skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of what Conan O'Brien said about Twitter in his post-sack interview - that he felt it really honed his output, because he had to condense his jokes.

I didn't think much of the few jokes I saw, presented so impersonally, but still. http://twitter.com/conanobrien
That is awesome, both because it looks great and also because I was going to build something similar and now I don't have to!

If you could add Clicky and Recurly support I would be your best friend.
"Justin and Jason speak with Chris McCann, co-founder of StartupDigest, about how he’s turning a weekly email of local tech events into a fast growing and profitable business."

http://thestartupdigest.com/
I spent quite a few days tinkering with putting linux onto a nas device which was a lot of hassle and didn't perform well (music streaming).

In the end I just got an cheap fanless atom board and was done in a few hours. Obviously not as power efficient as a plug computer, but way more time efficient. There's a lot to be said for staying with the mainstream x86 distros etc.
Yes, we could certainly use something to make things easier to configure your initial dashboard. Thanks for the feedback.
I was ready to be all sceptical too, but I actually came away from the site quite impressed.

They seem to say that their wing tracing out the movement of the tip of a turbine, as well as operating at higher altitude will increase efficiency. They also have dynamic control systems to deal with variable conditions, increasing reliability.

As for your windfarm density reasoning, I think the vast majority of potentially viable land is currently unused, so achieving high density is not an issue now (although it might become one in future); there is more than enough land area to go around. Also they mention as a selling point of their system that it would be much more suited to deep sea locations than conventional turbines, opening up even more space for potential exploitation.

Concerning the need to build a scaled-down prototype, I think they mentioned somewhere that the pictures on their site are of a 10kW prototype :-)

About the liability in case of failure, they mention that they have implemented redundancy of systems on the wing itself, so in case of wing failure, it can still be brought down safely, and in case of tether failure, it can fly autonomously to a predefined location.

The only thing I don't understand is how they prevent the tether from getting all twisted up while still transmitting power through it (although I'm not a mechanical engineer, so there's probably a relatively simple solution to that) :-)

As I said earlier, I'm very impressed. This has got me excited.
I found the HSV/HSL article immensely useful on a semi-recent project, as Google seems to have forgotten about the original references I used when I first learned about those two colorspaces (i.e. students' and professors' personal web sites, found using the Altavista search engine).
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What about an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 to use like a server and also as a mediacenter connected to the bigscreen tv?
16-20W idle.
"High performance" precludes the SheevaPlug/GuruPlug/etc, surely? What do you mean by "high performance"?

I am setting up a Fit-PC2i currently, which at least has the power of a netbook.
An irrational response is never the best way to disagree. I would rather start a debate.

I find it very sad that very nice tools like IronPython, IronRuby and the whole CLR stack have such threats associated with them. I would love to use them, but I find it risky and I do not enter any course of action that may empower Microsoft against the FLOSS community.
http://www.briefcam.com - Automatic summarisation of video footage.
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Well that isn't really the point. The point is so that those who want to use your software commercially would theoretically have to negotiate a different license with you. It may be self defeating in a way, but it would be nice to have the option.
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DEBUG is set to TRUE on whosreppin.me...you might wanna change that
Cool - thanks for the feedback! Feel free to drop me a mail (email in profile) or add something to out feature request forum at http://geckoboard.zendesk.com/forums/176685-feature-requests if there's something you would like to see.
Great Work, we created our own custom Status Board a few weeks ago but this definitely rocks. Will be using this in the near future on other projects for sure! Great work.
The only way would be for Microsoft to permanently and irrevocably renounce the rights to pursue patent licensing on products based or using free implementations of the C# language and the CLR/.NET stack.

And even then, I would be cautious.
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Well, it doesn't need to be able to perform advanced calculations for the LHC in Switzerland, but it must have enough CPU juice to be reliable as a server. Perhaps HTTP/FTP/POP3/DNS server, download server, Firewall, there are many possible uses and I think that GuruPlug and their kind provide enough CPU performance for such tasks.

I'm concerned about what I read about problems with overheating, though.
In the end, it's up to them.

You can't possibly verify if other people made their choices in full clarity and if they're willing to live by it. You can just support them in achieving that, mainly by not pressurizing them and hurrying their decision.

Other people can always give up too much for you and resent you for that, whether it's about life's big crossroads or not.
If you can afford an Core i7 server right now, you might consider a Mac Mini. When idle it consumes less than 10W(http://www.apple.com/macmini/environment.html). And when you need the power, you got it.

I'm using one at least and I'm very happy with it.
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Isn't the result of this undefined?

while (i--)

*fp++ = *fp >> 4;

I'm sure he tested it and it does the right thing on his compiler/computer, but for anyone thinking of picking up the challenge...
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Really could do with peeps from here. Bootstrapped Non-programmer sysadmin founder, outsourcing webdev team. Time is very scarce, up late nights and most weekend, but persistence it key.

