skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average price of a wedding is $28,000? That doesn't sound right. I know many do cost that much, but the average?
all it's meant to do is start the conversation. i believe this does that very well.
The Movie Set That Ate Itself
I know about currying, but there's still a certain meaning to arity even in this case.

It might be argued that on the long run the current syntax is better for the veteran Haskeller, but it's still some barrier to entry. I wonder if a Haskell IDE could have a 'clarify calls' mode that shows where each function argument goes or comes from..
I think I agree. I can see lots of semantic problems, but I can't think of anything that would be an actual problem. After all, we already have Zulu time, Unix time and UTC being used in various places. Maybe I'm just not being imaginative enough?
Beer and Icecream Diet
Where do these guys (JML Products and Design) fit in? http://www.jmlproductsanddesign.com/DryErasePaint.htm

They claim their clear dry erase paint is patented, but I don't see them list the patent number anywhere.
I agree with a lot of what you say.

However, it takes a lot more time to write code guided by tests than it does to just write code. And you may end up throwing away a lot of those tests and rewriting them when the code changes in response to customer feedback.

In my mind that's the main argument against TDD.

I'm happy to write tests after the v1.0 of an application is shipped and I have sign-off from my customer, because it is clear then that the time is not wasted - they have the working product as soon as possible, after all.

However, in my world it's inevitable that I'll be assigned to another task almost immediately after I ship a product. Those tests often don't get written.

I suppose I'm accumulating a lot of technical debt, but everything seems to work...
Either that or find interesting problems that are valuable.
I'm not sure their business model is based on coming up with completely original ideas.

Notice the UserVoice/GetSatisfaction-style feedback tab on the right-hand side of the page... that leads to a site called "UserEcho", with some familiar faces on the about page.
That’s a bit of an over-generalization. While there are individuals that can use the party-sex-drugs track as a networking opportunity into future lucrative careers, such individual are an exception, not the rule. Most students on the party-sex–drugs track are just enjoying their youth (and racking up student loans). I’ll agree that if you’re a young Machiavelli attending an elite school, then rubbing shoulders with your wealthy classmates can work out quite well.
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I think the difference is that no need to add tags my extension add the tags for you.
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Unique Art from Everyday Items
You can find inspiration in the simplest of everyday items if you know where to look.
I'm not talking about dense language. Actually, there are some pretty brilliant orators and writers who take these ideas and put them in pretty accessible language. But the ideas are still difficult. They lead in increasingly complex directions in terms of how we got here, where we are, and what to do.

I recognize that unnecessarily obscure language is a hallmark of academia and socio-political thought. I think tomes like Negri's "Empire" wallow in it. But what I'm referring to is what happens when you get past that, either as the reader, or as the theorist.
iTunes is... amazingly bad. I was using foobar2000 in wine for a while, but the terrible interaction between X11 apps and spaces got me to switch back to iTunes. I'll probably opt for a CLI solution in the near future.
We screwed them to the studs with brass flat head screws. Since it took 4 showerboards to cover the wall, this created a plus-shaped set of seams that made a cool riveted effect. However, we caulked the seams and painted over the screws and seams with the whiteboard paint left over from the experiments. I would have liked to attach them in a cleverer way, but I'm not very handy.
Simulated Mars mission 'lands' back on Earth
But clean-room engineering is almost always slower than writing the software from scratch. Which, AFAICT, is what most companies actually do except in the rare case where they need to achieve interoperability with an existing product (like the early PC clones where bug-compatibility with the IBM PC was essential). Right?
Get an artist involved ASAP! :)
Optional parenthesis if no argument is given was already a feature of at least pascal in the seventies.

All those new "cool and innovative" languages are just rediscovering it after almost a decade of everything with C syntax.

Not that it's bad or anything, it's just my OCD tingling.
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Could be skewing: a small group of couples may spend much more.
The Hobbit - 48 RED cameras shooting 48fps at 5K
A Startup Inside a Fortune 500 Company? The Nordstrom Innovation Lab
Ask HN: Review my startup - EventSnag
Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some feedback from the HN community. Just for a little background info, I’m a non-technical, single founder and decided to work on a startup.

EventSnag is essentially a Groupon for event tickets. I launched in San Diego a couple months ago. At the moment I’m focused on getting deals for live music and concerts but plan to expand to other events such as sports and theatre. The few deals I’ve ran so far have all done pretty well and the promoters I’m working with seem to be happy with the results.

I’d love to get some feedback from everyone. Any comments or criticism would be greatly appreciated.

