skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I actually find the site quite nice. It's quite simple, readable and with some quite nice graphics.

But I agree, that background image is really horrible.
Yup, I use xmonad :)

http://github.com/jrockway/dotfiles/blob/master/xmonad/xmona...
Glucose enters the bloodstream directly where it is likely measured by our body (like everything is from blood salinity to oxygen and CO2 concentrations), a 5% reduction in glucose in a concentration of sucrose (IE natural sugar) would likely be misread by the body.

If you get 50 calories of glucose in a set quantity of sucrose, your body expects there to be 50 calories of fructose. If you're getting 47.5 calories of glucose, your body expects you to be getting 47.5 calories of fructose not 52.5, this would mean your body interprets you eating an equal amount of calories as eating less calories.

There's another reason I've read as to why we're naturally susceptible to high-fructose, which is that our direct ancestors are predominantly fruit-eaters. Humans, and many of our ancestors, are unable to produce Vitamin C directly because our food sources were high enough sources that our bodies didn't have to waste energy synthesising it. This means we have the instinct to pig out when we find high-fructose concentrations, our bodies cheaped out on a solution to ensure high Vitamin C intake. It only happens that we've recently began screwing around with our foods to a large enough degree that we're directly suffering from this short cut evolution took.
That may be true but no Nintendo console has been hailed as the future of computing. They're just game consoles.
New MD5 Hash Search
Somewhere on Keith Boesky's games industry analysis blog ( http://boesky.blogspot.com/ ) he draws a parallel between Nintendo's and Apple's "slightly open" marketplaces.

During the games industry crash in the 80s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash... ) there were a glut of low-quality products, causing consumers to turn away from video games. Nintendo entered the scene with a restrictive game approval process - remember the Nintendo Seal of Quality? - reducing the number of games while increasing their quality. In effect, he argues a "slightly open" marketplace rebuilt consumer confidence and raised the Nintendo platform's value.

If you look at the App Store today, there is a closed loop between the iPhone consumer marketplace, app developers, and the App Store platform. Apple's permeable nozzle on app submission increases the value of the platform while leaving most of a free market in place. This draws consumers, increasing the value to app developers.

In short, a slightly-restricted platform can be good for everyone.

I wish I could find the specific article. Keith Boesky is a little tl;dr but quite insightful.

I'd love to hear counterarguments too.
Not to downplay your contributions (thank you), but just letting people know about other options:

FuzzyFinder Textmate http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate
(Unfortunately only works with fuzzyfinder up until v2.16)

and more recently

Command-T http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025
I'm actually a little disappointed in that 1.5M number. Mint is held up as such a success story, I had assumed, given things like Dropbox's 4M number, that Mint would be much higher.

For those of us that are in much smaller niches, and with expectations of less press coverage, etc, than Mint, we mentally discount our potential user number as some percentage of Mints (or Dropbox's, or pick your success story)

When doing such mental math, the larger the successes number, the better you like it. Say your niche is only 5% as large (Mint's niche was pretty much "anybody with money and a computer). So, best case, you're looking at 5% of Mint. If Mint is only 1.5M, of which, probably most were non-paid ... You get my drift.
Perhaps my project is too small to encounter performance issues (only have ~15k lines of code), but SVN has always been perfectly snappy.
> Use fewer files.

Why? What does that have to do with text editing capabilities? The number of files depends (or at least should) on what you do, not on how bad your tools are. If you limit the number of files to limit the file-opening time, you increase the fragment-searching time in the gigantic-file-of-doom. Also you lose the possibility to make local one-file changes which are self-explanatory if you look at the VCS history.

I'm not sure why would I want to make my work harder just to make up for the tool's features...
But what exactly is better?
ehh didn't knew that. But my point was that both: apple's (control everything) and nintendo's policies are simply evil.
It seems like the content on SVN is more earnest and perhaps less thoughtful. I loved the blog back in 2005/2006, and perhaps I did just get tired of reading variations on the same themes over and over. Maybe the content has the same degree of earnestness and thoughtfulness, and I'm just expecting more nuanced discussion on ideas after five years.

I'm thinking in particular of this post: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2233-not-for-sale . The language is over-the-top, especially in the first couple paragraphs. It feels appropriate for a pep rally, which I guess doesn't appeal to me any longer.

Beyond the tone, I found the content lacking. Can you really not understand why someone would want to sell their company? I mean, here you are denigrating serial entrepreneurs because they exhibit no understanding for why someone would want to hold onto his company. And then you proceed to spell out why serial entrepreneurs have no good reason whatsoever for wanting to flip.

You're using this hyped-up language to create this perception of a religious war - even using "worshipped", "non-believers", "holy grail". And for what? I just don't understand it. Why'd you write this article? If you have the time to respond, I really would like to know. I respect 37s immensely and you in particular, and I really do want to understand.

