skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jquery-tmpl is "Resig Micro-Templates" in his screenshot.

Should be plenty fast enough for all but the most demanding use-cases.
I checked my Kindle collection a few weeks ago (on the initial lending post here on HN) and today. More of my books are lendable today than before.

Apparently, Amazon is erring/defaulting to benefit the publishers. That is, books are NOT lendable by default. The publisher, more than likely, has to update Amazon to make the book lendable.
I like it, first look is great! Maybe you could partner up with some Youtubers, there's a couple that do weekly or almost daily workout videos. You could sell a personalized trainer which makes instructions just for you, then split the money with the trainers.
How To Solve Rubik’s Cube
HTMLDog and Sitepoint are much better direct lookup for beginner's resources.

The Google videos are great tutorials for beginners.

And when you want to get down and dirty with the specifics and specs, the W3C, Opera, and Mozilla docs are there to help.

There's absolutely no reason to use W3Schools considering the awful amount of inaccuracies and rotten advice they teach to people starting out.
Todo lists are the new blogging tools. Easy coding exercise.
Sorry meant to up-vote you but my finger slipped. Thanks for plugging DF it really is an awesome game.
Very true, but he includes Medicare / Caid under SS.
The killer feature necessary to make this app truly awesome: crawl my Kindle collection and let me decide which books to make shareable.

Unfortunately, I doubt that Amazon exposes an API to perform such crawling. The last thing that I want to do is give my Amazon login and password away...
Then both sides yell at each other, both playing the racism card on the other which ensures that their positions entrench because they can't afford to listen to those racists over there, governments left without any effective guidance pick whichever allows them to politic better with no regard for whether it actually work, which inevitably ends up further feeding the feedback loop instead of shutting it down due to the second-order impacts their ineffective interventions have due to the fact they don't consider that they are working in a domain with a feedback loop instead of simple forces that don't interact, and it all just gets worse.

I wish more disciplines other than physics and mechanical engineers would be introduced to the idea that feedback loops are the norm and things that can be modelled with "simple first-order forces" are the exception. This misconception does so very, very much damage to us.
Ask HN: examples of 'bare bones' designs/interfaces
http://news.ycombinator.com/

http://www.quora.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.delicious.com/

http://www.yelp.com/

http://*.google.com/

All these sites have interfaces that are largely composed of text, borders and shaded backgrounds on a white canvas. There's a distinct lack of gradients, rounded corners, drop shadows, background images, fancy buttons and oversized text fields. They don't necassarily look pretty but they're not ugly either (I'd put reddit, ebay, craiglist under the later category). They also work rather well from a usability perspective.

Having virtually no design ability, interfaces like these appeal to me. What other sites have a plain front end and good UX?
I second the superniche idea. And I like the betting idea, it's evil enough to be viral.

And I'm a little scared to ask what "milk related topics like the kettlebell swing" means ;) -> edit: some Googling http://www.google.com/images?q=kettlebell+swing + some imagination and I figured it out.
The site returns a lot of 500 errors randomly. I requested to borrow a book but it's not clear wherever my request succeeded or not. It looks like this website was being made in a rush.
Atleast Global attributes are listed.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Global_attributes
The rest should be easy to find in conjunction with some element.
The standard businessmodel for weightloss sites is this: offer a "risk-free trial". It sounds free, but they get charged from day 1, unless they cancel. Assume the average user will pay for 3 to 4 months. Charge more than your customer acquisition cost.

You may not want to go there and get creative with other options.
Toplist calculates google's versions in Czech republic. People in Czech Republic use other versions of Google too. For example slovaks in Czech Republic use google.sk, Germans in Czech Republic use Google.de etc etc. Thats why its a fair calculation, since it doesnt calculate google.sk which is used by slovaks in Slovakia
http://www.sudoku-solutions.com/

I used this. Knew the basics of Sudoku but eh, bit tedious to try and actually work it out for me.
Neither did you.

I commented on half the items in the list to show why I disagree with such lists. Yes, I've done plenty of link-building but I don't think it gives me any more authority on the subject than the next guy.

What's a more important question: "How do you measure which ranking factors matter more?" or "Have you done a lot of link-building?"

I used to track SERPs for dozens of keywords daily for all my domains (I had a lot then), however I've stopped doing than now as I wasn't getting much out of it. I may try it again in the future but I'm waiting until I get some better ideas on signals to track.
What a waste of time by w3fools. Why would you put the time and energy into tearing down another site? If it is the quality of the content, then spend that time creating quality content for another site.

