skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no single best language for all problems out there. Let's say you have a working program that does something useful over a TCP/IP network but you have zero documentation for it's protocol and yet you still want to communicate with it. Trying to do this in Perl is actually harder than C assuming equivalent understanding of both languages. Yet, doing the same except it's a browser your talking to and suddenly Perl wins. The advantage of higher level languages lies not in the their ability to do everything well but their ability do handle huge projects that do a ridiculous number of things with minimal pain.

PS: PG is in love with LISP in large part because he deals with problems well suited to the LISP domain. But, if he had been writing drivers he would have gone in another direction. The real lesson is if you wanted to write a great XML editor use something in the LISP family or something that's closely related to it not that LISP wins on all fronts.
I am running Chrome 14 in Win7... After a little debugging it looks like it was actually my MeasureIt! extension that broke it.
i dont agree with you, i would rather have a controller with multiple actions, rather then "controller"/requestHandler per action, because in most cases you want the controller to handle all the actions of a page, rather then one action.

Having controller per one action would put overhead on the code lines you write.
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Netflix CEO on Qwikster: "Blame Canada"
Rails in a week — day 1
I gotta start working harder on my book... "How to fail up"
For sure... I could go the mechanical turk route, and have thought about it many times, but that is a $ investment. I could start scraping the other directories, but there is both an ethical issue there ('stealing' content?) as well as development time required to do that. It is set up right now so that anybody can add information, but without the critical mass of users that's just not happening.

And that's the thing. I have no problem spending the time or money needed on this project, if it's worth it. I'm just worried that I've gotten so mentally invested in it that I can't think critically about it's future. Of course I think it's an awesome idea, but a year of essentially flat traffic seems to be telling me otherwise.
Just to be clear, I did say "approachable". I've seen heavier duty explorations of what tachyons are like under real relativity theory, but I don't know of anything else that approachable.
54% in this random ass poll say "No way (e = mc^2)"
http://www.wepolls.com/p/2879014/Do-you-think-scientists-at-...
Exerciser Monkey - Your Own App Tester on Android
It's a clever idea:

- In your html, you annotate objects (e.g. a button) with the '.actionable' class

- Then provide a set of arguments in the html alongside, e.g.

<div class="kwargs">
<!-- replace #money with the output from /user/3/money/create -->
<input name="type" value="replace" />
<input name="target" value="#money" />
<input name="url" value="/user/3/money/create" />
</div>

- The library then parses the html of .actionable objects, and automatically creates the relevant jQuery bindings for you. In other words, you define the behavior in html, without having to write any custom javascript.

We're experimenting with a few ways of extending this on Memrise (Spencer Davis gets most of the credit here). It's early days, but we're an ajax-heavy site, and devolving certain kinds of basic, repetitive functionality to html feels natural and simple. And, by adding new handler types to the library, it becomes much, much easier to create reusable widgets that we can sprinkle throughout the site.

P.S. Currently, most of this work is still on a development branch that will be live within a couple of days.
I send the invite out to the Meetup group first, so people who are a part of the group get "first dibs." Then I post to HN, and then I send a last message out to the group to catch anyone who missed the first email/forgot/put it off.

There were about 90 people RSVP'd before I posted this thread up.

So if you want to be sure you get a spot next time, join the group and look out for the announcement email! :)
You may want to negotiate a better deal than that, but I doubt you're so far along that it would be "insane".

http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
The Urban Quest for 'Zero' Waste
This article rings true with me. Especially in the managerial role, I love seeing it when my guys show and prove how passionate they are about a project. Makes it so much easier to support them!
I've argued for a long time now that, regardless of the posted speed limit, driving at a speed lower than the rate at which traffic is flowing — particularly in an "inside lane" — should be a primary offense (that is, behavior that's probable cause for an officer to pull you over). While you may think you're making traffic "safer" by observing the posted speed limit, you're actually increasing the risk to yourself and everyone around you by causing eddies in the flow of traffic as people merge into normally slower-traveling lanes to pass you on the "wrong" side. Those local instabilities in traffic flow significantly increase the likelihood of an accident because they engender unpredictable (or at least less predictable) behavior in your fellow drivers. Yes, traffic probably would be safer if everyone drove at the posted limit, but so long as a significant enough number of people aren't, behavior that complicates traffic flow increases risk for everyone.

(Then again, some of the worst offenders in that regard tend to be the police, themselves, in my experience. I can't count the number of times I've been caught in some huge knot of traffic pacing a cop who's driving two or three MPH under the posted limit, as if he's daring people to pass him...)

