skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a brief fling with Common Lisp a few years ago and I definitely miss Slime. I wish other language implementations would provide a networked repl and tight emacs integration. Neither of the Schemes I use (plt, gambit) work with Slime and Clojure's Slime integration had some annoying issues when I last checked about 6 months ago.
How many alcohol users are able to maintain a professional career? How many caffeine users?

It may be that drug use and maintaining a professional career are simply not related.
I haven't had a problem with speed yet, but then again I use CloudFront and don't serve files directly from the server. For me its worth the money for the flexibility and the ability to scale as needed. I might be able to save a little money if I went with blended dedicated/EC2 but honestly the extra headache and latency for cross-communication wouldn't be worth the hassle.
FWIW, the anti-marijuana articles tend to be just as pseudo-scientific.
Is this your startup? It looks really well polished.
Very Nice! Now we need extension support on OSX Chrome even more! :)
I'm betting that the Copenhagen interpretation of the Quantum mechanics formalism is false. There is no empirical basis for it, and it is a fundamentally pessimistic view of physics (that we don't know certain things because we simply can't know them.) I don't think the superpositions in the quantum mechanical formalism reflect any objective reality, their just a standard statistical reflection of our ignorance of the system's total state. But the notion of quantum computation crucially depends on these superpositions. To me the vast efficiency gains claimed for quantum computation are actually a reductio ad adsurdum for the Copenhagen interpretation accordiing objective reality to these superpositions.

That people are apparently attempting serious implementations of quantum computation is very exciting to me, because it means these ideas are going to be severely tested soon.
There's a certain worldview that assumes personal profit is the ultimate evil and self-sacrifice is the ultimate good. Thus, Colin's good act is canceled out by the fact that he could benefit from it.

Frankly, this seems dumb to me. Self-sacrifice is not good if others are also made to suffer, profit is not evil if others also benefit.
Wow. I was so expecting that to get downmodded.
... organizing charity drives as Colin has done for years ...

Say again?
Really?

Vending machines, pay phones, and coin-op laundry machines are all the same business model, and typically, that business model involves the owner of wherever the thing is installed calling the owner/operator of the machine when it breaks down instead of fixing it yourself. My landlord knows nothing about fixing the washer and dryer in my apartment building, that much is for sure.

All the head-scratching should probably boil down to "put an out of order sign on it and call Coinstar" at worst.
Ask HN : 'killall firefox' at least once a day?
Everytime I close firefox on ubuntu, I have to kill it before restarting it.
Sorry, my original verbiage wasn't quite right - I was looking to see what year you started contributing to FreeBSD and came across some fundraising information but it doesn't look like it's really pertinent to the point - I've removed the sentence.

Thank you for making the donation though; it really is a great gesture.
People might tell you that it works "great" (I've heard this numerous times), but it turns out they mean it in a very limited sense:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aa9zf/why_i_cho...
This is great news for the pharmaceutical industry. The successful testing was done with a synthetic chemical very much like THC while real THC failed to get results. Sounds like a good way to monetize to me.
It's a broad topic for sure.
Project management is more an art than a science.
I would almost say you need more sales skills than
technical skills to be successful and enjoy it.
I haven't dug into it yet, but from the video the sluggishness and network graphs seem to be a great level of abstraction at which to view the UX behavior of your application.

One question I have: I can't figure out if this is only for GWT (Java compiled to Javascript) apps or for any web app). Anyone?
As you can tell by comparing the Netflix DVD library to the Netflix streaming library. And that's with all the money and influence of Netflix, plus a strategic partnership with Starz (which itself has clout).
It sounds like Schmidt supports things like the Patriot Act.

If he was against it he would have said something like "if you like your privacy don't put it on the internet". Instead, he said "you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".

This single phrase has a strong connotation that you are doing something bad. Schmidt doesn't strike me as being dumb enough to say this without knowing exactly how the public would interpret it.
The syadmin stuff, the HTML, and the PHP/ColdFusion tend to be pretty hard on your hands. Lots of typing to not say very much. Maybe you'd like a concise language with a good IDE, like Common Lisp, instead?

I find that most annoyance while programming comes from things like switching from the editor to the terminal to the documentation and back to the editor. As I bring more and more functionality into Emacs, I find myself typing less and thinking more (and generally being less annoyed). I have never experienced pain while keyboarding, though, and I am flexible enough to elicit grimaces from people watching my normal movements. YMMV.
More than you think. In my experience the professionals who use marijuana keep it under the radar. They have too much to lose. As such the whole stereotype of marijuana users is based around the people who are public about it. If you look at the amount of marijuana coming into this country, and being grown here, it's just so much product that it has to cover a pretty massive demographic. There just aren't enough unemployed Phish fans to account for all of it.
It's only been launched for 8 months - but looks really amazing.

