skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tactical information is of little or no value to engineering, because product development is so slow (in most hi-tech corporations, typically between one and two years) that it is inherently strategic.

We're not quite that slow, but this is true for my company, and I've never been able to put it into words. I think this might be a helpful formulation for convincing people in my organization to stop taking development direction so lightly.
Even if it did, you wouldn't use it in this case. Windows batch files delete files outright too, instead of sending them to the recycling bin. You don't want to have to depend on the user to clean up after your automation.
PG shared it here several years ago, but it looks like all the links in my original submission are dead. He said it was out-of-date at the time so it might be handy for someone to ask him for it again, idk.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

edit: my team's last startup was an anonymous social network, ala 4chan + Facebook, so please understand that my current position was formed even after spending years of my life in the chans.

Here's the original, but again the links are broke:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=707294
Thanks. Our site, as all SNs, are useful only if your friends are there. Classic chicken/egg situation.

If you join and have a few friends over there believe me you'll say "I wish all my friends were here then everything become much easier".
Nobody works on a side project for a paycheck (in general). They do it because they love it and are interested by it. If you can get someone who's loves/interests align with what you want them to work on, you stand a decent chance of making them happier while giving you a better output - it makes plenty of sense.
The "flag" link does turn into "unflag" after you click it.
This bugged me too (I use two external displays with the above mentioned USB dongle).

I've tried a bunch of the "window management" apps out there and settled on a combination of Stay and Breeze. Once you spend 10 minutes configuring them the first time you're only a few keystrokes away from OCD-level window-placement perfection.

http://cordlessdog.com/stay/

http://www.autumnapps.com/breeze/
Oh, I totally agree that most of these are either not Apple's fault, or are just part of running a different OS. The shortcuts for copy & paste are pretty much the same for every OS except for OSX though, so I will blame that on Apple.

Mine does make toast though - http://store.theonion.com/product/usb-powered-toastergift-bo...
Designer Fund
Eh, you work on one for long enough and you start to take it for granted.
Are iAds the only and best way to test this out? Imagine ad developers given a free reign on animating ads while distracting users and taking up precious phone resources like CPU/GPU/RAM/Battery which need to be available for the actual game or app that the user wants to run.

Haven't we learned anything from the web and flash ads that we are forced to repeat it all over again on mobiles?
" how exactly the whole trading mechanism works." <-- different exchanges have different rules and restrictions, even within a country (for example, there are special parity rules in NYSE which violate NASDAQ's "price-time priority" rules). And different countries have different rules, such as the US stock markets with Regulation NMS. Can you be more specific about which exchanges you want to work with?

"point to me any books/blogs" <-- Larry Harris Trading and Exchanges http://tradingandexchanges.com/, a little bit outdated but still my favorite
The State of Ruby and Testing
Looks like someone never read the Unix Hater's Handbook. Another fun thing is rm + shell expansion. A file named * or / can cause extremely unintended deletions.
I think this is, by far, the largest software problem on OSX today.
MacPorts breaks at a whim (not a whim. Minor OS versions, yes) I abandoned Fink early, and HomeBrew is either a gift from the gods or a slipshod hack; I'm not sure which.
See the "jellybean" definition in Tip 4 for a possible inspiration for "JavaBean".
It may appear well-organized, but it only takes one clever cookie to figure out the instructor was reusing exams. And that person was just too impressed with himself not to let others know. Let's not underestimate the ingenuity of cmpt students! Perhaps the cultural thing was a hacker thing not an asian thing. Just saying you have to be careful of hindsight. What if the class was not full of Asian students? You wouldn't be mentioning this flashback at all then.
Python is not doing what you expect here, it sees that as:

y = x + (+(+(+(+x))))
Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs
I'm not sure that's the issue.

For Microsoft to release a commercial license they have to be able to support it. That means relatively no bugs, staffing tech support, etc... I don't think Microsoft is ready to do that with Kinect.

In fact, I think this SDK is a response to the homebrew solutions that were coming out. I think Microsoft saw the focus shifting off them and onto the open source community and they didn't want to lose the good PR. Meaning this SDK was probably rushed out the door (and I'd suspect has some serious bugs in it)
i don't think it solves the "starts to hurt" problem. it's not the touch that causes that, it's holding your arm up.
It's an word play in Turkish. It's read as it's written.
I think if you're worried about having a large unvetted attack surface, simply releasing it en masse to beta testers won't usually result in a very secure product. Sure, you'll get some bugs closed but plenty others will simply get ignored or worked around or worse reserved by bad actors for when it's live. It only really makes sense to release something like that to a wide audience after you feel like you've made a solid first attempt.
Pandora relies on compulsory licenses provided by the government with royalty rates that are set by the copyright royalty board. Those rates, unlike royalties for publishing (which are a manageable percentage of revenue), are on a per stream basis and they are set too high. So, every single song you hear on Pandora costs them a fraction of a cent. It's one of the reasons why they limit your usage and have restrictions against skipping too often, etc.

