skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One such article is Technological Leapfrogging: Lessons from the U.S.Video Game Console Industry By Melissa Schilling. I read it for a Technology Entrepreneurship class and we discussed how Atari's "Unauthorized Games" were detrimental to their long term success.

Here is a pertinent quote from the paper, as I am unable to find a free version online:

"In the mid-1980s, profits for video game makers began to decline; many feared that video games had reached market saturation. Compounding this, the rapid proliferation of unauthorized games (games produced for a console with- out authorization of that console’s producer) lead to a market glut of games of dubious quality, and many unhappy retailers with video game inventories they were unable to move. By 1985, many industry observers were declaring the video game industry dead. Much to everyone’s surprise, however, two new entrants from Japan entered the U.S. video game market: Nintendo, with its 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) introduced in 1985, and Sega, which launched its 8-bit Master System in the U.S. in 1986 (Sega had previously introduced an 8-bit system dubbed SG-1000 in Japan in 1983). Though Sega’s Master System appeared to be technologically superior, Nintendo spent much more on advertising and development of quality games and characters, and had more game titles available than Sega. The Master System went on to sell two million units and at times held an 11% market share. The NES sold over one million units in the first year, sold 19 million units by 1990, and could be found in more than a third of the households in America and Japan. Nintendo’s “Super Mario Brothers 3” grossed over $500 million in America in 1989, selling seven million copies in the U.S. and four million in Japan."
If you are using a Mac, try gitx as the front-end.
+1 for Pro Git. It has beautifully visualized examples which elucidate git like no other guide I've read.
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I dunno about how much of this is common knowledge by now, but Facebook has a good (albeit manipulative-feeling) reason to not have a dislike button: Facebook is engineered to be a purely positive experience.

Here is a quick article about it: http://anotherlab.rajapet.net/2009/06/facebook-does-not-need...
You can't write an open letter and expect patent owners to tell you if you're infringing or not. The accepted thing is to conduct patent searches (money and lawyers), and make sure that your product does not run afoul of something that's already in there.

I'm not saying that this system is ideal, (It is not! Let's make something better to replace the patent system - something based on private contract alone) but Theora is not necessarily legally OK (under the existing patent regime) just because some guy wrote a few open letters and posted them to a website.

What would I do? I would go with whatever is the better technology. (And from what I've read, Theora is a terrible format.)
Really? I came from RCS, CVS, and SVN. Git's toolkit took about ten minutes to get used to, but then I suddenly realized that it made far more sense than SVN. git add, git status, git commit -a. All repos are equal. Everything is small, and everything is fast. Really fast.

There's rarely a need for git rm or git mv, since they're implicit. Waaay better than SVN, where I could never remember if I had to move it by hand first or afterwards, and half the time committed multiple copies of a file I meant to rename.

The empty directory thing has never been a problem for me; my software creates directories as needed. You can always drop a .file in the dir if you really need it.

Branches work great. They're just pointers! Plus you can revert merges, and it just works.

I never rebuild the history, but I guess if I was working in a large team with complex patchsets I might. Our team of six seems to get along just great with a central free-for-all repo.

Gitk is ugly. No two ways about that. :D
Your problem is trying to use the tabbar as a replacement for :ls/:files/:buffers. Stop, and learn what tabpages really are--work spaces, or view ports.
I think you want just one dash (?).
For me it was the other way around. Using git made me want to use branches.
I agree. Now that I know how to use buffers, splits and the jumplist, I don't often open buffers in new tabs.
I started implementing this idea a couple months ago. Http://faveheart.appspot.com
I love HN, this is exactly what I was hoping for. You people are abnormally helpful.

Thanks to everyone replying!
Some very good points, but something to keep in mind.

There is a much lower bar to creating a phone application than a console application, leading to many, many times the number of applications that Apple must look at compared to Nintendo. To provide that same level of attention and care that Nintendo gives to developers for one of it's (few) products to app developers would be impossible for a company of Apple's size.

Not that I don't think they couldn't do some of the above, and 2 should be a given.
Heh. Every eBook store includes the Gutenberg catalog so that they can boost their number of books for advertisements.
Any word on how easy it is to remove? I'm planning on moving in a few months and I wouldn't want to leave it stuck to the wall in my current apartment.
These are pretty examples. They're primarily focused on design-heavy infographics, but eye-catching is an extremely important quality of good infographics, as it gets people looking closer than they would otherwise. Not all in English, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, and helps in showing a wide variety.
Angel Capital Association Critiques Proposed Regulations
Now every site on the web needs to automatically log you into facebook like various blogs do to really make this an even bigger deal. Though that really annoys me, as sometimes I want to comment anonymously.
Leaving archive.org as the only way to reach your older content because you're running out of disk is one thing. But for content that you actually want online, "new users have no existing URLs" is such an obviously bad assumption that I have trouble believing any CMS author could fail to support them.
Improving Download Behaviors in Web Browsers
Two thoughts about this.

