skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the barrier number one is the lack of usefulness. Because of the non-strict nature of Haskell, many macros are usefull in Lisp and useless in Haskell, because you can write plain functions instead.
College costs rise, "even" in a recession? I recommend taking a look at this chart over a one year period:
http://www.google.com/finance?catid=us-63372821

Education fell less than the market as a whole starting in August, then shot upwards in October, around the time people understood that this would be a prolonged depression. One of the biggest costs of education is forgone earnings. When the job market sours, the total cost of education drops, demand at a given out of pocket dollar cost increases, and no one is ever going to lower prices when demand increases.

But that's honestly par for the course with the New York Times. This is the same publication that employs an economics columnist who can't even manage his own finances. (Edmund Andrews)

I sort of look at recessions or depressions like an object in an elliptical orbit at perigee, where its speed is the lowest, and where the smallest push can have the largest effect on it. Education is one way to spend this time, but another is to notice that a lot of people try to crawl into a hole and wait it out. The successes will be those who were willing to take risks when the economy isn't doing well.
OT, spelling: shouldn't it be "metastasic sites"?
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Report from the BBC here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=805184

No discussion ...
Looks anomalous, but there are 9 data points in the surge.
I wrote in GP: "Have the Blue Brain project claimed anywhere that they aim for full human behaviour in 10 years?!"

Answer: >>They predicted that an artificial human brain can be built within 10 years. So, yes.

Note the difference between building a simulation of a brain and getting the full human behavior -- which is a totally different can of worms; just consider the lacking critical sensory inputs while "growing up"...

Please check the term on wikipedia, or something: Cerebral hypoxia

Damage from lack of oxygen to the brain is well documented and gives different results depending on in which part the damage is. (This is well known because of blood vessels problems can cut off specific parts and then different times to get back blood flow. Neuronal damage and its reasons has been researched, too.)

That is a basic part of common knowledge, which you contradicted when you wrote:

>>If it would be that easy then it should be possible to restore dead people as well, but it seems that something crucial is broken when a brain is without oxygen for even a very short period. What that is is a big mystery. Religious people call it 'soul', technical people call it 'state'.

I am sorry I took that as trolling.

(The point about ECT was that it "resets" electrical state. I don't really know, but suspect the same could be said for many grand mal attacks. As far as I know, there is very little support for your thoughts on a need for consistent state, since the chemical properties and other hardware changes can rebuild the state.)
I'm not sure I understand the relevancy of this. Can anyone explain?
What do you program in?
Similar things turn up on a fairly regular basis. It's content-free, so flag it and move on ...
"I had no difficulty guessing the content from the title" - OK you might feel "lied" is a bit strong but you didn't guess from the title _alone_, lets say you bent the truth - you used other information, a background of knowledge of the types of articles in the publication mentioned along with information about their titling techniques, to have a guess.

My original point was that the HN title was poor as an indicator of the material in the article. You've just proved my point - if you had never read the Economist could you have guessed the field of the article?

"Hacking goes squishy"

I stand by my assertion that this is a poor title and that no-one could derive the subject matter of the article from the title itself - one might get "biology" from "squishy" but I don't think you could really go any further. It could equally well be use of a new cooling technique to make syrup-and-ice drinks have improved mouth feel.
That's true; Guido only says that TCO isn't going to be written into the Python you download at python.org.
I assume he means VB(.NET).
There's an article in Compute! from July 1991 that uses the term "squishy" to describe technology with a natural feel - soft buttons, rounded corners, etc. (I'm thinking Existenz!).
I can't believe it! Mainstream articles are throwing around s-exps like they were "normal" pseudo-code. Thank you Clojure for making Lisp acceptable :-)
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jingle+xmpp would be a decent alternative
I'd start with moral rights - most kids seem to have an idea about not letting people copy their school work. Copyright means someone else isn't allowed to take your homework and hand it in with their name on it.

Then I'd talk about maybe an artist or musician and how they earn money to do what they do - ignoring the part about the record companies. Mention that it is the state that helps ensure, with copyright law, that the creators of works aren't ripped off, that the state protects them for a certain amount of time so they can get paid for what they do. Book writers is a good example for why a longer period of time is needed, people can spend years writing books, if someone can simply copy it then the author can possibly only sell one copy.

