skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logging changes the timing of code making it nearly useless for debugging problems of a concurrent nature. It also falls down when systems cannot afford the overhead of printing all trace data (see: video games), or when embedded platforms have no reasonable TTY to send log data to.

A debugger is just a tool and to dismiss a tool as being pointless for all people is ridiculous. Being familiar with all the tools at your disposal as a software developer is never a bad thing.
We do have some clues on who he represents but realized that finger-pointing is not going to help. I hope whoever was behind this got the message and stops messing from now onwards.
Agreed. The patent for the described system would be much more suited to Facebook or LinkedIn than Twitter. I think the lawsuit is because of the highly publicized Twitter accounts of some famous people. The description in the diagram of 'communities of people in various fields of endeavor' is so ridiculously vague that it could be describing a town, a bowling league or fans of the L.A. Lakers.
"The index combines environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which, country by country, people live long and happy lives."

That doesn't sound like it's measuring happiness to me.
Hi, I'm actually a Pivotal engineer (in our Singapore office) and while I can't comment on either of the examples above I do want to clarify that clients don't have to hire Pivotal engineers in pairs. We do pair on all production code and our strong preference is for mixed teams of client engineers and Pivotal engineers. We strongly encourage even team sizes so that there is rarely an odd engineer out.
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Please stop this discussion, otherwise I will have to sue all of you based on my patent on virtual communities commenting on patent lawsuits on virtual communities
Your experiences and/or preconceptions about what happens in a philosophy class differ greatly from what I experienced in school. Any decent philosophy teacher will present the historically popular responses and then let the class discuss and explore their own feelings on the subject. Nearly everybody goes to school with some kind of social and spiritual programming from their upbringing, and a few philosophy classes goes a long way in opening up your mind to the broader world. NO philosophy class should ever attempt to make you believe that one way of thinking is right or wrong, but instead should present all the ways of thinking so you are at least aware that they exist. Even knowing that such other schools of thought are out there makes you better able to communicate with and understand different people who think in a variety of ways throughout your life.
These aren't "attacks", they're just the exercise of free speech on the internet. No matter what, some people are always going to say bad stuff about you and if you take an adult attitude towards these things then you just have to live with criticism - even if it seems unfair or unpleasant to you.
Slanderous language? Really?
I, for one, want Google to be all Orwellian on me because it will mean better search results.

Will it necessarily mean better search results or will it mean that you will be subjected to personalized spam produced by those who game Google's system? I think history shows that there will be at least a little of the latter.
Hey guys, first heard about Punchd last night. I was looking at your new website and the redesign looks gorgeous.

We've been working in a similar idea in Toronto: http://loyaltiapp.com/ with a slightly different execution. I'm in the bay area for the next few days, do you guys want to get together and discuss some ideas?

My email is karan.bhangui@gmail.com
For prior art, see every other thread on patents on HN or reddit where someone suggest this
Yes but you're wasting my time as the reader.

I'm not saying you have to call out folks or be mean to them. I'm saying that if you write a story it should have a plot. A point. Some dramatic tension. A Thesis. Something. This story did not seem to have that.

I'm sure it will work wonders for your purpose -- which I take it to be making sure he got the message -- but as a reader I'm really not very interested in your purpose. Sorry. If it makes you feel any better, people don't give a hoot about the purpose of my stories either -- except as a way to entertain them.

Like I said, the critique was meant in the spirit of friendship. From the large number of votes, it appears some people found real value in your story, but I'm just at a loss to see what it was. That's all.
Philosophy, especially one of these areas:

Ancient Greek/Roman, especially epistemology and stoics. Helps with accepting what comes and questioning how you know what you know.

Late 19th Century. Helps with questioning your real role in what you do, and why you should or should not.

Surveys of Eastern Philosophy. Adds a certain playfulness to life, also disabuses you of American perceptions of Asian traditions (such as Zen, widely mis-characterized in the west).
This is a little self serving, because I make/sell a PT competitor (http://trackjumper.com), but I'm curious - how much is a bug tracker worth to you?

I'm charging $20/month for unlimited everything (users/projects/storage/etc), and can't shake the feeling that some customers find this to be a hefty price tag and others would pay $200 or more.

BTW - I'm glad they're charging - it's a great product and they deserve to make some scratch from it.
Because of collusion. Why would AT&T and Verizon compete on price in this area when they are both making a mint on this "service"? Why would a "little guy" drop his prices on this high-margin product?
Sorry! We didn't want to alienate folks, just keep out non-contributors. This was our first one, so we're very much a work-in-progress -- thanks for letting us know. We'll try to open things up more for the next one as long as we can keep out the scenesters...
When I saw the headline my first thought was "more TechCrunch hyperbole." But it's true. The patent's title really is "Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people”.