To skip the sign up page go to: http://www.eventsnag.com/deals.html
> Paul Graham has a philosophy degree and most of his wealth came from people skills: convincing Blackwell and Morris to hack for him, and later convincing young engineers to hack for him.

id think having a deep enough knowledge on lisp to fill two books probably had something to do with it as well.
Well, scala can be used with gwt: https://github.com/scalagwt

It was documented on scala, page, but now you have to use the google cache to see this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wqqu7uQ...
As I understood, the key was leaked (well, deliberately published in a book) to the full cables file -- insurance was another file. Do you have further information?
It's funny how the solution to solving web page navigation is to reinvent Gopher.
One accuracy problem with the info...under 'Problems/Solutions':

> Our curated collections save brides up to 100% off retail.

So they give away dresses free? If they mean they cut the price in half, then it's save 50% off retail. That's a pretty common mistake.

Double going up, half coming down.

Edit: Btw, I think this presentation/slide deck is awesome.
here's the associated blog post:

http://speirs.org/blog/2011/10/30/ambitious-ios-apps.html
The biggest issues are less about syntax and more about having to restart containers etc again and again.

But everyone except Play! and a few others seems to be jumping the new syntax bandwagon.

Being a php/python/Java developer I'm afraid I'd trade all improvements after generics for a no restart required jvm
Makes sense when you’re selling bikes... a 50% off coupon only makes sense if your margins are 50% to begin with. But when you’re renting bikes, you have already sunk the cost of the bikes and are now looking to extract value from excess capacity. So the economics are different.

Or getting back to Yoga, it’s hard to offer 50% off your price for Lululemon clothes if you’re already discounting your prices to match the economy. But if you have a Yopga studio, your rent has already been paid. If you only have 10 people booked for a class that can hold 20, a coupon deal for ten more people may seem attractive.

Especially if Groupon fronted you the money for the attendees out of the capital they’re raised.

(Still not endorsing Groupon the company, just trying to be “fair and balanced” and make sure we’re looking at all of the factors in play.)
I would think so, if you are talking about websites at least
rather than an entire computing platform.

The entire point of a website at it's core is to send and display pages of information, this isn't really a problem that should require specific versions of special software to solve.

With the exception of requiring quicktime for the videos the apple website has always rendered fine for me on pretty much any browser I have viewed it with.
Update: script is no longer locked into a single preload. It can now switch preloads
Flow Junkie?
Seems a bit pigeon-holey to me. I'd think twice before applying such broad stereotypes.
Well, Ruby does go beyond this: optional parenthesis with or without arguments. Of course, no public instance variables, like Smalltalk and Scala, makes this possible.
Motorola Mobility has apparently won an injunction against Apple in Germany
Ruby does not get rid of semicolons or brackets. Heck, you can write Java/C++ style curly brace code in Ruby if you wanted.
Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

I'd love to know which 6 oz ice cream dessert has only 1200 gram calories in it(!) :-)
While it's possible that Kim Kardashian's 17 Million dollar wedding might be skewing the average, that figure doesn't seem outrageous to me.

Just hiring a wedding photographer can average between 5 and 10 grand (and that's not to hire Annie Leibowitz).

I charge on the low end of that average and I'm "cheap".
Ira Glass on the process of becoming great at something [video]
How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?
It seems from their pitch that they're including the entire cost of the wedding party. So even if the couple isn't paying for the expenses of the wedding party, perhaps that figure adds them in. From personal experience, any kind of normal venue used to hosting weddings that would fit 100+ people in NYC is in the ~$10k range alone before you add anything else in.
Russia just did it in 2011.

It will no longer have time adjustments twice a year.
Last one was in Spring 2011.
Question is, what % of users have the unity plugin installed?

I think it's quite neat that unity let's you embed your game into a web page but I often wonder how many users change their minds once posed with the requirement of a plugin install since this is exactly the kind of thing that IT savvy people advise their less technical friends not to do!
I agree in principle, but not in practice. Yeah, in an ideal world, everyone would set aside their own personal desires and wants to focus on the business's goals. And yes, you have to choose the customers' goals if the two should ever conflict.

But in practice, human beings are needy animals who aren't always practical. I find that programmers (including myself) can be more productive if you indulge that side a little bit.

In short, I think that you can have your cake and eat it too: code that programmers appreciate working on and also serves the customers' needs.
Really? Do you believe that founders and other team members would gain followers simply by virtue of being founders and team members?
Times are bad....

And yet Groupon obviously is doing alright.

Using your logic, shouldn't one be bullish on Groupon considering it'll make MORE money once the economy improves ? Using your logic of course....

My real problem with all this negative talk is that it's become a fad.

Groupon is gonna crash! It's a ponzi scheme! It's not worth anything!

Since so much sentiment is against Groupon, I tend to favor it more. Don't get me wrong, they've had a lot of problems, but it's definitely not the total disaster so many make it out to be.

