skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a small Myers Parrot - he is most of the time pretty cool, although he occasionally de-evolves into a miniature raptor. I usually work out of my home office, and he is usually happy enough sitting on my shoulder while I work.

Parrots are not low maintenance though, requiring lots of attention. I took yesterday afternoon off work and my wife and I took my parrot to a local park (Sedona Red Rock Crossing - google it, then click images, you will be glad you did :-)

Anyway, my bird was so happy getting a ride in the car (he loves the car) and a few hours in the park, that he will be a "good boy" for a day or two.

The point of this little story is: parrots are good pets if you give them lots of attention and don't let them get too bored (they are reasonably intelligent).
My mother's an architect who specializes in old homes and historic renovation. She harps on this point constantly. The environmental techniques of yesteryear involved design elements like you mentioned, orientation, and also siting vis-a-vis water, hills, woodlots and neighboring building. To build a house otherwise would reduce the occupants' comfort.

That kind of expertise, at one time common, has now been mostly lost. Sure, you can find it in books, but to effectively apply all those principles in concert to a particular design, that is high art.

Mother's architecture blog: http://jgrarchitect.blogspot.com/
Reality: Marketing has a huge place in headline-writing. Headline-writing is a "science" in itself (funded).

What HN can do to serve its members: Omit the marketing/hype when posting a title at HN.
The only way you can say that with a straight face is if you know absolutely nothing about either Java or C#
Design Lessons & Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems at Google
"When we asked what was better about the U.S. than home, 54% of Indian and 43% of Chinese said that total financial compensation for their previous U.S. positions was better than at home. Health-care benefits were also considered somewhat better in the United States by 51 percent of Chinese respondents, versus 21 percent who thought it was better in their home country. (Indian respondents were split more evenly on this)."

The article goes on to note that since returnees were surveyed, the survey results necessarily are biased toward the opinions of persons who thought going back to their native country had better trade-offs than staying in the United States. Did the survey not have any questions about national governance, democracy, or pervasive social problems in each country? Do such high-tech workers (the ones who return to the native countries or the ones who stay abroad) have no opinions on such issues?

I'll note that I don't think one would call this phenomenon a "reverse brain drain" unless people like me who grew up in the United States and who have lived abroad previously decide in large numbers to settle abroad permanently. The United States still enjoys net inward migration, and many tens of thousands of the immigrants who arrive to live permanently in the United States are still highly capable workers who could live nearly anywhere in the world if they so chose.
Only one email acct? They're free at so many places.

I have several (to go with different identities) that all fwd to one location.

So for this app I would use

* mysite1.com@mymaindomain.com -> to mymaindomain@gmail.com

* mysite2.com@mymaindomain.com -> to mymaindomain@gmail.com

* mymaindomain@mymaindomain.com -> to mymaindomain@gmail.com
Oops. My ire is misplaced, then.
Still, without the widespread success of Java, the JVM as we know it would not exist or would at least not have seen widespread adoption. Thus all languages running on it are, if not sons and daughters, at least nieces and nephews of Java.
Behold the jot of evidence
Odd, but I've never seen the use of deciduous trees on the south side of a home mentioned as an energy regulating device. They block the sun in the summer and let it thru in the winter. Simple and effective, and nice to look at, tho someone has to clean up the leaves.
Something like subtext?:

http://subtextual.org/
You'll get much better pickings in California or Nevada though. Nevada is, in fact, where most of U.S.'s gold comes from, and it's the world's low-cost producer of gold. It's the Saudi Arabia of gold.

California works too, especially for small miners, because for larger operations environmental concerns can be a pain. But the Sierra Nevada is very well endowed.
paredit-mode

Yes! I can't do without it now. BTW somebody told me Paredit is a port of the old Interlisp structured editor.

