skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robert Heinlein's "On the Writing of Speculative Fiction" ranks pretty highly up there. Starts off with the old Kipling quote:

There are nine and sixty ways
Of constructing tribal lays
And every single one of them is right!

and ends up with his rules (which he describes as "business habit")

1. You must write.

2. You must finish what you write.

3. You must refrain from rewriting except to editorial order.

4. You must put it on the market.

5. You must keep it on the market until it sells.

I refrain from posting the Google Books link to the essay: it's much too long, and so is left as an exercise for the reader.
I've been noticing based on the questions from my less technical friends, that the lead up to this product is mimicking the lead up to the original iPhone. Apple seems to have gotten the formula right for this sort of product and is going to run with it. The only big difference this time is that there are now many many more people who want Apple products due to the success they've had since the iPhone.
Never has a Lisp used = for assignment. It's always a variant of "set".

Here is a page with various call-graphs for new.arc along with visualization tools:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8876

[Edit: Whoever downvoting me, could you please contribute a pointer to a Lisp that uses '=' as assignment other than Arc?]
I always wonder why people care so much about this. There isn't a good reason why this would ever matter to someone. If your case is strong make it and move on. Most people don't have sufficient background in science to understand much of physics or math these days but no one really gets mad about that. The truth is the truth and it settles itself in the end. I'm yet to hear of a single chair of a biology department of any major university who doesn't agree with contemporary evolutionary theory and people in the US have doubted evolution since it was first introduced. There isn't some looming threat to science and no one needs to get so upset about this.

I'm a follower of Jesus who believes in angels but I don't have a super strong belief about evolution either way. I'll probably teach evolution to my kids who I plan on homeschooling and encourage them to consider how this might fit with a world view that includes God. Believing or not believing in evolution is just not a central issue to most people following Jesus. I've never met anyone who this is a big issue for. I guess they're out there but it's never really seemed like this massive issue for people.
This article states it's all of NBC Universal which I would guess includes all their cable assets too. That's Weather Channel, History, Scifi, Bravo, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, etc. Also Universal Studios. That's a huge chunk of the entertainment industry for one company to control -- especially when they are also providing access to competing content. That would give Comcast 50% of Hulu too.
This approach might be totally obvious to many people here, but its quick to implement, it performs well, and it scales impressively:

1) The web server checks to see if the image exists in a file store and, if it does, serves it directly.

2) If not, the request goes to your web application stack (Rails, etc) which fires off an ImageMagick process to do whatever magick the image requests, operating on either a base image or something which you magick up at request time.

3) Your application twiddles its thumbs for a second or two. (This has potentially negative consequences for other requests coming into the same mongrel, at least in Rails. Consider doing load balancing which is aware of the mongrel being tied up -- I think Pound does this fairly easily.)

4) After you've got the image, save it to the file store and tell the web server "Send the user the file at this path".

5) The next request for the same URL will hit the webserver, find the file on disk, and stream it automatically.

In my case I use a cron script every day to blow away all the images that haven't been accessed in the last X days, but depending on your needs it might be easier to just persist them indefinitely. (I use GIFs to give users a live preview of the PDF they're essentially editing, and generate one every second, so if I didn't do this I would drown in half-written bingo cards. My users go through a couple of gigs a week 20kb at a time.)
Yeah, but arc nevertheless is a Lisp, and for whatever reason, news.arc is certainly using '=' to perform assignment.
Trust me, it depresses some creationists too.
Yes. It is very similar, but a little worse because evolution does play an role in understanding interesting aspects of life like art, morality and love.
This seems like it could so easily be used for evil.

It literally seems like they're requesting their own custom, proprietary extensions on HTML builtin to the standard.
they're a techstars company, and are awesome.

likewise congrats to tristan @ apture - also a really cool company.
Sorry, how large is your team? :)
I know, it feels like more as well, but I guess we're used to people exaggerating in NYC. It also might be the open nature of the office
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Found a great site for short or long weekend holiday breaks, managed to book a great weekend in Barcelona on the cheap!
This also reminds me of a steady trend in politics over the last 40 years. Increased partisanship has led to more and more politicians and even supposed journalists resorting to mining sound bites and even in some cases completely fabricating attacks just to bring the other side down and prevent them from accomplishing anything. The way the talk radio hosts and other right wing extremists control large swaths of the population with blatant lies is horrifying. The really disturbing thing is the intractability of this sort of willful ignorance.
I don't think this would work for me. My saved searches are a bit too eccentric. I will try out the Google Labs deal.
Evolution and Christianity are in conflict in the sense that it is possible but unlikely that evolution went through a bottleneck where Adam and Eve were the first two humans and all other humans are their descendents. This makes the concept of original sin problematic -- and thus introduces a problem with Christianity.
authlogic combined with acl9 is one of the best auth/auth solutions I've ever used.
Ask HN: Which 2 way encryption method is this?
which 2 way encryption method is this?

encrypted
KWcClMPHGsHWy6o8VV1/2I3zv8pENqfujwb3PFHG8sU=

unencrypted
4301542003347407
One of the fundamental problems with the current news business model is very simply that there is strong fiscal incentive /to/ highlight differences over similarities - the demographic split between Fox News and MSNBC is not, by any means, a matter of serendipity.

