skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently use a pre-unibody 2.4ghz mbp 15"(love the keys) and when seeing the slimness and form of the newer Mbps, I'd really consider getting the 17" ! The tradeoffs seem worth it! I'm waiting till this one kicks it..
Lucky! I wish game development was like this. :(
Actually it's not difficult to set off with the handbrake on at all.... That's why so many people do it accidentally. You do feel it though.
I don't see why not. I use a Lenovo x201 as my main machine with zero issues.
I've been using a last-revision 2.13 Ghz Air (SSD) as my dev box and only computer for a year and a half. I love it. It's the best mac I've ever had (and my 10th since 1992). I do a fair amount of graphics work as well as code, and it's suitable for that - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You can't walk into a Costco or Sam's Club without seeing labels I designed on my Air. And for coding, it's a dream. The ONLY reason I'd be a bit averse to getting the new one is it's no faster than mine; with the SSD, "2Gb" of RAM is really never a limit since the drive is basically lightning fast anyway; and the new one doesn't have a backlit keyboard, which is bad because I don't stop coding when it gets dark.

I'm an expatriate and live on the road; I'm literally never anywhere without my laptop, not even for five minutes, so the weight and form factors are critical. And I don't use my computer for entertainment, and don't care about having a DVD drive, etc. I do all my development with Flex, Dreamweaver, Dashcode and a LAMP stack, so my needs may not match those of desktop app devs. But for me it's really been ideal.
http://github.com/rconradharris/reallyslowsite.com/blob/mast...

One of the "slower than" expressions has an unnecessary "than."
The IDE I use, UNIX, is the best programming tool I've ever used, bar none.
That's a bit weird. Could you please email me at omar.bohsali@gmail.com ? I'll debug this one with you, sorry for the inconvenience.

As for random times, it actually does that a little bit. I pushed most of the timezone code to behind the scenes so that it will automatically figure out your timezone through javascript and then push it server side via ajax. I also put in a random checker in the views that will decide if the user should have their timezone checked.

Given the timezone, it tries to guess your "working hours", i.e. 8am to 6pm your time. It'll send you a set number of random texts throughout each day, that number is set by the message frequency in your profile.

That was one of my biggest concerns. Google calendar sends me a daily email at 5:15am with my calendar in it. That's nice, but I have a hunch that the texts will be less effective if people know that they will come at a set point throughout the day. So that's my rationale for randomizing the delivery time throughout the day.

I have been thinking about dropping in a slider bar to set both the text message frequency, as well as the texting window throughout the day, so I'll definitely be implementing your feature in the near future.
Nobody's going to look at my response at this point, but

github.com/nsp/JSkills

So far it's just a port of Microsoft Research's TrueSkill rating algorithm. Next up is to learn SQL so I can test the accuracy of the algorithm, and once that's done, a web site to allow you to track games with friends (I'll probably end up porting it again to Python or Ruby)
I tried this, but my carrier (Fido, Canada) wanted to charge me money for that.
No publicity is worse than bad publicity, or so they say in the Microsoft world.
This site is slow :)

I don't know Ruby, but how does this work:

get '/', :agent => /curl/ do
(slow_thing, time) = slow_down(DEFAULT_SLEEP)
"SLOWER THAN #{slow_ting}. Putting the brakes on for #{time} seconds.\n"
end

It binds slow_thing and then references it as slow_ting (without the h) in the interpolation? What?

It appears twice so it must be intentional?
Sigh. Why do they pit e-readers against tablets all the time. They're not in the same game. Tablets are multi-purpose entertainment devices. E-Readers are mobile books.

