skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be nice to see this on a monthly or weekly basis to track overall trends.

This page shows the most popular articles (Dec '10):
http://stats.grok.se/en/

Interesting, though I can't figure out for the life of me what Special:Export/Robert L. Bradley, Jr and Special:Export/William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr are doing there.

(Robert L Bradley Jr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bradley,_Jr.
William Kurtz Wimsatt, jr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kurtz_Wimsatt,_Jr.)
For example some of the flash API is still missing from NME (a lib for the c++ target) & the performance (and more importantly bottlenecks) is quite different on different targets.

Not to mention all the browser limitations you have to work around if you use JS...
This is a wonderful thought... but at the same time all I can think is "Gee I hope google holds true to their motto"
probably radio, which is why they didnt get the signal for 3 hours.

What? Were they two billion miles away?
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unfortunatly we have more then 15 users working on non for profit projects, and wanted better features then the basic google groups
UK admins 'lack skills to spot hackers', claims expert
1.0 + 2.0 <- Not valid OCaml! :)

But I love OCaml, I don't why it isn't more hacked/forked.
If it was remote controlled, how did it survive the 3 hours without contact?
Wasn't there some poor kid who passed away of heart failure somewhere in Asia from gaming 24-7, and they blamed it on lack of sleep?

I was under the impression that the lethality of sleep deprivation was not something that was widely questioned..

On a related note, BBC Horizon has an interesting documentary on sleep and your body clock called The Secret Life Of Your Body Clock.
One of my first sites, built in 2001 when I was 12, was a phishing website called Hotmail Hacker, where one can input one's Hotmail username and password along with a Hotmail address one wants to hack, so that I could "direct them to their inbox immediately with an incoming email containing the password of the Hotmail address that they wanted to hack."
Rafael rambling: Speculating about Future Development Environments
Paypal payments just aren't working, I tried twice. Might want to look into that.

Do you deliberately hide the price on the front page?
Review: Sifteo Cubes bring physicality back to digital games
Facebook is sharing your phone number
This might help...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828161
I must admit I don't know what it is like to live like that. Maybe if you only go shopping once a week (or even just every two weeks), it is not too bad.
Great Name.
Sort of related: has there been any evidence as to why sleep deprivation kills you? A friend and I were hypothesizing about it once, although neither of us are particularly knowledgeable about biology so it was a bunch of probably wild guesses.
Shifty Jelly: The story behind the Amazon Appstore story
Doing data massaging is IMHO painful in R and Matlab, and this is often a huge part of the code. RPy looks like it has fairly usable syntax (eg seems to support Python-style arguments rather than nasty compiled strings) so I'm hoping I can get away with doing my scaffolding in Python and calling R stuff when needed as more or less another library....
Things Startups Shouldn’t Spend Money On Tech
Interesting that the mouse is considered as something as "up to $70". After you get used to high-dpi gaming mouse you can't even work properly with <$100 models.

Just like moving to SSD felt like a revolution, for me moving up to a gaming grade mouse has been.. irreplaceable.

The precision and speed for any mouse-oriented task saves quite some time and especially gives a great feeling of having better contact with the screen. Highly reccommended.

It takes a few days to get used to moving your hand a lot less than before but think how much less strain!

Current setup: Logitech G9X and Razer exactmat.
Previous mouse was Razer Lachesis but ergonomically it was somewhat crap.
This is a news article. It sounds like you are assuming news=facts. Microsoft employs FUD in the media. In this case, they are making specific use of the U in FUD. They are neither confirming or denying that they have ever shared such information, thus one can safely assume they have. If they hadn't, they would come out and state that clearly.
People are 'born bad at maths'
Releasing it is not the issue for the user, possession of the software is.
The first professional website job I was hired to do was to add an order form for a book to http://julianlee.com/. That was 1995. The site hasn't developed much since then, nor did I do any other work for him, but that project did introduce me to the web and Perl.
No I'm not - kinda had to throw the website together quickly & I recently changed the prices a bit.

The paypal bit is handled by FastSpring and is sadly beyond my control :(
One of the points of the original article is that when you take depreciation into account, you can afford to give a developer his or her dream work tools for just $100/month.

According to salary.com, entry-level secretaries in Fog Creek’s neighborhood have a median salary of about $40K. Budgeting another $1.2K to cover the secretary’s computer and furniture does not seem extravagant to me.
Is anyone saying that PCs are going to disappear? This seems to be a common response to this sort of article. I think instead more and more people will rely on their mobile devices, while plenty will still use PCs.
I'd be interested to see their claim of untraceability tested somewhat. It's hard to believe this sort of traffic can't be profiled.
Sleep probably strains the body (and hence, the heart) less than wakefulness. Your heart is more liable to break down and fail if it's been overused without rest, which is exactly what happens when you stay up.
Hypothetical question that would never happen: What's to stop Google moving to Switzerland?
Mt.Gox takes over bitomat.pl, promises to reimburse users
The only comment that matters here. LinkedIn is focused more on making a product out of the user than actually keep them linked - in.
>> why doesn't their company have a build farm?

