skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got some good points, but Interface Builder (and I imagine Atlas) departs fundamentally from VB and PowerBuilder in that the code doesn't live directly behind the GUI elements. Instead, it's connected by a series of inlets and outlets that are designed to allow for reusability and model-view-controller disconnect.

You can also define UI things in code in Cappuccino (as well as Obj-C).

IB is optional with Obj-C, and I imagine Atlas will be optional with Cappuccino.
It's more probably necessity than coincidence. People tend to innovate a lot more on war/recession times, for a simple reason called survival: if you lose your stability and find no way to get it back, there's little hope other than innovating (if you're able to do that, of course)...
This is a classic case of a potentially disruptive technology, by targeting a different market from PCs.

I can't see Microsoft or Intel being able to compete in this low-power, low-margin space, but as this device gets more powerful, and even cheaper, it could creep up into their spaces.
I get goosebumps just thinking about someday realizing my own "hacker house" ahhhh beautiful!

Keep it up guys.
Also, when the money is abundant, people tend to get some and do silly stuff, since it's so cheap you can afford losing it and starting over again. Which means people that take risks in risky times actually THINK before they raise 10 million dollars to fund a startup.
The lenders (aka VCs) also get a lot more lenient (aka dumb) and invest on stuff that is very unlikely to ever succeed, when money is cheap...
Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook for himself and friends.

That's not quite true.

First of all, not all of his "friends" agree that Z "made" rather than "stole" Facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU

Second, whether or not there's anything to the ConnectU case, Facebook is a commercialized version of HarvardConnection.

So, the model seems to be:

1. (get someone else to) Create something you need.
2. Take it.
3. Sell it.

Either (a) Zuckerberg is a douchebag who stole the site, or (b) the ConnectU folks are douchebags who want to mooch off of Zuckerberg's idea. The morals of these potential stories seem to be:

a) Douchebags will steal from you.
b) Douchebags will try to mooch off of you.
a+b) Don't associate with douchebags. (And if you do,
then at least make sure to get rich and win the
lawsuit.)
As Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) has pointed out - all the "plonkers" who used to drive BMW Ms are now driving Audi Rs so the rest of us can go back to driving the excellent BMWs - making them almost cool again...
Fork me, I'm Famous
I know it's offtopic, but... Mind talking a bit about this 385k seat linux system?
I'm of the same opinion. Not only are we never satisfied, we're also very quick to criticize our society and species. We rarely reflect on our triumphs, but repeatedly highlight our failures. Some monotheists take it a step further, drawing a comparison not only between humans, but between humans and the concept of a perfect being.

I suspect there's a degree of evolutionary pressure in this. An individual who is never satisfied is more likely to be successful than one who is easily satisfied. Without our ability to dwell on the negatives and forget the positives, we wouldn't have invented half the things we have.
Those are all important projects, I wish they'll continue to remain a standard and not broken up by different people and different implementations. Having said that, I don't want to discourage people to fork projects, it's a great way to learn.
For some reason, discussion on this topic is focused on cellphones and the internet. I guess that makes some sense -- they're familiar and amazing and this is Hacker News, after all -- but talk about the latest and greatest in consumer electronics is kind of pathetic when...

Well, just think for a minute about the results being produced by the brand-new science of paleopathology. Now that we can do autopsies on 5000 year old Egyptian mummies, we know that [1]:

- malaria, tuberculosis, severe ear infections, a variety of intestinal worms and kindred parasites, silicosis (a lung disorder caused by inhaling sand over a long span of time) [were all widespread], as well as perhaps smallpox, polio, and gout...

- severe tooth loss, common to all classes ... resulting from the infiltration of windblown sand into granaries and kitchens. The teeth of pharaohs and commoners alike were steadily worn down, often nearly to the gums, leading to ... CHRONIC TOOTH AND GUM INFECTIONS THAT COULD IN SOME CASES BE FATAL.

- bone growth patterns disclose a chronic pattern of malnutrition...

- [besides schistosomiasis, one specimen's] body was a beehive of various parasites ... had he lived on into EARLY ADULTHOOD, he might well have contracted such degenerative diseases as ARTERIOSCLEROSIS and ARTHRITIS. We tend today to associate these with middle or old age...

