skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only an apple fanboy can side with an opinion based on the color scheme and visual appearance of the site. :)
My wife, sister, dad and aunt have Crohn's. This will be great for them. My wife when she was first diagnosed at 19 was desperate to find information online about the disease. In fact, we were setup on a blind date and these posts are what I first found during my requisite Google :)

My aunt is dying of complications related to the disease while my dad, wife and sister have it under control.

I'll be sending it to all of them.
Hiromi Shinya, the inventor of colonoscopy, has had success with Crohn's patients throughout his career:

http://www.amazon.com/Enzyme-Factor-Hiromi-Shinya-MD/dp/0982...

His advice consists mainly of radical dietary changes and drinking Kangen water. FWIW.
According to sites like Arstechnica who have got to use the build for a while it has plenty of lock ups and hard crashes. Many features you saw demoed in the keynote are also not ready for release so they are not in the preview build either.

The point is, it's far being shippable, and if you can't ship it, it's not "real".
Given that the op mentioned that he was an Android developer, it's worth noting that the Android SDK possibly has the very worst testing environment of any widely used system on the planet ever* .

* possibly an exaggeration, but it's definitely very very bad.
The blue icon means you're an admin of the board (or organization). The green/yellow/grey icon means you're online/idle/offline.
Thanks for the response. I see where you're going from. I only brought it up because my development organization would fail that part of the Joel Test, where many totally dysfunctional organizations I have worked with would pass. Doesn't pass my initial smell test.

It's easy to see someone jumping in and writing and re-writing code when they haven't thought it through as wasteful. People have a harder time seeing that writing and re-writing specs can be similarly wasteful.
Oh the irony. I click on this article on my iPad, and the article immediately talks about how this content is only visible with Flash.
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Well, I didn't mean to be harsh and didn't really intend to direct that to you specifically. I meant more that I don't personally prefer options which support causes, because it always brings to mind that it's just a marketing trick and not something based on goodwill. Nothing wrong with your product; it's a very sound idea.
They are the same as in yes, it's the same idea - a gantt chart but Hipmunk's way better looking and more interactive.

When I say clone, I don't mean to imply they simply copied it with no originality - I'm just pointing out this fact to all the people who claim Hipmunk's advantage is their gantt view..which ITA already has a versin of and can be improved to match or be better than Hipmunk's.
Crazy. I understand your annoyance but I did LOL @ the hypervigilant Flickr staff/robot.

Nice shoe blog though!
Two comments:

(1) Notch is NOT doing TDD (he doesn't have a test suite, he play tests as he goes)

(2) He is not using anything like as esoteric as Java code hotswapping, he's simply using the compile-on-save option in Eclipse (Netbeans does this also). A rebuild in Java is very fast so iterating is easy.
Still up, 1 hour and counting...

Someone is going to get fired over this.
to paraphrase a certain Google executive "if you don't want somebody to know where you parked, maybe you shouldn't be parking your car"
I have an account and try it every once in a while.
It has a nice interface and I could really see myself using it.
My current problems:

- It doesn't support symbolic links but requires you to put all the directories inside the special "AeroFS" directory

- There is only an option to add a 1 GB "cloud" storage. While it is not the primary use case, I'd love to be able to buy some more

- Last time I checked there was no way to install aerofs on a headless linux system (e.g. a NAS device with a JVM)
That's a mischaracterization of the statement you're responding to. Gruber and Thurott's sites are actually a neat microcosm of some trends that they also come down on opposite sides of. Gruber delivers content as a product to an audience. Thurott is delivering an audience, as a product, to advertisers.
I have notified ParkAssist (Australia); appropriate contact details were found via the API:

http://120.151.59.193/v2/email-alerts
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At the unfortunate risk of sounding like Frank Luntz, if opponents successfully characterize net neutrality as: "regulating the Internet" -- it is feasible that we will see growing public opposition to these rules. OTOH, if supporters of net neutrality can frame the issue as something closer to: "internet freedom" -- it is equally feasible that we will see public support grow.

As seen in the propaganda campaign by AT&T during the T-Mobile acquisition, the corporate hand is very generous when it comes influencing legislation. Hopefully "internet freedom" will, one day, not be an issue; however, the current carrier monopolies have successfully created a regulatory climate that makes true competition an impossibility. Until real competition prevails, rules that require "internet freedom" are essential for giving entrepreneurs and small businesses a fighting chance.

</rant>
You also forgot the preceding six paragraphs of snide comments and bloviated opinion beating.
To answer your questions

- Microsoft have not yet revealed what SKUs they will ship for Win8, but they have said the home screen on all versions will be this Metro interface

- Clearly it will be marketed to them.