Of course, I've also argued for just as long if not longer that one should have to pass a university-level course in fluid dynamics in order to get a driver's license, and I don't see that happening any time soon, either.
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You've got to admit that, if confirmed, these results would raise new and troubling questions...
Speed of light 'broken' by scientists
I like the idea of being able to figure out that beers are brewed near by. But the data entry piece sounds a little arduous for the result.

Have you thought about crowd sourcing it? Maybe make localbeer.me a giant google map with all the breweries you've entered so far on it and the have a super simple form that lets people add their local breweries and their beer offerings. I feel like I know some hardcore craft beer drinkers who'd totally be into dropping in their favorite local breweries.

In the long term, you're going to have keep all the data you've entered by hand updated, and it seems like crowd sourcing would be a good way to get that info anyway.
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I'm not sure that's right unless we're thinking of different things. I just clicked a ticker story of a friend listening to a song on Rdio, and I clicked a link within that flyout to play the same song in Spotify (which I've been using).
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His total earnings from these 11 months seems to be $35 million. $9.8M in salary, signing bonus, etc, and $25.2M severence in cash and stock.

source:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/22/technology/hp_leo_apotheker_...
I have to say that your video is surprisingly beautiful given the subject matter, though the voiceover is done in a style that sounds like a commercial for a new wonder product that's both a floor wax AND a delicious dessert topping.
By the way, I'd be happy to do ten bucks off any approved projects that mention HN.
The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing [BBC 1992]
Deriving the Y combinator (2008)
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I really hate when people attack him with this. Personal privacy and government secrecy are not the same thing at all.
Oops. I just called them and asked if they do business outside the US. I should have read the damn comments, lol.
According to the HP board, all you need is "the right operational and communication skills and leadership abilities"...
Do you think if they were around they would havr helped avoid this mess?
Temporary Structures | Event Structure
Here's another Canuck who can't wait for this to come to Canada.

It looks promising, although for a SaaS startup, once you add a recurring billing provider like Recurly, it can be pricing for under $20 per month apps.

A quick note, the 8 minute tour from here https://samurai.feefighters.com/developers

.. links to a youtube samurai movie clip via the image link and the 5 minute rails demo from the text link.
At one lightyear distance from the lighthouse, the angular velocity of the beam is 2Pi lightyears per minute*

Actually, that's the linear velocity. The angular velocity would be 2*pi radians per minute and is independent of distance.
You may like intersect.com which has been around for about a year. You can "scroll through" your life using a timeline control or through various "storylines." Nicely crafted site.
I think execution without motivation is nil.

I loved this article, BTW.
Jaycee Dugard sues US over failure to monitor abductor
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Google Analytics, as others have said is a no brainer - go for it. Invest in some time to learn it because it is _way_ more powerful than it first appears. Thins you should investigate are 'event tracking' 'conversions' and 'goals'

As a second analytics app I would use Woopra - it is more basic but it gives you real time analytics, and it's free for up to (i think) 10,000 visits a month.

Stick with google analytics and only 1 or two other analytics programs. You'll know when you need more, or something more specific.

The most important thing I heard(I can't remember where I read it) is to _build your own dashboard_ - that is, code a custom dashboard that shows you stats that are relevant to your site. For me it's a few lines of code that shows me the 20 most recently added users and comments. For you it might show you free and paid signups, and maybe a conversion ratio. This will evolve over time to be far more important than any analytics program - paid or free.
It is competitive for people with autism, which is clearly what he meant.
HP still considering PSG spinoff, but still investing in webOS and PCs
Cringely prides himself on his predictions. He makes many of them. Sometimes they are extremely accurate—sometimes they are extremely off (like predicting that Apple would buy Time Warner Cable, or predicting that Apple would halt production of iPhone 4s to 'fix the antenna issue [http://www.cringely.com/2010/07/missing-in-action/])
Facebook Makes a Push to Be a Media Hub
Phil Plait puts this into perspective:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/fa...
From what I've read about them their retirement was permanent, they both had more than deserved it. So I don't think they could have avoided the mess unless they stepped in and that would be highly unlikely. Maybe a 'watchful eye' would have had some positive effect or a consulting role of sorts.

HP was a unique company and it definitely isn't the first time that such a unique company flows from the hands and brains of unique people and does not survive the transition to new management without significant damage.

The HP story does not bode well for Apple, which was even more the brainchild of some pretty unique individuals.

