skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High Altitude Balloon with live web dashboard
Spacebits http://spacebits.eu/ is yet another low cost High Altitude Balloon (HAB) with a computer probe being launched to near space in the 30th of May, this time in Portugal, Europe. The twist with this project, besides the usual very cool electronics, cameras and sensors and other paraphernalia on-board, is the fact that the team provided the online community with a real time web dashboard http://spacebits.eu/live so that everyone can follow the ~2 hour journey up to 100.000 feet and back to earth. Real time data includes measurements from all it's sensors, including temperature, pressure, humidity and air quality, altitude, acceleration and GPS coordinates and a live twitter feed. The team is also using a public GSM network to send SMSes lat/lon/alt coordinates to anyone willing to go on-launch-site and participate in the probe hunt.
Is PivotalTracker a form of Kanban application? Been using it for a few weeks and not sure how I ever survived without it!
>>None of this was ever done just to "incorporate best practices", though.

Of course, no one is gonna rewrite something to just "incorporate best practices".
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I should also say that I have experience working with Manchester cpus (AVR microcontrollers) where the code is fixed when you flash it and you cannot jmp into RAM. Of course one then writes an interpreter instead :)
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"Find a friend who runs small software company, bribe him a bit, so you can then easily write that you worked in his company a year."

Why would you want to do this? If you have a friend with software company work for him for a year! Any sw company worth its existence always needs more programmers. You can work at low pay (or even for no pay if you are okw ith it) for a couple of months while you are learning and then get into a fulltime position. With friends you can make such unorthodox arrangements. If you have a friend who owns a software company, use that to learn!
A little flaky perhaps, but if you're gonna love sql :-)

select distinct
cnt,
count(cnt) over (partition by cnt)
from (

select 'a' usr,1 cnt from dual union
select 'b' usr,1 cnt from dual union
select 'c' usr,2 cnt from dual union
select 'd' usr,3 cnt from dual union
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will save you time, and money!

unnecessary comma??
To Microsoft, Open Source means "Windows Encumbered"
I am the author of the Touristiness Map, and I just added a "Interesting Remote Places" map where I take in population data from geonames.org. It is on the same webpage as the Touristiness Map: http://www.bluemoon.ee/~ahti/touristiness-map/

I swear I picked the name before I saw your post :P
Didn't know that Flash had an "On-demand" feature. I think it's time to accidentally drop my Blackberry in the toilet.
Your signup page only has one input box for password. This is against common UI norms of requiring that the user types in their password twice.
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Ahh yes, just $9.95 (down from $29.95) for a full five hours of access per month!

/nostalgia
This looks very similar to http://agilezen.com/ which uses many of the same principles.

I am a user of AgileZen and I really like it.

I like using the board for tasks. Its great to see work laid out like that and as I jump from one thing to another, I can easily move things around. At the end of the day I can clearly see where I'm at.

What are the main differences between the two products? Why should I move to your system from Agilezen ?
It's Easier to Sell Something When You List the Faults
If the classes in your system vary a lot in behavior but not in their internal state then mapping to a database can be straightforward.

With lots of variations in object structure things can be horrible - witness designs that have more tables than most tables have rows.
While this is clearly true, you manage to use this site which only has one input box for password.
Some Basic Ways to Secure your Web Server
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Plink I'm not really sure what you're going on about here.

Yes, you can refactor in lots of ways. Some rely more on OOP, some on FP, some on rules-based or constraint-based programming, etc. This is my point -- the tools are there regardless of the language features. Some languages just make this easier or more difficult. No mysticism required :)

Objects are a useful abstraction at times, but "object" does not and should not map directly to some language feature. If you think that then perhaps you've done a great job of learning a language and not-so-good-a-job learning OOP.

As fas the "people who've done only OOP" part? I take it you mean me? Dude I've only been doing functional programming in F# for the last couple of years or so. Found that my OOP chops came in very handy with data structures and functional composition. But perhaps you didn't mean me. I'm not sure.

I'm done here. The only reason I took this thread deeper is that there is a useful thing for HN'ers to learn. The tool is bigger (and more useful) than the language. Don't confuse the concept with the application.
Yes. It has been revealed that Facebook shared info behind the scenes with select partners. I believe that the Instant Personaiiztion feature (that was turned on without my consent) would allow app installs. Pandora doesn't even have Facebook Connect.

Trust me, when I opened Pandora and saw "Kyle Blahblah" likes the same music as you, I was furious. Which is when I found out I now had apps on my profile I had never approved.

