skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does have another big advantage: it's clean. Not having to be compatible with a prior lisp made it possible to have a lot of small things changed. Like the lambda function syntax, or the "def" special form, or the really nice reader syntax for vectors and maps. Both above the hood and below it's based on consistent abstractions. Other lisps would be too, no doubt, but they suffer from having evolved over a very long time.

And it grows, including towards what you it's say it's lacking right now. Recently it got the capability to work with mutable data structures (transients), which makes it less functional, but still without giving up the advantages.
BOOTStrapping a Lisp environment
"I think that the message is very clear here: somewhere outside of and beyond our universe is an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of hacker-demiurge. The cosmic operating system uses a command-line interface. It runs on something like a teletype, with lots of noise and heat; punched-out bits flutter down into its hopper like drifting stars. The demiurge sits at his teletype, pounding out one command line after another, specifying the values of fundamental constants of physics:

universe -G 6.672e-11 -e 1.602e-19 -h 6.626e-34 -protonmass 1.673e-27....

and when he's finished typing out the command line, his right pinky hesitates above the ENTER key for an aeon or two, wondering what's going to happen; then down it comes--and the WHACK you hear is another Big Bang."

In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Neal Stephenson.
Why does everyone seem to think this a black-and-white issue? Checked exceptions are appropriate for some things, unchecked exceptions are appropriate for others. Use the right tool for the job.

Some parts of Java's API have made poor decisions in their use of checked exceptions (the close methods on file input streams and database connections, for example), but that doesn't invalidate the concept.

Correct use of checked exceptions helps create more solid code with less testing required, because the compiler is able to do checks that would otherwise have to be written into unit tests. Incorrect use of checked exceptions is what leads to all of the objections I've seen listed here.
You can declare main() as "throws Exception".
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Brute-Force Exploitation of Web App Session IDs [pdf]
Blog spam.

Actual post at http://ourmanintirana.blogspot.com/2007/07/diy-traffic-calmi...
Not at all, your "actual post" just contains two small images and a few lines of text while my submission contains a huge report and several examples.

Try scrolling next time.
Explored a bit and sent the guy an email at the whois address of another domain that seems in his possession. The email address in scripterous.com seems broken. root@localhost doesn't seem to get read.

Hi,

Your site scripterous.com is a security leak for your server. I was able to kill web server processes, investigate your server, and generally do things I shouldn't be able to do. A denial of service attack would be easy by constantly killing the web server and if there was a local root exploit (which I didn't look for) I could have executed that as well.

I wanted to send an email to the root account on the server, but it doesn't seem to get read.

You can view a bit more of the discussion on the security implications at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827500 (Despite the name and the subject we're discussing, that site is normally not about this kind of hacking.)

Your site is an interesting concept and it would definitely be interesting to have it around. Nonetheless I fear that the concept of the site is the cause of the security leaks. I'm not a security expert, but it is my opinion that it's not possible to make a site like this secure, without reimplementing PHP.

Best regards,

[Real name omitted, because I don't want this nick name to show up when people search my real name.]
Bug - green event popup just wont disappear even when you change location.

Suggestion - rather than show popup, expand the selected event.

Suggestion - try to make text more readable like title bigger etc.
Screen saver in C# (including preview mode)
I'm looking forward the day someone comes up with the brilliant idea of writing an OS in JavaScript.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouOS
> For some reason I find it satisfying to "pull a fast one" on any captcha service.

Why? What do you achieve except being told you're wrong every once in a while? I mean, you're trying to bother a machine. Isn't that a bit like a reverse Turing test?

I suspect the amount of noise that ReCAPTCHA filters out from automatic attempts is several orders of magnitude larger than anything any group of actual humans can generate.
Mediocrity is underrated (or better is the enemy of good enough)
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Drinking water devoid of any minerals is not good for one's body. On the other hand water vapour can carry air borne contaminants particularly well, which might be another thing to watch out (although the after-filters provided) would probably do the job well.
Horrible security hole.

mail() is working.

