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>I don't understand your response. Are you saying the OCaml community primarily consists of undergraduates?

What I am saying is that a sizable portion of academia uses a variant of ML. Maybe it hasn't caught on in industry, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a community that uses it.

> That right there should tell you something.

A lot of development of core tools for mainstream languages comes from the companies that use them. Clang and LLVM, for example, received support from Intel, Google and Apple just to name a few.

Jane Street has reimplemented much of the OCaml standard library for their own purposes. Facebook has already started implementing tools in Haskell. Once functional languages gain more traction, I suspect that the tools will improve substantially.
Market cap usually only refers to publicly traded companies... Does that apply here?
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For math Symbols: Cambria Math and DejaVu Sans should have them. http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fontsbyrange.html#u1d400
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Lots of good points there, but this seemed a bit odd: "...it’s worth managing your passwords, as inconvenient as that can be." Personally I find it much more convenient to use a password manager than to try to remember what username (or was it an email address?) and password I used for every obscure thing I've ever had to log into. Even if you tried to use the same password for everything, completely ignoring how bad an idea that would be, I think a good password manager would still be more convenient, since there are often restrictions on usernames and passwords that prevent you from using the same thing. (For example, my bank boneheadedly requires an alphanumeric password of exactly 6 characters...)
I think most people would be pretty upset if they were ejected from a restaurant half-way through a meal for the content of an otherwise-intimate conversation, in contrast to the case of having a quiet meal disturbed by an unwanted intruder. There's an implicit contract in a restaurant that if you're seated and conduct yourself with decorum that your interaction with the restaurant operators will center on the exchange of food for money.

I've been to places that won't seat individuals, only groups. I've been to places that won't seat you if you wear jeans.

The key difference being that you haven't settled in to enjoy your meal in either of those examples, although you may be disappointed to be turned away.
I found the same behavior, but was able to enjoy the demo by browsing directly to this link - http://www.montagebook.com/editor?open-demo=1
NFL Sunday Ticket coming to iOS, Mac for 2014 season
It's the idea that meritocracy in America is a sham, and a self-congratulatory idea in any case. It starts from the premise that if you have succeeded, you deserve to have succeeded without taking into account circumstances that led to your success (e.g. parents' wealth).

Contrariwise people are sick of being told they're "meritless" because of circumstances beyond their control-- the deck is stacked against you if you happen to fall into one of many less-than-fortunate categories.
Rescale (YC W12) is looking for platform software engineers
Rescale is building a simulation platform for engineers (of the non-software variety) to help them design better products faster. Simulation is a $40b market and used across a wide range of industries including aerospace, oil & gas exploration, and life sciences. Our platform has been used by both large established Fortune 500 enterprises to optimize existing products and new private spaceflight companies to develop rockets so you have an opportunity to revolutionize computing processes and tools used by the world's leading scientists and engineers. We are well funded company by top tier investors (including Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, and Peter Thiel) and offer a competitive salary with matching stock options. We are located in the SOMA district of San Francisco close to BART and Muni.

As a platform software engineer, you will be building a distributed workflow engine and cluster management system that will run compute-intensive simulations across multiple cloud providers.

We are looking for a few well rounded generalists to join our team. We prefer that you have:

* Experience writing software in Java and/or Python.

* Ability to context switch between tasks ranging from query optimization to devops at a moments notice.

* Ability to take complete ownership of projects, from conception and architecture right down to implementation.

* Education: B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, however relevant experience and proven ability trumps diplomas and certificates for us.

Some nice to haves:

* Experience with AWS stack, especially EC2, S3, SQS.

* Experience with other cloud technologies such as Openstack, Azure.

* Experience writing RESTful APIs and Django apps.

* Release engineering experience using Salt and/or ansible.

* Expertise or strong interest in the following areas: high-performance computing, code optimization, concurrent programming, security, encryption, certificates.

Interested? Contact us at dev-jobs@rescale.com
You can have a look at

http://github.com/MLstate/opalang
Very clever nerd sniping. Until I read this I had no idea how badly I wanted to do something with agro-tech. All my ideas so far are just too silly to mention.
This is awesome! I'll definitely start using this. I've seen JetStrap before for building the full UI. But this is great for alot of my uses.
Really generous and cool of you guys to do this! That's personally too far out for me, but I could see a bunch of people taking you up on this!

It'd be cool to have a site that lists current projects on the land so we can follow and see progress.
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Yeah. This is crucial. Needs to be more clear. I was trying to enter in addressed, and didn't understand why it wasn't working.
hi there hn, I build this app because I loved the concept of the 7 minute workout [0], but quickly got bored by the static routine. I showed it to a couple of friends. They all seem to like it, but I would love some more feedback!

