skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mcormier is probably refering to "The Great Masculine Renunciation". If you're interested in fashion studies, I can recommend the book "Fashion-ology: an introduction to fashion studies" by Yuniya Kawamura.

[1] http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Great-Masculine-Renunciation/...
[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=LUWTJWXZ2QQC&lpg=PA40&#...
Me too. On an IBM 7094. And I thought you were just a kid.
It's not legitimate news.

Apple lied in an official FCC inquiry. That's news.

Arrington is seeking to bribe a Google employee to betray his employer by breaching his NDA.

The vast majority of news leaks throughout history have been based on ulterior motives; whether they are politically or financially-based, seems inconsequential. TechCrunch isn't a party to that NDA, so they should only consider the public interest of the story.

If the information gets leaked, they're victimized even further by being deprived of a bargaining chip with Apple.

What bargaining chip? The ability to collude to scuttle a government investigation? If the FCC asks for the letter, Google has to give it up anyways.
The context of this post has since disappeared - the original title was "A search engine for trademarks" which has changed since I made my comment.
Unemployment in California at 12%, Highest in Nearly 70 Years
certainly :)
It seems pretty crazy to use your 'bank account' alone, when there are dental plans that cover up to 50% of costs for as little as $100 per year. I am just trying to figure out which one of those is the best option. If anyone here has had a good experience with one of them, please let me/us know.
Ask HN: promoting and positioning very early stage web apps?
I'll put the "TL/DR" version up front: When following the "it's never too early to launch" philosophy, how do you position the application to visitors or potential customers?

I hear PG and others saying often that you can't really launch too soon; that you should launch as soon as your app is remotely useful; in fact that if you were not uncomfortable with the state of the product when you first launched you waited too long.

I've done that, launching the first iteration site of a site in the past week. While the feedback (quite limited so far) is helpful and interesting, frankly I am a bit uncomfortable with the state of the product. The site has some utility but it should be obvious to anyone who spends any time on there that this product is in what I'd consider a pre-beta state. It's not that the site is buggy or that there are dead ends or "coming soon" links or anything like that. The features that exist in the live version are relatively polished. It's just that the site is clearly "light" on features and content.

I want the feedback from having my application live, but I'm afraid my app isn't complete enough yet to justify promoting it very much. But without promotion I won't get much feedback.

(One answer is laboratory style user testing, paper prototyping and the like, but I could have (and to a limited extent, did) do that without launching. I believe there's something valuable about the real world context, but I'm not entirely comfortable with the initial impression I'm giving to visitors.)

So, how do you position a very early phase site with customers/visitors/users? I guess we could slap a "beta" sticker on the logo, but that feels like the modern equivalent the "under construction" digging guy from the 90s--it indicates "broken and likely to stay that way" as much as "early stage and dynamically improving". Besides, is "beta" is just a term of art for our industry? Does the public at large relate to "beta" in a meaningful way? I'm not sure my target market does.

Is there a way to say "yes, we know it is lame right now but just you wait and see" without turning off potential users or looking unprofessional? Is there a way to send a strong enough message to invite the public at large to check out the site without setting them up to say, "lame, call me back when it's ready?"
hm. after using it for a while, it seems to slow down the development server quite a bit. have other people found this or am i hallucinating?
Skype Founders Escalate Legal Battle Over Sale
Apple lies more than I did when I was in college and had two girlfriends. When they say one thing I've started betting the other way. When they said Jobs was fine, despite looking like Skeletor in a black mock turtleneck, I bought some puts. That worked well. If only I had known about it the first time they covered up his trying to cure cancer by eating more carrots, or when they said "no we're not making a phone".
purely for artistic purposes and social commentary, do not take this too seriously ...

* welcome to the "anti-social" web

* http://www.suicidespam.com

* website caters to those who really hate the world,
this life, and want to get out ...