Don't forget that contempt and fear are just as irrational as exuberance and greed.
Well, there aren't that many computers on the top500 that aren't owned by a government or university. I'm too lazy to look through the whole 500, but just in the top 100 let me count.

Airbus has one at 29. I think it's clear what they use that for.

Vestas Windsystems in Denmark has number 53. Presumably they're optimizing their wind turbines.

IBM has a couple, which they largely run like shared research facilities.

And that's pretty much it for commercial research facilities in the top500.
Two famous saying come to mind:

"Trust, but verify."

and as Ben Franklin once said, "Keep your eyes on it, and feel for your hatchet." I'd add to keep the other hand on your wallet.
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You are assuming that anonymous have information on 10, 100 and 10000 people belonging to the zetas. If that was the case, this could have unfolded quite differently.

(by this I don't mean that the claim by anonymous that they have information regarding the identity of Zeta members is a lie - I just mean that the information that they do have probably doesn't warrant a move such as the one you suggest)
DST is an example of how stuck in our ways humanity can be. In addition to the evidence in the article there have also been studies that have shown increased car accidents, lost productivity and all kinds of other problems caused by the cognitive impact of a whole society trying to wake up earlier then their body is expecting.

As far as energy usage is concerned I could see the argument being true if we could pick when the time changed each year to correspond with temperature fluctuations. But since weather tends to vary from year to year and we change the time on a set day the effort seems moot.
I don't see any mention on how to build outside the IDE (say, on a CI server). Are there Ant tasks? Maven/Tycho integration?

These things are important. Where're the docs?
As I recall, Russia has done just that this year and abolished the practice in Moscow, switching to GMT+4 year-round. Quote:

“Every fall and every spring we are swearing at this system,” Medvedev said. “Our biorhythms are damaged. We are all angry. We either oversleep and turn up late for work or wake up too early and don’t know what to do with this free time. Let alone poor cows and other animals that can’t understand why they should have their meals or be milked earlier or later.”

Here is a story on it:
http://rt.com/news/daylight-saving-time-abolished/
And keep in mind that figure doesn't cover video, which nowadays for 1080p and editing to a finished BD is another tidy sum.
Their market slide: http://investors.dressrush.com/#slide4

Their math doesn't compute?

2.7M weddings * (14+152) people per wedding =
445.5 million people * 28k $/wedding =
75.6B $

They probably mean:

2.7M weddings * 28k $/wedding = 75.6B $

But surely they're not trying to pocket $28k per wedding just for clothes?

It certainly looks beautiful, but the information is lacking. Also, 31% conversion rate?!!
N.B. It's chock-full.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chock-full
I agree wholeheartedly with this concept. I previously used the term "instincts", but I think "judgement" is better. A solution is more than a technical implementation: it should address the actual requirements of the product as well as the characteristics of the maintainers. A combination of familiarity + ease of development + enough scalability.
It is also great for using with Android/GWT. Scala can be both used with Android[1] and GWT[2], but it is not a walk in the park.

It seems like a great gateway drug for Scala.

[1] https://github.com/danielribeiro/HelloScalaOnAndroid

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198154
When I look around at other companies hiring Ruby on Rails developers, I see them focusing on three major traits: Super-smart; Large community following; Deep Ruby knowledge.

I definitely agree with the thrust of the article, but I run community sites and have run Ruby job ads for a few years and I can't recall seeing anyone looking for a hire with a "large community following."

In aggregate, across all the listings I've run, companies are most usually looking for experience, team working skills, familiarity with Agile practices, TDD experience and, sadly, the ability to commute to a certain location.
11.4% Of The 7 Billion People On The Planet Are Using Facebook
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I like seeing the JVM becoming a platform. Even if this particular language looks a bit silly compared to the others.
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> On a related note, I saw some screenshots and the windows version now has a bloated, horrible UI, not at all how I remember it.

That's probably one of the 'Modern' skins. The 'Classic' skins (from v2.x) still work the same. Windowshade mode is still there and one of my absolute favorite features (most modern skins can't even get this right, let alone other audio players). Each section is still a separate, movable window (player, playlist, equalizer, media library, etc).

