skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at this:

http://i.imgur.com/w8S4A.jpg

Then look at this:

http://www.kissinsights.com
It reads more like a conspiracy theory than anything to me. It is certainly long, which makes it look "sober", but what does that have to do with being accurate?
What exactly is your threshold of "techie"?
What does it do besides being a text editor with a sytax highlighter ?
So maybe they should give cash rather than credit.
> As a driver I have no obligation to honor your request to change lanes. It is your obligation to decide if moving sideways into my car is the right move.

Please don't stick to "the letter of the law" in Ontario. I respect your right to have an opinion about this, but would despair if such a choice resulted in injuries or death.

In Ontario we have no-fault insurance for exactly this reason. If you choose not to respect someone else's signal and an accident results, you are both getting dinged for the cost of repairs. Your failure to "drive defensively" is your fault, regardless of the official rules for right-of-way.

Fault is only of interest if the police end up laying certain types of criminal charges. You might escape fault if the other driver runs a red and hits you. You will not escape fault if you see another driver signal a lane change and you have time to slow down and allow them to change lanes.

If someone changes lanes into you and you had no reasonable chance to react, you're possibly off the hook. But there's really no reason to see someone signal a lane change and bull right through without being very certain that they know you're there and plan to wait for you to proceed.
For every article on HN, there are at least ten readers that can provide remotely related tidbits of information that are interesting to some of the other readers. Half the articles contain at least one language error. The result is that it's easy to drown insightful comments on the article's subject, which caused it to be submitted, in comments that may be interesting in themselves, but are relatively uninteresting in the context of the subject.
What do undervalue and overvalue mean here? Undervalue car travel? I travel by walking or cycling so the number of people I could reach in a period of time is almost exclusively a function of how dense the area I'm in is.
You were on lifehacker? How did you do that? I've never had any luck getting them to write about anything I did.
I think the author conflated two different ideas: the best general purpose language and the best language for writing web apps. Most of the article talks about very general advantages and disadvantages but I have a feeling that the entire time it was written from the point of view of web application development, although it is never explicitly stated.
I disagree with this, it's entirely possible for vendors to honour gift cards (and credits) indefinitely. In fact, here in Canada, in most provinces, if not all, it's law and has been for some time:
http://www.gov.on.ca/mgs/en/News/133713.html
Do you have any live sites?
ad hominem attack alert
If this is an external battery pack, don't forget to add its weight when comparing the iPad to his device. I think it's an amazing hobby project, but it's quite clear that getting ten hours of battery life out of a tablet is a tricky proposition involving tradeoffs from top to bottom of the hardware and software stack.

e.g. Flash, pre-emptive multi-tasking :-)
Would you kindly stop spamming HN? Also, the voting here is quite suspect.
my bet is on the mobile carriers putting pressure on them, especially AT&T. The last I checked, Skype was still plenty free for Verizon. In fact, it seemed like Verizon and Skype took time to make sure their system worked wonderfully together, forcing local calls to go through Verizon themselves, international to have the option of going through Skype, and Skype to Skype going through a special phone number. In fact, I just tested Skype on my Motorola Droid on Verizon's service. It works wonderfully and said nothing of a soon ending of the free service.
I was looking for that. Business make boatloads from unused, expired gift cards.
Skype was sold for multiple billions of dollars. The purchasing group must have seen some untapped opportunity to generate revenue that eBay was not able to effectively address. So, I think its realistic to think that this turn of events is tied to the purchasing group's revenue strategy, and not carrier action.

With that said, if this ends up only applying to AT&T, and not other countries iPhone apps, then its clear who's to blame. I didn't see anything in the article that noted this was limited to AT&T.
This isn't a net neutrality issue. This is a 'people are circumventing our system through our system and we need to stop them', as well as a "our networks are HEAVY LADEN with traffic because of all these smart phones we didn't quite have the infrastructure to support. We need to start clamping down a little" issue (I imagine)
I tackled this problem on appengine a while ago.

Turns out that the average discussion thread has few enough comments that they can be fetched from the db in one call (e.g. by the thread_id). This makes even deeply nested comments fairly simple to query for, and then it is quite easy to rebuild the tree in memory.

I think reddit uses this method too.
It was quite heavily suggested last time that this sort of post isn't appropriate... doing it a second time, well.
Not fair. I pay my operator a monthly fee for mobile data (10 € for unlimited 384 kb/s including two SIMs / devices, to be exact). Skype pays for their incoming/outgoing data – it doesn't cost extra for them whether the data is originated from mobile network or <any-type> network. Skype is simply not justified to charge extra based on client's connection type, not even if I used Iridium network to route my bytes to them. Maybe Skype has grown big enough to behave as asshole and they know it.
A (non-compsci) friend recently asked me for advice on setting up a blog, however having never written one myself I wasn't of much help. I'd be interested to know which sites/hosting services people recommend and why. The friend was an economist/financier in case that's relevant.
I'm a civil engineering grad too (08). Started two companies, both are profitable and doing decently well (timesvr.com and gameventures.com). I don't write code myself (wish I could), but I've learnt a few things along the way. One of those things is that an MBA would be utterly useless.

