skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The navigation is pretty easy, but as a WP7 user, I'm used to Metro paradigms.

Not all the apps work, some are just mockups and don't have any functionality (though they seem to be legitimately pulling data from the network, according to Wireshark).

It's not ready for regular use by anyone's standards, for sure. But it's very promising, very speedy, and has a pretty low memory footprint.

I'm OK with the demo goof ups.
It's not seed money, it's buying from a private contracter. The Air Force doesn't build planes, it buys planes. The Navy doesn't build ships, it buys ships. The Army doesn't make tanks, it buys tanks.

Now part of that process involves a lot of military oversight and specification to make sure things are up to their standards. I know that the military is involved in the design of systems from Day 1. But all of those things are made by private corporations and they have no commercial equivalent. NASA operates this way already to a large extent. Boeing, Lockheed, etc are primary contractors that design & build a lot of this stuff.

What NASA is going through right now is a switch from that model to using straight Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) stuff. The government buys plenty of things off the shelf with no motification or input if it meets their needs. Space X just happens to provide lift capability instead of laptops, but in the end it really is no different as long as they're not launching people.
Bitbeam - Robots that can play Angry Birds
Recommendation Technologies Are Still "Very Stupid"
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Many of the included apps aren't configurable, and there's just not much to the Metro side of things yet. It's good for an hour of poking around, though.
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HACKER [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] n. 1. A person who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically, or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value (q.v.). 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. Not everything a hacker produces is a hack. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; example: "A SAIL hacker". (Definitions 1 to 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. A malicious or inquisitive meddler who tries to discover information by poking around. Hence "password hacker", "network hacker". -- The Original Hacker's Dictionary

Edit: I didn't downvoted you, I think people were a bit unfair, but I wanted to point that the word hacker already had a variety of meanings even 30 years ago.
Unfortunately MVP is one of those terms like "pivot" that got out of control. An MVP is "the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort."

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-...

This is a great example of an MVP. If nobody signs up, he knows there is no demand for this product.
Why not reverse the pricing and say "you keep 90% of the first $1000 you raise through Bellstrike and 100% of the money above that". It puts a positive spin on it and they see they save money as they raise more money.
Google Buys Motorola – For the Phones or the Patents?
Ask the uk or the netherlands if they are happy with iceland failing as a nation.
Courts will take hacking seriously ... if nude pics are involved
Stack Exchange Inc. sponsors the TeX User Group and joined TUG as member
Earlier entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995689
Wow. You're right. Even as early on as the abstract, the "conclusion" of the study seems to be the complete opposite of what I think is more accurately described as a "policy document"

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> This report describes results for a study of electric height-adjustable
worksurfaces (EHAWs) conducted in two companies. A total of 33 computer
workers from the two companies worked at fixed-height worksurfaces (FHWs) and
then at EHAWs for between 4 and 6 weeks. Participants completed extensive
survey questionnaires immediately before and then 4-6 weeks after using the
EHAWs. Results showed significant decreases in the severity of musculoskeletal
discomfort for most upper body regions. In the EHAW condition daily discomfort
ratings were lower in the afternoon and productivity ratings improved. Written
comments about the EHAWs generally were positive. There was a strong
preference for using the EHAWs. Implications are discussed.

*significant decreases in the severity of musculoskeletal discomfort
*daily discomfort ratings were lower
*productivity ratings improved
*strong preference for using the EHAWs

Corporate policy is often based on more than just study results. In this case, maybe the internal ergonomics department looked at the cost associated with outfitting everyone's desk with electric motors and decided against officially declaring them a good thing.

Thanks for reading the original source. I had a bad "feeling" about the article, I know it's on a Cornell website, but it doesn't come across as an actual study of any sort.
I'm curious about something. The website's in English (with no French translation), even though presumably all the people involved speak French.

Is this a common in the French startup scene? I remember seeing a video from TCFRecipes that was in English too...
Microsoft could very well have made this screen some other color (like yellow or red). Would it have been caught out as the new "screen of death" from MS then or would it have been ignored as the software was still a developer preview?

The tendency to tie things in Microsoft's new OSes (Windows Phone 7, Windows 8) to aspects of earlier versions (Windows Mobile, Win XP, Vista) could be one of the things to dog MS as long as it is unwilling to abandon the "Windows" brand (despite being significantly different).
Are you planning on offering an ebook version? I prefer to read most books digitally, but agree that this type of book would be impossible take in on a kindle.
Cool. I've been testing out an app called ExpandDrive which does something similar but it hangs like crazy if network bandwidth goes up.
"So to match 1 SLS launch you are looking at 6-12 Falcon 9s (which have flown) or 2-3 Falcon Heavy launches (which have not flown)."

