skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to wikipedia scale an 8.8 magnitude earthquake has approximately the same energy release as a 288 megaton nuke. Since the largest nuclear bomb ever was 100 megaton and a 35km radius for the zone of total destruction, direct bombing is almost certainly more damaging.
Yeah, applets are almost deprecated but there is no comparable Javascript-based editor.
The IDE will move from the desktop to the web, but that's a loooong way off. I recently installed Cloud9 ( http://cloud9ide.com/ and https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9 ) and it is by far the most advanced open source web IDE available. Supports multiple languages, syntax highlighting, error detection, etc.

However, as solid a start as it is ... it isn't anywhere close to being acceptable. No advanced editing features such a multiple line indenting, duplication, moving, etc. No code completion. No integrated manuals for languages. Limited shortcuts (since the most basic are mapped to the browser). I can go on, but you get the idea. We're still quite a few years off. All of it is possible, the tech is here, it would just take a massive undertaking ... and most of the resources are being poured into traditional IDEs.
It's like the saying "It's difficult to make someone understand something when his job depends on him not understanding it".

Facebook's popularity is driven by attaching your real life to an online identity. 4Chan's success is driven by total anonymity.

That the two founders have diametrically opposing views on anonymity is not really surprising. There's certainly merit to both view points.
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I always point to a lot of the early work from John Carmack on 3d engines. There's a certain level of innovation and creativity in his mind that I may never have, at least when it comes to solving programming problems.
Agreed, they both have their place, although I am biased heavily in favor of using personas that link to your real identity. If FB allowed anonymity, I would be using it. It's for my connections and those alone.
I'm going to hazard a guess here since you mentioned vaccines. Was your comment something along the lines of vaccines causing autism or some other problem, that hasn't been scientifically proven? I've seen several examples of anti-vaccine comments being downvoted. Here's an example of a vaccine thread where numerous comments have been downvoted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2182852

If your comment went against a generally accepted viewpoint and you tried to use links to pseudoscientific sources to back it up, then yes, you'd run afoul of most people here and be downvoted. The bad science surrounding this issue is a particular pet peeve of many people. You say "I posted links proving my point" which leads me to believe that maybe you're very set in a viewpoint that most people don't find credible.

Of course, since I don't know what your original comment was, this is all speculation.
Only a very small minority of people are "winners." Chances are you are in the majority.

And the winners stand out and are easy to notice. You see them on the TV, in movies, on the internet, in advertisements and commercials, articles are written about them.

You see the one douchebag in a Porsche but all the other typical people in their typical cars are invisible.

It can create a warped perspective.
Or someone who recognizes that "There was a similar thing done in ..."
Go [1] is a fairly new language that has lightweight threads and supports message passing through channels. The language is pretty quick to learn, especially if you already know C.

[1] http://golang.org
I'm on Win XP (nothing to be ashamed of :), and Flash works fine for me. Seems likely the problem is something else.
Audio? What if instead of kinect, we used a microphone? Maybe voice activated lightnings or a continuous electrical background for your phrases.

A whole new meaning for "thundering voice".
Thorium isn't.
Nowadays, a significant portion of those "bandwidth abusers" are people who are just watching movies and TV shows on Netflix. The use of Netflix instant streaming has grown tremendously over the past year, and for many people, it's become the exclusive source for non-live video content.
Well that might lead to awkward situations.

Donny, Steven, Eric, and Bob have joined the Freeversation

Anon: "Hey guys how's it going."

Anon2: "Donny cheated with Mary."

Anon: "Okay, who said that?"

Anon: "Eric it was you wasn't it?"

Anon2: "Donny also stole booze from last nights party."

Anon: "I will find out who this is."

Full disclosure: I don't know how bros talk, but I can see Freeversations leading to confessions or straight out bashing. Best to lay down some etiquette for new users.
The last three "offices" I've been to have been an oral surgeon, a dentist, and the pet hospital. In all cases light boxes have been replaced with electronic storage and big LCD displays. The oral surgeon worked with printouts of the x-rays, however, as they were easy to mark up, show to patients, and store in a file folder.

It's probable the doctors involved had desks and PCs, but as a patient/client I didn't see their office. I saw them in examining rooms and operating rooms -- places where an iPad simply makes no sense.

We could argue hypotheticals all day and it wouldn't change anything. I'll believe your examples when I see them in the real world.
Ask HN: An Alternate Solution for "The Hacker News Problem"?
(This is a response to Alex Payne's thoughtful essay "Solving The Hacker News Problem": http://al3x.net/2011/02/22/solving-the-hacker-news-problem.html)

Ok, so let's imagine a "perfect" HN-style Home Page. What does it look like?

It only has submissions (and comments?) that might be of some worth to you personally, and it omits anything it anticipates you actively dislike.

