skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a longshot, but has anyone here switched from Dvorak to Colemak and can comment on the experience?
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Thank you! Yes, I've got some things to try on overlays as at the moment the top level zoom levels are static pre-generated.

What kind of subsections would you like to see? I did render a larger map, but for this test just did '6x6' sections as it's easy to get lost.
Well said! I happen to be apart of one of those "5 man" companies, its much easier said than done.
Agreed. But it is a good way to tinker and learn the basics of multiprocessing if your only background is in PHP. The same concepts and terminology apply to other programming languages also running on *nix.
ummm, wow.

those are some damn good infographics.

http://infographics.byjess.net/

kudos.
I was, but never bothered to try out the sdk.
What do you think about matlab?  
This is the first time that I post something here,
and it is not a long time since I accidentally found online the website.(The last sequence of events that brought me here in fact:
Red the book of Levy, browsed other similar books in a bookstore, found PG book about H and painters, google PG, and here I am..)

My background is in electrical and computer engineering, optics/physics.
I have never worked in industry and my experience has been only in academia.
I am not a programmer and I guess I will never be.
I have said the 'hello, world' in a few languages, operating systems, open-source electronic projects, communication platforms etc
but that pretty much is as far as I have ever been.
I spend some hours in the night on computers the same way people solve sudoku- just to keep my brain from getting idle when I am tired from work.
After the long background fluff:

What do you think about matlab?

As far as I know it is not a general purpose language and maybe from the perspective of computer science it is not an interesting example.
But-practically speaking- it is the program/programming environment that is
used more extensively than anything else in academia(engineering, physics, biology etc) for
scientific simulations and data visualization. In data visualization in my experience is second
to none. I have tried some of the libraries of python but I do not think that they have reached
the maturity level of the matlab plotting libraries. I know that for example C/C++ is big in
science too (most of the times for projects in the order of several thousand lines)
but then you will need extra graphics libraries for visualization. It seems that matlab is
the standard in academia and it gets bigger and bigger. I like python and I hope that
it will eventually take over but I do not see it happening any time soon.
Branding should be the last concern of Arduino. The name is practically synonymous with low cost, easy to program hardware.
ok i sent my friend aaron an email and copied you.
Sometimes it feels like facebook suffers more from wrong use by people rather than their privacy policy. Hear me out before you downmod me.

I know their privacy policy kinda sucks (personally I don't have many problems with it, I just am very careful about what I say on the internet). But there is another much deeper problem with facebook which everyone tends to ignore. Partly because we are part and contributors to that problem. Anyone who has a facebook account these days tends to "friend" any random person who proposes a "friend request". I dont think that is very appropriate. You are not comfortable with sharing your information with advertisers who would at least provide relevant ads, but are comfortable with sharing your whole life with these random friends whom you do not remember meeting? I see people who have a friends list of about 300+ people. I don't even have that many numbers on my phone or email ids in my gmail contacts list. And I bet even they don't. Its just amazing how we use the number of fb "friends" as a status symbol.

Disclaimer: I use facebook in a very controlled manner, promoting my blog in my college students, viewing picture which have me or my best friends and commenting on them and once in a while commenting on somebody's status. My facebook friends list is 82 people long, that includes 50 people I meet almost daily (my bus pool, best friends, class mates, we have fun together) and other 25 or so relatives. Rest are just very old friends which I feel guilty "defriending". So maybe I don't know what it is like having 300+ friends. Maybe its kinda fun. I am commenting on something which I have never experienced. So take my comment with a grain of salt.
That's a tough question, I was playing around with 'segmenting' news a while ago and I ended up taking the top two levels of dmoz as a starting point, but there was a lot of editing and moving stuff around before it made any sense.

Maybe the meta tags from the various articles would give a hint about the possibilities here ? Those+titles could be used as 'hints' as well during the viewing of the map.
The title says StackExchange, but the article is about StackOverflow...
When i hear something along the lines of "limits of mathematics", a picture of Leibnitz tiresomely counting tortoise and Achilles steps comes to mind. Fortunately, instead of dwelling on, Leibnitz and the other bright minds were able to transcend the limits of the mathematics of the time.

