skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel as strongly as the author that the new UI basically screwed up the 'character' of the site, but most importantly its usability.
For the first time in the last three months I did not spent time on the site. The new UI looks good but it doesn't flow well. In any case it is my strong belief that any site redesign should be incremental and not as dramatic as this one.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but could you give me an example of what you're talking about?
You are right. They will be affected. It is not practical to try to limit speech/ads etc. It's not one of the values we have traditionally had. What does this leave us with?

Power will always attract money so let's have less power.
why prineville, oregon?
I think protomyth was referring to the fact that while the Theora folks loudly claim to be unencumbered by patents this is a completely untested assertion and if such a patent were to show up they are without their own suite of patents with which to threaten the other party. MPEG-LA is covered by patents and has a licensing board, but the spec is also pretty-well vetted by various teams of lawyers and if someone tries to submarine a patent in they would find themselves facing a rather large, well-funded, and pissed off group with no qualms about burying the troll in counter-claims and long/expensive discovery, etc.
I used to use one of these for the same purpose. Being fully enclosed makes it a bit sturdier and the casters are a nice touch:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90120545

Now I'm using a studio rack from nice-racks.com, which I would highly recommend to anyone looking to put a proper rack in their home.

http://www.nice-racks.com/16_space-Nice_Racks_16_space_studi...
Firefox cached the bad response for me. Try refreshing.
It's all about the cores. Why AMD doesn't use HyperThreading
LACKer News
I have been having a lot of problems with that recently, firefox or my dns have suddenly decided to try and go to keyword.com, without forwarding me, and sending http://keyword/ as the header, which breaks most sites around
You realize, of course, if I ran a website criticizing something it would show a lot of hits for that thing right? Quantity alone doesn't tell us much here.
Mac OS has even more acceleration than Windows by default. That's a common complaint among new Mac users, who often incorrectly and adamantly insist both that Windows has a linear mapping where 1 inch on the mouse pad equals N inches on the screen, and that that is the right way to do it.
This is a 3D printer that uses sugar. It's not nutritious but at least it's real.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab
A Cure for Cancer? Royal Rife
The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence
My point is that Apple doesn't have to "win" in this way.
Why does Apple care if Amazon "controls the ecosystem," when they can still sell high margin hardware? Does Apple have to control the Web because they publish Safari? Safari was a play to assure the continued viability of OS X. Apple doesn't necessarily want to "win". They want to make money. "Winning" isn't necessary in every case for that.
When studying French and German having most recently studied sign language I found it strange that this happened - that signs would come to me in place of the French (or German) word I was looking for. I assume this means that the actions in sign language are stored in the speech centres and that concept-word relationships are like 1-to-many connections with some flag for the language being used.
How does the U.S. effort in Haiti compare to the U.S. effort in New Orleans?
Not in entire agreement with this. This goes against the very grain of the lean startup methodologies and the idea of being out of "stealth mode" as it were.

I think both Apple, and Google have the luxury of a huge in-house user test base which other companies do not, which means they cannot afford to create something in-house and launch it and expect it to be an instant market fit.

Just my 2 cents.
Sleepycat?
http://www.macruby.org/ -- Apple's supporting an OSS project to use LLVM for real compilation, getting Ruby within spitting distance of Objective-C.

Of course, the fact that it's tied to the Objective-C runtime means it's not portable as-is, but at least it's a proof that Ruby need not be slow.
AGW is the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Anthropogenic means "caused by humans". What you described is basic radiation transfer and mass balance.
What we can learn from Cicero: It's the arrangement of words
I agree with most of your comment, but switching is not so easy for social networks. Flickr is largely a social network for photography enthusiasts.
Massive Outflows in SPY: What Gives?
Data centers are typically built near cheap energy sources.

Read this for more on the data centers energy efficiency: http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2010/01/facebook_to...
Thanks. If you have any specific comments please reply or email me (address in profile).
Fine, can we jail a few corporations now?

I would also like politicians to wear sponsor tags like nascar drivers.

I may as well be asking for a pony.
Yes, but corporations are a way for sentient beings to skirt liability. A corporation cannot go to prison for life. A corporation is designed with the goal of producing profit for its sentient owners/shareholders. It has no interest in leading a "healthy" life, only a profitable life.
Originally it was going to be "Who Read It?" but then I realized that the domain name could be creatively interpreted. Hence, just Read It. When I say it myself, I pronounce it "reed", probably due to the similarity to reddit (which I don't find to be particularly bothersome).
People really hate change.

