skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be very interested in this domain for a tutorial site for new developers. I have several domains I'd be willing to exchange, or we can work out something. Shoot me an email if you're interested, my email is in my profile.

Thanks
...reword: some way to quickly perceive each entry's change from the previous time step. Maybe color?

Separate the requirement from the solution.
Great for those videos you took on vacation last year -- with the girlfriend that didn't work out. Now she's not there any more.

I would imagine the next logical step (assuming people removal works, it was not demonstrated) would be to _add_ people to videos in realtime. Uncle Joe dead? No problem. We'll just take those videos that we had of him last Christmas and put him in our videos from this year.

While the tech is nowhere being new, the real-time nature of this really makes you think about the possibilities.
Good ideas! I just grabbed the Twitter account and Facebook page for my latest project. I hadn't thought of those.

Finding a domain that's available at any price seems harder to do these days. Squatters are just sitting now, waiting it out or waiting for a crazy offer they can't refuse.
I don't know if there's a consensus on using ellipsis in today's communication but it really, really annoys me.
Nobody anywhere speaks about MPR, though, and if people did, we'd be used to the typical MPR ranges that a reasonable loan actually falls into. A 462% APR isn't staggering because it's "462" in isolation, it's because it's 462 compared with numbers like 30 (credit card) and 5 (mortgages).

ZestCash loans are marketed and scheduled for 2 month to 6 month terms, and that APR percentage includes a 30% origination fee that's about double the typically origination fee of most payday loan companies.
Top Gear did a series of experiments a few years back to find out how indestructible the Hilux really is: http://goo.gl/WI7l

See for yourselves.
Maybe they'd get more stuff done then?
I think this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794576 discussion might have sparked the post.
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The Mac I have is in the living room for family use so I have not "worked" a lot on it. I didn't use much of the default tools and relied more on macports for unix stuff. I was asking because I am considering a Mac to replace the windows laptop with cygwin I use for dev. I use Linux for servers but I am from the world of Solaris I also had HP and Irix workstations at different jobs in the past and a NeXT at home.

I know the defaults are all Linux oriented these days so any different flavor of unix is always a little extra work if the filesystem differs to much. Macports also adds a little twist to that.

I found launchd verbose (and the xml is not even that self descriptive) and I am not sure its worth the departure from the usual way of doing things but I didn't think it was so bad. I only did a few simple things anyway.

These seem like things I don't rely on too much on a dev laptop anyway. But I now believe I have to investigate a bit more before I buy the new machine. Thanks
I saw a post in Reddit doing frontpage snapshot yesterday http://redditsnapshot.sweyla.com/ and thought to myself, this is pretty cool; I should make one for HN. Today someone already has done it. Congrat.
I'm not disagreeing with the argument of OP, just the language.

Isn't your comment a general indictment of American democracy in general? Why have an elected congress making policies then?
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I've always gotten the impression that Afghan rebels, unless they're explicitly Al Qaeda (in which case they're not usually from Afghanistan), are more nationalists than Islamists.
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Any stats on usage? How many concurrent users / messages per second?
Google dominates with the tech-minded public and in-the-know businesses. Having said that, and being in a related business that sells to finance departments, I can tell you that a lot of the companies in the market for this type of product haven't heard of Google Spreadsheets (yes, really).

Now the challenge for Hypernumbers is going to be getting awareness. A lot of the target market isn't going to actively look for a product like this, so you have to find ways of getting your name out there, i.e., buying mailing lists and even doing snail mail campaigns. It's an uphill battle, but if they can tell the right story to their prospective customers, it can be an easy sell.
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> Wait, you want the OS to do memory allocation of individual variables and garbage collection?

Almost, if not outright yes. Current OS'es already do manage memory in some ways, so they could as well do more work, so you don't have to re-invent that wheel every time you write a new compiler. Having a full blown virtual machine as an OS actually sound very promising : you can for instance migrate from X86 to ARM transparently, re-compiling nothing but the kernel. You can reduce hardware support for fancy features, simplifying it.

Now, a good enough compromise could be a layer of compatibility for a garbage collected language. And we already have plenty of these.

> The API are written for the _hardware_.

You got that backwards. The API is written for humans to use the hardware. If the hardware is complex and quirky, it's the job of the API to make it simple and straightforward. It's nice and all to go low level, but at the end of the day you have to get things done. You sound like you need every last drop of performance out of your CPU. When you really do, then you may want to do your work in kernel space with no runtime check at all. But most of the time, you don't.

To sum up, an OS written in C will most likely have a C-like API (I note that you didn't disagree with that). There's still the high-level vs low-level debate, but it basically has the same structure as the GPL vs BSD debate. I prefer high-level and GPL, on the grounds that they eventually enable more. You seem to prefer low level (and BSD?), on the grounds that they permit more (which is not the same at all). We could go on, but if we actually disagree on that point, I don't know how we could convince each other.
- lowimpact.com and noimpact.com (10k)… wanted to do a green blog.

