skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting part is the addendum in the postscript, where he wonders why "almost everyone who has read this has completely missed the point".

Of course he blames the misunderstanding on the readers (who else?), but it interesting example for anyone concerned with presentations or communication in general to ponder why this happens in this specific presentation.
Braid is sort of similar to both of those, but also very, very different. It certainly has its own identity.
"Viral" lost its meaning a long time ago in many circles.
And the web can't fail? It sure can. Just as much as the other cases.
Why would you want to make viral link bait for a boring site?

Wouldn't it be more productive to make a site that is actually interesting to some group of users or other?
Even more practical.. avoid GPL code like the plague, unless you're sure you'll never have to distribute it.
I prefer the horizontal split. For reading say.. IRC, or websites, it's far more useful than a vertical split.
Google docs has a gears offline option as well.
Right on the money.
Has anyone run a comparison between this new engine and SquirrelFish yet? It seems to me like two major ideas are competing:

1. Better JIT for interpreters.
2. Faster interpreters, period.

I'm really curious to see which has the faster ramp-up and which has the best end-game results.
How to track down the source of Aborted_connects
What everyone is missing is that this is his linkbait for his boring site :) Look at his submissions, they're all from the same site
Then it's hilarious
Joel re: exceptions.  Nyet
What Startups Can Learn From Billy “Moneyball” Beane
In Defense of C
JavaFX preview SDK: he likes it
Well. And in that case, how would Google Docs be superior to Keynote/PowerPoint? Then it's just a third system that needs to be working, right?
Counterpoint: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4563.html
Django 1.0 Documentation
Iphone in India,8GB-800USD,16GB-900USD,SIM Locked to service provider.Day light robbery
And there will still be people who will buy it!!
Ok, now it's extra useful:

paste () {
(pbpaste | curl -s -F "sprunge=<-" http://sprunge.us | xargs echo -n && echo -n "?"$1) | pbcopy;
}

Usage: `paste <lang>`

fpaste () {
(cat $1 | curl -s -F "sprunge=<-" http://sprunge.us | xargs echo -n && echo -n "?"$2) | pbcopy;
}

Usage: `fpaste <file> <lang>`

Pardon the lack of bash skills.
A vertical split is useful if you have, for example, a full-screen terminal window and a large monitor. It's not generally useful to have a terminal window 200+ characters wide.

A tiling window manager (e.g. dwm, xmonad) is often a better solution here, but it's good to have the option in screen itself.
I Can't Get My iPhone Dev Account Regsitered - WTF. 3+ Weeks?
#3 is strange-- it claims that there's no such thing as a wrong metric, and then provides an example of a wrong metric (which they suggest no longer tracking).
New iPod Nano? Sure. This One? I'm Skeptical
so that sad and unfortunate thing seems to be that we all keep falling for it. And the more we comment, the more people are baited...ooopps, my bad :(
The only thing I fear is the health of those poor chinese workers' eyes...not to mention their overall well-being.

They might be better off doing labor work and going gold-farming only when they're too old to do labor.

Thats not to say I'm happy that they're stuck
with these options, I'm chinese also and I
feel for the 240 million impoverished Chinese....
I'm not sure it's legal to put an exclamation point after "sigh"
It's funny, 2 months after I give up on GameClay (partially because of performance issues in the prototypes), this comes out. Maybe I should go back to it. Well, that's why I chose not to open-source the code and my cofounder's hanging on to the domain names.

Though any application to games needs to get over the fact that 90% of the casual game market still uses IE...
I believe that when 37signals created Basecamp it was for internal use. They built it for themselves. As time went on other small consulting firms (possibly that 37s knew) saw it and thought it was useful. From that point, Basecamp just continued to grow in popularity.

When nobody knows you or your startup do you really need a closed beta??
Link to the report:

Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on "Gold Farming": Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games

http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/w...
The basic reason is that all the services are being slowly privatised so the money is filtered up to the top.
NHS has to use private services.
Rail is split up into Track maintenance, and Train rental companies.. schools are being sold off with the Academies system.
Basically the conservatives started selling everything off, and labour has carried on taking it to another level; getting away with selling bits even the tories wouldn't dare to.
Even Google does not seem to use/promote it extensively. Refer to a recent blog post in GAE, except for the one session, all others have their slides as PDF (no embedded or "View as slideshow" option) !!
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-io-sessio...

Also try searching for filetype:ppt in Google. Though there is a "View as HTML" link, there is no "View as slideshow". They do have it available in Gmail, though.

Not sure whether Google uses it inside for its own meetings or in its developer conferences. HN users who have attended such conferences may add details.

