skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, one of the ironies in reason is that you quickly arrive at the point where you want to wire the relevant knobs and dials to one central virtual control surface, because scrolling up and down over 3 screens full of devices gets old rather fast.

But there is no such thing that I know of (in Reason4), so without a physical MIDI control surface you're effectively lost.

Disclaimer: I'm only a casual Reason user, perhaps I'm missing something. I also hear Reason5 has some improvements but haven't upgraded yet.
1) you're making the assumption one should accept something as true without the slightest shred of evidence beyond someone claiming it to be true. Well, I'm the King of Atlantis. Now the onus is on you to prove me wrong!

2) nobody said it wouldn't draw attention. Watch the video. It did. But where's the evidence that having seen something freaky has now just irreparably altered their way of life?

3) Not sure where you're going with that. People tell stories, some of those stories have budgets, but...how has that changed our way of life? If (if!) these people go on to tell their children about the Big Noisy Freaky Thing In The Sky for generations to come...so what? Does this in any way prevent them from living the lives they have always lived? Does the fact that they've seen such a thing now mean that we have to invade their culture and "civilize" them, because otherwise...well, otherwise what? At most, they've got a new god to add to their stories. If that.
Thanks. But we have business recommendations and the ability for you to see trending businesses around you too. Which is a great way to find out popular businesses wherever you are.
I would enjoy it and try not to think about my inbox filling up at home.
Here are a few quick, random things I noticed after looking through the PDF.

The emphasis on documentation is great. We need more of this.

You say that the "hint text" in the various form fields should disappear when
the field has focus. I actually find it much easier to use when the text gets
lighter but doesn't disappear until the user has started to type. I usually
navigate forms by tabbing through the fields, and I hit tab as soon as I'm done
with one field, which means that by the time my eyes get down to the next field
the hit text would be gone. The jQuery In-Field Labels plugin is a great way
to make it a little bit more usable: http://fuelyourcoding.com/scripts/infield/

I'm assuming that users create groups. When two users inevitably create
similar groups, is there any way to merge them?

Do you really need a separate "add link" button for each reagent? Why not just
show the link field and clearly mark it as optional, so someone doesn't have to
click many times if they have a bunch of reagents with links?

You mentioned videos for steps. Are you thinking people will upload them? If
so, that's tricky. What formats do you accept, do you have the space/bandwidth
to host them, etc? Or are you thinking that people will upload them to
YouTube/Vimeo/etc and paste the link? If so, are they embedded or do users
need to go to the video page to view it?

The requirements for the step editor seem awfully specific. I'd suggest taking
a look at the available editors around like CKEditor or WMD and choosing one of
them as a baseline.

http://ckeditor.com/
http://wmd-editor.com/

The page describing the fonts, buttons, etc seems extremely specific. If the
PDF is a collection of wireframes and not a design (maybe I misunderstood it)
then there are probably things more important to nail down than the
border-radius (border-radii?) of input fields.

For the log in lightbox, have you considered using email verification (user
signs up, gets emailed an activation link, clicks link, logs in) instead of
a captcha?

Do you really need the "Ban User" functionality for group admins? Does banning
a user make them not able to see that group at all? What if they log out, or
create a new account? It seems like the troll rate on a site like this would
be extremely low, so is this necessary or just adding extra complexity?

What is that "Language" link in the header? Will the site support multiple
languages? Can users translate protocols? If so, which user "owns" the
translated protocol? This could potentially add quite a bit of work, so it
should probably be nailed down.

Is the "Blog" in the header just a link to a Tumblr/WordPress/whatever blog or
is it part of the site?

Something that seems to be missing is a rough overview of the data. A page
describing the data would be very helpful, even something as simple as
"protocols are divided into groups, groups are created by users, and users can
add new group admins" would go a long way.

I'm a bit confused about the "DIYBio Protocols" page. Is this a group? It
seems like it has a bunch of groups inside it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what
a group is. A rough data model would help with this a lot.
Many of these ideas are things we are either planning to implement or have discussed in the past--great minds think alike :)

We'd absolutely love to talk more about this stuff with someone else who's as interested in the problem as we are! Please do get in touch--email in the ad.
Look at the flip side - the US is being deluged with more and more localized data, everything from what restaurants are worth eating at to what every street corner in America looks like. Don't you think the tables can be turned?
what about running a contest that promotes users to refer their friends?
No dates yet. But 3-4 weeks is what we are aiming for. And believe us we are working day and night. Thanks for your good wishes.
So many people seem to conveniently ignore this fact, and yet the consequences are so evident today that you would have to be blind to deny it.
How do you view online degrees?
The downside of being my own boss? I can't fire myself and hire someone who I know would be more productive and competent.
Before There Was Management
Two things which contradict your position:

1. Diseases such as measles were still established in developed western countries in the 50's and 60's, when hygiene and diet were comparable to today.