So you have different values than an archetypal serial entrepreneur. Well, so what? Why are your values so much better that they're "servants" and you're not?

I think the topic is interesting, but the way it comes across, it's like you're having a shouting match over whether blue or green is the best color in the world.
The ip-global version is more nicely laid out.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1219608
Agreed. Even if you find the formula scary, he implemented it in Ruby for you. It's a pretty short trip to implement it in the language of your choice.
I'm content with facebook, that by the time I'd heard about Buzz I'd already heard about problems (like this one) that would drive me away from using it. So, currently at least, I've decided to avoid Buzz. If I never experience Buzz during its existence, so be it. I use Docs, Analytics, Gmail and Reader, I'm a rather loyal Google user and Buzz just seems to be aimed at screwing all that up.
As far as I know, Fuzzy Finder Textmate only works with Fuzzy Finder up till version 2.16.
Yep, we don't use branches. Maybe that's the reason everyone seems to have such (otherwise mystifyingly) negative opinions of SVN.
So I never have to interview for a job.

To take over the world.

The knowledge that I'm making money from something I created out of air gives me confidence in other areas of life.
It's almost like programmers write programs to help them get work done! And I thought you were supposed to solve problems by making a big orange web page whining about them...
I've used these stencils for (I believe) 3 years now. I can't stand to use Balsamiq because I've used these for so long and the fact that Balsamiq UI isn't even in the same league as Omnigraffle.
What I can't understand is: why would you double-click a webpage?
Well, I haven't tried the most recent ones, and definitely not IntelliJ IDEA, but at the time I tried them, both Eclipse and NetBeans were substantially worse (slower, worse intellisense, debug options, etc...) than Visual Studio.

Visual Studio works fantastically for my line of work as an IDE. If I were doing some other line of work it would probably be unsuitable, but for Big Corp (tm) programming it is pretty good, much better than the Java equivalents.
Can I come? I have developed languages and compiler in past iterations and language design sounds like a lot more fun than "reverse the words in a sentence" or "What is the difference between an abstract class and an interface?"
My post was in response to the thread above -- the bottom line is that for all of the linked lists you mention insertion/deletion is O(n) in the general case and O(1) at the head. The way its currently written is confusing and wrong.
If the US could make excuses for not paying off its debts, US Treasury bonds wouldn't have a triple AAA rating.
That's not really appropriate for what this blog post was talking about, which is rating products. It doesn't make sense for products' ratings to be time sensitive. That would make the most recent items have an artificially inflated score.
Yes. The "user's don't scroll" meme has been confirmed as a myth.
I was very impressed with Notepad++. I've switched to vim simply because I've been doing more and more work on remote unix machines - and it's so much easier to just open up vim through ssh. Now that I'm used to how to use it, I also appreciate how easy it is to get a dark color scheme that's easy on the eyes.

But yes - a big upvote for notepad++. Very lightweight and easy to work with.
My, how things have changed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFNJfDGSZp0

Yes, that character at the end gets stabbed through the skull with a sign post.
Generate client-side PNG files using JavaScript
Feel free to post some Emacs packages that provide what he's asking for.

Your first post just dismissed him as a "typical designer" and focused only on the word ugly.
Atwood pointed this out in his post "Code: It's Trivial" (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht...).
I wish this had come earlier in the article:

"Microsoft has new management, new employees that know open source, fresh new ideas, is becoming more open and is working actively on interoperability with third parties. They even launched the CodePlex Foundation"

It would have spared me reading it.

The only reason Microsoft wants to know open-source is to more effectively kill it. They have realized that just bad-mouthing it, calling it a virus, wouldn't do the trick. Now they use a far more sophisticated approach, precise wording (using "non-commercial" instead of "free" or "open-source") and passing a confusing message regarding patents (the "community promise" while announcing patent deals - whose terms are secret - with companies using Linux in their devices).

No. They haven't changed. Not a bit.
I'm not sure how well does this apply here. Why does it matter if someone pays attention to what's below the fold? Most of the post will always be below the fold (because it's longer than what a normal screen can handle), so if you either read it or not. The web pages 'useit' people show as examples are of a slightly different type (comments / products).

The problem of this blog is that there's no vertical element which clearly shows that it's cut by the fold and you can find more content below. (someone argued that this is the general answer to most "below the fold criticism" but I couldn't find it right now)
Page one of the study supports the original claim. Is this blog post just a test to see if we will really read it now?

Per the study......
3. Results
3.1. Male rats with daily 12-h HFCS access gain more weight in 8 weeks
than animals with equal access to sucrose
Animals with 12-h 8% HFCS access gained significantlymore weight
in 8 weeks than animals with 12-h 10% sucrose access
I know you do Kevin.
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters
First, this is a pointless debate: there's a Russian proverb saying "Don't divide the skin of a bear you haven't killed yet" i.e., starting a company that even gives you the option of liquid equity or profit you can live on is difficult and you'd be lucky to do be in the position to choose.

