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I was turned off by the style of the author's writing, and couldn't get past the "shut up" line. This post didn't match my feelings of the product at all. All in all, very strange.
This is a brilliant suggestion. I've seen countless posts here on "how should I learn design?". When I think about learning to design, I want to learn the process of a good designer, not just theory or tricks. For example, I learnt a lot more design from this post and video than other stuff:

http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEQpwduyPU
Folks at MS are doing a pretty good job with IE recently. Even though IE9 is a bit behind "modern browsers" (text-shadow!) - it is a decent browser. And IE10 looks very promising, in fact it looks like it will have all it needs to be considered "modern". Could be even ahead in some areas (CSS Regions - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css3-regions.html - or hardware acceleration).
My only fear is that with Microsoft's old-fashioned way of releasing updates (plus lack of support for older OSes) we still will have to support ~5 versions of IE for years.
from what I've gleaned from being a uTorrent user, it interrogates the server for a .torrent file and then downloads that torrent from a tracker they run. presumably, anyone who owns the host of the .torrent, or anyone who owns the tracker, could own the update download -- though I'm not sure whether they use technologies like code signing at all to verify that the bits are their own.
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Not much research has been done, but the most recent (2008) study concluded:

"This study suggests that ergonomically designed kneeling chairs set at +20 degrees inclination do maintain standing lumbar curvature to a greater extent than sitting on a standard computer chair with an overall mean difference of 7.633 degrees . Further research with a greater number of subjects and on different chair designs is warranted."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18810008
I think mine would need an R18 rating when I go into swearing fits at the .net framework and permission issues :P
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You are incorrect. It was Portugal, Ireland, Greece and possibly Spain. Greece is deep in trouble, Ireland had to borrow from EU and UK earlier this year and its economy is in deep trouble, i.e. people emigrating in droves trouble, not sure about Portugal but I think they got some bail out money too. Italy is a very recent addition, only last month, and has not had any bail out money and hopefully will not require any because it is too big to bail out.
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Calling it a 'dump' seems rather downbeat (a dump is "a site for depositing garbage"). Something like idea corner' would be more encouraging.
Thanks for the reply. That doesn't sound useful to me. Maybe I'm not your target demographic though.
We built this at Yahoo! in summer 2007 after the FareChase acquisition. Took about a week or so to prototype, and a couple months to offer various filter/search criteria and prepare for launch. With access the good flight data APIs it's a pretty simple app. Of course for us it was never allowed to launch.

Glad to see Google was finally able to push something like this. Main feature missing that Y! Faremaps had is the ability to specify a span of time in which you wanted to travel and the cheapest trips in that timeframe were shown. Also, you could search "weekends only" in that timeframe.
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Nice tool if you want to convert existing JS code to CoffeeScript.
Wonder how stable it is.
Yes - true. I'll reconsider for the next post.
I thought this was just a JSFiddle/JSbin type site for CSS but then I clicked on the generated HTML and realized what it lets you do. This looks like a great tool for learning CSS but I can't imagine myself pasting in some HTML/CSS and tweaking one thing at a time by pointing and clicking.

I'd still recommend checking out http://jsfiddle.net which lets you keep JS, HTML and CSS separate and makes it easy to include specific versions of JS libraries (handy for testing/reporting bugs). There's also a nice embeddable (iframe) version and it lets you test ajax responses. There's also http://jsbin.com which has similar features.
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I'm not an expert on that topic, others have written it up better than I could:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

- http://www.literateprogramming.com/

Nevertheless, I have done some experiments. Some time ago I submitted a small demonstration about "Self-Contained Literate Programming" to HN. It seems to have vanished, so I just resubmitted it. It would be great to get some feedback/discussion about that:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995845

Together with some other students, I also created some homework for university in LP style (sorry, in German language only):

- http://www.profv.de/uni/kuenstliche_intelligenz/aufgabe3.pdf
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I just installed 64-bit dev tools into VBox on OSX and seamless mouse is supported. Everything just works so far..
It's 10.5. Two major versions back. I can fully understand when Google doesn't want to support it.
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Nice tool, good design, UX could be improved, but I like the idea.

There's not a flight search engine that I know of that
would group those airports together.