First, this gives facebook a huge database of the Internet. Essentially, if they wanted to release a stumbleupon equivalent, they could. Or if they wanted to target ads even closer to your interests, they could. This makes me feel (more) nervous about facebook.

Second, I've always been really interested in finding the best webpages on the Internet. Unfortunately, this is another one of those metrics that conflates popularity with quality. If we assume that X% will press the like button (where X is different for every website), and Y people visit the site, then we have a total number of likes = X*Y/100. But since X only goes from 1-100, it's pretty easy to see that popularity has a much larger affect on how many likes a site will get than how good it actually is.

Essentially, the number of likes is a meaningless statistic (except to measure popularity).
o Sec 412 (page 380) Adjusting the Accredited Investor
Standard for Inflation
o Sec 413 (page 381) GAO Study and Report on Accredited Investors
o Sec 926 (pages 816-819) Authority of State Regulators
Over Regulation D Offerings

"These 3 sections that threaten to reduce the number of accredited angel investors in the United States by about 75 percent and complicate the regulation of Regulation D offerings (which include angel investments) to increase the time needed for entrepreneurs to raise money and make it more difficult to get investors across state lines."
But being collectively negative can be a positive experience. Obviously Facebook has never met Goth culture.
I use a LaTeX plugin for WordPress, but I thought it just rendered them as images. I will see if there is an upgrade, thanks for the heads up.
Some of this contradicts jslint with "The Good Parts" options. It will complain about multiple var statements and missing space after function.
How a Realtime SMS Questions Service Scaled To Super Bowl Traffic with Rails
I'm not sure why, but the video doesn't load in Chrome.
A lot worse if you are in a country where $ are hard to get.

Or you are in a country that Fogcreek can't do business with

Or you want a site on a topic that FC, or their bankers, or their VC
or their government don't want you to have one on

Or you want an internal secure site for your society, company, hospital, police force
I get it. Yes, I want.
It doesn't worry these people either: http://mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono We didn't get the chance to compare the current world with the imaginary "patent free .net" world. So far it's just talk - who knows how many companies are really worried and how many just prefer other VMs for other reasons. All we hear right now is FUD from MS and FOSS trolls. Some people using Mono just stay quiet and enjoy the possibilities.

Sure - I obviously prefer one side of this argument and I may be completely wrong here :) As long as we're aware of all the potential problems and take time to consider options - let's use whatever meets the requirements. My view is that there are bigger threats from MS than lawsuits over Mono and all equally unlikely to affect me in any way. I guess I'll EOT here...
That looks like total overkill. I'm talking about protection from spilling an ounce of water, not using it as a weapon to bash grizzly bears to death with or whatever these people are doing with their computers.
911: 26% of americans agree with ahmadinejad
From talking to people born in China that live\study in the U.S. One would predict they wouldn't support the PRC as highly on virtue of having left it and perhaps being better educated. But everyone I've met seems to.
Other lines that dont make sense

Pandora makes up 1 1/4 of all radio

Pandora has 3/4 of a million songs so far; 90 million of those three-fourths were played last month
I've found that if you like something first, a dislike button appears actually!
Dividends? Or a clear preference for 100% reinvestment in growth and a bigger liquidity event?
I didn't actually try to read anything because the orange/white/black layout makes my eye cry, so instead I just skimmed over to get an overview based on the design/layout/article organization alone.

At first, I didn't know if the keyboard thing was a banner with the blog name, the article title, or an interactive flash component. Then I saw random screenshots scattered without any text under and things made even less sense.

I started scrolling, but was greeted with four paragraphs of text laid on two columns, then a list of icons. Was this the end of the article and the icons are "share" buttons? No, wait, there's more paragraphs down there.

But are continuing from which column? I mean, the list of icons could be an ad and I'm supposed to read both left columns first, and then the right ones. But it could an article divisor and I should read the top rows first.

Then under it there's this three scenarios so crammed together that it takes some more fractions of second to realize they are different columns.

See? I'm completely lost and didn't even start reading the article.
A new species of human: The old man of the mountain
That was my first thought when I saw it, too.
As far as I know, Singularity is not open-source. Which is too bad, because it looks interesting and could benefit from more community involvement.
Anecdotal evidence, but evidence nonetheless: We did some testing of how people interact with icanhascheezburger.com and found that most people basically just scroll and then click the "next page" link at the bottom.
"Showerboard" ghosts excessively and is very hard to clean. I ended up with a big sheet of clear acrylic from "home depot" instead. It was 36" x 72" (3 feet by 6 feet) and cost about $48. It worked perfectly, was easy to hang because its quite rigid and makes a very cool effect when you shine a light on the edges. (The marker marks light up a little).

