skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was very surprising to me as well. Assuming that IDs are 8 bytes (they appear to be) and that the mean post is 250 bytes (which seems conservative to me) then the mean fanout is something like 1600. That's big.
Indeed $1CPM for this type of site would be quite high.
I am sure things are simpler if you pay to stay on the latest version of MacOS, but pick up a laptop that has an old version of MacOS (as I did last week) and try to install a modern version of python on it without reaching for your credit card and/or signing up for all sorts of accounts/development programmes. Is it too much to ask to be able to install gcc on a machine that someone has paid > $1000 for?
Search for Xcode asks you to install macshop (or whatever it is called) which in turn asks you to first upgrade your OS, which in turn asks you to install macshop.. etc. Terrible experience, made me pine for Windows.
I got things working, with a lot of googling, but still have no idea how and where things are installed and how to uninstall them.
Show HN: Our startup launched: create visual supports for special education
Not to mention that it contained one of his own books.
How to cope with tabs mess in Chrome
If you went back in time 150 years ago you could find the same story in major media - except replace 3d printing with cotton loom, AI with steam engines, etc.
Tried to apply a genetic algorithm to arrive at a solution: https://gist.github.com/1820794.

Doesn't work too well just yet; maybe someone can take a look/play around with it/give me some pointers :)
The style of management he recommends works well for companies in the size scale of 30-100 people. I believe it breaks down after that, and, ironically, as you grow to a few hundred and into the thousands, you actually have to shift back to more of a command/control structure or you risk evolving into a bureaucratic entitlement kind of organization. You still need to know how to trust and delegate, but you (and by extension your now necessary mid-level managers) also need to be able to shut down the endless bike-shedding (which has now morphed into full-on ego flame wars) and make executive decisions to prune the tree of possibility and keep things moving along productively.

I think Google is a good example of a company that is (later than most) realizing the academic model only scales up to a certain point. They now seem to be moving towards a much more traditional Cpt Picard/Steve Jobs-run type of organization, from what I've gleaned.
I'm not sure I want to take advice on design from a site which thinks that flipping paper pages is a suitable metaphor for a browser. It's clever but, in my opinion, it's a poor interface.

Wasn't there a link on here recently about poor skeuomorphic interfaces?
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As far as I understand it, they did largely nail down addon compatibility at least around the same time as the rapid releases began. Addons hosted on addons.mozilla.org have since last April [1] got automatic compatibility bumps each time a new version of Firefox is released.

What they didn't realise was that only 25% of addons in active use were hosted on AMO, and the vast majority were self-hosted. The change referred to in this roadmap is to make the browser itself (rather than just AMO) treat extensions as compatible by default (and presumably quite a lot of supporting work to make sure that's a responsible way for the browser to behave). That change has also now landed [2].

These are important problems to tackle, but we should give credit where it's due, and it's rather more than just "on the roadmap". Justin Scott gives a good overview of their thought process and actions taken: [3]

[1] http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/04/19/add-on-compatibili...
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/
[3] http://blog.fligtar.com/2011/09/26/add-on-compatibility-prog...
I know this isn't exactly our target demographic, but I'm very excited to share this with the HN community. My wife and I have been involved in special education for many years, and I'm constantly appalled at the state of the software industry in the field. We're trying to change that, and this is our first attempt. It's a new way to create and share visual supports for use in special education, such as with children with autism.

I would, of course, appreciate any feedback that you can give about the website, and if you or anyone you know is involved in special education, have them give the app a try as well!

Thanks for all the great advice over the years. This entire community is an inspiration.

EDIT: For those technically inclined, the app itself runs on a combination of Raphael JS, SVG, Backbone JS, Share JS, and Node.
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Invalid Argument: A Live Video Show Featuring Web Developers & Designers
More seriously, http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
> Think about these massive Middle-Ages cathedrals done before we had Newton's Laws and modern notions of engineering. How did the architects do it?

They didn't do it a lot of the time. It just seems that way because only the few cathedrals that happened to strike on a physical supportable design are still around. Ie, survivorship bias.
Can't say I love the symlinks; however, I use homebrew for convenience, but in most cases it's ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local ...

