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Ask HN: my hacker news project
I love Hacker news! The content is amazing; however, the interface lacks lot of functionality that I like having on Digg and it does not visually appeals to me. I have decided that will make a website that takes news from Hacker news and presents it with this user interface: http://peri.me/albums/aDemoUzer/77/original/01.%20Homepage.jpg

Here is proof of concept using different interface: http://hsbsitez.com/2B1A/index.php

If I were to build this website, would you be interested in testing it out? or would Paul Graham will block my site?
Here is Monsanto's response to a more recent paper by the same authors:

"The authors present no new information, raise no new issues, and reiterate theoretical concerns that already have been dismissed by experts and regulatory authorities around the world."

http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/IJBS-GMO-health-risk...
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A lot of fascinating ideas in this collection of essays - not just his.

Single-page:

for i in `seq 1 17` ; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html ; done
The application and build servers are Windows based
My coworker from USA couldn't believe that I have paid 200$ for smartphone. I'm from Europe.
I am sure your data is worth at least $150 to you. But yeah, basically. Oh and, never again by a WD portable. I ended up getting a Seagate. So far, great.
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That is what you'd expect from the company who produces GM corn. Any third-party non-partial analyses of papers by those same authors?
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Yeah, meditation timers make a huge difference. I'm currently using Zen Timer on iOS.
Git on Windows kind of sucks, although it could just be my lack of knowledge about it.

No, it's because it was written with POSIX structure and assumptions in mind. Until someone takes the initiative to actually rewrite the git core targeted at the Windows environment, Git will always be a second class citizen on Windows.
Maybe. There are some features missing in the new API that PadMapper uses (tabbed info windows, for example), the benefit isn't completely clear, and it's likely to be a pretty large amount of work, so it's not a very high priority. Any reason you'd want it to be converted?
There's enough of a load on HN as it is without every Tom, Dick, and Harry testing out his proof of concept by crawling this site. Since you wouldn't be able to vote or comment via your site, there really isn't a point to it. Happy to see you love HN though and I hope you'll stick around.
You can go to sign up, and get your own site to play with for free.
Google offers will be a significant competitor to Groupon. They might suck at social, but couple Google offers with Checkout and the adwords network where they can use their own advertising inventory for free to promote this as they have been doing for Chrome and the picture starts to look promising.

The biggest success factor in these group buying services is having a massive audience, and what company is better suited to roll this out than Google?
Heh maybe eventually as a follow-on service. The format doesn't make quite as much sense for most categories, but for a few limited ones, it does.
In terms of Table Storage, since they are running on EC2 instances if I'm not mistaken, couldn't you use Amazon's SDB?
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Do you really think Sony would be any different when it comes to this: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/exclusive-sony-ericsson-t...
Apparently Limbo wasn't too archaic for the Go guys--take a look at Limbo, then take a look at Go, and you'll find that the two are incredibly similar. Of course, if you consider the people who started Go in the first place, it's not that surprising!

I think one reason Acme never really took off was the same reason people go around using xterms with green text on a black background--sure, it's not especially easy to read, but by god it is haxxor l33t. Acme has about two keyboard combo commands (^a and ^e, to go to the start or end of a line) and expects you to select text, move frames, and set the insertion point with the mouse, and the mouse is definitely Not Cool, even if it means you have to hammer on C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b to get that cursor where you want it.
wait, what do you mean Postmark doesn't allow sending "alert" (notification) emails? Can you elaborate?
Nice. And on a mac without seq:

for i in `jot 17 1`; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done
Yeah with GNUStep you can develop Objective-C on a Windows machine. However I wouldn't recommend that. Not because I want you to buy a Mac. No, it's because I did exactly the same thing and after a few "Hello Worlds" I tried to develop an calculator in Objective-C and it worked very well unless I wanted to compile it on a Mac. My whole code, which wasn't much for sure, was not working and errors came all over the place.
I cant remember why but I was little nervous to have learned the wrong syntax.

If you don't have a Mac at home try to virtualize it and if you are serious about iPhone development then go and buy a Mac. Again not because I'm using a Mac no it is because it will make your live way easier and let's you focus on development rather than messing around with the environment.
I wonder if there is any casual relation between Google's failure to acquire Groupon and removal of Eric Schmidt from CEO...
Don't think you are participating in anything special. How long do you give up bathing before nothing special happens? Well... it's really that sort of question.