Thanks to all here for the great articles. They provide great support and motivation for someone in my shoes. Shout-out to http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/. HND saves me an hour each day!

Android users - Apologies in the delays. App planned for late September release, ready for Beta.

And before people say it...no were not harvesting emails. Any email given will only be sent one email invite!

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Even though the graphic elements are strictly 2D, the interaction can have a depth component that's not obvious in screenshots. 2D layers can be animated in 3D space, and distorted to break the flatness.

The Engadget review mentions that the WP7 UI makes efficient use of a parallax effect where overlapping layers scroll at a different pace. That's a good example of a "2.5D" depth effect.
Thanks! I'll add Clicky & Recurly to our feature request forum. We don't have any finance APIs integrated yet, this is certainly something we're looking to address.
> Are you going to check with what association your taxi driver is registered and have you done the necessary research upfront to judge the credentials of the association?

This is a valid point, because people don't always have the time to do detailed research when they make buying decisions. However, with the internet, and with (soon) most people carrying smartphones, this may change. One could easily imagine a registration including a computer-readable logo, that when one points one's phone at it, produces reviews of whether that registration is good or bad.

> The businessman will tell everyone that the taxis in StateCapital suck, but a few months later, when he's there again for a one-off trip, he will have forgotten the name of the taxi service that rendered him such a bad service last time. However, commerce in StateCapital is harmed by all the gossipy remarks concerning one of their taxi services (which are remembered as concerning all taxi services in the city).

Then why not have the city government issue a voluntary registration? Then, if people value it and feel it provides real benefits against being ripped off, they will value that registration.

But compulsory government licenses are if anything more likely to lead to customers being ripped off than protecting those costomers. Consider New York, where a taxi medallion costs $600,000 (source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3040666220070530 ). Who pays the $600k? Eventually the customers do.

So compulsory government licensing is more likely to lead to me being ripped off than no licensing.
I'm not trying to build an HTPC/PVR, so I don't even need video out - ssh connection would be enough.

I'm looking for something minimalist: Minimal size, minimal prize, minimal power consumption.
I use a dell mini 9 for my business. It sits in a closed ventless cabinet and hasn't overheated. It uses <7w with wifi and screen on, but mine are off. Also, there are no moving parts and it's got a built in UPS... I got it new for $199 last year.
Shouldn't banks be lobbying against legislation like the one passed in NYC? If it helps people to pay mortgages, it's their best interests, right?
I think the best way to deal with this is to offer choice - fine-grained GPS (+ associated battery cost) if the user chooses it; but I suppose that isn't the Apple way ...
Hi Makchristian, great idea and thanks for helping us get the word out.

http://www.gmbhnews.com/ is my try, bootstrapped but not yet generating revenue (still in Beta RC), it targets mobile devices and webkit browsers with the goal of bringing the web/blogs to mobile devices.
I get great effects from ~400mg aniracetam when combined with an acetylcholine precursor + any other stimulant. It makes almost every other drug more potent and last longer and increases clarity\recall. Boosting acetylcholine also activates the sympathetic nervous system to lower heart rate which offsets any of the usual caffeine anxiousness\restlessness for me. I agree piracetam (which is even less stimulatory than aniracetam) would not be a wonder-drug if taken alone without an acetylcholine precursor or stimulant.
So, where would HN users move their money in a scenario like this? My homecountry is on the default list.
Not always. Often government regulates on behalf of existing business in order to create barriers around said industry. This way the existing businesses continues to operate while newcomers are deterred. Look at cable tv, cosmology, etc.
I will draw this to a conclusion because you don't seem to have the wherewithal to recognize when somebody is agreeing with you and trying to help point out the flaws in your argument.

This thread is why NASA is not funded. Our discussion is an example of the political discourse at large.

You're mad about DoD and war spending. So when NASA comes up, you're loaded and ready for bear to protest the war. Hell, you'll talk at length about spending priorities -- all inside the DoD. Look how stupidly we spent that money!

But where's the emotion when it comes to NASA? Just a throw away war barb involving your feelings and that's it. I kept trying to bring it back to NASA pointing out how pointless this line of reasoning was. Next week it will be oil cleanup in the Gulf -- how can we spend $2 Billion on a bomber and not have solar power perfected? The week after it will be otters, or seals, or whatever. Whatever you want money to be spent on, it will be compared to Afghanistan and the waste going on there. It's a pattern of argument. Recognize the pattern.