Where does the money to pay journalists come from? Though audience fatigue and inurement has somewhat disrupted the formula, news outlets still make their money via basing their sales to advertisers on the quantity of audience they can bring forth. Basic, sure - but this kind of business model fundamentally encourages a confrontational approach to journalism versus an educational approach.

When the point is to get as much attention as possible, the goal is no longer to be informative, just alarmist. As we can see, this is well-reflected in the hiring and editorial policies of the major papers and networks.
In those parts of the world, the CIA knows more about the country than the locals, both citizens and government.
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All hail Octavia!

http://bit.ly/usacoupedetat
This is just silly belittling. It doesn't really mean anything. What do you mean by "life?" It doesn't tell you what you should do with it?

The reason evolution ever became such a important part of atheism is because it weakens the historically strongest argument for believing in god: The 'How could all this just happen?' question. Evolution gives you a good answer to the most common version of that question (the flowers and the trees and the deer and you, little Janet). It's still in use with the beginning of life of physics or other things as an illustration, but the most powerful example is now gone. Also, it gives you a clue that many such processes exist.
The main problem with generators is that it makes it much harder to upgrade to a new version.

Then again, if you're hacking the plugin (as you apparently have to do) you're sort of stuck anyway. I've never had to do such a thing. crosses fingers
A delightful mystery for the undecided or the adventurous, but alas not designed for the everyday 'I need a coffee / feel like a ham & cheese sandwich' crowd.

Having worked with restaurants in tourist areas, I know that it's the locals that provide revenue stability - tourists can be the cream on top, but if you can't service the locals you won't survive long.

I would extrapolate from that experience that many cafes, especially those in business-precinct areas, rely on the regulars to provide revenue stability. Most regulars won't the same coffee at 9am, the same time sandwich at noon, and the same coffee at 3pm. Hard to survive long if you're not designed for that group, delightful and mysterious as you may be.
The reason academics care about it is because a tiny minority of right-wing extremists has made it their raison d'etre and actually made enough noise about it that journalists have given it far more ink than it is worth and some sizable chunk of people now actually believe there is something debatable there. The interesting question is why that lunatic fringe cares about it so much. If you want to get literal and selective with the bible there are any number of modern memes, theories, practices and policies to attack, most of which would have more practical value as a target than evolution.
Unless that's not a literal description but rather a story that demonstrates that our parents rebelled against God and now we're under their curse.
Nope, that's a great deal.
Try this anti-wifi hat!

(I guess you could do an airlock-style design.)
Patrick, your observations, awareness, and ability / willingness to communicate them clearly continue to impress me. Cheers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
The really nasty trick is that when all is done I redirect the browser to the same url and this time I'm sure it will find it.

This is a pretty nasty trick (seems like a risk of a redirect loop if the file can't be written), but unnecessary. You can emit content out of the script used for ErrorDocument the same as you can with a CGI. So you generate the content, write it to the filesystem, emit a "Status: 200" header, which replaces the 404 status apache was going to generate, then send a content-type and the generated content in the response body.

Your way may be easier if you have complex cache control or expires headers that apache is configured to ad to static files but not dynamically generated content, since the client is only ever given the file by apache directly from the filesystem. I've never used that though.
God, this Mackay guy gets around: Sustainable Energy, this, and the Dasher project.
See here if you're interested. It was part of a two day exhibition, so I wouldn't buy a ticket to Chiba with the hope of finding it.

http://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/corporate/news/2008/0418/inde...

「EAT&ART TARO（イート・アンド・アート タロー）
1979年神奈川県生まれ。食をテーマにしたワークショップ、美術館のカフェプロデュース・メニュー開発など、食とアートに関わる様々な場面での活動を行う。
当マルシェコロールでは、おごりcafeをプロデュース。」

Brief translation:

(The artist) Eat & Art Taro was born in 1979 in Kanagawa Prefecture. He leads food-themed workshops, produces menus for museum cafes, and is engaged in various activities relating to the intersection of food and art. Ogori Cafe is his creation.