You don't see facebook making a site showing why myspace sucks. You don't see google or bing making a site showing how yahoo sucks. Create the quality content and let your site speak for itself.

With tutorial sites like tryruby and railsforzombies (and HN just had a javascript one also), there is definitely a higher standard of tutorial that one could aim for. Just do it or shut up already.
Not trivial since the Kindle has a DRM scheme that is intended to prevent this. However, I'm sure that the DRM has been or will be broken, like just about every widely-used DRM system.
> The Retina display on the iPhone 4 isn't hugely expensive, nor particularly innovative - there are a number of other handsets with similar pixel densities.

Name one.
You might be interested in reading this blog post which made adjustments to education statistics for that exact thing: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
To a large extent, the focus on Social Security budget shortfalls in these pieces is like the punchline in the joke about why the drunk guy is looking under the lamp post for his keys when he lost them in the alley: "Because the light is better here." Rising Medicare/Medicaid costs are a much bigger long-term budget issue than Social Security, but coming up with realistic-sounding proposals to improve Social Security's fiscal status is relatively easy (and less politically radioactive) compared to controlling medical costs.

Still, I think that blog post really drops the ball by not even mentioning Medicare/Medicaid as budget problems.
You are on something.
I really like it.

Read "4 hour body" by Tim Ferriss and build a lot of the site around the buzz of this book.

Communicate stronger in "Fat loss" and less "Weight loss"

Also introduce "TI" (total inches - sum of body measures)

Also introduce Bodyfat % and auto calculate the actual fatloss.
I prefer shopinella (or shoppinella) - or shopinelli
I absolutely hate #2, however I would go along with it happily if #1 and #3 were implemented.

These are 3 really solid suggestions, that would in fact save social security. However, I think #2 is the only one thats going to happen, and its the worst one.
I was thinking of the first news post about lending being possible on the kindle, where there was a small thread on the possibility of building a _market_ for lending, but I don't have the relevant url at hand.
For those interested here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/d...

I think a big part of it is more to see how you would balance the budget, and what trade offs you would make. I'm relatively comfortable with raising taxes (2%) and cutting spending(98%).
Let me guess, did you have a PET-2001?
"We'll be back shortly"?

A familiar message from Tumblr these days...
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This looks very nice, this is something me and my college friends have been looking to do, challenge each other in weight loss. Maybe you should look into doing some marketing towards college students? Motivate them to get rid of that freshman 15.
FYI, ericflo maintains a twitter account whose sole purpose is to covertly mock node.js

http://twitter.com/nodecore

It's good to see these Django guys having to use questionable tactics to challenge node.js.
This article has an interesting premise.

Some products spread because they are so high quality. Google became a giant because its search was superb, Starbucks its experience great, and Facebook so life-enhancing.

But advertising is just a part of free enterprise. Such quick successes are the exception, and advertising can genuinely create awareness of value adding answers.
Yes, especially considering it's so far back in the past that they produced unibody designs for their laptops, new full glass iMacs, showcased OS X Lion, and opened the Mac App Store.
JSPerf.com is like a wiki -- so by all means, please edit the page and add a "jquery-tmpl" test.
Don’t fall in the poverty trap – you might never get out…
MDMA does have known harmful effects. So does ethanol, and from what I can tell, ethanol is more dangerous. What would be your argument for maintaining a ban on MDMA and not banning ethanol[0], or do you believe ethanol should be banned as well?

[0] For human consumption
I posted something along similar lines sometime ago and this pattern. Pretty successful sites with 'bare bones' interface/design but rather well planned from a usability perspective as you point out.

I was even thinking of accomplished or even legendary CS people that have minimalistic personal websites.

Knuth : http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/

Norvig: http://norvig.com/

Stallman: http://stallman.org/

Of course pg from the familiar people:

Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/

I am really curious about this and I would be happy if more HNers could share their thoughts on that. Hopefully I did not deviate much from the spirit of your post
Social Security is insurance. The fundamental underlying problem with the entire thing is that people view it like you state, as an entitlement, rather than what it truly is, insurance. Read my arguments over again, but instead use the term "poverty insurance" instead of social security to reinforce what it really is.
Good point. I'm pretty sure most people I know would prefer the harmless, funny, boxy cow. The audience for casual, simple, social games dwarfs the audience for 'xbox' brute-force violence style gaming.
Imagine what could be done with that money if you spent it on schools, investment on renewable energy, upgrading the sagging infrastructure etc.
And the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Combinatorial...
How To Develop an Internet Product Quickly and Effectively, A Hackathon
Why the NYTimes is wrong about Facebook chances in Japan.
I think what it comes down to is minimum viable product. Perhaps even budgeting. Maybe an assumption that since you don't like AIR, you can't see anyone else liking it.
Sure it had an effect. The 1953 coup allowed for the creation the theocracy.