Also, I'm happy to answer questions about the tools i used, if you have any.

[0] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...
Great idea, have you informed your local makerspaces? They might be able to set up a competition.

http://pumpingstationone.org/ <-- Here's one, though I've never been there.
A while back, I hacked together notifications using RSS, but lately, I just use IFTTT...

https://ifttt.com/craigslist
The technicalities are many and complex, and Assange's legal team has appealed the extradition order on a wide range of technicalities and thus far failed in all of them. But it's beyond dispute that the prosecution claims to want a lot more than mere questions, and it's Assange who has refused to remain in a position which allows for the usual legal process to run its course.

The wider question is whether it is more accurate to claim that Assange has not yet been formally charged with the offences (or had the charges thrown out)
(i) because the Swedish prosecution is refusing requests
or (ii) because Assange did not respond to attempts by the prosecution to contact him whilst in Sweden (as verified by his own legal representatives), left Sweden on the day an arrest warrant was issued, and then following arrest and bail in the UK took the unusual option of relocating himself outside the reaches of the British police whilst fighting the extradition order in the courts.

I would suggest it's near impossible to believe the former factor is the primary reason no formal decision on charges has been made, even if one feels the rape allegations are extremely unlikely to be true and Assange has good reason to be afraid.
Can we please refrain from calling people trying to make a bona fide argument as "trolls"? You may disagree -- that's fine. But can we please keep the discussion focused on the issues and not the person making the argument?

I agree with Alupis that WTF is an unfortunate license choice for many projects, since it introduces a lot of legal uncertainty. But I also agree with most commenters in this thread that for this particular project, it doesn't matter. Cool though it is, no one is going to use this code in a commercial project, or as the basis for another OS project.

So it really doesn't matter in this case.

On the other hand, if someone writes a TCP stack in ARM assembly and licenses it under WTF with the intention of letting other people use it in their projects, there's a potential problem. It's not just corporations who will avoid a non-standard license, it's many established open source projects as well (for the same reason: legal uncertainty).
Managing your podcasts can be a complicated thing.

Shows and episodes can exist in different states and use cases. Do I listen to every episode of this show? Most episodes? Just dip in and out every once in a while? How can a UI accommodate this?

Do I download? Stream? Per episode? Per show? Sometimes one, sometimes the other? What about tools to manage my download queue? Maybe I have lots of bandwidth at the office, but I have 1mpbs at home. I've yet use a podcast app (I think I've used them all) that has a playlist setting to exclude certain shows. I've been unable to to create a playlist that has the "All Shows" feed from popular networks, doesn't make other playlists (based on episode state) unmaintainable.

Settings at the global level. Settings at the playlist level. Settings at the show level. Settings at the current playing episode level...

Downcast, with it's Windows-like feature set and UI, has given me the most power. I have complaints with it (Bloated UI; I want PocketCasts's playback speed slider and "skip first X seconds" feature), but every other app seems to go in the "less is more... until it's not enough and I go back to downcast" direction.

Overcast has some smart features. (What about an "alert me of any appearance of my favorite guest, whatever the show" feature)? I hope it convinces people that there is still room to grow.
Basically, all OCaml code runs in IO. You can still only modify things that you've marked as modifiable (analogous to an IORef), but there is no constraint on where you can modify them from.

(In case it's unclear, I'm agreeing with tel and rephrasing.)
Bet you $200!
Extradition is easier from the UK than Sweden. If he was in Sweden, you'd need the Swedish and UK govs to agree. If he was in UK, it's just the UK gov who needs to agree.
Redbus was supposed to be a big success story in Indian startup world. Looks like it did turn out to be a cautionary tale!
http://techzinglive.com

http://startupsfortherestofus.com

http://howtobuildarocketship.com/podcast/

http://bootstrapped.fm

http://www.2600.com/offthehook/archive_ra.html
I was impressed by what you wrote above, but then read this on your HN profile:

My most controversial (gauged by variance in karma as downvotes and then upvotes rolled in) ever comments were about the issue that has been most discussed on HN since early June 2013, namely Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA documents and Snowden's role in today's world. I'd be glad to see NSA surveillance programs under much more strict legal scrutiny and oversight by Congress. But I think it's more significant than many people notice that Snowden traveled first to the territory of China and then to Russia as the documents were disclosed, so I can't count him a hero any more than I can count Kim Philby as a hero. Both were misguided and ultimately unhelpful to the world in some of the same ways.

How can you make such a radical (I mean that as a compliment) case for non-violent freedom fighters yet you don't consider Snowden a non-violent freedom fighter (which is implied by you considering him a non-hero).

