skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno if I'd definitively say it's purely distribution. Surely even with perfect distribution there's a point where scarcity becomes a factor, even assuming technological progress, unless you're talking unlimited energy and star trek replicators.
Thermal transfer is proportional to the difference in temperature between the inside and outside of your house. For every bit of energy you put into maintaining the difference some energy is lost to the atmosphere. If your system is equipped with an aquastat that turns the circulator pump on only after the water reaches a certain temperature then it is possible to waste energy if the boiler runs for a short time and the water does not warm up enough to start the circulator.
No, because there is no reason to search through all the branches beforehand. A lot of things can be learned later on, as you need them.

Even if there was a need to search through the branches early on, I could reasonably predict that medieval literature was a waste of time. But 9 semesters of humanities were required by my college, so I crammed for exams and forgot about it after the fact.
although I never had an unfair professor

I've only had one, and it was in a math course (something I'm usually pretty good with). First, he barely spoke english. Second, he just wasn't a good teacher. He even apologized the last day of class saying how bad a teacher he was and that everyone would at least pass. Nope, he failed almost the whole class.

I retook the class the next semester with a different teacher and aced it.
Nice feedback. Thanks.

We're keen to add Stripe, but we're based in the UK and it's not available over here yet.

Excellent recommendations of Twilio and MailGun. We'll check them out.

We'd allow digital file upload by choosing a file instead of an image. Then list would alter it's behaviour to suit.
Basically I am disagreeing with the validity of the discussion in general. There aren't agreed upon meanings for either term, so there isn't much point in going forward.
That is probably an optimal strategy ;)
There is no law against making your catalog widely available. Yes, currently they seem unable to do so. That isn't the consumers problem (quite literally). Very few things are so awesome that you'll have people begging you to take their money (and root access on their box, the right to revoke the product at any time, etc), so few in fact that the publishers should firmly assume they are not it. If they can't sort that out between themselves, tough shit - customers/pirates/in-betweens will not care. The ball is not in their court and it will be extremely hard to put it there by force.
Pretty awesome idea, thanks!
I'm a happy XP user. XP fits into 1GB and is very very fast.

Windows7 takes 10GB and grows exponentially as it keeps two copies of almost every system file that cannot be deleted.
Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
From what I can tell the "learning" phase is just an extended version of programming your thermostat. I'm curious how this is any different than a traditional thermostat?
But we're not talking about music piracy. :)

Steam is missing a few major titles (mostly from EA and Blizzard), but it's one of the most complete digital download services. It also seems to be rather indie friendly.
Hey Swizec,

Congratulations on holding out this long given the amount of headwind that you've been experiencing.

What strikes me is that some of that headwind seems to be of your own making and that maybe if you changed your mindset just a little bit that things will go much better for you.
I would like to note that there is a video editor app included in Honeycomb that is almost certainly going to also be included in ICS.
So what you are saying is that it is ... a slippery slope?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
That looks pretty interesting. I love the concept, I guess it just didn't really get the buy in that it needed.

Matt's loader is less focused on making javascript safe to embed from the security standpoint, and is more focused on ensuring that a 3rd part javascript file does not slow down your page.
Reminds me of Calvin & Hobbes: http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ch/1986/ch860927.gif
The Social Stock Market is Hiring Engineers
I don't think he thought it all the way through, but I do think the author is onto something. A very important aspect of any kind of interface is to what extent it lets you combine and compose actions. But a) the line is not the same as the GUI/CLI line and b) it's a matter of degree.

A CLI could easily just be a set of five commands with no options that are roughly orthogonal. There is not much potential for constructing powerful, expressive commands, nor much of a learning curve. Just memorize the list. On the other hand, you probably don't need to look far in this thread to find an example of a GUI that allows powerful combinations of commands/effects/etc.

Depending in the design of the interface, there can be different degrees of combinability. I think the main point of the article should be (if it isn't) that what degree you want depends on the domain the interface is for, whether it should allow an infinite variety of actions.

Apparently this got lost in his stereotypes. By CLI he meant roughly Unix, and by GUI he meant a point-and-click GUI. There are many more possibilities in between.
Based on the following:

SIRI >> Sorry, I can’t provide maps and directions in Canada.

ELIZA >> Have you tried?

