skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this kid's problem ultimately boils down to one statement: "He majored in political science and minored in history."

And he wants to earn north of $75k? Why? Because he read a lot of history books? And he's arrogant enough to say this to the NY Times? He might as well put a stamp on his forehead that says "Arrogant bastard. Do not hire."
... plus, the incredibly good Android "Droid" typeface is available under an open license and looks fantastic on mobile and desktop screens.

So the new Ubuntu font certainly gives them/us something unique, but I'm not yet convinced that it gives them/us greater quality (I'm an Ubuntu member, and have tried this early release).

Plus, you can install Droid on Ubuntu today: ttf-droid.
java studio for sun tried to do this but sun was a failure of a company and didnt succeed in staying in alive.

i have dabbled in creating a visual programming language for c#. i have a lot of code written. contact me. http://www.thedirtydeveloper.com
Is there a stash of interesting imports available anywhere?
Top 7 results for me: Voldemort, Scalaris, Cassandra, Riak, Tokyo Tyrant, Terrastore, CouchDB.

We're already using Riak and have no plans to change.
They should include all datastores and recommend the best one, be it relational, k/v, document, or whatever.
Works just find on mine!

Always loved the Game of Life. Programmed in Python & OpenGL a while back, but this is just cool. Glad to play with it every once in a while.
The best thing about it is the lack of ads.

Does anyone know if this is done in HTML5?
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I'm really enjoying this site. You should improve the permalink feature though. I want to share some of these comparisons with friends, but its not very easy right now.
Ask HN: How does a RDBMS developer migrate to noSQL ?
I am used to seeing data in tables and their relationship via foreign keys. I would like to move on to noSQL (key-value) store. A challenge to me is how to stop thinking about foreign keys and tables and think everything in a single key-value store. Does anyone point to guide/links how to move away from RDBMS mindset to key-value store mindset. Real life examples of moving rdbms schemas to noSQL would be great.
Is there a volume control? I couldn't find it.
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Google struggles to give away $10 million (Project 10^100)
As an exercise or function in doing something with data, sure, do as you please.

But if this were to have practical application, and the potential to solve problems via the crowd, why not improve it and give it better data?
I wasn't expecting this to really hold my attention, but I ended up watching for 25 minutes the first time I tried it.

I just hope they add a way to add videos to the favorites and view the original youtube page for a video. Also a bit annoying that you can't control it with the mouse, but they'll probably fix that.
Let me think. These are for 2.x line, I still haven't tried Python 3.x as it doesn't seem to be significantly leaner and more modern than Python 2.x. I'll go for Python 3 no later than when I absolutely have to.

1) Scoping: there's no nested lexical scoping but only function and global scope. Makes many unnecessary workarounds necessary. 2) Read-only closures: you have to use the list hack, you can't just assign to any closed-over vars. 3) No do-while. Surprisingly often needed and thus irritating. 4) Some shortcomings aren't inherent in Python: while I would always like to prefer generators over lists and list comprehensions, and consider iterators elegant, I started considering iterators and itertools as cumbersome and old-fashioned right after I saw lazy sequences in action in Clojure. 5) Various function and method names that I just never, ever recall without first rethinking it again. Like dict.setdefault() which is actually dict.get() but with a default value. There's probably a dozen of these, and each time I just wonder: why is it so difficult to properly rename a few functions and gradually deprecate the old ones. 6) Last, the classical "there are no proper anonymous functions": lambda doesn't cut it and having to specifically name "anonymous" functions is cumbersome. Combined with scoping limitations, even using a generic name like "_" for local functions to be passed as arguments can cause trouble.

There used to be more but I have done less and less with Python recently and much more with Clojure, so the irks are fading.
We have this at my office and I'm not a huge fan. Mostly because the little air bubbles are really annoying and nearly impossible to avoid. The surface also doesn't clean up that well. Very much prefer ideapaint - http://www.ideapaint.com/
Thanks for responding. Yes, I suppose I should clarify. I'm fresh out of college with a degree in Computer Science and Biochemistry and saw this as a great opportunity to gain exposure to this scene and learn a lot. I first heard about the DC Startup weekend through a co-worker and it is all new to me. I don't really know what the event is like or how it will all flow, but I do know that I want to be prepared for anything. Any suggestions are welcome; I hope to see you too!
It's Flash. Easy way to check, by the way, is to right click on it. If it's Flash it'll say "About Adobe Flash Player 10".
Why do you want to move to a KV store? Don't just move for the sake of it. If you have a real problem that requires a KV store then sure, but it sounds like you're just doing it cause everyone else is. Don't optimise for a problem you don't have (yet).
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Right click it, it's Flash...
> He did go into several specifics as to why MongoDB might lose your data.