* ... and to make the biggest splash they possibly can
in the process

* website offers high-quality, expensive video/audio
equipment, great high-power wireless/satellite
IP services connectivity, and great battery life

* website customers purchase the equipement (they're about
to kill themselves, they'll charge $15,000 to their
credit card, no problem)

* they record their own suicide with the equipment

* beforehand they register 100, 200, 500
e-mail address of their dear friends, relatives,
immediate family (intro, premier, and gold levels)

* the equipment transmits their suicide to central
servers ...

* which then uploads HD video of their suicide to
youtube.com ...

* ... and makes sure their 100, 200, or 500 contacts
gets direct links to watch their suicide

* ... plus 500,000 additional random e-mail addresses

revenue potential is excellent ... suiciders don't care about debt, they'll pay anything!! this will be a viral product!! spread by word-of-death!!

i'd like to pitch this seriously at some VC conference. let me into y-combinator or tech-crunch or some other startup contest. i'm sure someone will take me up on the proposal!
I wasn't really implying that they were knowingly "lying". What I was mainly questioning was that they had some kind of internal cut off point or fair usage policy.
You're just too foolish and unmotivated to understand the subject's underlying value
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Good points. However I think the "stay hungry stay foolish" attitude is appropriate here. Imo it will take only a few "success" stories on Android (or whatever) for the platform to catch on. Sure it seems difficult (recall the article on HN talking about dismal sales figures for a relatively highly ranked android app). But it's definitely possible. So I guess my original post was just hoping the author would be the first real success story on a non-iPhone platform.
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What strikes me as worrisome is that, at least by the tone of the article, there is no possible doubt in Arrington's mind that the screenshot exists, and that it is EXACTLY what was claimed to him, and he hasn't even seen it.

This is a far better critique of TechCrunch than the "quid pro quo" angle.
A user-submitted database of magazines. I ended up writing OCR software so people could photograph the contents pages of their magazines, totally off base. The OCR software worked, but I got so caught up in it, the database was totally unfinished.
It looks like you're using some older version of Prototype. `getStyle` should return computed style of an element (there are bugs but they are more like edge cases). If something doesn't work, file a bug (with a reproducible test case, of course) and we'll look into it :) `Element.fade` is starting with lowercase `f` (perhaps it was uppercased in older versions of scripty). `Effect.appear` can be invoked on a collection with `invoke` - `$$(cssExpr).invoke('appear')`.

Consider asking these questions on Prototype mailing list where there are always people willing to help.
Interesting scope plan, hadn't heard of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

Exabyte ... hah! That's a gigabyte per second for 31.7 years .... I should live so long!
Agreed, perhaps the work week has sapped people of their sense of humour. Or perhaps there's a rare genetic anomaly that turns people into hackers and leaves them without a single funny-bone in their body.
Many of the best articles posted here have very few comments. I wonder if news.yc's promotion algorithm could be altered to reflect this.
Crazy? Really? You think it's crazy to not use insurance for something I consider a trivial expense? I also don't insure for optometry care.

That $100 per year is constant. My dental care is usually less than that, even without discounts, and even when it's not, I can comfortably afford to pay for it out of pocket.

I think our culture of insuring for everything vaguely health related is a big part of the problem with our health system, as it takes the decisions out of the hands of the people best able to make them and puts them into the hands of bureaucrats. I'm certainly not going to contribute to breaking dental care by insuring for it, as well.

Anyway, I insure against serious problems, not against normal care. If I could do the same with health care, I would. I shouldn't need to go through my insurance company just to go in for a checkup. It's stupid that it's the way things are done...so I certainly don't want to have the same hassle with dental care (or optometry, or veterinary care for my dog, etc.).
8===D

(sorry)
People younger than 54 count as "the young" these days?

