skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickable: http://castmyclips.com

I like the idea, but I don't think the name conveys what the product does. Off the top of my head I don't have a better name (sorry), but I'd work on that and then simplify the landing page so you know right away what your product does (without needing to read an intro paragraph). Cool stuff though. I'd keep working on it.
interesting paper!
Heroku is selling a lot more than Google. With Heroku there are few constraints on your app other than Ruby. You can do very traditional web development (SQL among other things) and there are a lot of conveniences available for you. You should be able to build your app faster and launch 1 instance for $0, and then pay Heroku when it needs to scale. Google will force you to build in a more cumbersome manner, but it will scale much better so you won't have to pay them as much. You are always going to pay more for something like Heroku that is very much optimizing developer time.
Just embed it in a .swf
Who are people in this case? Most people don’t at all know what kind of life is plausible and not and they don’t care. I’m certain, however, that many biologists had an opinion on this prior to the discovery and I’m not really sure whether they thought that it was unlikely. For all we know most biologists expected this or a similar discovery, they just couldn’t yet assume it to be true because there wasn’t any evidence. Until now.
One thing about Hipmunk that mystifies me: the date-picker widget on the homepage. A friend of mine says "Have you seen it!? Check out Hipmunk.com. Awesome new user interface for booking flights." So I go to the site expecting some awesome, clean, super-thoughtful UI and actually got stuck for a second.

1) There isn't a direct visual relationship between the "depart" / "return" fields and the date picker (i.e. I didn't see a standard dropdown or calendar icon or way to pick a date)

2) I didn't realize that the date picker widget is one calendar, spanning two months. I thought it was two calendars: one for depart, one for return.

Wondering: Am I the only one? Did they actually test this? Would a "traditional" design with two fields, each with a calendar icon / dropdown perform better? OR, maybe two fields and one calendar beside or beneath each?
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I'm not terribly happy with the name either, still trying to figure something better out.
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You're assuming they didn't arrive at these settings for borders, weight, classes of label via A/B testing of various alternatives. Google has enough resources available that for something like this it could easily substitute brute-force testing for "best-practice" design (and there's a number of arguments why that might be the better choice, including the fact that design practice seems to evolve over time.)
I agree that it's an amazing discovery. Admittedly I didn't read the actual press release so you're probably right that they acted correctly. I only read second hand accounts of what they were going to announce.
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I don't agree with your first line. If a manager knows what a good product looks like but not how to make it, he cannot manage its development. The same is trivially true of business things as well. We all know that good sales are high sales with low numbers of customer complaints. How does one manage a salesforce to achieve this?

If the salespeople say that the customers don't want what we sell, are the product managers to blame? Or are the salespeople not very good at their jobs and clinging to the false objections raised by prospective customers?

A sales manager must a decent understanding of sales to manage sales. A development manager must have a decent understanding of development to manage development.

An entrepreneur in a software-centric company had better have a decent understanding of several different things to succeed. It is not enough to say, "I know good software when I see it," IMO.
This just goes to show that there's exactly zero consequence to running your mouth off on the internet.

Posting this from like my sixth HN account because I keep getting banned for trolling.
"I don't want it because it's too narrow. I think the right thing for the government to do is to give the TSA a lot less money. I'd rather they defend against the broad threat of terrorism than focus on the narrow threat of airplane terrorism, and I'd rather they defend against the myriad of threats that face our society than focus on the singular threat of terrorism. But the head of the TSA can't have those opinions; he has to take the money he's given and perform the specific function he's assigned to perform. Not very much fun, really."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/11/schneier_for_t...
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960019
Point taken. But I can't help but be reminded of this: http://xkcd.com/373/

Anyone who feels tricked that there were no aliens found doesn't have their head on straight :)

By your rationale, would anything be called Astrobiology?
The most important features of this version are the removal of those absurd Size and Time limitations of their API.
Right. They might as well take on an investor and get the cash to pay for some PR.

Equity for cash could increase runway as well as allowing them to shop for the right PR person rather than settling for someone who may see this as a chance to "own their own business." That won't end well.
There is a good business model in serving these people. Want to build the next WalMart sized franchise? Have the millions to make it happen? Well step this way my friend.

Paid a good chunk of my bills, I'll say that.
Not at the moment, at least:
http://getsatisfaction.com/gowalla/topics/will_you_release_a...
Per their official rep, no plans.
I agree. Note that the cells are not phosphorus-free. The paper states that the cells grown without phosphorus contained 0.02% phosphorus, presumably due to impurities in the reagents. Based on the numbers in the paper, it seems like this is enough phosphorus for one copy of the DNA genome.

