skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to hit this one more time to make sure you understand what I'm saying.

Let's say you want to run a trucking business. Your job is to take groceries -- any groceries - from point A to point B.

This makes you a storage and movement (warehouse and transportation) business. Your differentiators will be how easy and fast you can deliver whatever goods there are. Your customers are people who need to move all kinds of groceries, whether on the producer side or consumer side. You don't care. You're making your bucks on volume.

Let's say that instead of just trucking, now you are selling doughnuts. You paste a big sign on the side of your truck that says "Doughnuts!" You don't make the doughnuts, you just get them to people.

This puts you in the distribution business. This is much different than the trucking business. In this business, people care about quality of product and whether or not you're delivering the right kinds of doughnuts to the right people. Your ability to find the right doughnut and get it to the right person is what is going to make your business work (or not) Everything you do should be based around targeted quality delivery to the appropriate recipient. Volume doesn't matter as much any more. Targeted delivery does. You're not just hauling groceries from point A to point B, you're figuring out which exact thing needs to be where at what exact time. Much tougher (and potentially more profitable) problem.

But they're completely different business models, with different customers and different drivers.

It's just an analogy, of course. I hope that made my point clearer. I think you guys are in for a wild ride if you can get the details worked out.
Also this could be seen as the poor man's distribuion. I'm offering essentially a do-it-yourself service so i think the current economic situation might even be advantageous.
so, it's twitter!
This is exactly what I was thinking when I asked this question. It seem that since Hacker News has gained more traffic > more submissions > more activity the quality of interesting has got a lot larger... perhaps it's the point system that encourages people to submit any old thing that they think is interesting in pursuit of more points, community status, etc...
I was an intern for AMD a few years ago (these are my views and not AMD's). I was pretty skeptical about AMD's antitrust claims against Intel until I went to work there. I'm as free market as they day is long, but there's a whole untold story of the evil things that go on in the back meeting rooms, even outside of sales, where most of the public lawsuit claims are/were.

The thing to remember is that AMD is a small fraction of the size of Intel, and they have to cover the same market segments. If they try to specialize (say, servers, or notebooks), Intel will just sell that segment at a loss. AMD has to cover everything with only a fraction of the people to stay competitive, and it's really hard.

Even while I was there, we had what I suspect (but have no proof) were incidents of people leaking product plans, roadmaps, etc. (but no IP) to Intel. It's sad, really.
I was hoping his next book was out. If you're looking for a interesting book to read that while technically futuristic isn't stupid, definitely check out Daemon.
http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113
A couple of things I would like:
- Mark todos as recurring
- Reminders/Alarms
- I would prefer if we could add more to todo. Add todo, give it a title, then fill in the body.
- A "Done" button rather than a checkbox
- Give todo items a due date in addition to today tomorrow someday.

You say this is a minimalist app, but these are essential for me.
Right now, my mind is at doing a submission voting site for hacks, like what dfranke did to Hacker News: highest karma score ever for this site (784): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

Anyone interested?
Happy to do both.
Maybe, but its a tech that is more understandable to the masses, than "RSS feed". You have to think like a typical client with a new phone. How many phones have a twitter client? RSS?
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todo list apps are incredibly hard to get right. I have found I don't like most of them, and I have resorted to using tadalist most of the time. So far I am liking yours though.

It's really clean and simple, which is great. I also like that you used Air, even if others disagree.

I wish I could see all tasks at once. It looks like just adding an "All" list would accomplish that.

I also wish I could select more than one list at once (with cmnd and/or shift) and see both of them merged together in the main pane.

Adding tags with the pound sign is great, and the auto completion is even better. I really like that.

I wish the tag section could include a "tagless" option, to show me all tasks that lack tags.

If I select more than one task, I wish clicking a checkbox would effectively click all their checkboxes.

It really needs to have an online counterpart though. This unfortunately is really essential. I need my todo lists at home, at work, on my phone, just about anywhere. If you had that, I think I would totally use your app.
I am surprised by the lack of the Brother Metal page, but I'm not sure if it deserves being added or deleted :)
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I think the way this usually works out is that content sites, to remain impartial, serve intent generation ads for products other than those for which they are serving content.

