skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the grandparent said, BestBuy has them. I asked them specifically on Twitter and they responded:

> Your best bet to purchase a MiFi right now would be going to one of our retailers- @BestBuy, @RadioShack, @Target

I went to BestBuy and walked out with one. And, unlike my experiences trying to set my iPad up on AT&T, it lets you set up the MiFi even if you don't have any other source of internet access.

I'm not entirely overjoyed with the speeds, but the $40 for unlimited with no contract (they explicitly say you can sign up when you need it, cancel when you don't) is a good price.
Tips to get seed funding and support 1/6: The idea
> The computing world is shifting into the age of mobile, and iOS is now seen as Apple’s major operating system. Perhaps OS X Lion will represent the beginning of a unification between OS X and iOS. And if Apple is giving it the Lion moniker, which they won’t be able to top, perhaps they mean this to be last version of OS X? (Though they do say “next” version of Mac OS X and not “last”.)

It seems that it would be fundamentally stupid for Apple to try and merge OS X and iOS. They are operating systems that target different types of devices with wildly methods of user interaction.

Do people really see the iPhone and Mac being equivalent devices so soon? Or is this TechCrunch article just full of shit?
Memory Efficient Java [pdf]
This should be required reading for anyone programming Java. It's simultaneously fascinating and horrifying.
Yes, and it's better than what you describe. For example, I only typed "delic" and it found your post instantly, since it actually does a search on the full text of pages in the history.
Sometimes, it is more important to have the right problem than the best solution.

Perhaps unwittingly, this statement fits C++ perfectly. It's popular to criticize C++'s design, but it solves the right problem for a lot of people, and that is why it's still very widely used.
Those are all variables though.

A well written piece of software would have those as presets that you could choose from a long long list of makes, models and engine codes.

Personalize the ecu to the car and you'd have an adapter problem left to deal with.

(voltage levels and pinout).
> at least, not overtly, the way an empire would

Not overtly ? Must have slept through shock and awe.

EDIT: if I were to compare the invasion of Iraq to anything it would be the Spanish-American War and the subsequent invasion and occupation of the Philippines (Kipling's "White Man's Burden" was written as a warning to the Americans). A spurious "cause" whipped up by media frenzy, followed by a long guerilla war much criticised at home and abroad.
Most of these parameters are not even part of the ECU's firmware, but field-modifiable configuration even in original ECUs.
We have a script that tars up projects or specific files and uploads them and puts them in place, but lately we've been moving towards plain svn.

If it were up to me, it'd be git, with separate branches for production and beta for easy merging.
This is a really interesting discussion that only touches on ivy, maven etc. at the very end. There are some good ideas for ways to keep a project relevant and increasing adoption. Notably the call for more non-LinkedIn committers that is brought up in the original post and addressed somewhere in the middle.
I wish they would include voice recognition for keyboard shortcuts or commands.

There are so many occasions I wish it's there.
You could set up an alternate id and follow everybody they're following.
Yeah, but the Commonwealth Games was just on in India, how do you explain that if there aren't good relations?
Setting up Rails 3 with jQuery
This was to work across sites, allowing you to click links with abandon without breaking up the group.
My first ever DVCS was Mercurial, using it on both Windows and Mac. I recently (last two months or so) switched to git, to try it, and due to what seemed to me overwhelming use for the projects I saw across the web.

But, git felt weird. I don't know how to explain it other than that, but reading Python's decision to go with Mercurial just seemed to reinforce that to me. So I've switched back.
I think 1 - 4 were what really kickstarted Chrome. Everyone else was focused on how many milliseconds difference between their rendering and js vs. the next guys, when Google shaved whole seconds off something that really matters.
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So why can't we get more films shot with awesome matte backgrounds like that anymore? Is it really that much cheaper to do a background via CGI than to have it painted?
There was a TED talk that touched on this. There would have been a different set of expectations if the invasion plan originally called for 4 or 5 decades of occupation. The armed forces for invasion consisting of trigger happy 18 year olds would be separate from the occupying force full of lifers, 40 year old beat cops from NYC who planned to live in Iraq for a decade.
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Perhaps for debugging reading code isn't that useful. But when determining whether a certain feature is or isn't supported, if Google comes up empty reading the code seems like the natural choice.
Sunspider is a particularly bad benchmark: Virtually all of the components are heavily weighted by string concatenation.

http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/String_Concatenation_and_Immuta...
Wow. I, too, own a Virgin Mobile MiFi 2200 (also purchased from BestBuy).

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband/

I purchased a unit about 4 months ago. Thank you scottw for the info.

When I purchased the unit, there was no umlimited option. The most you could purchase was 5GB at a time. If you did not use all 5GB, tough luck, it would not rollover, expiring after 30 days.