Can read and browse various directories using opendir() and friends.
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Someone please explain to me why this article doesn't start and end with one word (well, acronym): CDMA. Sure, the US is the biggest smartphone market in the world, and VZW has a huge share, but look who else uses CDMA extensively aside from VZW -- China Telecom. Two giant, conservative bureaucratic entities, one state owned, one who used to be. Compare that to a more dynamic and competitive GSM marketplace. More phones, more compeition, more flexibility.
How did Eddie Izzard manage to run 43 marathons in 51 days?
It's a bit more then a social construct. The language family is called Indo-European because of shared ancestry.
I don't much care for the Bay Area, but I really wish I could have gone to the JVM Language Summit. Looks like a lot of fun.
That was done years ago: http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/. Click on "terminal" at the top.
Apps like Twitter and Facebook need a critical mass of users to function ("all my friends are there"). But online project management works if you use it just for your team. So don't think your examples match this situation. You're right with the marketing of course, but that could work as well for other markets.
I sure hope flashblock comes up with an optional canvas block because it all starts with fun and games until advertisers realize "ooh hey we can skip flash and write the content anywhere without filtering" and then you've got "hit the monkey" all over again.
Slightly Offtopic:

This reminded me of when Facebook did that redesign some months back. A lot of people I know were outraged, but then after about a week or so, they get used to it, and before long, they are back to friending people they arent really friends with. No one rags on the design now. To be honest, I can not even recall what the old design looked like anymore...

Googles slight redesign had the same effect on me. I was displeased at first, but now I'm just used to it and I have moved on with my life.
In my experience Option B above only occurs when leaving a lousy work place. I've done the same thing twice.

But after about 2 years of not making money at the "great place to work" I end up having to move on to something that is also interesting, but actually pays.

But then again, I never accept a counter offer. If I was worth 15k more to you, then why the hell weren't you paying that to start with? That just shows a lack of respect.
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Can anyone point us to some code examples? I had a hard time finding any.
Good point. Note that this is also the reason why they're so close with RIM at the moment: More than one of Canada's major telcos (RIM is Canadian) is on CDMA, so they continue to produce phones for that standard.
Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books
Multithreaded Tunnel Proxy and OpenVPN experiment
Further to the Multithreaded TCP Tunnel Proxy that I wrote a while ago, I’ve picked up a low end UK VPS and installed OpenVPN on it, as well as my local machine. I set up the iproute2 split access load balancer and established the OpenVPN connection.
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Curious if you've read Catch-22. One of my favorite characters in the book was called "Major Major" (and of course his rank was Major). At some point they managed to get a 4th one on the end too.
Can autism really be detected by voice alone?
Ask HN: What features would you like to see in a social news aggregator?
We are gearing up for the launch of our social news aggregator and alerts platform, Snippee.com. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Microsoft's mobile strategy is a mess
HP launches new digital photo frame
The Man Who's Beating Google
That article is practically unreadable without Adblock.
This fart of a blog entry should be restated as ::

..:: Concentate on stability first ,and then excel in thoughtful and considered directions ::..

This mediocre rubbish is just that
As I almost never actually look at their homepage using Google from toolbars or browsers directly this is of marginal interest.
How to tell a West Coast businessman from an East Coast businessman.
Stradivarii ? :)
>> Now try explaining difference between URL bar and Search bar in Safari, Firefox, etc.

Exactly.

My mom, who is in her early sixties and is considered to be very proficient in how to use the Internet among her peer group, can't seem to get that there's a difference between the Google search box and the address bar - she just searches for "cnn.com", clicks on the first result, and gets there. And when you think about it, this is a fine process for her - she doesn't understand/care about the way the internet actually works, but she has a routine (punching it all into google) that always gets her near where she's trying to be.

She also can't get her head around that hitting Enter submits a form - she'll type it in, and then click on the search button. 100% of the time.
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http://code.google.com/p/noop/source/browse/#hg/examples/noo...

but there's scarcely anything there. Which is all rather weird; I'd have thought that (1) one of the first things you do when designing a language is to mock up a load of example code to see how your ideas work together, and (2) you want to make that available to anyone looking at your language so that they can get a feel for what it's meant to be like. Oh well.
Absolutely don't accept counter offers. The main reason they are offered is so that the company can have you leave on their schedule, not yours. Even if this isn't their agenda, you've created a poisoned atmosphere which will make something you're unhappy with be even worse.
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Vaporlang?
True, but the other comments here expose why exposition is needed. There's a lot of ways this data could just be discarded. If it's truly meaningful, the author needs to explain why.
What do they mean by a language that supports dependency injection? What would be an example for a language that doesn't support it - stateless languages, I suppose? Because if there is no state, how to remember the dependencies?

Edit: Just checked if it is April 1st, but nope, it isn't. They must be serious.
Short answer: slowly(but getting faster)

Still, it seems rather an amazing feat because of the repetitive stress injuries he has sustained.
I really can' t imagine why this forcefully pre-segmented market exists at all -- except for to keep the carriers from beating themselves to death. Then again, completely free markets rarely exist but this is bordering a cartel.