Chaitin is a great mathematician, and there is no doubts about the limits he and others great ones have unquestionably proved. These works are great masterpieces. What looks strange is that it seems that modern human civilization has passively accepted the limits as the ultimate truth instead of trying to transcend them.
Adafruit.com have MicroBuilder LPC1343 boards and the Chumby hacker board. And there's always a Beagleboard
i think it would be neat if scrolling left and right gave you different topics/stories, and once you found one worth reading, scrolling up and down would give you things related to that one.

kind of like how i typically read wikipedia. find an article, see a link to something related, middle-click it to open in a new tab, keep going off tangentially until i forget what i was originally reading.
I can't get snipMate to work. Downloaded a brand-new gVim (windows 64, btw) dropped a pathogen.vim file straight from github into my vimfiles/autoload folder and copied the snipMate's files to vimfiles/bundle/snipMate.vim

I'm using the article's _vimrc.

:scriptnames lists the "plugin/snipMate.vim" files from both the "snipmate.vim/" and "snipmate.vim/after"

But when I type some snippet (like a "for" in a *.c file) and press tab, a single space (not a tab) is inserted. Pressing tabs on non-snippets inserts a tab like expected.

Am I missing something here?
The reason why this is the case is obvious: the moneyed interests run the government as well as the economy. And it isn't in their best interest for 'freelancers' to have the types of benefits proposed in the article. Also, a nation of self-employed individuals is contrary to the desires of a spendthrift federal government. Anything that reduces dependence of people upon large organizations and/or the government itself makes those individuals more of a threat to the status quo.
congrats euwyn! way to bring that nyc hustle to the valley!
i really like the FLTK framework , but its looks not so pretty as a gui
What do you think about Intel AppUp market?
today i just found about intel AppUp program , that basically opens up the opportunity to develop application that are optimized to the Atom processor ,does any one have experience in this market?
One thing I did consider but haven't thrown in is the idea of what happens when you get to the biggest thumbnail (lowest zoom) and then zoom in again. I was thinking it could take you to a related pages map, with its own zoom levels. Example : Start in US News, zoom down to a NYT story about llamas, once at lowest level it'll the browse down to all llama related stories. Something like that?
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Website users are still users. If their rights are important to you, you should use the AGPL.
And projected light keyboards. :)

http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/09/23/seabird/

Unless foolproof voice recognition comes first.
The article appears to cover both StackOverflow (programming community) and StackExchange (community sites using Stack software).
Have you considered writing a blog that caters to hackernews' tastes? A clojure-type java-based meta-MVC framework that gets you the A/B testing but this time in the cloud. Money in, Money out. Make the blog, seal the deal.
Except they have done research on the black hole possibility, there work centres on the beams colliding not what happens if it hits a certain combination of atoms that make up a human hand.

I guess it's kind of like someone saying to a programmer, hey can you fix my computer, you work in computer right?
Yes, it would create a temporary advantage for companies already holding patents, but they already have an advantage. And in a relatively short period of time (less than 20 years) most of the patents will have expired and that advantage will go away.

But personally, I don't think it's going to scare away many innovators. As it is, many American software patents do not hold in Europe. Despite this, American companies rarely seem concerned that their 'patent disclosures' will be used against them by their European competitors.

I wager this is because they are not truly innovations of the sort that require protection in order to encourage their creation.
Ahh, the old "triangles as an absolute measurement of power" fallacy. Shame on you Ars, shame shame.

Still, an amusing headline given that among developers the RSX (the PS3 GPU) is widely acknowledged to be a bit lacking. One of the big challenges of PS3 development these days is figuring out how to move basically everything onto SPUs and leave the RSX as a basic rasterizer.
I could see SmartPhones in 5 years being incredibly flexible with multiple personalities. When you're using it on the go it's an iOS/Android style touch OS. When you dock it to your keyboard/mouse you get a fairly standard Linux desktop. When you dock it to your TV you get something that looks like the Xbox Dashboard. Unfortunately I think this will be limited by battery life. If we can maintain a full day of normal usage that's probably acceptable but realistically 3-4 days is what most people need. I wish my iPhone had the same battery life as my iPad because at that point charging is just an afterthought. You don't have to worry about where the next charge is coming from because chances are you'll be back to your home/work/hotel/etc to charge within 3-4 days.
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I just remapped in software and printed a layout to put above my monitor. I get confused when I look at the keyboard, but found it worked pretty well to force me to learn more directly.
I'd like to hear Twilio's side of it; they seem like such a great company this feels... weird coming from there. I think there's more to this story.

waits patiently
Has anyone noticed an abundance of ranty blog posts (with authors who cannot distinguish between their/there) on HN lately? Here's the issue in brief:

> The email from twilio informed me they had, without warning switched off all international SMS functionality. ...they were able to massively degrade the functionality of our app – an app which not only do people pay for, they rely on.

