if you can call them entrepreneurs). These are the individuals who have neither the business acumen nor strategic vision to create a great company.

I'd say that making a profit requires far more business acumen and strategic vision than merely growing fast. You can grow fast by handing out $100 bills -- making a profit, in contrast, requires actually creating something people (advertisers are people too!) want.
You mean, is real-world code likely to contain a regular expression with a # character, or a comment with a / character following code with a / character? Not all the time, but it doesn't seem terribly outlandish.
>As I see it, the Perl attitude is that these constructs should be forbidden by social contract rather than by the language itself.

In most other languages with "dangerous" constructs, having the dangerous construct usually allows power that isn't possible using only safe constructs. Is it the case that this is useful in some circumstances, or is it just poor design?
Remember that secular humanism is also a religion. A truly non-religious curriculum would be limited to objective truths. Theories about origins could not be discussed because while they may be based on evidence, they are ultimately a conclusion that is drawn via a particular worldview. However I think it would be the arts that would suffer more, since any discussion of morality would be hamstrung for lack of context.
Why don't artists just distribute their music themselves? I've never understood why artists always signed with labels. Is it the prestige? Is it the credibility that comes with being signed, or is it somewhat like venture capital? Surely the internet has made this somewhat easier...
To live forever?
That it's even possible is relevant - most programming languages can be parsed.
Excellent answer.

Also, thank you for letting me know there is a ∴ character!
The story was broken by Torrent Freak anbd they link to it but this puts in in better context
Required case study: USA Olympic Basketball Dream Teams
I'd be surprised if the 1970s proof was both machine-checked and about the actual code (not an abstraction of it).
Microsoft Shows Off Experimental Designs for OS and Browser
University education at this point is simply a trend - something that everyone does.

I think this makes it less likely to burst. Sure a prestigious university might lose its prestige if it lets in too many commoners. But a persistent trend is more likely to make a required universal ritual.

The cost of these programs keep climbing, and the average wage does not.

The cost keeps climbing because people are willing to pay it. When the costs stop climbing that's not the same as a collapse or even a change in the general trend of needing to have a college degree.

Even better, European countries often fund their universities to almost 100%. When tax revenue drops off, these funds will eventually be cut. You can see this happening in Canada today.

Tax revenues drop in every recession, government programs are cut, rarely eliminated and I doubt universities will be the first to go anyway.

Look at California, it's probably going to cut the funding to it's public university system, but it won't eliminate it, far from it.

The bottom line is college is already in many ways more like a land cruise then a serious and challenging endeavor. And the non-academic activities which happen in college often have a greater impact on your lifetime earnings then the classes you take. Plus society loves universal rituals and traditions.

While ever rising tuition rates have to stop at some point, college education is not going away any time soon.
The big question for me is whether it can mix simulateous reading and typing, as well as a traditional hinged laptop does (with one surface for typing and one for viewing).

Otherwise, it might prove awkward as a remote-getting-stuff-done unit -- in libraries, cafes, airplane seats, etc.: if flat for typing, it's hard to read; if angled for viewing, it's hard to type.

A symmetrical hinged dual touch display, as in the next-gen OLPC2 prototypes, might do the trick. (Could lens/optical tricks make the seam nearly invisible when flat? I wouldn't put it past Apple.)

Here's the OLPC 2.0 dual-touchscreen concept:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/olpc-xo-2-to-include-mult...

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/olpc-2-0-dual-touchscreen...
And Then There's This Article: Viral Culture
Or perhaps in this case it's more subtle: code becomes optimized for the wrong thing over time. For example the difference in optimization strategies between netburst pentium 4s and core 2 duos is staggering.
... lanugage is deeply, deeply defective

With great power comes great responsibility ;-)

If i switch on warnings it will provide... well warnings on this example! If I run Perl::Critic over it then it spews lots of things that I should be concerned about!

You're unfortunately over sensationalising what is otherwise a very good Perlmonks article.
Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net
Not just computer scientists. I think normal people are used to dealing with discrete data. Ask a person on the street to name some numbers and they'll almost certainly give you integers.