[n.b. Ogori Cafe is the official name of the cafe. Ogori is a form of the word "To treat someone to".]
If someone can figure how to implement this concept into some real/virtual gift-game-concept for a startup they would do marvelous.
It's ironic but probably inevitable that the central advice of this article (basically: "work like crazy on your startup, stop obsesssing on the app") has been greeted with cries to see their first app, second app, video accompanying the app...
The fact that we share so much of our genetic code with other animals shows that we are linked in some way.
Ask HN: Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude?
I'm a Communications Design major (art school) at Washington University in St. Louis. For those of you unaware, that would be smack-dab in the middle of the mid-west, though I'm originally from New York. I'm in my Junior year, and I've been thinking about whether or not I made the wrong choice of school, or if I just have the wrong attitude.

I've always been a driven individual and, despite being in the art school, I do paid freelance web development on my own time (and have been for about 7 years). As well, I've consistently been trying to build/launch a start-up by myself, but--as many of you know--doing it solo is very difficult. I've been hoping to find someone that I can bounce ideas off of, keep me on task, and help handle the work (and vice-versa for them to me).

In that vein, I've been looking for a co-founder or even someone with an entrepreneurial spirit to connect with within the WashU community. What I've found has been fairly disappointing -- the vast majority of students have no interest in running their own business (or, less importantly, lack any sort of real programming experience) and are perfectly happy heading towards being a small cog in a large corporation. Even the majority of the faculty push this sentiment, and whenever I've explained my goals and my existing position (as a freelancer) to a faculty member, they look at me as though I have two heads. Now, I absolutely understand that outside of school, most people are of the same mindset, but I feel as though it is unusually disproportionate here (or, likely, in the mid-west in general).

I've gone through both the art and business schools to look for students that might have the right mindset, but have come up empty handed. Did I go to the wrong school, or do I have the wrong attitude/point of view?
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01WLgTWihAjmMk-oCkYNRI8A==...

Hope this works, thanks for sharing!
This doesn't follow since in a creationist view it is possible that the more similar the animals, the more similar their DNA.

However, one can make a very strong argument for evolution by looking at non-functional parts of DNA. For example, our DNA contains a program for producing vitamin C but it doesn't work. A similar program in other animals does work.
You can hide the fact that you're editing a reply until you send it, so it can act more like email, if you like.
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I used to be in both the Union Sq and Chelsea TechSpace offices. They're definitely pricey, and the Union Sq space was anything but quiet. The Chelsea spot was more quiet, but mainly due to it just not being as full. Nevermind the guy in the space next to us that refused to use anything but speakerphone when speaking on the phone. The internet was a little flaky, and they didn't even have redundancy built in (I believe they do now though).

The best areas of TS was the 10th floor in the Union Sq. building. Much bigger rooms that could fit 15+ employees but had a much more enclosed 'private office' feel to them.
You could just increment the blur amount. Or set a random amount on distributed clients.
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Sunshine Suites is a lot more cramped. Have you been in there? The place is set of cubicles set up with portable 5 foot tall "walls". You and a friend can get 2 adjoining desks for $800 a month, and that might be perfect for what you need. But you need to deal with the noise of the communal space.
I'd contest the statement that "nobody’s surprised when identical twins turn out to have very similar bodies (weight, muscle mass, etc), even into adulthood." From the research I remember reading about, there does seem to be some genuine level of surprise as to how much influence genetics has over even twins separated at or near birth - and that the level of genetic determinism that twins exhibit is certainly rather controversial even amongst those that study them.
Started tmux, split the window a few times, ^B <space> a few times, and it hung. I've submitted a sample to the developer. (It's getting stuck somewhere around screen_write_copy.)
This is one of the reasons Microsoft came out with F#. Now if only Ocaml could get its act together and give me true multi-core support. Ah well. We all have our pet languages, don't we?
(Disclaimer: I'm reading HN because I'm procrastinating work on my Ph.D. thesis...on an evolutionary model ;-)

There isn't a good reason why this would ever matter to someone.

How's this for a reason why it should matter: You pay taxes, as do your neighbors. When you pay those taxes, you expect them to pay for things you feel are worth while. You also vote, and you will probably vote for people who you are confident will steer those tax dollars to projects you feel are worth while.

I'm a scientist (or at least, I am for now...I don't think I'll be able to make a living at it for much longer. I'll have to get a "real" job). Most of the research I do is funded, directly or indirectly, by tax dollars. When the people who value evolution and an understanding of the biological world had their way, a lot of money was steered toward funding that sort of research. Then, people who didn't accept evolution came into power. They steered money away from this sort of research, and into fighting wars of aggression. For nearly the past decade, funding has remained flat (after doubling in the preceding 5 years...a rate which was probably too fast, but that's a whole 'nother story).