- In the home screen, there is a desktop tile. Select this and you get the Windows desktop as you'd expect where everything will run normally. It does not switch you to a VM or anything like that.
And that coming from an apple fanboy loke Gruber means a lot to the new Metro design language.
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If you can't customize columns, you've already lost :) But I really like the way you explicitly mention Kanban and Scrum, which Trello doesn't mention at all.
that's not any different from when Apple released developer previews of Lion and iOS5. Are we seriously arguing over the 'finished' state of a developer build? Really?
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This is the most depressing thing I've ever read. Life requires balance.
How is it I've heard of all kinds of largely non-existent (today) diseases like Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scrofula, Gout, etc, but as soon as I got on the internet, everyone seems to have Crohn's, which I had never heard of pre-internet?
It is poor, to say the least. Good point.
You are right. When you buy a phone by the processor speed or the memory it has but if you look at the end product the phone is as impressive as any other out there. Particularly with the new mango update that is rumoured to release soon.
Dr Michio Kaku: "There would be no Silicon Valley without the H1B"
yeah. any ideas on how to measure this?
My comment was only on the matter of taste that the parent brought up. Take a look at Gruber's rates, he's raking in the advertising money, yet in a neatly packaged way.
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I don't know what smugness you see in Apple regarding this because they haven't said anything about it.

Regarding both Thurrott and Gruber, they both acted like fanboys today. There's nothing wrong with preferring a platform but it was more than a little thick. Thurrott was going back and forth with Apple fans in his tweets and Gruber made a post earlier calling the Samsung tablet an iPad 3 prototype while ragging on the fact it had a fan. Other Apple bloggers picked up on it and ran with it the whole day as a talking point.

I prefer to wait and see what happens. There isn't any need for hasty judgements either way. No one knows what the final product will be like when it's actually released. The touch-centric part was amazing but there are questions of price (at least with Intel models with SSD's), weight, battery life and how well it performs under ARM processors. There are also questions of whether consumers will be interested in it.
When I read the name Upverter, I read it like:

U-pervert-er
Wow, this is seriously great. The one thing that stood out to me (from the blog post) was the wall of 42" Plasmas in the office just for displaying Trello. While obviously not everyone can afford a wall of TVs it really would be nice to have a way that everyone could always see who should be working on / is responsible for what.

I imagine a board for "existing modules / features" That has the current "responsible" person for that item.. and a "new feature" board that has an easy way for people to see who is currently implementing said new feature. Though that would overlap somewhat with fogbugz (search for the task and see who it is assigned to) the board would have the advantage of being more high level and still being easily visible after a task is complete.

Joel (or FogCreek persons), I'm using fogbugz / kiln at home and for my side projects is there some plan to provide integration with those existing projects? Magically linking based on case numbers? Updatet he responsible person on a card based on who is currently assigned some case number?
I think you're overstating the value of a pie chart's to ability to communicate that the parts make up a whole.

I agree with the OP and Tufte: something else is nearly always better than a pie.

Not too fan boy Apple too much but it is one of the few that uses pie charts effectively. But it is normally with only 2 or 3 pieces and usually to reinforce the difference in share.
He can't. But I can guarantee this: an employer can't force you to work more than you're willing to work. They can try but you're not their slave.

Employment is a two-way street.

If the employer isn't happy with your work, for whatever reason, they can fire you.

If you're not happy with your employer, for whatever reason, you can quit.

If an employer is making unreasonable demands on your time, you quit. And to be clear: there is no universal of what's reasonable, so I'm talking about your personal standard.

Employment is a risk for both parties. You risk that the job will be boring, or demanding more time than you're willing to give but you're not the only one taking the risk. Employer risks that you'll be unable to do the work or slack off etc.
I tried this once a year or so ago, but for whatever reason it wasn't able to get through my corporate firewall, while Dropbox was. I am curious if that has been resolved?
Not to defend Gruber here (since for some reason he is unpopular on HN), but I think that he does understand what you claim he doesn't.

The point of his polemic is not that Microsoft is fundamentally different than Apple in approach and execution. Anyone can see that plain as day. It's not obfuscated in the least.

The question is: which approach is right? Removing for a minute the preconceptions of "that's just how they are," which produces better products?

I don't think its cut and dry really. Apple currently has some MS type approaches with iOS because of their third party dependencies on software, and Microsoft has Apple approaches (i.e., XBox) because of their lack of such.
From what I understand fuel contract hedging is a pretty standard part of airline business. Obviously hedging has potential to go the other way but it's unlikely to erode profit unless competitors are able to significantly compete on price and steal customers...
Co-founder of AeroFS here :-)

1. Symbolic link support is currently planned, I'd go to http://ae.ro/qc9Ey5 and upvote it. It'll allow us to notify you when it's done.