Not really, I always use the map feature on SkyScanner, you can see and choose a nearby airport, and you can also check if a direct flight is available.
If there's one thing where your tool is different, is that you can type the name of a random place, but I find hard to believe that people would be so clueless about the place they're going to.

And two of those airlines (Easyjet, Ryanair) do not show
up on flight search websites

Again, SkyScanner does that, and so does a number of other flight search engines or travel sites such as Expedia, eDreams, lastminute etc. This is simply untrue.

Overall, good job, I don't see why people wouldn't want to use this.

p.s: Should you land in Verona Villafranca, come say hi! I live near there :)
Interesting, but has issues with classes.

I turned that find function into a class with a method, and converted it back and forth and the JS->Coffee came out oddly. Definitely not nice CoffeeScript, even if it worked.
My only comment: AeroFS is an objectively horrible name if you ever want wider consumer adoption. Even if you want to cater to the techie slice of the market it's still not ideal. Pretty important to get the name right.
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I'd add that the pie charts you converted in this post are actually the sorts of pie charts you were okay with in your first blog post, where you said "pie charts are really only useful when a small number of categories of data are far, far greater than others" (http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/please-dont-use-pie-charts.html), with "republicans" being, arguably, an exception.
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I found the transitions jerky and the general experience unwieldy. So I went with GNOME3, which is reasonably similar UX-wise, but "feels nicer".
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You may want to build it like soundcloud so that viewers can add their own comments at certain points in the video.
I'd hardly call people who design file systems stupid.

I don't expect them to be psychic, or know everything. I don't even expect them to be the most knowledgeable person in their field. They're just human.

Calling them stupid because you saw something they didn't isn't just rude, it's ridiculous.
The bar chart with independents, republicans and democrats makes it seem like every group is equally large.

Are there as many independents as republicans?

The bias of this method towards smaller groups is no worse than the pie charts. But it's not better.
Trolling: Who does it and why?
I was making no claim about showing the relative sizes of those groups. And I don't believe the three pie chart version was either.
This is very nice, slick UI.
True, but there are three of them and when you put them side by side they are hard to compare.
Your landing page sucks. I have no idea what the website is about. "Discover & Share Future Happenings" is extremely vague.
I have worked on retainer before, but I'm not currently.

The plans I always presented were multi-tiered. I always found that companies were more open to talking numbers when then felt that they had options. I also only do retainers on a month-to-month basis. I tried a yearly retainer once and it did not work out for me or the client.

Basically, my retainers worked like this:

* The client pays for X amount of hours a month

* The size of X determined many factors of the relationship

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- how their work was weighted against my other work

- whether they paid after-hours rates or not (typically, I charge double for calls after normal business hours)

- whether I would guarantee same day/24/48/72 hour service

- how much they paid for hours over X

- how much they paid for phone/remote support and if those hours were included in the monthly agreement or not

* X hours were guaranteed to the client each month and we generally set a schedule weekly. If they paid for 24 hours a month, I would be at their business 6 hours a week, no matter if they called or not.

I billed monthly, and the client was expected to pay within 10 days. Some wanted to pay me up front, but I never worked well that way so I discouraged it. The clients that I still do work for started off as retainer clients. Since that time, I have structured my work-flow to only include them and we no longer need an agreement. Many monhts, I have made more than I would have had we maintained the retainer (because of discounts) and most months it's about the same.
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The book looks good. I might pick it up. I think sed is one of those hidden power tools that everyone that works in the shell should pick up skills with. It's really helpful in some situations.
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I don't know what it does.

Landing screen without any information whatsoever, asking me to 'log in with Facebook'.

What is this about? Ignoring my FB dislike, why should I log in to something that I know zilch about? "Show HN" works only if you actually show something.
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Has anyone been able to make mouse integration work correctly? That is the only thing that I haven't been able to make work correctly.
The slow updates and lack of OS support is a big deal for me. I posted about this back in February before IE9 came out (http://www.basecreativeagency.com/2011/02/what-microsoft-nee...) and the situation hasn't changed with IE10.

Whilst Google can get a really high percentage of users onto the latest version of Chrome within days, Microsoft cannot do the same with IE9 (and IE10 when it comes out).
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I'm fine with some of the criticisms but using XFS as the posterchild example of a free file system done 'right' is a bit much. XFS has absolutely terrible performance for lots of use cases (deletions, for instance).