It is my impression that SpaceX anticipates doing exactly that sort of thing.
Exactly. Is this not very similar to the program that was recently cancelled?

Reading this actually made me quite angry, and I'm someone who is a fan of new technology, especially new space technology. What new ground is being covered here? "President Obama challenged us to be bold and dream big, and that's exactly what we are doing at NASA". I have to disagree. This looks a lot like NASA is about to reinvent the Saturn V.

Surely it's best for NASA to completely draw a line and vow to never develop any more (conventional) launch vehicles. In orbit assembly presumably is exactly the kind of thing they should be investigating. Unless of course they plan to do all their deep space exploration via a single rocket launch?
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Just for the record, they already use it to build the Youtrack bugracker:

http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
16 'super-Earths' found outside solar system
The article doesn't question the poorer school's choice of measured outcome -- college graduation. Does becoming a college graduate correlate well with a good life outcome, or do the skills required to graduate from college (both academic and character-related) lead to success and/or happiness?
The ergonomics department's conclusion seems much cheaper for them, though...
I've been using Fusion since it first came out and disappointed there is no upgrade pricing.

I don't use it as much anymore and don't see 4 as compelling enough to upgrade at full price, so will be passing on it for now.
I haven't gotten my hands on this book yet, but his talk was probably the best thing I saw at SXSW this year. I personally find design to be a hard nut to crack, but the way he thinks is appealing to my very logic-y brain.
I have been using the bookmarklets provided by squarefree.com (https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html) for about 8 or 9 years now. Cross browser, works on the current page, dead easy.
Ars Technica Founder Starts New Project
Because changes are fed back to the CSS stylesheet. And it's a snippet website, apart from a design tool.
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HP Releases Cloud Services Private Beta
The Effect of Language Choice on Revision Control Systems (2011)
I tried out P7 when it was released, and immediately migrated back to Fusion 4 today when it came out.
I suspect that you would still have some semblance of built over such a file-system. Hierarchy is useful for organizing data, and I often find myself using keys that allow me to abstract hierarchy in my NoSQL systems. ex: "/foo/bar/0113" -> data
What was the problem?

I use MacFuse on Snow Leopard daily at work and home and the worst I've ever seen was TextMate move slow when I woke from sleep (and the drive wasn't mounted)
Decent high level points (with a lot of room to add specifics).

First thing is that your data design has a huge impact on everything your applications do, so getting that right is critical. I would say these points assume so.

Also I'm not sure i agree with his point that caching your data layer isn't a good idea. Yes, MongoDB has pretty awesome in-memory performance, but having dedicated caching servers have numerous advantages like:

- Allowing you to manipulate the data structures better for use-cases or to cache preprocessed items (that might not require persistence).

- Resources. A memcached box doesn't need the type of hardware a MongoDB box needs so it's easier to increase your global cache size and performance w/o adding new DB servers or dealing with indexing size vs working set size voodoo.

- Specialization. Caches are built and optimized for doing exactly that. Why would you think your DB code can do it better?

- Flexibility. I can control my caching lifecycle independently of how my persisted data changes.

At any rate, i'm enjoying my MongoDB work and it does help a lot for the push button scaling, but unfortunately, whole systems need to scale, not just the DB servers so these suggestions won't solve all your problems.
I just want to point one thing: As China is becoming the super-power (engine of the world), their view how copyright should be handled will become prevalent.

In other words, the majority of money to be made will be in Chindia and not in Europe and US. We need to prepare for that.
As a developer using Visual Studio in my day job for the past six years, I simply cannot get a hold of Eclipse. I have tried repeatedly, and failed because it is so very clunky, slow, and unintuitive. Have recently been playing with IntelliJ, and think I will stick with this for the time being.

However, of course, Visual Studio with Resharper has just spoilt me rotten, can't expect that environment from every IDE.
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Even more, 'a stable career' as the supposedly positive outcome seems like a rather '50s concept these days.

I think what people are going to be learning the hard way in the near future that 'careers' are over, and 'making value for which someone will pay you' is the only way forward. Of course, that's much more nebulous to both target and to measure, but that doesn't change the reality of the current situation.
First of all, webputty will not always be free.
Second thing is, webputty is a website for CSS manipulation, whereas labcss is a snippet website for creating styled HTML elemments. The process of building the website is the significat advantage of this website, and not only the CSS tweaking.
Fantastic article.

Here's a useful take-away: Christopher Peterson's set of strengths that are especially likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement:

zest
grit
self-control
social intelligence
gratitude
optimism
curiosity
I'm not the author, I just submitted the blog post.
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Why the Real Threat to Journalists Isn't Automated Writing
That's the reason I've switched to Fusion - too many of those random freezes was too much for my virtual Windows to handle, and it just plain stopped working. File system or disk image corruption, most likely.
The article also reveals that as Americans now that our country has evolved over past around 300 years of democracy, there is a sense of 'entitlement' that has come with it.

