skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any reason to claim "I told you so."

For decades, parallel programming was only done by people in the high performance world. It was (is) difficult and often painful. The languages, APIs and paradigms were broken in various ways. But they got the job done, and the relatively few people who actually needed to do it were able to.

It's only now that parallel programming is moving into the mainstream. Hence, it's only now that it's worthwhile for computing as a field and an industry to pour the resources into making parallel programming "easier." The benefit from doing it before was marginal.
Web 2.0 security risks scrutinized
ITwinge: iPhone dream keyboard?
I've tried Brain Gym a few times with a licensed instructor and found it to be quite helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_gym
The Economics of Disrespect
While I agree with your sentiment mostly, I feel Lisp's un-popularity probably has nothing to do with Lisp itself.

For that matter, mainstream popularity of anything has always had a good dose of randomness in it (I bet you can model it with some sort of free energy / entropy equation). For example, it's hard to break down exactly why the No.1 hit song is No.1, or that No.7 song is permanently No.7. Usually it has more to do with the politics of the record company than the quality of the song itself.

We are also being a bit pessimistic here. Lisp is not un-popular. It just hasn't reach the critical mass yet. And it seems to be going to that direction with unraveling of Clojure.
Ever hear of Political Science? My wife majored in it, and she used to always talks about her statistics course; doesn't know a lick of stats though.
I'm curious... apps on facebook make money, right? slide, playfish, zygna, etc. So what happens if an app maker hits jackpot, while facebook itself can't find a good revenue stream? Is facebook going to start a facebook tax?
i agree 100%.

he was a very sharp guy. worked in VC and definitely knew what he was doing. it was also impressive how he was prepared to walk out with nothing.

my favorite line of his was something to the effect of "i will fight the same way for you, when someone comes along down the road to dilute your equity"
The evolution of business simulation games
Teacher certification is vitally important: it props up teacher wages.

Oh, did anyone think it had another purpose?

Education is a funny field. When you test the IQ of people by university subject, you generally find that the hard sciences have the highest IQs (physics and math at the top) followed by the social sciences followed by the artsy stuff. Education is at the very bottom.

However, in every field but education, you find that people with PhDs are smarter than the people with Master's who tend to be smarter than people with just BS or BA degrees.

Education is the only field where this is reversed. The people with PhDs are the dumbest of the lot.

I heard a funny story once about someone who cheated on his teacher certification exam. He had failed twice and was about to lose his job. So he paid a homeless person to take the test for him. They only caught the cheater because the homeless guy scored better than anyone else in the district and officials got curious about the improvement.
I was hoping he would have done what other controversial(Zed Shaw) and not so controversial(Joel Spolsky) blog authors have done and just turn off the comments and moved on, rather than shut it down.

However, he is not indebted to us to keep writing so my opinion doesn't really count in that regard.
How Important Is Profitability For Tech IPOs?
Chrome + Firefox = one browser to rule them all.!
I was just sunday on the European Common Lisp Meeting here in Hamburg. It was really nice, we heard of a bunch of actual applications and heard of new implementation facilities.

The biggest plus: the event was completely free of random whining.
I mus ask, what was the learning experience? I never played UO, but it sounds like there's no consequences for "immoral" actions, so while it might be fun to turn against your savior, it hardly applies to any real-life experience (hopefully :-).
To throw my anecdote in there:

Several years ago my family moved to Florida to be closer to my grandparents. My mother found out that the only teaching position she was "qualified" to do was as a substitute teacher. She had previously taught several different levels of Science in a different state, had a BS in Biology, a Masters in Chemistry and a Law Degree (Teaching was actually the 5th profession she tried). In order to teach science in Florida, she would be required to take roughly a year and a half worth of college courses, and get a different certification.
I wish I could upvote this twice.

"Design" "Architecture" and "Analysis" have somehow entered this strange place where we talk about them as if they're not related to "real code"

Instead, as the article points out, it's all design. The only difference is which layer of abstraction we're working at. You can make a nice object model by simply kicking out some header files in C, or by declaring some types in OCAML.

We've had so many metaphors -- the factory, the construction site, the military plan -- that we've lost track of just what it is we're doing. And it doesn't help that these buzzwords have generated their own job roles, books, and cultures.
I know this is from 2006 its still FUD.

Discussing scheme and common lisp in the same post is misguided from the start. They are very different.

Solution to problem one:
Look at the implementation's features/libraries and pick one.

