skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, I can't get from a movie shown under "so-and-so also rated" on the left to the mute button. Mute doesn't appear when hovering over the movie, and clicking on the movie opens a panel on the right which doesn't have the mute button either. And the same goes for movies I search for; searching opens the same panel on the right, which still doesn't have the mute button.
One of the things that makes MMM so good is how literate it is. It reminds me of the thing that Steve Jobs said was great about Apple, that it combined computing and the humanities. That is true of Fred Brooks as well, at least in his writing.

Coincidentally, Brooks made a surprise cameo in this piece about Jobs: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10230791/

Has anyone read his recent book, The Design of Design? I had high hopes for it, but ran out of steam.
So i found this thread on Lion + Nethack on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/g9f5o/future_net...

Which points to a Cocoa port of Nethack here: http://code.google.com/p/nethack-cocoa/downloads/list

I'm going to give that a shot :)
Your argument basically boils down to: it's a toy 'currency,' is that really the best argument you can make?

If so, this really isn't worth discussing because it's a joke.
Clickable link to the list: http://bit.ly/qqdqlK
You pay a fixed price for the reservation and then per-usage fees. Usage fees will drop as Amazon reduces them, but the reservation is a one-time deal
The icon is a total rip of Adobes CS suite. Surely you could come up with something more original.
> The more we use helium for stupid shit like this, the less helium we'll have in the future for MRIs and anything else that requires super-cooling.

While I agree with the rest of your comment, could you explain why do you think that airships are "stupid shit"? I'd say that the insane amount of fuel we use for transportation is a big waste of oil and I really look forward to see airships back in the sky, doing heavy lifting and maybe more.
when I try to drag it to my bookmarks bar chrome crashes!
Social networks are becoming your personal operating system
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.

Social Security is a social insurance program that is primarily funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA). Tax deposits are formally entrusted to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, or the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.

[above are copy/pastes from Wikipedia]
Two addenda:

1) Apparently my cell phone number used to be registered to my primary account. When I created the fake account, it removed my number from my primary account and assigned it to the fake account. So what happened there was they suggested friends from the account that used to have the same phone number assigned to it. The creepy thing here is that it also suggested people that I had recently defriended.

2) I did the same thing, using my Google voice number which had not previously been registered to any FB account, and was suggested three friends who apparently have me saved in their address books.
> There's really no economic reason that an Airship should be preferred.

What about the fuel usage per unit of mass carried?
Well, since muting is not yet taken into account in the algorithm, there's no point in muting a movie you and someone have in common, or a movie that you would directly make a search for.
As a self-employed person, I have to cover both halves. It's a bit of a shock when it's taken out on top of income tax.
they don't appear to, but thanks for the suggestion. i also checked hckrnews, but no luck.
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he companies with mastermind Humpty Dumpty Zach Galifianakis and the street savvy Pet Salma Hayek to take the well known Goose that is situated the Superb Egg.
Here is my take for what its worth - Great products require great understanding: The designer needs to understand what can be engineered, now, what needs to be invented, and what can only exist in the future, and an engineer needs to understand what the designer wants. And both teams or individuals are responsible for the process and outcome. If you have a flimsy designer that makes everything look pretty on paper but fails to communicate the entire picture, the engineers will inevitably produce sub par work, not because they're bad at their job, but because you did not give them enough to work with, unless you have visionary engineers with a foot in the design department as well. Then again if the engineers only think code code code they will fail to meet the designer where it counts and again the product is sub par. They are 2 parts of the same creative entity, one that lives and relies on communication and understanding. This is unlike the "well oiled machine" where each person or team resembles a mindless cog in some contraption... These are companies that do not understand the ultimate relationship between designer and engineer. It takes a designer with a stubborn focus on the big picture and a razor focus on the tiniest details along with an engineer of godlike skill to not just solve the puzzles set before them, but solve them intelligently (there is a huge difference), while keeping an eye on the final product. The two parts should always demand validation in their understanding of what the other has communicated.

Build a team that does not simply 'do', but a team that thinks, communicates, and understands; and create an environment that fosters this relationship.
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That's the whole point of technology - we use our knowledge to augment ourselves and fix our weaknesses.
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I love listening to music when doing the easy parts of an application, like crud code, light refactoring, etc. If I have to really think about something, I find myself having to turn down the music, as it becomes distracting.

Agree on the dual monitor neccessity.
Since computing [1 1; 1 0]^(2k) where k is a power of 2 would involve computing [1 1; 1 0]^k first, you'll end up reproducing the exact same work on all your machines, and you might as well just use the one.
I was able to trigger it, despite the fact that they didn't ask for my phone number.

