skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Towards a repeatable and practicable strategy for customer development
Dragonfly 0.60 - a newLisp web framework
Assuming the CPU is the bottleneck, which I'm not sure it would be for a $400 systems-sans-cpu.
Why didn't that folder was enabled on my laptop when I bought one?? So much time would have been saved
The ACM has some group insurance plans for members: http://www.acm.org/membership/insurance

I haven't used them myself, so I don't know how they compare to plans offered to employers, or to individual plans.
Jerry: You broke the chain! The chain isn't supposed to be broken!!! Now what are you going to do? You broke it...
Agreed. Great links.
I'm 32. Might as well flip on VH-1 and eat worms.
Yes, it's called day dreaming :-)

This corroborates the theory that long periods of doing nothing help to develop creativity. (Day dreaming makes you smarter; meditation makes you well.)
Did you offer to liberate the 1.0 branch of code? I think that's what I'd be interested in. Take 1.0 and deal with the "ugly" parts. I'm sure Allan thinks the source code is somehow too ugly which is why he did a ground-up rewrite. But whatever... we all write ugly code. Get over it, realize users don't care how the code looks, just the end result and release the source code so that we can incrementally improve upon it.

Remember when Nullsoft released Winamp 3.0? I'm pretty sure this is how TextMate 2.0 will go down...
What's your secret Zachary, 4 upvotes in 0 minutes.

It can't be that good :)

A while ago there was a question here by someone if there was evidence of voting posses and bury brigades, if this isn't it then I don't know what would be it.

see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017031
Allan is a computer scientist in the truest sense of the word. Intensely fascinated by doing core research and discovering new, deep insights. He has made enough money off TextMate to allow him to pursue this passion without much concern for the commercial reality of releasing software regularly to keep the natives calm. Good for him!

There's no day job to attend to, just his quest for quality as declared by Allan himself. Despite being a good friend of Allan and helping him get TextMate v1.0 out the door based on almost exactly the opposite principles, I can't help but respect his dedication to perfection and his lifestyle design around it.
UCBerkeley CS61C MIPS

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/stream.php?type=download&web...
Very nice. The update link is causing problems in Chrome 4.0.249.43 on XP though.

Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Utime failed: Permission denied in /var/www/paul.slowgeek.com/compare/cpu/update.php on line 44
Starting update
I asked all my friends to read it while i was drafting it. Then I posted it and asked them to upvote it. I guess the ethics are ambiguous because there's no mention of it in the HN submission guidelines and as far as I know it's common practice.

At the end of the day I posted it to spur discussion about a relevant topic to the HN community and in the spirit of that I ask that you generously apply your intelligence to criticism of the article's claims and suggestions.
Reality Distortion Explained
I spent five years at Apple, worked on a few secret projects, and never heard of this system. How could you make sure they didn't meet in the elevator or cafeteria?

There is an impressive infrastructure of areas restricted by keycards though.
Practically all modern CPUs have indirect branch prediction. The overhead of a function pointer call is practically zero unless the target of the function pointer is actually completely random, which it rarely is: most of the time it's constant for a long period of time (e.g. an in inner loop) until it's changed.
It depends how often it happens. If it's only for a small portion of employees for a small percentage of the time - say, several months every five years, when your team is involved in the launch of a brand new product line - then it would be a lot more bearable than if it were a constant requirement for everybody.
Things UNIX can do atomically
It's no different than arguing a religious conviction.

If that's true, then the key variable is who you're arguing with and not what you're arguing about.

I've had a few discussions about religion that were great. I've also had a lot that were brain-dead. Heck, discussions about Health Care in the US are the same way.
Everyone misses the point.

A huge group of consumers are buying phones based on their preferred network - or the network where they have a current contract.

I know plenty of people who ended up with a blackberry over an iphone (self included), or a droid over an iphone because they want to stay on Verizon. These people are not "jailbreaking" anything.