Here's my Winamp, currently sitting at the top of my second monitor: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24903613/hn-winamp.png
There's a huge difference: the Australian system doesn't allow student loan investors (just the government?) to get more than the inflation-adjusted value of the interest-free loan. A percentage-of-earnings scheme, by not placing such a limit on the amount of money investors can make, would have two interesting effects:

1. Investors would have more incentive to help students succeed financially, since they get a cut of the profits.

2. Students who strike it rich would, in a competitive market, end up subsidizing everybody else. Think startups: the returns on VC's money come disproportionately from a few successes, and this lets them invest in a bunch of companies that probably won't be big hits, to get the few that will get big.
Right? And the calories on the label are actually kilogram calories!
Please please please baby jesus let me have a dollar every time someone says 'Language X, not language Y is the java successor'
Depending on why you're restarting your VM, you may want to check out the DCEVM: http://java.net/projects/dcevm

It lets you do arbitrary hotswapping of code, rather than only swapping method bodies. Not appropriate for production at this point, but you can install it on top of any Java 6 version prior to update 26 (not sure about Java 7); it's pretty useful for doing rapid iterations during development of large-scale server apps or swing applications.
I try to install this extension on Ubuntu 11.10.
First of all error in instalation -

gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -fPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -lpythonpython2: -fpic -L/usr/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--as-needed -lpythonpython2: -shared -o src/multicorn.so src/multicorn.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpythonpython2:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpythonpython2:
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: * [src/multicorn.so] Error 1
rm src/multicorn.o
ERROR: command returned 2

This is because Ubuntu have - python and python2.7 bin files. I fixed this by creating symlink on python.

After instalation another problem:

$ psql
psql (9.1.1)
Type "help" for help.

leo=# CREATE EXTENSION multicorn;
ERROR: could not load library "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/multicorn.so": /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/multicorn.so: undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct

All tested on specialy created for this system:
$ python -V
Python 2.7.2+
$ psql -V
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.1.1
contains support for command-line editing

On this my tests end.
I very highly recommend listening to a couple of episodes of Critical path if you care about Apple's supply chain strategy. I was amazed at the level of detail in which this was discussed (and going through this article I couldn't help but think that part of the information in it is due to the analysis on that podcast):

http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/10 and http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/11
> After all, we already have Zulu time, Unix time and UTC being used in various places.

Tangential, but "Zulu time" is just another name for UTC.
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Even as a pun it is the kind of comment that belongs on reddit instead of HN.
> If you're the kind of company that couldn't upgrade to Java 1.6 in 5 years

it doesn't always work like that. imagine a very rich customer who has all sorts of proprietary customizations to all of their software investments. millions of LOC. nobody's gonna port that shit off of java 1.5, and they told ya to deploy in their existing server environment, and ya do it because, well, they're rich.
Bah, humbug! It doesn't include BlockUp (http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/BlockUp.htm), Emigre's Remedy, perhaps the most over-used font in modern advertising (http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=117), nor does it include "Plumpy", an old school typeface so unabashedly ugly that nobody has bothered to digitize it, as far as I can tell. This Plumpy (http://tutvault.blogspot.com/2011/05/font-template-plumpy.ht...) does not have the "loaded diaper" look that the old school "Plumpy" had. But it's still awful.
OMG DREAMS DO COME TRUE!
Rounded corners are already out fashioned. If a client want IE6 support I take it as a good challenge, and do something nice under this heavy constraint. I'll tell them upfront that they won't have cheap drag and drop and that new stuff.
This essay seems to beg the question. A "good" developer, by its definition, is the who picks the most reasonable, easy to maintain technology, because she knows anything "much more complex would be beyond her current skill." Yet, if she is lacking in skill, how can we be sure her judgment is sound on what a "reasonable" and "easy" technology is? Doesn't the basis for that judgment require superstar-like experience and curiosity?
I "made it through" with a double major (CS and math), but the issues you bring up in your post do not really describe my experience with either department (though when I was looking around at universities during high school, I did write off those that looked like they would have such problems -- #2 is the easiest to detect).
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Not sure I quite agree here.
I know somebody who runs a financial website and IE6 visitors accounted for ~20% of their visitors but had a significantly higher conversion rate for IE6 users than others (no idea why).

#1 & 2 , Microsoft provide a free VM image of windows XP SP2 + IE6 specifically for IE6 testing. It's timebombed though so you do have to occasionally download a new one.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylan...

#4 Sometimes work isn't fun, if your in the business to make some money you've got to deal with that now and again.

It's your "duty" to build something that fits the clients requirements relative to the amount they pay you for it unless that involves something illegal or unethical and supporting IE6 is neither.
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I wish they would have integrated collaboration into the web app editor. Right now it feels like two web apps - the balsamiq editor and then a comment system. But they feel like separate apps and don't integrate with each other.
I think the enormity of 1933-1945 has produced something like intoxication in a lot of political discourse. On the Right a lot of folks can't see a second-rate bad guy like Saddam Hussein without thinking of Munich. On the Left, an awful lot of stuff reminds people of the Enabling Act.
One of the best ways I've found is to just start it! Tell yourself to just force out 10 minutes of whatever it is you're putting off. Once you've started, you'll want to see it through as much as you can.

There's proven theory behind why that method works... something about unfinished jobs fatiguing the mind.
Wow. Funny how these things take on a life of their own. A lot of people now think Keynes said that.