I am sure t61 team will fix the smaller issues around the design, but I think the new UI is likely here to stay.
The overall theory becomes less believable with each "isolated incident." You can dismiss one or two, I guess, but eventually you have to wonder how many more isolated incidents there are going to be.

You couldn't have made up a more alarming factoid if you tried. I'm a skeptic (not a "denier"), but when I read this particular prediction I was alarmed. 2035? That's within most peoples' lifetime. 100s of millions of people? Yikes!

After a minute or two of thinking about it, I concluded that it sounds pretty unlikely and they probably either don't really know how to get from current data to melting glaciers and were merely guessing, or they were lying, or they were bumbling.

In general I don't worry about global warming. I believe there is some. I believe humans contribute to some of it. I believe that the scientists and politicians understand almost every little bit of detailed data that they have (isolated incidents notwithstanding). And I believe that their ability to effectively predict broad results based on that data is no better than Popular Mechanics back in 1940 predicting that we'd all have flying cars in 2000 (and where's mine?).
Weird IE Bug — no favicon for 404 page?
Has anyone faced this problem?
More in a general way, being a uni student I've just noticed that the only real workplace I've worked at in development is kind of lacking in quality development systems, comparing it to freelance developing on a decent system at home you realize how much more productive you can be on a decent system.
Ask HN: What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects?
Just looking for projects - feel free to give a reason why.
Actually the notes indicate the opposite, that meat was more lean when it was free-range, hunted for and todays meat (grown in feed lots, etc) is much more fatty.
I'm a bit disappointed by the marketing spin. They come up with a few examples where HT falls down, and use that to dismiss the whole idea?

I wouldn't mind if they had put it in clear and honest terms: a 20% improvement in performance is not worth the unpredictable chances of performance degradation. That's a fair engineering decision. But hiding behind what some Cognos consultant and some Technet curator have written online, really?

And I'm still trying to decipher the technical motivation from this answer: "Of course there are those that can say “well, things like SMT can be implemented inexpensively and don’t consume that much power.” To those, I ask you, historically hasn’t AMD been the one committed to deliver better value and lower power? Why would we stray from our core principles?"
A pretty classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma, IMHO. Sun hardware was kickass but cheap PC servers eventually beat them out.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply to my snarky comment.
This site has been hacked. I'm not jumping through the hoops to get a login to post a comment. View source and search over it for "viagra". Or turn off javascript (used to hide the links) and you can see it. Browser beware, though I think this is just a wordpress hack.
Well, the business should probably be interested in what their users hate.
Clojure, Redis
The problem here is not that there is change, but the manner in which the site was changed. I'm going to repost my comment from the earlier T61 post because I think it's relevant.

As a relatively new artist (about a year), thesixtyone has been an amazing place. I met a lot of new people, generated interest in my music and learned a lot from the other artists there.

With the redesign that's all gone. All of the community and social aspects of the site have disappeared and we are left staring a giant background image. I didn't go to the sixtyone to look at cover art. I went to listen to music and to discuss it with my friends and fans.

The other thing I find baffling is that they were making real money with tip and album system. Fans were actually supporting the artists directly. It was working. That feature has been buried in this design. And, by burying the discussion between artists and fans, they have effectively killed the primary reason to tip an artist.

The worst part about it is that James and Sam don't talk with their absolutely fanatical users. There was no mention that a redesign this drastic was going to happen. There was no beta period for testing. All of those people commenting on the T61 Facebook page are their true fans. James and Sam haven't said a single word.
My bookshelf doesn't need to be built of solid titanium
Twitter open source tool for large-scale deploys using BitTorrent
If the author reads HN.... You've been hacked. Try visiting your site with JavaScript disabled:

http://imgur.com/GkFJ7

...unless you're trying to up your SEO with the Viagra crowd.

Tried to comment this on the blog, but registration is turned off. Sending an email at the "contact me" page a note...
Team Canada labeled cheaters before 2010 hockey tournament starts
This certainly highlights the difference between a major corporation and most start-ups.

When you can fund masses of inventory, have access to user-tests and product trials, and already have a profile that can be leveraged through a big-bang, Jobs and Apple have clearly demonstrated the success of that strategy.

When you don't already have a lazy $30M, on top of a customer base and media world who know and love you, then you gotta release-early, release often. Make sure you're building something that will sell, and if that means test sites, low sales, and constant iteration then look around on this site to find the demonstrated success of that strategy.
You could do some work to make the directory easier to read. Some inspiration: http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/AZDesigners http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoReferen...
Patch gives Python 2.5.4 Python 3's improved GIL
How to Grow Human Organs (Ted Talks Video)
Why is there woo here?
It's not a problem as long as politicians are required to report their funding sources. One politician receiving a million dollars from a corporation is free publicity for the opposing politician.
I don't understand why he can't just go to the British Embassy and have them take him out of the country. Or is that not how it works?
Some of it might be a matter of experience.