Anyone who to lumps them together has never tried to read an entire book on one of those low-res TFT or Amoled displays.
St Pete is FL or St Pete in Russia? I would be amazed if you got a single room for 2000$ a year in St Pete FL.
are you using twilio or tropo or something else for this?
You all have read this wrong! It says a survey of 5k consumers of multiple devices, which 32% of the questioned people who owned an iPad have never downloaded an app. That's 32% of the iPad owners questioned, not Apple's total units sold. Firstly we don't know what % of the 5k were iPad owners. It could have been 3 then only 1 out of 3 have never downloaded an app. Does not sound so bad now then? ;-)
Beautiful summary of a nice setup indeed. Although, I would run in a virtual environment, don't you think that's a good idea? By the way, Eventlet workers sounds nice - how does that compare to using Twisted for aIO?
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Abandoned desktops are the bigco employee's best friends.
Really well made. Here are a few things that i wanted to share

1. I signed up for the free plan and i am not seeing an option to upgrade to the paid plans.
2. A better word choice for 'Introspections' would be nice
3. Making the 'forgot password' page consistent with the site design would be good. I guess you will be having it on your list.
4. Notifo push notifications would be really awesome!
Why do people have to give their geo coordinates to some creepy service when they could just post "hey, i'm at pizza hut, everybody" on Twitter if the need arises?

Because there is more than one Pizza Hut?
When I was a summer intern at Sun Microsystems in '87, working in building 1 in Mountain View, I turned in a time sheet with more than 8 hours on several days.

HR took me aside and insisted I put down any hours of any day that I worked more than 8 hours as overtime -- at time and a half -- even if other days were less than 8. Yes, insisted!

Well that got me off to a good start, and ruined me for life! Not only did I not have to work 8 hours every day as long as the total was 40 hours per week, the more irregular my hours were, the more money I made! Now I just can't break that habit.

I doubt Oracle treats their summer interns so well.
I think the advantage over yahoo or gmail is that this app texts you at random times throughout the day. If you know that you set a reminder at a certain time during the day, you'll instantly know that you're being reminded when your mobile gets notified. To get around this, I put in some randomization where the app messages you at random points throughout your working day, that way when your mobile buzzes, you don't know right away that it's from Mr. Goal.

You can change the SMS frequency in your profile page under "SMS Frequency". It's a dropdown for now, but I've been doing some testing with a jQuery slider bar.

As for actually achieving your goals, I think that one is more likely to get something done if they are consistently conscious about it. That's the rationale I have for now -- you'll make small adjustments to accomodate your goals. Speaking personally, most of my goals are not things that take years of effort to do; they simply require that I remain consistent and think + act about them often.

There's definitely a lot to be said about the psychology behind reminders. For now, my strategy is to make the service seem as personal as possible without making it seem like it's artificially trying to grab your attention, like a real person would. I think that this blog post does a good job explaining some of the considerations: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/avoiding-the-uncann...
Maybe your comment is better phrased as "The short-term future of space colonisation" (where short-term is 1-1,000 years). I'd hope that our future of space colonisation goes a long way past those 1,000 years.
i had 2 roommates in the same room
sounds at home - although I never was thinking of getting an Air. But you are quite right - for a terminal window who needs more than 11" screen... Is it big enough for browsing? seriously considering that now :)
If your current machine has a magnetic hard drive, even the bottom-end Air will feel incredibly fast by merit of its SSD. Check out how quickly it'll boot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOEi5Kxpt0A#t=3m57s

As has been pointed out, compile speed isn't necessarily CPU-bound and some compilation tasks are quicker on a slow machine with a faster drive. CPU performance is much less important than most people think.