2. Bigger plans are in the works, stay tuned!

3. Headless support has been actually available for a while for most linux distributions, check out the "aerofs-cli" and "aerofs-sh" commands.
Mmm, very good point. Perhaps (as you suggest) the bonus structure isn't intended as an incentive to work harder/better.

But it does seem like a poor method to retain people... I feel like my bonus growing over time wouldn't be much of a motivator to stay if the work wasn't keeping me super interested, and my base salary wasn't growing enough to remain competitive. Maybe that's just a bias of mine, though, not to consider the bonus as a top criterion? Dunno.
Thank you so much. I'm sorry to hear about how pervasively this disease has affected your family. But I'm glad to be working to produce something that may help. Email me at beta@crohnology.com, and I'd love to have them a part.
How is this going to be monetised? I want to use it but just want to make sure we don't get too excited/committed if it's going to cost a lot of money!
No, what is being discussed is using a developer build of a very alpha-state software as a comparison point against something released that has tens of millions of devices in the market.
Windows 8: a 21st century Windows Me?
"So before you go running off screaming about how the welfare state is subsidizing sexy times for retirees, chill out and keep that in mind."

As subsidies go, this one seems pretty obviously positive...
I know, but the parent was talking about something specific (regardless of the likelihood of it happening): Zagat getting integrated into the Local team.
so ironic - i am literally in the hospital right now in chicago for a real bad uc flare up...
People don't talk about it. I have two friends with it, and I knew both of them for years before they told me.
Windows Phone still uses it. But yes I agree HTML5 has a brighter future.
Not to intentionally play the middle but I can see both sides of this. Lion can be considered a finished product but it feels like the OS is in the beginning of a metamorphosis and it may be vastly different 5-10 years from now.
So there's a camera at every spot? Seems like overkill when a simple sensor (IR/magnetic) would have gotten pretty much the same information. Instead of letting a camera guess your tag, just number each spot and send the number of the spot to the phone once you park.
If I were a betting man I'd bet on WPF being dead and Silvelight being retained for Apps.
>asking your colleagues to log in to irc client everyday

So I'll ask them to keep gmail open all the time instead? If only there were a single program that was unquestionably open all the time when they were using their computers that housed other programs. One that, like you do with gmail, could be set up to start a chat client when started. Oh well, I can always dream.
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Are there not hedge funds that attempt to use algorithms to spot longer term (ie. days, weeks, months) market trends and then buy and sell on that information? I think it's pretty crazy to say that humans will always make the decisions, computer can process more information faster then any human can. At some point computer programs will be able to make more accurate market predictions then humans, and at that point the "robots" really will be in control.
We've done a lot of fixes since then that should hopefully address this issue.

Let's try again and let me know :) Shoot me an email (yuri at aerofs.com) and we can see!
Thanks! Well customising columns is the obvious next step and is on the top of the list, so that won't be far away.

To be fair they also have comments and todo lists per card, like Pivotal, so Wallboardr is a bit behind at the moment. I've been wondering how essential sub-card todo lists are for a while, I've found myself wanting them, but MVP ideals have avoided so far.

But we have a stacked burnup chart! :-P
This is great! As a sufferer of bowel problems for many years, I developed PoopLog for Android to track my bowel habits using the Bristol Stool Scale [1]. Software like ours really do help everyday people, and the daily emails I receive from my users make everything worth it. Good luck!

For the curious, my next update is a rather large one including many more logging options, charts, and trends.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bristol_Stool...

edit.. link to my app: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.kefsco.pooplog2
I'm starting to use the service now and it immediately occurs to me that an excellent feature would be the ability to forward an email and have it create a board / card for me a la fogbugz.
First thing in the series of blog articles: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/the-art-of-nomo...
I think games are hard (if not impossible) to test with unit tests or codified tests like the ones you mentioned.

At the company I work for we rely mostly on manual testing for testing the games and applications we make. We do some automated testing in the form of Tinytask tasks that are left on overnight to hammer an application. In terms of release testing, especially with a custom game engine, there's no easy way to codify a test which actually plays through a game where there is some random mechanic, or checks for things like the visual accuracy, windows flashing up on the screen when they're not supposed to, etc.

Web development frameworks like Selenium are great for UI testing, but they require identifying interface elements by their IDs, or performing a 100% image recognition match for targeting. If anyone knows of a good UI testing framework that would work for games/DirectX apps, I'd definitely love to hear about it.

I'm not bagging automated testing, I think it's a great way to save time and avoid the boring bits. I just don't think it's very relevant to game design, but for the OP's enterprise app job it would definitely be suitable.
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I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis 4 years ago, and over that time I have basically stumbled across other people who have either colitis or crohns (they're similar diseases), so it's nice to see that Chronology is for sufferer's of either disease.

