skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are exceptions to this rule where the durability of the product is the key selling point. Example: Tilley Endurables (http://www.tilley.com/default.aspx) and their hat.
Need help from HN to get this Windows7 bug fixed
Pretty nice, though I don't use multiple monitors in OS X. I'd be interested to know how many people pay for it, if you felt like sharing.
Only three problems?
> I have a hard time believing the JVM is really 10x faster than v8 for such a simple server.

Honest question, why?
A rigorous benchmark must seek to explain the difference in performance, not just hand-wave saying "such-and-such is faster". Otherwise, you have no way of validating (for yourself, let alone demonstrating to others) that it's not a misconfiguration or a flaw in your benchmark.
Yeah I actually prefer stylus to sass personally, sass is just more popular (and rails default) and less magical for people that don't work with css as often.

My favorite feature actually is that it can grab properties out of parents, as demonstrated here: https://gist.github.com/2563746
Brammo Empulse, Eletric Motorcycle comes to mass market
I agree the idea is not new, but I think it still has merit. If these guys move forward with it, and do a good execution, you have a killer app.
From the start, security has been very important to the spire.io team. That does not seem to be the case with Firebase.
Sounds good. This will definitely be a service I keep my eye on as it grows.

One more thing, do you have a playlist feature planned?
Getting Your Website or Startup Noticed Before You Even Launch
28nm will not deliver cheaper chips, says Scott McGregor
Bit of a cringeworthy name, but I'll be watching this. By 'downloading one plugin' I'm guessing you bypass the WP plugin system?
You're totally right. I have a mixin that makes a bubble like that too, but it's built from a few different mixins that each build on each other and I didn't want to post a buttload of code in a comment. You can see an example of how mine looks if you hit this page (http://roots.carrotbeta.com/docs/) and scroll down to the UI section
Every. Single. Static. Benchmark. For. HTTP. Is. Bullshit. It's really as simple as that. Why?

Because the limiting factor in every scenario is the pipe. Not the CPU. Not the RAM. The internet connection.

Even the most miserable http server will saturate the pipe with static content.

These benchmarks boil down to mental masturbation and fanboism.
No; Bill Evans and Gil Evans are two different people

I know. But the parent said:

You can even say "Kind of Blue" is a Evans' LP by how much his influence on composition and arrangement is strong,

And Gil Evans did the arrangements on two of Miles' influential albums that preceded Kind of Blue, namely Miles Ahead and Porgy and Bess.
Firebase has a much nicer API. It's organized around a realtime, ordered, tree datastore. This makes it much more akin to very granular database than a message bus. Spire is just an authentication service + channels. There is no state beyond the historical list of messages in a channel. That makes it a really thin layer over Socket.IO. Firebase solves a much harder problem of state synchronization.

Firebase allows you can listen to any part of the subtree and query particular children of a node. Data is synchronized in realtime, optimistically, and the events that fire allow you to easily tie your UI or Backbone model to the datastore. It also has critical features like transactions. This is much more flexible than what Spire.IO currently provides.
> I've never seen anything like a support request (or even a complete coherent thought) in there.

This cracked me up. And likewise, I think we've seen one. Meanwhile we have nearly a quarter million email "tickets" to date.
Ask HN: Would you like a service to teach you etiquette?
I'm working on such a service right now, and I have to ask: would you pay for it? I think a lot of people in this world today don't know how to carry themselves properly. The way you present yourself is extremely important and it can make or break opportunities for you. So, what do you think?
That does not talk about creativity, but of creating things. Even if it did, I do not find it a valuable argument, in the current large-scale economy. Making him/her richer may stimulate the creativity of that entrepreneur, but the price of that is a horde of zombie consumers who cannot express his creativity by making/repairing stuff themselves.

In a small-scale economy, say where every village has a blacksmith, a tinker, a tailor, etc. the net effect might be positive, because it allows many people to spend time to become good at expressing their creativity.
Ask HN: UX/Design in agile teams?
One thing I've noticed in the last few years is a different pattern in the way that designers approach development (and vice versa) on agile teams.

