skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you are right.

What I think might be happening is that because Ubuntu loads compiz by default now, those 'specific conditions' might be seen a lot more than before.
I had found the data in your other tabs. Sparklines aren't necessarily reserved to summaries; I didn't mean to give that impression.

As an alternative to gauges, you could try a single horizontal bar, with background coloring for what you have as red, yellow, and green (picture a sparkline but as a bar). It shows the same information in less space and lets you show other related data to the side.

But as I said, if it sells disregard everything I've said. There's a discrepancy between the people who buy this stuff and the people who use it, and obviously you're trying to pitch to the guy with the money. People like pie graphs for instance. You probably shouldn't ditch the pie, even though a 4x2 table would show the same data.

Clustered bar graphs are generally an alternative to bubble charts, but it depends what you're representing whether that works or if you should split the data into multiple graphs.

I have to ask what that graph is really showing. Do I read it from the center of the dot? 'Nodejscommunity' is more specialized and more influencing than 'ryah' by that interpretation. Or should 'nodejscommunity' be more influencing because it has more followers?

Another question to ponder is whether the executive summary is a summary or dashboard. At my company the definition of a dashboard is something that doesn't scroll. So for whatever resolution you design for the data should fit on one page without scrolling. That would allow for someone to quickly open the page and make inferences about your data. A summary of course contains more information, but still at a high level.

Found an example for a dashboard: http://media.juiceanalytics.com/images/BonaVista_dashboard.p...
It even includes the horizontal bar I'm referring to.
I would rather deal with more addicts who aren't afraid to seek help, and who have help available, than read about another massacre. Or kids being branded as criminals because of a stupid mistake. The addicts would end up dead or in a bad place if the object of the addiction is criminalized. A thousand addicts who can seek help is better than ten addicts who are driven deeper into poverty and crime.
Another warning about mapstraction... I use it on my site and am not that happy with it. It doesn't support (seemingly) exotic features like z-index for markers and other things I ran into which I can't remember off the top of my head. When asked on the mailing list, devs stated they want to keep the library small. Sounds great but I've got an application to write that needs more than lowest common denom. So you end up hacking the google objects underneath directly to access many features (which you'll think are standard in 2011).

So now I have two libraries to support and users to download, much less documentation to rely on, and am not completely abstracted.
Well we just went through the same process. And the guy we talked to at google was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. But in the end that did not matter, because even after a 80% discount of the list price the final google maps offer was still 350% more expensive than our local alternative(a country-specific provider). So come january 1st, we are changing map provider. Fortunately it was rather easy to switch. Its been great having been able to use google maps all these years for free, and for that we are grateful.
Startup.com a movie about the last startup bubble
Aren't we missing the point a bit my singling out Samsung? This problem is much more pandemic to Android as a whole. What happened to the Android Update Alliance?

What percentage of iPhones are compatible and upgradeable to iOS 5 release on day 1 ? A very high percentage.
The author's entire argument rests upon this proposition:

"That landing of men on the moon and bringing them back alive was the supreme achievement of human capability, the most difficult problem ever solved by humans."

Yet there utterly no justification of this statement.

I would have thought that a professor of theoretical medicine would have some understanding of the importance of justifying one's arguments with hard evidence, but apparently not in this case.
Every time I sit in a coffee shop and listen to some guy at the next table pitch his silly social networking startup, this movie flashes before my eyes, and I start laughing maniacally.
100% agreed. My wife is a labor and delivery nurse. I ask her many questions about her job but I have no interest in learning to how give an IV or check for effacement.

If someone you're dating is not interested in learning your programming language, don't hold it against them. Most likely, there are other reasons why they are dating you in the first place.
You are right - and that is exactly I'm trying to say.
People do make that mistake and organize their life in such way to connect wealth with relationship/health (maybe based on society, how they are raised, I don't know). And then their relationship suffers when one of partners loses a job or anything bad happens in the material world. It should be other way around: relationship should be stronger when resources get scare.

And I agree it is very hard to separate these issues... I guess one needs to be "indoctrinated" as a child.
They do provide some details about the abnormalities:

"Specifically, GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer process. This practice is against ICANN rules."
Considering that every major Android manufacturer behaves in a similar fashion tells me that is it a problem for the entire platform.
Pot clubs turning to delivery
Funny, I remember meeting these guys at an RSA conference years ago, must have been in 2004, and thinking "this is the only innovative thing I've seen here." It was pretty cool tech at the time, interesting to see them branch out from information security.
Sadly, I know this story isn't an isolated incident. It's also why I don't believe their 'change of heart' in the slightest. This type of behavior and belief is ingrained into the company's culture. On top of that, the whois issues, GoDaddy is also known for messing with their whois (forcing you to go to their site and fill out a captcha instead of giving full info from the whois server directly).
If it's such a good idea, why doesn't Walmart do it?