Screen size is a more difficult issue, as so much depends on your development approach. I'm increasingly inclined to think that my large display may actually hinder my productivity, as it seems to facilitate distraction and procrastination. I seem to feel less bad about procrastinating if I have my text editor open. I'm giving very serious thought to replacing my 17" MBP with an 11" Air and a Kindle DX. A lot of writers use a full-screen text editor like WriteRoom, or even a typewriter, so there's a lot to be said for minimalist, low-distraction tools.
Thanks for the tip. So far the texts have been 'clean' - no extra stuff, but I'll keep an eye out for that. The reason I went with them is that you pay $20 for 20000 credits and I thought it was a credit per SMS, but it's actually around 29 credits per message. Another person mentioned twilio- it's the same price but looks like it has some other nice features.
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Canadian scientists protest gag order, go straight to public with own website
The 'cyberstalker' in the article called the woman on the restaurant's telphone, not her telephone. Also, the default privacy settings on Foursquare allow users who aren't your 'friends' to discover when you've checked in somewhere via the 'mayor' and 'who's here' features.
Congrats omarish. I had this exact same idea rattling around in my head a week or two ago. I have recently been thinking that I needed someone to work with as an accountability partner, someone that would keep me on point. Not wanting to burden anyone with that I began thinking of a way to automate it. Your new service looks like it fits that bill. Thanks for executing.
Oops, that's a typo in code that hasn't been deployed yet. Our regression suite missed it ;-)
Yes, both of those. They also often have multiple (dozens of) accounts. Trolling seems to be one of those activities where you really get in the zone, because they seem to have infinite amounts of time and energy.
Omniture is worth it if you are doing at least 10 million UVs a month. Great for the Comscore plugin if you are counting on high volume ad buys.
Ask HN: Anyone using SimpleDB?
http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ With all the other options available, I'd like to hear some stories. What types of things is it good for? Why not just MySQL?
Juan Williams' firing reveals a clash of cultures
Nice concept, I like it. The large images on the homepage though make me scroll/scan more than I should to get the concept. You can probably explain that concept in a much smaller space that's quicker to look at.
Not that I buy into the whole caveman fad, but isn't there evidence that the switch from hunter/gatherer society to agriculture came with a decline in health?
I've been using a previous generation MacBook Air (1.86GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD) for web dev work for 18 months or so. It's great for everything _except_ browser testing in VMWare. The 2GB of RAM just doesn't cut it when I need to fire up Windows to test in IE or, god forbid, the BlackBerry simulator for email testing.
I'm using Twilio. The API just works. Haven't tried Tropo, though.
Also, when they mention "high availability", does that mean it's fast? Or that it doesn't go down? They do mention that from ec2 instances, the speed is "near-LAN", whatever that means in practice.
Ways this could fail:

- breaks are not even across the wheels, he spins and goes right back into the traffic, guy behind falls over after driving the other way into the barrier

- collision affects one of the front wheels of the car behind, that car turns into the traffic - minivan either separates or gets locked due to collision

- engine in minivan stalls after collision, break assist stop working, simply pressing the pedal is not enough to stop both cars

- due to the shape of cars' front and back, the car in the front gets hit and one of the wheels get locked, suddenly breaks; the car in the back has enough kinetic energy to hit and injure passengers sitting in the back

- ... I could go forever

As in other posts above - I don't want to say it was stupid / bad that he tried... It worked, everyone's fine, it's great. But for me, my family in the car is infinitely more important than potential damage that might be caused by an unknown person in an car that's under no control.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely consider that.

--Update---
I switched to smaller icons. It looks somewhat misaligned but it's a good start.
Good call. I will do both right now. Thanks.
It looks to be cheaper than London, too. And salaries, of course, are much higher.
tropo's got an unlimited free dev account. you might want to build something that could abstract the calls to either and switch between them as need be (twilio restructured pricing recently, tropo may do the same, etc).

I did something like this some time ago, before twilio (or at least before I knew of them) and may revisit this basic idea at some point.

good work :)
But native IS better, at least considering:

- faster code (that allows you to implement something more complex or more demanding)

- better interfaces (allows you to have an app that is really "in the spirit" of the platform which does matter).

- significantly easier way for a customer to pay for the app.

Author's arguments for non-native and how I see them:

1) He can have the URL to different settings of the "web app." -- just please explain that to users that they need that and earn the money.

2) "already, and increasingly into the future, you’ll be able to develop with a single code base, and deploy to (ultimately) any platform" -- oh right, and everybody will use exactly the hardware you have, with the same resolution, same input mechanisms and the same controls.

3) "Distribution control: With 'native' apps, you must go through a third party, who owns the platform" -- this is the only significant argument, IMHO.

