skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is way better than any Adobe application I've ever used :) no joke. I'm very impressed with the UI components that's some masterpiece over there. I demand you to release a UI framework haha.

Also this is probably first HN thread that everyone seem to like what they saw, no nitpicking at all. This must tell you that you guys are on the right track.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
I should have been clearer: innovation debt when combined with technical debt is the issue. When the internal systems stagnate and become a) unstable, b) un-supportable, c) un-upgradable, there is a direct impact to business operations, and escaping from the cycle is time consuming and painful.

I did exactly as you suggested, btw, and created a team whose explicit charter is innovation & directed R&D.
In order to paint a picture one must occasionally use the odd broad brush stroke.

Identifying common traits of a group, if those those traits are correctly identified, doesn't conflict with the possibility than not all members of a group may have those traits.

We on HN commonly discuss eg, the entrepreneurial culture of the US vs other countries. I don't see this as being significantly different.
I'm not thrilled that it opens a new window when I submit a comment. Ideally it'd handle it in the sidebar.
Not to rain on Backbone's parade, but I am easily twice as productive in angular.js. The learning curve is a bit steeper but once you mastered you end up with (IMO) a cleaner more maintainable app.
Thinking in terms of skimping on 'cost centers' is stupid. From the development side nothing changes when managing software for internal use vs. selling that same software. What people forget is if your internal software improves in functionality you capture 100% of that value, the only problem is assigning that savings to the software vs the shipping department or whatever.

What is often forgotten is time is the hardest thing to gain in software development. 1 person for 10 years can get a lot more done than 10 people for 1 year.
I agree that putting all that logic and template vars into a template is confusing. Hard to create mocks of what the HTML should actually be structured like. Im using Jade so I can be terse and pre-compiling the templates. While in my Backbone application, I apply DOM-like rendering with Plates.js.
I'll grant you it's not easy, but once you master both, it's quite nice to imagine something and then just do it. Not just in Photoshop (I've stopped using Photoshop and rely on Core Graphics).

It's hard to do patterns with core graphics, so I tend to go with more a flatter design with shadows.

But one thing you do need, is a good illustrator.
It's incredibly hard to learn that stuff.
Learning good looking design work is incredibly easy, especially once you got the code stuff covered.

But drawings... that's something else, I gave up there.
I can't draw.
I would say less than 1 % . Most of the time its picking the best from an already existing solution to suit the need.
It's funny, but I've been pretty careful to add the nocache,noindex headers for many of the pages on the site I work on where a given page is no longer active... also, I would think that digg would maybe consider a rel=nofollow for any links that aren't "popular" yet. That may be the best way to handle the link spam.
Why don't people just post things via a Coral Cache link when it's not a major site (that should obviously be able to handle the traffic)?
Wealcash - Managing your home finances has never been so easy.
Hi, Myself and a friend built this simple app in our free time (http://wealcash.com). It's now less than 2 months old, and I'll like some feedback from you guys.

We start it with the objective of organize our own finances. It has a lot of missing features, some of them are in our todo-list, but, if you have some, please, register an issue here: https://github.com/Wealcash/public/issues

BTW: Sorry for my poor English, it's not that good.

Thanks
I did also say "naive use" =) Looking forward to the book.
Shibumi was published in 2005. I first saw the same expression in a software development book published in the 1990s. It's probably some ancient proverb that's as old as craftsmanship itself.
It's interesting that my gut reaction to one guy spending a chunk of money is much stronger than a million people spending a couple of bucks - I waste money everyday, so why am I not angry about this chronic wastage?
Why the Future of Work is "Smart Work"
I probably made that too confusing. I only mentioned the restores because the availability story for PostgreSQL is very poor and backups above the low tens-of-gigs are fairly pointless if you have SLAs to meet.

The reason why NoSQL would be popular with startups (IMO) is because it's easy to outsource the administration, they're relatively inexpensive, and they're typically much faster when faced with limited resources (both hardware and skill).

I like to think I know my way around your average RDBMS, but there's still no question that tuning your average database is non-trivial unless you're very familiar with the schema, data, production hardware and performance requirements.

I'd echo your sentiments on MongoDB, but that's my own personal prejudices. Probably just from reading about so many horror stories and what sounds like to me at least questionable implementation choices.

Four nines on a monthly SLA means you can suffer less than 5 minutes of outage without penalty. I just wouldn't bet on PostgreSQL to deliver that.

I'm not entirely convinced that a third party can either, but I think BigCouch itself fundamentally can get you there in a way that PostgreSQL can't. PostgreSQL is extremely reliable, but if you try to automate failover you could really shoot yourself in the foot and be looking at a nightmare of an outage recovery. If you go with manual failover (my choice) you're just going to have to accept that if/when you do need to failover, you're going to be able to consistently do it within minutes, but it's not going to be less than 5 minutes.