Is this some sort of commentary on USA Today's subscriber demographics?
Both are neat to look at but lighting the charcoal grill is a cool chemistry demonstration, not really 'engineering'. Putting a working jet engine on your VW beetle is pretty serious engineering.
That would be "lying", wouldn't it? If their marketing materials clearly say it is unlimited...it would be a lie for it not to be.
Ask HN: Good applied calculus / differential equations book?
Does anyone know of a good book which teaches calculus by giving examples from practical application? Something in the spirit of the O'Reilly cookbook series would be amazing...hell, if anyone from O'Reilly reads this, a Calculus Cookbook, or a series of Maths cookbooks would be really, REALLY, cool.
iPhone app called something like "Scene". User can choose a natural scene to display (forest w/ birds and stream, desert w/ a thunderstorm etc) and then just put their phone next to their computer at work. The various scenes would have sound too so the user could enjoy the scene w/o looking at the phone the entire time. I'd personally like something w/ wind-chimes.
Back then, when you switched computers, you switched languages. The next computer I used was a TRS-80, and that ran Basic.
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"The aliens indirectly contributed to the development of internet search engines."

Well, then, that settles that ... they can't be "at least a thousand years ahead of humans technologically"
Back before Facebook came out with its new version, I tried making a website for clubs. It was instructive, but ultimately pointless. I fell victim to the disease that so many others did ;-) It did polish my coding skills a lot though!
Yes, it is indeed a better critique. That should have occurred to me.
Its not that its a lost sense of humour, I would guess (because I know why I thought it wasn't a joke) its because of the relatively low opinion many people here have of TechCrunch. Its almost (at least to me) like Nixon, right after Watergate, joking "I wouldn't want you to get a parking ticket..." Sure, it isn't a big deal, but it is rather slimy, and since you already have a low opinion of the party, the whole "joke" is skipped over.

And the fact that sarcasm doesn't translate over the internet well doesn't help any. Or, as I have refered to it: damn you internet and your lack of signifying sarcasm, or, in the semi-pronouncable internet acronym form: DYIAYLOSS.
Anyone still following this should use the minimap mode at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/ThingsEmacsCannotDo. It's better in (almost) every way than mine.
Indeed, all items that can be copied...
Less "to keep pipelines in sync" and more "to align jump targets to cache-friendly boundaries". But yes.
Yeah, that's what happens when actually have some competence, and thus you know that you know very little AND you also know the crowd here will call your BS on these subject. Oh but politics or other crap like that will fill with comments right quick.
For the record, I think it's a terrible idea to keep prototyping compilers in C in this day and age. There is already a DSL for compiler construction and it's called Standard ML. SML/NJ, along with the New Jersey Machine Toolkit, Ramsey and Fernandez' excellent binary-frobbing-utility framework (yes! tools that generate profilers, debuggers, tracers, assemblers and disassemblers!) along with stuff from the SUIF project, you can start writing very sophisticated industrial compilers in fraction of the time it takes to debug just the front-end stuff in C. Even Perl, or your scripting language of choice, is better than C for compiler hacking.

http://suif.stanford.edu/papers/
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/toolkit/ (devour Norman Ramsey's site and read his joint papers with Mary Fernandez; him, along with Monica Lam at Stanford, the Rice people Linda Torczon, Keith Kooper et al. are producing some of the most accessible tools and papers and certainly most exciting. The Rice group is also responsible for the best introductory compiler hacking text in recent publication: Engineering a Compiler. GET IT! If even just for the carefully curated bibliography.

