skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The app gallery isn't really a gallery. It would be nice to see more information in each one, almost a review. What does it try to solve, is it advanced learning or behavioural? Some screenshots, maybe even a video demo? Unfortunately most of the sites they link to are not the best at conveying this information either.
Reasonably budgeted? More like recently decreasingly subsidized.

Germany is making an investment towards a more diverse, ecologically sustainable energy market. That's expensive in the short run, simple as that. The four big players don't like it - and they particularly don't like that decades of a very controllable market are drawing to a close.

You should see the desperate advertisements they run, trying to appear "green" and reasonable, lately. Very entertaining.

Also - if you're going to talk deficit, don't forget that Germany had to pay a couple of extra bills since 2008.
Example? Haven't noticed this..
Responsive HTML5/CSS3 template
Almost every country in the EU has deficit beyond the allowed regulations for a huge different number of reasons. Energy is a factor that is so small, if it even is one, that it can be safely ignored.
[Context: I'm co-founder of Milo.com, a startup that tracks inventory for retailers and brings it online. eBay acquired us in 2010]

This is something I've been thinking about for a while too. I would love to see it happen, because having this data easily accessible is something that capitalism needs. That being said, here are some of the challenges you'll face:

1. Forget the Big-Box. Stores like Walmart and Best Buy have their own inventory systems that are completely integrated with their supply chain. Beastly, expensive "solutions" like JDA and the like. For them, the switching cost is just too high. Plus, they think they can manage online-to-offline conversion themselves, which they usually can, pretty well. Most big-box retailers have a "buy online/pick up in-store" system that works very well.

(Side note: retailers that size have different arms of the organization that run the online and physical stores. Internally, they compete with eachother. For a cross-channel thing like buy online/pickup in-store, the directive needs to come from the C-level of the company, or nobody will cooperate.)

2. Small/Medium Business Switching Cost
Small and Medium businesses (SMBs) use off-the-shelf inventory systems like QuickBooks or Microsoft Dynamics. Roughly 50% of SMBs have the technical sophistication to implement a system like this, and even at that level, the inventory is only loosely maintained. It's never a true count of inventory because of one physical reason or another ("We got that new crate of widgets, but the SKUs printed on them are slightly different than the SKUs on the last crate, so it would come up as a separate product, ah, screw it").
For these guys, you'll need to convince them that the inventory system is a profit center, not a sunk cost, because they see it as a sunk cost now. You'll also have to convince them that the money they will make from your system exceeds the cost of getting their data out of their existing sytem. Things bring us to problem 3.

3. Web-Ready Data
At Milo, we built a product called Fetch, which is an integration with popular point-of-sale inventory systems like Quickbooks and MS Dynamics. It uploads the inventory data to us, and we display it online. The trouble is, a lot of the inventory records you get look like this: "SHIRT - BROWN. $39.99". Okay, cool. How do you make that into a good looking product page online? We're fortunate enough to have a large library of product data (eBay), so we make a best-effort matching run with things like UPCs and MPNs.
Even still, you can't decipher a product record like "SHIRT - BROWN. $39.99" into something useful.
And convincing a merchant to enter web-ready data? They're just not going to spend the time on it.

I could go on for hours about this, but these are the major issues. There are other glorious little things like the sales cycle, tax cheats (way more common than you think), and general technical in-aptitude, but making web-based POS/Inventory system is something the internet needs. I just don't think that retail is ready for it yet.
My opinion on SO is apparently in the minority around here. I find the content on SO to generally be of high quality, and in most cases, I agree with what moderation I see. Most questions I see that get closed seem like requests for extended discussions. I actually believe that SO works better on questions that have verifiable answers. As for my questions, I've asked 42, and gotten good answers to most of them.
The problem with many large industrial processes is that they cannot be run that way. Think a steamcracker for example: Shutdown takes days, starting up as well. It's so (energy) hungry that its cost-efficient to leave all parts in the chain running if one fails and just burn the resulting light oil. (Makes for a spectacular flame on the skyline). Aluminum processing falls in the same category.

There are other processes where this is possible (steel smelting via electric power for example) and where this is already done. Those plants usually run at night and consume large amounts of the base load. The issue with solar/wind-energy is that the availability may fluctuate within very short time frames - sometimes minutes - so that you cannot use this.

