skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the bug described at the bottom: new rule. If I try to push code to production between the hours of 10 PM and 10 AM, the server will ask "Two of the last five times you did this, you ended up writing apologies about it. What are you doing that is so important you're risking that being three instead of sleeping and then pushing this tomorrow when you're in a state to understand what you're doing?"
those quotes are all from 2001. that's more than just a little "before it popped". this criticism is worthless.
128f and above, with the caveat that pasteurization takes a lot longer at 128f than it does at 150f.
It's interesting that so many of his issues still apply.

My personal beef: have you ever had a message mis-identified as part of a conversation? Or, ever had someone reply to a message with a slightly mangled subject line or other hint to GMail that it's a separate discussion?

I will declare my undying appreciation for anyone who tells my how to manually separate a message from (and alternatively, attach a message to) a conversation.

The inability to "bounce", ie. re-send, was also very jarring for my personal workflow. I understand why it's not there by default, both from a user understanding perspective and from a technical "don't break SPF/DKIM" one, but it's unbelievably annoying not being able to "bounce" a message from account to another (ie. from an apps account to a gmail.com account, for example).

I'm surprised to see so many people who are happy with Gmail's labeling; conceptually, tagging email is fantastic, but the UI experience in Gmail is awful. (Too much friction is involved. When I sit down to label something I don't want to select one or two from a drop-down, I want to just type a series of applicable tags in one shot, perhaps with a bit of ajax auto-fill-in. With so many other nods to keyboardists elsewhere, this still surprises me.)

Not that complaining about this stuff on HN will address any of it for me. ;)
helium and plutonium

First is lost to space second is actually destroyed. Most other elements can be recycled.

Arguably genetic/linguistic diversity might also count. Because the rate of creation of new species and languages is slower than the rate of their destruction.

And finally total useful energy supply of the universe.
HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
The constantly-changing UI could be considered a way of preventing such tools. Plus, I believe their TOS explicitly states that you can't use scraping tools, and a huge spike of activity would set off red flags. Running it for weeks / months is a massive disincentive to most potential users, so it effectively must complete quickly or it won't be used.

Besides, developing a robust screen scraping tool for a system as large as FB is inherently a very difficult task, and you still need to connect everything you get out, essentially re-building FB. For them to provide an export tool, however, would be ridiculously easy by comparison.
That's the problem with data. You really can't see the patterns when looking at it one by one, but when you look at it as a summary.

Data analytics' value is in insight. The problem is insight is that it's surprise. If you already know what's in there, there's no surprise and hence no insight. If you don't think there to begin with, you aren't going to look and hence no insight.

It only works if you THINK and SUSPECT something's in there, but don't know exactly what it is.
Doesn't negate what the parent said. If Jobs could get away with it, he would.
For pretty much any location in the world outside of perhaps France an "electric" car is, in most cases, a coal powered car. There is far too much coal in the ground for it to run out in the near future, market rates alone aren't going to get rid of coal power plants.
I use a whiteboard next to my computer. (I'm a stay-at-home dad.)

I only use it to track irregular tasks. I don't write "make dinner" or "get dressed" or other day-to-day stuff. I just do those things day after day. The stuff that goes on my whiteboard is stuff like "ankle surgery", "rollover retirement account into IRA", or "sort and mail Alex's stuff". I always write a due date alongside any new entry.

My list never gets longer than 6-7 items. When it gets close to that level, I pick a task to complete early just to keep my list size down.
The ML community usually calls them "functors".

For examples, a package which implements a data structure, say, a red-black tree. The module is parametric over the tree type, so you have module of type "(some record) rbtree". It customizes the module for those, at compile-time.

Or, a module that does a compiler's code generation, which takes another module which provides specification for the processor architecture.

