skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find them very useful when I want to send a quick email to somebody with a link. It looks neater (OCD) when you say: "Look what I found on the internet - rddd.it/xxxx"

Also, I link so many people to interesting reddit threads and I'd rather use a shortened link that allows me to email/tweet and yes, even text to somebody.
Software Tools For Buggier Bloated Software
I'm sorry to hear about that chegra84. Hope things are more on track now.

I don't know of pithy sayings, but something along the lines of "going through the proper channels" is deeply ingrained in a lot of people. Following that advice has meant I've passed up a lot of opportunities and allowed people to, however well meaning, say no to things I otherwise could have done. I'm somewhat of a believer in "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission," but like all advice, you really need to think through whether and how it applies to your situation.

One other note: "It might be better to do b2b first then try b2c." I've almost never seen people advise businesses try to tackle B2C, and I think it's just the allure of being a recognizable name that attracts people to that market.
That is what I just said. I just disagree with that rule, I think it's wrong-headed; so I don't wish to participate in the site anymore, end of.
Another ISP tried to restrict bit torrent traffic and got pages and pages of bad press as a result.

That would be Comcast.
Centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic sea
I need to buy some Arduinos, stat!
No links, just personal experience from some small run textile products. I found several factories in India and Bangladesh who all sent me free samples. I called many US factories who make similar products and I got nowhere with any of them. Wouldn't return calls. Wouldn't follow up. Couldn't give me estimates for costs and none would make a sample. It seemed like they thought I was wasting their time.

However, overseas, they were all eager and willing to do the work. The factory I went with sent us several examples and worked with us diligently to modify the design to meet our needs/desires. We are getting our first order shipped this month! :)
I don't understand something then. You are asking the people here if they would pre-order grid-spy, but the majority (the large majority) of your audience here has absolutely no application for industrial power monitoring, unless they run their own data centers, I think just about all your respondents took it in the context of their regular home power consumption, unless I'm reading them wrong.

If you want to know about the reception in that segment of the market then HN is the wrong place to ask, a gathering of captains of industry in the manufacturing or the retail end of things would be a better target.
Don't you mean _Sunday_, March 14? :D
Yea but if you compile it, wouldn't it be faster than being interpreted? And the interpretor is also a human brain, which is much more error prone than a computer.
I'd like to see some explanation in terms of evolution theory for things being like that before I buy it. Otherwise, how different is that theory from "some people are born in the sign of scorpio and some in the sign of capricorn, and they don't mix together well"?
"an inexplicably moronic hit app"

Tip: Empathy is easier if you don't describe the people you're trying to empathize with using negative-affect terms.
That's definitely true. I wonder what will happen when China releases the Yuan and they are able to compete on a wealth scale with the U.S. Inflation is going to increase dramatically for U.S. consumers and many of the products we use today will become out of reach for even the middle class.

We'll be riding bikes and they'll be driving cars.
By your logic, spam is also working fine because the people who invest money into it are getting the ROI they desire.

Anyway, I'm hardly a "single" voice on the topic:

http://www.drawar.com/articles/dont-let-ads-kill-your-site/6...

And here's a non-anonymous blogger who is/has spoken on the same topic at SXSW. I didn't make it there, but I'm looking forward to a synopsis or a video.

"Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom"

http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/617

"How individuals and groups can maintain some shred of dignity and support themselves by creating ad and sponsorship programs that benefit and respect publishers, readers and advertisers. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network."

(emphasis mine)
Visual Illustration of How the Rails Stack Works
ISO Dates are in the form yyyy-mm-dd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso_date
It's a social signal. You don't want people to criticize your fun weekend hack because it hasn't demonstrated product-market fit, or because it doesn't stand up to the market leaders, or whatever.

Without a clear label, every time someone coughs around here it's interpreted as some kind of business plan, or an attempt to get into YC.

The title tells you that this submission is for fun. Either try to look like you're enjoying yourself when you read it, or take note of the warning label and skip the article.
Ah, yes, you're right, that was it!

No wonder I couldn't find it in google :)
No worries everything is find now. Thx for the concern.

Now you mentioned it, I never heard anybody give b2c advice. Implicitly, I get the sense they are saying b2c.
Well most people don't know enough physics to understand that.

I love the mythbusters episode that debunked the Nazi soldier on the bike flipping over in the Indiana Jones movie.
Yes, I recognize that the universe is completely indifferent to humanity (and life in general). Instead of accepting this, I wish to fix it.

Think about an ant in a busy railway station. If she gets trod on, does that make the commuter evil, or just indifferent to the ant's interests?

