skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only advantage I get from using OS X for development is that we can install all of the server's services on a developer's laptop alongside Photoshop and their text editor of choice.

Getting *NIX services running under windows is more difficult than on OS X. Having a uniform environment for development and the servers really helps speed development.

TextMate is pretty nice, I used to use it, but switched to Carbon Emacs (GNU Emacs) a year ago and haven't looked back since.

But outside of that, OS X has some annoying usability issues that bother me just as much as Windows, and just as much as KDE & Gnome (they're just different issues).

Any reasonably skilled developer should be able to be productive using any OS, as they should be able to customize it at will (this would be one aspect of a "reasonable skilled developer").
My feeling is that people are trying to find other people with similar experiences. They want to know some things before they actually go and talk to a lawyer, so that they are more informed than someone who just walks in off the street.
That sounds implausible on the face of it. Its safer to let the waste contact the groundwater than to try not to...?
Google Rents Goats To Replace Lawnmowers (I’m Not Kidding)
The argument is fundamentally predicated on this point, which I find extremely naive. I can and do (and did) extend benefit of the doubt, but the idea that we must always assume that people are acting rationally, and that mattmaroon is justified in getting on a soap box when people don't make that assumption, is not justified.

(Disclosure: I was linked as one of the cite examples, which I've replied to there as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586345 )
Just so you know, the feature of having printable drill sheets should most definitely NOT be low priority. It might very well be your magic key to getting institutions on board. My Chinese professors from the past have been pining over such a feature, and continually ask me for resources that would meet this need. Again, drop me an email at melgirk at mail by Google.

Just as a bit of background, I am fluent in Chinese, have a degree in Chinese, and a few years ago, published a set of Chinese flashcards that are being sold in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, the US, and soon, Europe. I have a lot of relevant experience and knowledge to contribute.
A smaller herd of goats perpetually maintained on the grassy area in question would do the trick.

Upkeep of this smaller herd may be an issue however. How much husbandry do goats need?
Is the iPhone Platform Destined to Disrupt the Packaged Software Industry?
Not a disease at all. Playing around with objects and concepts that you don't understand is perhaps the very definition of "hacking".

Why dabble in things that you don't understand? Why treat the world as if it were one big toy? Why pretend that duct tape is a reasonable substitute for the correct part, as designed by an expert? Because it's fun! And educational. As many people know, a good way to learn how to do things correctly is to begin by doing them wrong, and then let experience, the laws of nature, trial and error, the advice of friendly, expert onlookers, and the guidance of your peers guide you toward something better.

Obviously you can take this too far. There's a difference between armchair lawyering and actually practicing law, just as there's a difference between armchair quarterbacking and actually playing quarterback. But every quarterback started out as someone having fun, and every expert, trained lawyer got their start by being an inexpert, untrained, full-of-crap college sophomore with an interest in the law. Hacker News isn't a law firm. Its knobs aren't connected to anything vital. [1] Why not fiddle with them? You might learn something.

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[1] How would you recognize someone on HN who probably is a real lawyer, or law student? They take pains to explicitly disconnect the knobs before they frob them, by saying something like: "I am a lawyer, but this is not sound legal advice. Blah blah blah highly meaningful defensive boilerplate blah blah blah." Usually the disclaimer is three times longer than the post itself.
I also use Blueprint, I find it to be easy to pick up, simple to use and makes doing page layout a breeze.

I would also suggest looking into jQuery UI's built in CSS / Theme Roller stuff.

I've worked on projects using blueprint to lay things out and jQueryUI to style widgets and it has worked out really well.
I'd like to hear an opinion from a developmental psychologist about what something like this could do to infants. Basic physical intuition -- things fall when you drop them, things persist when they leave your line of sight, etc. -- is learned, not innate. I can imagine a kid getting really screwed up if "things move when I imagine them moving" got integrated into his world model during this period.

Then again, perhaps the day will come where this stuff is so ubiquitous that you need to absorb it during the critical period in order to get by :-)
This may be inaccurate. Due to the simpler engine design of a mower combined with the pollution curbing technology in use in cars and trucks (such as catalytic converters), mowers can be much worse.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=98532&page=1
The Solid State Future.
A couple people in a truck with a couple lawn mowers would produce fewer emissions than a goat transport.

In any case, I believe the point he's trying to make is that it's not an obvious net win in terms of carbon emissions.
Dell is giving deeper discounts in the U.S. I did this exercise on the Apple and Dell web shops in my corner of Europe, trying to match systems as closely as possible (4GB RAM, 250 GB 7200 rpm HD, 2.4GHz CPU, 50W.hr battery, 1440x900 LED lit LCD, webcam, etc.). All by lowest common feature, except RAM: only 2GB would be 90 less on Mac, and 50 less on Dell; Mac uses 1066MHz DDR3, Dell uses 800MHz DDR2. I may have missed some video/wifi/bt/etc. detail. The red paint job on the Dell seemed free in my shop.

