skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but the world has changed in the several centuries since.

Today travelling across the world to receive information isn't something most people would do - or even think about. After all, the price of information has crashed even more than stocks in Lehrman Brothers.
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> I can already sense the razzing coming from the Python camp! :)

We've got no need, the CPython release manager is a high school student (he's also a core committer on both CPython and PyPy) :)
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The Verizon DROID Eris will be available from Verizon, tomorrow November the 6th for $99 with a two year contract after a $100 mail in rebate.
Verizon has officially announced its latest Google Android powered mobile phone, the Verizon DROID Eris by HTC, which is due to launch this week the same time as the much anticipated Motorola DROID.
First, congratulations! I'm curious how you are setting up a company in the United States if you or one of your co-founders is from Germany? I've been trying to figure out the whole startup-as-a-foreigner thing (I'm Canadian), and so far I haven't been able to find any good info.
From pg's essay "Hiring is Obsolete" (http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html),

Have you ever noticed that when animals are let out of cages, they don't always realize at first that the door's open?
Often they have to be poked with a stick to get them out. Something similar happened with blogs.
People could have been publishing online in 1995, and yet blogging has only really taken off in the last couple years.
In 1995 we thought only professional writers were entitled to publish their ideas, and that anyone else who did was a crank.
Now publishing online is becoming so popular that everyone wants to do it, even print journalists. But blogging has not
taken off recently because of any technical innovation; it just took eight years for everyone to realize the cage was open.

There are quite a few web technoligies for which I could write your same sentence. What makes bulletin boards interesting is that anyone can become a broadcaster, except that not many people were aware of bulletin boards so you didn't reach many people. What makes electronic mailing lists interesting is that anyone can become a broadcaster, except they weren't that easier to discover and join so you didn't reach many people. What makes blogging+rss interesting is that anyone can become a broadcaster, except it has started to get a similar air of elitism as traditional editorials so unless you have some gimmick or are already famous you don't reach many people. What makes twitter interesting is that anyone can become a broadcaster, except the site has become so inundated with celebrities, news personalities, corporations and marketters that, like blogging, unless you have a gimmick or are already famous, you are just part of the noise and don't reach many people.

Is twitter interesting? Sure. Is it revolutionary? Eh, maybe a little. But does it represent some kind of fundamental shift in how people communicate and who can broadcast to large audiences? Not in my opinion. Twitter makes some things easier, but it doesn't completely change the game. There have been any number of amazing broadcast methods coming down the pipe ever since the web came into existence. But all that broadcasting for the average man doesn't make a lick of difference if no one is paying attention.
Which functions do you allow in closed-form solutions?

Do you allow Turing-completeness? If not, why not?

What exactly is the measure used to determine the size of a solution?
Truth be told. Yes.
I find the two sources he mentions in his post rather irrelevant, given completely wrong impressions.

Firstly, the absolute number of successes is not interesting: if there 1-founder startups outnumber 2-founder startups by a factor of 10, then 1-founder startups are suddenly a lot less likely to succeed.

Secondly, both lists list not just successful, but a very limited set of extremely successful startups. These lists tell you nothing about your chances of being the next Dropbox. It's an entirely different category of companies.
The wonderful (satirical, but mathematically sophisticated) book Mathematics Made Difficult introduces difference tables, and uses them to demonstrate how to compute the next number in the sequence [1,2,4,8,16,…] – that number being, of course, 31.

This answer is correct in that it is the next item in the lowest-order polynomial that generates the first five terms. This reveals both the strength and weakness of difference tables (and the flavor of Mathematics Made Difficult).
I expect the call to geolocator requires a network round-trip, with displayMapAt getting scheduled to be called when the result appears; meanwhile your code can do other things. (I'm not familiar with this API, though; I could be wrong.)

Another way to do this sort of thing, that might feel more composable: have geolocator.getLatLng() return a 'promise' object that will be asynchronously resolved.
Ask HN: Are there any alternative query languages?
I am going to do my research proposal on query language. Could anyone give me any references on alternative query languages especially those have very different format than SQL.
postgres != postgresql
Thank gosh I am not the only one.