I'm not so eloquent today, so I'm going to have to let this comment stand as it is for now. Hopefully many readers can see for themselves the contradiction that is so obvious to me.
MIT Media Lab: In the Matter of Promoting the Open Internet [pdf]
Or, you can stick to restaurants with menus that offer a handful of dishes only -- say a dozen at most. If they carry more than that, the logistics involved to get the ingredients fresh rules out that anything is home made.
Hypermedia as the engine of application state: the client-server dance
I don't see anything in your privacy policy about email handling, but maybe I'm just skimming too fast.

When I click on install on the extension, it says that it requires access to *.mailfoogae.appspot.com; do you route my mail through your app in order to add this feature to gmail, or is it done completely locally within the sandbox of my account/browser?
A good idea, but room for improvement.

- Get rid of that full-screen HTML5 video. Full-screen background videos are great for experience driven services, but distracting for utilities.

- be clear about where you support. UK only - took me a while

- Autocomplete on addressed. If not - show what format you expect. Hell, even placing markers on a map would be better then blind entering
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/03/07/hit-kickstar...

http://www.reddit.com/r/ouya/comments/2785gs/ouya_deaddying/
Leave it to the French and their deranged sense of justice.
Chrome browser hurts laptop battery life
Seriously, libraries seem to all recognize the need for hackerspaces, but they don't have hackers to staff them.

They have budgets for things, and space, and a desire, they just need help figuring out where/how to spend things and how to then use the things they've gotten.
I'm curious: can you name an optimization problem you would get that intuition from?
You seem to be arguing with statements I haven't made, by alleging that I don't have my facts straight and then demanding random statistics. I am not going to play word games with you.
This concept is always interesting (albeit not that original any more). I've got to say though, I'm not overly impressed with the quality of this lot —pretty mediocre Photoshop skills on the whole. I still prefer prefer the original Monster Engine: http://www.themonsterengine.com/artwork
How often are you going to use an IRC bot written in BrainFuck in a corporate environment?
This is a great offer! If someone is interested in using this land to build a high tech farm to supply the Chicago area then we'd love to work with you on ways we can push the availability, product and price information out to local buyers and distributors in real-time.
thanks! yeah the permission thing really bugs me. The app plays a sound, so you can hear when an exercise is over, and apparently the phonegap plugin I use needs those permissions... At least I couldn't figure out how to remove them. But I will add a comment in the description. Thanks for your feedback!
As opposed to the UK, which is a founding member of NATO and joined the USA in invading Iraq?
Crazy to think there are still so many species that we havnt discovered. Now Im waiting for the discovery of dragon fossils.
When I was a student at Auburn, we had one of these. It was right in the middle of campus, along the most heavily trafficked path through central campus. There was a sign designating it a "first amendment area."

But I think it only applied to people not associated with the University. Student organizations weren't required to use this space, and could set up nearly anywhere outdoors, collect signatures, recruit, and generally do whatever they like as long as they weren't disturbing classes.

Really, the only people who used it were the crazy itinerant preachers who would come through campus a couple times a semester preaching hellfire and brimstone. It always made for good fireworks when the new freshman would get into yelling matches with them.

This was 10+ years ago, though, and that area now has a building right in the middle of it, so I wonder what the current policy is.
Kind of a lurker here but thought I'd step in since this is where I spend at least 10% of my week. I am in fact proud of our company blog. I do about 80% of the posts and try to get authority figures in the industry to guest post whenever I can.

I honestly started off just because I knew blogging was good for SEO, but now I love blogging and would do it even if no one read my posts.

Since the time I started blogging a few years ago, our traffic has SOARED in ways I never thought it would.

I focus on writing about general news in the industry as well as theory. As far as best practices:

1. The number 1 rule I stick by is only write posts that I would read myself, and that I am proud of.

2. I try not to newsjack, if I can be one of the first people to write about a piece of news that is going on in the industry I will take that as an opportunity. When that happens the traffic comes pouring in.

3. Although I do a lot of SEO myself, I don't ever worry about stuff like keyword density or other stuff that could drive away readers.

We've had dozens of clients and employee hires that have found us through reading our blog.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds

EEV blog on the feasibility of solar roads
Just theories.

The reality is, that very much (if not most) of our electronics garbage goes to Africa, where it goes to wild garbage dumps and young children are destroying their health by burning the valuable materials out of the garbage without any health or environmental measures.

Even when the phones are decomposed and parts are recycled, we are very far from recycling 100% of electronic gadgets. Maybe you could (with much effort, that is not cost effective) recycle 40% of the materials. The idiotic method of glueing all together makes things even more difficult!

What you tell here, is just science fiction, that is presented as facts from the media to give us better feelings.