Also, I'm not a programmer, I'm a mathematician. Is the "right" way to do currency math do to integer arithmetic on prices expressed in cents (or, more generally, the smallest subdivision of the currency)?
I agree. This kind of article is a de facto test of flagging judgement. For a while now I've been considering having HN learn whose flags to pay attention to. (I already have code to collect stats about rates of crying wolf, but I don't do anything with these numbers yet.)
Looks like everyone has a different AdB favourite. I think I enjoyed "On Love" most.
thanks that's very helpful indeed.
He does seem to be exhibiting many of the traits of Malign Hypercognition Disorder.
He guessed
Feedback: generates personal time management charts from ical ics format
That is fantastic. I agree with jacquesm's comment too.
Because preventive medical intervention and testing doesn't work. Lifestyle changes work, but getting a bunch of fat cola guzzlers into doctors' offices more often has no impact on the care they will later require.
The majority of the market this is targeting doesn't "do work" on computers, they consume media.

I remember after first getting my iPhone 2g, and playing with it for a day straight, when I went back to my laptop I wanted to manipulate the UI by touching the screen. When I say "wanted" I mean I uncousciously reached for the screen on a couple of occasions. I got over that quickly, but it made me consider what this form factor would be good for and whether it would sell.

I agree that this machine won't replace the laptop as a work machine. I do think that it may be a better solution, from a UI standpoint, than the current netbooks on the market. Have you seen people at coffee shops typing on those things? I know it will be better than a netbook in bed or while laying on a couch, which is were I find myself using my iPhone and not my laptop.

Also, $700 isn't that much when you consider that the Kindle is $300 and used to be $500. Think how much more you will be able to do on an iTablet, or whatever you want to call it.
Conversely, automatic indentation requires syntactic analysis.
Problem is a young hacker with no formal experience (but who is nonetheless bright and talented), won't have the leverage to sell the higher-ups on using a more powerful technology.
the delimitation is not for data (that is closed over like any normal closure), it's for control.

when you apply a reified delimited continuation as a function it returns a value to that call site, to do the same with a traditional continuation you need to apply the reified continuation using call-cc, and it needs to know what to do with this continuation.
About fucking time.
I think recently, another interesting proof for this is the Joker's note. Watching the Dark Knight behind the scenes commentary, Hans Zimmer talks about how he thought the most chill-inspiring theme for Joker wouldn't be an intricate composition, but one slightly sour note played at length. Other sounds and effects were layered upon it to fit with the soundtrack, but the effect is amazing, simultaneously warning the audience of the joker's presence and inspiring suspense at the same time.
"when I want to install the mysql ruby gem, but I can't because it can't find the headers, so I have to go hunt down if I want mysql-client-dev, mysql-devel, or something else."

While I'm sympathetic to your issues with RH (I recently left it - again) what you describe there is ridiculous.

yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel

.. that's it. Now if you'd complained about the version of mysql that installed then I would heartily endorse your criticism but c'mon - there is nothing wrong with the above command.

And having to remember weird flags for pacman ("-Syu" to update? wtf?) is far worse. In fact, when I saw that it pretty much made me lose interest in playing with Arch at all. I love unix but pointless arcanity is stupid and user-hostile. "yum update" (or "apt-get upgrade") are much easier to remember, with no loss in functionality, and seeing complexity for complexity's sake like that in Arch is a bad sign to me.
"Modern" Perl programmers use a lot of syntax-perverting trickery,
so this isn't as unlikely as it may appear.

"Modern" Perl programmer do the complete opposite!

This code completely ignores all the best practices that "Modern" Perl programmers adhere to so its is very unlikely to appear anywhere but in places like Perlmonks, Reddit & Hacker News ;-)
Indeed, I never did understand the complaints about the iPhone's price. Sure, it was a lot more expensive than your average run-of-the-mill consumer phone, but it was in the same price range as comparable smartphones from Nokia, HTC, SonyEricsson, Blackberry and now Palm.

When calling any product cheap or expensive, the question should always be: Compared to what?