skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! Amazing!
As a co-founder of a startup with much more than 50k users, this 1k app metric shocks me. Does anyone know how Onavo come up with that metric? I've installed their app once, but removed it fairly soon after (so they probably only have a small sample of what I actually use) and i don't see any way for us as a company to integrate.

Edit: Cleaned up my question.
What you are describing here is what makes you happy. It's a mistake to think it would make everyone happy.
Arctic Death spiral
I second the imgur recommendation :-)
For pinterest it works perfectly :)
http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpinteres...
Startup Founders: You Are Frodo
Neat! Makes for a good time after boatload of work! :-)
In between — responsive design
Yes, they patched this loophole a few days ago! And the url-bar trick doesn't work anymore!
Emacs has auto-revert-tail-mode.
I third the imgur recommendation :)
Maybe a few centuries from now our major societies will no longer rely on population growth. The consequences of this unsustainable approach won't be pretty. My kid will be expected to financially support at least two retirees via Social Security contributions and pay back a chunk of those borrowed $trillions.
Do you know if that talk was recorded, by any chance? I checked here http://video.fosdem.org/2013 but couldn't find it there
Any idea why some of them, especially the images from EAB, appear to cast shadows? That is, the white blocks appear to be bordered by black.
Ask cobol programmers how much they make.
Khat out of the bag
Outside the Box
For some reason if you visit facebook.com chrome won't allow you because it claims the site is a phishing site.
I suspect they are re-setting cookies and localStorage onunload, but I haven't dug into it more. Tempting to write a chrome extension to open these pages in incognito mode automatically.
Of course the power of stringing together some pipelines really makes the case for tail under Unix e.g. tail -F /var/log/messages | grep IMPORTANT-STRING or tail -F /var/log/messages | grep -v UNINTERESTING-STRING mix-and-match etc.
Unfortunately, this is close to impossible in my industry, and most others. You work 40-plus hours or you work zero.

I've mentioned this before but my company hires Rails developers for 24hrs/wk. Health insurance is provided and salary is proportional to full-time.

It's not for everyone, but it works well for us. Everyone's fresh and relaxed when they come into work, and the free time is great for learning, side projects, exercising, travel.

Anyway, we're actually hiring right now: if you're in the Bay Area and looking shoot me an email.
Are you arguing that all developers at start-ups can't think for themselves?
Nomadica Brainstorming has an tech R&D lab/incubator in Barcelona and a very promising startup in the flotilla. We're looking for front and back end developers with an adventurous flair. We'll take care of your travel to Spain if you commit to 6 months to try it out. You could work from anywhere after that.

Nomadica is headed up by yours truly, ex director at Oracle and CEO of successful startup Patrol Software. linkedin.com/in/martinpicard - info@nomadicabrainstorming.com or see http://www.jobfluent.com/jobs/frontend-backend-software-engi...
Because double the price ?
It's just a coupling system. If you want to attach Legos to K'Nex, they will work fine in a handful of spots.

Building an entire structure out of an AM construction set would be a disaster. Even professional grade printers aren't even close to 2.5 micron.
A US hacker hacking the Chinese? I some how doubt it. Probably be offered a job. US hacker hacking US computers... well, I guess government has to vent its vengeance somewhere if it cant get its mits on foreign hackers. Dont get me wrong, my lot in the UK would do the same.

More over, if the Chinese wanted a US citizen extradited for hacking a Chinese computer, do you think the US would hand him or her over to the Chinese? Heh, I even doubt the US would hand a suspected hacker over to an ally like the Brits. Maybe Im wrong. If so, please cite a case.

And of course, equally I dont see the Chinese offering up its citizens for US "justice" any time soon. A justice system that many in the US think of as fundamentally broken.

All I read here is Chinese bad, West good, while forgetting that none of us have clean hands. If the Chinese had some technology we wanted or needed we'd be hacking their backsides off looking for it. And called patriots for doing so.

Lets just stop the moralising and finger pointing, and just get on and play the game. That's all it is. I suppose it fills the space left by the end of the cold war.
I'll just throw a couple pet-peeves of mine in here:

- No proper packaging/namespacing

- Completely idiosyncratic results when operating with mixed data types (10 + 'p' = '10p', 7/0 = 'infinity' and all that)

- Variables default to a pseudo-global scope

- Prototype based 'inheritance', while cool, is just cumbersome and inelegant compared to languages that have proper object oriented language constructs

- Take all those and a syntax that was partially taken from Java, and you end up with verbose code jumble that is way more difficult to read than equivalent Python/Ruby (even C#)
I'm not an economist so I don't want to state things with too much certainty, but I'm honestly flabbergasted that smart people would say things like this. No it wouldn't, economic activity's not just going to disappear, the money will be reinvested into other things like education or venture or be redistributed through taxes or charity and so on.
Startups make a a huge impact for users though. So useful that they're willing to be early adopters of a product that's far from perfect.
Thanks added emacs to the list!
I highly doubt the 1k/50k stat - I have personally written 6 apps with more than that - so i've written slightly more than 1/2 of 1% of all apps in the app store with more than 50k users? unlikely...
The emacs mode is under pretty active development right now. I would suggest joining the mailing list if you're interested in following along.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ledger-cl...
> What stops them just publishing a sham product whose sole purpose is to be for sale while infringing the patent and then show a few licenses to a couple of fishing buddies?