What was your proposal for?
How did you find out about the #profood tag? I am assuming someone you know was either in the community, or interested in the community. This is no different from a wikipedia page referencing the community, a blog you follow pointing you at the forum, or a person you don't even know mentioning it at an event. I do not see why the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch website/blog/weekly newsletter couldn't also point you to this community.

What I am getting at is that Twitter works the same as all these things that have come before, but it is the new and the now and therefore the media darling. I do not debate that it has usefulness, but I do debate that it has impact and change beyond what already existed (in addition to imposing barriers to usability). Twitter does work as a communications platform, but that doesn't meant it is changing the world or a paradigm shift or any of the other breathless praises it has received.

Also, please do not assume I am not a Twitter user just because I dislike the service.
Grove, Ellison, Andreessen, etc. speak out on Steve Jobs
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Clojure ORM-ish stuff
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Crazy marketing idea #2: Put a link to your main website (i.e. getworkflo.com) somewhere on your blog.

Read this article, saw the name and thought, "Hm, what is this workflo product? I'll just click here on the top navigation...no...maybe the about page?...no...surely on the sidebar...no...footer???...nope." Finally, I just removed the "blog" subdomain from my browser's address bar in defeat.

Surely this is an obstacle you don't want other visitors to your blog to have to overcome.
I like the fakeoffice.org idea, but purposefully taking the quote out of context and turning

"we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office],"

into

"Zoho... fake Office capabilities can replace Microsoft Office"

is a little dishonest, IMO.
I'd ask myself a blunt question: why do I need this guy? Why am I so attracted to this compelling idea? If you're a smart engineer, you can be the idea generator and the coder. That way you can retain full ownership, and then recruit the business guy. I'd reasses your approach to this potential partnership. Ideas and code are property of the business. Your compensation comes with equity and % ownership. I'd state clearly what each of you plans to contribute to the future of this venture, and how the two of you will work together to make this succeed. Ex. I will focus on engineering; he will be the biz guy who focuses on fundraising, handling investors, doing sales, crafting product vision, etc.
This is what the App Store feels like these days
I'm not sure whether this is supposed to be a jokingly phrased insight or criticism or just a plain joke, but I don't get it. Would someone care to explain?
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Chroma-Hash, Revisited
He'll save print by making it digital?
Oh man! Thank you sooo much!!!!

I apologize for the inconvenience I may have made with this!!
I think there is way to much attention on the compiler. It's neat but not that big of a deal.
The key here is that they released their widget library. Tons of great stuff with very high code quality. This also includes the document editor from google docs which is by leaps and bounds the best engineered WYSIWYG editor out there.
The explanation was clear what kind of functions are allowed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_function_%28differen...

Again, reasonable people. If we had to precisely define every question and interaction, we would never get anything done. Instead we rely on shared assumptions and clarify only when actual confusion occurs. (Yours is not an actual confusion.)
Mentioned many times, some discussion:

http://searchyc.com/chroma+hash?sort=by_date
This touches my nerd bone in a nice way, even though I hate Flash. Props.

That being said, this neither runs at full speed nor supports audio. The SPC700 audio chip is notoriously expensive/difficult to emulate, often being more of a challenge than the rest of the console. (Native code has been able to do it accurately for well over a decade though, which should give you some idea of how well Flash's VM performs..)
Demo Day is where all the startups in a round demo what they've been working on. Thus, applying then would be a bit late for that round and a bit early for the next.
Yes, the one I created. I log hours through out the day and when I need to invoice I just select a date range and the invoice is created in PDF format automatically.
I use it locally everyday and it happens to be the app I have applied to YC. It is called PointKit you can see a little preliminary screencast at http://pointkit.com/site
When it is ready to accept Beta testers I will do an official announcement here.
Does Google use flash cookies?
Congrats!

Are you running Drupal, Joomla or something similar?
There's Object Graph Navigation Language (OGNL), and OMG Object Query Language used by most OODB manufacturers. And Db4o uses SODA query language.