When normal users are trained to use such online services, it will be adopted in a better way. That will probably happen when a player like Google removes its "View as HTML" from its services (or hides it below) and promotes "View as Slideshow" alone.
One of Fleaflicker's biggest advantages was having a smaller userbase than other sites.

This meant I could mess up in spectacular fashion and still fix things before anybody noticed. "Fixing things" involved computationally intensive tasks and the bigger sites just couldn't do that quickly.

http://sports.espn.go.com/fantasy/baseball/flb/story?id=2832...
From Google or from anyone?
DoS Vulnerabilities in REXML
Proving God's Existence
Here's hoping I can finally stop getting Deprecation Warnings....
I thought "astounding" would be an overstatement. Turns out you're right.
Amazon: Kindle Isn't *That* Big A Hit; College Edition In The Works
Schools on Facebook != Creepy Treehouse
ratpoison is pretty much gnu screen for x11
check out Steve Yegge's video/transcript about dynamic language optimization in case you missed it:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...
The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time
Yeah, that just sounds weird.
What about a site that sells products, like a retail store?

If you're trying to advertise your website, and your primary market isn't your local area, then it's really hard because as far as I know you're limited to:

1) Getting into the Google index and building yourself up there

2) Running a blog and writing material that'll get indexed and hopefully linked (This is very very hard for a product blog)

3) Buying Google adwords for your products that bring people to your site (with a specific landing page of course)

Just curious what is available for sites like that, because it's all I can think of.
I think this is more applicable to folks that do SEO for a living and take clients etc. (vs. the typical News.YC reader)
Part of the problem is that, for better or for worse, Microsoft Office is the standard in corporations. Everybody in the company knows how to create, open, and display PowerPoint presentations. Replacing PowerPoint would require a massive retraining effort and expense. I'm not sure that the benefits of a browser-based solution can compensate.

To make matters worse, it's not just a training problem. I've worked places where document management systems were designed to work with MS Office documents and PDFs -- and that's it. Everything else had to be converted to one of the supported formats before it could be stored in the system and routed for approval. A broken system? Perhaps. My point is that IS system limitations can also be reasons for the workforce at a company to stick with MS Office.
Like this.

Flagged.
The Marketing Power of "Beta"
Everything is "available". It's just a question of how you think about it.

The big picture philosophy of trying to build "linkbait" (for SEO) is to take the site's niche, and then start exploring anything on the fringe that is slightly related to it.

Think outrageous, and think outside the box.. it doesn't have to be directly about your niche/topic, as long as it is tangentially related..

Of course, it always helps if your site is interesting enough that people feel compelled to share it for what it is.. good linkbait bridges the cap when it is not. :)
Do cell phone users without landlines distort political poll results?
Now that it's in the final stages of beta you should be good. The major things recently were newforms->forms and newformsadmin->admin which are all now merged up and ready to go so deprecation warnings should be much less.
I think the point of that is that YOU change your code. No update will fix that, in fact, updates will make it worse ;)
Looks much better, but Django REALLY needs to release quicker. This slow pace is damning.

Also, Django needs to be more open. There is something fishy going on in Django management, and they don't want to say. I smell a fish, but it's swimming in murky waters and I can't see it.
No it isn't. If anything it is a complementary point. The article advocating C says you should know about it should you ever need to use it. Cohen's article says nothing to refute that and in fact acknowledges there are instances when C is a good idea.
I don't use ask.com because they index less pages more slowly and not as well.
I'm glad you're not running Firefox. Google's money enables more programmers to work on it, marketing allows it to grow market share which puts pressure on IE and less directly to make the web more standard. The loss of your idea of some sort of purity is a nothing price to pay for turning Firefox into a force for the advancement of the web.
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because almost everyone has powerpoint installed from when they installed office. + Most people have been using it from when they were in high school
I don't think you read my comment, while I did take a stab at gems, the point was to simple to provide a counter point to his statement that he commonly forgets to import the right namespaces in python. The counter is of course, that I forget to import the right namespaces in ruby as well.

In fact I can think of a common one, that many people forget, we often forget the gem include (being why rails includes it for you).
more importantly

He points out an easy way to get people to like you. Buy them food. It has worked for me (though I haven't tried it on the scale he speaks of.)
I don't have any good ruby examples, but I've been bitten by namespace trampling behaviors in perl and php long enough to know that any code importing in languages I use need to make it explicit when that's occurring.
Also see http://slideshare.net/
I think the point is there are no harmful metrics to collect, but there are useless ones. However you don't know which ones are useless until you've collected them for while, so just collect them now and worry about their utility later.
PowerPoint and Keynote also offer much higher fidelity and quality than Google Docs. Also, in many corporations it's against policy to upload confidential information to external servers, which rules out most web services.
I've heard that Google actually uses PowerPoint and Keynote internally.
Really? What parts of Django development make you smell a fish?
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Actually from what I've seen Google uses Google Docs extensively internally including for presentations within groups. Sharing docs is so much easier that way. I think most people use ppt for outside / important presentations though.
I've read that gold farmers usually spend their spare time playing even more WoW.
I think the key point of this article over the other related article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284192) is that John points out that tracing will be able to be applied to DOM manipulation/property access in the future.

