skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite different. HiD lamps use a strong electric current to heat up and excite a plasma. These use radio waves to heat up the plasma.

There is no cathode or anode.
When I changed jobs last year, I briefly was at a place where all developers were on Windows (After 2 years of having a Mac at work). I started digging around, and there's a Windows "clone" of Textmate which is built to also fully support TextMate Plugin Bundles.

I used it for awhile, and it's pretty good. It's called "E" - http://www.e-texteditor.com/

I still prefer TextMate, but if stuck on Windows, E is pretty nice for getting close in editor.
Lack of critical thinking (eg, completely automated rules of engagement algorithms have been deployed for decades). Military worship (toned down, but present).
Umm... that doesn't even begin to make sense... Are you sure you read the same article?
As a long-year ion3 user I'd like to second that.
The productivity boost is comparable to moving to vim/emacs from notepad.
Societies With Large Income Disparities Imprison More of Their People
Google is just an amoral menace
I don't see what Ext Core - which is released under the MIT license! - has to do with the GPL license of the Ext JS library.

Nobody has to pay for using Ext Core, so the only valid reason for not choosing it is a dislike for its syntax, internal workings or any other technical reason.
What Stack Overflow Can Teach You
perhaps I should have qualified with 'than our parents would have been at our age', then.

Of course, I've probably been listening to too many stories of the good old days from mine, lately..!
I made the prediction when the format was announced and I will stand by it--Blu-ray will be the last major optical media video format for the same reason that CD Audio was the last major optical media audio format.

If anything, Blu-ray might end up being a slightly more successful DVD-Audio-like format, leaving DVD to be the last major optimal media video format, or perhaps something in between.

The biggest mistake lies in the fact that Blu-ray is quite honestly a waste of bits; modern video formats can put near-transparent 1080p video onto dual-layer DVDs. Blu-ray often tries to waste these extra bits by using pointlessly high bitrates (upwards of 40 megabits), absurdly outdated video formats (MPEG-2), and/or multiple audio streams, many of which are atrociously oversized (5.1-channel 24-bit LPCM). While the space could be put to good use and used to provide extra value (e.g. more TV show episodes per disc, etc), it's just wasted because such improvement for the consumer would cost the movie industry money.

Never mind the fact that an inordinate number of Blu-ray disks are encoded or mastered so badly that they look worse than a good DVD (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is a great example of this).

The end result is that Blu-ray is the first optical format for which it is likely that piracy is more popular than actually buying the disks.
I only tried Firefox.

Basically, you can set top = null in the parent page, and it behaves as you expect -- there is no magic going on. But "top" gets reset for the iframe.

I didn't try anything more evil than that, though. I think if the parent script did something like "while(1){}", it could "starve" the iframe of CPU time, and it would never have the chance to change the URL.

At that point, though, I think I would just implement the toolbar as browser chrome.
Yep that's exactly who they are. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Nine_Old_Men

In fact, to tie it all together with the original topic, Ollie Johnson's lifelong hobby was building steam trains. He was one of the main influences for Walt Disney wanting to build his own trains.
Years ago I attended the last two BattleBots tapings on Treasure Island. Words fail me when I try to describe how much fun it is to watch BattleBots live.

I had never seen the TV show when I bought my first BattleBots tickets (while randomly browsing Craigslist). After getting home from the live version, I tried to watch the show a little. I can't stand the TV version. It bore the same relationship to the actual event that a QVC infomercial about Matchbox cars does to a real Corvette.

The one drawback of BattleBots (specifically) is that it appears to threaten to consume all of the builders' money and then come back for more. After a while, watching high-performance motor controllers get bounced off the Plexiglas, one after another, can start to make you wince. It might be cheaper to just buy a lawnmower and push it back and forth over a big stack of $5 bills. If I were actually going to build a bot I might choose to enter a competition where more of the pieces make it back home intact.

UPDATE: On the other hand, it's undeniable that watching things catch fire, get mangled, or be sacrificed in bold gambits is part of the fun.
Their copy is pretty bad, I can see exactly where they were headed with it and cite photojojo as an example of a company that does a great job of slight shock value with its tagline, however "damn" doesn't work.

I enjoy out of the box thinking but it could certainly use some tweaking
It's the same reason people are suspicious when Microsoft associates itself with open-source software. Past actions make people suspicious as to whether they can rely on them for support in the future, especially when it comes to something like frameworks where large code-bases rely on its continued existence and the vendor not pulling the plug, and kill any ill-will in the community.

Once bitten, twice shy.
Why does everyone compare with LED's? For bulbs in actual production - outside a lab - CFL's easily beat LED's and produce better light to boot (better color).

What is it with this obsession with LED's?