Everything is typechecked, etc. at compile time. There's overlap with both the STL and Haskell's typeclasses, but in ML it's done as part of the module system.
Astute! :)
Thanks for the link! I've been looking for plans to build a mash heater for home-brewing, and that looks like it will fit the bill nicely.
When I first saw the initial article about the police search I didn't quite understand why they had a warrant to search his house, since the iPhone had already been returned. I guess they're looking for evidence of what happened during the iPhone situation which - I would agree with Gizmodo - doesn't seem like cause for a search.

Trying to recover the iPhone prototype would be fine, but this just seems like harassment.
The folks at panic must be pretty bummed about this, transmit 4 was a major contender.
nice post... while I do agree with most of the content on your post...could you elaborate a little more on the approach you guys are planning to take in particular?
Also, one thing that probably may work against startups is while they may be really good at reacting to issues, at the same time, they are probably more prone to them to begin with.. I'd love to hear what others from HN have to say about this...
Is this really "high traffic" already or is that the end goal?

Also, I couldn't find any actual listings. I saw in the recent activity that "billybob created a post I want a 250f motocross bike about 5 hours ago", but when I clicked on it, it only took me to his profile and had no link to his ad listings, so I still couldn't find it.

It basically seems like a Craigslist, but without the content.
HP buys Palm for $1.2 Billion
Seriously not cool. But it IS true, there haven't been a ton of groundbreaking apps on the Mac this year, and I say that as a Mac developer. Still, they could have given an award to best Mac companion app for an iPhone app, and/or best developer tool (Accessorizer FTW).

Looks like the scientific computing poster session has been dropped this year too.
Transmit 4 is awesome, but you can tell a platform is stagnating when one of the coolest applications is an FTP client.
Plutonium is not a natural resource, it's manufactured in nuclear reactors.

Also, as it turns out operation of nuclear reactors generates Helium (an alpha particle is a Helium nucleus). Realistically we're not running out of Helium, there are lots of sources for it.
I'm not a big fan of Krugman, but let's also not forget that we were in a recession at the time of those remarks; when Krugman was saying the Fed should raise interest rates a few years later, and taht the US was addicted to Chinese treasury purchases, libertarians scoffed and called him an alarmist.

This 2005 example of libertarian economic thought is particularly ironic, arguing that measures of inflation like CPI give too much weight to housing and car prices while an adjacent advert promotes a book explaining how the crisis was caused by too much easy money: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3752

Other sparkling jewels of economic wisdom include his prediction at the beginning of 2008 that recession was a non-issue, or his comments from earlier in the decade (when the Fed had raised rates a bit) that the nation would achieve substantial long term benefits from the 'glorious housing boom' created by previously low rates, which had allowed many refinancers to invest and consume more.

Physician, heal thyself.
You can have my mechanical keyboard when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

It's cool as a design study, but that full-size-ish mechanical keyboards will remain popular as long as working with more than a paragraph of text at a time remains popular. A device like this could probably do fairly well around the $500 price point, but I think it would be very niche much higher than that.

What I would like to see is a better implementation of the basic concept behind the Touchbook - a tablet that becomes a clamshell notebook when attached to a removable keyboard/base. That base should certainly include an extra battery and might also add more processing power, storage and connectivity.
So which iFart app will win?
This is one important part of our efforts to bring JavaScript up to par with other general purpose scripting languages.

Also check out Narwhal (our current non-browser JavaScript platform of choice: http://narwhaljs.org/ ), Jack (a port of a Rack: http://jackjs.org/ ) and all the work being done by CommonJS (attempting to standardize some of these APIs: http://commonjs.org/ )
I think a lot of people define a lock-in as a monetary lock-in. You can't leave without spending X dollars to terminate early.

But given the time to re-do a large portion of your data on FB (assuming you've used it a fair amount, as many people on it do), at minimum wage, it's probably nearly as "expensive" to leave FB as to switch cell phone providers.

