skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only guess $120k is less than pocket-change for an operation like this.
The British vulcan bombers of the same era had the range to reach Moscow - but not the range to return to the UK.
Yeah, I would love one of these.
OmniTweet - An experimental minimalist Twitter Client for Google Chrome
When dealing with users who may not be completely familiar with package management, and creating a single cross-platform package, it can be very helpful to prevent the data and its installer from being separated. It's a very simple way to bundle some logic with an archive as well, as the script can be modified after it is generated.
Woz' interview in Founders At Work seems to confirm that Jobs played a major part in many design decisions on the initial Macintosh, especially the removal of extension slots:

We had a real argument over slots. (...) Steve said, "All people really need is a printer and a modem." And that was just false because he'd come from a different world than I. (...) He wanted just one slot for a printer and one for a modem(...), so I said, "If you want 2 slots, get another computer." That was the only time we had a real argument.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
Link to original

http://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/09/24-core-linux-cl...
It seems that this is one of those stories where everyone can have it their way. Not much in the way of evidence but much talk. It’s probably best to ignore things like that when trying to from accurate beliefs about Jobs.
No, I'm not from WA and I don't have anything to do with mining.

I do think Australias long term future is best served by minerals at this point. There's no way of knowing what the future holds, best to bank as much now while the price is good. Yes, it holds some risk over the geopolitical situation, but you can't get rid of that.

Digging up minerals and selling them now puts Australia to work. drives down the Current Account deficit, allows us all to enjoy a higher standard of living. Put simply, Australia has comparative advantage in minerals mining so we should maximise this to the benefit of all. Unemployment is 5% because of the mining, not despite the mining.

It's not an either/or question on mining/information technology. There's plenty of room for both. Australia can lead the world in minerals, and mineral extraction technology. Australia has already built up world class mining companies that now invest internationally. Long may that continue - with a stable political climate, well developed capital markets and a home-grown skills and technology base, there's no reason why Australian miners can't be major players in worldwide resource extraction for centuries to come, even if the iron ore in the Pilbara runs out. The world will never stop mining - never has, never will.
You should! VWO rocks pretty hard.
I really don't think the recursion is the hard part to understand. It's what each variable and magic number means. A while ago someone had a post of the exponentiation function written with single letter variables. It was difficult to know what it was doing. With proper variable names it would be apparent.

I think what people are asking is basically, could someone convert this to a program that is actually meant to be read, while still maintaining its exact control flow and logic.
Vacations needn't be expensive. Sure, there's a loss of one week's income generation, but it's possible to have a fantastic week away on what it would cost to talk to a lawyer for half an hour. Some examples: camping and fishing, eating what you catch to save on food; rock climbing; backpacking; etc.
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This is an interesting service to consider from the perspective of both the sender and recipient of an email message.

The value that you create for the recipient is the spam filtering that you mention only as an aside. If someone is paying to send an email message, it's very unlikely that the message is spam. This form of micropayment makes email cost a little bit to senders, but it makes spam lose its cost-effectiveness. As a recipient, you can pretty much guarantee that email coming from this service is not spam. That makes going through your inbox a lot simpler.

On the other hand, value is created for the sender of email too. Because the recipient of the email is (mostly) assured that the message isn't spam, a response is much more likely. It sounds like you have a means (or idea) to guarantee a response too, which obviously amplifies this effect.

I think the service has potential. The first question that comes to my mind is who do you charge? You definitely charge the sender, but do you charge the recipient as well? Also, how do you make this work in a user's existing inbox? It seems like having users check another inbox will decrease the effectiveness of the service.

It's interesting that your solution is sort of an incremental solution to spam. To me, the best solution to spam would be to add authentication to SMTP or a new protocol with widespread adoption. However, your solution is more realistic.
The thing is, that when it comes to other e-assholes (Zed being the obvious one), I genuinely respect their talent, and they generally do have enough insight available to them to realise when they've stepped too far. Zed in particular pumps out code I find useful and well built (<3 Lamson), and generally, his rants aren't overly horrible.

Marak comes across as someone who's seen that and intends to emulate it, without the actual development skill or talent to back it up.
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They should, they transfer energy between rotational and orbital velocities. For example the earth is gradually spinning more slowly (as can be seen from daily/annual growth rings in corals), while the moon is orbiting faster and getting farther away.
I don't see how just linking to two very well known airlines is really answering the question.

There was a group who was trying to build first-class only airline servicing major cities in the US. I wish I could remember there name, but I can't.
How to read the article in 5 seconds: Read the independent claims.
The original you found is much more informative that the one linked here. It goes into more detail and has more pictures, etc.
You don't owe them anything.
OmniTweet is my current guilty pleasure project.
Because I didn't read what it actually was. :) My actual birthday is in about 30 days, so when it said it was in 15, I assumed something was confused.