I only recently decided to pay the bucks to get into an iPhone because I just couldn't take it anymore.... I had to have the apps.

After a few weeks, I have 1.6GB of apps on my phone, several pages worth.

So, back on point, Droid stinks because:

1) You can't just pick your network and still pay only $200 for the phone. (or any good phone)

2) There is almost no space for apps.

3) You have to use Google Checkout to buy an app.

4) There are only a fraction of the apps available and they haven't gone through a rigorous approval process, so you don't know what you are installing.
Yeah, but as the previous poster said: the biggest advantage of TM is the ecosystem of plugins and environments that third-parties have developed for it. From the dev blog posts, it sounds like a lot of the stuff going into TM2 will be directly useful for people developing plugins and what-not; ergo, it's stuff that will ultimately be end-user facing. Ditto for some of the other things that the dev has been talking about (better threading support, better support for network-mounted files, etc.).

Really, though, TM1 consistently amazes me in that I don't know too many other five-year-old programs that are still as useful today as they were when they were first released.
Some of the pages are refreshed, so most data should be cached locally.

I'm not sure if web browsing really is a good benchmark for cpu comparison -- I can imagine that Firefox isn't really optimized for ARM.
This is what it will look like if computers ever need to wage war on mankind.
I respect the acomplishment but I can think about a lot of other computer systems/programs with way more cultural, economic and scientific impact than this program.

E.g.: Unix, Java, Sabre, VisiCalc, Mars Rover and Hubble controlling software, etc.
There is also MongoKit (http://bitbucket.org/namlook/mongokit) which have some nice features and which is actively developed.
Google's Nexus One Takes a Step Forward
They are tremendously popular, but considering they're hemorrhaging money and they don't appear to have the slightest idea how to make any money off that popularity... yeah, I think it's highly probable they're doing everything wrong.
This one is much better than those on that list for my purposes at least:

http://duckduckgo.com/
Google the URL and then click through from google.
> Then I posted it and asked them to upvote it.

Do you think that's ok?
It takes me hours to write a blog post, and I then lose the best part of a day to following up comments, reading associated discussions on Hacker News, etc. I can see Allan's point.
I don't think the on-screen capabilites of OS X have ever been designed for (multi-)touch screens, but rather for tablet devices like the Wacom's.
Ouch... That's about $400 more than I'd probably be willing to pay for a decent tablet. I wonder what kind of use-cases they're envisioning.
Why were threads inadequate? (There's no GIL in most implementations, IIRC).
Ah, as it turns out, the insurance they direct you to is an Individual (and thus useless) plan.

There is a group plan available in NY, which is the case with http://freelancersunion.org as well
Getting More Done
Project Euler problem 106 and the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
People (including investors) aren't purely rational. After I already like you, think good things about you, etc. it's easier for me to explain away or disregard negative things.

I'm sure you've heard about the 'halo effect' or 'post purchase rationalization' (in this case the purchase price being time/effort, not money).
Here it is:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:laKVHyAwjckJ:online.wsj....
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Agree. I like the Courier concept, but I'm skeptical about MS's ability to deliver on hardware. Although to be fair, their mice are great.

I also share the same sentiments towards Google and their recent hardware follies.
In the States you don't have to submit much unless you're public/really-big.

I'd be very surprised if the UK had reporting requirements that stringent for every corporation ... Do you have a source on that claim?
This is mandatory reading if you're thinking about raising VC funding. The most interesting takeaway, in my opinion, is the almost-always-neglected cost of going down this road:

"However, I do regret the decision to seek funding - it cost our team countless days and weeks of productivity, took our eyes off our primary goal of delighting our members and customers and, in the end, was a learning experience with a shockingly high cost."
So he did more work and didn't even get much praise for it? Wtf is the point of working hard on a tool that saves some money when you won't see a penny of it?
I do, or I wouldn't have done it. This is beginning to feel suspiciously like a game [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis
4) There are only a fraction of the apps available and they haven't gone through a rigorous approval process, so you don't know what you are installing.

