skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you too were wondering what sort of thing a "perceptual map" is that looks like a 2D graph but doesn't have axes, the description below suggests that the article has just inexplicably omitted the axes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_mapping
The Near Future of JavaScript Benchmarking
Winning Against Your Reading List
yeah, $1000 a head for a one day workshop. it's good to be Jason Fried.
International Kindle users: here's how Amazon is screwing you
Unintended consequences? Is the EPA to blame for the bed bug ‘epidemic’?
Chicago and Austrian schools are separate groups, despite both being on the side of less government intervention. They have different philosophical/methodological roots, and have different histories of their interaction with government.
Community Standards (Clojure)
> You can have a good-faith "please delete this" but that doesn't stop another party from keeping it.

You can revoke your signature for that message, where it effectively ceases to be yours.
Not to single out McDonalds...I went to Wendy's the other day and got a medium (i.e. smallest) combo meal. The "medium" drink I was given was a 32oz cup. If it were a HFCS drink, it probably would have been just as many calories as the food itself.

The food quality/quantity is a secondary concern if you're doubling them with a sugary beverage.
DjangoDash was a lot of fun. My project http://phonetapapp.com ended up placing 2nd for a single dasher and 16th overall.
Couldn't get this to load past about 66%. Using Chrome. Too much traffic, perhaps.
Use the keyboard. It's Canvas, not an image.
I suppose if you disregard the rest of my statement, then you are justified in your comments, but again, based on my reading, it makes sense note the 'lately' in the second part of the statement? To me, that's a qualifier that during the current timeline, he's doing exceptionally, or abnormally well.

Without contacting the author, the subject of the story, or someone in the know, we just have to keep peeing in each other's corn flakes, without knowing the true answer. Regardless, I just don't see justification for taking such issue with the statement.

Edit: I was missing a 'you' in the first sentence.
Dell's Aero Smartphone: An Embarrassment to Android
I've observed this as well.

But I think it is not because boys are more collaborative, but because boys are taught not just how to fight, but when to fight. We start fighting when someone yells "fight", but more importantly we stop fighting when the bell rings. Then we hug our opponent and share a beer, because we've got a lot more in common with him than with the people sitting around watching.

I've never observed women being unable to compete - that's just a matter of technical competence. I have observed women being unable to stop competing when the bell rings. Losing is fine, holding a grudge isn't.

(To be fair, some men exhibit the same problem. Academia seems rife with them.)
My strategy is to estimate the number of LOC and estimate 1 month per 1000 LOC. I tend to slightly underestimate the number of LOC, but I average slightly more than 1000 LOC/month, so it tends to work pretty well.
Clearly this is absurd, but the cynic in me immediately assumed that this is an ingenious ploy to attract (typically idealistic) startup founders to Chile. The timing is at least interesting.
Yes, exactly. There's one internationally marketed stout massively available throughout the US, and then there are local and regional microbrews. This isn't to say that microbrews couldn't give Guinness competitive pressure, but there's only one nationally marketed stout and that puts Guinness in a unique position.
Let's Get Small - the value of small contributions
Okay, I assumed you were talking about the 'aggregation problem' (the aggregation of unlike quantities, rather a common pitfall in economics).

If you agree that aggregate demand is a well-defined quantity, then I'm not sure what you're objecting to. You can disagree with a theory based on this curve, but the curve itself requires no justification beyond a proof that it is well-defined.
I hadn't really thought about using Twitter to sell anything, but now the the idea is in front of me I like it. I think you could take the intergration with Twitter fruther, but I'm not sure I have the best ideas on how to do that.

My only initial concern was that in reading your footer text on your PSP ad (You can contact me on Twitter or email me....) I found myself looking for your Twitter handle down there as well and was confused that I couldn't find it. It actually took me a few seconds to realize it was up top. Would be worth knowing if other people are experiencing the same confusion.
The effort you've expended to debate this will soon meet & then exceed the effort that went into the tracing JIT in question. When you reach that point, you'll have some soul searching to do.
Do you have any clauses about intellectual property, ideas, inventions in your employee contract? Be sure to analyze it carefully - speak to a lawyer if it isn't clear to you.