There's also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877386, if you haven't seen it.
It looks like we are getting that anyway, modular schedulers or no.
So it's just a coincidence that Object in C# has methods Equals, GetHashCode, and ToString?
true, but I think you missed the my point. Because the site is so easy to use don't make me do all this work to use something so simple. just enable multiple sites / email and i'll be happy as a user because it solves my need in 2 steps.
ok, this is getting nowhere. You are not reading my comments. You are still stuck with your "multifaceted" counter argument.

Anyway, thank you for sharing your thoughts, they were very insightful , in a multifaceted way.
Good idea. Neat implementation. Kudos!
I would suggest that you don't tie the ability to monitor multiple sites with one email to a subscription fee - since that would be so trivial for people to get around for free.
"with optional upgrades"
there is your revenue model :-)
Weak, obvious presentation.

Six minutes long, first 45 seconds of which wastes you time with saying how great their "speedy presentations are. (what's wrong with this picture?)
This really isn't that interesting. It's a case mod using a large set top style CD player as a case, who cares.
myemail+mysite1wasitup@gmail.com works :)
c + lisp, in my case. nice way to write DSLs.
When talking to laymen and writing headlines, it's not the end of the world to speak metaphorically. At least the article itself was fairly clear on what the device did, how it worked, and what some of the future potential applications could be.

That's a lot more than a lot of current medical science or energy journalism which frequently gets even those wrong. Let's be thankful for what we have in this case. :)
Yeah, the conclusion was something like this a couple of years ago when the issue was brought up on LKML. Too bad his opinion hasn't changed.

I don't think it's a good idea to wait for the perfect one-size-fits-all scheduler instead of supporting competition between different schedulers. People have different needs and hence they need different schedulers -- I might suggest that it's be the only way to ever find the well-optimized single scheduler.
Tiny UI gripe: If I select one of the contains/doesn't contain radio buttons, there's no way to go back to "neither". Nothing selected is also a forbidden state for radio buttons. There needs to be a third choice.
If you're on gmail, you can place a dot on any part of the username, and it will redirect to your account. For example,

johndoe@gmail.com
john.doe@gmail.com
j.ohndoe@gmail.ccom

etc. all go to the original johndoe@gmail.com, but pretty much every website will interpret them as different emails.
It is unfortunate that you are the only guy who thinks so. Heh! I am a little too experienced to be comfortable as a buzzword-compliant enterprise-dwelling cubicle drone, but not experienced enough to get into the big-league rockstar companies I'd prefer.

Well, actually, I did get into the big leagues once, when I worked at Be. But the company was dying, so it wasn't a really great time to be there. I still could have made the best of it, but I didn't. I squandered that opportunity pretty badly, and I regret it. I've been trying to claw my way back in ever since.

Seriously though, thanks. That's a very nice thing to hear.
'Mrs. Brady' turns 'cybermom' to help seniors tackle tech
Thinking Functionally in Ruby [video]
Probably because he's saying love is not like Romeo & Juliet, which is exactly what you're saying. You've refuted a comment Sivers didn't make.

I also need to jump in as resident literatus and say that Shakespeare was saying the same thing. Romeo & Juliet is a tragedy, not a romance: Its moral is that people that think love is grand and melodramatic are dooming themselves. Shakespeare's smarter than we give him credit for.
I was specifically thinking about the passive house designs. I think you couldn’t just take those designs and build them in anywhere in the US. Germany has very moderate climate, and I think passive houses are optimized for that.

But you are probably right, you could probably design passive houses that work in more extreme climates.
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Your reply seems to discuss elisp, not Common Lisp. elisp is not CL. Scheme and CL have more in common than elisp and CL or elisp and Scheme. (OO/MOP, namespacing, modern compilers, lexical scope)

My assertion was that there are already very sophisticated alternatives to emacs, written in a real, modern language.

elisp is terrible, but the failure of CL-based emacs makes it clear that popularity is more important than ease of use or ease in learning. I don't see how the use of Scheme would make a difference.
Just got back from the sale... got about 80 bucks worth of books (lots of $100+ books if from amazon). 11 books total, a few books the size of rhode island.
I'm not really a hacker. I'm really a wannabe urban planner/environmental studies major whose life got sidetracked by a health crisis and divorce. I imagine lots of folks in other places I hang out would have heard of this -- but, yes, it's sort of an 'old fashioned' thing and a lot of old fashioned ideas are either 'forgotten' or viewed as inferior to our modern gizmos.
Slides are at http://experthuman.com/files/thinking-functionally-in-ruby.p... if you'd prefer.