2. Similar diseases (eg. Polio) are on the brink of being wiped out in 3rd world countries with inadequate infrastructure and hygiene - largely by vaccination.

This is not "heuristic baggage". You're just wrong about vaccination.
Friends who show up on the lefthand toolbar of your Facebook account
Does anyone know what algorithms facebook uses to include them on the left-hand toolbar of your facebook page? I've noticed that some friends show up far more often than others (who almost never show up). And while the ones I've had the most interaction with show up the most, there are always others who I hardly interact with but who nonetheless show up more frequently than others. I actually sort of suspect that it either has to do with (a) how often they interact with your "social core", or other group of people you interact the most with, or (b) gasp how often they actually read your profile [or how often you read their profile].

Might be interesting to try to reverse-engineer this.
+1. Awesome!
When I was a Junior at MIT in 1975, working in the Large Systems Group (the PDP-10) in Marlboro as a summer co-op student, I asked some of the DEC old-timers what would happen if I invited Ken Olsen over to my little summer sublet in Marlboro. They said, "ask him".

I figured they were playing a trick on a lowly co-op, but I figured, what the heck. So I invited him to stop by that coming Sunday afternoon. And he accepted!

The ever-gracious Ken Olson came to my place, and chatted with about a dozen fellow MIT DEC co-op students, and another perhaps dozen regular employees at the Marlboro facility. We were all awe-struck, but somehow we managed to ask him about whether he thought IBM were our competition (he didn't think so, because DEC and IBM served different markets), and what he thought of these little microcomputers, like the Altair 8800 that was about to be announced (he didn't think they were very useful, poor h/w and non-existent software). What about putting one of our PDP-10s on a board, like the recently-introduced LSI-11 did for the PDP-11? (Contact Gordon Bell and ask him about that.) And much more like that.

I distinctly remember he sat in a chair while we accolites sat on the floor at his feet.

At the time, the PDP-11 and especially the PDP-11/45 was quite the machine - unix had recently been ported to it with great success, and I had used it in several of my courses. I of course had one of those "comic book" PDP-11/45 manuals that had been well-thumbed. Would Ken autograph it for me? And of course the ever-gracious Ken Olson signed it just below his signature on the front page of the manual.

What a tremendously giving, gracious, friendly, smart, helpful man. His influence on this industry is deep and wide. He remains my role model. He'll be sorely missed.
According to Google, it's been on the rise since the 40's.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=honored+and+humbl...
Just what are these supposedly negative consequences of abolishing truancy laws? The disruptive students mentioned in the article didn't learn anything in school.
Exactly how I feel. This is beautiful! For tablets only.
However, do not try keeping the phone out of airplane mode as a substitute for other contraception methods.
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Apparently the KGB tried to recruit the photographer, Jacob Holdt. He then tried to stop his book being used for propaganda. That probably didn't stop it from happening, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt
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That's fine in very high population density urban areas, where there are a variety of schools and easy transportation between them.

It doesn't work in lower density areas. That was one of the most horrible provisions of NCLB, trying to make generalizations that could be applied equally well to an area where there are a wide array of schools and communities where you have one school for 500 students and getting to any other school is a serious hardship for the students involved.

And in those circumstances, trying to improve the existing school is the only option, since doing worse is unacceptable. (We're talking about years of children's lives here, and the only real source of education these communities have.)
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I suppose it could be worse. We could be "poor" in 40 years time! Again I mean poor in the vaguest sense. Which makes you wonder. What would the bums be like in 40 years?
How to generate profit from a startup
Night people, I'd like to understand better how is that someone generate a profit from a new web company, I'd like to know links an ideas from people with experience in this area.

I've try to think about this but I don't get it yet, I see a lot of new startups appearing every day and people financing them, but can't get how those are going to generate a profit.

I go to their sites to see what they do, the about sections, etc with little to no clue at all on how they think the idea will in someway generate something profitable enough to keep them running without spending the money given by investors or angels.
Loqly is Quora +Foursquare +Hipster +Bizzy. Geo-location on steroids
Focused on QnA around local businesses, Loqly allows you to get answers to what "you want to know" instead of being forced to read what "others want you to know" (Foursquare tips + Yelp reviews)

Feel free to download our free iPhone app: http://bit.ly/e5u4jv. We are launching our website in a few weeks. Leave your email address at http://loqly.me and we will notify you when we go live. Or send an email to support@loqly.me with subject "Signup request".

With Loqly you can ask questions about a local business,
eg "How is the grilled chicken sandwich?" @ a burger restaurant near you.
"Has anyone tried the new Cafe Machiato?" @Starbucks near you
"Is it a good idea to bring my 3 year old with me here?" @a fancy restaurant where you have been dying to go.

