skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect a larger hole in this theory is all the "dwarf planet(s)" (ex: pluto) that don't look like small gas giants. I mean nothing prevents a star from capturing a “rogue planet / proto star” and if you look at younger systems you might seem more inner gas giants etc. But, there are several proto planets that don’t seem to fit with the theory.

PS: Then again they could have formed around another star…
This seems like a promising implementation of Vi in Javascript: http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/
Actually, PyPy is already a drop-in replacement for many uses, and is getting closer to being a complete drop-in replacement all the time. For example, they have a source-compatible implementation of the CPython C API: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-cpython-extension...
I'm not sure about it being the "first"; The Minnesota Cup (http://breakthroughideas.org/) has been around for awhile, and http://minnestar.org has done some micro-seed funding.

http://speedylemur.com is also local to Minneapolis, though I don't know how many startups they've funded yet.

Regardless, still cool news for entrepreneurs in this part of the midwest...
Although submitted later, this item has a comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991352
Some of the "urge to post" comes from the nerdy "somebody's wrong on the Internet" impulse, but a lot of it comes from gamification. HN is just gamified enough to breed competitiveness.
Apple's iPad 2 to have front, rear cameras in early 2011 - rumor
Ask HH: Does this app exist? (robust virtual scratch paper)
I'm looking for the best of two worlds: sketching thoughts on paper and typing, but I'm not talking about an iPad app. I'm talking about something for use with a full keyboard and a mouse.

1) I love to scratch out thoughts on paper while rotating the orientation so that multiple thoughts are all in one place but distinguished by their orientation.

2) At the same time, I also love the convenience of typing on my keyboard.

The key benefits are:

* Able to organize and visualize many thoughts in close proximity without wasted screen space

* Convenient to the workflow of laptop users (ie. no paper, fast typing)

* Liberating -- no imposed structure, no pressure to do something clean, easy to trash

* Fast

* Fun/attractive/natural

I'll describe my deal app to give an idea of what I'm looking for (and because it's fun to conceptualize apps).

As I see it, the salient features would be:

* Able to change text size very quickly (i.e. mouse scroll wheel)

* Able to rotate paper very quickly and smoothly to any degree while the text is maintained

* Able to rotate cursor orientation very quickly and smoothly up to 45 degrees above or below the horizontal

* Super-easy to shift into low-res drawing mode (bonus points if jankety mouse movements are averaged into something that looks like a confident stroke with a pen/pencil - this doesn't need shape and line and curve tools etc, just render what the mouse traces)

* Easy to strike through text (not via formatting, via a slightly different drawing tool -- I imagine you pick the strike out tool, select the area, get a zoom in, and then use the normal drawing mechanism only at the more granular level)

* crumple up the sheet of paper in a really satisfying way to get a new sheet

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In short, it's a more robust facsimile of virtual pen and paper.

I would love an app like this for thinking, but I would use it just as much as a teaching/communicating aid.

Does this or something with similar functionality exist?

If not, how hard would it be for the right person to build? (just out of curiosity)
Not that this is limited to Microsoft, but the poster suggested condescension and not malice. For example:

>>Does it work on my ubuntu laptop?

Dear iamnotobama - You may be surprised to hear that it
actually does work on your laptop. It's a three-step
process:
1.Install Windows 7
2.Install IE9, and
3.Enjoy the Beauty of the Web.
☺
There is a new build at:
http://pre.racket-lang.org/installers
People who don't like the posts showing up on the front page should flag more posts. Even if it's too highly-rated to kill a story, flaggings reduct the amount of time a story spends on the front page.
I'll check out Yii but if it does code generation on your behalf like the other commenter suggests then it's probably not going to appeal to me.

The same could be said prior to Yii regarding building from the ground up. Yii shouldn't exist based on your own argument :).
There is no lack of production in the US. Except during recessions and minor blips, it has not dropped since the early 70's (maybe earlier, my graph only goes back that far).

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IPMAN

Further, in spite of producing more goods with fewer workers, people in the US have managed to purchase more of these items now than ever before.
My take on this is that the sly Putin loves to play Mr Democracy by outlining the failures of Western Democracies which Wikileaks has brought to light, not because he loves democracy but because it's that much difficult for the US and Euro democrats to criticize his constant censorship of dissenters in Russia once he can also finger their own totalitarian leanings.
Example? They may be skirting around saying something straight out for legal reasons (either proprietary or getting sued by a competitor).
It doesn't help that IMAP servers are banned inside Microsoft, so absolutely nobody uses it (you could still connect to external IMAP servers from inside MS, but I don't know anyone who does it)
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988933
Thanks. It seems to be looking for the "/database" file, instead of for the "/database/index.php" file, which makes me think it's a rewrite problem...
I've been semi-following wikileaks but I didn't know about this Shell-Nigerian infiltration issue.