This entitlement is in opposition to fostering curiosity and risk taking mentality. People that feel they are entitled to have food, shelter and clothing will never work creatively towards it and will be reluctant in taking risks or understanding failure.

This needs to be fostered at a young age, when kids should be working on projects and understanding the value of resilience instead of having things handed down to them. I came to this country at a young age and had to fend for myself. Thats when I learned the real meaning of 'resilience'.
While the iPhone may or may not be "cool" for the younger set, the iPod Touch is from everything I can tell massively popular with tweens, teens and college students (and while there are now some iPod Touch Android equivalents, nothing close to the ubiquity of the Touch).

For a while Apple's educational discount just flat out gave an 8GB iPod Touch to students/teachers when they bought a Mac.

This seems like the real 'gateway drug' to the iOS ecosystem.
Because it allows you to feed back the changes to your snippets immediately to the stylesheet.
Symbian powers both smart phones and feature phones. A lot of people switched this year to Android because businesses like ZTE were selling well spec'ed budget phones for carriers (to brand as their own).

So, for the last year you could get an easily unlocked pay-as-you-go Android phone for less than £100. These have been wildly popular for bargain hunters, who would normally go for a feature phone.
Ah, yes, the Senate Launch System. Looks rather like the more sensible DIRECT; I haven't looked closely at it yet, but from glancing at the Wikipedia entry the Feb 11 design shows it's already a boondoggle (as reported by people I trust) by using 5 segment SRBs, one of the fatal flaws of the Ares I (going from 4 to 5 segments results in thrust oscillations severe enough to kill the crew). And from what they're not saying it sounds like they're sticking with the Ares program's wider SRBs, which fantastically drove up the cost of it.

Well, since NASA has been more public works program than anything else since Apollo (and even then, helping the South was an explicit goal of Apollo), I suppose it's fitting. But can we really afford this sort of thing as opposed to building up a commercial launch sector in any one of a number of ways?
When to Apply Predictive Analytics
Letter Gothic circa 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_Gothic

Nothing beats it.
Fusion and Parallels both are a bit faster than VirtualBox and have more features.

Also, VMWare VMs will work with any VMWare product so if you are working with a team that uses VMWare elsewhere its nice to have.

If you are just trying to run a Windows app or two you are probably better off with VirtualBox since its free.
For those interested, David Kadavy is doing a GrubWithUs meal in NYC on the 23rd. Come join. It'd be fun to have a few HNers there.

http://www.grubwithus.com/restaurants/rubirosa-manhattan/mea...
Funny I just live blogged submitting our iPhone app last night and it was a lot fun. Thumbs up on this!

http://blogcastr.com/mrushton/2011/9/13/app-submission
The meaning of the word 'em' changes depending on where you look for its definition. Typographers are very creative with things like units and standards: even 'point' has had many different meanings.
Less imposing than the earlier versions for a non-techie user, but I'd suggest a rewording. "your PC..." will imply a physical hardware fault to a lot of people and that'll not help tech support when it is actually a driver issue (some people can be very difficult to deal with when they've got a mis-diagnosis stuck in their heads).
The motivation for this paper arose from a comment by a
developer for the open-source game The Battle for Wesnoth
[15], who suggested that modifying their scenario scripting
language to allow a more compact, expressive form would
not lead to a reduction in scenario size but instead an in-
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Cool feature, I'll definitely consider it but it's a bit difficult to execute properly because of image paths and remote javascript/CSS files.
ActiveAdmin is quite flexible, userfriendly and has a sexy UI. From looking at http://puffer.heroku.com/admin/ I don't see any improvement at least in the UI part.
Currently reading "Learned Optimism", and some thoughts on that book:

A causal explanation for failure like "I am stupid" is pessimistic and hopeless, because it is both permanent (stupidity doesn't change) and universal (it affects everything you do, and is not confined to the specific thing you failed at nor even to the type of that task). A belief in this causal explanation leads you to believe that next time you attempt this task, you will also fail (because the reason for failure - stupidity - is still there); and that if you attempt any other task requiring intelligence you will will also fail (because stupidity undermines all of them).

In contrast, a causal explanation like "I wasn't trying hard" is optimistic and hopeful, because it is not permanent (you can try harder) and it's confined to that particular attempt (it's not about an unchangeable trait, but a one-off).

It seems to me that hope and optimism, when personal (about yourself), really put the responsibility on you. They blame you - but because it's in a way you can do something about, they are energizing.

