skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The developer posted on the forum recently along the lines of that he's busy working on something larger in scope than what has been typical.
I heard it first when I was 16, listening to Red Hot Chilli Peppers song called Deep Kick

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjj6ZnTAeUA
Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Deep-Kick-lyrics-Red-...

I remember...
10 years ago in Hollywood
We did some good
and we did some real bad stuff
but the Butthole Surfers said
It's better to regret something you did
Than something you didn't do
Vivir Brings the Human Element of Design to the Medical Field
I agree it was interesting because it was weird. One wonders if the NSA might put things out like this to test the analysis ability of the 'open' community? I wonder if there is ever the question inside the Fort like "Well we can do this, but how obvious is it to people outside our group?" Testing that question isn't easy, but answering it is important for knowing the size of the threat posed by an equivalent type vulnerability.
About managing ideas and hundreds of text files: I've been doing something similar with a personal wiki (with WikidPad) for a few years. Prior to that I used text files but, like you mention, it was unmanageable.

My wiki has about 1,500 pages (a few MBs of text) and it's still very manageable. I use it for just about all notetaking purposes (you mention taking note about documentaries, it's one use case of mine; but the biggest is by far replacing bookmarks with free form text -- see link below).

The biggest advantage I see over text files is the graph structure you create by linking entries. I'll have a bunch of links at the top of each entry, and I'll add links whenever I feel it'll help me next time I try to find some piece of information.

About managing programming-related info: I have a bunch of code snippets in there too, along with more reference-like notes on concepts.

I've thought about using mind maps in the past, but I find it too limiting (I'd have to have a mind map + text notes in another system, and anyway I prefer something more text-y). But of course it's way better for visualization of the overall structure.

It's been a while, but a few years back I blogged about all this personal wikis idea (and wrote a post or two on using them for programming-related stuff), so if it may be useful:
http://www.fsavard.com/flow/tag/wiki/
> Again, it's harder than you think.

That's why I said I'm not optimistic. I have the confidence that Apple can do an excellent job of creating a solid and intuitive UI and service. I have very little confidence that they will be able to make the sort of content deals necessary to make it have practical value.

I don't think the bandwidth caps are a big issue, because 720p video is probably 1 GB/hour. You would have to watch 8 hours/day to hit a 250 GB limit.
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/broad-sustainable-buildi...

edit: found the HN discussion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574100
Hull: build complete social applications with open, reusable components
This is what Go should have been.

Seems quite nice.
QuotesCube - http://quotescube.com
> The language covers all your needs

This is exactly the "one language" myopia that I was arguing against. Anyone who tries to sell me on a language or programming system that asks for complete buy-in and offers no interoperability story is immediately suspect in my book.

(FWIW, I don't think the Rust guys actually sell this line, so I'm arguing against you, not them).

No one will ever invent "the last language you'll ever need." One reason for this is that different languages excel at different things. For example, Rust is not as easy to sandbox as Python, Ruby, etc. It's also not as simple to write quick scripts in.

Another reason is that you'll never convince everyone in the world to use the same language. Even if you convinced them that they should use the same language (which is impossible), there are billions of lines of code in use that is written in different languages. If you can't interoperate with them, you are a rock, you are an island.

There's nothing "modern" about the idea that "we're going to make the last language you'll ever need."
And the link to the 2004 "study" is actually a news report about the Standish Group's CHAOS report, which itself is actually a very loose survey from a company that has an interest in exaggerating the state of the "software crisis." Look at the frikkin report title: it's the 90's version of linkbait.

Furthermore, the CHAOS report defines "success" as "shipped on time and on budget" without regard to profitability or anything else people here on HN know is involved in real success.

As a result, when the CHAOS report says 51% of [surveyed participants self-report that] projects "fail[ed] in a critical aspect," what they really mean is that 51% of projects didn't ship exactly on time and on budget. If a project shipped a month late and made $10 million, it's still considered unsuccessful.

Horse pucky.
It's one of those "life hacks" articles, I wouldn't expect too much science behind it.
So, the NFL has failed to bust 2 unions in 2 years.
I'm setting here pondering the behavior of NFL management this morning and wondering...

What's next?

Why didn't the players and the referees support each other during their respective lockouts?

Is the NFL really so popular that they think they can get away with this talking-the-talk without walking-the-walk?
It's per memory cell. And that's what all modern memory does. Ignoring chop (afaik, no modern widely used memory controller makes use of it), the smallest request you can make from a 64-bit DDR3 stick is 64 bytes. All those 512 bits are accessed in parallel, and when done, sent over the memory bus over 8 bus transfers. While the controller is waiting for those bits to become available, you can issue commands to different banks within the same chip. (And in fact must do so to get anywhere close to the nominal bandwidth). Modern memory controllers interleave requests both between banks of the same chip and between different chips on the same channel.
As has been said, the quality of the relationship between the founders is just as important as their individual abilities. With two founders you have one relationship, and it's hard to find good lasting relationships between two quality people.