Final numbers, including 20% VAT:

MacBookPro 15: 1992 EUR (inc. 29 for miniDP-DVI adapter)

Dell Lat. E6500: 1878 EUR (inc. 60 for VistaBusiness+XPpro upgrade)

Not badly matched, if those are the kind of specs needed.
Not a fan of chèvre?
Speaking of fanboys, why not link to the goddamn profile?

http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/twitter/
I've been trying to reduce the number of divs by attaching the span-x classes onto other block level elements like <ul> whenever possible. But layouts seem to work better with more divs.
ITunes App Store: Seller Statistics
I believe France relies heavily on private bridges, like here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_bridge
I'm not a big fan of the name used for the product, but the tech is great.
You make an interesting point, those who achieve well are often self-deprecating.

When I began I thought I was great at golf, it helped that I was actually making near 300 yards with a driver. However I quickly learnt that I nearly always slice the ball, and when I don't I can break 300 yards.

A similar thing happened with my writing, once I broke a certain point and I suddenly realized I'd just climbed a molehill and noticed the mountain. It's incredible how a small amount of knowledge will make you feel smart, but a moderate amount of knowledge will make you feel stupid, and a considerable amount of knowledge will make you feel just plain ignorant.
RWW has a short summary of the slide show. The original author is O'Reilly's Ben Lorica.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/app_store_data_from_ore...
FYI, electric does not mean green. Most electricity is generated from dirty coal so there's no net benefit from using electric cars until we can generate cleaner power production.
Google killer? hmm maybe Ask Jeeves killer would be more accurate. Only problem being that Ask Jeeves died already.. Watching them build the racks out was fun though.
Isn't it early for a review? http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure seems to indicate that the book is still "in beta".
Coping with change on Scrum projects (Part III)
If I remember correctly, which is a big if, part of the reason they use goats is that goats eat the sapplings of low-value trees while mostly leaving the sapplings of high-value trees intact. This way you can graze goats in a freshly clear-cut forest and you will get a lot of the high-value trees growing back, with less of the low-value trees, so that in 20 years when you reharvest you get the maximum profit. Sheep don't do this.

Cornell did a lot of the research on what sapplings the goats would and would not eat, but it's been five years since the last time I visited Arnot forest, where this research was being done. Thus my knowledge of this all is very hazy, but what I do know is that there is a lot of research that's gone into validating the system.
Resolver One 1.5 beta. (Spreadsheet with a Python console that supports Numpy)
Regardless of the carbon impact of this move, the fact that such an idea was not laughed at and quickly shot down is pretty cool.
That was remarkably content free even by the standards of New Scientist.

We want specifics. Does the emergent internet overmind like Ice Cream or does it prefer the tasty brains of young developers?
yes i think it is a bug in yc with .at domains as anytime my blog shows up here it has that dot in front of it
"Now I’m not saying any of that is the case. For all I know, this was all just done by some automated software or a low-level grunt"

I think you missed this part. He readily admits he doesn't know who or what was responsible for Warner's actions.
"Why ask a legal question to a bunch of non-lawyers?"

If you ask the question here, and it's about startup law, you can get great responses from people who say, "Our startup ran into the exact same issue and our $500/hr lawyer told us the following information". Gather enough responses like there and you have:

1) Maybe enough information to keep you from needing to talk to your lawyer at all or

2) A good foundation of information that results in you needing less of your (really expensive) lawyer's time.

Of course, if you're smart, you'll throw out any response that doesn't begin with some explanation as to why the commenter knows wtf they are talking about.
I wholeheartedly agree. Intelligence can only be rapidly converted into superficial knowledge. I've never heard of anyone who became an expert in Quantum Field Theory in a couple of years without having a background in Physics, that is for sure. I know people who became reasonably good programmers in a couple of years, though... but programming is more of a skill than true knowledge.

Hackers should focus on hacking and be more humble when treading on unknown territory, imho.
As most people will not read that PDF, I think it is important to make one thing clear about your last sentence: although people in the top quarter underestimate themselves, they still estimate themselves to be in the top quarter and they also estimate themselves to be better than those in other quarters.
That's an excellent example of a false dichotomy (or the N==2 case of the Fallacy of Exhaustive Hypotheses). I offer a third hypothesis as an existence-proof of said fallaciousness: another possible good that can come from it is that a set of people who care about the topic might have an interaction that they enjoy. Other possible examples of good are left as an exercise to the reader.
Argument that Investing in Evolving Your Web Site Beats Big Bang Redesign
Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
That can work if you remember to add the right margin onto the block level element as well... by default I believe Blueprint only adds it to divs.
Tell HN: The readability bookmarklet works well on iPhone
Get the bookmarklet here :: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Install it in Safari

Sync your phone

(I hope you) Enjoy reading more of the web on your phone.
Startup CEOS are forced to learn to be proficient in numerous areas. The 80/20 rules applies well startup CEOS. They don't have to spend years in school in a specific subject to have great use of it. There is no a way a person can be an expert in programming, design, finance, marketing, and so on. However being an expert doesn't mean you have utilized your knowledge in the most useful ways possible.

