skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Macbook Air is a game changer. I know four people (including myself) at work who are upgrading from their MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air. I have a pretty decent work system, (MacBookPro6,2, 2.53 GHz, 4GB) - but, after spending 90 minutes in the Apple Store with the new MBAirs, I realized how archaic what I'm working on is. The new systems are amazingly wonderful to carry around, and, after six years of being paranoid about closing my monitor screen (it's incredible how many people carry their MBPs with a book or something wedged to prevent their laptop screen from closing - I'm not the only one who doesn't have flawless recovery from standby ) - I'm praying that "Instant On" really will be that.

But, most importantly, the new MacBook Airs _scream_ in terms of responsiveness. I was thoroughly unimpressed with the 2008 and 2009 MBAirs, but these new systems are similar in name (and manila envelope thinness) only - definitely an upgrade in user experience for the casual user of productivity apps. I hammered on every app they had, bounced from iTunes to iPhoto to Pages, popped open terminal, and just basically hammered on the laptop the way I would at work - it was just "twitchy fast" responsive. It may not have the processing power of a MBPro, but it "felt" more responsive to me. I left the store excited and ordered a 4GB 13" system online immediately.

We'll see how excited I am after a couple weeks of usage (My MBAir should arrive in a couple days) - but, I'm pretty confident this will be my primary system for the next four years.

No question - the new MBairs will be cannibalizing several product lines at Apple.
This "clever hack" is costing a lot of people a lot of money today.

Concrete example: are you a location based startup? Well, you might need to shell out $10,000 for a Google Maps API Premier key in order to get HTTPS.

"Access to the API via a secure HTTPS connection"
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/premier/guide...

"Google Maps API Premier is extremely cost-effective, starting at just $10,000 per year."
http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps_features.htm...

Multiply that by thousands and you'll begin to have some idea of the discussions going on at every web based company with a clue today.

For those who make their living in computer security, like Mr. Butler, of course it's a good day (and month, and year). Pretty good business when you can start fires and then get paid well to put them out. Serves them right, of course, because they shouldn't have built that house out of wood in the first place.

While we're on the topic, I don't understand how a lot of people fail to realize that spending on computer security is a lot like spending on national security -- you can always spend more money on it, thereby taking away resources from other priorities.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23920.Dwight_D_Eisenh...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

-- Eisenhower
I think it's a fair assertion. It's not especially necessary for the HN crowd since we're largely technical folks, but not everyone here does software, right? It does assume a little familiarity with some abstract software knowledge.
I know I'm late to the game, and it's really more of a full on essay than a comment, but I would be really interested to hear about your moral framework; how you decide what is "evil" and how you integrate that into your business decisions.

It's something we all have struggled with at some point or another. I think an essay from you on the subject would be quite interesting.
I've seen some stuff come by here that was essentially Swahili to me that carried no such warnings :)
So John Grisham wasn't joking in his novels. Ouch.
Do a lazy migration--aka, every document gets tagged with current version. The restoration/model routines have a transparent upgrade chain (1->2, 2->3) that move any loaded document up the chain until they reach the current version; then, the app code acts as though all documents are magically updated. If you're worried about performance, have the upgrade chain write out the latest version so it's only upgraded once.

Works like a charm. No migration headaches.
I'm confused by everyone focusing on Java. "Java's on the decline", "I don't mind if Java goes away", etc, etc.

This is really about the JVM and the JVM is on the rise. I have no idea what impact this decision will have, but if it's negative if affects a lot more than Java.
and just like the Macbook Air of today it didn’t have a regular Hard Drive

Just stretching a simile to breaking point there..
Someone has set the grammar police lose, but I fear that this is a battle they will loose.

^ That was on purpose.

In seriousness, I'm as baffled as you are.
With regards to urls.py, I would greatly recommend using surlex. It makes it much nicer and much more readable.
Wait. What does sushi mean?
... and is slow, pillages your RAM, and for many folks is a de facto web IDE. :) Think Firebug, etc.
I guess I thought you were trying to generalize - I certainly was.

I think you're right: in this case, there's not much gain to be had.
Wow, I guess there's one thing everyone wants:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+ca...

