skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the AI system compiled their Facebook IDs before class (we expected school IDs to Facebook, so why not vice versa? Why shouldn't we expect Facebook and unis to advertise together? -- aren't bars validating age against FB IDs by now anyway?), it could determine an upper limit on analogical connections which might be possibly not included in the set of students corresponding to those IDs. In this way, an AI system can make inferences into successful analogical connections which might similarly function as a growth method for shared knowledge.

As opposed to _generating_ successful anthropological-demographic predictions of linguistic behavior? Shouldn't students be "liking" professors' "asides" anyway?
Show HN: $2 Tuesday, Mac App Store Apps for $2. Suggestions wanted.
I love those Mac daily deal sites, but prefer buying all my Mac Apps from the App Store now. So I made Two Dollar Tuesday to offer discounted apps that are available in the App Store. I'm hoping it will help developers get noticed as well since they move up the ranks a lot.

I'm a Mac developer, not a web developer (I developed Compartments, one of the 3 apps offered), so I barely know what I'm doing with web development.

I built the app on Wordpress, by modifying a Wordpress theme a bit, because that's about all I really know how to do. I'm confident Wordpress isn't the best thing for something like this, and I'm paranoid that the website will die if I get a lot of visitors.

Any feedback on design or functionality or a better route to go than Wordpress is very welcome.

Link: twodollartues.com

Edit: Formatting
Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem
This is awesome. Also like his Lego survey stats app http://minimal.be/lab/legoStats/
I'm not at Fog Creek anymore, but in talking to my former colleagues, it sounds like you won't have to be a BB user much longer, if you don't want to.
Sudo broken, sudo fixed
We had something similar quite a while ago at Naughty Dog, when working on the Jak and Daxter PS2 games. Our development environment was Emacs, and as well as having a REPL console in one of the buffers, you could position your cursor inside any function/method, hit CTRL/T, and have just that function compiled and updated on the target hardware, on the fly, with no restart required.

Iterative programming is especially suited for game development, where you want to rapidly experiment with tweaking parameters and behaviors without waiting for a full compile/link/download/restart.
out of curiosity, is js going to be your "elisp"?
Not even close to true. Having a look at my favorite purveyor of phones

I didn't put a specific disclaimer for Sweden, I suppose.

the most expensive phone they sell is the 64GB 4s

Incredibly few people buy the 64GB variant. Since we're so fond of anecdotes, I know zero people who bought the 64GB iPhone 4S. I see no reason, at all, why that data point has any relevance.

The top selling Android phones, worldwide, are the Galaxy Notes, SII's, Razrs, and other premium devices. Low cost devices -- despite your anecdotes -- haven't even made a dent in the top 10 yet. It is a completely irrelevant aspect, thus far.

That will change, of course, but when someone buys a Razr or an SII or a Note or a One X, they aren't choosing a discount option.
I don't dispute your claims that bad policy can make markets noncompetitive. But pantaloons didn't discuss policies, he merely discussed values.

Ultimately I believe the problem with what you propose is the idea that the government can guarantee that every buyer will find a seller at a (marginal to the seller) cost below X. This is just an attempt to pass a law against scarcity, which can't really work. All you can do with law is create different rationing mechanisms - perhaps replacing price with queues or favoritism.

Incidentally, even ignoring all government intervention, college education is not a conventional free market. Inefficiencies abound, most notably the prevalence of huge numbers of non-profit seeking agents and reputation effects.

For all those who like to discuss market failures, this is the place to find them.
Solving problems with code
Memristor RAM now cheap as chips
I'd phrase it differently. It'll collapse because it blatantly disrespects users' privacy.
I have three monitors and it saves me a tonne of headache. Left to right:
1. (Ubuntu) Project Firebug Browser, Reference Browser, FTP
2. (Ubuntu) Source Editor, Email, Console
3. (Win 7) Photoshop, IE Tester, MS Office junk

I can easily live with two, but there was a spare old monitor kicking about, so I absconded with it. With only one monitor, I spend a lot of clicking through the task bar trying to figure out what window I need next. With lots of monitors, I'm able to remain focused by just glancing back and forth between monitors.
The real danger is the unlit cigarette.
I'd at least say that it is a product of Atlassian (and not some random project by unknown authors) and that it won't touch my repositories, just my issues.
Am I missing something? What exactly did Facebook do wrong? Seems like the bankers were the ones that made the mistakes when it comes to the facebook IPO. Facebook made out like a bandit. If the price tanks after IPO, it's not Facebook that is taking a hit, it is the institutional buyers that were suckered into overpaying...
explain something to me then.

i was recently at a party, near Vienna, Austria. lots of thirty somethings, all educated, various jobs.

i asked a simple question: has anyone of you clicked on a digital ad? ever?

no one. now, of course, sample size, anecdote, yaddayadda. i never clicked on an ad (hell, i block them). no one i know clicks on them. the only time people really get "engaged" by an ad is when it is annoying - everyone has a hateful story about those.

is there really tangible, hard evidence that online ads lead to actual sales? and if so, who the heck are the people actually clicking on them?
I could've done without all the hyperbole. I don't like Facebook, but their IPO was more or a less a success for them considering that the stock has actually fallen since Friday.

