skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would almost certainly be a good deal slower. Or at least, it would be if I wrote it.

I know cappucino (http://cappuccino.org/) works with a JavaScript language interepreter, so there are mature products out there heading along these lines.
Also, at the rate submissions are coming in, I don't think that should be a problem ;-)
On Computation, Gender, Sexuality, and Neurodiversity.
There's a great book about all of this, "Against Intellectual Monopoly." [1]

There's an interesting bit about the English/American writer thing you mention, specifically Dickens. From chapter two:

The amount of revenues British authors received up front
from American publishers often exceeded the amount they
were able to collect over a number of years from
royalties in the UK. Notice that, at the time, the US
market was comparable in size to the UK market.

More broadly, the lack of copyright protection, which
permitted the United States publishers’ “pirating” of
English writers, was a good economic policy of great
social value for the people of United States, and of no
detriment, as the Commission report and other evidence
confirm, for English authors. Not only did it enable the
establishment and rapid growth of a large and successful
publishing business in the United States; also, and more
importantly, it increased literacy and benefited the
cultural development of the American people by flooding
the market with cheap copies of great books. As an
example: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol sold for six cents
in the US, while it was priced at roughly two dollars
and fifty cents in England. This dramatic increase in
literacy was probably instrumental for the emergence of
a great number of United States writers and scientists
toward the end of the nineteenth century.

Arguments about intellectual property now seem to always focus on the ability of the author to make money, and not about the basic reason that the concept of IP was created: it was a gift from society to creators to both help them and encourage the enrichment of society at large. The dramatic rise in UGC demonstrates that 'creators gonna create' anyway, so the deal makes less and less sense for society to keep up.

There's also a part in the book about the steam engine stuff, too, but this is already getting long...

1: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...
I have already implemented The Right Solution for my MythTV.

Two remotes.

One is a TiVo remote control. Fits nicely in my hand, has the important buttons laid out nicely. Good for watching and selecting and OK for most other tasks.

The other is a remote keyboard with built-in mouse, similar to the Logitech board. I pull it out when I want to search for something or manipulate the system in a more complex way (like firing up Firefox to play a Flash game). The rest of the time, it's propped next to the sofa.

There's no reason not to ship a simple remote and a complex one, and let people decide what they need when they need it.
There's nothing wrong with women who want to stay at home. The problem comes in when a woman is not appreciated for anything else.
I haven't used a Google TV either, but I believe a keyboard is required for a lot of the use. I don't see how that is a bad thing. If a user needs to type something in, how are they to do that without a keyboard?

"I haven’t used a Google TV, but based on these remotes, I would bet the rest of the interface is just as clunky." - From the blog

I think that's an irrational assumption. Again, I haven't used one either so I cannot dispute the claim, but I think one should hold off their opinion until they try it.
Obvious and true.
An Interesting idea, but I don't think this is the reason.

Food you prepare at home tends to have less fat/sugar than food you buy already prepared (especially when you're using raw ingredients)

Also, when I make a food for myself, laziness plays a role. Cooking a second serving takes more effort.

I do not have industrial size cooking ware, so there is a physical limitation to how much food I can cook at once.

I am not inclined to go through the whole process a second time, even when I might have eaten more if it was offered to me.
Designers vs Developers
Facebook gets 24% of all display ad impressions, but only 10% of all ad dollars
Calling all Electrical Engineers
We're excited to announce that EEWeb, our flagship electrical engineering community, is about to go live.

If you're a hardware design engineer or electronics enthusiast, we'd love for you to sign up for our an invite.

Focus areas of our community include:

* Hardware Projects
* Analog Design
* RF Design
* Power Management
* Embedded Design
* Test & Measure
* Components
* PCB Design

http://www.eeweb.com/contact-us/invite/
He could hit an automated response telling him the same. Jobs doesn't change anything in this story apart from perception. Why would we assume that a call from Jobs means not being in an unacknowledged black hole? Did he get any new information? Any timescale for fixes? Any help?

How do we know Jobs isn't just going through the list of "put it a the end of the list and let it die" issues and randomly selecting one to respond to? Feels good, but doesn't change anything - doesn't even promise to change anything.

I get an impression that getting an answer on launchpad from Shuttleworth is pretty much equivalent to unacknowledged black hole - they've got some plan they're not going to make public and your issue will not change its status for the next 1 year (then go to invalid / not an issue / won't fix). (from past experience)
Simple fact: any CEO of a > billion dollar valuation company is going to have a PR department, and a large part of their job is to make the CEO look good. If they do their job properly it's a given that he will be overrated. It doesn't mean he's not a good CEO overall, but the superlatives that likely will get tossed around in the press should be taken with a grain of salt.
But we'd move forward faster if we had both startups and university research working on the problem.

