skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article from 2004 has some early information on the company, though it's still not a lot: http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews/04nbaa/topstor02.htm

As of 2007 they were soliciting preorders: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/SUP...

From what I can dig up on them, I'm vaguely suspicious that the company doesn't really exist yet, though, or at least hasn't started engineering in earnest. In that 2004 piece, they estimated it'd take 5 years from launch to service entry, and the linked article here is estimating service entry... 5 years from now.

Edit: Though this article claims they had (as of 2008) 20 letters of intent secured by $250k deposits each: http://www.avweb.com/news/acrossthepond/across_the_pond_12_n...
I'd say it's the combination of low karma, a fairly new account with not much interaction, an off-topic post, and a spammy looking site and twitter account (http://twitter.com/infusedindustr)
"RAID-protected DDR3 main memory", most desktop class machines don't even support ECC.
What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US]
For anyone curious about what Sikkim looks like...
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sikkim
It might be enough to shorten only the most common sites and platforms' URL forms.
For anyone curious about what Sikkim looks like...
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sikkim
Hi there,

You definitely have an interesting idea there. I can see that collecting analytics for offline businesses can be very valuable. Here are my two cents:

1) The reason online Analytics (like say Google) works so well is that there is one time setup and you forget about it and just look at the results. But, in this case, it looks like the user will have to input it every time and that takes quite a bit of patience on the user side, day in and day out. Of course, your product should reduce work, not create more for your user. For example, maybe have a coupon scanner and let that be an indirect measurement for tracking where that customer came in from.

2) Please take a look at https://www.dropbox.com/ If you are going for a video intro, keep it clean and keep the surrounding interface simple. The interface, in my opinion, reminds me of Microsoft Frontpage template - at least the blue font is. And you should visit a color picker website (like Adobe Kuler) to at least get some better color themes.

3) The video - if you are selling this product primarily in the U.S, you should perhaps use an American accented voice simply because when a new prospect lands on your page and listens to the video, you don't want them to think that your company is abroad and that dealing with you will may seem like a hard thing. And the resolution of the browser in the video seems too low i.e. don't make it scrollable.

4) The homepage - it's too cluttered. again, see Dropbox for a simpler theme. In fact, I recommend that you take a good look A/B testing here - http://www.abtests.com/ The SAP example could be said for yours as well. Have the video, then at the right have a HUGE button for demo/signup.

5) Icons - they feel too generic. Definitely spend some time looking for some better ones or consider contracting your frontend to a designer.

In general, I left feeling that what you offer can be easily replicated in Excel or even Bento. I can see that this can be valuable if done correctly, but this manual data entry can be tedious when it has to be done for all customers.
Using the left lane only for passing is not the custom everywhere.

Presumably it is where you live, but it's not universal.
> for $line (@array) {

> print $line unless $seen{$line}++;

> }

The impulse to golf is strong …. How about

$seen{$_}++ or print for @array

?
The title twists his meaning a bit by removing context; his next sentence clarifies the statement: "That is, the term will become meaningless, as all games will become social."
I think that the full quote is a synthesis of the two:

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

The follow-up I think hammers home the subjectiveness of ‘obvious’:

> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
I find it worse when something random about a technology you would never read apart from it being an article on HN is interesting to me. I've spent a whole heap of time reading stuff about Haskell(for one example) that is posted here but I haven't used it and don't know if I'll ever get around to learning it.
To really catalog everything that’s wrong with Sex at Dawn, I’d have to go back through at least five or six books (and probably more) and at least a dozen papers. It would take me all day.

I feel the same way about The God Delusion, quiet enjoy the book and the arguments it puts forward but to actually take an unbiased look at all the arguments from many sources that are being put forward and notable refutations of these would take a seriously long time.
noisebridge
someone should make the "are you a non-programmer" poll.
Attn iPhone Devs: Is there a marketplace for buying & selling iPhone app IP?
... in the case where you have an iPhone app that has done relatively well on AppStore but you'd like to sell the IP over to a corporate buyer? Is there a B2B eBay for iPhone devs to sell their software?
Jason is mark in trouble here... Curious for your personal opinion.
>Sorry, I'm not clear what you're ashamed of?

It doesn't bother you to be a citizen of a country that has allowed so many people to lose their homes that bathing in a public restroom is now a nuisance frequent enough to warrant official signage?
I have quite enjoyed using Taskjuggler:
http://www.taskjuggler.org/

The system is text-based with an editor built into the GUI. The downside is that installing it means pulling a number of KDE dependencies as well...
To drive from Washington, D. C. to New York, the author is driving through New Jersey, which has 'keep right' laws. And it's general practice across the USA.

"In North American terminology, the passing lane is often known as a left lane or leftmost lane, due to left hand drive (driving on the right).

