skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a special holiday gift for you from pg!

Seriously, I clicked on an internal link and freaked out a bit. I could not remember whether the previous page was similarly colored (and I just did not notice), or whether the change just happened.
Making my side project a full time project.
You know it's just going to look like every other airliner on the inside when the carriers are done with them.

I'd be more impressed if they brought back the Tiger Lounge. RRRRooooowwwww..... http://www.flickr.com/photos/molly/223191766/
I'm thinking 100% likelihood if I expressed a genuine interest.
Actually, it's the lack of innovation that's kind of striking. Airliners are such a mature technology these days that seems like the only improvements possible are these kinds of minor efficiency and cabin comfort tweaks. It's about as exciting as seeing the design changes on a modern city bus.

The last really innovative design I can remember is the scrapped 2001 Sonic Cruiser - ugly as sin, but at least kind of cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Sonic_Cruiser

If you asked me as a kid what kind of plane I thought I would be flying in 2010, the 787 not what I would have drawn you. The future is here, and it kind of sucks.
My title bar hasn't changed color because I've set my own. It does change color for submissions.

I like the alternating colors on the numbers on the news and newest pages, etc.
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I am currently writing an iPhone game where the user must move objects around on the screen by dragging them with their finger. The problem is with my game, and just about all iPhone games, is this isn't as smooth as one would expect. Your finger gets caught up in the friction of the screen often, and often the screen doesn't recognize your finger at all.

I am experimenting with ways to fix this, most notably giving the objects a tad bit of momentum such that they slide just a tad after the user is done moving them, making them more likely to go where the user actually had in mind.
I have a few different metrics I look at; the big ones (in terms of the number of customers) are # of customers with positive balances, # of customers with data stored, # of customers with bandwidth usage in the past month.

Generally for each 100 accounts created, there are ~80 accounts with positive balances, ~75 with data stored, and ~50 with bandwidth usage in any given month.
Totally fair.
FutureMe.org: e-mail your future self
I thought it would be a nice tool for those who make new-years and holiday resolutions ;)
Being the smartest guy in the room is fine but you don't have to flaunt it. Being a know-it-all is really a bad social/professional choice. No one likes know-it-alls. Even if you've got the knowledge to back it up there's just something about our society that makes people want to see the know-it-all fail. They will actually contribute and celebrate your failures because of it. A humble person will get sympathy in the same situation.

I work under the assumption that lots of people know more than I do about lots of things. These people are not a threat to me or competition. They're an opportunity to learn. Looking back there are so many times when someone who had really mastered a topic has helped me understand it just through a paragraph of text or a few minutes of conversation. It may have taken me hours, days or weeks to figure it out on my own. I try to do the same for others when I can. Knowledge & information should be freely shared in a comfortable exchange whenever possible.
Or, how about a link to the document in which the image is embedded - http://landofthefreeish.com/offtopic/ikea-has-the-most-aweso...

I know linking directly to image files is in some circles the hip thing to do, but I don't get, as it creates a frustrating dead end if one is interested in more information on the subject that may be on the page with the image or available from following a link on the page.

And, apparently this site admin doesn't like it.
The Entertainment Critic: Book Review:  Mitch Albom's Have A Little Faith
Nope: when I Ctrl+Shift+T I get the tab back with history on the Chrome Mac Beta.
I think I may have achieved a stable orbit around the planet with the red water. Fun game!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Have a wonderful and joyous holiday!
Best of Tech Support Humor 2009 | TechJaws.com
There's enough real racism in the world. We don't have to make up more to entertain ourselves do we?
It's cool that you did this. Not sure that sort of focus works for me but at least you have it for you now ;)

I do have one suggestion anyway: knowing how many tasks remain ahead might be cool. Like a progress bar, or an "i/N" counter.
Thanks Chris! We gotta catch up soon.
Shine your SMARTS upon your brethren, and watch them shun you like hot resistors on a circuit.
You wrote:

"I've no problem with that."

Seems like we disagree on something fundamental, if you've got no problem with Sarbanes-Oxley. I've got a lot of problems with it.
as someone who (like, i guess, many people here), is "smart", what strikes me most about your post is not that you might gain by being a little less obnoxious, but that it's taken you so long to find out. i didn't go to a particularly "tough" school (i'm talking english english now - the place where children learn), but "[not] telling people how smart i am" is a basic survival skill i learnt pretty early on in life.

i'm not sure what lesson to draw from that, though. does it mean that you are completely insensitive to what other people think about you? or that you're way, way too desperate to prove yourself? or perhaps it just means you're 6 foot plus and heavy with it?

so i'm wondering if there's a broader lesson here. like you need to listen to people a whole lot more (ie over and above being a little more modest)? or love yourself rather than trying to live up to what (perhaps) your parents demanded way back when?

sorry if this seems like cheap psychology - not trying to knock you, just thinking out loud.
You could always use Google Voice via the iPhone web browser. This is exactly why I really don't like TechCrunch. Almost every story I read there I feel like they're trying to manipulate people.
Even more so, you said:

"I doubt it will stop innovation"

but you admit:

"even though they are expensive"

These can't both be true. If the rules are expensive, they will stifle innovation.
Somebody has to consume your product or there is no reason to build it. If OO wants to compete with a high-quality commercial product, they should act like it. I use Windows and Office because they are superior products, with enough of a quality increase that I'm willing to pay for it. I really doubt people would mind shelling out their hard earned cash for Desktop Linux or OO if they were viable alternatives, but as it stands: they aren't.