I would say that Eliza is smarter than Siri.
Oh ok, shameless self-promotion. We are in private beta for TrackIgnite (http://www.trackignite.com). Its a dashboard that allows users to synch their self-tracking health and fitness apps. The user can automatically see all their data in charts and graphs, retrieve their tracking history, and share it with anyone they invite or they can keep it public. We will launch a doctor/patient dashboard next month that allows patients to share their fitness, nutrition, mood, sleep and other data points to give the doctor quantified data and save on costly tests/treatments.

Our beta users are in love with it and we're getting excellent word-of-mouth signups. We've integrated 30 self-tracking web and mobile based tools. I'm a self-tracking geek :)
Effective board meetings
I would like to see data on developer profits from paid/ad based apps though. I wonder if this may be due to more free apps on the Android Marketplace.
Teachers like that should be banned from education for life.
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Ask HN: Developing an eCommerence website
My company has asked me to research eCommerence websites for a project I'll be working on later on. Our client is selling about 200 items in various sizes. What are some good resources to look at? Where I do I start? I've never developed something as complex as this.
That is certainly has been known for centuries.
This reminds me of Theo Jansen's Strandbeests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA
EU politician wants built-in surveillance in every operating system
It's not just not getting a large part of the up side. If the company fails, there isn't enough base pay to create a financial cushion to rely upon in the lean times. Something I have personal experience with.

Regards,
TDL
Its really a testament to GitHub how many of us started a project like this when we kept hearing about the greatness of Hubot. I am really pumped to see what the community comes up with as far as scripts go. Pumped to see at least the start of IRC support - I figured it was Campfire only, and would have to hack it myself to make it do IRC
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What python module did you wind up using for your Python bot?
Regarding Visual Studio operators, I don't think you and bad_user are talking about the same people. I suspect you would eventually find, if you talked it over more, that the people he labels as "operators" are not the ones creating the awesome games, OS's, and other software.
Google: US law enforcement tried to get videos removed from YouTube
Thank you for pointing out my mental lapse. I've edited the post to clarify. I still think the questions are important though.
That's a common misconception about the Thiel foundation.

Their main point is that they think that going into a multi-year debt in order to get an education is a losing proposition for many people and that because of that you might be better of dropping out.

The 20 under 20 program is for exceptional people, see #5 in the linked article.
In my area, the only reasonable way to buy and sell used games is online. But during the holidays, Steam sells a lot of games at a 75-90% discount. During those sales, I spend on Steam what I'd normally spend on postage.

I also get a lot of titles by smaller developers that are only available digitally, too.
Unfortunately for you, the game's industry is slowly and inevitably moving towards personal subscription based purchases.

This is slowly driving down the price of games (which is a good thing), and hopefully it'll lead to higher revenues for publishers so (the good ones) can continue to make more and better games.

More money for publishers and cheaper games for individuals? I think it's pretty win-win. The second hand game market really short changes the publishers, and it's very expensive to make a top title!

Imagine how much Portal 2 cost Valve to make, was it worth it?
It is outrageous when they take 20% of the billing rate (or more) hour after hour, every hour. All for sending a few emails, making a few phone calls, and arranging the interview. Among the middlemen in all industries, tech recruiters do the least work, and are least knowledgeable of the industry they work in - a real estate agent for example, does far more work than a recruiter, and could actually be very helpful.

There has to be a better way to do tech recruiting.
The problems that could be crowd-sourced with 7 billion people...
Skmmr sounds really interested. I will be sure to give it a try if I ever get any friends on there.
Founder here, looking forward to your feedback :)
> Having said that, it is a lot easier to sell a cool looking $250 gadget than asking someone to spend $5,000 to modify their home.

I think a little creativity in the payment model could help this problem a lot. The whole point of the system is to guarantee a decrease in the cost of heating and cooling, right? Doing some statistical analysis, it should be possible to estimate how much your customers will save. Tell them you'll pay their bills for them for the next X years. Charge them 90% of their current costs, pay the actual bills yourself, and keep the rest to pay for your system. After 3 years (or whatever statistically works out to be a comfortably-profitable threshold), they own the system free and clear and pay their bills themselves, again. Obviously they can pay off the system in full at any point, to allow for home sales and things.
Another fun note: MS rounds the end of support date to the nearest quarter. I still remember when extended support for XP was to end at the end of year 2008.
but....you clearly couldn't. There is still a massive difference in quality between a cell phone and a pro level video camera, and this shows it.
I just read through five of those and didn't even notice they were in CoffeeScript until I saw your username here!