Apologies for the point in the video where I answer in the affirmative a question about whether foldr is "the same as" foldl over the reversed list. In the context of the example that's correct, but of course in general it's only true when the function is commutative.
On gmail you can also use a plus sign after your username: yourname+spamsignup1@gmail.com
Medicine’s Elusive Goal: A Safe Weight-Loss Drug
Kudos to your mom (and can you give me any pointers on getting my kids to promo my sites? <wink>). I decided some years back that I wanted to do work having to do with the built environment. I reviewed some majors related to that and settled on Urban Planning as my long-term goal. I decided I needed a bachelor's in Environmental Studies as a foundation for that so as to not build the next Aswan Dam --which met all stated goals beautifully (like controlling all that icky annual flooding -- you know, the thing that made Egypt "the jewel of Nile" for millenia) but had a few minor unexpected side effects, like a schistosomiasis epidemic (because controlling the flooding allowed snails, the vector for this parasitic infection, to flourish unchecked), dramatically increasing use of commercial fertilizer on Egyptian farms, and such a huge rate of silt build-up behind the dam that the lifespan of the dam will end up being far shorter than initially expected. I think it's a shame that design of our built environment is so often intellectually disconnected from the natural environment which serves as the foundation for all our built stuff (not just buildings but also other infrastructure).
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Agreed on the intro: Does TED have 5 minutes of intro discussing TED before each talk? No, because that would suck.
This sounds like GWT with a different choice of statically-typed source language. I wonder if they have ImageBundle magic and a pay-as-you go design too.
It sure would, I just don't think there's any reason to mess with low level stuff like XMLHttpRequest objects. For javascript itself, this book is always good : http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan... If you haven't seen O'Reilly's safari yet, that's quite a nice program if you are still in school learning a variety of things.
Hindley–Milner type inference is a mathematically-sound type inference system. Given certain not-entirely-unreasonable constraints, it is always correct. Given a program written entirely in those constraints, HM will be fully correct, no matter how large you make it.

Unfortunately, the constraints are indeed a little limiting. Haskell offers many advanced features that technically break HM type inference. Thus, in Haskell it is considered good practice to always label your functions with their type signatures. (Human-made ones are often better; the compiler may have been more generic than you actually want (though still correct), or you may be able to better "spell" the type signature using your type synonyms that mean something to humans.) Then, even if there is a function that manages to confuse the type inferencer, the damage is contained.

It's fairly easy to do the type annotation, too; nobody has to know that what you did was leave it off, load it into the compiler, and ask the interpreter what the inferred type was. :) I'm sure Haskell experts don't ever have to do that, but I'm still learning and there's definitely been some times where I could write a function that worked as I expected but I couldn't quite follow the type. So far I'm not confusing the type inferencer very often; mostly it just manifests as types I'd "spell" differently but are equivalent.
Oh, well, of course design aimed at working well in Germany wouldn't work well in many parts of the US -- though there are parts of the US which likely would do fine with a similar design. It's a big country with lots of different climates and landscapes.
How is Wt pronounced "Witty"?
I don't know how to break this to you, but despite what the mother may say about who the daddy is, everybody in town is exchanging knowing glances about it having the milkman's eyes.
Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes "Critical" Hole In Firefox Security
Huh?
I think you've misunderstood me, I'm the same opinion as you.
However, my point is that "fixing" a tomcat is much less of a trouble for the cat then spaying for a female cat, so instead of getting a female cat you should get a tomcat.
Setting up OS X as a scientific programming environment
PHP Certifications. Where, Why And, How To Get Them
Or require them to split themself up? Or better --- withdraw state guarantees for all deposits. The customers will flee to higher quality.
Gentoo: “We’re Not Dead”
Which Lisp are we talking about here? There is the Lisp that some programmers use to make ends meet and solve real world problems, then there is the mythical, perfect, Lisp that's much opined about by the Lisp fans in the non-coding prose-sphere.