It's just taken me 30 days to add some new CLI functionality to a piece of code (my first ever time working with this bit of the code stack - I'm not familiar with the underlying code, the debug tools, the various ways the build can fail). I know that the standard time for an experienced CLI developer to implement the equivalent extension of functionality on this section of the code is 3 days.

My second piece of CLI functionality is on track for 15 days... so by the time that's finished I will only be 5 times worse. :)
COBOL :)
The percentage increase is only part of the data. If his sales went from $10K to $20K per month for 4+ months on a $300 product, that would be a lot more compelling.
There is, it is called WidgEditor http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/
There are comments here covering aspects of this I'd never dreamed of. It's cool seeing the vast collective intelligence of many people.
I enjoyed the talk very much, especially the part towards the end about management and how people whose sole job is to manage are a large problem because they start making shit up to manage because they need to fill out an eight-hour day. I think he does make a logical error about b-school, for example, in saying that because customers don't care whether you did the 5 forces analysis or not such analysis is irrelevant. B-school probably has tools such as 5 forces that may help you build a better product or position it better and just because your customers don't see or care about that analysis does not make it irrelevant. Kind of like building a web service on ROR.
wow that's so nice !! I'm actually studing that in my uni in France but my teacher is sooooo boring. Watching to those videos make me feel like I'm in his class. Real good occasion to profit from MIT's class without being at MIT ^^
...so can plants and animals!
I agree. Wow. What a site! What's wrong with it? (are my thoughts)

Only a few minor issues with usability though, like "what does this button do" how do I "find a different category of music" that was solved by clicking a couple of buttons.
Blue bream is the same fish as Zope:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramis_ballerus
Such "pretend to be a USB stick but not really" devices really suck everywhere except Windows, though. (They typically use fairly standard drivers in the end, but unless there is a specific entry to tell the kernel "this is really a ...", they are going to be seen as USB sticks instead.)

In short, I'm not sure they deserve that much praise.
Jakarta. It may not be hot and trendy, but it's certainly popular

Edit: To the persons who downvoted me. I was not being sarcastic. I use stuff from the Jakarta project on a daily basis.
I'm generally against mandatory subjects in education as it tends not to reflect the vast differences in experience and background, motivation and ability of the students.

At a higher education level (say College on up) I would be strongly inclined to agree with you. Give the students freedom and they will make the right choices for themselves, and they will be the only ones to live with it if they don't.

At the basic education level (high school and below), this is precisely when society is teaching its children what it needs to continue its culture.

Most students at this age do not have the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about what they should learn, and moreover society has a vested interest in ensuring that its young people meet certain minimums. My argument is that a second language should be one of those minimums, but that the choice of which language should be given (within resource limits) to the student or their family.

To answer your direct questions though, someone who cannot use a first language to any reasonable degree either has a learning disability or has been failed by the education system. In that second case, the education system has failed them and should take extraordinary measures to correct that without lowering the standards (my argument is that a second language should be part of those standards). And for people who are already fluent in a second language, they have already exceeded that requirement.
A sample size of more than a handful of sales per month (since the software cost "between $200 and $500") would make it more convincing. A randomized experiment would also be more convincing, and not hard to do.
bencode serialization is 800 lines!? I wrote under 50 in Smalltalk. In fact, I think it was less than half that. (To be fair, you can do this by adding recursive methods to Streams, which already have infrastructure to deal with the external environment.)
very good read.
> When you don't already have a lazy $30M

Apple has $30B

( src: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/10/20/apple-is-ch... )
> You know what I'm waiting for? "The average temperature and standard deviation of these 50 regions are X and Y. We expect them to increase by A and B over the next five years. If that didn't happen in at least 35 regions, that would cast doubt on our model." I'm looking for falsifiable claims, and not seeing any. This instills doubt.

You want precise predictions involving immediate weather features? Sorry, you will not get those. No one is claiming you should be able to get those. But lots of predictions are being made, you're just not aware of them.

> As for what I think after looking at most of the mainstream accessible things on climate? The Earth seems to be getting slowly warmer, that's been happening since before the Industrial Revolution, and probably isn't a bad thing.