Congrats on creating such an eminently readable language - it just melted away into the background while I was enjoying the actual logic and functionality described in the code.
TSA operates VIPR which is doing intelligence gathering.
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Shameless self promotion is exactly what I was looking for.
I was using XP until my Lenovo died this weekend. I pulled Vista off of it pretty quick. I suppose I'll be moving on to 7 now. :)
Allow me to remove one item at a time from the cart instead of emptying whole cart at once. Great job!
Ask HN: Stripe for Sending Payments?
I am really impressed with how far payment processing has come from just Paypal, including all of the layers on top like Spreedly, Recurly, and Chargify, to better end to end products like Stripe and Braintree.

This is great for those wanting to accept payments, but what about those who are trying to send payments, the other thing Paypal is used for. As far as I can tell there really hasn't been a lot of movement on this front. You seem to have to rely on the solutions all of the above mentioned services are trying to fix namely, Paypal and Amazon FPS.

I think what makes it harder is the fact that there seems to be a need for some type of pseudo bank account, like Paypal has, to manage deposits.

With the exception of WePay, which I think is the only company working on this front, are there other solutions? Is this on the road map for processors like Stripe? Or is it really not that big of a market?
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There has been quite a bit of discussion, going back almost 2 years: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369039

I'm personally interested in this because I know first hand about the bottom of EV-comp curve: I personally enjoy working at really early-stage companies, have little in the way of expenses (27yo DINK), but don't have enough saved to start my own thing (payed off 50k in student loans last year).

It feels somewhat akin to working at game companies: Working in the industry is glamorized, so young and energetic people flock to it and get relatively shafted on the margins. My job is nowhere near as bad as working at somewhere like EA, but it's not unlike it either.

I won't be doing this for much longer though, as the market isn't changing fast enough. Next time it's co-founder or series C+. In-between I always feel like I'm being had, to a degree.
The one thing that's not possible to test is when a download is uninstalled, which affects this metric significantly.

I find that I install a lot of android apps, but uninstall the vast majority of them. My iOS device, on the other hand, gets fewer downloads, but virtually all are paid and virtually all have stayed for good.

After owning 3 android devices, iPod touch and an iPad 2, I've come to the conclusion that the iOS apps are substantially better. To balance the field I have to download many android apps to find the best ones, which has been a challenge because most of the android and amazon markets are complete crap.

One example... I use audiogalaxy for streaming music. The iOS version is perfection, it streams well, UI has no glitches that I've found and it uses the iOS dev patterns well. The android version has many UI issues, it's sluggish and buffering works, but not as well as iOS. In addition, the menu system is convoluted on android making it very difficult to navigate. This is just one example, there are many android apps that have these issues (same thing with beyondpod).

I am impressed with android numbers (those of us who bought G1's never thought this day would come), but I don't think it's translating into more sales. Android still has a long way to go before it catches up with iOS, imo.
I propose HTTP 0.2, a subset of HTTP 1.1 with some simple extensions: http://http02.cat-v.org
See "Toddler learning to walk" at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/videos.html (2004). At first, the robot walks passively down an inclined treadmill. But it quickly learns how to efficiently add just a little bit of power from its motors at the right time each stride, such that it soon walks on level ground and adapts to different surraces.
Mine is(was?) in Python with an XMPP lib. I hadn't gotten around to solving the async problem yet, so I'll probably just jump to Hubot.
The comments here about how bad contingency recruiters are point to a lack of three skills:

- listening
- industry knowledge
- politeness

Now, a new recruiter might not have much industry knowledge, but you can pick up listening skills and politeness (for any given culture) in a myriad of jobs. Why don't they have these valuable skills?

Recruiters aren't very good at recognizing people who would be good recruiters...
Software Hyper-Productivity and Function Points
Sufficient, but clearly not optimal. Temperature regulation requires time-based cycles to minimize power use, a scenario that doesn't tend to be served very well by a manually-controlled system.