I've seen you reference this multiple times now. Based on experience as a consultant, I think you are giving most companies (or at least their IT dept) way too much credit.
There's a big flaw in the article though. Credit card companies get 2-3% of each transaction, whether you're a "deadbeat" or a "revolver". So while they may prefer "revolvers", they're also pretty happy to keep "deadbeat"'s around.

My wife & I together run about $3K a month through our credit card. We get 1% cash back, so that means the bank is keeping 1-3% or $30-$90 every month. If we were paying that on our bank account we'd be screaming about it and looking for a new bank account. Instead, we pay it indirectly through higher prices and don't notice.
http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ is an augmented traffic statistics tool that shows daily Wikipedia page traffic over arbitrary time periods. It also allows users to see traffic for multiple articles in a given time period, or different language versions of the same article, and gives summary statistics for each data set and some very basic automated inferencing on the cause of traffic spikes (e.g. Michael Jackson's). The tool gets its data from stats.grok.se.

http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/?p1=Hacker_News&pro...
The weird thing is that in our understanding of business culture, it is widely accepted if not applauded to be putting in crazy hours and telling of heroic acts of not-sleeping-enough to work and stay fit. At the same time, drinking at work or showing up drunk to work is definitely frowned upon and is reason enough to get fired.

Now here is the thing: studies have shown that sleeping less than 5 hours WILL have negative effects on your body and mind and on your ability to do any job... and frequently or constantly sleeping less than 5 hours even more so, it can even cause hallucinations. And severe lack of sleep can be directly compared to the negative effects of alcohol on your ability to do any work.

But we are applauding the one and frowning upon the other...?

How ridiculous is that, really? Someone with as many responsibilities as a CEO for SAP India openly admitting to only sleeping 4 or 5 hours daily should be treated like someone who just openly confessed downing a glass of vodka for breakfast and lunch each day. And I strongly doubt his "ability" to pull that off... I would imagine someone so competitive and successful and career-focused with that little sleep would not refrain from relying on a little chemical "help". And even if he was still productive enough, just imagine how much better he could have performed if he actually got 6 to 9 hours each night?

This is really nothing but grossly negligent IMHO.
Developers: What makes a job sexy?
Can this be made to work using only the existing MAC keyboard? Or do you have to have both the VT220 and MAC keyboards on your desk?
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From the article:

"Complete and partial lack of sleep increased the blood concentrations of High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-cRP), the strongest predictor of heart attacks. Even after getting adequate sleep later, the levels stayed high!

Just one night of sleep loss increases very toxic substances in body such as Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-alpha) and C-reactive protein (cRP). They increase risks of many medical conditions, including cancer, arthritis and heart disease. Paper published in 2004."
I agree it's a very tough place to be.

About fixing the law -- In that case I would expect Google to fight the government on this point. I wonder if they are/will?
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I never understood that line of thinking. I have an wireless keyboard and mouse hooked up to my MacBook. When I hook up my external monitor I now have two screens, giving me more dekstop area than a single desktop. I don't see why anyone would want a desktop unless they have serious horsepower requirements.
Yeah, I am really interested in this question: how do mobile computers become capable of much faster data input and more fine-grained control than the current point-and-grunt interfaces.

I had a crazy idea for strapping a keyboard to the back of a tablet: http://adamsolove.com/articles/re-imagining-mobile-hacking still trying to figure out how to mock that up realistically.
Not everyone thinks that Lua is great. It's certainly a nice language, and it's popular in some niches, but some people like implicit variable declarations, classes (at times), and comprehensions.

Also, I can see it compiling into JavaScript as well. I'm not sure if that would be a good idea, or a really horrible one, though.
Facebook already maps replies to meaningful responses in many cases.
I noticed yesterday an "External Networks" link inside Yammer. I don't know how long it's been there, but it's similar to what you are describing.

As described on Yammer: "External Networks are separate Yammer networks used to communicate with external groups, like customers, partners, contractors, and fans of [company]."

The drawback is that an existing Yammer domain would "own" or have control of that network. I know it's probably not exactly what you were looking for, but it might be one way to get to use Yammer istelf.
In my experience, time on site isn't going to be a useful metric however you go about it. At least with the news sites my company runs, checking if a page is still open would be hopeless because it's very common for users to just open the 2, 5, 20 pages they want to read in different tabs, then work through them slowly. And for clicking outbound links, well nearly all exits for us are window/tab closing, not links elsewhere.