Which I suppose is interesting enough, but then:

> But when it comes what really matters, being able to offer my customers a reliable service, you need a written agreement.

Which isn't exactly profound wisdom. If you're charging people for a service, you better make sure that you can hold your backend providers accountable for their end of the chain.
Why Content Delivery Networks?
If I was Amazon I'd be slinging Marco SDKs, hardware, whatever, to get a version of Instapaper running on the Kindle. Killer app.
Why did they switch off international SMS? What was the explanation they gave you? That seems like an important part of the story that you're missing.
What does Colemak help you do faster than Qwerty or Dvorak?
I'm a big fan of the whole Sixty Symbols series. For those of you not familiar: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

There's also a "sister" site for chemistry: http://www.periodicvideos.com/

It's good stuff. I've enjoyed pretty much every video I've seen from both of them.
Their current faq states that they don't deliver sms internationally.

http://www.twilio.com/faq/international

Based on that I presume they switched off the feature globally and not just for you. Correct?

That doesn't mitigate your complaint.if anything, doing that without advance notice is worse. Did they provide any explanation in the email?

Twilio has between a very reliable provider in my experience so far, so this is worrisome.
> Another subtlety I noticed is this generation's concept of Self is becoming contorted into your number of 'Friends' and quantity of 'Likes'. Not really this intelligent HN crowd but, more so the other 99% of society that unconsciously uses fb.

Yes, us intelligent folk here on HN would never stoop to accumulate arbitrary, meaningless "likes" (or "points" if you will) based on some groupthink valuation of our opinions. And us hackers would never consider shaping our published opinions to match the group's thinking so that we could accumulate more of these..."likes".
I parsed your response five times, and I think you've got it backwards. The OP was stating that he thinks this is negative for employees.
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Just posted this on Anthony's blog, but thought I would post it here as well:

--

Hi Anthony,

I'm sorry that you feel we were't straight forward, although our goal was to be completely transparent in our communication with you about the status of this feature. Since the time of launch, we thought we had clearly messaged that international SMS has been an unsupported feature, and that the entire product was in beta status. We had published this fact on our SMS product FAQs, as well as in the public GetSatisfaction forums. Our apologies that we weren't clear enough about that fact, which caused you to roll international SMS features into your app.

We do pride ourselves on putting developers and their applications first, and in being open in our communications, product capabilities and limitations. Please feel free to email me at jeff@twilio.com, I'm always open to feedback, questions, comments or concern.

Sincerely,

Jeff Lawson
Co-Founder & CEO
Twilio.com
miss out a lot of social interaction

http://i.imgur.com/EpTdz.png from http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...

This has been my experience as well.
If you don't want to restrict potential users, go with MIT.
This is worrying. We're using Twilio in my app - they've been good to us so far, certainly very friendly and helpful. The service has been spotty at times, but mostly reliable. Most of our customers are based in U.S./Canada, and all paying customers are; we also had a backup SMS delivery built recently. However, providing absolutely no notice (didn't seem like I missed an email from them) of such a significant change in service certainly isn't a good way to go about this.
For those wondering about the technical aspects of this decision take a look at this thread:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/international_sms-1...

When we launched the Twilio SMS Beta we tried hard to support sending SMS messages to both US and International destinations. When there were problems, we worked with our customers to collect forensic data on hundreds of carriers worldwide and pass it to our carriers partners to debug.

At Twilio we are dedicated to working with top quality carriers and technology. After months of working to fix problems, were not able to deliver the reliable International SMS service our customers have come to expect.

We apologize for any problems this has caused for our customer and we'll work to bring back International SMS service after were able to deliver on the quality we do the rest of Twilio services.

Cheers,
-Evan

CTO and Co-Founder
StackOverflow is my first port of call when I run into a programming problem that I can't solve. I've started mucking around with Unity 3d (a game engine) and was quite relieved when I found a solid StackExchange forum for the engine.

The main complaint I have about StackOverflow is how the reputation system negatively affects peoples' behaviour. Although the net effect of the system is very positive, I find that people rush to answer easy questions to get some up-votes. If they take too long to craft a detailed answer, they miss out. Answers to difficult questions take longer and get less views and up-votes, so people don't bother trying.

