skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to imply anything about the poster of this article in particular, but I seem to recall a saying something like...

When your uncle the mechanic starts giving stock tips, you know a bubble is brewing.

I think we're already in the middle of a web/mobile/social app bubble.
I'd rather see a gizmo to help automate the picture taking first. My friend pointed out that they're just clicking the two camera shutters simultaneously.
I have been waiting for someone to explain the advantages of the different NoSQL solutions - this article is certainly a good start. I'd be curious to hear, from people who know the technologies well, if Adam's views on which each NoSQL solution can be used for are correct.
Nice post but.. please, please, please make your links stand out some way. There are lots of useful links in there but they're exactly the same color and style as the body text!
I drink Diet Coke.
Could you perhaps purchase many of them? Do they all take the same orbit (useless) or could you build a small private network in space? If they can launch into even just slightly different orbits, you could dramatically improve your uptime.
I'm very excited to see C-extension support. That might finally convince me to port some of my projects.
Words vs. entities (a video by Metaweb)
Ah, yes.

For the lower bound, we can estimate just the price of fuel (no plane amortization, crew and ground personnel costs, airport taxes, etc).

This seems to be currently about $54K per flight (London to San Francisco).

747 burns about 5 gallons per mile
LHR to SFO is 5,367 miles
current jet fuel price is 201.1 cts/gallon

5367*5*2 = $53,670

So monthly price per GB/s should be somewhere between $322 - $1,440.
You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010)
Silverlight is a concern but this does point to an interesting future. Image the main browser engines can expose c-binding of the equivalent javascript method/objects. Then we can have something very interesting like:

<script type="text/python" src="http://www.feedparser.org/feedparser.py/>
<script type="text/python">
for item in feedparser('http://techcrunch.com/rss.xml):
doc['feed'].append("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>" % (item.link, item.title))
</script>
1) They’re offering refunds

2) How can you call it a “badly designed phone” when you don’t have one? I have one. It’s great. Give it up already!
Also, keeping in mind that online book sales account for only 15.5% of all books sold (at least in Germany), it's not the end of the printed book by a longshot.
They are illegal in the US, you should know: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_254.html
Yes, we are running MongoHQ with Heroku and so far, it's been great. Tool-wise, not great, but been told that it will get better.
If you're a Tumblr user you'll see two buttons in the upper right-hand corner on every Tumblr blog - regardless of any change of settings.

This isn't meant for advertising though (these are existing users after all). Those two buttons allow you to:

a) Follow that Tumblr (like RSS)
b) Go to your Tumblr Dashboard
I wouldn't mind seeing Python become the default scripting language for browsers over Javascript. Not that IronPython has to be the implementation. Python has a huge library and an easy learning curve.
Real-time Comet Applications on Node with Tunguska
YouTube had a 3rd cofounder you hear very little about. He left to do grad studies but had contributed, and kept a stake in the company.

You could negotiate a way out, take a small stake to be fair to the team, and let them continue it.
Conducting a Customer Development Survey
from his info page:
"SF 7/19 - 8/3
Charlotte, NC - 8/3 - 8/7
Knoxville, TN - 8/8 - 8/9
Longboat Key, FL - 8/10 - ????"

On your about page, you mention that you're possibly touring? Just curious, have you factored in how much stress you might have going to another town every week? Will you have some friends/coding buddies to talk to during your trip?

I'm really not trying to be condescending, it's just that I recently tried spending a week vacation working on a personal project in a remote place, and I ended up spending more time finding the right coffee shop to work in, understanding the transit system, etc. than I did actually working. In any case, definately wish you the best of luck.
List of Microsoft codenames
Here's more information on premium themes: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/470140037/premium-themes
Then length of an identifier name should be proportional to it's scope. But specifically I'm talking about non descriptive function names shortened for brevity: map, filter, join, split are better names than mp,flt,jn,sp no matter how often you use them.

It takes less effort to read a word than to trip over an unfamiliar abbreviation, so while the code may be more concise, it is less clear. If your code relies upon the reader to know a bunch of specific idioms, then it might be concise, but it isn't clear; it's jargon.
It saddens me that for every ridiculous story like this, there is someone out there who really thought that trying to bring the case was a good idea.

Some things have improved in recent years. The incidence of bad therapy leading to false memory syndrome has been reduced, and with it the rate of false accusations. (There are also now improved odds for abused kids to be able to get information on what abuse is actually like, rather than getting detailed, unrealistic fantasies.) Others are worse. For instance in Miami the rule that sex offenders have to live at least 2500 feet from any school means that about the only place they could live was under a particular bridge. (As of April this year they have been transferred elsewhere, but which elsewhere that is I'm not sure. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Tuttle_Causeway_sex_offen... for more.)

