skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear stuff like this a lot (mining asteroids for precious metals)...

Wouldn't flooding the market with that much gold...crash it? Are we really talking about that many billions and billions of dollars worth of potential revenue from mining an asteroid?

This all just seems like fun sci-fantasy.
The hardest thing to develop as a designer is good taste. This book may provide some quick tips to make a typical developer made design less bad, and maybe that's the goal, but good taste takes time.

As developers what would you think of a designer picking up a book that says "Bootstrapping Development"? Would you think that your designer buddy could read through this book in a weekend and not need a developer for his start up?
If student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy lenders would think much harder about the wisdeom of lending $40k/year for liberal arts degrees. Colleges would have to reconsider what they charge for such degrees and students would have an important market signal when choosing a course of study.
I highly recommend upping this closer to twice an hour.
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Can you elaborate on why you think of Apogee? When I think of Apogee I think "Gee, I wish my Apogee product worked on Windows"
I would, but I think it would be difficult to get a bunch of people to rent houses all at once unless you yourself are renting multiple. :)
This is a problem that I've faced each time I used mechanical turk. Glad to see an elegant solution that just works!
modular is not the same thing as redundant.
It takes just one random book pick to prove God, if He's in the mood. (It will look like time travel.)

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\WEALTH.TXT

for such a term of years
as might give them time to recover, with profit, whatever they should
lay not in the further improvement of the land. The expensive vanity of
the landlord made him willing to accept of this condition; and hence the
origin of long leases.

Even a tenant at will, who pays the full value of the land, is not
altogether dependent upon the landlord. The pecuniary advantages which
they receive from one another are mutual and equal, and such a tenant
will expose neither his life n

-------

You get out of prayer what you put into it. Deja Vu. :-)
What will happen if the SEC chooses to permit crowdfunding?
I could never deal with that much spam.
I couldn't find a way to comment on the blog post or a way to contact the author:

"Diving into online dating - it’s not a zero sum game

Online dating is hear to stay,"

typo, should be "here to stay"
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I don't recall the article being "Programming on the cheap". You can get a used 12-core station for that money. Or a bike.
One aspect of design that's been on our mind has been naming our product. Any general guidelines about naming websites would also be appreciated. (I've read GoDaddy's suggestions, but useful as they are, they're so sparse.)
Oh right, so you're a real professional, not a pesky hobbyist. Well if you say so.
Chirp - It's like Square, only without the need for a square or a credit card.
I think a lot depends upon what you're doing.

Most of my coding is done in an ssh terminal using screen/vim. For this task I find myself most productive in a laptop. If you can get used to a laptop's touchpad you can be very productive because I find the time to switch between touchpad/keyboard is much less than the time to switch between a standard mouse/keyboard. The small movement of the touchpad isn't a big deal because the viewing space is small enough.

When using a full blown IDE I find myself most productive on a large, high resolution monitor, mainly because of all the surrounding stuff IDEs add - small displays just can't display enough code for me. However, touchpads are no longer efficient because it takes too many swipes to move across the screen, so I have to use a standard mouse+keyboard, losing some efficiency.

Usually, I find myself wearing two hats - monitoring production systems while coding. Multiple monitors are invaluable here, allowing you to delegate monitoring to 1 or 2 screens fulltime, while you use the other for coding. This way you don't have to mess with alt tabs, you can just take a quick glance when you want to.

One thing I've found invaluable with a multiple monitor setup (I'm currently at 4, laptop not included) is being able to move from monitor to monitor quickly. I use global hotkeys for this - ctrl-1 moves my mouse to the first monitor, ctrl-2 moves my mouse to the second, and so on. Without this I found myself spending far too much time moving my mouse around the screen to truly find them useful.
I'm using Sublime Text 2 because it's obviously the new hotness in the valley.

I was at a g2g and everyone was coding in ST2. The social stigmatism of not using the new hotness is enough to get a lot of people to conform or be an obviously bad developer.

tl;dr Code editors have more mindshare than _actually getting stuff done_.

This same phenomenon is why I use a MacBook Pro (though admittedly, the MBP is peerless, unlike TEXT EDITORS).
I got it by eyeballing Table 10 to get about 5.5 hours worked/day, multiplied by 7.

Assuming the sample is statistically representative, the hours/week calculation is accurate. Across the population as a whole, it is a mathematical identity that:

Sum(Sum(hours(day, teacher), all teachers), days in week) == Sum(Sum(hours(day, teacher), days in week), all teachers)

In a statistical sample, the equality will be approximate due to sampling error, and it's worthy of a note. Maybe the ATUS did a bad job, but in general I assume they do an adequate job absent evidence they did not. Do you have better data?
"learnings"?
The only thing I liked about PL/SQL back in the day was its use of := for assignment and = for equivalence.
"Part of the problem is, that libart-schools are filled with kids who thought stuff will just work itself out, like it has always happened for them. Romantically just following ones dreams to the end."