You can find the stuff in sheets of many sizes by the window and glass repair stuff.
Iranian developers defy huge odds to create acclaimed computer game
I'd be interested in attrition after the sale. I wiped out my Mint.com account as soon as I learned who bought them.
the nature of blogs is that they are essentially miniature social media networks in disguise, when done right. Facebook is a giant "blog", that's why they don't need any blogs.
Those cases where 'likes' deviate from visits/popularity, or where 'likes' vary among certain kinds users, will be the most interesting signals.
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Dealing with $LOAD_PATH in Ruby properly
There is OSQA , based originally on some work done by Chinese programmers. meta.osqa.net .

It is based on Django I think.
Related: Using Visual Studio + ReSharper, I can just press CTRL + N and start typing the name of the type I want to go to.

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + N (seriously) and I can start typing the name of the method, variable, whatever.

With both of these, you can use wildcards or PascalCase caps, it's really, really fast.

I hardly ever use the solution explorer anymore. The fact that the types I'm working in exist in files is something I barely pay attention to.
Commands make no sense?

git add .

git commit -am "feature working great"

git push

git branch new_feature

git checkout new_feature

git commit -am "new feature working great"

git push origin new_feature

How hard is that?!
Appeal to authority is the way to stay sane against crazy ideological camps: Ron Paulites, 911 truthers, creationists, etc

As if libertarians are some crazy right-wing nutcases who wants drugs, believe in every single conspiracy theory about the government, and as well think free markets can perform miracles.

Yes, there are probably tons of crazy and wrong ideas out there, ranging from anarcho-commiunism, labor theory of values, and the paradox of thrift.

But, there are also ideas out that are right or just worth exploring. Black Swan theory, the problem of economic calculation, the broken window fallacy, etc, are examples.

This is not physics or biology where everyone agree with each other and they'll be right 99.99% of the time(except the cutting edge of their field). We're discussing economics here, where politics intervenes, the subject matters difficult to study, and whole mathematical models can be invalidated because humans are positive feedback loops. You can't make shorthand judgement in that field.(With the exception of free trades. Every economists say it is a good thing and they'll be right)

And where I was in the 90s? I was in elementary school.
I believe Jakob Nielsen wrote about this almost 12 years ago, "Fighting Linkrot" http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html
I am able to support billions of cells inside me. Everyone who lives can be proud of that.

Doing what one must do is not something that's worth bragging about. Especially when they didn't quite do that: free speech is more a must have than optional.
It is open-source http://singularity.codeplex.com/ But is not properly FOSS. Currently it's available with the Microsoft Research License Agreement. So if you're interested / involved in any managed OS research, I wouldn't recommend looking at it. However, you might be interested in the bootable images.
True, but I feel like a rating system would be almost universally more telling.
You can easily make an alias for all of those commands.

I would say that "git add" is simpler than "git stage add".
"git stage remove" would definitely be nice. "git reset HEAD file" is a bit clunky.
What would "git stage list" do?

Saving empty directories is annoying. Just touch an empty ".gitignore" file in the directory and you can then add the directory.

If you don't like making your history cute, and you don't see any advantages, don't do it!
yea and the v is redundant, or you could just do -A.
A Simple Guide to Encrypt External Hard Drives
The article explains how to encrypt external hard drives to in case of the incidences of lost and stolen removable devices that ultimately lead to data loss and privacy breach
no! Poverty is not an absolute state\scale, it is one relative to everyone else at a given time. When their government sabotaged its economy with horrendous policy in the past, it created poverty.
Pandora admits to 0.4% of missed searches. That is, Pandora will get stumped 0.4% of the time when you enter a song or artist

It's definitely felt a lot more like 40% for me. Pandora seems to struggle with classical music titles that lack obvious keywords.
1993 Steve Jobs interview on Paul Rand (logo designer)
The average rating system is horribly broken: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-domina...

edit: to clarify, no YouTube is not "average." But the fact still remains that allowing users to rate a piece of content on a graded scale is 5 stars of FAIL.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, for example. Also designed and written by Jordan Mechner, in this one the Prince doesn't shut up - to good effect. In fact, the game is presented as a story told orally by the Prince.

Also Mechner's The Last Express: a murder mystery in the Agatha Christie vein. Mechner is also screenwriter for this year's Bruckheimer blockbuster version of Prince of Persia.