"Being able to trace through a DOM method would successfully speed up, not only, math and object-intensive applications (as it does now) but also regular DOM manipulation and property access."

As I said on the previous article, "I believe tracing very well could be the key to unlocking advances in that [DOM] area as well."

To me, this means that JavaScript will finally be integrated with the browser in a way that is required to advance the web. I've always wondered what would be the "big thing" to lead up to the move towards the web even more, and this is definitely the answer.

The only thing left now is making it so JavaScript can be compiled (the only way I can think of how to accomplish preventing stealing code).
I wonder why the author remembers Einstein, Curie and Carver. Was it because they were touted as the best scientists? Maybe he remembered them because they were exceptional characters. One reason exceptional characters are emphasized over typical ones in class is to pique interest (the typical student feels atypical).
speed up, not only, math and object-intensive applications (as it does now) but also regular DOM manipulation

Agreed. The sooner they get to that, the better!

Edit: As an aside, the web arguably wouldn't have happened without "stealing code". I see this as a strength not a weakness.
Things have been moving in this direction for quite some time, I think. Here's a master's thesis from March 2006:

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~plezbert/contcom/
The article makes me very happy.

There's lots of data here. The cost of battery deprecation is $1050. That's enormously useful information to me.

I should say that the slow charge is a problem with batteries, but not with compressed air. :-)
New FBI regulations will allow to spy on citizens who are not suspected of any crime
You realize that John Resig works for Mozilla and probably has at least a little input in what FF is optimizes.
I've read that too. James Fallows has an interesting piece about these and other workers who populate the factory-dormitory world in China. A lot of us assume they're being exploited, but Fallows argues that they're more entrepreneurial than that. They can save enough money in a few years to go back home and buy land, something which wouldn't have been possible before. It would be interesting to know how many actually do this.
That's an interesting insight. It's not truly "academic" because such a language would not be considered interesting in a research sense; it has no clear vision, no central metaphor for computing.

But if you consider the Perl community a sort of academy with its own tastes and goals which have nothing to do with mainstream acceptance, then yes, it is academic.
I hope so. But that hardly follows from the fact that he works there.
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AppEng 1.1.2: 
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On the one hand, it's great people who need the money have this as an option.

On the other hand, the system owners could undercut any price by selling resources created by fiat, with a few keystrokes. So in a sense, all this activity is burning away hours -- human potential -- in an inefficient process someone else could do effortlessly. And, the whole market exists only as long as the system owners won't deign to offer such services directly.

So I can't quite decide if the whole phenomenon is encouraging or discouraging.
Right, and it's had vsplit for quite a while, too. Stumpwm (http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/) is another WM along the same lines, though I haven't tried it. It's written in Common Lisp, BTW.

I used ratpoison for a while, but I came to prefer tiling window managers (e.g. dwm, xmonad, wmii, larswm) -- They generally have the same strengths as ratpoison but fewer drawbacks. You still have to manage all of the actual windows yourself in ratpoison, and it's considerably more awkward to use some programs (e.g. the gimp) that assume a typical WM. Most of the tiling WMs I've used have a "floating" bit to accomodate clients that shouldn't be tiled. Each has its own design quirks that make them hard to generalize about, but as a group they tend to be very keyboard-friendly.
Wise words.

I used to read and listen to a LOT of self-help/business development material. I found at least a 10-1 noise-to-signal ratio as far as material I thought had relevance to me. Then, I winnows out all of that stuff, I came to realize that each author can only give you their best shot at explaining how it worked for them in their situation. Simply because they think they know how to make it: that doesn't make it true. They just have theories and observations that they've made into life rules. The attitude and tactics that worked as a publisher in 1982 in Manhattan might be the opposite attitude you need for Silicon Valley in 2008. If they're honest they'll tell you "Beats me, kid. This is just my opinion." But it's really hard to sell books like that.

And even if they are spot on, if there is ONE set of truths or poems or something that is THE answer for what you need in your situation -- the things that you think are useful in that 10-to-1 ratio -- you have no way of knowing whether your selection criteria matches you up to receive what you need. It's just a gut feeling on your part.Probably a lot of books out there like "How to get Rich" where you could use the advice but its packaged the wrong way for you to select or consume it effectively. I know I wouldn't buy another book with "get rich" in its title. I don't want to get rich -- I want to help the most number of people possible.