I know it's not a 1-to-1 comparison at all, and I've deleted my account and felt no loss. But my use of FB was incredibly minimal compared to most of my friends who are on it, and I hear "I hate Facebook, but everyone is on it" echoed from nearly everyone I encounter.
Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startupland
Amazon AWS SDK for Java: It's Not Quite There Yet
HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 billion
Google CEO Disses Blogging
Wow. I just bought a Pre a month ago. At least they'll continue to be a going concern (and able to provide me with support ;) I was hoping Palm would be able to make it independently somehow, though.

This would be an awesome thing if WebOS ended up on the HP Slate.
Under CA law, the finder of a lost item, if they can reasonably find the owner of the lost item, is required to make "reasonable and just" efforts to return the lost item to the owner.

The claim by Gizmodo (and presumably the finder) is that the finder called the Apple customer service line and didn't get anything useful, thereby fulfilling the requirement.

The claim by those who say this was theft under CA law is that this did not fulfill the requirement, since it was found in a bar, and it is extremely reasonable to contact the bartender about a lost item that was found in the bar.

If you concede—for argument's sake—the group claiming theft is correct under CA law, and Gizmodo knew the backstory—which they presumably did—then they purchased stolen goods.

One of the people at Gizmodo (Nick Denton? memory fails right now) even admitted it was stolen when offering to return it to Apple, although the page containing the admission has since been edited.
By using beer cooler, you can reduce the heat output required to maintain a constant temperature. I also wonder if one could substitute a mixer or model boat propeller on the end of a rod and a small motor for the pump?
UGH poor Palm employees. I am so sorry.
OLED Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars
Patrick, great bullets.

I thought he should talk to you about increasing conversions.

I understand that it's not his forte, but after hearing your interview, I'm convinced that he'd be inspired by how much conversion optimization could actually improve his product, not just sales.
raheemm, this is precisely where our company fits in: www.carecloud.com
I think dropbox style Double-Sided incentive would be great for web-host solution. The market is already very saturated with hosting services providing very competitive prices, if a new player wanted to enter this market (esp. VPS which I am interested in), they could use this kind of incentives:

- $20 for 300mb(memory) instances

- For each people you recommend both of you will get 50mb more memory for their VPS instance.

- Caps on 1gb

- valid for one year.

Since hosting solutions are long term investment, most people don't jump around hosting services that often; if you can retrain even 50% of those customers as a long term customer is a win! You probably have to incur a short term loss, but your hosting will probably explode like wild-fire.
For the non-Canadian-engineers in the audience, the picture is the Iron Ring that is given to all engineering graduates in Canada. It's worn on the pinky of the working hand, the original purpose being that it will smudge as you draw/write and generally serve as a constant reminder of the oath you've taken.

I know a couple of people who have stopped wearing it since graduation despite still doing engineering work. It's a little disappointing.
I enjoy using Arch because it puts me in total control of what's on the system. Also, X and audio really take just a few minutes to set up.
ITunes was 25% of all music sales in 2009
I think it's great that you're trying this. Please keep it up!
Some feedback items:

I'd say hold off trying to monetize - take a look at Facebook: it doesn't cost a penny to use the service, all ad driven. If it's easy to stick a Google ad in here and there, go for that.

Also, for creating the blogs - I would suggest taking away the requirement of contacting an admin to gain access. If you really want people to come back often, let em blog as much as they want. If you are fearing that the spammers come by, delete them - it's your site!

One minor design nit-pick / feedback - the mouseover menu items - could you make them a bit bigger? Kind of small targets.
What happens when it rains?
Really? They should be grateful that they look to still have jobs. If Apple or Microsoft or Google bought them, a bunch of them would have been laid off.
I'm actually wondering if this indicates the possibility of a small Mac-focused developers conference in Apple's future. There was quite a bit of grumbling last year at WWDC from Mac developers because of the heavy focus on iPhone technologies.