Increase the team size by one and you go from one relationship to three.
OH: "You can be good at 2: Triathlons, Career, Spouse/Family - you choose". The single biggest difference between training for a triathlon and training for a single event (Marathon, Cycling century etc) is the sense of "false urgency" a triathlon creates to justify your need to sacrifice other areas of your life to train. Missing a day's training because you have to travel, attend a critical event for friends or family, or work all day on a critical project is problematic if you're training for a single event. However, when training for a Tri it's catastrophic because "That'll be 4 days from my last ride/swim/run!" That pressure is really the secret sauce of Tri's over other endurance sports. It's why you can sort of pick whom out of your exercising friends will go down the Tri route vs stay single sport dedicated.

I have no issue with folks dedicating themselves to do a triathlon. Maybe you do one a year and everyone understands what you're up to and supports you for 12 weeks etc. That's not how it often works though. I do think it's odd that society glorifies what is really obsessive/compulsive behavior that takes over much of the waking day for the participant and materially impacts their relationships with those around them. And no one who has actually done a triathlon here can honestly tell me it isn't the first thing they think about when they wake up and doesn't impact how they schedule their work and social calendar every day vs the other way around. Well(they can but that would be the denial part that comes along with the behavior.
Game Bytes #3
I don't use varnish because the whole philosophy is to let the OS select what to cache in memory, and ... well I already do that.

I don't follow how you already do that. Do you mean the OS disk cache?
How does one get started as an Independent Researcher?
Folk heroes can also be villains. Robin Hood was a notorious villain. (I'm not comparing Dotcom to Robin Hood)

The reason he is celebrated is because he is famous for bypassing a system many consider to be broken. He is famous for not being afraid to put his own system into place, a system he and many other liked better. He is famous because he did not try to hide. He is famous because he's fighting the system he and others wish to see replaced.

Is he a criminal? Yes. Does being a criminal mean you cannot also be a folk hero? If you say yes, I don't think you know what a folk hero really is. Quite often they are criminals. Look into Bonnie and Clyde, Robin Hood, Guy Fawkes, Che Guevara, Jesse James, Spartacus, etc.
This was patched in JUNE.

Blame your carrier if your phone isn't patched.
Seems pretty interesting, though I have to say that watching only the introduction video gives you basically NO IDEA of what the product solves or how.
Good reminder that small warm-blooded mammals shouldn't necessarily fear gigantic dinosaurs. And that competition can be a good thing, if only for market validation.

I can totally see how a large company providing a general/basic service could be a big help to someone who provides a specialized, customized service in that space. It's free advertising for the space as a whole... you could almost view it as stage 1 of your funnel.

But be careful what you wish for with the bingo card software... I have a friend at SAIC, and if that contract came through, we might have to take up your challenge. ;)
Tether it to a Samsung S3...
Similar to my project Peerbelt.com. A notable difference is Peerbelt runs entirely on the client to void privacy concerns. Vinny, let's chat and see if we can collaborate. Cheers, -Krassimir the Peerbelt founder
Great points, totally agree.

Regarding the meditation, it's really interesting - could you tell a bit more about how it has helped you, do you do it every day, how long, what exact meditation technique and where did you learn it?
So you want to be a NoSQL Engineer?
And you believe the NSA when you can't see the warrants, know who issued them, what they contain, etc.? How would we know they weren't tapping domestic communication? You wouldn't. Any whistleblowers would be roughed-up or locked-up... much like Thomas Drake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake#2007_FBI_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_c...
The permutations in DES have nothing to do with security; there is an excellent explanation by Thomas Pornin on what their purpose was: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/6/592

What was altered were the 8 S-boxes, seemingly random lookup tables that map 6- to 4-bit values. More details by Don Coppersmith himself at: http://simson.net/ref/1994/coppersmith94.pdf
And a link to a question specifically pertaining to this patent:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/535/prior-art-for...
Why isn't Singapore[1] in the list of countries on swellphone.com?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
I don't remember ever feeling "hapiness" after doing exercise. All that's left after it it's the overwhelming feeling of being tired.
Insert Coin to Continue: The HTML5 Game Sponsorship Market
It's per "bank". Chips often are partitioned into multiple banks, each with its own row/column array. This gives some parallelism, because an access to one bank won't invalidate the already-loaded row in the others (reads of bits in the same row as the previous one are faster because they are stored/cached in digital logic -- this is why sequential access to DRAM is faster than random acccess).

Obviously the width of the DRAM bus itself is a parallelism design: fundamentally DRAM is always "one bit wide", you get wider busses by using multiple devices and feeding them the same commands.