I'm fine with being a producer in a few of the fields I care about (I work on one of the few remaining Perl BBSes), when I'm not busy getting paid to write software. I don't want to have to help write my OS, my Office software, my text editor(s), my web browser, my music player, etc. I just want these things to work in (at least) a predictable fashion.

Anyway, I really do think that the open source community needs to lose the attitude if they ever want to gain traction in the wider non-programmer community.
Looks great for first class at least. I like how they shy away from coach.
If the second form works and avoids bugs, can't you train your eyes to accept it?

That's what I did in SQL a few years ago, and I can't count how many times it has helped me since.
The Quantum Metaphor — Software vs Hardware and the Artistic Singularity
Which is why CoffeeScript lets you leave commas out of multiline object and array literals (for those that didn't see catch it in there):

something: {
foo: "bar"
bar: "baz"
}
That site admin also stole the entirety of the article from the Economist.

So I stole his image and threw it up on imgur: http://i.imgur.com/Qov1B.png
you get to see the new header when you add a comment, or use the bookmarklet.
Chinese web pirates steal design
Technically, the colors don't define the UI, so, no, the UI has not changed ;).
Google has been perverting names for a while.

Some one-name google products: reader, chrome, notebook, docs, calendar, sites, voice, wave, transit, checkout, groups. Searching for those words alone usually brings up the google product as the first result. Looks like google wants to own a lot of common generic nouns.

I was reading some mozilla docs recently and every time I hit the word "chrome" meaning "browser chrome" and not "chrome the browser," I was met with a little cognitive pause and kept having to double check their meanings.

Just look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config_entries -- we have entries like "browser.chrome.[blah]." A few years ago it was blindingly obvious what they meant. Now, for a spit second, I see myself wondering "Why is FireFox using Chrome settings?" It's against good taste to call your products very generic but widely-used names.
Female Founder Successes of 2009
Ugh. I'm 6'3", and I only squeeze so far when surrounded by a couple of overweight people who don't know how to tuck their elbows in. Losing 1" of width doesn't sound like much, but it will make those awkward flights a little more common and a little more awkward.
disrupt an industry that overcharges their customers because their hardware and infrastructure requirements are out-dated; they haven't innovated since the 1990's.
Ah, the usual division by zero error.

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

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html

http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/0by0.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisionbyZero.html

Perhaps more to my original point is that cperciva replied to the thread-opening post

I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with.

so the the comment by woid (grandchild comment to cperciva's comment) is CORRECT that such a goal is not achievable if

you start with zero customers

because there isn't any defined number of customers that is exactly ten times as many customers as zero customers.

It's funny that this isn't taught in all mathematics classes.
I think systems like this are in place in many different companies.
minor nitpick:

> "In case that description doesn’t make sense, here’s an exercise to help demosntrate the technique: <more text>"

In cases where a description doesn't make sense, a visual example might help tremendously. As soon as I saw <more text> I was disappointed. Pictures really are worth a thousand words. They're faster and more efficient, especially for examples that are already describing pictures!
i especially appreciated the random symbol option.

if this were the usual "evaluate my app" post, i would have had to signup with my email just to see what was being sold :-)
Some firewalls, like the open-source, FreeBSD based pfSense can operate in bridge mode, and thus not addressable via IP.
Very cool.

I've created a simple CommonJS package that lets you use CoffeeScript on the command line with Narwhal: http://github.com/tlrobinson/coffee-script

If you have Narwhal (http://narwhaljs.org/) just install with the package manager "tusk install coffee-script", then you can create Narwhal modules ending in .cs, or run the command line REPL "cs"

(there are a few problems, such as variables in the REPL are created in a local scope, etc, but this was literally a 15 minute hack, I'll improve it when I have time, or feel free to submit patches)

I'm starting to think of Narwhal as less of a JavaScript platform and more of a VM akin to the JVM... JSVM? It now supports Objective-J ("tusk install objective-j" or "cappuccino"), a proof of concept Ruby implementation ("tusk install cappruby"), and now CoffeeScript.
The orbital mechanics seem to be accurate. Shooting up or down just causes oscillations. To move up or down orbits, fire forward or backward.