I'm going to say both, but that's a disagreement on definitions. To move this debate along, I'll use your definitions of evil and bad. OK, natural disasters aren't evil. Disease isn't evil. Aging isn't evil. They're all indifferent to us.

With that out of the way:

Would you prefer a world with more or fewer natural disasters? Would you prefer a world with more or less disease? Would you prefer a world where people lived shorter lives or longer lives?

I guess I'll end with a quote as well:

The Patrician took a sip of his beer. "I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to its day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."

-- Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
It's possible that the American 'sue happy' culture will create it's own incidents but from the amount of government involvement and the numerous recalls and 'fixes' it would seem to me that there really is some kind of issue.

What I don't get though, is that given the number of Toyotas of just about every model in service that there aren't more incidents like this. You'd say that on a given day there ought to be several malfunctions if it is a systemic error.

It would have to be a fairly rare set of conditions satisfied at the same time to bring about the bug, and I find it hard to believe that Toyota devs would not be able to come up with a bunch of scenarios after looking at their system with a magnifying glass (which I don't doubt they've been doing) that might trigger the issue until they found it.

Personally I'd have absolutely no problem in buying / driving any model Toyota, even knowing this, but I've always been wary of drive-by-wire systems and I like to figure out how to force a car to a stop.

I've owned a Honda Civic hybrid and one of the first things I did when I learned the throttle was automatic was figure out how strong the handbrake was, and what happens when you try to force the shifter in to 'N' while at speed. (be very careful not to push it one step too far :) ).

The main issue is that if the electrical system on one of these would go haywire that the torque the electric motor can put out is way stronger than what you can overcome with the brakes. The article suggests the brakes are 'electrical', that's only partially true, the brakes are 'regenerative', but there is a back-up disc system as well.

Just like any electro-mechanical industrial machine a car that has this kind of control should probably come with an 'abort' switch that shuts down the power to the engine. That in itself is also not without issues because that means your power steering goes instantly to '0' and it can be surprisingly hard to steer a car that has not been designed for manual control. On the highway that is a doable trick, at lower speeds it is more than most people (especially the ladies) can handle.
You probably just gaze through the headlines about it because to be honest Duck Duck Go isn't very eye grabbing, but there are plenty of articles about it and most of the duck duck go blog postings seem to make it to the front page and there are plenty of comments about it.
I'm not arguing that Haskell can't improve in a lot of ways, but his complaints all seem to stem from attempting to program in Haskell using idioms that don't work well there. If you want to incrementally add to a data structure, use currying, or multiple constructors if that fits better. Don't use Maybes, and definitely don't subclass datatypes. He doesn't really seem to understand monads at all. If you want to log something, use a monad like Writer, not IO.
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetScalability
A friend of mine needs a small project done (videocompression and storage with a webbased frontend) and has asked me where to get it done. I referred him to rentacoder and elance, but I'd much rather refer him to someone from HN. If you're interested (or if anyone else is for that matter) you can send me a mail and I'll get you in touch with the guy. My mail is max (at) maximise.dk
Matt Cutts: Clarifying a couple points
Sell Ice Cream, Not Cream and Ice
Looks like the levels and perhaps the idea are based on "Super Pixel Bros" game:
http://hackaday.com/2010/02/19/update-most-interesting-game-...
Here's a youtube progress update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvba3prLlc

Pretty awesome if you ask me.
C++0xB?
Yes, and this recent thread[1] on the Cappuccino mailing list has links to several other Objective-X languages.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/objectivej/browse_thread/thre...

But the first ones I linked are all Objective-C. Well, Étoilé has implemented a smalltalk-esque syntax now.
I disagree. It's well-documented that Bush's advisors wanted a "Kennedy moment", and felt that a big announcement that Americans were returning to the moon would be good PR, even if it never panned out. Constellation was an incredibly cynical marriage of political hacks in the administration and NASA administrators desperate to preserve the glory of Apollo. Constellation was dead in the water when public reaction turned negative, even if no one in NASA was willing to admit it.

Also, I hold to my opinion that manned spaceflight has produced nothing of scientific value. I'm sure you could come up with the odd technology here or there, but after fifty years it's hard to point to any significant technologies that came out of human spaceflight, much less advances in science. All human spaceflight teaches us is how to put men in space. I'm not suggesting that NASA's budget should be cut, but they should be spending that money on missions that produce real results, like the Mars rovers.
IIRC, RentACoder sent me a 1099 that covered all the payments they made to me for the year I bid on a few projects. I had already accounted for the income, so it didn;t really change anything.
>In this respect, off shoring manufacturing enables a greater range of innovation at much lower risk. I can build 1000 widgets overseas for $1 each, but I can't even get 1000 widgets in the u.s. due to the cost of the machines to make them.
>The reason the US is still the powerhouse of manufacturing is because they manufacture simple and common devices like screws, springs, etc with machines.

