skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lobotomy didn't use electricity, it used knives. The story of lobotomy is fascinating, because a really destructive harmful procedure was introduced and used on many people without adequate testing; there was no evidence to suggest it would be useful.

Electro-convulsive therapy uses electricity, but it uses timed pulses and not DC. The current is higher, about 200 mA (but can be higher) and the voltage is much higher, some hundreds of volts. This causes fitting. While an unpleasant therapy it's now done under anaesthetic and has good evidence for efficacy in some patients when used carefully.
the onus already is on consumers to back up their stuff. nobody else is doing it for you, if you don't want to lose your stuff you'd better back it up.

relying on anybody else to do backups for you is the crapshoot. doing it yourself is really the only way to be sure.
With all of these companies shutting their doors, I think it would be fun to make some sort of data graveyard. A place where you can visualize your dead interactions.
I'd been working for years in a workplace that tests virtually everything up front until I joined a startup, and I agree with you.

Experimental features may be very short-lived, or require extensive tweaks, and the technical debt that accumulates from not testing may never arise over their lifetime. Once you're sure it's going to stick around forever, do it right and cover it with tests.
For all the good work that rms has done for the FSF movement, and for all his brilliance compared to the rest of us average Joes, he stands out as an example of what happens when you have a binary, black and white view of the world. It's no compromises, at any cost. What a pity.
And something similar happened to Jon Hamm (Madmen) recently too (claiming to have played catch with Roger Clemens when Clemens had already graduated from this schol).

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/iteam/2012/03/mad-men-star-...
I use a droplet in the Finder window for that. It's called Open iTerm here.app and I have no idea where I've found it. Google gives quite a bunch of results, though.

Before that, I've used another similar droplet called Open Terminal here.app.

In iTerm I use

$ open .

to open the current directory in a Finder window.

I also have a little bash function to `cd` into the topmost Finder window:

cdf () {
CURRFOLDERPATH=$( /usr/bin/osascript <<" EOT"
tell application "Finder"
try
set currFolder to (folder of the front window as alias)
on error
set currFolder to (path to desktop folder as alias)
end try
POSIX path of currFolder
end tell
EOT
)
echo "cd to \"$CURRFOLDERPATH\""
cd "$CURRFOLDERPATH"
}
Thanks for asking politely (I mean that truly). I'm on deadline now but I'll post back here in a day or two with the problems I ran into.
How come Oink didn't got any traction, even with all the publicity they did everywhere when it was launched? When oik hit the app store I thought "god, If only I have 1% of kevin rose visibility to use it". I guess this ain't enough.

I think people are getting tired of using apps to tag stuff, take pictures, "like" this and that, etc... It feels like we are working for a company and not having fun or create anything, and Oink! just gave me reason to think this way even more firmly. There's no market for this anymore, because we don't have that much time to spent in dozens of different communities, and so,the less populated die.

So please, if you want to build something, please work on something real and that actual solves something, not another Flickr meets Facebook/twitter app.
Kevin,

Thanks for continuing the throw shit at the wall. Looking forward to what you do next!
And then how do you determine how much to pay each artist?

Same question can be asked of any salaried worker.

Anyway, once said artist has got some experience and built up their portfolio, there's nothing stopping them from leaving the organisation to work freelance (and be paid by endorsements). The organisation idea was really just a middle tier to allow people to pool their resources and share the rewards, including allowing new artist a way to get into the system.

o what incentivizes people to pay that initial bit, i hear you ask? Some people, especially fans, don't mind paying it. And that is where the value is extracted from.

Recently kickstarter has been proving this to be true! Also the success of the humble indie bundles suggests this is true.
This story was covered by Fox News? Really?
I think choosing to exclude PayPal would alienate more people than I'd be comfortable doing. I used to prefer PayPal, but lately after having been using them long enough to experience their darker aspects, I tend to avoid them when I can. With that being said, I expect others to eventually have a bad experience using PayPal such that they defect, but I don't feel there would be enough people with a PayPal aversion to warrant not providing the option in the first place.
I don't buy that. Where did nextweb come up with the idea that the app was just an information gathering device?