Steve Jobs is still around, and I really hope that Tim Cook will not embarrass Steve in the way that the HP board has fouled the HP legacy. Those guys deserved a lot better than this. Once upon a time there was the HP way. Today that's the stuff of legend.
Yes, see my comment below. Users can already enter breweries/beer. Maybe it's just as simple as making it easier/more obvious.
From an entrepreneur/inventor's mindset, there's one good thing about the pain, confusion and idiocy around the mainstream legacy payment/banking systems in the world: it represents a huge opportunity to deliver something better, something smarter and more friendly. In 2011, with current technology, and without having to worry about legal/bureaucratic compliance/inertia, it can and should be pretty easy for humans to send electronic payments to one another. Take Bitcoin for example. While far from perfect, it is one step in that direction. Though anybody that can help make the mainstream payment/banking system a little better, like Samurai/FeeFighters, or BankSimple, even incrementally, is doing a good thing as well.
This is such a shame. I got a touchpad in the fire sale and they really did a decent job on that thing. I would put it ahead of android but slightly behind iOS. Although I personally don't care too much which OS I end up with, it's clear that a lot of good work went into this.
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staunch, I wish I could upvote you more. This is an excellent article you linked to, and it may very well be the case that the YC network adds sufficient value to make up for the "insane" valuation. Thank you.

That said, I'm still hoping for an answer to the original question. I find the lack of ecommerce companies very strange.
Actually for the company that Hewlett and Packard founded see Agilent. After the HP/Agilent division around 2000, Agilent took most of the early HP records. Why? Because Agilent's business lines were the original HP business lines.

http://www.home.agilent.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agilent_Technologies
This strikes me as an excellent demonstration of the "make as many wild ass predictions as possible until one of them hits and then have everyone think you're a visionary genius".
+1 Why? There are very few good reasons for being secretive. It would really help if you mentioned them so that we could discuss it. Secrecy, in general is not good for a startup (of course there are exceptions)
This is off-topic. Please don't post this.
Microsoft clears up Linux confusion over Windows 8 Secure Boot feature
Like any other spec. :-)
This is great.

The majority of social networks and social sharing sites are obsessed with the now. This stemmed from Facebook and Twitter pioneering the UI with the timeline format. However, try to go back really far in any timeline, and you'll usually be greeted with a wall.

Timeline will hopefully make Facebook (and other sites) realize the potential there is in browsing through and curating older content. Sure, people will still be obsessed with the newest stuff, but at least there will be a way to open up the time horizon a bit and reflect on the forest.

As the FB generation grows up to become grandparents, it'll be fascinating for the grandkids to actually see a complete and browsable timeline of their grandparents. Just imagine if you had that today.

Sidenote 1: FB is now starting to encroach on 1000memories's space.

Sidenote 2: FB should really sell automatically generated (but high quality) timeline storybooks. Parents and relatives would go crazy for that.
Media companies revisit their AOL days with Facebook
Step 1, create public Google Doc. Step 2, send link. Step 3, madness.
The way a one-man operation works is that you file taxes once a year. For you to be able to pay your income taxes, you need to save up the money you will fork over, otherwise your ass goes straight to jail. There is no withholding or anything like that.

So you set up two bank accounts and deposit say 30% of any money you would use for your non-business expenses. That money is forbidden. You cannot touch it.

> I believe they are saying that you would have bought the chainsaw, ladder, etc tax-free already, as a business.

Pay attention. With what money? You have no money. ZERO. All your money goes toward your business expenses and the rest goes toward non-business expenses and taxes.

You have no business credit. The only credit you have is personal and that's maxed out.

The overwhelming majority of one-man operations are not drowning in cash.

> A tax break would have absolutely no effect on the ability to afford these things in the scenario you described.

This makes ZERO sense. With a tax break, I can withdraw some of the money from my tax bank account and use it for whatever I want. It is found money. On top of that, spending that money on my business means I have no tax obligation on those found funds.
Yup, it's a wrkinprogress ;)

We just launched into public beta. We aren't charging anyone because we know there are rough edges on our site.
I think the HTML/CSS/JS part of the web is competitive in certain domains, and native apps on others. Frankly, I don't see the problem with this. Walled gardens are certainly a problem, but there's no need to throw out the baby (native apps) with the bathwater.

As for plugins, I've never seen them as benefit. Either you're a big player and then you can influence the direction of the web, or you're just some random guy and your plugin is irrelevant because no one will download it just to see some websites.

There was an SVG plugin way before browsers supported it natively, but could any web dev actually rely on it?
I wrote about some of this on my blog back in Feb. ( http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/blog/hot-potato-thoughts-on-j... )
Java's exceptions cause Java applications to break often.
It's not something that Java engineers want to hear but it's true.
Netflix lining up sale to Amazon, analyst says
I bet Fox News and the Republican Party leadership in general are going to somehow spin this into their anti-climate-change, anti-science, anti-intellectual, pro-religion messaging.
In retrospect I realized this question is deeper than I thought. Maybe js is the new lambda notation.
Just dump a pdf of the slides in your dropbox, less hassle.