I now see that that something is me. Perhaps it should also tell me when these two birthdays next intersect.
As long as the workaround was known, well... I don't know exactly what the military procedures are for situations like that, but updating an active rocket defence system in area where you don't necessarily have trained engineers -vs- rebooting it every day or so to make sure it works. It looks like a simple choice to me.

Also looking at who actually makes the mistake - if someone gives you an update and the system fails, they're at fault. If you give clear instructions for operation and users don't follow it...
Lazy programming and lazy evaluation
On the other hand, Canada has a whole has been adopting the inukshuk as a symbol of Canada as a whole. The Canadian government has gifted several inukshuks to foreign countries as symbols of friendship.

They also appear in national parks cause hikers/campers think that their fun to make.
I'm not sure the author did enough research when he says:

The popular iPod Touch media player has been revamped at three price points - $229, $299, and $399 - all costing more than the iPhone, which does everything the Touch can plus make phone calls.

Articles have stated that Apple is paid for each activation by AT&T "up to $325 per phone"[1] or "$18/month ($432 over 2 years)"[2]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/at-t-may-pay-appl...

[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9803657-37.html
Exactly...buying those phones without a contract:

For those who are not eligible for an early upgrade or who wish to buy iPhone as a gift, the prices are $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB).

Source: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
Eyewriter: paralyzed graffiti writer w/ open source eye tracker makes art
Greetings HN -- thought I'd post up this kickstarter we just launched for TEMPT, an old school LA graffiti writer that has ALS, a disease which attacked his muscles and has left him paralyzed. We've been developing open source tools to help him draw again (see http://eyewriter.org) and now that he's making art, we've organized a kickstarter to start to sell his work.

This kickstarter represents Tempt's return to working as a practicing artist.
There is a great article to be written on this topic. I lost all confidence in the author however, when they repeatedly compared prices with a contract to those without.

For context, a new iPhone 4 without contract is $700.
I think you are confusing a few things.

1) Airlines are becoming more and more digital, but for the most part, that I don't think that really has an affect on the experience, and I think that is what you need to be focusing on.

2) You say 'not a low-cost one', but then you say 'for those who can't regularly afford business/first class'. In a low-profit enterprise, is it realistic to go for a 'boutique' experience and not focus on the highest ticket price?

I say this because I once was thinking of going into the airline biz as well. My angle was a first-class only airline. Refactor the entire check-in and boarding process. No more standing in lines to check your bags and then stand in line to get through security.

Drive up to the airport and your bags are unloaded and a valet takes your car, you're brought into the check-in lounge, and sit comfortably while you wait for a check-in agent to come by and check you in. Manage our own security process so again, no line-ups, we'll let you know when we're ready for you, just relax, enjoy a beverage, etc. etc.

Then, a plane which is full first-class has much fewer checked bags (carrying less people), so more room for cargo to improve margins. Plus with each ticket being a high-dollar, you've got good revenue rolling in (in theory anyway).

When I was thinking about this, I found an all first-class airline which was basing itself out of Las Vegas, but I can't remember what they where called, and they may not have made it off the ground.
I just posted my thoughts on it here. http://bit.ly/b7tGcm I'd post it as a comment but it's too long.

He's good on the financial advice but bad on everything else. Why would you promote Defense technology if you think the biggest risk in the future is war? Shouldn't you be promoting peace?
I wonder how did they actually find out the reason for the failure? They had a system which worked perfectly (almost) and probably could be tested in every standard way without showing the problem. They must've had a seriously good logging system that showed something suspicious, or someone had a really interesting "a-ha" moment...

I'd like to hear the story of debugging this one. Also how they managed to identify that this incident was caused by that specific bug.
We compartmentalize the scientific method to the realm of um...science subject matter.

It's a result of our tendency to compartmentalize knowledge. Make sense, when you don't want to spend much brain power thinking about the interconnections, not so much when you're on the job coding up some solution to problems or trying to find better way to teach children.

So in our case, teachers just don't use the scientific inquiry to do research. However, we also know that teaching degrees aren't predictor of student performance. So degrees seem to me to be entirely disconnected with scientific study of teaching/neuroscience/whatever_science_related_field_to_education.
You can also use Steak:

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/steak-because-cucumber-is-f...
Great hack - but in terms of core density it's not exactly great.

The article talks of "What we needed was a compact and efficient design with maximal core density"

You can buy a Dell R410 1U 8 core (2 x 4-core Xeon) for about $1,400.