More and more these days I'm seeing developers who are keen to understand more about design/UX. They're poking away an bits of interaction design. You'll often see a few design books on the techie bookshelf (Rosenfeld Media books seem to be especially popular). They'll be trying stuff like usability testing. I could go on.

This isn't true of everybody, or even a majority, and it certainly doesn't suddenly turn developers into skilled designers. However I am encountering more developers who have a broader understanding of the breadth of design/UX - and that's it not just about "making things pretty".

The reverse doesn't seem to be as true. There are certainly designers pick up some front-end skills and are happy spending some time in HTML/CSS/JavaScript land. But I don't encounter very many who are interested, or have any appreciation, of the breadth of skills involved on the development side. Even when their design/UX skills would be stupidly useful.

Has anybody else noticed this?

Is this selection bias on my part? (I spend a bunch of my time trying to encourage agile folk and UX folk to play nice together - so the companies I tend to see have often already figured out that design is important - so it's already going to be valued).

[Disclaimer: I might want to steal (with permission) some of the comments for a talk I'm giving on the "UI in an Agile Process" track at GOTO Copenhagen next month - rambling on about integrating design work throughout development (drop me an e-mail if you want a registration discount :-)]
Glad it's useful.

a) Search is coming. I tried integrating Swiftype (the experiment's running at /docs/search), but perhaps because of their publicity yesterday, it doesn't seem to have been indexed yet.
b) Agree it could be better on mobile devices. It's using Twitter Bootstrap for a responsive layout and I've certainly found it usable on the iPod Touch, but the interface, especially the nav bar, could do with some work.
This is extremely bad behaviour and Microsoft response is the usual "by design"
I'm not sure how to get Microsoft attention, please help!
Etsy raises $40m
Agreed, good chunks of the "web development startup scene" seem rather bubbly.

The entire "get a bunch of users and worry about making money later" mindset seems somewhat broken. Let's see what happens if all major browsers come with ad-blockers preinstalled overnight or more importantly if people/governments? start taking privacy more seriously.

What happened to the good old bootstrapping mindset that used to be the go to philosophy in IT. Seems like it got replaced by a cracklike addiction for VC-money-shots.
Don't forget "automagical"!
Playsurface: Hackable 32" Multitouch Table
Templeman Automation has a kickstarter project starting (http://kck.st/JPgTG9) that aims to provide a fast, hackable platform for everyone who wants to create a large touch interface but can't wait or afford the much-promised MS Surface. This has required researching a stable and multi-purpose configuration (including the projector, IR illuminators, and surface materials) and coming up with a chassis design that can be shipped inexpensively and then built up with a few screws like Ikea furniture. The goal is to project livingrooms everywhere a little farther into the future.
Ha ha! That's my degree Aerospace Engineer. But it was too boring working for huge aerospace corporations so I do programming now.
God is the source of all ideas. Muse. If someone steals one idea from me, God will give me more.

Your NAZI ideas come from God too. Newton admitted this.

God says...
hi hit what_do_you_expect tree_hugger Yes_you_are piety
surprise_surprise look_buddy Zap hymns That's_my_favorite
exports application I'm_not_dead_yet don't_push_it heathen
you_hoser I_love_this hypocrite I'm_feeling_nice_today
Give_me_praise fight fake the_enquirer ahh spending hobnob
joke

Newton is the smartest man that ever lived. Notice his humility in confessing his sins.

http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/newtons-sins.html

You are not in Newton's or my league.

---

God says...
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

t duennas, mother and daughter, vast crowds flocked from
all the villages and hamlets of the neighbourhood to see the novel
spectacle of the battle; nobody, dead or alive, in those parts having
ever seen or heard of such a one.

The first person to enter the-field and the lists was the master of the
ceremonies, who surveyed and paced the whole ground to see that there was
nothing unfair and nothing concealed to make the combatants stumble or
fall; then the duennas entered and seated themselves, env
> Let's say I want to plugin some Java lib for image manipulation. How? And who will guarantee that these libs will be concurrent and/or non-blocking as well?