Also, recently, the ACM PLDI published a list of 20 most influential papers in programming languages design and implementation:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/20-years.html

I took the time to scrape as many of them as I could off of the internet, wherever they were freely available (i.e. author's websites) and I can say I have 18 of them. I would love to share them with hungry minds in one tarball, or they can google the papers individually:

A Data Locality Optimizing Algorithm.pdf

A Safe Approximate Algorithm for Interprocedural Pointer

Aliasing.pdf

An Evaluation of Staged Run-Time Optimizations in DyC.pdf

An Implementation of Lazy Code Motion for SUIF.pdf

Analysis of Pointers and Structures.pdf

Balanced Scheduling- Instruction Scheduling When Memory Latency is Uncertain.pdf

Complete Removal of Redundant Expressions.pdf

Global Register Allocation at Link Time.pdf

How To Read Floating Point Numbers Accurately.pdf

Improving Register Allocation for Subscripted Variables.pdf

Interprocedural Constant Propagation.pdf

Interprocedural Slicing Using Dependence Graphs.pdf

Lazy Code Motion.pdf

On-The-Fly Detection of Access Anomalies.pdf

Register Windows vs. Register Allocation.pdf

Soft Typing.pdf

Software Pipelining-- An Effective Scheduling Technique for VLIW Machines.pdf

The Design and Implementation of a Certifying Compiler.pdf
One of the reasons why I like HN is that for a good article, you don't get a ton of one-liner "that's cool", "awesome", etc. type comments.
Great, but "the Web"? Or "the Internet"?

Call it a pet peeve, but I hate when people (especially technical ones talking about it in a technical context) forget that the Web is a subset of the Internet.
Hmm... there is a point where principle matters more than money. A company is not just a chunk of cash... how can you motivate people to spend their life with a company when it's just a payout? I grew up in Europe and there is something about taking a stance (if you can afford to). I like Jason Fried's general idea to focus on building good products.
Don't get me wrong. I agree that insurance should only be used on 'serious problems'. That is exactly why I am asking.

You only pay $100 dollars/year on average. But that is just you. For instance, a good majoriy of people will get a cleaning and then the Dentist will find some decay or a cavity, which will require a second visit. That second visit is what can really put a dent in someone's pocket. I'll take the risk of buying a $100/yr dental plan for this case. If it the plan ends up sucking, then big deal $100 bucks down the drain. But that is one of the reasons why I am asking here-- to avoid throwing that hard earned money away.

What Dental plans have people had positive experiences with?
The industry, actually several industries both electronics manufacturers and media companies, need the new new thing to keep sales up. It is a consumer driven economy after all. And that is why 3D will pushed hard, for as long as it takes.
It fits nicely with our expectations.
Passing the NHTSA and being safe are two extremely different things, in that the former certainly doesn't mean the latter in terms of customer satisfaction.

Smart cars passed the NHTSA safety checks, but the NHTSA still brought out a dire warning due to it only receiving a 3-star (now considered rare for vehicles) in a passenger side crash. It passed, but I doubt anyone wants to know that it's an entire grade less-safe than nearly any other vehicle on the road when it comes to passenger safety.

I'd trust an 1L further than a Smart due to the ability for a large side impact zone relative to any vehicle on the road while maintaining safety front and back. Like any car below a mid-size, I wouldn't buy it unless it had at least 4-star minimum, and I'd seriously reconsider anything without a 5-star. If the 1L gets all 5's, I'd buy it without a doubt.

My concern with NHTSA tests is that they're performed using an 'average' car (IE mid-size). A mid-size with a 4-star fairs much better against a pickup than a compact with a 4-star, when in reality it shouldn't. It's just a simple matter of well, matter and velocity. Then you've got to consider material strengths, aluminum used in car bodies typically has to be twice as thick as required to match the strength of steel due to it being too thin. This means aluminum vehicle frames are expected to increase vehicle safety two-fold, and I believe if used in the same dimensions as steel it would be a seven-fold increase in strength.
More users of Loopt, perhaps? They make some money off of that: http://www.wireless.att.com/source/connect/loopt/
The library. I'm not kidding.
False. The iTunes Connect interface displays a red stoplight and a "Rejected" indication when an app has been rejected. Can't be clearer than that. Now whether or not they showed this image to Google I haven't the foggiest idea, but that's the way it's always happened to me. Behold:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/59605/imgboards/Screen%20shot%202...