If this tool is meant for real, actual Lisp programmers, I think you should pause for a minute and survey the community. This might not be what they want after all.

But if this is a thing for Lisp fans, well, those guys will take anything.
You Have Prostate Cancer, Yes, But That is Not the End of the World
It wasn't just the linux companies, most every company in silicon valley at the time was attempting to find a reason to get him on their payroll.

He could probably have taken his pick of any tech company anywhere in the world.
JsHub - simplifies connecting software services to websites
Actually, clojure sounds more like the dude that lives in java's basement, and uses java's bathroom.
The 100 year language is the language that will finally make the business guys in a startup feel like they can also program.
Absolutely right. Don't arrange your parens to fall separately like author does on new lines. Let the parens flow after one another.

The way your parens should flow:

(def factorial
(fn [n]
(loop [cnt n acc 1]
(if (zero? cnt)
acc
(recur (dec cnt) (* acc cnt))))))

The author doesn't take an idiomatic approach to programming in Clojure in most of his code snippets.

[edit]

Throwing java.lang.Exception if a condition is not meat in your clojure functions? Don't do this either!!!
New sensors, signs to smarten up Washington highways
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> Working on next generation Big Table system called Spanner

o Similar to BigTable in that Spanner has tables, families, groups, coprocessors, etc.

o But has hierarchical directories rather than rows, fine-grained replication (ad directory level), ACLs
Form factor matters. It's not something you can just trivialize. There's a lot of functionality that a paper book has going for it. The question can't be boiled down to a simple matter of being against change or new technology.

You can use spacial memory to find previous passages in a paper book, you can turn down the corners of the pages and write notes in the margins. You can leave your favorite novel in the trunk of your car for 4 years through winter and summer and then grab it for enjoyable reading at a moments notice. You can pack books away in your attic and reasonably expect that your great-grand kids will be able to
read them in 50 years if they want.
I'm glad I took the plunge, too. At first, it seemed like a really bad idea -- far too awkward and unfamiliar for the minor advantage of automatically inserting closing parens. I kept at it mainly out of an attraction to the novel and quirky for long enough to discover that its biggest advantages aren't from not having to type ")" -- they're for things like barf, slurp, splice, and the S-expression-aware kill-line.

Whenever I'm programming in a non-Lisp language, I really miss those kinds of editor features that are enabled by having an idiot-simple syntax.
Germany's Green-Energy Gap
Oh, even Germany has different climates. Though not as extreme as Texes vs Alaska.

E.g. in Magdeburg we could have above 30 degree Celsius in summer, and -20 some days in winter.
I wear earplugs to help concentrate. When co-workers chat it does not interrupt my flow. If someone speaks directly to me I can usually detect it. If I make the decision to remove the orange foam in my ears I give that person my full attention.

I sympathize with your situation. I wonder if it would do any good to challenge each person who taps your shoulder. How about: "You really startled me. I was concentrating and your touch felt like a lightening bolt. No harm done but in the future would you mind approaching my desk more from the front? I'd really appreciate it. So would my cardiologist."
I suspect that Arch has displaced a lot of their potential market anyway. Gentoo always seemed to be made up of two groups, the people that wanted a rolling distribution, and the people that bought into the whole CFLAGS optimisation thing.

