skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mashable Now Has More Unique Visitors Than Techcrunch
Readwriteweb and Gigaom are way behind.

I like Mashable so I don't have any problem with that. It's just interesting to see how fast mashable's visitors are growing.
It's only /b/ which is on img.4chan.org/b/ (different IP address)
Online Tools for Automated User Testing
NOLOH's been around since 2005 and has multiple patents pending. Perhaps you would like to talk sometime, we're always looking for talented developers to join our team.
I was thinking of the 'safe harbor' provisions of the DMCA, though I guess that really only applies to copyright?
Using Shaders in Clojure
Very clever idea. I'm not sure how readable it will be in practice... but definitely cool.
The real problem with ASP.NET is that the abstraction it provides is completely divorced from the way the web actually works. It tries to provide a stateful way to program, and it is completely driven by events. Sure it exposes the response and request, but trying to use those in anything but the most trivial ways is a complete mess

It was great when I was just starting out as a web programmer and I didn't understand how the web worked. Now that I do get it, ASP.NET Webforms is a hassle at best and maddening at worst.
What a messy, uninviting blog-site.

I found it hard to even finish the article.
Which would you choose: Work Vs Family
Then they laugh at you. Oh, wait...
My guess is they won't try and take on the company directly. After all, you can't DDoS AT&T. But they can definitely make life pretty crappy for the people running AT&T with endless pranks, and they can raise a royal stink in the news.

What I don't get is why bother? The /b/tards are just going to make some other place their home.
You can always access http://status.4chan.org/ and get no NSFW content, but still see if it is up or down.
I do have an answer for you: basically, no. A huge part of the development work done in the FPGA field is in the software - the hardware is comparatively easy.

If you're complaining about the quality of the official software (especially for Xilinx or Altera) - you're far from alone. Unfortunately, the open-source alternatives are nowhere near the official tools in terms of functionality.
This is profoundly stupid; iPhone apps already have shortURLS. Behold:

http://itunes.com/apps/Timely
I wish. FPGA tools, without exception, suck. No C programmer would put up with compilers and linkers that work the way FPGA synthesis tools do. Open-source efforts could only improve things.

FPGA vendors don't document the details needed to configure their chips at the nuts-and-bolts level, so any FOSS toolchain would have to rely on a sustained reverse engineering effort.
"Hanlon" is a corruption of "Heinlein", I believe.
As an Indian person with the same background as the author, I think this is only "unorthodox" in the sense that most Americans might not be aware of it. In India, this is the commonly accepted explanation. I'm glad someone wrote it up.

"The government getting the hell out of the way" has in fact been responsible for all of the progress that India has made in the last two decades, starting with the economic liberalization of 1991 precipitated by an IMF bailout of the country's economy, marking the end of a sorry period of socialism (1947-91). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Indi...

In the late 90s, the telecommunications sector was deregulated somewhat, and this accelerated in the early 2000s. As you probably know, this led to an explosive growth in cellphone penetration, which benefited the economy greatly and had a very significant effect on alleviating poverty. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_06/b3769124.... http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_39/b4051058....

IMO, India is a textbook example of the ills of regulation, protectionism and resistance to globalization. It is sad that the lessons are not being learnt (by other developing countries).
none of it seems to work very well at all in Chrome, or my Firefox 3.0

Seems to be a very redundant article.
"The Ensemble was created by a merger between the two teams that appear on the leaderboard as "Grand Prize Team" and "Opera Solutions and Vandelay United"."

And no one has officially won as the scores on the test set are not public.
You will live for longer than 1% of the entire history of human civilization.
The first civilization started in Mesopotamia around 5000 BCE (more or less), which is 7,000 years ago. If you live until age 80, that's more than 1% of the history of civilization.

Just throwing it out there for anyone else who'd never thought about it before. Certainly changed my perspective a bit.
Name's pshc.
This would be a change in line with the printing press, industrial revolution, and the Internet; if not bigger. Question is how can those particles be made in such massive amounts and at low enough price.

