skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I know. I wonder what would the global income equality be like if it cost the same to make a component in China as in the USA? Would it really be 10x the cost?
Not necessarily.

I have to dig up which car, and to whom it was originally given to, but when Audi RS's were still produced exclusively by Quattro GmbH, and not sold by Audi dealers, one particular Formula 1 (or Le Mans) driver had his stolen. People were home at the time.

No one saw anyone enter or leave. A kitchen or patio door was broken to disengage the lock, the keys taken, the car taken, and that's all she wrote.

Rumor was organized crime, since Audi RS*s were popular rides for high level mafia. Needless to say, the vehicle was never recovered, and this wasn't the first high profile incident in which an Audi RS was stolen. Even when not stolen from high-profile individuals, the keys were lifted with the owners on the premises, without anyone being the wiser to the car being gone.
Yes, it'd work with 0x lambdas; however, the situations where this occurs in C are much less common in C++. Consider the "max" example given, as written in C++:

template <typename T> T max(T a, T b)
{
return (a > b) ? a : b;
}

int max_ints(int a, int b)
{
return max(a, b);
}

Of course this only works if "a" and "b" have the same type. 0x provides a solution for the situation where they don't:

template <typename Ta, typename Tb> auto max(Ta a, Tb b) -> decltype((a > b) ? a : b)
{
return (a > b) ? a : b;
}

int max_int_char(int a, char b)
{
return max(a, b);
}
Have there been any good looking regular websites released this year? A lot of best of lists tend to just be a list of portfolio and design studio websites.
Well, next time you come across a Malthusian, offer them a bet:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2045465
One of the chromium lead developers gave the presentation in the examples at a google technology user group meeting. It was nice to have someone answer questions about specifics on html5 and cross compatibility (one of my concerns). I sort of was spoiled because I found about htmlrocks.com on reddit but it seems to give a great way to showcase html5. Then they gave everyone a google cr-48. The meeting was run by google / (Chicago android / Chicago Google Technology User Group http://chicagoandroid.com/ )
What I wouldn't give to watch YouTube videos of some of these designers putting these sites together. Everything from how they get the background textures, to adding gradients, shadows, altering colors, everything. It would be amazing.

I'd probably pay to watch a 10 part series from an accomplished designer who goes start to finish designing some of these nice sites.
10 Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read From 2010
> Key to grabbing the data from the air were cheap Motorola phones which can have their onboard software swapped for an open source alternative.

Wasn't there a news bit not long ago about law enforcement agencies being puzzled by criminals buying/stealing loads of cheap Motorola phones?
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Is there a way to just filter all posts containing '2010' in the title?
also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
Yep, I access HN via a powerful rest API.
How to convert MXF files to MP4/AVI/WMV/MPG/3GP/MOV/MKV etc on Mac?
Absolutely.

Despite being responsible for Monkeybars, I actually hadn't used JRuby that much this past year, being mostly caught up in a Rails gig (which I thought might run under JRuby, but is not).

However, having gotten a Kintect I'm hooking into the C libs via JRuby and some nice JNI wrappers some smart Kinect hackers have written. So I can use JRuby + Monkeybars for the GUI.
I always cringe when I hear the word "resource" instead of "team member."
is this what you are looking for:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=intitle:2010+site:news.y...
I completely agree and would pay as well. I'm sure there are sites out there that fit this need, but the key is finding the accomplished designers out there willing to offer their best tips and tricks.
Just realized that I need to add Mirah (http://www.mirah.org/) to my list of cool 2010 tech.

I only started using about a week or so ago, but, hey, that;s still 2010.

I was trying to manipulate Kinect data in JRuby, but it was too slow. However, I may be able to use Mirah instead, and if all goes well get Rawr to auto-compile Mirah files as part of the build process. Mirah's still a bit rough, but knowing Charlie I expect it to rock.

I'm pretty excited about 2011. Which should be starting in about 30 minutes for me ...

Happy new year, all!
Sounds like someone wasn't practicing defensive electrical engineering (is that a thing? I think it should be a thing).
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"Eventually my friend went and inspected the factory on a business trip only to find so many ethically questionable practices that he eventually decided to switch to another job."
Why was that necessary? Has they tried to get them to switch to another source?
I prefer the Drawar best of roundups because at least they provide a few paragraphs of explanation for each screenshot explaining what makes it exceptional: http://www.drawar.com/posts/2010-best-designs-2nd-quarter
Was there? Sounds kinda familiar... interesting!
Very few burglars would bother to enter a house with people in it, the risk is too great for a few unknown things unless they knew something very valuable was there and worth the risk.
Someone really screwed it up somewhere. They should update this page section of "out of scope" by including "Alternate bios images".

