skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just limited to being 'people centric'. It's more content(? there may be a better word) centric. When you're looking at a photo, do you want to share it? go to one of your photo apps? adjust it? e-mail it to somebody?

I was really surprised when I got my iPad that I couldn't open a photo and just upload it to facebook or send it to somebody in an e-mail. I had to go find an app to do that.
I know 3D printing will change the world, except prototyping does anyone see any other use case?
I think it's not so much the problem of an ABI but the fact that changing base classes in C++ forces client code to be recompiled because offsets of members and vtable entries change:

http://haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue2-25.html

Apparently Apple gets around this the usual way by padding out their API classes with extra unused members. I wonder what the solution is in Windows 8 & Symbian.
> If you feel an urge to "start from scratch" — help rebuild everything for mobile.

Given that mobile hardware is about where desktop hardware was when BeOS was invented, I wonder if some company could use it as a new smartphone OS. There's an unfinished ARM port in progress but would probably need commercial support to complete.

The thing about innovation is, it's not always possible to predict what will be valuable or not. Not many people would have predicted Linux back in Linus's early days, for example.
and now that Lion reimplemented the feature people are hating it.
but that is now getting an old version of django. is that really what is wanted?
Neal Stephenson is writing a story based on this proposal to enable SSTO by building 20km high steel towers.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AIPC..654..290L

Basically, this is just looking at what is possible, eschewing the hypothetical advance, then running with it. This is also where SpaceX is finding success.
Because the odds of the US growing its way out of a staggering burden of debt are roughly the same as winning the lottery.
If you ask me, it was the wrong choice. I work on a huge project that's hosted on Repo (full Android OS + big proprietary driver tree), and the lack of this feature has really cost me lots of time doing manual labor that could be automated.

Another decision the Repo designers made that I disagree with is the silly Change-Id added to every commit message(!). Since when do globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) solve problems instead of creating more?
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Apakah anda seorang pekerja berat atau orang yang selalu duduk di depan komputer anda?? tentunya semua itu dapat menyebabkan pinggang anda sakit, Pengobatan Sakit Pinggang Secara Alami adalah solusi yang tepat untuk mengobati sakit pinggang yang sering anda alami. Pengobatan Sakit Pinggang Secara Alami berbeada sekali dnegan mengkonsumi obat-obatan dari warung atau apotek, karena obat-obatan tersebut pasti mengandung zat kimia yang berbahaya jika sering mengkonsumsinya dan dapat menyebabkan ketergantungan. Namun berbeda dengan halnya Pengobatan Sakit Pinggang Secara Alami, karena pengobatan ini menggunakan obat alami yang terbuat dari sari Kulit manggis dan di olah dengan alat yang modern dengan para ahli yang handal sehingga kulit manggis tersebut menjadi obat yang aalami yang mngandung Xamthone Dan tidak menimbulkan efeksamping apapun.
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Au contraire, if anything, consistent rudeness risks getting you hellbanned.

I don't think it's unreasonable or rude to state that one is disappointed that a tool doesn't have a feature. Especially an important feature such as IPv6! Given that the disappointment is that ViewDNS.info bills itself as "your one source for DNS tools", it doesn't entirely live up to it's own billing.
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WAY more geeky/cool to have knitted this yourself than to have just bought it as a T-shirt.

Sure, but I didn't say the opposite. I like the idea a lot and knitting this yourself is really great, but I would definitely buy it if it was on a T-shirt.
Do you have a source for that? If this information is true, I could use it to help convince our management at work that we should move off Repo and into Git submodules.
A long install process for such a simple app. You should make it a one line install. Maybe a gem or npm?
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For the German-challenged:

http://h10088.www1.hp.com/cda/gap/display/main/index.jsp?zn=...
Repair. Plastic bit broken on your car / appliance / device? Grab a model from the web and print a new one.
What about insurance based on simulation?
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Are better scrolling and natural animations really innovation? It's much more of a progression. Touchscreen is the same? I believe the quality of touchscreens weren't good enough before 1997.
Related

1. How do you handle jobs that suck, but must be done.

Like backups ... nobody really likes the job of 'backup guy'.

It's boring. Tedious. A backwater of a role with no meaningful career progression. Also - the software typically sucks, and is expensive. Also - the hardware typically sucks, and is super-expensive.

But someone must pay attention to backups because stuff happens and you might actually need to recover everything from tape to get the company online.

