skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be fascinated by this type of peer-to-peer system and spent a lot of time studying and designing them. Unfortunately, there is pretty much always a way to overthrow/overtake them with lies and large groups unless there is a central authority. Looking at BitCoin's somewhat arcane approach and apparent lack of verification of its methods, I highly doubt that it would be different from all the others.
Kreci ... We get it. You have a book about Android programming that you're trying to promote by posting things like this, and your android income reports to HN.

Its spam at this point. Please stop.
They've done a remarkable job making the UI on the iPhone version not be sluggish as crap like other camera-centric apps. Kudos to them.

Also, I like the unlimited file size and length; it somehow makes sharing less stressful in a way?
Adizero F50
Easier to mess up the syntax when no specialized HTML editor is available (e.g. when editing your Dropbox site through your phone).
The Man Who Makes Your iPhone: a profile of Terry Gou
The authors of the blog don't say, but here's one approach: http://wordpress.mrreid.org/moviebarcode/

A discussion using mplayer for faster output is also attached at http://projects.metafilter.com/2996/Make-your-own-Movie-Barc...
I found it hard somehow (English's not my first language), but "incomprehensible" seems an exageration. It's about three managemente styles. See msg's comment here for an executive summary.
In some cases, the colors actually do that quite well.

For example, look at The Fifth Element. You see that patch of white between the beginning and the middle? That's the scene where Leelo is brought back, I believe. It's the only scene in the movie that I can think of where there's a significant amount of white (although it's possibly Corbin's apartment...). It struck me how recognizable it was before I saw your post, actually.
This is interesting. What I'm curious about though, is how does this workflow scale to thirty developers? 100?

I tend to believe with six people or less, you can really work together with any system and it will work fine. Some will obviously require more work than others, but once you get to a larger team, some systems just won't work, AFAIK.
Eric Schmidt: What I Read
"Libertarian Socialism"? Best oxymoron ever.
What more is there to say? I think he is saying the same thing you are but in a more colorful tone.
Show HN: Design Then Code, UI design guides for hackers
Nike Mercurial
Really cool.. congrats to the SocialCam team on the launch!
I think 3-letter pronouncable domain name trumps German market secondary meanings.
Don't forget that the content that JavaScript displays comes from somewhere, typically an HTTP API, which you can access with any HTTP library the same way JavaScript does.

If a JS web site also provides you with a clean API to the actual raw content in a format that is even easier to consume than HTML (e.g. JSON), would that make you happy?
IPhone app finds electric car charging spots
It's not in the same category of burning uselessness, but speaking as someone with no taste or design talent por exerience it is ugly.
Freelancers Need a Website
I had forgotten about that, just checked and they do show a percentage of iOS (no Mac) apps which are reviewed within 7 days (currently 75%) but it is kinda tucked away in the middle of a page and not really obvious. It will be interesting to see if the user generated average settles on ~7 days, my feeling is that it probably will be around that mark.

Also, if I get a decent amount of data coming through the system there is the possibility of gathering more data or creating some interesting visualisations of it. We will see.
150 referrals, wow. Do you experience some kind of saturation by now, in that it becomes increasingly harder to find a potential new user who hasn't yet subscribed?
First, it is Lacan, not Latan. Incorrectly spelling author names is not well seen in academia :) One thing that must be said is that not all authors attacked by Sokal are at the same level: some deserved it, and even for a given person, there may be a lot of different quality in their work.

As for understanding where they are coming from: I cannot speak for Lacan (who certainly said stupid things, but who hasn't), but Bruno Latour has done some fascinating anthropological work on science. Reading "Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts" changed my vision of science. Contrary to what Bricmont claimed in one of his article about the affair (French title: "La vraie signification de l'affaire Sokal"), Latour has never claimed to my knowledge that science was just a social construct, but rather that the scientist activity cannot be thought independently of its social environment. When Bricmont says in the same article that "Comment peut-on soutenir sérieusement qu'il n'y aucune raison empirique de croire que le sang circule, que la Terre tourne..." (my quick and rough translation: could one really claim that there is no empirical ground for blood circulation or Earth rotation), that's disingenuous.

But what bothers me the most in the whole affair is that for people who claim defending science and the scientific method, they prefered the polemic, uncontrolled manner rather than an actual experiment to prove their point. That's rather ironic.
Hey guys, I've been working on this since early Fall. I want to teach designers the basics of Cocoa & iOS development and also teach hackers how to design & execute great-looking UIs in Photoshop. The larger project tutorials are paid (the first one went live today, over 70 pages including PSD file and Xcode project) but I also wrote a shorter (free) guide to getting started with Objective-C and Cocoa: http://designthencode.com/scratch/
You don't need to embed Javascript to solve this problem, which has confronted web security products since the invention of "Ajax". Yes, the clientside is evaluating JS to figure out what to load, but once you know how those loads work, nothing stops you from simply making the "backend" requests directly.