Many of the questions that show up on StackOverflow can be answered with a quick google. They only serve to dilute the quality questions and answers, and cheapen the reputation system. I also get the impression that people who couldn't be bothered to google a question first also couldn't be bothered responding to the comments and answers that they get.

Having said that, StackOverflow is still the best programming forum for languages that I use and I don't see it failing any time soon.
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> Yeah, but it can be pretty easy to click the wrong list or send something to the wrong list.

So does that mean you never use email either?

> Plus, what happens if someone else tags you in the college picture of you doing a keg stand? That's not something you have any control over and yet something that you may not want potential employers to see.

Actually, you can prevent people from tagging you. Also, if someone has a picture of you doing a keg stand and puts it on the internet, you're pretty much screwed, facebook or not.
One type of Defensive coding versus Don't coddle your code
If you don't want to expand on that, can you point us towards more information elsewhere? I'm interested in this other paradigm.
For those curious, I was able to find KDK documentation:

http://kdk-javadocs.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Here you go:

http://leaflabs.com/devices/maple/
I'm confused...as to why you don't want to go to college, why you can't work for someone and why you can't run a business. For a such young person it seems you've ruled out a few too many possibilities. What else is there...welfare? The fact is, you can do anything if you have the willpower, and it doesn't seem like you've had enough time to figure out your potential yet. What do you want to do?

I'd suggest you go to college. If you don't have money, there's financial aid, and you can get a job when you get there. It will open doors for you, you will learn something, and most importantly, you have time to figure out what you're good at, what you like, and what you really want to do with your life.
For me, Facebook was not a networking tool. Facebook had
not provided me with social experiences that would have
otherwise been lost. Facebook did not connect me with
people I would have otherwise not been connected with.
Facebook was wasting countless hours of my time that could
have been spent on more productive and rewarding endeavors.

Why would you expect Facebook to do that for you? It just a tool,
it enables but you must create something meaningful with it.
I have a paper and a pen, I don't complain that they don't write a nice poem or a novel for me, I have to do it myself.
Because you are asking the designer to do all the work without the guarantee of getting paid. The result is that you get a crappy product, where as if you just bit the bullet and hired a designer you would get something that you could actually use.
I've met a few talented web designers who don't grok html, javascript and css, but (so far) no product ux designers. Depending on the type of product you're building, someone like this may be exactly who you really need.

Working with a good ux designer will completely change your understanding of the role of design in product development. They can play a pivotal role in defining and shaping your product. And yes, a person with these qualities almost invariably can also code. Understanding the underpinning technologies of the web remains nearly inextricably entwined with understanding the design potential of the web.

As an aside, I think a platonic ideal founding team would have 2-3 people who share varying degrees of business, design and technical acumen. Each person has a defined role, but they also relate to their co-founders' roles in a meaningful way. Really understanding what it means to be GREAT at something often requires educating yourself enough to become mediocre at it. Completely partitioned specialization is for companies big enough to need HR departments.
expertise is learned through experience. experts are se;f taught over long period. you cant teach some to be an expert
ditto with "on to the next one, on to the next."
Yes, this is an interesting article... But while would you feel this is in any way relevant to Hacker News?
pinksoda, this totally worked. i also had to install php-pear and gcc. thanks so much.
chuhnk, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I think that the idea is great. Needs to be a lot faster.

I also think it would be really nice as an ipad app or any other larger surface touch screen devices.
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Unemployment insurance? Nope.

Is she F'ing kidding me? What, is the public at large supposed to pay into a pool so she can collect unemployment between gigs? Why doesn't her Freelancers Guild setup up its own unemployment fund? Members can pay into it, and then collect when they are out of work. We'll see how well that works for them.
As a heavy user of twilio (I work at groupme.com, we're entirely text message based, and built entirely on twilio), I'll say that every time we've broached the topic of international SMS, they've always cautioned us that it's experimental, and so we've explicitly marked our product as such (USA only for now).

That's not to say that we don't want international bad, but we pretty much trust their judgement as to whether or not they say a product is ready or if it ain't. Twilio does good work, and they're amazingly responsive to developer requests/feedback.
I think if you actually screen who you hire you will find someone who cares about their work, is talented, and will understand you are a start up and charge accordingly.
It's 11:24 in phoenix. I just finished a 6 hour sprint working on an app that will rely 100% of the Twilio api, so the headline caught my attention. By the time I came back both the CEO and CTO gave an explanation and apologized. I can respect that. I hope Task.fm gets back on track as well.

Edit: J, maybe reimbursing him would not hurt.