Combined with other royalties, overhead and the low value of display ads on a radio site, it's next to impossible to turn a profit. And, the royalties are set to go up several times over the next few years.

Earbits is different because we license music directly from the copyright owners under our own agreement. Because we provide more value in the way of merchandising real estate, upcoming live performance information and other things that help the band (and label) build a sustainable "business" through their radio exposure, they give us certain royalty waivers and let us use the music in exciting ways to help drive awareness to the band. Our costs are lower and our service is more flexible as a result.

We have no ads, no commercials and no skipping restrictions. That being said, you'll only hear the music we have licenses for, but that hasn't stopped us from adding half a dozen Grammy winners and numerous headlining artists to our roster of 1700+ artists through 140 labels so far.
That's not possible. The PDF format supports geometric shapes, which isn't something supported in HTML. Try drawing a circle using just HTML.
Your looking at a new or ill developed paradigm and think you have an interesting take on it. Maybe you look at the current languages and it really does fit your mental model of how you want to solve problems.
I used Fink and then Macports. Both were miserable. They did a terrible job with dependencies and many common things (MySql, memecache, ..) either weren't in them or wouldn't install properly. Homebrew concerned me because it defaults to using the base libraries installed by OS X.

That's really the core problem; on linux, all of the software on my machine is from the open source ecosystem and it tends to follow the unix patterns and work well together. On OS X, it was a mix of open source and what comes out of Jobs' Garden. It also meant that ports to OS X package systems were always behind linux.
coincidentally, this is the same hack that celebrity stalkers use to get free restraining orders.
I don't think connecting you with your facebook friends is a real pain point. You know them, and have ways to contact them already (email, sms, phone, facebook). We think UrbanOrca can add more value by allowing you to view the world around you in an organized way, and provide an easy way to reach out to these new people. This world is larger than your friend group - so when filtered by your interests, location, etc you'll have more matches.
100% of rapes in Oslo over the last five years committed by Muslims.

http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/shocking-all-rapes-in-o...
Right, that's why I use Vim.

I mean, sure, in Word, I can hit the "Home" key, if I want to make things harder for myself than Vim but easier than mousing around. But that's about all.
HP sues Oracle over Itanium support
Bitcoin, the illegal currency hackers love, has been illegally stolen by hackers
"Onion skinning" is a more widely used term for your "Pixel Perfect" feature.
You should be able to use it since you've been a member here for more than a year.
very very true. anyone who wants to sell a "complete" report has to get twitter firehose. or talk to gnip. that will run you $2k/month EASILY.
To be fair, it's possible for the GPU to write to arbitrary memory, but it wouldn't happen as a matter of standard usage by any means.
Back in the day, rm followed .. if you specified it on the command line. It went like this:

You are in .; The current directory listing include ..; Recursively deleting everything deletes everything on the drive.

Actually, I think the one time I saw someone do this, wildcards were involved. And I was going to explain, but the comment system is making my asterisks into bold markers.
You're more worried about governments having capabilities like finding sql injection flaws in web apps and renting small botnets for and hour or two of DDOS?

The horror.
Twitter seems to be losing steam faster than facebook, which I think is a shame.

(E.g. http://attentionmeter.com/?d1=facebook.com&d2=twitter.co... )

My experience with Twitter (which I use all the time) is that spam is getting worse and worse and Twitter isn't even doing obvious things to fight it.

Facebook is simply built of spam, so that's not an awful comparison, but I think it's hurting Twitter.
You're operating at a layer below where a trash can makes sense. Pretend that this command had moved everything to a trash can. The command to move the files out of the trash can now resides in the trash can, where it isn't being very useful. It's still possible to recover the files, but then again, it's also still possible to recover the files you deleted with rm.

rm is on the same layer as the DOS del command. Neither goes to the trash can, because they operate on a lower level.
From talking to my friends, I think quite a few people have some Facebook friends who might as well be strangers, so why not expand your horizons :)
Interesting. They are using frequency analysis[1] of LPC phonemes rather than characters. This implies the sound is not encrypted at all (security by obscurity). It definitely implies the (voice) data stream is not being encrypted as a stream.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_analysis
Apple Tech Would Stop iPhones From Filming Live Events
I hate the trackpad with the integrated button. I much prefer the older style where the button was separate from the dragging area. I also do not like glossy screens, so I'm forced to pay more to get a matte screen.
no, they got it. they just didn't get why its funny. I guess you have to fuck up rm -rf at least once to get these sort of jokes.

it's like explaining jeep jokes to non-jeep owners.
I don't yet own a MacBook Pro because I'm also a multi (triple) monitor guy. Supposedly Thunderbolt allows for external PCI-Express devices (i.e. graphics cards). I'm keeping a close eye on the Sonnetech Echo Express (not out yet), hoping triple monitors off a MBP will be possible soon.
TL;DR: Sleep/rest well, exercise, possibly avoid caffeine, try to put yourself in a good mood.
You can remap it to be the way it should be, use Keymap4Macbook.
Ask HN: Tumnblr, Posterous, Wordpress or Blogspot
Looking for the best option for a personal blog that must also functions as a personal Website.
Isn't this the kind of argument that Paul Graham charcterizes as "ad hominem" and usually gets voted down on Hacker News?