If they catch all that I'd progress on to how large corporations have perverted copyright so that they can get the most benefit from a creators work (but that creators may still make more than they would because of the companies marketing abilities) and then how copyright terms have increased and that has changed the whole deal stopping works entering the public domain [as early].
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WTF?!

That was both beautiful and useless. The speaker has a great eye for good images and nothing to say about Haskell in particular. It's 90 pages of eye candy, highly recommended if you're not that in to Haskell and have 15 minutes to kill.
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Many gaming companies have been introducing new games on a regular basis to keep the momentum going. They just a few minutes to download games and start playing.
It was less a projected charging plan and more a statement concerning the complicated nature of value. There's a contradiction in that no man's effort can be perfectly measured. Consider historic visionaries, a great many years after their life has ended, society finds great value in their creations and ideas. It's a tough thing for us to judge somethings price (we estimate what it's worth to us at least).

(My response to a comment from Dave)
I admit there is a split between emotional and monetary value. Maybe we have to do more than just put a price tag on our time, we need to charge an amount that "pays the bills" or provides for a sustainable business but understand that the ultimate value of our service may not be tightly coupled to the fee we charge.
If you can churn out products, you probably aren't doing much to create them to begin with: it takes a lot of effort to bring something worth buying to the market; if you must test the waters, spend more time on the research phase and implement something that's desperately needed, even if you develop it for one client as a consultant.
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This is interesting, and may have useful applications, but it's not a validation of quantum computing as it's usually conceived, in that it appears to be doing the computation with multiple photons, so it could be relying on different photons being in different states. True quantum computing relies on the Copenhagen interpretation of the current framework for Quantum Mechanics: that the probability distributions it operates on are, in some sense, real, rather than merely reflections of our uncertainty regarding the system's state. It assumes that by operating on a superposition of these probability distributions within a single system, multiple computations can be performed simultaneously. In the system described, that apparent superposition in the probability distributions is potentially being "faked" by superposition in the concrete, individual states of the multiple photons involved in the computation.

But I'm biased. I'm quite dubious about the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, and I think quantum computation is a reductio ad adsurdum of its conclusions, which may one day be used in its experimental disproof.
My main problem with RWH (and I'm not alone in saying this) is that the first 4 chapters are insufficient to prepare you for the material in the rest of the book.
Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like
Does anyone have examples of start-ups that didn't get into YC but have gone on to do 'well' by some definition(e.g top 100,000 on compete.com or ramen profitable or acquired)?
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Sony and HP started out with many products.

> Of the many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful product was a precision audio oscillator, the Model HP200A. (emphasis added) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard#Founding
(Wikipedia doesn't mention it for Sony)

Doesn't mean it's "better" to start off this way, only that it's possible.
I'd hardly call a presentation putting up Mozart/Oz slides "mainstream articles" with "normal pseudo-code"
DriverMax from http://www.drivermax.com is in the Compete top 100,000. We are not looking for VC investment. We are profitable.
Ask HN: Does Google hire non-programmers?
I've seen a lot of articles about google's hiring practices and the type of interview they take. It seems that they always hire programmers.

Do they hire non-coders like managers or financial analysts? What's it like to work at Google for these non-coders?
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The concept of live chat has simply revolutionized the whole process of chatting. Previously chatters used to type out messages which would appear on the screen and the person on the other side would respond the message immediately. This was a general norm with all chat rooms. However with live chat the way of conversation has become more animated as you can watch your friends making gestures. You can watch them; hear them speak with the help of a headphone through live chat.
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Google?

YC is a drop in the bucket. It's a cool and potentially game-changing one, but a drop nonetheless.

Edit: To be less snarky about it, this will probably interest you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550351
the literature review is here: http://www.vasculardesigns.com/V2/litreview.html
Sorry. I'm not going to bother digging up a source for this, but if it adds any credibility to his statement I remember this as well.
This reminded me of an older DIY version for an older iPod, from (the late) Mark Hoekstra's blog Geek Technique:

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/511

Tangent: Mark was a true hacker. I randomly found geektechnique a long time ago while screwing around on some random project (playing with an SGI Indy or a Mac Classic, perhaps), and kept coming back. Later, I was contemplating a cellphone bike charger after moving to Holland and remembered his iPod version. I thought "this idea had to have come from a Dutch guy". Sure enough, he lived in Holland, and I wanted to thank him for all weird projects he'd inadvertently helped me with over the years.