The third argument is really an important one. In some cases it can be a deciding one. But it alone can't be used as a proof that native apps aren't better in enough real cases, and that there's "a syndrome."
Why don't you use WineBottler and not need to fire up a VM to test in IE? I use it to test against IE6, IE7, IE8
Great question.

In middle-school I set up a shared folder on my school's computer network so my friends and I could share research with each other for a couple school projects.

It was removed by administrators within a couple of weeks, but it was helpful while it lasted.
Learning Python – day five.
I think what really would be helpful is breaking down goals into concrete tasks, which only a human can do or push you to do.

I think technology can facilitate mentors as they ask the questions one needs to answer if one is to translate goals into the actions required to achieve them.
I would think the gates are not airline specific due to flexibility for when things go wrong such as aircraft docking requirements not working. Currently they simply change the gate. Therefore this "Comfortability" issue would need to be a Airport expenditure and would have to be rolled out across the entire airport. Not sure all airports will want their landing rates increased for this reason as not all are on the same rates or sizes / no gates etc. The other problem is the more comfortable the waiting area chairs are the more uncomfortable the aircraft will feel when they eventually board.
As a foreigner unfamiliar with US fraternity culture, may I ask: How does he differ from George W. Bush in that respect?
In my experience with running nagios it's never as easy as set and forget to keep your monitoring system effective. Even more so when you're growing or scaling and systems are changing more regularly. To me that $11,388 per year is cheap compared to the costs of having a salaried employee spending more time on a slower to implement solution.

If you don't have a full time sys admin it's also one of those things that is very easy to put off or delay or just not keep on top of.

As for the data loss I can't think of a time I've ever wanted to see resource statistics for over a year ago and down times and outages are kept in a problem tracking system.
Generally you can look up numbers and figure out what carrier they are. Perhaps someone should build a library to check a number for carrier, and then that could be used to act accordingly. SMTP has to be cheaper than SMS gateways.
Cracking satellites for high speed Internet (Feb 2010)
thanks.

my problem is I can't keep a schedule due to serious sleep problems (it just not worth it). I think randomizing my timetable will help to distribute my tasks so getting them done will be simpler. I'm not sure, but experimenting with such idea sounds great for me
Single input login form
Russia :-)
Thanks for the link to supervisorctl - didn't know that one - and it looks pretty neat! :P
This all looks pretty cheap from my London-oriented eyes. Coming from Ireland, I'm used to the equivalent of sales tax being 21%; the UK having 17.5 seems low. A reserved seat (so you don't have to show up early) in my local cinema (Islington Vue) runs to 17.31 USD according to today's rates, and that's just an ordinary cinema, not IMAX. And of course the other side of the equation is the increased salaries (outside of banks etc. in London, anyhow).
What's crazy is thinking that someone necessarily agrees with the contents of a book she's reading.
"The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead." - first line of the article

He never claimed that desktop Linux itself was dead, just that it would never achieve equivalent market share to Mac/Windows.

You guys are saying the same thing; it's a shame to see the name-calling.
When I use to have to commute from Birmingham to London regularly I would always buy the economy ticket, get on the train in first class tell the attendants I didn't want a meal then go to sleep. Since I was always in a suit with a laptop bag sleeping no one bothered me and first class was always almost empty where economy would have people forced to stand in the areas at the end of the carriages.
I think you're reading too much into it, I wasn't using hyperbole and certainly wasn't painting hunt-and-peck people as cavemen (or women). I was just pointing out that touch typing uses less of the forearm and more finger movement.
That would be a nice hack! Bring it on!
Why would it be “totally retarded”? Our ancestors lived for tens of thousands of years on a similar diet while our own diet changed together with our environment much more radically in the last few thousand or hundred years. Understanding the diet of our ancestors might at least help us understand what we were optimized to eat.