They "inferred" it from this quote:
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We are extremely grateful for all of your effort finding and rating the best things in the places around you. We’ve discovered thousands of awesome pizzas, pastas, coffees, teas… and roller coasters, zoo exhibits, paintings, sculptures, vistas… and sodas, salads, sliders, soups… and so much more.
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That's reading into it way too much.

Oink was a beautifully designed app. If they just wanted to gather info, I don't think they would have spent so much time making it look good.

I think it just didn't work out the way they wanted it to, they are learning from this experience and quickly discarding what doesn't work and moving on to the next thing.
Why I doubted Facebook was a $1B+ business, what I learned from being wrong
An iPad Bar in a Coffee Shop
Damn, should have read "Dear Landlord" from raganwald

http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-landlord
IMHO it would have been better PR to "pivot" even if it is to an entirely different thing. It would sound more respectful to people that used the app, covered the app and those that cheered them on.

I'd really be interested in seeing what next they build.
Watchdog: Visualize how old your passwords are
Big tech companies are buying up startups left and right. I am guessing they have some ex-M&A guys on staff (Note: The OP said that he was moving to tech, not necessarily a startup)
Breakout – Connect your Arduino sensors and actuators to javascript
That's not true. Myspace had 200 million users before Facebook even got a chance to catch-up with them.
True story: I took over for a developer working on a large and complex multi-step form. I wasn't surprised that there were a few little bugs in it, but I noticed that the number and severity of the bugs increased as you went through the form. The first step was pretty much bug free, but the final step was completely broken.

Many people who claim that test automation is "too much overhead" either don't understand what test automation is or don't understand what overhead is. If you have to test everything in order to change anything you either have a huge manual testing overhead or have a huge quality liability.
Aside from the unit tests pb, suboptimal but easy to test code is critical in a lot of situations, like time critical bug fixes or last minute feature addition on a production site.

Most of the time, testing takes more time than writing the code, so throwing optimality under the bus can be the best choice. If it's Good Enough nobody's going to rewrite, but I wouldn't see it as something inherently negative or shameful, it's just a question of priorities.
Is there any reason to watch this live, instead of catching it on iTunes U or downloading older videos for later viewing? Just curious if there's something I'm missing something that adds value one way or another.
I use Go2Shell, which is free on the Mac App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go2shell/id445770608?mt=12

It adds a button to the toolbar to Finder windows. Click that to open a terminal on the directory shown in the window.

There are other similar toolbar add ons available, which I've used and were happy with, such as cdto: http://code.google.com/p/cdto/

I use Go2Shell now because it is on the App Store, so that I don't have to worry about checking for updates.
I think his point is that intensive addiction is more likely with cigarettes - the high from smoking tobacco is much less intense than that from many illegal drugs, but the high and the addiction potential are different things. You are quite right that intensive addiction to some drug like heroin can be worse, but part of the problem in the US is that being a heroin addict is almost de facto proof of criminality. While attempts to criminalize addiction itself have failed, if you are a police officer and you know someone is a heroin addict then you won't need to wait very long to bust the person for possession. On the other hand, if you become addicted to heroin in some other countries this will be treated as a medical problem and you may be able to manage your consumption in a clinical context at lower expense, social risk and so on.
Would love to know that to

Any lawyers here with knowlege on responsibilities of the management team to the shareholders ?
Summary: iTunes 1080p is surprisingly good, but discernibly different and lacking some options that BD can jam into extra space.
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Sure thing.

For high-level measurements I use good old "new Date().getTime()". One call before, one call after, subtract the former from the latter and log it to the console.