He was talking about that post http://www.korokithakis.net/node/119 that doesn't go into any specifics at all.

> Nice jab at CouchDB though!

But couchdb is slow though. I, like many, switched to mongodb because couchdb was just too slow and when I asked in IRC how to make it faster I was told to run a cluster of couchdb, so, not too different than mongodb ;)
Could use a better title... it's the golang.org's blog, and it's an explanation of the syntax, which is not really implied by "Go's declaration syntax". With just the domain and title, I'd assumed this was just documentation (as sometimes gets posted on hn), not discussion, and skipped over it several times.

All in all interesting, and I definitely agree with the improvement with their "function-returning function which accepts a function as an argument" example. An interesting departure from C & languages influenced by C (ie: most).
Feature flags are essentially identical to operating A/B tests in this respect, right? I have a magic button which logs me in as a target user, and it reproduces exactly what they would see, including the results of A/B tests. This helps to reproduce unanticipated interactions between tests. (This has only happened maybe twice, but they were doozies.)
> Windows 7 has been very well perceived, though it still lags behind Linux/OSX.

Lags behind in what sense?
This is the greatest idea ever!
The funny part is that all the pieces (FreeType, HarfBuzz, Pango) are really well done, just FreeType isn't tweaked properly. :/
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does your company pay for dual-licensed gpl/commercial products?
It sounds like he is talking about rasterization which is handled by FreeType.
I'll say this: I think some people want an interesting experience, regardless of whether it is intuitive or expected or within their comfort zone. But some others just want a nice, safe, clean, comfortable, quiet, home-like, relaxing experience. Those folks do not want surprises. Maybe they are visiting that city for work, they are away from family and the comforts of home and this hotel room may be the closet thing they'll have to a home base temporarily in lieu of that. They do not want excitement or exotica --- not from the hotel room anyway.

For most people, if they want to see something unusual or exotic they could visit a museum, visit a foriegn country and experience local culture, and heck, nowadays, there's lots of exotica just a click away on the web. In other words, I know I risk coming across a "2 girls 1 cup" experience when strolling randomly through the web (I'm looking at you 4chan), but I don't want that sort of surprise out of a hotel room, thank you very much.
Oh wow, that's bad o_O The text in the main field, which I assume is their font, is better... but IMO still needs a bit of work, especially around "d"s and "i"s.
They should say that replication makes up for it under the assumption of uncorrelated failures. As you point out, some people may agree with that assumption and some may not.
It's fine to state where you work if:

- It's relevant to the question (i.e. the question has to do with a particular application at work).

- You're at an industry/trade show (where "where you work" is more important to fellow attendees than "who you are").

- It provides information the speaker needs (i.e. so that she'll know you're a colleague/partner/competitor).

It's not okay if:

- You waste any more time on your employment than "I'm So and So, developer at Initrode, and I'd like to know..."

- You're going to hijack the time to talk about your company.

- You're trying to "get some free marketing".
So SmallTalk and Self are not visual enough?

http://www.smalltalk.org/ also http://www.squeak.org/
http://selflanguage.org/
Using a combo of the append-only file[1] and a redis slave[2] you'll get about the best durability one can ask for in today's world (assuming you're aware of the gotchas with regard to expiring keys — an edge case).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/AppendOnlyFileHowto
[2] http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/ReplicationHowto
Are you sure?

> The bold weight is still being designed and isn't available yet. [ars]

and

> For now, only the regular is available for testing, bold comes next. [ http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/the-ubuntu-font/ ]

Sounds like it might be another font entirely, especially as the whole font is still in beta, but it mentions bold separately that way. But I could be wrong.
Currently the top YouTube channels make around 10-30K a month from ads and sponsorships (some much more). They put out really quality stuff. Just go look at the top subscribed channels and you will find some really great video creators. What your asking for already exists, it happened naturally as people became more and more popular on YouTube.