I can understand a lessened focus given how popular iPhone and iPad are right now, but the shunning of Mac apps completely from the ADAs makes me think we'll see a Mac-only conference soon.
I'm just going to stick my fingers in my ears and pretend that HTC is buying them.
Ask HN: Law and accounting firms for starting a Web business in NYC
Hey fellow Hacker Newsies, I’ve just relocated to NYC and I’m looking for an experienced law firm and accounting firm to form my LLC, set up my books, and generally advise on legal and tax matters. Everything I’m doing is on the web, so it would be great to hire firms who ‘get it’ in this arena: drafting terms of service specifically for websites, accounting for revenue earned from subscription-based web services and the sales tax implications of selling retail goods online, issuing equity in exchange for outside investment capital down the road, etc.

I don’t want to pay through my nose for firms with a lot of overhead (art on the walls, $1,500 flower arrangements in the reception area) and that are going to have inexperienced associates doing all the work, but I definitely want firms that will be the right fit even if they’re not the cheapest. I set up my previous business in Hawaii myself, but since my business in NYC is for the long-term I want to make sure it’s done right to set the stage for future things to come. Perhaps most important to me is a firm that actually listens to what I’m trying to do and is really excited about helping me build my business, and is interested in bringing their experience to bear as a problem solver; rather than just nodding their heads, whipping out some mediocre boilerplate documents without really thinking about my goals, and sending me on my way. In my previous business I didn’t provide that kind of half-assed service to my clients, and I’d like a lawyer and accountant who have the same kind of pride in the service they provide.

We hear so much about NYC as the next startup scene, so it would really be great to get actual names and first-hand recommendations from people who are here. Of course, we’ve all heard of Wilson Sonsini and the like, but I’d really like to investigate my options. Are there any resources like wikis for NYC entrepreneurs that consolidate all this kind of information in one place? Kind of like a NYC start up guide for startups. If not and people have lots of good suggestions here I’ll see about setting something like that up.

Thanks for reading!
I have tried several to-do list apps and nothing really does what I want it to. So far, the closest is TheDeadline but it is not a good fit for my work.

Probably a stupid thing to do (since I'll probably end up spending 25+ hours implementing it) but I am writing my own rails "anti to-do" app (my-foc.us). When I am happy with it, I'll turn on the new account feature. The book REWORK inspired me to just implement the features that I want, and to feel good about a minimalist app.
HP to buy Palm
Not sure what the industry analysis of this will be, but I like the idea of HP having its own platform to present to the world.

It reminds me of the 80s where the was lots of diversity in the platforms. The good news here is WebOS apps are mostly built on web standards so we have the best of both worlds.
So Palm = Groupon?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/13/groupon-raises-huge-new-rou...
The Palm Pre is going to have a fighting chance now. Its a great phone.
Or, perhaps more likely is that the distinction between what's mobile and a desktop app begins to blur.
>Sadly, many young people overestimate how resilient they will be to a culture they abhor, which is how they get sucked in and assimilated. The risks to the beast are negligible compared to the risks to her soul (if this were a movie we'd all be yelling Nooooooooo...) and she's not unusual in underestimating this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness :-)
Very good news for WebOS since HP doesn't have their own competing mobile OS.
and to the quality of the articles.
MySQL vs. Neo4j performance on a Large-Scale Graph Traversal
Well, this is great.

I love my Apple gear, and I'm going to stay that way as long as they keep making well-designed (minimalistic externally) stuff.

But with the Palm acquisition, HP will be able to do just what Apple is doing. And that's great - integration between software and hardware makes my life (as a user) so much easier.

The main question I have is: will they have any taste? The HP slate has a big white HP logo on the user-facing side, which will keep me from buying one no matter what else it might do. (I don't want to be distracted when I'm using a tablet.)
I'm an idiot. I've been mulling buying some PALM for a while.
Maybe they don't want their work smudged?
This is very surprising. I'd speculated that Sony or RIM would consider buying them once HTC fell out of favor. Sony seemed to be a good fit from a capacity to deliver a high quality product, plus they have ability, much like Apple, to sell stuff at a premium.

RIM seemed less likely but given their need for a new phone OS, it seemed like a pretty easy fit. Corporate culture might have been a factor against them doing this deal, hard to say.