For example, it generally makes sense to reduce heating use an hour or two after bedtime, until an shortly before folks wake up - is someone going to wake up to do that?

There's a lot of room here for simple innovations that will save huge amounts of energy when spread out over thousands of homes. Think how much power is saved by motion sensitive lights at offices now.
Language is clearly not the whole solution, only part of it. The greater part is, I suspect, psychological and social. We have yet to come to terms with the relationship between software development and how humans function. Given that code is written by humans for humans, that's a fatal omission. Yes, there have been attempts to talk about this (Weinberg, Peter Naur, the better parts of agile) but they're the tip of an iceberg.

(p.s. Edited for brevity. I always do that and never bother saying it, but in this case there was a concurrency conflict because someone downvoted the bloated version. Mea culpa.)
The tone of my post implies that the candidate/recruiter relationship is a reciprocal one, in good times we need you in bad times you may need us. The intent of my post is to share the recruiters side and hopefully have a balanced debate. I get that there are BAD recruiters out there, I totally hear that but not all of us are clueless, which is, in my option, the tone of the original blog <recruiters are by and large a waste of your time>
Steve Jobs on “entrepreneurs”
'I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business. That’s how you really make a contribution and add to the legacy of those who went before. You build a company that will still stand for something a generation or two from now. That’s what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That’s what I want Apple to be.'

Excerpt from Isaacson's book
I'm using Wokkel (the bleeding-edge version of the Twisted XMPP lib IIRC); EDIT: if memory serves, I used this as an example: https://github.com/colagrosso/rainbot. Nothing particularly wrong with Wokkel, just the bot itself has grown tremendously ugly.
#estonianmafia again - nice
Eureka moment on design patterns for functional programming
I would have to agree. When I was working as a full-time developer (for internships), it felt like I had all the time in the world compared to homework and studying.
I have a box that sits in the closet and runs a bridge/relay. Bandwidth on a commercial grade cable connection is minimal, and I don't notice it at all. I've successfully run Tor nodes on boxes with 300 Mhz processors and only 128MB of memory, so yeah, I'm guessing a tiny VPS wouldn't have trouble with it.

I don't run an exit, and won't be running an exit, but it is simple enough to run a bridge/relay that I'm surprised how few people do.

A really helpful piece of software is arm: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/arm-release-140 really useful way of monitoring how much bandwidth tor is using. It also allows you to edit/reset you torrc with a couple of keys. It keeps stats on how much data your passing through the network too, which is pretty cool.

I've had no problems from my ISP (Comcast), but then again I do pay for their commercial grade service, which doesn't have ToS restrictions on proxies. (I used to run a node out of my residential Comcast connection too-- they didn't seem to mind).
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Shameless self-promotion, but I expect big things from Fogbeam Labs: http://www.fogbeam.com

We're working on some innovative, open-source "social knowledge management" tools that combine social networks, social-network-analysis, machine-learning, semantic web tech, and search in some interesting ways, o help people find the information and knowledge they need to do their jobs. We're out to help firms increase productivity, innovate faster and decrease cycle times / become more adaptive.
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Bug report: connect with twitter then use your email as your username when the auth redirects and a 500 is thrown.
Agreed. This would make a better killer feature of Mint than it does a standalone product.

For now I'll sit around wishing Mint would acquire them.
thanks - what was the link building strategy you ended up focusing on and why?

look forward to seeing the ad texts. thx for sharing.
BigDog was able to go both uphill and downhill, as well as even be kicked from the side while maintaining balance. Good point regarding being passive, I figured that somehow the robot would figure out the slope and provide extra power when the terrain was uneven or if it would be unable to maintain a given speed passively.
PHP can be very handy for simple tasks -- and that make it very popular among starter programmers and unpopular as an enterprise, serious programming language for many experienced programmers. From my point-of-view, this is like you are trying to differentiate yourself through the tools you use and not your actual work.

The truth is that when you need to get things does PHP can be a much more convinient tool than ruby-on-rails. The following Blog describe this better than I would ever do:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...

Regarding PHP frameworks: A year ago I decided to try most PHP frameworks. I recall working with ZendFramework, Symphony (not v2 to be honest), CakePHP and Yii. At the end of the day I preferred and used Yii simple because it made easier to start producing something useful.