[1] Hollister & Rogers, Roots of the Western Tradition. Emphasis is mine.
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it's just a personal observation, but I think people seem to be hardwired to survival, not happiness - that means as more basic needs are fulfilled, the more sad they tend to become - unless they fallback to things to justify their lifes (religion, a lot of hobbies, buying the next iphone...). No wonder suicide rates are a lot higher in very well developed and safe countries than in warzones/poor places.
I guess what happens is the firmware in everyone's heads starts to wonder why should it keep maintaining that expensive and energy-hog piece of hardware when all the basic goals defined on its DNA are fulfilled - and then gently asks the hardware to just go ahead and turn itself off.

sudo shutdown -h now.
At the risk of sounding like a cliched old grandpa, I think a person's ability to appreciate simple things increases as you get older. It's certainly happening to me.

My daily walk with my dog is a real treasure to me now. Definitely couldn't have said such a thing about myself ten years ago.
Webnographer - Where we are at
A visual IDE in a browser. Very cool.

Is it fast/responsive enough to not be annoying? No demo yet.

And I wish they had a one-line pitch.
Usually I judge life to be too short to be an unpaid beta tester, but paul stamatiou's review gives a persuasive developer's perspective on the Safari 4 beta.

And about the "3x" or "4x" faster JS claims... Paul points out that this beta is "only a tad bit faster than the recent Firefox 3.1 beta."
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489797
Stimulating points, but it's far from "failed" in commercial terms; and the best GUI designers often aren't coders, but designers. Different tasks, different values.

Challenge: how could one make a visual version of abstraction? Would you say that there is no abstraction in templates?
World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders (Kevin Rose, Zuckerberg...) [pdf]
"crowdsourcing and micro-volunteering"? wow.
When I used to work in a call centre I'd make most sales on Wednesday

And same with the site traffic

Wednesday is the new Saturday :P
While long term optimism is a force multiplier, short term pessimism is the key to success. This is the exact reason why you see people at "successful" startups/companies jump to very early startups (pre-product/market fit) and completely flounder. The stage between pre-product/market fit and product/market fit is completely different. The usual thing that happens is that these "successful" people have survivor bias and end up wrecking the company they jump to.
Yeah, I had a back and forth a while ago with one of the github guys about this issue... it's great that you can fork stuff so easily, but people don't want to compare 343243 sort-of complete, hacked up versions of some project, they want one place to go to to get the code, and be reasonably sure that they're getting the focus of development efforts.
A compact and cross language serialization library?
Tim Draper gives Survival 2010 tips
1. Do those things you wanted to do anyway - such as letting certain people go
2. Redirect your business to take advantage of this opportunity
3. Scale back if it means staying in business or consider a whole new business based on this opportunity
4. Crisis like this flattens the whole economy giving rise to new businesses and new ideas that will pull it out
5. There are opportunities now for individuals to grab huge markets
6. View it as a unique opportunity rather than a problem

So what does Tim think will pull us out of this economic downturn?

He believes that the new Obama administration will focus on a feww specific areas of healthcare, clean tech and unions. So entrepreneurs in these areas will certainly have an advantage.

In IT or communications, a natural next step is for social networks to get adapted into corporate networks, presenting an opportunity there.

The emerging world of iPhone and Blackberry provides a great new platform for software designers to design to and build new applications.

He's enamored and remains bullish on the electric car.
To be precise Interface Builder doesn't actually generate ANY code at all. You are manipulating in-memory objects and setting their properties. When you save your UI it's effectively just a serialized form of the objects you were playing with.
I found it fascinating and if anything it reminded me that reality can be much more exciting than any fiction.
The Models of Asian VCs
9) What are the 3 most common mistakes VC make?
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Today, the world is in the midst of an economic, social and environmental crisis that is overturning much conventional wisdom. The best course of action is to tackle it head-on with new ideas and paradigms, fostering an environment that rewards creativity and encourages "black swans."
Do you control your application network stack? You should.
There will doubtless be a version with wifi built in in due course, whether from them or someone else.

I'd quite like one that doubles as a power strip.
What database structure powers News.YCombinator efficiency?
As database web-dev newbie (or at least elementary level), I'm trying to get up to speed on optimization issues for my growing rdbms.

