skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most events in San Francisco are such that the female/male ratio can easily go from relatively high (and therefore favourable) to very low in a relatively short span of time.

The term bronado seems to be a portmanteau of "bro" and "tornado". The term hisicane appears to be a pun on "hurricane". It uses the fact that "hurri" is a homophone of "her" then changes "her" to "his". We could not infer the etymology of bonestorm but we grokked the meaning by the context.
An IDE is just a bunch of other programs combined. It's a text editor at its heart.

So use a text editor (any one) and then compile your code, commit it to the repository, etc etc from the command line. Or using other tools.

Or, realize that IDEs are designed to combine all that together and you'd rather have it do the work instead.

Personally, when coding languages that don't need to be compiled, I use Vim/GVim/MacVim (depending on what system I'm on) and the command line for everything. For languages that need to be compiled, it's just easier to use the IDE.
Not a fan of this "realignment". In an effort to stick to a grid, the spacing has become all uneven.

Here: http://www.fileability.net/snaps/twitteruneven.png

Same colored arrows point to spaces that should have the same size, because they represent the same thing.

The problem with grids is that they're a blunt instrument. You still need to use common sense. There's no conceivable reason why the "Home" button in the top bar should align to the second panel. That would seem to imply that the Home button does something to the second panel, when in fact it controls both.
I wonder if this would be useful for law enforcement?
I would ask myself.

Will it change the world or compliment it?

Are there people who need it? Do they know that they need it?

How is it going to solve their problem?

How much is the solution worth to the customer?

Can I do it myself? If not what else do I need.

What is the core product that I am trying to create. http://000fff.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/product_feature...

How much time am I willing to spend on it.
This doesn't actually seem to be the case for all Fast Food chicken, well, unless the companies are violating FDA rules in their ingredient lists.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Meat_&_Poultry_Labe... (jump down to Mechanically Separated Poultry).

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/full_menu/chicken/mcnugg...
http://www.wendys.com/food/Product.jsp?family=2&product=...
Make a serious attempt in switching to vim for everything. Print out some cheatsheets and have them on the wall next to your monitor. There are also quite a few vim threads on HN which might be of interest to you.

It took me about a week to feel really comfortable with it, but now I'm really glad I didn't give up. I still learn new shortcuts every other week.
You could go to Germany, Austria or any other deutsch-spoked country and stay there at least a month. Preferably not in a big city. You will probably learn it :)
Why shouldn't numbers be moved to the right of titles? As a non-designer, I find it nicer to see at a glance what is happening?

That said I agree with the rest of your critique...
Before someone launches another ad hominem attack on Max, here's the gist of this story:

"find a successful business, discover as much as possible about it, re-implement it all, then battle them for supremacy.”

If you like Max's style though, go ahead and read it - it's well-written, lightly entertaining and thought provoking.
Comment of the day :)
Then try one of the other heuristics suggested in this thread. :-)
What language are you developing in? I think that some languages (like Java and C#) really require an IDE to be effective, whereas others (like Ruby and Python) do not require an IDE.

Personally I do mostly Ruby development, so I use VIM plus a host of plugins that are Ruby-specific. If you develop in another language then there are probably a host of plugins that make that language easier to work with.

In general though you are correct that you will have to tweak more to get VIM or Emacs to work for you - an IDE is essentially an environment that has already been tweaked for you.
she creates characters that are the personification of that ideal, completely out of touch of reality.

That's intentional. The effect is Brechtian - the characters are designed to force you to think about and self-rationalize the concepts they represent. They're not there to populate a fictional world you can lose yourself in.
You've already done one of the most important parts: move somewhere where that language is spoken. Next: get everyone around you to speak German to you, and speak German to them (obviously, ask when you don't understand or need a term). Instruct them to always correct you, and when they do, repeat the correct sentence a few times out loud. Watch television. Read. Socialise with locals, not expats. Look up or ask about anything you don't understand. The idea is total immersion.

By the way, if you need techy reading material in German, Heise are great. I've been a subscriber to their c't magazine for years.
Funding: $836M

That is how.
What if they holla back?
I only fire up an ide when I need to step through code with breakpoints and watch variables. The rest I do in vim. It depends on the language a lot in how functional you can be without a full ide.
Not at all impressed, e.g. the author is defining "ceased to exist" in a way that doesn't take into account how a company is liquidated.

There are certainly big problems here, but I don't see the author finding real ones.
Crunch Time at AOL
There's a story about someone telling Einstein that he keeps a notebook on hand to jot down all the good ideas he's had. Einstein said he wouldn't need such a notebook. Because he has such a great memory? No, because he'd only had one or two good ideas in his life.

Seriously, if none of them leap at you, grab you by the neck, and insist on existing, it means you don't have any good ideas.