For example, the Gizmodo front page right now has content about Droid, Apple, some headphones and an article about netbooks leaked from CES. While people are there reading these articles, they are exposed to ads for Geek Squad, Sony, or GameStop.

The intent generation ads are kept separate from the content, but appeal to a similar audience. Tada. This is not far from tv ads attempting to target particular demographics - it's clear that late night comedy isn't endorsing Girls Gone Wild, but they can exist in mostly the same space.
I was an AMD intern responsible for writing the software that tests for those bugs (these are my views and not those of AMD).

You're entirely on the mark--the bugs are generally not SSE-related, and are typically worked around at the BIOS level. In addition, these bugs aren't "bugs" in the software sense, but more in the engineering sense; running some specific set of 10 million instructions on 3% of the chips while holding at exactly 28 deg C flips a byte in the L2 cache or something. Not something that's easily reproducible.

OP is also right insofar as there would probably be a few gotchas with weird software that would make some engineer somewhere scratch his head because his for loop returns too quickly every third Monday. That doesn't mean that it's fair for Intel to disable SSEx, but it is probably an accurate observation--AMD and Intel have different bugs.
>TO put it bluntly, if the United States takes one step back and the rest of the world takes two steps forward, even in purely selfish terms we should consider accepting the trade-off, if only for the longer run.

When the Chinese dammed the Yangtze River they assured the farmers who lost their land that it was for the collective good, as if that was somehow compensation for their individual financial loss. This article seems to have a similar tone, glossing over the fact that the previous decade, for US citizens, involved a massive shift of assets from the middle class to the already very well-off, in addition to the movement of industry to emerging economies.

Emerging economies likely would have done even better without the global meltdown that was largely caused by the US deregulation-driven con games.
That wouldn't account for it. Even if every single black person was obese and every single white person was not, a 2%->12% discrepancy in black population could only account for a 10% swing in obesity rates. The rates you cite differ by more than that.

I think that potatolicious's addendum hit the nail on the head though: Americans eat too much food. When I cook for myself or eat at Google, my portion size is about 2/3 the typical restaurant portion. Doggy-bags have always been normal when my family ate out - it's not unusual for a restaurant meal to generate at least another couple lunches and sometimes another dinner. We're not fat. I suspect that a lot of Americans don't realize that restaurant portions are sized to accommodate the biggest conceivable person eating there (serving too little food is far worse than serving too much), and that the typical person shouldn't be eating anywhere near that much.
Clearly the cost of checking that AMD's errata is accurate is greater than the cost of having icc produce suboptimal code for AMD processors.

The results of incorrect code generation on any given platform would more likely be people ceasing to use Intel's compiler, and that's not something they want to deal with, I'm sure. As to it being anti-competitive, there's nothing stopping AMD from making their own compiler that produces more optimal code and trusts everyone's processors to work as advertised. If it produced better results, people would likely use it.
People need to rank others; they need a contest of some sort. A popularity contest is simply the broken positive feedback loop that's left when no valid comparison function can be found. In a school where everyone takes academics seriously, there's no need for popularity, because there's a working well-ordering already established (i.e. Through grades.)

Note that, unlike having a low ranking in a popularity contest, having a low meritocratic ranking isn't that bad for you, socially; although people like to rank others, they don't particularly care about the ranks once they're established. This is why popularity contests make people behave badly: since there's positive feedback, your ranking can change severely without any effort on your part—and you then start caring again, to get it stabilized.
Keywurl (http://alexstaubo.github.com/keywurl/) lets you change Safari's URL box to work more like a search box, but unfortunately has yet to be updated to work with Snow Leopard.
81-112 but plenty of that goes up on maintenance, email, statistics gathering business related stuff. I'm happy if half that goes in to productive (as in new working code) stuff.
One of my favorite Wikipedia categories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_lists
You are confused: shallow is one thing, sexist is another.

"...musical talent alone will not get you very far in showbusiness"

Your words, not mine. So, if musical talent is not what gets you ahead in showbiz, what is it then? Surprise, surprise... it's good looks! So, I am a sexist for stating the obvious. That's laughable.
My main goal right now is to bridge the technical gap. So in your analogy, I would be the trucking service, but perhaps with special features like refrigerated trucks specifically for the grocery industry.