Part of it is that, but part of it is our parents giving us incomplete advice. The message is always, "go to college and everything will work itself out" and their kids get the impression that choosing a major is sort of a personal decision that doesn't have any tremendous impact.
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>“Current dating sites suck … an undergrad could build something better as a class project.” ~Paul Graham from his essay, How To Start a Startup

>we decided to take PG’s advice a bit further and take time off of school.

A lot has changed in the online dating world. Hopefully they have a better argument than a 6 year old quote from one person, albeit being from PG.
Gmail on my Android works great though.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
The initial steps for setting up may be harder, but the steps you have to take to install an app on your development phone are waaaay easier, never mind the actual process of deployment on the marketplace.
I guess theoretical is a subjective term.

What I meant to say was that Clojure/conj seems geared towards advanced clojure users, and I think Clojure would benefit of a conference that focuses more on bringing new developers to the fold. From this perspective, more talks about build tools, web development frameworks, useful libraries, etc would be great. I personally think that clojure could use some more evangelization here in the Bay Area, and I believe Clojure/west can do just that.

But I myself attended to the Emerging Languages Conference, so I will definitely enjoy the conj very much, don't get me wrong.

EDIT: I guess I didn't answer part of your question, which is what talks I consider theoretical. Here are some (judging from title and abstract): "Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala", "Predicate Dispatch", "Concurrent Stream Processing" . Hoping this will help with clarification, this is what I would like to see too at some point: "From concept to production in 40 min: how to create a webapp in clojure", "A survey of Clojure tooling", "Debugging made easy", "Clojure and Hadoop", etc.
Wow. Highly skeptical they can pull this off. Why not just focus on Facebook?
Experts Exchange is not scamming anyone: you, google, whomever. All they did was play Google's game by Google's rules with first-click free and did it better than anyone else for a long time. Now that Google has changed the rules, EE will change too. There's a new site in beta testing and given the Panda restrictions it will almost have to be a freemium model in order to compete.
How is that adjudicated-to-be-worthless "asset" to be valued?
I'd be happy to do so if you can show me an outcome that is anything other than bad PR for us and an open source hacker looking like a jerk. We looked at this hard and for us the least bad outcome was to just to get the guy to stop and move on. Anything else was going to be like this thread, everyone saying it's not true and then, if they ever believed it was true, they'd still be pissed at us.

If some credible person in the open source community wants to talk to us about it, look at the evidence, and confirm the facts and relay that back without naming names, that's fine with me.
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The problem is, IMO, that it is a very narrow use case with a very specific user base that is willing to be very very flexible with this particular user interface (apps timing out when backgrounded, swiping instead of switching via Command+Tab, the low viewing angle etc). It is an interesting preview of what a 'cloud terminal' future could look like but I can't help wondering if the vast majority of viewers on HN are cringing at the thought of just how many backwards steps in UI evolution they would have to take from the familiar desktop and laptop PCs.
We had a version of our app be approved by Apple with a critical login bug for anyone how had never installed the app before. Apple didn't even bother to launch the app or else they would have received the error! Now, obviously, this was our failure to catch this in QA but, seriously? Why even have a review process if you're not even going to bother logging in with the credentials we supplied?!
Sure, git-annex can use bup as a special remote. This way you get bup's nice properties of storing big stuff in git with binary deltas, with git-annex's nice properties of a normal-looking file in a git clone.
Just to toss this out here, but $20/mo for a linode, is not a huge investment, and it's something that I have even without doing everything "in the cloud". It's handy for those quick file transfers, a small portfolio site, and since you have root access, you can quickly set up or take down any odd services without the hassle of finding a distinct hosting service (Mumble, Mercurial, Subversion, or what have you).

But that's just my two cents.
Good idea, but geez, its really hard to read the tooltip/arrows.

http://contrastrebellion.com/
It's unfair to judge this book before reading it, but the web page promoting it reads like an infomercial. Specifically, "You are a designer." and "Save thousands by not hiring a designer." make me feel like there is going to be a chapter about making font size smaller and jacking up leading.

What am I getting by reading this? Is it design basics that let me get started with modifying something? Is it the fundamentals? Is it a rundown of common contemporary design elements that can be combined to make a reasonable looking page?