Most don't get to either routes (they fail); others have to choose one over the other due to the nature of their product and market e.g., business software requires long sales cycles and a pipeline that takes many of these cycles to build (before you have any significant traction or equity), "generic" consumer Internet on other can mean sub $1.0 CPMs, requiring immense scale before profit (at which point a "for eye balls" sale sounds lucrative).

I also don't think the understands what fuck you money means. To some it may mean "serial enterprise" (and these people have generally built world changing companies as well as invested in others). To others that means enough money to develop your own Lisp dialect at your own pace instead of spending most of your day working only on the sort of software others would pay for (that is, freedom). They're both noble and respectable goals.

People who are interested in money for the sake of material wealth typically aren't technology entrepreneurs. I'd argue even Ellison and Gates would be technologists even if it didn't make them wealthy.
I think an even better question is: what does it take to become a real CA? Don't just assume 'oh, it must be really tough' if you don't know for sure.

How much money and what kind of resources would it take some to really create their own valid CA just for generating forged yet valid certs that browsers would not flag as invalid when used in a MITM such as those used by the device in the wired article?
I thought the "I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want" graphic divider and the icons below it was signaling the bottom of the page.
I am the only who thinks the post's title is boring.
You mean like what the author did?

"This article started with pain, developed into an idea, and ended up as an unexpected prototype implemented in MacRuby. I’m using it daily and am fine-tuning the interaction, visuals, features, and performance."
Seems they put the price up $10 because of the techcrunch feature, wonder if that will bite them on the arse.

Would be interesting to see the ghosting / soaking reviews, does it leak into the wall, how hard is it to clean.
Git for the Lazy really helped clear some things up for me:
http://spheredev.org/wiki/Git_for_the_lazy
The interview. In the last ten years, or so, I figured that all the companies or organisations that I wanted to work for didn't actually exist, and if they did they wouldn't hire me to run them. So I started my own instead. But several of them have taken outside investment, which means I am doing "job interviews" all the time, but with investors. It feels like investors are pickier than employers. So I am not sure I gained on that one. :)

The "take over the world" part is quite interesting, when you find something to work on which is largely virgin territory and it involves a significant part of the world population (in our case 40% or so). You just have to think a bit different.

And yes, it gives me a real kick to create something from chicken scratchings on the back of a paper napkin.
Oh please, Peter Schiff has been trumpeting the fall of the US economy since 1999 at least. If you cry wolf enough times eventually there's actually going to be a wolf.

Schiff was a contrarian voice
That's at least correct. Schiff is part of the same anti-regulation crusade that got discredited two years ago.
Why I'm starting a personal tech blog
duh, I didn't think about that :) HTML is way smaller
just what firebug is telling me
Hi This is John Smith I suggest you to signup and go through the features.

http://www.pbxplus.com - offers speech recognition, faxing, extensions, voicemail transcription, trees - visual drag and drop designer. Free US number with 50 mins. Can't get better.
I think it's a huge usability problem, if we're talking about something Amazon-like that's presenting ranked data to an unsophisticated audience. Why pretend? Because it produces something the user might be able to understand, that's why.

(Yes, it would be extremely cool to make an elegant, intuitive interface to a fuzzy ranking. One reason why it would be extremely cool is that it's totally not obvious how it can be done, or even that it can be done.)

I wasn't suggesting that my estimator is better because it's simpler, nor that anyone should care; just pointing out that the author of the article made a huge leap from "here are two things that don't work" to "and here is the specific arbitrary math-heavy thing I think you should do instead".
Does it handle click/drag events? If you check out the network graph of repo with a lot of commiters/activity, you can click and drag the graph around. It works fantastic with canvas/javascript.

Example: http://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/network
That was seriously a mistake. It was never supposed to cost $15. We launched the website last night and had a mix up. If you do a wayback query, you will see the homepage has always said $25.
Talkative:
* Make a question
* Hear the answer
* Repeat the answer with your own words
* Relate yourself with the answer: me too and... / not me, but I experienced something similar...
* Repeat
It is compatible.

See http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/ipad/faq.html, question "Does it work with Apple's remote earphones?".
I wonder how well the whiteboard would work on a "standard" (North American) textured wall.