Good startup CEOs are able to recognize what is worth learning and how to tie different aspect of his knowledge together. I would be willing to take advice in may areas from a good Entrepreneur.

This is why take advice from PG on everything from how to be a great programmer, entrepreneur, angel investor, and much more.
shrug so why imply it in the first place then? The assertion is that his idea of what happened was worth more than the other posters.

Indeed from my experience of huge corporations (which comes from fairly regular contact) none of his (3) scenarios are particularly likely...

EDIT: (because the above was an unclear reply). my point being he is trying to say the people in that thread are probably wrong whilst offering 3 or so alternatives that are, equally, probably wrong too. Whilst he does admit he cant know what really went down that is not what he seems to suggest in the rest of the post.

My point is like PG's: he is falling foul of his own arguments :( and badly.

His example is like many of the "culprits" he ID's on here who lay out their opinions in a very specific way and then throw in a "but it could be like a, b, c of course" as a way to make out they are open to any suggestion... ;) :P
This article articulated what I have always believed. It's improved my selling points for this approach for when the boss just doesn't get it.
I know that goats are cute and all, and give a very back-to-the-land sustainable vibe, but unless the goats get most of their nutrition from grazing, the effort (and carbon expenditure) involved in raising and harvesting food, moving it, housing the goats, moving them from site to site, etc. is likely going to be a lot higher than putting a few gallons of gasoline into a lawn mower.
JL was PG's girlfriend, which is how she got involved in this stuff. So she interviewed some founders.

Then she did organizing for start-up school and administrative duties for YC.

Not sure what you mean about "deserving". Sure, having organizational skills is useful, but not exceptional.

Not a knock at all on JL, but becoming CEO of HP was certainly a lot harder and more exceptional, even if Fiorina was exceptionally bad at actually being CEO.

Still waiting for a tech equivalent of the Go-Go's.
Goats are really good at eating just about anything. Much better than sheep. Problem with sheep is that they will eat too close to the ground and kill the plants.
I read this as "Users prefer to be able to use a site at all, then use a site exactly how they want it to be" - which, while it may seem like common sense, it is good to have some data behind the thought.
Twas very good. Slides will be made available on his blog, http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com: http://twitter.com/ericries/status/1671711849
Looks nice, but the best way to go into competition with Apple is to release their phone for a different service provider, like Sprint or Verizon. We know Pre is for Sprint, so why is this one likely to be for AT&T? This would be a bad idea. I do not care how good these phones are, I am not subjecting myself to AT&T service.
Cal Henderson leaves Flickr to create new startup
compound interest on knowledge. heh. I like it. it seems like it would especially apply when you were using a new technology; something for which you couldn't just pay money to get people with more experience.
so are network effects a little like compound interest on marketing?
maybe its my lack of understanding, but can't you define type by accept header, such as application/json, or application/xml. Also depending on your api, you could follow the whole one model one request, or you could return more, as the author of the api, what is limiting you .. when you say /hero/superman, it can return profile, and powers and more .. why not ??
you should do whatever you feel your user base needs... just because a posted speed limit says go 35, doesn't mean that you can't go 40.
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588740
Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics for Novices
Cal Henderson gave one of the DjangoCon 2008 keynote talks, and it's very good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk

He seems to know his stuff. Good luck to them.
To get an idea of the amount of work required to gain "depth" consider these famous lists:

HOW to BECOME a GOOD THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

by Gerard 't Hooft

This is a web site (still under construction) for young students - and anyone else - who are (like me) thrilled by the challenges posed by real science, and who are - like me - determined to use their brains to discover new things about the physical world that we are living in. In short, it is for all those who decided to study theoretical physics, in their own time.

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html

See also:

Herring Brain Box
http://large.stanford.edu/herring/brain/
First genetic analysis of swine flu reveals potency
that was without doubt the most brilliant thing i've read in a long time.

<standing ovation>
The French national French police switch from Windows to Linux (cutting IT costs 70%)
Yes, it is in beta, but afaik it's also the only book about Clojure available and I could not find any meaningful discussions (or even synopses) about it before I bought.