The article also touches on another interesting point: that given access to appropriate tools, people can solve a lot of their problems. I personally know how frustrating it is to get an idea and not being able to try it out just because I have no means. Maybe providing such $20k shops to poor regions can have as much impact as providing schools and education.
I think there's an excluded middle here. You can be successful without devoting every waking moment to work. If your family means that little to you, why bother having them?
Yes, but a fad involves a rapidly growing market, whereas a rapidly growing market does not necessarily have to be a fad.

I don't think netbooks are a fad, but I also don't think they will last in the long term. Netbook manufacturers have been cannibalizing their higher-margin products with razor thin margins on their netbooks. This cannot continue if these companies expect to survive.

Not to mention netbooks have been absolutely destroying user experiences all around.
"Out of work" may be a misleading stat here. I don't know what realistic overtime hours for construction workers are like, so it may be a bit of a stretch to say 6 workers * 60 hours/each -> 5 workers * 38 hours/each would fit the same 'one out of six' but still shrink work done by nearly 50%.
Cool. I just clicked around to find a web-based viewer of these rules & found: http://www.collidoscope.com/cgolve/golpatternviewer.html

And paste in e.g. one of the crystal & decay oscillators:

x = 77, y = 91, rule = B3/S23

5b2o$5b2o3$5bo$4bobo$3bo3bo$3b5o16b2o$2b2o3b2o15bobo$3b5o11b2o6bo11bob
o$4b3o8b2obo2bo2bo2bo10bo2bo4bo$5bo9b2o2b2o6bo9b2o5b2o$24bobo8b2o3bo8b
2o$24b2o11b2o10b2o$29bo8bo2bo$4bo22b2o10bobo$6b2o20b2o$5b3o$5b2o$6bo$
5bobo$6b2o$20bobo$20b2o$2obob2o14bo2$o5bo6bo$14b2o$b2ob2o7b2o$3bo3$35b
o$33b3o$3b2o15bobo9bo$3b2o16b2o9b2o$21bo6$20b2o$20bo$21b3o$23bo25$66b
2o6b2o$58bo6bo2bo4bo2bo$59b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo$58b2o5bo2bo4bo2bo$66b2o6b2o
7$60bo$60bo$59bobo$60bo$60bo$60bo$60bo$59bobo$60bo$60bo!
icarus verilog can get you as far as synthesis.
But, like duskwuff mentioned, the open-source alternatives are nowhere near the official tools in terms of functionality.
Or, just do a traceroute to img.4chan.org
I think the fun you all had working on it is visible in the end product, well done!
Remember, the solution is always to add another layer of abstraction!
From the article:

> Ask yourself why planes can hang tons of massive crap (engines, bombs, etc.) off of the bottom of
their wings if the bottom of the wing is so important for flight

I guess that since the top of the wing generates the fast flowing air which then generates the low pressure that generates the lift, by slowing the air on the bottom of the wing with bombs and engines is only going to increase this pressure differential and hence increase the lift (at the expense of drag).

The definitely don't seem to hang anything off the top of the wing.
If this is true, I'm going to cancel my service. We have a few other options in Madison. Not that I frequent 4chan but that's besides the point. I don't agree with them blocking any sites.
I share your sentiments.
One nasty side effect of this is the drastic decline in the quality of engineers graduating out every year.
Maybe we could also try a format that involves more people working together on 1-2 things rather than each an individual app. So we learn something from each other in addition as well.
This was much more Wolfram on Wolfram, with a tangential mention of Feynmann.
Cool, I'll probably participate in this one too.
> However, Dvorak hopelessly destroys these simple, geometric arrangements.

Oh, it's not really that bad. The vi cursor control keys still have a more-or-less logical mapping on dvorak.

I've been using vi + dvorak for about 5 years and I find it comfortable enough.
http://www.netflixprize.com//community/viewtopic.php?pid=923...
What's preventing the reverse engineering effort? Legality issues? Difficulty? Time? (I've heard stories about samba, and it seems like if MS protocols can be reverse engineered, then things that have to obey the laws of physics couldn't be that much worse).
I have DSL through AT&T, yet img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html does not appear to be blocked for me. Perhaps there is some other problem at work here?
What industry has the worst web sites? Ad agencies.
Ask HN: Parser for Java
I've done google searches, and generally get back Parser Generators in Java / how to write Parsers in Java.