What the author also fails to understand - apparently - is that the problems plaguing the storage industry are perennial, they will never be resolved. We will always yearn for more storage that is more reliable at a lower price-point, no matter how good our current technology is.
I'm pretty sure uTorrent was never open source. The mainline client was, though.
I'm an Irishman who lives in New Zealand, but I'm currently visiting the inlaws in Italy. Just flew in to Venezia (Marco Polo) this morning, and have spent some time in Bassano del Grappa in the past. It's a fantastic place and a great Mecca for paragliders. A friend used to run a restaurant there called l'Antica Abbazia several years ago, and it was frequented by all the fliers. Ah, the memories are flooding back now! Hope you managed to catch some of those fantastic thermals while you were there.

Oh, and all this OT rambling just to say well done on your side project. As others have pointed out, it's not entirely unique but it's useful and a good start.
It it just me or does it seem like this article has been promoted with some kind of voting ring?

I don't know, it just seems strange to me for the HN community to upvote like this :S

EDIT: Ok, it sounds like they were completely legitimate upvotes. Nevermind then
It it just me or does it seem like this article has been promoted with some kind of voting ring?

I don't know, it just seems strange to me for the HN community to upvote like this :S
Does anyone has an invite, pretty pretty please? :)

Or better yet, when can we expect the public beta? I am waiting for this over a year now!
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I think it is a good idea, but..

(1) do you really want to do it live? Why not do it the youtube way? Store the videos, rate them, comment with videos, etc.

(2) you could instead of making true videos split it into 2 parts. Making a video, and attach a text area to it so users can copy/paste your code. One could see the changes live.

(3) I guess this works hard if you want to present an SDK. Maybe you could turn the editable fields into text areas? At least the main one. Kind of a layer over the video.
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This would need some good editing. When I'm working on a website design, it can take some time for the finished version to come together. There's quite a lot of experimenting, tweaking, undoing etc... going on.

Nice idea though.
Unfortunately, yes. I haven't been able to get it to catch on.
Interesting, I've been using deluge for many years, had no idea they had a build that runs on windows.

Deluge has all the features I want on a torrent client, I will replace my uTorrent installations on windows by deluge.
Even if the claim that the risk of carotid atherosclerosis is nine times higher among people who stand more (which is dubious [1]), looking at overall risk of death makes more sense.

"""
Time spent sitting and physical activity were queried by questionnaire on 53,440 men and 69,776 women who were disease free at enrollment. The authors identified 11,307 deaths in men and 7,923 deaths in women during the 14-year follow-up. After adjustment for smoking, body mass index, and other factors, time spent sitting (≥6 vs. <3 hours/day) was associated with mortality in both women (relative risk = 1.34, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.25, 1.44) and men (relative risk = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.11, 1.24).
"""

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/172/4/419.abstract

[1] below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995821
It's "Node, Backbone, CoffeeScript and MongoDB".

(From the horse's mouth: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2994009 )
The key thing that it looks like he is doing is using heredocs and string interpolation to change the way the HTML for the template is written. This is cool, but in my opinion the wrong place for HTML. I think the support of script tags with type=text/x-jquery-tmpl and an id are a better option than HTML in a string variable (http://api.jquery.com/template). At least then I feel like I am writing HTML in the right spot.
It's not a very good article. It's rambling, almost incoherent.
Wow ... that's the best way I've seen of making Tetris truly multi-player. It's not just competing against each other but actually requires changing strategies. Bonus points for the fact that the board is almost Escher-esque (http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/switz-bmp/LW306.jpg)
Happens all the time, movie studios typically have a team dedicated to product placement. They go through the script and mark any points where they could use a specific product and then sell that as an ad slot.

Mobile phones used in films are a very common example where companies like Nokia pay to have one of their phones used, and recently Bing have been doing it a lot.
Just watch out for the latest (1.3.3) Windows release - it (or one of the bundled dependencies) seems very broken and I had to revert to the previous version to make things work again.
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A linkbait headline that makes the writer seem like the one that is stupid.