I saw an LED lamp for sale in a store and one thing was conspicuously missing - the panel on the side that told me how many lumens it produces. There were very excited about the watts, but wouldn't say how much light it makes. And probably for a good reason. (And isn't that panel required by law?)
No, some schools really are better than others. Schools are paid for with property taxes. If you have richer people living around the school, the school gets more money. Additionally, you get rich people donating to the schools.

Also, you get better teachers. My friend chose to teach at a rich school over a poor school because (a) she felt unsafe in the poor neighborhood, and (b) she felt the rich school could support her program better. That is pretty common, from what I've heard.
Yes, that's really what good writing is about, get anything written and then revise, revise, and revise.

I recently discovered this cross posting feature posterous has with twitter, so if one has the distilled post down to 140 and then puts that as the subject, readers who don't see the depth of the point and/or just wish to hear more can link to the full version. I think you've touched on a nice approach to using some of these new tools to improve the quality of communication.
Almost Perfect (the story of WordPerfect)
I think you have valid concerns Daniel. But I would encourage you make generous use of the block and unfollow functionalities. There are plenty of people on Twitter vying for your attention, don't give those who abuse it any more of it.

Thanks for the article.

(About the MacHeist TweetBlast, I'm slightly ashamed to admit this, but I have a separate twitter account for posting such marketing material. This way I don't spam any of my friends who don't specifically want to see tweet blasts and other "social marketing" wizardry. Honestly, I don't think anyone wants to see that sort of stuff.)
What makes the Amazon offering so groundbreaking (and it will prove to be historic, in my opinion) is that it is now possible for anyone with a need to analyze large data sets to do so simply for the cost of data storage plus processing time.

The only "historic" part about that statement is the amount of kool-aid that the author must have smoked...
The reasons that Ruby/Rails community ridiculed (obviously accurate) "ruby is slow" are exact same reasons the community was such a success in the first place. Consider what would have happened if "ruby is slow" meme took off.

Sadly, there's no standard and acknowlegedly forceful way to say: "Your statement is technically veridical but I disagree with the connotations you intend to sneak in."

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4h/when_truth_isnt_enough/
I've always liked the "brain is to self as guitar is to music" analogy. Sensory input is the guitar player. The monkey represents sharing.
If you think that all suicide bombers are motivated by religious fanaticism, you really need to read a History book. Once again, that's a simplistic explanation that fails to take into account the full complexity of the reality.

Keep downvoting. It only makes you look like ignorants.
Google Street View mashup: interactive London theatre map
I don't think it's the network. I have an old Razr on the same network, and it far out performs iPhone 1 and 2. Same service, same location, I can make/receive calls where and when other members of my family (with the iphones) cannot.

I actually got mad at my son when he didn't call me after an after-school event. I went to pick him up and chastised him. I pulled out my phone and demonstrated that I had service. He handed me his iphone and he clearly did not.

It was not in his interest to remain waiting in this case (although now I think it might sometimes provide a handy excuse for him!). My wife has the same issue with hers.

I simply suspect the iphone transmitter/receiver isn't as sensitive.
I was playing around with some 3W LEDs and a problem I didn't anticipate was dissipating the heat generated. An incandescent bulb radiates a lot of its heat, but in an LED it all comes out the back and has to go somewhere. It needs a surprisingly large heat sink to dissipate it. So they're not going to be drop-in replacements for incandescents unless they become a lot more efficient.
I try to learn a new language every 2 years and learn the basic principles of at least 3-4 each year. I still have 1 or 2 languages I do almost all my work in, but knowing other languages has made me much better in those 1 or 2. You learn new idioms, new ways of thinking etc.

Most programmers come from an imperative background. Something in the Algol family. Learning a scheme/lisp, a functional language like Haskell, a stack based on like Factor or any of the numerous other types of languages is only going to make you a better programmer.

Think type languages are awful? Maybe its just the type systems you've encountered ( see haskell for a type system that I would call non-broken ).

Think OOP languages are garbage? Maybe encountering something like Self will give you a different view of OO than what you get from C++ or Java. Maybe encountering CLOS will open your eyes to a different way of doing OOP.

Another bonus via anecdote:

I don't use Ruby anymore, but I still follow the community because people are doing interesting things, things I might want to steal an idea from and use in my language(s) of choice.
if news.yc used Disqus, this would [potentially] be much easier.
if you are in the casual gaming space, I'm guessing you are doing flash games. Spend that money to hire some people to develop games for you. Almost any game will spread like wildfire all across every single game aggregator, and will drive a ton of traffic your way

And if you are going to ask questions, you shouldn't hide your startup name on here, you'll get higher quality help, if people know exactly what you are doing.
excellent comment. that's the problem. i don't have an iphone...but especially this late in the game (after iphone launch), the review is neither novel in terms of insight, nor entertainment value. i could have seen this within a couple of months of iphone's intro - but at this point it just seems like it's emulating what it's critiquing... being cute and insubstantial.
That's true, but these are not actions I perform regularly. When I want to drag things around or read something while I interact with another app, I'm happy to change my behaviour temporarily.
Google Loses A Round In Sponsored Search Litigation
The Next Web Is Just Around The Corner (The Conference, That Is)
This article completely missed the point, Youtube has been the subject of fights for years, But Google bought it knowing it wouldn't survive without their power.