I'm not good with long posts, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of solid advise here, but if you'd like to chat, email/IM me on alizaki (at) gmail.com
this is EXACTLY why I am not all a-fluster about this.
I think the right answer is somewhere in the middle. I've worked at several companies that catered to every voice in the crowd, and the product gets pulled in a hundred directions. I have some semblance of a vision, and some of these ideas are antithetical to that vision. I think part of the reason that the UI is simple, is because of the minimalism and rejection of bells and whistles.

But you're right that I should not discount these things out of hand. I have a blank slate and it may be possible to incorporate the things that i think are relevant in a new and unobtrusive way. e.g. in a way that may only be visible to power users. For example, one feature request I do agree with is the idea of contexts, e.g. @work, @home, @school, etc. I think it makes perfect sense. I was thinking I could allow people to use @ tags in their task description (e.g. "Mow the grass @home"), then in the "give me something to do" section add a "at [dropdown]" that only appears if they've entered location-sensitive tasks. That way, the feature only adds complexity IF you want to use it.

Great food for thought. Thanks.
From the article, "2. Speed: It should be fast (should approach C in speed). It should preferably have a highly optimized compiler that can generate architecture specific binaries — no JIT can be faster than an optimized binary."

This is not, strictly speaking, true. In a best-case scenario, a just-in-time compiler has profiling information available that a static compiler won't have. In the right situations, Java JIT can produce performance on par with or slightly exceeding that of equivalent C code for this very reason.
I was wondering if here or elsewhere you could relate some of the things that these successful, non-college graduates did to become successful. I'm often in the position of giving career advice to undergrads, and some of them major in things so academic that as far as the workforce is concerned, they are degree-less. It would be nice to have a picture in my mind of what some people in similar situations have done.
I used these for a commenting system as well, they're really quite amazing. There's basically three options when storing a tree in a relational database - adjacency lists which are slow to read, nested sets which are slow for writes, and materialized path, which is slow for moving around nodes.
It's good to have a fourth option which is straightforward to implement and has excellent performance.
Thank you for posting this. As a recent transplant to SF this warms my heart.
b) might take a while. I can't see anyone voluntarily getting infected by Ebola, and there haven't been any outbreaks recently.
Yeah - http://lifehacker.com/5515338/todone-assigns-you-tasks-based...

Okay, maybe I did get lucky. All I did was email one of the editors.
Seems like unless your power is hydroelectric, wind, or solar, generating the electricity to make and blast 30 seconds of steam for a cup of coffee may produce more undesirable byproducts than a paper cup.
Thanks, PG. In fact, I was talking about delicious -> reddit as recently as my public interview with Jessica on Thursday.

I, unfortunately, care more about reputation than pageviews. My reply has been well-received, but I'd love for Michael to revise his headline to just insult me (which he's entitled to do) instead of make stuff up. I even have the email I sent Steve alerting him to digg (dated 7/11/05 - we launched 6/23/05).

http://alexisohanian.com/are-we-still-talking-about-this-res...

The rest of the evidence to support what PG has said in the above comment can be found here, in screenshots from reddit since day 0.

http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html

I hope everyone has a splendid memorial day weekend. Surely the Internet has more important & interesting things to be discussing.
Hey harjrice, you maybe don't want to come ove as a spemmer but you are just spamming this forum, this post keeps popping up,so it's becoming annoying, and for 40/hour, that's a rate that doesn't fit the bootrapper Budget, there's a spreadsheet for contractors: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clV... , please to register there, and stop writing this. No hard feeling, I like your design skills, will probably book them but, please stop spamming the forum, if we have many designers doing this....horrible. Maybe HN should add a Contractors menu tab!?
Ha! I didn't expect anyone to point out a scenario where someone did, in fact, have to choose just one tool.

That said, Leatherman-like multitools are pretty common among some people, though I'm not sure whether it's just so that they'd have a portable screwdriver, or because they actually need something like a Swiss army knife.
Nice - didn't know about that. I was referring to the 14-day notice thing they have between saying 'I quit' and one's account actually biting the dust. I forget exactly which day I hit the delete link.
If anything, this thread has made me come to realize my homepage sucks. Totally agree. I actually do find basecamp/rtm homepages kind of, uhh, spewy, but they're still far better than mine. I'm definitely going to reconsider the homepage. (Either toss it altogether or make it a lot more concise/engaging/etc)
My download count hasn't updated for a few days. Someone must be on vacation at Google.
Someone put this together a while back, enjoy.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xMj...
Could an atomic bomb stop the Gulf Oil Leak?
You could add an option to export "task completed" events to a linked twitter account, so that it would say "ToDoneApp.com: Finished new website mockups". I can see that, even though todos are inherently private, some people will use that option, and it could become your source of new users.
Although that's partly true, I believe you only have to use one minute of the credit and the rest will stick around for another 12 months.
Most, if not all pay-as-you-go plans have an expiration date.
Skype It Up: Hooked On Data
Family income vs SAT scores: 95% http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-...