The Earth's climate naturally varies based on a variety of things. The question we have to ask is, "How much has our practice of un-sequestering epic amounts of CO2 affected the elasticity of this cycle." No one of repute is claiming that AGW is the sole cause of global warming, they're saying it's the majority cause. For us to see such profound changes in the global environment during a Solar minima is, even without a boatload of collected evidence, very disturbing.

> No. The burden of proof is on the people who are making the claims of catastrophe and calls for trillions of dollars.

The burden of proof is indeed on the shoulders of the scientists. But remember that that burden is not synonymous with convincing you, personally. A mountain of data is out there, complete with multiple interpretations. If you want to join the conversation, pony up and start reading.

> It does matter...

No one gives a shit how you feel about this. This isn't me being mean, this is a defensive measure. The exact words you've used could easily be contrived by any one of dozens of people who have a counter agenda. Fortunately, what you say about your personal emotional state is of little import to the science going on.

Stop trying to make an emotional appeal for your position. The time for that is past, we have hard data now.
Oh, I did not know that. I usually concentrate on the newer problems.
Leading by Omission [video]
plt scheme
* iProd? (cattle roundup tool)

I wonder if they'd go for iSpy for a spy camera. They've got a slogan already: "with my little eye".
Let's take an example. Imagine that I start a company. I IPO but retain 51% ownership. Let's say that the remaining 49% of that company is owned by 1,000 individuals. Now let's say that this company can become more profitable by cutting a few corners, with the problem that these corners are currently unlawful. As the majority owner I decide to use the companies "free speech" to grease the wheels of a few politicians who can make these laws go away.

This companies "free speech" is now funded by over 1,000 shareholders. Some of which may not even support the message being produced. Are you aware of all of the lobbying done by the companies in which you own stock? Does the corporate voice truly represent those of the shareholders?
The App Store model and the "free to install" model are not incompatible.

The App Store is hugely convenient, and makes it dead simple to install and pay for software. The part of the App Store that doesn't involve restrictive policies is a win. There is no reason that a sponsored App Store and the freedom to install whatever you want cannot coexist. In a magical parallel universe where Apple encouraged Cydia, that's exactly what we would have: App Store as package manager with a user-friendly front end and payment infrastructure.
This doesn't look like it would create many dishes of the sort most of us would consider meals. It looks more like something for prototyping highly-processed junk foods.
China: Google Case Shouldn't Be Linked to U.S. Relations
I'm speechless, and the result of this decision will make that more so, relative to rich non-person corporations.
Data sent home by µtorrent
Baidu Still Would Face Hurdles if Google Quit China
iCaramba? (time travel device that moves you back 1 minute)
Ribbon Hero
If it's your first time on the site, nothing is wrong with it. It looks awesome.

But if you've been using it for a year or two, you'll find that all of the social interaction between fans and artists is gone. The group interaction is gone. Your saved songs are gone.

It's a very pretty shell of what it used to be.
I was semi-interested in checking this out until I was prompted to download Microsoft Silverlight to view the videos. No thanks.
A few observations on this helpful piece:

Fit is what counts above all in choosing a law firm for your startup.

Fit with the key lawyer - good working relationships are very important in this area (make sure your primary lawyer is responsive, clear in communication, sharp, and strategic).

Fit with the firm - prominent firms excel in representing startups with capital intensive needs, and they will hook you up with solid VC introductions and open their doors to some superb lawyering skills and great legal advisors within their firms; if you don't need the VC money out the gate, then weigh all the above against the expensive fee structures ($500/hr and up for even green attorneys) and the 3 to 1 associate to partner ratios with the attendant risk that your little startup may be serviced by relatively inexperienced young lawyers. (Disclosure: I compete against these firms).

Fit with your plans - yes, you can mess up by not understanding your legal options early on but there are countless startups that do just fine even though they do not retain a lawyer right at inception (cost/benefit does matter and the horror stories of how you can mess up are in fact the comparatively rare cases, though you should be avid to educate yourself in the meantime to what the typical risks are and to use the knowledge so gained to make a good choice on when to bring in a lawyer).
With respect, I would hardly ever think of going to an overpriced airport restaurant if I had other local choices near my work. Keeping them behind security where they can properly service hungry travelers seems right to me.
Redis, node.js & sinatra
This letter is very contradictory to the tweet I sent out earlier today:

@jzy That is a wicked UX. Love the website. Re: http://thesixtyone.com/ (http://twitter.com/mattwdelong/status/8037231259)

Reminds me of the uproar when Facebook makes changes; go with it people. On another note, if it WASN'T for this change, I wouldn't know about this site. I listened to it for a couple hours today and then tossed the link to a musician friend of mine who is well entrenched in the Atlantic Canadian music scene.