My hunch is that the bacteria are able to use this low level of phosphorus, rather than replacing phosphorus with arsenic wholesale. It seems unlikely to me that the bacteria have evolved to use arsenic in place of phosphorus in the DNA, in ATP, in phospholipids, and in everything else. It seems even more unlikely that they can dynamically switch between arsenic and phosphorus for all their purposes, since all the enzymes would need to work with two different substrates. (In other words, changing an enzyme to work with As instead of P seems hard; changing an enzyme to work with As or P as needed seems much harder.)

That said, I think this is a cool discovery, and it will be interesting to see just how much of the biochemistry is actually using arsenic, since it seems that at least some is.
I think Heroku's pricing contains both the RAM and CPU cost for the instances. The Google price only includes the RAM cost of the servers, the CPU is still charged per request.
I'm trying to do the same thing for people going on cruises. Seems like going on a cruise would be a better fit for this rather than going on a plane, smaller market though. I already have a series of apps out that are very popular (with two more on the way), just need to start working on building in this functionality. Anyone interested in helping?
The billionaire kids won't have been saddled with the cost of supporting their ailing parents.

The two situations are not just like each other.

Also, there's a benefit to society in avoiding a hereditary concentration of wealth in a quasi-aristocracy of Paris Hilton-class morons.
JS: http://addyosmani.com/blog/the-top-10-javascript-talks-from-...

R: http://www.vcasmo.com/user/drewconway

http://had.blip.tv/

Vimeo has some good talks too if you search.
Well, DNA is fairly complex. Of all the elements and compounds life could involve it seems rather unlikely that DNA evolved in two places completely separately. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
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This is "you must learn JavaScript in the browser," isn't it? JavaScript I don't mind. Programming in the browser, ugh.
On the one side: People's private information spread over the internet, big scandal.

On the other side: Facebook doing well these days.

:/
I tried the demo problem and solved it in six minutes (missed only the integer overflow issue). It seemed from the screenshots that time to solve wasn't very prominent when comparing applicants. Is this an issue?
It's not an arsenic-based life form
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I just created a new throwaway site to confirm this. It seems you can't download your previously deployed apps, but only applications uploaded by v1.4.0.
$9 is for an always-on instance. It includes no CPU or bandwidth.

AppEngine pricing is quite complex. You need to look at the (very generous) free quotes first (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Resources), and then look at the pricing (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html#Billable_...)

Unless you have a very CPU-heavy application it's unlikely AppEngine will ever cost more than Heroku. 8 times at much seems a lot, but 5 times as much wouldn't surprise me.
bootstrapped with ONLY $5 million in venture capital investment! Sometimes I wonder if Techcrunch understands the buzzwords they write.
"It always comes down to 'who fixes it if it breaks'?"

While this might be an interesting personal test, I don't believe it a legal standard. It is the case that one may enter into a contract to possess a physical good with limitations on its use, right? Isn't the issue that, sans such a contract, the US legal systems applies a common set of rules surrounding ownership?
It's really interesting that Google seems to be at times able to pull off wonderful UI design bordering on genius (Chrome, Google Maps) and at other times just barely able to be at par (most of Android with select exceptions). I guess this just reflects different teams within Google, but it's a shame they can't apply their best UI talent across all their products (and particularly, the products that most need it, like Android).
I run Learnivore - I've been thinking about adding tech talks to it, your list is a nice starting point!

I'm not sure if I'll create 2 RSS or put everything in a single one.

What do you think ?
One thing I'd say is that I don't believe programmers are the only profession afflicted with this scenario.

Who knows how many times I've had a 'brilliant' idea for something outside my domain where I've said to myself "this is a great idea, now all I need is a ____". I am just thankful that I'm smart enough not to start asking successful people to buy into my stupid idea until I've done some research first...
This is true (and SFO in San Francisco does not use the TSA). However, even the 5 private agencies airports may choose to use must follow the exact same procedures set by the TSA.

So, while the TSA may not write the paychecks for those airport screeners, they do set the rules.
But notice that even if all these predictions come true 100% of the time, this does not rule out the possibility that new species of sexually reproducing organisms are created specially by God, much like new cars are created by humans, despite there being an observably continuous change through time.

