skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/hrm/browse_110.html

If you review that list, you'll note that where the rubber meets the ground (rules of operations) there is a huge body of governing rules that are extra-constitutional and developed over the course of the past couple of hundred years by the two establishment parties.

As an analogy, consider supplying independently developed applications for a platform with a proprietary OS where the OS vendor has a vested interest in keeping independents out (or ineffective).

And even before reaching the forum, the non establishment entities must dance to the tune orchestrated by (you guessed it) the establishment:

http://www.fec.gov/members/members.shtml

Its a chicken and egg problem. We need a Supreme Court that can review and strike down faulty laws enacted by the entrenched interests to revise the system. But to get to the Supreme Court, the candidate needs to be nominated by the establishment President and approved by the establishment Congress.
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Maybe all that text just isn't connecting with the user's goals. What if they added a sentence, unavoidably in the users line of sight, to the effect of:

"Want be understood? Format your text using the simple formatting guide on your right."

So, it points out how to achieve their goal (being understood) but it doesn't clutter their line of sight with too much information.
Flashback: RIAA attempting to block the sales of early MP3 player [1998]
As my boss likes to say, the extension for Ruby documentation is ".rb".
That may be somewhat confused by the fact that a lot of internet libertarians do tend towards anarcho-capitalism, but the Libertarian Party in the US is pretty close to the FDP.
It's foolish and economically disadvantaging for anyone in the business of producing software to not have Windows.
if it's unclear enough what the code does that you need to do this, maybe some speculative commenting in the main branch actually would be an improving.
What's missing here is the idea that you want to be able to grow with your startup over time.

Being solely involved in startups -- especially since most fail -- only lets you see how an organization is run up to the size of the startup. It's the organizational equivalent of the Peter Principle.

A larger organization is going to let you see more sizes (since they are typically organized as subunits) and the issues that arise in each size.

As examples:

1. Do you know how to manage a team of 3? 10? 50?

2. Do you know how to hire 10 engineers (ie, after you've asked all of your friends)?

3. Do you know how to budget/spend $100k? $1M? $5M?

If not, then investors may be less willing to put money into your venture. Gaining those skills, especially the first two, has you situated to more successfully manage growth.

I believe that spending some time at a large, successful company can be very beneficial.

Disclosure: I recently joined TripAdvisor for just this reason. And I'm hiring into my team, thereby gaining experience in 1, 2 and 3!
This is an article about politics, which means it is probably not suitable for this site.
It's a good thing - like the elder brothers taking care of their younger siblings. If one does take the effort all of the elders should do it - IMHO it's a position of consistency. We don't talk about the younger ones being lazy or such, just simply about the elder ones taking care when they younger ones need help.
I used Windows 2000 and XP for years. Stability wasn't a problem.
He has the most sincere smile on his face :-D
Do operating systems other than Windows always work? Because that is not my experience at all (at least with Linux).
I think it's actually designed for those who do not understand or do not care what an operating system is.

You should know what a spleen does and how to tell if it's healthy - if you're a doctor.

You should know what a tappet does and how you can fix it - if you're a car mechanic.

You should know what a tort does and how you can serve one - if you're a lawyer.

The Doctor, Lawyer, mechanic can be intelligent, dedicated, passionate people. Just not about computers. Why on earth should they care about operating systems more than you care about spleens, torts or tappets? What makes you special?
Garbage.

1. The mere fact of using Linux is not a proof of intelligence since the hard things in Linux are harder because they are more tedious, less user friendly or both (e.g: The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story).

2. Being able to afford a Macintosh is not what I would call rich and the implication that having money is a virtue in itself is disgusting.
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how is Gambit compared to Chicken?
> freeways
> Hitler.

I doubt that. While Hitler had a lot of Autobahnen built, the first were from the Weimar Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#History).
Of course not.

However, the blue screen of death was so prevalent that it set windows apart from other OS'es.

Kernel panics on linux are pretty rare. And I've never seen OSX just die at the OS level.

edit: Just remembered, I have seen OSX die, on my mac mini if I try to play backed up DVDs and output dolby5.1 in frontrow sometimes it just blows up and says "Your computer requires a restart" :/ eugh. Still, works if you use other players, and something easy to avoid.
Comments are a hack. There should be a way to include structured documentation with code that lies somewhere between free-form text (comments) and actual code. This documentation should sit at the abstraction level high enough to provide insight not captured in the code directly, but low enough that it actually has some coupling with the implementation so that if the implementation changes the documentation will be broken.