What? What do you mean by non blocking in this context?
Interesting, it looks like they rewrote all the code in JS. I wonder why they didn't compile it.

Just speculation, but compiling might have led to a faster result (the compiled Doom was faster than this).

edit: Nevermind, looks like it renders using divs and not canvas. I guess they focused on compatibility with as many browsers as possible and not on performance.
When you get results back on blekko, if you are logged in there is an option in the drop down next to the results to say 'spam'. If you select it then the site will be added to your personal spam list and won't show up in your results.

Another technique is to create a slash tag, then add results you get to it from sites you sometimes want to exclude (so for example if you are looking for Hackernews article references but don't want to include hackernews urls in the result) then you can do the search with -/yourtag and it will keep the sites that are in 'yourtag' out of your results for that query.

Can be a very powerful tool for dealing with information white-out where some high ranking site has a lot of hits.
Solving Slow Database Performance In Java & MySQL with Tracelytics
Google's Android maps now have indoor walking directions and Google Offers
The Wonder Shaper script he mentions is an anti-bufferbloat workaround. Not that that was the stated purpose, but that's what it does.
Do you need to delineate explicitly? There's a block of meta tags followed by a block of content tags. Quite possibly with whitespace inbetween. I think it's fairly obvious.
Thanks for taking a look. We'll get on those links (thanks for that! ).

Hitch is quite a bit different than Sass/LESS. I wrote about this here: http://clint-hill.com/2012/05/06/changing-how-css-works-hitc...

Essentially Hitch looks to add behavior to CSS where Sass/LESS looks to make writing CSS easier. We love Sass/LESS and don't believe it's a competition with the libraries.
I would take the words of the employees over that of the investors, you tend to be a little more clear eyed and less inclined to gamble when it's your livelihood at stake.

That said, the bubble we're in is mostly a media creation; people want to hear good financial news from somewhere, and if it's based on someone paying for popularity ( Facebook buying Instagram )in the mobile cat-picture-sharing space; it will still get more attention than it's worth.

Meanwhile the real economy is still in a serious demand slump, and has structural issues that prevent it from achieving anything but tepid growth. And while that situation obtains, excess capital will be looking for alpha in the technology sector.
It's the start of the Summer, I'm in my 2nd year MS-CS. I began a simulation last night at 9PM that's still running (usually 14 hour turnaround). I just got in, sat at my desk and thought "I'm bored, guess I'll check HN" and THIS is what I see.
Not necessarily. The academics are the ones who provide both the product and the labor.
Say hello to Octicons
brogrammers take note: this is only for rockstars
Very much understand this. To be clear, Player FM won't auto-tweet or follow new people unless you ask it to (right now, there's no features like that anyway). I wish Twitter would let the developer include a message about how they'll use the feature on their permission page, as the only alternative right now is to explain it beside the button, which clutters up the user-interface.

In any event, you can hit "traditional signup" if you want to just use your email/password. Or use the Google login.
Allocators were well intentioned, but writing them is not a walk in the park, and you cannot pass, say, a “std::vector<T, my_allocator<T>>” to a function expecting “const std::vector<T>&”.
One thing often overlooked in language design is the filename. It's 2012, why are languages still stuck with IBM-era filename extentions when they could use unicode?! For instance:

Rust: filename.ℛ

Java: filename.☕

Glee: filename.☺

Isn't that just so much clearer and nicer-looking than ".rs" or ".java" or ".g"? It's really the fine aesthetic points like this that can make or break a language.
Yup. I write all my personal web pages like this now. It's far more efficient, simply because it's less stuff to forget, easier to remember, and much quicker to type.
"To make money" means to make a profit, not generate revenue.
Wolfenstein 3D in HTML5
"Rich"
Nice - welcome aboard :-)
OP is not the creator of the site. You can email him here (from contact link at bottom of page): steve.niles@htmlshell.com
Hacker News password retrieval email broken
For the past month I've been attempting to reset my password on HN. I never get an email. I've tried at least 6 different times. I use gmail. Nothing ever comes in, not via spam folder, etc..