Please. Any process that has let dead baby apps through only to revoke them later, or denied bugfix updates to applications (after waiting weeks for approval) that have been previously approved, cannot possibly be called "rigorous". "Arbitrary" and "draconian" are much more apt.
There are lots of points just not addressed here, as well as some blatant hypocrisy:

1. The US has always had a strong distrust for "ivory tower types". This is not new in the last 60 years. This distrust has lead to a constant resistance against anything some random guy doesn't understand. Such resistance leads to half-measures, comprimises, and outright rebellion, so the "educated classes" don't actually complexify as much as the distributed calls for "more accountibility" and "save us from X".

2. The criticisms are not about meritocracy, but the lack of it. If the best solutions/people were always chosen, there wouldn't be problems, there would be solutions. There may be a good criticism of selection criteria in there tho.

3. Calls for a populist revolution while criticizing those who pander to the people, for doing just that.

4. Calling for a debt stigma in a 'CAS' aka 'free market' can only work in waves, because at various points there will be those saying "debt isn't that bad, you can afford it" because they make money from this.
I was thinking of the people that crunch numbers not the programs. I don't think it's designed for a production environment; rather it's a dev box that lets you explore programmable processors. I think they avoided making an x86 with coprocessor because they want to own the dev environment for such things, but the innovation is all about that coprocessor.

PS: 1x Xorro slot with a card that's 102400 MIPS is fast. An example of number crunching would be real time encoding of super? HD (4x 1080p). Or a custom high bandwidth router etc.
RockYou.com database breached, 32 million unencrypted passwords obtained
Side point: I wasn't talking about programming languages. I was talking about programming styles.

Then by my definition (which I no longer consider universal), programming in a functional style drives you crazy unless you can use functions as first class entities.
I 've been using Couchdb for a while, and now started experimenting with Mongodb. The latter seems more suitable for me as it seems I can atomically perform several operations at once. Couchdb on the other hand provides bulk updates, but the all_or_nothing option never fails so atomicity is not literally forced.
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Poll: Do you think it's better to have subsites on their own domains?
Do you think it's better to have 1 big site, with subsites or a number of separate sites?

I mean if you consider everything from coverage to SEO, to acquisition talks.

So, if you have 1 big site, it'd be:

http://google.com
http://google.com/mail
http://google.com/voice

Pros I see, that you get a ton more SEO juice this way, since everything goes to that one domain. And all your users are in one place, so for PR you can say "oh yeah we have alexa rank of X and X million users".

Or do you think it's better to have these on their own domain?

http://google.com
http://gmail.com
http://googlevoice.com

Pros I see that you basically can boost the # of your uniques, by counting the users who use multiple services twice. + it makes that much easier to spin off/sell off certain sub portions of your site.

So which do you think is better?
Keep them all on one domain.
Give each their own domain.
Peter Schiff on Abolishing Student Loans to Make Colleges Affordable
Great site. Would love to see sliders for min/max price and performance. That way you could slide the minimum performance to 4000 and find the best cheapest CPUs that fit that criteria.

Or set your budget at $150 and see what pops up.
Um, I think that is because Netbeans and Eclipse are ides, while Textmate is basically a programming text editor.
I'm sure the Flash widgets he's demoing have nothing to do with how his battery is close to dead throughout the demo.
Control a Helicopter With Your iPhone [video]
Impossible is such a funny word. It supposedly means "things that cannot ever be done", but almost always actually means "things I don't know how to do".
FTA: "Hewlett-Packard has reportedly been working with Microsoft in preparation of the new slate-type computer, to be announced during the evening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas."

So, assuming that the article is accurate in this respect, I'm guessing that it won't be specifically Microsoft hardware.
Its most powerful function is to facilitate tool creation
I agree with you. I'm just saying it could be worse.