I would be the last to trivialize abuse or its very real problems. But there is a world of difference between 50 year olds going after prepubescent kids and 19 year olds who dated 16 year olds. And there is little to be gained from treating them all like lepers. Certainly less than could be gained if we, for instance, took some of the energy that goes into following up on almost certainly bogus reports and instead put it into improving the foster care system.
> 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

Obviously if the equipment were unsafe or likely to fail frequently, it should be replaced. I have yet to see this demonstrated.

> Also, apparently, the quality of power is pretty poor; lost of surges and unclean waveforms.

I don't think I know anyone who would be willing to pay more on their bill in order to get cleaner waveforms.

> Finally, the grid is unsuited going forward for more local and regional power generation

Is that really true? I know that in many places in California, it's possible to put power back into the grid and get paid back from the utility company.
I'm very close to people who were saved from really horrible situations by state intervention. But then for them, foster care was hardly any better until they were adopted.

The state taking my kids is actually my worst parental nightmare--even beyond all the accidental and criminal bad things that could happen. I'm a very good parent (you'll have to take my word, I guess), but I'm not conventional. And I know all it takes sometimes is a little misunderstanding.
It is a bold first step. I sincerely hope Microsoft includes this functionality standard in the next release of IE. It would be refreshing to see them pushing innovation on the browser front.

I can see Firefox following suite. Just embed CPython and route it through that; given that they are struggling to match the Javascript performance of V8 it seems they might welcome a free diversion.

Chrome following suite is more questionable. V8 is the current king of the ring in JS performance, but Google is widely known to be a supporter of Python. I can imagine them amiable to the idea of unifying their server side glue with the client. Besides; they have shown time and time again to make 'strategically strange' moves in order to help advance the general state of the internet. When it comes to google if the internet wins, they win.

Opera would be wise to support it as a differentiating feature. They need all the tricks they can pull to stay relevant.

The bugaboo to me is Apple. They have Nitro, which is right up with V8 in most benchmarks, and support for languages which have benevolent dictators living in their enemy's quarters doesn't sound like an Appleish thing to do. I doubt they would peacefully hand over any control.

Of course if we do stumble into a multi-client-side-language-choice Renaissance it will be Adobe with the most to lose.
Consumers, rightly or wrongly have been trained to have absolutely zero expectation that their phone OS will be upgradeable. Apple is the one company (outside of Android) doing that at all and I think most consumers are quite surprised when iTunes starts telling them they can upgrade. I don't think this is an issue at all, at least not yet. It will become so as the app market matures and large numbers of consumers find they can't run high profile apps that require newer OS version.
Tumblr actually built out a feature set that was to be called "Tumblr Plus" ala Vimeo. This included group blogs and many other features that have since been released in the past year.

Ultimately, Tumblr's venture capitalists (including Fred Wilson) encouraged them to release those features as part of the free product and continue to focus on growth rather than monetization.

"Wilson added that 'some businesses should be allowed to scale and that takes capital — going for revenues and profits too early in some businesses is a mistake.'"

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/20/tumblr-gets-more-money-now-it-j...
Life is 10% How You Make It and 90% How you Take It | Both Sides of the Table
NHTSA concluded the majority of unintended acceleration was driver error.

it didn't, that story was a hoax. http://www.autoblog.com/2010/07/19/followup-toyota-strongly-...
Those are in the next article in the series, which is linked from the bottom of this one: http://immike.net/blog/2007/06/21/extreme-regex-foo-what-you....
Meh you could probably make a decent case for why we are in the middle of a web/mobile/social app bubble, but I think the Gold Rush mentality has always been prevalent with the internet from the very beginning. Because of the very low overhead required to begin construction of a website/webapp/mobile app/etc and because at first glance, the whole world is your market, noobs think they should be able to easily stake a claim in this world. Until one dives into this world though, one doesn't realize the complexity of the code needed to get simple tasks to function properly and the footwork needed to get people interested in what you're doing. The misconception of "internet money" is exactly what Southpark made fun of a few years back (Season 12 e04).

That being said, I'm rooting for Proud Noob. Do I think he'll succeed? No, if succeeding means supporting himself on the creation of this mobile app. Do I think he'll learn a lot in the process if he sticks to his goals? Absolutely.
> A friend of mine who does large-scale systems designs (he designs power and cooling systems for little things like international airports and the Gates Foundations new buildings) once said that our current power lines sacrifice close to 30% of the energy that they're supposed to be transmitting.

"Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 7.2% in 1995 [13] and 6.5% in 2007[14]. In general, losses are estimated from the discrepancy between energy produced (as reported by power plants) and energy sold to end customers; the difference between what is produced and what is consumed constitute transmission and distribution losses."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission
"Learn to Code, Quit Job" might be wiser?
Bundling as standard your own proprietary plugin which you know no one else will bundle is definitely not pushing innovation, and is little different from ActiveX, DirectShow filters, VBScript and the rest.
I am not an expert with NoSQL, but from my limited research, this all seems pretty correct and in-line with what I've read about each particular software.

