skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I do is use sites like Hacker news to discover other sites - if I like a story, I'll check the rest of the site to see if the author writes consistently good stuff, and if so subscribe.

I've found a lot of cool stuff that way.
Politicians have a lot of power, and that power can easily be misused. All other things being equal, I'd much prefer to elect an honest politician with strong moral fibre to a dishonest one with few scruples.

If a guy can't resist the temptation to break a promise he made to his wife for the sake of a few cheap kicks, it's less likely that he can resist the temptation to, say, hand out political favours to his favourite campaign donors.
Jeff Veen: Great Designers Steal
"Congress disscusing HC for months but wars were approved in 10 minutes"
This would be great, but keep in mind that this project is more about sales and execution than software development if it's going to be used anywhere.

No rock stars required to develop this system, but you'll need a crack-sales-team.

This sort of thing may still feel like rocket science to many of your pro-shop guys taking tee times over the phone - and they are probably the gate keepers when it comes to sales and implementation.
The shopping thing seems ripe for fraud. Put in a fake order, get a discount.
From the FAQ linked from the article:

"Q. Will older versions of Adobe creative software—such as Adobe Creative Suite 3 or Macromedia® Studio 8
software—support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)?

A. Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts. While older Adobe and
Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested,
and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may therefore
experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions
of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)."
love golf, would love to be a part of this and help design the UI/UX

feel free to shoot me an e-mail
Yes, but without the optimization, how would it help? Am I just being a n00b?
thats one of the reasons why i like it and wouldn't mind working on it :) its not a complex problem to solve or a timesink project, and that fits appropriately into the bit of free time i have.
Misc daily links:

- http://www.arjansworld.com

- http://jasonhaley.com/blog/default.aspx
css design is beautiful though. in general, if you put a table design next to a css design, the css design will be more aesthetically pleasing.
The easiest way for people to remember their logins for sites is not to USE logins. Use EMAIL ADDRESSES instead. Then, if they forget their login, they just enter their email address and it auto-generates a "reset password" link.

Open ID is cool and all, but it's nowhere near frictionless enough for average people yet.
EVAL-WHEN considered harmful to your mental health
You do realize how many unproven assumptions you are relying on.

Theoretically, we can have access to infinite amounts of clean energy by fusing hydrogen nuclei... We've known that for decades, and yet, people are still worried about the supply of oil...
He made more than $7 million in phony currency—on ink-jet printers
Ask HN: hosted time tracking tools for distributed teams?
I have a distributed team of a couple of software developers who work on hourly basis. I am looking for recommendations of online tools that let them submit the hours they work in a way that is minimally intrusive and that help me keep track of the hours. I'll be using this for billing purposes too. I'm currently using assembla.com for bugs/svn, they have some time-tracking feature but it's not very easy to get reports on hours worked. I want to keep using assembla for svn/bugs and I am looking for an additional tool.
"A perfect 800 on GRE math is just 87th percentile."

percentile of what? of general population or of those who took GRE?

i assume the latter is much more accurate, a perfect 800 on GRE math equals to 87th percentile only means that test is way too easy for most engineers

maybe a perfect 800 on GMAT math is 99th, i don't know, but if so, that only means the test is way too hard for most business-guys (assumption: GMAT percentile is based on GMAT takers)

anyway it's hard to imagine that tests for engineer is easier than tests for business-guys. i have my own bias of course.
Be intentional with what we steal

Here are some great articles on the topic:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/copy-great-designers-steal/

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign

http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000016.html

http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/stealing-design/
I'm curious to whether any of you rate reading Hacker News as a 10? If not, what the heck are y'all doing on here?
Problem you'll run into with scanning bar codes displayed on mobile phones - it won't work. In general, barcode scanners can't scan digital screens for barcodes.
Where is the flag button?
None of them are very good. Frequently they are designed to be run over serial lines (rs-232,423,485)

But back then, that's all they had. It's testament to the talent of those old engineers that their systems are still in use today. How much of my code will still be running in 40 years, not much I'll wager.
Not that I have the biology chops to contribute to it myself, but a Protein Folding != NP debate is exactly the kind of discussion I'd like to see here.
How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships
I used to work for a online golf tee time company, and you're absolutely correct in saying that building a better online reservation system wouldn't be that hard (the bar is pretty low). I'm not sure about what smaller providers give the course, or how they charge, but the bigger ones also:

1) Provide a 24-hour call center, so no one at the golf course is answering reservation calls much anyway.