As a complete philistine, I really like the search feature (http://www.zatista.com/search). It's powerful, without being overwhelming.
I believe you can run Speed Tracer against any web app (it's working fine profiling my stuff and I don't use GWT), kinda like using Firebug.
Only if _they_ choose to do it. Individuals who sacrifice their own privacy in the cause of social justice may be heroic. Giving the government (or, indeed, any other party) that option is abusive.
It was developed by members of the GWT team and was released as part of the GWT 2.0 launch, but it will work with any web application.
It's been one generation since the Once-child policy was introduced. I believe that in another generation, China's example will be seen as a smart and forward-thinking idea.

It'll be pretty easy to test whether I'm right or wrong. To the south of China is India, a country of comparable population size with no centralized family planning.
I would love to see a study that adjusts for the effects of inhaling carbon monoxide and other byproducts of plant combustion. Much cannabinoid research concerns THC-similar compounds that are directly applied to the research subject; conventional recreational use is at best tangential to the method at hand.
Or just use the bookmarklet: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
Yeah, I always suspected this. I never found any langauge other than Common Lisp to be very good with Slime. CL itself, however, tends to be excellent.

I am writing a similar integration layer for Perl, but decided not to reuse the Swank protocol. The Emacs side is just not quite flexible enough.
I agree with you. Nothing indicates that it's business it wouldn't have had otherwise. Yes, their Twitter account is where the traffic and sales came from, but what part of it wouldn't have resulted in a sale without Twitter is the key element.

One thing is sure though: it costs a lot less for them to send tweets than to send emails.
But the fact is that you still seek out a "private" bathroom to relieve yourself and don clothing do you not? Or are you as likely to do the same things in plain view?

What do you call that, if not ensuring privacy? The only thing different is that your level of trust is lower than others.
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I just think it's reasonable to ask how much he plans to have his business donate.

And the fact that it is a business making the donation means that it isn't personal information, it's information about the business, so I didn't think his response was a reasonable answer.

The reasonable answer is "I'm not telling," not "I'm not telling and it's none of your business because this is a personal charitable contribution," which it isn't.

I don't think it's a bad thing he's trying to help FreeBSD, or make a profit. I just don't feel the same reverence for the act that the other people in this thread seem to, particularly since I have no way to judge how much FreeBSD will make, or how much he will profit on the increased sales.

All in all a good PR stunt... whether it's all that charitable of an act, we'll never know.
I smoke every morning before shower and ever evening before bed. I've done so for many years now and it's helped reduce my depression (inherited) and keep my GAD under control. It's been much more successful than traditional treatment regimes (SSRIs et al - tried it all) I'm currently running a successful business and have never been in any trouble with the law. Without marijuana I'd never have been able to achieve what I did.

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Learning a new language to improve your programming skills is truly a cliché. Instead the proper advice should be "I should learn a new programming language so I can escape my myopic understanding of the practice programming." Building applications, as you say, is of course very instructive, but tackling a language which has very little relation to the ones with which you are familiar has benefits which are pointless to reduce to "it will make you a better programmer".
>The realization that philosophy is a dead end is vary common and vary old.

Well yes, that point of view is very old, but then so is the opposite point of view. I thought your point was more substantial than this, i.e. that modern science somehow invalidated philosophy. This point of view is obviously at least no older than modern science.

I'm not sure what your point is re Aquinas. He was a brilliant philosopher who is still very much worth reading (even if his prose is a bit tedious), so he doesn't seem like a good example of why philosophy is pointless. You certainly don't have to believe in the infallibility of the bible to get something out of his work.
The title of this post is clearly misleading, even with the word 'might' in it. Neurogenesis in mice was detected when the mice were given Prozac or HU210, a cannabinoid different from the active ingredient in marijuana.

The article then goes on to describe another experiment in which mice dosed with D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (the cannabinoid in weed) did not show any signs of neurogenesis, no matter what dose was used.
I'm running Linux nightlys and extensions work very well. I might assume that OSX works the same...

This one does not work though, must be some api calls net setup correctly yet.
We flat out do not have a good understanding of how a brain is effected by drugs. And, it is amazing that the drugs that are least harmful, or not harmful at all, are the most illegal. There are, of course, devious reasons for that.

Whether we are aware it or not, everything that we perceive and consume effects us. One person will react differently to the sight of a bowl of cereal than another.

It is the same with drugs, but just more blatantly obvious. Even though there is no physical damage done, there is still a change occurring. Whether this change amounts to a damaged psyche or enlightenment is really hard to measure since the only precedent to hold our experiences against is anecdote.

Is there a reliable method to harness the positive effects of drugs? Probably, but it is a long way out there.

A person is indulging in a risk by taking drugs; but, there is an inherent perception of risk in most new experiences. Ever meet someone who is afraid of a new kind of food? Actually, I don't know if that's related, but whatever.