UGH. Now I hate him even more.
How is it 5-6 "good" answers? You get 10 rep per up vote. I'd imagine any "good" answer would get at least 1 vote, so I would say 2 answers, 3 at max.

If they aren't willing to answer or ask a question to use a chat room structured around answering and asking questions, I think I'm okay with the situation.
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I always assumed it was a T100.
I had the same thought (as you can tell!) and thought that after the whole *Instant fad, I should quickly whip something up since I had a few spare hours ;-)

I'm a little perturbed by the whole "whip something out in a few hours" craze of late but have adopted a "if you can't beat em, join em" approach for the moment.
I think it's a great project, but I've got different taste in editors than that person.

I would love to have an Emacs-like editor (scriptable, multiple buffers, no GUI or menus) that 1. used Lua instead of elisp, and 2. had a vi-style modal keyboard interface rather than primarily chorded keys. Oh, and not being tied to GTK is nice - I like being able to use Emacs in shells, from screen/tmux, etc.

One of these days I might give in and write one, but I've already got too many projects going.
Looks like he thought buying expensive domains would make everything else a lot easier. It's like that time when i thought i needed a comfier desk chair and a better laptop to start building a web app, but i was really just postponing the parts that were hard to do. Procrastination in disguise.
They would have given the contract to BAe who have delivered them 10years late for 100x the cost and they wouldn't have any keys.
You must have a strange definition of "good" or only answer questions about the most obscure topics imaginable (more obscure than, say, the practical applications of functional zippers). Your numbers would require an average of 0.3 upvotes per good answer and they assume that not a single answer is accepted. If you average one upvote per answer, two would be sufficient. If an answer is accepted, that automatically puts you over 20 rep.
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What I find funny is how in the beginning Jeff Atwood resisted all of these "social" features like discussion sites and official chat channels because it was all about asking and answering questions. And he wanted to build a community around that. What he didn't realize is that a community is defined by those "social" features. Experts Exchange doesn't have a community because they don't foster the social aspect of the experience.

At least Jeff realizes that to build a community, you need to let the community engage itself and has eased up on his "no social features" stance.
Tab completion in the shell makes things even better. I would say simply "check out IPython" but let's say you want to stick with IDLE, you can still get things nice like this:

1. Put this in your user shell RC:

export PYTHONSTARTUP="~/pycode/pythonrc.py"

2. Put this in pythonrc.py

import readline, rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
The best way to use it would be to ask a question, and paste the link to the question in the relevant chat room. You dont "have to" paste the link as it shows up part of feeds in the chat room anyway(if you tagged the question correctly), but pasting the link and talking about it would probably get you a quicker response.
You should include a link to your site from the blog. I was borderline interested in the product, wanted to see what it was about and went hunting for a link and then became uninterested after I couldn't find one.

I think this was just discussed on HN too. There may be better input on that thread.
You don't sound overly confident about it, and simply from that I'd have to lean towards "no".

I'm not sure about the technicalities, but can't you start some sort of partnership/consortium situation where you can bid for (and work on) larger jobs as a singular unit?
Speaking from the perspective of a Finance department (small or large), this product's competitor is Excel. Google spreadsheets is not really a direct competitor.

Most finance departments use less than 20% of Excel's functionality. Where they waste the most person hour cycles is syncing data in spreadsheets and recreating formulas that got blown away by someone who emailed back the spreadsheet.

From a Finance department perspective, the hard part is getting their attention. The pricing seems reasonable, compared to the stuff in my world, i.e. Cognos, Hyperion, etc. but Finance departments can be weird about money. They're ok wasting person hours that are worth more than the cost of software that will pay itself off quickly.

I think this is an interesting product, but the challenge for it as a business is more of a marketing problem than a technical problem.
No, I'm not saying that. In practice, AFAIK no spambot has ever acquired more than 2 rep. Spam is flagged really fast, and it's also downvoted at an astonishing rate. I imagine it would be possible for a spambot to thwart the system, but it would be pretty hard, actually. It would require a much greater degree of agility and coordination than spambots tend to have.

For perspective, it would be far easier to spam the front page of Hacker News, and yet most people agree that HN's system works pretty well.
Does anybody know how these bots perform against humans players? This seems to be early enough in its infancy that I would expect humans to outperform computer players pretty significantly but I might have too much faith in my own race.
frugality helper I like this idea. It could be something along the list of EpicWin (http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/). Do you happen to have this idea worked our further.
Thanks for the interest folks!