Sometime I feel that whatever noble cause Bill Gates and Warren Buffet do will eventually be overridden by these issues in the future.

What we're seeing is a humongous circle of evil:

A company started with a decent intention: just to make a living. Once its existence is threatened by competitors, it is forced to expand in order to be competitive.

When all "ethical" routes to expand had been explored, they started to do a less "un-ethical" moves (i.e.: infiltrate, spy, bribe, etc). Government is the first and foremost primary target for these kind of activities. Once it happened, government is no longer a pure entity that can lead a nation. Government turns into a commercial entity where it tries to make every single employee rich.

When every dirty little secrets are exposed, citizens might turn against their own government. Probably in the form of militants, rebels, and whatnot.

What once was an ideal movement to overrule the corrupt government might put these idealist in the same spot as the previous governments: "hey, we fought for this country and it's time for us to enjoy the best time of our lives ... while we can". Thus the circle of corruption in the government continues.

It all started with "Money". It is truly the root of all evils.

Somehow I've seen these things unfold in most Hollywood movies. WikiLeaks, corrupted government, overruling militants.

On the other hand, it looks like China is trying to stay away from all the debacles by rebuilding and reinvesting on its own infrastructure. While China has its own issues with human rights and freedom of speech, it is probably one of the nations that "seem" less corrupt to foreign interests (they're still corrupt within themselves) compare to other nations.

But I might be very wrong about China.
My favorite great for anyone interested in startups

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they lie in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "

-- Theodore Roosevelt
> The title says stupid but the details are about slow and forgetful. Forgetful people can be quick witted and brilliant.

More explicitly, the author is describing the effects of poor oxygen supply to the brain. He seems to make the mistake of thinking of the brain as a machine who's level of functioning can be well described by a single parameter (poor/stupid/malfunctioning --> good/intelligent/functioning). But that's obviously a ridiculous simplification. There's absolutely no reason to believe the effects of poor oxygen supply are comparable to being naturally unintelligent.

In other words: having one of your legs amputated does not give you any insight into being short.
Celebrity, or meritocracy? With comments, that's the ultimate question.

See, when Joel writes a small piece of advice for B2B sales ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987223 ), knowing the background he's coming from, that advice get a disproportionately higher weight both in my mind, and my upvoting-finger, than Random J Commenter.

And Yes, I am implying here, that Random J Commenter doesn't know shit about B2B sales. With his advice, the most action I can take is careful, small-scale controlled experiments, 2 times out of 3 blowing right to my head. Because Random J Commenter's infosource is not the real world, but rather techcrunch, or, more likely, other Random J Blogger.

The other aspect of this, is user-based browsing, which I tend to do a lot (following 10+change HNers, and looking where they comment -as opposed to the stories on frontpage / askHN). This also gives them point leverage -after all, this way I see only the things they care to comment about.

The single most important observation I take from the above two, is that neither of these are the kind of shallow things PG is remarking in his articles -both are meritocratic worth of value provided by these "celebrities".

It just happens, that business knowledge is distributed disproportionately.
To give or not to give: It's all about the brain
This exact thing happened to me in 2005 - I lost 7 years of emails from high school, college, between myself and several girlfriends, chat logs I'd saved from IRC, photos, and other important notes. I was incredibly pissed and immediately stopped using hotmail for anything, including changing all my other accounts everywhere else to not use hotmail as a backup email address.

It was unbelievable to me then that they would delete your email after 30 (?) days of inactivity, and it's unbelievable to me now, especially after Gmail changed the game for them in 2004 by essentially saying that diskspace is a commodity and you can therefore store as much as you want with them (within reason) for as long as you want.

Sure, there are things in the ToS that cover Google's ass, but no Google engineer in his right mind would write code that automatically deletes someone's email after a predetermined (way too short) time period. There would be too many alarm bells going off in their head, they'd talk about it with the team, and they'd make the right call. Something tells me that with Hotmail, it was just an exec somewhere looking at a balance sheet and trickling an order down the waterfall so the revenue looks nicer.

Jaded, but goddamnit.
If this approach has promise it seems a shame that the mission ended yesterday, just two days after this paper was released. http://demeter.cnrs-orleans.fr/dmt/index.html

The next step must be to investigate whether any similar correlations have been observed. There have been plenty of major earthquakes over the past year alone. The satellite isn't going to have robust data on all of them but I would imagine that over the past 6 years they've been 'lucky' enough to collect decent data on at least a few more major earthquakes.
Or are those responses as professional as they can make themselves sound? They didn't seem that arrogant to me, just very political and containing context. Microsoft is a HUGE company and it has gotten in trouble more than once for various things.