How can I get my (wife|girlfriend|boyfriend) to...

kind of sad, really.
Great story. Another reminder that you can't connect the dots looking forward: http://onemansblog.com/2010/02/01/steve-jobs-outstanding-sta...
Huh. How long is this offer good for, do you think?
Business plans may be mostly fluff, but execution plans are pretty essential.
I am weary of the 'there' n 'their' mix-ups too. I sometimes feel too archaic making a fuss of all this. The Oatmeal comics makes me feel better though!
when you log into most banks and websites that perform financial transactions you are routed to an SSL logon, its a default choice, in fact most of the transactions are done under SSL. why should social networks be different?!

by now it is clear that unauthorized access to social networks can cause much distress and even worse to a great many people who use them.

Banks minimize their liability when they use SSL, facebook should do this too. at this point it should be clear that the effect on a person social life can be severe, career destroying, financially damaging, what have you, we are witnessing stories along these lines in increasing rates.

The release of this extension is a blessing in my view, it forces the issue that companies like facebook or twitter would prefer to ignore, or cover in obscure terminology, this simply demonstrates how trivial this is.

When Ingersoll Rand released the Kryptonite lock, they named it after the mythical element that would bring superman to his knees. Too bad the lock was revealed to have a design flaw that enabled cracking it up with a BIC pen, was it shameful to display that defective design?

Facebook etc... talk about privacy all the time. This forces them to walk the walk, not just talk.
Wow, I was just about to email you to make sure you saw this.
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Oh man I forgot about this! Baddest-Assed. Feature. Ever. I just did it on my girlfriend's machine while she was out of the room. Don't worry, I'll probably revert it for her soon enough.
What's happening with Arc?
The data they have on me is all publicly available to begin with (LinkedIn, Portfolio website). They have absolutely nothing that may be of any use to advertisers. I am listed in just two categories:

Internet
Internet > Online Streamers > Photo Sharing Consumers

No shit sherlock. I've got a Flickr account, and I am on the Internet. Apparently I am not a big influencer ... how little do they know that I have a multitude of accounts on various forums and social networking platforms with thousands of people that read what I write.

At least for me their system is a complete joke.
It really amazes me how far we've come in the last 25 years and how much has remained the same. Here's to the next 25 and making fun of today's technology :)
Badly. Whoever thought putting it in the type of the container was a good idea obviously never actually tried to use it.
2010 has seen the end of diggs growth and it has also seen the beginning of its decline. It went up a lot faster than it went down though, so they have some time to correct course.

That's much harder than it seems though, attracting visitors to your site is one thing, getting them to come back after they've soured on you is a completely different one.

Digg always had a very large number of employees for a site in that segment, but just throwing people out is not going to make things better in the short term (likely worse). At least they'll stop burning money while they figure out what the next steps are.
Rock stars are great when your team is small and tightly-knit. As a rule, they don't scale. Still often worth making accommodations for them as you grow, though.
I spent like an hour trying to figure out how to bind a hotkey to show the panel (when it's auto-hidden). How did you do that?
no, I'm not familiar with WPA2.
Yeah I'm at VT as well and a member of VTLUUG. My last technical interview was primarily done in C.
I would love to read this, but the website is completely broken for me in Opera 10.63.

It breaks after one of the many many many cross site plugins is loaded.
1. Many HNers are not native English speakers.

2. Homophone typos are very common even among those who know the difference between the words. In addition, many people have learning disabilities related to processing the written/spoken word. (My wife, for example, is accustomed to reading and writing on a graduate level, but has a very difficult time with spelling common words)

3. Some people don't feel that it is worth the effort to spell correctly.
I frequent Philz on 24th. It seems like there are always developers there. Javalencia on Valencia is usually pretty quiet. That being said, neither has the best coffee. Also, Philz isn't quiet if you need it. It depends on what atmosphere and other attributes you need to code to offer a true recommendation.

Java Beach cafe (on La Playa at the beach) has awesome sandwiches but is normally crowded. It's 100 yards from the beach for nice breaks and thinking about problems.
1985? The Model 100 came out in 1983. Mine still works great.
same thing we used to do on supercomputers, allocating memory is very expensive and surprisingly limited.

You also don't want your code to fail after weeks of runtime with an alloc error, if it's going to run out of memory you want it to fail at the start.
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Market timing works fine for built-to-flip companies. You have to have both the ability to build those firms and the ability/connections to sell them to the prospective buyer. Hard to come by both.
Ask HN: Page99Test.com - Would you submit to YC?
After 10 weeks of very hard work for 3 co-founders and after reading literally hundreds of posts on HN about launching a new idea (and how to do it right), our site Page99Test.com is [hopefully] ready for prime time. It launches in earnest today, October 26th, and I am very excited to first present it to this community.