If anything he seems to be saying that old known mistakes don't get fixed as we don't learn from the past. This is not evolution but it is an example of the widescale misunderstanding of that word that seems to be common in some parts of the world, it is in fact the exact opposite.
Definitely a cool idea. The best way to fly from Manila to China is on Cebu Pacific. No flight search in the world will tell you that, because Cebu Pacific is a local budget carrier and just advertises locally.
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This is an excellent point. For some reason, this pre-release has everyone all excited. There hasn't been this much buzz in the tech circles over a Microsoft product in probably over a decade. Uber's comment below makes me wonder what everyone else is seeing that I'm missing.
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I voted for it because I know Peteris and I like the book (I got a preview copy though ;)

EDIT: I mean I had already read the book before he posted it.
An interesting take on the subject by pg:

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

"That was a surprising realization. Companies often claim to be benevolent, but it was surprising to realize there were purely benevolent projects that had to be embodied as companies to work."
> XFS has absolutely terrible performance for lots of use cases (deletions, for instance).

Depends /heavily/ on hardware. XFS evolved on high-end machines, and performs awesomely when you have:

* EITHER large write cache (write cache size >> journal size), think `decent RAID controller',

* OR at least put the journal is on a separate harddrive -- which is very real on average workstation.

Been there, done that, the difference is astonishing.

It boils down to specific media access patterns: XFS uses mixed physical/logical journaling; some operations cause a lot of `physical' (i.e., low-level) representation of directory and file metadata to be written to the journal.

Having harddrive's heads fly back-and-forth between different areas (journal vs. metadata) is a sure recipe for abysmal performance. On the other hand, if you have large write cache to handle journal, or at least employ separate harddrive head to serve journal, directory and file metadata has pretty good locality (thanks to very smart allocator) and the other head doesn't have to move too much.

EDIT:

it's worth noting XFS handles large (multi-gigabyte) files very well, as compared to other filesystems. Both r/w access and creation/removal is fast, on any hardware. This is XFS's original and primary use case: handling large multimedia and scientific datasets.

Want to keep countless virtual machine images? XFS is the way to go, especially thanks to smart allocator which lessens fragmentation as compared to competing filesystems.

tl;dr: XFS is optimized for handling large files. With the right setup -- possible on mid-end hardware -- it also handles numerous small files (say, linux-kernel-size projects) very well.
It would be awesome if you could also somehow download a VM that you could run that would match the environment and then replay the coding session, pausing it to poke around when needed.
It determined that I was in Ireland, presented a list of irish airports and will only let me choose them as source and destination. What if i want to fly to or from another country, which in such a small country is far more likely?
That sounds like someone is having a massive laugh at everyone's expense.
It's frustrating that we can't use the product yet, but I'm sure that people's reaction here will go a long way in helping them gauge interest.
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Yes, this is exactly how I start my search for travel flight - get to know what airlines are flying from one city to another.. this tool would simplify such search a lot! Go for it, make it cool! :)
An interesting point of reflection this poses to developers is 'am I doing something that other people would care to watch?'.

I like the motivational factors a site like this poses, challenges you to become an expert at something, and when you are coding live, forces you to stay focused on the task at hand. Looking forward to the launch.
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That was expected, due to Nosilverbullet's law...
From what I have seen of it, I really like Vala. It is a high-level C-like language that feels somewhat similar to C#, but compiles to plain C and uses the same ABI.

Of course, some people will dislike the fact that it is tightly coupled to GObject.

You could also make a C DSL in Haskell if you have time ;):

http://trac.sivity.net/language_c/

Or use an existing one:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/copilot
Problem with that is that it would lead to a SEO battle of "pay to remove your viruses from your rams and boost your registries" sites.
We all can agree that increased liquidity is good for everyone, mom and pop, traders, investors, America, etc., Of course one can argue whether we really need sub 100ms liquidity but that is not the biggest problem.

The biggest problem with HFT provided liquidity is that it is far from a sure thing as the Flash crash proved. The liquidity dried up so fast, because most players algorithms "said" the situation was too unpredictable so the easiest thing to do was to close up shop temporarily.

In older days, market makers on the floor were allowed to make the money from the spread with the understanding that if the things got rough they would HAVE TO stay in the game. Some got rich, some died broke, some jumped out of windows, but overall the game continued.

Increasingly, the role of a market maker has been delegated to HFT firms, but without any obligations placed on them.

Who is to blame for such state of affairs is a question someone else can answer better than me.