skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way? Was mimesis about modeling physical appearance or understanding the underlying principles? I can see how photography is a shortcut for the former, but it seems worse for the latter.
I'm never wrong too, but that's just because I either make trivial, all encompassing, or unfalsifiable claims. It sounds good though:)
I'll be making a in-game re-programmable MUD at some point.

Neither is awesome in the sense of WoW or any of these other games that are such huge time sinks for so many people. I find that depressing since it implies the useful and the preferable don't match up.

Now if computer games could become equivalent to great art, there'd be hope.
vim here with jquery too. working phenomenally well for me, though I understand there's no kind of js debugging built into vim. The matching braces highlight function is my debugging tool.
In regards to the Newton comment, I need to find a solution to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, otherwise there is no such thing as a significant answer!
Do you mean he made Nazi propaganda?
Are the winners legally bound to developing a wireless network on that bandwidth? What's stopping Verizon from dragging their feet setting up such a network, or leaving it unused altogether?
Thanks, Paul. It was a heartfelt essay and fun to read.
SiteAdvisor does something similar
- http://www.siteadvisor.com/
Stephen Bohne: My social studies teacher in High School. His was a restless mind, always teaching, always learning, and always challenging us to greater things. He got in trouble a lot.

Mark Jones: My mentor as a nurse. Up until him, I'd been surrounded by up-tight nurses who worried about more about a bed bath or a clean patient room while the patient was dying. I could tell a lot of stories about Mark. Like the day he cut his underwear off himself and threw them at another nurse while doing CPR without missing a beat. Or, the day he was doing chest compressions in one hand and starting an IV in the other. Again, not missing a beat. He taught me that the most important thing was to take good care of the patient and have fun doing it.

Francis Schaeffer: For teaching me that I didn't have to check my mind at the door to be a Christian.

Paul Graham (But not in a creepy or a suck up kinda way). His communicating how the startup world works and how wealth creation works really changed me. I was raised in the Banana Republics of Central America during the 70's and 80's, and really had no idea how the US worked, and how the whole money thing worked. Paul's writings on the subject 4-5 years ago started me on a journey to where I am today. I'm grateful for that. He also taught me to give back. It's important.
there is flymake with Javascript configuration for emacs. I'll give that a try. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FlymakeJavaScript
It's being done. It's called LLVM. Apple have been sponsoring it.
I've just tried this, and it looks good. The code-completion feature is pretty good. Turns out it's good enough that I can ignore the need for a debugger.

Probably will need to buy pro as the sftp feature is disabled in the community version.
he ported rhino's parser, ain't that cool?
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Programmer Destroys Seven Billion Dollar Industry With A Single Software Application
LaTeX to gif web service for embedding maths formulas in web pages
"Sorry, but I feel the one line limit changes this from a potentially interesting and insightful thread to an endless sea of lists of names."

Or encourages you to be concise to keep the thread readable enough for working people taking 5 minutes breaks.
"I've never cried like I cried at his funeral."

My favourite sentence in the essay. Made me aware of a dimension I didn't associate pg with.
Computer system makes best sports bets
Open source will quietly take over
Sounds like "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer"...
Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
Who Is Monitoring Your Domain Searches?
- Richard Branson

- Bear Grylls

- Bill Gates (for philanthropy - note that this is coming from a die hard Mac and Linux user)

- Carl Sagan

- Richard Dawkins

(If it was limited to the tech sphere, then Joshua Schachter and Michael Arrington.)
Jetbrains' IDEA 7.0 has SUPER support for Javascript. With features like error highlighting, refactoring, code completion, code formatting, etc.

More info a http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/javascript_editor.htm...
Ok, the font builder is pretty freakin' awesome. Good work I love it

You should try and let us demo the font builder before asking for signup. Would probably get you a few more peoepl
Which would only make me like it more...
This question is kind of vague. What "software engineering techniques" specifically are you talking about?
I just modded you up. Yours is the most point-on comment on this entire page.
Very cool, but I'd be interested to read the actual paper. The way their methodology was described, it seems like it'd be vulnerable to overfitting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting
looks like no ones parents are their heroe
Data dredging
You should try using a combination of firebug (js debugger) and good editor rather finding a complete IDE package. Thats wht i do and it quite works for me.
If I can be forgiven the self-link: http://www.danhulton.com/blog/2008/01/16/integrate-js-lint-i...

I use Komodo Edit, the free IDE from Activestate. (I'm not associated with them, I just love their editor. Okay, well, they quote me, but once again, because I love their editor.)

It supports javascript out-of-the-box, will read into your source files and update it's code hints based on YOUR functions, and can be told to parse the libraries you use and provide coe hints for THOSE functions, too.

