skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh please be true! Won't it be great if a CEO didn't make a fortune leaving a company worse off than when they found it?
Obligatory link to git-tfs: https://github.com/spraints/git-tfs
Is the Google-Motorola deal helping Microsoft?
Things take longer but break harder and faster than anticipated
Well, I guess it just goes to show that everyone gets something else out of reading a book and categorizing them using sweeping generalizations isn't a good idea :)
If you find yourself coming up with a NASA-style solution, that's a pretty good indicator something is going horribly wrong. NASA-style architectures are non-modular, highly complex, non-reusable, bureaucratic, inefficient, difficult to test, high maintenance, and high risk solutions.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing that. I always assumed that before modern medicine identified cancer, people thought that they were dying of other diseases & what not when in reality they had cancer. Is there any way that scientists can figure out if people from centuries ago died from cancer (excluding bone cancer)?
I think you're ignoring the big investment banks, which also had many (most?) of these loans. I don't see how Fannie and Freddie factor into for, say, Lehman Brothers, which collapsed because they backed so many MBSs that were becoming losses.
Ask HN: Best examples of software welcome screens?
I had a look on Google, and couldn't find much. The welcome screen is for when you first load the software and it shows you latest news/info etc.

We don't want it to be a bloated and full of junk, but concise and clear. We like Thunderbirds welcome screen (although we are not going to do an HTML one) and also VS 2010 welcome screen

Anyone got any examples of really good welcome screens? And any advice/tips/resources for designing them? It's a really important entry point so we want to get it spot on.
But my paycheck comes from NASA...
I don't want 1-bit binaries. In fact, I want acknowledgement of the n-dimensional n-bit nature of the phenomena we call human beings. IQ and race both are trying to fit classifications that properly involve kilobytes if not megabytes of data into convenient oversimplifications that comfortably sit in a single byte.
There's a bug, if you write a title too long (please put a character limit on the text field!) and then enter text in the message body too long, <p> tags appear. When you fix the title length these are inserted as text.
I work in an Australian retailer. The markup is huge. We sell $40 HDMI cables that we get for $5. We also sell $99 cables.

Quite often, we make more money from people buying a $40 cable than we do from people buying a $2000 iMac.
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It seems to have an annoying habit of preserving the index of the last partial match, even if you cancel it. So when you realise you were searching for the wrong substring, cancel and start over, it won't find it because you've now gone past it in the history list.

I'm still not sure of a decent solution to it (apart from using C-s to search history forward instead)
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Complexity is the enemy
The billions of dollars of investment is nothing compared to the positive effect that this will have on our society.

You missed the point entirely. Billions of dollars in research, even if successful, will have no positive effect whatsoever if they don't lead to a commercially viable means of generating power. It's not enough to get to break even. The end result has to be cheaper than the alternatives.

I'm not a big solar power fan, in general, because I think it's too expensive. But if we're going to pretend cost doesn't mean anything, we'd be far better off taking those billions and building out a solar infrastructure with technology we have today rather than taking a dodgy gamble on something that a) may never work at all and b) probably won't be cheaper than solar if it does work.
I think the lesson is here it's all fine and dandy until someone does sue you. Then it's a different story.
Didn't know about that one, thanks!
I hit the Enter key.
Thanks for the link. I ripped the raw URLs of the MP3 files, in case anyone else wants to take these on-the-go or whatnot (not sure if this violates their TOS or not):

1. http://thumbnails.cbc.ca/maven_legacy/thumbnails/Ideas_04261...
2. http://thumbnails.cbc.ca/maven_legacy/thumbnails/modern-publ...
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If they say yes tell them that monster cables are a scam, but you know about the REAL good stuff. Them sell them an ordinary hdmi or ethernet cable at a 10,000% markup.
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There's a difference between PG's submarine articles and the PR person literally writing the article.
If I can achieve FU money by solving a LEGO problem rather than a NASA problem, then I'll do it. There will always be NASA problems to solve later. Solve the money problem first.
Here are a few "tetris c" google results:

http://gametuto.com/tetris-tutorial-in-c-render-independent/

http://code.google.com/p/simple-tetris-clone/
Isn't that just Google forms? You submit the form and then it pushes it into a spreadsheet.
I've been told by PR people that 80% of the content in a newspaper or a magazine is written by PR agencies.

Then again, PR people have a strong commercial interest in making it appear so that only stories pitched by PR people get published.