2) Provide POS systems, which means that almost all revenue is reportable through one interface.

3) Have rewards and tournament management built in. And also something to report scores to golf associations.

And instead of being paid in totally in cash, they're also paid in tee times, which the company resells itself.

But those are the big guys. I'm sure there are plenty of courses using simple webapps to manage tee times that are horrible. It'd be a good thing to shake that up.
Too obvious?
Ignoring the obvious flaws in the site design, they should rework the sidebar which states Microsoft's "sins". It states that they are education, DRM, security, standards, monopoly, lock-in, and privacy. At a glance, this is confusing. It's mixing positives (privacy, security, standards, education) with negatives (DRM, monopoly, lock-in). Now I understand that it explains it in the main text portion of the site (education actually being poisoning education, and so on and so forth) but at a glance it weakens their point.

I looked at the side and thought, one of Microsoft's sins is education? Well, I guess, according to them, Microsoft isn't that bad after all. It needs more clarity and consistency.
Well, formerly open-source, at least. (http://www.synthesiagame.com/faq.aspx#source)
Your point about repetition in suggestions is excellent. I will fix the sort order so that more unique suggestions move up and more run-of-the-mill ones are bumped down.

Thanks!
why require an account?

with respect to the POS system, i'm curious on how opentable operates. does it interact with the various restaurant POS systems? seems like whatever they're doing works, and might be something to consider trying to emulate.
Agree 100%. Playing rock band drums is essentially the same as play practice pads.

I remember going over to my parents house one year...my sisters asked me if I wanted to play with them. Naturally, being a drummer, I sat down at the drums (and then went to my car to grab some no-crappy sticks...and into the garage to steal the drum stool from my old kit that is still sitting at my mom's) and chose "expert" mode.

My sisters laughed and told me, since I had never played the game before, that there was no way I would be able to do it, and to choose something lower so we didn't just fail the song...

They were...kindof correct...it was harder than I had anticipated, but I still finished with a pretty respectable score.

The hard part about playing the drums on this game is that, as a drummer, the rest of the band follows you. It's really frustrating to have the machine tell you that you're off with you're rhythm, haha.

One mode I really wish they would add to the game is...like..."free play". Assign a sound to each of the drums and treat the kit like a midi controller. I know people that already do this in their home studios (although as more of a novelty than anything else) and they actually work :).

Point is: rock band is a really fun game, and playing the drums in it is very similar to playing the drums in real life. Doubly so if you've ever done any work in sequencing software. Playing rockband is like what I used to "see" as I was playing the drums after spending hours and hours in a sequencer.
Flight tickets come to mind.
I cannot agree more. Then it would get me off my butt and make me learn something about the topic, too.
Reporter uses Jailbroken iPhone with Qik to do live report
Nice concept. Pretty graph. Worthless utility.

The first thing I wanted to know was, "Which line matches which company?" A mouseover pop-up tip would have been perfect. Maybe it just doesn't work in my browser. If anyone can figure this one out, you're smarter than me.
pretty much guaranteed

I leave America for a few years and suddenly programmers use Macs and K-12 education uses Windows? What kind of bizarro world is this?
Haha There is also another technique we practice in Brazilian Jui-Jitsu where you meet the attackers aggression by moving forward to hug him. It's called a "clench" but it looks just like a "hug". The reason you hug him is similiar to western boxing where one boxer hugs to prevent the other boxer from being able to hit him because of the distance. They call Jui-Jitsu the gentle art for a reason I guess :) One interesting fact is that the technique does not work if you are moving backwards, and its important that you are going towards him. There is a leading step kick that is just a feint so that you can get closer hehe.
The GH-style of rebadging and re-selling retail games will definitely decline. As will the epic bundles. (They already have, really). And the wisdom of 'Rock Band"-as-music platform will prove itself.