...

"A common problem arising from misuse of the "fast lane" is that it forces faster moving traffic that wishes to overtake on the left to change lanes, do so on the right, and then change lanes again."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_lane
One of my oldest client's quad-Xeon (900Mhz CPUs), 6GB RAM system running Oracle has been up for 932 days at this point.

That is 5 9's (actually better, it is 100%) over 2.5 years. I am sure that similarly configured Opteron based systems are out there with similar uptimes.

Sure, mainframes are reliable, that wasn't my point however - AMD and Intel are catching up in terms of interconnects and other technology, at 1/1000th the price point.
Sorry, I stopped reading at six sigma.
Uh... even 3 years ago, some x86 servers were supporting DIMM mirroring, which is "RAID1" .

See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0671.html and note publication date of 2007.
Good question, but as a developer I would try to analyze more the value your code provides in a working state than how quickly you can crank it out. You're competent when you can be depended on to get a job done in a way that doesn't break anything that is already there and can be picked up by someone else when you inevitably move on to something different. What is a reasonable amount of time to do that depends on complexity.
Since you want to keep flogging a dead horse topic, I'll respond one last time.

I think it is absurd for you to say that the Economist article was "biased in interest towards hackers because people can argue about how to change the laws, or the meting out of punishments - hacking justice" and then turn around and say that the NYT article about Israeli law is of "not specifically biased towards hackers"

As for your claim that there is no chance of "hacking the politics of the Middle East", the NY article was focused on one specific law and it appears that "hacking" (to use the term you'd like for the Economist article) has already been effective on that specific law.

To me, you're applying different standards to the two articles about the two laws and that indicates a bias for one topic over the other. That is fine. It appears that you reject the notion of having any bias and that is also fine by me.

As for where you live or what passport you have, I really don't care about that either. So quit your defensive posturing and don't make an issue over your nationality.
Tell HN: Thank you internet, for constantly giving me inspiration
I am building a web app. I know how I want it to look and operate, and I have a little programming knowledge. Enough to know how to implement basic jQuery effects on a bare bones UI to get some of the functionality I want.

However, the more impressive stuff that I want to do, is going to take a lot more learning. I have been learning and doing, at a good clip too, but I get a bit discouraged from time-to-time when the hill seems too steep.

I was about to quit learning and just hand over the reins to a developer, and then I saw the video for Tab Candy - http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/tabcandy/

Knowing that all of that is done in HTML/CSS and Javascript, in a weird way, inspires me to learn enough to build the functionality I want.

There are many times when I feel discouraged and it seems that at the right moment (i.e. at my lowest) I come across something that gives me hope and inspires me. Whether it is on HN, Twitter, Forrst or anywhere else, the internet always comes through for me.

I just wanted to say Thank You!
That is a better clarification. I guess I took it in a different angle. I agree about the part that the mainstream media is not helping with its shock-jock journalism.

PS: Nothing about 'rudeness' at all. Response was not triggered by that.
See Bill Atkinson, main developer of the Apple Lisa UI:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
I'm sorry if this might be slightly off-topic, as it focusses on the 'new BASIC' part of your question. However, the points outlined might be helpful to understand why Javascript isn't the best first language for pedagogy.

Compared to most languages, Python is possibly the best contender to the title of 'new BASIC'. It has an implementation that is more consistent than Javascript's and can even scale up to larger code-bases. The latter, I learnt in my early days, will soon become a necessity when it becomes difficult to keep track of your 20K lines of BASIC code!

Python could be a gateway to both server-side and client-side programmer. The latter could be useful while learning programming and can provide instant gratification with full-screen graphics say using Pygame/Pyglet. When the young programmer becomes confident enough that he wants to let his friends play with his creations, he can create web-apps using Python (say using Django), which seems to be the distribution mechanism of choice, going forward.

I agree that having an IDE is perhaps not a necessity compared to a REPL. There have been IDEs like Turbo Pascal which have near instantaneous compile times, but the learners tend to become overly dependent on IDEs. They are often unable to distinguish between the IDE and language, which is clearly undesirable.

Python works well with modest requirements. It has several REPL implementations (for e.g. the excellent ipython). On the other hand development is breezy even with simple syntax highlighting editor (for e.g. Notepad++).

Javascript has several gotchas which might confuse or dissuade a learner. I think this is a hangover from its early implementations than a language flaw per se. However, it prevents me from recommending it to a beginner.
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Remember Byte Magazine? I loved it personally.  Wikipedia has all the info
Pliant un-success story
I found myself very irritated by quotes like this:

"The book argues that humans are not “naturally” monogamous. That might be true. But Sex at Dawn doesn’t prove it."