Supposedly the final version is due in May anyways and I can always update my review since I'll get access to the final book for free once it's out.
50 Simple Marketing Ideas All Freelancers Can Use
I knew Hooft's page already. Thanks for the other URL. I did some work on Experimental Physics years ago, then discovered that I was more into Applied Math. No plans to become a theoretical physicist, but I still read some stuff on it once in a while, just for kicks...
I haven't watched the demo video yet... but looking at the screenshots, I'm pretty sure I could see using this as a third knowledgebase alongside Google and Wikipedia for those "I wonder how many..." or "What's the per-capita indcident rate of..." type questions that come up.

Looking forward to playing with it whenever it comes out.
"The New Plagiarism" is the plague of the sense of entitlement.

If you are able to duplicate someone else's work, does it become yours? Schools teach us no; we could be expelled. Fair enough.

If you make minor edits to someone else's work, does it become yours? Apparently so. The author's experience tells us that we can certainly make the claim that the piece is "public", and that annecdotes were "borrowed", but only borrowed as much from the original as it borrowed from everyone else.

We live in a society where the gatherer becomes the discoverer, the sponsor becomes the artist, and the investors become the founders. If they've had a finger in that pie, it's their pie.

Is this not another sign of our society's bloated sense of entitlement and ingratitude?
The carbon emitted by the lawnmower came out of the ground, where it had been for millions of years. Net effect, more carbon in the atmosphere.

The carbon in the goat methane comes from the grass, which took that carbon out of the air a few months back. Net effect, nil.

I hate it when people get anxious about cow farts contributing to global warming.

But the thoughts about the transportation of the goats are worth exploring.

However, if you want to go that route you also have to add the net carbon emissions for construction, maintenance, and transportation of the lawnmower, which are non-trivial.

I strongly suspect the goats are a net win.
Not much. As long as you have a fence to stop them running out into the road, goats will just wander around and munch grass all day. As will sheep. They need to be checked by a vet a couple of times a year.

You guys are confusing the requirements for industrial farming (where you're committed to deliver a certain amount of milk or meat every x weeks) with the basics of animal husbandry. As long as you don't have so many goats that they eat the grass faster than it grows back, everything will be just fine.

Keeping animals on a free range basis is extremely low-maintenance and low-impact. They just eat, poop, sit around and reproduce every so often.
This still isn't funny and the price difference between Macs and PCs has nothing to do with the article, which is about the prices of Macs at different stores.
The haskell ghci debugger does.
I believe in Ocaml, if you don't use the FFI, you can do just this -- run until error, then step backwards in time.
I believe there's a guy who rents out his herd. I've seen goats in other fields (near Yahoo, in the past)
Ah! I think you get it too.

Although the greenest way would be to just let the grass grow and have a hayfield outside the building.
"you're still going to die... but also live on."

No, you are still going to die, full stop. Some other thing, that shares certain characteristics with you, will live on.

This is no different than saying that you "live on" through your kids, or through your art or writing. This "thing" might share more in common with you than your kids or artifacts that you leave behind, but you are still dead.
It's not a multi-day journey for the truck, whereas the lawnmower is likely to be running all day for several days. The distance is irrelevant, since a lawnmower can't travel at the same speed as a truck. Additionally, lawnmowers generally use 2 stroke engines which are inefficient and extremely noisy.
Much simpler solution:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#view_pass...
You get greater economies of scale at a central power plant than with numerous distributed motors, plus you only need to install one set of scrubbers. Joule for joule, it's cleaner to run an electric motor on AC than to run your own generator.
Anyone have a direct link (e.g. non-subscription)?
I'll keep my personal opinion of REST to myself, as I've had that flamewar before and it isn't particularly productive.

But I will share something a colleague just said because it made me laugh: "I have kids dude, so I'm used to hearing people argue vigorously about stupid stuff. This whole REST dicussion has the feeling of a bunch of nerds arguing about which Star Trek movie is worst."

Again, I don't really want to get into a discussion with you REST fanatics, hopefully the upvotes from people who chuckle will cancel out the downvotes from the REST people.
Goats are already alive, they would fart either way,
so I wonder if practical queries like "How do I implement pagination in a django template?" will yield a graph also? Doesn't seem to be any examples of them doing a search on something anyone will want to look at except for idle curiosity. In that regards I think yahoo is closer to being the "google killer"
In a much broader sense I have to disagree with your "tech people assume there are no smart people outside tech" argument.

An attack on a technology entity is perceived as an attack on all of us and what we believe in. Technologists believe in the machine, or the formula or the data and when they perceive an attack on this model based on greed it doesn't matter how smart the 'attacker' is. It has nothing to do with smart people or which side they're on, it has to do with the nature of true technologists.

Each case has it's own details that distinguishes it, but I think this sense of 'our thinking is superior' is what drives the reactions of tech (all) people. That stance still allows for smart people on the other side, they're just wrong or motivated by some external factor (greed).
Go to http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&... and click on the first link to bypass the pay wall.

Though, I find the article a little light on content.