What I want instead, is just a single industrial parser that can parse Java source code (like anything that the jvm can run). (Doing some really simple static analysis stuff).

Is there anything "official" that's easy to modify, like a parser from Sun or IBM or eclipse?

Thanks!
Hi Drew,

I read your new post on your blog:
http://sealedabstract.com/?p=515

And I must say, to anyone that is thinking of getting someone to develop an iPhone app, this is a must read!!!!

So, regarding that post, I have a couple questions. First, for context, I should mention, I am a developer myself (.Net), I read tons of blogs, I have casually read a fairly large amount of iPhone development related articles (just as they come through places like HN, not because of research).

So, a few questions if you don't mind, I have a feeling now that I am quite naive regarding the iPhone:

* developing on the iPhone, memory management, the issue with unknown screen size, etc....this gives me the impression that iPhone development is really quite "archaic" low level stuff...ie: nothing is easy or can be taken for granted. I would have thought that despite being a low power platform, no garbage collection, C Language, etc that Apple would have to a great degree abstracted a lot of this away. For example, my take a photo and upload requirement....I would have thought that there would be some sort of a Camera Control that could be embedded in a form, that would then inherit the inherent functionality of the control, and after the photo is taken, you would then have code that decides what to do with it (save, upload, etc) Do you really have to do great amounts of memory related programming to do this kind of task?

* The App store - I have read the horror stories and don't doubt your assertions. But for my app, I have no interest in listing it in the app store for general public consumption...if it has to be deployed via the app store, fine, but I don't want to market in any way to general consumers. Is there no 2nd tier of any kind for corporate aplications? I can't see the logic on Apple's part of making life so difficult for corporate developers (but I can see it for the consumer market)

* I've read several anecdotal stories of people writing graphics intensive apps/games in their spare time to learn the platform and doing well....this "fact" seems inconsistent with the idea that the simplest app is extremely difficult.

Anyways, I would really appreciate if you could address some of these. I'm getting a bit depressed on the notion of developing on this platform. Approximately 100% of my customers are already on blackberry platform, so I wonder if I should just say screw it and go there. I liked the superior UI, screensize, and multimedia capabilities of the iPhone, and I have no doubt that my customers would have any problem laying out the $ to equip field personnel with one, but from what I'm hearing, if you're not doing mass market stuff, its just not worth the bother.
"Completely alien" is a misnomer—it's like saying alien computers won't be Turing machines, just because they're "so alien." DNA is simply a way of sticking polymers together to form a storage device and self-stable electrochemical API for accessing it. Organisms that want to reproduce, especially sexually, need storage devices. Likewise, oxygen is the simplest and most robust carrier of electrochemical capacitance. Aliens will have these things—not because they evolved in the same way we did, but because those are the most fit mutations in the early chemical soup. Sure, given an incredibly constrained soup containing lots of sulphur and no oxygen, sulphur-dependent life might evolve, but by the time it has evolved enough that it meets up with us after some good ol' intergalactic travel, it will probably realize that oxygen is a lot easier to manage and rewrite its genetics to use it instead. Or, to take that concept further, it'll be a post-Singularity machine intelligence, as mhartl said.
Here are some more programming/app contests that i think are still open, if anyones interested:

http://www.twilio.com/contest/netbook/ [Every monday]

https://www.code7contest.com/Default.aspx [15 Aug??]

http://www.componentart.com/community/competition2009/ [Deadline Sep 27]

http://www.ineta.org/codechallenge/ [Deadline 25th Aug]

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http://www.ideaconnection.com/contests/index-ideas.html
I agree with most of what you had to say. I do not, however, agree with the first part of your comment. A lot of gifted programmers simply have no real need to use regular expressions, especially if they develop primarily in Java. This is just unfortunate for them, as they end up not learning them at all. This doesn't necessarily mean they are "stunted", but just unlucky.
Are you looking for JavaCC? https://javacc.dev.java.net/
Rubular (http://rubular.com/) is the one I use and I like it better than all the others posted in this thread.
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Could someone add me as well? username: jraines
Could you also add me please? amackera
A quick googling shows a large number of websites devoted to dad's rights, helping fathers get joint custody and/or visitation, defense against false accusations of abuse by vindictive exes, "throwaway dads", etc.