But whether or not we spilled the milk, we still have to clean it up.
The real reason Google will fail
Or OpenCV for that matter?
Ignorance is bliss so they say. This is not about a computer beating humans in trivia questions, but about computers learning to understand humans. This is a major milestone in natural language processing and imagine what this can do when it will be available on a wider scale.

Watch this please:

Building Watson - A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2H3DZ8rNc
The last thing you want to do is to die.
I found a video of this that helps show the site a bit better for those who have not signed up yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efp1N4qOFyw
Quite right - if SS were insurance, you would pay into it directly in proportion to your probability of receiving it. Good drivers pay less for car insurance, and people who can provide for their own retirement would pay less for retirement insurance.

For example, consider a very rich person, with P(income < $50k/year) = 0.01. If SS were really insurance, he should only pay $50k x 0.01 = $500 + administrative costs. If bluedevil truly believes SS is insurance, and if we implemented his 1), then 2) would be utterly unnecessary.
you should check this post to understand how facebook's doing in Japan: http://blog.gmbhnews.com/how-facebook-is-winning-in-japan
ITK is developed by Kitware--are they a US company? Are either ITK or VTK open source? I have seen NASA devote resources to open source projects like matplotlib (an excellent python plotting package)
I just release a new post analysing how Facebook's doping in japan, and from what I found: http://blog.gmbhnews.com/how-facebook-is-winning-in-japan , they are doing quite well and it's just a matter of time till the gain all the japanese market.
Correction: You wish no one wanted to share their Doritos story on the Doritos website. The sad part is that many times people do.
Out of curiosity:

1. What was the startup?

2. Can you link us to the review?

3. What problems did you have that caused you to fail?
I doubt they're banning open source per se (though that's certainly possible), but rather that the GPL ought to be incompatible with the Wii's licensing for exactly the same reason it's incompatible with Apple's App Store licensing. (Even if I'm wrong and they do ban open-source software explicitly, I still see the Wii and iPh?o(d|ne) situations as analogous from a GPL-compliance standpoint, which would still prevent ScummVM games from running on the Wii.)
This is one thing eshell handles really well. If you type foo, it will first search for an elisp function called eshell/foo before falling back to a foo Unix command, but if your input begins with a paren, then it's executed as lisp.
Putting all of your paperback fascicles together won't quite get you Volume 4A. They were beta versions and don't contain corrections that have happened since their release.
Community-powered software localization
Wow, very nice. Congratulations! I'm currently working on something similar, but I am nowhere near as good at design.
This debate makes me think of two engineers arguing whether the most important thing in a car are the spark plugs or the fuel injection system. Every time something goes wrong -- it doesn't start, it hits a tree, the brakes fail -- they go back to yelling "spark plugs!", "fuel injection!"

Call me cynical, but if we wait for academic social science to fix society, we are screwed...
And the affiliate marketing:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2109543
Ha! If that was the case, 95% of products in industrialized countries wouldn't exist.

Good advertising and branding works -- they generate demand.
This is disingenuous. It happened in the context of trying to prevent an even bigger number of civilians dying in an inevitable invasion and continuation of the war. Your comment conveniently leaves the context out
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Of course, good review from Techcrunch doesn’t necessarily mean that product will succeed.Success of a startup depends a lot on execution.

Good reviews from media at most mean that the idea has potential and bad reviews don't mean that it has none.
Hi there,

Sorry, we are waiting for Paypal's approval of using their new API, Paypal X. Therefore, we are now only recruiting experts to join us. That is why there's no requests there just yet. Once we are ready to go, we will push it and let people to post requests and arrange sessions.

Cheers

Josh
While what you're saying is true, the royalties side of things has been locked down by Google's legal team very effectively. If said patent holder makes a patent claim against WebM they automatically destroy all free royalty rights for themselves on the same codec (if I understand correctly). This means that while they could try to hold Google (or any other user of the codec) to some kind of patent royalties, Google could retaliate for any use that company or individual makes of the same codec (with as much leeway to set a price as the patent gives the original individual or company.

This is the true genious of the WebM license. It means even if this does happen in the future, Google can destroy whoever has this patent through a massive counter. It also means that any challenge would have to be made extremely carefully.

edited for spelling :)
Quite a few of the people quoted in the article are identified, seem to be in position to know what they're talking about and definitely exist.