I learn a lot from studying examples, and I'm really impressed with the speed of HN's performance / data freshness. Has there been a HN post that describes the HN-news database structure behind its burgeoning service? [ I tried some search within site and via searchyc, but general terms like "database structure" yield way too much, and I've not known what terms would helpfully narrow search. ] Thanks!
I really like functional languages while others hate it, but I don't think functional languages will take off by itself. The reason why functional languages don't work is that they're they wrong metaphor. Object oriented programming works because it fits the user model of how to describe actions and the world.

Features of functional languages will influence PL (Ruby, EMCA script, Python), server paradigms (map reduce), but I don't think it'll ever go mainstream by itself.
Other than news.arc, is there any particular aspect of the language you're focusing on?
Sure, but he was always an inveterate tinkerer. Much like the passage described below:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bennis-genius.html

Many of the people in our Great Groups are tinkerers--the kind of people who, as children, took the family television apart and tried to put it together again. They are people willing to spend thousands of hours finding out how things work, including things that don't yet exist. There's a joke about engineers that captures the spirit of many participants in creative collaborations. An engineer meets a frog who offers the engineer anything he wants if he will kiss the frog. "No," says the engineer. "Come on," says the frog. "Kiss me, and I'll turn into a beautiful woman." "Nah," says the engineer. "I don't have time for a girlfriend ...but a talking frog, that's really neat. " Members of Great Groups don't fear technology, they embrace it. And they all think that creating the future is really neat.
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I don't the decision should be evaluated just as a yes or no decision. There was a piece of research that looked at applicants to Ivy Leagues and applicants to magnet schools. For applicants of High School Magnet schools, the leading indicator was not whether they got in, but rather if they applied. For people who got into Ivy Leagues, the leading indicator was if they "chose" to go somewhere else and get an education there instead.

There's an inmeasuable quality of ambition that cannot be quantified on paper. I personally know many of my friends who have gotten into "prestigious" Universities who are not doing as well as some of my other friends.

It's the same reason why Nobel Laureates come from various universities. If the measuring tool to get into Ivy Leagues were a perfect indicator, these professors would be considered a fluke.

I've come to realize more and more that tests are inherently flawed.
So what do they want, should ebooks cost twice the price of normal books because they are both text and audiobooks now? I am sure doubling the price would increase the sales enormously, much to the pleasure of the authors.

Or maybe the system of having separate rights for all sorts of uses was crooked from the beginning.
Also, isn't reading on a kindle also like a movie? At least when you scroll, the text is moving across the screen. So I think Amazon should also pay for the movie rights.
Reinventing the Kindle (part II)
Titanium PR2 Released
Advertising comes from T.V. and print, where there's inherent scarcity. Advertising on social media needs to adapt to that and try to understand the keys to unlocking engagement with brands.
Why Information Must Be Destroyed
Dupe from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474588

(I believe this one has more than one dupe)

It's a good article, though. People naturally gravitate towards a feeling of unhappiness. I believe that if you look at most religions over the years, instead of finding out about religion, you end up finding out about the natural emotional state of man, i.e. that people are hard-wired to feel certain ways and they'll find some way of feeling them no matter what the age is.

Overall, this is a good thing -- drives innovation, keeps societies from stagnating, etc. In fact, hell would be a society in which everybody was perfectly at peace all the time. It seems we are designed to struggle and perform our best when we are struggling.
This has some information about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM
I've been a beta tester for this for a while. A ton of fun and great for quick games when you're not feeling too inspired to work. The team arena mode is definitely the best of the bunch, though in the beta all of the testers were ridiculously good. Hopefully the matchmaking will be a bit more level now that there's a greater pool of people to play with.
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Try keywurl: http://purefiction.net/keywurl/

For me, it's the only essential plugin.
your basic right as a customer is doing anything that the usage agreement of your product allows.
You can't buy a CD, for instance, and play it in a show (at least not in most countries, since this can be defined as profiting from that profit, and you didn't buy that right when you bought the CD). You can't also play a DVD in an oil rig, school bus or any other public place (that's on the DVD agreement, right there when you turn it on). And if having your book reproduced as audio offends the 'Book Guild agreement', then you probably can't do it 'legally'. Ouch.