What I was going to say was - it's difficult to find other sufferers because people tend to shy away from talking about it - it's only when you mention the disease first that others seem to be willing to admit that they also have it. Comments I've received in the past have been "I can't believe you're so open about it" etc

I'll talk to anyone about it, because you never know when someone elses point of view will give you some new piece of information you didn't have (ala Alan Kay's "point of view is worth 80 iq points" quote)
> I have heard stories of course but only have first hand knowledge of one person with whom Google decided to fire because they did some open source work they didn't like.

Wow. That's quite a statement, I'm pretty sure there would be quite a few people that would like to see a bit more on that. Both from the perspective of having google as a future employer as well as to make sure you didn't make it up, it's quite a statement.
Hopefully they are working with ASUS to build something like the Transformer, but running Windows 8 and with an x86 chip. Because that is absolutely 100% what I want.

I love my current Asus Transformer -- the convertible notebook/tablet form factor is the perfect system for doing the stuff tablets are good at while also being usable for doing actual writing and content-creation type tasks. The missing piece in the current Transformer is productivity software, like real IDEs. Windows 8 + x86 fixes that. I've been an Android fanboy for the past couple of years, but the promise of really melding mobile with desktop has me super jazzed for Windows 8 and I really hope Microsoft pulls it off.
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Gruber gives the example of how the iPads that were available to the press at the Apple event were indistinguishable from the iPads later sold at retail. Microsoft says up front, very clearly, that the hardware they're giving away is a "reference implemenation," which means that it's unlikely to ever show up at retail in its current form, and that the software is a "developer preview," likewise.

So - no, that's not the way Apple would do it, and while it's certainly a Good Thing for developers, it's not unreasonable to argue that compared to the pre-release iPads, the developer-preview Win8 tablets and software are not 'real.' Many, many things about both the hardware and the software can be expected to change. They're still being formed, and it'd be very premature to make predictions about the final user-facing experience at this point.
I'm missing the back story here, I'm watching it and it's quite interesting but I don't quite understand the context? Can someone fill me in?
Thank you! It's nice to see how you structured and commented all sections.. really helpful.
Think about LinkedIn vs. Bootcamp.

LinkedIn, a lot of the value comes from there already being lots of other users when you sign up. Further, a lot of their revenue model is based on selling user attention to advertisers and recruiters. Having users is more important than charging the individual user, although it's still nice when you can convince them to pay up.

Bootcamp, it doesn't matter for crap to the individual user if others are also using it beyond social proof to justify trying it.
Thank you very much for your answers. They are very informative.

> The intergalactic space is mostly filled with protons that would be detectably annihilated if they came in contact with an antimatter galaxy.

Are we sure of that? Namely are we sure that it is not equal mixture of protons and antiprotons? If that was the case matter galaxies and antimatter galaxies would look equally "hot" in gamma spectrum.

When we look at the spectrum of radiation of galaxies is it all explained just like spectrum of a star can be fully explained by laws of physics?

> This is not the case, as the CMB is uniformly chaotic and mirrors the likely structure of the observable universe in its infancy. There are no such pocket boundaries visible in the cosmic background radiation.

What if matter and antimatter were well mixed at the time that CMB comes from?

I pretty convinced about your argument that we should be observing sometimes that a collision between galaxies is bit "hotter" in gamma spectrum but how often would that occur would depends on how well matter and antimatter in the universe are separated. If the separations originated at the time that CMB comes from it might be pretty good and not apparent as a few easy to observe well defined pockets and gaps. They also might be increasingly separated as universe expands.
Perhaps for the still-common case of flying to an airport where Southwest doesn't go? Southwest gets to be cheap in significant part by only flying routes with enough demand to fill a 737.

And on rare occasions another airline does beat Southwest's price. Sometimes I see flights in and out of JFK turn up cheaper on Delta.
"hide until this date" (preferably parsing description for a date, not a separate entry step) would be nice.
You could make a local shell script or Makefile that pulls together those commands and then pushes to github. No need for a central server.
U.S. only.
Congratulations on the launch Sean! I hope more folks from the HN and Startup communities will think about getting involved in healthcare. It's 20% of the economy right now, and there's so much opportunity for innovation.
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I expect a Westfield developer thought they were being very clever. "Oh look, ParkAssist already has a full API! I'll just put it on a public API and I don't have to do any backend development at all."
I have a younger brother with Crohn's, and just wanted to say major props on you for building something so useful. It's easy to get caught up in the typical glam/tabloid-esque nature of the industry that's largely here on HN, so going against the grain like this really deserves respect points IMO.
Yes, Google wants to make more money. No question about it. But why are you so eager to reject any other possible motivation just because profit-making is involved? There is satisfaction in making the world a better place; why wouldn't Sergey & Larry want to get that satisfaction?
And now all we need is APIs to do syncing to existing To do solutions, like Toodledo, Remember the Milk, Todoist, etc.