Your claims strongly contradict my experience. I worked for a manufacturing school in Chicago and learned a bit about the machining/manufacturing market. In the Chicago area alone there are thousands of computerized manufacturing shops on all scales. The smaller shops are often a dozen Polish guys, some CAD software and a few CNC machines. They will happily make your 1000 widgets.

These shops survive specifically because Chinese manufacturing only deals with massive volume and is not nearly as reliable. They don't make "simple and common devices" but rather complicated parts for cars, airplanes, consumer devices, pieces of larger scale manufacturing equipment, etc...

edit: I see from your other post that you work with textiles-- that's probably a very different market than the precision parts manufacturing I'm familiar with.
In my experience realizing that your partner has different expectations for the actions--Physical Touch, Words of Affirmatio, Quality Time, Thoughtful Gifts, Acts of Service--that affirm your relationship is the hard part. Acting on that realization is straightforward if you are committed to the relationship. It's a good book and one I wish I had read earlier.
I love that the software (which may or may not be the cause this though I am leaning towards not.) is being crucified for something that could have happened in older cars with direct throttle body response. My friend got the throttle cable stuck on a dirt bike that he was using and it was going full tilt until he was able to return the throttle to it's default state. I would imagine that an improperly maintained older car would have the same capability for sticking.
Pac is awesome. It's inspiring to see someone so good at what he does.
Approaching Productivity
I'm at sxsw for the first time this year and missed this due to poor time management on my end. Gotta say though that I probably retained more from reading this recap than I would have attending the talk itself.
A regular computer can draw red and orange squares and accept inputs from buttons too. If you really want to do a hardware project, get an Arduino, but you can easily play with ideas like this without any hardware. And you won't have to write your code in C.
ok, i'll do it properly :)
Code Bubbles
Reverse the situation. Would you press a button that caused 1 billion people (mostly children) to starve to death? After all, fewer humans means less resources consumed, less pollution, and fewer animals going extinct.

I agree that pollution is bad, but I care about human lives more than I care about the environment. Plants can't feel pain or suffer.
I agree with you on the point about inspiration for the interested people (and I am one of them, so I can feel that). But I doubt that some of these people realize clearly what happens to the American economy.

How long do you think it will take for a space program to pay off for your commitment? How long will it take for it to start reducing American debt? What scientific breakthroughs have manned missions brought? And I mean examples, when more advanced robotic technology couldn't do the same? What do you learn about propulsion by sending a human into space?

The scientific gain is marginally limited to the effects of radiation and low gravity on the crew. Your prospects like "unobserved properties of things great and small, things that men may notice that instruments are not designed to notice" I believe are 'thought up' by definition. And what I mean is all that can be done by robotics.

There are only a few areas where human perception can be a reference instrument. That might be in fields of interaction with otherworldly life. But we haven't encountered it yet. So I think that by talking about space exploration, you actually refer to space tourism.

And this is not a matter of science, this is a job for the commercial industry.
Or to put it another way, could you catch your child if they had fallen 50m (about 7 storeys)?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fall+50m

At the end of that fall, they would be travelling 70mph, as fast as they are travelling in a car. If you were both travelling in a car, and you suddenly stopped, they would continue travelling at that speed.
Synaptic Web
Seems kind of like a trivial me-too site.
I'm not sure I agree with the article's conclusion, although I'm convinced the guy is lying. The basic fact presented is that the brakes show no sign of heavy use, but of course they don't: the brakes are more powerful than the engine, so if they were applied heavily, the car would have stopped. But the fact that they don't show signs of heavy use doesn't necessarily mean that he wasn't stomping on the brake pedal. The whole point of his accusation is that there is something wrong with his Prius.

As I said, I'm convinced he's lying, but to show that they'll need to provide evidence that the entire braking system was working, not just that the brake pads aren't worn down.
This article comes to an abrupt...
You shouldn't sit on a small chair in your living room while you drive either. This guy and his family seem terribly confused, like they are living in a metaphor.
I don't believe that human beings will ever be able to exist independently of earth without radically more advanced technology, in every field.

