skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm impressed by 42Floors and Your Mechanic. I like that each company identified an area full of inefficient orthodoxy and innovated - like AirBnb. 42 Floors also seems to have an especially strong team (Flightcaster) and has a slick design.
Most Google pages do load in much less than 500ms - of course, the trick here is what you have in mind by "load". The actual slow renders are all on browser (read, javascript) side: mobile clients, etc.

As far as best practices, I agree we need to do a better job of advertising this material. It is available:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rule...
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules

In fact, this entire site is worth spending some time one: https://developers.google.com/speed/
Kickstarter for nonsense
with this many companies competing for attention, YC demo day feels like startup hunger games.
That's 3 days you could spend curing cancer. Tongue in cheek aside, I use to rage when I had to spend 3 days doing server admin and configuration. Along comes heroku and dotcloud and it's a godsend.
What about on a virtual private server like at linode? Then one doesn't necessarily have to shell out for a Mac to run osx.

I would be much more interested in that.
Hm... sounds wrong to me. What if the software ends up spinning on the DRAM? You'll run with interrupts disabled pretty much all the time and miss your next refresh. You need to guarantee the timer, but not clobber a transaction in progress. You need to check a flag out of the DRAM access routine or something that tells you a refresh was missed and do it synchronously I guess.

The point being: it's non-trivial.
but their doubt is reasonably based

Until you start looking at evidence you can publicly verify and start analyzing what it would cost to build what people and scientists actually observed, and the downside risks of the same. Really, what would be the worst-case downside for a Saturn 1B or Saturn V first stage? (Answer: a huge, spectacular explosion in front of thousands.) If you're trying to mitigate the costs and risk of failure with a hoax, why would you send up 9 of the former and 13 of the latter? Why would you do more than 1 manned mission?

It's much easier to preach to the choir.
Hundreds of greedy individuals with more power than some countries. What could possibly go wrong?

With barely any oversight, non-existent checks and balances, no social responsibility, an the power to sway the laws that the rest of us must live by, I urge you all to consider where we're headed. To me, at least, it seems that the age of kings is once again upon us.
I'm just happy they didn't call him a 'Hacker'
That's kind of what I was getting at with "capable of running."
Obligatory Penny Arcade: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/283628430_FxJSk-L-2.jpg
A redirect to a facebook app install page? Yeah, no.
IWantoo (Beta) is now available for everybody
beautiful, but not sure how useful it is?
Superhero Interview – Andres Romero AKA Blo0p
Intellectual property is something whose use is protected by law. (In particular, the fact that you have to break the law to obtain the information does not make it intellectual property.) These are just secrets, right?
The author does point this out, but it might not be clear to everyone...

"Games and applications using either hardware accelerated Stage3D or domain memory individually do NOT require a premium features license."

So if you're just using Stage3D you're fine.

Also...

"Net revenue is calculated as revenue after taxes, payment processing fees, and social network platform fees are subtracted."

Personally I don't think taking a percentage of sales is a bad thing considering the R&D that Adobe have continued to invest in Flash. Having said that I think 9% is a ridiculously high percentage.
Why has no one done this yet?
When the swallows come back to Capistrano
"Good enough" is certainly better than "not good enough".

In the scenario that you described, someone went from not communicating at all to lying every day, and getting "caught" at the end of a sprint. Standups didn't fix anything there. Also, there is a world of difference between calling something good enough, and it being good enough.