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/f...

just kidding.
The few possessions I don't use regularly also happen to be the ones that are the easiest to move. Not to mention these sorts of things tend to already be in a box in my closet, practically packed and ready to go.

Aside from the negligible space they take up, they certainly aren't having a negative effect on my everyday life, so removing them would have no tangible benefit. In fact, their loss would deprive me of the artifacts of what's been a fairly interesting life so far. Any bulky items (eg small appliances, furniture) that would create any sort of hassle have already been given away to friends who would find them useful.

But I'm not sufficiently self-absorbed to call this a 'movement'. In the words of BSNYC^, it's just a matter of categorizing my things under 'Shit I Need' and 'Shit I Play With'. There's nothing complicated about that.

^ http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-smugness-keeping...
I don't think Charlie was making a claim about what the highest end computer looked like, but instead, what _his_ computer was.
My goals for 2011,originally posted in another thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035432:

- Top 100k pageviews/month average on my tech blog

- Write first book

- Write first webapp or mobile app

- Create something for sale (eBook, tutorials, etc.) for passive income

- Graduate from college

- Spend more time with family and away from the computer

- Something exciting and unexpected ... that's what makes life special, after all!
My question was more of if you have multiple statements, instead of a single expression, you wanted to stick inside a macro and preserve the ability to call it within another expression.

For example:

#define SOMEMACRO(x) do { \
int y=0; \
for(int i=0; i<x; i++) \
y=dosomething(y, i); \
} while (0)

Which, of course, works fine if you call it as a statement. But it doesn't work if you want to somehow "return" the value of "y" from that: there's no way to embed that kind of loop into an expression.

He showed an example of using Apple's Blocks to solve that, can you do the same with C++0x lambdas?
I'd want the inverse of that...
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Now if only links worked. Then you would have created a modern image mapping service. I like it.
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Ask HN: Why don't people use cloud and then cry when their site goes viral?
Why do people use traditional hosting services instead of cloud services like Amazon which they can dynamically scale when it goes viral ?
You mention that you've tried exercising in the morning, but have you tried an afternoon schedule instead? Not that I've got this figured out, but I've been pretty athletic most of my life, and have never found a way to make a morning workout enjoyable. But something very physical in the evening keeps me fully awake until I go to sleep, and then helps me sleep more solidly.

If your effects are seasonal, Vitamin D might certainly be worth trying. Diet certainly makes a difference, as others have pointed out. Don't necessarily assume that less is better: hungry people can be pretty lethargic too. Consider eating more and exercising to match. And I wouldn't necessarily give up on the idea of just sleeping in two shifts: going to sleep when you are tired, waking up and working without distraction from midnight-3am, and then sleeping until morning will get an awful lot done.
Okay, that kicks ass. You got my email address; I can't wait to use the product.

1. You got on my good side when I saw young Arnie. That's awesome. I hope if you need permission you get it, because it would be a shame to lose him. I got an instant flashback to "Pumping Iron" and how charismatic and inspiring he is in that movie (despite being a dick.)

2. I got briefly annoyed at the initial screenshot. It's obviously a screenshot, but it contains instructions to close the locker door, and I just could not stop myself from spending thirty seconds trying to close the locker door even though I knew it wouldn't work. It's hard to explain, but I just had to try to close the locker door before I could move on. I bet some people will be legitimately confused, too. Screenshots are okay as long as they don't contain instructions telling you to interact with them!

3. Clicking through, looks cool, looks cool, being sold, and then BAM I'm completely sold on the screenshot that shows I can earn stuff for my friends and vice-versa. For many people it's a lot harder to let other people down than it is to let themselves down. I immediately thought of a certain friend who's a rather extreme case, but it applies to me, too. My first breakthrough in fitness, when I went from a wannabe exerciser to a guy who actually does work out a few times a week, was when I had a roommate who recruited me as her running partner. Social pressure, not wanting to send my friend out running alone when she was asking for my support, pulled me through a lot of tough times when I really, really didn't want to work out, and then when I moved out a year later I found I was, for the first time in my life, capable of pushing through those tough times by myself. I bet your product will accomplish the same thing for a lot of people -- you MUST do this!
FYI, the 'other hand' you describe is a psychological disorder, not just a habit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oniomania
Things are not as easy as they seem
- entrepreneur-focused
- numbered list
- "must read"
- site:under30ceo.com

I'd estimate a cheese factor of about 97%
I followed the link to "Coca-Cola formula" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coca-Cola_formula&... and read:

....