Then MongoDB has a form of query language with JSON syntax.

http://www.opensymphony.com/ognl/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Query_Language

http://www.db4o.com

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries
This answer is also correct in another way :)

http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/1-2-4-8-what-c...
Look at XPath and XQuery.
This is

* Not particularly sexy (it's 3 colored bars)

* Not particularly secure (it reveals information about your password that drastically reduces a brute-force search)

* Extremely confusing to users
You'd have to determine if a program halts. Unless you restrict to non-Turing-complete language, this is undecidable.
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The Mathematics of Aircraft Boarding
I never completely understood what made Rolex watches different before. Then I saw an ad on Hulu (The Movement at the linked site).
I think it's an interesting idea. Is it just a straight list of the latest videos posted to twitter or are you grouping them based on the number of tweets, retweets, etc?
No source? I'll try it out anyway, but if I don't have the ability to plug in my awesome new untested rendering techniques I doubt I will do anything with it at all... id Tech 3 still looks better from that perspective.
How to write untestable code
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All programmers go through a phase of employing excessive brevity.
Prime Your Mind for Action
I really do think there is a LOT more money to be made doing stuff like this (and Stack Overflow more broadly) than selling Fogbugz. Smart move-- hats off to Joel.
Hope or Hype on the Cloud
You're right, but the AA web site was his work, not a personal project.
Hi. I'm that employee (http://babak.ghahremanpour.com/). Joel does pay me for using the photo. He babysits twice a month so my wife and I can enjoy romantic dinners. I get shoulder rubs when I ask for them. And, he makes me the best lattes (including latte art). All the other Fog Creekers are jealous...but, they're not the ones entertaining JoS readers, by being funny in a picture... :)
I do management apps with a web interface: pretty flat architecture, no OOP to speak of, low complexity except the occasional long database query. So bug fixing is not really that time consuming, and definitely not the kind that would be caught by tests. Lately most time has been wasted on configuration issues of one kind or the other.
Where is the test page?
There's no reason to not allow arbitrary programs.

Moreover, even if we agree to use a certain form of closed expression, you will still need to define how we measure the size of such an expression and you will need to find a way to prove that an answer has the smallest possible expression size.
CounterStrike vs striptease Many nice photos ;)
Striptease on CS competitions. Nice photos!!
Slowly ASF is eating or creating my entire development environment. If they consumed Eclipse and OpenJDK it'd be pretty much 100%.

Edit: Which is not a bad thing. Just observation.
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I would LOVE to hire someone who spends a lot of time answering other people's questions on SO.
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The ASF has a Java implementation: Harmony. I think Android uses some of it.
There was a very rapid expansion of 20 feet in a matter of days, but that was a few years ago.

"Ayele's reconstruction of events showed that the rift did not open in a series of small earthquakes over an extended period of time, but tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days."
Logging in to HN using Google prompted me to give Clickpass access to Google Contacts. Logging into StackOverflow with Google doesn't do that, so maybe Clickpass is using an old/weird method of Google auth?
I'm probably not in the majority, but I read email in a text-mode MUA and wouldn't see the picture either way. Here's a hint for marketing folks who want to send email to people like me: make sure your email looks reasonable in plain-text mode.
Wow, I have been seriously missing this outside google-land. So happy it's released; it's a fantastic set of tools, even if you only use the compiler as a glorified lint.
Reading so many Project X moves to Git blogs in the past year I read "Subversion moving" and mentally though Git and then pondered why Subversion would not use Subversion :)

Anyway congrats on this mature piece of software having somewhere to go live for all of the users who still use it.

"Even though I’ve become a Mercurial user myself, I can assure you that these other products aren’t going away anytime soon!"

Correct me if I am wrong but the author of the blog was a main Subversion dev right?
I already find that hard enough - I've found that people tend to conflate first-class functions with closures.
So he used double the number of regexps he needed?
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I don't know if the author meant to draw attention to "Japanese" in the sense that these people were especially surprised because they were Japanese and not of some other nationality.

But I do wonder if the Hacker-Wunderkind archetype is less well-known in Japan than it is here. I don't even think most westerners would be particularly surprised by a kid making a difference in software development because of the popular (if a bit exaggerated) notion of a young guy sitting in his garage at a computer writing crazy programs.
The shortest program in a low-level language. On the definition of a low-level language, see: http://www.paul-almond.com/WhatIsALowLevelLanguage.htm
You are building a netbook the same way a lot of companies do: you are buying it from someone else.