How does Valve get the tedious, boring, nit-picky, utterly necessary stuff done?
I don't think Minecraft is a good example. Many users use modifications that create more "realistic" graphics and they feel they make the game even better. Minecraft's graphic style isn't terrible, but better graphics don't hurt the game. The assertion that "more believable graphics are certainly going to help" is absolutely correct.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/shM90.jpg vs stock Minecraft, most people much prefer the linked image and find it more immersive.
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I think it's sad that so many commenters genuinely can't seem to fathom anything positive happening without a hierarchical / top-down / command-and-control approach. Especially when a few billion years of evolution has basically never selected that approach (something like a bee colony may seem similar, but is radically different... it's not like there is a manager bee for every 5-7 worker bees). Please don't vote me into oblivion for saying this.
30 year old developer hacks work week, hits HN homepage: common.

50 year old librarian hacks sweater, hits HN homepage: somewhat less common. But yes, the principle is still the same.
Imaginary example, but real tech

It is a real (reel) example. I will attest.
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Value realism: Is value objective or subjective?
> As it stands submodules don't even work sanely for the most trivial use-case of tracking a (slow changing) vendor-repo.

That is not the use case it was designed for. And submodules still work just fine for that. The fact that you have to do a separate submodule update does not make it broken. In fact, it makes it better when you start thinking about all the corner cases there are.

If you truly want to build a software out of subrepositories, you need to have a sane way of tracking working sets of revisions of all the submodules there are. And that is what git submodules does.

If you were blindly tracking the head of a repository, it would be useful _only_ for the use case you mentioned. Tracking slowly changing external vendor repos. That would be a whole lot less useful.
Unfortunately, this is like comparing apples and oranges.

Express provides more robust routing, content negotiation, view rendering and partial support, environment based configuration, etc, etc. I presume if kick.js eventually achieves feature parity with Express, kick.js will incur a performance penalty as much, if not more, than Express.

A more fair comparison could be made between kick.js and something lower-level such as connect (https://github.com/senchalabs/connect). Or better yet, between kick.js and a "raw" node http server.

Also, the name is somewhat taken: https://github.com/mortennobel/KickJS/
Rayman Origins has lovely 'hand drawn' cell HD graphics, and is pretty fun as far as 2D platformers go.

http://raymanorigins.uk.ubi.com/
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I'm not paying for something I can have anywhere I want already for nothing.

EDIT: To clear this up - installing python on your computer is cheaper, has better support, no limits, is far faster interactively and has really good support.

I know people are going to say "what about iOS/Android" but why the hell would you want to write anything on those devices.
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Looks cool. Do you provide APIs? I can support it in my iPad IDE app, worqshop.com
Or a simple git or shell alias which would do the submodule update when you want it. That would solve most of the sources of complaints in the article and in this thread.

However, most likely you don't want an automatic submodule update because of all the issues there are. It would only be useful for tracking a very stable slow moving external dependency.
Competence isn't a single axis. Nobody's a genius at everything. E.g., great programming skill does not automatically confer high social skill, good business sense, appreciation of experience design, or ability to wrangle meetings.

If it will help everybody, please forget I mentioned Dunning-Kruger in specific. That's the inspiration for the question, not the heart of it.
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Awesome! It's like dnsstuff but free again! Thanks!
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The focus of technology should be sustainability now (Europe is trying to do this now). America needs to look more like central Europe with walkable cities and less cars. Also the entire world is still trying to make sense of the industrial revolution. Our machines could serve all the world for free, but what are consumers going to give back in return?
In this particular case, the bonus pool was basically the profit of the firm, so the pool was not variable. But my point was more about the perception of one's own contribution versus everybody else.

Another way to look at it: a friend's marriage counselor said that if each member of the couple thinks they're doing 50% the work, that leaves another 50% of the work undone.
I would also buy it because I don't knit and it's not really something that's on my list of things to learn.
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(I actually like Wordpress, but certainly not for its security record.)
... because it might work better?
Have you been living under a rock the past ten years? How do you even envision industrial designers improving 3d printing software?
If this is interesting for you, you may also be interested in my http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/gems/rubydns tools.
ECC Does nothing to prevent your server from dying in a fire after that police chase, either. However, replication is an effective solution to the problem you describe:

Whenever data is read, you read from more than one replica, and then compare them. If one of them has been corrupted, its hash won't match and you'll know it. You can then write out the correct data to the node with the error. This is very easy in systems like Riak.
They don't want to learn or use; svn, atlassian, bit bucket, etc. cause they are mentally locked into github
I don't really see how this has anything special to do with TikZ as it's just an SVG converted to TikZ-code.
Second could be for Hardening as there were two powders added as well
Okami did; it was immersive and beautiful. Search for "okami screen shots" on Google images (the URL is longer than this sentence, including this parenthetical statement).
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> The world needs great developers to build awesome apps for a whole new class of machines

Developers work on things they find cool, not the things you need done. To get those done, you either do them yourself, or you pay someone to do them.