1) It works great as a publicity, but not in actual practice. If we all returned tires to Nordstrom they'd very quickly shutdown the practice, if they actually even do it now. Upgrades to Android phones would have to be practiced -- Samsung just can't create an urban legend that some phone in the midwest of the US was updated before.

2) Most people prefer cheaper prices rather than more expensive prices w/ better support. I don't have data, but I suspect that Walmart consistently does better than Nordstrom.

And if Samsung effectively doubles the lifetime of each Android device and it's successful then other Android manufacturers will do the same. The net effect? Half total revenue in the Android marketspace -- unless this practice is able to eat away at iPhone -- which I doubt since Apple already does a pretty solid job of updates.

It's one of those things that would be better for the customer. But due to the way the market is segmented it likely hurt the bottom line.

The only company that could pull this is off is Motorola. Google doesn't care about the total revenue in the HW market. What's Samsung and HTC going to do? Focus on Windows Phone? Not likely. Google could squeeze almost all of the profits out of the HW manufacturers knowing they have very little alternative. I wouldn't be surprised if Google did just this.
>I have an iPod Touch that I can not update to iOS 5. I fail to see how the competition is faring so much better. Apple maybe has it the easiest with their limited selection of devices, but even they can't support old hardware indefinitely.

No-one expects indefinite support. The problem is that the Galaxy S was released only 16 months ago, and is still available in some countries. And the Galaxy Tab is only 13 months old, and is also still being sold.

The comparable situation from the competitors would be if the iPhone 4 couldn't be upgraded to iOS 5.0.

In reality, Apple is still supporting the iPhone 3GS (released a whopping 30 months ago) and the third-gen iPod Touch (released 27 months ago, discontinued 15 months ago). Apple has never stopped supporting a mobile product they're still selling, or even one they've sold sometime in the past year.
Namecheap smells blood, ferociously goes after Go Daddy customers
Well if you want to take that argument, examine the difference in sales between Android and iPhone. Android phones are far, far more popular and I'm quite sure that the lower price of the average Android handset has a lot to do with that.

It's true that there is a subset of people who just buy the cheapest thing available — but there's also a pretty sizable segment of the population who might not be able to evaluate for themselves whether or not a phone is a good buy

Absolutely. But the latter are the minority.
I should have been clearer - I was just trying to be concise to prove a point. And I'm making the assumption that we're comparing drugs of high quality in either category (because obviously drugs that are mixed with adulterants are going to have other problems). You seem to understand what's going on, but for anybody else who's curious:

Adderall isn't methamphetamine. However, the methyl group doesn't change the way that the drug affects the brain; it just makes the drug cross the blood-brain barrier more easily. The increased bioavailability means that less of the drug (by weight) is needed to achieve the same result, but the drug isn't activating any different receptors or having a substantially different neurological effect in any other way or for any other reason. Subjectively, there may appear to be a difference for that reason (more efficient access to the brain), but the same pathways are being accessed - just to a greater degree.

An analogous and more familiar (but not identical) example would be Vyvanse and Adderall. The actual metabolic process is different from the example above, but in essence, about 50% of Vyvanse is lost when converting from a form which has no effect on the brain to a form which does. Once it's converted, it's chemically equivalent to Adderall. That's part of why Adderall XR is prescribed in doses about half the weight of Vyvanse.

[Nitpick: Yes, this isn't a perfect analogy; pharmacology is complicated! Vyvanse contains a single enantiomer of a single amphetamine; Adderall contains two enantiomers each of two amphetamines, but if you know that, you probably already know everything else I'm clarifying here anyway. The reason Vyvanse has reportedly lower side-effects is because it lacks the less effective l-enantiomer, not because the amphetamine is otherwise radically different.]

Maybe I should have been a bit clearer, but my point was that Adderall (legally prescribed amphetamine), Desoxyn (legally prescribed methamphetamine), [street] methamphetamine, and [street] amphetamines ('speed') are pharmacokinetically different because of the way that they are taken, the mode of ingestion, and the set & setting, not because of the active ingredient itself. In general, people don't seem to understand that difference, and for that matter, neither do our laws.

[Disclaimer: Everything I've said above is 'false' in the sense that it is an oversimplification, but this is HN, not a discussion board on pharmacology, so I'm sacrificing some precision in favor of accessibility/simplicity and (attempted) conciseness.]
Are the Samsung Galaxy S, S II, Nexus, Note devices more of a Walmart product, or more of a Nordstrom product?
A similar story is when GoDaddy shut down seclists.org at the request of MySpace because of a single post out of hundreds of thousands: http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0
They used to be quite good. A long time ago.