So, $40/month, unlimited is quite impressive WITH NO CONTRACT.

Also the Mifi 2200 supports multiple devices simultaneously, so you can use your iPad and your girlfriend can use her MBP.

Rather interesting, considering Verizon charges an additional monthly fee for their smartphones to bridge via wifi (even if you already pay for a smartphone data plan).

This is also one of the few devices/services that can provide internet access using only cash (no cc associated with the account).

I highly recommend the Mifi2200.
For home users, maybe true. Though I'd imagine many home users of Excel would be better served by Google Docs.

But it's a massive number of business users. Everyone at my company relies on at least one spreadsheet that has macros or complex pivot tables. It's a bit scary how much critical data is moving through Excel in the typical business. My understanding is that Wall Street relies pretty much runs on Excel.
WTFark.com
I wrote this up when I was dealing with the same issue a few months back - a simple deploy script for PHP applications using git: http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/02/01/simple-deplo...
An update from Balsamiq-land
I didn't start programming until Google was in full swing - what I'd like to know is how much Google search 'changed the game' for learning programming languages. If you know the basic principles of programming then you can always just search for 'how do I _____ in ______' and get your answer quickly. Before the Google age, I suppose you'd have to read documentation much more thoroughly and build up fluency in order to get anything done. Has Google search and other web resources changed daily programming drastically?
It has only become unlimited recently. It was capped at 5GB/month.

I am still in shock.
Part of the value of HN is networking, and I'd rather people recognize my name. That said, I tend to use my real name everywhere for similar reasons.
I wouldn't call Sculley a former rival. More like a former student who ended up feeling that he had to fire his mentor. I don't think Sculley wanted to do it, but I seem to recall Woz saying in an interview that it was the right thing to do at the time.
At the risk of being seen as a rails douche, my response is that there is a strong culture in ruby and rails on authoring styles so it is not as painful. Beyond that, I am not saying that 100% of your problems are solved just looking at code. What I was trying to point out is that reading code is important and often times the answer. Google should not be your own tool. Hope that clarifies! :)
If the same results are obtained using different code (or subjects/animals/chemical batches) does it matter as long as the code is doing the same things?

I get the impression that software types are inclined to put way too much significance on the source code. I'm not surprised the author of the linked item in Nature is a software engineer.

I wonder, did scientists in the 1930s publish their scratchpads full of calculations?
ftp a tarball then untar, or rsync.
Why aren't you saying what company it is?

What do you think you gain by keeping it secret?
I use git, with three levels, dev (active development), stage (current stable version), and production. All three have different branches. Then I have a bash script that configures them accordingly.
I knew the risks I was taking, but I took them anyway. I thought a pre-built, pre-ranking website would be a sweet offer, but I was off.
A coworker and I were just talking about this, and we decided that it was probably due to the fact that a lot of documentation in Java and .NET is auto generated based on the code comments, which are highly standardized and strictly enforced. Most languages have tools for generating documentation based on code comments, but in Java and .NET you usually end up with a lot of "Here's the signature of the constructor for this class, and here's a list of methods and members." It's lame, and often pretty useless.
We use Trunks (http://www.trunksapp.com) to host our SVN repos, then have post-commit hook fire an HTTP request to the production staging server to check out the latest revision.

We manually initiate an export from the live server, although we likely will look in the commit message for a keyword (like [live]) and initiate from there.
For Eventbrite, Each Facebook Share Is Worth $2.52
I remember watching Empire Strikes Back in a theater and being very disappointed -- I thought they should have flashed To Be Continued at the end -- I had to wait 3 years for the next episode.
I switch between daniel-cussen (real name) and a single, old account that I made to say things anonymously. Then I sometimes use throwaway accounts.
A reason not to start marketing right away:

- You may pick the wrong people to market to and they convince you to abandon your project

While this may save you some time, the people may just have convinced you to stop work on a valuable product.

Even though I've done a couple projects that haven't gone anywhere, the fact that I have completed them in a working and useful state has greatly helped me get interviews and led to higher paying work.
Ocelot. I want to see this code!
Retrofitting this might prove challenging, because many motors do not have crankshaft position sensor and instead only rotation sensor and ECU interpolates actual crankshaft position while motor is running. Also you probably need individual control of spark plugs, which also often is not the case (for example they might be connected in pairs to save cost of individual inverters).
Another aspect: People who don't dig into their libraries are much less likely to submit patches fixing minor issues they find. Quick digging through the source tells me a lot about a library - whether or not it can do something, if it's a horrible mess and should not be trusted in the first place, etc.

"Less google! More grep!"
Have you found it shuts down periodically? I was tethered to it all day yesterday (plugged in to the wall and not plugged in), and about halfway through the day it started disconnecting from the WWAN every 30 minutes or so. The "Connect" button in the Web UI didn't reconnect, but powering off and back on fixed it every time.