If I'm managing 5 job sites ... once a day sure beats nothing

If, as a manager of 5 teams, you feel like you need a direct, daily report of what every person on every team does, your life is going to be hard. If you attempt to control those teams by adding more process, you will interfere with the productivity of your good teams, and your bad teams will continue to suck.
No, privately owned horses were always a rarity. Walking was the dominant form of transportation in all towns and cities.
I agree. I have been thinking about a shell script to setup a Django dev environment for my coworkers when needed, mainly the frontend developer because they are not familiar with or have many of the tools I take for granted. This idea is rather brilliant. It would be nice the app could open or setup a sublime text or textmate project for an app as well.
If you're interested in scalding, Edwin Chen's awesome recommendation post can't be beat:

http://blog.echen.me/2012/02/09/movie-recommendations-and-mo...
By intellectual property I'm sure they mean products of R&D or things reminiscent of that.
True, but the argument in favor of process applies equally well to both.
Found your post during a search for another post about favorite programming languages. I read another post suggesting going to the local library to work a couple of hours. I've contemplated this but never got around to it yet. I wish you the best of luck on finding tools and habits to keep things moving.
Care to cite your source?

EDIT: I'm sorry, but was my request for a source considered rude? I don't understand the knock. I would really like to see some data showing the consolidation of wealth, if it actually exists.
Yeah, well, I opened the site and it was all just a mess. There were perhaps some messages jumbled together, but in a much too big font to sensibly read. In front, there was an actually readable message in a white box with red borders that told me that my browser (just a few months old) cannot display that "puppy".

I have no idea what that is supposed to tell me.
Man Attacked by Lion, Saved by Bear
Haha. I am currently going through this phase at my current firm. I can almost track how I have reached this phase:

1. I find on the first day that in the nine months before I joined the company, three people who were doing the same stuff I do were fired.

2. I make an expensive move from a different state. Then on the first day get told that the move in contract had changed and was forced to be sign the new one. An interesting contract that tells me even if the company folds for no good reason of mine, that I would have to payback moving expenses.

3. I get to spend a significant amount of my personal free time outside of company hours on company "bonding activities". I don't mind being told to go on company dinner fests but don't make it a habit and make me miss my own personal life. I like you as people I work under but you are not my friends and you are certainly not my life.

4. For a company that makes $2000 plus per engineer, its fun to see how cheap they are. A nice ergonomic chair? Nope. Traveling 50% of time across a few time zones? Make sure you book the cheapest possible flight that you get (irrespective of the number of stops that you have).

Tiny small things that added up gradually and have led to this situation.
Google proposes Android revenue for Oracle
For all the issues that can crop up with property rights around the margins in the US, the EU, and any other established democracies, doing business in a country where decades or centuries of history has established a strong general belief in property rights and the rule of law gives you a very strong set of baseline protections. Abandoning that for a brand new country where what one guy says goes introduces a whole new kind of risk that most of us here at HN are not used to dealing with and factoring in.

For example, requiring a dictator to post bond is all well and good until he decides at some point while you're within his borders that he's going to (a) kill you, in which case collecting on the bond won't you much good, though it will soften the blow for your investors, or (b) start cutting off toes and fingers until you release the bond. (Obviously you could structure the bond in such a way that option (b) is unworkable, which means that it either becomes a straight up hostage ransom situation, or reduces to option (a).)

Even given all of that, you're right that it still might make sense to do business there for a particular kind of business given a particular risk tolerance. It might well be an experiment worth trying. By the same token, if you develop a new kind of versatile routing software that does an especially good job of finding the optimal approach to trying to route materials past someone who is actively trying to stop you, selling it to Mexican drug lords might be an experiment worth trying. Just make sure you have a really good idea what you're getting into and that the risks to your person as well as your business are worth it to you.
Define "cultural evolution," though. I'm not sure what you mean there. Not trying to be difficult, because I rather enjoy this conversation. Just unclear about the distinction you're drawing.

I'd argue that UX design -- even if it didn't have that exact name -- has been a distinct discipline long before software. Just ask anyone in the food service industries, the retail industry (department stores were basically innovations in UX in retail; so was IKEA), the casino gaming industry, the amusement park industry, and so forth.