"Psst! Hey, I won't sell X and will offer only Y, if only you won't sell Y and offer only X."

I like to buy the best phone that suits my needs, and choose the best carrier that suits my needs. If those two are coupled, I am given suboptimal selection of choices as soon as I want a phone I can't get from one carrier or I want a certain carrier that doesn't deliver the phone of my choice.
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"Some nay-sayers wonder whether a 10-hour marathon really counts, arguing that it is little more than a lengthy sponsored walk."

He redefined what it means to run a marathon, that's all.
Trying to do this but running maximally would be another feat indeed.

But wow - very impressive none the less.
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I like it, but I don't think it's really a competitor to an Apple tablet. It looks to me more like an advanced digital photo frame.

I don't see any options for adding new software, and I don't see any evidence that it is touch enabled at all.

So, I don't want one, but I think my mom might like it.
By the end he did almost under 5 hours which is pretty cool.

I think the 'nay sayers' should try and do what he did :)
I'm not sure he "redefined" it, by the end he was running 5 hour marathons, which is a very respectable time.
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stackoverflow/jobs.37signals
Is this supposed to be tongue-almost-penetrating-cheek, or is this author for real?

Let's assume the author is serious for a second; the company he/she is describing is just asking to get fed to the lions by a company that does not embrace mediocrity-as-policy mantra, and shows they actually give a damn about their product and their customers. Those customers they are pissing off, but aren't seeing leave, are staying because there isn't another option; as soon as there is, the exodus will begin. As it does, this company is screwed, because the mediocrity they worked into their codebase assures they will be able to react about as swiftly as rock can to someone threatening to kick it.

This is not the first appeal to mediocrity I've heard, but the authors or orators I've heard make this same appeal in the past are really offering an apology for their own apathy. They want this to be true, regardless of veracity, because then it will justify their own desire to not give a shit. They hope that their self-fulfilling prophecy becomes the same to everyone else, so no one is forcing them out of mediocrity. No one is making them actually work for their monthly lifestyle installment, and instead join them resting on past achievements, hoping this grants all of us a perpetual annuity.

On the other hand, if this is satire, it's really bad satire.

Oh, and to reflect on his clever quip about spelling: yes, I did catch the spelling mistakes, and they did piss me off. And I did finish the essay, in hopes that I would find a paragraph loosely reading "jk lolz" at the end. Since I didn't, this blogger now has the bozo-bit set. So much for mediocrity being good enough.
That's my first impression--I see a bunch of pages on the project wiki with proposed features for the language, but no documentation along the lines of "if you actually want to use this language to accomplish something useful, here's what you do".
"It doesn’t seem capable of full web browsing, but it gets the job done."

...and what job would that be? I'm not sure how a photo frame that runs Facebook is a threat to any tablet computer.
I agree... It took me a while to notice it too before I clicked it and the logo changed.
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How often has conventional wisdom claimed that something was impossible...until someone did it?

Once the 4 minute mile barrier was broken, what was once impossible became the new standard. I suspect that the same thing will happen to the 2 hour marathon.

Eddie Izzard has pushed 2 boundaries, physical and the fact that "anybody can do it". Thank you for that.

As a mentor of mine once said after he did something that I had never seen done before, "I did it because I didn't know that I couldn't."
Young Chinese strike gold in e-commerce
Honestly, it makes me sick that Google/Microsoft/Yahoo play along with Chinese censorship. I always feel like companies have at least a bit of moral obligation to do right with what they achieve. I know China is a gigantic market, but I would hope there are people out there who want to make a difference in the world. Maybe they have to play along in order to make change, I don't know.

Google blocks results for one-third fewer search terms than Baidu

Baidu sounds like the perfect match for China.
TIP: The official tornadoweb.com link is incorrect.
I believe it should be http://www.tornadoweb.org/
> "I went out and asked all my neuroscientist friends, 'If I do this in an adult monkey, will this give them color vision?' " Neitz says. "And everyone said, 'Absolutely not.' "

> Neitz and his team tried the experiment anyway.

Doing the experiment is empiricism; relying on a conceptual theory is rationalism. Theory is effective for predicting the logical consequences of what is already known; it cannot predict anything else. Whereas empiricism can discover things which are not dreamed of by a particular theory.

Even the famous examples of rationalism, such as Einstein's theory of relativity, and Maxwell's equations which predicted radio waves, were based on empirical observations: that the speed of light appears to be constant in all directions (inconsistent with an ether); and Faraday's observation that a magnetic field can affect the polarization of light, respectively.