Anyhow, that's how I read it too: all the independent claims seem to start with (a) selecting a field of endeavor and (b) compiling a list before doing stuff creating the community, which is not how Twitter works. If that's all there is, Twitter should ask the judge to sanction VS' lawyers for bringing a frivolous claim.
It's just brilliant that Bob Greenberg allegedly now develops software for golf courses. I love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism. :)
I would say that logging is fine sometimes, perhaps most of the times but being able to hotswap new code, do a deep inspection of an object (and perhaps some further new evaluation of code that you hadn't previously thought of) comes in very very handy.
Hey! My question is: Where did this come from? An academic project? And, what are your goals? Writing a CAS system in JS could be a gargantuan undertaking!
IIRC, The Economist did one of these recently, or reported on it, but also had the good sense to put in some climate data. In other words, I'd rather be here in Italy than in someplace like Finland, even though you'd get no disagreement that the latter 'works' better. The sunnier and warmer (within limits) it is, the happier I am.
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If Finland is one of the happiest, the people in other countries should be very, very miserable... Most of the time the sun won't shine and people escape it by drinking heavy loads of booze. It's cold and nothing ever happens. At least when you are a twenty-something it professional :)
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I can't speak to your first-hand experience with them. But do you think they made this pivot because their contracts were not renewed? Or is it possible -- I'd speculate, probable -- that developing a business model around Tracker is a much more appealing prospect for them than software consultancy?

Software consultancy gets old quickly. You trade your steady paycheque being told what to do, for a not-so-steady paycheque being told what to do. Even at $15K per week, the revenue is not as scaleable as the potential revenue from charging for Tracker would be.

Again, I can't speak to your first-hand experience. But it struck me as sounding a bit mean spirited. I'm not sure if that was your intention. If they can churn out Tracker, which is pretty good, but are doing a mediocre job with some contracts, there's a correlation there. It doesn't mean they are necessarily the cause for the mediocrity. The cause might boil down to "fit" and this may be the reason why the contracts were not renewed.

EDIT: Actually, on further investigation (which I should have done before posting this), Pivotal Labs is a lot bigger of a consultancy than I thought. It's more than probable that only a small handful actually touch Tracker. I was always under the impression that their consultancy was a lot smaller, so they could ensure consistently high quality.
But what if this 'unfair' criticisms turn away your potential customers from you. If you are running a big company, it probably doesn't affect you that much. But for startups, there is much to lose by losing even a few customers to these 'unfair' criticisms.
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It is measuring the sustainability of happiness.

No point in being the happiest country in the world by throwing largest feast party ever if next year half of your population dies from obesity complications or something.
You're confusing bare-minimum languages with bad languages. At my last job, I spent some time working in an arcane dialect of BASIC. There were two data types: strings and numbers. There appeared to be several array data types, but they were just a special syntax for creating strings delimited with three obscure Unicode characters (hopefully obscure enough not to show up in a string.) That was a bad language.

I also spent some time working in PHP. I begged to get PHP projects. I would have rather been working in Python or Perl. Or Ruby or Scala or Java or whatever. But PHP supplies the bare minimum I need to do my job.

At the same time, I don't think the author is talking about languages. The author is talking about tools in general. And I've seen a variety of tools written in PHP that are very poorly architected. And there the author's premise holds true: I'm going to spend a lot of time working on that poorly architected PHP code until I make it better.

In fact, the good vs. bad programmer is something of a distraction. If a tool requires a lot of maintenance, it's a bad tool. If it's a bad tool, programmers will spend a lot more time dealing with it than with good tools.
http://html5demos.com/contenteditable

Suffice it to say, this is not the reason why smartphones are so much better at browsing the web than feature phones.
Citicard lets you generate virtual numbers. So #2 can easily be bypassed.
On the goals of Coderetreat
Public Speaking (where you actually do it to groups not in class, may need to go to something like toastmasters or find your own to properly practice this)

Technical Writing/Composition - People tie writing well up in their brain with literature. This is due to the American educational establishment thinking writing belongs to language arts teachers, who all have English degrees. There may be a "science writing" course offered at the grad level, see if you can audit it.

Accounting 101 - This class will teach you the fundamentals of all the things you will have to do with your bookkeeping. You're really not going to be able to afford to hire a bookkeeper at first most likely.