Of course, as long as we are using ASCII text for editing code, this is impossible. A few people are working on fixing this flaw (Intentional Software, Jetbrains MPS) but don't hold your breath!
Something else to consider when looking at all the doom and gloom around California is the relative income of the average person in California vs. the rest of the US.

Median Household Income
California $61,021
United States $52,029
Personal per capita income
California – $33,749
United States of America – $31,632

Taking the population 35,893,799 of California * the income gap ($33,749 – $31,632 ) = 75,987,172,483 call it 76 billion per year.

So yes they had a state budget gap of about 1/3 of the extra per person income vs. the rest of the country. But the idea it's bonds or IOU's became worthless is silly.

Median income tends to reduce the apparent income gaps. If you look at the simple average, California makes a lot more money than the rest of the country on average. But they solved the problem by reducing spending and not taxing people more. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124814401981267445.html

PS: I expect USA to do the same thing, a minor tweak to our spending and taxes can quickly stop deficit spending.
Thumbs up doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. From Wikipedia "'Thumbs up' traditionally translates as the foulest of Middle-Eastern gesticular insults — the most straightforward interpretation is 'Up yours, pal!' The sign has a similarly pejorative meaning in parts of West Africa, South America, Iran, Greece, and Sardinia, according to Roger E. Axtell's book Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World.[11]"
In what respect?

Benchmarks by Marc Feeley of Gambit: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/bench.html
Well said. Comments come in classes, with different purposes.
Somewhere (at the top of the module?) its helpful to mention the external dependencies - meta-information that will NOT be found anywhere in the code.
For each code unit (method/function/template) explain why it exists, deficiencies, use case. Again, information not immediately obvious by reading code.
Finally, those strange lines of code with magic numbers, obscure syntax, checks for apparent side-effects need some illumination.
Lastly, and leastly, describing the code itself. These are the comments that get old fastest.
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Think it's worth it to see this kind of thing via a video link?

I'm not convinced - most of the value I get out of going to conferences is in meeting other people. If anything good or interesting gets said, it's usually all over the internet quickly in any case, meaning that I don't really need to sit there watching N hours of video.

Looks like a fun one though; YC and its offshoots are one of the few things that manage to make me miss the bay area a little bit.
This photo is amazing.
Ok I don't see how Twitter is more cutting edge than television

Let's see. Television is a form of communication in which there are a hundred channels and I am forced to pick one to consume. Twitter is a form of communication in which there are two million channels and I can create my own. That's cutting edge.

but even if you don't watch TV, it will undeniably affect you more than Twitter once it's hype dies down, if Twitter even affects you more than TV right now

I don't understand this. Not like I don't understand your mindset: I don't understand what you're saying. This is incredibly convoluted.
From the application developer's point of view, Android is fairly resource-intensive because it doesn't support compiled applications. All the public APIs are only provided within Dalvik, an interpreted Java VM.

This is a major break from Linux tradition. IMO Android doesn't qualify as a "Linux" when it only uses the Linux kernel without providing API access. Android is more like an extension of the traditional Java Mobile Edition approach to mobile platforms.
I don't know since when, but it's possible to use a pc mouse and keyboard on a mac. And yes, the right button works as expected.
If you have to make your own install packages, look into /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app. (Need dev tools to be installed)

You can bundle all your apps and installer packages into one install package that makes roll out easier.
This is one of those things where if you think about it for more than .02 seconds it is offensive, but most people don't.

they just laugh like idiots in the breeze.
In general. Who has the best performance? Who has the best ffi support? The most and best library support? Does anyone have a success story (case study)? Does anyone offer a painfree setup? Chicken is BSD, while Gambit i GPL - so chicken maybe preferred for its less restrictive lisence?
Agreed. If it won't all fit in my head at first, put some of it on paper. Especially when learning the code. And re-visit the drawing, testing it against what I'm reading as I go until I'm sure its right. Once its in my head, throw it away. Wish there was some way to use drawings as comments...
My friend Bob learns differently - he needs words, skips all the illustrations in manuals, they just don't sink in for him. He's brilliant, just built differently.
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I didn't see the instructions either.

Everyone's brain knows a block of text in the right-side column of a web page is an ad and provides nothing useful to the task at hand.
Its an nice one for url redirection thay uses 301 redirection
Code management tools need a way to add notations without getting in the way of code. Something that can be view thru a link, but is out of the way when poring over the code. ASCII text: anachronism. We're not that far from 80-column IBM punched cards...
Tim Berners-Lee joins Twitter, complains of "confusing" UI
I'm not sure Texas counts as getting close to California... (I've lived in both, currently in Austin.)
I think if you look further back along the evolutionary chain you'll find that apes monkeys etc are far better climbers than us. This just seems like a pointless rant about how adaptation has taken us in a different direction. :/
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Oh, absolutely. Better than nothing though, I guess. Flying out there isn't something I can do on a whim right now.
> The Scheme code deals with position evaluation, alpha-beta pruning, transposition tables, move legality, different strategies and so on.