I dislike HFT as much as the next guy, but it doesn't look like this is any different from most trading that goes on every day from firms like Morgan Stanley. And as OP pointed out, it's not as if they're doing as well as they used to be doing.
what about games or any leisure activities? do they that no value?
Maybe it's all a fad (although I personally doubt it) but I think it's a step towards a revolution in it's own little way however it turns out. Modern IDEs are extremely cluttered and (imho) messy. Light Table seems like a refreshing change of pace.

As for the rounded corners, I think it really is a matter of personal preference and they're definitely not going to affect my ability to program. Colors are just used to visual convey information seamlessly (think syntax highlighting). I think they can really be put to good use.

I do agree with you that huge "files" (the concept seems to be abstracted by the IDE) could get messy. However, I trust the Light Table guys to get it right :)
Except the software is almost always a Powerpoint-ized version of the book with "an interactive multimedia experience" consisting of either a diagram being drawn piece by piece by an animated gif, or a video clip in the corner with a talking head reading the lecture notes.
So they got more money than they now appear to be worth? Sounds like they made off like bandits, not fucked up.
Microbots Made of Bubbles Have Engines Made of Lasers
So what? The current, non-genetically modified plants are not holy in any sense. They evolved and the during the evolution, their genes were altered countless times.

Every day, an unique, genetically modified plant is born, because a gamma ray from the outer space hit its DNA and altered it in a non-predictable fashion. 99.99999% and maybe more of these mutants are harmless and probably simply die.

The alteration of genes can happen on your very own garden and without any safety measures. Some of these natural mutants may even be dangerous and nobody cares.

Is this randomness and total lack of safety better than a scientist armed with knowledge and a place to conduct experiments?
Bitbucket, as of the end of 2011, didn't have any concept of a "company account" like GitHub's organizations. From their pricing pages, it looks like they still don't. That's why my company pays for hosted JIRA and uses GitHub, we would much rather pay the lower costs for Bitbucket and keep everything with Atlassian, but the organizations feature on GitHub won us over (we currently have about 30 private repos and 12 users).
I think from the discussions and other threads what I infer is that we need a total re-look at the concept of an editor, Your way actually looks good. Except that we need to retain the 'Emacs infrastructure'.

We need to really keep Lisp as the extension language.

I think what we need is Light Table with something like this : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/568774734/emacsy-an-embe...

You have to develop Light Table ON the Emacs OS!
The Talk Show was unstructured because of Gruber. As a host you have to work with what you have.

The Talk Show is the only deviation from what Benjamin does. Listening to Gruber on his recent podcast explains the reason why.
"I'm not sure you are representing the views of the "terrorists" correctly."

Since I didn't try, nor do I particularly care, probably not. I was talking about what this document does, not endorsing it or analyzing it beyond that. Personally I'm not a big fan of narrative-based warfare regardless of who is doing it, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize it when I see it.
Google is now a hardware company
It was specifically mentioned a couple of times in the post-launch press conference.
Morgan Stanley cut Facebook estimates just before IPO
A lot of the shortcuts are being processed by my system before they get passed into your app (Chrome, OS X 10.7)
First of all, thanks for answering my question so clearly. However, I feel the need to make a reply, despite the fact I think we have reached an impasse (not saying that is your fault, just a difference of opinion). I just feel you are really expressing yourself in an insulting way (you consider it a most disgusting of human characteristics that someone might just not care to learn about how ssh keys are generated)?

It's isn't "wilful ignorance" to not try and learn everything, ever, about everything. Particularly things which you don't want to learn, and probably aren't going to help you. We all specialise to one degree or another. I work with mathematicians who have spent years learning and refining their craft, who certainly know more maths than I could ever learn. I accept that there are things they know, and things I know. I want them to continue doing amazing maths, so I don't want to pile on them a bunch of things they don't want to learn. Despite the fact I did a maths degree, I know there are things they commonly discuss I don't really understand, which would be their equivalent of ssh keys. Things everyone knows. I've learnt some of them for work. I've learnt some of them for fun. But I don't have the time to learn all of them, and that's fine.

Now, these people do still learn. They learn about all kinds of fields, and all kinds of areas. They learnt CVS, but they didn't enjoy it.