And, forgive me, but how are their responses bad? In particular, I found their response to why IE doesn't do silent updates to be incredibly acceptable! (not to mention if any browser were to pull a stunt like auto, silent updates, they'd be assaulted more, to no end)

"One of our principles with Internet Explorer and Windows is user choice; this shows up in many places including our approach to updates. We believe users are in the best position to make decisions about what software they want to run. IE is the most widely used browser including being the most trusted and widely used browser with businesses.

As you can imagine a hospital with a multimillion dollar patient tracking web based application doesn't want a silent or automatic upgrade to their browser that could in fact jeopardize their patient's safety. For consumers, we have Windows update which provides a simple notification that a new version of the browser is available and lets the user choose to install or not. Again, customer choice is our overriding principle." (from link)

Also, a question: what would you have wanted them to say? "No, because we'd get in trouble"? Or, "This is the situation. Because of this, we say no".
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989738
Nice, but heads up: it doesn't play nice with Vimium (chrome extension).
This is par for the course with physorg (and to a slightly lesser degree, newscientist).
Try Lotus Notes. Outlook is a shining unicorn in comparison. Urgh.
This post reminds me of taking some classes with a certain professor of mine. Most of us in the class would regard ourselves as pretty bright, but this prof was a half step ahead of us. He had a habit of blurting out the answers to questions just as a bunch of us had gotten close to formulating the answer or had just opened our mouths to say it. I never thought he was mean spirited about it. He was just faster than us and a little impatient.
Let's get down to brass tacks. It's not the American people who are obsolete, it's the notion that corporations are something more significant to us than a place to temporarily lay down our investment bet for a brief while. Anything more is asking for heartbreak. Just because the government personifies a corporation doesn't mean we have to as individuals.

Hows about this for a radical idea: We don't NEED our corporations, or our rich. No, seriously, we don't.

"But who will make our products," you ask. Well, who does that now? Not us, not anymore. Does it matter? Consumer products will always be relatively easily manufactured, and why would we focus on making easy stuff?

Look at the Germans: They have trade surpluses not because they make the latest Christmas toy craze or plates and sporks, but because they make precision tools, gauges, and other engineered products for industry. Their concept of manufacturing, called Mittelstand, sees small and mid-size companies -- over 90% of German companies are that size and they employ over 70% of the German population -- doing the lion's share of manufacturing, much of it for export to other countries.

Germans are, as a people, self-reliant to the detriment of their corporations; we in the US are the opposite. But, if this article is true in any measure, that will have to change.

It's unfortunate that Obama and others in our government don't place enough emphasis on things like YC and the SBA. We need _everyone else_ to see that there is an alternative to becoming a 99er and/or relying on either Big Government or Big Corporate (BG/C) to save us. BG/C will always stand together, whether through regulatory capture, (de)regulation that only serves to curtail competition from upstarts, or blatant TBTF corporate welfare.

I know, Germans and Chinese small business ownership is a very cultural thing, and I can't pretend that it takes a certain mentality to start and run a business. But, that's the excitement of risk. I think everyone can agree that we're at a really low point in American morale. That "can do" spirit that used to pervade our psyche is replaced with rage and finger-pointing. What we need to do is learn to bootstrap again. I want people who have been or know someone who has been affected by this corporate "pivot" away from America to ask them what do they have to lose by starting their own business. The hustle atmosphere is what causes job growth in the first place. If ideas are too expensive to bootstrap, join or start an incubator. I see life science and biotech incubators in every r&d park in every major city in the US, more so than other technologies. Why? Pooling of resources, and volume discounts on lab and materials.

It's all in how you look at things: It may be a lot harder to start a business than to work for a corporation, but what if it's impossible to find a job at one now? What is the possible alternative? Becoming a 99er, then switiching straight over to welfare? Is that really what people are resigning themselves to when the corporations won't hire them?

Trite but apropos movie quote conclusion? "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
True, looking back I forgot to include the part where they obsessively delete each email from their device after reading it.

The "Leave Mail" option is very important as well, especially when they really just want to leave the mail on the server long enough to get it on multiple devices (especially their main desktop), but the server has absurd size caps.

It's often a case of their expectations having already been set by their history with POP3, so anything working different is not what they want.
In a previous comment iamnotobama mentioned dynamic programming -- clearly someone who knows that IE only runs on Windows. I think snark deserves snark back.
I think the WINE implementation on Linux and OS X says a few things about their defense.
In theory, yes, upvotes indicate valuable content and downvotes indicate irrelevancy. This worked brilliantly for Digg and Reddit, after all, right?