80 oil orange

40 oil cinnamon

120 oil lemon

20 oil coriander

40 oil nutmeg

40 oil neroli

1 US qt (946 ml; 33 imp fl oz) alcohol

50 oz of sperm

....

I'm guessing that last line is wrong... However, for half a second I was like really? I know they use cow sperm in hair products but in coke? Its got be a wikipedia joke right?
I'll start (based on what was passing through Forrst and HN) -

http://www.draftboardapp.com

http://www.aerofs.com

http://www.certtime.com

http://www.wuala.com (not 2010, but still good)
I wouldn't claim the jargon file as an authoritative source, but the entry on music claims that at least one study found a correlation between music skills and programmers.
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In-depth statistics would be more useful than video footage or full text search. Things like application usage time, cpu time, but also active window time, number of clicks/keys typed into each app, etc.
- Learn Python and GAE and make a simple MVP one page website just to get some web dev experience (since I'm mainly a desktop C#/WinForms/WPF dev at work)

- Learn more about fundamental analysis and incorporate that with the current technical analysis style trading I currently do to get a better return in 2011 than 2010 (if it weren't for that speculative BP catching-a-falling-knife trade I would've beat the S&P)

- Learn more functional programming like F# (which might also help with starting up on automated trading again)
New year, new trolls. Honestly, i was surpriser to find this on the front page. I would say that the target market of hacker news is not surprised nor complains when their site goes viral.
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Isn't this just going to produce a bunch of incomplete crap? Notable that the announcement page itself is displaying a broken html tag (as of this writing).

Might be more useful to think of a real project you've been meaning to do, splitting it into day-sized chunks, and working out a schedule for completing those. Don't be too strict about this either, otherwise you'd risk getting burnt out after a couple weeks.
The bad stuff is more likely to make headlines, so it's easy to get a distorted picture of the world. "We haven't been nuked this year!" is not exciting news. It sure is nice, though.
Tapping the history link shows that the ingredient in question was added in the last day.
Ah, the good old days when you could get VC money for a vaporous P2P startup, then blow it on marketing that was completely unrelated to the company's business. It was just about ten years ago. I still have an empty can in my cubicle.
Have you been married before? Just wondering -- not trying to be sarcastic or anything.
Do something new every day in 2011
Looking back, though, it's kind of surprising how many times we seem to have narrowly dodged the Malthusian bullet. Famine was coming... and then the Haber-Bosch ammonia synthesis process was invented. Famine was coming... and then new crops like dwarf wheat came along just in the nick of time. Most recently, we're seeing a remarkable leveling off of the world population, without needing any sort of coercive population controls.

Sometimes, the world really does work out surprisingly well. (This makes sense, of course. If the world was always worse than we expected, without any surprisingly good luck, we would just become more pessimistic until the world started pleasantly surprising us again. Still, hooray.)
Cost, control, certainty, per-machine performance, simplicity.

You don't get "dynamically scale" for free just by using Amazon. So if you aren't going to put the up-front investment into building your system so it can scale quickly then it frequently doesn't make sense to use amazon as it is more expensive.

Further, EC2 has a lot of uncool attributes, like low and inconsistent IO throughput both from machine to machine and to EBS, certain limits about the network configurations, and the fact that you have to go the "let it fail" route instead of trying to just have redundancy within a machine. "Let it fail" works for certain kinds of workloads and architectures and requires more complex software.
Will definitely have to investigate this with a less-sleepy brain. I very much like what I'm sure I parsed correctly, though :) Ease of metaprogramming + native compilation = happy hacking, in my book.
This is probably not even to the point of being a minimum viable product yet, but I've ran out of time (it's past midnight!) so here it is. The idea is to enable tracking/sharing inspiration for doing something new every day in 2011. The inspirational subreddit is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingnew

The code's available here: https://github.com/artfuldodger/Something-New

I'm pretty new to RoR and am a horrible designer. If anyone wants to jump in and help, that'd be awesome.
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The conference actually seemed quite interesting to me (as well as some of his blog posts). But my tastes would be called boring by many.
Honestly though, can you imagine recovering from a video of your product smoldering and smoking, a product that people attach to their arms while sleeping?

After having seen that video that's all I'm ever going to think about when someone mentions the product. And can you imagine recommending it now to anyone? How do you think WakeMate has spread? Probably word of mouth, which if that channel hasn't closed forever will now come with a big bold asterisk.

I wish you guys the best. It's going to be hard work to not only improve your product, deal with the financials but recover consumer trust. A good idea might be some new awesome, but some what gimmicky feature, that will wow everyone.
Not a chance. Even one a week would be a stretch.