Also, I find it very productive, and fun, to work with people whose skill sets are almost entirely disjoint from mine. It does make working together a bit tricky, but some of my most productive times have risen from such situations.
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Lisp is the extension language :) Everything so far is Clojure + ClojureScript with the language backends written in the language they support (python in python and so on)
I think Light Tables target is dynamic languages, which the current crop of IDEs dont have great support for.
I see it all the time in a bunch of cities. The driver isn't going to chase you to the back of the bus if you walk by him. I've had drivers tell me to just go ahead when I didn't have the right amount of change ready.
I wish that happens..Imagine how much more money can be pumped into next generation technology if Companies stop wasting time and money in patent wars.
> link-bait title

Oh FFS. Anything from Henry Blodget should immediately be ignored or delinked.

The man bilked all sorts of money from widows and orphans (in the form of pensions and mutual funds). Most normal people would want to make amends before showing their face in public, let alone the way he punches up stories.

I can't believe I fell for it too.

Edit: More sensibly written article in WSJ here - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230401940457741...
Pretty neat game. WebGL is still a little clunky on Linux but I was still getting a playable framerate (but just barely).
1. Clumsy; awkward.

2. Tactless; indiscreet.

3. Oppressive; harsh.
An expletive in the headline, followed by a pretentious Shakespeare quote. I stopped reading when he described Zuckerberg as 'an arrogant 28 year old man-child'.

I don't like Facebook much, but I'm not siding with this guy.
The thing that draws me to Vim, really, is the extensibility. There's a steep learning curve to creating a powerful Vim extension, but there are still a huge number of them. Imagine if Light Table can make editor extension something you can do per project!

I probably have a unique preferred layout of Vim splits and tabs that I use for each codebase I work with. Being able to take this further, telling the editor which parts of code are significant and in which ways they go together, I'd have so much less mental overhead.

I love the idea that I could navigate our current codebase by endpoint, jumping to the account management portion of our API, automatically having the relevant back-end code and unit tests on-screen, along with benchmark info and test results. Since we adhere to general conventions at least within a project, there's no reason this can't be done.
Most people here focus on the handsets but Moto Mobility's business that currently turns a profit is home (set top boxes and cable branch office equipment) where Motorola is big. I heard that Google is trying to use this advantage to boost GoogleTV but cable companies said they would boycott set top boxes that are Google branded, since they see it as a great threat.

So the question is: will Google sell the Home division? If they do, this may have huge ramifications for the US cable landscape.
The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn't a Crook—He's an Artist
That's good to know. We get really bad performance on linux because of the AA I think.
s/tenant/tenet/
Kinect is dead. Long live the Leap Motion
This somehow lacks all geek-appeal to me. It looks like a regular mother board. Not interested.

The raspberry pi on the other hand looks cool. Strange.
I'm not saying they're losing, I'm saying they're fighting a losing game.
Metricless PPC management revisited
And they used their inflated valuation to acquire a whole mess of start-ups. I like your style FB.
Canonical and others in the Linux community are working on making a universal kernel for ARM SoC's, and they hope it will work on most of them by 2014. That might help with upgrades and compatibility in the Android world, too, especially since they are planning to merge the Android kernel back into the main Linux kernel.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0N...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-guru-re-merging-...
Does facebook actually lose anything? It sounds like they walked away with the maximum amount of money possible; the bankers might be upset, and I can see that might make it harder for facebook to raise money in the future, but they're unlikely to need to for a while yet.
Why should scientists have to plead with their yahoo enemies?

This is organized political violence, and organized political violence only exists where it's passively tolerated by the government. Suppose the NAACP learned that a bunch of yahoo skinheads were planning an attack on the National Museum of African Art. Do you think for a minute that the museum curators would be writing a cringing, please-don't-attack us letter about the important artistic contributions of African Americans? Naah - a bunch of yahoo skinheads would be preparing for a 15-year staycation at Pelican Bay.

Treat left-wing extremists the same way you treat right-wing extremists - problem solved. Not that the problem's going to be solved. But it's worth thinking about why.
I'm starting to get the picture here. Emil Leray just happens to serendipitously have the tools available to convert a 2CV to whatever he needs at the moment. I thought we would have to wait for nanotechnology for this to happen, but apparently Citroen got there first with the 2CV.

I think we've found the solution for lunar colonization: we'll launch Emile into a moon orbit with 5 or 6 2CVs and let him figure it out from there. Only downside: official language of the moon will be French.
Anonymous Claims Department of Justice Hack, Data Dump
Facebook Now Available Over IPv6 (Two Weeks Early)
> minus Eclipse programming in Java would be a very frustrating experience

I'm not sure about that... Eclipse gets fatter and slower with each release. Of course, I still use it because Google really wants Android developers to do so. In my opinion, the most frustrating thing about using Eclipse for Android work is that it crashes every time I try to export a package, unless I close every open file and restart Eclipse before trying. (the problem is mitigated by disabling automatic builds)

I guess that's because Eclipse runs on Java and Java is wasteful. It would be really nice if we could have a "native" equivalent of Eclipse, with less bloat.
Is it OK to post the launch of a new startup here?
New to these boards, just wondering if it's ok to post the launch of a new startup here...
No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.)