SAT vs IQ: 81% http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...

I couldn't find information on correlation between IQ and college degrees, though. My Google-fu is weak.

Edit: a bunch more cool stuff (and sources) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Positive_...
ya i saw that in the pics. But asked just in case you (or anyone here) knew anything about Bluetooth HID.
You're right. I'm just stupid or lazy for not doing this. Personally, I would never use the feature, but I do know that some people out there live to spam their friends. :) I really ought to be taking advantage of it. Even though I don't think it could take a viral coefficient above 1.0, but it couldn't hurt.

Only possible issue is that the verb tense users enter a task with (in English at least) does not jibe with what would grammatically make sense to tweet e.g. task: "mow the lawn" -- tweet: "finished mow the lawn" I would need either turn it into past tense "mowed the lawn" or a present participle "finished mowing the lawn". You definitely want these export-to-social events to be light touch 0 or 1 click things, and not need the user to correct the tense of their verbs. Interesting problem.
Can you explain what this has to do with the iPhone hardware? Skype is charging for this, not Apple or the telcos, right?
Berp: An implementation of Python 3, that compiles to Haskell
Snap Framework: What's new this week?
Still, some rudimentary validation can prevent cases of someone entering the wrong value (e.g., just their username) or an incomplete value (e.g., scott.trudeau@gmail ) -- which I see with some regularity ~10k signups/month. If this lowers support email volume by even just 10%, that's not insignificant.
I'm 6'3/190 so the weight doesn't trouble me, the only thing I don't understand is why windows.........
I can't believe Ruby made it further than Smalltalk when ST was eliminated for performance reasons.

Also, it's too bad that Clojure is eliminated purely due to syntax. I find well-writte Clojure very easy to read after spending a bit of time with s-expressions. I think that some of its constructs (like loop and recur) are very elegant ways to describe a program. Also, recur, in tail position, is used to implement recursion without overflowing the stack so that's not really a problem for Clojure anymore.
Interesting tidbit from the report. TLDR: US companies getting an edge on contracts due to echelon.

S.	whereas, during the visit by the delegation from the Temporary Committee to the US, authoritative sources confirmed the US Congress Brown Report, indicating that 5% of intelligence gathered via non-open sources is used as economic intelligence; whereas it was estimated by the same sources that this intelligence surveillance could enable US industry to earn up to US$ 7 billion in contracts,
Library of Congress holds conference on origins of portolan charts
Yeah, I was refering specifically to the "lowest common denominator ... like the best HTML5 / CSS3 support" non sequitur...
Thanks for the perspective. I think I want to get to a point where you are. I don't harbor any delusions that this could ever be a quit-your-day-job enterprise or even a real supplemental income. I think I would really like to just get it up to a healthy level of use and then maintain. Just build something and get the satisfaction of having people use it. Learn some lessons that I can put towards something even bigger (and more financially viable :) But I'm an order of magnitude off of 2000 daily users right now. That's the next level I want to figure out how to get to.

Your site looks cool. It's kind of funny, because I actually had a very similar idea about diarying (kind of inspired by Keel's Simple Diary), and it's one of the ideas I was considering bringing off the shelf. It was definitely much more social and amenable to virality than To->Done. :)
What are some good alternative providers?
Great points. I've seen the light on the homepage thanks to HN. I need to decide if I want to forego the homepage altogether, just revise it, or somehow merge it into the todo page. Copywriting is not my strong point, but I think I can edit. I'll definitely really try to optimize this.

On the second point, I'm a user of the app myself and haven't found any pain points. I'm not really hearing about pain points from users either. It's really just new features people seem to want. But I do think I need to think about how I can incorporate these ideas into a framework of simplicity -- not just discount the ideas outright as a perversion of my vision :)
The NPR ipad app is simple, elegant, and fantastic. For me a much better experience than the web site is or could be. I can rip through content at the speed of my mind. So I think the issue is design. Good iPad ux is not a given - designers need to consider that the keys are clarity, organization and speed of access.
Judging from the name of the image, it was taken by Spitzer, which is an Infrared telescope [1]. The colors you see in this image do not represent visible light.

[1] http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Looks like we need SMT HN: (somebody make this)
Java still beats C# among hackers: http://github.com/languages.

