skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is broken at my 1024 pixel screen width (netbook). About a quarter of the text exits stage left. It's easier to read the content via view-source.

EDIT: The problem is your 1280px width declaration in style.css's rascalcontent class. Guessing this will screw up smart phones too.
When the screenshot of the Windows 8 Explorer scrolled into view I thought I'd reached the punchline in an Onion article.
I recently started out my first blog which has ever found any audience at all. The response has been amazing and it's been a very rewarding experience both personally and professionally, and I hope to keep it up.

I agree with most of the article's points, except when it comes to commenting. My thinking is that commenting systems often degrade into back-and-forth, one-on-one bickering and end up distracting from the main points being raised in the blog post.

The exception of course, would be technical blog posts, where comment threads often include more in depth tips, corrections, and tidbits of related information.
I'm reminded of the pg article on PR. Looks like a home-run hit to me.

There is a whiff of desperation about it.

"If you want to start a great company, you are probably passing through Kleiner."

Is this really still true?
Totally agree. We're following a lean startup approach and have identified our MVP and roadmap. Unit testing allows us to ensure our MVP works and that we have a reliable way to add features per our roadmap and still have a viable product. This sets the stage for us to rapidly and reliably enhance the UI, as well, while still shipping on time and getting customer feedback.
"Add something at the end of all visually selected lines:" I didn't know about this one, very happy to have read it.
TDD improves code 60-90% in defect density! Awesome read highly recommend!
"for many of my most common tasks (read: tests) I have merely pushed the bottleneck back onto the CPU."

This is my experience as well. I have an older computer (2009) with a low-voltage processor (SU3700) that I am looking at upgrading, but it's not really justifiable yet.

So I thought I'd grab an SSD for a nice performance pick-me-up now, then throw it in my new computer when I got it.

However, while there is a performance increase, it isn't really all that noticeable. (I use another computer often with an HDD, and can hardly tell the difference.) The CPU is definitely the bottleneck on most tasks.
Play! with Mirah can be a very nice combination.
FiveThirtyEight: How Irene Lived Up to the Hype
It's where your "virtual memory lives" in the event that you run out of physical memory. They are not interchangeable.
That's curious-- in my browser, the picture gets cropped, but the text remains visible. What browser and OS are you using?

EDIT: Thanks for the 1280px info.
I have mixed feelings about this post on what is by far my favorite TV show. On the one hand, I think he's spot on highlighting the aspects of Numb3rs that are unrealistic:

* Time frame for both gathering data and performing analysis

* The incredible depth and breadth of Charlie's knowledge

To enjoy the show, you simply have to think of Charlie as a superhero and suspend your disbelief as if you were watching Spiderman or Superman.

However, the author spends a good chunk of the post attempting to persuade readers that Numb3rs can be thought of as a propaganda vehicle for persuading the masses that a math-based surveillance society is good and necessary. I disagree.

First, there are several episodes featuring poor ethics at the FBI, NSA, prison officials, etc. which sometimes includes manipulating surveillance information (i.e. 216 Protest, 310 Brutus, 313 Finder's Keepers, 608 Ultimatum).

Second, one of the great appeals of the show in general is intense exploration of ethics, with the father and two sons of the Epps family frequently challenging each other and themselves.

Third, and perhaps most importantly, this show appeals to geeks (most people I know who love this show are math/engineer/computer enthusiasts or close to it). You don't get into the hearts and minds of the populace at large by doing virtuoso math demonstrations tied with intense discussions of ethics.

Though I disagree with the propaganda angle (and the off-hand comments about how Numb3rs-type thinking is partly responsible for the house boom and bust), I think it was a great, thought-provoking post, which did a good job of listing out the elements of numbers which stretch the bounds of credulity.