There are no such sites for women. That should tell you something.
The globe does seem to be warming. I agree that the ultimate cause may be impossible to nail down in the same way that testable scientific theories have been. Still, given the warming globe, and the strong possibility that man is somewhat to blame (see the correlation between industrialization and climate change), isn't the risk of doing nothing far greater than the risk of trying to do something? In the former, we end up with unpredictable changes to the planet. In the latter, we might still end up with those changes, but at least funding has been invested in trying to understand and ameliorate them.

For me, then, it's not about deniers or supporters. It's about making determinations for behaviors today based on the best possible evidence. That doesn't mean the evidence adds up to Truth. It just means that we take it seriously enough to understand the problem space. If we're wrong, we've lost, maybe, one year of defense funding as the Arctic freezes more fully in 100 years. If we're right, then maybe we got a head start on the order of twenty or thirty years.

My point is: Why wait? Scientists will adjust if they're wrong. And we'll adjust if they're right. Isn't it better to keep collecting data especially while we try to change human behavior?
For a content hoster, they have the safe harbor protection unless they try to pre-emptively filter content, in which case they're liable for anything that they host. I'm not sure if there's a similar provision that applies to ISPs, but that'd be golden.
Ask HN: Cash-flow muses
Timothy "Four-Hour Work Week" Ferriss has a concept he calls a "cash-flow muse". That's a little business that generates some monthly cash without taking up too much of your time. I think the idea is that with a couple of these running, you're pretty much free to do as you please most of the time.

Some desirable attributes of a cash-flow muse:

- You own it.

- The value proposition is simple enough to explain in one sentence.

- High margin: 4x to 50x.

- Easy to automate or outsource the selling, record-keeping, and whatever other businessy stuff is needed.

- Low capital investment.

- Takes no more than about 4 weeks to manufacture the product.

Ferriss often casually mentioned that generating this sort of cash flow is easy to do. It might take a month of real work to set one up, and you'll likely have to market-test a few ideas before you find one that's solid enough to commit to, but once it's up, it should pay your living expenses.

That sounds really good--when talked about abstractly. The main idea is really not that a cash-flow muse can free up your time, it's that cash-flow-muse opportunities are abundant and easy to find. I myself have little concrete idea of what sort of tiny product you could turn into a tiny business like this, and scarcely any idea how to begin searching for one.

My question: Has anyone actually done one of these?
You know, in Chile there is now a cable provider that promotes its lack of caps on p2p. It actually plays it up. http://www.bandaancha2.cl/

Goes to show capitalism works.
My first reaction to kiw.is was "okay, this is pretty obnoxious for me as the link-follower," but after a little bit of thought it occurred to me that something like this would actually be perfect for links to anything that is potentially NSFW or sensitive. I think if you played up that angle and then furthermore became known for it, the service might actually be a good "second-favorite URL shortener."
That doesn't put fulfilling the need of such a project beyond the reach of any qualified coder to try and fill the gap himself.

It doesn't cost much for, a group of friends in college to start working on a project, or some colleagues meeting to throw ideas around, it costs nothing, and might be the beginning of such a dream.

It just takes an idea, and the will to take the risk.
You will also probably outlive three nines of humans historically. A woman at my church passed away recently, tragically young at 68. (That is about a decade below the life expectancy of Japanese women of her generation.)

Also, while I generally scoff at scifi, it is entirely possible that we will make big strides against aging this century. I expect my chilren will grow up with their grandparents. I expect their grandkids will not even understand the import of that sentence.
AT&T Blocks 4Chan(confirmed) This Is Going To Get Ugly.
other discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=724922
Hacking Filmmaking: Iterate, Focus on the Product (sounds familiar)
...Tarantion, Roberto Rodriquez, et al...
My grandparents are still alive, and are actually doing quite well.