We are now introducing business referrals too. You can now ask questions like :
"Can someone suggest me a good dentist in Las Colinas?"
"Can someone tell me where I can get cheap tires for my Nissan Murano"? and locals will start referring businesses to you.

We are launching our fully functional website in a few weeks. We promise we will dazzle you.
This is a thoughtful enough contribution to the discussion. Should you really be downvoting something to oblivion because you disagree with the sentiment or find the content erroneous/apocraphyl?
Sometimes it's worth either paying someone for the convenience (ie. paying a decent provider) or doing it yourself.

55% uptime is horrible, but I'd suggest that instead of complaining you either shell out some more & move away (Drupal doesn't require anything special) or set up a VPS with a decent provider like Slicehost or Linode and go from there.

I don't mean to preach, but I read so many 'hosting horror stories' where the end-user just doesn't seem to want to do anything about it.
Neat - when were you at W&M?
I call BS on your BS call. Releasing something like this puts it into the public domain. Unless the FBI has a contract already in place, payment is not ensured.
I think I first heard it from Robbin Williams stand-up:

God gave you a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time

Any video hunters out there to provide the link? Also another variation:

God gave us 2 heads and just enough blood to use one at a time
The inconsistency still infuriates me, even after years.

In most apps the back-button will take you back one screen or close the app when you're on the "app home" screen. This overload makes it difficult to predict which of the two will actually happen. And the penalty of a mistap (app closes, has to be reopened) is big enough to turn it into a permanent annoyance. I'm closing apps by accident all the time.

And then don't get me started on the apps that break with the pattern altogether (browser and many games) which have to be exited with the "home"-key or some menu function.
Remove the "extra load" from new installed machines
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Actually its funny you mention that. I have a feeling given the relative youth of the field of CS (and CE), even those of us who are relative newbies like myself (by which I mean when and under what circumstances I got into the field) still appreciate the work of such pioneers, even though it is as a result of reading up about them rather than actually working directly with them (or their contributions). Another name that comes to mind is Kildall! Every time I read about them, a certain nostalgic sadness fills me, even though I have never used a DEC or CP/M (respectively).
My experience in '09 mirrors this somewhat, but that was the first year they chucked a phone at us so perhaps I was distracted. I sought out the more technical talks and avoided most of everything to do with Wave. I was particularly interested in the Chrome talks and thought the presentations involving Javascript were pretty good.

It seems there are a lot of people out there enamored with Google, but don't have any other venue to rub elbows with the "Google people." I'd like to see a Google conference geared towards media, SEO, and the press so all those types will get the hell out of I/O. That way they can still announce products, ape and/or heap scorn on Steve Jobs, and get some noise made.
Here is the biggest mistake you will make on Amazon EC2…
"1984 successfully manipulated a lot of [gullible] people"

1984 successfully vaccinated a lot of people and helped stop certain diseases of the mind from spreading and causing more damage to civilization.

Like Jonas Salk and polio.

Although.. I saw Victoria Jackson on a Fox News clip once ranting about how Barack Obama is a socialist and she mentioned how she had read 1984 multiple times and therefore understood how the socialists work and how they are coming to get her. I wonder what will happen in her brain when someone explains to her that George Orwell was a socialist.

In other words it looks like some people are so dim that the vaccine can't work on their minds.

Tangent: I also wonder what would happen to Sarah Palin's brain if someone explained to her what a kibbutz is.
I pay Slicehost USD$20/m for a 256MB VPS + DNS hosting, and I've never had unexpected downtime. Yes, this means I'm doing the sys-admin work myself - but for hosting my own site & static media, it's pretty straightforward.

The best part? I emailed them at ~2AM with a support request and got a reply about 9 minutes later. And they gave me the right answer to fix my problem.
Manage EBS snapshots with a python script
Did you cheat and use a regex library in your lexer, or did you build a regex engine aswell?

I built recursive descent parser, and a lexer using the posix regex libary in 2 days first attempt and extra 14 days for semantic analysis and x86 code generation which operated by walking the ast. Most of those days were mostly learning x86 assembly. I can't understand 6 months, unless you did everything from scratch like the regex engine I.E Constructing NFA's, converting to DFA's etc etc.
Whatever you want to say about the actual app, Luna, their new framework, looks awesome.[1]

The idea is basically that complex web 2.0 design patterns (ajax/comet/memcache/sql optimization/etc.) require a lot of tedious effort to build and maintain, and wouldn't it be cool if you could simply define models, views, and handler functions, and then have the framework take care of everything else.

I honestly think that Luna has the potential to change web development the way Rails did (i.e. by making it an order of magnitude easier), and could transform web apps themselves the way G-mail did (i.e. by emphasizing things like really-real time updating via comet the way G-mail initially introduced the world to Ajax).