- Signup. (ignore that you need to confirm your email)

- Go to your account settings>mobile

- Go to mobile.

- Add a mobile phone.

- Enter your password

- Click "Add your phone number here."

- Verify your phone number via text.

- Click the facebook logo.

You should be able to see recommendations based on your phone number.
I missed the change in meaning of architecture until you pointed it out. I had an uneasy feeling about the use of the word when reading, but you have really clarified what the difference in use is. Thanks!
Google unveiling new version of Gmail
They're most up front about easy IPv6 connectivity. Many other places it's 'call and ask' or the like.
Same here. Music helps me focus on easy tasks, as if it were using idle brain cycles that would otherwise get bored and seek distractions. Conversely, when in deep thought, music feels like an unwanted distraction and I get an urge to turn it off.
Tim O'Reilly: The heart of what is best in capitalism
If you remove "fraudulent" from the definition of Ponzi scheme, it accurately describes Social Security. It's an unnecessarily inflammatory way to note that current beneficiaries are funded by new inductees, which is generally a problematic funding structure.
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No need to rush through it. I read an essay a day so that I could fully digest and reflect the lesson over the course of the day before going to the next.
I dug into the website of the company and the low-end model goes about 70 MPH in hybrid mode, and 35MPH in solar mode.

I would love to have a flying car. Fuel infrastructure could be awkward though. :)
I also had high hopes, but read this first:

http://philip.greenspun.com/book-reviews/the-design-of-desig...

and then decided not to buy a copy of the book. I may be wrong, but I've got stacks of stuff to read.
> But by the time your 22 [...] Your getting used to a decent standard of living.

Get off my lawn!

Seriously, though, from my late-30s-with-a-young-family perspective, if being 22 with a girlfriend and an internship is enough to stop you chasing your dreams, then they weren't really your dreams after all.
Ask HN: Third-party applications that run on Heroku
I am looking for a list of third-party open source applications that run out of the box on Heroku with little or no modification. Not having a persistent filesystem storage allows for easy scaling but many apps rely on that. This can be worked around for some apps like Wordpress that have S3 storage plugins for resources, but less popular apps do not have those.
In other words, "No."

I often see developers claiming they will release their projects' source "real soon now, once I've cleaned it up." It never happens.

This (binary) is still useful though, thanks for releasing it.
Muting still has a useful purpose: I don't want to see the movie in the list anymore, even if I have it in common with someone.
Brooks particularly had in mind IBM's System 360. One of its goals was to have a single architecture span an extremely wide range of performance. So there were many models (e.g., 360-20, 360-65, 360-90) with a couple of orders of magnitude differences in cost and performance, but sharing a single architecture. Implementation teams built each model with attention to its specific required performance and cost constraints, leading to many different hardware designs. The system architects worked to define an architecture without constraining the possible implementations unnecessarily.
The Design of Symbols
Since you know the industry so well, what is your opinion of this?

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/25/140784004/new-boom-reshapes-oi...

"[T]he US could be poised to pass Saudi Arabia and overtake Russia as the world's largest oil producer" - true?
After lots of downtime across three of my VPS' at VPS.net i'm opting to migrate all of them to one box on the Rackspace Cloud. I'm not a server admin, nor do i want to be, so the attraction of the new 'Managed Cloud' is all that much stronger.

I have used Voxel.net in the past, and their technical support team are absolutely amazing. Always willing to go that extra mile. Uptime was also very good.
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How would it be useful? Are you planning on making your sockpuppets more realistic?
Design of Everyday Things - Caltrain Station Usability Issue
Groupon Now, Groupon’s Bet on the Future, Off To a Disappointing Start
I wouldn't class Voxel.net as budget, but their low VPS is affordable, and based on my own experiences very reliable. They're very pro-active at alerting you to issues, even without their managed service.
Even crappy articles can lead to interesting discussions.
Show HN: Professional Dating Site
Just launched a dating site for LinkedIn professional. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Seconded. Take it with copious grains of salt, but I've found that it improved the quality of my writing significantly. I no longer reach for the laziest verbs. More importantly, I reduce the number of unsupported assertions, and I find myself writing better justifications and evidence.
It's also reminscent of this Arthur C. Clarke story. http://hermiene.net/short-stories/nine_billion_names_of_god....
Thanks. What Greenspun says is consistent with what I read of the book. I think its biggest problem is that Brooks has been out of the business for too long; it lacks the buzz of MMM, the connection to real work and hard problems. As Greenspun points out, the only thing like that in the new book is the stuff about Brooks' house, and that's too self-referential.