Not that I'd expect anything less out of Heroku.
Microsoft facts you might not know
So this is an interesting point that's worth exploring. I hear what you're saying (everyone and his brother is trying to make a buck making apps these days) but.....

I do kinda think that making apps is actually creating something vs. day trading (profiting on volatility/others' mania) vs. mortgage brokering (profiting on volatility/others' mania) vs. real estate flipping (profiting on volatility/others' mania).

So while there may be a "development bubble", I think it can only really be a good thing. More creativity. Now, when it stops becoming profitable to do so (i.e. app prices / advertising revenue reverts to the mean) then you'll see the opportunistic types vanish.

But I think deciding to build/create applications in and of itself shouldn't be seen as a bad thing...
I can only hope this challenge inspires a spiteful hacker to create a full grammar parser in a regular expression. It won't be me, but I love how these types of comments can sometimes spawn the most interesting toy projects. :)
>>The claim was that he was a constitutional law scholar, not that he was a professor. While there are overlaps between the two groups, neither one is a subset of the other.

>You're kidding, right?

Not at all. I have reasonably high standards for scholars.

For example, even though the degree is "Juris Doctor", I don't call lawyers "Dr.". (However, I will call them "Esquire".)

Meanwhile, you'd call a 6th grade history teacher a "scholar" if they teach some constitution....
I realize it's clear. I just don't feel like it contains much "advice." It's basically saying pick the better candidate. Duh?
Horrible story, and I totally empathize with their situation. yes, the US is practically insane sometimes in how they deal with sexuality and minors, and yes there's a history of witch hunts in this area. all horrible.

That said, they did make 2 very big mistakes, and if they hadn't done either or both of them, none of the rest would have happened. first, they took pictures of the kids naked. two, they let those pictures get into the hands of strangers, ones who can then misinterpret and/or be legally obliged to do certain actions which could start a witch hunt. These people knew they were innocent, that's fine, but the problem is that from a stranger's POV, what they see is that two adult men went into the forest with some some kids, some of the kids got naked, they took photos of it. Connect the dots. It paints a bad picture. They were incredibly naive to have not realized this ahead of time.

But yes, we have a horrible system, and we need to find some way to make it better so we can protect children while at the same time not persecuting innocent adults. I'm not quite sure how we can do that.
My experience exactly. Recent code I had to change map<string, int> to MSVC specific hash_map<string, int> because the hash-implementation was better in the case, rather than the tree in the first case (not sure whether it's avl or red-black).

I really did not care about ordering.

And then std::string. I had to go and pool a lot of the std::string's that we have in one of our tools through a function (reusing common lisp) called intern, that was storing them in a pool without reference counting - this saved quite a lot of memory (most of them were key-values pairs).
This guy's anger is justified and I think his lawyer failed him.
Yup, in the 6 days since the blog post you cite, they've grown by hundreds of millions of monthly page views...fueled entirely by their announced support of Oauth.
Why did Apple decide to tie themselves to a single carrier instead of keeping the phone unlocked? Is it because AT&T would subsidize the R&D cost that went into making the iPhone?

And purely in hindsight, was that a good decision?
Everyone should read Franz Kafka's The Trial. This story and The Trial depict the helplessness anyone can feel with our legal system, or any big bureaucracy.
I was thinking the same thing. I would kill for a detailed analysis of the benefits and trade-offs between the widely different database solutions callously thrown into the single moniker of 'NoSQL'. Heaven knows such articles are/were frequent when comparing various SQL database engines.
Or some wonderful redundancy and on-demand service increases, depending on how you look at it.
> If speeches don't matter as you say, why did the HN member bother to post this?

You'll have to ask the poster.

> And why is it the top voted comment in the thread?

Wowsers, now that's an argument....

As someone said in ancient times, "this is usenet, not something important".

On second thought, I'll venture a guess as to why it was posted - it sounded nice and the poster agreed with it. As to its impact on the real world....
Social yes, mobile no.
Actually I think they might have seen it as a problem. I genuinely believe they wanted to target the N1 at only developers and sophisticated users who generally self-serve as far as support goes. They wanted to seed the evangelist and developer communities with a top notch, completely open phone so that they would then develop for and recommend Android to their followers.

Had grandma and joe sixpack started using it they might never have been able to handle the support issues. I think they identified a set of users who gave them high "bang for their buck" and specifically targeted them. I know many people say they never saw an ad for the N1 and yet I saw them for a solid 2 months straight on every page that had Google ads on them.
Meh, no one here wants to here my spoiled brat opinion, so I apologize in advance:

It should also be included in the bare minimum:

Regex will drive you crazy. Not just writing the expression, but installing a library (especially if there is no handy installer) ect. Regex likes to punch you in the balls whenever possible. (I can say this because I've written many line of Regex and I do love it.)