We can nerd out till the sun goes down on how feasible it is to automatically figure out what links to load, but we spend the better part of many people's time every week dealing with this, and it rarely creates a major problem. Actually scraping tag soup is by far the more annoying issue.
Place the I AM on the back... I AM A _____, LOOKING FOR A _____

Good combo that covers all bases. Someone sees you from behind across the room and can come up and say, hey, I see you're a UI guy...
While I generally agree, without seeing the contract, I'm left wondering exactly where the line is drawn. I accept that, since I'm not being offered an employment contract at Carsonified, it's perhaps none of my business, and that's fair -- but mostly I'm curious about the verbiage on the 'day off' bit.
So let's say I had some dollars to spend on SEM, how is this better than Trada? I've never used either, but without learning anything more I feel like I'd lean more toward their approach as it currently stands.
That's actually the first movie I went looking for.
Probably my favorite movie in east Asian cinema.
Advanced ActiveRecord Recipes: Doubly polymorphic join models
It's largely true, but depressing and unfix-able.

It's really bad with jobs that expect you to "pay your dues" at the beginning, yet still socialize with co-workers at restaurants after work. People from a more modest background are seen as anti-social when they really just have a cash flow problem.

There's a negative feedback loop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Main reason... I wanted to keep it really simple in terms of implementation and also so people might see the hashtag being used and go investigate what it was :) It was knocked up in a few hours total.

However, I also think it would be easier just add the hash tag to a tweet that you may even already be typing rather than have to go to a separate web page and enter a form. I would certainly prefer to do it this way.
Sure and Cloud9 is working on getting PHP/Ruby/etc. integrated into their environment, but when you're working on the project you're using more than just PHP or Ruby or JS, it's a combination of several technologies - your application stack - that you run your code on. It seems that's what's missing.
That is a pathological customer. Do you want more customers like her?

The A/B testing math is not kind to small changes in small businesses. What do you think it's worth, ballpark-wise? 5%? 10%? I think either of those is ridiculously optimistic and, although I don't have your numbers, I think you'd probably need a few months to discriminate between A and A + 5% at your traffic levels (if my impression of how large Preceden is is accurate).
A few years ago, I wrote a freeware app that did something similar, based on Brendan Dawes' "Cinema Redux".

http://threewordtitle.com/thumber/
I volunteered to code the back-end in Google App Engine: a technology I'd never touched before.

I hate this confusion between a startup BUSINESS and a learning/teambuilding exercise - this is not a startup, it's a coding project.
Best practices for JS and CSS organization
50 Ways To Be Inspired NOW: Create, Explore, Expand
No I don't think so. Considered harmful should mean a serious reason why the aforementioned is a bad thing. "Considered harmful" is just being grossly misapplied as unmerited linkbait, but it's still quite beneficial when occasion calls for it.
This older article of his is, I believe, considered something of a "classic". Personally, I consider it worth the read.

Free Electron

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/03/20/free_electr...
It's safer to think of success as a step in a potentially endless process. Microsoft (as an example) treated IE6 as an end, and it cost them substantial market share while they tried to catch up to the new entrant.
Seriously, how do you argue with this even a little?

Virtually every other employer in the world will fire you instantly for working a second job during the day on Friday, as an extension of the rule that requires them to fire you for going fishing during the day on Friday. It is beyond reasonable for an employer to require you not to work a second job on Friday in exchange for the day off. So far past reasonable I can't imagine it ever coming up the real world; team members at the 4-day-a-week would probably quit before alienating the company.

A four day work week is just a huge, generous benefit.
When Innovation Collides with Human Behavior
> For the purposes of this article one can assume that the important commonality between the two is that they both have a tendency toward the production of ideology in one form or another.

I'd say that Philosophy, like science, produces narratives to explain the world. This is very different from art, which never pretended to provide any explanation.

As such, I don't think that non-verbal art generally produces an ideology. An artist, usually does, though, but not through his/her art, through additional, parallel works or discourses. See for instance, Dali's or Berlioz' books; or simply talk about music or painting with a musician, or a painter. The art narrative definitely is outside the scope of art itself.

I suppose most verbal art (litterature, poetry, etc) can carry an ideology. I don't know if the idea system is part of art itself, though. We could debate that an artist' impressions are used to utter his/her idea system without being part of it per se.

I suppose here a strict formalist approach to art. Some people would disagree, however I don't think any other approach to be mainstream nowadays. Your description of art and artists strangely rely upon obsolete 19th century notions, I don't know if it's an elaborate trick or a lack of knowledge of modern art, but it hampers your dissertation; these "romantic views" were more or less dead in 1917 both with Duchamps' fountain and dodecaphonism.