Works ok in FF on Xubuntu 11.10 but sloooooowwwwwwww
I would personally want more money going into scientific research (NASA, CERN, Fermilab, and others) than into war and supplying ammunition to soldiers and whatnot.
I know the answer: Yes they would absolutely invest in an ecommerce retailer company. They have no "categories" or "types" they avoid religiously.

The filter isn't "ecommerce" but whether it's a "scalable" idea or not.

They might ask "How could you envision your company becoming Really Big in the future?"

Bezos would have said "We're doing books now, but our plan is to be the Wal-Mart of the web".

If you can convincingly argue that your niche businesses in scarves/ties are the gateway to a scalable business you would probably be a good candidate for YC.
Looking forward to hearing back from some of the intros for work I've requested. I can't believe each project gets so much attention. Pretty competitive!

Seems like a fantastic resource though, I'm excited to see how it progresses, and I can't wait to get the next email.
HN is retarded this way.

I see all my posts sink. The only reason I bother to post is it gets maybe 50 people to read and that is better than 0 I figure.
Cool I emailed you.
Microsoft Convinces Yet Another Company to Cough Up 'Protection' Money
Meg Whitman's First Company-Wide Email as CEO of HP
Well if Tim Cook dare to screw up Jobs' legacy, some rabid fanboy will take him out with a suicide bomb attack.

And I'm only half joking.
You also need some extra content-negotiation abilities, but that shouldn't be too hard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131870 . I'll pull out this bit:

> Finally, the process can chain, so a particular [data/DSL] file might be given to a display program which is a Ruby script which would in turn be given to a generic-runtime interpreter for the appropriate version of Ruby.

So it's untrue that using NaCl or something similar means that all code (let alone all data) has to be sent to the browser already compiled down to assembler (or PNaCl bitcode or whatever). Among other things, this is one important reason why Mozilla is wrong to claim that adoption of NaCl (or whatever) would mean that HLL/scripting-language/whatever code distributed over the Web would no longer be able to benefit automatically from speed improvements to the browser's HLL runtime(s). Chained content negotiation is your friend TM.
If a sole proprietorship (i.e. one man operation) spent all its revenue on the business, the owner would die. Food is not a business expense. Neither is clothing, rent, car, etc.

Don't confuse corporations with a large payroll with people who are self employed.

> One can argue that higher income tax will actually encourage you to spend more.

A higher income tax will actually encourage you to live in a cardboard box. You will have to purchase that box, so in that way, I suppose you're right.
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Spybot &#8211; Search &amp; Destroy
Teen driver restrictions a mixed bag
Avast buys its way into Android security
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Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer goes into some of the technical challenges the scientists have to overcome in this experiment in laymen's terms.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/fa...
> ... what's with random incompetents ...?

I think at least part of the answer is that research shows groups are, in some instances, shown to make worse decisions than individuals. In groups, individual biases are magnified, and the group process introduces a whole host of potential decision flaws (e.g., information hiding, social loafing) while not consistently compensating for individual decision weaknesses. Groups often make less optimal decisions than individuals, especially in subjective cases.
Yes, and I think that Agilents future is a lot more secure than HPs at this point in time.

Agilent is basically the instrument division of the 'old' HP.
Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI
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> I can't count the number of times I've been caught in some huge knot of traffic pacing a cop who's driving two or three MPH under the posted limit, as if he's daring people to pass him...

I saw that all the time on my way into work (internship) this past summer. I just passed the cop. What annoyed me was other people who refused to pass the cop.

I also saw, in equal amount to cops going too slow, was cops going too fast, oh well.
The problem is you assumed it even if you did not say it. The are basically two ways to do arbitrage one is to execute the trades fast enough that the prices are fixed. Or do a closed transaction where the underling commodity price is irrelevant and you make money even if the price spikes or drops. AKA buy a directive of a stock and short that same stock. You can still be bitten if one of the counter-party does not finish the transaction but at least on paper your safe.

PS: Get a loan at 0% interest, buy an option on gold at 1000$ and short gold at 1100$. Now most of the time things are priced in such a way that you will lose money on this trade however if people are selling the options to cheaply then you could execute this trade and be guaranteed to make money. Assuming the people that sell you the option don't default. Unfortunately, you can make money by selling options worth more than your capital so you come out ahead on average and if bad things happen you are ridiculously broke but effectively still at zero. Sort of like me making a billion dollar bet that the redskins don't go undefeated this year, it's easy for me to price those risks based on the idea I would only go broke in such a way it they seem really attractive even if they are next to worthless.
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Could this news be a promotional stunt? Assange has a flair for the dramatic and the ironic parallels between publishing an "unauthorized autobiography" and leaking secret documents are rather convenient.
Drawing a really little key breaks it.

Drawing just a circle for the stickman is very funny. Drawing a vertical line for the stickman breaks it.