In a smaller scale this works the other way round. There are some small-scale fuel-powered plants that can be used to heat/cool a house or a block as well as produce electricity and those power up when electrical power is needed and store the heat for when it's needed (it's somewhat easier to store heat). This can be used to cut off some of the load spikes.
>My computer is my computer. Not Apple's computer when I'm using iTunes (hah, as if I'd ever use that piece of crap, but stay with me here)

Yes, very funny. Well, I'm a CS graduate, and I have no qualm with using iTunes. My colleague in the next workstation is a PhD from Cambridge and he uses iTunes too. Might want to expand your horizons about what is a "generally accepted piece of crap" and what is a personal preference.

>I know what I want my user interface to look like. I know what fonts, colours and relative sizes I want things to be. All in exactly the same way that I know what colour I want the walls to be painted in my home and where I want my furniture. By breaking UI conventions because some idiot thinks that he knows what colours and shapes my monitor should display, I am unable to dictate what my own things should look like.

That you "know what you want" doesn't mean what what you want is also right for you. For example, every obese person that craves for McDonalds also, er, "knows what he wants". But it would be better for him, in the long term, if he was denied that.

Furthermore it's not just about "you" or "me".

For one, the "idiot" you refer to is the programmer, and he also wants to express himself in his product. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Second, for UIs in general to evolve people must come up and try different approaches, and, yes, break for the conventions.

Third, your argument doesn't even make much sense. You say you "know what you want", but at the same time you despise programmers making customized UIs instead of following the OS guidelines.

It would surely make much more sense to despise OS companies making their UI guidelines.

For, if a programmer makes a custom looking app, you can buy something else, but if your OS vendor comes up with designs you don't like you have no recourse except some basic customizations (which might not even apply, e.g you cannot change how the menubar works or where it is placed on OS X) or the painful switch to a different platform altogether. So you have to suffer their UI decisions in almost every apps.

>To hammer the point in further with another example, CSS was designed with, err, designers in mind and look at what a head-fuck that turned out to be. Leave the thinking to people who know how to think - we'll tell you what needs prettying up and how to do it right.

The implication that designers don't know how to think is as idiotic as is preposterous.

And the insinuation that non-designer "thinker" can just "tell 'em what needs prettying up" and we'll get good GUIs (as if design work is mere "prettying up"...) is even more laughable.
For auditing purposes I need to record individual email bounces. Do you have an api or reporting feature that does that?
"love it or leave it" is only a proper response in a regime that seeks to protect the status quo.
"Yes, CSS3 has some fairly advanced selectors, but littering your stylesheet with HTML-dependent stuff like “section ~ article h2″ is only going to cause you pain when you want to refactor, or simply target headings that don’t follow a section. Either you end up with 20-line-long lists of selectors, or you’re afraid to touch your HTML structure in case everything blows up."

Still a case can be made to reduce use of classes. e.g. for input[type=text], etc. Typically for any one site the style for most elements should remain consistent - you wouldn't have half a dozen different styles of input[type=text].

I haven't worked on an especially large website before and I'm unsure of the following points:

1. Let's say you're integrating two site-lets into a bigger site. Would namespace be a problem for classes specified in the two site-lets? What about namespace clashes between different "plugins" (e.g. jquery UI or something less polished).

2. Would the use of classes lead to "specificity war"? e.g. lets say we have the following CSS:

h1:first-child { padding: 10px; }
h1.large-heading { font-size:x-large; padding: 25px; }

And then later a web developer comes along and slaps in a h1 like this

<div><h1 class="large-heading">some text</h1> <p> some content </div>

He finds it breaks the h1:first-child rule and so goes and adds:

h1:first-child { padding: 10px !important; }
h1.large-heading { font-size:x-large; padding: 25px; }

And we can see where this is heading... when another developer sees the h1:first-child rule overruled his p + h1:first-child rule and slaps an !important next to it.

If we're using relative position selectors instead there wouldn't this problem be solved?

body > h1:first-child { padding: 10px; }
body > div > div > h1:first-child { font-size:x-large; padding: 25px; }
body p + h1:first-child { font-size:large; padding: 25px; }

I know generally you don't use headings like this but I'm trying to craft a simple example. I am not sure it still carries my point properly, so I'm crossing my fingers.

You mentioned being afraid of changing the HTML if your CSS is html dependent. Well if your website warrants a refactor of HTML wouldn't it warrant a refactor of CSS as well? After all, CSS is for describing how a piece of HTML should be presented. If you want to describe how an alternate set of HTML be presented, you use an alternate set of CSS rules, hopefully instead of injecting style information into content HTML that should ideally be only presenting information. There's a reason we stopped using <b></b> and <font></font> within our HTML, right?
The company who hired you should offer assistance in helping you relocate. Just ask the HR representative you dealt with.

Of course, if you misled them into thinking you were already living in the UK, you might have some bigger problems...
With communities in general (not explicitly referencing SO here), I've always felt that moderators are their own worst enemies.

