skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lighting EVER Partners with Energy Star to Promote LED Lighting
As the New Year of 2011 begins, there’s a new appearance of Lighting EVER. We are the PARTNER with Energy Star of U.S. Department of Energy. It is big news for Lighting EVER, meaning that our company is qualified, and that our LED lighting are the PARTNER with Energy Star of U.S. Department of Energy. It is big news for Lighting EVER, meaning that our company is qualified, and that our LED lighting products are doing good at energy saving and environmental protection.products are doing good at energy saving and environmental protection. You can see at http://www.energystar.gov.
It’s estimated that if our individual customer, business organizations and government agencies adopt some products and building improvement programs labelled Energy Star, our national energy cost will reduce 200,000,000,000 dollars every year. That is not only a good means to reduce our individual and adminstration cost, but also a powerful measure to save less and less energy and protect our unique earth, which has been hurt so badly.

Gorgerous thing! Lighting EVER is the partner with Energy Star. It’s big news not just for us, actually it’s BIG NEWS for all of you! As eligible partner, we will work much harder to allow our customers to buy the rest assured with more ease.
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Sales have slowed down as our niche market got a bit saturated. We've hit almost $180K total so far.
This one makes my display shimmer a little: http://peach.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/sun_session.png
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too much!!
Am I the only person that doesn't really think that 10 times is that much? It wouldn't surprise me if I check it more than 30 times on days that I check it a lot.

Wake up and lay in bed for a few minutes...check HN.

Waiting in line for coffee or something? Check HN...

On hold on the phone? Check HN...

Load HN on my computer and maybe skim an article or something...

and so on.

I think that the confusion might be coming from how some of us check HN. I'm actually reading an article only very rarely, and only commenting even more rarely. Usually it's just a quick skim of the headlines to see if anything interesting is happening in the world.

How many times do some of you glance out the window when you're sitting at your desk? More than 10?

Maybe a better analogy is: how many times do you glance at the clock? The clock is meaningless to your work, it's just a status update about your surroundings. Same thing, at least to me, about HN. It isn't about actually reading anything, it's just about getting a quick status update about what's going on.

I'd bet that >70% of my visits to HN are less than a minute long.
I'm not the author, but time and frequency usage statistics are commonly collected from application statistics packages.
Last time I looked it was averaging about a 1000 active users a day.
You might want to checkout Stack Overflow and the community of programmers that converse there. There's a whole network of related sites, too, and there is some really great discussion there. If it's partially the comments that attract you to HN, then you'll probably like Stack Overflow.
Fantastic. Looking forward to seeing more games built using Impact. Is Z-Type going to be open sourced, or available on ImpactJS.com?
If you haven't been paying much attention to EC2 until now, getting your head around the pricing structure, what plan makes sense, and the whole "You have a VM but no permanent disk" thing can take some time. PHPFog's value proposition would seem to be "We've figured out EC2 for you, and have default VMs setup for Drupal and Wordpress and a way to deal with those system's need for permanent disk space. If you can get your code in a git repository we'll handle the rest." Just getting Drupal and Wordpress out of a shared hosting environment is a huge win security/stability wise, and if their VMs have a configuration that deals with a lot of the well known attack vectors that aren't shared host related all the better.

I'm not sure that I'd use it myself, because I'd like to spend to time to get familiar with EC2, but with shared hosting becoming a less reliable solution as internet traffic patterns change (and shared hosts increasingly go he commodity route) there's going to be a lot of PHP professionals (and PHP hacks, and non-programmer hacks using PHP systems) looking for a turn-key cloud solution, so I can see the interest in PHPFog.

TL;DR: There's large swaths of the PHP community that doesn't know how to make EC2 work, PHPFog is aiming to be their middleman.
The 1.5B Intel/nVidia settlement - who gets what.
The ui isn't very good. The static header looks like the button that you press to upload.
I'm glad you liked it. Yes that would be a crazy idea. Adword ads with "realtime" phone responses. Click the advert and you call the company.
In my case by following @newsyc20 on twitter amount of visits dropped sharply - but it is still high!
I just recently submitted an app called iTried to the Mac app store which was kinda built for this (http://bit.ly/hEDJTw)

iTried listens for screensaver stopped events, and then takes the picture. I disabled tweetpic'ing the picture when submitting to the app store, but will re-enable in an update.
You could set it as your browsers home page.

I mean mine is set to Google, but I could always just use the search bar.
Wow, pretty cool!
As an iTerm user I'll be looking forward to that.
Where is this option?
http://forrst.com is a good one but invite only.
Well, maybe out of ambition or whatever they took some SAT prep work.