The only thing I wish they had built-in was the ability to lint it, but I go over how to add that in my article above.

And in fact, you can go one step further and use Douglas Crockford's actual (much better) jslint, provided you have rhino installed. I'll have instructions on how to do that up on my blog eventually.
I use textmate which has some nice macros for js, jquery, YUI (all of which I use), plus most of the other toolkits. I round it out with jslint and firebug. If you're on a mac it's a pretty compelling package.
Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3
Responsibility to shareholders to get return on a 10-figure investment.
Couple Sues Google for Posting House Pix
Textpad
Good. We don't need another monopoly.
Another open source release by google which no one really needs. Is is it really that important that the linking takes a few minutes less.
There are probably tons of interesting projects at google which they could release, but they are too evil to do that, because they fear their competitors. Not like yahoo and microsoft, which give much more back to the community then google.
How about a website where corporations can submit information on unreasonable-sucky users/customers. They could then share that data and deny you service based on your unreasonable expectations (like compatibility with BETA software used by <1% of the population) and proven history of alarmist posts on elitist websites like Hacker News.

I'd build that.
Nick Bradbury: Throwing Away Your Code
Richard P. Gabriel
Noam Chomsky
Bakunin
Richard Stallman
You should just link directly to the Wikipedia article you paraphrased:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

Though you do seem to have invented one part: that the broadcasts were in exchange for his release.

As usual, Wikipedia is not the last word in accuracy in such matters. Most of the British literary world seems to have been on his side. The leader of the opposition was not A. A. Milne, but a now-forgotten journalist (I've literally forgotten his name) who made a crusade of it as a form of proto-linkbait. And Wodehouse hadn't lived in England before the war, either. He moved to the US in his twenties.
!Not a good sign at all, this undermines the product regardless of anyones actual opinion. I personally don't think slide is anything special, a simple flash widget. The likes of which I have seen better examples made by single independent coders in there bedrooms with no fanfare whatsoever, is this really the best idea Paypal X could come up with?

>>>>>It just goes to show that great ideas ARE worth a lot more than great execution!
What the most worthy in your life?
What the most worthy in your life?

This question is the most difficult to answer. Some may answer their health, some may answer their family, some will answer rich, and many more.
The title is sort of a reverse-application of the broken window fallacy. The truth is that seven billion dollars is not being destroyed; it's now available for new innovation by smaller companies, instead of going to major players like Cisco.
Microsoft might lower its bid for Yahoo
John Carmack - The boy wonder whose insight and dedication changed the face of video games.

Ayn Rand - Creator of a philosophy based on rational self interest.

Beethoven - His love of his work was so deep that despite nature destroying his ability to physically appreciate his own work, he pressed on creating.
But what is the conversion efficiency of the new solar panels they're describing? I.e., if 100 watts of light hits it, how many watts of electricity comes out?

I guess, though, if you can manufacture it cheaply enough to spam it over every man-made surface in a city, you could overcome some inefficiency... But the article still left me confused as to whether the described technology is more efficient, less, or the same, as what we have now.
Damn, more artificially low prices.
Pure Love Questions
Pure Love

What do you think about pure love? Does it exist?

Before I write down my opinion, I would like to read some comments from you.

Please place your opinion in the comments section.

Thx.
Yeah, the place was a kind of worst-case scenario for strip development. In my time the big draw was Monroeville Mall, the biggest in the country at the time of its construction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroeville_Mall).

The one good part, for a kid, was that a lot of the land was too hilly to build on, and was left as forest.
Destroying industries is a good thing for society. We don't need to spend our resources on producing those goods and services anymore.

90% of Americans used to be farmers. Think of where we'd be if agricultural machinery hadn't destroyed the farming industry.
They got all their hackers through YC.
My dad. He has a work ethic like no one else I know. It doesn't matter how intractable a problem seems, he always stays calm and just starts working on it. No panic, no hesitation. He's getting close to 60 now, and he still gets up at 5:30 every day and he can still solve mechanical problems that none of the younger workers can.

Really an amazing man, in his own little corner of the world. He's also the only person whose advice I trust because he's the only one I know that thinks like me. My friends and acquaintances don't take things as seriously as my father and I. My dad has that extreme practicality that comes from growing up poor. He's the only one that I ask myself what he would do in tough situations.

And he's loyal to a fault. I know without a doubt that he would give his life for his family. There's few humans in the modern world that have that kind of nobility. Indeed, he seems like a creature from an earlier age, sturdy, stoic, rejecting everything I dislike about modern culture. Maybe I get that from him.