Casinos, in particular, are fascinating UX case studies. The person who first thought of modern casino layout, comping free drinks at table games, oxygenating the gambling floor, removing clocks from the walls, comping rooms and other amenities for big spenders and regulars, which games to place adjacent to which others, etc., was a UX designer in spirit if not in title. And those decisions were pretty rigorously tested and quantified. These things may not meet the technical definition of UX as we commonly speak of it on HN, but they certainly hold with the spirit of the discipline Don Norman would later come to articulate as "UX."
Thank you very much, execellent read. I still think / hope that there is room for apple to improve the way they do their image scaling in iOS for the retina display.
I think it is not sustenable to expect all the web to support high res images everywhere in the short to medium future.
oh god yes please I am a rails n00b who tried fooling with Rails a couple weeks ago and found the installation process INTENSELY FRUSTRATING. Especially compared to the unthinking ease of MAMP.

Gimme one .app and a directory structure I can just throw into /Applications (and later throw away if my experiments come to naught), gimme a nice control panel to stop and start Rails. Let me get it up and running on my system without hassling with the Terminal. Because I really really avoid the Terminal as much as possible.

pledges ten bucks
The car does a pretty average parking job in the dude's driveway at the end of the video..
Not sure if I should opt in. I feel like this would encourage them to "mine" me even harder.
How does this satiric post help at all? We all know what bigots sound like. We don't need a demonstration. You haven't pointed out anything profound. You haven't suggested any way to fix the situation. You have only distracted people who couldn't tell whether or not you were serious and wasted readers' time.
This is great, Mike - thanks for sharing the doc.
The man high fived a wild bear cub?!?! either a complete fabrication or a the worlds stupidest man. Probably both.
DSLR cameras should become iPhone docks
I really like the "ctrl + o" trick mentioned in the third comment: "Normally, if you enter a series of commands, you can go back to the first one, and hit Ctrl-O repeatedly to run the current command and retrieve the next."

Found a description here: http://www.halotis.com/2010/07/06/bash-keyboard-shortcuts/
The main link to Rails 4 is that we've announced that Rails 4 will drop Ruby 1.8.7 support, which means that some sort of install will be mandatory on OSX beginning with Rails 4.
In the '90s I wanted to show a friend the Apple ][ game Robot Odyssey. The only Apple ][ emulators I could find were for Windows. There was a Windows machine in a lab, but it was really awkward to access. However, I had a SPARC on my desk and found a Windows emulator. Running the Apple ][ emulator inside the Windows emulator running on a Sparc I -- it actually ran at about the original speed of the Apple ][.

And this was 15 years before Inception... ;)

Anybody have a SPARC 1 emulator?
Must keep an eye on this.

Blog link here for convenience: http://blog.fogus.me/
>But most groups who say "I'm not anti woman, just anti feminism" are flat out patriarchal, whether the flavour is religious or "men's rights", it's the same garbage.

Unfortunately my perception is similar to yours. I have seen enough nut case traditionalists and misogyny to not want to get involved with mans rights movement. Traditionalist ideology hurts MRM and I feel they are shooting themselves on the foot by allowing this sort of thing.

This is why I can't see my self associating with MRM or Feminists. Both groups can be pretty extreme although both have some (in my opinion) good goals like womans rights to choose & legal paternal surrender.

Thank you for your comment.

edit: I must say that I have seen MRM people against traditional patriarchy. Their idea is that a patriarchy does not allow men to be free.
That whole Kanye startup Whodat.biz? A "project" by a New York PR Firm
I suppose I just don't see what would motivate someone to slander an entire group of people based on the actions of a few. If someone is worried about cybercrime, they should say so rather than substituting "Russian" as a synonym for cybercriminal. To me that implies that cybercrime is an inherently Russian activity. Perhaps I am too quick to read racism against Russians into such an inflammatory use of the word "Russian" due to the amount of racial discrimination I have seen against Russian users while working in the game industry, where it is not uncommon to dismiss Russian gamers as probably a pirate or probably a hacker and to refuse them a level of support that would be provided to a person with a different accent or last name.
Any idea how frequent the US hacks Chinese corporates?
Yehuda obviously intends to make it polished, useful and generic enough that it could be used for other players of the Rails ecosystem.
The Mac packaging itself will take some time.
Making sure that the project is versatile enough that it won't break but flex nicely at the sight of the next Rails release (or RVM or rubygems or whatever) in itself is no small feeat.
Maybe it has, but the rich don't have infinite lifespans and the data indicates that their wealth doesn't survive past another generation or two.