If you fly too high the game breaks.
Graduate College, Get Married, Launch Second company.

Maybe that is too much :(
Neither can I.

EDIT: Doh! I wasn't clicking on myself first. Never underestimate the stupidity of users.
goals in general:

Market and grow to 50,000 users, find way to hire full-time developers.

Keep experimenting with monetizing my blog and grow to $3-4k/month.

Eat less red meat and jog more.

Pay off more student loans.

Buy a laptop/netbook for newborn nephew and get him hooked.

Find a girlfriend again.

Move my money around (read: ditch Bank of America).
Yes, it's the converse.
Are you aware of what (if anything) has changed significantly since then?
I wonder: if IKEA had been paying income taxes all along, how much less in personal income taxes would they have generated?

Corporate income is the single source of income most likely to be productively reinvested, because corporations function more like homo economicus than any other kind of entity. And since they're entirely owned by either a) people, or b) charities, it doesn't make sense to talk about taxing corporations instead of individuals--rather, you should refer to corporate income tax as a tax on individuals and nonprofits, instead of just individuals.

From that perspective, IKEA pays the socially optimal corporate income tax: zero.
Really? I always thought color was part of the UI.

ie. Poor color choice can really hamper USE-ability;)
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Oh wow. A CoffeeScript REPL? If it can hook right in to the Narwhal standard library, that'll be quite a thing to see.

Looking briefly at your commits, I'll add a flag to disable the function safety wrapper so that you don't need to strip it off. Thanks for the tusk package -- it's quite a Christmas present.
Another question that I have not seen addressed is why is the video a mirror-image, If you notice the name tags in the video they are reversed.
I understand the math; sure, 10*0=0. Looking lim a->0: x/a, though, which goes to infinity, I was implying it was easier to achieve because mathematically he'd be way past his target of 10x. But you're right that it's impossible to hit exactly 10x.
This site has been up for years, and never before been submitted? I should scrape my history...
it's more of "high school training in math has failed you"

(right triangle <=> Pythagoras) -> bad
Ask HN: Which is a good Column Store database?
I am looking for an Open Source Column Store DB, but seems like there is no dominant one around. Can you suggest me some to look at?

Thanks
I believe there is a bug in your object model for handling super. I have tested it and it does indeed work incorrectly (although not in the way I expected it to work incorrectly). Basically, your super calls only work if your class tree is 1 level deep. As soon as you have something like Animal -> Horse -> BigHorse, then it breaks down. This is because super() gets translated to:

this.constructor.prototype.NAME.call(this, args)

So, if we had move on BigHorse, Horse, and Animal, BigHorse would call super (resulting in Horse's implementation being called), but then Horse calls super which again calls Horse's implementation, since this.constructor.prototype still points to Horse.prototype. Thus, you can't continue climbing up the chain. When I tried it though, it seemed to just skip the intermediate classes and go down to the base class, which is of course equally broken. We used to have the same problem a long time ago in Objective-J. The fix is pretty simple, you should just inline the actual class name when dealing with supers:

Horse.prototype.NAME.call(this, args), which then calls:
Animal.prototype.NAME.call(this, args)

Hope I avoided you some pain with that one. I remember 3 years ago not understanding why on earth my code was broken and thinking it was algorithmic for the longest time until I realized the entire underlying parts were broken.
I don't know whether anything has changed or not, but given that it is an old article something may have.

When I first read an article, I assume it is current. I only realized this article wasn't current because it mentioned that Japan opened its first Ikea store "in April", and I knew it had Ikea for several years at which point I checked the date.
if i wanted to rsync from a bunch of different machines, i would just run rsync on a bunch of different machines.... this sounds like a solution searching for a problem.
"Google will be distracted by increasing consumer complaints about content farms polluting Google search results."

I've been complaining. I don't know if it has distracted Google yet.
I'm not smart enough to tell if this is a serious comment or a joke.
When this was originally posted on HN here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005406 4 days ago I had a feeling the video would attract a lot of views. I glanced at the counter which read around 15,000. It now reads over 1,160,000. That's after 4 days. Regardless of the underlying issue, and in spite of my time in the tech space, I'm in awe of the speed and reach of information.
The one thing I find conspicuosly lacking is comments from professionals. A quick scan of Small Wars Journal found no relevant articles or comments.
I'd call it a stretch to say these guys invented it. There is quite a bit of literature on this technique, e.g. http://research.nokia.com/files/hile_landmark_mum08.pdf
I was thinking about adding i/N counter, but I decided that it may disturb.

I may add show/hide for this in the next revision.

Thanks for suggestion!
Walter Bright on C's Biggest Mistake
Congratulations, you just admitted my point: taking the first leg and just encrypting it is equivalent to the control-link key management problem -- a point you dismissed again and again earlier in the thread.