Edit: All the famous people, they're too abstract for me. I admire some of them, sure. I'm grateful for what they've done. However, they can never be my "heroes".
A very similar thread from three days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152805
You think? Sounds pretty good to me - provided you're able to listen to your date explaining why s/he _does_ like novels, and to convey something of the joy you get from reading non-fiction.

But then I have a fairly naive concept of a date as a (potential) meeting of minds, rather than a PR exercise.
Hacker Classifieds: one of five big ideas on my big idea wall. If someone makes it before me, that would be awesome. It's something I want to use, not just something I think other people would like. If nobody else builds it, it will be a good learning experience for me.
The argument is made in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Basically, the open source development method allows you to use the labor of many other developers, as long as they continue to find the software useful. There may be a version online, ESR is pretty free with his work.
There's more to the syntax than just the parenthesis. That you write

(let ((x 4)) (print x))

instead of

(let x 4 (print x))

is part of it. So is the order of arguments.
BTW Javascript functions accept a variable number of arguments so hopefully none of them will tell you when you've called a function with the wrong number of args.
The specific technology mentioned in this article requires Indium. To quote Earth: The Sequel, "In July 2006 International estimated that the global indium supply was enough for just 4 gigawatts of CIGS. Scarcity has already affected the semiconductor's price, which in 2007 was triple what it had been in 2002."

To put the 4 gigawatts figure in perspective, "Industry research firm Clean Edge predicts that revenues in the solar photovoltaic industry will grow to $50 billion a year by 2015, reaching a total installed base of 75 gigawatts, a tenfold increase from today. But that would supply just .5 percent of the total amount of electricity needed for 2015. A more rapid expansion will almost certainly require the second-generation photovoltaic technologies now emerging from labs into the commercial market."

Wikipedia suggests the problem may be solvable in the long run, but economics are pretty uncertain for the time being:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indium
Actually I also rejected fiction after university, I find I don't have that much time to sit and read so why bother with fiction. I was a ridiculously avid reader of fiction and I wish that I had of read science books instead of re-reading the Hardy Boys (original series and some of the casefiles).

I do read some biographies/memoirs though :P
Agreed. Textmate also has bundles for jslint (every time you save your JS file, a little tooltip will tell you is there are errors and/or warnings).
[rant-on!]

Now, we need someone to package Asterisk in a form that democratizes telephony to people without Federal Excise Fees (taxed for the privilege of doing local communications), Transit Taxes (paying for mass transit despite the fact you're not using it because you're using the phone) and many other "Taxes" or "Non-governmental Taxes" (things that are called "taxes" but aren't mandated by any governmental organization. (See http://www.cavtel.com/support/Taxes_and_Fees.shtml for all the shenanigans.)

Get rid of "phone numbers" and just give everyone as many 160-bit "numbers" as they want for their phone numbers. Allow people to change these numbers whenever they want. If they experience harassment, make it easy to set up whitelists for conditional forwarding (if the originating call isn't on the whitelist, forward it, tell those on the whitelist what the new number is, etc.). These calls could be forwarded to the "Internet enforcers" that are so keen on outing Internet douchbags. Use DHT's for directory services/yellow pages and set up a gigantic overlay "network" on the Internet (using strong encryption where allowed).

Then you can start destroying the $~500B telecom industry with a "software application." $7B is nothing, go for the big fish. Don't attack hardware (in this case, PBXen), attack systems. Here, we're just going to cut out earmarked taxation and faux earmarks from your phone bills and corporate inefficiency (How much of your phone bill is going to all that marketing to convince people to use something they already know they want/need?) It's far more gratifying.

[/rant-off]
There's a lot of agile floating around, so that seems to be useful for a lot of people.
Why do they state that Linux is still difficult to use? What difference would it make to the majority of office workers, if the main applications work (email, browser, office)? I think none. OK, I have heard that Open Office Spreadsheets can not yet compete with Excel, but other than that?
The absolute efficiency isn't very important. To quote Earth: The Sequel again, "At just 10% efficiency-- that is, if only 10 percent of that solar energy were converted to electricity-- no more than a square of land 100 miles on a side would be needed to produce enough electricity to power the entire United States." (The thin-film CIGS type tech described in this article is typically a little less than 10% efficient, so pretty good.)

The key statistic is being able to calculate when solar is cost competitive with coal, because once you hit that point it will start showing up everywhere. Of course this depends on where you live, because different regions of the country A) receive differing amounts of sunlight B) pay differing rates for the amount of electricity generated. If you're talking about an area like LA where there is a lot of sunlight and electricity costs a lot, solar is already probably cheaper than coal. In Fairbanks, AK on the other hand it will take a bit longer.