When I want to dig deeper, I go to the WebKit Inspector's Profile tab. You can turn it on or off through the UI, or use console.profile()/console.profileEnd() in your code to control it programmatically.
> But Django is in a position to put pressure on others by simply creating facts and that hasn't happened.

How exactly does one create a fact? That would be a neat trick.

> I'm sure you could have found a way to talk to web servers without waiting years for the WSGI spec to be finalized.

Indeed, we could have, and it would have benefited Django at the expense of diversity in the Python web world. It probably would have helped our "market share". But that's not how we roll. I'd rather work on something that the whole community can benefit from, and that means standards and specifications.

> And if Django had supported Python 3 using py-postgresql, which was released in 2009 [...]

That's true - I'd forgotten about that library.

> [...] others would have worked a little faster to make their database systems available on Python 3 as well.

That... I'm not so sure about. Volunteer community, limited by free time, etc. I'm fairly sure most people have worked on this stuff just about as fast as they can.

You do realize, of course, that the criticism here applies to you as well. If you feel this strongly you could have added a py-postgresql backend in 2009, you could have come up with a way to run Django under Apache and Python 3, etc. I'm happy to take a lot of the blame for Django's slow movement, but you're also responsible for not channelling your frustration into action.

> The reality is, everyone has basically been waiting for everyone else to make a move and it has resulted in deadlock.

I don't see a deadlock. I see steady movement -- slow, too slow, but movement nonetheless -- towards Python 3. First Python 3.0 came out, and it was horrifically slow, taking away any impetus to use it. So people fixed that. Then, developers ported the low-level libraries (database drivers, network protocol implementations, etc). Then we started moving to higher level libraries and tooling (numpy, wsgi, ...). Now the highest-level libraries (web frameworks, scipy, matplotlib, ...) are porting. Next, and finally, you'll get to port your apps. It's a classic dependency upgrade chain. You can't upgrade layer N until layer N-1 is done.

I share your frustration about the slowness, but that's frankly a characteristic of the Python community. We're relatively conservative, tending to prioritize stability and backwards compatibility over rapid movement. Everyone pretty much expected this process to take a while, and turns out they're right.
I've never looked into it, but apparently one needs a higher comment average than mine (or something) to downvote stories, so I flagged it instead.
30-story building built in 15 days
Having taken the online course, I'm not sure I understand you - the programming assignments in some cases required 1 line of code be written (in the middle of a more complex program). I find it really hard to believe that students who pay tuition would be given the same assignments.
They needed hits and hating on Google is an easy way to do that.
Intel wants to be inside your tablet and smartphone
Totally agree. This was a PR fail. Take note folks
What the....

I'm super surprised by this, and Kevin Rose just lost a couple of points of respect in my book. Must be nice to have investors who will throw money at you, so that you can give a half-hearted effort at something (or maybe less than half) only to shut it down a few months later to "try something else".

It's like ADD at the business level.

Terrible decision. I don't even think anyone even tried to make this a success.
Yerkes–Dodson law
> Mr Brierley said his mother told him of how they had searched endlessly for him after he went missing and saw fortune-tellers who told them they would one day be reunited.

Hah. I bet they did.
Two females on a boat full on men. That's gona be a though sell.
No, but it does say "registration will be open next week" in big letters...
Lazarus?

http://lazarus.interclue.com/
Pinterest doesn't just keep thumbnails, it keeps large versions of images on their servers. There are two clicks to get to the page where the pinner found the image.

I can imagine content creators being unhappy that their image is posted to some blog, and then pinned without their name. People seeing the pin may (but probably don't[1]) click twice to get to the blog, but how many of those people then click again to get to the creator of the content?

To me, the artistic pinboards are gently problematic. The product pinboards are less troubling, because I guess they drive some traffic to the selling sites.

[1] I have no data for this. I realise I might be wrong.
It sounds like he used a combination of Arial footage and street views to locate the town. Having located it he could have traveled there or even called, but instead use other services to talk to people in the area. So, IMO it really was Google street views coupled with maps that let him find the place.