If you do it with 'easy' going attitude... you might feel sensations in your body. Or else.. just a relaxed mood and balanced body. Just be easy about it.
Seems like a winning strategy to take a popular language/framework and make it incredibly simple and easy to deploy. As long as you have a very strong technical team I think this will be a successful YC exit every time. Either it can get huge due to great marketing, or the technology will be desperately sought after by larger hosting companies.
This study is actually a statistical reanalysis of earlier studies that was found lacking. The same group also produced a 2007 Greenpeace funded study that was rejected. The 2009 reanalysis was also widely rejected (by the French High Council of Biotechnologies Scientific Committee, The European Food Safety Authority GMO Panel, and Food Standards Australia New Zealand).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MON_863
Wall is fine! But it is better if you can sit with back straight without any support at back. It keeps you alert.
I used to practice meditation but have largely replaced it with Iyengar Yoga. I generally felt very good immediately after a session and I think it helped me in my productivity as well. However, I'm not so sure it helped me when I had to deal with high stress situations. The big problem that I have is when something becomes greater than just a hobby. For instance, when I did yoga for purely health reasons, I felt happier and better. But, when I started doing it with the thought of becoming as good as BKS Iyengar, yoga itself contributed to the stress.
There was some interesting discussion over at Discover magazine:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/15/gm-corn...

They mainly channel Karl Haro von Mogel, who notes on his blog "the authors have a little history of making mistakes with statistics with this same data set" and points to further information:

http://www.biofortified.org/2010/01/organ-failure-organ-dama...
Is there something like this for physics ?
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If it's illegal, I suspect it's only indirectly so, by some roundabout after-the-fact fair-trade-practice or antitrust analysis, based on Google's dominance of search advertising. Which means: very arguable and not much of an up-front deterrent for a motivated competitor.

In their privacy policies – which concern 'personal information' with far more legal sensitivity than aggregate ad/transactional data – Google pretty much grants themselves carte blanche to "combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Google services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services" and/or "Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services (including advertising services) and develop new services".
To be clear, it's an option in the installer that you can uncheck.

Of course the vast majority of users won't notice that, and the add-on has a terrible habit of breaking page layouts, so this is a great move by Mozilla.
Fun stuff! And just as I'm starting my hematology course!

SO, just to be a smart-aleck...

Jun8: Most cells have a variety of distinctive proteins embedded in their membranes peculiar to cells of that type. Other cells and other elements (think antibodies) may detect and respond to some of these proteins. I wouldn't be surprised to find that plasmodium has some such mechanism.

As for moving towards the cell, it probably doesn't take much in the bloodstream. Almost half of your blood's volume (45%) is cells, and about ninety-nine out of a hundred are red blood cells. With a cell for every cell-sized volume of fluid, that doesn't leave a lot of space between cells, so they're bumping up against each other all the time! It would probably be harder for a plasmodium to avoid hitting RBCs than to find one!

Very interesting bit at the end, too. It almost looks like the cell's becoming crenellated as water is forced or drawn out. That would usually happen in a hypertonic solution, where the concentration of solutes is higher outside the cell than inside, but I'm sure that's not changing, here. I wonder if the solutes inside the cell are being taken up by the plasmodium's offspring as they develop? I could see that "purifying" the water inside, thus driving it out, maybe?

Osmosis is a weird and wonderful thing...
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This article itself is the problem with the term "Front-End Engineer". I'm a JavaScript Engineer and find the majority of the comments in this thread a disturbing reflection of what people consider an "engineer". My degree is in Electrical Engineering at one if the best engineering colleges in the nation, so I'm very familiar with the term.

What the author is describing here is at best a "JavaScript developer" (used in the pejorative) or more accurately a Web Designer with boilerplate JavaScript skills.
I had little trouble with a first AppKit app after finding http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/node... There are links to additional articles/tutorials suggesting more complexity is available...
The problem for them of course is they've chosen a dying platform. Microsoft's operating systems, mobile toolkit, and their entire technology stack as a whole is coming to a dead end. I have never met a developer younger than myself who uses any of Microsoft's technologies to build anything, and I don't see this ever changing.
Buying RAM as a substitute for algorithms is for people who don't work for Google (disclaimer: I work for Google).
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Thanks for the update. Didn't realize seq was just a GNU coreutils thing.

Sometimes I geek out on getting something like this all onto a single readable page which I save in my homedir, then make my default home/open page in my browser, for good offline reading.