As for e-mail rejection notices, they can be a little weasley. Here's the operative sentence in a rejection I got from Apple:

> We've reviewed [app name] and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because [reason].
On punch cards. I don't recall if it was F77 or Fortran IV though.
Nifty, but I am sorely disappointed that it isn't written in Javascript like the NES emulator was.
So instead of people in threads like this going "WTF, how did I not know about this?" ... they will be like ... "Yeah, that's in the documentations I use it everyday it's great."
Here in Canada I see diesel nearly everywhere (certainly not compared to the UK and Europe where 3 or 4 fuel prices are listed on a sign, I have no clue why they don't do the same here besides corporations being as smart as a thanksgiving turkey), certainly in the GTA it's at every pumping station.

I've seen a fair amount of Jetta's around where I live carrying the TDI symbol, so diesels are definitely selling. I believe info about biodiesel is helping promote this, but I believe it will still be considerable time before the NA market is as accepting of diesel as the European market, which I find seriously disturbing due to the fact that southern US has been perfect for diesels since their invention (high temperatures meant starting was never an issue in winter, and the higher fuel density meant that you didn't lose as much fuel to evaporation, but then fuel-efficiency is still a near alien word to many in NA).
> Up is a tremendous movie; it made me laugh and cry, and was intended to be seen in 3D.

Wrong.

Up was made, first and foremost, as a 2D film, just like every Pixar film before it. 3D was very important to the overall box office strategy, but the primary medium was the 2D big screen, and the 3D was done as post-process, secondary (just like VHS or DVDs are).

The technology behind and amount of artistic energy given towards the 3D version has increased over time, for sure.

I believe Dreamworks has started building their films with 3D as the primary version (staging cameras and shots with 3D in mind) but I have no first hand knowledge of that.
one advantage of bison is that it gets rid of global variables. However, Flex still uses global variables to pass state. Thus, using Flex is damaging the good part of bison (thread-safe).
I've been thinking about this as well for my application.

One idea that came to mind was creating a 'splash' page with summaries and stuff along with a button/link asking the user if they wanted a 'sneak peek' at what we are currently working on.

This way users know they are looking at something that is being worked on and hopefully encourages them to return and see if new parts are finished yet.
[Summary: read this paper instead http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf]

The article is both acceptable and appreciated, but not good.

There are far better, not to mention easier ways to start hacking a compiler quickly than doing it with Flex/Bison/LLVM and in C++. Look at this over engineering:

http://gnuu.org/2009/09/18/writing-your-own-toy-compiler/4/

A compiler should be written as a fluid, jelly-like organism; you will be changing it so much and so often, it's a waste of time to introduce any structure like that to it so early. The only place where you need a heavy design is the intermediate representation; and to this extent, you want the most flexible "design", if you can get away with Lisp-like S-expressions, by all means do it.

You will be annotating the intermediate representation in multiple phases, so don't hesitate to copy deeply instead of mutating it with surgery. Don't bother with an elaborate symbol table design, just use the cheapest/easiest hash-table you can find. Keep your IR human readable or you will be forced to write binary analysis tools before you even settle on an IR format (horrible chicken and egg problem; and that's what you get when you model your IR with a giant C union .. you know, that trick, don't do it!)

For the last 20+ years, Schemers have been losing their voices preaching the trivialization of compiler hacking. Listen to them; Schemers live in a parallel universe to the mainstream compiler community, which still, even if they don't know it, are hard at work improving the first Fortran compiler.

Have fun!
I don't believe this would have gone over much better if spoken aloud. Sarcasm isn't typically a humour well used in NA, either people can't say it right or people don't understand it. Coming from the UK where sarcasm can be used in every sentence, it's like being the only person with sight in a world of blind people.

I believe (!) should become a standard for sarcasm on the web, it would at least hint people that the line is different from the norm.
The Case for a Browser Based IDE from Google in 7 Parts
There is also a book called Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-American-Industry/d... I believe there is a newer edition out.