That's just how the scientific method works. If you're looking for certainty, this isn't where you'll find it. Science can only tell us what we think is most likely to be true based on what we can observe.
If you have access (i.e. from university or whatnot) the actual paper is now online at:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/01/science.1...
Lately I find myself going straight to the comments hovering around -1 because they're frequently the more nuanced, non-circlejerk replies. I smell a Greasemonkey project...
I don't know that you could really get away with it in the lavatory either. Those smoke detectors are meant to stop people from having a cigarette, which doesn't necessarily emit that much smoke, so they're probably tuned to be pretty sensitive, right? But yeah, I assume the guy wouldn't really care if he was going to blow up the plane; attendants probably aren't in the habit of storming the lavatory when the smoke detector goes off.
I don't think anyone worth having work for you, would do so for free. Why wouldn't a person looking for unpaid experience just contribute to oss, at least this way they can show off their work.
From the ex-yahoo who got 'famous' by using a microwave near his wifi laptop to simulate dropped packages.
End users wouldn't need any special client software.

There's no reason why a DNS server couldn't take care of the new protocol and just present resolved IP addresses to the client as usual.

I don't imagine everyone would want this new DNS initially, but the key is that it's there if you want it, and no-one can stop that.
Totally agree. Started with assembly language, then C, C++, C#, Java. I'd been dreading doing anything in the browser, and was playing with GWT and other esoteric things. But I'm finally getting my head around javascript and its just a heck of a lot of reward for very little effort. Its fun!
I realized that shit usually hits the fans when you say you literally need to sleep with the computer instead of her. :) True story.
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How would this change taking into account the increasing amount of traffic going to the mobile data networks instead of the traditional telcos?
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I agree that Goole Maps look the best, but I think this more so highlights the ineptitude of the other mapping sites. Using contrasting text borders over complex patterns and decent spacing are common design principles that the other sites should adopt.
It's a nice solution, but doesn't seem to solve the problem they present at the start of the article. "What we wanted was a way to keep at least 24 hours worth of entries at all times"; but their solution only stores the last MAX_CIRCULAR_LOG_ROWS entries.
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Unlike with power or water bills, there's no meter to keep gorgers in check
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I think that statement is a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between network bandwidth and other utilities.
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DNS is just a key value store at heart anyway.

The problem with couch is that it's designed for HTTP, and has lots of features that would not be required for a DNS server.

DNS needs to be blindingly fast, and any new protocol would ideally need to be added to existing DNS servers like Bind.
You could look into the Open Calais API. http://viewer.opencalais.com/

Newsley uses it to categorize financial news items - http://newsley.com
The worst thing for my wife I think, is when I'm away from the house with little connectivity, and I need to call her up and ask her to fix something.

"Open up my macbook, now open up this document, now open a terminal, type in ./deploy.sh" etc

I'm not patient giving instructions and she's not patient being on the receiving end of it. But she's been a life saver quite a few times now :)
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While Google is attempting to retain employees with raises and bonuses, in a twisted effort to somehow retain engineers and eliminate poaching, my boss has decided to threaten to terminate anyone in our division keeping a LinkedIn or StackOverflow Careers profile or a resume on a personal web site or social network of any kind.

Has anyone else encountered such a thing? What would you do? Is this fair to anyone?
Also, DeadlineExceededError now can't lead to mysteriously broken instances

Note that the increase in the deadline to 10 minutes only affects background tasks (ie, the Task Queue and Cron jobs). It's important, but won't fix those DeadlineExceededError on a user-facing page errors on it's own.
On flying skateboards, we were wondering the other day in the office about Parrot-style drones that you could hang from:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/parrot...

Risky, but I'd try it!
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No. If this ever becomes an issue, internet subscriptions will simply become metered. Flagged for absurdity.
awesome freaking post - i love pac man (i actually prefer ms pac man) and it was well worth the very long and detailed review.
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We don't know of any form of life that isn't related to us at all. We have no strong evidence that such life has ever existed (although we have reasons to believe that it could have, before DNA-based life ate it all). For such life to exist on Earth today, it would have to compete with our relatives, and that's hard to do now, as it has been for billions of years.

So if nothing short of finding a completely unrelated living organism is going to excite you, the odds are strongly in favor of your being bored with biochemistry for as long as you live. Better change the channel.

All I know about biochem is what I learned by listening to Lander and Weinberg on MIT OpenCourseWare, but even I know that (a) every lifeform on earth has phosphorous-based chemicals at the center of its metabolic mechanism; (b) every lifeform on earth uses phosphate-based chemistry -- DNA or RNA, specifically -- as its genetic mechanism. These are the things you learn in the freshman class. Evidence that there might be an organism alive right now that violates one or both of these rules, even partially, is very exciting.

