skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. I didn't figured out a way to keep a clean UI and switch unit. Will add a query param and think something for the interface. Thank you for the feedback.
But the first version of 37 Signals product was a basic todo list. Meteor was released with a real-time collaboration todo list and a chat and other demo apps. Doesn't mean it will be successful though, just a good thing to keep in mind.
That shit isn't water.

It's water with shit in it.
What does help you remember where you are is putting a "link to this section" anchor or something similar next to each logical section. Many sites implement this with a mouseover.
The original spirit was a few Greek men running around naked to show that they were racially superior to all other peoples.

The rest of the Olympic 'traditions' were invented at the 1936 games for not-dissimilar reasons.

Crass commercialisation is probably the "nice side" of the olympics.
Ideally, yes. I'm not saying that we should award physical capability with hoards of cash as an incentive (although in sports entertainment we do), but to have a shot at being on the podium at these levels, competing against people that are doping, you need multiple coaches, nutritionists and physicians to ensure your health and safety and that doesn't come cheap on top of general living and travel expenses.
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Let's come back to this when Meteor is actually deployed in a real production environment handling 200 requests a second. Until then it seems like a lot of hot air.
> It's clear that Chomsky and Universal Syntax has held back the entire field of AI

That may be true, but there is value to understanding language for the sake of language outside the practical goals of improving AI. There is plenty of evidence for parameters playing a role in human language whether or not a parametric implementation of NLP is possible, desirable or necessary. It's certainly true that a statistical approach that bears plenty of fruit in AI applications is going to be very strained to provide anything of value back to linguistics or developmental psychology.
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Weather Live has been doing this for quite some time; I wouldn't call this "so special".

It's not an enviable feature. Right now I am in San Jose and I can see what the temperature was in Boston last time I launched the app.
It's not just a development framework, I'm pretty sure they said they planed on offering hosting for apps too, actually you can already upload your meteor apps to yourapp.meteor.com.
Fitting analogy, but at least they did not fight over who gave you which genes.
Thanks matt. Appreciate the comment. We will get rid of the footer on the pages with infinite scrolling. Welcome to HN.
There's an app that'll show you the temperature in realtime on the icon without the need to open the app. It's called eWeather HD and uses the notifications feature of iOS in a pretty clever way. The app itself is a little obtuse, but having the temperature right there has made it worthwhile to me.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eweather-hd-weather-forecast/...
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The HTML5 features we use are local storage and offline support. The most interesting thing about implementation is that we use a queue to do all the updates (this queue is stored in local storage along with all the other data). We also have a special sync API that manages stuff like temporary ids, duplication protection, fetching only new data etc. This API can be seen here: http://todoist.com/API/help/sync

I am currently doing a big technical blog post about the challenges and our experience of doing a HTML5 web-app. But you are very welcome to ask any questions here!

I have not read about anybody doing something similar at a large scale - so please shoot me a message if you have done something similar, my email is in my HN profile.
"Fun" is another big use, but I don't think that's the market he's going for.

Being made of cardboard, I don't think the disposable part is so bad. Cardboard is easily recycled, and, if not recycled, biodegradable. And the trees used to make the original cardboard are a renewable resource. That still leaves the non-cardboard components, but they're a small part of the overall bike.
Any version without ads is the premium version. Often the first thing I look for in an article is the "print" link, even though I have no intention of ever printing it - for some reason sites make the print version nicer to read.
Awesome idea. iOS only, I presume?
UK Coke (and large parts of the non-US world) is cane sugar based rather than corn syrup.

It's not good for you, but it tastes a whole lot better.
Lawyer would be the best bet.
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>"Some books are worth any price"

On Lisp is available for free download.

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

So is McCarthy's Lisp Programmer's Manual

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...

Much of Let Over Lambda is available here:

http://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc
Very cool that you got this to work in iOS, but you know what else is special? Android widgets.
>Do development frameworks built for their own sake ever really work in the wild?

AFAIK Node.js, which Meteor is built on, was built for its own sake and has done well in the wild.
They are going after the enterprise market.

There are two solid tells:

1> Raising $11M+ led by AH has a lot to do with giving CTOs some assurance about Meteor's commitment level. One can draw a parallel with Cloudera and how it gave Hadoop legitimacy with Enterprise customers.

2> The same enterprise CTOs identify strongly with Rod Johnson (Spring founder) who is on the Meteor board. He's someone who understands the Java enterprise space intimately and knows how to disrupt it (given his SpringSource exploits).