Is it broken?
I'm not sure if you are a musician or not, but for now just accept that, to a musician, each mode has it's own "feel". If you are playing in D Dorian, it "feels" different than C Ionian or G Mixolydian, even those these all involve the same primary notes.

Chord consonance in a modal solo is far less important than in blues or bop, but for sure there is a structure to whatever song you're playing (i.e. rules) and you need to know those rules in order to sound capable.

The old rules of bop and blues said that you need to hit specific notes at the right times to sound good. There were right and wrong notes. The newer rules that Miles introduced with Footprints (1958) and continuing with Kind of Blue (1959) freed him and his musicians to explore a lot more and "play around" in certain modes. (I say "play" in the sense of what a child might do, not "play" in the sense of "playing" an instrument). In a modal solo, the aim is to create a melody, not demonstrate capability by hitting the "right" notes as fast as possible. In bop, playing the 9th or 11th of a chord would sound weird, whereas in modal jazz you can linger over those notes and it could sound really nice.
An uncommonly high number of people on HN (or mentioned in stories posted to HN) are programming language enthusiasts, so it certainly seems like it.
Equivalently, it's difficult to say whether Anthony Braxton's or John Zorn's music is jazz, even though they use improvisation, and are referred to as jazz musicians.
PLoS is a non-profit publisher. All of their journals are open-access and are paid for by publication fees. They have only been around for a few years, but in that time, their top-line journals (PLoS Biology, Comp Bio, Medicine, Genetics, etc...) have become top-tier class journals (one notch below Science, Nature and Cell, depending on who you talk to).

They are no lightweight in the biomedical research journal landscape.
Why are they measuring requests/sec? Any server can accept connections at a high rate but what matters is responding in a timely manner.

I doubt the requests number too. Writing a dummy socket server (evented, threaded, ...) that just returns "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" will not get you anywhere close to 120k requests/sec. The system call becomes the bottleneck.
The Heroku app stacks are tied to specific versions of ruby as far as I am aware. If you are on the Bamboo stack, you can choose to switch between 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 (or, could, I imagine they removed that with this change) but that's the only variable ruby that I know of with regard to Heroku.
I agree they were enforcing their laws but to me they seem a bit harsh. I'm glad that in the US you don't get harsh punishment for being here illegally.
Yes, I was pointing out the stupidity of that further because you're compressing something twice.
Needs a video demo of setting up a blog with it.
Interesting that none of those systems are in active usage...

> Eventually all mainstream OS will have such type of languages and C will be legacy.

That's just speculation. Personally I have high hopes for languages with optional-only GC, and much stricter memory management principals. Ala, Rust.
How To Thoroughly Dry Your Hands With Just One Piece of Paper Towel
My flight instructor said it best: "At least then we know what killed them". In aviation it seems like its way better to have lots of know risks vs fewer unknown ones. People are desperate for something (or someone) concrete to blame in air mishaps.
SparkFun Gets A Subpoena
Mutual funds (since they typically invest in readily marketable securities) may not feel the pain, but pension funds, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, etc. will take a hit: a non-trivial portion of VC money is derived from such institutional investors (who are limited partners in the fund).

Pension Funds: Retirees (ex: public workers) take a hit.

University Endowments: Future students, faculty, and employees (think of the guy who's repairing the plumbing in the dorms, rather than the chancellor) take a hit.

Sovereign Wealth Funds: The citizens of said country takes a hit.
I'd be interested to know how much money they're saving. On its face, it seems like ONE university in every rich country should pay for 'all there is' (within reason). Or, at least the leading journals in each field, and some of the other resources posters have mentioned above.