Publishing (aka, School Newspaper) - A semester of this will teach you how press works, allow you to see the revenue model of papers, and will allow you to see things first hand a newspaper is writing about before it comes out. This is very useful later in life for understanding how to properly help newspaper writers and editors not mis-spin your business

A course on pricing in the business school - They don't always have these, but the theoretical frameworks they talk about may be easier to digest in the classroom setting then picking it up on your own after you leave school.
I'd like to see Facebook launch a credit card. That would be a different business model with a much higher per-user valuation.

Sure, they'd have to jump an enormous number of hurdles in setting up as a multi-national financial institution. For an optional annual fee (and credits), get the Farmville branded Facebook credit card. Youch.
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Accounting/Finance will do you well. Business law, too. It will help a great deal to know when to start a business as a C Corp or an S Corp, how dilution works, how to keep control of your company, when and how to file patents, copyrights, and trademarks, the downside of taking money, how to build cash-flow, profit and loss, and balance sheets, etc.

If you get some business basics in, you lower your chances of getting screwed. Being able to protect your interests and work efforts could end up being your most valuable skill.
These countries also have much lower rates of self-destructive behaviors, which is what most people with emotional problems in the U.S. do instead of actually killing themselves outright. If you were to count deaths from self-destructive behaviors together with suicides, the U.S. would dwarf every other country.
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Go, Gabriel, Go! :)

I wonder if you can change the text in a couple of week to ".. still tracking. We still don't". This should give those curious another push to go and just try DDG.
Norway came in first. It's cold. Booze in Norway is both hard to buy and expensive.
They are almost always very expensive. Here are some resources:
http://ask.metafilter.com/61178/Where-can-I-get-a-simple-aff...

Some people on the thread suggest making one.
I was wondering about this too after reading:

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/17702/17-Mutable-Sugges...

Great advice in this article on the whole I think, but I did wonder about the rational for removing hyphens. Could it just be they are out of fashion? I remember when they used to be much more popular way back when.

Also thanks for all the comments so far guys!
I've used this extension, Instapaper's wireless delivery, and Wordcycler (a desktop app that that syncs files from Instapaper when your Kindle is connected to your computer).

This extension is better than Instapaper's wireless delivery because it treats each article as a separate "book". Instapaper, on the other hand, groups all the unread articles in a single book with each article as a different chapter. This means that if you read halfway through one article you can't start another article without losing your place.

The extension also works better for me than Wordcycler because Wordcycler doesn't download the article from Instapaper. In order not to hammer Instapaper's servers, it grabs the URLs when you connect your Kindle, then downloads and formats the articles itself. By the time I connect my Kindle to my computer many of the articles are only available as previews, so Wordcycler doesn't get the full article.
> rep gains to 300 per day,

200 per day, from upvotes only.
I think before you start to focus on a pro version, you should get this version ready for attracting an audience.

Your home page is way too cluttered. I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go, I have no idea what the random text boxes are used for.

Also, your homepage just isn't very pretty. The sample at the bottom (which I only found by looking at comments here) looks good though.

My first instinct is to set your homepage to look like your product. A few lines of copy and a big "Click here to make your own" When you click to make your own, it is completely dynamic. If I decide I want an orange background, the page background changes to orange. If I want to edit the text, I click on the text and edit it.
Are you obsessed with Facebook?
That was not my experience at Tech. The first couple courses in it by Jon J Jonston tended to puncture any giant windbags of any particular variety.

He's (or was) very big on the history and the basis before interjecting yourself into the topic.
In my experience, this is not true when people are learning the basics of formal reasoning. More, people expect that mathematical logic will not contradict their strongly-held intuitions about logic and causality.
Not all developers work on the same sorts of problems in the same way with the same type of time pressure.

Debugging helps you work with code you don't understand. So, the longer you work with the same code the less useful it becomes. However, plenty of coders move from project to project patch up a few problems and then move on.
It strikes me as kind of odd that the billboard says "We", implying that DuckDuckGo is a company of multiple people.

Then again, saying "I don't track you" would sound extremely strange.

I guess we (as a society) have become so accustomed to companies requiring large groups of people to be successful. I guess Gabe's ability to take on Google, the biggest tech company this decade, by himself, is a testament to computer programming being so empowering.
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Forbes seems to be misrepresenting it, too. The ranking there (http://www.prosperity.com/rankings.aspx) doesn't claim it's a ranking of "happiness", but a weighted ranking of eight factors: economics, entrepreneurship/opportunity, governance, education, health, safety/security, personal freedom, and social capital.

I suppose you could define doing well at a weighted combination of those eight factors as the meaning of "happiness", but that seems like a stretch. I'd expect a happiness ranking to be measuring perceived happiness or life satisfaction, while this is attempting to measure something else.
I don't dismiss them because of that, I dismiss them because I can do the same job quicker by thinking, knowing the code, being able to read and understand any code I didn't write, and inserting a couple of print statements.
Agreed. A more sane patent system would require a working demonstration, and further require that the demonstration must be performed each time the patent holder claims infringement. Any idea that can not be readily demonstrated in a practical sense should not be patentable.