What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)
I think it's telling that the manufacturer doesn't accept payment in BitCoins.
Another posted linked to Wikipedia

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008313

"Henry Blodget (born 1966) is an American former equity research analyst, currently banned from the securities industry"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget
That is a pretty ignorant statement given that earning forecasts are always provided by the company and all Wall St. analysts do (independently from the underwriters) is check market assumptions, company's share of market, cost structure, etc.

Financial guidance, specially at the Net Income level, is ALWAYS the company's call. Who pushed for Facebook's $104bn valuation was current FB shareholders (Accel, DST, etc.), not the underwriters. Do not be that ignorant.
This is really cool!

I wonder if people are working on autocomplete packages for different IDEs/editors to help make RubyMotion smoother with those long method names (didn't see much googling it). IMO in combination with this, autocompletion would make RubyMotion a tremendously compelling option for iOS development.
> "because of the demographic of people who use rails right now"

What do you see as the problem with the demographic?

While I know historically Rails had a heavy conceited, dickhead user base (in Seattle particularly), the demographic has expanded so much that it doesn't seem to be the case overall anymore.
Depends on your use case, the app you're building and the structure of your data.

There isn't a one size fits all solution.
Samsung Galaxy S3 is now the most pre-ordered gadget in history at nine million
Maybe you imagine me stuffing myself with bigmacs. It's not how I see it. My love for food and drinks has led to a love for cooking, wine pairing, and mixology. I don't see how this could be sad, and I doubt that my enjoyment of pleasure will one day disappear.
Windows Aero is dead, thank heavens.
It generalizes them the lisp way: by building machines that build machines.
PC? How is this thing even close to a PC?

Looks like a motherboard to me,
Well, there was this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/15/larrabee_32_cores/
Show HN: HTML5 clone of the classic Snake game, works on mobile too
My wife clicked on ads, so does my parents.

So let's see, out of 4 people, only me who did not click the ads.

Minority.
Sidecar comes out of beta, reinvents phone calls
Look at the chart of device models: http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php

While the top 10 most popular devices are all high end, just look at how much of the market the low-end, low-volume devices make up. It's at least a fourth of all devices, and I imagine if you count former top-end devices which sell for cheaper now, half the market was sold below the high-end. Even among the popular devices there at lots of cheaper ones in there, Samsung along have a raft of lower cost devices that are quite popular on there (Ace, Marvel, Galaxy Y)
Windows 8 to feature Metro styled boot options menu
Opauth: Multi-provider authentication framework for PHP, inspired by OmniAuth
Just released v0.1.0 today.
https://github.com/uzyn/opauth

If you are familiar with OmniAuth for Ruby, Opauth basically does the same thing, except for PHP.

Gave a talk on it today at Singapore PHP User Group. My deck: https://speakerdeck.com/u/uzyn/p/opauth-an-introduction

Opauth is still very new and I still need to work on the documentations a lot, especially tutorials and the wiki.
I can't help but feel Facebook is on the way out. Probably not any time soon. But there is just a huge movement of people waiting for a good reason to leave. Perhaps the debacle that was the company's IPO will start the chain reaction that will end in Facebook going the way of MySpace, et al.
Just released v0.1.0 today.
https://github.com/uzyn/opauth

If you are familiar with OmniAuth for Ruby, Opauth basically does the same thing, except for PHP.

Gave a talk on it today at Singapore PHP User Group. My deck: https://speakerdeck.com/u/uzyn/p/opauth-an-introduction

Opauth is still very new and I still need to work on the documentations a lot, especially tutorials and the wiki.
The title "Kinect is dead. Long live the Leap Motion" is obviously a linkbait, however I found the linked video promising. Controlling a computer simply by waving your hand without even touching the screen can, potentially, be used in a large set of applications.
Kinect is not dead and Leap Motion will live whenever it will be available.
Dropbox Emacs
Readlists basically steal from content creators.
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What I don't get is why the 2x image would ever have a different viewport size than the 1x. It seems like something no one would ever use, as the layout would change depending on the user agent's image resolution preference.

In any case, I think both of these solutions are woefully incomplete, and quite inefficient. Why do we have to maintain lists of file paths for each resolution of every image when we could take advantage of file naming conventions in a systematic way and avoid all that work and complexity? Sets of images invariably share almost exactly the same file name and the variations are largely standardized for any given web page (all 2x images have "_2x", "@2x", "@2", etc.); surely we can use that to our advantage.
I love PostgreSQL. I'm using it now on a startup project to seamlessly store and use graphs with 1M+ nodes and 25M+ links. The lack of pain surprises me.
Because schools are in the business of employing well-organized constituents and educating students is a not-unwelcome industrial biproduct.