Like it or not, America spends a huge amount on research as published in journals, and if a country has no subscriptions to it at all they're simply cut off from that. I don't have a horse in this race: I would be very happy if academic publishing were completely different. However, realistically, these things should be 'somewhere' in a country the size (and wealth) of Germany, available for consumption by its interested scholars.
How we gave 3000+ copies of our paid iOS app, Zombies, Run, to our KS backers
Worked flawlessly and fast for me. More than I can say about most WebGL/Flash games I've tried.
+1 to d3.js.

http://d3js.org/
jsdom is great if you want to parse HTML and don't care about speed. The last time I tried it (which was <1 year ago), jsdom didn't have full support for namespaces, so it's not so great if you want to parse non-trivial XML. I haven't tried dom.js, but until recently, I don't think it would run under node at all because it needs proxies and WeakMaps.

Even for HTML, jsdom is too slow to use in production, at least for our use cases. (My tests run at least one order of magnitude faster in xpcshell. I can easily download HTML faster than jsdom can parse it.)
Doesn't look useful.

1. Value prop copy and action button buried amongst the UI chrome.

2. The photos don't illustrate what the items are. You also feature a lot of stand-in photos. What's the point of applying grid style format if your photos are not properly formatted and low-res and worst of all are just plain bad?

3. The context for the items aren't shown properly. I don't get the point of Activity versus Loding and why there are old dates there.

4. I can't give you inputs without signing up.

Keep trying though.
I've been authoring a post on solving interview questions in map/reduce between experimental runs myself, so I guess I already hit the "bored graduate student" point too...
99 Problems But Rewards Ain't One; Belly Raises $10 Million
Things I Hated About Your Business Pitch
It's hard to use this poetry startup anecdote as proof of a bubble since the guy wasn't funded.

If YC had accepted the application, I could see it used as evidence that too much money is chasing too few ideas. But they didn't.
Anti Wi-Fi Wallpaper
Too subtle :)
I dunno. I think it's succinct and describes the software really well. More software should have documentation like this!
Fix: content based Javascripted css
I launched late yesterday, so I don't yet have much data. From this morning's iTunes Connect report I know that one person bought it yesterday, and appears to have rated it already as well. Thank you anonymous early adopter!
Doesn't seem to have spent that much time...
Github looks total different (with login)
Wikipedia gave me those stats, but I checked the spreadsheet from the ITU they are based on and it's accurate.[1] Given the Chileans are richer it makes sense that they have 1 in 10 more people connected. Although I concede that the stats on this one point are contested.

I think you are being a little naive regarding countries. 26 years is extremely recent when we talk about countries and their institutions. I've also addressed dictatorship in another comment. The US comment is a red herring.

You seem to have misread me on inflation. I said it was three to six times the Chilean rate, not that the real rate was three to six times the official rate. I.e. if the Chilean rate is 3.something and yours is 10.something it's roughly three times more, but if your rate is actually 20 or 25 as some suggest you will be roughly six times higher than the Chilean rate. This is massively important to running a business of any kind.

I am not going to bother responding to your insults other than to say it's not appropriate on Hacker News (or anywhere) and there seems to be a lot of ego and patriotism from the Argentine commentators in this discussion. A criticism of a country is not a personal criticism.

This cheer-leading seems somewhat ill-considered, given your top global wealth early last century your country is practically a textbook cautionary tale. It's not an Argentine Yahoo! being compared to first world Googles either, it's more like someone at AltaVista claiming they are in the big leagues with Google because once upon a time they were good. To revert to weaker arguments: nobody I know would dispute this state of affairs as I have put it. And nobody would dispute that it's absolutely plausible that with good governance Argentina could have been as rich or richer than Japan right now, as rich or richer than Spain (and with far less debt than those two). But governments count, and you got some bad ones. Chile on the other hand is benefiting (albeit mildly) from making far better choices and it's clear to an outsider which is better and all data points to that (GDP, education, corruption, economic freedom, inflation). Either all those sources are wrong or my case holds. I don't see anyone from outside Argentina making the case that it's as wonderful as you people say. That's telling. Most good countries have people from outside showing them respect. For example, I admire some of what the Chileans have achieved and consider them better than quite a few first world countries now on a few metrics. They deserve praise and respect for that hard work getting things right. But respect is earned with work, not with claims of greatness that aren't backed up with anything other than insults.

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...