So, to answer your question. It is not always the case that drugs will effect a person negatively, or positively. There's a lot involved, but the laws simply do not allow us to understand the specifics of what's involved.
yeah, M-. is broken, but at least C-M-x works. And ok, forget about calls-who, but that's pretty broken for me in CL anyway.
Make sure you run chrome with the flag
--enable-extension-timeline-api

You have to enable the instrumentation as explained in the getting started doc:
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/get-started.ht...
Ive done it before when I went to a new server. Restoring the bare metal from r1soft.
Please note that this is from 2004 and the configuration stuff is way out of date. You should probably just start at 7:30.
I LOVE the art explorer - it's like Pandora for art.
What a fantastic piece of ignorance. Of course, as far as economists are concerned countries should just keep growing forever, and never worry about the ills that such stupidity would bring. The working population is the most important thing ever, nothing else matters.

Thankfully China has ignored morons like this guy.
This is awesome. I always liked Zappos's drill-down search, and I'm really happy that it works well here too http://www.zatista.com/search . See in a virtual room is an awesome way to gauge placement and the size of the piece.

This is a great way for individual artists to get paid for their work. The only thing I can really think of is for more sub-categories: you currently have type -> medium -> style, but take a look at InterfaceLIFT's tag browser criterion: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/tags/

Color — Scene — Location — Medium — Event — Equipment — Subject. Some are irrelevant, but if I'm looking to drill down even further, these could really help. And, along with your explorer, it could drive a thing I call the Clicker User: the guy that clicks around the site looking for awesome random stuff to pop up.

+1 for favorites functionality. Dunno why, but a lot of startups seem to forget about the power of favoriting. There are some sites that I wish allowed favoriting that don't do it, which I can't understand.

I don't know about others, but I'm always looking for art to fill my pad with. Awesome startup, awesome execution. Startups should look to this co for some execution inspiration.
The search is nice, but I can't really give a link to my friend to see some items since it's ajax ...
Don't make them wait. If you want to answer the question but need time to make sure the answer is the correct one, I'd send them an email that basically says "I want to give you the best answer I can to your inquiry, but it's going to take me a little time to answer adequately. I'm working on it now, and I should have it over to you by XXX"

Of course, you want to make sure you give them a realistic timeframe and make sure you commit to it.

Blasdel's tip about parlaying it to another medium is pretty good as well.
Your website is extremely fast! That in of itself is a very good place to start.

Your site is also easy to navigate and clear in what it provides.

Keep talking to your users... you seem to be on the right track.
I'm a dedicated FreeBSD user and never see press like this; FreeBSD f'ing rocks and I think your idea is great. It's an excellent way to get some press and help the project financially.
Hmmm... no idea if this will work, but can you find a place that does pair programming? Maybe you could spend most of your time being the person not at the keyboard.
"and it probably wouldn't take more than maybe six carefully-selected languages to get 99% of the benefit learning new languages will ever have."

I don't know how you came up with these numbers- from what I've seen of the variety language of programming languages out there this doesn't seem at all supportable. Not unless you take a completely reductive sampling of the various computer languages that have been developed thus far.

But yes, tackling different kinds of problems and different kinds of program languages will certainly give you healthy and open-minded perspective about programming.
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First off, The "average" PHP / MySQL shop will almost never be cheaper on amazon. Are you kidding me? The average php and mysql website has one server or less. You dont have 2, or 3. So either throw out some stats and numbers or stop bullshitting people. There are enough people blindly drinking the cloud hosting koolaid without the fake facts.

Im talking 3 figures because thats what I assume most startups need for their twitter/facebook/whatever app.
It only becomes even more ridiculously expensive to stay with EC2 once you get bigger. You cant just say "well, once you are big its better!" Its not. Once you get bigger, the downfalls of relying on ec2 (for anything besides overflow) are even worse. The more servers you have and the more bandwidth you do, the more cash you throw out the window.

In fact as you get bigger you would be irresponsible to your shareholders to rely on amazon and not hire your own engineer. You know why? Its cheaper to have your own engineer and manage xx servers on colo then it is to have amazon. Not to mention you will still need a server guy once you get to that size anyways. Theres a reason you dont find any sites in the top 100 running their businesses entirely off of amazon. Its not financially prudent. Its a easy way out and not the /right/ way out.

Also, we are not talking about s3, simple DB or CDS, so stop bringing that up. We are talking about EC2. You dont get to say that EC2 is awesome because S3 exists. They are separate products.
> There is no option to say "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to."

Huh? I've used Thunderbird 2 (on Windows) forever and I rely on this feature all the time, with multiple IMAP accounts and multiple email addresses for each of the accounts. It just works perfectly.
I have no way to judge how much FreeBSD will make, or how much he will profit on the increased sales.

Well, that makes two of us!