I also don't think the Github / Asana / Meteor connections are incidental. It's being positioned as a whole new way to execute on tech projects within the Enterprise IMO.
Imagine how Mac Pro users like me feel. Now my Mac Pro feels like a phone. Yippie. I'm staying on Snow Leopard for as long as the hardware works. When it fails, it's time to move on. Linux is looking prettier every day. I don't know what the hardware choices are going to be in 5 years though. If Apple has their way, general computing will go away by the end of the decade.
I love the point you make here. There are two elements at play in our decision-making, the "cerebrally rational" element, with data, deductive reasoning, and concrete examples.

The other side is the "abstract" (the opposite of rational isn't irrational) element, where reason is inductive, and we can notice patterns in the stories we tell each other. That's the purpose of an archetype, and why Joseph Campbell's work lives on. If you want a good primer on this, pick up a copy of "He" by Robert A. Johnson. It's an easy read.

The purpose of telling a "myth" or sharing an archetype is to communicate something that is true about life, and let the listener induce the meaning. Deductive reasoning has its place, particularly where startups who have to make revenue or die are concerned, but sometimes the answer isn't one we can verbalize. We just "know it." Like Malcolm Gladwell pointed out in "Blink," Einstein's Theory of Relativity popped into his head suddenly one day, and he had to spend the next several years backtracking so he could prove what his mind had unconsciously put together.

I guess my point is that, just because something isn't based in sensory reality, doesn't make it false.
This is true in Silicon Valley's startup world.

A lot of people here dislike Microsoft.

It's hard to find a startup built on the .Net stack.

Microsoft has the BizSpark program that gives away software licenses for free to startups but that didn't make a difference.

I'm starting to see the same sentiment against Apple though not yet to a point that they will be abandoning development on the iOS platform.
I loathe Calendar, but Reminders seems OK to me. The texture is quite subtle.
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The thing is that Apple has not so far allowed really and truly dynamic icons on the home screen. This bothers some of us, since we'd like to have some notifications or displays visible from that screen. This is neat because it allows that, although in a limited way.
On a side note, you have a very nice website.
This post is a rant of a fanboy which is why I downvoted it. It's one thing to prove your point but you didn't even do that. The BGR report is garbage as is most of their posts that doesn't involve Gellar's connections at RIM.

No one is claiming the idea of button-free phone; not even Apple. What you mention as the UI/UX experience is what Apple is mostly suing for. I don't claim for it to be right or wrong.

What defined the iPhone was not the hardware but software and that is what Apple is going after. Samsung is suing over FRAND patents which is something else entirely. Apple's not suing over Samsung over what they asked them to build.

This patent nonsense that exists on HN has really got to stop. It has affected very few except the claims by Lodsys. Do you really care about the brinksmanship that is conducted by two giants?
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I'm the single founder of a social shopping site (details in my profile). My site is already live for a few months with thousands of users. But I have been rejected by every incubator out there, the feedback I had is always "go get a co-founder". The problem is that finding a co-founder just for the next round of applications is like promising to get married before Thanksgiving. Besides, it'd still be challenging to answer the ubiquitous question of "tell us a touching story of how you and your co-founder met and worked together on something before".

I would truly appreciate your thoughts and advice. BTW, I'm in Singapore but prefer a co-founder with deep US connection.
Actually, the hacker koans are as far as I can tell, all real. The one about the neural network can be found almost identical but with real-world detail in Levy's Hackers book, the one about turning on and off the Lisp machine will be familiar to anyone whose aid has been beseeched only for the problem to disappear when you arrive, and the toaster koan features a Drescher who I recently realized is the philosopher Gary Drescher and who was indeed at the Lab in the right years.
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> These apps are often in the corner of the screen while working with different applications;

Maybe that's the rationale behind it in the first place? "It's so cluttered... Let's make these apps' looks really distinct so they really stand out..."
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Gruber does seem to have good inside Apple sources which makes some his predictions worth reading. He's almost an official Apple info release channel.
Right. Ultimately Microsoft's perceived opposition to the evolving open internet hurt it's perception among developers very badly. Where in the early 90's "everyone" wanted to work for MS and develop windows, by the end of the decade everyone wanted to be working with web apps and JS and Linux. Fast forward to today, and they're just another software company with no particular technical leadership ability.

Right now, the Apple bandwagon is still really full, so it may be hard to tell: but I'm seeing more smart hackers jumping off than on these days. In 10 years, how likely is it that Apple will be just another dinosaur milking a legacy OS?
>However, pressing a button is not running.