The courts are adept at investigating those issues. For example, Enron's sham electricity sales were discovered once the files were opened.
Seconding Ozu's Tokyo Story. You can watch it for free on Hulu today – I assume only in the US – along with the rest of the Criterion Collection: <http://www.hulu.com/watch/215840>.
I have many friends who are working just to pay the bills. And they hate their jobs. Most people actually dislike their job in some way.
It isn't always sustainable, though. You do this long enough and a lot of people would start burning out. Certainly there are people who would thrive in an ongoing high-stress environment, but not everyone is built like that, or would want to stay in such a situation for long.

The occasional case of high stress, high productivity periods can be good for that feeling of accomplishment once the deadline is met. It's like the climactic ending of an action movie - a lot of activity leading up to a desired goal. However once the next chapter begins, you want to go back to a sense of normalcy, when people can recover and just relish the recent accomplishment.
IOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP
Letter from the grave (2009)
Still an improvement over the current situation.
So why don't we work less? Is it really because we want more stuff? Or is it driven by social competition, desire to move up maslow's heirarchy, ...?

I know I will be happier if I work less. But I don't.
Is it possible that, by definition, a "market" has controls on it that make the term "free mark" an oxymoron?
There are still parts of India where there is tremendous social respect for "well educated" people. This can be easily seen if you observe Matrimonial ads. It would be clearly mentioned that people are looking for someone with college degrees, post graduate degrees etc.

On a tangential, I have always found matrimonial ads a very interesting mirror on the Indian society. The way these ads show people's ambitions and fears is amazing.
Whole Foods is a great example of a lure set up to get people to impulsively spend more money than necessary. Their basic staples are often priced similarly to other grocery chains, but when you shop there you will also pass by all the fancy, awesome, expensive foods too. It is hard to resist, especially if you are shopping hungry on your way home after a long day at work.
I really wish they updated fireworks ui, I find it unbearable.
I thought it was only me too. I didn't understand why I hated being told what to do. I would purposely start new skunkworks projects instead of doing what I was supposed to.
Agreed. I've often made a point among colleagues that source control, because it's built by programmers for use nearly exclusively by programmers, has enjoyed very little user interface attention through its lifespan. Unlike other applications that have experimented and evolved their user interface relatively rapidly, source control like build tools, is an area where there is little demand for UI improvement (and hence, little value in doing so). Putting aside proprietary and very expensive source control systems, the open source options seem to align to the way we used computers generally in the following decades.

1970s: CVS

1980s: Subversion

1990s: Git (shifting Git to the 1990s even aligns it with the batch of distributed OS research from that era).

This is especially reductive and somewhat mean-spirited, but my point is that using Git gives me the feeling of using other types of applications from the 1990s. Source control remains stuck in an era where computer programs appeared to be designed in part to appeal to the curiosity of developers who take pride in mastering complex systems, not for being eminently usable.

When I say Git "feels 1990s" a retort is that I am a Git hater and should just use Perforce or some other crummy commercial product. That misses the point. It just feels like a tool from the 1990s, which to be clear, feels a heck of a lot better than a tool from the 1980s. But I live in the 2010s. I want a source control system that does its job and gets out of my way. Again, to be reductive and mean, just like build tools, source control systems are a time-sink that captivate the attention of people who enjoy fussing with tools. It's not that I don't like Git versus its real-world contemporaries, but I want Git + 20 years.
His articles don't justify anything. I don't know what his payloads are or how he produced them in the apps. For all I know these 2 "benchmarks" are unreproducible. The author said he wanted to try science, there's nothing scientific about these 2 articles at all.
>Perhaps, but it's worth noting that Toyota and Nissan took something like 20-30 years of persistence to gain respect and success in the American marketplace.

I had a great uncle who used to get drunk rant about how (this is probably in the early 60s) "Teeyota" was the way of the future. Everybody laughed.
uWSGI works with PyPY (Obviously with lot of limitations on the features). http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/PyPy
The problem is that for the vast majority of the webapps there is (still) no advantage. I only wanted to focus on that as i have invested days on (really complex for me) pypy sources, and i do not want people to ignore it ;)
This is why it's so hard to hire right now. The people who can and are willing to do both can work anywhere they want.
How long ago did you upload them? With burnout presumably people are trying less apps.
Works great on Apple.com http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.co...
The system would self adjust. If people spent more on travel, travel costs would go higher, even as competition there increased. If people spent more on experience-oriented stuff, that industry would get bigger. If people just spent less, salaries would go lower due to lower demand, not to mention smaller revenues for companies in general (in terms of absolute amounts).