Even if there are clauses in your contract stating the company can keep your ideas without compensation, sometimes companies are decent and good about that sort of thing.
Yeah, mine actually centred on my old house. A little less glamourous than the rest of the video, but effective :)

Btw, it seemed to stall for me but eventually loaded after a couple of minutes (Chrome dev on MBP). Stick with it.
Yes, of course Guinness sticks out. But that is predictable, so it kinda gives some kind of scale. When people know the brand, they rate Colt 45 and Guinness approximately to the same distance from Budweiser. And that is the point of the article imho.
It hung on me too, and crashed Safari... too bad because this seemed like a really interesting project.
Ask YC: Recommendations for a Canadian-accessible merchant account provider?
Hi all,<p>I've been trying to find a good merchant account for a Canada-based SaaS startup (the payments will be in US though). I plan on using a service like Spreedly as a gateway, but I'm not sure which merchant account to choose.<p>I was looking at BeanStream, but are there any other good/better ones that can be used from Canada?<p>One other thing is that the volume will be quite low at first, as I won't be doing a big release at the start. That being said, if there's a merchant account provider that is "startup friendly" (e.g. low/no monthly fees for the first few months or while volume is low, etc.), then that would be great.<p>Any suggestions/advice/experience or warnings on this?
I think the primary driver in the exodus from MySpace to Facebook was the Feed. The experience of Facebook is just so much more "social" because of it. Other things like design/perceived professionalism/etc didn't hurt either, of course.
Hey, I'm the actual author of this.

I actually work on LLVM-proper during my day job. This was just a fun exercise to demonstrate that it was possible. I also have plans to write a tutorial based on it.
The material itself I find promising, but why not just use that with existing boats? The robot component is not justified. Also, given the size of the bot, 20 times its weight in oil means returning to base every hour or so. I see no reason to limit collection to such small amounts at a time. I'm glad you agree with me that the one month claim is bogus.
Hey folks, I'm the actual author of this.

I actually work on LLVM-proper during my day job. This was just a fun exercise to demonstrate that it was possible. I also have plans to write a tutorial based on it.
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Lockheed Martin and Kaman's unmanned helicopter wins military contract
What? Why not have big ships dragging around huge rolls of the material. Since they're big, they could have onboard processing to heat it up and remove the oil.

How do little robots or big robots begin to make sense for this?
Also an example of how to implement a direct-threaded interpreter.

Some performance data from a Brainfuck mandelbrot benchmark.

Interpreter: 37.787s

Tracing JIT: 11.716s

Static Compiler: 2.402s

The tracing JIT loses out to the static compiler largely because there's no dynamic dispatch in Brainfuck for the tracer to optimize out. There's probably some performance to be recovered by tuning the tracer thresholds and minor optimizations, but I would be shocked if it ever beat the static compiler at least for Brainfuck.
"Third, the opportunity to host my own social networking server is one that appeals only to the smallest fraction of the social networking marketplace."

this argument seems really short sighted to me. If disapora takes off I expect social networking accounts will be like email accounts. There will be several dedicated hosts that serve the majority of users (like gmail, yahoo, etc.), but there will also be thousands of other smaller options (including self hosting) that savvier users choose as they see fit.
Certainly better than no mention. At least this seeds doubt and could trigger people interested to look further.
Sounds to me like it isn't the EPA that's to blame (they were doing their job, and doing it well) but the bugs themselves. Or maybe we could blame everyone for not creating a way to kill them that's both safe and easy. The EPA isn't any more to blame than the rest of us.