C# is more fun to work in with each release, as Microsoft courts programmers who can tell a closure from a hole in the ground. Unfortunately, it has a rather anemic community compared to many other languages.
Personally I just sort everything in memory like reddit, since I need to traverse all branches to calculate weighed scores, which is a balance of vote counts and age. I think reddit/HN do something similar? I wonder how Disqus handles this.

I'm not really sure how to do that in SQL.
> ID’s are unique, so they don’t need a tag name to go along with it. Doing so makes the selector less efficient.

I do it (for example div#header) because it helps me knowing what is what in my CSS. I don't see anything wrong with it.
Neat, but how do you insert links with it?
Does this have anything to do with a potential difficulty in establishing direct connections between Skype clients that are both on 3G networks? Are they running relays for these clients that they are trying to recuperate from?
My guess is Google is gearing up to do to VoIP what it did with email.
All that talk about preserving something as well known and famous as Star Wars makes me worried for the thousands of films which don’t receive one tenth of Star Wars’ attention.
The article talks about how slow the book is. He fails to realize that Tolkien is writing about a very deep game of strategy. It's like watching grandmasters play chess. Sometimes there is a flurry of captured pieces, but a lot of it is maneuvering, which may seem boring to those who don't understand it.
I think for that you'll have to use the ltree index, rather than regular string index, else it'll sort like this:

1/2/3

11/2/3

2/2/3

I wonder if there're ltrees for other DBs.
YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile
Supply is fixed by the amount of land, the consensus that remaining open spaces should be protected, and zoning laws in desirable communities that prevent higher density.

Of course this could be relaxed but that only buys us a few years before the new housing fills up and we're back where we started, but with a more crowded community, one step closer to Manhattan. The steady state in a built-up place like the bay area is zero growth in housing.
was it a promise to be free forever? or just one of their features, which they are free to change whenever they wish?
I don't

I prefer the apps over Safari as I frankly find the browser experience lagging on a number of areas such as iframes and frames in general.
1 - yep, no brainer. Definitely thinking PhoneGap too.

2 - this is a brilliant idea. You're hired! :) Funny thing is, I had thought about injecting pseudo-todos, but they were more like funny/inspirational/zen things - like "don't worry about anything right now... just close your eyes" It had never occurred to me to use that idea to market the app. :)
This probably has to do with whether or not a device is able to participate in Skype's p2p call routing. If being on 3g introduces too much latency or has too limited bandwidth to contribute in the network, then each client will have a marginal cost to Skype. Maybe they're trying to ensure they can keep up with that.

Or maybe they're just grubbing for money.
I think that the title is a bit misleading. Indeed, this image is the most detailed infrared image of the galaxy[1]. Also, it is the most detailed image of the galaxy centre, since Spitzer can see through the huge amounts of dust that obscure the centre of of the galaxy in the optical wavelengths.

Caveat to my first point: with the advent of Herschel (which also performs in the near and far infrared wavelengths), more detailed pictures of the Milky Way emerged[2], although they have yet to image (or maybe just release) a full mosaic.

[1]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080605.html
[2]http://herschel.esac.esa.int/FirstParallelModeImages.shtml
I have been exclusively a Linux user for about half of the past four years. I have been moving back and forth between Linux and Windows. Some people really love Linux and use it as a desktop, I just see it as a tool.

Trying something new might be fun at first, but Linux can wear on you after a while. The inability to use your Windows programs, spending hours looking up small issues with the O.S. and other things get old.

After a while I decided that I could care less about using the Linux GUI and I really just wanted a console. This is served fine with virtualization.

My suggestion, install Virtualbox and run Linux as a VM and log into it with a console.
The problem comes in the accounting. Try borrowing X million dollars against 2X million in assets when you have 4X outstanding debts that can be called in at any time. Sure, they probably won't be, and you might discount them to near zero, but the lender won't be so generous.
I really like articles like these, because they give concretes rather than just general advice like "be determined, never give up", etc.
You're looking at github, which is primarily for open source hackers...... most whose work isn't on Windows. While GitHub is representative of hackers' language preference, it's not representative of language popularity. You need to keep in mind that C# is really (mostly) a Windows-only language, and open source tends to be much more proliferative on non-Windows platforms where Java is a much more feasible option.

But, yeah, C# is becoming more and more exciting with its new anonymous methods, lambda expressions, and more :)
How to Forecast Weather (without gadgets)
I remember the thread on this game from the forum where the author is a moderator. It's quite a feat even nowadays. And the game is still addictive.

Once a year, on April Fools these lemmings take over this forum (http://gathering.tweakers.net) and you see them parachuting and digging across the screen.
Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That’s A Good Thing
Early, Early Rock N Roll : Music Blogs and Videos
I know. It doesn't work with regular expressions, it doesn't highlight every instance it finds. In short, I find it useless.
How Computers Know What We Want...Before We Do
Kim Jong-il's Willing Accomplices