Also the style is kind of bureaucratic and process-y. That's probably why I ran out of steam.
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Microsoft collects license fees on 50% of Android devices
So if I'm born into a world where someone has cornered the market on, let's say, food, and their perfectly rational strategy is to choose not to sell food to anyone who competes with them, I'm not any less free to compete than if one person didn't get to make that decision?

Get outta here with that.
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Is this problem due to fewer people using it, or fewer people contributing? I know there's a lot of overlap in open source, but the latter could be a real problem.
Interesting to compare the prediction of sales made in the article with the actual sales:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg
when today's cars were designed, ipad didn't even exist. it's a very long process where economy is crucial, there is no place where somebody will jump in in the last moment and "hey, have you heard of tablets? let's put it there!", it's technically and economically impossible.

even if somebody today put your beloved ipad in a concept, you would still laugh it off in 7 years when/if it got into production.
Yes. We've also reduced the number of people elegible to fill them. For example, children are no longer allowed to work in factories, mandatory vacation time and benefits have increased, etc.

And yes, we still have trouble finding enough jobs for people.
Okay, i should dial it back a bit. What they're promising is cool. Low infrastructure, high pay-load travel is indeed interesting.

But they too are depleting a natural resource, just as petrochemical fuel usage does. And while we can find other storage mechanisms for portable energy (batteries, flywheels, hydrogen, what-have-you), there literally is no substitute for Helium cooling, by virtue of the laws of physics as we know them.

This is not worth giving up cryogenics.
"Architects literally see the world differently from non-architects"
Yep, it's using SMS. This will be a paid service.

I am really excited to see the use cases here, and to become a "platform" of sorts to build on top of.
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They are $700 to $900 on eBay.

You use a Python proggy to emulate a Tandy floppy drive with the design from a 1-bit bitmap.
Thanks Jeremy! If you have ideas related to it I'd love to see how I can help.
I think you're okay; I posted that a little hastily since it was linked to from the songza article that I posted elsewhere, but as you noted, your app doesn't have those same problems.

The one thing that I am confused about is why the old songza disappeared. If the only problem was that they weren't showing videos, they easily could have started doing so, and I remember that at least for awhile they were doing that.

Wikipedia says "However, in late January 2010 Songza had to put their music streaming service on hold due to problems with YouTube's API (which is what the site uses to play back songs), YouTube blocking the site from using its API, presumably because YouTube could be sued for supporting a free music service without adverts[citation needed]." It looks like Songza had ads, so maybe that was the issue. Regardless, you may find reading up about Songza interesting; TechCrunch reports they were acquired for high six figures to low seven figures.
''It's a nice feature for Macintosh users,'' said P. J. McNealy, a senior analyst for Gartner G2, an e-commerce research group. ''But to the rest of the Windows world, it doesn't make any difference.''

Who is this Gartner research group? Ok, I do know who they are but it feels like whenever I read one of these "blasts from the past" articles they have an analyst in there making some statement that is way off mixed with terribly inaccurate predictions.
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NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg Talks About the Founding of His Company
Mayor Bloomberg Speaks at NY Tech Meetup and talks about the early days of Bloomberg LP (and why founding his company in NYC was important for his success)
I used it briefly but then stopped when I discovered the gmail bookmarklet. It's the same thing with my address book built in and doesn't go through a third party.
The author (of this post, not Brooks) claims that desktops, icons, menus are "provably bad decisions".

Strong claim there. Anyone agree with him, and care to back up his point?
It was useless to Windows users when it was launched. It wasn't compatible.
This line is great: "profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don't want to run out of gas, but neither do you want to think that your road trip is a tour of gas stations."
World Power Swings Back to America
Bill Clinton Asked Steve Jobs How To Handle The Monica Lewinsky Scandal
Show HN: The inverse of Twitter, Plumpl.com
I wouldn't be so quick to condemn him as the line that preceded your quote was, "Apple said it had not yet decided whether to introduce a version of the music player for computers with the Windows operating system, which is used by more than 90 percent of personal computer users."

If Apple hadn't made iTunes available for Windows machines, there's a very likely possibility that the iPod wouldn't have taken off the way it did.
I used to have a Herman Miller Celle that I loved (a lower range Herman Miller) but after a year or two the seat bottom cloth got worn out pretty fast. I ended up selling it when I moved. Now I have a Stealcase Chair I purchased from a YC company that was moving (about $150 used). It's not one of their high-end ones either and looks pretty ugly but it's very supportive and firm. I wish the back was higher though.
Why doesn't redistributing money from the rich to poor doesn't work? it works pretty well for many European social democracies.Maybe it doesn't create wealth(i.e. GDP growth), but it does create quality of life for citizens, and that's what counts.