If they had failed to ban harmful pesticides, they -would- be to blame, though.
Correct, but they do this to create "family friendly" stations. Other stations play the same songs uncensored. This is different than being forced to censor/edit songs because of FCC rules.
(1) Dropbox has a web interface where you can upload and download files. It's pretty easy to use.

(2) Their app adds a huge value, in that it automatically uploads any changes to files in your local Dropbox folder. It is convenience, and hardly nefarious. Everything that can be done to make backups easier and more automatic is a good thing, IMHO.

If you don't want the automation, then yes, another solution is probably better.
I truly believe that stuff like Khan Academy is a part of the real future of education.
As someone interested in compiler technology, I was happy to see a simple example of a tracing JIT in LLVM. See: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851
The evidence suggests that preference for competition comes from culture and not biology. Check out Alfie Kohn's book No Contest: The Case Against Competition for more details.
"... the more honest admit it wasn't Keynesian at all to begin with."

Nice to see someone else say that for once. If one reads up on what Keynes considers "stimulus" and compare that to what our politicians have labelled "stimulus", less than 10% or so of our "stimulus" was Keynesian. There's a bit of play in that number depending on exactly how you apply definitions, but you certainly can't get it to 80% or 90%.

I am fairly Austrian and consider Keynesian economics to be interesting but misguided on some fundamental points, but in all honestly I can't consider the utter failure of this stimulus as evidence against Keynesian economics. From what I can tell, he too would have predicted this to be utter failure, so both true Keynesianism and my preferred systems predict utter failure and therefore I can't use this to distinguish the two. I am however coming to view Keynesian economics in much the same way I view Communism, as beautiful theories that can't survive contact with real humans. It's too easy for the government to squint at Keynesianism and see nothing but "Hey, spend more money and take more power!", which is not an accurate reflection of Keynesianism at all, but it's what they see. (There's a kernel of truth to that simplification, but no more; the reality of the theory is considerably more nuanced and complicated.)
> I think scripting language here is more in reference to python/ruby/perl

Given all of them have multiple debuggers, I thought that the original comment couldn't imply that as that would make it entirely and irredeemably wrong.

Also, screw the qualifier "scripting language" for full-fledged general-purpose programming languages. Erlang is sometimes used for scripting, does that make it "a scripting language"?
3.0, no reservations.
Summary if it doesn't work or loads too slow:

* You wait for a couple of minutes, wondering if the progress indicator will ever move

* The song starts and a couple of windows open.

* Video plays of a guy in a hoody running down a street

* More windows open, showing your address panning and spinning around, using street view and google maps

* Flocks of birds and trees appear in the video and then street view images. If you look closely you can see the running guy in there too.

Pretty good, although the window tiling didn't work great for me. Worth a look.
A more scientific approach, which compliments the OP well:

http://www.fz-juelich.de/inb/inb-mut/innsbruck/sommer06/pdf/...

In particular, see table 1, page 4.
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Statements like "[A technology] scales" are senseless even on their face. Scaling is an architectural challenge. Language matters, but it isn't the only factor and most likely isn't the most significant one. Claiming Ruby doesn't scale is even more idiotic since there are plenty of sites running Rails that have proven they could scale and whose response times are a lot less than 3s. I realize those are obvious gripes, but since this is on the front page I assume people thought it was interesting or informative in some way and I'm interested to hear their arguments.
>> You're assuming that govt is interested in the economy as a whole. I don't know about Australia, so I'll accept your assertion that the Australian govt is concerned about the economy as a whole, but the US govt isn't.

> That's quite a bold statement! How about some evidence? ;)

You quoted one bit "You don't understand - the loose standards in the US for mortgages came from govt, not banks."

Another is regulatory "encouragement" for banks to hold fannie and freddie stock; that put them all at risk.
Well, if you got that interpretation out of the sentences in the article, you're a more adventurous reader than me.
They could have at least compared a microbrew lager to the others. It's seriously comparing an orange to five apples.
I should note it's only been tested with Chrome, Firefox and (I think) Safari.
I went to a pig butchering demo a few weeks ago at a local restaurant. It was on a Sunday morning when the restaurant wasn't open.