For some reason, those sound like compiler optimizations instead of game calculations...
My fraction of a percent of ConvergeNet ended up changing my life. And I learned loads about startup hell. And I met people that landed me MANY projects for the last decade. And on and on...
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Ooh! Ooh! I managed to crash OSX! I kept my computer running for a week straight, no sleep, and had iTunes shuffle to a new song once every 10 seconds, and for each song scrobble to Last.fm and also download album art and lyrics. At some point it borked out.

I know Windows gets a bad rep for crashing—I use XP on my Macbook and I've had no crashes yet—but beyond crashing, I'm astonished at how grotesquely unstable it is. I use an app on it that takes up the full screen, where one window generates the full screen window, so Alt-F4 doesn't work, and I can't open a task manager because it just gets auto-hidden by the screen. That's incredibly bad practice, but I've seen it done by multiple Windows designers because it, unlike OS X, doesn't offer a rigid set of guidelines for its functions.

Beyond crashing and messing up, Windows is just incredibly un-smooth. Perhaps they fixed it with 7, I don't know yet, but when I use XP or Vista I'm struck by how hard it is for me to treat its window metaphor with any respect. I can't rely on windows to move when I click and drag them, they don't have any particularly good window hierarchy in place, and everything is so choppy and clunky, even with a good mouse, that I find myself resenting the system. That compared to OS X, which is the smoothest system I've ever used. Everything in it adds up brilliantly.

I still like XP—or, I do until there are more Mac emulators available—but I completely get axod's argument, and agree with it. Microsoft killed computers' reputation, and are primarily responsible for why people I know think computers are so impossible to deal with.
What does sitting in an office have to do with economic policy?
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Obrigado! :)
In other news: Ancient men did not have modern technology.
Probably worth pointing out that this article is from 2002.
How is this misogynistic? It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to an old cliché, and it's funny. It would be misogynistic if its point was that all girls are awful; what it is saying is that it's like that stereotypical girlfriend situation where she's cleaned up but is still a quote-unquote crazy bitch. Calling a girl a crazy bitch is misogynistic in the same way that a girl calling a guy a dick is misandric. We can use gender-specific analogies without it becoming hateful towards that gender.
Highlights the need for more "meta-script" in web design, controlling the actual dynamic rendering of the page during load.
Sure you can script client-side to explicitly manage divs etc. To do it right, every single subcomponent needs to become scripted. How about some style clues to the rendering engine: hide-until-complete, place-holder-strategy, link-disabled-until-visible etc.
If you think of it with the wide-scope idea that winning economically means having more money than anybody else. Fact is there're a lot of developers who've made a shitload of money off Mac-only software, and they apparently have much more fun designing their apps for a gorgeous piece of architecture. That's a trade-off I'd make without thinking.

But that's right. Delicious Monster, the Omni Group, Panic Inc., all are fools. Tell yourself that.
> generally just for the most basic stuff.

But Ubuntu does that, hell even XP does that...
Has anybody here taken a look at the code and/or managed to compile a (atleast half-working) working build???
This is obvious, since Linus is known to hail from Sardinia or parts of West Africa and the gesture is targeted to his fellow countrymen.
How is that deconstruction? You just copy-pasted the article and flipped the genders.

Instead of "deconstruction", "equality"? You'd be wrong, you'd still be irrelevant, but at least you'd be wrong. As you term it now you're not even wrong.
Consulted IT executive already owned server farms. Little cost savings until they can actually fire their wire monkey, sell the bricks and mortar, stop paying insurance etc. Till then its just another expertise to pay for.
Cloud computing may be a better option when starting from scratch.
I have to prefix this with the fact that I've only barely touched Chicken. I've been using Gambit for a few months.

Performance:
See benchmarks above.

FFI:
Gambit's is very clean. I've used this extensively, and people that are doing iPhone/Objective-C stuff with it are using the FFI. I can't comment on Chicken's FFI.

Libraries:
I'm guessing Chicken wins here. The egg system seems more developed and has more packages than Gambit's Black Hole.

Installation:
I know Gambit is painless on Linux and Mac. I can't speak to Windows nor to which Linux distros package it.

Licensing:
I have to correct you here.
Gambit is dual licensed: LGPL 2.1 and Apache 2.

