skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if you can think in structure (and I certainly do when I'm planning an application), it follows that thinking is not constrained into the realm of language - hence my reference to Sapir-Whorf.
I'm not sure why this keeps getting voted down. That's not an affiliate link and from what I can tell, pmjoyce is right.

The Amazon page states that Windows 7 in the UK is only available in a full, non-upgrade form BUT you can get a free copy even if you only buy a Vista upgrade which you can get for £60.75. Admittedly this isn't a great savings over buying Windows 7 direct but if you really want to save a fiver, it might be worth a try.
Looks like a free-volume system. They give it away and make up the short fall by volume ;0)>
Is Factor getting more press these days? I'm seeing it mentioned increasingly or maybe I just started paying attention.
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Me too, plus the "Daily" part reminds you you're supposed to keep going back.

Must be a regional thing, on seeing the name photographs was the first thing that came to mind - perhaps it's cause I can't afford to eat out at posh restaurants??
Indeed the best presenters I've seen never use slides, or handouts of any sort.
Things are much better now, then. For every person complaining, there are a lot of people working quietly - I graduated a year ago, and I had no trouble finding a job (and then switching it a couple of months ago) - but that's just one example, maybe I got lucky. Still, I can't think of a single college friend whom I could honestly call smart who can't found a job. Yes, I'm sure the people that wasted their time in college drinking and cheating didn't get much out of it, and are having a tough time now, but I can hardly feel sorry for them.
This IS a very neat trick-now does anyone know how to find un-indexed queries in PostgreSQL?
Reading text on slides and listening in parallel is hard to the point of annoyance and losing interest in the talk. I was always wondering why everyone keeps making the same mistake in their public talks and presentations. So, finally someone said that.

PowerPoint is, I think, a tool for helping otherwise impotent speakers look good. The final result though is the same: just bad speech, poor concepts poorly delivered to the audience.
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If they get kids sexting over it then they could be held for having indecent images of a minor and for distribution of same.
Well... not "any", theres some I can't really see would ever be the "best" choice. Lolcode anyone? (I'm sure theres non-joke languages too)
As I understand it, the "executed optree" is just the parse tree. The building of that tree is the lexing and parsing phase, not compilation. The parse tree is never translated into another form - neither an abstract syntax tree, nor another language with the same semantics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree

If the parse tree is never translated to another form, then I think it's fair to say Perl is interpreted, not compiled.
You're taking it a bit too seriously - this is a well known quiz site that features other popular quizzes such as "How many Simpsons characters can you name?"

Given that the answers (passwords) are things like "password", "qwerty" and "1234", I would hope that no HN member is currently using any of them.
It would probably be generous to say Prosper acted in a shady fashion toward lenders. There's a great deal of discussion on this at prospers.org.
Ironically, it's also completely wrong. "Internet" is a common noun, hence the article "the". You can find another network which can be considered an internet (such as Internet2, which has a proper name).

Same with "web". We say "the web". Which one? The world-wide one. No one says "I am using Web", except characters in SNL sketches.
The Developer Bias Hurdle
Reading the article, it sounded like he was comparing the speed of some unspecified ORM library in each language. If so, I suspect he may have been comparing a naive hand-rolled implementation in C++ to something like Hibernate/NHibernate which has many years of development and optimisation behind it.

The lessons to draw from this, if any, are that C++ code isn't automatically faster than Java or C# code: you have to make it so; and that Java/C# have some useful high-quality libraries which save you the need to roll your own solution.
And these guys are supposed to determine if my web app has a market and chance at succeeding? Sequoia is a joke.
The search bar isn't bad, kind of ties in with the business in a cute way.

I'm just sorry to see the old grid design go. It was super spartan, just 50 or so logos and faces of the companies and entrepreneur they backed. It was amazingly impressive if only because EVERY name was a household (at least hacker led household) name. It was almost like looking at a time line of consumer tech.

To boot it was a nice swiss style grid with super restrained graphics and limited color palette. Most VC firms have giant self important photos, crappy flash galleries. Those are the good ones too! The low end look like Front Page monstrosities.

I don't think this will hurt their business an iota, but it's sad to see a classic go.
I think that's it! Thanks.
C++ actually used to be pretty slow back in the day, but that's more the fault of compilers that didn't optimize properly. That was about 15 years ago. (In other words, this guy missed the "C++ is slow!" bandwagon by a decade and a half.)
This thing reads like a USENET troll post. No joke.
Slowly, yeah. Slava is still working hard on improving it and the community is slowly expanding.