PS: He remembered the Khandwa train station and surrounding area not a street name and not what the area looked like from space.
"Sticking to his guns" is not the first phrase that came to mind after reading that he'd canned Milk Inc's flagship product after only three months.
I feel bad for Kevin Rose, I used to lookup for him as a role model in the entrepreneurial and startup world a few years ago.

However, I think the only good thing he did recently was the Foundation podcast, and even that seems to be dying.
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He told us after we hired him.
Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein defends bank in memo to staff
yep never investing time into another Kevin Rose product. I loved pownce and i liked oink. Hes let me down too many times.
Most tests (unit, integration, etc.) are triggered when new code is checked in. For other kinds of tests, we use schedule triggers to run them at a particular cadence, either overnight or more frequently if that's what needed.

TeamCity is good for automating with both kinds of "triggers".
probably not. see Perfect 10 vs Google:

https://www.eff.org/cases/perfect-10-v-google
Unfortunately all the hooplah about Python 2/3 porting has created an image, reflected in your posting, which is simply not true. To a large extent Python 3 is just a superset of the functionality of Python 2.x, adding such features as keyword-only arguments and exception chaining. This is typical for Python: each new release typically includes a handful of new community-vetted syntax features. What's unique about Python 3.0 is that this one, exceptional time they allowed themselves to go back and eliminate deprecated syntax and functionality, and to tweak a few aspects of the language (namely Unicode strings) in subtle, but fundamental ways.

It's been a long, drawn-out process in part because everyone uses Unicode strings (and if you're not, you should be). Python 2.x let you be fairly lax about unicode vs. legacy/byte strings. Python 3 forces you to clean up your act and be explicit. Other than that the two languages are -basically- the same. This isn't like C vs. C++ (which share an unhealthy fetish for curly braces but are quite different under the surface), but rather more like K&R C vs ANSI C, or C++03 vs C++0x.

In other words if you're waiting for Django/SQLAlchemy/whatever to transition, don't bother. Learn Python 2.7 today, use it, love it, and transition to Python 3 only when all your dependencies have made the switch. You'll then have to change a few minor things like "raise Exception, reason" to "raise Exception(reason)", but I'm sure you'll adapt just fine.
Deep Space 9, Season 5, Episode 6: Trials and Tribble-ations.

Sisko and Jax travel back in time to the period of the original series. Amazing visual effects and a clever plot that avoids breaking continuity with the original series.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Trials_and_Tribble-ations_(e...
Thank you. That's what I thought: any dark ink that just lays on top of (i.e., isn't absorbed by) the paper could probably be vaporized in similar fashion by a pulse laser.

Anyway, when I wrote that, I had an inkling that someone in HN would know probably something about the subject matter, but I never expected anyone to have real-world experience using pulse lasers to vaporize ink from a piece of paper, let alone dollar bills!

Awesome.

This is why I love HN.
I never said it was ok to do so. I also never said that nobody gets hurt by not paying. I just said that they weren't the people that maeon3 was suggesting and that saying that pirating the movie hurts everyone who was in some way involved in the production, distribution and sale of the DVD, but thats simply not true - the people involved in the production, distribution and sale of the digital version may be hurt and some of those people (certainly some of the people in the production) will be the same people, but the analogy is not anywhere close to being correct.

Anyway, people who are pro piracy will tell you that yes, it is in fact ok to pirate software too. I'm not saying I agree or disagree, just saying that the hardcore pro piracy people do not find anything wrong regardless of what is being pirated. They will also disagree with the term "piracy", but whatever.

is it okay for me to pirate all the apps from Mac App Store

Sure, why not! My most used "app stores" are the Linux package managers and everything on them is free, so not paying for apps doesn't mean that availability will be affected. No, I'm not saying I think its ok to pirate, but your comment does read as pretty disingenuous to me.