Unfortunately he passed away in 2008 (heart attack while on his bike), so I never got a chance to buy him a beer. :(

Everyone should go check out his site, it's full of other fun projects (he helped pioneer "hacking Ikea" as a concept).

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab
It means where computers are competitive with even a journeyman club player.

4 years ago, I would have said,

Computers "can compete" at go about like humans "can compete" with Siberian Huskies in multi-day footraces over snow-covered tundra. I'm a terrible go player, and yet I can still give the strongest go program in the world full 9-stone handicap and crush it.

Interestingly, more computing power hadn't really helped. The best programs of 2005 sucked just about as much as the best programs of 1995. Recently, though, it's changed. MoGo beat a 9-dan professional with just a 7-stone handicap this year at the 2009 Taiwan Open. And it's won multiple games against pros on smaller boards straight-up.

http://epochtimes.com/b5/9/2/11/n2425091.htm
In the process making it obfuscated and unreadable to a large audience.

I realize it may be an unpopular opinion around here, but large herds of programmers around the world does not know Lisp, have no intention in learning it and see no potential value in doing so either. To them this code is greek covered in parenthesis.
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I assume the OP is looking for startups that applied to YC and were not accepted and then went on to success afterwards.
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That's actually almost exactly the same thing as claiming that no language should be very different to everything else that has come before it.

I'm really not a Perl fan, but I really don't buy readability arguments. I'm a functional programmer, and the exact same feeble criticisms are leveled against ML and Haskell and Lisp and Scheme and whatever else. People say "ugh! It's so unreadable!", when they really mean "I can't read that having spent 2 days learning this new language, but I find it very easy to read C/PHP/Java/whatever, which I've been doing for several years".

It can take a very, very long time to actually become fluent in a programming language and paradigm to the point where you actually have a mental model of its semantics that is aligned with reality. This is why rookie programmers tend to get things wrong.

I spent almost 6 months learning Prolog. If I went and tried to write prolog now, I doubt I could remember very much at all. I've done C for more like 10 years, and I can still write C reliably despite not having touched it for 2 or 3 years.

So I don't buy it. I'm really not a Perl fan (nor a Python fan), but the idea that it's worse than python because it requires more intellectual effort to learn is bullshit, unless you're having a programming-for-people-of-limited-intelligence competition.
" large herds of programmers around the world does not know Lisp, have no intention in learning it and see no potential value in doing so either"

Ok. Lots of mords in the world.

"To them this code is greek covered in parenthesis."

Ok, And the problem is?
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I enjoyed that. Money quote:

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
I know lots of great programmers real life. Not a single one of them knows Lisp. To me Lisp is about obscure as languages gets and the only place I see it mentioned is here and on proggit every now. COBOL would definitely not be my language of choice for anything, but at least I can trust that people will know what I'm talking about if I mention it.

If you want to communicate to an audience, putting spikes on the chairs is in general a bad idea.

Not trying to put the language down, but I see no compelling reason to learn it and use it over what I know now. I don't see what it has to offer which would seemingly would require me to relearn programming from scratch, so I'm not going to put in the effort.

That is not to say I don't take interest in learning new languages, just that Lisp is not on the list, and nobody has yet provided me with a good reason why it should be.

There are lots of great programmers out there, most of them not knowing Lisp. If you don't want to cater to them, fine, but don't be surprised when you find yourself lacking an audience.
I wonder how the transition to Qt in Maemo 6 will work out in practice. We know GTK+/Hildon won't be removed, but will the new Qt-based touch UI layer build upon this impressive base in Maemo 5, sharing as much code as possible? Or will there be a parallel Qt implementation of the same concepts -- superficially similar, but internally entirely separate from Hildon?