No demo, no patent.
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I have not considered using QML at all. At the moment samples were unusable or very slow on Nokia E51. Pure Qt from other side was faster than I have expected. Actually I do not feel difference from native applications.
Instapaper has made me addicted to my kindle. I enjoy tube rides now (GASP)
I think google is actually easier (or as easy) to type compared to bing. Look at the position of your fingers as you type it.. the repetition of G/O and the close proximity of L/E respectively makes it a easy to type without looking at the keyboard.
No one is confused about this. At all.

It's not "hype" it's raising awareness. "Hey, there's this new thing with new ideas and great ways to improve user experience. Here's some standards! Also, donate and get a T-shirt!"

I can't fathom the need to make an entire website devoted nay-saying raising funds for W3C. Beyond the pale.
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Sure! While I can't recall any on the top of my head (I'll be sure to send you some if I come across it again - will make an effort to try again at a later date), it's usually more to deal with very specific technical terms. Maybe overly specific? Will report if I have any issues.
Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
> your bank account page would never reasonably have caching settings on it

Are you aware how many banks don't have "ideal" developers? Is it easier to "change the whole world" or to use a browser with sane defaults?
> I'm currently hip-deep in tracking a guy that has been harassing some of the users of my website in ways that defy they imagination (and I thought I'd seen it all), and with every layer of dirt that gets peeled back more is revealed.

Care to explain further? You'll help many more people by disclosing what happened (and leaving out personal details).

Please do not limit yourself to a comment and write an article if needed.
I listen to a lot of music (from all genres). I only purchase/download full albums (even if most of the songs are not very good), and only listen to at least 196k MP3 (most are at least 256k or higher). Some are Apple Lossless (converted from FLAC). And throw in a few discographies in there and all of a sudden you have 350GB. I've discovered that I add about 50GB/6 months.
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That directory is out of date. (I'm not sure why it hasn't been removed yet.) The new project page is here: https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus

We moved it to GitHub to make it easier for people to submit pull requests and the like.
I agree with the other comments on the UI, so i wont repeat. As for additional features, add some social media links after signup, maybe a "thank you" email, and an option for multiple landing pages for testing.

I didnt see in the demo, where does the collected data get stored?
Search with voice, pictures and interaction.

VS

"a drastically improved information experience provided via interactive video"
Alá boa garoto. Fico muito feliz em saber que o brazuca está se saindo bem depois daquela palhaçada que fizeram com ele no Facebook.
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Thank you times a thousand.

From the PHP world, I can relate to mapping like this:

$map = array()
$map["$gameid_$year_$month_$day"][]['count'] = 3;
...
$map["$gameid_$year_$month_$day"][]['count'] = 1;

Then $arr gets reduced with another few steps of script.
I find it interesting they make up a bunch of metrics which they claim are related to happiness rather than just asking people whether they are happy.

It's as if I said I was happy and someone responded "What? You only make $50,000 per year, your country's GDP to pollution ratio is 4.25, and you had 2.13 medical procedures last year at a 26.7 percent premium over the global average, you CAN'T be happy!"

Wouldn't it make more sense to figure out which people actually are happy then figure out the statistical correlations? Although from what I've read there aren't any meaningful correlations. Happiness is defined and continuously redefined by experience.
Amoebas are often underestimated. What many geeks -- even those with a keen interest in biology and neural networks -- don't realize is that Eukaryote cell membranes are capable of impressive computational feats.

Just pause to reflect: An amoeba's membrane can sense object and grab them. Paramecia and Euglena can navigate their environment and find food. Where is the computation that facilitates these behaviors happening? It turns out that much of it happens at the cell membrane.

Guess what synapses are? Synapses are the same mechanisms repurposed for data processing.

Seth Grant discusses this in this podcast:

http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/2008/12/6/surprising-...
That page is valid HTML5 :)
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"Not using a debugger is like giving up a knife and using a spoon to eat your steak."

I think it's more like never being taught how to use a knife, and thus eating the steak with your bare-hands, as you've always done. Hands work fine, why learn something new? I have no formal training in programming and it never really occurred to me to use a debugger. I still don't entirely understand what they do for you that you can't do by adding print/trace statements. That said I mostly use scripting languages and don't need to read too much code written by other people...
Wowzer...Luxembourg is not even on the overall ranking list?

From what I recall, it has been consistently in the top 15 in other studies.