My (few) experiences in getting stories through have been to the contrary, usually just journalists picking up something I blogged. An exotic example: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/on_usb_fingers_and_world_news/
Range time; tactical training. Also disaster prep for you and your dependents. (ie come to the office after the bay area earthquake....)
Wow, I was going to ask for a link to the reddit article before realizing that the subreddit was simply heavily themed. I had no idea these settings were flexible and I'm very thankful. Thanks for the cross post and for introducing me to another nice subreddit.
> NASA-style architectures are non-modular, highly complex, non-reusable, bureaucratic, inefficient, difficult to test, high maintenance, and high risk solutions.

Source?
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You have to turn it on. When online and in Docs, click on the gear thingy in the top-right. There should have been an intro/help pop-up when you logged in after they rolled out the feature, did for me.
In his defense, the first time I really understood Sequences after reading The Joy of Clojure, I thought it was awesome too.

Now here's where I really blow your brain: a Sequence is some stuff, in a particular order. What about the keyUp event? If I were to listen to that event, it might give me ['T','e','s','t'].

That too, is some stuff, in order. This means, that Events are Sequences. Which means, that all the cool stuff that can be done to Sequences, can be done to an Event too, which is exactly what the Reactive Extensions for JS from Microsoft does (disclaimer: I'm writing a book on this).

Haskell of course has this too, it's called the Continuation Monad.
...and the interns get to say "I've written for New York Times" the next time they interview for a job. Everybody wins, as The Economist argued: http://www.economist.com/node/21528449
Ask HN: Is anyone interested in hosted CI (Jenkins) for iOS / Mac?
I'm currently building a service, as it something I myself need.
However I would like to know opinion of other iOS/OS X developers.

I'd like to know what you think on pricing plans, etc. Any feedback is welcome.

Website in development: http://hosted-ci.com/

Thanks in advance!

Vladimir
Yeah I had a similar feeling with Zen Cart recently, my mind was blown by just how many files were included in each page and the complex paths through which it happened, also the very high complexity search queries which perform terribly.

I think the issue is this software is more designed with allowing non programmers to get most of the way to a functioning website in mind rather than programmers. To someone with limited knowledge of what's under the hood they probably love the choice they get with modules and configurations abstracted away from the code.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRiTpCji0I
For my Epic 4g I was able to buy 2 batteries and a charger for less than $8 on Amazon. The charger even has a USB port on the bottom so you can charge an external battery and your phone at the same time. I find it not too inconvenient to just keep a couple backup batteries around at all times.
Would anyone actually trust facebook enough to let them run your email? I wouldn't.
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How about no welcome screen?
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TBH, I have zero interest in this site to begin with, but assuming it was covering topics I cared about, I would "thirded" this.

For a site like this that claims to not be about sponsorships/ads and is mostly just plain text... not having an RSS feed is either lazy, stupid or both.
They would treat it as a trade of goods, and tax it the way those are handled. For instance, suppose I trade a cow for your tractor. It would be taxed by treating it as two transactions: I sell my cow to you for cash, and then you sell your tractor to me for cash.

There are exceptions when what we are trading are "like kind" goods. For example, if we were both farmers growing the same kind of crop, and we swapped some land to make the shape of both of our farms more convenient that would be a like kind exchange and would not be taxed.
If you consider this UX design, you might as well use QR codes to represent actionable items on a website.

I saw the word "Simple" yet it was far from it.
Fun idea: produce similar autogenerated narratives on commit activity of various open source projects

Bergie had a strong start on the office day, closing four bugs in row. Then luck turned and he broke the build...
And yet, it seems to be some sort of meme in the enterprise world to have these sorts of things in every single email:

"Please note - This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential or privileged information which is protected by legislation, copyright & the code of practice covering personal information. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the originator. Any disclosure, copying, alteration, distribution, publication or the taking of action in reliance on the contents may be an offence."

as a random example. Bonus points for using it it in a footer, where almost by definition, you've read the email before seeing it.

I'm sure there's some legal justification for doing so, but it still strikes me as pretty stupid.
I'm not trying to be rude, so don't take this the wrong way, but what is the point of this? What problem/desire does it address? I'm just not understanding.
What's wrong with gauging interest? If people are genuinely interested in what you are proposing (whether it is built or not), they are genuinely interested. They will remain genuinely interested when you are eventually done with the product and ready to launch.

If you are solving someone's problem, they will be happy regardless of your development state.
The Unexpected, or the Expected that no one wants to expect?
I doubt it, but stranger things have happened.

In their acquisition plans, AT&T has announced that T-Mobile's 3G frequencies are going away:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9M3LNPO0

It seems silly to produce a 3G smartphone for the T-Mobile frequencies in this case.
Just like the Smart Engineer:
http://xkcd.com/670/
But in a study comparing disease rates among ethnic groups, African-Americans and Caucasians are treated as disjoint sets.

