skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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But, as an ironic twist, textareas are almost never sighted in the middle of structured input forms. Instead, you get abominations of denormalization like "Address Line 1/Address Line 2".
I think a $299 point is more likely - which is what the current 3GS iPod Touch is priced at.
Or maybe offer one choice: "NY", and present the different results alongside car and bus options.

Plane: $119 from JFK, $134 from LGA.

Car: $52 in gas.

Bus: $68
Not only killing somebody, but canceling their Facebook account. As if they never existed.
My solution was simply to recommend personalized tutoring via RailsMentors.org - as you can really learn from any development stack. It's just finding the right combination that can be very difficult for a new developer.

You bring up some very good suggestions - we need a better metric for whether things are stable, supported, etc. And you're absolutely right, Google won't work, and download counts won't work. I would be interested in seeing something like you've suggested though, essentially coming up with a "trust" system for different libraries.

At the same time, you have the experience available to test whether a gem runs on 1.8 or 1.9, where a new developer doesn't know how to read stack traces yet. Providing one-on-one support helps tackle this issue (RailsMentors.org), as would increased tutorials that try and _limit_ the range of choice, rather than overload the developer with too much.

Of course, these are just my own thoughts on how we can address the problem. I'm hopeful that by discussing it, people can come up with some additional solutions.
Don’t Send In the Clones
May I ask why you are not cutting features to hit your launch date?

I'm broke and in a startup, been at it 1 month to the day, planning a launch in early Sept. I actually need to be code complete for the 28th of Aug as I'm going to Burning Man.

No I don't think it's going to be perfect and there are a lot more features I'd like to see going to launch but since I don't have a budget for a national media campaign I doubt it will make a difference and at least I will be getting feedback.

You're still going to be in debt whether you think about it or not. If you stopped now would it improve the situation? Probably not. So get ready to launch, launch it, talk your book, make some cash. You can still build those features with some paying customers. Stop coding, start cold calling. Thats what I will be doing come Sept whether it be potential clients for the startup or potential clients for contract work.

I get by, by not thinking about it. Spend 2 hours thinking about the worst possible outcome, you blow all your money/credit/etc, and have zero income. Then think about what you will do. Now you have a plan. Never think about it again until the day comes that you need to put your plan in action. Then execute your plan.
Solid! I use Prowl on the iPhone for push stuff. I get around paying for SMS with Google Voice and Prowl.

Will definitely check Urban Airship out.
I don't fully understand Urban Airship. I find it really easy to do push notifications, especially for the iPhone. Why would I use this?
Great article. I agree with the easier programming model in the threaded world vs. event callbacks.

I miss a benchmarked backing of the performance claims. All I have seen in benchmarks is, that evented IO is performing better in real life, partly due to better memory usage.

This point is missing in this article. Threaded models have an inherently higher memory usage compared to evented models.
It's certainly a reputation that has managed to stick with the Rails community for a while. And we're trying to get the jerks to shut up ;-)

And while I can say that Rails is fantastic, and in my opinion, the best framework out there, I'm also going to tell you: unless someone's willing to sit down and show you, don't listen to them. That said, there are many people who _aren't_ jerks, and are more than willing to help you reimplement Google Maps. A lot of them can be found at RailsMentors.org
Has that algorithm ever been implemented?
oh, leave the poor text area alone.
Where do we draw the line? At what point is it permissible to suggest that someone should bother to show the slightest bit of interest in a product, technology, or field that they are becoming increasingly dependent on?
The rich are different from you and me
I wear hats all the time, and they are almost never ball caps. I follow pretty traditional hat wearing rules:

Take it off or tip it when you first meet someone.

Take it off if you go inside, especially someone's home.

If you're in the subway or a hallway of a public building or something it's optional.

If in doubt, take it off.

If you're worried about your hair being messed up or that the hat is part of your style, you're too vain. Grow up.