Alex believes the way to create such a view would be to "fork" the HN community into something new, aligned with his interests (deeply technical news and discussion).

But the community he's looking for already exists as a sub-set within HN. It's just hidden; with no filter to bring it to the surface.

So, here's an alternate solution (and I'm not alone in proposing this).

Hacker News has a wealth of historical data in the form of prior up- and down- votes from users.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537607
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1278680

Imagine that each item on a (personal) HN Home Page was sorted using criteria like:

- how have you personally ranked similar items in the past?
- was the item added to HN by a user you trust?
- among users you trust, how has the item already ranked? and items similar to it?
- how have influential users (high in reputation/"karma") ranked the item? and similar items in the past?

I mean, sounds great, right? What would be the downside?

Well, for one thing ... echo chamber, much? ya digg?

You'd be losing the "discovery" factor. As Andy Baio put it recently: "software scoped to friends-only favors intimacy over serendipity" (waxy.org/links).

But, maybe that's good. Like, let's say you're tracking some deep technical news and discussion - an informed echo chamber might be exactly what you need.

So couldn't bloomfilter.org be simply a way to filter raw Hacker News into personalized home pages based on historical data? It seems like an experiment worth conducting, doesn't it?

What's the hurdle that prevents such a service from existing?

Well, here's one hurdle: Hacker News does not expose any user voting history (and probably for good reason). Users do have access to "saved stories" when signed in, and their prior submissions and comments are of course public, but that's about it.

So, I think HN would have to be modified such that a user could elect to make their voting history accessible (if not publicly, then perhaps via OAuth?)

Once users' voting records become available, experimental services could be built for any who would like to participate.

And from there, we could see the sub-communities Alex mentioned spring up, without "forking" the HN community entirely.

TL;DR:
Why can't we get access to HN user voting data, so we can make our own ranking/recommendation/prediction engines, and then everybody could subscribe to a little echo chamber of their own choosing?
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I'm from Houston. Try Agora: http://www.agorahouston.com/pages/agorafirst.html . Or Cafe Brasil: http://www.yelp.com/biz/brasil-houston .

Both are located at the intersection of Westheimer and Dunlavy, in Houston's art district. Cafe Brasil has a full kitchen, more outside seating, and a big projector in the back courtyard for movies and events. Agora is across the street and (in my experience) tends to attract a slightly more mature and productive crowd.

I've also heard that Houston now has at least one good "hackerspace", which is well worth checking into at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/TX/RX_Labs_(Houston_Hackerspace... and http://www.txrxlabs.org/ .
yReceipts offers this service for any retailers already. We are live in the UK and Australia, soon to be live in the US and other European countries. You can send receipts via email from any POS, the customer receives an email with an attached PDF. We have a website where you can login and see your receipts etc.

New features currently being developed include exporting directly to accounting programs.
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>it would just take a massive undertaking ... and most of the resources are being poured into traditional IDEs

This is a big problem. As a mostly Java developer, the way I see it, none of the major three Java IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA) seem to move this way. Eclipse has announced Orion (http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/introducing-orion/ ) but that's very incipient and I don't think they are putting a lot of weight behind it.

Cloud9 seem to 'get' the idea and I do hope they shake things up a bit but although they release the code, I think they are basically a for-profit entity, so I would feel much more confortable if some open-source community/foundation would start building something like this.
To bust a 250GB cap with NetFlix, you have to watch 250 hours of exclusively HD content; 8 full hours a day, every day, nonstop.
Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients
Step one is to stop classifying people into "douches" and "non-douches". Being "damn near 40" and still making judgments on people the minute you meet them is your first problem.
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Start Shout - What Happened?
Just went over to recently launched StartShout.com, started by HN user 'str'. The message on the site says that it's "Coming Soon", and that the site isn't configured.

I'm launching tomorrow, and I need it. Does anybody know what happened? Or does anybody have a copy of the list?
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It's RED (emph) like the color, then 'iss'.

What'd this presentation have to say about Redis?
Yeh the title is a bit measleading, but the content is good, I have found mobile web development to still be fairly immature and hard to find information about, so this helps.
I remember reading this and being blown away by his enthusiasm.

What are some interesting non-SCM projects that use git? (Like wikis, etc)
Maybe they are just lucky, but maybe not.

Is it more than just envy? Often times, if you hate someone, it's because you don't understand why other people like them.