By "weasel words" you mean OP (and NYT) don't state as facts things which are, while very likely, not confirmed to be facts?
The heart of the deficit for the past 10 years has been increased military spending.
Why do ebooks cost so much?
Are they doing well?

http://www.aafederation.org/research/wbp/Poverty%20Report%20...

http://www.chhayacdc.org/ourissues_sasians.html

Certainly median and average incomes (and outcomes) for Asians and Indians tend to be above average but is that because the group as a whole is outperforming or because the top end screws the picture? These are not rhetorical questions, I'm seriously asking - it seems like poverty rates in the Asian community are fairly high in NYC and other locations.
TechCrunch Article:
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2008/05/20/minutebox-does-not-box-c...
Maybe new to to you, but X came out in 2009.
To lend a book on the kindle you just have to enter the name and email of the borrower. Then the book is removed from your kindle account for 14 days, and it will stay in the borrower account for 14 days. It is free to borrow and it is risk free, because after 14 days Amazon is transferring back the book.

The website is really just a market for matching borrowers and lenders. They will probably make their money with amazon affiliate links and ads.
can't agree more with this, even in high-end places, service is awful. But I don't think tipping has anything to do with it.
On the whole, this is a ridiculous article. No one except rich elites cares about the deficit (including the bond market: 30 year treasury notes are yielding 4.5% right now). Republicans may have made noises about it in the last election, but one of their major planks was that the Affordable Care Act cut Medicare benefits!

We are in the middle of a global economic contraction, it is not the time to be reducing spending (redirecting spending to useful infrastructure, sure).

The calls to cut Social Security are especially irritating. Thirty years ago, Reagan increased Social Security taxes to save the system. It worked, and the Social Security benefits are fully funded until 2037.

For 30 years, workers have paid extra into Social Security to keep it solvent long-term. Now a bunch of rich elites demands that benefits -- that they don't need, but millions depend upon -- be cut. That is a bait-and-switch of the highest order.

He doesn't even talk about Medicare, which is the real budget problem. You can tell if someone is serious about reducing the budget deficit if they have a real plan for Medicare.

Despite my disagreement on entitlement spending, I appreciate that he thinks military spending could be cut and tax rates on the wealthy need to be raised. Since he's wealthy, I appreciate that he is willing to make a personal sacrifice.
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A few people have mentioned the idea of getting friends to 'bet' or 'pledge' money or prizes to help you out.. a recurring theme! thanks
Or maybe sometimes people say things that are not entirely true.
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Thanks,

We have had a lot of people request the ability to add in other measurements than weight. It is one of the most requested items.

The problem is keeping it simple as it would seem like a mistake to move too much in the direction of dailyburn et al. People like that it is simple.
Two studies which kind of demonstrate the "subtle" form of racism:

"Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?" - http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mullainathan/files/...

Another study that showed that whites with criminal records have a better change of getting a job callbacks compared with blacks without criminal records when qualifications were the same: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4469.pdf (the study was also done in Chicago with the same results)
The social sciences in the US don't really understand time (yes, it's crazy but true). They see social dynamics as happening between forces instantaneously, with all the nuance of whether something happens first or last completely washed out of their regression.

Oh -- sociologists aren't necessarily as smart as physicists and mechanical engineers, ...
Clyfe is pointing out the blatant money spinner by the parent poster .. in case you didn't see that already.
"Our natural choice of language was MDL ... it is a descendent of LISP and is functionally extensible. It also permits user-defined data types, which is important in a game of "rooms," "objects," "verbs," and "actors." Finally, MDL makes it easy to imbed implicit functional invocations in data structures to tailor the game as described above. The initial version of the game was designed and implemented in about two weeks."

For more information see:

"How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine or How to fit the Great Underground Empire on your desk-top"

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/small.html
I have never shipped unix software that used the system package manager, for a number of reasons. If you want it to be cross platform, you need to build/test/ship the fallback tgz manual install anyway. Packages don't save any work, they only increase the size of your build farm and testing matrix. The software was usually built against specific versions (often modified) of 3rd party libraries. We can't rely on the system to have them, so we need to ship them too, so it's not like relying on system packages would reduce our download size at all. All told, the number of customers who care is very small, either because people just don't care or because the people who care don't pay for software.

That was for commercial software of course, but even for open source software, I'm not sure why it's the author's responsibility to go setup a dozen different VMs. That really is the package maintainer's job.
This is true of Heathrow's terminals 1-4, but I've found T5 to be flawless on the times I've been through.
True but besides the point - it isn't possible to reduce the federal budget at all, politically.
"Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." (Eisenhower's farewell address, 1961)