Note that the rules for women are different. Basically pretend the rule is this: wearing a hat is to protect your head from falling water. If you wear it in someone's home, store or restaurant, you're saying "I'm afraid you have a leaky roof." That would be rude so don't do it.
Do you think its purely that they know each other so well? Are yc classes more likely to connect when they are closer or in the same class than if they were farther apart. Are these connections suggested?

If they continue I wonder if it could lead to yc startups merging together or being even bought together by a single company.
... to become "paypal for verified healthy actions" rather than '"evite" for healthy activities' http://blog.imoveyou.com/announcing-our-new-name-getupandmov...
Sorry, but I didn't edit X11 settings for years. Speaking of xorg.conf, it is optional for years. The system works just fine without it.
They did post an update and are doing fine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1593945
P.S. If you disagree with me and believe that legislation limiting the contacts that can be signed between two parties is necessary, please reply and explain why instead of downvoting an alternate point of view. This isn't reddit.

You're being downvoted because you evidently haven't spent five minutes thinking through your position.

The fact is, the minute that Comcast's cable leaves my property line, it's a government matter. If they don't want government interference, then they can figure out a way to provide service without using public land, public monopolies, and public tax breaks.
not in my firefox :(

It's coming in 4.0! They've added support for the CSS "resize" property, and set it to "both" by default. Just like WebKit.
Please for the love of god update your homepage image; it still shows a product that is a magnitude of different than the shipping product.
Maybe this isn't written down clearly everywhere but it should be. If you're new to ruby ALL you need to know is that everyone in production runs:

Rails 2 (currently at 2.3.8)
Ruby 1.8.7 or REE (which are 100% compatible, since REE is only slightly different)
MySQL or PostgreSQL + Memcached

That's the boring, vanilla, stack 90% of production sites run. That's why it's pretty much the only stack Heroku and Engineyard support. If you have special needs (Java interop, more performance, NoSQL, Async IO) then yeah, do your research. If you just want to write a regular plain RoR app like 90% of people the above advice will suit you fine.

You can have a full ruby environment with:

apt-get install ruby-full mysql-server

gem install rails

gem install mysql

Now, how hard was that?
No worry, I wasted equal share of time with Windows and OSX. If I had to pick one-eyed among blind, it would be difficult choice, becasue they are all blind like bats.
why are you broke and still going to burning man?
Can we just scrap the whole Windows brand for real?
Driving theory test: pass the challenge in first attempt
Passing driving test is an important step towards throwing away your L plates. Turned 17 - the earliest date your provisional licence can become valid is your 17 birthday. However you can apply for the licence up to three months before your birthday
Threads are bad for highly concurrent systems that wants to run fast. Running 10000 threads will result in huge amounts of context-switching because it is the kernel's job to schedule the threads and run them.

Now compare that to coroutines, where you can switch between 10000 threads in the userland.

If you want to take advantage of cores when using coroutine, then run several coroutine schedulers, each in a pthread, and let them communicate over local sockets.
I think you're right; I can't seem to find anything that gives them special non-profit-seeking privilege. The only thing related is the "Don't be Evil" statement in their Owners Manual for Shareholders that states:

"Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served-as shareholders and in all other ways-by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company."

I guess the exceptionally weak phrase "even if we forgo some short term gains" included in a non-legal document isn't really much protection.
Has anyone tried Rackspace's webmail? I haven't seen a review of their client and was wondering if it's any good?
It's funny, when I wear a hat here in Japan and meet someone, I don't know wether to tip my hat or bow. I usually end up doing both in an awkward hat-taking-off, hide-behind-my-back and bow ceremony. I don't think Japanese natives have that issue because they weren't taught to take off their hat. They just leave it on and bow.

In the west you would probably bow with your hat held over your chest, left arm behind you (like at the end of a theatrical performance), but in Japan your arms should be at your sides or slightly behind you.
Couldn't find any Android info on your site. I can think of a ton of questions, here are some off the top of my head.

* Are you just doing polling or did you figure out some TCP keep-alive tricks to keep the connection open?