I wonder if I got a bum hardware or if there's something else going on.
Same here, although I wonder if people will know what an idiot I am when they read my reddit comments.
Yeah, but a lot of that 'knowledge' was noise, just-so stories, myths, coincidences, best guesses, fanciful explanations, etc.
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I wonder if the the biggest aid to OO adoption will be the new interface in Office 2007? OO basically clones the old Office menu-driven interface for everything, which I find easier to navigate by drilling down in context to find things. Switching to OO avoids the need to relearn how to use an office suite.
Yes, the forums' website is down. Here is the google cache [2]. The link [1] entitled "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M on Lenovo Thinkpad T510: NVIDIA Backlight Control Causes Buzz" is the first result in the search for "t510 backlight" [3].

The issue has also made it to Canonical's launchpad [4]. The link [1] is mentioned in comment #27 [5].

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4dJW3r_...

[3] http://www.google.com/search?q=t510+backlight

[4] Bug #562005: Backlight controls of laptops with NVIDIA NVS and Quadro FX 880M GPUs no longer function while using proprietary drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-dr...

[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-dr...
If you assume Japanese Americans are average for Asian Americans, the actual number is $65,000 (see my link).

In any case, I agree with you. Income is a major effect, although it's far from clear that this is due to income buying health care. In fact, most of the evidence suggests health care has nothing to do with it. For instance, during the RAND experiment, richer people were healthier than the poor regardless of which category they were randomly dropped into. (Observational studies since then draw less clear conclusions, since observational studies are crappy in comparison to randomized experiments.)

Another fun fact. The shortest lived people in the US are the Lakota, who live 35 years less than Japanese Americans (not a typo, life expectancy = 50). This group gets free health care via IHS (I believe it is structured similarly to Britains NHS), so it seems that there are other factors at work.

Huh, imagine that. Life expectancy is, in fact, not a great measure of health care, since it is affected by so many other factors.
Protecting asp.net machine keys and connection strings
A lot of people say that ideas have no value yet never share any of their own.

It's really nice to see someone practice what they preach.
India is doing better now, but let's not forget the human cost of the partition of the subcontinent, and the decades of poverty that followed. Much of which could be attributed to failures of India, but recent success can hardly be attributed to British rule.
>After that, you just see... us being steady.

It's interesting to see this stated now, right as Google is moving forward with automated cars. Once all highway traffic is automated we can push to much higher speeds safely (and drive much closer to each other).
They can track almost anything, but require somebody to manually create the project and "enlist" it's source repositories. And because often the person who created the Ohloh project has almost nothing to do with original project these data tend to get stale.
Interesting. I have never heard of this technique. I prefer working in 3 x 45 mins blocks. At 25 mins, I'm just getting into things.
Reddit Q&A with the guy behind "Plan 28"; building Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Guilty as charged. As a self-taught code tinkerer, Googling has become a major crutch, and I've found time and time again that Google just doesn't have basic answers that learning how to quickly scan the actual code can provide.

"Here is hoping this article lights some peeps on fire instead of lighting a fire for them."

Definitely a good fire to start.
There are a bunch of fun articles for those who have seen The Social Network. Like this one about FaceMash, which was quoted in the movie:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...

And some comments from Slashdot when Zuckerberg was in high school:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61425&threshold=1...
Not in my userid (which I've had since I was 8...weird) but it's present in my profile. The poll is ambiguous if you meant "Is your user ID your name" or if you meant "Is your name associated with your account?"
They may not unit test it, in the software development sense, but they probably hand-check a new bit of calculation code on a few data points before setting it loose on a whole data set.
For motors without an encoder it would be difficult, that's true.

As for the spark plugs, that's true, but usually the injector rails are 'crossed' from the spark plugs so only one cylinder will actually fire.
Git or rsync
Beanstalk Hosted SVN/GIT has deployment tools. I haven't used them as I do my pulls manually.
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Maybe someone runs a website that can provide back linking?
Any kind of feedback on how to spread the word about this website is appreciated.<p>So far we are doing adwords , search engine submissions and social bookmarking.<p>Thanks
Possibly not, but shopping there is still perpetuating the sweatshop system. Why not buy a laptop made in Taiwan or South Korea where the people are free?
Touching your display is a horrible idea (I wonder how those new windows machines that do this are selling) [1], but the trackpad on the MBP is the thing that finally made me buy one.

[1] Imagine working whole day having to hold your arms up to operate the mouse cursor. My arm hurts just thinking about it.
Clickable: http://www.wtfark.com
Sorry, but if the library doesn't provide documentation as to the functionality it provides that can be indexed by Google, I'm not using it. I don't have time to go through code-bases with differing organizations, styles, and sometimes multiple languages and layers just to find out if it has feature x and how to configure it.