This rarely fails. When it does, it's user error.
Customer support in the cloud - Case studies
See this all the time. Its astounding what some of these people get away with.
Debunking the EU Commission's 'Myths About ACTA'
There's no should about it. I know ASI exists, and I also know I need never concern myself with it, because I prefer the simplicity and consistency of finishing each line with a semi-colon.
This and your above comment constitute a wildly inaccurate extrapolation based on what's in your article.
He'd be a more credible candidate if he ran in 2112.
I was reading the comments and someone asked the author about the energy invention he was talking about:

"Since I signed an NDA, I’m not able to give you details. But what I will say is that I’ve looked at hundreds of energy related inventions over the years and none have the potential of this one. Its quite obvious how it works, and operates silently inside a container without the need for any external power, water, or other inputs. There is no pollution. And the best part is that it serves as a mass energy storage system, efficiently storing power from one day to the next."
Wolfram Alpha's is pretty too: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%09sqrt%28cos%28x%29%29...
Somewhat related, is it worth trying to build something that pushes to growl remotely? Seems like world of port blocking issues but maybe their is something out there that makes it simple.
What’s Your Tribal Role At Your Startup?
He really means 2 billion jobs to shift by 2030. Sure, a lot of people will need to learn to adapt and learn new skills, but most of them are not going to be out of work.

Take 3D printers - they're nowhere near as good as everyone thinks. You don't just load metal powder, print your stuff and ship it. You still need to prepare the stuff, treat the materials, color them, do quality control and do other stuff - all of which requires hands (and not the robot kind, either)...

Maybe the mainstream media should be asked to report on some good stuff, too, instead of all the doom and gloom - I'm pretty sure that's a major reason why people are scared, desperate and start rioting in streets...

Greece is an interesting example - those people have two choices - bailout and buy more time for making things better or be out of jobs and with no pension - they choose the latter because they think that the "banker overlords will screw us over" - the heck does that even mean?
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Spacecraft Sprints to Within a Billion Miles of Pluto
Ephemeral Volatile Caching in the cloud
And the US DOJ clears it as well

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-at-210.html
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjlw4AnIX1rn1xxfo1_250.gi...
I hate that this is downvoted.

Content owners have the right to dictate, within the bounds of law, how their content is to be used. The only reason this is controversial is because music is usually owned and distributed by the Bad Guys. If this was a case about illegally using GPLed software, for example, there wouldn't even need to be a discussion.
He's said on his twitter that Kindle version will be available later in the year.

https://twitter.com/#!/sgblank/status/162317687681318913
This is how most mid-size traditional consulting companies work. You can switch the word Microsoft to IBM or Oracle or something else.

This is how you get referrals. Like it or not, it's business.
For folks who don't have time to listen: The general topic was JavaScript Web Apps, as viewed through the lens of what Backbone and Ember agree and disagree about, specifically:

* Source of truth.

* MVC / MVVM / MVP / The model-ui spectrum.

* JavaScript pipe dreams.

* Arbitrary code vs. structured templating systems.

* Everything-is-public APIs. +Hooks

* Client Side Models are not mirrors of Server Side Models

... and so on.
As the article mentions; these reactors are legally just as dangerous as a full-size installation; it'll take a lot of political legwork to make them feasible. Said politics would be a tad more difficult than usual; since your average voter will think of the following:

a) you're literally putting nuke plants in people's backyards. folk will worry about getting green suntans.

b) assuming they're meant to be autonomous; there's the issue of potential sabotage. they're small nukes, but they're still nukes. (and if they're networked, could be even worse than a centralized plant)

PS: perhaps this design would be far more sensible as a cluster (housed like a normal nuke plant); theoretically the entire plant would be safer as the smaller reactors would be easier to control and contain if things went south.
But these aren't nuclear reactors, not in the classic sense. This is like a nuclear battery.
First 33 pages are up on Stadford's site for free

http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...
I've come across them on TV from time to time and the children usually dress very provocatively and wear clothes and makeup that are usually considered "sexy" when worn by grown women. Worse still, they seem to often perform dance routines that are very provocative and sexual in nature. (eg see the end of little miss sunshine - real CBP seem to be similar)
I think it looks great. I'm not your target audience either, but my cousin is a special education teacher and she's very excited about it after I passed it along to her.
By "testing" you mean.. showing what the image looks like at different sizes? I'm not seeing the point. Maybe I'm missing something though. Maybe changing the description line from "just upload your 512x512 icon image and we'll do the rest..." to something more explicit would help?
Thanks for the note -- this is a known bug and I'm working on resolving it.
I suspect that that is only the default interpretation because the site has gone so far downhill and there are so many nasty stupid comments.
Ha! No shit. I thought it was some business-related term... Thanks for clearing that up.
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HTML5 Boilerplate 3.0 is a rock-solid default that’s leaner than ever
Now why would I want to be in a Google Hangout and take time away from hacking? ;-)

Seriously, maybe next week.
Exactly. If you don't know what Thrift is, check it out.