Google makes statements, They make browsers just to push the industry, Bid on the wireless frequencies to make them open to other devices.

Google is not amoral, they simply are easily spun out of context.
Yes, along with a few notifications via e-mail.
And xmonad.
But with Ubuntu, you can't pay $30 for an app whose main feature is a 10 megapixel icon for the dock.
Court Rules Part Of Copyright Act Unconstitutional
Newspaper journalist complains about Internet. Who would have thought?
So sorry for having a personal opinion on my personal blog :-) 19K has never mattered to me compared to all the rest of the stuff that ends up getting pulled down. Since both are base libraries, I have always ended up including more.
I explicitly kept this comparison to their overlap. I'll be doing another post covering the areas where Ext Core excels. Both libraries are very good and you can't go wrong with either, but I do prefer Ext Core.
Organizations are complex systems. Cherry-picking parts of one system (whether it's from Joel, 37signals, or anyone else) is essentially useless outside of the original context. It's why culture is so important to get right from the start; once "baked in" it's very difficult to change.
News for hackers?

I don't find this interesting at all (besides its propaganda value) and I doubt few in this community will find this kind of news worth debating.
I actually thought that the article made a couple of interesting points (e.g. the dangers of monopolies), but then undermined them completely by launching into a biased and almost hysterical rant (e.g. associating the problems caused by newspapers losing readership and Google, even when admitting in the article that Google can't be blamed for that.) Shame.
You don't use the new language exclusivity, it's just an extra tool in your toolbox. You just use it to expand your horizons. Knowing even a little Haskell will show you that a little type inference can go a long way. Or that reasoning about correctness is easier in a purely functional language.

I think the primary advantage of knowing many languages is knowing when you're using the wrong tool for the job.
HP Compaq n series are really nice too you guys should check them out. Just like the think pad but less of a pain.
The graph is less helpful without a nightly-to-nightly comparison.

Safari 4.0 beta was released recently, but is still using technology from a much older WebKit nightly.
I don't downvote, but really, you should take a hint here. Write a post explaining _why_, and upvotes will come. Simple opinions are not encouraged on HN, they're usually considered spam.
Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination
Scrum and virtual worlds: perfect fit
Why wouldn't you use Disqus?
Ruby is slow. Fast, good, easy - pick 2.
Dunno about the menace, but perhaps "amoral" is exactly the right word: "being neither moral nor immoral; specifically: lying outside the sphere to which moral judgments apply <science as such is completely amoral, W. S. Thompson> (From the online Merriam Webster Dictionary)

I used to work for a very large vendor of ICs and one of its erstwhile CEO's famously said: "With respect to technology, if it can be done, it will be done."

I agree and so given that, I think any discussion of morals is only applicable to the person who has to decide whether to associate with the company or project in question for paid labor or in the use of their product(s).

It's not whether the bomb, say, is moral or not as an abstract concept, but instead, given all the information available on the impact of nuclear weapons, whether you decide to design the beryllium reflector for the secondary or not...
def f(hn_irrelevant) = opaque_measure_of_inequality * correlation_vs_causation_confusion

Nothing to see here, keep moving
Nonsense. Learning Python helped my JavaScript and PHP, and learning JavaScript in turn has helped my Python. Learning Erlang has helped both. PHP didn't help anything.

By making you approach the same problems in different ways, new languages make you a more versatile programmer less tied to a particular technology while improving existing skills.
Poker inculcates many of the skills needed for finance, and if you're good it can simply be a profitable investment.
I have several issues with your comment and it isn't even that long a comment.

You don't have to even talk about the 'users' age in such a negative way. So, I am assuming if you did write software or develop hardware then you don't have a very large market. Depending on the application, you normally want a wide range of users to use your product. And especially you don't insult them if they have issues with it. What if she had a disability, is blind, has arthritis.

I am sure that the Apple team took all the accessibility issues into account with designing the product. The Apple design team didn't go 'Damn she is old, screw her', kind of like you are doing.

On the iphone, I have a couple of issues with the technology. I don't use an iphone, a blackberry and really only use my basic free cellphone for emergencies. Ask most young Japanese, they didn't seem to take in the iphone either.