I highly recommend this guy, he has over a million subscribers: http://bit.ly/b4aivv and you should buy his iPhone app ;)
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And they probably (rightfully so) fear a wave of mostly-uninformed (read: non-typographic-geek) comments.
Folders/categories/tags would be a helpful addition.
I'll try to remember to do that. Thanks!
I don't think visual necessarily implies non-textual. I remember once seeing an old terminal app used by an airline that would allow you to escape the bounds of the input area if you used the arrow keys. You could literally type anywhere on the terminal which as you'd expect, effectively trashed the session till it was reset.

The analogy I'd draw is that programming in most editors is like that terminal app, you can do anything even if it's totally illogical and breaks horribly. When I read the question posed at the end of the article, the image that came to mind wasn't a pointy-clicky diagram monstrosity but more of an Intellisense with a tight input guard and strong visual delineation of blocks; a Python with even tighter structural rules rather than a UML on steroids.
That came off a bit harsh. I mean, I could care less about stealing their ideas if they haven't got a track record. I obviously find everyone's ideas and startups interesting, otherwise I wouldn't be on HN as often as I am.
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I think you snuck in an extra negation that I didn't and turned my sentence around, so now I don't know if either of us knows what the other meant!

Me: "I see no evidence mobile phones are in any way even close to Microsoft's core competency"

"in any way" and "even close to" are non-negating modifiers we can remove, so:

Me: "I see no evidence mobile phones are Microsoft's core competency"

You: "You see no evidence that an operating system for a mobile device is not their core competency?"

(pronoun and noun substitution)

Me: "phil sees no evidence that an operating system for a mobile device is Microsoft's core competency"

You: "phil sees no evidence that an operating system for a mobile device is not Microsoft's core competency?"
This guy built an awesome scooter display with voltage monitoring, temperature, GPS, speedometer --

http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/s...

There's also some interesting stuff if you poke around hackaday.com
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The BeagleBoard is stuck in a no-man's-land between low-end 8-bit controllers like Arduino and the many other AVR/PIC platforms, and a full-fledged embedded PC. If I want to monkey with Linux and take advantage of a full 1 GHz ARM core, I probably want to just use a commodity PC motherboard. Chances are, it won't cost much more, and it comes with the huge advantage that I already know how to develop for it.
In fact this is exactly how Linux got its start -- check out Torvalds' "Just For Fun".
It is unnecessary to work that hard at it to enjoy it. SC2 matches you against players of equivalent skill level. It may be an ego bruise to be in the bronze level instead of platinum or diamond, but you can still have fun with it.

/silver level, APM 65
You got me. I guess I skipped the words "along with" when scanning.
To my credit, the cited link [6] tells nothing about a new lower-priced model other than the Model S.
Same landfill as the Atari "E.T." cartridges.
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# is used for lambda shorthand in Clojure. #(+ % %2) is shorthand for (fn [x y] (+ x y)).
I'm coming up on 3 years of use for my T-Mobile Blackberry Curve 8320 w/ UMA support. Still waiting for an all-around better device and network setup for my usage pattern (messaging/emailing a lot, talking a lot, maps, occasional web browsing).

While the T-Mobile coverage has sucked plenty in certain areas, I've had nearly 3 years of satisfaction that if there's a wifi network, I have coverage -- in various apartments where coverage sucked, deep inside work buildings (where other service providers also can't penetrate), at other people's houses where there isn't great coverage... and it costs me nothing. Unlimited calls/data/messaging w/ UMA included: ~$90/month. Plus I can tether!