Presumably people who work at Apple are skilled enough to have lots of options and stay because they're happy with the way the company is run.
May I suggest there are other interesting differences:

First, neither company had successfully shipped anything like PDA software at that point. Today, Microsoft is has experience with their Tablet version of Windows and and Apple has experience with their wildly successful Touch/iPhone platform.

Second, it was enough for Microsoft to sow enough FUD to destroy the PDA market back then, they were still growing the desktop and notebook markets that they dominated. So their attitude to alternative markets was that if they couldn't dominate it, they should destroy it.

Today, they desperately need new markets to grow. Playing defense by destroying potential markets like tablets through FUD is not going to rekindle their stock growth. They need to develop new monopolies. So they need to win, not just produce a stalemate.
yeah, but an 'unqualified' investor wastes my time as well as his. I've been approached by several entities looking to buy out prgmr.com, and we wasted a bunch of time dancing 'cause we weren't clear at the outset about what we wanted/had.

I guess it wasn't entirely a waste of time; I was able to pass one of them off on one of my sort-of competitors. (hey, goodwill for me, and another competitor I don't have to worry about)
Any reason to regard this as anything more than yet another crankish diet? The usual signs are there (extravagant claims, "for the details, read my book", "patent pending", distinct shortage of actual science).
Ok. Fair enough.

Here is what I think, and we disagree strongly about this:

I think it goes entirely against the spirit of what HN is about. I may be wrong about that, but that's what I feel.

If you use your friends - and sockpuppets apparently - to cheat your way on to the front page as a long time and fairly visible member of the community then you are setting a very bad example.

It's true that plenty of 'good stuff' scrolls off the new page before it gets enough upvotes to make it to the homepage, but that's life, everybody takes their chances with that.

You are essentially changing it from a level playingfield in to a 'how many friends can I muster' game.

The fact that it isn't in the guidelines is not relevant, I think that you could easily work out for yourself that even if it isn't in the guidelines that this is not the way HN is supposed to work.

The same mechanism (bringing your friends along to flag an entry that you don't like) could be used for burying content.

I'd hate to see HN go down the drain the way digg did because of behaviour like this.

Ethics is not what's in the guidelines, ethics is knowing intuitively what is wrong and what is not and then living by that.

Lawyers read the guidelines and figure out how they can cheat without getting caught, nice people play by the rules even when they're unwritten.

edit: I completely fail to see what that link you added has to do with the price of tea in China.

edit2: I've posted an 'Ask HN' to get an idea about how others feel about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035206
It's always possible to tell when an app is running non-native on any platform. C/C++ is more responsive.
Autism 'Clusters' Linked To Parents' Education
you just overdid it man .. :) if you were tezza, I would have advised you to "leave on a high note"
Isn't the XBox a successful Microsoft hardware product? I think it actually turned a profit in '08ish.
Have you tried nice_find?