> But for me to care you'll have to do more than simply claim that I'm ridiculous. Pony up with an argument or be silent.

Sorry to have hurt you. I couldn't resist the urge to cry with the trolls. The writing of this piece is way too much casually conversational and magazine-y to be taken too seriously.
Looks nice, but I don't want more Ruby books. There are too already too many and I never get through them.

Why not more interactive tutorials? The one on the Ruby website is good but very short. I liked Rails for Zombies, and I actually completed it (unlike most books I purchase).
Entrepreneurs, hopefully/eventually, hire people as well. I am sure there are positions where this knowledge and understanding might play a role, for instance, sales. Depending on your own background, you may have similar expectations/bias as your own socio-economic group and be attracted to them subconsciously.
Bitcoinj: A Java implementation of a BitCoin client-only node
This got no votes when I submitted it, but anyone reading this may find it interesting.

The Science Wars Redux - Fifteen years after the Sokal Hoax, attacks on “objective knowledge” that were once the province of the left have been taken up by the right: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015703
This is similar to what I went through dropping work down from 7 days a week to 6, and then to 5. Clients always appear. If they had their way, I would still be working all 7 days a week, preferably 24 hours a day.

As to those who are commenting about being "forced" to take the day off, I am not sure you are getting the point the author is trying to make. The whole point is not being burned out. Adding another job is a great way to reach burn-out faster.

Notice I say "job." In my book, this does not include hobbies. Which, to the outside observer, may look like work only because I use many of the same tools.

And if you really want to work that hard (and it was easier to get away with it when I was younger) maybe this is not the right employment for you...

FWIW. I have cycled through burn-out several times, and I prefer living a healthy lifestyle, if at all possible.

(Edited to be a bit less harsh than my first wording - Sorry).
> Enterking also asks that customers format their system before bringing it in to sell. This suggests that Nintendo actually keeps a record of any illegal activity on the 3DS which it can then analyze on a firmware update and react to.

Is it just me or is that an extremely paranoid interpretation?
First off I would like to say that you are pitching to the wrong crowds. If I'm not mistaken, HN readers are mostly hands on coders. Meaning we are the programmer that you are talking about outsourcing. Part of the allure of this adventure in Y Combinator style entrepreneurship is the hands-on nature of building our own product. To build our baby, release it to the world and hopefully see it being loved by everyone. If I were to outsource the most interesting part of this adventure, the programming, why am I going this route then. I might as well get some money, contact some vendors in China and sell merchandise. Might not be a tech startup, but a startup nonetheless.

While your ideas are sound, the execution is going to be very different. Just look at the countless companies who outsourced their IT development and support to other countries and how many faced millions of dollars or losses and missing datelines by months if not years. Boeing is the most recent story that comes to mind. If you think Skype and Basecamp is all you need to managed a programmer, i think it's a little bit naive. From my personal experience, agile style code review and plenty of micro milestones are the most important and they are only the beginning.

Also in my humble opinion, unless you have no clue as to how to build your product, you should almost never ask your programmer to come up with the architecture. Most of the time your programmer is not looking at your vision from the same perspective as you are, thus this is where a deviation from the original design occurs. Good or bad deviation is up to the situation, but more importantly what's the long term impact of this deviation and is the new solution or path maintainable?

Every programmer code in their own style. What this essentially means, the next programmer who takes on maintaining your product will have little to no clue how or what the previous programmer did. Thus programmer usually hijack a process mid stream, do what needs to be done and feed the data back to the process. Imagine this process occurs over and over again and 5 yrs down the road, your code just became 5 times more bloated than it needs to be and it will soon be unmaintainable. Then a complete rewrite is needed which usually mean lots more money.

As you can see I've only highlighted a couple of issues, these points are just the tip of the iceberg. If you think programmer can be just another commodity product that you can buy and sell as needed in units, you are sorely mistaken. A good programmer is equal part art and skill. We are not the union workers stamping out car parts, we are the specialize welders and builders that you go to when you want to build a GT racer.

I would like to conclude by saying that I mean no disrespect to your idea and article, but I think there might be quite a few things that have not been considered or covered by your article. Also your idea is very similar to Tim Ferris's 4Hr Work Week.
I am (possibly optimistically) hoping that people will be accurate with the data :)

It needs a decent amount of usage to be anything like accurate anyway and so I hope that the occasional bad data point will be hidden by the averages. I will be watching to see how accurate the data "feels" by watching the kind of tweets people are putting through it.
Control your Google Docs & Dropbox under single platform with Joukuu.
Octopart (YC W07) helps nearly a half a million people find parts every month
Glad to see this go live.
So you're saying if any trend reaches an asymptote, technology is dead? Did you expect planes to be the size of skyscrapers by now? In any case the limiting factors there are economics, not technology. We could build a flying skyscraper, if we really wanted to.