Professional designers aren't selling overpriced witchcraft.
This would be sweet for running CrashPlan on. Are there other SAN solutions that work with CrashPlan? I looked about 2 years ago and didn't find a good option (to me, good = I don't have to leave my computer on all the time).
Given how long they've been delaying, I'd be very surprised if they have any money left in those coffers, or if they used the last of it to "pay" their "lawyers".
I tried to, but a few things make it impossible:

- Most editors suck in one way or another

- You have to work on a terminal if you want version control, builds or setup local servers

- Mobile Safari is not fast enough. You spend a lot of time reloading pages

- No inspector for the DOM, javascript, debugging, profiling

- Zero ability to handle graphics
Half of the original decision is that said "asset" doesn't exist. A copyright is transferable. One can hire outside representation. However, one cannot simply delegate the standing to sue (and thereby be insulated from counter damages).

Hopefully the next step (when it's found that liquidating Righthaven won't satisfy its debts) is to pierce the veil of this shell company and pursue damages directly from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post for their frivolous proxy lawsuit.
That's because the bulk of the article (to which the headline applies), is based on Net Applications' globally-captured data ( http://www.netmarketshare.com/ ), while the last part of the article (to which that disclaimer applies), is based on the Ars site's browser usage stats.
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Sorry, have to agree with the general sentiment that it's not so much "College" that's been oversold, as it is liberal arts degree programs that won't likely lead to a "good" paying job that has a decent ROI.

That's not to say that education in the arts isn't valuable, it's jut not as immediately useful and measurable to the bottom line from the perspective of an employer.
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> “From modules and widgets, we came to ‘mojits,” Fernandez-Ruiz says. “And this became Mojito.”

Midgets, gotcha.
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> I can only assume that there's some desire within Google to make sure the iPhone versions of their products are complete dogshit to try and encourage Android adoption.

Do people think companies really behave this way? "Hey guys, how can we make our products crappier? Surely if people think our iPhone apps stink, they'll be motivated to go out and buy a whole phone from us!"

There are a whole host of mundane reasons why products turn out worse than they could be, and they almost never include conspiracy or malice.
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Yesterday, when I asked people not to get too excited about the iPhone GMAIL app and I was downvoted into oblivion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180049

The I maintain that the Android version is really unstable (take a look at the app store review page).

Google is just too big to move at the pace required for so many products it has.
Sure, Jobs audited the calligraphy class, but he was able to do so because there was a liberal arts college running the class. The point is that the calligraphy class had substantial value later on, at least in the mind of Steve Jobs.
Hi! Yes, that's the one. It certainly isn't finished, and yes, I was drawing it from memory just to get a feel for the tool.
Now you just have to worry about someone picking up your phone while you're looking away and paying themselves.

Or applications that need access to post to your twitter stream, which is a more likely concern.
Tons of apps work great on my iPhone. Says more about the app than the phone. Sorry, I couldn't resist either.
The iPad 2 can output FullHD resolution, the app just needs to support it.
So, if Google is supposed to only be hiring A people, who is making all these crummy iOS apps?
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Not even worth thinking about... DX and OGL are mutually unintelligible :(
You make a fair point, but don't we often see threads that designers should learn to code, if only to be better designers? How is the inverse not true?

I'd never say someone new to design could get results equal to those from a professional designer from day 1. Of course not.

Many bootstrappers don't have the option of working with a designer, but they can still do well enough on their own. At least while their businesses grow and until they can hire someone.
I used to program with a 24" monitor. Then I switched almost exclusively to my 13" Macbook/Pro and haven't looked back.

The screen is just the right size to fit two 80x25 text editor windows side-by-side when full-screened. Swiping back and forth with Mission Control is almost as quick as switching your glance from one big monitor to another. Having your "mouse" right below your keyboard makes clicking something only marginally more time consuming than contorting your hands to hit an Emacs command sequence.

Probably still faster with the big setup, but I get a lot of mileage out of my little setup and I get a huge productivity/creativity boost from being able to wander around the house, head to a Starbucks, etc.
A stupid mistake by Google. Telling that Apple did not pick up on it in their famed testing process, though. Maybe they wanted to embarrass Google a little, but I assume we will never know.
The update was beneficial to Google, not necessarily to its users. A lot of Google properties (Demand Media, anyone?) that are clearly content farms climbed up the rankings while good sites like Stack, DaniWeb, and yes...Experts Exchange got nailed. In DaniWeb's case, she got nailed twice by two different updates.

The problem here is Google is selling the ads and also determining the traffic to the ads. It's too much in one place and ripe for abuse and the abuse seems to be happening
That is correct. Amazon will sponsor and advise you on getting an H1B visa, once hired.
Feel free to send me your resume if you are especially interested in the CSTech team at Amazon.
cheers!
We've recognized some of the changes that have occurred, but think we can change it even more. Thanks for the feedback!
Right, you should get prison-raped for filing a copyright suit. Amen, brother.
Sure, if you knew who they were already. But if you don't, you need to start tracking packets.
Yeah, it's the low albedo that kills you. Something that large made of ice would probably be quite bright.

