skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bars span the full width of my screen, which makes them hard to read. There's very little text, and I have to interact with each option to see details about a flight, which I find annoying if I just want to scroll through.

Also, the screenshot I gave above is a pretty tame example. Compare it to another search where there are more airlines in similar price ranges - http://i.imgur.com/e7VJq.png
Create custom RSS feeds for iTunes Store content
I remember going to the Valley in 2002 and expecting tours of all the famous companies etc... I made the "pilgrimage" to Apple headquarters, expecting some sort of museum or something. Security basically escorted me out of the lobby. Intel does have a little thing you can view at least.

For the most part Silicon Valley is very uninteresting to just visit unless you like seeing corporate office parks from the outside.
We use customized TFS Build Processes.

Really, working in the Microsoft stack is not something to do halfway - either avoid it like the plague, or embrace it and use all their tools.
Amazing storytelling! Love the abstract part at the end especially. Felt like something out of No Country for Old Men.

However, I wouldn't recommend astrologers as a path to get out of a rut. I do admire his ability to reflect on his life. I think we could all take a page out of his book.
As is many times pointed in this article, it is quite possible to have an engaging conversation with a bot on a well-defined topic, e.g. ELIZA or the Hamlet example given here. The problem with them is what I would call the "Truman Show Effect", i.e. when you go to the edge of the topic, what you see is not a graceful blending to other areas, as in humans, but just a wall.

So, with my colleagues over lunch I can chat about the Chinese language, the current situation in Egypt, the relative merits of iPad vs Kindle, why our company is going down, the gender gap in technology (this with great empathy and motivation because our ratio is like 30 to 1) and so on. Try doing that with any chatterbot. And this is not even the usual guy talk in front of TV, which, I think, is even harder for the likes of Watson to emulate.
You are not the only one. It seems too complex for my taste(I know its not in reality). But the focus is more on time which I don't care much personally.
I recently registered fivegoodbooks.com with the plans of trying to reduce choice aversion for technical books. i.e. the top 5 referenced books by the community to start learning a subject. This is really nice work, now I'm the one to have to decide if I keep working on it :)
Quoth Nathan Fillion in the interview: "Yes. Yes. I would examine very closely Fox’s reasoning — I’m a little gun-shy. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet."

Note that he's still committed to doing Castle, and the only definite thing giving Fillion the rights would get is free Firely for all. That's a good thing, but it's not new Firefly. What Fillion did not say is "I wish I had $300 million so I could make new Firefly episodes." Of course, Firefly isn't Firefly without Joss Whedon, and he has said nothing.
(Stolen) from Rainer Joswig's post[1] at Reddit:

Modern version:

(defun collapse (l)
(cond ((atom l) (cons l nil))
((null (cdr l))
(cond ((atom (car l)) l)
(t (collapse (car l)))))
(t (append (collapse (car l))
(collapse (cdr l))))))

(collapse '(((A B) ((C))) ((D (E F)) (G) ((H)))))
;=> (A B C D E F G H)

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/fpfnf/an_early_lisp_pr...
Where do you see that? On the page linked in the GP the most recent revision is dated 2010-03-19

Do I just not see the link to the repo or is there another project page someplace?
It depends on why it is you didn't want to work there. The set of companies we know/like/respect is a superset of the companies we'd personally want to work at.

A trivial example is a company in the bay area: It could be an absolutely fantastic place to work, but my strong personal preference to live in a city means it'd be a poor fit for me. That doesn't mean it's a bad place to work, it just means it's a bad place for someone who wants to live in NYC :)
I've used Google Web Toolkit, and it does what it claims: It allows you to write web apps in Java. GWT has solid abstraction layers, an optimizing compiler, and clever support for image spriting. Using GWT is only marginally harder than writing a desktop application in Java.

Of course, that leaves open a larger question: Do you, personally, want to write web apps in Java? If not, then you'll find GWT to be a clever solution to a problem that you didn't want solved.
I guess you may be much healthier than the people I know, but I don't think I know very many people who go three years without a visit to the doctor. We all get infections that are considered minor and routine due to our medical care, but if we can't get that medical care they can be life-threatening, like strep throat or other common winter ailments. We all sometimes have accidents and trip and need to go to the hospital. There are lots of other things. Counting on visiting only once every three years is a bit dangerous imo.
I like the tutorial since it's great timing for me, but I really hate that you click on an image to view it larger and it takes you to a page instead where you can then click on the image to view it larger.
Would love to see this with an example featuring 50 or 100 sides. I'd be interested to see the rendering speed/delays in each browser.