Perhaps the likeliest outcome will be akin to Carbon vs. Cocoa on Mac OS X. The two will track each other for quite some time; some components in both APIs will be implemented on top of the other as deemed appropriate; but it's inevitable that the platform owner will eventually make a clear stand for the API that's better aligned with their overall goals and whose development they control more tightly. (Mac OS X's iPhone fork was the final nail in Carbon's coffin, and the political preference for Qt across all of Nokia's platforms will eventually kill Hildon.)
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You don't need to know much lisp beyond ( + 2 3) returns 5 to follow the example on one slide in set of 55 slides(assuming you know someting about STM). If you don't know that, you wouldn't get much from the slides anyway and will have to do some reading of your own.

Besides it is a set of slides. The actual presentation consists of more than the slides. If you were there yo could ask the presenter to explain what is happening.

Anyone who can't do that (or be bothered to take the time to spend 10 minutes reading a tutorial on any lisp) should either (a) look at the rest of the slides (all 54 of them) or (b) go do something else.

the slide seems to be partly a survey of concurrency constructs in several languages. How do you expect the presenter to present examples of concurrent language code without using code from those languages?

" but I see no compelling reason to learn it and use it over what I know now. I don't see what it has to offer which would seemingly would require me to relearn programming from scratch, so I'm not going to put in the effort."

This is your choice. Just don't whine that other people are using languages they know to show code examples.

"but don't be surprised when you find yourself lacking an audience."

you (as in someone who was not there for his presentation, reading this on HN long after the presentation and who "cannot be bothered to learn" lisp ) is obviously not his audience.

So what?

He made some slides for a presentation and was generous enough to put those slides on line. . There are no "spikes on seats". You weren't there in the audience.

That's all.
I can't help you with a citation for that, but I can give you citations for the opposite claim "A major decline in cancer mortality has been occurring in the United States for the past 50 years, affecting birth cohorts born as long as 80 years ago. [...] These findings suggest that improvements in cancer detection, treatment, and/or prevention have reduced the risk of cancer death across the life span for individuals born in the last three quarters of the 20th century.":

News coverage:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090814/981/tsc-cancer-mortali...

Original article:
http://intl-cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/...
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I'm not sure how many people know about the flag button. You have to click on 'discuss' or 'comments' to see it. Do you think it's a bad idea to put flag buttons next to each story on the stories pages? I worry it may lead to too many flaggings and so increase the risk of flagging genuine submissions.
Nice headline, Sky. Stay classy.
I think the question is intended to be about companies that applied to YC and were rejected, not those that significantly predate YC.
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Yes, that was what I meant to say.
You forget to add where the quote really comes from: Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (best known for developing Quicksort in 1960).
Looking at your comment, I went back and skimmed trough all the slides in there, and realize I after seeing the comment here on HN that I thought all the examples would be Lisp-like and skipped the slides before seeing the rest.

You're right. My bad. Sorry. I blame early morning and lack of coffee.
Cross referenced to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804660

submitted 23 hours ago.
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Eh, he does say at the end that despite not knowing the mechanism, coaches still managed to get the best performance just by looking at outcomes. There are no new exercise tips in the article.
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Cross referenced to the TechCrunch article posted here around an hour ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806409

Is CodedStyle to be preferred over TechCrunch?
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I thought that was clever (and got you some good press) for Pinboard. Have you seen that in use by other apps?
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Very nice read
I'd propose some SEO for endangered species then.
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You may have missed the paragraph about books pretending C++ is high level. My understanding is that he hates that, not necessarily C++ itself. I see this rant as yet another proof that C++ is as low level as C.

I think the sooner we admit this simple fact, the sooner we will be able to see C++ for what it is: a niche language, probably not worth it's huge spec.
This is just business as usual. Wordpress is under attack constantly. One of my blogs has been hacked 5 times this year already.

Of course updating is not enough.

That's why the Obama campaign used Movable Type instead of WP.
> Any language, no matter how obscure, will have some practitioners who can read any code written in it.

So you haven't seen the Malbolge language, then? http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml
In his defense, the composition of those calories by macronutrient, along with fiber and micronutrients, probably has a lot to do with how the body processes them. Popular and dare I say scientific understanding of the subject does seem rather simplistic.
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