I live in a country with very high standards for garbage recycling -- but even here, most of the stuff is either just dumped or burnt, since that is the most cost effective thing -- that is done, of course after the private households took much effort into waste separation -- it is just dumped/burnt together. I know that, because I brought my things separated to official recycling and was advised to dump it together into one big hole.

Don't believe, what media and press tells you, because governments want to shine a bright light on our industries! You are being just brain-washed.
>Do you at least keep track of profits? This seems like quite important/crucial information.

I'd be surprised if many of the YC companies actually turn a profit. I imagine that YC's work has long since been done when a company finally starts making money.
I agree that DC is underrepresented because they have only 1 non-voting member of the house. If that member was voting they would have similar representation per capita to California.

The point I made in my post above is that people in small states have dramatically higher representation than people in large states. This is why it is in California's best interest to split up and why there is not chance it will be allowed to.
I don't have a meaningful response to this, I just wanted to say this is both good actionable advice and really inspiring. Thanks for this.
One more thing: OCaml is strict by default, Haskell is lazy by default. The later allows for some nice code idioms[0], but makes reasoning about performance and memory characteristics very difficult[1].

[0]
indexedList :: [a] -> [(Integer,a)]
indexedList l = zip [1..] l

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/15h6tz/what_isnt_ha...

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2013-September...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2064426/reasoning-about-p...
I don't think that's right. There is a basic theorem in (untyped) lambda calculus that says that if a term has a normal form, then any evaluation strategy, including strict and non-strict, will reduce that term to that normal form. Since non-strict evaluation can "skip" arguments that may have no normal form, there are expressions in non-strict languages that terminate while their strict counterparts don't. The opposite scenario does not exist: if a term has to be evaluated, it has to be done in both the strict and non-strict versions. (And in simply typed lambda calculus, all reduction sequences terminate.)
College, where it's okay to think freely, but only when, where and how the administrators decide to.

Formal education is mainly about obedience, so this idea of a free speech zone is just an expression of that.

Colleges (and most other educational places) aren't really concerned about your thinking and growing. They are about making sure you obey and do what they say.

The number one thing we learn from formal education is: do what we say, when we say it.

No wonder most young, well educated people struggle with life outside the bubble.
FireFly is a new space company in the micro-launch space. Not a YC company (to my knowledge) but they seem like a cool start up. They have some SpaceX talent on the team. They had an announcement of their new vehicle on their site but maybe they have gone into stealth mode because I cant find it right now.
You appear to have forgotten to add the "No Warranty" clause to the repo's you use the WTFPL on. This implicitly means your code is fit for use, and if it crashes my system, you are liable (and, more importantly, you accept liability).

Can you point to some legal sources which agree with this claim? That is, the claim that if you put up source code but don't explicitly disclaim liability, you are liable?
Wow. If that round closes, they'll have a bigger market cap than Zynga (currently only $2.7B).
People say functional programming is hard, but it feels just like a knee-jerk reaction. In practice, it doesn't seem to be much of an issue. For example, IMVU gave an experience report at BayHac about switching from PHP to Haskell; they found that onboarding a new employee (without significant Haskell experience) took about as much time as it did for their particular flavor of PHP (conventions, frameworks... etc)[1]. They found Haskell became much easier to teach given a strong set of opinions on code style and library choice.

Jane Street has had a similar experience with OCaml. In fact, they even teach all of their new traders—largely non-programmers—OCaml in a few months! [2] In fact, one of the main reasons they stuck with OCaml was because it made it easier for their domain experts to review and read code.

The same happens for hiring: it's not nearly as difficult as people seem to think. Sure, the supply is relatively low in absolute terms—but demand is even lower, proportionally! If anything, it's probably easier to hire quality developers in a language like OCaml because it serves both as a filter (applicants really self-select) as well as an additional perk to people interested in the language.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl3expkos4Q#t=483
[2]: https://www.janestreet.com/ocaml-bootcamp/
Tesla Motors: Make it legal for us to sell directly to consumers!
White House: We literally don't have that power. It is either up to individual states OR congress (to essentially supersede state's own laws).
Tesla Motors: That response is timid! Show us more leadership!

Am I wrong or is that more or less exactly the current situation? Tesla Motors wants the White House to wave their magic wand and enact law directly outside of their legal remit, and are unhappy that the White House didn't show "leadership" when they refused.

Seems like a pretty lame political move by Tesla. They knew full well there is nothing the White House could do, and yet they did a petition, got the public behind it, and are now beating the White House over the head with it.

Why don't they target congress or individual states instead? Both of which CAN do something.
I answered the original question first. If you don't like that paper, you can Google for more yourself. And yes, asking better questions works for me!
Not clinkle. They didn't even need a prototype...