I'm not saying that it quashes all of it, just that it's set back personal fabrication 25 years.
> You won't be writing code in the browser anymore

You could be. Impement a URL like http://mydomain/scripts/MyScript.bytecode. This is a page which compiles, say MyScript.rb into bytecode and delivers it back to the client. You get a new copy by saving a file on the server and hitting refresh, and there's only one interpreter to download.
So I think you're going to see a few trends happening here which may change your mind.

One of the big gaps here is that most TV App platforms are independent of the video you are watching (they are not content aware). Take the Yahoo! platform which is (very well) designed to be used while watching TV, yet the apps don't know what is being watched. This adds some serious difficulty to app developers who want to enhance existing TV content which is kind of the current holy grail for TV apps (Actually most TV apps right now provide alternatives for delivering video content - and that is the killer app on TV right now. I'm going to try to focus this screed on TV apps whose main purpose is not to deliver video). This disconnect between app and video is currently being addressed. Early next year these apps will be able to be content aware and you will be able to have apps which are sync'd to the broadcast and this will add a lot of value to the chain. Unfortunately enhanced ads will likely be the first area where you'll see this functionality but someone needs to pay the bills.

The second trend is that a lot of TV interactivity will likely move from the TV to your tablet PC. We've already seen a first implementation of this with ABC's "My Generation" TV Show app (show's already canceled unfortunately). This app sync'd to broadcast using audio fingerprinting. I think that at some point these "second screen" apps will be the main type of TV Apps you see. Likely using the TV app platforms for some simple updates. Think a leaderboard or something while playing - or a twitter feed.

With respect to social. I think where the most interesting social aspects for TV aren't "Friend Feeds" via Twitter or Facebook. But using social networks for content discovery. I think we're going to be so inundated with video content that our primary method for content discovery won't be a guide (or search) but some sort of social recommendation system. Maybe a reddit for TV?
So much for Coming soon?
Just put on an sign-up and 1 line about you.

Focus on shipping instead of building 'Coming Soon' pages.

Just come! Ship!
A friend of mine wrote this Python script which we have used for a few conferences and the output was really nice.

http://code.google.com/p/event-badge-generator

It addressed many of the issues mentioned in the post(names on both sides, displaying the name prominently, font customization and adjustments based on name length etc).
You know a writer does not have a convincing case when he adds "trust me" to the first paragraph.
You have to compare Lua at 1995 (version 2) to JavaScript at 1995, as its development, at least inside the browser, would be arrested the same way JavaScript's was. Lua 2 was certainly had a much better implementation than the first JavaScript, but I would not call it a better language (didn't have JavaScript's annoying quirks, but also didn't have closures, for example). 2000's Lua (5.0 and 5.1) is quite different from its earlier incarnations.
I have to wonder how many people proclaiming that "Apple just gets it" have actually used the remote in question rather than looking at its (admittedly gorgeous) picture. We have one of the previous generation Apple TV's with a very similar remote. It currently sits unplugged next to the television on top of an upturned yogurt container.

It's on the yogurt container because its lack of vents causes it to overheat if sitting on a smooth surface. It's unplugged because there's no clear power button on its very stylish remote. I happen to know that if you hold down one of the keys long enough it will turn (mostly) off, but I don't think this knowledge is shared by others in the house. It needs to be turned off because of the whine of the harddrive and the aforementioned overheating problem.

Using the remote to enter search terms for Youtube is possible, but is a dreaded chore. Generally one says "Here, let me show you something" and then has to call the other party back from another room when done with the laborious process. This is not attempted as much as when the device was new. A keyboard as a remote may look silly, but would at least make simple things like this possible.

Overall, it's very cute and warm little boat anchor. We'll probably eventually manage to get Boxee installed on it, but the lack of a reasonable means of entering text will really limit its utility. So while I agree that Apple "really gets it", at least in this case I'd apply this solely to their marketing rather than their usability.
I think that they have a "most fascinating submission story among all our apps" is more a symptom of the larger problems of the App Store than anything else.
I've been building my next startup with nothing else than AppEngine and Notepad2.

It is that simple to start your own business nowadays.
if you dislike it, flag the article.

i for one found it interesting that he shifted from thinking the product was the part worth selling to thinking the process was the part worth selling. this could be something many HN'ers could benefit from.

take your negativity somewhere else.
I cook because I enjoy it and because it saves me money. Yesterday morning I cooked and froze 8 breakfast burritos that put McDonald's to shame. Today I spent all of 15 seconds throwing it in the microwave and didn't have to worry about driving or ordering anything.

If you're cooking by yourself don't alter the recipe for a single person, freeze it! You'll likely spend much less $/minute for all of the meals and definitely eat healthier. Not to mention $/minute is a silly thing to use unless you get paid hourly and for any hour of the day. I don't think I've ever ordered a pizza and then got down to business while I waited.
Because the author had Steve Jobs on the phone and was able to speak the issue directly to Steve's ear. It's not that complicated.