And you can get even more parallelism by using more than one DRAM channel. Intel Desktop CPUs have 2x 64 bit channels, the LGA2011 server parts have 4x64, Apple's new A6 made news this week by moving to a 2x32 bit design.

But note that those are all bandwidth improvements. They don't do anything to the time it takes to get a bit out of an idle DRAM part. DRAM latency is largely fixed in the modern world, until we find a different way of storing bits.
I agree about the Persona bit, but many times you are not ... shall we say "allowed" to.

Since you built an SSO, could you point me in the right direction amongst self-hosted solutions. Some comparisons and pitfalls would be most welcome.
And the inevitable pickup line, "Got a card?" "Sure rub your phone on my pants pocket"
You know, I thought it wasn't that common either, but then I kept running into lots of people, especially with iPhone 4s phones and WPA2 AES APs, who did have these kind of problems. Something really is off here.
> But "does anyone say X?" does go a long way to answering "should I say X?".

Agreed, though I think part of the issue is with regional divisions. There is no true "American English" that spans the country. So "does anyone say X" may not be sufficient. If I want to be a newscaster and fit my language to the country as a whole, neither Boston pronunciation not Southern slang is likely my target. I'm looking for the subset that's acceptable to the majority of Americans. How big that majority needs to be is a judgment call. How widespread a certain term/construct/etc actually is also seems like a judgment call, as the info probably isn't gathered via scientific polls.

> I'll leave your pet example of "aks" which I really know nothing about so if you say it's widespread yet is nobody's dialect, then all right.

I think "aks" has fallen in usage. For a time, it was popular among certain groups, but I haven't actually heard anyone say the word in a long time (though that could also be indicative of my social circles changing rather than the actual usage overall). It's just a convenient example, but not to my knowledge a very realistic one anymore.

> If you know that that English people almost use the word "pants" to mean "underwear" then it's clear that "does anyone in London say pants meaning trousers?" is "no" and when wanting to purchase trousers the answer to "should I say pants?" is also "no".
The only American dialects that I know anything about is from recently watching "The Wire". "does anyone talk like that?" Apparently so. it's not right or wrong, it's a way of talking. "Should I talk like that?" depends on whether I'm talking to inner-city Baltimore gangsters.

Fair enough. And maybe in that case it's just about framing. If you specifically ask about language general enough to span the US, maybe purely descriptive linguists can give you a useful answer.
Peerbelt: Personal search engine for what you have seen online
how does it work with multiple users using the same browser?
A new way to sync Google Contacts
BlueStacks and AMD bring Android apps to Windows
Jordan 5 Cool Grey
I wonder if it has anything to do with Intel wanting to integrate DRAM in their SoC's in the future.

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/09/07/intel-to-do-away-with-dra...
What's the benefit of QR over just having text in an OCR-friendly representation?

The processing power available to a smartphone is improving (not just locally: cloud-based contact management would benefit greatly from business card scanning), and making text look good is the foundation of print design, while QR codes always seem tacky if they're printed at a size appropriate for scanning.
It's like PKIX but with JSON.
Tear Down the Walls - Shattering Team Boundaries
Many projects grow organically, day to day, but Gittip's funding cycle naturally brings it to people's attention each week. It makes me think about whether I can identify natural check-in points for my own projects.
I'm disappointed that an essay about the writing of less code failed to mention this: you will spend far more time reading your own code than you will writing it: so don't take syntactic shortcuts that obscure meaning.

I only relatively recently grokked this, and it's helped me to stick to best practices and naming conventions when in the past, I'd just throw in the first thing off the top of my head.
Just started my own transfer for one of my domains; I might let the other one lapse.

This was the last kick in the pants I needed to get off of GoDaddy.
I agree, and there are numerous times when I why away from using expletives because I don't want to use them. However, when I don't want to say "fuck", I don't write "fsck" instead, I just rephrase the sentence.
FTA: "In the end the machine produced 2250 Watts at 10 m/s winds ..."

Cool tech - it would be interesting to see a cost/benefit analysis
mapping months to break-even from local $/kWh costs and local wind
speeds.

We'll know that alternative energy generation has really arrived
when real-estate listings include sun-exposure / insolation figures
and annual wind-energy availability along with annual tax estimates
and water well outputs.
So windmills were basically like paycheck deduction of taxes in 21st century America?

;-)
Cheers ended in 1993. The first Kasparov v. Deep Blue match was in 1996.
Chuck->angry->blood->red. Not sure why this was even a question.
Right. How's that different from what I said?
They are however Canonical is not moving towards locking down the OS which Apple and Microsoft are doing (though fans of either won't admit it). That's what Gabe is scared of.
There's also the possibility that people are interested in it. ;^)

Why should I pivot?
Google implements Apple's Ad Identifier for mobile tracking choice
Do Not Track is here for mobile apps. Is it good enough? Can anyone find it?
Looks a lot like boo[0], which has been around for about a decade and has a Python-like syntax, type inference, static+dynamic typing, REPL loop, and runs on the CLR. Fantastic language, especially when it was new and C# was missing many of the features boo offered.