In addition to solving the problem space using simple, focused applications (in the classical Unix style), it solves other practical issues. Like PHP having shitty clients for most modern data stores (Cassandra, Redis, hell, even Memcached) compared to what you get in, say, Python, or a JVM language.
Great! Thanks! Be sure to let her know that we love hearing feedback, good or bad :-)
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There will always be next week!
Although this was a beautiful piece I can't help but feel Dan Lyons just gave Uncrunched, ParisLemon, TechCrunch and PandoDaily another million pageviews between them for the many rebuttals we're about to see.
Ironic, given that he preaches working hard to figure out what people want before creating something.
As others have pointed out, with !bang you can just "!g search whatever" and voila you're searching Google.

So typically, I set my browser default search to DDG and try to use DDG as much as possible. Certain terms or things I know Google will find better I just throw in the "!g" before the query.
gcc and g++ are part of Xcode. That's the reason you have to install Xcode before you can use Homebrew.
Really formatting wars are really stupid. ASI is like indentation, it is trivial to write a program that converts between the two representations. The last time we had an issue about this at work, someone just wrote a pre-commit hook that sets the indentation to be standard without changing the parse tree (it actually asserts the parse tree is the same).

Now you can code any way you want, but no more white-space changes cluttering up the history of files. This is the worst type of holy war because it not only doesn't matter much (which is true of any) but there is a technological solution that the engineers involved are all ignoring.
How about the costs to manufacture the various components? I imagine that even with a standardized design, many components get sourced locally (like pipe and such) and that labor cost factors into the overall price too.

Also, did I mess up my math, or are you saying that hiring an American construction worker costs only $100,000 for 7 years? That's (barely) below minimum wage, and I don't imagine that construction workers earn minimum wage either.
You're commenting on a article that states a nuclear reactor of current design was approved, so what's your complaining for? Your "side" seems to be winning, despite the current crop of designs not being the blessed thorium reactor...
Online Privacy Is A Misnomer
I agree, it's made for iPhone developers/designers so they can test their app icons on the device without having to deploy builds for each icon iteration... thanks for the feedback
ProPublica Journalist Blatantly Mis-Represents Academic Paper
IPOs destined for the clouds
I wonder how do you think about Arrington being forced out of AOL now, after reading this.
"Siegler is constantly mocked by readers as a laughable troll – a mean-spirited, egomaniacal buffoon who is not very bright but thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, and who, in all of his manic blogging, has left a string of cock-ups and false “scoops” behind him."

I feel you could replace the first word in that with Lyons and it would also be an apt description.

Is there any better mudslinging match in the tech-blogosphere than Lyons vs Apple bloggers?
For Perl questions, check perlmonks.org. That is a very helpful, informative and nice website.
How do I pitch my startup to the Dan Lyons angel fund?
The figure of two billion could be an exaggeration, but it may also be true that a big chunk of the employment pie is currently disappearing.

If you're a poorly educated westerner, there isn't much for you to do even now. OECD countries all complain about households in which nobody has ever worked. Given the falling relative and absolute standards of education, it's hard to see opportunities for them.

To my mind, automation and low wages elsewhere in the world have had a big impact on the labour pool. This may be difficult for highly employable folk reading this board to grasp, but consider what folk are doing as they leave college. Sure, lots of them are getting well-paid jobs, but a heck of a lot are interning and struggling along with 10-dollar jobs on the freelance auction sites.

But why is there a general panic when the possibility of the end of work arises? For billions of people it would mean freedom from drudgery and the prospect of doing more fulfilling things instead - looking after families, creating things, learning new stuff and so on.
Glad to see Lyons getting in on the conversation. And by conversation I mean grab for pageviews.
Reminds me of Palm OS. http://imgur.com/M3EMG
They also aren't afraid of the small but catastrophic risk of global warming truly messing our climate up, but they should be.

The inability to properly estimate risks goes both ways, people are bad at cumulative every day stuff as well as tiny probability catastrophic events (especially involving things they never see).
Australian new business growth among world's best: Report
Using JTwitter - a Java library for the Twitter API with Android
The gem 'foreigner' makes them painless, and supports Postgres, Oracle, and I think MSSQL.
A while ago I realized something about piracy that disturbed me, and the more I think about it, the more disturbed I get.