First: the price is still steep.
Second: the iphone doesn't seem to leverage any open technology. The Android phones do. So, I probably won't ever use an iphone.

Third: The internet access to me is still slow. I don't want to wait several minutes to check the news. I would rather not use it at all.

Fourth: The interface is OK but I haven't found any advantages over a qwerty style keyboard with the blackberry.

Fifth: And this is just my own personal gripe, the iphone doesn't replace or come close to my personal computer or my laptop. If I wanted a computer, I would use a computer. I can 'jack' at cyber cafes or my laptop or at work or at home to get a real computer. The pseudo computer iphone doesn't buy me anything.

I do like the 3d graphics, that would be the only reason I would consider using it.

I find it funny that in 2009, you can't NOT LIKE something. If the person doesn't like the iPhone, more power to them. She doesn't like what the rest of the hive likes. If she doesn't like Linux or the Mac, more power to her.
looks like i have to type more if i switch to ext; hence, no
Couldn't have said it any better myself. I'm sick and tired of these millennials that want, want, want without the work, work, work.

All this "lifestyle" BS I keep hearing about lately is just a cop out excuse for lazy people masquerading under the idea that they are just working smarter — BULLSHIT. REAL entrepreneurs don’t see it as work, it is a compulsion that drives them. If you don't want to be at the top, get out of the way cause you're slowing everyone else down... And damn sure don't apply to work in a startup. The absolute last thing a startup needs are self-righteous millennials wasting time and therefore money.
Why Facool failed and what I learned from it
except that freedom with strings attached is not freedom
That's a very poorly written article. It seems to be following up from an earlier story, but gives absolutely no context or description of that story. What happened, who it happened to, and why? None of those are even touched on.

Down at the bottom of the story, quotes are attributed to people by their last name, with no previous mention of who those people are or how they are affiliated with the story. The only complete piece of information in the entire article is an account of a customer whose website is down.

All in all, just a terrible piece of writing.
This article overlooks how much IBM depends on Java. Having ownership of the language which all of your systems are written in is a very powerful advantage.
Pfft..

To see real ball catching action watch a cricket match.
Start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05klsa3M08A

Cricket balls are harder, weightier and come at you much faster and you have to catch them with your bare hands.

The first time I put on a baseball glove, I thought.. "Man, this is too easy".
Aren't captchas supposed to be human readable?
I got in only the first 2-3 paragraph before being turned off by the "piracy" rant.

Anybody who have have huge comtempts for pirates do not understand the pirates' role in society. Unlike drunk drivers, pirates are the forces of great upheaval, of social changes. Pirates often signal something is wrong in the market. It may be the companies themsleves or the profliberation of DRMs.

If he doesn't understand that, how can I expect him to understand the implication of google?
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You also get a different peer group for your kids in a rich area compared to a poor area. If it was all about money, we could just throw money at poor schools and they would be equal with rich schools, but I'm not aware of any case where that approach has succeeded.
The main idea is that if you use goals and then segment your marketing dollars into say 10 lots of $200. You can then run 10 different tests. You might run campain A on site 2 for a month then change to campain B on site 2. Different campains might work differently on different sites. The main thing is keep testing. For the first 3 months you might waste a bit of money but by the 3rd month you should be able to allocate at least half of your money to areas that work based on the tracking you've setup and then keep spending at least a little bit trying new sites. If you don't have at least some for testing new sites you will eventually start to saturate your market. Keep a log of sites that were ok because you might want to go back to them with a new campain targeting their users later on.
> I don't want to wait several minutes to check the news. I would rather not use it at all.

It's interesting that Apple has tried to make their low-powered device more usable by paring down usages that it can't cope with well, such a Flash video and therefore youtube. But we can increase usability further by paring it down one step further and not using it at all.

I've just bought an LCD HD monitor, and although it's very cool, it's a lot less usable than my tiny old CRT, in terms of eye strain (brightness, viewing angle) and adjustment (menu navigation instead of knobs).

But both the iPhone and LCD HD are disruptive technologies, emphasising a different set of benefits, and will only improve with time.
Same is true of Hacker News or, really, any other community group that involves writing and is populated by intelligent, articulate individuals (Reddit, Digg, I'm looking in your general direction).

Moral of the story: Write more and have people read and critique your writing.
Yeah, it wasn't the best book either. I just thought it held up well against Atlas Shrugged.
Is an Apple more form than function?
Thomas Edison Awards
Not much about the editor? So I guess I should dump emacs and go back to good old Notepad... After all it doesn't matter. Right?

And emacs is not the apex of what an editor could be. Not even close.
Learning lisp or any other language in which closures are a common idiom should be a prerequisite for building anything of any size out of Javascript. An understanding of closures will aid in a big way in figuring out why your browser rapidly grows to 1 gig when running your applicatiion.