Quick OOM calc: This thing has an area proportional to the moon of (200m/1700km)^2. The moon has an albedo of ~0.12. An object with albedo 1 would thus have a brightness of ~1e-7 of the Moon's. The full Moon has a magnitude of -12.7, so such an object would have a magnitude of -12.7-2.5log10(1e-7), or about 4.8. That's clearly visible to the naked eye at a dark site, but not very impressive.
I'm guessing you're referring to this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/153990/

I remember that, long ago; I don't think there's anything wrong with not wanting users of your product to leverage it to build a replacement nor disallowing it in the license.

I think where people (including myself) have a problem, is claiming that mercurial somehow has ripped off something from BK. From vague memory, BK laid claim to using a DAG for a DVCS? I assume you must also think that if someone is first to implement something that can be trivially found in an introductory computer science text, they have a patentable claim?

Ironic that "largefiles" is a user contributed extension, and that only mercurial seems to be guilty of "copying," but git must be so different that it's unworthy of being sued?
The iPad is his terminal, not what he's programming.

So it's more like a cook who prefers an oven with a temperature knob over the flexibility and control of lighting and tending his own fire.*

* I say this a someone who definitely is glad not to have to kindle a fire to cook even the most elaborate meals, but who loves a good wood-fired pizza.
OTOH The first two items on the list of app store review guidelines:

2.1 Apps that crash will be rejected
2.2 Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected
This response actually kind of scares me. Here's why.

1. No one has taken time to address the real issue—yes, there's a weird bug on launch, but the real issue is that the app itself blows. It's terrible. It's basically entirely a web view that runs even slower than the GMail webapp itself. As Scoble says in the comments: "The bar is high for apps. Make it better than a web page or DO NOT RELEASE! Please."

2. This an absurdly easy thing to check for. This has happened first with the Google Voice app, then with the Google+ app, now with the GMail app. Is Google committed to systematically destroying their own brand?
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Tridge is not exactly telling the whole story. That telnet thing is quite but the part he left out is when Linus was at his house running BK commands and Tridge was snooping the network to figure out the protocol. There isn't any chance that Tridge figured out what to do by telneting to bkbits and I'll back that up with a $10K challenge for anyone to write the same code Tridge wrote, in the same time frame, with the only resource being telnet to bkbits.net.

Go talk to Linus and see what he says about all this, don't take my word for it.
>>Half a mil to learn about Poetry Writing. Sorry, but that's just silly.

Except it's payed for by your taxes. Who is silly here?
Mission Control on OS X on a laptop is also a huge improvement over overlapping windows. Swiping between full-screen apps becomes second nature very quickly.
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Yes, the results are consistent with that. Whatever stochastic effects there were, like electrical fluctuations or materials variations, were negligible.
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One takeaway:

Percent engaged increases after 65 not because of age effects, but because of survivor bias: those who work after retirement are primarily those who choose to work.
Why put any effort into making a deliberately bad app when they could even more easily make no app at all?
Be sure to get a fantastic front-end engineer/designer on board. It strikes me the online dating space more needs better design than algorithms. (even OKcupid is just OK. pun intended)
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wishing you guys all the best - but you've probably picked one of the most difficult business models imaginable. building a user base for a dating site is even harder than building a new social network and competing against giants like match.com is gonna be very difficult. my advice; try to appeal to a niche segment - don't target the masses. as far as I can tell online dating sites aren't broken, it's in most cases just a lemons market.
I had this exact same idea about 8 months ago - connecting singles around events. I was a little more focused on bringing local businesses into the mix to promote the events though. I thought through it quite and bit and my conclusion was that it doesn't really differ much from a singles night.

An app that made facilitating a singles night easier is a pretty solid idea, however, selling it as a dating website is not the right way to go in my opinion.

The main demographic for dating websites has always been men. The problem with trying to put together a singles night is that the main value proposition (women) is difficult to come by with an online dating website.

Additionally, a lot of people who try dating websites are there for a few main reasons: 1) they are too busy to go out and meet people 2) they are too shy to go out to meet people. Either way, this solution doesn't solve those problems.

I actually built out a good portion of the backend of this product but have since pivoted into something different. They also will run into the chicken and egg issue, although with a little facebook marketing that's pretty easy to solve.
I imagine that "dating sites suck" is a way of saying "it's really hard to make a dating site that works for people." Sure, lots has changed in the dating world, but I would not be surprised if there is substantial room for improvement for a long time to come.
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Deja vu, this happened when Google launched the Google Plus iOS app too:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/19/google-plus-iphone-app-lau...
How is this really different than HowAboutWe?