* If doing keep-alive do you try to adapt your pings to compensate for different timeouts on different carrier networks and deal with half-open connections as Google claims they do with c2dm?

* Have you measured your battery usage? What is it like?

* How many connections can your servers handle?

* What is the Android library like. Is it a separate app that you communicate with via AIDL?

* Does your app handle the notification or does it just broadcast an Intent?

* Are the packets encrypted?
As a software developer, there isn't a single programming concept / architecture / algorithm / etc that I can't learn in less than a day.

The following algorithms have beaten me totally and I wasn't able to implement them:

Bochs multiple shooting (the modern versions are even more complex): http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/agbock/FILES/Bock198...

Multitaper Spectrum Analysis: http://www.amazon.com/Spectral-Analysis-Physical-Application...

Korenbergs Nonlinear system identification algorithm: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a769...
I tried to email you but it bounced back to me. I am intrigued by your ad idea though. I'd be happy to get some more details. I could totally goad a super hot chick into doing it.
A friend of me showed me the app on his new iPhone 4 and my immediate thought was "what an incredibly cheesy app". Putting a fake SLR viewer on the screen, at a time when even real SLR cameras don't have that kind of viewer anymore? Come on...

More power to taptaptap, though - they clearly have their market cornered. It is just sobering, because I personally would never have created that kind of app.

Psychologically, it seems to be a very interesting case. I guess iPhone people really buy into a fake reality and manage to live in it, more or less (that is now they feel like they have a sleek SLR camera). As long as money doesn't run out anyway.

I seem to have a similar reaction to all the Appleish design as the girl from "Pattern Recognition" has to the Micheline Man.
Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Jeff Hawkins?
I just got "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins and I scanned the Numenta website and it doesn't seem to have updated for 2010. Anyone know what Hawkins might be up to currently?
The Smart Laser Projector (SLP): a cameraless 'sensing display'
Every system your system will ever communicate with has individual fields like that. It's much easier to concatenate an address or name together from separate fields than to split them apart after the fact.
Other risks sure, but other benefits as well. Modern ECUs are pretty flexible and can be reflashed through the ODB-II port with extended functionality. cf. EMCS: http://www.goapr.com/products/ecu_upgrade_s4.html
Can I recommend consulting for smoothing out cash flow issues? It has really helped me this summer -- the time it cost my development schedule has been worth the peace of mind gained by not having to either smash my piggy bank or borrow four paychecks worth of cash at consumer interest rates.
In a (micro)4/3ds camera, 20mm is equivalent to 40mm in 35mm, which is close to a normal lens. It's on the short end for portraiture, but you can get nice results if the lens is fast enough.
Drummond Pipet Aid
Drummond Scientific's Pipet-Aid XP available on pippette website is haing special gravity drain feature which enables operation with volumetric pipets.
I don't know what the heck the point of these scooters and vespas are. They're the same price as 250cc proper motorcycles. Seems like a tax on hipsterdom.
After Google Investment Zynga Pulls FarmVille Off MSN Games
I've also grown pro-renting and pro-disowning.

I bought an apartment a few years ago, then relocated and rented a new apartment for myself, leased my own apartment to an acquaintance of mine, never went back myself, and finally had an enormous relief when I finally sold it.

I don't think I'm owning again any time soon, if ever. Even if I lived there myself all the time this time.

I think that it's sensible to own small stuff, like your pots and pans, furniture, clothes, and you know, personal stuff. You're probably not going to Europe on a whim all the time and there's always some place you can stash a few boxes while you're away.

It's just that I've also learned to own very little, to minimize the burden of owning stuff. So far I've recycled more stuff out of my home than hauled new stuff in. I'm quite ruthless in choosing what to give out: if I haven't used or needed something for some time, it's out. It always feels good. Books are a notable exception, though.