EDIT: typos, inserted specific show names
Is there an api? Thanks.
Can Life Be As Browsable As The Web? Augmented Reality Outfit Metaio Thinks So
Just drag a file onto any page on the site, and a new folder is created (or click 'Upload' if you're using IE).
Most of the story is unreadable for me.

http://i.imgur.com/4R7EO.png

*edit: working now.
Smartphone screens are getting larger and larger. There is a rumor that the Android Nexus Prime made by Samsung will have a 4.65 inch screen. Yet the current rumor floating is that the iPhone 5 will have a 3.7 inch screen. Is screen size, or pixel density more important?
Djokovic's Secret: Sitting in a Pressurized Egg
I've studied mathematics at the graduate level, and I agree 100% with your assessment. I found all the criticisms in the article to be fair and accurate. I'd like to provide a little more perspective here.

I think people don't understand how broad a field mathematics itself is. In graduate school, one will gain a broad knowledge of one particular subfield (e.g. algebra, analysis, topology/geometry, or discrete math, for instance), a very deep knowledge of a particular subject within that subfield (e.g. sheaves of smooth functions on manifolds), and become the world's leading expert on a particular subject (the dissertation). Along the way, one will certainly pick up at least a couple of courses in perhaps 2 or 3 other major subfields sufficient to pass the comprehensive exams set by the department, but that's it.

So, a mathematician graduates knowing a lot about very little compared to the whole of mathematics. Over the course of an entire career, one will usually pick up bits and pieces that were neglected in grad school, and perhaps enough knowledge to contribute in maybe one or two additional subfields.

This, of course, is how it works for an average mathematician -- the average Joe or Jane who makes it through grad school. Superior mathematicians might contribute more broadly (Erdos comes to mind), but they're sufficiently rare that we can practically discount them. Charlie Epps goes beyond this because dramatic license allows (indeed, practically requires) him to.
Can't you use Libraries ?
Well, I could name one that almost certainly doesn't, but I'll refrain.
Often, the act of writing something forces me to commit to a particular thought

This is the main reason I write things down. Writing something down forces me to commit and defend a certain idea, even if only to myself. Writing it down for the world to see forces me to defend the idea to additional level of scrutiny. In short, writing something down helps me keep from BSing myself.
Your pictures stay. We've added support for files, that's all.
Regarding your second point: I'm not exactly sure about the details, but you could assign a drive letter to your music collection on your Terastation, and when you're traveling, you could reassign the drive letter to your music folder on your external HDD. This is not perfect, but could be a possible workaround.
Should I limit the curation of a tag to 1 user or allow many?

I guess having more than one tag would be better simply because one article can actually fall in multiple category. Also you can do some good on user to tags to get a sense of users interests.

Should the newsletter list the curators, thus giving exposure to those doing the work.

Better even, but with small well knit community to start with, who can sustain with you.

Should I mandate a max or min frequency to the newsletters? For instance, should the curators be poked if they haven't sent out a newsletter in over a week?
I think that depends upon how your relationship is with Cratory.

I'd not sign up as its not perfect interest to me but if you start product management i'd do that.

Should I allow curators to enter their own descriptions for the newsletter or just include the link and title in it?

I'd suggest against doing it at start, but later on, with a good set of rules, you should do it.But better part is probably measuring all the emails using the google analytics campaign tagging.
Chrome 12.0.742.124. Arch Linux. Screen cap: http://i.imgur.com/4vEl3.png
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Because they did hours and hours of research, testing, usability sessions and found that it worked.
Awesome! Just letting you know, the "Take Screenshot" feature seems to be broken on OS X Lion, it would probably be easier to use the default 10.7 screenshot capture mechanism, and upload the files once they reach the Desktop.
Thanks, we have tweaked that a bit. Will be re-doing the entire about, faq/help page soon =) Haven't had a chance yet.
Thank you keithpeter and keithpeter for those two links.

A minor thing that's useful if you stay in insert mode for long periods: You can click the mouse anywhere while in Insert mode, and your cursor/insertion point will move to where you click. This works in Gvim, and also in vim, but I suppose vim depends on how your terminal is set up. I've done nothing special to my terminal or my vim.
Ah, you meant the text on the sub-pages-- I thought you meant the links on the front page.