However, Factor still has one problem: it takes a bit of a time investment to get used to the Factor idioms and until you do, its horribly difficult to code in. Once you do though, its an amazingly powerful language. Pity I need to spend a little longer at it.. time which I don't currently have to spare. Hopefully in a few months though :-P
Are you saying there are people who live outside of San Fran/the valley that aren't Apple worshiping, turtle neck wearing, VW driving hipsters? I demand proof.
Why is 65% of all music sold in the U.S. via compact disc?
Not only that, but Factor generates application bundles -- not just the binary -- for OS X when asked to. At least, it did the last time I checked.
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Understanding the "Q" Recovery
Myths busted: the ol' Mac vs. PC debate
thanks for the advice ;)

...and the sunscreen.
It doesn't make money.

Reminds me of classic SNL skit The Change Bank. "How do we make money? Volume!"
You might have better luck with this if you post it in the morning M-F (US hours)
A broken search bar, at that. I typed "tell me more" and hit enter, and it resulted in a search for "tell me mo." I tried it again, and it searched for "tell m."

I suppose the reasoning behind this is that you don't need to know anything about Sequoia, they just need to know about you. With this black box of a website, they've succeeded in ensuring the former.
Switch to MySQL, and then use this trick. (I kid, I kid.)
How did you felt about this article! discuss!
If you like venn diagrams, check out this beautiful blog

http://thisisindexed.com
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There's an old saying - the world's best swordsman isn't afraid of the second best, he's afraid of the worst, because he can't predict what the silly SOB will do next. A serious martial artist will avoid fighting when there is no need, because in a fight your opponent is trying just as hard as you are to win and Murphy's law is always waiting. No matter how uneven the fight looks their is NO guarantee, and losing a fight REALLY hurts.
This isn't a flowchart [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart], its a syntax (railroad) diagram [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart].
to quote another famous person, "Post-industrial Barbarians"
I agree completely here.

I am also not that bitter that bank employees are getting bonuses. There are probably some really smart people solving complicated problems there, they don't deserve to be punished because the government happened to bail out their employer. (They should have just let the banks fail, if this is such a big deal.)
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A better title would talk about "Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color in Data Visualization"

I initially thought the article would talk about colours in the design sense, and in which case engineers shouldn't worry whatsoever. It's not their job.
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It's probably !HN, but I'd be interested in how many people read this as "Guess based on simulations forces Google to reveal..." versus how many read it as "Person paid (well) to wear clothes (barely) forces Google to reveal..."
Thats rather pedantic... the title should really just be "lisp in prolog". As it stands, I go to the page, see a large (compared to 0 lines) chunk of source, and conclude link-bait.
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You're slipping, guys. Even the programming reddit doesn't include submissions as banal and non hacker-related as this.
That's a pretty steep price for the iPhone app

I vehemently object. This is an EXTREMELY valuable service, not a fart generator or lightsaber, and you should proudly charge $10, $15, $20, or more! You can always lower the price later but now is your only chance to establish a high perceived value for your product.
Hm, yeah. Concatenative languages haven't had much attention, undeservingly. I'm going to keep an eye on Factor I think. I'm already plunging into functional programming these days though, there are so many languages to learn!
Actually, object creation on the heap can be quite slower in C++ than in Java, at least if you are not using a custom allocator. The standard allocator in C++(using malloc) is SLOW.
Tip #12: Blog about something that costs a lot of money. In other words, this guy's running a website about digital cameras. I run a site about a band. While the occasional album release will net me a couple thousand dollars, what used to be a month-to-month income of $20-$50 in random CD shopping has all but disappeared in the last couple of years.

Luckily, t-shirt sales through another site and eBay affiliate links keep my site afloat & earn a little fun-money too - although I typically turn that cash around and invest it in the site, whether it's better hosting, or funding contests to keep the readers on their toes.
Perhaps to play in vehicles?
Who is modding this crap up? Go to digg, or reddit.
Django + TinyMCE + RSS feeds = Can’t watch youtube movies in Google Reader
The grammar of this submission's title hurts my brain.
I LOVE concatenative languages. They intrigue me. That doesn't make it easier when you're not used to it, however..

Same here, keeping a close eye on it. Its a VERY powerful language - like a concatenative postfix modern Lisp.
What?

OOP and FP are very similar. You can bet that if the average Enterprise Java Programmer used Haskell instead of Java, the code would be just as confusing and unmaintainable. The problem is not programming paradigms, but bad programmers.

(Programming is difficult to teach, learn, and practice, but is also in high demand. This leads to bad programs. OOP has nothing to do with it.)

I certainly agree that immutable data is better than mutable data, but that again has nothing to do with FP or OOP. I can mutate data in Lisp, and I can have fully-immutable instances in Java (not my choice, btw, but definitely possible). It comes down to recognizing the value of immutability, which is the programmer's job.
One thing that has worked well for me: ask the gatekeeper (usually the decision maker's AA) for the decision maker's email address. Tell her (or him) who you are, why you want the email, and what you plan to email. Make it clear that you do not want to get caught in a spam filter and politely ask that the decision maker be made aware that an email is coming. You haven't wasted anyone's time and you've made it easy for them to communicate with you.