Ask yourself why these douchebags have friends and people like them. There are reasons. What value do they offer to other people?
Caps will move, rates will move, usage will move, prices will move. I'm not sure what your point is. I'm saying (or, strongly implying) that virtually the only people who will be hit with this cap today are the ones using BitTorrent.
I love how at around 06:15 he takes a snack break right in the middle of his talk.
If the alternative is a rate hike, then it is.
okcupid works like mixi in this way (and a lot of other ways, too). It's a shame that they call themselves a dating site; they're really a social network for people who met online.
why would i want to use an ide that needs 14 seconds to open the editor after i click on a file?
In what way is their service reduced? Nobody who isn't torrenting is going to come anywhere close to this cap. It's 250 hours of streaming HD video.
Well, it's been two years and git still isn't making me sandwiches (unlike Unix pipes), so I think he's been proven wrong.

Honestly, I like git, and I like the 'local copy' model, but I feel people go a little overboard sometimes with their enthusiasm for git.
Sounds like the guy thought that something which was too good to be true actually was true.
AT&T's video is significantly cheaper to provision; it's housed entirely on their own network.
github wikis come to mind.
We use zeromq internally at dotcloud, and it's an absolute pleasure to work with. There is that weird obsession with asserts, but a lot of the problems we had with rabbitmq are gone.
There are two kinds of articles about DVCSs: (1) git, hg, bzr are all better than whatever you're using now; (2) git is completely revolutionary, a whole new paradigm.

This is, of course, the latter sort. I'm wondering why hg, etc. are never called "a whole new paradigm". I've used all three. Clearly, hg & bzr are extremely similar, while git works a little differently (the staging area, the differing semantics of "add", etc.). But I don't see that git has significantly more awesomeness than the other two.

Am I missing something?
It also sucks a lot more. I had Speakeasy for over 5 years; AT&T has been a dream comparatively.

Slow. Friendly-but-useless customer service. Multi-day outages.

Let's not forget, Speakeasy is just another BigCo. If you want to stand on your principles, go look up the ISPFH people in Chicago. They'll sell you a DSL line.
also, how do i work on a train if all the code is in the cloud?

also, isn't that just that much more surface area for hacker(crackers whatever) to attack?
Whoever this guy is, his blog has been one of my favorites for quite some time now.
Nada. He just compared one of his sample APIs to redis. Don't have the exact quote, but it was something like, "this does a few basic things, similar to redis; put, get, etc."
I think Git owes a ton of its success to github.com. Without this extremely well-designed, central repository for repositories, the uptake of Git would have been much slower, and faced much more resistance in the wild. Git is a great tool on its own, but having a centralized place for people to learn and use Git has been huge.
Yikes. I agree but this looks like a workflow that would get in my way, not help me code. Open tab, wait 15 seconds while it launches. It just reminds me how much I despise java applets in web pages.
If they were trying to keep people from turning off U-V TV, why would they set a bandwidth cap that no normal TV-watching person would approach?
Thank you. That's how I've been pronouncing it.
We're planning on adding some moderation options, but we also trust our users. You get to decide who to invite to a conversation, so presumably you won't invite someone who is going to make a joke out of a serious discussion.

If people don't live up to our expectations, we do have some creative solutions for encouraging people to behave.
I don't remember if I've read this before, but I feel the same way.

The great thing about git is that it's easy to understand. Once you understand the concepts (and they're really (relatively) simple) and learn the vocabulary, it gives you tremendous power. At least, it makes you feel that you have power, hence it empowers you.

> Git is actually the missing link that has prevented me from building the things I've wanted to build in the past.

Totally agree with this one.
Well, this is just a prototype I did for the video. Ideally it would be near-instant.

The first time took a lot due to the cold boot, you might notice the next files open quite fast.
Seth Priebatsch, the SXSW un-interview 
Thought this might be of interest. To get to know him better, here's some background on Seth and a compilation of information about his SXSW Interactive Keynote. It woud be great to meet with him at some point, but for now this is my first 'un-interview'.
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Dropbox and Python. 2 of my favorite things.
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Pretty amazing and efficient 247365
Good luck buddy.
Little turns me off more than artifacty images without alt tags.
You could really make waves if you made a way to better organize your friends visually.

Option A: People's icons as little boxes that I can drag around. Make a venn diagram for groups. When you friend people, you select their group(s) by dragging their icon to the right circle/shape. A video/slideshare by google on here a while ago showed how friend groups and cliques were more varied than just one big group. Play off that concept and let people create their own boxes.

Option B: Create a pseudo-tree of connections. Play to people's egos and show them at the center of the tree. Make the neighboring vertices be groups and let friends branch off the group. The pseudo part comes in when people are repeated within groups: either repeat them as vertices on the tree or have more than one edge coming off. I prefer the later, as it would make for a cooler tree.

But really, whatever you make will be better than facebook.
Also, probably should never let other people see a person's groups. It could cause severe problems socially.
While I don't support Mark's ideas and Facebooks' politics about privacy, I really don't get it when people say that you can't manage who sees your FB content.

Facebook has for a long time supported Friend Lists.