IMO HA is just one of those things that really has to be baked in at a design level.
Great job! I'd love to see more about the tech stack.
Your car should be totaled if you go above the speed limit. That's the only way to stop rash drivers from endangering the lives of others.
Maybe Voyager 1 keeps coming back then leaving again? :)
Looks awesome - nice work!
Why should I use this when systemd offers the same (minus the AUFS root fs)?
These things are not all alike.

Fx has had many man-hours put into it, attempting to reduce their technical debt and improve the efficiency of maintenance work. They know what's still wrong in the browser, and they're working on it, but progress is slow. There's a reason that Mozilla's working on Rust, and it's not just for S&G.

MySQL is so bad that when MariaDB happened, several long-standing architectural issues were cleaned up. Maria's got a lot of improvements that were made in response to MySQL's community not making those improvements.

Linux... I don't understand why you put Linux on this list. The only people complaining about Linux architecture are:

* Tanenbaum followers who believe that microkernels will save us all

* Binary driver authors who want Linux to be more amenable to their evil schemes

* C++ weenies who are offended by Linux's refusal to adopt C++ as other kernels have done

* C hackers who don't like the brace style of Linux

All of these groups have axes to grind; they're not approaching things from some position of "this code is not performant enough" or "if only more things were supported."

WP and Wordpress picked the wrong implementation language. It happens. Migrating them off of PHP is non-trivial. We already know all of this. It's not that we think everything is going to fail; it's more that we have seen Wordpress get hacked so many times over the years and we're sick and tired of it.

Edit: Attempt to salvage list formatting.
http://digg.com/robots.txt looks fine too me
Well women spend their time and health bearing and nursing our (hopefully :) children. That's resources they could have dedicated to pumping their social status. So in the end it's fair I guess...
This is a fluff piece and is barely coherent. But one thing I have observed is that my female coworkers have a harder time getting along with the female bosses than the male ones. I remember one especially tense project where my team lead was female(very experienced, smart and a pleasure to work with) and another one of the team members was female. She was also smart although less experienced than me. I got along great with both of them although they could not stand each other. I ended up having to be the go-between, taking tasks from the lead to the junior engineer and taking status back up the other way.
There've been quite a few articles on containers on LWN over the last few months; worth digging around there if you're interested. A couple of the more recent ones:

https://lwn.net/Articles/524952/ - Glauber Costa's talk on the state of containers at LinuxCon Europe 2012

https://lwn.net/Articles/536033/ - systemd containers; these follow on from a theme of containerizing whole distros rather than single apps
Sure, but cgroups and namespaces are kind-of-orthogonal features that both happen to be useful for making container-like things. cgroups are for limiting resource usage; namespaces are for providing the illusion of root access while actually being in a sandboxed environment.

And as far as I'm aware (speaking as an interested non-expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong) cgroups have no effect on permissions, whereas UID namespaces required a lot of very invasive changes to the kernel.
As did I, given its that time of year. I think the correct abbreviation of Formula One is F1 (no hyphen).
"Seems like we're still not sure it's left due to lack of agreement on what constitutes leaving"

It's like leaving a country by staying in place while the borders are being redrawn on the map. ;)
I'm sure omni-gel is coming, can't wait to break locks and play that guessing game.
I might be wrong, but perhaps they mean "any generic commodity hosting company with a one-click installer", for which GoDaddy is the prime example.
This article consisted of three very broad, virtually meaningless brushstrokes.

I'm not opposed to articles that aren't "PC" but seriously, if you're going to make these types of claims based on "fifteen years of experience", you need to go into much more depth and tie into secondary sources.
Show HN: Help us with the MIT Tetris hack
The opinion expressed in the article is the very definition of unjust prejudice.

Here we have a person who refuses to work for a person for no other reason than she is female. That is an unjust reason. It's no better than refusing to work for someone who is black, or gay, or any other non-relevant trait.

A woman certainly can be a satisfactory supervisor. I work for a woman who is an excellent boss. Come to think of it, she's probably the best manager I've ever met.

Also, if the author is an independent contractor and discriminating against clients for reasons of gender alone, there might be legal concerns in addition to the obvious moral ones.
You're absolutely right about the benefits of being first to a story. I'd add that the benefit from publishing overall is smaller because online ad revenue doesn't make up for lost off-line print revenue. As consumers switch away from one and into the other, which is the other the pie has shrink over the last 10-15 years.
I'd argue there is still benefit to getting the story right: outlets like the economist and the FT that do focus on quality content / being right are actually still successful today, and are able to capture some of that added value because some segments are still willing to pay to have access to that content, which complements their ad revenues.
(economist group annual report, http://www.economistgroup.com/pdfs/annual_report_2012_final_...)
Do we even have a clear boundary of where the solar system ends?