EDIT: OK, fixed, I think.
From what I hear, newer browsers are said to be tightening the screws on mixed content and giving increasingly annoying warnings. For example, showing a red slash through the lock icon.
Great, be sure to stay subscribed to http://blog.minus.com
We'll push a fix for it soon.
We all live in the same universe with the same physics and have a great deal of common experiences and mathematics with which to potentially have this sort of conversation with them. (Yeah, ye olde "they might be totally incomprehensible" is still there, but in this case we're talking about the flip side... it isn't impossible that we could in fact understand them.) Nevertheless, there are some fundamental symmetries that are so symmetric that we could understand vast swathes of their communication and still not know whether perhaps we inverted their entire communication, lock stock and barrel, because the difference between left and right is actually very, very subtle, subtle nearly to the point of nonexistence. (For a long time we thought they were nonexistent, but we've since found some down at the base of physics.)

The "Contact" model of an enormous transmission that can be progressively decoded can not be ruled out, though we have experimental evidence that it's harder than it seems at first blush. (Still, those experiments tend to focus on having our 'top minds' decode pictures that amount to a few hundred bits; arguably it would actually be easier to decode an entire mathematical codex as we would have a lot more to work with, much like cyphertexts actually get somewhat easier to crack as they get larger.)
Are you a non-profit startup? If you're not, did you (or your broker) claim that you were during the negotiations to get a better deal?

It is a great domain, and that feels like a good deal for a five letter, very common word .com. (though I'm sure it feels like a lot of money for a startup).
Doodle or Die
http://doodle.no.de

It's like the game "telephone" but with drawings.

Scroll down to see the chain of drawings that became what you had to draw.
For me, this should serve as a warning to anyone trying to let data do the designing for them.

To me this screams "hey! Our data says 'X'! Let's apply it in the simplest way possible, with little to no editing or afterthought, and then bask in the false confidence our data provides."

I'm not saying that their approach is a bad idea, but they've allowed their execution to falter. They're still in the idea phase. This is not a 'product' phase.

1. It's visually noisy. The problem is not necessarily that there are shitloads of buttons, but that they're everywhere. We have an area for buttons on the top right, then an area of tabs, then an area of large, poorly-gridded buttons, then another row of buttons on the address bar area. Oh, and the freaky tab-above-the-tabs thing on the title bar. There's no visual organization or hierarchy. The whitespace and value is all monotone. When you squint your eyes, all you see is buttons, and no organization behind them.

2. Look, I'm sorry, it's ugly. I'm not saying you need to go stick-up-the-ass Apple brushed metal. Just...after you've worked out the usability aspects, hire a graphic designer. They're really good at all those tiny little visual tweaks that can make the difference between 'eh' and 'great'. UI/UX people usually don't have the chops to accomplish that - you need a dedicated artist.

3. In the words of Dr. Malcolm, "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." All right, your solution appears to be "more buttons". Take that a little farther. How many is enough? Can you have 'too many buttons'? (hint: yes) Do you want to distinguish visually between commonly-used and uncommonly-used buttons? Is it safe to draw this conclusion from your data? How representative of the average user's needs are these after-market add-ons that will probably only be installed by power users?

Look, data is useful, but poorly-analyzed data is dangerous. If you're not careful it will sing you whatever song you desire, whispering "yes, yes, more like that" in your ear as you dance down to hell.
Heard at the grocery store: "You only bought 1 apple so we're charging you for the price of two because of gas prices."

It's a cost that can't be quantified to the customer. Why not just jack the monthly cost instead of tacking on a ghost charge?
This is an excellent move by Citrix. NASA had major issues with Eucalyptus being "open core" and not "Open Source" which was one of the main reasons they co-funded OpenStack.
With Citrix moving to commercialize Openstack, having one less variant of the software stack will mean less confusion for their customers.
The IE9 Windows Phone "Mango" UA String
I was thinking the same thing. Their data, according to the article, indicates that over half of all functions used in Explorer are via the right-click menu and yet they conclude that these items aren't discoverable enough? Bizarre.