So in this case I used wget to save as individual files, then did this to trim out the header and footer:

for i in `seq 1 17`; do grep -A999 'width="534"' q11_$i.html | grep -B9999 '<hr width="700" align="center" noshade size="1">' >> edge.html ; done

Now edge.html will be my homepage for a while. (I work offline most of the time.) Great stuff. Inspiring as hell.
I actually think that Apple easily could make iPhone more waterproof and didn't - if you disassemble it (or just look at it) you'll see that there are not so many places that need to be waterproofed, yet is was not done and small accidental spillage still results in non-working iPhone. I recently had to use alcohol to clean and then dry a home button on the dipped iPhone, how hard was it to use a waterproof button assembly? Instead we have water sensors.
My point about AppKit is that AppKit doesn't exist on the iPhone or iPad. You need to use UIKit instead.
Since you're obviously happy with the setup, I'm curious about what specific setup you used for git in Windows. Last time I tried it, it was (literally) a cluster-fuck which completely set me off git.

Do you just use cygwin'd git wrappers? Do you use any additional tools? Any advice would be appreciated as I'd love to try this service out on its own merits (and not biased by git's lacking merits in a Windows environment).
From a programmer nerd, Schmidt has the most enviable resume.

The entrepreneurs admire Jobs and Gates, but Schmidt worked his way through Bell labs, PARC, managed the release of Java, was CTO of Sun, CEO of Novell, and brought google from a well executed grad school project to dominate the internet. He turned down a job with the Obama administration to be the governments CTO.

He also did all that as an academic, after getting a Ph.D. from Berkeley.

He has gotten some bad press doing PR for google recently, but the man has been kicking ass in enviable positions since I was a toddler.

After all that, yeah, good on him. Take some time off.
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"To me, it's more about no longer needing to think about memory as a scarce resource, something you allocate carefully and manage with great care."

Once your data set doesn't fit in memory, it is indeed a scarce resource. And 24 GB is really not very much data.
Didn't you guys just pass 20,000 employees?
Always. Ideas are exactly that. If you even suspect that you can execute an idea better than a version that is currently available or one that is being set in motion, then there is no reason why you shouldn't attempt to execute it.

If ideas were even half as regulated as the patent system, then the world would be a miserable and stagnant place.
Ah yes, because you've never met anyone then that must mean its dead. I'm curious, how old are you? I'm 26 and working full time on a company I founded running completely on .Net and Azure.
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I've also been thinking about Corona for some non-game apps. How is it at handling text in general -- working with fonts, wrapping text, special formatting, etc.?

Thanks for offering to ask questions. Also, I had no idea apps were compiled on their servers... that's an interesting approach.
Phillips was specifically designed to slip on high torque - precise torque tools where not wide-spread at the time and it was intended to prevent threading.
There are a lot of problems which the engineer in me wants to code around that should really, really be solved by throwing money at it. Often, a trivial amount of money.

I once did several hours of work trying to optimize my use of Redis to avoid having to upgrade my VPS (I was nearing the limits of the physical memory at 1.5 GB). I even asked Thomas for advice on how to decrease memory usage. His reply: "How much to the next tier?" "$30 a month." "Why are we having this conversation?" And, of course, he was right.
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What advantage is there for torx vs. this pentalobe screw?
For people who may not know, Readability is a (customizable) bookmarklet that restyles pages (on demand) to a more readable, newspaper-like format:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Doesn't work in Chrome 10.0.642.0: timer never starts counting down.

Also, this is the second site I've seen this week that adds background sound via an invisible youtube embed.
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I don't mean to imply that a debugger is not an invaluable tool. But it's just one tool of many, and it's an addictive one.

I once had to work for a few years with a development environment that didn't have a debugger. At first, this seemed like it would be impossible.

But I learned ways to work without one, and now I find that I prefer them. Only rarely do I actually require a debugger. I do still pull a debugger out occasionally for particular needs, but by and large I find that I work faster with simpler tools -- or by just stopping to think for a moment before I reach for the keyboard.
That's pretty interesting. Do you have a cite? Android (the company) was essentially designed as something to sell to Google. I wonder if the guys at Android bypassed Schmidt because they knew he'd be a tougher sell.
Wait, so instead of spending a semester learning about algorithms and stuff, I can go throw money at the problem?

Why am I in school?
I like Cocotron (another open source Cocoa implementation) because it integrates into Xcode. No separate makefiles to maintain for my Windows or Linux builds, just another target in the same project as the original Mac version.