It's a very simple (and we hear eye-catching) website that lets new and established writers get immediate, unbiased feedback from readers on their published books and unpublished manuscripts -- all based on a single page (99!).

Other websites you already know about or have likely used that offer a similar 'rate your first impression' experience in different industries include Dribbble.com for graphic design, FiveSecondTest.com for home pages, and HotOrNot.com for photos of people (not so much anymore, but you get the idea).

We've been debating whether or not to submit a YC application, mainly because we're not sure about whether the idea is truly 'big enough' -- and what our eventual revenue model will be. We're hoping to get some feedback here to settle our little internal debate.

Thanks in advance for checking out our labor of love. And thanks for sharing all your tips on how to make it as an entrepreneur.

Lance
It's different and important because the Author of the post is implying it's Digg people gaming their own system rather than people like LtGenPanda and MrBabyMan doing it from the outside.
That web developers don't necessarily fall in the realm of software development/engineering.

I should have finished that post, I just kinda left it hanging. Something else came into mind at the time and I mindlessly hit submit.
I live in Oakland. My wife and I left on a 10-day trip last summer and forgot the garage door open (the clicker didn't work or something)

Our garage leads to my office, which in turn leads to the rest of the house.

We came home shocked to see it open, and even more shocked that not a single thing was missing.
In general having 2 compatible implementations with little or no shared-code base allows for more easily finding bugs in your code. A lot of times bugs won't show up in testing because one compiler just happens to mask them. This isn't always a problem, since the bugs may stay masked. However, in a changing codebase they are likely to pop up in the future.
The main thing keeping me from doing this isn't processing power, but battery life. If Apple's estimates are correct, the 11" Air has 50% worse battery life than the 13" MBP, and the 13" Air has 30% worse. Since the weight of the 13" MBP is already light enough for me, the slight additional decrease in weight for a big decrease in battery life actually reduces its portability for me.
It's great until you need to allocate 3.9Gb of vector on a 32bit machine.

Somebody said computer science is solving yesterdays problems on tomorrows hardware, the rest of science is solving tomorrows problems on yesterdays hardware
I looks to me like we're reaching some kind of information singularity that will ground down the wheels of legislation any day now. After all, you can get a million documents with the click of a mouse to presumably support your case. But you'll still have to comb through them in order to get to the good stuff and automation will only help so much with that. In the end it boils down to human analysis.
Game companies generally use C++ because they need to interface with existing C and C++ library code (at least at the engine level). C++ also allows for various low-level optimizations when such things become necessary, such as resorting to inline assembler or stashing flag bits in pointers.

That's not to say that other languages aren't capable of these things, of course.

(I spent seven years working for EA, and I contributed to EASTL while I was there.)
The chance of one trying to get into a house in the middle of nowhere Texas uninvited and getting shot in the face, may serve as a deterrent equal to a $350 lock. I know a few Texans who would totally agree with that statement.
Great idea and killer design, to say to least.
Apple gets the press, but there is no Flash on 98% of cellphones in the wild. Or IE8 64-bit. Or Linux in 64-bit. What about people who only own a cell phone (VERY common in other countries)? What is Adobe offering them? Stop assuming everyone is a rich technophile.
Ask HN: What music helps you GTD?
For some reason, Ryan Adams's "Gold" has helped me focus for years: http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Ryan-Adams/dp/B00005QY5Y

I'm also experimenting with the "soothing" tag station on last.fm. Through that I discovered the "Violet Indiana" artist station as well.
So I tried flux for about three weeks and it didn't really seem to affect me. Reading/working by candle at night actually helped me more, though still not a lot.

I'm experimenting with one of these right now:

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-goLITE-BLU-Therapy-Device/dp/B...

I use it while I read in the morning. The idea is to go for lots of blue exposure in the mornings rather than amber at night as a way to shift my circadian rhythm. I may report on its efficacy once I've had enough time with it (if I ever get around to building a new site). My sleep patterns aren't as bad as a lot of people who use a screen excessively, but I'm working toward shifting my wake up time to very early.
Other nice additions are the fixed-sized containers (fixed_vector<> and friends) and the somewhat-enhanced string<> class (which adds things like sprintf() support).

I've missed all of these things greatly since leaving EA.
My dad had a Toshiba T1200, the successor to this one. He still uses it as a serial terminal. On another note, due to its limited built-in storage, he ran command.com through pklite!
I think (one of) the biggest difficulties is that it's not as simple as

Make your apps, websites and tools as simple as possible

There are two targets that could be aimed for- (a) some kind of inherent intuitiveness/simplicity (as in the calendar example), and (b) something the most similar to past experience (as exemplified by the "Reply" button example).