Then, personally, car is a bit of a borderline case for me. I'd definitely lease if I had to drive a new car. On the other hand, I drive little and only leisure-like trips that I could simply choose not to drive. So it makes sense for me to own an old car which is what I've done for the past decade. While I actually enjoy taking care of the car maintenance, should it happen to break down it would just remain broken until I would get to fixing it (or have it fixed). So I don't stress about its ownership either: my car is a convenience but not at all a necessity.
Check http://strobist.blogspot.com/ for some examples of why you want to (properly) use a flash in many, many situations.
I can't say im broke as such. I just moved into an apartment, so i'm able to just about run the place. I have no dependents currently, so that's probably what makes it easier.

That said, i have to think very hard about every purchase, because i have zero disposable income.
eh, you can get pretty big bags for a motorcycle. with a topcase and two sidecases, you could carry a weeks worth of food, at least a weeks worth for one person, on a small motorcycle.
Arh, good tip thanks!

But still a bit of a pain. A tiny icon next to the URL bar would be much better!
Out of sympathy for the Firefox sadface earlier in this thread:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/

'Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!'
> I'm not sure if it's equivalent, but setting up the iPhone to treat your Gmail account as an Exchange Active Sync account gives the iPhone most of the cloud push features (Mail/Calendar/Contacts). I can add a contact on my iPhone that syncs OTA to Google that then syncs to my mac address book.

No, this is not equivalent to cloud push. Application-specific push (in this case google sync) was part of Andoid 1.0 on the first G1.
Humph.... Signed up and lots of random people started following me. Thats what I hate about twitter. I am not here to make friends, I am here to share with my contacts.

Request: Private profiles and only share with my followers.
Skimming over the paper, the goal appears to be "convert an arbitrary closed concave polygon into a set of triangles in linear time".

Disregarding the "linear time" part, there is a standard way to accomplish this goal:

- the polygon can be thought of as the "outline".

- transform the outline into a set of XYZ positions (verts). This is accomplished simply by starting at any point on the outline, then stepping along the outline by a fixed interval until you wind up back at your start pos.

- then:

triangles = []

while len( verts ) >= 3:

for i from 0 to len( verts ) - 2:

A = verts[i]
B = verts[i+1]
C = verts[i+2]

# verify the triangle has not been flipped inside-out, and is not degenerate.
det = Determinant2x2( A - B, C - B )

# if the triangle is degenerate, then remove the middle vertex.
if det == 0:
verts.remove( B )
break;

# if the triangle is inside-out, skip it.
if det < 0:
continue;

# if the triangle does not intersect the polygon and is not inside-out, then it is a valid triangle, so add it to the result.
if not TriangleIntersectsPolygon( poly, A, B, C ):
triangles.append( [A, B, C] )
verts.remove( B )
break;

This is known as 'ear clipping'.

Now, it is not linear time, but there is no reason to optimize this algorithm unless it turns out to be necessary, which I've never yet seen to be the case in an actual real-world scenario.

That's the thing about scientific papers --- they are very useful, but only if your problem domain precisely matches theirs. For example if you don't care about "linear time", then all of that paper's complexity simply fades away.
Australian Immigration Law Has Changed And New Occupation List
http://technologiez.net/2010/08/09/australian-immigration-la...
My personal guess is that Microsoft will 're-boot' the whole tablet idea and approach it in much the same way that Apple is approaching it.

A dedicated OS written from the ground up for mobile devices and with a focused ecosystem.

I wouldnt be surprised if we start hearing news of a new MS Pad based on a Zune like or xBox like dashboard interface.
Australian Immigration Law Has Changed And New Occupation List

http://technologiez.net/2010/08/09/australian-immigration-la...
The point is that Java webapps are multihreaded. Classic Ruby apps require dedicated process for every parallel request. Hence your 4GB java app may still be more efficient than 500MB Mongrels.
Some things are more important than money?

Also tickets were on sale from Jan 2010, he could easily have bought them back then.
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Ask HN: Is "Make Money With Dropship Business" a scam?
Hi,

I am fairly sure that many people on HN have seen the "Make Money With Dropship Business" link appearing in Delicious popular several times.