The only app I ever wanted on my Facebook was Twitter, and oh boy, did I have more than that. Trust me, I know what I'm doing and I know that I can say with 100% confidence that I did NOT agree to install those apps. I understand how hard is is for me to convey my sincerity, but I know full well how an app is supposed to be presented for access to my profile, and that never happened.

edit Just checked Pandora. It definitely is piggy backing on Instant Personalization which is now turned off. Apparently Pandora even kindly gives one a way of shutting it off while still on a Pandora.com page which is nice. I must have missed that in my rage to go shut it off in my Facebook profile.
I am the author of the map. Sure, I will take population into account in the next revision. My main focus when creating this was to discover less touristy places, so I did not pay much attention to cities.
Also note how the Ars article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1373580) actually tells you a lot of useful stuff about the paper vs. this one that's in a magazine that's nominally for Real Scientists(TM).
It's a great discussion. Although URLs work quite well, they are not uniform[1], do not necessarily represent resources[2], and are used for other purposes than location[3]. Thus, there is room for both sides to be right: usually, you should treat a URL as everyone else does, but sometimes, it's smarter not to.

[1] What is uniform about them? They mean different things, depending on the context in which they are accessed. http://experts-exchange.com/whatever returns different content, depending on your user-agent, your /etc/hosts, your firewalls and network filters, and so on. Granted, they satisfy a strict technical sense of the word "uniform", but that meaning shouldn't be conflated with its english meaning, as it is in this article.

[2] "Unlike many URLs, the mailto scheme does not represent a data object to be accessed directly." Section 3.5, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

[3] The ":password" part of many protocols is authentication, not location.
Seven atom transistor sets the pace for future PCs
I have never clicked 'Like' on a non-Facebook page. Ever. The only content I have liked is other users' statuses or content. I even unliked all the things that it wanted to link to my profile to further farm usable data about me. Also, I'm rather convinced that the 'Like' ecosystem exists independently of the Instant Personalization -slash- "Selected Partners" stuff I'm more worried about.
I got a few paragraphs into it before the hair-removal ad autostarted and blasted my cochlea.

tl;dr: the article has nothing to do with an axiomatic fatwa generator.
Ah, that's it! Never looked at the jobs section before. (not much in the mood for regular employment :) ).

Thanks!
It also took me some time to find the prices. They're on the lower right corner of the frontpage.
Glad you liked it! The demand for kanban is not high at the moment, but this is because kanban for project management is a very new concept.

I believe flow.io solves a number of painful project management problems such as extensive upfront planning, making accurate estimates and manual time-tracking. So, word-of-mouth should be enough to find customers in the beginning.
I think the product has already proven itself to be valuable...
The takeaway quotation for me:

On chips where components are 22 nanometres in
size, transistor gates are about 42 atoms across.
It's just that your eyes are closed, these are just about equivalent (same no of () anyway) :

i.hate(parentheses).split().doyou()
or

(doyou (split (i.hate parentheses)))

"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful

http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ParaMount/papers/acm_may87.pdf

You use GOTO every time you turn on the computer, though JMP is the mnemonic instead.
Upvotes on stories are useful, upvotes on comments less so I think.

After all, the homepage is a 'scarce resource', but comment threads can be long without any real penalty and voting doesn't make them shorter.
If what you have said is true then the opposite action must also be true. (example based on my understanding of the sale of goods act).

You walk into a store and walk up to the till and ask to buy something, then at that moment the person behind the till tells you the price is wrong and it's actually 3 times that. Buy saying you wanted to buy it you are then contractually obliged under consumer law to then pay for the goods.

Doesn't sound right now does it.

Argos didn't get away with anything, they are no requirement under the sale of goods act to honor the price and can cancel the order (effectively they are refusing your business which is how it actually works but is obviously not worded as such for politeness) if they choose to.
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Inside Foursquare: Checking In Before the Party Started (Part I)
>>* Maybe it's a mess because the original design was fundamentally wrong and it really can't be guided into the right form.
>>
>>* Maybe it's a mess because people kept adding features without really understanding how it worked, so their additions didn't fit the architecture/design/structure.

I'm not looking to blame anyone. Whatever has happened, has happened already (I'm not ignoring the learnings) and I'm just looking to improve things.
Gall–Peters projection
Jesus, a guy asks for a citation and gets voted to -4. If it's that dumb a question, post a link to a page with some sourced numbers in it and humble him.
I've always been surprised that HN has neither a pwd reset nor an account delete function.
The Instant Personalization is opt-out, not opt-in. App admins are supposed to delete you data when you opt-out, otherwise they have access.
I personally know of at least 3 other people who have written some kind of kanban/agile web tool (including me)

I gave mine away to a customer.