An automated response doesn't tell me that my emails haven't gone straight to /dev/null. If I'm talking to Steve, and he responds to the sentences that I'm speaking to him, then I am confident that the issue has been "heard". (Promptly ignored, perhaps, but not just black-hole'd).
No, the idea is that you could compile whatever language you like into byte code that would then run in the browser.

Javascript might still be the main language on the web (and would probably continue to be handled in the same way it is now) but you could also use other languages.
> by your definition if I write "When you go to the store can you pick up milk, butter, and toilet paper"

In the context of a human conversation, the semantics of your list are apparent. In the context of HTML, the semantics are not apparent. An absence of semantics is not the same as semantically incorrect. To my understanding, something that is semantically incorrect would be more misleading than ambiguous.
Tim Ferriss is a self-help hack...

Sorry, but he is.
and Javascript. It is very very fast with Javascript.

You can do what is discussed in this thread today by detecting Silverlight in the client and if it exists use it instead of Javascript source. DOM access, manipulation and everything else is just so much faster.

The Silverlight SDK is free, you can get it on Linux and OS X (Moonlight) and there are a lot of Silverlight VM's out there
I didn't see a ruby interface - where is it? Also, this doesn't deal with the issue of speed - can R scale to handle, say 100 simultaneous connections?
Matt Cutts: $1,000 to the 2 best implementations of the recently-hacked Kinect
I agree that healthiness of a home cooked meal is probably going to be better than something you order. I'm not sure about serving size though but then again I only cook for my wife and I.

We always have leftovers that end up feeding us for multiple meals, if anything I eat MORE when I home cook because I don't have to stop!
He was our group's coach for a few weeks (I went to the Bollettieri tennis academy for high school) and it was apparent his philosophy of the game was on a different level than any of ours. There's a big difference from understanding the theory and putting it into practice- your emotions are not so closely connected to your rational mind, so what you set out to do can easily be interrupted by a natural frustration to losing.
>Why not? You have iPod/iPhone in your pocket, or iPad on your coffee table. They can be used to look something up, and with AirPlay you can send content to TV once you find it.

No, I don't. Do I need to buy one to search?
Schneier Fact No. 27[1] seems particularly relevant in light of the [very useful, but preaching to the choir maybe?] advice he's handing out here:

Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.

No wonder he uses a password manager, eh?

[1] http://www.schneierfacts.com/fact/27
Also, renownED.
Matt Cutts Talk At PubCon: Key Takeaways
Movies featuring the Nmap Security Scanner
> In CLOS I don't even have to override
> a function and then call the base version,
> I can just use :before/:after methods.

that is possible in Perl, too, with method modifiers:
http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-1.19/lib/Moose/Manual/...

in fact, Moose took many ideas from CLOS (and Smalltalk, Ruby, Perl 6, ...)

you write:

> When people say things like this about
> perl they're usually talking from '98 or so
> when perl was the most flexible game in
> town. A lot has changed since then.

true, but don't forget Perl itself has changed a lot, too.
cool! Are you going it solo or with co-founders?

Aaron Longnion
Founder of Refynr.com
?

When I looked at the article itself, it explicitly pointed this out.
On further thought, I over-thought that. Parallax calculations aren't necessary. Since the points will be projected at an angle, the distance to the object being painted ("spotted") is going to be directly proportional to the distance between spots.
Kudos for "shipping" something. That is the hardest part sometimes. As per your request for feedback (though I wouldn't say I'm smarter than you), some thoughts:

1) The link to your github repo is broken on your blog post.

2) In your manifest.json, you're setting permissions to "tabs", "www.google.com", "http://*/* and "https://*/*. If I'm not mistaken, the urls listed in the permissions field are for urls you'd like your extension to be able to call out to when doing AJAX requests, posts, etc. Enabling your app to make cross-site request to every domain, when you really only need google.com for the calendar, might throw up a red flag to more security-conscious users.

3) You're injecting a blank css document into every url the user visits. I would remove this unless you're planning on adding some styles into the css file.

4) The only other thing I see is more preference: You're doing a lot of work with the browser's dom api to create elements in your content script. Since you're already including jQuery in your extension, it would be trivial to inject the jQuery.js file into the page via your content script and use the power of jQuery to create your dom elements in far less code. Of course, there is nothing wrong with doing it in using raw JavaScript since it's targeted at a single browser and you don't need to worry about being cross browser compatible.

Thanks for posting, I'm always curious to see how other extensions are put together and might take away some ideas on interacting with google services.
GNU/Parallel changed my life
Thanks, I'll have a look at those firms
Ah, so that's where the confusion comes from. I thought that edw519's post was about "The typical bread-an-butter language in the 70's, in the 80's, etc."