No True Scotsman here, which I'm assuming that you're implying exists in Searle's argument. But that puts you in a position of saying that the English speaking operator of the Chinese room understands Chinese because he responds in a convincing way to Chinese speakers, which is pretty explicitly false.

It also relies on the concept of "running" being monolithic instead of constructed. Under a part of most people's concepts of running lie things that a running robot does, other parts of the concept for some people involve particular types of clothing, and/or nipple chafe cream. I would think that most people would think of what the amputee does with the robot legs as running, yet they wouldn't want him in the Olympics.

Is Searle's room, or the assemblage of Searle's room and its operator, intelligent? Whether you can answer that question easily depends on which part of the concept of intelligence is important to you in that context. Is the designer and implementor of Searle's room intelligent? Unambiguously. Are the assemblage and the designer intelligent in exactly the same way?
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I didn't check it out much, but at the local sporting goods store in Seattle (Big-5) I saw a single speed with 700c rims, steel frame for about $110 I think maybe more maybe less.

If the crappy bike manufacturers of the world aren't making simple steel utilitarian bikes, they should be. I'd buy one and I already have 2 bikes.

Steel frame, steel handlebars (for safety), sealed bottom bracket, 5 speed rear derailleur and friction disc brakes. 25-30 lbs is fine. Doesn't need any aluminum except for the rims and the chainring.
My understanding of it is that they're working within the constraints of WebKit in iOS. Developers aren't able to update the icon in realtime, but if you have a homescreen webapp it can update the icon each time you launch it. This is a nice workaround, since I used to launch my homescreen weather app every ten minutes, and chances are the temperature hasn't changed much since the last time I checked. I say "used to" because I use the Weather widget in Notification Center.
>Unfortunately, the judge agreed with Apple on that item. Everybody thinks that Nokia won their lawsuit since the judge awarded them a huge amount of damages. In my opinion, the whole industry lost. Cross-licenses were the standard way of dealing with the patent thicket before Apple decided to upset the cart.

This is how this is supposed to work, though. Apple and Nokia attempted to negotiate for a while, and could not come to an agreement. That's what prompted the lawsuit. The judgement was over two things:

1. Whether or not Apple violated Nokia's patents(which they were found guilty of).

2. Whether or not Nokia's terms to apple were in-line with FRAND(which they were found not).

Since the two could not come to an agreement, they had to use the courts to decide.
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Now that they've banned them, they will probably see an unusual high usage of them.

And then they'll justify buying some expensive jamming or detecting equipment because, you know, there is a ton of wifi hotspots around now.
Compound interest is a powerful, yet often misunderstood, force.
I'd like to know that myself. I'm pretty sure homebrew should be okay (for the most part, and when it's not, just "brew update" it), but am not 100% sure. Sadly I don't remember what happened when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, and homebrew's homepage on github doesn't say much about the transition.
I can see that using "Accept" can be considered a more elegant solution, I don't see how adding a parameter will break HTTP. There is nothing in the HTTP standard that says what an URL should or should not return. The Accept-header is just an additional source of information.
Didn't read the article, but I think of them -- in English prose -- as being used to separate clauses that can stand (grammatically) as independent sentences, but which you choose to bind somewhat more closely together (by use of the semicolon) to identify a closer association within the broader hierarchy of its context. Often, and perhaps preferentially, the one clause leads -- logically, chronologically, etc. -- to the next.

A separate use is to separate list members when those individual members include sublists, subclauses, or other items that in turm use/include commas.

Once you move beyond prose -- poetry, code, etc. -- the "rules" loosen or change, requiring separate consideration of those contexts.

And of course, these latter uses can bleed back into prose; language is always transforming -- some would say, evolving.
I've read some "business" books like this before and always enjoyed them, even though I knew they really were fiction.

"The Richest Man In Babylon" is a good example of this.

I would very much enjoy a modern, more realistic take on business in the form of fiction.
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> Sure, but why not keep it?

Basically for the reason you gave: "So how don't they last? By collapsing underneath you?"

Planned obsolescence is a pretty old and valid concept. We specifically throw away many things before they get the chance to fail us catastrophically - drugs, brakes, etc.

> average a weeks lifespan

A week was a random number I pulled out of my hat, since that's a typical vacation length for me. Naturally the average would be much longer.
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The same applies to paper plates.