Either way, good stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion @diiq! I like your idea of abstracting away the methods to get to the heart of the value for the end user. I'd be interested to hear what others think about this.
Chrysaora - WebGL jellyfish
It would appear so. Our Prime account was started by my wife and it is shared with my amazon account, and I am able to watch Amazon Prime videos.
Python to English translation: you'll still get presence information about the invisible person when you log in, just the presence status will be 'unavailable' (aka. offline).

This will have false-positives for people that genuinely have logged off (which gives the same <presence type='unavailable'/> stanza).

Another way to potentially check whether someone's online or not is to send a caps discovery request (ie. ask their client what XMPP extensions it support). If it replies, they're obviously online (haven't tested this, some clients may in fact be shrewd enough to ignore such requests when set to invisible).
Thanks for your kind words! Well I can see myself using both sites, really :)

That' what I learned from working on http://www.learnivore.com too - at the same time came out http://rubytu.be/, but I used both actually, and some people preferred one, some other the other.

I encourage you to ship anyway :)
Show HN: My MVP for a Travel Recommendation Engine
Many years ago (2007?) I put together this site: http://www.tripzard.com . I never launched it, because it was basically a MVP/POC so it's not very refined, but I just found it again today and was surprised it still kind of works decent.

The idea was kind of like "Find Your Spot" where you answer a bunch of questions about what you like to do when you travel, and it calculates where the best places for your to travel would be. Most people I found don't realize there are some interesting options out there instead of just going to Cancun.

What does the HN community think, is this a project worth picking up again? The site is probably buggy etc.. but it does represent a lot of manual data gathering on my part and there still is nothing out there like this site to my knowledge. I've always enjoyed travel, geography and history so this project was definitely a joy to work on.
Microsoft to release official Kinect SDK this Spring
I think this is just a toe-dip into streaming video service rather than a full-on attempt to topple Netflix at this point. Prime subscribers give Amazon a ready-made, loyal group of beta-testers and I imagine they'll be paying close attention to the data that comes out of this offering.

I see similarities between this and the way they incrementally roll out new AWS features - they don't always feel the need to make a massive splash and they leave space to incorporate user feedback before betting the farm on a new service.
All I see is a bunch of HyperShot photorenderings.
Thanks. A lot of these "bugs" seem to be inside the known limitations of the engine. Not that it matters a lot for the user getting a junk translation.

At least, google isn't claiming for full usability in all languages

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/translate-between-41-...
I've just started playing with Fabric, and I like your take on its functionality better. If they're resistant to merge you, why not fork into something new?

You definitely have something very useful there, from a casual read.
See the associated blog post at http://blog.aleksandarrodic.com/?p=33 . There’s a fair bit of tech associated with it, including some server-side simulation where the state is passed back to the client via websockets.
The point being? Sorry if I'm being dense, but no market is truly elastic.
P1. Yes - the company is profitable, but you have to subtract off the price you paid for it in order to find out whether it is profitable from your perspective.

P2.1 P/E is also crude.

P2.2 How much the company is worth at the end of the initial time period is certainly not what I most care about. If it is not viable also as a buy-to-hold, then you are playing greater fool speculation.

P2.3 It gives a useful perspective on the information. Where will Google be in 23.74 years? Will it still be a viable model? Will quantum computing have been proved so I can have a search engine in my pocket? Will all searching have to be social? Will Bing and Facebook become viable alternatives in the next year, driving down Google's margins? Will they ever pay a dividend, or will they keep re-investing until they go bust? My money will be locked up for 23.74 years, and there might be nothing at the end.
The Hipmunk display is really aimed at making it easy to pick the best option time-wise when there are multiple options at roughly the same price.

OTOH, what really put me off Hipmunk was not finding cheapest flights, compared to Kayak. I put in a multi-hop international flight, and Hipmunk is giving me $4479 vs $1786 on Kayak. That basically means "do not use" to me.

My search:
NYC ​ DXB on Sun, Mar 20
​DXB ​ MEL on Thu, Mar 24
​MEL ​ NYC on Mon, Apr 04
Maybe they could emulate Bowie Bonds somehow... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_Bonds
I like it!

Just last week I had two people email me with similar site ideas to hn-books.com, and when I launched hn-books 2 completely other people emailed me that they were working on similar sites.

Must be something about hacker books that's in the water. Lots of sites with lots of features and such means better resources for all hackers, plus lots of folks getting experiences doing stuff like this. Most excellent!

Since I've done this, I guess I should say something pithy or insightful. I think the trick is the navigation piece. I see you have categories -- that's probably a good place to start. I started with questions, you can go to my main page, click on the hacker-related question you have, and be presented with a sorted list of answers based on your experience. (see http://hn-books.com/ )

I'm not sure if questions are the way to go either, though, as there are a zillion questions hackers might ask. I'd still like to see somebody come up with some new ideas in this area.

I also ran into the "just what are hacker books, anyway?" question that we get over here all of the time. I finally said screw it, I'll just put things that I believe are hacker-related. But I don't think there's any easy answer to that one, either.