And about the decline in jobs: I think it's a combination of efficiency and global competition and outsourcing that might be creating a structural change in the American job market.

Why? Usually new businesses create most of the new jobs. let's say i start a new business. i need an employee. In the past i needed to pick an american worker. Today i can chose between a machine, non-american worker and an american one , and outsourcing the job to some company that does it more efficiently(local or global) - and b2b outsourcing has really improved is the u.s. in the last decade.

So with so many options, it makes sense that new businesses would hire less American workers and would reduce pay. And according to a Kaufman institute study(which i can't seem to find), that what happens: new businesses hire less American workers per company(while the number of companies stays relatively constant).
Or go one step further (depending on the design of your site) and switch to just S3 and CloudFront. I'm paying about $0.50/mo to host my sites since I converted to using static files.
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Our whole team got the insanely expensive Aeron Embody chair (which are on bi-yearly sale in November for $1050.) At first I sat in it with guilt and thinking it wasn't worth it.

Now I am about to buy one for my home office. The posture becomes comfortable and provides a wonderful break from standing at our new GeekDesk 2.0.
What does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? I got frustrated of trying to figure out where the next square was as I scrolled down.
I agree. I liken it to "security through obscurity". I imagine it would be quite upsetting to be posting as a reasonable community member, and suddenly discover through some external means that my account had been silently black-holed, without being notified that my behavior was violating some of the community norms before-hand.

But perhaps such measures are needed to defend against the non-bot trolls and other belligerent individuals, and only implemented after numerous attempts at corrective feedback have failed.
It's hard to say exactly how much more memory it takes, but yes, there is quite a bit of overhead, especially for small numbers. But that's the trade-off you have to make in order to support the large numbers. Obviously you wouldn't use BigIntegers for everything.
Show HN: My weekend project - Common API for Javascript Engines
Hi everyone!
We're finally launching our "inverse of twitter", which is a way for a lot of people to send messages to one person, one cause, one event.
It takes only 2 minutes to create a page and start receiving messages or pictures from anyone (you can connect with facebook but it's not mandatory).
People already received more than 28000 messages and it's growing fast! Plumpl.com can be used to create a page for a birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah, retailer, company, ... and receive messages from anyone!
Let us know what you think :)
Thanks!
Personal preference can confound any rule of thumb.

Cherry picked from here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=readability+%22column+width%22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_%28typography%29

"For best legibility, typographic manuals suggest that columns should contain roughly 60 characters per line.[1] One formula suggests multiplying the point size of the font by 2 to reach how wide a column should be in picas[2] — in effect a column width of 24 ems. Following these guidelines usually results in multiple narrow columns being favored over a single wide column.[3]"

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Readability

"Ease-of-reading is the result of the interaction between the text and the reader. In the reader, those features affecting readability are 1. prior knowledge, 2. reading skill, 3. interest, and 4. motivation. In the text, those features are 1. content, 2. style, 3. design, and 4. structure[1]. The design can include the medium, layout, illustrations, reading and navigation aids, typeface, and color. Correct use of type size, line spacing, column width, text-color-background contrast and white space make text easy to read. "
Take a look at these:

PreSonus Audiobox ($150)
http://www.presonus.com/products/detail.aspx?productid=53

FiiO E9 ($110)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M172FY

Peachtree Audio iDac ($1000)
http://www.amazon.com/Peachtree-Audio-idac-Digital-Converter...

or the Nova for just a bit more and it has a tube and built in amp:
http://www.amazon.com/Peachtree-Nova-Integrated-Stereo-Ampli...

The latter is what my cofounder has (pictured in my post in the background on the window sill) and loves. He also had a Decco for a while (before realizing they were underpowered for his speakers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljFut8cUnc&feature=chann...

A few more that I'm not too familiar with: http://www.amazon.com/Audiophile-Products-Fubar-Plus-Headpho...
> good design depends on great engineers

Beware the teammate that champions the importance of their discipline over that of others. Good design and engineering have many dependencies, but neither should include an inflated sense of entitlement.

I wouldn't go too far out on this guy if I were you.
Do you have paying customers or are you creating artificial problems?

In this example, you can either delegate the support or use processes so that customers aren't calling you when you're coding.

EDIT: Don't be a defeatist towards productive programming! You can create the environment, and you should.
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