In practice, the people that designed the upvote-downvote system and presented it to us as Web 2.0's way of making the Internet perfectidealolympus forgot that they were dealing with human beings. They assumed they were dealing with computers or something for which there's a such thing as "optimal". As a human being, sometimes I feel like a selfless contributor of optimizing upvotes and downvotes, other times I feel like upvoting because hey I like this guy, other times I feel like downvoting because fuck the world and fuck you buddy, and still other times my Dadaist urges kick in and I vote entirely randomly to sow discord and paranoia among the otherwise content bourgeoise. Or at least that's how I imagine some people vote.

The thing about dealing with vague information like "links" and "comments" is that there is no agreed consensus on what's optimal. Back when I first joined Hacker News two or three years ago, there was a faction of users (myself included for a time) who disagreed with snark replies and witty one-liners. That's almost all gone now; we accept that the community feels the need sometimes to be clever rather than overwhelmingly in-depth. There have been people who complain about HN's start-up news/technical news/YCombinator-related news/breaking news/programming news/obituaries/spammy motivational blog posts that tell you you should be happier than you are/Paul Graham's thoughts on his local deli's chicken salad. None of them are "right" per se; they all simply have a different vision of what they want. If YCombinator wanted to evolve Hacker News, they could attempt to install solutions to this perception problem, and come up with clever alternatives that would help each of us see only the things we want to see. But I'm guessing they're happy with HN as it is, warts and all; I'm also betting that most of us are accepting of HN as it is, or at least we suspect any attempts to fix problems will only make them worse.

So in the end ironically the votes up and down don't matter. Downvoted content is sometimes great. Upvoted content is sometimes really terrible. The lucky thing is that Hacker News is meaningless enough that we won't be shedding tears over its imperfections. Or at least we shouldn't be.
“Spacecraft” is the catch-all term. Pretty much anything designed by humans to be in space can be called a spacecraft.
A few thoughts:

1) Prioritization: since there's never is enough time for one or one's team to do it all, figuring out what you can get the most bang for the buck (in your interpretation of ROI) is critical.

2) Keeping ideas alive: because of prioritization, sometimes one can't put much effort behind and idea or project that has promise, but is lower on the priority list. Keep feeding that idea/project, even if it means having another person or team carry it. Some great results have come from some things I couldn't commit to myself, but others were able to.

3) Balance: the startup mindset can lead to a lot of creativity and productivity. But try to keep a good balance with your personal life (whatever a good balance means for you: 80-20, 50-50, etc).

4) Itch persists: it's so true, after one's created something, and that something has reached an operational stage, being a creative person, the itch to create something else will become stronger with time until you can't resist it. Being unable to act on the creative urge is highly frustrating.
* Would it have killed you to have included a built-in spellchecker?

For IE9 we really focused on what customers, partners and developers told us mattered most, their sites. Developers wanted the ability to create richer and more immersive experiences on the web, and so we invested in fully HW accelerating HTML5 through Windows.

* Why no Websockets support?

We started by building a tool to look at the top 7000 sites and what web APIs they used. In IE9, we set out to support the standards that showed up among those sites. We also spoke to developers and partners to understand what they were going do in the future and what they couldn't do today

... every answer is like this.
Here goes: https://github.com/jmathai/epiphany/issues/issue/28
100%. I had a friend in High School who liked to play Neopets (www.neopets.com). He would try out tons of old accounts with valuable pets on it, trying to see if they had guessable hotmail usernames. 1/10 times they did and he got the accounts and had the passwords sent there.
The poster writes: "Have you ever considered why it is so much harder to understand OO programs than procedural ones?"

It is? Seriously? I mean, there are badly-written OO programs, but there are badly-written programs of any variety, and assuming even a moderately good OO breakdown of the problem, the code in an OO program will fall into natural segments that are easy to see and easy to mentally file into compartments---much easier to read.

Furthermore, "written in C" and "OO program" are not mutually exclusive.
Does your comment teach us anything?
That's pretty obvious. Is there any doubt about this in anyone's mind?
OK, but the blueprint is still not the class; it's a piece of paper which carries a copy of information which describes the instances of the class.
I'll admit I thought you were both the same person until this comment. Thanks for pointing it out.
Marketing: The Blimp Test
Depends on what you mean. To me it's not just someone who is very good at one thing and then writes a decent book about it. I know a few people who are more than merely competent in several fields, eg music, chemistry, and emergency medicine. Then there is the question of fame. None (well maybe one) of the people I'm thinking of have a Wikipedia page.

I'd say there are tens or hundreds of thousands of "polymaths" running around. They are not hard to find; just go wherever people are inventing the future.
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