Arch pretty much rules the market, atm at least, on the first group, and provides a reasonable approach for the second group, taking away probably some of the more casual 'gotta build everything from source' users.
I was too lazy, but the idea is cool. If hassle-free this is something I would pay for (1 thing cam to mind: how can I trust your site is always on? explain this to your prospects).
And I noticed that India tops the Google trends for both startups and hackernews.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=startups

http://www.google.com/trends?q=hackernews
To me the most striking/exciting way to extend this model and what assumption to question is the zero sum assumption.

If the equilibrium is such that both ice cream sellers stay near the median, we might also imagine that the # of customers available to both sellers depends on how far they have to walk. I don't think it's unrealistic to imagine that the # of willing customers decreases as distance to the nearest seller increases. So in the case described by the article, some of the people on both ends of the beach might decide agaist buying ice cream at all, given they have to walk half way across the beach.

This is exciting to me because it might indicate that if both sellers were to cooperate (@ .33 and .66 distances along the dimension) both sellers could be better off in the aggregate because the potential number of customers they are splittig could be larger than at the nash equilibrium described in the article.

Expading the scope beyond even the sellers, we might also imagine that as a result the entire system is better off because the average customer saves time walking by having more evenly spaced ice cream sellers. That means even if we were to imagine the demand function was completely inelastic with respect to distance to nearest seller, at the very least the customers save time on average walking to the stands. This time could more productively be used to dream, plan, create the next startup, come up with the next big idea for society, etc.

The value of cooperation, expading the pie, and not assuming a zero sum game...as an optimist, these are the themes I take away from something like this.
How many planned to return to India? I was shocked to see more than three-quarters of the audience raise their hands.

Does this mean permanently? It could mean for vacation.
There was no intent to "refute" any points in the article. The only intent was to make my own related observation. I had remarked at more length initially but chose to edit it down, assuming it would be understood fine in shortened form. Perhaps not.

But thank you for responding.
This article paints Germany’s “Green Energy” in a way too rosy picture. The reality is much different. A good article about this is “Germany’s Green Energy Gap” in the August 2009 IEEE Spectrum (submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=887095 original here: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/germanys-green-en... ).

The problem is that Germany had massive subsidies (especially for Wind Farms). And offshore wind farms are being built in water 20-40 meters deep 40 kms of the coast (with the grid operators forced to connect offshore wind farms at their cost). So it has huge problems – the recession probably helped Germany to advert an energy crises. The phaseout of nuclear power stations will probably be delayed.

IMHO people need to be a lot more pragmatic about green energy and nuclear power. Nuclear power still generates double the amount of electricity than renewable in Germany even while it is being phased out. It would be much better if they phased out the coal power stations instead.
Sri Lanka fines US embassy (for illegal tapping of water)
Clojure has the highest percentage of "noob" users of any language. It's just 2 years old and everybody is pretty much wetting their feet with it just now.
People always seem to criticize the Kindle by pointing out the advantages of paper. What of the newfound advantages of the Kindle itself?

Being able to access the dictionary effortlessly, without disruptions. Placing marks (being able to pick up where you last left). The small size. Etc.
I lived in Germany for nearly four years as an adult and for a time in my early childhood as well. So, yes, I am aware.

Germany also was something like the world leader in recycling/environmental initiatives (or some such) when I lived there. So I am not surprised to see this green energy initiative.
In the context of immigrants, it means permanently. When you talked to any non-U.S born Indians, Chinese, "Return to India/China" means permanently; "Vacation in India/China" means temporary.
Very true. But then the author of the article needs to get his feet a lot more wet because its plain and simply bad code.
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I'm in California, not far from the canyon above Azusa mentioned in the article. The last time gold shot up I looked into what hobby mining is about since I'm a play-in-nature kind of guy. The thing I took away from the websites I visited is that it all comes down to dumb luck to be successful. You can have a guy with a simple pan find more in a few days than the guy with multiple sluices and $10K of equipment has done in months. One story told of a guy carefully panning who looked up because someone playing in the river had slipped on a rock. That rock turned out to have about $32K worth of gold in it.