Solution to problem two:
Having picked an implementation, use it.
Use libraries that work with it.A lot of your code will be reusable across implementations, some of it won't.

Three...
Honestly most of section three doesn't really make sense.

CLOS isn't implemented in terms of macros, slot-accessors are multi-functions, and no, CLOS doesn't match up with the Java version of OOP. CLOS is centered around stuff like multi-methods and multiple inheritance.

He is completely wrong about any 'fix' being 'starting from scratch'. There is the meta object protocol, which essentially lets you customize the object system to be whatever you want (so you can do java style objects, if you must...)

Four:
First you have to learn how to write macros, (you know, the same way you learned to write code in any other new paradigm. I doubt you were immediately good at imperative or functional programming).

If you are having hygiene problems with your macros, you have no business writing macros (in a production environment), and probably haven't read and experimented enough with them to be good at it.

Macros are first class functions, they just get run at a different time than your other code. (This would imply that your macro code is just as debuggable as any other code that you write, you can even break it into sub functions and unit test it, if you want).

"You should only use a macro when nothing else will do" Does not imply last resort, it implies the right tool for the right job. Newbie lisp programmers have a tendency to (once they figure out macros), use macros in places where they are completely inappropriate (because its fun!).

The entire article is from the point of view of someone who hasn't actually spent the time to learn lisp (But still felt the need to inform us all of his opinion). It is kind of like reading a 'lisp misconceptions' greatest hits.

Furthermore, he doesn't even mention the package and name-spacing system, which is really the biggest wart that CL has.
If preventing the collapse of your entire financial system is predicated on the idea that one guy can use his cellphone, I'd argue you're fucked no matter what. But yeah, I'd guess that this was one of those missed calls "of convenience".
I imagine that he plays up the technophobe image so he has a polite way to decline an investment.
I suspect this may a primary driver of net based education. Certainly it probably won't replace elementary and primary schools, but if accreditation can be achieved online, then you don't have to fuss with the "middleman" - which in this case often means dealing with arcane rules that protect the tenure of educators versus promoting quality education. I think I remember a Fred Wilson or Paul Kedrosky post a ways back on how home schooling was a particularly attractive market for education delivered over the net as a starting point.
Yes. I should have said that it is not clear which area is 'better' than another.
oops, you're right. nice!
Yes. Though drafting a cover letter and tweaking your resume also takes some time (not to mention the research).
When looking for investors, your last resort plan better be to be able to run/grow/operate the business if you walk out with nothing.
Bad analogy.

Even if you are a mediocre cook, you are more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife than a sharp one, because it won't cut as well (and will slip, maiming your fingers).

Also you'll improve faster, as the easy/boring jobs like chopping onions will go by faster.

Seriously, spend the money on a good knife.
Some sort of historical precedent, it seems. The school that gives that degree out within Georgetown was established with the express purpose of training diplomats post-WW1. Like, sort of a MBA but for politics and diplomacy?
Sims Online had a big cybersex brothel problem* for... well, always. Since you can convert virtual currencies into "real" currencies, they had a situation where presumably underage players were literally being paid for their services, through their (EA's) service. The girl leading the ring, which grew into a pretty weird organized crime thing, was 14. I'm not finding the paper I'm looking for right now, but I think it was by Peter Ludlow if interested. If she'd chosen to cash out before the game economy crashed, she would have been an extremely well paid lady.

* A problem for their media image. Presumably added an element of stickiness to the game that wasn't too bad on the bottom line. Also, a pun!
Jesus christ. The amount of time people spend blogging about how great git is could be surely put to better use.

It's just a linkbait headline. Use whatever fits your usecase the best.

For me to switch from svn to git, I need to be experiencing pain using svn. I don't feel any pain :/

Of course if I'm working on a project in the future that looks like git may help, I'll look at git and see if it'd be more appropriate than svn...

Wish people would quit with the "Tool X is always better than Tool Y".
>>If the subset of Lisp that allows scripting is fine for you, that's great.

Well, the point was that I don't see why subsets have taken over, it's as if PHP grew larger than the rest of the scripting languages for web progr... Oh, wait. :-)

But seriously, if you take the hit of a GC (which most everything do, today) then you might as well use the nicest system around. I am happy with my present tools, but a nice lisp variant might seriously tempt me.