Maybe this isn't so much the case for other industries, or even for the same type of site targeting a less techy audience? (e.g. My mother wouldn't ever open multiple tabs as a queue of pages - but then, she might well open a page and then go do some cooking, or whatever, before reading it.)
He's replying to the idea that Groupon's customers are the merchants. If anything, the merchants are Groupon's partners.
Here is google's cached version.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
I distinctly remember the various WBFS loaders as being rather crap- installing the various bits to get them to even work was a pain in the ass and poorly documented, and even then the loaders seemed to like not working.

The emus always worked well for me, though.
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My 9.99 $ hosting provides infinite email accounts/redirects. Maybe...?
It has been a great experience to live in Germany, to walk the streets downtown during nights or the weekend and not worry about getting jumped by thugs. There are blacks but they are well behaved. There is crime - particularly bike theft - but violent crime is an order of magnitude below the USA.

People of all ethnic groups and economic status could be living such a better life if only they had cities and societies with better organization as in Germany.
I disagree for two reasons - the first is that just because I'm following a company, it doesn't mean that I like it. The second is that it's common courtesy to ask for permission before using a person's face to sell something.
Good point,it would also be interesting to know if this affects any business that does business in the US or only US based. My bet is it's the former (I am not a lawyer). Just because of the loophole you exposed. Think of all the foreign banks.
This is a very real problem and provides case in point as to why everyone needs to start using client-side encryption for their data and communications.

In some cases this is still currently impractical to do on a day to day basis but in others such as Email, Social Networking or Instant Messaging it is not[1][2].

[1] I'm involved with a company that recently launched a free tool that provides transparent client-side AES256 encryption for Facebook, Google+, Major Email apps among others.

[2] https://www.socialfortress.com/
Sorry for repeating myself, but the US government will always be able to repay the money.

They are the ones who maintain the authoritative databases that contain the information about how many reserves the commercial banks have and who owns the debt. The only obligation associated with repaying the debt is to change an entry in the debt database, and do a corresponding change to an entry in the reserves database. Since the government maintains these databases, they will always be able to do that.

There are a number of problematic things that might happen in the future. For example, if all the owners of the debt suddenly decided to go on a spending spree, then they might cause some (heightened, but non-hyper) inflation if the economy simply isn't able to produce enough real goods and services to fulfill the increased demand. Then politics has a choice of either weathering the inflation or raising taxes to fight it, and there might be other tough choices of equity and social justice involved.

But the ability to repay the money simply cannot be an issue, and nobody can accurately predict whether any of those other problems will ever happen.
A "Send me a mail as soon as the Linux version is stable" would be nice.
the link to the article by J.K.Galbraith I gave above perfectly answers it

Galbraith isn't a political scientist. He's a well-respected economist, like Krugman, who writes political commentary. That's nowhere near the same thing. One may as well call Rush Limbaugh a political scientist.

One will also note that you complained that while America has citizens on the Left, these people do not have representation. You then went on to use Pres. Obama as an example of this. Let me remind you that the President isn't intended to be a representative of anyone: his job is to execute the decisions of the Congress and of the Courts. Thus, blaming him for what those decisions are is nonsensical.

I don't wish to actually debate the topics you list, but I'd like to briefly address a couple of them -- not in the interest of proving that I'm right, but to show that there really are (at least) two sides to these stories, and that the ideas of the Left really are being represented.

I understand that the Left feels betrayed by the recent debt ceiling deal. But you should understand that fiscal conservatives feel precisely the same way. Contrary to the hyperbole in the media, there really are no cuts to spending: by and large, the cuts agreed on are doing nothing more than slightly slowing the projected growth of spending. The decreases you'll see in spending next year are, quite literally, a drop in a bucket. To say that such a trivial compromise is caving in to the Right is disingenuous.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that Obama (for which I'm substituting "the Democrats of Congress, since, as I noted above, it makes little sense to hold the President accountable for the actions of Congress) betrayed the Left over healthcare. I mean, we've now got a system in place that will guarantee medical care to everyone. This certainly is not the outcome that the Right wanted. Indeed, since it seems that a majority of Americans today dislike it (or at least the way it was implemented), there must be some force to the left of center that dragged it in that direction.

There is one area where I do think you've got good reason to feel betrayed, and that's all of our various wars. Back in 2008, the Democrats took a clear stand against our wars -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- and make all kinds of promises to get out. Yet today, we're still fighting, and although troop levels are lowered, there's really no actual end in sight. But, to make matters worse, Pres. Obama has illegally gotten us tangled in another war (in Libya), and Congress -- both the DEMs and the GOPs -- have done nothing to stop it.
Cute, I like it. My feedback:

* I love the streamlined nature - auto-sell duplicate items, auto-equip. There's a couple of little niggles that go against this when moving, such as having to let go of <left> and press it again to collect an item from a chest (wouldn't a short delay also be ok?) and moving around corners feels a little awkward; I think I expect holding <left> and <up> to walk up until the next left is free, then go left, but it doesn't seem to work quite like that.