Why would you care about my research? Well, I research evolution. Specifically, I'm interested in how to determine what factors will function as selective pressures a priori. Why is that important? Remember last April when OMG SWINE FLU!!!1!!11 Do you remember the pundits and professors and learned people of all sorts that got on the TV and the radio? Do you remember the hosts of all those show asking: Now what? How bad? And do you remember that nobody could give a straight answer?

You know why they couldn't give a straight answer? It's not so much because the don't know why the flu might be more or less severe. There's been a lot of research into that lately, and we have a good idea what mutations might make the flu a killer, and which are mostly harmless. No, the reason they couldn't give you a straight answer is because which of those mutations would be acquired, and in what proportions, depends on evolution, on selective pressures...and we can't predetermine what those selective pressures will be! Maybe we could, if you'd be ok giving some tax dollars to fund evolution research, or at least vote for people who would be ok with that.

Oh, and for the entrepreneurs that will predictably say that I shouldn't rely on the government for funding, and that I should instead count on the private sector? Here's the deal I'll offer you (and I think you'll be hard pressed to find a better offer): I give you a 5% probability that the research I will do in the next, say, 40 years, at a cost of only $15mil a year, will lead to being better able to predict where the next pandemic might occur. Would you fund me? Or, more importantly, could you find a government that would allow us to keep that information as a trade secret until the original investment of $600mil (adjusted for 40 years of inflation, of course) was recouped?

/rant phew...now about that thesis...
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There is also the Brooklyn Creative League (http://www.brooklyncreativeleague.com/) around here in the Park Slope/Gowanus area, but honestly I feel like most of these shared office spaces in Brooklyn charge too much. Almost $500 for 64' square feet in Gowanus is pretty crazy.

Unfortunately $875 for 150 sq ft is a really, really good price, especially for SoHo.
Justin I wanted to ask you -- when you first pursued the online calendar start-up, where you looking to sell the company or look at a large user base or were you just fulfilling something that you wish you had?

In other words, were you looking for commercialization and filling a niche or were you just playing around when you had nothing to do?

I've always wondered as a student myself if most tech startups get started with widespread use/commercialization in mind or if it's just a programmer who wanted to do something cool and realized that there was no site that offered it yet.
Thanks! Writing in English helps me take refreshing little breaks from, e.g., trying to figure out what the single comment left in a 3,000 line source file written in Japanese by our Korean outsourcing team means.

(Answer: it means today will be a long, long day.)
The full video is here:

Part 1: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-marc-andreessen...

Part 2: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-andreessen-on-i...

If you haven't heard this story before, it's worth a watch.
But not in Clojure? Aww... Oh wait, this is from 2007 (B.C.)!
Twitter's features seem to be focused on continuously mashing, stirring up, and re-presenting the same old content over and over again rather than change or add things that provide real utility to users and the platform. So now I can organize all the unorganizable tweets; big deal: I still can't easily follow a conversation through the shitty @reply link-hell. This is a much bigger UX nightmare than not being able to group the people I'm subscribed to. Another way they encourage rehashing the same stuff is by lessening the visibility of people's favorited tweets, thereby encouraging retweeting, which doesn't add significant new content, nor makes available space for new content. With such a big valuation and so much money in the bank, users should expect more. Us armchair CEOs sit around and, rightfully, wonder at twitter's lack of monetization not because it's so distinctly doesn't exist but because twitter provides nothing else compelling to talk about.
Ask HN: What is the state of AI and ML today?
Without hyperbole in one direction or another, what is the cutting edge today? What new and interesting things have happened? What open challenges remain?
Ah my bad. That makes more sense then. Viacom and CBS combined are over $25B in value and should be closer in real estate size with all of NBC Universal.

Is it definitely 50% of Hulu? I thought Disney came in and took a chunk of Hulu too.
An extremely though provoking concept. I'm not sure what I think of it or it's future yet, but it's definitely interesting. Thank you for posting.
OmniFocus. Its ability to specify subtasks as sequential or parallel is critical to how I use it. I haven't found a recursive outlining tool to have this sequential/parallel feature.
I'm not sure why you were down voted. An excellent overview of coroutines in general, and specifically as they are used in Lua, is http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/MCC15-04.pdf
we use this exact approach to generate all of our blog pages. incredibly efficient.

the twist we use to handle race conditions is to create a lock file. if the 404 handler is called and the lock file exists, someone else is generating that page as we speak -- it goes into a timed loop to check for the file being available. when found, it serves it directly with the 200 header, like you mentioned.

we have a maximum loop value (a second, i think) -- if you hit that, it means the other process died for some reason, and never deleted the lock or the page. in that case, generate and write the page yourself, and remove the lock. all future requests are served off of the file system.

one nice part of this caching mechanism is that to remove the cache, you just rm -rf the blog directory. tada!
We just took space at http://www.42west24.com/

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