See both: Beating the Midas Curse and The Millionaire Next Door
Unmentioned in the article is that 'Steve' is Daniel Steve Mahan, who's 95% blind. He's CEO of the Santa Clara Blind Center: http://www.visionbeyondsight.org/About-Staff.htm
Please note what I said. I release interrupts after every byte
READ/WRITTEN, so that the maximal delay to a refresh is the length of
a single byte read/write.
In case it wasn't clear, the only interrupt in use is the ram refresh
interrupt. If it is masked, and triggers, it will execute the handler
when it is unmasked. This means that even a loop on RAM read/write
will not starve RAM of refreshes

[also, why do I keep being told I am submitting too fast, please slow
down. I just posted 2 comments here, that is all. Had to make a new
username :(]
I've been a Rails dev since about 2007 as well and I've had some serious, serious problems dealing with Rails, gem dependencies, the version of RubyGems itself, and so on. rvm has helped a lot with that, but my last computer got so messed up when I upgraded to Snow Leopard it took me hours of configuration to get it working properly, and I had to abandon rvm entirely and start using rbenv. And then I couldn't work on half of my older projects.

In fact, it was so messed up, it motivated me to go out and buy a new Macbook (I needed a new computer anyway, but it provided a major impetus to go out and get one).

And that's just me. Even worse is the fact that I work on a lot of Rails projects with a designer who lives in Montreal, which is a good six hour drive from where I live. I've helped him get Rails set up on his computer, but it has not been easy - far from it. As a non-techie his computer is prone to all sorts of weird shit, he hates the CLI, he needs to be walked through, line-by-line, any situation involving some weird gem dependency nonsense - it's a horrible waste of my time. Imagine trying to debug someone's effed-up gem environment via a laggy screen-sharing connection while you're on deadline - it's awful!

To sum it up: this is a project worth supporting and I'm going to support it as soon as I click the 'reply' button on this comment form.
OpenTablets.org: A Brand New Community For Mobile Open Source
American Anthropological Association: Race is a superstition (1997)
I could not solve the problem and gave up after an hour. I gave the problem to my preschool child and they also could not figure it out. Since the article didn't provide a method for 'childifying' our minds I guess the only solution is suicide.
Http://www.writelonger.com/show/aMBV
Svbtle : The essence of blogging.
Learning Humility (poker professional's first startup)
TJ* An Animatronic Puppet
This. The site should clearly state whether they're showing 1000ft prevailing winds, jetstream-level currents (around 30,000 feet) or more surface-level effects. All the people talking about power generation from this data should be aware that the only wind that matters there is below 1,000 ft (in many cases, far below 1,000 ft.)
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am adding few more things that I forgot earlier -

Stress Testing - ???

App Distribution - Zubhium

App Marketing - AdMob, AppSurfer, AppBrain

Also, is there some service that can provide initial validation of an idea. I need some service through which I can contact 20 users and ask them if they will use a particular app and if so how much will they pay for it and what features they would like?
What I want is to /eventually/ get PNaCl with WebGL/WebAudio/IndexDB/whatever APIs make Mozilla happy. I make high-end 3D apps to pay my bills. I want to bring them to the web. But, what I don't want is to go through Adobe's content approval process in order to not be 15 years behind the technology curve (Cube2=Quake2=1997).

JS+WebGL is great and I'll keep pounding on it. But, building JS into the world's VM because of the asteroid-like inertia behind JS is frustrating in a similar way to watching Intel bolt stuff on to a pocket calculator CPU (8086) until we get a CoreI7. It obviously /can/ work, but...
Beautiful! I love the collapse/expand feature too.