In the video, the person (obviously a model) sticks the whiteboard on the door (not the wall). The door is clearly a very smooth surface.
Exactly. I still can't understand why somebody as smart as Miguel doesn't get this. Any free software strategy that depends on the goodwill and good conduct of MS is doomed from the start.
I agree, but we're not in the business of growing a Q&A site about programing, we're in the business of allowing anyone to start their own Q&A site about any subject, using their own server or ours.
Speeding up StackExchange
Canvas has wider support doesn't it? SVG has really stagnated in the last 4 years or so.
ChinaGeeks on Google leaving China
I'm so close to getting vim to be my ideal editor...7.0 for tab support, and ctags opens tags in a new tab, not a new buffer.

But I can't figure out how to search currently open tabs instead of opening a new tab no matter what; I end up with duplicate tabs very easily. So his 3rd major "what I want" point really rings true.
To first order, Amazon sells content and Apple sells hardware. Folks who sell the former tend to be way, way more platform agnostic than those who sell the latter.
Depends. I was a part of a peaceful direct action on the base during the annual event.
Okay cool, any chance of UK delivery if I pay shipping (I also work with a UK sticker company if your after a UK distributer)
US Treasury bonds are not rated.
They do put a useful page up (links to articles, archive, and search), that's why it accounts for so much demand.
I've had the same recurring issue with my gmail account, and I wholeheartedly agree that the originating IP of the request should be provided.
I doubleclick text and blank areas constantly I realize this probably drives people insane, but while I'm reading a paragraph I will keep doubleclicking to select and deselect the text over and over. Somehow it helps my concentration.. I do this with code as well.

That's why I have bookmarklets to disable the dictionary lookups and other what I consider annoyances on sites that implement those features on doubleclick and yes I've been told that I'm crazy on many occasions.
As are the 404 pages, according to the comment.
I find ChinaGeeks to be one of the best locations to receive a balanced and informed Western viewpoint on China, and I thought other HN users might find it worthwhile (considering the amount of comments that China-related articles get on here). If you're interested in China, browsing through their archive is worthwhile; they have some great articles on the Internet culture there.
"Money, cars and material things won't suddenly make you happy."

But what about the freedom to work on things that don't make money? This is the true purpose of seeking out "fuck you" money
At some point, a journalist switches from using reality to create perception and instead uses perception to create reality.
or if you have relations, skip the object mapping and treat the data as lower level structures.
The Advocate / Enemy Conundrum: What a Smart Company Would Do
Saying their policies are "simply evil" completely undermines what it means to be evil.
But the TIOBE index doesn't measure developer support.

"The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. The search query that is used is

+"<language> programming"

The search query is executed for the regular Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube web search for the last 12 months. The web site Alexa.com has been used to determine the most popular search engines."

Go has had a lot of press in the last few months but TIOBE doesn't really mean anything else. It's an interest index not a usage index.
I was just thinking the same thing.
I use Acme, it's got a smashing way to browse, open, and manage files.
Keep reading.

"Further, no difference was found in HFCS intake and total overall caloric intake in the groups given 12-h access versus 24-h access. Both groups consumed the same amount of HFCS on average (21.3 ± 2.0 kcal HFCS in 12-h versus 20.1 ± 1.6 kcal HFCS in 24 h), even though only the 12-h group showed a signiﬁcant difference in body weight when compared with the control groups."

As per the author's criticism, these results are seemingly inconsistent. Why would rats with 12-h access to HFCS gain more weight while rats with 24-h access did not, when their HFCS intake was the same on average?
Exactly; closed systems suck. There's a reason why there are only a handful of good NES games but that there are thousnads of good PC games.
Not really a Singapore, more of a Vegas. They know their oil money is going to run out one day, so they need to invest it in something sustainable and concrete. That would be tourism, tech and finance.
TO;DR
Which is why everyone should have at least 2 ids; one that you hold private and give only to friends and family. With today's email clients which have rules based processing, it becomes easier to divert the commercial mail you no longer want this way. I actually use 3 ids, one that I give only to commercial accounts like Amazon, mailing lists and the like.
When a page sears my optic nerves, I find it easiest to just disable its styles.
I think that you should look at that 1,5mln users number from different perspective.

It's HUGE amount if you think of these people as being brave enough to give their PASSWORDS and bank account details to the startup!

Using Dropbox doesn't put you in any risks. To be an early Mint adopter you must be very ... well... adventurous.
It's irrelevant that it is spidering mixed in. You can think of spidering as a future page view, assuming that page gets indexed.

The spiders and organic visitors should have been 301 redirected to the correct location. Spiders learn the 301 redirects, and some of their articles may even benefited from better search rankings.
An (official) proposal for an exception-like mechanism in Google's Go
That's why you need to be doing social games.

The social elements of the game should lend themselves well to the existing social structure of Facebook.

The technical and artistic requirements are much lower.

The game would probably not be fun as a standalone. The fun comes from competition and cooperation with your friends on social platforms. The game should be structured to reward persistence over skill. Doing easy and menial tasks over and over is much more fun when you're competing with your buddies.