In any case, so many people share music, movies and software all the time without thinking about it, maybe its the businesses who should be adapting? If yesterdays business models are failing, instead of trying to shoehorn them to work through laws and regulations, maybe they should adapt? I'm personally involved in a music industry startup and we're doing exactly that - piracy is promotion to us. I'm also involved in other software things and spend a lot of time talking and thinking about game development and my conclusion is that piracy can largely be sidestepped in all of these markets by... adapting the business model to be piracy tolerant.
Ouch. Kevin Rose had good timing with Digg, but I think this is a great lesson that the ability to churn out idea apps with no long-term vision is a road to nowhere.
1. Of course. Otherwise what I submitted ticket for?
2. I said I didn't pay attention to the links if there were no emails to remind me.

Please, at least read what you reply to.
:-D

I guess all jokes eventually come around.
> According to the Internet Movie Database, this 2007 movie was filmed in the common Super 35 (film) format and then transferred to a 2k digital intermediate, in other words, it was edited in the digital domain.

Could someone with movie production domain knowledge say if this is an accepted and/or representative standard for modern films? I've never seen the movie, but for something only 5 years old, the quality (from the images posted) seems more akin to something released in the early 90s. Maybe someone who's seen the movie can explain the film's quality.
This just perpetuates the mispronunciation of 'WAT'.

It is properly pronounced deadpan, to rhyme with 'but' (with no h-sound wutsoever).
I think their valid points and I like seeing Microsoft really going out on a limb. There's just something about the app launcher taking over the entire screen that feels wrong on a PC, though.

If you were to pin all of your main apps to the task bar then conceptually it's not too far off from the OSX dock plus launchpad concept. I really find no use for the launchpad on anything but a tablet so that's probably why I feel the same about Metro.
Trapping regressions is a HUGE driver for testing for me.
Yep, you're right. What was the purpose of Oink? There weren't a ton of reviews or opinions - not enough anyway for it to be vastly useful as a replacement to Yelp. And it wasn't no Angry Birds so why even use it in the first place?

And they got a bunch of publicity, but ask yourself this question: of all the apps you reach about in Techcrunch, Mashable, etc, what % do you actually use? Publicity doesn't always translate to lots of users. They probably got a ton of initial downloads from curious geeks, but that's about it. Their churn rate was probably ridiculously high.

Publicity is pretty good for 1 thing for sure: search engine rankings, and Oink wasn't a website.
These were my thoughts exactly. This is me, and the posting immediately put me off: http://www.box.com/s/u1jzixqj55igylz2axpg
A lot depends on how you define 'control' in that context. People still have choices. No one is forced to use their services. I find Google's ambitions and scope amazing as well as a little frightening I'll admit. They now have a significant role in millions of peoples OS (Android, ChromeOS), their communications (GMail, Android), social circles (Google+), documents (Google Docs), browser they use (Chrome, Android, Google DNS), ads they see, applications/music/books they purchase (Play), videos they see (Youtube) and can now consolidate all they have gleamed about you into one solid product.
Were the investors throwing money at oink or at milk? If it is the latter this decision makes sense.

Using money to fund ideas that may or may not pan out is an interesting concept and kind of cool and if they decide to throw out ideas that don't work rather than stick to it that just defines what milk is.
No mention of M-x grep?
It's 2012 and we're still navigating source code, which is effectively a nested graph structure, using grep and simple keyword queries.

No (reverse) call trees, no high-level views, no help on how data propagates through the program. We could do so much better, especially in static languages. Sometimes it seems like reverse engineering tools that work without source code (such as IDA) do a better job of cross-referencing than tools that have the actual source code.

Is there any good/usable point and click code browser / code comprehension tool these days? Or is the state of the art of 1998 still that of today?
Mark my words: no tech startup founded by hipsters will ever succeed.
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Teach yourself music. Learn your favorite songs.
Isn't all that paranoia stressful to maintain?
A chalk-and-ink portrait may be a $100 million Leonardo