That’s not to say we should eat what our ancestors ate, it’s just a nice starting point when you want to go hunt for the optimal food. Evolution obviously influences what we can eat – lactose tolerance (only a few thousand years old) is the best example of that – and evolution clearly had not yet time to react to our radically changing environment (cookies still taste absolutely delicious and not the least bit awful as they should).
You missed a 1 at the end: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1823521
I've got to disagree with you on Ferriss. The man is an utter fraud.
So I hope you didn't sign, no matter the consequences! :P
That doesn't scale to the rest of the world though. At least here in Australia you're free to port your number to any carrier at any time (I'm on my third carrier with the same number I've had since I was in high school), so you can't use the number on its own to know what network you're sending to. I'm sure this is the same in other countries as well.
If you think the existing solutions suck and you know why they suck and you know how to build something better, by all means go for it.

If you don't really think they suck, or you don't really have an idea about why they suck, or don't really know how to make a better alternative, maybe you should reconsider ..
I've been very happy with Scout (http://scoutapp.com/) for monitoring. It's a nice mix of standard monitoring and a pretty simple plugin system for custom monitoring.

All of the plugins are written in Ruby and the interface for reporting data is pretty simple.

I'm using it for everything from monitoring the KB/s that systems are swapping (and alert if it's anything measurable) as well as custom things like job queue depths.
12-year old researcher finds critical bug in Firefox and gets $3k bug bounty
Ok, that answers my joke below :) Darn, I'd had not even negotiated the first time - nice hack, with 5 months some "real" payment :)
San Fran cheaper than New York? Brooklyn is I think fairly affordable. I live in Brooklyn and pay $1,100 a month for a pretty decent sized studio apartment.

For transport, I buy the unlimited Metro card, which means I pay $90 a month and can then travel as much as I want on both the subway and the bus. I think that is a reasonably good deal - $3 a day for unlimited travel anywhere in the city.
Secure delete with rm on OS X
Stimulants?
Are this the same with other services like Gowalla? Cos anyone can make the jump from Foursquare easily.

Both services can post to Facebook anyways, so if it's for the same reason of telling people where you are, why are people still sticking on Foursquare?
It's not just about resolution as some have pointed out. I like to have Terminal, emacs, XCode, Firefox, Preview for any PDFs all open at once.

That's why I prefer 15/17" + external 22/24" - I would never be able to handle the small 13" just by itself.
linode's library and slicehost's tutorials are great for starters.
Probably the fake mustache won't work either cos you'd be telling all your friends that you got a fake mustache! And we're back to square 1.
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Could be. One of my pie-in-the-sky ideas is a heads-up display in glasses using eye tracking or hand gestures for input. If I ever actually tried to build that, using Android as a base would be the obvious choice.
My favorite part is where they threw it all out, reset to 2003 codebase, and started from scratch basically, 18ish months before release.[1]

So from a technical standpoint, Vista took longer [5 years] and had less development time [under 2 years] actually make it into the product. (Yes, code they already had they could and did reincorporate into the final product, but still, wow.)

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/16/481625.as...

This post is full of snark by the way, but it is useful to know what went wrong with Vista. (TL;DR: Management of very large software development is _hard_)
Torstream: web video streaming of torrents found on public trackers
Opsview. http://www.opsview.com/

It's built on top of Nagios, and makes the entire process very easy and straightforward to setup and run.

Edit: The community version is free, and I haven't run into any limitations on it. The paid version offers a few extra modules.
Ditto.

For 1 bedder I pay $1.5K per month at Central Park Whisman (A Promethus Complex) in MV. Downtown MV off Castro 1 bedders at another Promethus complex rents start at $1.7K. Avalon Community in MV is also around $1.5K but not recommended - too close to Caltrain. I learnt the hard way lol

When I was looking for an apartment to live in I came across plenty of run down joints in bad streets around the $1.1K so it's possible but not recommended.

Finally, MV is great for the tech culture, food and location! :-)
Currently desksnear.me is focused on casual, short-term coworking/office sharing, but we're definitely interested in finding a way to connect startups who are looking to share a space on a longer-term basis.