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Featured at github: "ioke is a new JVM-based language that allows the programmer to simplify code until it’s expressive and terse enough by folding layers of abstraction. Drawing on lessons taught by Lisp, Ruby, Io, and…

I use IRC quite a lot to quickly find the solution for small problems that Google doesn't solve. However all channels are fairly specialized and I sometimes feel the need to discuss more general concepts that span…

What is the best way to host a webapplication? What are pros cons of hosting in the cloud vs hosting on your own servers. Is it a lot of work to host on your own? What services do you recommend for hosting your…

I remember seeing a post here before that had a ranking of the worlds universities but I can't find the right one. Or maybe it wasn't here but somewhere else. Anyway: here are some links if anyone is interested. I'm…

I'm learning datamining, machine learning, image processing etc by myself now but will start uni next year probably doing the same. I tried Octave briefly and wasn't that impressed. Ok some neat functionality and easy…

My main interests are: Machine learning Computer vision Datamining Search I am interested in everything tech though and I'm just basically looking for anything interesting in the open source world. I have looked a…

I am currently datamining the posts from september on Hacker News. What would you guys and girls like to see visualisations of and what kind of statistics are you interested in? Any suggestions are welcome, I'll see…

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html Assuming they could solve the problem of the headers, the spam of the future will probably look something like this: Hey there. Thought you should check out the following:…

What are the differences between virtual machines like JAVAs and Erlangs? Is the future virtual machines? There is a lot of work going into bringing dynamic languages to the JVM and Sun seem to support that strongly.…

Do we have to litter the frontpage with articles about how the american economy is going to hell? You get the impression the world is going under. Sure this is a startup-forum so it effects funding etc but still. We are…

MarkovSentenceGen> main " McCain is a service of many special interests, the abuses of the compassion that if you're trying to be the special love. To confront the wars America needs more energy problems - as the…

So 3 weeks later, have you switched to Chrome or do yous till use your old browser? Has it goten faster lately? My first impression was just "nice scaled down interface but nothing revolutionary and I didn't notice the…

http://lwn.net/Articles/115530/ "Commercial software typically has 20 to 30 bugs for every thousand lines of code, according to Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Sustainable Computing Consortium. This is equivalent to…

Lately so much material that has already been posted is circulating. I understand that the community is growing and that there might be people interested in that 2-year-old blog post that they haven't read but it is…

Anyone know of good websites with collections of datasets that are good for practicing datamining and machine learning? The netflix prize, www.netflixprize.com is one obvious one, but only 1 set. Project Gutenberg is…

I have been interested in protein folding for a while and now have the time to dive into it. I have waded through some articles on wikipedia and watched some youtube and done some googling but I haven't found any good…

I am playing around with Weebly now and I see they charge a small fee, only 5$ for some privileges. Last.fm has also a small fee for signing up(I dont know signing up for exactly what because I can listen to the songs…

I like mathematics and computer science and there is where my strengths are. But I have lately found that things outside the CS-sphere interest me more. Tesla(electric cars), solar power etc. Environmental stuff in…

What software has really impressed you, which has made you realy think, "wow such an elegant solution!" or "wow how did they do that!?" etc? Can be any piece of software(games, webapps, dekstop adds, languages,…

Lets say you start a GPS/SMS-service so you receive an SMS, do some stuff with the data and sends back what they ask for. So you have a transaction and thus a way to make money. How can you charge money for this? Can…

I have what I think is a VERY promising idea for a (geo-spatial) SMS-service. Or at least it is promising in the sense that people would want it, however making money is always the problem :) But if customers send an…

Googling "query searchengine" and the like doesnt give a good answer so i try here. Searchengines generally do a good job of sorting out relevant data/links but they rarely ever take you all the way to the goal. So I…