From what I can tell, Cobra adds compile-time nil tracking (nice!) and contracts. I'd be extremely interested in this if I was still doing anything in .NET.

[0] http://boo.codehaus.org
I love the picture of the kid reading that you used but I have some reservations about what you use it for.

I didn't use that picture lightly. That is my son, and I am pretty interested in the different ways he will be able to consider supporting himself. I believe that Gittip has the potential to support people's livelihoods. I don't know how many people it will support, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[edit] That said, it was a fun picture to set up last year. :)
I believe there must be a kernel of truth in it and it's this: there are lots of people who are 10x more productive than their peers at one very specific thing. But that one thing, by itself, is rarely enough to complete a project. Over the long term, everyone tends towards the average by definition.
If we're going to talk about language, then it's far from pedantic to insist on using it properly while doing so.
Paul Thurrott's iOS 6 review
Find me two Russell Keith-Magees that will work for $250/week and you have a valid argument.
i feel NFC holds a lot of promise in these types of applications; in that it seems like an ideal technology for developing 'trigger' cases, where you could set any number of actions based on NFC pairing..

Nokia showed off that very thing you described with their Lumia 920; where placing it on one of their NFC wireless charging docks automatically launches a predefined app (presumably some sort of dock mode, but you can set whatever you want). likewise, with one of their wireless speakers they showed NFC pairing used to rapidly connect (via Bluetooth) and start playing music without having to mess with anything on the phone [1]; i thought that was pretty neat..

[1] can't find the actual video of them demoing it, but this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4zx2xy6VjE&feature=playe...
[WARNING - sorry if this is considered trollish - this is my own analysis, where I try to consider the general issue without giving in to emotions]

I am concerned that the positive outlook is given and shared ( and commented here on HN) by persons who describe themselves as parents.

Besides the potential biais due to social pressure (not liking kids is socially throwned upon, which might favor expressing a positive opinion and keeping quiet about a negative opinion) I wonder how much of this is about sunk costs?

I mean, when you have a child, it's a sunk cost - you can't get rid of it (putting a child to adoption is also socially throwned upon) or decide it would have been better to do without one, so you try and get the best of it.

[Even considering this, you will have to take care of it for 18 years (legally) and then add financial costs for the child college/university etc.]

Considering most couple stick with a limited number of kids, the marginal return seems to decrease.

But given the social pressure to a) like children and b) do not put children into adoption, maybe we are not just looking at marginal returns, but at what the real decision should be when sunk costs are removed.

The fact, noted by other posters, that kid makes you efficient is at least doubtful. Maybe you will be more efficient for the time spent at work, but if you spend much less time that your "improved" efficiency factor, as most parents seem to like spending time with kids, you are overall less efficient.
I believe he mentions in the article that it's somewhere in the ballpark of a smooth $10,000 USD.
Why take just a picture? Have the guy take a video panning the entire ocean for 15? 30? seconds and then allow surfers to view video. Capture some random images of the video for people who don't want to look at video.
Is there any way to use it for say an iPhone app interacting with web services authenticated as a user?
I think your'e right about the scrolling, although HN definitely deserves a new slicker UI.
This link is more about creating a new UI/UX for an existing site and serving it under new URL.
It was created using betterinternet.co (as you can see on the bottom right corner when you use this new style HN).
Do you think you can create a better design? one that eventually people will use instead of the original?
I had to think about the same book when I read the title (Cat's Craddle, Vonnegut)
A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It
We're just at the one-month mark today and your three-month mark describes our current life to a tee.

She is a wonderful, and I love her to pieces, but goddamn this is a trying experience.
Nice! Any idea what?
If you don't exercise regularly, I believe that's normal.

In my experience, it takes a week or three of keeping to the schedule, and then I start noticing that I'm just really upbeat & feel great, even though I'm sore.
The imagery of pair programming with Carmack was just too rich. Thank you for the laughs, mate.
I said that the judicial branch keeps the other branches is check. I didn't say that are completely effective or that their checks are sufficient. And I certainly didn't say that the NSA wasn't engaging in any domestic wiretapping.
Interesting. Huda Akil is no obscure quack.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Huda+Akil&...
The concept is great. I use Spine.app for this myself.

A nodejs stack makes more sense to me because the app itself is powered by JavaScript, not Ruby, and then I am truly decoupled from other languages. However, I can see why someone coming from Ruby would prefer Spar -- even Spine.app includes Sprockets support for Ruby devs.
science or fiction. Whenever I work out, I feel great. period.