Lots of money now days is going into things like webapps, app stores, Steam, DRM-encumbered streaming, enterprise software, other categories of stuff that can't reasonably be stolen. But this presents an encumbrance over information for which society would be better off if it were free in the informational sense, only free is hard to monetize in a world of Pirate Bay self-righteousness, where mass piracy is accepted and even praised. I'm told that Sirius XM already has a mathematical key revocation technique that's uncrackable, though I'm also told they haven't used it because a general crack to their radios isn't around yet.

We're approaching the world of Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read"[1]. A world in which piracy is acceptable isn't a world of free stuff for everyone--it's a world where content is locked down, or never made at all. A perfect content lockdown is theroetically possible and people are getting better at it all the time. Then it will be so long to fair use, to reasonable sharing, to grey-market cultural exports.

This world will happen because people want to buy the best, latest, greatest, biggest budget music, movies, apps, and so on. Confronted with this, piracy advocates theorize a Marxian post-scarcity paradise where all content creators do it for the love of content creation, where people have woken up and thrown off the shackles of capitalist big content. I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
A Vim configuration for Python
Cofounda app launch aims to link entrepreneurs globally
Things can get built pretty shoddily in China. You sure you don't want to pay extra for some quality control?
I don't agree with the hole post, but the "administration layer" paradigm Joel has been proposing is kind of interesiting. In a way, it's the extreme opposite of the norm, and that's good, it challenges the way people normally think about "managment". It's humanistic by design. The problem is that, as not everybody is Jobs, not everybody is Spolsky.

This shouldn't be read as a sctrict methodology or recipe to copy. In programming, as Joel wrote, there are cheffs and there are McDonal's "burger flippers". That analogy also applies to managment.
Agreed. Gardens die by extreme pacifism.
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Real-time clocks: Does anybody really know what time it is?
The Language of Interactivity
I meant some open source applications that are built in a distributed way (hence using something like AMQP in a publish/subscribe fashion)
Cryptome.org infected with blackhole toolkit
Do you know how much power 4gb vs 8gb of ram draws? I've heard this before but always wondered how big of a battery drain it is.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has best game ending ever, says Guinness World Records
It depends on what you're building. That's why it's good to know a broad range of languages : you can pick and choose the best options from the general purpose languages, or use your knowledge to build your own simple DSL..

When appropriate : language/framework choice depends on more than just technical factors...
I've been developing with .NET for seven years now and I've worked with many talented .NET developers, none of whom have been dogmatic about any Microsoft technology. All have been well-versed in open-source alternatives, and the industries I've worked across: financial, media and retail, have never queried any decision to choose these over Microsoft-owned technologies when presented with sound argument. Maybe I've just been lucky.
I think the phrase you're looking for is "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
I'm not a nuclear physicist but in what way is a nuclear reactor equivalent to a nuke ? AFAIK reactors can't actually reach the critical level that's required to create a nuclear explosion - it's a completely different design, different isotope concentration, so the biggest threat is exposure to radioactive materials and maybe heat/pressure explosion. And 4S has passive safety mechanisms so sabotage would have to be manual, chain sabotage would be impossible, especially if they were properly monitored.

The biggest safety concern I've heard is that you could use them to create small quantities of weapons grade plutonium, but I guess if you know how to do that you could get it in other ways.
Personally, I'm really happy to see the tech blog echo chamber start slinging mud at each other instead of whatever the tech company to hate du jour is. The more they make themselves the story the more irrelevant they become.
Doing is the best learning - why not join a project like mine that needs a web developer? You learn and get to share in our project, and in 6 months if you want to go off to do your own thing you will have gotten real world experience out of the deal. I spend a lot of time on planes as well, and actually the lack of distractions makes it a fantastic place to work. Ping me if you are interested - jeff -at- notifika.com.
Yes, and I might win the lottery, ergo I should spend all my money on lottery tickets.
Siego shares new details on the Spark tablet in the latest Linux Action Show
> But what about something like grouphug.us? Or even Facebook? I've got to imagine there are things put out there in the irresponsibility of youth or the first blushes of adulthood that someone is practically aching to have disappear from the Internet.

Of course. And there's tons of awesome stuff in those sites - just like Google Groups. You're wrong just like all the people mocking Archive Team for caring about Geocities or Friendster are wrong, you just draw the line around something you have experience with, is all.

At these sizes, your intuitive impressions of average quality are completely irrelevant. It's all worth saving.
Is there any open source project/jquery plugin for flipping book pages?