Are you saying this isn't the case? I'm very curious, as I've heard before that certain diseases have a higher chance of occurring among different races (e.g. blacks are considered more at risk for gout, I think). Is that incorrect?

If I took thousands of people who self-identified as white, and thousands who self-identified as black and I looked at the occurrence of gout in those populations: what would I see?

My understanding is I'd see more gout in the black population. If so, wouldn't that somehow counter your statement that "in a genetic context, most African-Americans are just as much white as black"? Or perhaps, while most African-Americans are like that, some are in fact genetically more "black" in some sense, and they are the ones at a higher risk of gout? I don't really understand.
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Personal opinion (so one anecdote, take with a grain of salt), but I hate welcome screens. Developers should really avoid wasting any time on features that people could actually despise.

Applications are tools; they should launch as quickly as they possibly can and with minimal fuss. They should not presume to guess what the user might want to do, otherwise they turn into Microsoft's "Clippy".

If I launch a program I have a purpose in mind, and I know how that task is usually accomplished, e.g. in my mind I am thinking that the first thing I'll do after launch is to open some menu command. Absolutely anything that gets in the way of my "plan" feels like an unwelcome distraction.
Well, you were right in your math -- I made my previous comment before going back and checking the actual numbers, which was really stupid on my part. From the "Congratulations!" email I sent the client:

> ...sustained 100+ requests per second for the last couple of hours; peaks of over 40Mbits of traffic; thousands of simultaneous connections.

So, 1/8th of what you were calculating. Sorry about that.

I use mpm-worker and have keepalives turned off altogether. I also use suexec and fcgid (not fastcgi, unfortunately). I was using mem_cache at the time, but that's off now because it breaks the newest version of Wordpress.

Also, I should have mentioned that this was a static site, so PHP wasn't a factor.

If anybody's still interested in the server config, I'll be happy to share it.
This is not so easy if you write code targeting browsers :(
I think HN is not a good place for this question, then. Good luck.
This sort of mosaic-y, rigidly geometric style would only fit in with certain website designs, and the colors in the examples are all extremely saturated. I think having to sort through these would be really exhausting on the eyes.

Also, it reminds me of the geometric defaults Gravatar resorts to if someone hasn't uploaded a photograph. (http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/98287fc0f05ebed1c2aae6bc2d236...) (http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3fbdc6a307d10a1725a54b2b391b5...).

I hate to say it, but it's a common rule of thumb in graphic design that people like to see other people. Faces. That's what user icons tend to be, because it's what works.
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Daringfireball was lovable when Apple was the underdog, but now it's just annoying. If you want to use the old daring fireball as inspiration, you should find a more interesting subject that you're in love with that nobody else is. Then once they make it big, you can sit back and gloat like Gruber does now.
For anyone who wasn't paying attention, according to Brendan's slides for TXJS[1][2], TC39 approved iterators and generators for ES, so soon all modern browsers will support them. (Spidermonkey has quietly supported them since Firefox 3—that is, summer 2008.)

1. http://brendaneich.com/2011/08/my-txjs-talk-twitter-remix/

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982256
Yeah, no clue where those numbers come from. The better estimate would be about 8 years and on the order of 20 manned missions.
A deflated Yuan allows you to buy more Chinese goods for the same USD[1]. Regarding the second half of your question, you must look at the supply of the currency versus the demand for that currency. It's common for governments to intervene in foreign exchange markets as a means to an end. This makes it a difficult market to invest in, as artificial forces can move the market. Just because there might be a fundamental economic reason for the Yen to appreciate, that doesn't mean the Japanese (or some other) government won't intervene in order to improve their trade balance.

The mechanism that the Chinese government uses to keep the Yuan pegged to the USD, is the purchase of U.S. treasuries[2].

Here is some additional info:

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/65773.pdf

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/03/on-chinas-currency-pe...

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_exchange_rate_system#Mech...