Admission was $50. They had about 20 people there. That's $1000 to the restaurant on a Sunday morning when they are usually closed to the public.

They were butchering the pig anyway, but by turning it into a $50/seat class they were able to significantly increase their profit margin on that pig.

It didn't get in their way, it didn't cause them to lose focus. What it did was increase their profits and get people excited about eating at their restaurant. I know I wanted to go back and taste some of that pork.

It's great business.
From bitter experience, I think the statement about setting "overall vision and strategy" should have a qualification so that the vision and strategy stays in place for at least as long as it takes to actually build something and deliver it to someone who uses it.

If your company "vision and strategy" changes more frequently than a development team can react then you are doomed.
And a single day doesn't mean anything, either. The day they changed to v4, I experienced very slow page loads and even crashes. It doesn't surprise me that a bad launch causes people not to visit for a bit while the site fixes itself.
Sure, if you count from the beginning of the medical profession (though technically, women dominated some parts of medicine, like delivering babies, for millennia before men ever became involved, and then women broke back in).

If you count from the beginning of women-in-the-workplace style feminism, software should have had women almost from the outset. If a new profession or a new sector of the economy arose now you'd expect it to have tons of women because as a culture we're used to women in the workplace, right? What about biotech--are there more women in biotech than software?
More Unintended Consequences? The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment?
Brilliant!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guinness+commerc...

Guinness does plenty of advertising.
Let me quote my own comment:

> or more precisely the others are pretty much unknown to the vast majority of the populations
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> I'd be interested to hear how less regulation would have avoided the sub-prime financial crisis?

If we hadn't had the regulations that "encouraged" banks to do subprime mortgages, they wouldn't have been as common.

If regulators hadn't invented risk-free securitization (via insurance)....

If regulators hadn't "encouraged" banks to hold fannie and freddie stock (through tax policy and declaring it to be risk-free)....
Check out "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art".

It's full of great light and heavyweight techniques I use all the time in my day to day running a fixed fee software development company (which basically thrives or falls on the quality of our estimation and the risk pricing to go with it).
In which the lessons of ZZ Top are applied to the marketplace
The birds in the background are fun to play with but, like others who have commented, I too couldn't get it to load with only one tab open in the latest version of Chrome. Too bad.

I really like the idea of technology as art.

. . . and I really dig the latest Arcade Fire album.
Couldn't agree more.

I was at a proper British beer festival the other day with 21 Ales and 18 lagers, I'd challenge the writer to run the same test with them :) There was everything from thick "gravy" to a really nice, light, fruity lager.

(also, when I see people doing blind tests like this I always have this urge to swap out one of the samples with a bottle of Mexican chilli beer [beer which has had a chilli shoved in the bottle]. That would be a "taste sensation")
Your Projects, Diminishing Returns, and Phantom To-Dos
not the most enjoyable to watch though...
Gates should donate to khan, even if its a few thousand.
Programmers At Work (1986)
The post mentions Clojure only tangentially. The larger point can apply to any programming language community.
I presume you're being ironic.
I ran across an original copy of this book in a Richmond, VA thrift store over the weekend. It's a great read and the author is now posting the original interviews along with extra content online.
Here's one tragic result of forced gender assignment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

plus anecdotes from friends and family:

""When I say there was nothing feminine about Brenda," brother Brian Reimer later recalled, "I mean there was nothing feminine:

She walked like a guy. Sat with her legs apart. She talked about guy things, didn't give a crap about cleaning house, getting married, wearing makeup. We both wanted to play with guys, build forts and have snowball fights and play army. She'd get a skipping rope for a gift, and the only thing we'd use that for was to tie people up, whip people with it. She played with my toys: Tinkertoys, dump trucks. This toy sewing machine she got just sat."

http://www.singlesexschools.org/reimer.html
> > This is one example of how regulation is systemic risk.