Don't get me wrong, personally I think it's very valid to bring up and important to keep in mind while reading their article. But it seems like a double standard to me.
From the demos shown on Channel 9, it seems the SDK comes with skeletal tracking. This would be big!!

Edit: I just looked at the Skeletal viewer sample. Looks like they do have skeleton tracking in the SDK. Woot!

Edit 2: They also have sound localization from the Kinect's microphones!!

I'm not sure about others, but I I did not expect either features to be in the initial SDK. This might explain why it took them so long (they said it would be released in Spring). They seem to have gone all-out!
The problem is that down-votes have account consequences. They aren't the mirror opposite of an up-vote. Ten upvotes and a post is just popular, ten downvotes and you might get banned.

If moderation was a flag that some people cared about but that left everything intact then people could ignore it if they wanted.
I'd love to try this, but the all-Microsoft stack required to use this SDK is a huge barrier to entry. I use a Mac, I don't know C#, Silverlight, Visual studio etc. In order to use this SDK I need to buy into MS tech on many levels. A browser plugin with a JavaScript API (even if IE only), would be very compelling and a lot more accessible.
Nice, thanks for these! I've been meaning to look, but I've been too lazy and just lived with having to move windows around every time I reconnect my external monitors.
Sweden's lax immigration policies are not without their own problems, though. Ghettos are forming within the major cities and crime is up across the board. Immigrants are refusing to adopt the culture. Norway also suffers from this problem, but to a lesser degree as they allow fewer immigrants.

Anyone who wants to slow down or limit immigration is labeled as a racist in these countries.

Here's an example posted in another thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661027

Keep in mind that Sweden is also using its own currency, not the fluctuating Euro. They're not responsible for bailing out insolvent member states like Germany is.
I'd like to make a request to all the posters on Hacker News, and the people that upvote them.

STOP POSTING SHIT FROM REDDIT AND 4CHAN.
THERE'S ENOUGH RETARDED MEME BULLSHIT ALL OVER THE INTERNET.
WE DON'T NEED IT HERE.

Thank you.
I grew up maybe a 10 minute drive from TMI. You wouldn't believe the number of times I heard crap like that. You don't hear it often in discussion venues like this, but try asking people like your mothers friends, or your friends moms... Just about any "layman" of a nonscientific persuasion.
By what definition of unreasonable?

Would you build a plant that could only handle a 100 year earthquake, but not a 1000 year one? You'd give your children and grandchildren a 1/10 chance of catastrophe... in exchange for what, supposedly cheaper power?
I've never used Fink, but the main problem I had with MacPorts is that it pulls down so much stuff and takes forever to compile things, since it doesn't use the built-in stuff.

I can understand your trepidation when using XCode to build things, but in reality I've never had any trouble using Homebrew. The packages are updated often, and if you want to contribute something, it's super easy (I've done it myself), since they're on Github.
The -I flag is a bit more friendly; one may safely alias rm to rm -I and not even notice on the common case (deleting a single file).
Pandora's problem is that they are locked into paying royalties on every song they stream. So as their listenership and total ad market increases, so do their costs. So far they've managed to scale their profits with the rising costs, but that might not be possible in the future. From their S-1:

SoundExchange, has consistently established royalty rates that would, if paid by us, consume an unsustainable percentage of our revenue. If we are unable to reach a new agreement with SoundExchange for the period after 2015, our operating costs may significantly increase, which could harm our financial condition and inhibit the implementation of our business plan. [http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1230276/0001193125111...]

Earbits instead makes new agreements with artists and labels which allow them to stream music without royalty costs in return for marketing the musician. The important difference is their focus on independent, and the fact that they aren't selling generic ads against the music.
I think it's definitely a relevant feature, but not the core. You can reach out to those people on facebook. And besides, if you are friends with someone on facebook, and you haven't already become good friends in real life, then arguably they will never become part of your close circle.
I was too. Sure, there was plenty of uninformed media coverage jumping to conclusions. As I said at the time, though, the "this is not a problem" camp was equally premature -- and came across as cavalier to the tens of thousands of people in Japan who had to evacuate.
Asking the dude who stayed at a Holiday Inn how to shutdown the nuclear plant will fail 99.999% of the time.
You don't want to have to depend on the user to clean up after your automation.