Is this a spam site or does it genuinely attract a lot of attention?

How do they do to appear in Delicious popular consistenly?

Thanks
Inspired by Esther Dyson, who said to an interviewer "its the people, stupid." (forgot the question and the link) but i think it mustve been how Russia can replicate Silicon Valley.

Anyway, i think im unto something here but feel free to demolish, debate or improve upon it.
I have used rpxnow in several of my websites and it confused users more than anything else.

Only geeks are annoyed by the classic registration forms.
> Seems like a tax on hipsterdom.

you say that like it's a bad thing.

The objective issue is that scooters have automatic transmissions, which make them quite a lot easier for many people to handle. Subjectively, they are in general much less intimidating, which seems to be a positive for the scooter crowd and a negative for the motorcycle crowd.

But I think the automatic transmission is the big thing. Honda tried to sell auto transmission motorcycles a while back, but nobody wanted them.
Windows 7 was not designed for touch. We have known this for years. I don't see why this blogger would expect anything different. Wait for a tablet running software designed for touch, and then compare. Yes, Win7 is the best MS has out there right now to compare to, but I still argue that this is apples to oranges.
Marketing 101 - I didn't even know "data" can be real
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
You should have a points system, where people earn points when the partner verifies the activity was accomplished. Win prizes, etc.
Flattr Moves Micropayment Concept Forward - but History Bodes Poorly
A dedicated OS written from the ground up for mobile devices and with a focused ecosystem.

iOS and Mac OS X are both based on Darwin. The primary difference from a development POV is UIKit instead of AppKit -- UI stuff, not core, kernel stuff.
"Statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting fucked by Apple"
can we see your website?
http://www.thathigh.com and http://www.footprintanalytics.com
what kind of consulting do you do?

how much of 150k were you saving annually?
Thanks for the informative links!
Will Facebook's New Location Feature Make Poor People Feel Bad?
yeah, but the problem is that you have to worry about shit you rent. Really, you have to worry about it more than shit you own. My stuff is, well, mine, and nobody else will give me trouble if I destroy it.

Rented stuff belongs to someone else. I need to take due care, and if I do happen to break it, I usually have to pay more than what getting the equivalent thing off craigslist would cost me.

Also, when you rent, you usually commit to renting for a certain number of months (or sometimes years) - in many ways a lease is much less flexible than owning, because I can't sublet, and I can't force the landlord to lower the price, so if I want to leave, and the market prices of the rental is lower than what I paid for it, I'm potentially on the hook to pay off not only the difference between market value then and market value now, but instead the entire value of the lease.
Probably spamming delicious bookmarks
Russian Fires Raise Concerns About Radioactivity in Smoke
O'Reilly $9.99 Exclusive Best of "Ebook Deal of the Day"
Yes, I sympathize with your struggle, as bootstrapped startups hold an especially difficult financial burden. Personally, whenever I'm feeling down, I try to focus on what exactly am I doing with my current startup that is innovative and going to push the world forward. I think with purpose also comes peace, so I think it's always important to get back to that.
We use Intellij 9.0.3 Community Edition with Scala 2.8 for full time Scala development and have hardly any problems. The biggest complaints I have are that Intellij doesn't recognise that some imports are necessary (although that's probably quite a hard thing to get right for Scala so I can forgive them) and that breakpoints are not 100% reliable (although you get a feel for when they will/won't work).

I'd really recommend you try Intellij 9.0.3, it's improved from Intellij 8, and is wildly better than what Eclipse offers.
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We've spent decades if not centuries looking for better teaching strategies and materials, and we haven't leveled the playing field. Sure, we've made improvements--but after those improvements, even if the slower kids catch up with the quicker kids, the quicker kids get even farther ahead.

How do you even expect to find teaching methods that disproportionately benefit the slower kids over the quicker kids anyway?