* No save / resume? Really? I get the old-skool thing, but resuming where the last game left off (without save/load, death is still death) would be a nice courtesy.
Building a Jabber Client for iOS: Server Setup
I'm not sure i'm convinced by the argument that the cloud is a good thing because the hardware failures will have less consequence.

Apple sold a laptop that melted two weeks after it was bought. They could, instead, have made a laptop that WOULD NOT melt two weeks after it was bought.

I see the cloud as the biggest threat to individual online freedom and privacy. I will continue to buy big Thikpads, and avoid the cloud and tablets and the likes, at all costs.
Many of the comments here focus on the fact that:
1) There are traditional options that the author didn't take the time to search through and find.
2) Or the author missed an opportunity to go with a free solution.

I feel these comments miss the point of the iPad's success.

The argument this article makes is that the iPad creates a friendlier, clearer, and more usable application ecosystem. The lack of search clutter (from the flurry of links posted) is the actual benefit here, with the ability to create a cool mock-up on the fly an added plus. The community voice is a trust-worthy one. And though it may have cost $8, there was no negative outside of this (ads, malware, bad app).
Does using headphones to drown out ambient noise reduce the quality of work?
From http://tam.plannet21.com/FAQs.htm#guidance it was a GPS driven autopilot
Obviously opinions can differ here, but what happened in 2007-2008 was in my view a lesson on what happens when you ignore the inherent risk of lending money to a private actor. Mortgage originators and a whole slew of investors ignored those risks in an effort to chase returns; Fannie and Freddie ignored those risks as a matter of charter. They both ended up in more-or-less the same spot.
Self charging as in not needing an external power supply? I guess history changed in 1986 then.

http://www.seiko.co.uk/technology/kinetic
Will it last? - The sustainability of SaaS apps
and here is the link to close your account:
https://www.linkedin.com/secure/settings?closemyaccountstart...
UK gov may block Twitter/Facebook to prevent riots
The Process and the Point
Balance is over-rated. Hustle, baby, hustle
How to be a faster writer
Muon Baryon, an HTML5/WebGL demo in 6k JavaScript
this specifically addresses people who are interested in startups. there are many who just want to make fast money at google/microsoft/amazon (or go there for reputation or ability to impact on a global scale, like I did) - but we were wondering what makes startups attractive to a developer? is it the ability to get to pick the tools? is it the many smaller pieces of projects you get to complete vs. a huge 1 year project at a larger company? is it the impact you have? or the chances you might end up as a rockstar first-round employee?
Happy Birthday Steve Wozniak
Today is Woz's birthday. Co-founder of Apple and inventor of the first personal computer.

Woz first showed off his home-built computer, the Apple I, at Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club in 1976. He brought out the first low-cost personal computers to have color, sound, hi-res graphics, and floppy disks.

I think all of us here have someway or another been touched by Woz's early work. So cheers to you Woz, Happy Birthday! You are truly an inspiration.
> where do they get planned, designed, and programmed?

In 2000 or so, I was developing things with Zope. Most of what we did was through the web and it was quite a shocking experience to have almost nothing on my desktop. While Zope development has shifted to filesystem, there are other platforms that took the through-the-web idea and ran with it.

And, BTW, if you give me a terminal, I can run Emacs just about everywhere. Version 22 even runs on VMS.
Coffee & Domains: One Month Later
Well, a statistical analysis will be able to find the difference between browsing https gmail, and posting on Facebook / Twitter. And countries with internet filters may not have high standards of due process.

The other danger would be all offshore https sites getting blocked. Or a concerted effort to Man-in-the-middle all offshore https (assuming that doesn't already happen).
Vim is the tech equivalent of "line movies." A line movie is one where guys (it's usually guys) throw lines back and forth at each other, usually in the current context. Princes Bride and Real Men are line movies. I love line movies.

Vim lets geeks throw "vim tricks" back and forth at each other. I love Vim, and I love vim tricks.

Good SO thread, and good HN thread. I never tire of Vim threads.
It's cool, but needs a lot of design, it's very raw yet.

One other thing, the program should not allow me to click anywhere, like, if I start to make a word in horizontal and them click 4 columns on the vertical he shoul not compute that, or something like this... (I don't know if you can understand this without some screenshot)

polish, polish and polish more. :D
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A friend pointed this out to me this morning. When I opted out here: http://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uplo​ads.php... it said for the iphone app: "Note: Before you click Remove, you need to make sure syncing is switched off." Though, it was already switched off. Ah, good times, good times...
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