There's no positive commitment to NASA -- it's all negative feelings towards defense spending. And negative feelings take people to the polls, not positive ones. This means it is in politicians best interests for you to continue feel angry about something, not happy about something -- as long as you're mad at somebody besides them. So you'll continue ranting against the war, and continue voting, and politicians will continue to get elected, and NASA will continue not to be funded.

Looking at it this way, it's in politicians best interests not to fund NASA, as they can always make the argument that war spending took the money NASA could have had. This lets them off the hook from making tough choices, keeps you mad both about NASA and DoD, and life goes on. All is good. After all, who are you going to vote out of office because NASA is not funded? NASA and all those four thousand other pet projects are just all so much background noise. Tomorrow you'll be bitching about some other expenditure -- and how the cost of a nuclear submarine would have paid for it long ago.

And space exploration deserves better than that.

I'm done here.
I know this isn't going to concern you TOO much, but I thought I'll add my comment anyway.

I'm on a Fedora X86_64 box running Firefox 3.0.11 (with no flash, but I don't think your site needs it anyway), and whenever I click the "Add a Widget" button, I get an error.

I provided the browser/OS details to help narrow the problem.

The screenshots make it look like it'll be a great app. Congrats on getting it out there.
Complete, non-sequiter, but PG reads the Providence Journal?

Just shocked me since I lived in La Prov for 3 years. I haven't thought about the Providence Journal for years.
The rule you're alluding to is that you mustn't modify the same value more than once between sequence points. I don't think that rule applies here, as it's modifying fp (a pointer value) and then the memory location at the address of fp's original value: the increment operator has higher precedence than dereferencing (which is of course an arbitrary rule I happen to have memorised, and many have not). The right hand side has no side effects.

It's certainly confusing code, but I'm fairly sure the outcome is well-defined. That doesn't mean it's good code: I'd never write it like that. I find this far easier to understand, and that's how I'd write it in practice:

*fp >>= 4;
++fp;

The postfix while condition isn't one of my favourites either, but not quite as confusing.
No, this is the same as:

*fp = *fp >> 4;
fp++;

http://c-faq.com/ptrs/unopprec2.html for details.

EDIT: formatting
The state government is using this 'sanitary' issue as a pretext to intervene on behalf of the hotel industry that they have beholden themselves to.
Why don't you make this an "Ask HN:"? Just prefix it, I expected a blog post when I saw the current title.
I'm pretty concerned about this and would love to dig into it a bit more. Could you mail me paul at geckoboard.com with the error message and/or any other details and I'll look into it straight away? You're right - you don't need Flash.
Care to list which APIs you integrate with? Just to decide if I want to check it or not
Very nice UI. One big improvement could be a small graphic with instruction when you get to the blank dashboard. At the moment it's looking a bit empty at first impression (and that matters!)

Maybe provide a desktop version which is just a shell for the online site? That is, using AIR or Prism or other?

Good luck, it looks like a great product.
The Excito Bubba Two looks promising. Has anyone here used one?
Thanks for the suggestion. have updated to Ask HN:
Perhaps it is a bit to late to resist. This trend started with the automobile, and only increased with the advent of television.
I actually rather like that flat, fluid look. Well done Microsoft.
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You can employ it in the same way to say, for example, that political discourse only seems to be less civil than it was any number of years ago.

When, of course, it's not; it is in fact much more civil than it used to be :)
Sure, this ias the list as it stands today. More APIs are being developed as I speak.

Basecamp	Project Management
ChartBeat	Web Analytics
Clock
Email
Get Satisfaction	Customer Service
Google Analytics	Web Analytics
Highrise	CRM
MailChimp	Email Marketing
Pingdom	Server Monitoring
Prefinery	Beta Management
Text	Custom Alerts and Messages
Twitter	Social Media
Zendesk	Customer Service

Edited for formatting.
Edit 2. Removed Calendar from the list, it's not quite ready yet.
Ask HN: Examples of applications built with Node.js?
It's hard to find any examples of applications built with Node.js. Do you have any examples on applications that are fully or partly built with Node.js?
Yes, the flaws in logic and generalizations are legion.

Until about the 1970s, if you wanted to send a secret message you needed to employ a small army of mathematicians

No you didn't. You used a one-time pad. Computers were not first used for battle, they were first constructed for pure math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

And I eagerly await the day my M-1 Abrams battle tank arrives in the mail.

I won't list all the problems in this article. If you want to read it, it might be entertaining to try to find as many as you can. Sort of a rhetorical Where's Walo
An irony is that von Neumann architecture - specifically, code and data in the same memory space - is not modeled by the C language in its most distinguishing sense, and would arguably be better modeled by a language with first class functions. First class functions - the notion of creating new code, and passing it around as if it were data - capture this essence, that the data and code lie in the same memory space, and that both are potentially mutable.
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I can relate to your question however I found the problem is more so the fact that I get lazy around my partner.