And let them work on whatever they find fun on their own spare time.
You do realise that people do this in their own spare time out of love and passion?
really? where? I'm curious.
It took long time and revolutionary tool, git, to disobey then.

And yes incumbents fall, it just takes way more than Only being better.
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3) WP8 and Windows 8 are converging into a single entity. Before long you'll be able to run a full desktop on your phone, all you need is a dock to connect it to a mouse/keyboard/monitor. This is a nice feature for a lot of people who just use their desktop PCs for typing out letters and browsing the internet.

If high-end smartphones are able to replace desktop PCs for light/casual users, Microsoft can take advantage of their desktop dominance. Apple of course could offer an OSX desktop, but Android would have to rely on gnome or kde, and although both of these are fine products, they haven't exactly proven themselves commercially.

Interesting times ahead, methinks.
As HN: What motivates you at your startup?
Well, I was planning to put this into a longer blog post but popular platforms (Wordpress, Tumblr, Posterous, etc.) are all blocked over here.

Late last year, I was approached with an offer at a fast growing, profitable, pre-Series A startup that required me to relocate away from home.

The timing was perfect, as I was recovering from a bout of burnout and I really wanted to take a break from freelancing and working at a startup has been something I wished to do.

So I packed up, travelled 3,000 miles, got settled in quickly and started working my ass off. I had some grand plans in my mind, thinking that this is my chance to put up the highest score of my life, by helping a startup go from start to exit.

6 months on, my drive and desire at this startup is all gone. I stopped believing in the product, not that it sucks, but simply because it's not in a domain I'm interested in. My motivation previously was solely fueled by monetary desires, and we all know that that never lasts.

I'm still working at the startup, although I don't think I'll be here for long. I'm only here, because I feel a sense of responsibility to complete a few remaining tasks before leaving.

Did I ever regret the decision to come here? No, because I got to work with really smart hackers and most importantly, I met some new friends whom I'm now working on a new project with.

It's only after this experience that I started to understand why "you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

Oh, and this time, I'm not after monetary gains.

What motivates you?

P.S. I would appreciate it if you could take a look at the landing page I've put up (http://shallwedive.com) and tell me what you think. Sharing it with your friends who scuba dive would be awesome :)
The one with the heated bed is only $50 more. So still cheap. I was looking for reviews and the only thing I could find was this one:

http://renaissance-engineer.net/2012/03/08/how-time-flies/

"A review of the Solidoodle after numerous hours of printing. But for a few tuneup adjustments here and there, it has been problem free. If only there was a heated build platform the prints would be totally awesome (instead, as you might expect with ABS on a cold piece of acrylic, the first few layers are not even)."

I might take the plunge and get the $549 version. Although I must admit, I have no idea what I'd make with it.
Specialization introduces opportunities for dysfunction, because it breaks a feedback loop. Dev -> QA is one of those. Google "throw it over the wall" to see how common the problem is. E.g.: http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/dont-throw-it-over-wall...

People are skilled economic resources, but they are also status-seeking monkeys that were mainly evolved for foraging, fucking, and fighting. If you don't keep that in mind when setting up an organization, there are risks. I'm asking how Valve handles them.

Regarding dishes, I'm not saying that one has to pick suboptimal solutions just for the sake of symbolism. Google, for example, has industrial dishwashers. But still, everybody picks up their trays, sorts the compost, recyclables, and landfill into proper bins, puts the utensils in the bins for used silverware, and then slots the tray and dishes into a conveyor that feeds into the kitchen. Could Google hire busboys? Sure. But they didn't, and I'd bet it's not an accident.
Judging from the title on HN it looks like a cool idea.

But not being familiar with git-send-email the project description on your website tells me nothing.