HP's not the sort of company that can enter a new market like this and turn it on its ear, but maybe I'm wrong. They did have the foresight to buy DEC Alpha, which seemed like a great fit, but then they did nothing with it.

Here's hoping for the best.
Sounds pretty cool - where is it?

This "loneliness" aspect of the US is something that is definitely in the 'con' column when sizing up whether to move back or not.
Why not? This wouldn't be any more or less difficult than any other cross platform framework.
You need to create a new client for each incoming request. In your code, you are actually queuing up all responses.

So your result is probably an order of magnitude off.
Well, Palm is a publicly traded company. Their valuation is fairly objective. HP actually paying more than the market cap of 784 M. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=palm&d=t

Groupon doesn't have that litmus test, and valuations and cash money are two different things.
I think this was very misinterpreted. The question was, "There's a rumor saying there will be a Mac App Store and no software without authorization from Apple will run on Mac OS X. Is that true?"

link - http://www.macstories.net/news/steve-jobs-no-mac-app-store/

His response was "Nope." And everyone appeared to be in a frenzy saying "No app store for OS X" when in reality that does not actually shoot down the possibility. Since the question takes the conjunctive form, his nope could be to either one of those statements. Everyone assumed it meant no app store for OS X, but it could just as well mean that there will not be a requirement of Apple authorization to run apps on OS X.

A minor technicality, I'm sure, but I would not be the least bit surprised to see an App store on OS X, just not the authoritarian, single point of app installing beast that is the iPhone/iPad app store.
it's a standard, socially acceptable, not-very-risky-if-you-come-from-the-right-pedigree path to wealth/power.
Nice chart. I love when they break things down like that and can confirm that the graph with the girls is authentic (been out with 2 of them)
One thing these numbers don't take into account is that when people pay for something they're more likely to take it seriously. It's anecdotal, but my experience with hundreds of dates over the years is the women are less flaky on Match vs. OKcupid. It's a case of having to develop a good flake-dar, such is the price you pay for free.
Saying that, I'd never want them to go pay, I hope OK and the like destroy Match, they're just better companies with better ideas.
Gold Vault Federal Reserve Bank New York Eyeball
I lost mine somewhere in California :/
I would be curious to see the percentage of my graduating colleagues of 5 years ago, who still wear it.
I have a car, access to public transit, a cell phone, and the internet. I can choose to socialize with the people I choose to, rather than the people who are spatially closest to me through mere happenstance. I don't know my neighbors much nor do I need to. I have plenty of friends and I am not at all lonely. I doubt my story is unique in the western world.
From the thesis:

J.P. Morgan’s CDOs consistently underperformed, while those from Goldman Sachs were among the top performers

Also:

CDOs rated by Fitch generally had less defaults than those without a Fitch rating. However, this result is not conclusive, as a number of other factors could be responsible for the lower level of defaults in Fitch-rated CDOs.
Why go to the effort of setting up a newspaper when you can set up a blog instead?
Finally, the amazing user interface of git combined with the legendary server-side performance and scalability of mercurial!
Yeah, and after you're comfortable with ML or Haskell, try Prolog. Unification+backtracking is like pattern matching cranked to 12. As a bonus, a lot of the corners of Erlang will suddenly make more sense, and several Prolog implementations come with good libraries for constraint programming.

Also, not to nitpick, but Haskell isn't an ML dialect, and while my experience is with OCaml (not SML or F#), OCaml doesn't force you to do anything in a purely functional manner the way Haskell does - it just makes it an option. (I think this is a good thing, but I guess it's a downside when you're trying to force yourself to try new stuff.)
sounds like the design awards are just becoming a beauty contest.

how many iPhone apps actually feel delightful to use and don't just look pretty?
Kaggle: Data mining competitions
Actually paying $1.2B in cash and stock is different than an investment of arbitrary size with a $1.2B valuation.

Think of it more as, the perceived value way way way down the road of groupon == palm's value as of an hour ago.