Sigh, maybe I should just look for different work or do a startup with really hard problems.
As the Economy Turns, Tech M&A Is Back — and That’s Good News for Startups
The "new web standard" is as obscure as "sw", and has various flaws.. Perhaps the biggest flaw is that the notation does not work for all-upper-case sarcasm, such as "A web standard for sarcasm? That's REALLY great idea.."
Entrepreneurship Rates Around (Most of) the World: 2005
Well, the sauce is nice, but more realistically, why should every story about chrome mention webkit? How could we (google) police that? We mention webkit all the time and , more importantly, try to get our fixes and patches upstream.
Spreadsheet of TED Talks
Also been discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=767380 and here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=780647
Compare and contrast:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=805853
amazing show! It is so entertaining I watch it every week and always am trying to identify the founder's main hurdle before all the sharks chime in.
So far I've been kicking ass at it.

It's on sunday nights for those of you who don't know, and it is worth watching for sure.
You having blue eyes means both of the gene pairs that control eye color have the recessive blue, while your wifes brown eyes can be caused by having a set of blue and a set of brown genes, and as brown is the dominant one, it is what was actually expressed in here eye color.

My wife is from a part of China that is not very likely to have any genes for blue eyes (or red hair) in the indigenous population. The overwhelming probability is that she is homozygotic for both black hair and brown eyes.

The fact that your children have blue eyes means she does have genes for blue eyes

There is a reading problem here, because I never said anywhere in my post that any of my children have blue eyes. (In fact, these days I am startled whenever I see a child with blue eyes, even though I grew up with siblings with blue eyes, because all my children and my wife look at me with brown eyes. I see blue eyes and ask myself, "Do they make eyes in that color too?")

You also are well advised to do more reading about the genetics of human eye color and hair color

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

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

and human genetics in general. Genes can recombine from one generation to the next. My red-haired dad, by the usual assumption that you made in your reply, was homozygotic for red hair, making me presumptively heterozygotic for red hair, while my wife presumptively is not a carrier of that trait at all, on population genetics probabilities. But two of my children have hair that is "brown" at a glance but also includes red pigment (as can be seen when their hair is backlit by sunlight or when strands of their hair are observed under a microscope). Sometimes children can inherit a double copy on one gene from just one parent, as anyone who has carefully studied human genetics knows.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/
I think Zach was being sarcastic.
I imagine that if Warren Buffett had really been interested in taking the deal, he would have chased it up. If someone offers me what I think is a good deal on a many-billion-dollar asset, I'll find the time to make a followup phone call "Hey Bob, what happened to that fax you were gonna send me?"
I don't know if anyone noticed, the page has an ad link for IE 8.0 at the very top before the article begins. That looked funny.
"The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be general systems laws. For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking Science, Social Science, and Computer Science. Discuss the generality of this law, and possible reasons for its
predictive power." (Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking")

[Actually it's from the fortune program.]
Not sure if I should share this, but here it goes.

One nice trick I used a lot when in college is that some postscript network printers would print raw postscript sent to them on a specific port (which I can't remember sorry). This allowed me to use netcat toprint my documents bypassing the college's print quota system and everyone who would be waiting in the queue.
I saw the CNBC interview with Mr Buffett.

Diamond called out of the blue at a bad time seeking insurance. This insurance was to cover BARCLAYS CAPITAL whilst it manouvred in purchasing negotiations.

Diamond wanted insurance because the British Government had refused to allow Barclays to purchase Lehman without a lengthy consultation process. Buffett or not, the takeover sounded very unlikely.

Nothing here has to do with Buffet himself. From the gist of the interview he was just commenting on how quick the collapse was. The interviewer asked him as The Guest, if he had any interesting stories from that time.
Importing solar panels from China is not even remotely similar to importing oil from the Middle East. If we derived our energy primarily from solar power, we wouldn't need a constant stream of solar panels to keep doing it, the way we need a constant stream of oil now. Also, since the company that makes the machines that makes solar panels, we could easily start producing them for ourselves if China suddenly decided to increase the price the way OPEC has the power to do with oil.
I totally agree, but at the time the rationale was those places typically weren't "cool." Which is obviously also exclusionary.
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science:
cache invalidation and naming things."