> Well it sounds more like bad regulation to me.

Every regulation can be bad. However, unlike individual firm policy, regulation is system-wide, so the risk is necessarily systemic.
If the Khan Academy was new to you too, it's a giant library of training videos produced by one clever guy, Sal Khan. Subjects range from algebra to chemistry, finance and lots more. Looks great.

http://khanacademy.org/

http://khanexercises.appspot.com/video/raising-money-for-a-s...
Hybrid Apps: The Art of Being in Two Places at Once
I think a substantial part of it is also parents missing the importance of their expectations. If you're aggressively trying to be 'neutral,' you've got some extreme in your mind you're trying to avoid steering your child towards, and your child can, over time, subconsciously pick that up.
I'm sure there are a number of groups waiting for September 15th to pounce on the opportunity to provide this service: Inexpensive (or free) Diaspora hosting, that's transparent and easy to manage.
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For $6/hour I typically, though not always, get someone with a 4-year college degree.

While it can be hit and miss, just like hiring someone in your own country (in my case, the U.S.), if you screen them well you can find someone solid and reliable. One of my best VAs costs $3 per hour, but I had to go through 4 or 5 others before I found her.
This page has (very) short desciprions of everything they did (from a technical point of view): http://www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire/
hi (i'm the guy who created this app) ... the purpose of this app is to be an educational tool (e.g., visualizing how data structures change over time), so it's not really filling the same role as a symbolic debugger.
That's really neat. Cool use of the twillo api.
FWIW, Ebert wrote "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19...
Reminds me of Zingermans in Ann Arbor, where Ari & company have turned a deli into a deli, baking classes, creamery, cheese-making demos, business training center, restaurant, dinner events, etc. For every new business Zingermans opens, they find a way to turn the business into a place where they can host events (dinners, earlier in the summer they had a bacon festival, they sometimes teach their method of opening their books to all employees, etc.) and really create profit and excitement in non-traditional ways. See

http://www.zingermanscommunity.com/our-businesses

Jason's right; while not everyone may be able to turn their office into a place where people pay $1,000 a head to attend a workshop, there is certainly something to learn from thinking about how to utilize your business/office space/etc. to earn incremental revenue and promote your business.
We need words whose underlying connotation is 'not allowed to say this'. So censoring 'fuck' doesn't indicate a dislike for it -- but a respect for its special role.

It's like not listening to a favorite song so much that it becomes commonplace to your ears.

You don't want to steal from children their first chance to shock someone with a 'fuck you', do you? Think of the children!
I don't think you can revoke a signature in a way that allows repudiation. You can only say, "I no longer stand by what I said," not "I never signed this."

I could be wrong, though. If you have links demonstrating this, please post them.
cool, please email me if you have suggestions for making this more useful (or bug reports!!!)
Security Awareness: Social Engineering Part One
Joel Spolsky has a great article on software schedule estimation - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html. I found it useful and learned lot from it.
shocker
hi (i'm the guy who created this app) ... if anyone finds security vulnerabilities, please email me (and don't rm -rf my account hehe). i put this up a few months ago as a small hack to teach people Python, so it wasn't meant to be pounded by 1337 h4x0rz. thanks!
Offline access will be the killer app. If Facebook let me download an XML dump of all my data, I wouldn't feel the need to switch. Open data is vital. Source is less important.
Yeah, I guess I need to put it there as well!
Great, looks good!

please cover the blog-post also from an LLVM-n00bie perspective., with appropriate code references whereever possible.
The Fridge: YCs new inward-facing social network
Good God... I think the most entertaining part of this is watching how much processor it takes up. It's regularly hit over 100% on my Mac Pro tower using a recent build of Chromium.
There is not even close to enough information in this post to take it seriously. How big was the sample? Who were these taters? Are they even beer drinkers? Etc., etc.