When I was single and miserable in my little apartment, I was superbly productive at night, would get so much done over one weekend.

Now though, very different story... I get home and we eat like a family, we follow tv shows religiously and when bed time comes, I have a hard time giving real reasons to stay up and I'm constently reminded that I'm just "geeking out".

Imagine how I feel about kids.
This is very nearly the only reason I ever used flags. It took me a while to accidentally flag something, then a tiny bit more to discover how to unflag. Fast forward quite a while, and I discovered the auto-sweep, and now use it nearly exclusively (way harder to misclick that way).
Amazing app. Need more plugins/custom APIs.
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Agreed - user communication and flow management is lacking at the moment.

Hadn't considered a desktop version until now. What benefits does it bring over and above the web app do you think?
This is way too pretty to be a minimum viable product - great work!
I agree that one-button interfaces can be frustrating for the reasons you mention. What makes this one work for me is its anticipation of what you'll want to do next. For example, the sequences are designed so the most likely action comes up first. And there are only a few possible actions, so if you want a less-used one, it's not hard to get to it.

For a more complex device like a pager where there are many options you might like to do at any given point in the menu structure, I see how just one button would make the user experience worse.
You could try the Projects / Applications section @ http://wiki.github.com/ry/node/
When I joined the iPhone dev team, about a week after the first iPhone came out, I came in as an experienced reverse-engineer on x86/PPC but had never touched ARM. Within a few weeks (after writing a dead simple decompiler, among other things), it became one of my favorite ISAs. Why? Conditional execution and free shifting.

They touch on conditional execution, but they don't really point out how amazing it is. It makes conditional math code, if nothing else, insanely simple and elegant, not to mention fast as hell.

As for the free shifts, I'm sort of amazed they aren't touched on in the article -- they make life very easy. In ARM, you can do a shift on the result of most instructions. E.g. you can do add r0, r1, r2, LSL #4, which is equivalent to r0 = (r1 + r2) << 4. If you're commonly dealing with powers of two, this is an absolute godsend.
People have been writing stuff like this as long as I've been on the 'net; see Tim May's thing about how the Spectre of Crypto-Anarchy is haunting the world, or the manifesto about how the weary giants of flesh and steel have no place in cyberspace.

18 years in, it doesn't seem any closer.
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Well, a few things come to mind: The utilities have customers, most of whom should expect that the utility will do what they can to avoid power failures, not just sit around and wait for them to happen. Also, apparently, the quality of power is pretty poor; lost of surges and unclean waveforms. Finally, the grid is unsuited going forward for more local and regional power generation (microgrids), because it was built for giant bulk power providers to transmit power over long distances, which made sense fifty years ago, but not as much today.

All of this is from Perfect Power. I'm trying to sort out, myself, how much of this is hyperbole on the part of companies with a stake in re-making the electrical power industry, and how much is legit (carbon tax/credits come to mind as potentially illegitimate).
Interesting; it's the first code I've seen in a long time that uses BCD (binary coded decimal) representation, and it actually makes sense in this case.

I don't know how widely this is known, but the x86 instruction set actually has native support for BCD(!). AMD removed the instructions in x86_64 to free up some valuable short opcodes.

In any case, it'd be interesting how fast this sort of search would be on a GPU, using OpenCL or so. Vectorising arbitrary-precision BCD arithmetic could be a fun puzzle.
I had to try it just because I wanted to know. With -Wall GCC says:
pquest.c:279: warning: operation on 'fp' may be undefined

Not sure what 'may' means though

EDIT:

So to clarify, my suspicion is that the expression could mean either:

1)

*fp = *fp >> 4;
*fp++;

or

2)

*fp = *(fp+1) >> 4;
*fp++;
I get the impression it will look and feel even better in person, rather than on video.
looks cool so far.
one little bug: mail adresses with a + are dedected as invalid, they are not.
> - ARM is a little-endian, 32-bit RISC architecture widely used by mobile devices.

Gotta make a small note here: ARM is bi-endian (bytesexual, if you will); you can toggle the endianness from the lowest level. It just happens that iOS uses it as little endian. I seem to remember the baseband chip (which is also an ARM core, at least with the original iPhone -- never dealt with the others) being big endian, in fact.

Sadly, you can't do this on a per-process level, IIRC, like you can with PowerPC (a huuuuge perk for emulators).
Wonderful! This is EXACTLY what I requested in a HN post here just a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441770
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It's flickering on my laptop as well (Fujitsu SH760). Perhaps it's because the dots in the background are so closely spaced?
I'm kinda enamored of the UI design and all that. The question is: how does one get one hands on a developer phone?
Glad to hear it. Although I have no idea how I missed your original post, sometimes I feel like I spend all of my time on this board!
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