I think they're overlooking the fact that it's often a smaller & quicker movement to get to an entry in the right click menu than to mouse up to the toolbar and click there. Fitt's Law applies.
Any info on whether the Scala version of Play! (http://scala.playframework.org) works without modification?
In my experience, SSD work great in RAID-5 or RAID-6 setups, even for database workloads (blasphemy!). In fact, 6 or 8 consumer SSDs in a RAID-5 array will put your huge FC array of 15k drives to shame.

Here is a benchmark I've run (vertical numbers are transactions/s, horizontal number of threads) : http://blogs.intellique.com/images/comp-ssd-db.png
Harley Davidson Fat Boy Special Launch In India, Price, Engine & Features 
Evey body know that Harley Davidson is world's no.1 and very well known in two wheeler manufacturing company. Now at this time the company Harley Davidson coming in India. By the Managing Director, Mr Anoop Prakash, announced on the launch The Harley Davidson Fat Boy that "We are launching the Harley Davidson Fat Boy Special, offering a special take on the motorcycle that embodies Harly Davidson's rich people".
Thanks, the .com definitely helps lessen the confusion, as the name Min.us was getting misspelled especially when our users try to share/tell their friends about it.
Researchers watch dolphins use shells to catch fish
For your second issue, couldn't use just use a symlink from the Music folder to the external drive?
That explanation doesn't make sense to me.

The employers were not merely classifying people into groups, they wanted to actually hire someone.

If in the employer's mind, all black applicants were bad, the employer would hire a white applicant, or wouldn't hire anyone, or would keep looking.

But that's not what happened. Sometimes the employer called one of the black applicants for an interview. Even if the employer thought that all the black applicants were bad, the logical thing to do would be to go through the CVs again to try to discern some differences in the pool of black applicants before you waste time on an interview.

But the experiment says that the employers found all black applicants to be equally bad.

Then my question is: On what basis did the employer pick the black applicant to call for an interview?

It's as if the employer is saying, "We prefer to interview the best white applicants. Sometimes we interview a black applicant, but in those cases good or bad doesn't matter -- we'll interview a random black applicant."

It doesn't add up. Either the experiment is flawed or there is a subtle explanation for this anomaly.
It's a VC firm.
Yes, http://minus.com/pages/api

However we have API v2 coming out soon, over next few days.
Memcached in Windows Azure
Play is awesome. I'd been out of the Java biz for a couple years but I did a bit of work for a friend recently and took the opportunity to give Play a try. I prefer it over Rails.
Rand, I wouldn't be surprised if this post gets you that round, and at better terms.

Neil will be kicking himself at some point.
"Share Large Files up to 2 GB each"

Why the limitation? Filedropper has been offering 5 GB uploads for a while now.
Oh the irony: There's been a leak at Wikileaks
Literally every single question you ask about the Finder can be answered by simply clicking on the UI element you are wondering and observing what happens. It would take less than two minutes of poking around to fully understand all the basic controls of the Finder, and during that time, you are very unlikely to damage your file structure. Also, even a moderate familiarity with OS X UI conventions would explain a lot of the functionality.

It seems you're trying to say that any UI without textual labels on everything is not discoverable. That doesn't fit with the usual meaning of the term, and seems to be too strict a standard to be actually useful.
Good news! Thanks. Is play-scala compatible with?
My problem with using Vim, and the source of my hesitation to learn it more, is that I'm a fairly haphazard typist. I type fast, but messily. I've never really been able to clean it up. I'm just naturally a little clumsy.

In my IDE, this is never, ever a problem. Most of the dangerous commands require I go to the mouse, so I can't simply blaze through them on the keyboard. Anything I mess up at the keyboard, I can always undo with backspace or a cntl+z. Furthermore, there is visual confirmation of exactly what each command I entered is doing and a chance to cancel it if it's going to do stuff I don't want.