As mhill notes, the inspiration for this was http://redditsnapshot.sweyla.com/ but I decided to go with sliding through hours rather than days due to the lack of data. I quickly realized, though, that even having the last 48 hours or so would be useful to me in order to "catch up" with items that pass too quickly from the front page overnight/etc.

Several people have suggested adding colors or other notifications of "new" items appearing over time, movements up and down, etc, and I'm adding some stuff to track that and will add CSS classes to signify those events.

I'm also planning to upload the code to GitHub once I clean up a horrible tab mismatch disaster that befouled it..

For anyone who cares about such things, it's currently a Ruby based "crawler" that runs once a hour and saves the items into JSON files which the then almost-pure-JavaScript page loads as you use the "selectToUISlider" control built by Filament Group, see http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_jquery_ui_slider_fro...
Poll: Do you click on online advertising?
I never click ads, and I am not aware of those in my direct environment ever clicking them. And yet, going by google adsense reports and other advertisers it seems that some people actually do click ads. Do you click ads ?
only to specifically reward a site
only if the ad is really interesting
with some regularity (at least once per week)
all the time (every day)
What does the Martingale system have to do with believing that you will keep getting what you got?
The demo is pretty clunky w/ all the views in separate frames, and I'd prefer a full working demo w/o entering an email address. It doesn't concisely make clear what it is & how it's different from other offerings, like others mentioned. A point-by-point comparison vs Google Docs might help. Or emphasizing that the direction you're taking it and the way you're asking for user feedback is just completely different from the way Google would ever do things. Hard to do w/o negative messaging but currently doesn't leave one feeling confident that it's a great idea to start using it as a collaboration tool on a serious project.
I click on "premium" ads sometimes. Like The Deck and the ads on SO.
Agreed. SoCs are also typically built for specific applications, different than the general purpose CPUs that article is mostly focusing on.

I would also say that forced is a bit strong. SoCs are a good solution when (1) you have a very specific task and (2) can justify/afford the cost for a specialized chip.
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Two upvotes or one accepted answer is enough. You don't get 1 karma per upvote as on HN.
Has that sensor been tested in winter conditions? I know my power meter usually ends up having a foot of snow on it for most of the winter.
The last Mr. Co-founder I had was a sham for the very reasons mentioned here. All talk, very little output with a side of excuses at every sit-down. I was too young and naive at the time to realize what we had was less of a partnership and more of an "I'll treat you like someone I found on canYOUbuildthisforme.com." Definitely a good thing to not be impressed by talk. Not every person who can administer a server can write code to run on that server. Wish I'd known that back then. Lessons learned. :)
Mobile sites. Not just mini versions of websites. Javascript in Freckle.
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FWIW, that rep-to-answer ratio is far from my experience; though I don't know the site-wide average, and I mostly posted over a year ago.

I'm not saying it's not too much of a hassle -- of course that's up to you.
Startup School: Enjoy a great day
This will be the first start up school that I won't be attending in person. I will be watching it on justin.tv and that's just fine.

This year I will be starting an online business for real. My cofounder will be attending start up school for the first time on Saturday.

I want to thank Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and everyone who makes this fantastic event possible. It has been an unbelievable opportunity to hear the thoughts and insights of the giants of the tech industry. And it's not just the speakers; it's also the audience and the general mood that for me makes the day so memorable.

To everyone attending start up school for the first time, you are in for a real treat!
So if you're new and want to use this chat you have to:

* Log in.

* Find a question that you can answer, or post one.

* Wait and hope you get some points.

In the same amount of time you could have already hopped on IRC and received an answer.
I click ads on Google for 2 reasons:

1) If I feel the thing is a scam, I'm costing them money
2) to comparison shop...I figure if someone buys ads for a keyword, then they are somewhat relevant...so it gives me 4-5 companies to start my search with(obviously I also check out organic search results)
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The animations are insufferable. Why does everything have to fade and squish and move?
So is being on the top of a building being imploded really that bad? It's a free fall for most of it, but the impact is cushioned a bit by the layers below you collapsing when they hit the ground. And there is not much debris that will hit you if you are on the top.

If they had parked it at the base, it would probably be flat.
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(and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame)

Sure - it only started to collect data about 10 hours ago but that's certainly the plan.. though I've realized it's already useful for me to catch up with HN while I was asleep.

Regarding animation, thanks for the idea. I'm really just a JavaScript "dabbler" but I'll have a think about how it could be done. Rather than just rendering a JSON file into HTML it seems I'd need to start storing the data as it comes in and perform manipulations as necessary. This might be a bit too much for me for a quick project but I'm open sourcing the code so it could happen.
The article seems to imply that optimizing for power means Intel isn't innovating in CPUs. Optimizations in power allow the chip to be clocked faster (or perform more in parallel) leading to overall performance improvements. These optimizations are improvements in CPUs.
Reminds me of P.A. Semi, the embedded PowerPC design company bought by Apple in 2008. Obviously Apple had no intention of using PPC anymore, so their product was discontinued.