With our luck, they made some kind of mistake, and we can all go back to the status quo once they find the error, get totally drunk, and then issue an apology. But, if not, whole careers in biochemistry will be spent studying this.
Thanks! That's quite handy.
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like Android

Huh? Works for me.

Consistent? Perhaps not. Bad design? Hardly, and it's getting better with each release.
Depending on your embryonic product and where you are geographically, you might be able to find someone excellent. You up your chances if building your product helps someone build a portfolio (especially open source). Offering some equity would be good too, but you'd have to very carefully balance the amount of ownership versus the candidates skill.

My email is in my profile. Get in touch if you want to talk more. I might know someone who might be willing to donate some time, if the project is right.
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He talked about Agda2.

My experience using advanced type system tells me that you can get away with functional tests. Types, also, takes much less code space-programmer's time than tests.

So I do not see how they could be harder to use. Certainly types will be unusual, but not much harder.
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Get your kid a 360 (if you lack one) and Forza Motorsport 3 instead. The driving model is superior to Gran Turismo (at least as of GT5: Prologue, which really disappointed me as an old GT fan) and the interface is not the hell described in this article.

Gran Turismo is the grandaddy, and I still look back incredibly fondly to the old Gran Turismo games. But the place to get that game now is Forza. Definitely for the Top Gear fan that wants to drive cars as "realistically" as possible on a video game console (there's neat hardcore stuff in the PC realm to check out as well, but they're definitely not as accessible as a Forza).
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Then and Now - Normandy 1944.
Amazing collection of photos taken during the WW2 and nowadays.
You can use self cleaning coatings , and then using low pressure flow of water you can clean stuff.

Then you can use a robot walking on the ceiling(mounted/using vacuum) on the ceiling , that can control the angle ,direction and force of water , so you know water flows only down ( assuming your floor is water resistant).

Then you use some scooba like robot to clean the water from floor.

you might even spare the robot , and just use some water pipe the pushes water down , and stick it to places you want the water to flow down to , before you want to clean.

moving stuff from the bathroom:
i think that in general "moving stuff" is quite complex.
but if the stuff you want to move is is placed on removable plastic surfaces , that have some sorts of easy visual structures to ID by robots(maybe even a small barcode) , this becomes much easier for the robot.
JavaScript isn't really important for non-web development. I used to program video games for hand held consoles and JavaScript was the last thing on my mind.

Okay, maybe I was working for the unmentioned 1% (and for what it's worth, the company I currently work for uses JavaScript). And really, it's not a bad idea to learn JavaScript - it's pretty ubiquitous and chances are you will work for a company that uses it at some point in your career. But honestly, I'm getting a little sick of all these articles that seem to forget that there is more to programming than web apps.

Edited to remove snarkiness.
The point of the article was if you are doing web you have to do JavaScript a conclusion I agree with. JavaScript and Browser based apps is the web of the future when talking about apps. Most new development of web applications are taking place not with struts or ASP or PHP but with JavaScript relegation the others to providing REST services to the browser based app.

Personally I could not be happier, I hated the old page POST model for anything other than web magazines. It was painful to gyrate back to the server for every state change. I agree with the authors conclusion JavaScript is rapidly becoming the default language of the web UI and not having experience in it will put you at a disadvantage if you plan to do web UI work.

The interesting part that I see is just as the role of the designer and developer defined over the last 15 years to become two independent roles we are now seeing the roles of UX developer and systems developer diverge. I know a good deal of people on each side of the fence who are happy about that fact.

I see Java and C# guy that are happy that their role stops at the REST service interface. And I see front end guys who are ecstatic about not having to worry about contorting objects into relational structures and integrating with queues and legacy systems. I see the new web apps as a maturing of the art.
3D data not required. EffecTV had this almost a decade ago: http://effectv.sourceforge.net/predator.html

Check out the rest of the EffecTV effects: http://effectv.sourceforge.net/

This is cool, nonetheless. I'd really like to see someone find a way to add 3D data to EffecTV.
>I'm now living in Manhattan and working for an awesome company, but I still miss the startup life.

When I was finishing college I could not WAIT to get outta there -- what between homework, regular work, and just being plain TIRED of school. The day after I got my degree, I said "man I already miss school!"

How did you feel right after you left your "startup life?"
I came here to say the same thing. Modifying the maps from bing/yahoo to simulate the effects that google provided must have taken forever. Even doing something like adding an extra pixel or two of white background to 90ish cities would take me hours. Very well polished article.
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This is not true (meaning, it worked for me). Are you sure you used a command something like this?

$ appcfg.py download_app -A <app_id> <some_folder>

If it doesn't ask for credentials, you should probably add the --no_cookies flag.