"males evolved a strong appetite for sexual novelty and a robust aversion to the overly familiar.” But they don’t have any evidence for that"

If they don't, I think it is safe to assume it is because the authors assume their readers have a bit of life experience. And not because there aren't volumes of biological and historical evidence to support these claims if they wanted to include it.

I just don't see these two points as even being controversial enough to be up for debate. You don't need that much romantic history to know that men have a strong appetite for sexual novelty, and that highly desirable men are not monogamous, that women know this ahead of time and are willingly complicit in their non-monogamy.

Ok, I guess for the type of guy who would write these critiques, some things need to be spelled out on paper. You can just step outside in the world though and not need it to be.
Generally, if I get a request for something, I sort of combine the `coding' and `engineering' parts. Others do their engineering on whiteboards, paper, and by talking with people---I prefer to write Python code to express my intent.
The problem is that education must be at such a massive scale that it's hard for one person to make an impact beyond locally. Just designing a curriculum doesn't work, because if teachers don't understand the pedagogy it won't ever get taught. With the current trend away from critical thinking and towards high-stakes testing, with the scary "anti-elitist" (anti-science, anti-empiricism) tendencies of broad swaths of the Republican party fundamentalist christian base which exert tremendous pressure on primary candidates & the textbook choosers in large influential states &c., and with the increasing involvement & influence of very large businesses in education whose bottom line is not necessarily closely related to the quality of instruction, it’s hard to see where proper science education is going to slot itself in.

One of the big reasons I spent a year working as an intern for One Laptop Per Child is that I strongly believe that getting as many kids as possible even a bit of exposure and experience with programmable computing environments (and ideally then also with some simple hardware hacking such as plugging various sensors into the audio in jack) is a sure way to plant the kind of approach to problems that is required to understand modern technology or work in science.

* * *

It's somewhat off the subject, but I've been reading Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, and it’s truly wonderful to see his mind at work. Not only is he constantly carefully observing the culture, geology, weather, flora/fauna, fossil record, etc. that he comes across on the trip, but also for nearly every observation he provides at least a speculative hypothesis and references various other people’s theories which are supported or contradicted by the observation in question, and also usually suggests further experiments or observations which would test or corroborate the hypothesis. (Occasionally there’s even a footnote explaining that his hypothesis at the time was later shown to be false.)

It’s the scientific method as clearly and purely as I’ve ever seen it working, and the result is that nearly every page has some kind of insight. I’m left with tons of my own questions in response, even in subject areas I’m not especially experienced in and don’t usually think much about, and the reading is quite exciting, even apart from the amusing situations he finds himself in.

I don’t know what the best way is to provide that kind of spark to children, but I’m completely sold on the notion that it’s desperately needed, and the most important thing a school could teach.
A cool thing about the 9th circuit is that you can download a recording of the hearing for any case in the last couple of years: http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_subpage.php?pk_id=000...

Appeal hearings are usually around 40 minutes long, 20 minutes for each side.
Searching in a Small World (2005) [pdf]
I have to agree. One of the main uses for comments is to explain why code is a certain way, and if it is that way because a specific person requested it, then it makes sense to note that.

With that said, it matters what details go into that type of comments. Putting in why a certain analyst asked for a specific change, along with who that analyst was, can be very helpful. Noting what the analyst was wearing the type of coffee he was drinking at the moment are just cluttering things.
That's a good line, but I bet it's factually false.
GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects
There are lots of things that we supposedly all know from life experience that are completely and totally false.
The classic line from St. Exupéry’s Wind, Sand, and Stars (in French, Terre des hommes) is “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.”

For any who have not read that book, I highly highly recommend the whole thing, and for hackers especially the chapter containing that quotation (it’s somewhere near the beginning). St. Ex. provides one of the most insightful/“true ringing” defenses of technology I’ve ever read.
For some reason it's recently become trendy to paint teachers' unions as the root of all evil on Hacker News. Who knows which think tank master-minded this particular tidbit of right-wing propaganda, but it's a story line that rings increasingly hollow the more I see it haphazardly inserted into every imaginable public policy debate.

I guess the rating of your comment reflects the result of pointing this out.
Which is itself a matter of severe philosophical contention.
Crunchbase
Even the "obvious" isn't necessarily true. How much is cultural, and how much is biology? If you can't show something's not cultural, have you shown anything aside from supporting/fighting prejudice with prejudice?
However, when the "101" answer does turn out to be the right one, it is a nice shorthand to be able to say "remember your XYZ 101"---i.e. not everything is an exception. In this sense it's related to the saying "don't miss the forest for the trees."
On the point about male's appetite for variety and novelty, life experience can give you enough of a hunch that this is biologically innate, and not cultural. Stacks and Stacks of books on human history, recent tabloids, and the NSA's archive of everyone's web browser histories can pretty much confirm this hunch for you if you're still not convinced
Ask HN: Fun ways to learn Javascript for a 12 year old beginner?
My 12 y/o niece started off playing with HTML a while ago, and then worked her way up to a bit of rudimentary copy+paste+tinker Javascript coding.