[2] http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/js...
Question: is it possible to clean it up and wipe out every single piece of Samsung software and have it run a clean, stock Android? The sole fact that this review has a dedicated "Software" section scares me.
Hope this doesn't seem like threadjacking, but your README looked like a fun exercise, so I decided to avoid looking at the code and re-implement in Coffeescript. I wound up memoizing while I was at it.

https://github.com/MichaelBlume/coffeestream
> btw: the kindle, with passive E-ink, has 2 months battery (i.e. over x100 longer)

And my TI-84 has had the same batteries for at least two years (it's getting to the point that I'm starting to wonder when they're going to run out, since I know that it will be the worst possible time). It doesn't matter, it's an irrelevant comparison, unless you're saying that something more similar to the kindle would be better for developing regions where solar power is a major selling point (which is a really good thing to point out - why does a solar powered netbook need a 250GB HDD? Why not a small SSD, if that would save power?).
Mazery: a map generation visualizer (HTML5 canvas + CoffeeScript)
Google is working on a web-based IDE named Brightly for building JavaScript and Dart apps.

source: http://geddesign.com/post/10097230191/google-dart
Also see the paper "A Concurrent Window System" by Pike (89) which talks about representing keyboard and mouse events as items on a non-finite potentially-blocking channel. And Newsqueak almost certainly isn't the first.
Just change that one line "He was right. I got the job, they paid, things went well, nobody got sued." to "He was wrong. I got the job, they didn't pay, things went horribly wrong, everybody go sued".
I initially read this as "Team Fortress is ruining your development capacity." and I agree. I play too many games.
I'm with you on this, and I'm currently working on an actual NASA project.
There are a couple of possible points in this article. One is bemoaning the quality of the problems (not the solution) attacked by startups. Is the startup curing cancer? Or enabling a more advanced form of ironic hipsterism? Of course curing cancer is more important. That doesn't mean Lolcats fails to make the world a better place.

Another is that people in startups are delusional in thinking they are solving difficult problems. Maybe, but they are taking risks and it seems innocuous and may be even helpful to be slightly delusional on that point.

Finally the metaphor of a moon mission is telling. Landing on the moon, was hard, but it didn't create a sustainable business around space flight. In fact by some measures space flight went backward for some time. In the 90's I was at Draper Laboratories and remember a literal rocket scientist saying it would take more than 10 years to put a man on the moon again. (He was saying this while complaining about milspec components.)
Any front end coders here using HTML5 over using HTML?

What are the advantages of using <article> , <section> and <footer> vs. <div id="footer>, per example?
I agree a new infrastructure is needed, and a clean slate might not be such a bad idea, especially if it would handle some of the infrastructure-related security and spanning issues for programmers. Such an infrastructure could make it practical to start from a clean slate especially if it could allow us to unravel and discard much of the tangle of complexities that make web programing so much different from native programming. We need to focus on how we use the internet and what we need from it and then revise the current web achitecture to see what's really needed, what's fluff, and what just plain idiocy. Right now, I think we'd find too much fluff and idiocy and not much of what's really needed. This could pave the way for a simplified and more unified architecture that could do what we want and could make it easier to deliver applications across the web. Simplifying that delivery would make it possible to simplify web programming, making it more intuitive and less burdened by security considerations. An altogether different infrastructure would spark new innovations in programming (as others in HN have posted that such innovation has ‘stalled’).
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This reminded me a lot of PG's "How To Make Wealth" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html ) essay. Graham wrote: "Making wealth is not the only way to get rich. For most of human history it has not even been the most common. Until a few centuries ago, the main sources of wealth were mines, slaves and serfs, land, and cattle, and the only ways to acquire these rapidly were by inheritance, marriage, conquest, or confiscation. Naturally wealth had a bad reputation."

Friedman has something of a grasp of that part, but he's a tremendous cretin, and doesn't get the very important point that acquiring wealth fast by the deeply problematic routes above, is far easier than making wealth. The ability to make wealth is problematic to people who currently hold a tremendous amount of concentrated wealth, and they are trying to stamp it out. They're humans in the grip of a cognitive bias, unable (modulo a few folks like Warren Buffett and George Soros) to comprehend that more real wealth benefits everyone. They've also generally abandoned real wealth and gone into ephemeral financial instruments, with a retrograde result - we're on our way back to the disastrous situation where you can safely assume that anyone with wealth acquired it by immoral means.

Since I come from this point of view, I find that the critiques of Friedman also slightly miss the point - you're going to need to destroy a lot of what we currently think of as 'wealth' if you want anything remotely resembling social justice, and naturally the people who hold that false wealth will resist this. I am fine with that because I believe we're back to the point where there's a de facto inherited aristocracy and that the old problems of wealth and power have not at all gone away no matter how much we enjoy the symbols and pageant of representational democracy.
> it's meant to replace the auto-generated images that already exist that use IP addresses

I think you need to emphasise this point more in your 'about' page. I skimmed through your about page and came away with the thought 'I don't think I'd want to replace my personalised avatar with something like this - it's much harder to identify me through this than a photograph or illustration'. But as a replacement for a generic avatar - that makes sense!