But this doesn't mean you should be discouraged, it just means you should be in "getting good ideas" mode. And the best way to do this is to get out there, experiencing problems, solving them, making mistakes, correctly them, feeling stupid, making progress, all the while trying to understand things, wondering about things, being exposed to lots of different ideas from different places, and trying out the ideas you've had, if they interest you, just out of curiosity. Get busy living or get busy dying in Morgan Freeman's voice. "Evaluating ideas" is a way of dying, IMHO. At least, that's how it's been for me when I've got stuck in that way of thinking, anyway.

Then one day, you're looking at something, and you think "you know, everyone is doing this in a stupid way. why don't they do it this way? it would be so much better." You whip up the simplest prototype you can think of, in a couple of hours, just to check for yourself that the basic idea does basically kinda work. Then you whip up something, in a day, that others could try (a day's work: that's how incomplete and limited and trivial that prototype should be - an MVP), to see if anyone else is the slightest bit interested - if they are, that gives you the information and the encouragement/fuel to continue. And suddenly, without quite meaning to, your journey has begun.

That's what happened to me, anyway.

Take the heaviness away. That corporate/academic/executive approach of "criteria" and "evaluating ideas" doesn't make giant corporations agile - and it's only going to drag you down. Insight and intuition come not from methodologies, but in spite of them; they come from contact with reality, and from you. And insight and intuition is where the great startup ideas come from.

disclaimer I'm not a wildly successful entrepreneur, just a successful-enough one. A cool idea from many years ago is still making money for me today. This is all just IMHO, my experience, YMMV.
crashes instantly on my iphone4. the other sproutcore demos have worked, looked at them last night to evaluate whether to write an app in that instead of native.
Although I completely agree with you, Rand considers herself a romanticist[1], and therefore uses her literature to portray her vision of the ideal human being. In fact, I think I read somewhere that she hated naturalism.

[1] See The Fountainhead's introduction in one of the recent editions.
Right. The automation versus editing is the key difference between techofnow and techmeme. Techmeme has several editors that will promote stories, or alter conversation grouping, based on an editor's discretion.

I think your right. techofnow is too mobile heavy right now.
The article makes the assumption that every company's primary goal is unit market share. While that is the conventional wisdom, and could very well be true for most of the players in the mobile phone industry, I don't think it is Apple's anymore.

Note the graph at http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/21/pie-chart-apples-outr... . Apple commands 39% of mobile phone industry profits. This is 39% of ALL mobile phones, not just smart phones. I'm simply astounded Apple can do this with just 2.8% unit share.

Why do I mention this? Because, IMO, the end goal of a business is to generate profit, not popularity.
Good moment to give Acme a try, probably:

http://swtch.com/plan9port/

http://acme.cat-v.org/
The first chapter of East of Eden is the most gorgeous chapter I've ever read!

What do you mean it starts slow!?
256 colors in your terminal? Old. Lets go for 16777216 of them
Look up the blog by Benny the Irish Polyglot and read his posts. I think you might do well with his style.
This is the single question I had in mind reading the other article. why did mint's success have to mean death for wesabe? he even identifies a yet unsolved problem that the service is not accurate or helpful enough. Were the costs too prohibitive? I think you can cut the costs, downscale, and continue until finding the right spot and rise again. Also I expect the market to be very big and particularly accommodating for several startups in this area.
I usually find good stuff on HN but sometimes it feels too US-centric, and here, even worse, it seems highly HN-centric.

Poster mahmud probably deserve a lot of respect but without context his post and the comments are useless for me, and I guess it should be the same for other occasional lurkers that happen to not know what Maxim is, nor live in the US.

Please don't misinterpret, I don't feel I have any position to say what HN should or shouldn't be, and I know that these meta-level comments are not welcome, because they do not add anything useful to the discussion. It's only that, from time to time, I have felt myself "excluded" from the HN community, because I'm not living the same life, reading the same newspaper (I read none), etc.

On the other hand, when I re-read Paul Graham's essays, they are really the kind of food for the mind that any open minded guy, reading enough English, would enjoy. It is a kind of "Humanisme" a la Diderot, that is worthwhile, that I like to find on HN -- End of the "I feel lonely" complain.
Most people prefer XHTML syntax, that's why they use XHTML doctype in HTML documents. There's nothing wrong with it.
I have ideas all the time. A few good ones and a swarm of bad ones. Filtering them down is sometimes tough.

I believe you should work on the one you feel the most passionate about. Ideas do not need to be great to succeed. But, unless you have a fantastic game changer of an idea, you need to work hard and passionately to get it off the ground. The more you are vested in the project emotionally the more likely you are to always push through.

Hate cats but have a great idea for a new cat toy? Screw it. Love dogs but have an iffy idea for a new product (doggles anyone?)? Go for it.

As Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." Pick the project you are most willing to perspire over.
For me, the best thing about Ubuntu is that they really care and more importantly, invest, into the UI experience.
It doesn't have to be financial gain - it can be altruistic gain from policy choices. As I said in another post, if you personally would be willing to spend $50k to legalize gay marriage (for example), you can replace $50k of financial gain by $50k worth of utility derived from helping others.
Heh! I thought bronado and hisicane were Spanish or something :-)
The author claims that businesses often reinvent themselves in order to survive. As I understand it Wesabe _did_ reinvent themselves. I believe they were working closely with banks to have them implement some Wesabe related tools directly for the banks' customers. I didn't work at Wesabe so I may be wrong about this.

Personally, I stopped using Wesabe for the same reasons that DannoHung mentions in his comment. I wasn't getting a good 10,000ft view of what was happening to my money and there were no tools available to help me budget. Shame though because I'm not exactly thrilled about giving Mint/Intuit/Yodell my personal info.
I also liked the insight that ideas are, in themselves passive. The premise of the article is that you need an enemy, a foil, to invigorate you and your company.
Facebook’s 2015 revenues will be >$28 billion —Adam Rifkin, TechCrunch: http://predictionbook.com/predictions/1821

Did Rifkin make any other specific predictions? I thought about including each source of revenue as a prediction but wasn't sure whether those predictions were anywhere near as interesting/important as the overall sum.
Seems to me that he has a rather cramped view of "real issues" and their possible solutions.

Two words seem to be sufficient to invalidate his thesis: "Tea Party". Ask, oh, Senator Mike Castle if he disagrees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Castle).

Or wonder why another two words in a single Facebook posting completely changed the tenor of the health care debate: "death panels".

(You don't have to agree with or like these outcomes to acknowledge that something's happening here and that Facebook, Twitter etc. are an important part of it.)
Not really. But I don't think that most people interviewing a candidate would be pleased to hear something like that brought up by an interviewee. Perhaps you would, but I think most people would get the impression that someone who brought that up in an interview would be difficult to work with, even if their management style did not include "micro-managing."
I thought Slaughterhouse Five was great, but I think I found myself left thinking more after reading Breakfast of Champions.
Using a 1080px grid is a big no! I assume there would be a considerable percentage of twitter web users with a 1024x screen resolution. On twitter's scale, even a small percentage(say 5%) would run into millions and showing them the horizontal bar is definitely not a good idea.
Khan Academy Vision and Social Return (video)
I watched a couple of those videos after reading about it here and, while they were nice, they didn't stand out as something very special to me. Maybe it's because his style feels close to the way that I like to teach, or maybe you guys had way more sucky teachers than I did (though I don't think my math teachers were particularly good).

I don't want to disrespect the effort he's going through setting up all the online content, that's clearly something very useful to those that don't have access to real people to learn with. But to hold him up as as especially awesome and unique seems to ignore the thousands of equally awesome teachers that are out there teaching like that every day.
> Or rather, nothing ever came west.

That's simply not true. Asian culture had a tremendous influence, even if somewhat misunderstood or reinterpreted, on the West. Our exam system in universities is inspired by the Chinese. People like Voltaire did admire Confucius' way to (not) talk about God. Leibniz was impressed by Yi-king's numerical perfection. Etc. (I agree that the zen-this and dao-that we have nowadays is an uninformed Western distortion, though).

Edit: And I dislike the quote in the article. I read Daode Jing many time, in different translation, and I don't remember having seen this. Anyway, any quotation of Chinese classics that do not give the reference is deemed to be a joke (like those Confucius said jokes).
Bingo. I started long before there were IDEs and quickly gravitated to EMACS. When I last used an IDE (VC++/VS) I used EMACS for my editing and it for building (compile and link) but mostly for this type of debugging.
Not a criticism per se, but when I saw the title of this post, I had a "Lisa Simpson Moment:" I know what each of these words means, but when you put them together...

Windows, Live, Essentials, 2011, Out.

I hope I get it now. Windows is the OS, Windows Live is not the OS but "The collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft", Windows Live Essentials is "A suite of freeware applications by Microsoft which aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, security services and other Windows Live entities." and Windows Live Essentials 2011 is a release of Windows Live Essentials, so Windows Live Essentials 2011 out means that:

The 2011 release of "A suite of freeware applications by Microsoft which aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, security services and other entities that are part of a set of services and software products from Microsoft that are branded to tie in with the OS" has been released.

The way that each word in "Windows Live Essentials 2011" segments the brand neatly from left to right makes it feel like it was designed by a marketing ontologist who sees everything as part of a great pyramid of brands and expects customers to view everything in the same way and not as individual products with their own identities.
Same here, I liked FBR better than BS. Taleb himself says he 'no longer likes' his first book (FBR), but then the guy's a bit of a contrarian, to put it mildly.