I'm looking for fun tutorials/frameworks/etc. to show her, so that she can build cool stuff and get the hang of coding.

I'd like to introduce her to processing.js, but I can't find tutorials (their learning section just seems to have demos sans explanation or how-to).

Once she gets a bit more comfortable I'd like to introduce her to a bit of game stuff (maybe via LOVE or PyGame) and then some other coding so she can do simple web programming (node.js? PHP? Python?).

So, any recommendations on any of the above? What do I start with and where do I go from here?

PS. I find Squeak a HORRIBLE environment and really quite unintuitive, so that's probably out -- unless you've got some compelling tutorial/package that makes it otherwise.

Thanks so much!!
Mmmm... that's an interesting approach. I think it's perfectly fine for creating quick jpg mockups but I wouldn't use it for the real app for two reasons:
1. Attribution.
2. Differentiation is design.
Thanks. The issue at this stage is actually getting traffic and awareness to the sign-up itself. As the first site I have created in this space, there is not an established community that I already control which I can address. Do you have any more thoughts on best strategies for utilising Twitter or Facebook when a user base is starting from scratch.
Uhhh, no.

I was hanging out by a damaged pole when they demanded identification and threatened to arrest me for destruction of public property. They could have

a) used some critical thinking and realized that there was no way I could have damaged said pole

or,

b) been polite, and adopted an "you and us vs. whoever damaged the pole" perspective instead of "us vs. you".
Thanks for info. I will stop by sometime.
"I don't find this to be a technological problem, but a people problem..."

Correct. People are mistakenly letting technology take over their lives--for the worse.

Rather than a negligent and shallow rant on technology, I thought it was a rant on society's negligent and shallow relationships.
When you say you also write several hundred lines of code an hour, how many hundreds of lines do you mean by several? 200? 300? 600? 900? Are you including white space? Are you including comments? What language are you coding in?
The grandparent is really similar to a post someone just left on my review. In response, I wrote:

It's not obvious at all that this is more true than men than of women, or if so, how. That's why people making these kinds of claims need evidence—otherwise you're merely telling stories and repeating stereotypes. For another example of this general principle, see Mark Liberman's <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/09/24/s... use 20,000 words a day, men only 7,000 - or so says a new bestseller. Fact-checking ``The Female Brain."</a>.
The grandparent is really similar to a post someone just left on my review. In response, I wrote:

It's not obvious at all that this is more true than men than of women, or if so, how. That's why people making these kinds of claims need evidence—otherwise you're merely telling stories and repeating stereotypes. For another example of this general principle, see Mark Liberman's http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/09/24/s... Women use 20,000 words a day, men only 7,000 - or so says a new bestseller. Fact-checking ``The Female Brain."</a>.
I am just a graduate student, i want to code more, but in fact i don't have to code. I just have to write damn papers, i hate it. So, i am not a programmer actually
That's the kind of thing I'd love to work on. Not only is it cutting edge tech but you would probably learn a ton of new things!

The one thing I have learned reading articles about aviation is the fact that wing design makes a huge difference - not only in speed but also in fuel consumption which is pretty crazy.
yes, that's right - item.akey is interchangeable with item['akey'], but the latter form accepts expressions as the key value.
Yes, in a micro-optimized way.
It'd be nice if I could find out some more information without having to enter my e-mail address. Until your website has built up it's "reputation" you might want to have more information available without requiring an e-mail as people might not trust something they haven't heard about before.
I'm not really arguing that specific point, I'm just saying common knowledge and life experience mean absolutely nothing in the context of anthropology--or any science, as a matter of fact.
"If you look at the straight wings of the new jet and those on the Lockheed F-104 “missile with a man in it" of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s you’ll see a family resemblance."

The F-104 Starfighter was the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic in the article. Another of Kelly Johnson and the Skunkworks' triumphs, still informing aerospace design half a century later.
Every day, I check my email box, i check my twitter account. But, it is really useless for me. Because no one reply to me on twitter, no one write to me by email. But, i am addict to it, how can i help myself to get out of it?
Others have mentioned RunRev (http://www.runrev.com); there's also TileStack (http://tilestack.com). I'm not sure if RunRev will do anything for you, but TileStack seems to have limited facility to run existing HyperCard code; see http://tilestack.com/stacks/?search=%28tags%3Ahypercard%29&#....
Yeah, or Paul Graham and his quest to make arc as concise as possible.