Outstanding site, though! I hope some of these other guys that have spoken to me will post what they've done as well.
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If you agree with Apple's strategy (i.e. create apps only within Apple's rules) then it of course makes sense to later defend Apple for only allowing web apps while the AppStore and Apple's development tools were not ready. But if one doesn't stick only to Apple's strategy, then other options present themselves like allowing developers to release their own native apps until Apple got its act together. Developers were ingenious enough to develop, and even sell, native iPhone apps before the AppStore came along.

Gruber wants Google and Android (and Palm and webOS) to succeed so they can keep Apple sharp and on top of the game; Gruber doesn't want Apple's competitors to succeed in and of themselves, his desire is predicated on more success for Apple.

Gruber's views are sufficiently nuanced to allow some disagreements with Apple on minor issues while still remaining in agreement of their overall goals. I'm not the one 'splitting hairs' by pointing that out, indeed it's actually Gruber's arguments that appear so (his dismissal of the Readability blog post because they seem like a content publisher—even though Readability isn't—is an example of him drawing arbitrary lines in the sand)
Ideas:

- "Learn from the most talented programmers, designers, and IT professionals today"

- "Discover and share the best resources to make you a better programmer and designer"
Here's my personal list:

* Frys
* The great mall / Valley fair mall
* Great America theme park
* Santa Cruz beach + boardwalk
* Downtown Palo Alto
* Tech museum + art museum in San Jose
* Johnny rockets
In Europe, the Soviets stopped backing the local princelings before the 89/90 revolutions happened. This time around, the relevant powers seem more to be backing whoever wins and congratulating themselves after the fact for supporting freedom/stability (as appropriate).
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When I visit www.dayzipping.com, I get a javascript error, and it fails to load. The error points to some obfuscated code.
Some GPS units can measure speed by doppler shift. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the receivers in smartphones can't.
Instead of trying to draw parallels to one wave or another, just recognize that it seems like we are in the midst of a revolutionary wave. These things happen every so often: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_wave

The Wiki article is in the context of Marxism; I never learned this concept from that POV but the concept holds.

It's interesting to see the roles different technologies have played in these waves. Go back to 1848 and the industrial revolution and resulting urbanization are certainly one of many causes.

SMS played a key organizing role in the Color revolutions, especially in Ukraine. And now we're seeing Twitter/Facebook play a role. I think some people are exaggerating that role, but the role is there.
Just last week I had two people email me with similar site ideas to hn-books.com, and when I launched hn-books 2 completely other people emailed me that they were working on similar sites.

I'm not surprised. I've been working on my own half-baked version. Kudos to those of you who finished the baking.
Those who code together, stay together!

Or was it the opposite?
Plus one for the task decorator.

Very nice work all around.
OK I know that many on this forum have a distaste for Milton Friedman, but this is a really interesting article in light of the discussion carried on from here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2247560

The reason I like this argument is nobody is talking about this as a solution, and a lot of people disagree with it-- that probably means it's worth looking at.
Thank you for building this. I admire the simplicity and elegance. Would be cool if the "Mentioned 2 times at Hackernews" was hyperlinked to the mention. Can this be done?
nhagen, I forgot: Thanks for posting the link! :)
It's a pretty straightforward implication of bayes' law that the absence of evidence is evidence of absence. In fact, we can quite easily quantify just how strong the evidence it provides is.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
i would appreciate a link to google books so i can preview the site.
Interesting. Anyone have an idea why I see the "genre" label in what looks like Korean? https://skitch.com/buley/rtr3j/apple-itunes-rss-generator
You pay an electric bill, an internet bill, pay for your servers, and probably pay people to keep them safe and secure.
This was really meant more as advice to the commenter I replied to, having been through it before and learned how to deal with that particular company.
Exactly. And those integer ID columns are even created for you automatically in several web frameworks/solutions such as Django and Google App Engine.
If you've ever checked the 404 logs on a site with no favicon you already know this.
I seem to see an uninsulated water heater tank - if so, the first thing is to add more insulation around the tank first.
Technical Debt Doesn't Disappear
i think the relevant powers have used the same diplomatic tone back then as they do nowadays, because of the uncertainty of how things might turn out to be.
I categorize it into Random Thoughts, Startup Ideas and Programming snippets (things I think of for my current projects).
Again, I'm not sure what details you're looking for; the stuff I care about (cost, departure and arrival time, rough length of flight, where it connects) is all right there.

As someone who lives in a city that's always one connecting flight away, I can't tell you how many times I've almost booked a flight only to realize the one that's $5 more on the same airline connects in a city more on the way and with less layover time, and Hipmunk does a far better job of communicating that to me then a traditional list.