From what I gather as a layman, the answer to this is no, which in turn answers why Voyager has "left" numerous times. From the bit I've read Voyager has already forced some rethinking on what the edges of the solar system look like, and it may very well cause a few more.
There is one there now:

User-agent: *
Disallow:
This is the same as what I see, using a standard-issue Firefox UA string.
Last year, after the Tetris hack [1] was displayed on the MIT Green Building, I released a portion of the code on github [2] to make it possible for anyone to create something that could be displayed.

Today I committed some new code to handle audio visualizations. I am getting some more code ready to release to create pretty particle effects. Both of these features were used last year during a July 4th display.

Very soon we are going to have an opportunity to display submitted work to the public. We would love to see what people can come up with. I am posting this to encourage people to send us ideas or creations.

Email me at mitrisdev@gmail.com or submit code on github!

1. ex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAIPUGO1iko (not our video)

2. https://github.com/mitrisdev/d54
> Or something, I don't know. Linus says it best though:

That's a very interesting read, especially with Microsoft's recent adoption of Git in its development tools. (Visual Studio and Team Foundation)

After all, Git was started by Linus, and even LibGit2 (which Microsoft is using) includes some of his original code. So in effect, Microsoft is now shipping code written by Linus. But then, Linus is also shipping code written by Microsoft. So they're even.

When you ignore the ideology and concentrate on engineering, good things can happen.
The reason Thatcher was so successful though is that she worked like a man. You don't earn the "Iron Lady" nickname for being the one to talk to around the water cooler.

That said, although I like the sentiment it was a pretty rubbish article, if you could even call it that.

It's also quite clear that gender has little to do with it aside from the likelihood of a particular gender to have the more positive traits in question.
I don't insist on using GoDaddy. My point was, and I probably didn't state it clearly, that the reason Wordpress is so popular, is because it's easily installed. Also, the reason why it's piecemealed together.

I've been learning the webapp2 framework on Google App Engine. I took the Udacity CS course and the web development course. I have a site on GAE, I built using Python. It took me six months from start to finish and lots of trail and error. It was fun for me, but definitely not everyones cup of tea. Most people aren't going to take the time.
So this is fairly up to the user, actually. There are several implementations of a FFT like algorithm that run on the Arduino, so any of those should be usable to get frequency data. It's also of course possible to do something like wavelet analysis to pick out more complex patterns. For my example I just did a simple envelope follower with beat detection and a rotating hue, but that's just because I'm (personally) not a great programmer. I think that the right person could make this way, way better than I could on my own =) I see this as one of the great strengths of doing this open source, we can build it together instead of each keeping our secrets like the "big fish".
This really inspires a lot of possibilities (and seems even easier than setting up with Parse). You could make some killer mobile massively multiplayer games like this -- the next Spaceteam or MMO Pong.

Can't wait to try it out! Which apps are you guys most hoping to see built?
Ask: DropBox or Google Drive for startups?
Now that Gdrive and DB have both been around for a while, I'm wondering:

(1) any consensus which is better for a small startup office environment with less than 10 team members, and why?

(2) which do you prefer, and why?

Thanks!
I'd be really curious to read that post if you ever write it. When i saw the binding betweeen editor widgets and code, i immediately thought of angularJS bindings between model and multiple views, but i don't know KnockoutJS very well, so i'm really curious.
Oh, no, you're right--I meant to include both things. I should have just been lazy and said "all that tech LXC uses." ;)
I believe he was referring to the submitter.
You are correct. I should have stated it better.
Hey Bryan, thank you for the feedback! (Btw, we love Zapier!)

We're definitely looking far beyond just being an editor. What you see right now was an important pre-requisite to what we really wanted to build - hoping to share more on that soon.
Upvote for DropBox
Is there a nice resource somewhere where one could endeavor to learn about how LaTeX works internally? Because all those tricks look like they follow some internal logic that I am entirely unfamiliar with.
Upvote for Google Drive
I actually find this tip really useful. This is why:

-If I read a programming book, I'm likely to remember a significant portion of what I read. That's because it fits into an overall structure. Even if I can't remember the exact name of a function that does exactly what I want, I know it exists and can find it easily.

-If I read a tip on an article and apply it regularly, I'll remember it, because it gets reinforced.

-If I read something in a blog post or article and don't apply it, I'll forget it almost immediately. Without the structure or repetition it just doesn't stick into my head.

The problem is that it's really easy to get caught in the last category. It feels like I'm learning a lot when I skip from link to link, but the reality is that most of it doesn't stick and ends up being wasted time. Separating out my learning and doing time works much better for me.
Poor delivery, but there is definitely something to her first point. Women do generally have less power within organizations than men do. So measures designed to help women succeed, like pairing them up with women mentors within the organization, can actually be counter-productive because those women are statistically less likely to be the ones with real power in the organization.