In any case the standards of technology are always the thing that's changing the fastest. In the early 20th century, it was transport and chemistry. Today it's computing and biotechnology.
The Scientific Gender Gap
Looks great. Did you also do the design work?
I think most Hackathons and the StartupBus are intended to be more of a learning experience.

Perhaps this is the confusion you mean?
Don't you first fall into the rope and then slam against the mountain side?

Oh, and, out of curiosity - how old are you, how long have you been climbing and what were your failures and worst injuries?

I'm asking because I am turning 30 and feel like my chance for a young and silly, careless life is slowly over.. no chance to even think about learning climbing or snowboarding or any other exciting sports.

On top of that I am an aspiring musician to I am kinda worried about my fingers and arms.
Hard work is very different from skills/talent or luck. The OP is claiming that the rich kid has a different/better personality skill set from the regular kid based on his wealth, and I disagree with that. I believe the rich kid has more opportunities, yes, but I don't believe rich kids are bred to have a better personality to take advantage of those opportunities. Therefore, it falls upon our society which looks at other factors instead of valuing merit for merit's sake.

Let's assume the two kids are just as driven as each other, with the rich kids having more opportunities. I do not believe that the rich kid will always have the social skills, technical skills, brains, passion, or dedication to take advantage of those opportunities. The rich kid may be a very mediocre person by merit, but because the regular kid doesn't have access to these opportunities, our society will select the rich kid for this opportunity because he looks good on paper and for lack of other merited kids to pick from. So yes, the rich kid will be ahead PURELY because he had exclusive access to an opportunity or because society wanted to pick a better resume, but NOT because the rich kid has a better skill set or is more well adjusted than the regular kid based on their wealth backgrounds. This disproves the OP's point.
Just to keep things clear and accurate, Freud has nothing to do with an idea of being an authentic self. I'd have to ask which text of his you have in mind.
I agree whole-heartedly. (The below is, of course, my opinion only.)

For me, the writing was on the wall when Twitter for iPhone first came out; they took the relatively simple and easy-to-use search screen and combined a bunch of separate functions into one bizarre combo search box that felt unintuitive and annoying. I still used it for a while, but wound up switching to the delightfully intuitive (if a bit under-featured) Twitteriffic 3.

I kept hoping they'd turn it around, but for me, Twitter for Mac was the death-knell for Atebit's aesthetic; what used to be an elegant and beautiful, yet still right-at-home on the Mac experience turned into an ugly, user-hostile piece of software… just like Twitter for iPhone.

RIP, Tweetie. You will be missed.
Well, that still doesn't make sense. Poor people can be capitalists. Capitalism is actually a legitimate philosophy, not just an excuse rich people use for exploiting the proles.
this is a wonderful and easily monetizable application. Hope you're successful in bringing this to the mass. Two very minor aesthetic suggestions: (1) when I hit the play button, it should play automatically instead of just bringing up the popup, (2) plan & pricing ... I think it is better you say something about the plan rather than "free for now".
That is one oversized, vertically challenged site. Ugh.
Lexa-tools framework for PHP 5.3
In Singapore, the drinking age is 18, so he actually would've been fine.
As Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a.

Actually, as often as not, it was Sokal, Bricmont, and Dawkins (and many others) who were talking out of their ass, egregiously and gratuitously misreading (or not reading at all) the "big names in the humanities" they were attacking.

For one particularly well documented instance, see:
http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.197/plotnitsky....
And a 10EUR keyboard has more buttons for even less money.

But seriously: the price for Dropbox consists (invisibly) of storage costs and rent for the comfortable client software. Depending on what value one assigns to that client software, Dropbox may be subjectively overpriced.
If it gets a decent amount of use it might be fun to add some more hashtags to let people break it down more.

Again, if it gets decent data coming through it there might be some nice things I can do with visualisation of that data too. We will see ;)
When you ask a person what motivates them to work, they talk about things at the top of Maslow's hierarchy.

When you ask a person what motivates others, they talk about things at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy.
Quantifying Failing Fast
The Reinvention of Silk
Sorry, I don't get you. Can you explain?
You mean people don't work 7-to-12 days in a row until they crash, then take a day and a half off, and repeat the process over again? Pfft, lightweights.
I'll let Trada's product speak for itself.

One basic difference is that from the advertiser's perspective, Trada is an agency in which you've essentially outsourced your marketing. However, AdGrok is a tool you can use to manage your own campaign. It can serve either as your stand-alone SEM tool, or as a complement to your existing SEM workflow.

Either way, you get an unparalleled view into what's going on inside your campaign and why.

We also have a managed service offering called GrokMe, in which we set up and manage your campaign for you. That's more in the agency vein, and from the user's perspective, similar to Trada's offering. Again though, even GrokMe users get our GrokBar and can see what's going on at all times.