So yes, we aren't acting as a distributor, we're simply providing the tools to make self-distribution via the Internet more attractive, and with some features to help marketing, the other big challenge, to be more easily overcome by an indie. And with Internet, marketing is made significantly easier.
working on a befunge-93 interpreter in haskell... that sounds epically useful, no?
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An anology to the Windows OS could be the case of using Win32 API to handle certain events which are not available in more modern API's such as MFC.
So, how would YC magically come up with that email address to use if you didn't put one in your profile ?
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Well I mean, toys are also fun to use and if something is going to cross the chasm then it needs to be accessible enough for the mainstream and everybody likes toys.
Kudos for preserving the title text.
This looks good, but I'm pretty happy with TaskPaper, which hits a very similar niche and doesn't require Air.
I'm working on a Mac GUI to control Django and Rails local development servers. Hoping to really take log viewing to the next level.

If you are interested: http://141312.com

I hope to launch in March.
The objection in the article is not what the compiler does, but how it's advertised. If it was claimed to be an optimizing compiler "for Intel CPUs only", then there would be no problem.

(Of course, if they did that, would people use it?)
I put in some documentation for Hackety Hack, and started a new Secret Project.

Should be fun.
It didn't know anything about any address I threw at it, so I feel pretty secure. And I'm as public as it probably gets, I make absolutely no effort to hide my identity or whereabouts.
The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts
Integrating package.el into the main Emacs codebase.
I believe these things are called Tourist Boards, but are paid for by taxes. For example, http://www.enjoyengland.com/
Yeah, Twitter often picks up on stories a lot earlier than media grabs a hold of them also.
If it's important host it yourself. TANSTAAFL.
The only meat in this post is the xkcd cartoon.
I wouldn't add any of those things... everyone has different 'essential' features.
Is this approach really that unique? I took a couple of Chinese classes in college, in a fairly traditional program, and memorizing the characters was ALL about the semantics & mnemonic devices for the varies different shapes & structures (radicals) found in the characters
While making a diff of the AGPL version 3 and GPL version 3, I can't see the point where you are not allowed to run the program. Can you point us to the respective part of the text assuming that fact?

Another important point, the AGPL or GPL license is applicable (not at the execution) only when you are distributing (conveying) the software. The AGPL is just an extension of the distribution nothing to do with the execution of the software.

diff -u gpl-3.0.txt agpl-3.0.txt

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
+ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

- If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
-notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
-
- <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
- This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
- This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
- under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
-
-The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
-parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands
-might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
+ If your software can interact with users remotely through a computer
+network, you should also make sure that it provides a way for users to
+get its source. For example, if your program is a web application, its
+interface could display a "Source" link that leads users to an archive
+of the code. There are many ways you could offer source, and different
+solutions will be better for different programs; see section 13 for the
+specific requirements.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
-For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
+For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU AGPL, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
- The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
-into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
-may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
-the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
-Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
-<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
Yes, absolutely, the web syncing is a must. The idea is to take it a step further with some cool teamwork capabilities.

About web UI - there are a lot of web-based to-do list out there, so it's not really a big differentiator. For me, being a heavy user, web based to-dos didn't work very well and that was one of the main reasons I built Codo. Nevertheless I can see how it adds some value.

Mobile client - this one I'm also lacking most of all, so will do something about it sooner than later.
I submitted the site earlier here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028410, I have some background info there.
Oh, I know what you mean. But satisfaction of curiosity counts as hackerly, even if nothing immediately productive comes of it. I'm just wondering how much time we spend on this particular interest to the detriment of all other things in our life.
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Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't quite figure out what the "Review" label means. What does it mean?
"You use the BSD license when you don't care about the commercial value of your code."

That sounds almost as ridiculous as someone saying:

"You use the GPL license when you want to scare off anyone else interested in using your code."

Seriously, though, there are a dozen examples with the code that runs GitHub to dispute your statement.
It's very strange, but despite having the same name, being from the same place, being around the same age (I think), and programming in mostly the same languages, Peter Michaux isn't me. Just for the record.
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That idea is flawed because putting that string will make it optimize for an Intel chip, which will be worse than optimizing for an AMD chip because even though the compiler chooses the worst "optimized" option, it is still optimizing FOR that chip. -> The AMD optimization is optimized -But the Intel optimization is extra optimized (but not optimized for AM- only for itself).
> 90 minute long low quality videos

If that's what you are offering, then I don't think it will do very well. Isn't the premise that there is good content to be found? Otherwise, why would anyone pay to view it? I know you're charging the producers, but if there's no end market, then the service isn't really legit. Am I missing something?