I didn't for three simple reasons: (1) I was so uninformed I didn't have a clue about just what the SAT was! (2) Teachers in grade school had been so critical of me, essentially because I wasn't a student like the girls in the classes!, that I'd largely given up on academics and wasn't trying very hard. (3) I'd never heard about any SAT test prep!

I did try hard in high school math, because I very much liked the subject, but I still thought that pleasing the teachers was hopeless and, thus, didn't try. Maybe that math I studied was responsible for my SAT scores, but I doubt it. Besides the CEEB or whatever wanted to claim that the test measured just 'aptitude'.

Uh, just because someone took some SAT prep material doesn't mean that the prep material was really responsible for their good scores! I'd side with the students who got good scores, however they did it: If they did so well on the SATs, however they did it, then they should be able to "make it" in ugrad school.

Uh, unless they were competing with my wife! She wanted to take a course in history but didn't need the credit so just audited. The lecture hall had 300 students. The prof insisted that even auditing students also take the tests. At the end, the prof told her that she should have taken the course for credit since she had the highest grade in the class! Before I met her socially, I taught her frosh trig. On my tests, some of the questions were difficult for a lot of points. At the end, she had twice as many points as the next best student; she could have walked out after the midterm and still made an A! I tried to compete with her in Scrabble. She was ahead, but as we played I got better. Alas she got better even faster so that her margin grew so much she refused to play with me again!
OK, you guys both win.
Debugging is sweet,

And so are you.
I'm frustrated that in this day and age this is the best solution people recommend.

Are there any elegant HTML5 multiple file uploaders out there with drag and drop?

That, and direct S3 upload, is the Holy Grail for me.
He was one of my dissertation advisors.
getting your head around the pricing structure, what plan makes sense, and the whole "You have a VM but no permanent disk" thing can take some time.

Yeah, an hour or so? Seriously, I still don't get it. There is also this: https://hub.turnkeylinux.org/ from http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ guys. Haven't tried it myself yet, but I really like what they did with turnkeylinux images, they're absolutely amazing for what they are (time savers).
Yes, I contemplated using the amount of time users spent on HN rather than the number of sessions in this poll. However, the former is probably harder for users to estimate.
I just switched one of my projects to this. It's nice, but doesn't properly relay responses from uploads to other domains. I understand that may be a limitation of the Flash runtime though.
Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
I mean, screw supporting old browsers

Given them a basic, single file uploaded with no fancy

A clean HTML5 implementation, with nice features, is more valued
Minimongo: A micro-ORM for MongoDB & Python
AMD CEO resigns unexpectedly
Just looking for some feedback, useful ideas. I was unsatisfied with both MongoKit and MongoEngine, so I decided to write my own very lightweight ORM for MongoDB in Python. Let me know what you think.
vkontakte.ru google translate translates this to facebook.
I used to work at a comparison search engine that basically didn't have the resources to devote to searching. We kept pushing for more resources allocated to this, but we just didn't have the bandwidth and/or capable engineers that were really experts at information retrieval.

Another engineer and I attempted to get search working right, but the difficulty when it comes to search is overwhelming and just not an easy engineering feat. Advanced search integration for integral user experience features, such as understanding user intention, query disambiguation, search term boosting, information metadata, typeahead, etc were very difficult to get right, hard to really test, and required lots of knowledge about information retrieval -- which a domain that not many engineers are familiar with.

I think a service that provides an easy to use API and allows the ability for companies to easily and effortlessly address some of the concerns above is always in need.
Google Wave was awesome. I'm still irked that nobody else gave it a chance
Uploadify (http://www.uploadify.com/) will do direct S3 uploading - it takes some work though, and the uploader's in flash.
The article says "90 millions of millions", which is a little larger than 90 million.
Too much. In fact, there is a plateau past which repeated checking turns up no new posts and comments. Haha, but seriously, quite often and closer to 10^2 times a day.
Iterative development is good at getting the details right. But you're never going to make a huge leap with iterative development, you need to make such leaps intentionally and with significant planning, even if you iteratively fine-tune after that.
Bandzoogle.com is hiring a full time Rails developer. We build tools that help bands succeed online. Unlike many music industry startups we’re stable (launched in 2003), profitable, and growing fast.

More details and to apply: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/8006
It's not addiction as much as it is boredom and a thirst for novelty. I only recently discovered HN and added it to my RSS feed.