I almost always get some kind of reply.

The key is to be yourself, be sincere, lay out all the facts, and make it quick and easy for the other people.

Another thing that has always worked very well is a hand written snail mailed note. But only after you've already met. Otherwise, it's just junk mail.
Nice article.

I'd also point out Alex Tabarrok, who makes a good counterpoint about HF trading.

His argument is that high frequency trading has only minimal societal value (positive or negative), but strongly influences the distribution of gains and thus may cause an overinvestment of resources. Read it here:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/08...
Seriously. Because of your comment, it is playing over and over again in my head... and I can't make it stop. I hit the "flag" button with the hopes that an editor will fix it. Otherwise I may not be able to sleep tonight.
If Chevy or someone made a new motor and asked most people "What engine do you use?", it seems like there wouldn't be many people that knew what was in their car. Average people care about features like "miles to the gallon" for cars or "has email" for their computer. They don't care about the name of the part that does it. They just want to hit accelerator or double click on something that brings up their home page.
de Botton: Snobbery is taking a small part of someone and judging them in their entirety by it.

It is an intensely ugly trait.
The best presentations I've witnessed worked like this:

The slides contained only diagrams and SHORT bullet point summaries. No wall of text or anything boring, tedious or annoying to read. Also, the slides shouldn't mirror whats being said, thats boring and redundant. They should summerise though, so that I can glance at the slide and know whats going to (or has been) talked about. This aids me to focus, or to tune out parts that are irrelevant to me. Also, when looking at slides later, it helps as a memory aid for what the talk was about.
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Apostol's Calculus texts (2 volumes) are the best with the supporting theory. I'm more from an engineering perspective, for readers looking for a book from that direction is Kline's "Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach".

Introductory general biology texts have a lot more variation in how the material is presented, but have to cover such an incredible amount of facts that there is actually less effective difference. Some biology texts tend to be more ecologically oriented (Campbell), where others are more cellular and chemically oriented (Curtis), but the difference tends to get lost somewhat with the need to cover everything, and the sheer mass of material each HAS to cover.

You might try Pauling's "General Chemistry" text for a more theoretical treatment in chemistry.

Both Kline's calculus and Pauling's chemistry texts were from the 1960s and reprinted by Dover in the 1990s; you might try checking the Dover catalog to see if there are any more similar reprints out.
I was ready to put a name, location, and a style up; but the "first name, last name, username, email, password, confirm password," formed a barrier I'm unwilling to cross for the sake of the offering.
There does seem an underlying 'this will make me $$$' feeling to this, though it's very sad to read how her career was ended.

Having worked with models/media for years, uber-bitching really is part of the territory, though they don't usually go as far as to put it in print, that probably wasn't such a great idea.

That's a curious part of the web though, whatever you say (write) or do, potentially stays there forever. I hate the fact the whenever anyone does a Google image search on me, the first thing they find is a shot of me and my business partner dressed as mariachi's - damn.
One important difference I noticed, is the focus on the team of Sequoia responsible for each company.
"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."

There's no way that will work. Wi-Fi is actually a good example of what happens when airwaves aren't regulated (owned). Especially looking at the 2.4 and 5 GHz debacles.

I'm a fairly free-market person, but sometimes a certain amount of ownership is required. I have no problem with AT&T, Verizon, et. al. owning their slice of the spectrum, but that ownership should come with some caveats ending phone exclusivity, etc.
CDs are cheaper. I do tend to buy CDs second hand though.
If that happened to you now, you would be crushed by student loans that would be unpayable on Denny's wages, possibly going into default before you got your first real paycheck.
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Set in the 13th hierarchical city, Kagutsuchi, the Librarium regulates the amazing power of "Armagus", a fusion of magic and technology. Currently they are aft er a wanted criminal named Ragna The Bloodedge, also known as "Death", who wants to destroy the Librarium. Due to Ragna possessing a powerful form of Armagus known as the Azure Grimoire, people far and wide are aft er not only his bounty, but his grimoire as well. This is where our story begins...
Because people buy it.
YC Top List
This was submitted 561 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654) but I think it deserves a repost. I have been lurking here a while and only just discovered it. There are some real gems (stories/discussions) to be explored this way.

I started looking at 'Users with Most Points per Submission' and lost an hour before I knew it. Oh, and I guess if you want to rig the system, then 'Top Domains by Points per Submission' could be of help.