Every year I would come back to renew and it was getting more and more difficult. Eventually, it became ridiculous. The checkout process was finding the "No I don't want this shit" link (yes, link), listing through five pages of "GoDaddy girl" and special offers.

Speaking of the GoDaddy girl. That's how I knew they completely lost touch with their business. I remember their newsletters (were they newsletters?) about "seeing the GoDaddy girl in the shower" or something. I mean, wtf?

I still have a couple of domains there, for complicated reasons, but all others, I've transfered out of there long ago, new business goes to Namecheap.
This is a bit late, but in case anyone happens to be reading this in the future: Almost every country in the world has signed a treaty agreeing, in essence, that it isn't possible to claim alien planets. So if Musk tried to claim Mars, he would be a criminal on Earth.
On the other hand, google maps has been showing a road right through our neighbours' living room for the last ten years, while OSM correctly shows all roads and footpaths. Different maps have different errors, look what works for you.
99designs has a lot of problems. The competition aspect is the main one. IT seems to draw the less experienced artists or ones looking for work. If 6 artists apply and do work for a competition, only one gets paid. I have seen lots blog posts from artists who dislike this.

I'd like to bring out the more experienced ones, with a deeper portfolio who are looking to build their reputations rather than do quick designs for someone.
What percentage of iPhones are compatible and upgradeable to iOS 5 release on day 1 ? A very high percentage.

Of course, but I'd say that it isn't a valid comparison- how many Samsung iPhones were updatable on day one? None, because they don't exist.

Apple (and this applies to their computer business too) benefits greatly from a totally synchronised hardware and software platform that excludes absolutely every third party. Android is a totally different beast.

You're right though- "Mr. and Mrs. Average" might be asking these questions because what do they know/care about the different approaches Google and Apple take? But also, what do they care about software updates? I'm not sure what the answer to that is.
I'd like to upvote condemnation of misuse of the word war too, however note real war frequently does not involve mandatory conscription, deaths of large numbers of combatants, or one side totally surrendering.
Where would one get access to book sales data? It seems amazon owns all that data so its hard to get to personal sales numbers to make them easier to use.

Or are you talkign about data from bowker.com ?
Does anyone know what this switch implies for Patriot Act information requests? I had heard that the UC puts up some resistance to the FBI when asked for user data, and that Google does less so.
But it is possible to tell which group you're in. Nearly everyone correctly estimates their probability of making $20m in 5 years at a startup at near zero, and responds by not starting one. A few people (e.g. Max Levchin) can with equal ease correctly estimate that the probability is high enough to make it worth doing. There are only a few borderline cases of people who mistakenly believe they are the right sort of person to start a startup when they aren't. They're overrepresented here, but they're a tiny fraction of the population.

Even if you're one of those people, you can do way better than falling back an average. You can for example ask experienced investors. It's part of their job to judge the probability that you'll succeed.
Tang was a joke.

I believe the color video camera for was specially made by RCA, but the workhorse still camera was an off-the-shelf Hasselblad.

I had thought that the Space Pen was an existing commercial product. Apparently I was only half right. Thanks for the link.
nicoslepicos, ig1, OrionJ - Thanks a lot! Is there a source code? I would like to contribute by adding IMDB scores. What do you think?
Political preferences according to programming languages
Uglier than trigraphs?

Also, I've long wondered why complex numbers were added to C. They seem like an inappropiately feature for a systems language.
For wages and promotions, beauty 'as good as a uni degree' for career
http://www.walmart.letstalk.com/product/product.htm?prId=398...

Cell phones don't really have the same kind of super high margin distinction as exists in high-end retail. Another reason why the Nordstrom example doesn't work. Nordstrom has jewelry with crazy markup so they can make up in a single purchase for the cost of a lot of service. That doesn't exist with Android smartphones.

When there are $2000 Android smartphones (after subsidizing) we can talk the "Nordstrom" brand.
There's nothing for C++, but I have started a book for C:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/

Why don't you go through what I've written so far and learn the basics of C. Doing that will give you a good understanding of the foundations of C++. While C++ is a fairly different language in a lot of ways, its backwards compatibility with C means that a lot of the same issues exist. Understanding C will then make it easier to get through C++ (or Objective-C).
Ah, I see what you're saying.

I guess I just don't think that's possible. Yes, we could be better about separating these things to some extent, but not completely. Losing everything you own is incredibly stressful, and stress is damaging to health and relationships, period. Similarly, the dissolution of a marriage always results in a net decrease in wealth for the combined parties, at least in the short term. And battling health issues is damaging to both relationships and your financial situation, on average. This is just human nature. "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger", but sadly, a lot of things actually do kill you (or your health, 401k, marriage, etc).