Probably should do something about out-of-control RSS reading one of these days. It takes an outrageous amount of time albeit interstitial time between actual tasks. As far as "addictions" go, RSS-reading isn't so bad compared to say... heroin, chewing-tobacco, alcoholism, violence, smoking and philandering.
Three Days Later: The Mac App Store Effect
Monster Cable Issues Yet Another Bogus DMCA Notice To A Search Engine
My guess is IE 9 doesn't supports the 'lighter' globalCompositeOperation on the canvas which is key to making the effect work. Without it I bet the lines look pretty dull.
Checkout http://www.billboxit.com/
I've got a buddy who has been using it with his roommates and says it's pretty good!
My hypothesis is that anxiety arise due to the illusion of control. On the plane, if it fell out of the sky there was nothing that I could do; I had to accept my fate. Filling in the form, I took agency for any mistakes made.

I'd say, for most people, it's quite the contrary. They are anxious when they are NOT in control. Pilots in the cockpit are less anxious because they are in control of the plane, while pilots flying as passengers may feel anxious not less than a regular passenger (that's what I heard one pilot say). On the other hand, I'm never anxious when filling out some papers. I am in control of them, I enjoy doing this and I know I would do it better than anyone else would do it for me.

So that might not be the best advice for everyone. I would agree that we work best when we are not stressed, but apparently that means different things for different people.
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How to Make Your Shopping Cart Suck Less
Social Quest - a Facebook app - to finish or no?
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The idea is to allow access to lots of different proven, well-tested systems using a single consistent syntax and environment.
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Many cloud services fail if the data is encrypted. Google gives it's applications away for free because it wants to analyze your content so that it can better advertise to you.

There's no benefit to Google keeping your data encrypted so
that they cannot further spew more effective ads at you in every possible manner they can think of. That's the trade-off.
For me, the fact that it's a conversation — rather than just a one-man talk — makes it more engaging. I tend to tune out a bit when it's just one person talking (remnants of my University years?), but always snap back into focus when the second person joins in.

Also, in the case of the MapReduce video, it feels helpful to have the concepts repeated in slightly different words. If you understood the idea the first time, it reinforces it. In case you didn't quite get it the first time, it gives you a second chance.
Would love to get that script, Apple really needs to improve in this area, although I guess for the big sellers it is not so important.
I visit HN while in the bathroom.

(TMI?)
The problem with being in Austin is that everywhere you go, you're surrounded by Texas.
Although I enjoy jashkenas' Javascript documentation a great deal and find it extremely helpful, I'm having a hard time getting excited by the resurrection of interest in literate programming. I enjoy and appreciate the notion that code should be designed by humans to read, but I'm reminded of (and agree with) Bob Martin's admonition in Clean Code that energy spent polishing one's code commentary is better spent improving the readability and flow of the code itself.

Also, comments that come across elegant and attractive when rendered in HTML look teeth-gratingly gratuitous when viewed in the context of the original code. For example,

// Attach all inheritable methods to the SomeObject prototype.
_.extend(MyLib.SomeObject.prototype, MyLib.SomeMixin.prototype, { ... })

Yes, that's an accurate description of what it does. But if you can read Javascript, you should know that; in code, it's visual clutter, and worse, it adds overhead to maintain it when you move or update your code.
There's another principle at play. Colleges aim to maximize their yield, or the percentage of students who are offered admission that ultimately matriculate. Nothing against CMU - it's a fantastic school in nearly every regard - but these perfect scoring students... are they most likely to attend CMU? In a lot of cases the school is competing with HYP and others of that ilk.

So if you're CMU admissions, how do you maximize yield in those scenarios when P(student matriculates) is relatively low? You reject the student in favor of the better (if lower scoring) fit. Not only does it enable them to better predict/manage the size of the incoming class, but it also increases yield, which is a number that's reported directly to US News and which (in principle if not in practice) describes the desirability of admission from the perspective of incoming freshmen.
I don't understand. Why is this any different than most jquery upload plugins?

Also, I tried the demo and didn't want to use Google Gears. After I didn't allow Gears permission, the uploader stopped working. This is a problem.
Totally!

I mean, it's not like you can offer people the svelte, clean, fancy option and fall back to HTML POST if that doesn't work or anything. Nosirree.
Can you give some other examples of Crockford's advice that you'd disregard or how the Closure Compiler affects the way you write JavaScript?
Here's Google's page with instructions and further info - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
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I based it of this blog post. The last comment is me with a slightly updated PHP version http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/08/scraping-appstore-re....

My site is Drupal 6 based and I wrote a module to do the scrapping and populate a CCK content type that I display with a Drupal view. I configured Triggers and Actions for the notifications.

If there are any other Drupal people out there I'm happy to share the code. Just needs a little polish before I could submit it.
A little bit of basics to help myself :)

http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1593
Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86
> Its crazy to me how many people want to cry bubble 2.0 when all of these companies are turning good profits.