I will release 5-10 apps/sites in 2011.
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I was a little disappointed about how they strung us along. First the ship date was "Q1 2010". Then in January they said that that wasn't going to happen. A few months later they said that they shipped to super-early preorderers and:

"The next batch of units will ship no later July 30th, 2010. Based on your pre-order date (01/19/2010), you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, but probably significantly sooner."

Coincidentally, that was April 1st.

Then in August they said we'd be getting them in September.

In the end, it took overnight shipping to get them to some people by Christmas.

I understand and accepted that it would be ready when it was ready, but I can definitely see how hearing "Soon" for a year would disappoint people.
I really liked this one, for example.

http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/
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Pretty much what I would have written.

The real target shouldn't be 'make X websites.' It would be make X sites until there's one that clicks in terms of your interest or income potential and you can devote the rest of 2011 to it.
Nice. What language / framework will you be using for the first batch of releases?

And what will you do when a site requires attention? e.g. with a traffic surge? Are the old sites going to stay up?

Finally, are you thinking of registering 365 different domains? Oy.
wow some dw just downvoted that?

Also, will you have a 90's era link ring? You must.
There's much to learn from incomplete crap. It's like an artist making sketches for a year. With dedication I have to believe it'll produce something of value, and something new.
This is one advantage CDMA has over GSM, it's much harder to intercept CDMA http://www.denbeste.nu/cdmafaq/eavesdrp.shtml
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"I'm engaging in anecdotal junk science here but my theory is that the people who really loose themselves in games like WoW are people with very poor time management skills."

I totally concur with this statement. It's just a matter of prioritizing your time correctly. There doesn't need to be all of this WoW is a drug you need to cut it off completely or else you'll be a fat gamer that hasn't gone anywhere in life.

All of this WoW bashing could easily apply to several other things where people don't take in moderation, like alcohol, watching football, etc.
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try "sudo apt-get install libssh2-1"
I took advantage of it. I was planning to take only the Thursday and Friday before Christmas off. Then some family stuff came up and I took off the following Monday and Tuesday. It was great to have the flexibility. Dealing with the guilt of slowing my working pace was the only hard part, but I know it's good in the long run.
Maybe this?

http://www.google.com/search?&q=intitle:2010+site:news.y...
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If you are using isohunt as your torrent tracker you should beware. Recently a friend of mine had to pay a fine of $250 for downloading a Rhapsody album and it seems like he is not the first, neither the last.

Does bittorrent had become a hostile environment for users or is it just isohunt?
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I don't think it's too late at all to get into the game. For a company like Google who experiments and usually learns from its mistakes. I think it has a chance to grab a decent chunk of the social networking market. If that doesn't work, they've also got a lot of cash sitting around to buy a few companies that do have the right idea.
I wonder how it tastes...
I think there are basically two reasons why one maintains a minimal set of possessions.

One is dumping out most of your stuff because while part of you would still like to have them you think you'll be happier that way. (And because others are doing it also so there must be something on to that.)

The other one is having learned to not need that stuff any longer.
Maybe you are correct. But the trend is in the wrong direction.
When look at world population growth there is imo potentially a population tsunami approaching.
Maybe my pessimism is unfounded, most people here seem to think it will all turn out rosy
I can't fathom why you linked to some blogspam instead of linking the primary source. (Interesting thread, though.)

http://www.quora.com/Why-havent-major-companies-like-Google-...
There are a lot of awesome things about this (it's like a semi-perverse grab bag of my favorite languages!), but some aesthetic decisions that rub me the wrong way unfortunately... Still, I'm going to keep an eye on it, and push it just below Perl 6 on my List of Languages to Really Learn.

One of the nicest bits that kept my interest:

# There are bindings to GTK2, the Windows API,
the POSIX API, OpenGL, SDL, Cario, Python, Lua,
TCL, X11, libzip, PRCE, ODBC, libcurl, mySQL
and SQLite.
Are there lists like this of great design examples, except focused on web apps? These lists always let me down since they seem to bias static information sites over web applications, which is what I'm interested in. These are great designs, but mostly unhelpful to me because of this.
Do HN readers need any design work done? I heard here it was true.
Here's my site: http://chevasdesign.com/<p>I'm hoping that in 2011 I can transition more work to freelancing. Check out my site. Regarding pricing, I follow most of the guidelines outlined in this great article that was posted here on HN: http://orestis.gr/blog/2010/11/06/why-i-bill-hourly/<p>I'm currently working with one developer on an app, but would like to take on another project or two depending on how much work there is.