I agree with the side-benefits of reading code, but accessing the strength of the library is more efficiently done by its documentation and community and not directly by source.
I'm not sure it was Google as much as the web in general (+Google). When I started coding in the mid 90's, if there was a topic I wanted to learn about, I needed to find a book about it. From there, I could walk though the book, skip the parts I already knew, and after reading the examples in the book, I'd have a pretty good idea and I could go off and write my code.

Doing this, I accumulated a pretty large collection of (mainly O'Reilly) books.

Now, you just do a Google search for a topic, and you're flooded with examples and people explaining how to do X in Y. My book collection stopped growing in about 2003.

That's not even covering error messages and APIs... being able to Google a specific error message is wonderful. And I couldn't imagine coding again without immediate access to the language APIs online.
Relations with many former colonies are good now. That doesn't mean they always were.
"Just as with the popular website Friendster, which Zuckerberg said was a model for his new website..."

Good thing he nabbed those Friendster patents.

http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/facebook-buys-friendster-patent...
I have the Virgin MiFi in NYC, and the service here is terrible.

The connection from the MiFi to 3G drops every 20 minutes or so, and the connection from the iPad/MacBook to the MiFi drops 2-3 times a day. The latter means I need to reboot the device and re-enter my admin details 2-3 times a day. When it does work, the connection is so slow I cannot watch YouTube videos or stay connected to any chat service. The badness seems tied to the time of day. I can sometimes get stuff done early in the morning on Saturday and Sunday. Any other time of the week it's mostly unusable.

If the MiFi still seems like a good deal to you (maybe it works fine outside of NYC), please contact me in my profile, I'll sell you mine for 50 bucks.
It's amazing to see how some of these have been accepted as conventional wisdom in startups while others seem to be completely rejected by startups.

In particular, the whole perfectionism thing seems to be pretty much rejected. Most startups would say that it's better just to get something launched. I'm definitely not saying that's wrong. Just saying that it's interesting to hear another point of view.
Your identity is all that can identify you. So, it's more than just your name. Your profile counts as your identity.
I've seen that happen before.
Maybe your code is too complicated?

I suppose the ultimate goal is too keep one's code clean and simple enough that one does have to go into super brain mode in order to solve a problem. Sadly we don't live in an ideal world.
That's called "monopoly rent". Normally competition drives prices down, but wireless data provision is an expensive and legally difficult business to get into.

Is anybody selling 3G data for appreciably less? AT&T iPad rates are $15 for 250MB, $25 for 2GB.
I find reading job adverts makes me feel empty inside, seriously. It's like an infinite regression of pre-emptive bullshitting.
Aren't all laptops made in "sweatshops"?

Also, there are plenty of activists talking about worker rights but few talking about software freedom, so RMS is probably better off doing what he's doing.
bash script checks out SVN code, then uses a configuration file to build bundles of JS and CSS files using YUI-compressor, and add query string timestamps to CSS images for cache busting. After all that, the code is rsync'd to various web servers
The job is more about working on cool things than shipping products.

Sounds awesome :)
Yeah I was hoping for MAYBE, and then if it ever gets quicker than chrome a YES!
Parkinson's Law - work expands (or contracts) to fill the time available for its completion.

When I was teaching English, for one class, I gave groups a human-slide puzzle activity. A group of 8 were given a number from 1-8 and arranged randomly on 9 numbered squares. They were to re-arrange themselves in order by moving one person at a time to the empty square.

The last group to complete it was having a really tough time and kept complaining to me that they couldn't do it. After all the other groups had finished I announced they had 5 minutes left. They completed it just before the time was up.
... this is one of those similar reasons. Keeps me from saying anything too off-color, repeating silly memes, and other such foolishness...
So your full name is "StavrosK"?
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If a scientist says their results have a certain p-value, they don't need to release the source code for how they obtained that p-value, for another scientist to be able to tell if the p-value is incorrect given the data.

A lot of code is going to be like that: applying known functions that can be identified by name. If a paper says it used an FFT on some data, there are plenty of well-tested FFT implementations that can be used by another researcher to try to replicate the original result. The original researcher's FFT code, if any, isn't really necessary as long as the function, the inputs, and the outputs are well-documented.
It's hardly anti-consumer. For the price of a 3G iPad, you get an equivalent Wi-Fi only iPad and a MiFi that all your other devices can use. I would have bought this in a heartbeat over my 3G if it had been available in April.
I used to participate using a recognizable name for networking reasons. But I was self-censoring myself too much, since I don't agree with lots of HN's groupthink. So I switched to an anon handle.
Better advice is, "if Google doesn't find it, don't stop there".