I think the key point is that it's not how much talking there is, it's how well it's used that matters.
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I'm fairly certain that a graph is generated the first time it is requested. When a commit comes in a new graph is generated on the first request, and the old one is shown. For rapidly evolving, low visibility projects this is frequent, as projects get more popular, and the updates slow it becomes less so.
another good benefit of clones like this, is that it'll get Fog Creek to lower their prices for Stack Exchange.
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generally, it works
More Doctors Giving Up Private Practices
This is similar to the "browse implementor" or "find senders" in smalltalk, or "Find Usages" and "Browse Implementation" in IntelliJ (I use RubyMine). You navigate the code, not the files. I've found I can concentrate on the design of the software a lot better when I'm not also worrying which subdirs certain files are in.
Okay you guys obviously aren't getting the whole picture. A minority of our links are from old content that I no longer know the urls for. We redirect everything from 5 years ago and up. Stuff originally published 6-10 years ago could potentially be redirected, but none of it came from a database and was all static HTML in its initial incarnation and redirects weren't maintained. This was before I took charge of the Onion's link management.

Spiders make up the vast majority of my 404s. They request URIs that in no sane world should exist. They request http://www.theonion.com/video/breaking-news-some-bullshit-ha...

They request http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-plans-special-weekend-t... even though that domain is explicitly set to http://media.theonion.com/ and is not a relative url in the page source.

I can't fix a broken spider and tell it not to request these links that do not even exist, but I still have to serve their 404s.

Edit: In other words, because of broken spiders that try to guess URLs, I have roughly 15-20x as many 404s as 200 article responses, and there's nothing that can be done about it except move every single resource that exists on my page into a css spritemap.

Edit #2: You can't see the urls very clearly, but what's happening is a spider is finding a filename on our page appending it to the end of the URL and requesting that to see if it exists.
The problem with this is that people inadvertently send password resets when they forget their account name. This happens all the time. It is a pain because the recipients freak out that someone is trying to break into their account.

If that reset message contained the IP address, people who inadvertently sent it to a stranger would complain about the privacy violation.

You might catch up some dumb attackers, but in most cases it'll be from a compromised machine or through a proxy.
They are great, but only if the definition of great does not include being effective.
Just yesterday I ran into this exact problem.

In PHP curl_exec returns data in the raw encoding of the source. Fine, some people will want that. But I want to do things with the data, so I want it in UTF8.

So, I ended up writing my own curl_exec_utf8 function which I'm sure is wrong for many edge cases, but it is 2010! Why is there no decent ways to deal with charsets?

Here is the function, in case any of you need it, or want to point out how it is hopelessly broken : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2510868/php-convert-web-p...
Here's mine -- though it's only one way of looking at it:

If the US "owes" China $1 trillion, it means that the US received $1 trillion in physical goods, and in return China got $1 trillion in little pieces of paper. Another way of describing it is the US receives actual money, which can be spent now, in exchange for only giving "promises" back, which may or may not actually have to be replaced with money in the future.

So yeah. While debt for individuals, or in smaller amounts is often "not good", debt starts to get weird and quantum-meta-paradoxical when it is between countries and involves huge sums. Also, ultimately, China can't make the US "repay" them or cough up cash. They could threaten to start a war, but a war between the China and US would arguably be just as bad for them as for US. Potentially worse for them.

It's complex, so I won't claim this is a black-or-white truth. But these are some of the factors involved, I think.
If you've had trouble setting up fuzzy_finder textmate, check out my post: http://codeulate.com/2010/02/installing-fuzzyfinder_textmate...

I walk you through it step by step.
My mother, who survived a stroke five years ago, spends an hour a day doing physical rehabilitation on her Wii. Her doctors say it has helped her balance, coordination, and confidence. It is the cheapest intervention that has produced the most improvement in her life, and by extension the lives of my whole family.

Not bad for a game console.
Am I the only one for whom pages like this just seem extremely spammy?
Sugar, Glucose, and High Fructose Corn Syrup is pumped into everything that Americans eat, nearly all drinks, nearly all Breads and Snacks, chips, and fast-food is chock full of it. Go check your fridge and pantry if you don't believe me. America has the highest percentage of obese people on Earth because of these sweet sweet chemicals. It's killing us.

But don't believe it because I said it, take it from an MD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Double up on your fruits and vegetables, apples, pears, carrots, oranges, spinach, bell peppers, bananas, potatoes, unsalted nuts, things with high fiber, and everything else that comes from a plant or tree.

Cut in half any food that contains a significant percentage of Sugars, Sucrose, Glucose, Fructose, or Corn Syrups. That paunch under your belly button will thank you.
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I don't get it. Why do people put up with this? I see the facebook connect thing everywhere now, even in places where it doesn't make sense.
I think we need to make up a new word for it. If Apple's policies are evil what is genocide? rape? torture? Obviously I don't think you're putting them on the same ethical level just illustrating the problems of this type of rhetoric.
Wis. college says new e-mail font will save money
Would you mind elaborating?

How come you're capable of running a company but cannot find a job? Unless you live in a place with a very high unemployment rate, it doesn't sound right.
But a country is.