Whilst you are paying about 25% more, you'd get 24 cores into a fraction of the space. If you include the cost of power, the 'Ikea rack' is likely to cost a fair amount more over 3 years.
You wish, or he wishes! A month possibly, maybe double that, but a day!
>The popular iPod Touch media player has been revamped at three price points - $229, $299, and $399 - all costing more than the iPhone, which does everything the Touch can plus make phone calls.

Oh, bullshit. From the Apple store:

Can I buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract?
No. iPhone requires a two-year AT&T wireless service contract.

And how much will that two-year service contract cost you? Minimum of $40/month for voice, and $15/month for data * two years = 55*24 = $1,320.

Next time you're sitting at your computer and hear Microsoft's news network say they have insight into Apple, chime in: "Nope. What you have is FUD."
Well, it's a little more subtle than that. Microsoft produced some of the earliest and most important applications for Macintosh (and still does). Bill sent a famous letter advising Jobs to license the Mac OS widely (which was honest advice, based on Bill's later actions). A lot of Microsoft's success relative to Apple is where Apple refused to participate in a market (e.g., OSes for commodity hardware) rather than a pure competitive "bet against".
He does? How?

Microsoft was happy to place bets on every system they could. Bill Gates didn't bet against anyone. He placed lots of bets on lots of systems, knowing that one would work out. The IBM PC is what made their fortune. But the bets they placed on other systems were already doing very well for them. Including on Apple.

The Microsoft-Apple relationship began in 1977 with Microsoft introducing Applesoft BASIC and later licensing it to Apple. Microsoft SoftCard followed in 1980, enabling Apple machines to run to programs designed for the CP/M. Sure, there was the infamous MS-DOS deal with IBM. But in the same time period Steve Jobs visited Microsoft to demo early prototypes of the Macintosh, and Microsoft was the first major company to develop programs for the Mac. In the end Microsoft BASIC and Microsoft Multiplan were shipped simultaneously with the introduction of the Macintosh, and Microsoft announced at the launch that Word, Chart, and File would ship soon.

When I look back at the history, I see no sign that Bill Gates was betting against Steve Jobs. His most successful bet was not on Steve Jobs. But he had lots of bets on Jobs as well.

For more on the history, see http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.h...
A timeline of early Microsoft
You may also wish to connect each drawer to the AC power ground on it's PSU
Level 3 is fine, if you're at a dinner party or something like that with people you don't know and you just have to talk to someone because it's boring otherwise. Usually social situations work better though if there's some sort of shared activity or purpose to the event.

Think about how people meet all their best friends in college and in high school. At these stages of one's life people haven't been split off into their social segments yet and have plenty to talk about because they are helping each other study for exams, or playing on sports teams together or working on other practical projects like organizing clandestine weekend keggers. It's in these situations that people really get to know each other, instead of just this social filtering process that usually passes for conversation.
The 'Machiavellian Lens' is entirely too prevalent in technological design, but it's still interesting to read through them. I've seen most of these things before, but never really analyzed them.
the Patriot missile kept track of its internal clock with floating point numbers

It didn't, really, and the bug itself is more convoluted than the loss of precision you are describing.

See the references:

http://www.mc.edu/campus/users/travis/syllabi/381/patriot.ht...
and
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm
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Some random thoughts on programming
1) That's not too long for a comment. This isn't twitter; we're used to comments that are several paragraphs long.

2) If you do post a link to something, use the full link. Link shorteners like bit.ly are frowned upon at HN. This isn't twitter; characters are not at a premium, and many of us prefer to see the real destination of the link.
Ask HN: Any ideas how to build a roadmap for a programmer for my start-up?
So far, I have the website landing page with unbounce up, I have a wire frame with GoMockingbird, and I have also submitted my design project for a logo to 99 Designs. I want to build an alpha version, a 0.5 for a programmer to build a basic functionality website.

Edit: My landing page is www.HiveReader.com

I want to use this 0.5 prototype to help attract a technical co-founder and seed capital.

I also want to use it to submit my idea to the Founder Institute and/or a Y-Combinator type program.

I'm considering using vWorker (the old RentaCoder) to build the rough prototype.

Any ideas how I should create the prototype for the programmer?

-Thanks!
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I don't think <video> is going to help you here.
I might have bad taste as well, but as someone totally ignorant of art:

Barcelona, Nagano, Sydney, Seoul and Vancouver's logos all look equally good (and bland and generic, but that's ok) to me.

I agree that the Barcelona one is the best of the bunch.

The London one is missing the Olympic colours, and it looks awful to me.
+1 Steak is a wonderful alternative.
I suspect the process that assigns official contract-free prices to phones is entirely based on telco politics. The goal for telcos in the US and Canada is to lock you into a long-term contract, and high prices that no one is intended to pay help ensure that.