The main difference is that you are not stamping your brand on top of it.
Six Apart.
The title is incorrect. It should read: "German man mow-grams 'Hello World' into wheat field"
This is indeed an unfortunate name. The word 'closure' was, at first, used to describe a concept in programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_science).
Then Clozure and Clojure came along. Now, I can see how these two are related to the aforementioned concept, but I simply can't see what these 'Closure tools' have to do with the concept of closures. Yet the name would suggest that they do. Is there anybody from Google that would care to explain?
Have you noticed that there is an uncanny number of downvotes in this whole topic?
Save me from myself
Hackers, I need your help. I've become addicted to a silly flash game (http://elementsthegame.com), and I need a way to make it impossible for me to play it while I'm at work. Difficulty: my work machine is running Fedora 11.
Is it really a flaw that certain technologies are more popular or more widely used? I agree that you can garner much more exposure on SO if you're answering questions about a Microsoft Technology, but I'm just struggling with labeling that as a flaw. Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Moreover, if a company is looking for someone working in that niche technology you speak of, then you having a fraction of rep points compared to a .NET guy is less relevant than you having 50% more points than the next guy in said niche.
Several years ago Walt Odets took a look at the Rolex Explorer movement and case:

http://www.timezone.com/library/horologium/horologium0036

http://www.timezone.com/library/horologium/horologium6316755...

Just a different viewpoint from a non-marketing perspective.
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Sure there's a reason: someone said so.

I also said nothing about "smallest possible expression size."
That was my backup idea for the domain, actually.
but they won't improve performance as much. AND the 63% figure was very misleading anyway since that's the best case, and average is only 8%.

So basically, if your program does nothing but call those methods in such a way that it satisfies the best case improvement, it just got 63% faster at doing nothing.

If your program does nothing but call those methods with the average case, it just got 8% faster at doing nothing.

If your program uses anything else, it's probably only faster by a small fraction of that 8%.
Right now we're on a heavily customized Drupal instance. We're looking into going Django or Rails, but in the near-term, there's much we cans till do with the current set up.
Partially true. After a while, you get it. One of the reasons if you are making art outside of big places a big schools, it is often marginalized work is that the theoretical issues you are tyring to work have been worked out. I just put up an artwork here. You have no idea how scary it is to not know if it will fail because I go to a smaller art program. I have to afterawrds sumbit it to the like of Rhizome and they can hate me...
Serious question: do people still use Subversion? Everyone I know has moved to some kind of DVCS, with Git being the clear frontrunner. Are there large, dark pockets of Subversion users still out there?
If you want to actually decode the crop formation, here's how to do it. First, grab tello's PNG, which is a transformed and color-adjusted version of the crop formation:

https://files-diers.us.s3.amazonaws.com/cornfield.png

Next, download and compile the latest release of libdmtx, which is a datamatrix I/O library:

http://www.libdmtx.org/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libdmtx/files/libdmtx/0.7.2...

Finally, use dmtxread from libdmtx:

dmtxread -n cornfield.png

The extended explanation is in these comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924377

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924495
Why Validate?
I guessed as much. Any plans for what to do when you have more than 20k lists to monitor?
This is amazing. Sure, it's not a lib access SDK like you'd get with full license, but with UScript and engine behind it you can do A LOT - and leveraging on devteam from Epic for 25% of royalties after initial 5000$ are made is a great deal.
Thank god we have another sound board, I am so happy that you got this amazing app through. Maybe the app reviewers were giving you a hint, like do we really need another sound board. Surely >1000 is enough?
Given your experience with the tool, any tips or best practices?

I already use lint in my build system, this looks like a good companion as well.
sudo sh -c "echo 127.0.0.1 elementsthegame.com >>/etc/hosts"
Even without the near-collision with 'Clojure', the full-collision with the 'closure' concept is problematic. They should prepend or append a 'G' or 'JS' for clarity (to both humans and indexers). EG:

GClosure, JSClosure, ClosureG, or ClosureJS