What exactly happens when I use this? All I know is it's got something to do with twitter and there are PNG images involved ...
I have edited my post to hopefully make it less "rude", that was certainly not my intention. I do want to point out, and I think I am not alone in this, that in 2012, lack of IPv6 support (at least at the basic level of parsing IPv6 addresses and showing AAAA records / reverse lookups) in a network tools suite doesn't make it "not perfect", it makes it "not useful".
There's an API[1], so this is something one could throw together pretty easily, assuming there are no limits to prevent it.

[1] http://viewdns.info/api/
The first comp sci degree in the US wasn't offered until 1962 (though cambridge com. lab had coined it in 1953)
Yeah, that's all. The reason it's relevant is that XPath processors often value conformance over expanding the utility of their system. I didn't want someone going off and using libxslt or xalan expecting it to process things in a memory-efficient manner.
I was thinking the same thing. Seems like a niche idea that only people with money to burn and nothing better to do would buy into.
I note a suspicious lack of DCPU-16.
So, it's not like they can't take advantage as much as most of its developers don't care about type.
I agree, or at least include the main info in one simple "IP info" page.
"Material: Tough Recyclable Plastic" - Does anyone happen to know exactly WHAT plastic it uses? I'm also curious about the whole activation requirement for the printer. It made me raise an eyebrow.
I was referring specifically to the "you should" language.
They hurt if they take time and/or money that could be better spent improving something else.
For example,

http://repl.it/
Not on paper but Shawn Pearce (Gerrit/repo maintainer) said it at GitTogether 2011. But wanting to kill something off and actually doing it, they are of course different.

Also, if you do use Gerrit (even though you don't seem to like it) it has some better support for submodules from 2.3 onwards. See https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-su...
I completely agree with your internal consistency assertion and would like to point out that there are always really standout games of each generation of hardware. The capabilities of the hardware are largely irrelevant compared to how well you utilize them.

Also, I would argue that most really successful games outside sports and racing games have unrealistic graphics. I think its actually stupidly limiting to try to use true to life models in your games.

.... I had a huge list here of games that I felt were beautiful that matched up with this aesthetic but really I just need to link one game. Limbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrBDU6S1EME
We have machines scattered throughout the office for meetings (mostly Jira or other web applications). One of those has Haiku running and people seem to like it just fine.

I do find, however, the ergonomics of the window manager to be atrocious. The little tabs, while faithful and part of the visual identity of BeOS, are, perhaps, the worst idea since the invention of overlapping windows. I'd suggest focusing on the 80's icon style and 45° perspective as visual identify and ditch the title tabs.
And its first incarnation ran on a PDP-8. I think my analog watch has more computing power than that ;-)
This article is a tad dated. Most of this stuff can be done with d3.js and underscore.js. The out of the box design would be much better as well.
Agreed.

The high-end design firm IDEO specifically looks for "T-shaped people", by which they mean people who are deep in one area but have a broad set of skills outside their specialty. They believe that creative work is essentially collaborative, and that you can't be a great collaborator without a good understanding of what people are up to and the ability to step in and take a swing at anything that comes up, expert or not.

Another reason to avoid specialization comes, I'm told, from queuing theory. Unless your workload is perfectly regular, specialization leads to bottlenecking and global underutilization.

I'd also consider how Toyota, the world's #1 car company, looks at this. They do an immense amount of crosstraining, and line workers are specifically discouraged from specializing too much. Much of their efficiency comes from bottom-up innovation, which you don't get if people are focused only on their one little piece of the problem. (For more on this in particular, Toyota Kata is a great book.)
Previous discussion of this issue on HN, in a very active thread with many comments, based on another news source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903694

(By the way, HN Search was a fail in finding this article, so I found it by looking for recent active threads.)
WooThemes has just quietly bumped the version number and fixed their updater bug so this is now fixed:

2012.04.29 - version 5.3.11 - critical
* - SECURITY UPDATE - Shortcode preview feature removed in previous version due to potential exploit.
* admin-functions.php - Make sure PressTrends banner displays only for PressTrends-enabled themes.

I hope that in the future WooThemes (and the WordPress community as a whole) takes security more seriously and notifies their customers more rapidly about these sorts of problems.

Thanks to everyone who commented!
Please change the title! It looks like a "Ch3ap R0lax Repl1cas" spam, and I only saw the submitted site to be sure it was spam before flagging it.

Proposed title: "Construction Site in Browser Video Watch". (Not a great title :(, I hope you can think something better.)