That being said, I'm not using it exclusively yet (I usually check both Kayak and Hipmunk just to make sure I'm not missing something), but I really like that somebody is trying to do something different and (hopefully) enjoyable in flight search.
I think it's a great idea. It would be nice to not have to answer so many questions though. Maybe a few basics, and then let me browse around and "like" things (NOT publicly on Facebook), and then infer what I like. More of a recommendation engine. But then with the option to manually "advanced search" using all (or some) of the questions.
Hi Daniel!

thanks for your feedback! Your release of hn-books.com really made me realize I should carry on, that the topic was interesting (which I believed). But I was quite far from being able to ship and busy with a lot of client work, too.

I totally agree that the navigation is the tricky part, and I have a lot of work to do on this :)

I'm really curious to see other people approach to solve the general issue of finding useful books!

In all cases, thanks for the kind words, appreciated!
It's a big risk because most people that get Legionnaires get Pneumonia. A few years ago my neighbor got Pnemonia and almost died. He was 41, fit, and otherwise healthy. It's nasty business, and you do not want to risk it just to save a few bucks a year.

If you want to do your part, go out and buy a new efficient tank, or even a tankless heater. Both of them will save you a bundle over that older model.
For books published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf, you should link directly to the publisher, in my opinion. PragProg.com sells DRM-free ebooks (in pdf, mobi, and epub) for cheaper than Amazon. They are a great value and I bet the PragProg folks keep more money this way, which is a good thing.

For example http://www.hackerbooks.com/book/rails-for-net-developers-fac...

Should link to http://pragprog.com/titles/cerailn/rails-for-net-developers instead of Amazon.com.
Nice simulation, I really hope IE9 (probably they will adopt it in 10) will adopt the WebGL standard this way we will be able to target a larger audience. Personally I use Chrome so I have no problem coding/using WebGL, however a lot of people I know are still stuck with IE for various reasons.
This seems like a non story to me. The judge did not confirm at all the GPS data affected their decision.

However, I have used GPS data successfully in a somewhat similar situation. I was riding my bicycle to work and got hit by a car that was pulling out of a driveway. My GPS recorded the entire incident and showed quite clearly that the car pulled out and hit me well after I had already ridden pass the driveway, showing they just plain weren't looking (and not the other way around). The whole incident ended up in my favor.
Pretty similar here too.

For work, with a nice A4 pad:

I only date if it's a meeting/phone call. Otherwise I'm a bit lax, never found that to be a problem.

I don't distinguish between scratch and "tidy". Tidy means it probably should be in a version controlled document. Which means I usually draw a box around it to remind myself to document it.

Also I place a single diagonal line through "dead" pages or parts of pages. A good reminder to go back and document/deal with stuff that isn't crossed out.

I've played with folding/snipping corners of dead pages, leaving only very useful stuff un-folded. Works well for day book type stuff, but not if you're noting concepts/ideas you'll reference again.

I leave the first pages free, and have some kind of index/overview.

Back pages are usually for quick notes that are unrelated to current stuff.

If it's a new project, always flick 2 pages or so forwards, to give space for tidy up of old project/handover work.

For less formal notes, I use coloured stickies in my notebook - good for phone numbers/email addresses of people in meetings/on calls/to contact.

Whilst one-note looks great, my notebooks consist mostly of:
diagrams, free form tables, nested lists & flowcharts. Only if I'm reviewing for personal use do I have dense text.

Want to figure out how to integrate whiteboard photos into my processes nicely though!
Is it possible to create native Android user interfaces with this, or will Qt apps look and behave differently from "normal apps"?
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You make a good point here. I was thinking about this last night. It seems like there has been a cultural shift over the last 15 years or so. This is entirely anecdotal but it seems like attitudes have changed.

When I first got into computers/coding everyone I met was so excited to run into another enthusiast and sharing and collaboration where pretty much the rule. Even the writing from the day seemed to emphasized two types of programmer: skilled and green.

These days everything I read emphasises two types of programmers: ubermensch and the tragically useless, a dichotomy that entirely drops the implication that people in general are trainable in favor of implying there are gods among us and those doomed to merely mortal abilities should do the rest of the industry a favor and take up landscaping professionally.
Better known as FLATTEN.
Can anyone speak to how close these books come to this? Or recommend other books?

Building Scalable Web Sites
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357

The Art of Capacity Planning
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518585

Web Operations
http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000136
Yeah. I always did it this way, didn't realise until fairly recently you could use <link/> tags.

Does anyone know of any other user agents that don't hit /favicon.ico regardless? Feed readers for example?
In my experience that isn't always true. However, I know some meditators who are very active and multitask very well. Unfortunately, I am not one of them.
It will totally be done :)

Next iteration will be on making the navigation better, so that you can click on everything that's possible.
They’ll probably come out with WebDX.