Furthermore, a big part of the correlation you see between relationships, health, and wealth are due to very similar "life management" skillsets being required for them all. It's obviously not perfect correlation, but it's there for a reason.

Just my .02, though :)
I suppose Ramanujan doesn't seem important to the layperson, because his major contributions were both very advanced and difficult to explain -- compare Gödel's second incompleteness theorem, that no axiomatic system representing Robinson arithmetic can prove its own consistency: that one is much simpler than a result dealing with mock theta functions -- and they were also in pure mathematics rather than applied mathematics, and the main application of Ramanujan's work has been in some areas of quantum mechanics and string theory, which are themselves a bit beyond a layperson. The partition function does pop up in computing from time to time, though.

I've heard of a division of mathematicians into so-called "theory-builders" and "problem-solvers" -- Ramanujan and Hilbert are firmly in the first class, while Erdös, Wiles and Gödel fall into the second. Ramanujan was transformative because he changed the questions that were asked, as well as answering them.

If you look at pure mathematics, most in the field will agree that Ramanujan was a -- if not the -- preeminent mathematician of the 20th century. In applied mathematics, that title probably goes to John von Neumann.
Found this http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.10 Feb 15th, 2011

Under Runtime Notes
Improved tail-call support for the F# compiler.

Not enough information to determine if improved means fixed.
I would move away from text-based programming and try a visual metaphor approach, especially on the ipad when touch/gesture are fundamentally easier for kids to learn, i.e. replace "grow" with growing animation of the dinosaur
Take a look at what http://launchpadtoys.com/toontastic/ is doing for animation/story-telling.
It depends greatly on your company.
One of the most important skills a programmer needs is rigorous thinking. You can not "wish" the turtle to do something different -- and whatever it does is a direct result of your instructions. With logo, you can start to understand that "technically correct is the only kind of correct."

Because it is a safe and interactive playground, logo is a great entree to programming, as you suggested. Given the right tooling and attitude, 'real' programming is very much like this. I put a great deal of effort in minimizing my iterative loops because it helps with motivation and predictability.

Finally, the turtle metaphor is nice because the child imagines themselves as the turtle and so learns to anticipate what the turtle will do when given a set of commands by imagining themselves following it -- this is a fantastic exercise that helps build the skill of mentally modeling the behavior of a machine.

The turtle can do a lot more than pen-down, move, pen-up, but it is still a great metaphor for the computer being the automatic executor of the programmer's wishes.

One of the differences between very good programmers and mediocre programmer's that I've noticed is that very good programmers understand code as it commands the machine (virtual or physical,) whereas mediocre programmers understand code as such.

Logo is much closer to Assembly than to Java, and that's a Good Thing. You are right that there is a big distance between Logo and professional code -- similarly, there is a big difference between elementary math and actuarial science.
I've been waiting for nearly 3 days now.
Is Ruby really better than Python for kids? I find Python to be more consistent and less surprising than Ruby, although that sometimes comes at the expense of expressiveness.

For that matter, has anyone researched the (dis)advantages of teaching statically typed languages?
Congrats!

This app has tons of PR potential, but you have to do the work. The lifehacker piece is a nice bit of social proof that you can use when contacting folks. I'd email a few dozen productivity blogs/bloggers with the new years resolution angle ("How to give your new years resolution some teeth!").

Building an app is step one. Step 2-10 is figuring out how to acquire users. Try spending literally 40 hours a week trying things on this front. Facebook ads? 2 sided referral program? Linkbait on your blog? PR hustle? Find lifehacker-y folks on Twitter and give them discount codes for their followers? Viral loops (could you get users Facebook friends to sign up?)?

Don't touch the code for 1-2 weeks and see what you can pull off! :-)
The Next Web is turning into tabloid tech news.

Did they even interview anyone at Namecheap about this?
after updating contact information, 'resetting' the 60 day no-transfer-out rule

I feel dirty saying this, but I'm with GoDaddy on this one. It might be a violation of ICANN regulations, but it's also a really important step for protecting against domain hijacking.
Keeper.
Reminds me of Windows Mobile back in the day. It ran on lots of devices, but getting an update to the latest version was a crapshoot.
Good points Rob, and I can see what you mean about breaking the mold in an industry where blogging isn't common.

My comment on the blog posts appearing unprofessional just meant that I can't take a casual, conversational approach to blogging which makes posts a lot easier and more fun to write. Everything has to be written from that anonymous company-as-a-person perspective so the resultant posts are dry and difficult to write.

I like your idea about providing thorough technical content though, I'm going to keep it in mind the next time I write one.