I don't see what's the big deal is. Once in a while when the recycling bin gets too big, the user can empty it. Or you can have a scheduled operation that deletes stuff after 30 days.
Right but if you don't have to reach you don't have to use your shoulder to hold up your arm. Just your elbow to move your hand up above the keyboard so the Kinect Sensor can see it.
Word on the street says that drivers for Kinect are going to ship with Windows 8.

I don't think that the new Metro UI shipping in Windows 8 is just about touch, I also suspect that the new interface is going to be gesture sensitive as well.

Windows 8 is looking very shiny.
I would speculate that it is a historical reason. It's no secret that the Unix environment was not designed for personal use in homes, but on mainframe time shared computers inside universities and businesses. Space was limited, and just moving files to another location to deal with later added unnecessary steps to a process that didn't have much of a benefit, at the time.

As space has become less valuable on computers, and they have become less of a specialized tool, it may be wise to add one, but most of the desktop environments already implement it already so there is no need to recreate the functionality at a lower level.
more like a double-edge bladed boomerang that'll come back to bite you in the ass if you throw it just the right way.
Your Dog is Watching You
Very impressive. The source window should be launched by default, as that's the killer feature.

I think we all know that inspector/firebug + code environment is the way to go. We all want that. Copy&pasting sucks.

Now, since we can compile everything down to javascript this days, maybe the source window could run Vim. One can dream.

A real WYSIWYG would be the second step:
Insert element -> content.
Drag and drop positioning and nesting.
Edit CSS properties.
I think that moving a finger to do an action is going to trump needing to move your whole arm or do jumping jacks for the same action. Especially since it would be fairly embarrassing for probably a whole generation of people before it became common place. But it might justify some of the more active users getting offices.

What you're suggesting I imagine is points at an item but doesn't touch it. Maybe they coordinate themselves with a virtual reflection on the screen or something so they needn't physically touch it?

The background technology is indeed complex, but that doesn't really matter much. The biggest stopper is the fact that you are still putting and abstraction between yourself and the object you're manipulating.

Touching something and directly manipulating (touch screens) is a very close coupling with little abstraction. But having to point, but coordinate your "reflection", or point but don't touch is a stretch.
Just an aside, I absolutely hate serif fonts on any text less than 20px in size.

Cool idea though. Can't help but think it's been tried before but sites like http://hnhackers.com, etc.
I'm surprised at how few of my friends use Twitter, or even consider it. I wish they would, but for some reason they (all non-techy people) are on facebook every day but if they have a Twitter account at all, it's little-used and dormant.

It's rather easy to 'get' facebook, since it's pretty much a mish-mash of various communication technologies that have already proved themselves, including Twitter. I think new, non-techy visitors to Twitter are confused by what it does in some ways. Twitter's interface and presentation play a large role in that.

Twitter feels less personal than Facebook. The 73x73 image is tiny compared to Facebook's profile image, and there's little info on the page about real social connections. You are limited to one type of content, tiny text messages. It seems like a social site, but doesn't feel very connected. It seems to me Twitter is a mess of missed opportunities and muddled focus right now. They've tried to push it as a way to keep up with celebrities... Apple's iTunes 'ping' hasn't worked out with that whole Pro>Consumer set up.

I think Twitter's strength is in being a messaging system. People could use it to replace SMS, free, with a better interface - or does it have a better interface? Twitter's DM capabilities leave a bit to be desired. The web interface is rather feature-free, and aren't they cutting off API/OAuth access to DMs soon or something? Anyhow, look what the NYT did with Twitter's service recently - that is the sort of building on Twitter I see occurring, but I'm not even sure if Twitter themselves understand the potential for Twitter to become infrastructure, not just a way for people broadcast how much you hate traffic or like a sandwich.
Shiny silver body is hard to use use in the sun. Was worse when the keys where silver too.

The sharp edges could be more round.

Numerous small gripes about OS X, but that's not really a Macbook gripe specifically.
Apple often uses frameworks itself in one generation of the OS (Mac or iOS) and then makes it public in the next release after they've worked out the kinks. This is similar, they are testing out WebGL in something under their thumb that they control tightly, it just happens to be less private than usual as 3rd parties will get to bang on it with iAds.
What's actually more useful to get into is why you want to use immutable or mutable data in certain situations.

If the data you have is not going to be written to often (not never, mind) but will be shared widely, then it makes sense to use an immutable object (or structure) which will allow the shared aspects to vary locally, but minimize copying and redundant memory usage globally.

If you're going the other way, frequently written to and not shared widely, then mutable structures have advantages since mutation can be faster than partial reconstruction.

Not to say that this always holds true, but it's a decent rule of thumb and can help you make sane choices when initially selecting collections.
In other Unix flavors, /home may be an alias to /usr/home.