-- Phil Karlton

The article is absolutely touching a worthwhile subject but imho an important tip is missing: Don't be afraid of renaming things later. Modern editors make mass-renaming easy and it's almost impossible to get everything right from the start.
(edited for totally misreading your question. i still go off on a bit of a tangent. apologies)

The game doesn't stop you from committing crimes, but it does mark you as a criminal and keep a rough record of your deeds, so other players [can] change the way they treat you. The learning experience for me is: do I walk into a potential trap to try and save someone who might be a victim, or is it better to walk away safely and maybe let them get murdered. I gain nothing but a sense of moral right by helping and risk losing a lot. The learning experience for the tricky murderers is: was making that guy sad worth the stuff I got?

Everything your character is carrying is lost when you die (and consequently gained by the murderer). So you're losing time, which is essentially the real currency of MMOs. You also have to wander around as a ghost (yes) until you find a friendly player who has invested in the skills needed to understand ghosts (really) and will then take the time to resurrect you (yup). If you're in the wilderness without friends, you can literally be wandering around incorporeal, haunting rabbits or whatever, for hours.

To put the game rules in perspective, you can more or less freely kill anyone you meet. Your safety is maintained by keeping a group of friends who can warn you of impending threats and who will gather together to defend themselves (and hunt down criminals) when necessary. Certain regions of the world were essentially instant death zones, and in other areas the most powerful groups maintained somewhat arbitrary laws with a strict death penalty.

One group of murderers was continuously causing me problems as a young player. I was frustrated to keep losing my brand new armor. It turns out they murder anyone wearing armor in their neighborhood to weed out more powerful players so very new players have a safe, non-crowded place to start hunting.
D'oh! You are absolutely right.
Somehow I've missed that little sub-menu all this time.
Or if Barclays knew how to use their fax machine?
As a graduate of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, I feel it's my duty to point out that the major difference between the core requirements of the SFS and the College of Arts & Sciences is that you have no math or science core requirement in the SFS. I think you end up having econ take the place of math & science in the SFS's core requirements, but the basic econ courses (micro, macro, int'l trade, int'l finance) do not require anything more than knowledge of algebra.

So yes, it is quite possible to get a political science degree and not know a single thing about math or science beyond your high school education.
The comparison is irrelevant; I was simply responding to your statement that the Veyron isn't a performance car. The fact that a homebuilt allegedly beats it on a metric or two hardly means that it's no longer a performance car. That's like saying that I can build a model rocket with a higher P/W ratio than an F-22, so the F-22 isn't really a performance jet.
Buffet has gone on the record as supporting Democrats and tax hikes for the rich - is this an attempt to smear him and paint him as both out of touch AND somehow responsible for the collapse?
> The best investment in terms of mindshare the twisted project could make at this point would be to simply sit down and write documentation.

Making documentations (and contributions to it) a first-class contribution with its bugs & discussions & refactorings, and fun to write (the way the Django project handles it) would probably also go quite a way towards that.
I can't shake the feeling that the programming equivalent of such redesigns is rewriting stuff in Lisp for no reason. Everyone desperately wants to believe their own profession is important, and prove it to others.
Affective Interfaces Wants to Keep Track of Your Emotions
I'm not sure why you were downmodded, but I upmodded you because I agree. I use subversion daily, and I love it. I've dabbled in git, I understand the strengths, but for me, its not worth spending the time to migrate all of my projects over there.
Didn't you guys to Defcon? Where the RFID Mythbusting lecture was immediately before Adam Savage's Key-note?
Ironically, my wife has a problem of too much education. She graduated in 2006 with a bachelor's in both Elementary Education and English as a Second Language. She tried to get a job for a year somewhere in the state (Montana). No one would hire her because she didn't have enough practical education.

So she went back and got her Master's in English as a Second Language. Also while doing so she taught at the school to build up her "contracted" work experience.

Now she doesn't even get interviews for elementary teaching positions because she has too much education and too much experience. Most of the school districts have a policy to hire only those fresh out of school because they can pay them less.

My wife is a very talented teacher and just wants to be able to teach. She doesn't care about the money and would be happy to take the lowest pay grade available. Union rules require that they pay her at her experience/education level.

I have no hope for the public system.
Back when Safari first came out, there was a lot of credit given to KHTML, and Apple quickly had public-facing Subversion repositories available with full product history so that KHTML could adopt any changes they wanted. Since then, WebKit and KHTML have gone radically different directions, to the point that I'm not honestly sure the latter exists anymore.

Apple, I thought, did the right thing by providing a full hat-tip to KHTML at the time of the fork. I also think their attitude towards KHTML since then has been completely fair.