One thing I've witnessed time and time again is that, a lot of times, the price of an item is based on what the market will pay for it.
Not necessarily. NWU is a private university, and in general plenty of private companies fund research.

In some cases, the government funding issue is relevant. Not in all cases.
Have you read the content of his link? I have; its reasoning is invalid.
Using Mind Maps for UX Design
Correction: LuaJIT's creator Mike Pall is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikemike .
They seem to be talking about active users, that use the app regularly while you seem to be talking about downloads.

Note in particular the quote just following the paragraph you are referring to: "For the typical app, less than half the people who download it use it more than once, said Guy Rosen, the chief executive of Onavo."
Certainly, when individuals vote to turn over personal responsibilities to the the government, things will turn out badly in the end. However, the break down of personal responsibilities within families is not the result of economic success. Has the article's author considered their implied message - that if only Koreans had experienced economic failure, then everybody would just happy as pigs in slop? That's absurd, of course, as their northern neighbors provide the perfect example for the comparison. If there is a breakdown in familial responsibilities, it is not likely to be the result of economic success. Many people around the world work not just in a distant city, but in a distant country in order to send the fruits of higher earnings home to family - so it is not reasonable to assume that moving to a different city somehow forces a person to lose their sense of familial responsibility. If such a breakdown is occurring, the explanation for its cause lies somewhere other than economic success.
tail, etc is of course also available on Windows via Cygwin.
If you want to propose a communitarian moneyless society, so that. Don't beat around the bust.
Random Hash Functions (2012)
"If you’re a regular shell user...I suspect that few people know when things like .bash_profile and .bashrc actually get executed."

Really?
It's like HN has never heard of the 50 Cent Army. Guess what, they're here and they aren't trolling.
Web Fonts I Look Forward To Using
I wonder why nobody is talking about OTRS: http://www.otrs.com as an excellent ticketing system.
As always in software, there are lots of options. Here are two:

1. Provide the action with the raw request body as a string. It is then solely responsible for any and all parsing.

2. Provide the action with the raw request body as a string, but provide standard parsing classes that the action can use depending on what they are specifically doing.

Both of those solutions would make the parsing code less abstract than the Rails solution, with different trade-offs.

I believe this entire thread started because I claimed that Rails has chosen to be further toward the abstraction side of the scale. I can't tell if you really think I am wrong about that, or if you merely think that the choice Rails has made is the right one. If it's the latter, I agree with you, and never claimed otherwise. But it is a choice, and it has trade-offs.
Why should mobile apps be any different from any other kind of software? A few popular apps tend to dominate the market and the rest just fill niches.
The productivity impact is common enough where it didn't happen to only me.
I made http://tarbackup.com for encrypted off-site backups using existing open-source tools.

I hope it will make it to your list of "recommended services" by the end of 2013.
> According to this, the tesla regenerative braking is just as efficient as the motor is at acceleration.

That's true but misleading. If the motor's combined electrical and mechanical losses cause only 64% of the battery's energy to propel the car forward, then by that reasoning, only 64% of the braking energy is made available for charging.

Let's look at all the factors that influence the outcome:

1. Both electrical and mechanical losses must be accounted for.

2. The electrical loss creates a factor of 0.8, the mechanical loss also create a factor of 0.8. Result 0.64.

3. On the Tesla, only the rear wheels have regenerative braking, the front wheels have disc brakes. Factor 0.5, so we are now at 0.32.

4. During a stop, the car pitches forward onto the front wheels and unloads the rear wheels, this needs to be taken into account. Factor 0.8 for a total of 0.2: 26%.

So I stand corrected -- this analysis concludes that the regenerative braking scheme recovers 26%, not 20%, of the original kinetic energy.

A literature search reveals that the best regenerative braking systems that involve all four wheels and in which every effort is made to maximize efficiency, can produce about a 40% energy recovery:

http://www2.hesston.edu/physics/201112/regenerativeenergy_cw...

A quote: "Since regenerative brakes can only recover about 40% of the energy we take the recoverable energy and multiply by .4 (Everett, Michael)."

The linked paper goes on to show that 40% is actually overly optimistic for various practical reasons. But notwithstanding that, we can take the original 40% figure and apply it to the Tesla. By taking into account that only two of four of the Tesla's wheels have regenerative braking, we arrive at a figure of 20%.

> And this page about the Volt suggests that the efficiency might get up to 70% in some situations.