I'd still be curious to know what were the de facto languages to get a good salary in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
A zombie keyboard, one apple store rejection down, a call from Steve Jobs
I thought people might want to use the site on a mobile device, so I bought a mobile theme from themeforest for $9. Turns out it isn't easy to find a minimalist site template that works well on both mobile and desktop browsers. Let me know if you know of any! I'm not a designer :-)
Humans like talking to humans.

Humans especially like talking to humans in authority. If you're going to have to play by a rule, it's good to know that the rule is real, and not an imaginary rule made up by a fifth-level bureaucrat on a whim, or because they're looking for a bribe, or because they don't understand the company policy, or because you're small fry and only big players get to break all the rules.

And humans like consistency, closure, and clear boundaries. The hardest thing is not necessarily abiding by the rules: It's trying to avoid abiding by rules that aren't really there. The easiest way to ensure that you're pushing the envelope appropriately is to press yourself right up against the edge, and the best edges to push against are the ones that are firm, so that you don't keep having to second-guess yourself, or waking up to discover that your competition is getting away with more than you are because of some uncontrollable factor.
Okay, so let's assume that's true, despite the fact that it's an extremely dubious claim considering the magnitude of the operations Gonzalez was running. Even then, your original claim was "what kind of message does a stiff sentence send", but then you come back with this as if it's better to send a message that the secret service are a bunch of suckers who you can play til the end and still get off hook. Crime wouldn't be down for very long with that kind of message, and don't even get me started about the consequences of congress hearing that message.
Well that would imply that Steve has at least the common decency to keep up appearances of caring about customers/partners. Like others have said this is so rare nowadays that it might as well be a black swan. And I'm talking from personal experience as customer and also as a professional who cares about users perception and who fails to understand why people keep on disrespecting people who feed them.

The case here is - that Apples contrarian play at basically everything is drawing insane dividends. And its cheap to do (Apples bottom line is proof). So if Steve is sincere in his care or not - doesn't really matter. If people around you perceive your acts as genuine - then its genuine for all intents and purposes.
Google Updates Freebase Gridworks, Renames It Google Refine
Or, you know, since one way of defining "humanity" is by our ability to transcend the merely animal, change.

(Edit to add: by answering that way I'm absolutely not agreeing that "sexism is natural" -- just that even if it were, it wouldn't matter.)
Apple is dead! Long live Windows!
BSD is dying! NetCraft confirms it!

... and now:

Google is dying! John C Dvorak^W^W^WAn internet troll confirms it!
How do you deal with allowing others to post on your wall? This is either on or off for all friends right?
Woot sells these for around $20 sometimes. The comments are usually a mixed bag, with some people saying it's really good, and other citing problems such as size, durability, etc.

There are a lot of comments here: http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=4074424
Then just take it out, and bear this minimal risk.
It's because most are bias and do not give other products a chance. They are also instantly brainwashed by what Steve Jobs says. Once he mentioned about the screen size differences, everyone harps on the 7" instantly, touting his/her agreement with Job's statement.

The smaller size gives extra mobility and actually makes it easier to type with. I can hold the entire device on both ends and be able to type with thumbs naturally.
It's not negativity per se, it's that Tim Ferriss' whole schtick is phony. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-t...
99% of the posts and comments here on HN have nothing to do with the readers directly, or, if they do, have no moral connotation one way or another. This does, and it's really uncomfortable to learn about the fact that you are part of a privileged group. You see exactly how unbiased people can be about which comments are worth reading when discussing this topic and others like it. Historically, I've found the answer to be, "Not very."
Knowing nothing about the man. I only got through the first paragraph before I realized the man has no idea what he's talking about. I am not likely to listen to anything he says says ever again.

Edit: grammar;
There are many applications...

http://www.usereffect.com/topic/5-useful-uses-for-wolfram-al...

http://mashable.com/2009/05/19/wolfram-alpha-better-than-goo...

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/
Google instant previews with eye tracking and analysis
Also, Pragmatic Programmers is offering the 3rd edition of their Pickaxe Ruby book for USD$10 (paper or ebook) http://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2010-11-11.html

It also says that owners of previous editions get the upgrade for free. I have not yet researched to see if that is their policy across the board, but it's a mighty fine gesture, either way.
Proxlet: Ipecac for Twitter nausea
Hence, "to come out of logic programming".

It's declarative, but not an LP per se - backtracking really clashes with the priority on (soft) real-time behavior and concurrency. The Prolog origins are probably most visible in the syntax and emphasis on pattern-matching.
Google Sacks Memo Leaker
He's infamous for making statements that will generate controversy^Wpage views.
This is an interesting development. Surely Twitter must know they were 2nd choice to Facebook...

But maybe they see this as a good thing?
This person should have attended SecondConf in Chicago. They got the name tags just right. So much so, that everyone at the conference mentioned it. Big name and Twitter handle that you could read across the room.