(I realize that cross-compiling to Windows from the Mac is not what the original post is about -- just thought someone might be interested in that option as well.)
OK...

Well, if this is wide-spread, I find frustrating, even infuriating that it only appears in bits and pieces rather than there being a large "this is what software patents are imposing on us". The worst possible thing is to let this happen silently.
Rule of thumb: RAM size lags disk size by about ten years.

Ten years ago a typical workstation had around 32GB of disk storage. Today, 32GB of RAM in a workstation is perfectly ordinary.

Take the size of your local disk space today. Ten years from now that will be the amount of RAM in your computer.
Or, most anywhere:

for i in {1..17}; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done
Few people work for Google or tackle problems that size. Buying more RAM is most of the time a quick and economical solution.
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I like the idea of Cocotron.

However, I just could not get it to work on compiling for my bsd system.

C'est la vie.
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Or use Readability http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
What is the point of this article?
Edge.org really is amazing. I've been consistently impressed with it for years.

After I finish figuring out some Twitter and Facebook API stuff I'm going to head offline too, and try this out as my homepage. Several months ago I went without a computer for 3 weeks, and the clarity/deepness of thought I experienced really surprised me. I'm curious to find out how much was due to avoiding computers, and how much to avoiding the internet.
So, humidity makes you want to kill someone? (I'm half joking).

I'm curious how it matches up with (a) murders of all types, (b) gun ownership rates/laws,
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Very interesting. I had the same kind of idea with my site and made some pretty neat maps of pricing, crime and school scores, but I can tell you what I found out -- people don't care that much about digging into data like you think they would.

Users just want a better home shopping experience, with just a little trustable advice sprinkled on top. It makes sense now, but I was stuck in "cool product land." I wonder if Movity found the same thing in their customer development.

I've always wanted to use Craigslist data on my local real estate site but I know it's 100% against their TOS and I didn't want to give them any more headaches than they currently have.

It's great to see that people are able to do it but it just makes the whole situation more inscrutable. So I guess it's okay if you don't get caught or have good intentions. Well, I guess that's better than nothing.
The real results are the meta-results: that such a small and narrow study is all we have in the way of research into the possible effects of GM foods.
Well I'm older than you are. And I didn't say it's dead. I said it's a dead end. Microsoft's dominance has absolutely been on the down slope for the past decade, and this time they will not recover. Your business will succeed if it does not depend on the particular technology stack you've chosen (eg a retail site). But for a hosting company that is dependent on the technology stack growing in popularity, Microsoft's stack is absolutely the poorest choice of all available programming systems to build a cloud hosting service.
How does this compare for most open source groups to the option of using Hudson on their own servers? Also, I looked at their list of planned hosts--I didn't see windows. A number of the open source projects that I release are cross platform. Does anyone have any insight if they plan to add instances of windows (xp, vista, 7) for testing? I guess I'll have to wait and see when it's open for general testers.
Jeff Atwood likes to tell the world about all his computer upgrades.

His is bigger than yours.
What does Google Offers mean for Groupon?
"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM" is one of those soundbites that people seem to find clever, but really shows a startling lack of understanding.

You can chuck as much RAM as you like at your problem but it's not going to help once your data set fits in memory - and maybe way before that if you're thrashing those piddly L3 and L2 cache's.
Much like "How could X have won? I don't know anybody who voted for him.", this is perhaps more of a comment about your social circles than about the MS stack. It isn't my kettle of fish either, but you could go to e.g. FogCreek and meet smart people doing fun stuff with it. Ditto Java.
This image, from the article, is interesting: http://rgam.me/G2cB

Certainly a different aesthetic than the iPhone, and does a lot to make the screen feel bigger without sacrificing comfort and battery life.
this is already outdated. they reversed this decision a day or two ago.
For most of my projects I don't. Some of them have some rules listing test x depends upon y, but for the vast majority of my projects modify file X and only test X is run. This catches a huge non-insignificant amount of regressions. Really it comes down to effort. I can either A) try to remember to always run tests before committing or B) Have a basic hook that takes minutes to write/install that will always run at least one test and catch near all regressions.

I tried to do A for years. Most of the time you run the tests, but not always. And heaven help you if you are on a team. There will be someone who never runs tests. And you will end up having to schedule a chunk of time for regression fixing before every release. So to answer you question who cares about when file X uses file Y.