If you consider the amount of support the early American colonists required from Europe, despite how primitive their society was in comparison to ours, colonization of space would require an immense amount of infrastructure that simply doesn't exist beyond the earth's surface. Materials that we take for granted, like hydrocarbons and plastics, are unobtainable off-earth. More seriously, the moon and Mars have almost no native sources of energy. Everything would need to be shipped from earth at tremendous expense.

Obviously, it would be possible to put men on the moon or Mars and support them with an endless train of supplies from earth, but in the event of some catastrophe on earth that interrupted the flow of materiel, those colonies would become deathtraps rather than refuges.
One day I was turning across traffic on a green arrow. One second I was driving straight, the next second I was in a crazy spinning rollercoaster. All I could feel was disorientation, spinning and the seatbelt clutching me tight.

When the car came to rest, I was surrounded by glass and the (empty) passenger seat was crushed by the collapsed side of the car where I had been hit. The other car which had run the red light at full speed drove off and was later caught.

Had I not been wearing a safety belt, I don't like to think where I would have ended up. Fortunately I was barely injured. The car was totalled.

I love the emotions in this ad. Always wear your safety belt.
People just leap to blame the software. It's dark and mysterious and people imagine that it is taking control away from them.
That's interesting.
I just picked up the next version of up that photoframe at sofmap (6000yen, go get one!) and have been trying to figure out what the hell to do with it other than show my wife's facebook pictures.

I do have two questions though: Does the photoframe automatically update the RSS feed each time it runs through so that your stats are always current? I was under the impression that it only reads the RSS feed once on slideshow startup, and then just keeps display the same info over and over (whether or not it keeps the photos in memory I don't know)

Also, have you figured out a way to get your dashboard to startup when you turn the photo-frame on, instead of having to select windows framit from the menu? That's my most cringe-worthy "feature" of the buffalo frame. I'm actually thinking about calling them and getting them to fix that.
Check this: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/
I second this - the 'call to action' does need to be stronger. On the other hand 'not looking like a shop' makes it less likely that your window will be immediately closed and that people might have a click around.
Simply the funniest comment I have ever read on HN!

Perhaps they are used to their father's peculiar ways. Perhaps he has telekinesis and vivid daydreams.
Why are plurals counted separately? "Kite" and "kites" are the same word.
Glad to hear you're feeling better. Thanks for the heads up!
If you really ever want to get into the digital signage options in Japan, I can bore your brain you with companies with cheap computers/monitors/etc.

But no, you'll never get anything as cheap as these buffalo monitors.
People tend to not want to try new things when their car is not working properly. Maybe there should be driving simulators so that drivers can practice recovering from unexpected events without risking injury. It works for airplane pilots.

Basically, why guess about what to do in a crisis when you can try recovering from the crisis as many times as you want beforehand?
I'm biased, http://testplanmanagement.com, but I think you need to document your test cases and the results of every pass through those testcases.
One of the commenters on the site mentions how this craft achieves flight. It's called "ground effect".
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_in_aircraft
The point of having a business is making money, and if having brand awareness on Hacker News doesn't make you money, why bother? For a company like Directed Edge, though, having brand awareness on HN can bring in a ton of money, since developers on Hacker News will read about them, check them out, and sign up as paying customers.

Just depends on the business.
The Buffalo photo-frame does the opposite: read a samba folder over a network.

It just ALSO has support for windows frameit, flicker and picasa.

It's a pretty nice piece of hardware.
Ted.com started a "best of the web" section. this is a video of Richard Feynman.
That's pretty much what my company does: custom digital signage for companies to show energy consumption, work progress metrics, etc etc.

It's going to be a pretty large market, but is still in the burgeoning phase (especially in Nagoya)
For $250 you could get your shopping cart app done. Think of about $200 - $400 for a weeks work (fulltime) by a competent programmer. Then estimate how long it will take him and put that price.
Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright
Any of the styles are compatible provided each partner understands that the other may have different style(s) and commits to using their "language(s)." It's not about compatibility but understanding a root source of miscommunication.
But isn't shifting into neutral common taught and common knowledge I know my driving instructor, videos, and both my mother and father told me this when I was learning to drive.
Trying it and seeing that you don't die is stronger than "heard it from my dad".
Yeah, I totally agree. It did foster some interesting discussion though, which is what I really wanted.

I thought perhaps there might be some early adopters here interested in the data and how they could use it.

There are easy ways to meet captains of industry, chief among them power saving associations such as http://www.eeca.govt.nz/
Possible. I do tend to skip most startup-related content, because I really don't care. But I have still managed to hear about Bingo Card Creator, Mixergy, and Mibbit.