For example, Rogers (my wireless provider in Canada) offers a 3G USB modem for $250 without contract. I bought a near-identical prepaid modem from Vodafone in Germany this summer for 40 EUR. Or alternatively, take the iPod Touch. Apple sells the new 32GB model for $300, whereas an equivalent iPhone 4 is $700 off-contract. Does the 3G radio really add an extra $400? I think it's just there to make AT&T happy and give Apple a piece of the subscription pie. If phones weren't subsidized, the list prices would be quite different.
Thanks for posting this. I've heard about this study but never knew the details. I definitely think self-control/the ability to delay gratification is one of the keys to success in any challenging endeavor, whether it's elite sports or building a company. You have to have the ability to keep going when it really hurts rather than opt for the easier, more immediately gratifying path of giving up.
That has got to be one of the least usable blog layouts I've ever seen. It's all flash over substance, which is rather fitting because you can say the same thing about a lot of these testing libraries.

Factories are better than fixtures, I'll admit. All this other cruft that's grown up around Rails testing can be trivially replaced with Test::Unit with no real loss in readability and great improvements in overall simplicity. If Test::Unit is good enough to keep Rails itself on track it's certainly good enough to keep your app under control.
Original article is from 2008. Now you can get a 1U-twin Supermicro with 24 cores in 1U.
Is this not the point of RUP? To create an iterative, agile methodology that looks like a waterfall at a high level? I think the problem you define is the exact reason that RUP becoming so popular, but I admit that I may misunderstand.
I'm still holding out for the COBOL package.
Cue religious debate about testing frameworks...
Ask HN: How to reach out to freelancers for conference?
I'm organizing indieconf.com - a conference for freelance web professionals - and am wondering how I should best reach out to the community. I've been using buysellads on various freelance-oriented blogs/sites, using google adwords, and some other approaches, but am afraid I'm reaching somewhat limited audiences.

Yes, this is somewhat of a plug, but there's also a lot of wisdom and input here, and probably the majority of people reading this aren't my target anyway (likely employed, not freelance). Ideally getting input now is better than getting it a month after the conference.

What techniques would you suggest for reaching web freelancers? Also, I'm finalizing the session/speaker list over the next few days - what topics would you expect to see at a conference like this?

Thanks.
"It takes seconds to sign-up" then. Between ten to 120 :-D
The Onion just did a piece that fits in really well with all this... Even though it is written in jest, it somehow fits reality much better than we might like to admit when it comes to social motivation... Brutal honesty? You decide...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sorry-im-just-really-bad-wi...
I would sleep with my curtains open more often but I generally find the sodium street lights to be an annoyance when my eyes adjust to the almost darkness. At which point they get closed.

I regularly go camping and have to agree with everything the author says. The physical exertion (setting up camp, building a fire, walking around etc) lack of environmental controls and natural light certainly correct any day / night in balance immediately.

Though, since I finished University I have found that just having to get to work for 9am each morning takes care of most problems. Other than the occasional nights bad sleep, usually caused by being fascinated by some programming problem or even a real life issue!
This is just inane.
What is the draw! button suppose to do? I loaded it up on firefox and nothing seems to be happening.The page is just static.
Congrats, antirez. I know some of us were scared that VMware's acquisition of you would be a bad thing, but you've clearly been doing just fine. Thanks for everything!
"By doing instead of talking, things started to happen."

I really hate platitudes. Especially if they're truisms. It's a bit like saying "By walking instead of standing still, I started to move forward."
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Every sane salesman practices the so-called "pricing game"

This guy's comment objectively criticizes the articles apples-to-oranges comparisons between unsubsidized iPods and subsidized iPhones, as well as the reason for a 7 inch iPad: http://business.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/06/5056176-how-ap...
He's right. One should never anthropomorphise computers, they hate that!
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> Someone’s claiming you’re infringing your patent!

Uh...good luck with that.
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The comment about empty input boxes brought forth a possible UI idea. What would happen if you showed users a profile page full of information taken from other random users and asked them to correct it?
To organize a successful conference, you need support from the community. Why do you need to buy ads on these freelance blogs and sites? If your conference is truly a great resource, those sites should be promoting your conference on their own. Perhaps you need to talk directly to them?
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If you follow the link to the story about the Borders at 3rd and Townsend closing, there's a comment from the head of the HOA, saying its because their lease was not renewed, not because of their sales being poor. Kind of sucks the life out of that argument.
Well, or grist for an archaelogist of the 21+nth century.
Jesus, those are all amazing. It was very nice of the Jump'n'Run guy to include the commented source.
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