http://github.com/briancollins/nice_find

It's a plugin, not a bundle (like Ack In Project) so it feels native, it is asynchronous, and it uses git-grep when available. I love it.
The perception of programming
Chomp Reveals Itself To Be A Yelp For iPhone Apps
It's not a "toy", it's a "minimum viable product".
Yes, you need a detonator, but it still not "very hard" to detonate. It's actually relatively sensitive to impact, and very sensitive to explosive initiation. If you call (basically) the most sensitive secondary explosive for "very hard to detonate" (like he did) you are probably not very experienced with explosives, which was my point in the first place. And while I'm very far from an explosives expert, my experiences are not from the movies.
Xbox has done pretty well. There's too much blind Microsoft hate on this site.
The list of nutrient dense foods is interesting. I actually posted this with a different title "A nice list of nutrient dense foods"
It's nice to know what are the most nutrient dense foods, because they are the healthiest - they have the highest nutrient/calorie ratio.
None at all. I stopped reading when he ranked iceberg lettuce as over four times healthier than chicken and beef. Not to mention the telltale "toxins" which are always mentioned (but never enumerated) in this sort of scam.
well put...
it's fairly depressing to me how no one seems to grasp the concept of price. money isn't magical, it's a way of accounting for different people's preferences WRT the resources they have available to them. trying to fix a price by decree is a fundamentally stupid notion.
This is where good voice recognition would come in handy. I'm interested in the topic but I'm not the least bit interested in watching a 10 minute video; I'd much rather have the text.
Well, he claims it saved him weeks of work. It would probably have been mind-numbingly boring work, too. So he (1) got more done per unit time, thus hopefully having more chance to impress the people who set his salary, and (2) got to work on more interesting things instead of on mind-numbing stuff that a short program could do just as well. Seems OK to me. (If you think no one should ever work on anything that doesn't directly bring them more money when they do it better, why then I think you'd better go looking for an economy in which there are no companies with employees.)
WWII history, I can't ask someone or go on a trusted website like when I'm looking for information on a field I'm familiar with.

WWII history isn't such a hot topic for crapflooding, either. Search is still useful there. You're also still applying trust heuristics based on the results--"battle of the coral sea" returns results from Wikipedia, history.navy.mil, worldwar2history.info, history.sandiego.edu, etc. You probably have some idea about the content of each. Ultimately your decisions about what to click come down to your perception of trust in their authors' ability to provide you the information you desire.

I'm just guessing, but I suspect most people here are familiar with the phenomenon of doing a Google search only to end up clicking on the Wikipedia result that invariably makes it into the top few results. This is a sign that Google's PageRank still aligns reasonably well with our own estimation of trust for those search terms.

As for social whatevers: that's why I said "People you trust to not provide you with crap." You can't trust most people to do that. Least of all when given a megaphone and/or a financial incentive.
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Or maybe they are naive enough to accept a bigger (which Sequoia can do) but worse deals?

I am in my 20's.
If you want a list of healthy foods, consult a doctor or scientist. Eating according to this guy's list is a quick way to severe health problems.
I hope they paint the reverse with black chalkboard paint cos you're gonna need it, the "black slate of death" coming to someone with more money than sense near you.

EDIT: I knew I would pay in karma :>
It may be that they don't want to tell you that jvm is not adequate for the task. For something that is true low latency, you will be competing against outfits that hack the OS, tune their carefully hand-crafted C code, rewrite libraries for performance, possibly diving into assembler at some point, and measure the length of the network cables.

Pick a target latency for a round trip, then figure out what your budget is for network travel, decoding the message, performing your logic, and sending the response.

There are different categories of "real-time", and even different degrees of hard real time. You are in competition with folk who understand all the nuances of what that means.
if your interest is more than passing you may want to delve into the more general principle of supply/demand distortion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy
Apple must be an incredibly stifling and frustrating place to work for smart,
creative people.

I agree. And yet, they keep producing all this innovative stuff. It's a paradox, to me.
It is a fact that iceberg lettuce has over 4 times more nutrients per calorie than chicken and beef. He does say "Keep in mind that nutrient density scoring is not the only factor that determines good health. For example, if we only ate foods with a high nutrient density score our diet would be too low in fat."
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Xbox is a net loss, and according to someone that works there (who is active on HN) they hope to be in the black 'somewhere in the next couple of years'.

So, no, Xbox has not done 'pretty well'.

They are now 5 quarters profitable, but overall they're still in a very deep hole.
The breach definitely sounds illegal, but why the hell were they storing unencrypted passwords in the first place?

When I first learned about databases, that is the very first thing I learned never to do.
It is still a net loss and will continue to be so for at least several years.
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This has all the hallmarks of being a perfect bogus rumor. Apple is notoriously secretive so it can't be denied, no matter how stupid the idea would be in practice. It's also outlandishly juicy which means makes people want to tell it.
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