Maybe some of you haven't seen this either so I thought I'd share.
That title begs to be made into a techno-remix.
so if you have a niche that is sufficiently large or profitable, then its not an issue?
Game theoretic illustration of speculative bubbles
Non-programming books that programmers should read
Personally, CDs are infinitely better than iTunes, et al.

I get my music absolutely DRM-free. I can rip a CD to as high a quality mp3 as I want. I can rip to lossless FLAC for backup/future lossy format reencoding. And I get a physical backup.
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Oops, sorry - a poor attempt at abbreviating a title gone awry. That should teach me to remember to proof read.
I try and use as little text as I can on the slides, and just one, or a couple of key images. I find this really helps if I stumble in what I'm saying, or lose track as I don't use paper notes to speak from. Glancing at an image strongly related to your subject really helps to get you quickly back on track.

Great public speaking skills are such a gift - just wish it was one I had.
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Some online books show how to implement a simple "Prolog" engine in Lisp. They typically rely on a representation of Prolog programs that is convenient from a Lisp perspective, and can't even parse a single proper Prolog term. With this approach, implementing a simple "Lisp" in Prolog is even easier ("Lisp in Prolog in zero lines"): Translate each Lisp function to a Prolog predicate with one additional argument to hold the original function's return value. Done. This is possible since a function is a special case of a relation, and functional programming is a restricted form of logic programming.
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What's stopping a site from just having an invisible iframe link to amazon? That would refresh that cookie on every page load.
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I agree with this ruling. While I think privacy is important, the anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst in people. I think you should be held responsible for your actions, and once we start doing that with the internet I think you'll see a reduction in abuse.

Of course you'll get loads of frivolous lawsuits as well...
Yes, the difference is that big. Average cable offering is 7 Mbit today where I live. You can upgrade to a whole 15 for an arm and a leg.

A few lucky big cities have Verizon FiOS (fiber to the home), which can go up to 50 Mbit.

US broadband speed is seriously behind Europe and Japan.
Just read the original post and think GUI callbacks, and you'll get what I was trying to convey.

You can have addToWindow take any element, there just has to be a function called 'asElement' which will take your type and produce a relevent 'element' data structure. Further, you can use Haskell-style type classes or ML-style functors to make this easy and polymorphic.
I played around with Forth a while back, and while I thought it was a great experience and an interesting way of 'seeing the world', I think that keeping track of what's on the stack seemed like a route to madness. Even stuff like C doesn't make you do that.

How do things like Factor improve on Forth?
Financial Education: a Lifelong Pursuit
I do it because I get a free CD backup of my music.
PPT is a great tool. It's just used incorrectly by the masses.

As someone already mentioned it's best leveraged for support. In most cases as a visual aid. If you can get by without using any words and all imagery then it's more likely to an entertaining presentation.

I also say this knowing that it all depends on the intended audience.
Right: this actually parses Lisp. (Parsing is supposedly another thing Prolog is particularly good at, but I haven't gotten to that chapter in _The Art of Prolog_ yet.)

Parsing Prolog is actually pretty easy (the syntax is almost as simple as Lisp's!), but IIRC the Prolog-in-Lisps I've seen in PAIP and On Lisp just use native Lisp sexps. While the Prolog-y syntax strikes me as a bit weird in Erlang, it actually makes a lot of sense for Prolog.
Complaining about the natural evolution of language is a sign that you're being a crank.

+1 (coming from a reformed ex-crank).
The difference between Top Domains and Top Domains by points per submission is interesting.
I download 99% of my music. While I'm not admitting to anything illegal or unethical, let's just say that my downloads don't exactly add anything to the statistics. The only time I actually buy CDs is at concerts, so I know the money stands a better chance of going straight to the artist, and so I can on occasion get a signature.

I wonder if perhaps that's skewing the statistics.
A journalist? Too "enthusiastic"? Huh.

You're right of course, but a dirt-digging, speculative, news-free 4000 word article has got to attract some advertising viewers somehow.

I want to believe "Newspapers are the walking dead" when I waste my time with this. But yet, here we are, increasing their viewership...
How would you reword it?
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A new factory can turn almost any plastic into a useful product
I'm not so sure about that. While this case seems obvious bloggers in Germany on the other hand are required by law to publish their identity and real life street address.

This way many people are afraid to publish articles that might be controversial.
Some already have been attacked by fascists or been shut up by lawyers.

Not to mention China of course where blog publishers have to register with authorities.
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming is a common aphorism in computer programming and especially programming language circles. It states:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp

Prolog follow-up

Any sufficiently complicated LISP program is going to contain a slow implementation of half of Prolog.
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This headline is a jarring example of the "echo chamber" (it's usually something about Twitter). I think few people outside Silicon Valley could write it with a straight face (not none, but few).