Support:
Chicken's community and IRC room seem active. Gambit's are too; detailed answers are rapid on the mailing list.
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It's disputed territory; but it's not Google's dispute.
So far it's exactly what I do in gmail.

Whenever I sign up to a new mailing list I simply click filter messages from this mailing list when the confirmation arrives, select skip inbox and archive and apply a label of the mailing list name. That way, all the mailing lists have their own label on the left bar with the number of unread messages in each and don't clutter up my inbox.

I can do the same with facebook/amazon/whatever but I actually care about reading my facebook emails right away (I only get emails when invited to events or have new messages) and don't get much spam from amazon and whatnot, I always unsubscribe.

I fail to see any innovation in what they've done.
The point of patents is to enable licensing, and to hang litigation on. That's whats happening, no surprise.
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I am really liking the new dynamic keyword in C# 4. Integrating with IronPython/Ruby from C# is now almost trivial.
Success stories:
For gambit, there is a recent 3d game [1] and Termite [2]. Termite is a version of an Erlang like system written in scheme. There may be others I'm not aware of though.

[1] http://www.gamerizon.com/

[2] http://code.google.com/p/termite/
Yeah, which means Google cannot really take a stand on it, so it's choosing to appease all parties involved. I'd say as of now they are doing the right thing.

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Those Mac-only shops chose to leave money on the table. I, personally, will not. Refusing to have a Windows box, even for testing, is like wanting to do business in Latin America and not having in-house Spanish expertise: sure, you can make a boatload of money in Brazil and have a healthy career, but it's nowhere near your full potential.

Multiplatform support makes a difference between a software "shop" and a software firm.
Good news to hear. Objective-C is alright as a language, but I'm excited to hear about some of my favorite languages running on the platform, like this Scheme and Smalltalk (http://isqueak.org/). I suppose I have no excuse to NOT make an app in my spare time anymore...
The joke (ha ha only serious) is the common views that Linux is intimidating & Macs are pricier. You should be disgusted - the phrasing is pointedly manipulative.
Discussion of original article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=884957

Schneier's gloss doesn't add much.
85000 apps? And a handful of successes. Not much different from any other software startup arena. And the biggest winner of course: Apple.
Sounds like the association is complaining that the big three are failing to collude to keep prices higher.
For several years my wife and I refused to have a cell/mobile phone, until there was a rather unpleasant encounter. My wife was on her way to an appointment when the train stopped. Net result: 2 hour delay, and late for the appointment. No phones on the train, no way to make contact.

The person with whom she was meeting was incandescent, and entirely uncomprehending of her not having a phone. It was as if he refused to believe that she didn't have one, and thought she was being actively malicious.

So we relented.
Likewise. There hasn't been a lot of innovation in the Thunderbird client, but it consistently and mostly stays out of the way. Search is pretty fast and messages go where they're supposed to go.

In ~five years of using it across three machines, I've only had two instances in which a folder got corrupted, and in both cases I was able to repair it and recover the messages.

Also, when I migrated from Windows to Linux, transitioning my email profile was utterly seamless.
It is, however, also difficult to argue your point with people who have financed successful MBOs, and who have the money you need.
Regarding evolution of the e-reader, I think course literature is going to be the "killer market". I've attended courses where half of the class couldn't even get all the books. Required reading is also often a fraction of the books content. Sometimes one book is more expensive then all the other books combined and you can't really make notes in them if you want to sell them later. If you miss a class session you always have to find out if there were any changes or notes handed out. To summarize, it's really a pain.

Imagine if you instead could loan/lease the books to your e-reader for the duration of the course and only pay for the relevant pages. You could make digital notes and share with your classmates and ask questions to your teachers. By syncing the device you would always have the latest course schedule and material. Some of this is doable without an e-reader, but there always be a disconnect between the analog and digital information.

This might already exist or never be practically feasible. But when people claim that 'people always prefer physical books', I don't agree. At least not when it comes to course literature.

On a side note, anyone seeing Google selling OCR'ed books as e-books with an android based e-reader? :)
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For the curious, the game is called Quantz. It's available on Windows and OS X.
WYSIWGY helps for printing, but not formatting. Somehow the tools have to be made available, without a blizzard of tool buttons giving the user snow-blindness.
A good comparison, but I thought this reply was funnier:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1414209&cid=298...
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PS: I expect USA to do the same thing, a minor tweak to our spending and taxes can quickly stop deficit spending.

The Congressional Budget Office predictions were for the combined deficit for the next 9 years to be $9.27 trillion, and half of that from new spending. Those "tweaks" you are counting on to stop deficit spending don't seem to be so minor, and aren't even going in the right direction.