Of course, online I've ran into a bunch more.

Good luck! It's slow now, but It's a growing market.
Investigating ROI: Apple iAds to charge $10 CPM and $2/click.
The app looks exactly like pivotal tracker. I like pivotal tracker, so I might like this as well...
I read somewhere once that you need to sell people: sex, or making money, or saving money. I.e. You have to touch their hearts or their pocket.
I think the gradient at the top of the page is horrible. The rest of your design doesn't have gradients, I don't think you're well served by them.

Since your tabs are your primary navigation through the page, they should be a lot bigger.

The call to action should be much more centrally placed, and closer to the point where people finish reading (ie, lower). It should not be a green button on a greenish background.
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Facebook isn't like a band-aid though, it's more like your local cable company. You don't have to pay for cable, but then you don't get to see all those tv shows that are only on cable. Maybe you can buy them on dvd when everyone's stopped talking about them.

Similarly, you can quit Facebook (and I have). Now I have friends I can't interact with online, because we don't have any websites in common any more.
The phone numbers thing is really their own fault. Evil is streaming from open "everyone post your numbers" groups.
ASP.NET MVC skips the whole ORM part and let programmers deal with the issue however they like. I find this refreshing compared to Rails 2 which enforces ActiveRecord. I hear Rails 3 decouples ActiveRecord but I haven't seen it in action.

This is important if you have a plan to build front end to legacy database.
Conversion rate is the hard one to estimate, you could easily be off by an order of magnitude or more.
I did quit Facebook.

My friends did not switch en masse to some other service I was using; they still organise parties on Facebook.

A few people quitting Facebook only makes it less ubiquitous at the margins.
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Redis multi-field searching and filtering
Interesting, However I trust my wife way more than I trust a 'company' that may or may not get bought by someone that wants to reinterpret my pre-nup to determine if it is iron clad enough to invalidate their right to half my stuff
The issue I have is that we've yet to see whether the tethering/WiFi hotspot features will actually be allowed by the carriers (for free). Sprint has already announced plans that WiFi hotspot service will be $30/mo with their Android 2.1 EVO. It is unreasonable to believe that Sprint is going to let Android 2.2 devices tether for free and charge $30/mo for older devices. In the end, this feature will likely end up similar to iPhone tethering. If you're willing to "jailbrake" the phone, it's there. Of course, it's likely that carriers will be able to detect tethering (it really shouldn't be too hard) and call up the user to tell them that they have to stop or a $XX charge will be added to their account monthly for tethering usage. They might even add the charge without alerting the user - how many people who don't have a data plan get charged without being alerted when they accidentally hit the web button on their phone? I don't think it's wholly unreasonable to believe that carriers might do the same for tethering.

As much as we'd all like to think that Google's in the driver's seat fighting for users rights when Apple won't stand up for them, it's still the networks who are the gatekeepers. Froyo has the technological capability to do tethering/hotspot service. It's a great capability to add and it's great that Google has done so. That doesn't mean it's going to be free.
I was thinking the same thing. And I even spent that last 10 minutes perusing their site. I don't know if this publicity was worth 1.6 million in the long run, but I believe it will bring in more sales than if it had not occurred. I am even tempted to pass this site along to my wife (the big shopper in our household).
[1] experts-exchange is abusing the urls, the fact that they are not 'rest-ful' does not detract from the URL scheme but from experts-exchange.

[2] Mailto is a URI, not a URL. 1738 has long been superseded. http://shadow2531.com/opera/testcases/mailto/modern_mailto_u...

So, that leaves '3', which is not exactly secure and most applications that can use it will also happily ask for a password from the user in interactive mode when it isn't supplied.
It's impossible to consider everything by its merits. There is an untold deluge of information out there, vying for our attention. We have to filter it somehow. If someone acts exactly like all the other idiots in the history of "science," then they get filtered out until they have something better to show.
Randomly (but related to when a story is submitted) stories sink without trace, getting no comments, and no upvotes. Your suggestion would amount to "X strikes and you're out" with no possibility of redemption.

Seems a bit harsh.
That's like saying, "This does nothing to diminish the risk of a Moon-based Turbo Death Ray if one is, in fact, created." We might be able to make one if we tried really hard. But it would be pointless and difficult, and there are so many more pedestrian failure modes that it seems pointless to worry about it.

Drexler thinks we underestimate the difficulty of building run-away replicators. Nature's had 4 billion years and hasn't managed it. Yes, I'm aware of the wheel argument.
Looks neat, but is there that much difference between silverback or just recording people using screenflow? I get the idea of the chapter marking, and I guess it probably helps if you're trying to track 10+ subjects at a time...
Hah. Well Project Bubble can't give the first thing (I don't think!) but it can do the other two. I'll make it clearer.
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"the day when he attained enlightenment at Gaya in India; and the day he attained Nirvana (Unity with the Absolute) in 480 B.C."