Anyone know if T-Mo is baking UMA support into any upcoming Android devices?
great explanation and advocacy, and also good to see Pike's name as the author, gives the language a cred boost in my eyes. maybe i'll add it to the same bucket I consider D to be in as a possible successor to C for certain niches.
Thought this post was awesome ... I happen to be one of the people that says "I'm both" and often find this is a problem. Have you gone through a similar problem of trying to do both? What was the solution?
Indeed. C-style declarations have always been intuitionally-opaque to me (I've always had to concentrate on them to get what they're saying), but the Go example:

f func(func(int,int) int, int) func(int, int) int

is a simple mechanical transformation away from being a Haskell declaration:

f :: ((Int, Int) -> Int, Int) -> (Int, Int) -> Int
It's just too complicated and the trust factor is a lot less for the company. They cheated with a mail-in rebate offer but never was honest enough to fulfill the promise. Many follow ups ended up with unnecessary stress and I'm done with QuickBooks forever.
Plus it's link bait, two click-throughs to get to the actual guide/instructions: http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubun...
I'm guessing this was not in Singapore.

That said WOW. That was an ambitious project. But what did the locals think of trail of white paint he left behind?
I think the problem with areas like architecture and industrial design is, there is no clear performance metric for what is considered "good design" - or at the least, what designers consider good isn't completely aligned with what users consider good.

The switch designer in this case was overly focused on aesthetics and his own cleverness, rather than on making a "good" switch. The fact that you'd need directions on how to use it makes it a horrible switch. It fails its most primitive task, which is to be identified as a switch. Secondly, you can't tell how it works just by looking at it. And to ignore the iconography of something utilitarian like a switch, is a bit self-indulgent. Here, design gets in the way.

This is a problem with design education, which turns people into cake decorators rather than problem solvers. The entire science of how-things-work is ignored and worse still, not even considered as a source of inspiration. Instead, you get perversions similar to that of the post-modern literary crit world. Designers talking amongst designers, giving each other awards, and curating some new form of design-incomprehensible to outsiders.

And this leads to the false dichotomy between form and function. Almost like art vs. engineering. You get students who study design, who have no interest in how things work. And you get engineering students who don't understand that products are experienced in layers - you have first impressions and expectations, recognition of what it does/how to use it, perceiving of quality (would an iPod feel cheaper if it was lighter?), durability, etc. and that process must be managed/controled via design.

I sometimes think studying bridges is a better way to learn about design than studying architecture. You can't ever ignore the fact it has very real constraints. And yet, there are tons and tons of beautiful bridges. Every component must be functional AND aesthetic. A designer is the engineer and the engineer is the designer. You get a very "fat-free" structure. Different bridges have different experiences. And they never get in the way of you driving across them either.

James Dyson gave an awesome talk about this at MIT, called "The Art of Engineering". I definitely recommend watching it if you see engineering and art as one: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/362/
That's a laudable goal, but it seems like it just wastes space. I don't want minimalism, I want greatness.
Care to point out the fight? I'm not seeing it.
Wow. It looks like MS has a staffer managing the Kin facebook group by actually responding to posts. Looks like they're putting their social media budget to good use.
From the page: As you probably heard, we have made the decision to focus our efforts on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch, and will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. We will continue to work with Verizon Wireless in the U.S. to sell KIN phones and support customers. (7 hours ago). Back to beating the dead windows mobile horse.
It is used in MIT's Intro Algorithms class. That said, it's very rigorous and requires use of discrete mathematics. It might be worth looking into some lighter reading first to see if algorithms are interesting enough to you personally to warrant working through a full textbook.
Go look at places like climateaudit.org. Plenty of screaming and shouting there. "Fraud", etc. If they'd only put 2 days worth of that energy into something productive...
Nope, IBM's open source efforts are generally 'lipstick on a pig' sex-appeal marketing efforts rather than something they are seriously invested in.

What IBM doesn't tell you in their PR is that mainframes are still very much the profit engine of the company. Although the money is more in support services and business process outsourcing rather than the actual hardware/software.
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Chrome, OSX. The grid lines match the story separator lines and the baseline of all of the fonts. the "Top Questions" and the navigation tabs are off, but the rest is on. the drop shadow of the top bar is about 3px off from the top bar itself...
Windows NT4 was much more stable than the previous Win3.11->95->98->Me line, but - primarily due to moving Graphics drives into the kernel for performance - was considerably less stable than its immediate predecessor in the NT line, Windows NT 3.51.
James Dyson: The Art of Engineering [video]
Great talk on how engineers should be artists and artists should be engineers.