sbt

23 ms·

211.
by sbt 17y ago
I disagree. SICP uses Scheme, which is not a purely functional language. Furthermore, the book doesn't contain that much voodoo, certainly not enough to qualify as a freezing shower. If you want to learn how to deal with the awkward situati
212.
by sbt 17y ago
Yea seriously. This is beyond the most evil scheme I ever thought Microsoft capable of concocting. Can somebody please put this in a torrent?
213.
by sbt 17y ago
I also think it's time for them to cash in. It could be that FB is a fad that will phase out in a year or two, just like a popular night club has a half-life of about 6 years. However, it may be one of those things that will be around until
214.
by sbt 17y ago
Sure. I think it's accepted that you go to business school to network with students with rich parents. A friend of mine applying said that if she didn't get into any of the top 5 programs, it wasn't worth going.
215.
by sbt 17y ago
Yes, this is like a soap opera where everyone has their own obvious interests in mind but are still willing to put on a charade. I'm a Linux user and I'm getting pretty tired of not having an open source codec standard for the browser. Mozi
216.
by sbt 17y ago
Agreed. The question is, what do they actually do at this Berkman Center? This analysis reminded me of a classmate who wanted to cast Shakespeare as an early marxist. Litterature students can make arguments for anything and the people behin
217.
by sbt 17y ago
Hacker news is not about hacking, not about news, and not about news about hacking. It's about posting links that apparently have become interesting to the community evolved here recently. This includes, not limited to: - iPhone news (if yo
218.
by sbt 17y ago
I think this type of content shouldn't be posted on HN. It's not news and it's been a long time since there was any shortage of study aids online.
219.
by sbt 17y ago
Yeah, this piece illustrates why Python is such a success and Lisp is not. Lambda may be the ultimate imperative, but certainly not the most convenient in many cases.
220.
by sbt 17y ago
This essay proves that you can find data to support pretty much any conclusion, as long as you choose your data selectively.
221.
by sbt 17y ago
Women's liberation since the 60s has only indirectly made women unhappy. Contraception has made women unhappy, and men happy.
222.
by sbt 17y ago
From the article: "Today, that gender gap has reversed. Male happiness has inched up, and female happiness has dropped. In postfeminist America, men are happier than women."
223.
by sbt 17y ago
Yes, research surveys seem to indicate this although I can't remember the source. It's going to be an interesting future with a bunch of desperate housewives around wondering why reality is different from the Bridget Jones movie :)
224.
by sbt 17y ago
Calling C small, beautiful and elegant is quite a statement, considering what larger-than-academic projects end up looking like after having been macrofied to the point where only the person who wrote it can make sense of the code. The bott
225.
by sbt 17y ago
I think the point here is that subsidies doesn't really matter for the big picture. It could be that some of these outrageous benefits wouldn't happen if it wasn't for a very wealthy state. The question is what you would be left with. It's
226.
by sbt 17y ago
Agreed on the small homogeneous population. Not true on the oil exporting. Just look at the neighboring countries. Without oil, Norway would be like Denmark, or Sweden.
227.
by sbt 18y ago
I've noticed this too. Along with the everlasting nature/nurture debates. I think there are two reasons why people on HN (myself included) like pulling higher education into question. 1. People in CS realize that the field is changing rapid
228.
by sbt 18y ago
Cool visualization. I wish it had some more information accompanying it though.
229.
David Attenborough wants to lower the global population(news.bbc.co.uk)
6 points by sbt 18y ago|13 comments
230.
by sbt 18y ago
I think this post raises an important more general point: that countries are often held to different standards when it comes to human rights abuses. Take Dubai as an example. It's clear that very serious human rights offenses are going on i
231.
How To: Stop procrastination (Dan Ariely)(bigthink.com)
12 points by sbt 18y ago|11 comments
232.
by sbt 18y ago
I heard about this phenomenon from nato troops in Afgahnistan too. Apparently a woman has to be safely transported abroad if she is seen with a man. A friend who was stationed in Meymaneh told me that he had seen men having gay sex in dark
233.
by sbt 18y ago
It's possible to grow quite quickly if you put ethical scruples aside and take advantage of a large pool of what is effectively slave labor. A middle eastern friend explained the situation: "we just stepped off the camel and into the merced
234.
by sbt 18y ago
This is an even better post than the previous. I think Weinreb hits the spot and demonstrates that he is pretty well oriented about what's going on at the grass roots. Now, all the community need to figure out is what to do about these prob
235.
by sbt 18y ago
Pretty much. PCL is a great book that did much to bring the O'Reilly flavor to the community. Another good contribution is the Common Lisp Cookbook website, that contains snippets for common tasks. Sadly, this doesn't seem to have struck th
236.
by sbt 18y ago
I've been programming in Common Lisp for about a year and I consider myself an intermediate beginner. Someone made a terrific comment in response to Ron Garret's post earlier: the way you get productive in today's environment is primarily t
237.
by sbt 18y ago
I love how Dropbox has a client for both Windows and Ubuntu. I use it all the time. That said, I wouldn't pay for this service.
238.
by sbt 18y ago
I couldn't agree more with the basic sentiment of this post. I'm so sick of how knowing how to solve these test-the-basics questions is supposed to determine whether a person will do a good job for the company. This approach favors ambitiou
239.
by sbt 18y ago
It's kind of like demand paging. When you're coding on your own, you learn what you need to learn to get the job done. This way you can learn most of what you need know for a job by working on your own hobbyist projects. Ironically, the PC
240.
by sbt 18y ago
What you are trying to do is very hard. Statistical NLP is the way to go for unbounded domains. You might be able to do better semantic analysis for smaller closed domains. There is a relatively new great book on NLP out now that I suggest

More ›