.

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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
-Jamie Zawinski
I'm interested in how much of a performance boost you get in running your code through Silverlight as opposed to the browser's javascript engine.

Today, all the major browsers have heavily optimized javascript VMs so it might be a close contest
I saw enormous numbers of ads for the N1 - but only through the Google ad network (on web sites). I think they were very selected and targeted in who they were advertising to. I think they specifically did not want hordes of general consumers picking up this phone.
This comment is the best one I've read tonight. Thanks for the reply - totally agree.

But I'm not sure of the development bubble piece- if there were sites starting with i,e, or x popping up everywhere, I'd be very scared haha
Hear you loud and clear- great feedback
Nokia looking for New CEO - Too late?
Ask HN: Honing programming skills in a "Blue box"
After reading several good reviews of the book "Talent Code" (among others, the review on Derek Sivers' blog)
I decided to give the book a shot. One thing that intrigued me was the information that supposedly, Brazilian soccer players practice futsal (a game similar to soccer, with a smaller field, fewer players, and a smaller, heavier ball) as this game "compresses soccer's essential skills into a small box" and allows the players to improve their soccer skills faster compared with practicing soccer.

The book also mentions the "Blue box" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer)
as a practice device of similar nature for piloting airplanes.

So the question is obvious, is there something similar for programming? The only thing I can think of are competitions such as Project Euler but I somehow feel that these are not exactly "Blue boxes".
But are they illegal in space?
I'll add more information. Going to stay with family & have a wedding to go to. But after that its going to family house and getting away from SF distractions. Thanks for the well wishes!
I'll make it more in depth tonight & get a solid post out tomorrow. Thanks for the comment!
Wait until some enterprising district attorney confiscates your hard drive, surmises you frequent HN, subpoenas your voting history from pg, finds this thread and examines which anti-governement/pro-common-sense comments you up voted.

Everything you say (and/or write) may be used against you.

Have a nice day :)
Thanks for the information. The sales figure is impressive but it's for a book. I'd expect app sales to be less than a book publisher's because users bought the kindle mainly for the ability to consume content, not apps.
ChompStack aims to bring restaurant owners to the mobile Web
I'm bored of social websites. I'm sick of any new social web service. I'm amazed of any new mobile app.

With iphone, Android, HPalm, Wmobile 7... and all this race to create apps that sell to the masses, don't you think we are really in the middle of a mobile (smartphone) bubble?
Very detailed information on Shopify competition to make $100,000 in 6 months
Tried that while I was still at Redbeacon. It's very difficult because you are in this start/stop mentality from the daily grind. Also it kept me tied down. If you don't take the leap, you don't have the full weight of the situation on top of you. Thoughts?
Why do you think modafinil is equivalent to tobacco?
So can we set up as an S-Corp in Delaware for the time being, and change to a C-Corp in Delaware when we're ready for VC funding?
Thanks for the encouragement. I actually tried to ask them for a discount on a kindle but was rejected. As for being their go-to guy, I'm not sure what I can gain down the road. Maybe another beta license for the "KindlePad"?
The app you're looking for is called 'screen'. You can set it up to display a number of split screens in one window, each running a different app like htop. The settings are saved in ~/.screenrc. Try searching for "screenrc examples" to get started.
I'd say in the iPhone case, it's a design trade off. If you just look at the antenna alone, you might claim it's negligent but in the context of the entire device is just a minor design trade off. The idea that it's a major flaw seems pretty unwarranted. I've had phones with major flaws, this is nothing.
All words are arbitrary collections of letters. map, filter, join, and split - for at least 2 of those, the most common meaning is so far removed from the programming meaning that they might as well be something shorter like 'mp'.
Agree with your first statement. I disagree with the second. The phone will revolutionize everything because it is portable, is constantly running, GPS, camera, video, etc. These are massive advances that are just starting to take off. Why does the tech community forget there are billions of people out there who have never heard of Twitter? This is the start, and I'm not missing it for the world. That's why I moved to San Francisco, and that's why I'm learning to code. (Sorry if I got a little Braveheart in this comment haha)
How Apple Took The Fun Out of Owning an iPhone
Good luck. Maybe give some info on why you decided to learn certain technologies over other ones. Would be interesting to see what a n00b with no perceived bias chooses.
Will do- great feedback
A self-referential logic test
Tell him to reset network settings. If not fixed dial 611 to reprovision. Known issue with activation not setting right for iPhone 4 restored from iPhone 3, and some new iPhone 4 with glitch in activation.

I get 3 Mbps / 1.5 Mbps in SoHo and the Village.
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http://interorbital.com/TubeSat_1.htm - Looks fake.
This could be due to GABA rebound.