I have no idea how Luna is architected, but the concept really resonates with me: javascript-based, web 2.0-abstractions that prevent repetitive things I do in Rails like having to redefine some of the same functions in ruby code and javascript code, and then having to manually keep them in sync.

It's so cool that I think I'm going to try to hack together my own, humble Luna knock-off built on top of Node.js, jQuery, and MongoDB (which uses a javascript query language and JSON-but-better (BSON) data models).

[1]http://asana.com/luna/
Typically when you buy a new PC computer it cames preinstalled with a lot of unwanted software. Software that makes the machine run slow and totally kills the user experience.

Personally I've seen this on two Windows 7 based laptops, one from Dell and one from HP.

In the end I've installed fresh copies of Windows 7 to have a smooth running system.
I also thought it was only showing Niagara falls. Turns out it begins with the cheapest destination. There is a next button on the right to view other destinations.
The purpose of public education was child care and to teach children - especially countryside children - the idea of turning up at work on time every day, sitting quietly and doing as they were told.

It was a big problem in the industrial revolution - trying to get people to understand that they had to turn up at the same time in the summer and winter - which was a big change if you had been used to getting up with the sun for the previous 2000 years
Are you talking about the friends on chat feature? I was under the impression that it's just a list of your friends who are on facebook at that time and signed in to facebook chat.
< looks up > whoosh < / looks up >
Fiction tends to be like that.
"Do not disturb" mode?
Emailed
This is exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping we'd get! I'm just going to go line by line, after which I'll start redo-ing the PDF to reflect some of the changes.

1. Hint text. Good point. That implementation definitely sounds more useable, and of course, there's a jQuery plugin for it :)

2. There's no explicit way to merge groups, because it sounded like more of a hassle than it was worth. What do you think of avoiding the problem in the first place by suggesting existing groups as the user types in a group name to be created?

3. Separate add link button: good point. changing this.

4. Video: lets forget it. I've never done anything involving video uploading, and once I had a look at what a hassle it is to do, I don't think it's worth it for the amount of our users that will actually use it.

5. Step editor. Yes, also a good point. CKeditor seems perfect.

6. the importance of border-radii: cannot be underestimated. the PDF is supposed to be a bit more than wireframes, but is not intended to be that high-level of a design.

7. Captcha vs. email verification. I did think about this one a bit. I personally hate email verification more than I hate captchas, but is there some other reason to prefer one over the other?

8. ban user is about as useful as video uploads, and is probably not worth the hassle it entails. lets cut this.

9. early on, many of the people who've expressed interest in the site wanted to use it in non-english speaking settings. since there is no "settings" page yet (not enough settings to make it worth having one) the languages selector goes on the top menu rather than inside a settings section. Changing it at the very least changes the language of the UI (assuming this isn't too difficult) but could also change which protocols are shown (this sounds much harder.) Not an essential launch feature, on reflection.

10. The blog is just a link to a posterous/tumblr/whatever, for now.

11. The last page has a crude data structure diagram, but i'll add the users into it.

12. DIY bio page: That is a group page. The different headings on the page are categories within a group. I'll put this into the data model as an example.
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That shows the 'Recent' list, which doesn't seem to be the same apps listed as still running in the/a Task Killer.
My laptop is 6-7 years old and it isn't overly slick for me, but not so bad that it'd be a huge concern. Definitely worth testing depending on how many items you're looking to incorporate though.
Yes, it's called the Apple HIG.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserEx...

The nice part about the Apple version is that if you don't follow it your app doesn't make it into the store.
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For anyone interested in the iOS equivalent look here:
http://bit.ly/Apple_IOS_HIG
tl;dr - Tickling yourself doesn't work because you're brain is actively anticipating the sensations. There is no element of surprise.
Your last point is very creepy, and something I've never considered before. I hope I never become a computer's computer.
The press-and-hold is also way too slow.

The functionality should be reversed; long-press takes you to the homescreen, tap takes you to the app switcher. It might be more confusing to new users, but much more adequate in daily use.
I think each one has a different model for making money.

A lot of them dont have one at all. The value in their business is having a lot of people using their website (twitter for example). Twitter has a very limited way of making money as of now, yet the company is valued at billions of dollars. Its the ability to reach a massive amount of people that's valuable.
Oh no, I'm not. I'm actually talking about the left section in this image:

http://shegeeks.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/New-Facebook-...
not yet but i have a big series coming that i'm starting to work on. a lot to unpack in a few months.
Luna, the in-house web framework developed at Asana
I grew up using a Intel 486-powered DEC workstation. DEC's legendary machines were behind them by that point, but I still have plenty of nostalgia for that computer. 16MB of RAM was a lot of memory in 1993.