In Vim, this isn't the case. I can be blazing along on the keyboard, attempt to enter a command, screw it up and enter not just one, but a whole sequence of incorrect commands. These commands could be very problematic -- doing things that are hard to undo. And it can be very difficult for me, as a Vim novice especially, to figure out exactly what I screwed up and how to undo it.

I know some of that may be remedied with more knowledge. I'm sure there's some way to view a detailed command history, and I know it has an undo. But I still feel as if, for myself at least, the danger of keyboard mashing screw ups completely counteracts any gains in productivity I'd make. And given that I wouldn't really gain anything by using Vim, I prefer the comfort of my visually based IDE.

Aside from which, I'm really fond of the way Eclipse's windows are dockable and movable and I make frequent use of that feature. Interrupting processes or juggling multiple terminal windows just isn't the same.
Safeway, that's kind of cheap
Huh, column view is one of the things I missed most from Finder. I loved how you could click and hold a file, and navigate through a directory tree just by hovering over each folder in the path.
Yes but while implicit route ordering works a lot of the time, I'll gladly keep Pyramid's concept of explicit ordering, which is the main source of verbosity in the Pyramid setup which separates routes from views.
How will this stack up to something like GnuCash?
Show HN: Please rate our new Python IDE support (free, OSS, from... MSFT)
> Where is Linux?

For desktop use? In third place. Plus, most people on Linux know how to install new software. Finally, the package managers included with many popular distributions of Linux make finding and installing packages like Ruby so easy that it's not even worth describing how to do.
Thanks for the reply. The ALT-up-keyboard opens the parent folder, yes... but I was referring to the fact that CTRL-click a folder would open a New Explorer Window leaving the current one untouched. The CTRL-{up_toolbar_icon} used to open the parent folder in a New Explorer Window leaving the current window open as well. Was great when you needed to go up a level and open a sibling folder without closing the current explorer window. There is no quick way to do this in Vista / Win7 because you can't CTRL-{open parent} in a new window anymore. What should have worked would have been CTRL-ALT-{keyboard arrow} (up, left, right) to open the parent/previous/next folder in a new window but that doesn't work. Anyhow, I do realize these are just nit-picks of power users.
Thanks. Just a simple rest based api suits me fine.
HP was a huge company back then. They made a lot more than consumer products and they didn't focus on any one thing. They made everything from oscilloscopes to calculators, primarily for scientists and engineers. It isn't like they laid off oscilloscope designers to hire people for the calculator division.
I assume that “not wanting to write tests” is when the tests are more complex than the code tested, for example writing tests for a GUI application using a closed-source platform framework is complex (if at all possible).

You can write tests for the core algorithms and data structures but that is often only around 10%.
I will be saying this until I die, but WebObjects, originally created in Objective-C and then ported to Java, made Java web app development fun back in the days (late '90s early '00s) when people were killing themselves with Struts, Servlets, and J2EE. Even in its current, unsupported form, WebObjects runs circles around most web frameworks. Given that WO is not supported by Apple, I am really glad to see frameworks like Grails (awesome framework) and Play! gaining traction in the mainstream! So, yes, Java web app development should not be hard, doesn't have to be hard, and, actually, was never really hard at all (if you used the right framework in the first place).
If you're building a new application you should use our new API. Docs here:
http://miners.github.com/MinusAPIv2/v2/index.html. Write us at info@minus.com to let us know you're working on something, and we can collaborate on making things work for you. This is a work in progress.
Airbnb - Switching to a HTML5 Photo Manager
School Management System
The features of the software make it stand apart from similar concept based softwares in the market. Its amazing features not just make it easier for the teachers to track the performance and development of all students but allow the parents to check the same right from their home.
I like the changes they're making as a professional user.

But what's missing is recognition of the leaps forward in the iPhone / Android's general consumer interfaces.

iOS obfuscates the explorer interface and replaces it with simple contextual commands which seems fitting here - the 80% like new / copy / paste / etc.

If they approached it like iOS the question wouldn't be how to "improve windows explorer" but how to eliminate it.
This is temporary, we may increase it in the near future. However being on S3 the largest we can go is 5 GB actually :)