I'm 19 years old, and I hold a strong hope that they will hold my children in their time.

I can't explain how much that would mean to me.
Most of the time I see people looking for different payment processors, security doesn't even seem to enter the list. Is this something that we need to consider when picking a processor, or are they all pretty much equal?
Well, but it is complicated. Hydrodynamics are not intuitive, and the fact is that none of these rules that are being thrown around are sufficient to solve the problem. They all just express different aspects of it.

You can't say, is it the Bernoulli effect or is it the fact that the wing makes the air behind it go down. Those are both different ways of expressing the same thing. You can't have one without the other. This is why I like the "See How it Flies" discussion.
Funny, the graph matches my personal experience very closely. I switched to Mashable earlier this year after all the TC drama got in the way of the actual news.
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I don't agree much with the idea, seems like trying to take a shortcut instead of focusing on real hard work to achieve what you want.

I think that "cash-flow muses" are kind of a myth. If there's something easy to do, it's probably easy for a lot of people, hence you'll have a lot of competition, and market price will be low. If you want to differentiate yourself, then you'll have to put time and work into it, and it'll stop being a cash-flow muse. Also, if you need many cash-flow muses, each taking up only a bit of your time, together they'll take up a lot of your time.

Anyway, why do you want to free up your time anyway? If you'd like to focus on doing what you really want, then you should read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html (a bit long but worth it).
Site Is Winning Fashion Fans by Letting Them Play Designer
But that's, like, 6 characters longer! Better to further ruin the foundation of the Web by adding yet another URL shortener to the mix!

P.S. I am convinced people just auto-submit all TC articles in the hopes that they'll get karma, because this is more anti-news than news.
He had her to host parties for him, cook for him, keep the home, help him keep his finances. All of that is gone. ... He's used to having a supportive wife behind him, that keeps the home, that helps, that he can bounce ideas off of. That's gone.

LOL. Uhh... Nas wasn't married to June Cleaver, he was married to Kelis. Her "milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" Kelis. I'm guessing she wasn't cooking and cleaning for him. Whatever the general status of men and divorce, he's a chump for not having her sign the most egregious pre-nup ever penned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ-FAV9fBII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTS2lQ9bZo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54B4NzExeKA
You should check out ASP.NET MVC. No postback, viewstate, and other junk, just request and response.
So you wanna make it in the music biz? Here are the new rules
Rickey Henderson hall of fame speech text
Digital Nomads Ditch Cubicles for Shared Spaces, Choosing Their Co-Workers
The Homewrecker subwoofer system (how-to)
i disagree. why are they mutually exclusive?

many times, doing hard work towards what you want to do in life doesn't quite pay the bills. for him, it was traveling around and doing interesting things. for you, it might be working on an interesting startup that won't even be ramen profitable for a while.
The idea is to set yourself up in a way that allows you to generate passive income. I like this as in it seems particle and beneficial. I don't think you can agree with it or disagree with it. It's not morally wrong.

For example, I am not a professional photographer but I have photos on iStockPhoto and ShutterStock. 33 cents per purchase ads up and I have paid for a nice amount of gear with the income generated from photo purchases.

In another example, the google ads still point to my account on an old message board I started. It's 1 check per year at best but it's nice.

If we all put our web designs, a widget of code, anything of that sort for download for free on a page with ads or for $1 on a purchase paid, you will be surprised at how it can add up over a long period of time. That's the idea.

I plan to put some of my own webdesigns on an online gallery, people would pay and get a link to download the .zip. After it's set up, it would be another source passive income flow.

A bit differently, at one point I experimented with answering questions for the text messaging service kgb_ whenever I would watch TV. By forcing myself to do this, I was able to get a nice check at the end of the month. 10 cents for 2 min of work isn't really worth it though.

Making rules for techniques like these is silly. The idea is to make some extra spending money however you can... in my opinion.