I think the difference arises that once you factor in the energy it takes to make a cheap product repeatedly (then collect it and recycle it) vs the energy it takes to make a quality product only once.
Two experiences have made it clear to me that humans don't understand language that well, without context:

(1) Raising a child. My dad often remarks that he's surprised that my daughter knows how to use a word in just the right context. I'm not, because this is a natural product of mimicry: if you copy what others say, you usually use the words in the correct context. As with computer-generated text the exceptions are often hilarious.

(2) Song lyrics. I had a very clear experience where I just could not understand the refrain of Gold Guns Girls. It sounded completely unintelligible until I read the lyrics. After that, it sounded crystal clear. Why would reading the lyrics make the song sound different? Context.
It would probably be valuable to use some amount of that $11m to fund development of interesting applications/startups that showcase Meteor in the real world. For instance, you notice something interesting a community member is building on their own time, but you don't want to focus on it. In my experience close partnerships can work as well as dogfooding, as long as you trust the source and can make the right decisions based on the feedback.
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ has been ported to everything.
I picture Chomsky as Kepler, trying to build orbits out of Platonic solids.

Until Kepler had access to Brahe's data, he was not going to be able to come up with his theories of planetary motions.

Worse than that, the laws of planetary motion present a simplistic view of the universe: what happens when a bunch of small objects orbit a very massive object. I think they wouldn't help you out at all, in trying to understand planets moving in a binary star system.

There is no analytic solution to the N-body problem. We can only simulate the motions of a group of massive bodies by iteratively applying the laws of gravitation that we have deduced. Knowing the mathematical properties of how objects behave in a gravitational field, and actually understanding HOW GRAVITY WORKS are two enormously different things. Newton was frustrated with the theory of Gravity, because it was, as Norvig's models, just a model - with no explanation of why. But the model allows you to make falsifiable predictions, and understand how the universe will behave. Looking for the Higgs Boson is awesome - but there is potentially no equivalent in the linguistic world.

Chomsky asks us to ignore F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2, because there's no WHY attached to it.

PS - this understanding of the history of science is brought to you by Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. I have no deeper insight than that.
What does this mean for developers working on free open-source frameworks that do the same thing?
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This bike is most likely (some large percentage) glue. It is basically a fiberglass and epoxy design only using cardboard. Recycling THIS thing is going to be a real bitch. I think it should be built, but it isn't an _answer_ to anything other than human curiosity.
The only patents that currently valid are ones filed after 1995(prior to June 1995, the standard patent term is 17 years after the first filing date).

All of the patents from the 80's are now public domain.
It will be interesting to see Start-Up Chile added to this list. I think the number of companies they've funded has almost passed YC now.
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I like it. I saw many blog posts and rants either way, but never concrete usability data saying it's bad. The Calendar and Reminders apps don't work a whole lot different than their non-virtual counterparts, minus the automatic notification. Borrowing the metaphor makes people more quickly familiarize themselves with the software (even if by feeling only, which is a plus).
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That's your opinion. I've read a post from Ben Brooks calling anyone who uses a stylus on an iPad an idiot. In that time frame, Marco bought a Cosmonaut stylus and enjoyed it. A month or two later, Brooks bought the same.

It didn't bother me that he was wrong. It bothered me that he called everyone an idiot for using a stylus on an iPad. This is the kind of person who will criticize sooner than give thought. I would not want to read what he has to offer or be around him for any length of time.

This is one of many posts of his site or his Twitter account.
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About standard save - well it might be possible - but it's not clear how it should be done.

In certain games, the saving is done asynchronously. This means you have to collect (serialize) all the save game data in very short amount of time in a buffer - a millisecond might be a hitch for an 60fps shooter. Then write the data asynchronously.

So there is not much an API could help - either write the data in second thread, or use async function to write it. (open/close the file is also good to be async, or on a second thread if possible).
As an alum of Dreamit Philly, I can tell you that there is a lot of missing data there at least. On the order of many millions in funding missing for that program alone. There is also at least one missing exit.
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>Samsung now claims they want an astonishing percentage of Apple's revenue from phones for these patent rights that courts have found they'd already exhausted, even though Apple sells versions of the devices w/o 3G radios, indicating the majority of value of the device has nothing to do with Samsung's 3G even if the patent rights were not exhausted. Even aside from how much of the device value is thanks to Samsung's chip (Samsung says all of it, while even you say the UI/UX must be part of it), Samsung's percentage demand is not FRAND.

More importantly, how could Samsung claim Apple infringed on their patents when Apple purchased the chips from Qualcomm, who are licensed to produce and sell the chips?
I agree but I think this is an unfair comparison. Marco is a talented entrepreneur and developer, his main effort isn't blogging as with Gruber.