Because attaining enlightenment and nirvana are rational, factual, non-dogmatic "events" that can be dated.
The Startup School Bus
When I created a project, it took me back to the dashboard, telling me "No account activity". Perhaps it should either say "New project created: [project name]" or take me to the projects tab.
Scientific American hasn't been for "real scientists" since the mid 60's. They found that 'popular science' had a much larger audience and dumbed down accordingly. The old articles are a lot more solid on content, no fancy graphics and would actually require a bit of background knowledge to be understood. The last few years it is more at the level of 'infotainment' though they do serve as a useful system to pick out interesting developments from a large number of fields.

I think of it as an easy preview, if something is really interesting (and not over my head) then I'll try to locate the original paper. The problem with that is that most of the times those are ridiculously expensive if you are not affiliated with a university.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1373797
This (and speed) is why Cassandra uses murmur for its bloom filters: http://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-you-ever-wanted-to-kn...
flow has some features that AgileZen lacks such as:

* Detailed metrics: You can filter by user, user group, or task type.
* You can go back in time and see how your board looked like anytime in the past.
* Multiple users can be assigned to a task.
* Search everything posted on your board including comments.
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How is it manipulative? It is nothing more than binding one's future self to a certain behavior.

By that same logic it is manipulative of the spouse to attempt to bind your future self to other behavior (only doing it with her, sharing property, etc).
Yeah, caching is also entirely plausible... there have been a number of caching-related glitches over the years.
The most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable,... but successful management must nevertheless take account of them. (W. Edwards Deming quoting Lloyd Nelson)
I haven't used Screenflow before but it looks like Silverback is a little cheaper, simpler and designed specifically for user testing.

Have you (or anyone) used Screenflow for user testing?
The Android robot to McCarthy: You get 144 lines to write in lisp. What would you like to write?

McCarthy to the Android robot: Umm. Curse out the other languages for being cheap knockoffs.
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The one that comes after C.
Focus on the words - not on the writer
with no possibility of redemption

As long as this only applies to stories, there is a very easy chance of redemption: Make a good comment.

If it weren't for the occasional "posting with a throwaway account for the sake of anonymity" Ask HN submission, I'd say that setting a non-zero karma threshold for submission would be a very good thing, since it would force new users to experience the community before they start making noise.
It's funny, I wrote a Kanban board to my ex-employer and know other people who work on similar projects. New competitors pop out every week. Way too many Kanban boards already.
No, it is based on Scrum, a different project management concept for software teams. Here is a concise comparison of kanban and Scrum: http://flow.io/kanban-vs-to-do-lists-and-scrum.html
Curious as to how will they solve current leakage on something this small? Interesting nonetheless.
> To find out your impending spouse had signed a contract that bound them to create an ironclad prenup with you, would mark you as the most suspicious, manipulative bastard on earth.

Well, at least, unromantic and pragmatic. Me, I do work in business and science and I think it'd be irresponsible to potentially allow 50% control of my research, writings, and businesses I found/work in/develop/etc to go to someone else. Anyone that comes on to work for me needs to know that there's no chance that half my ownership share passes to someone else in the future, or that I need to take on debt or promises of a certain cash payment to retain the share.

For real life examples, look at how divorce wrecked the San Diego Padres baseball franchise - and the Moores had been married 45 years!

Community property? That's fine if no one stands to lose besides you, but I feel like it'd be personally pretty irresponsible of me to enter into a situation where divorce could ruin not just my business and life, but my staff, suppliers, clients, and people who count on me. Some people might say, "But if you have a great marriage and pick the right woman it wouldn't happen!" To that I say,

1. Everyone thinks that way and quite a few of them turn out to be mistaken.

2. I don't think my judgment is infallible, and I refuse to put other people's lives and livelihood unnecessarily at risk.

I agree it's still potentially awkward though - you need good communication about expectations early on.
The blue background color. Maybe it's because I'm just tired but I could hear my eyes screaming while reading the text.
Perhaps some sort of eye-friendly background in the middle below the text?
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A small piece of my weekend project that I'm working on is extracting text from articles. You can try it on this one:

http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindu.com%2F...
If one is quitting, why would it matter to him that they do better, as he cannot gain any benefit out of it.

I would rather join a group "Join this group to emphasize facebook to add simpler privacy controls" than quit facebook. I don't want to lose it. I care.