All my photos (and the ones I'm tagged in), except the profile pictures, are only visible to a very small circle of friends. I could do the same thing for status updates if I wanted.
What I've found is that I'm rarely offline when I'm working.

Regarding hackers, I guess the risk is about as much as having production servers online or using EC2 and github.
It's only alarmist when it isn't happening to you or someone you love. It happened to my nephew, several thousand dollars in cash seized from his college dorm room (he was a bartender, but should it matter? it isn't illegal to have cash is it?), no charges filed and it would have cost him more than they seized to attempt to get it returned. Back in the 80s, when I was in high school they seized a local family's home because someone said they bought acid from a boy who lived there. It made big news back then, this stuff was new. The family lost the legal battle, they couldn't prove they didn't know their kid was selling acid. The authorities couldn't prove he was selling acid either, but that doesn't matter in these cases. To have your property returned, you must prove you are innocent or ignorant which are both almost impossible things to prove.
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Sorry, my design skills are lacking.
I hope something like this takes off. I like eclipse but I never have the same installation between any two machines. Usually there is some kind of config bug that never gets sorted out and I just live with it. How different is this from what Heroku is doing in the RoR space?
I found this article very inspiring too. It sort of synthesizes the topics and lines of inquiry I have been drawn into in the past few years. What he failed to mention though is the role played by advances in the research into evolution of consciousness which show that our higher mental faculties were born out of the necessity of working with each other in order to survive.
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That is certainly an interesting and uncited fact, but it hardly qualifies as evidence that forfeiture laws are almost always used against ordinary people.
I love python. It the swiss army knife of the coding work whether its web development or file management, python can do it...in a clean and concise manner.
Awesome. A real hack. Beautiful, simple, useful.
Our family watches a lot of Netflix. My kids will watch several movies or shows throughout the day, my wife watches her shows, and we might throw a movie on in the evening after the kids have gone to bed. If the average size of a 2 hour movie on Netflix is 1.8GB (source: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/200...) and if we watch on average move than 2.7 movies a day, then we will almost definitely hit our 150GB limit every month. Especially considering that we use the internet for a lot of other stuff too, like video chatting with out of town family members, work related file transfers, offsite backups, etc.

We don't use bittorrent, we don't download music illegally, but we will most definitely be dropping AT&T for a different service, as soon as we find one that won't cap our usage (since Comcast is the only cable provider available in our area).

This is crap.
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There are a good number of successful people in the world . Some portion of those people happen to be douchebags. Unfortunately, they're the obvious ones. The modest, down-to-earth types simply slip past unnoticed.
It seems like the thought process of every fledging social network this morning was:
Google is launching their social network?
Perfect!
Time to launch our similar but not quite finished rival product.
We might just get listed at the bottom of a techcrunch article in the resulting hubbub!
I like how the water level rises from the beginning to the end, at the start there's just a few cars moving a little and you're like "this isn't so bad", and then at the end water is gushing in with cars and buildings rolling around in a cacophony of madness, even the camera man has retreated to well above water level at this point.
Thanks, I wasn't aware that their HD bandwidth requirements were as modest as 2.6-3.8 Mb/s, from both a more effective codec and limiting fidelity to 720p30 stereo.

http://blog.netflix.com/2008/11/encoding-for-streaming.html
You can definitely write some pure JS apps on iOS and bypass once for all the AppStore review process but you have to keep in mind that the JS runtime does not have yet access to all the API provided by the OS underneath. Here a a few things & there are many more that you will not be able to access from JS:

- camera/video

- photo library

- address book

- embedding a smooth map view: you can get google maps to appear but it will not be as smooth as the native MapKit control

- all the goodness of CoreAnimation but the CSS animation on iOS made tremendous progress in each release

- speed: even if with iOS 4.3 and the Nitro engine JS is faster, the compiled Objective-C / C / C++ will most likely be faster

- re-use various existing runtime library (Facebook Connect/ DropBox / ...)

Please do nit think that I don't believe in pure web app on iOS or other device. Some app can fit well the model abd make perfect sense to do as such, but I will strongly recommend that before comitting to a 100% web app, check that all the features you want to achieve are doable through JavaScript/CSS
can outsiders attend, I mean non Berkeley students?
Will probably do that when it's more complete. :-)
>It might be worth spending the two or three minutes it would take to make a transcript and put that on the site, too.

Did it myself, because I despise being forced to watch/listen to A/V without being given a choice to read the transcript.

My (slightly inaccurate, you'll be able to tell where) transcript of the homepage video follows:

Facebook and Twitter are crowded places, your mom/sister/etc are all there. It feels like you're on a big stage talking to an audience.

In real life there are social circles where we're comfortable. Circular uses (a?) new algorithm to build your social circles from your existing data. The conversation is bounded within the circle. Only people inside can participate, so you can be who you really are.
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