One problem I have with the UI is that I feel the left/right arrows should ONLY be for going to different horizontal locations on the timeline, but they scroll through vertical locations as well if they are all at the same time. This was unexpected. Perhaps up/down arrows for the vertical navigation?
Hahaha, I love the "nuke em from orbit" comment. Aliens is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time!

But I agree 100% with you. Feeling appreciated and valued can make up for a surprising amount of small things (which can quickly become mammoth). All I ask is that you treat me like a human being and give me a fair salary, and in return I will do my absolute best for you.
That's a little more than the UN medium estimate of world population, but the absolute number of people doesn't seem like a huge problem. That's only 30% more than today. We have plenty of coal to get at least the electricity, and although oil might be a problem, I imagine that we can substantially reduce our consumption of that if governments get serious about pricing in externalities.

The global warming aspect is very concerning though.
> [also, why do I keep being told I am submitting too fast, please slow down. I just posted 2 comments here, that is all. Had to make a new username :(]

I think there is extra throttling on brand-new accounts, to help keep spam under control. Once your account is a little older it will be less restricted.

Also: welcome, and thanks for joining the discussion!
Or, build a product that they'll want to use, and do away with the psyche tricks altogether. The simplest "desire engine" is a product that people both want and need.
While I understand the frustration, wycats, like any other open source developer gets to pick his battles.

Lowering the Rails entry bar is a good thing, making things simpler is a sign of maturity for a product.
To address your bit about concurrency and websockets in Rails, people are working on the issue, see the talks given by Ilya Grigorik for example, concurrency will be coming to Rails at some point. And so will the integration with client-side framworks like Backbone or Ember. It just takes time.
Look through memory with see-through chips
Well, Skinner's work may be old, but Behaviorism as a discipline certainly hasn't died out. Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism#21st-century_behavi...
Sorry, my Mitsumi 1x went in the dumpster many years ago.
I use Pelican for my blog. It's pretty straight forward. http://readthedocs.org/docs/pelican/en/2.8/
"...biofuels and renewable energy sources are all projected to increase steadily."

That was the only happy thought I took away from that article. At some point the world will just run out of fossil fuels. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on regarding global warming one thing is for certain, we need new forms of energy.
Sorry, only a 68020 based Sun 3/50.

4 Megs RAM and a b/w console.
Yes. That is what most caching feature does. Take Ruby on Rails as example, if you have a static page, you can just cache it as just raw HTML file(after the first rendering).
This discussion is wandering off into la-la land. The GPL isn't designed to cover things like websites or bitmapped images. There's other 'free' content-oriented licenses which should be used instead.
To be fair, he said he didn't necessarily want to duplicate the effort of others. I'm sure he will garner any information he can from those projects to help make that app awesome.
Having written MR jobs in the original Java format, I can tell you that it's quite valuable to do so before learning a DSL like Scalding or Pig.

I found http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun... to be a very good tutorial for a quickstart guide to Hadoop.
You missed a few steps:

brew install rbenv
brew install ruby-build

Copy the line it gives you to your shell's rc file and source it/open a new term:

rbenv install 1.9.3-p125
rbenv global 1.9.3-p125
gem update --system
gem install rails
gem install bundler # optional, recommended

When a new version of Ruby comes out:

brew update
brew upgrade

Then just rbenv install and rbenv global it.
There's also FlashDevelop which is free/opensource, and then there's commercial, cheaper alternatives like FDT.
I think it is the opposite of that. YC companies are not really competing with each other for investment; the success of a few helps the others, too. That Dropbox is worth over a billion dollars probably raises the valuation of each of the YC companies in w2012 by some measurable amount. There are a lot of investors who would only invest in certain kinds of companies, too, so it isn't even possible to have a universal rank ordering of attractiveness to investors.
Automated fact-checking? I call bs.
I hope Sophie Wilson is reading this, as that microcontroller probably isn't far off the BBC Micros that were originally used to prototype the ARM instruction set.

I bet nobody then imagined anyone would emulate un*x on a chip being emulated at such slow speeds.