Another key to getting solar to be cheaper than coal is implementing real-time pricing. To quote again,

"Though solar power is generally judged on the basis of whether it can beat the retail price of coal-generated electricity, the comparison is in some ways misleading. The true value of solar power lies in the fact that it is most productive when the weather is sunny and hot-- precisely when consumer demand forces a utility to operate at full throttle. According to PG&E, peak demand is growing 25 percent faster than overall electricity needs, but the last quarter of capacity is needed less than ten percent of the time. 'Peak shaving' with electricity produced by rooftop solar panels relieves that pressure on utilities, damping the prime driver to build new gas-fired plants. It also reduces costs. Utilities "turn on" power plants in order of their variable cost, often called "dispatch cost," starting with the least expensive plant to operate and moving to the most expensive as demand rises. Solar installations produce electricity at virtually no extra cost at just the same time when units with very high variable costs are called upon to run. By displacing these high-variable-cost units, solar units can provide tremendous savings for the utility and the consumer-- and the atmosphere."

"To date, however, most owners of solar photovoltaic systems owners do not get the discount they deserve on their electric bills. Typically, utilities charge customers using a weighted average of the cost of generating electricity over the course of a day. Some jurisdictions are now experimenting with a different rate structure-- 'real time pricing'-- charging customers hour by hour for the true cost of the electricity they use, and thus allowing them to reap the full value of avoiding the cost of peak power on the grid."

"Given all that, almost everyone in the industry agrees that when the price per peak watt falls to $1 and the storage problem is solved, solar-generated electricity will compete with coal-fired electricity virtually everywhere." (p. 19)
Stories like this are kind of an entrepreneurism Rorschach test. To people who are excited about opportunities and want to build new things themselves, things like this look like opportunities. To people who just want to get a good job they don't have to stress over unduly so that they can put a roof over their heads and spend time with their wife and kids, they think of things like this in terms of wiping out existing businesses and in terms of the poor folks that get displaced from their jobs.
Any of you know of good JS debugging plugins for gEdit ? Its also good for JS editing with automatic indention and syntax highlighting. Only thing I wish I had a built-in debugger. Yet I could cross over to Firefox to check with Firebug.
I don't want to read too much into what you said, but it sounds a little like you're writing-off the second kind of people.

Actually I've found that some of those people have simply grown up believing certain things about the world. When you suggest things don't work quite the way they believe, I've found they often become excited by the possibilities.
I'll admit that I couldn't care less about tight Mac OS integration (the only time I use Safari is in a VirtualBox window from an XP installation under Ubuntu), but for me, the killer Firefox features are recently closed tabs, auto-restoring the tabs from my last session, and the ability to customize it with extensions.
What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS)
Kindly suggest a good book on the SaaS subject - something that has good notes on the basics.
The most important idea in the article for me: a failure of courage doesn't feel like a failure of courage. We rationalize away: this will never work, I have other urgent tasks to do... I will try to use this realization to make my life better.
Kind of puzzling that BadCyclopedia doesn't cite the original source (a Forbes article), or the original author (Quentin Hardy).

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0410/063.html
vim and firebug

How do you write your js?

I write a few lines and then test the functionality, reduces the scope of where I have to hunt down bugs.
Thanks again for the feedback everyone! This is a busy time of year for us (we all have full time jobs that are not Showfilter.com) so it might take a while, but your suggestions will intergrated into the site in time.
"Location Field — The new Firefox 3 location field, the so-called “AwesomeBar”, is too clever. When I click the mouse in the middle of a URL, I just want to place the insertion point. I don’t want to select the entire URL. If I wanted to select the entire URL, I’d double-click. Click to place, double-click to select — just like any other text field."

Hahah. Be warned that it takes between four and five years to get sensible fixes to location bar problems resolved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190615
This was the only part of the essay that irked me. Bad writing in general has a low information density; the problem is not exclusive to fiction.

It doesn't help that information is embedded structurally in a novel, which makes it harder to tease out. But good fiction (say, Ulysses or Crime and Punishment or Nine Stories) is as rich as any essay or monograph.

It's also not clear that density, in the strict sense, is what I'm after when I read. If so I'd be buried in technical papers, when what I really want is something to tickle my brain; to that end, I wouldn't want to lose any one of arXiv, the Engineering library, or the literature section at Borders.
I knew I'd seen that a long time ago.
Have you read The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander? I'd very much like to hear your opinions and comments on the book series. And also see, whether he would appear on your next list of heroes.

He is definitely on mine.
Netbeans 6.1 now has great JavaScript support.
I didn't mean to imply anything bad about the second kind of people. My first cut swung too much the other way, so I revised it -- apparently a bit too far.

I like those folks. Trying to be a really good parent and provide enough for your family are perfectly admirable goals in life.