That being said, much of what is often cynically ascribed to "cattiness" between women is better understood as a reaction to the power dynamic. My wife used to hold the same opinion as the author--she hated the idea of working for a woman. She held this idea until she worked at an organization where her department had a critical mass of powerful women, from the top with women partners that brought in their own business, down the ranks to women who were senior associates and ran their cases, etc. She discovered that there was very little friction between the women in the organization, and indeed a lot of camaraderie, because women were not in the minority within the power dynamic. When the women who had seniority also had real power within the organization, when they were no longer the self-conscious minority, they were freed to become good mentors without having to constantly worry about protecting their own turf.

This is one of the reason I'm quite skeptical of people who argue we should be "gender blind." The fact that women are a minority in many fields is something that by itself perpetuates the disparity between men and women. In this context, affirmative action measures are not sexist because they don't help women because they are women, but because they are in the minority within the power structure.
For anyone wanting to get up close and personal to an F-1 Engine visit the Infinity Museum at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. They sit outside right at the entrance. It is truly a remarkable sight especially when you sit inside of the cone. http://www.visitinfinity.com/
Uh, no, Shibumi was first published in 1979.
LED strand lighting is in the $30-40 range, but has no controller or power supply. Professional grade equipment is in the $300 range. There's a range in between, but for context, the LED itself is a $10 part.
Clearly people & businesses don't adhere to your logic.

And the entire post is agreeing with me.
Local.js - Breaking the One-Page, One-App Barrier with Web Workers
- "Number 3 is the problematic one. If the exceptions are unchecked we’re in the wild west again."

Hum, I'm going to argument at the same level: Wat?
We've used the iOS SDK to build our Kindoma Storytime iOS app, coming to the app store next week (http://kindoma.com). It's a great platform to support collaboration in mobile. The API is straightforward and clean.
CS Faculty and Students to Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook
Perhaps they were comfortable with WP, perhaps they didn't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, perhaps they didn't want to have to support a massive body of code.
You are on a board communicating with members of the species homo sapience, the only species ever to have developed flight, increased its max speed by more than ten times and gone to the moon in less than a century.

You communicate with these people by seending electronic interference that not one of them can see, feel, hear or touch but which they none-the-less can pickup, route, transmit, copy and send around the world -- in less time than it takes you to clap your hands.

And you worry about what will happen in fifty years.
Also, doesn't pop up on, e.g. this site:
http://jshakespeare.com/the-dire-state-of-wordpress/
which is on the front page right now. I was wondering how you knew when to pop out the sidebar. Looks like it's got some blind spots.

Great concept, though, and very unobtrusive when it works. It'd be neat if the little side tab could tell me implicitly that someone else submitted a story I stumble upon so I don't have to worry about duping.
> You know what kills companies? Cashflow.

That, in turn, gets (eventually) impacted by innovation debt.

> And do you believe this is seriously something that is killing companies left and right?

No, not at all; and I don't believe the author of the post does either. There is a whole bunch of things that can kill a company (especially a startup), and a lot of them are going to be bigger and more urgent then innovation dept. You should definitely focus on dealing with those. However, innovation dept should not be dismissed entirely, especially since it doesn't take much to offset it.
That's weird because http://blog.digg.com/robots.txt does not cloak. Why cloak one and leave the other?

Sitemap: http://blog.digg.com/sitemap-pages.xml
Sitemap: http://blog.digg.com/sitemap1.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private
Disallow: /random
Disallow: /day
Crawl-delay: 1
It's a very tough act to balance, because too many changes will prompt criticism that all kinds of things are breaking on a new update. You can't please both ways, so things move pretty gradually.

Having said that each new version has improvements. The direction I think is more dictated towards where the web is going. Each new release increases the amount of javascript, even backbone has made its way into core. There will also soon be better support for other DBs.
Call me crazy, but being able to drop files into a docroot of an apache install and have them Just Work seems like a much smarter market strategy for uptake of your product than what can currently be done with either Python or Ruby.

Then again maybe you had a different idea of "smart".
I just tried the digg.com/robots.txt, and for it me it says:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Which explains everything without conspiracy theories
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Google apologizes for Digg de-indexing, “inadvertently” applied a webspam action
I built a site using ProcessWire[1] a while back, it was a joy to use. Really clean modern php cms.

[1] http://processwire.com/
Umm, whatever, no rules implies _no safe assumptions can be made_. Getting WP plugins to play nicely with each other can be like sorting out INIT conflicts in the Mac OS 6 days.
From reading about the SpaceX program there are remarkably very little left of the Apollo program engines. Having a real model even in disarray would be a useful study.