Now, do you make valid points about the difficulty of key management for the 2nd problem? Yes. But mainly I have been expounding on the equivalence of the 1st part. I am correct about that. Have been this whole thread. You just admitted it. Thanks.

Now on to the rest. The military already faces a key management for other communications. They just need to do it with enough bandwidth to support video feeds to take care of the 2nd part. Certainly, they already do such key management for other communications. Will it be trivial to implement? No. But is just putting things up on a satellite in view of the whole globe? I think not.
.coffee seems an appropriate balance between overloading the namespace and a too-long common string in one's directory.

The 2- and 3-letter extension tyranny must stopped!
This sounds familiar. It happened to Plurk apparently.
Ask HN: Startups and student debt?
Merry Christmas! This has been weighting on me for some time & I don't know what to do. Was wondering if anyone else has this problem or ideas.

I took out a LOT of debt to go to a well respected school got a Masters degree in CS. Now I'm coming out, I want to do the same thing I've always wanted which is start a startup. The trouble is, my family helped me get that money, and while I'm more than happy to live out of a shoebox for a while, I feel like I shouldnt risk their money. But I don't want to work for someone else--the thought is completely repugnant to me.

I've been thinking I might try for YC and if I get rejected, then suck it up and get a regular job till my debts paid.
My point is that there is no difference in key management for the 1st part (drone->sat->base). The rest is a different key management problem, one which the military already faces with communications to forces in the field and with allied forces. But by taking the 1st part out of the picture with the same key management used for the control link, you don't have plaintext perched on a satellite visible to the whole globe.

You still have to solve the rest, but that is at least an improvement.

Your passive-agressive link to Wikipedia -- what is your point in this? What exactly in the article did I miss?
Except you can't play voicemails, which is the primary reason to use the web interface.
I'm more surprised this is being reported by the BBC than anything. What makes this case any more notable than countless other web-design piracy cases? Is it the Chinese angle?
what other technologies are you using apart from MongoDB ?
China and The Great Leap
How the US may reinvent capitalism
How do economies manage to avoid macroeconomic black holes?
Ah, you're right, I misread the original statement. I still think an investment in the "new GM" will be a riskier and more speculative play than an investment in Tesla, which is already profitable, but that's just a difference of opinion.

On another note, your tendency to end every comment with a rudely worded ad hominem disturbs me.
> The rest is a different key management problem

Which is the entire problem.

You seem to be of the mis-conception that the video goes back to base and then is redistributed. AFAIK this is not the case :) Also, importantly, these signals are being intercepted as they are transmitted to the troops on the ground :)
I tend to believe they don't, though I understand your position and it's perfectly debatable.
Ask PG: What would your next startup be?
PG, have you ever considered doing another startup? Or, even if you aren't considering it anymore, did you ever consider it after finishing up at Yahoo? If so, what would it be? Merry Christmas
Freakonomics: Incentivized Altruism
The difference between hiring and recruiting
If looking to scale and store massive amount of data over multiple machines checkout Apache Cassandra. Otherwise, BerkeleyDB should be sufficient.
It might be better to say what use case you're looking for and then go from there.

Column-oriented storage is basically an implementation detail for exploiting certain types of data-locality patterns; there may be things which fit your needs which exploit that in different ways.
Build a product that I (bold I) am happy using as an unbiased user.
Yeah, the Akai's were pretty powerful samplers back then. Depeche Mode did everything on E-mu Emulators. For the rest of us it was the Ensoniqs...

Think of it as sound "hacking". Before samplers all we had were tape loops and synths. Samplers were a ton of fun because suddenly you could play any sound, including people's voices. It was a revolutionary new approach in the late 80s & early 90s...

I'm an ooooold geri-raver...
Try: http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/glossary.html#term-lambda

Sounds good that you are going to give significant indentation a try.
BigTable clones like Cassandra (http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/) and Hypertable (http://www.hypertable.org/) can be used in a column-oriented fashion. Both use column families to group related columns.
Downvoting is fine, but it did take me a mindful amount of time to write that response; your comment is bordering on "trolling". If you choose to downvote me because there is a critical flaw in my reasoning, or a faulty premise, or maybe something I just didn't think of, then say so in a thought-out argument.

I do not appreciate one-liner, sarcastic comments.

My reply was serious. The abstract topic of the OP's post was on character development and that is precisely what I provided in my reply - both from a personal experience perspective and from a rationally deduced perspective.
I am looking for something for analytics, I am interested in column storage specifically on something that supports compression. At this point I guess data can fit in one machine, so clustering would be desirable, but not mandatory.
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this thoughtful comment. I completely agree that many such "needs" are actually fear-driven.
Yes, you can. Not sure if they added this very recently or what. I don't use GV much but I just tested it to make sure.