I should add that a few traders I know recommend FBR as the first book a new recruit should read.
How HTML5 came into existence.
Stick with vim, it's just a matter of finding what plugins suit you best. I'm no expert, but I am slowly building my environment: http://hg.emanuelecipolla.net/dotfiles/src/ if you wish to browse it.

P.S. I would like to know if someone spots mistakes or suggest enhancements, thanks :-)
1) There's a vibrant japanese learning community on the web that likes to talk about language learning in general; sites of note are http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/ and http://www.antimoon.com/ (about english learning).

2) Get a copy of Anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/) and load it up with the things you want to remember. If I were starting a new language, I'd do this with sentences from a textbook. As you get better, you can take sentences from things you're reading or from dictionaries, wikipedia, twitter (my favorite), or anything else.

There are lots of theories on language learning, and it's hard to pin down what works. Some people thing the above suggestions are crazy and will tell you so, loudly. But you since you're doing things yourself, you can just try stuff. If you don't like something or if you don't think it's working for you, then change it.

You might structure it something like Scrum: have a fixed study iteration that starts with a planning session and culminates with an assessment. The assessment could be a different depending on what you're studying; maybe a conversation with a native speaker on the subject of what you've been studying that week. Maybe a trial run of a standardized test you're studying for. Maybe watching the same TV show at 3 week intervals to see how much your comprehension improves. Depending on the result, then plan your text 2-3 weeks of study accordingly. For me at least, that seems like about as long as I can stick to any particular study plan without burning out anyhow.

... actually, I kind of like this idea, maybe I'll try it for my Japanese. :)
I'm sorry that you've had issues with the review system. A tiny number of extensions are flagged for review automatically. In your case, it was not because of NPAPI or file:// access. (The heuristic in this case resulted in a false positive.)

(And uploading extensions from multiple accounts is likely to get the attention of spam filters, so you should refrain from that.)

I am not typically an extension reviewer and I don't want to preempt them in this case by approving it right now. However, I'll track someone down on Monday. If you haven't seen any movement by Wednesday, email me (stick @chromium.org on the end of my username.)
The Age of Wonder: How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science. by Richard Holmes.

Biographies of top hackers from 1769 to 1840.
So how does his "vested interest" affect the veracity of his claims?

I have an observation to share with you: If we ignore everyone who has some sort of "vested interest" in a subject, the only people we can consult for advice or suggestions will be people who are completely ignorant of the necessary facts and who have no experience in the subject matter.

Expertise in a subject is gained through working in the field. Working in the field means acquiring some sort of personal interest in the outcome.

I find that bias is useful to consider when given unfounded claims. For example, if someone says "I think Facebook is a complete waste of time," you might ask whether they have a vested interest in making us believe this is the case. However, if someone says, "Before Facebook there was MySpace and ICQ and Compuserve and Orkut and all of these foundered and died, Facebook is just the latest fad, it will die as well," we can analyze the claim directly and ask whether Facebook is a fad and if not, how it differs from the examples cited.
After following this debate of wesabe vs. mint (and thinking it was about delicious things like wasabi and mint when I first heard about it) I wanted to try out Mint.

It wanted my online banking username/password ... who the hell gives the username and password of their bank to a website? In light of unimportant social networks like twitter and facebook making damn sure you aren't sharing the username/password combination around ... people give their ... I'm confused.

How do these sites stay in business? Do people really care that little about security?
I checked out his site and it seemed like more hype than substance. He claims to be learning a language every three months for the past seven years but so far his list of languages is not terribly impressive, at least by European standards. There are eight languages in the list (aside from his native English). Out of the eight, one is still being learned (Hungarian) and four are from the same language group (French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian). It's not a huge leap to become conversationally fluent in Portuguese after learning Spanish, especially if you can live in Portugal. I'd like to see how far he gets with Korean or even Mandarin in three months.
I though bonestorm should be something more close to the finale?
Forget Revenue. Relevance Is The New Currency.
I am also reading Fooled by Randomness right now, enjoying it a lot. Black Swan was good. I didn't like outliers very much. Tipping Point and Blink were more interesting to me.
Undefined and implementation-defined behaviour are tricky. They've been doing a better job of it recently, but I do wish compilers warned you more when encountering code with undefined behavior. Sometimes it's very hard or impossible to detect reliably, for example when doing pointer arithmetic acrobatics. But things like modifying a variable twice within a sequence point, or reading potentially uninitialised variables should have the compiler screaming at you by default.
WindowMaker, it was the first windowmanager that I liked, and haven't moved since, but it is beginning to feel its age. I am missing some of the new stuff from gnome/kde a litte bit.