Note: the book also says that blaming external circumstances and other people, instead of yourself, is an "optimistic" causal explanation - but "hopeful" is only the other two, non-permanence and non-universal. It also expresses misgivings about the irresponsibility of blaming external factors.

singlepage: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secre...
This is because the vast majority of Windows users have no clue about any of the information presented.

And the people who CAN use that information analyze the .dmp files on the filesystem. The .dmp files have the same info plus more.
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Building code, doing a "find .", any type of disk-heavy operation was like playing russian roulette.
Castfire is hiring!

We’re looking for someone (telecommute!) who enjoys coming up with innovative solutions to large scale problems. Ideally, our candidate would have experience with systems at scale and extensive knowledge of LAMP. We do enjoy using new technologies (Redis in production) and would like to find someone who can balance the bleeding edge with tried and true.

Castfire is looking for a senior engineer to join our team. Our product is a large scale system for managing, transcoding, assembling, and serving audio and video assets. Some of our clients include CBS, AOL, ESPN, Major League Soccer, NFL teams among others. Millions of people interact transparently with Castfire’s technology to consume audio and video. Chances are, you’ve interacted with our technology without knowing it.

Wanna apply? We spent the cash to be on Stack Overflow, so we might as well use it. :)

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Also, if you wanna talk, feel free to hit me up on Twitter (@randallb) and I'll dm you my phone number.
I would slightly change the logo so that it looked less like a sideview of a breast, nipple included.
>get up and walk around as I chew through a problem in my head. Surely this doesn't constitute a break in "flow".

I'm afraid it most certainly does for myself and other programmers I know. My "walking around and contemplating" is a completely different mental state than flow for me, and flow produces an entirely different league of results above and beyond any other mode of working I've been in.

If I could discipline, harness, and achieve flow more quickly (like the people who teach themselves to dream lucidly) I would be a much better programmer.

As it is, I'm currently contemplating how to cope with the apparent health risks of sitting all day vs. achieving flow.

Going even a week without flow tends to depress me, I doubt I could make disrupting my work multiple times daily a regular part of my habits.
Yes, they do. People knowledgeable in Windows analyze the dump files a BSOD creates. These file have all the information needed for debugging. In addition, it's dumped in the event logs.

People on HN seem pretty quick to jump on this pre-beta release, and Windows in general, without proper situational awareness.
"use shoddy designs"

Given that NASA's shoddy design of the Shuttle has killed two of them along with their crews, somehow I don't find that to be a strong argument.

If SpaceX is going to "land a monopoly on heavy launches" then by definition their vehicles will be at least somewhat reliable.
Chrome v13 can save the modified CSS file, it even has revision history.
I think consistency in error messages is good though. Sure, bsods were a huge annoyance back in the day. You'd practically be guaranteed to hit one every week. Now though, the system itself is pretty damn stable. My uptimes on my windows 7 machines are all measured in months right now. If something does go wrong though, seeing a bsod will at least let me know immediately that it was a catastrophic failure. It's such an immediately recognizable event that removing it might not be in the users' best interest.
Don't get me wrong, I am pro space exploration and love science, but I just don't see how we can justify spending money on this kind of project with the economy as it is.
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Are any startups looking for a generalist
I'm wondering do startups look to bring a person on to their team that can handle the things some people are not able or do not wont to do such as phone calls, research, speaking to people on behalf on the startup to get feedback, etc. I'm a very quick learner and I'm great at figuring out things and getting my way.

If anyone would like to contact me to ask more you can email me bbeard86@hotmail.com
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I suddenly have an interest in this, since I'll be travelling quite a bit (Amsterdam-Vienna). Do you have any hints? I've had trouble finding anything that actually saves money.

To add at least a little value: matrix.itasoftware.com has found trips (e.g. Amsterdam-Tallinn) for me that the local (Dutch) travel sites didn't. I was pleasantly surprised by this.
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>Bill Laing made it clear that they've tried hard to listen to customers this time

So interesting in contrast to Steve Jobs' thoughts... "If you ask customers what they want, you will never get anything revolutionary, just the same stuff"
(rough quote from memory)
Some explanation to counter those terrible downvotes: Pacman, the package manager of Archlinux, is not implementing the verification of package signatures. It's a recurrent issue in the Arch community.
I didn't complain about the colours in the IDE...
"...kids today can now dream of one day walking on Mars."

Hell, I dreamed of walking on Mars when I worked on the Apollo Project. I never dreamed that 2011 would come and we would never have even gone back to the moon. It makes me regret even more that I never made the trek to Florida to see a Saturn V launch.
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Oh no's a bug in a pre beta operating system, Windows is obviously a horrible operating system.
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Wireless headphones. The quality isn't as good, but they do wonders for allowing me to get up and move, whilst staying in the flow. Might want to give it a try.