So I'm ordering the book. I might or might not have time to read it. One of the funny things I noted in the video was how readers kept reading it over and over. To me, we got something funky going on here. If you're reading it over and over, why aren't you out in the real world making money instead of reading?

I've got a few books/tapes I have repeatedly listened to. Stuff like negotiation and communication skills that I am weak on and need practice. But mostly the good books you say "Wow! I needed that!" and put them down and start using them. You don't go back and re-read them. Somebody said once that the defining attribute of self-help books wasn't whether they actually helped you, it was that they made you feel good by reading them. Repeated reading is a warning sign.
Using Mercurial Queues and bitbucket.org
YAMT: yet anoth monad tutorial
St petersberg Haskell users grp

(says Moin Moin / python-powered at page bottom)
Don't feed the trolls.

If someone thinks that Django development is not moving fast enough for them they have a very clear path to fixing it.

goto http://code.djangoproject.com/query pick one, fix, repeat.

The gp is trying to create problems
For example, Geo-Django, a very unessential part of a web application was merged into trunk with no explanation as to why. There are lots of essential things things missing, I really don't see why Geo-Django has to be in there in the first place, and why with such urgency.
Answer given by the article: You lie.

Dishonesty is often a winning short-term strategy, but people adapt, remember, and retaliate.

Posting hoax news stories will trigger Google death penalties for the abusive sites, sooner or later. See for example:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017217.html
I've contributed more here than you, and I would appreciate some basic civility. Look, YOU go to code.django-project.com. Take a look at most of the items. They all have patches, and they are all queued up, just waiting to be reviewed by the core team. Anything outstanding is only the very big things that are not possible to be done from people who are not willing to spend weeks on it.

So don't come with your arrogant pick one, fix, repeat statement. I've done my best to contribute to Django, and it's certainly not as easy as you seem to think it is.
Wait, why does C need defending?
I think Joel is right, but I hate Java.
Well, scheme is a lisp so in a sense "The Little Schemer" is still "The Little Lisper".
The full link on Gamasutra is here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3753/the_art_of_braid_...

This way you don't have to keep hitting next.
He states the answer(but still doesn't see it) in the post post script - "Why do people focus on pages 4, 5, and 6 of a 13-page talk, and forget all about slides 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, where I make the real point?"

Um, because in 2002 your presenter skills sucked and you included pages 4, 5, 6 which weren't supportive of your real point.

Also, because of the nice goat picture the one thing everyone will remember is page 6 and that "the C++ macro system blows goat dick".

Making your most memorable point be one that isn't what you're trying to convey is fail.
Dude -- this is awful. And I don't like design patterns.

If you're going to trash something, at least know enough about it to be able to describe what you're trashing.

I agree with the author that thinking about design is where we all want to go. Re-usable bits of pre-digested thinking is crap. But with generics you can do container-iterator stuff pretty easily in most modern languages. His examples and his understanding of where languages were is sub-standard, even for 2002. ("when we're talking patterns everyone knows we mean C++" -- WTF?)
I guess Geo-Django is essential to Holovaty's work in EveryBlock, perhaps that's why it got more attention.
Young Business (Brad Fitzgerald on young people starting a business)
That's why I keep presentations on my phone. If there's a laptop, I can send it over via Bluetooth. If not, I can connect my TV-out to a projector and control with a Bluetooth keyboard. Trusting a hosting site and a web connection leaves too much up to chance.
Haha. Your true colours are showing
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I've seen slideshare used for making presentations but certainly not routinely.

Dave McClure used slideshare to give his presentation at BarcampScotland2008. If I remember correctly there was just one incident when he moved backwards in the slide stack rather than forwards due to some issue with the interface. Overall though it went as smoothly as any presentation from powerpoint.

Personally I wouldn't rely on a web service. I usually have a couple of backups of my presentation with me for anything important though and I would consider a web service as one of those additional backups.

The presentation is at http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-sco...
Well I have an answer for you but not directly for birds, but indirectly. (please bear with me).

I know that many animals use the earths magnet field to navigate plus they use the other senses they got.

Taking bees for example, current theories about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) range from stress to toxins aso. Another factor which has already been discovered is that
bees respond very sensitive to magnetic field fluctuations.

Transportation of bees from northern to southern America caused the bees to be in disorder and ,,panic''. I think a widespread usage of this technology would profundly hurt animals. Though clearly I am not an expert in this topic.

Paper:

Is there any influence of magnetic or astrophysical fields on the circadian rhythm of honeybees?, M. F. Neumann, 1988
true, but it's not as straightforward when the things you're stealing are whole applications