They dictate the terms of use through enforcement. It's not fun to use something until you find that you aren't allowed to.

The best tools do not limit their usage patterns, and communities adapt and evolve to make these tools solve their problems.

These aren't always the same problems that the creators of the system or moderators intended to be solved.

So moderators kill the potential utility of a tool.

One of those potentials (now referring back to SO) is the unification of people with a shared interest in a programming language or knowledge domain.

Without community, why should a user invest in it?

So I assert (overly simplistically) that moderators kill communities.
Facebook is toast and cloud computing is dead, Forrester CEO says
They're not really delivering an 11k library then, are they?
'The moderators are also awful.' +1
the more interesting questions about beautiful code, attitude to coding etc are closed. If it's not "set X to Y", they close it.
Sorry some commenters on HN are harsh
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Seems you can set up webhooks to do just that! [1]

These are the events: send, hard_bounce, soft_bounce, open, click, spam, unsub, reject

[1] http://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/webhooks.html#method=add
Even simpler (git 1.7.7, YMMV)

[alias]
lol = log --graph --decorate --oneline
lola = log --graph --decorate --oneline --all
Right and wrong features due in iOS 6
Riak is a great product with an incredible support team, if you choose to use their support.
Wise words.

My family has been supportive over the past 14 months while I mapped this thing out, learned to program, design it, etc.

It's just at a point now where I have to chose leaving my day job to make the site my day job and its too risky without at least throwing the idea out there first to see if there's any response.

Thanks!
Not quite blue screen of death but damn tablet failed during demo...
In which the return was handled pretty well. It was a fairly painless procedure when I turned mine in, call them up, spend 5 minutes on the phone, they send you a box with free shipping and another one is dispatched to you as soon as they receive the one you sent. They then redesigned it to prevent the issue happening again.
It's funny that a huge chunk of the questions that I find extremely interesting and worth reading have been 'closed for <reason x>.'
Great company - We've used one of the PR Plays, can't remember which one :/
I am not sure how that "is unix": how is an implementation of unix apis in python related to capturing http responses? I really like the idea but I'm missing this crucial piece of information to make sense out of the whole thing.
Surface is Microsofts attempt to appear relevant verses Apple and Google. They need to show that they are still a mover and a shaker in the industry, even more so given the damp squib that Windows Phone 7 has been so far.

A smarter move would have been to keep Windows 8 and Windows Metro separate. Have Windows 8 be the continuation of the desktop/laptop line, a cash cow they can continue to milk until it falls over dead a ways down the road. Metro would the new hotness that brings the developers back to the yard. A new environment for them to build off without the weeds of the last 20 years strangling them.Free of the constraints of Windows, Metro would stand an excellent chance to succeed against Apple, Android et al.

While bundling Metro together with Windows might give it a foundation to build off but its more likely going to be the stone that sinks it.
Totally agree on the so called subjective questions. The idea should be "wide-open your minds" instead of everybody's "how can I cast it to list" questions.
Inaccurate. This isn't a Turing machine built using Lego. It's some simple memory which is then used by the Lego mindstorms CPU.
the "country/(city/region)" notation is from zoneinfo, the standard unix timezone system. "X standard time" (and "X daylight time") are the common names most people in america use when referring to timezones.

zoneinfo's form has the benefit of having a nice, unambiguous way to refer to the various daylight-saving time exceptions (arizona, indiana, hawaii, etc.).

recently i've seen huge timezone lists that basically throw in the kitchen sink--they'll have the entire zoneinfo set, the common american names, miscellaneous other common regional names (euro, australia, etc.) and raw whole-hour offsets as well. makes for a long drop-down to navigate....
The idea isn't new, but it's the execution that counts.
I've heard the same rants in any of the usenet groups I used to partecipate. :)
Climate differs wildly throughout Germany. Berlin tends to get hot days, but those are of a moderate number. The upper Rhine valley where I come from has a warmer climate, but less extreme summer heat (lots of forest area around). The coastal area is generally cooler during the summer.

So yes, we do get hot days, but it's still rare that people have air conditioning in their flats. Modern office buildings have air conditioning though and most shops as well. Still, when the temperature difference is lower you still need less energy to power them. Another point is that it's a rare occurrence to have no sun (hence no solar power) and massive heat.
Startup Moneyball: Talent, Passion, Experience, Perspective, Work Ethic
Can anyone post specific examples of "stackoverflow unwinding"? I didn't see any in the article.
Also, community-based websites often start off slowly and grow organically. This is because people don't like to register with and post content on sites that appear to be inactive. They will make their first posts on your website only if they believe that there are other people who will see those posts and will interact with them. In other words, activity attracts activity.