One of my lab partners in grad school didn't believe there was such a thing as inherent intuitiveness. Back when I had more free time for such things, I remember having lengthy arguments with PC-to-Mac switchers explaining how the implementation of feature X was inherently more intuitive or ergonomic on the mac although it seemed a stupid way to do it to them. Some might argue that even in the calendar example, clicking the date is not more intuitive but similar to the past experience of writing on a physical calendar.

However, I'd argue there is definitely such a thing as an interface that is inherently non-intuitive, so by contrast, there must be things that make an interface inherently more intuitive.

So, I think of (a) and (b) as competing trade-offs that must be compromised. Going too radical towards (a), especially on a product that people already have formed associations with, and you end up an awesome, but fringe, product with a small community of fanatic followers (see NeXT). If you create a radically new something, or the impression thereof, you have a lot more leeway, since people are not psychologically attached to previous experiences.

Go too radically towards (b) and you aren't adding anything different with your product.

If you're making something new to go into battle against existing, well-established products, the best approach is to start with (b) and then slowly "fix" things, one at a time, over time, starting with features that give the biggest bang for the smallest change in user behavior. This applies to user-facing front ends, only of course.
To your last point: Djangy.com (Heroku for Django) is in private beta. I'm looking forward to it coming out.
Wow. This may be an experiment right now, but I would be surprised if Adobe weren't serious about this project's long-term viability. It appears to be essentially a rethought Flash 5 IDE from before Flash became an increasingly schizophrenic Flash design / ActionScript development environment, one that happens to spit out standards-compliant files.

For animation, it already looks leagues better than the half-baked attempt at adapting After Effects' timeline to the Flash environment in CS4 and CS5.
I hope to do so, I really like the project and want it to succeed. Unfortunately, I'm not yet sure how to reduce the 100000 lines to something manageable with the problem clear :)
At the same time though, theres so much I could get done from getting home till bed time that someone who turns everything else won't be able to.

I find morning people struggle with the idea sometimes that you can naturally wake up around midday or in the afternoon and be even more productive that someone rising with the sun. In the end we all need sleep, when we get it though isn't as important to productivity as some think.
my first PC going to college in 1988,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC_512 4.7Mhz, 512kb RAM and a floppy drive, it could run a fortran compiler (rather slowly)

Although if you had access to a TV and a power socket at the destination my Sinclair QL was probably a more capable and lighter 'portable'
True. Or they'll do a carveout for management/founders. But if team members see that there's nothing there post-acquisition, the resumes start flying.
That may be true, but we can hold ourselves as a community to a higher level of clarity and correctness.
Ask HN: Why do Hacker News, Reddit, not show the users that voted?
i was wondering why we are not allowed to see the people are voting on posts, is this like a technical issue, or a political one(conflict), i dont get it thanks
I'm a female co-founder (Mockingbird - http://www.gomockingbird.com). My co-founder is a guy. We interviewed with YC last year, though we didn't end up getting funded. Best of luck with weddingtype and your application; whatever the outcome, I think the process itself can't help but be useful.
EASTL is essentially the reaction of a bunch of hard-core C++ programmers who hated all of the other STL implementations.
Hm, is there something like this for the iPhone?

That would be pretty cool. I find it pretty annoying to adjust the brightness constantly on my iPhone.
Author needs a detailed rundown of Diggs publishing partner program and how it works for this piece to be complete.

Otherwise, this is great scoop. As someone who runs a bootstrapped, ramen profitable niche social news site, I have to chuckle at the irony. The Reddit founders have admitted publicly on many occasions that they used sock puppets to bootstrap a community on their site. Meanwhile is having to fire up Sock puppets to survive after raising $40 MM. Ouch.

Also funny, the article says Kevin rose posts were only getting 30 diggs these days. Were we getting a glimpse behind the curtain of the true size of Diggs active community there? To put it perspective, Windy Citizen does about 70-100k visits/month. Our hottest stories each week will crack 20-25 votes.
Good way to get KARMA points Mr. DjDarkman, before this discussion his KARMA was ~20-30, now 74 elevated by 55 points.
Nice way to get KARMA points :).
Thank you for the tip on the Mindset. I enjoyed Self-Theories so much I will definitely pick this one up, even if just to reinforce the point she makes.