P.A. Semi had 150 engineers, and Apple paid $278 million for the company. That's about $1.85MM per head. Seems to match the Powerset story pretty well!
because, y'know, why would anybody ever consider a female co-founder?

it's a very good article, but i sure wish he had picked a different title.
I have 21 rep with 1 answer and 1 question....
I'm always using google spreadsheets for this sort of rudimentary team accounting so I was interested to check out the video.

To be entirely honest, I'm not sure what you're offering that google spreadsheets isn't.

EDIT: I didn't even post that first part of my comment yet, but that is how long it took me to find your demo.

Honestly, this is very nicely executed. Please make the demo VISIBLE. Neither the video not the copy on the landing page showed me how this actually works.
You can click out of the frames to a full working demo without an email.

I am optimizing for communication with potential users not conversion to paying customers at this point in time.

All the testing we have done shows that people only 'get' it when they see the three views together.

The direction that we are going in is a spreadsheet that supports team collaboration - is that too vague or is it not coming across clearly enough?
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Artic Trucks are busy building an awesome six wheeled variant of the Toyota Hilux which will be driving to the South Pole in December 2010 as part of the support team for a ski race. It sports 44 inch tires and a 400l fuel tank.

http://www.arctictrucks.com/pages/4701
Wouldn't a constant, distinguishable color per article work better with visual perception? Generating the color using a function on the title itself would seem nice, simple solution to test.
I think you're not considering the possibility that this chat is specifically for the Stack Overflow community, not for people who have no interest whatsoever in Stack Overflow. Your complaint is like saying, "HN wants me to register to comment? Screw that noise, I'll just hop on IRC and comment there!" You're perfectly welcome to do that — but you still have to register to comment on HN. Different communities have different and often somewhat arbitrary standards.
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Pretty awesome tips. I don't necessarily agree with the uppercase suggestion, though. If you strip the color from Google's logo the font isn't as identifiable as Twitter or Facebook (both of which are lowercase) so the combination of colors and capitalization of the first letter makes it stand out. Amazon's logo is all lowercase so I don't know if his example is 100% accurate.

The logo I made for Joystickers is all in lowercase precisely because it stands out. Had I used a capital J, it would have looked pretty plain. The lowercase j along with some GIMP magic make it a little more interesting.
FretWars.com by @zedshaw partly does what you say. Great resource, but mostly for guitarists.
I have suspected "product placement" in his books before. Volkswagen Phaeton's seemed a bit overly prominent in "Spook Country".
Nobody walks into an IKEA and says "Hey guys, I've never used furniture before, what should I buy?" and unlike furniture, some languages are easier to use than others and are more likely to fit with what you discover later you'd like to do.

I also can't imagine ever recommending anyone learns to program in Javascript.
As a .net developer, desperately trying to move away from the MS stack, I was hoping this was going to be someone asking Ballmer why people creating startups should choose the MS stack over the open source, or really any other, route.

I would find that a much more interesting question.

Though I'm not sure Ballmer would be qualified to answer it, and maybe he doesn't even care.
Once in a while, I write my blogs using "she" for the entrepreneur. That's how I try to balance things out.

If you know of a non-pedantic way to write and be gender neutral, I'm interested. "He/she" is really annoying to read. I sometimes use "their" as a replacement for "his or her", although it's not grammatically correct. Any better ideas?

Maybe a legal disclaimer at the end of the blog stating that any use of "he" can be replaced by "she" (kind of like a a great constitutional amendment to pass).

PS: note that the use of "Mr. Right" seems to imply that the original founder is a woman, so that startup would be 50/50, not bad considering today's reality.
The big orange button isn't visible enough? Is it the text 'Free Trial' that is the problem?
I'm not saying you can't use the in-video text, but the keyboard clicking nearly made me turn the video off, not just the noise.
Isn't data security also going to be a problem with Finance departments? Surely they don't want to put their sensitive data on a third party server?
Wow looking at the ranking page here http://www.wattvision.com/rankings Mark's House use about 10 times energy as comparable size homes. Is it a house or an open air furnace?
IMHO the real reason is CPUs and manufacturing technologies have become extremely complex. So although there are known, simple ways to address the heat dissipation it takes a lot of time to implement them.
I think he could maybe use 20.com to sell items that cost just twenty bucks. Divided up into categories, such as Home, Office, Computer, Books, Jokey items, it might make a good place to visit to buy birthday or Christmas presents, etc. Or maybe it would just offer web services that cost $20/month or $20/year.