I'm not really an iTunes customer, but I do use Netflix, and they are set up very well to recommend long tail, otherwise unknown, independent content. IMO, they can do it without dragging down the quality of their service. They have a best of class recommendation engine. Also, because the service is flat rate, with no penalty for browsing, the viewer can have a great experience sampling unknown indie films. A pay-per-download model discourages exploration, doesn't it?

Edit:

> They are more in selling a service to the end consumer.

I guess I'm also missing how your service adds value if it's not also performing this function. Otherwise, as a filmmaker, what am I paying you for?
My toy twitter app. Trying to teach myself Scala/Lift and collaborative filtering techniques at the same time. Good times :)
Sensational headline: this article is only about the Intel C Compiler, which as far as I can see, is only used for benchmarketing and research purposes.
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Recurring & scheduled to-dos - although it was tempting, I decided to leave it out. First because it's against good productivity principles (the less you commit to specific dates, the better), second because calendar software works good enough for that.

About multiple fields per to-do - that's actually against one of the key principles - keep it simple, be minimalist. It keeps your to-do list focused, not overloaded with too much noise and secondary information.

Done button - you can use "Space" shortcut key for that.
Hey dude, that's an awesome web app you got there, im loving it.
It's worth noting that Danny Greenfield's team and the Nebula team each choose to use Django independently.
All cats have tails, my dog has a tail, ...
False. The data in this "infographic" is really best represented as a scatter plot, using much less ink, as shown in [1] and similar other blog posts. The lines are unnecessary and misleading.

It's good that Tufte has made concepts like data-to-ink density popular. But I urge you to actually evaluate that value when you look at a graph and refrain from using it to merely signal your knowledge of the right buzzwords.

[1]http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009...
So far this weekend I've lapped in most of the valves for the new engine for my truck, worked on some parts for my model T speedster, done a little work in the garden, and worked on some advanced features for the $5/month unlimited domain mail hosting service that's getting turned on in a couple of days.
There were plenty of programmable machines that made sounds in ancient history ... but recording was rare (until wire recorders anyway). But someone who beat that 1951 recording may turn up yet.
if content sites were generating real intent - and gizmodo, engadget and a few others certainly are - they could add direct affiliate links to those selling the products, and would make a lot of money in affiliate fees. Or just sell high CPM ads, like they do now, because advertisers understand these sites do generate real intent. However, most "content" sites generate little intent and all they have to offer advertisers are banner ads that don't work much, and don't get paid for much. How weird.
I was actually being ironic :)
It is so reliable I no longer impulsively reach for my brakes. Let’s say the car in front of me speeds up after slamming on its brakes.

Hmm. That sounds pretty dangerous :(
It's kind of parking area where you can put to-dos which you haven't decided what to do with yet i.e. For example, for quickly dumping ideas etc. Later on you can go over the list and decide whether an item needs to be done today, someday etc.

On a related noted - some in-app "hints" that explains this would be great. Something I should really add ...
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As a systems researcher, I have often used the Intel C Compiler when I wanted to make the most fair comparison possible because it is generally accepted to produce the best code of x86 processors. With that background, I correctly guessed from the headline what the content of the article was.
Helpful, but not nearly as helpful as if they endorsed it. There's not enough context here to know whether they are happy with git in practice.
Comments like the ones on this article are why younger devs are avoiding the free software movement (notice I said movement and not free software itself). Instead of honestly addressing the shortcomings of the GPL you get all defensive and huffy, like a 10 year old who's been told his skateboard sucks.
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I think he means the "About" section, which is publicly viewable as opposed to the "Email" field, which only the admins can see.
Hmmm that I didn't know. That could be complicated if they moved in the last year (e.g. deemed disposition of shares and all that). I guess as long as they're reporting to whoever the appropriate reporting authority is though I doubt Italy's tax department is as sophisticated as the IRS (they're known to have checked out facebook profiles).
That would be passing off / trademark infringement FWIW.
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