Excessive rationalism is popular in software researchers, but it is not appropriate for any software that interacts with reality - as all useful software does.
actually, no, your post contained multiple stories- it's just title confusion.
Nothing like having the support of the government and a national firewall to block your competitors.
Oh, you ruined all fun
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It's written in Scala, 1500 LOC but failed to build either with buildr or with maven. Looks like a premature project.
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You mean buzzwords aren't enough?!! ;-)

I am surprised this got onto the jvmlang conference agenda at this stage of its implementation. Lots of announced buzzword-y goals and very little code.

The blurb (In the absence of substantial code samples the blurb is all one has to go by) sounds like it is a language encoding "best practices" - all very nice and enterprisey.

It will be interesting to watch the progress or otherwise of this language
Information on HP's site: http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/us/en/pclc/articles/series-dre...

That mentions "simple touch controls embedded in the display", so it's not clear it's a full touch screen.

The prescence of a remote suggests it's not intended to be a fully fledged tablet computer but, as others have said, something more like a souped-up digital photo frame.
This line made me laugh out loud:

> After all, you have to keep in mind that your customers are pretty mediocre too.
And Rio beat Apple to the punch with an MP3 player! Steve Jobs must feel pretty silly about that.
Reminds me of another great challenge to conventional wisdom: potato farmer and marathon newbie Cliff Young winning the 1983 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra marathon in overalls and a pair of gumboots:

http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young-the-61-ye...
Who paid for and conducted the study?

Ah, the elephant in the living room.

The selection bias is simply too great to trust anyone paying for their own study. These studies should simply be discarded.
By recommendation. Get to know good programmers. Then ask them for their recommendations.
Agreed. I was willing to buy the 'do no evil' line for a while but after the tianmen square issue I changed it to 'business as usual'.
At first I thought he might be serious, but the practical examples made it seem more like a joke, since the subtlety was somewhat lost there. Like this part:

Once a product is released, focus on fixing bugs, not adding new features. All overacheiving companies try to do the latter and fail. Instead, have a single new functionality, maybe along the lines of ‘New ! Option to save your work’. The rest should be all bug fixes. This will dramatically improve the quality of your software and PC magazine will give it 5 stars.
Digg designer joins Tiny Speck, Threadless co-founder joins Digg
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Simply too much space between the logo and the search box.
lol. To guys with 'good' karma: not LTR fans I take it?

It's worth noting that together these browsers will take significant market share from IE and Safari, especially when Chrome is released for mac later this year. Even more interesting is FF strong ties and history with Google.
Is there anybody running Berlin marathon this weekend? I will and we could meet if anybody is up for that.
Although there should always be room to compromise, I've always thought that our reach should always exceed our grasp; otherwise we'll never produce anything of quality. The article sounds to me like a simple attempt to justify apathy.
Are these guys really dropping zero-day on production web apps to solicit new business, or are they just not telling us that they've first gotten them resolved with the vendor?

Brian Mastenbrook was hard on 37signals when he found his (much more interesting) XSS filter evasion bug, but even he went to 37s before he posted a website with a video, instructions, and a solicitation for business.
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It looks like a highly sophisticated de-humidifier...a very cool product nonetheless.
Remember that 700 Mhz auction? Verizon bought big and is using it to quietly build LTE all over the place.

So what happens next year when they offer data service that is a order of magnitude faster than 3G? Are they still not innovating?

LTE is promising 50-60 mbps, but field trials are showing 8 to 10. Would you drop your AT&T iPhone for that?
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I stopped after "Alan Turing, the gay codebreaker." I'm sorry, but reducing Turing to "the gay codebreaker" is not much better than the treatment he recieved while he was alive.
Waste of time. This is some kind of satirical article (I hope - if not, it's just so far off the quality curve that you can't even see the curve anymore), and not a very good satirical article at that. Somewhat bad writing ("towing" the line? Mistakes like this abound), not very imaginative.

Skip.
I think qemu works better for bsds you might try that
I'm sure they mean that the language itself supports declaring and injecting dependencies rather than needing to use an external tool to do it.
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Where is the electron in that picture? It is "the electron density around one nucleus".
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As someone whose business did not survive, I can't agree more. :)
BBC looks to copy protect content
What's more, he's a total geek/lifehacker. So it's not just that anyone can do it, it's actually that WE can do it.
Info button, at the right bottom of the page! I found it looking at the source before noticing it was on the screen. usability--
Classic mystery meat navigation.
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