No reputable source makes claims this high for a full round trip from battery stored energy to battery stored energy (the linked article doesn't try to do this). Also, the linked chart reports energy recovered in a four-wheel test and measured before being applied to the battery, not energy delivered to the battery as stored energy.

> This is confirmed by measurements which show pretty much all hybrid vehicles get better mileage in city driving than in highway driving.

That's true, but that doesn't result from regenerative braking. It results from lower average speeds and reduced wind and mechanical resistance.

Remember that regenerative braking cannot possibly improve on driving at a steady speed. That would violate some very basic physical principles.
> deserve their own patent.

What does this mean?

If A is patented, A+B is covered by A's patent AND B's patent.

The only way to avoid A is to use a non-patented yet critical invention. The inventor of A should have included any such thing as one of their patent claims.
I can relate to this. I was the eldest of six children and my father worked in an Aluminium fabrication factory. Things were pretty hard and early on, I realized that the only way to change things was to study hard, get to a good college and earn a degree.

Although I was a really good student at school, when I finished school, I was told by my extended family that it was the end of education for me and that I should go find a job (Masonry, construction, etc.)

I had to work hard to convince everybody that I would do well at college and they should bet on me.

Looking back, my family did make a risky bet on me as the amount of money they spent on my college education was way above what they could afford and they had to borrow a lot.

I worked my socks off at college and have been able to change a lot of things in my extended family.
How much is Stairway To Heaven worth?
none of those brands own a category in my mind. They are successful for other reasons... Despite their names, not because of them.
Node Studios Officially Ends Harlem Shake Videos
Building a computer from scratch [video]
There's also this newer Planning and Project Management tool, that was just released: https://zingproject.com/ -- not the best name but none ever are. The interesting thing about this is that it's built around a streaming so that you can see everyone else's edits as they occur.
interesting. that would reduce it to probably 3 though... still a shocking stat but more likely.
I kind of understand - but I am in a similar position, and I went into it with my eyes half open. I would like to scale down, but how?
+1
Neat
A large part of meetups and conferences is the culture that they foster. Non-partisan venues are more appropriate because the venue plays such a large role in that (regardless of intent).

Besides the obvious impact of alienating some portion of your audience (again, it's inevitable regardless of intent), you're losing an opportunity to build on the culture and possibly comprising what you have built already.
Rakuten is not weirder than "Amazon," either.
> The statement is not false, look at EPA gas mileage numbers for hybrids over the last decade.

That may be true, but it's not the topic. The topic is how efficient regenerative braking is on the Tesla Model S.
Same, here FF 18.0 on Ubuntu. Unusable.
Perhaps the overhead could be considered as part of the overall costs. I would still appreciate the choice of having to work 75% of the time for 65% pay if I understood that the difference was due to health coverage and other benefits. In other words, the transparency would help. I strongly believe I'd still sign up for it.
Excellent. This looks especially well suited to my use-case.

However, I'm already on board with Github for Windows and unless that causes me some unusual pain at some point, I'm loathe to bother changing just for the sake of changing.

A big thank-you to both firms for investing the time to make Git more "functional" and less "technical entertainment."
If an invention is useless (ahead of its time) for 10 years, then you may as well keep it secret until the market is ready, and then publish.
There's already a barrier if a manager has to tell you why something needs to be done. Usually that means you disagree. Naturally you don't want to do it anymore.
Noting all the concerns about privacy, it is still intellectually dishonest to compare it to SOPA, with which it shares literally nothing.

But that is not particularly surprising because Namecheap cares more about getting people fired up to switch their domains to Namecheap, than they do about being an honest participant in the legislative process.
branding is much more than just being associated with a category. It is about how people perceive your brand. I cannot tell you anything about those brands other than they do something related to that category...

Here is a good contrast, "I associate Southwest Airlines with Cheap, No Frills Flights." I don't know anything about those brands... the name doesn't tell me anything about WHY I SHOULD BUY FROM THEM.
Very negative leaning.
Where did the "socialist" and "place in life" enter this discussion?
Timelogger (https://github.com/minhajuddin/timelogger). A command line tool which allows you to maintain a log of your time spent on various activities/projects/tasks, with decent reporting.
Harlem Shake your website
Why is changing the official language to English weird? It's a necessary move if they want to expand internationally.

Japanese as an official language makes it impossible to hire almost anyone experienced with large scale e-commerce.
Your kid will have to support retirees through the output of his labor; the labor required to support a person is dropping , and soon it can be completely automated. The financial economy is a heuristic to explain the underlying economic conditions, not vice-versa.
This is the current human mentality: no lower boundary for sanity. Any nonsense may be considered correct if it has support from stereotypes or prejudices.
> but is it wise to run a webapp and Postgres on the same instance?

This really depends on the level of traffic you expect. For lower amounts, it works fine.