Most of them aren't turning good profits, relative to the valuations they have been receiving.

The recent valuations for businesses like Facebook would take lifetimes to repay the cost of shares based on their profits today. The valuations only make any sense if you assume that these companies are going to experience very rapid growth rates in the near future.

A lot of us who are thinking "bubble" just don't buy the hype about that growth. Social networking sites have come and gone. Search engines have come and gone. Technology platforms have come and gone. So far, I see no reason to believe that the likes of Facebook or Zynga or Groupon will be immune to disruptive competition and find new markets or business models sufficient to sustain dramatic growth for several years, which is what it would take as a minimum to make the valuations realistic.

> The dotcom bubble was all about people throwing a bunch of money at companies that had no clear or proven plan of success

And what is different here? Amazon has a market cap around $80B and a very high P/E by most standards at 75ish, but it has a solid business model (actually, more than one these days) and a strong brand that has stood the test of time for more than 15 years now. Next to that, does $50B for a social network that reportedly makes only ~$100M per year seem like a good investment? They've had 7 years to monetize their system and they've got 500M users; how long should we wait for the astronomical profits, exactly?

Another example: for $5.5B, you could supposedly buy Zynga according to a recent evaluation. Or, you could buy about 10% of Tesco (the UK food store juggernaut).
Love it. Reminds me of Typing of the Dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead
We were actually considering both an initial crawling mechanism so you can "just go", and a very simple REST API for adding, updating, and deleting existing documents in the index. So you would be able to have both a 0-60 approach for getting your already-public-facing content into a sub-second search index, and also the ability to granularly submit document batches.

As far as security is concerned, one assumption is that if your content is already crawlable, it's not private. That said, it would be trivial to implement a mechanism for keeping private data private - and even public data from being indexed (i.e. with a meta tag.)
$rename will not magically remove the expense of updating millions of rows in your data store (compared to updating a single row in a normalised DB)
Congratulations are in order. You can are off to a good start, now you need to build a sustainable model ontop of this successful deployment.

Are you guys based in downtown T.O? would love to connect and drop by the office to say hello.
Research links the amygdala’s size to social network size
* http://valums.com/ajax-upload/

* http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/
I have receive a lot of requests so far (probably more than I can handle). I will not be providing any more free designs for now. You can still email me for advice, or if you can pay (paid projects obviously get priority).

Thanks.
Here's quick correction: Toss out the poll look in the server log. (Requires access to server log)
Good point. I just didn't make it that far :) For further expansion of the point, Caltech teaches you how to learn in a rigorous, rather than piecemeal, fashion, which if you are still filled with passion for your chosen path, gives you the chance to be extremely technically successful. Rather than learning 'tricks' that build into experience-based knowledge, you have a full framework that new knowledge gets slotted into as you acquire it.
A point system… I could add a leaderboard showing the people who have drawn the most tiles. But I worry that that would create an incentive for people to make lots of blank tiles. Do you see it differently?

As for making web apps like this- Do you want to make one with a scrollable tiled thing like this?, or something else?
"I’m not quite sure what search-engine sex would involve. But Google apparently needs some."

Picture a duck (http://duckduckgo.com/).
The Rise and Fall of Universities
Perhaps I missed it but is there a way to export the result into an image?

I've seen it done in a similar canvas project called Harmony (http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/)

It would be nice to have an infinite amount of Silk wallpapers that you created yourself or by others :)
Still requires a decent app to be featured, and furthermore, to back up the feature. I don't think it's fair to caveat every app store success story with a comment about being featured.
Check my comment earlier with shameless self plug for iTried (http://bit.ly/hEDJTw) :)
They also have Venezuela marked as having no censorship. That has changed in recent years.
There are three contracts for Facebook on Sharesost since the first of the year. The prices are $35-55. The Winklevosses accepted $36 a few years ago. Was that really such a bad valuation?
That's a nice return compared to many startups that spend years without being profitable at all.

They built, learned, and re-built. They're now ahead of the game. I admire that.
Why having no schema in your ORM is a good thing? I can understand that having dynamic schema on your DB probably will enable you to quickly change columns, indexes and so forth. And I understand that having an object that you can plug whatever properties to it at run-time is convenient for programming too. But why you should have no schema for ORM? It seems to me that if you can enforce schema in ORM, you can add columns/indexes as fast as your DB supports too (i.e. change the schema deceleration in your code), and have fewer bugs. Just curious about the reasoning behind this, I cannot figure it out. (Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Python)
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I read the original article and honestly couldn't tell if it was a satire or not. I appreciate the honesty of the writer of this blog post though.