Yes, that's ridiculous - but that's as far as your 'basic rights' go...
Alternative: http://browsershots.org/ Screenshots only though.
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Better, but not excellent.

The min-max-close buttons look good, but the mouseover effect on the menubar is horrible, the input fields for url and search are non-standard. And why can I drag a tab when there is only one?
I've found http://browsershots.org/ to be useful for that. Of course, you can't actually use the site through it.
Because hAtom is wrong, Zeldman just does not want to admit his mistake. rel=bookmark is not for permalinks, but for anchors. Read this for full explanation: http://www.tamurajones.net/MarkingPermalinks.xhtml
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#12 Don't give up. That is what I have ticked. If you believe in what you are doing, that's all you need, especially during the hard times.
Techcrunch tried but couldn't become the Red Herring of web 2.0. Nowhere near.
The key point that I was trying to make is that IB is fundamentally separate from the code that is running in the application. In traditional RAD tools like VB, Delphi and Powerbuilder the interface and application logic are one and the same, you literally have code behind each form and each UI element.

I didn't say anything about IB generating code.
That reminds me, considering how small the project is, and how much I depend on it, I should probably donate some money (clickety-click). Done!
Old guard always wants to protect a dying business because the people in charge have to wipe out their existing knowledge and experience of their business to go into a new business. When he/she goes into the new business, he/she would have no advantages vs a competitor that already exists in the field (i.e. a print executive going into tech). Most companies (due to the promotion structure) cannot make this jump some can (Intel).

I think e-books give the best chance for print to survive as a medium (in e-ink form, not in paper form). But as always, the captain of the ship fades away, not unlike a frog being slowly boiled to death because the temperature is slowly increasing.
Clojure in practice: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494147
Dependency Injection allows to assemble program on the fly. It allows to assemble programs written in different styles, including functional.

Look at Spring Dependency Injection Framework for example. It supports lot of libraries, which are written in traditional style.
No, after you add the sites and press done, you'll have to click on the thumbnails to visit the site. Only then will the edit icons appear on re-editing.
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pg prefers to avoid databases where possible. viaweb stored all its information in flat files, and so does hacker news.
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You'd mentioned that your server was running out of memory, and it looks like the post-a-reply urls have changed, no longer exposing the id of the continuation.

How will you scale up HN for its exponential growth? Will the OS memory manager just page Scheme data structures out to disk? (Can you do a spam filtering for unhelpful comments yet?)
That was the interesting thing for me: not that you couldn't do it in a shorter number of characters, but that it was 7 lines of code written for people to read, and incidentally for machines to execute.
There are some CMS AppEngine apps out there [1] so if you want to host a simple brochureware site, it's definitely feasible. It's still not "one click" simple though, namely you need to know how to checkout and deploy the app. I'm wondering why nobody writes something to give simple one click access to such a CMS. Hmm that gives me an idea... One click access to any AppEngine app given its source repository. That would be nice.

[1] http://appgallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=agphcHBnYWxsZ...
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"Use of HTTP Auth --- digest or otherwise --- at all --- a doc-able finding."

Uh-huh. So, your photocopiers have SSL certs do they? More likely they have nothing at all. I wonder if that's a "doc-able finding", whatever that is, presumably something bad.

This obsession with HTTP Auth being "evil" is laughable. A lot of the time it's absolutely fine. Hell, a lot of the time it's overkill.

And that rule, if true, is a Dilbert-esque joke. You can't legislate security by banning arbitrary protocols like that. Yes SSL is more secure but other methodologies are still useful, used appropriately. It's like the army banning pistols because machine guns are "better".
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"What if you could buy 10% of one of your classmates and their future earnings? You wouldn't buy the ones with the highest IQ, the best grades, etc, but the most effective. You like people who are generous, go out of their way, straight shooters. Now imagine that you could short 10% of one of your classmates. This part is usually more fun as you start looking around the room. You wouldn't choose the ones with the poorest grades. Look for people nobody wants to be around, that are obnoxious or like to take all the credit. If you have a 500 HP engine and only get 50 HP out of it, you'll be beat by someone else that has a 300 HP engine but gets 250 HP output. The difference between potential and output comes from human qualities. You can make a list of the qualities you admire and those you despise. To turn the tables, think if this is the way I react to the qualities on the list,
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