To get around this chicken-and-egg problem, the owners of many "forums" seed their sites with fake accounts and content, just to give an impression that their site is active, and to attract the first few "real" users.

I am explaining all this to say that it will take time for any community-based website to take off. It might take months for your website to reach any kind of traction. So, don't count on your website becoming an overnight success or "going viral". It is possible, but not probable.
It seemed inevitable that 95% (some very high %) of StackOverflow was destined to be little more than an archive, leaving a very stagnant system as the speed of activity & build out slowed to a crawl.

Large, highly active development technology doesn't change every day. PHP has been around for 15 plus years, Python for 20 years. And those are two of most popular.

How many questions can ultimately be asked about PHP or Python, before you wipe out the radical majority of possible and important questions? Obviously languages like that evolve, but not very quickly once they hit a certain point in their life cycle.

As you saturate the big segments, you're going to naturally bleed off user excitement and interest. Stack will continue on, getting tons of traffic because their answers will remain extraordinarily valuable, but the ratio for the amount of new content in relation to existing content will continue to accelerate toward Stack being mostly an answers archive. That guarantees the stagnation of their community (perhaps leaving small pockets of excitement around new, lesser adopted tools).

Haven't communities like Wikipedia followed curves like this? Once you max out all the English topics (for example), then it's an update approach with a smaller number of new topics coming in. Net result ultimately being a lot less overall new content being added in relation to the existing base (demanding a peak in overall community activity). Wikipedia isn't nearly as exciting as it once was, several years ago, when the rate of build-out and topic addition was staggering. The wild west eventually becomes a boring suburb.
Compliments on the internet are not validation! Fishing for them is an easy route to false positives and big heartbreak.

Don't quit your day job before launching -- that's the only way to get real data about whether it may work or not.
The only way the amount of petroleum we import matter is compared to how much we would have to spend to get the same energy with out importing anything. If the cost of stopping importing oil was that we had to spend $1000b a year on synthesizing oil from corn (for example), then the amount we spend on foreign oil is actually a good deal.
Are you guys using anything in particular to power the webhooks?

I'll be integrating webhooks in my own app soon so I'm quite interested how others have 'solved' that so to speak.
I agree with your point about hard questions. They ought to provide escalating reward for answering older questions.
off-topic, meta In my brief survey of the home page, this is the only article with more comments than points. I wonder how often that happens.
I assumed a year had 52 weeks. 2009 had 53.
What if I don't agree that a low-carbon future would be a good thing? What if I think that the tax is too high? What if I have higher priorities?
Instead of closing those questions, they could move them to the "Programmers" site. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq?mnu=1

All subjective questions are expected to be constructive. How do we define that? Constructive subjective questions:

-inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.
-tend to have long, not short, answers.
-have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.
-invite sharing experiences over opinions.*
Apple Re-releases Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter Update
Being German and having voted Green most of my life (until the pirate party came along), I still watch those energy subsidies with suspicion. I am just not certain the money is spent in an efficient way here. As for the jobs in the green energy sector, apparently China already (or still) is cheaper than Germany in producing solar power cells. So much for that investment.
That's interesting. I also found that my more difficult questions never got answered.

Perhaps a fix to create an incentive to answer hard questions would be to create a ratio to estimate difficulty (how much time has gone by without an accepted or high-voted answer? number of views that don't add a good answer?) and then give more reward points to someone who successfully answers a "hard" question.
It's sole purpose is to demonstrate to people in an accessable fashion what a turing machine is.. and I'd say that this does a swell job of that [at least, their video on vimeo does].
Sponsored Feature: The Cost of Ignorance
As for benchmarks, I have not taken the time to publish the results we currently get with fq_codel. However they are better in every respect than our previous attempt with sfqred and comparable to the qfq work we also did. It's not every day you go around seeing orders of magnitude improvements in anything...

http://www.teklibre.com/~d/bloat/pfifo_fast_vs_sfq_qfq_log.p...
I had an HTC Windows Mobile phone and a Gateway XP Tablet with a Wacom screen. Other than being bulky, they were great devices.
Nuclear plants are not carbon free.

No, but of course solar power isn't carbon free either by the same logic. The problem is that in the short term the power that those nuclear plants were providing is being made up for by coal plants, which are much worse for the environment.
DarwinTunes software 'evolves' music without composers
Better than what? This doesn't mention any of the other asset management tools out there.
Under this model, how would we end up with something like the Interstate Highway system?