When I contacted the FreeBSD Foundation to check that they had no objection to me announcing a donation this way, I gave them an estimate of how much they would receive if this didn't lead to more users signing up; but I'm certainly hoping that they'll get more than that.
It looks like it could be a video from Xerox PARC in 1968. Well integrated and useful and current and old and clunky - what steampunk would look like if it was software.

(Why didn't he ' '.join(map(char-to-morse, string))? He had to download a string split library?)

(DEFUN COINCIDENCE-THAT-CL-STANDS-FOR-BOTH-COMMON-LISP-AND-CAPS-LOCKP (...))
>"All in all a good PR stunt... whether it's all that charitable of an act, we'll never know."

So the "charitableness" of each good act is now to be quantified, measured, and judged? This heralds the end of small kindnesses, heretofore reckoned one of life's great pleasures.
Chrome updates are pretty bandwidth-light: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...
Right now, there are two ways to "own" a movie:

1. Buy the DVD.

2. Rent the DVD and rip it onto your hard drive.

Selling is more lucrative than renting for some of the same reasons that renting is better than buying: selling happens at a higher cost and the end consumer gets a physically fragile disc instead of a readily backupable set of data. We're talking orders of magnitude here: the movie industry could sell a DVD to you, or they could sell it to Netflix or Redbox, in which case at least dozens of people can rip a copy.

Thanks to first-sale doctrine, Hollywood can't even price-discriminate against Netflix or Redbox. To recoup their losses, Hollywood would have to charge Netflix maybe $200 for a $20 DVD. First sale allows Netflix to buy the same shrinkwrapped DVD for $25 from whoever bought it from Hollywood in the first place. Even if Hollywood clamps down contracts against all the possible mass distributors, end customers could play arbitrage on DVD's. Netflix would probably even mail you the empty envelope to do it in.

Obviously, as more people choose door number 2 over door number 1, the movie industry's DVD revenues will diminish significantly. That's the threat of Redbox: whenever you push down the threshold of renting a movie, especially to a psychologically insignificant level, you make it more and more likely that "buying a movie" will drop down that order of magnitude. Blockbuster and Netflix have psychologically high barriers of entry: you have to sign contracts, carry around a card, drive to the store, pay for a monthly membership, or otherwise make some sort of commitment. Redbox? You put four quarters in the machine and you get a movie for life if you can run Handbrake. That's the same cost and the same level of commitment it takes to do your laundry, minus having to carry around laundry.
"And, it is amazing that the drugs that are least harmful, or not harmful at all, are the most illegal"

That's just wrong, a drug like coffee is a good example of "least harmful" and isn't anywhere near "most illegal"
New business idea? Call it "Mobius" and serve all your coffee and beverages out of klein bottles (with holes)? Find ways to Mobius-ify all the food...
Solution: Don't close Firefox.
> It'll be pretty easy to test whether I'm right or wrong...

Whoa, there. That's assuming that all other important variables in the social dynamics happen to be identical between India and China. That's so far from the truth that it'd be difficult to make any conclusions from a sample set of those nations.
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If I have to tunnel my debug traffic over ssh, wouldn't it be easier to just ssh to the machine and run a local debugger?

[Sorry, only skimmed through video, but that wasn't explained in at least the first 10 minutes.]
162 hardly seems like a good enough sample to make any certain conclusions...not saying his data are any better just pointing it out.
Command+Shift+B, actually.
Extremely well executed. My only quibble is the name, which makes me think of Batista or Zapatistas. I could be the only one, though.
Failed to find lyrics to every song I tried. Google found every single one. As the #1 hit, typically.

They don't have lyrics to Burton Cummings songs or the Guess Who, two very popular lyrics based bands (Break it to them Gently, Sugar in my Coffee) Couldn't figure out "Born down in a dead mans town" (Missing an apostrophe)

What is _really_ ironic is that when entering into Google, by the fifth word of my lyrics, google was _already_ suggesting "lyrics" as a keyword.

For the Bruce Springstein song (that lyric fuser was unable to guess at) I managed to get to the seventh letter before Google decided I was looking for lyrics and auto-suggested.

Fail.
Interesting, I did not realize that usable quantum chips now exist.
Worked for me, thanks! I did have to log out and log back in again for the system proxy settings to get applied though.
Please note the December 2005 date (would be nice to have "2005" in the title)
In X hundred years people will have their real time mirrors of youtube/(representation-of-reality de jour), in their retina augmentations ;)
From wikipedia:

"Monazite is a reddish-brown phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals and is an important source of thorium, lanthanum, and cerium. It occurs usually in small isolated crystals."

I'm guessing that's not what you meant.
Independent research? Though I agree, if you have to do it within an institution, something like academia is probably best, or maybe a blue sky research facility, if those still exist.
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Of course your google account could always be disabled for some reason....