The biggest real risk I see for the genre, is DLC DRM. If there's a major platform upset next generation, I think a bunch of the biggest Rock Band fans are going to suddenly realize the value of their Rock Band library just tanked.

Sure, they can keep their old console to play Rock Band 2. But they'll still be pissed. And that will translate to fewer future song purchases.

I hope Harmonix is thinking through a solution that problem. Because it will happen.
EROI on commercial solar panels is generally less than a year in sunny climates. Even in somewhere like Seattle, which isn't generally regarded as sunny the EROI is two years.

The cost of energy costs are important when considering the economics of energy sources, but they are not the only costs to consider, if only because it is not yet practical to simply substitute more energy for another input.
The idea is that windows is working against the development and proliferation of free software, which supposedly has more potential than proprietary software. So it's not "switch to Linux because it's easier and better," it's "stop Microsoft so there can be more focus into free software because it can be better."
Anecdotal support: I once dated a girl who really wanted to learn to partner dance. She dragged me to ballroom lessons, and then swing, and then lindy hop. I was mildly enthusiastic at best, but I got pretty good at it. At some point -- after we had broken up, ironically -- something clicked, and I got really into it, eventually competing and teaching dance classes for several years.

This is the moral I also take away from "Stumbling on Happiness:" we're really bad at predicting what will make us happy.
Nature has found its way to some examples of folding that are kinematically accessible, and that are reachable through natural selection. This is a tiny part of the problem space.

Just like animals don't have internal combustion engines, there could be all kinds of interesting proteins that can't easily be reached by intermediary forms, and won't show up in nature.

The observation that nature seems to have solved an NP-complete problem is pure selection bias.
I never stop being impressed by Charles (the JRuby lead dev)... remind me to ship a case of the Sierra Nevada Hefeweitzen to Engine Yard.

The best thing is that this will likely percolate into JRuby, and it bodes well for JRuby performance on JVMs that support invokeDynamic (not sure if OpenJDK does yet...)
For the record, Windows 7 isn't crippled to stop it from being used on netbooks. I run Windows 7 Ultimate on my Asus EEE 1000HE, and it works flawlessly... it's not noticeably slower than XP, and I even get all the eye candy.
Schneier on Security: Manipulating Breathalyzers
Sony Ericsson Jalou 
Not too long ago Sony Ericsson gave us the first look at their Jaloufashion minded handset. At the time, the device didn’t look half bad considering it was all glamored up for the press images. The Sony Ericsson Dolce & Gabbana Jalou Mobile Phone features a 3.2 megapixel camera, and the ability to record video as well as take photos.On top of that it has a built in FM radio, MP3 player, Bluetooth, a pedometer, and even a Mirror key so you can check out how you look. Now you can record your video through this smarty phone.
Evaluate Expression in .Net with Eval Function
To me, a great idea is one that is solving a big problem in a large market. But that alone is not enough because if you don't execute it, competitors can come in and perfect your idea to its full potential.

This problem usually tends to exist because nobody has solved it yet or has not solved it in a manner that is practical enough for the masses to pick it up.

The fact that your ideas are implemented exactly as you thought of them confirms that if the company that is currently doing this becomes successful your ideas are good.

If the company doing your idea is being successful it confirms the market exists and I would look for innovative ways to improve on their offering - or execute better than they do. You want a strategic advantage when entering the competition.

It would also help knowing what kind of team/resources they have available. So that if you show up and take market share how quickly can they respond?
the main reason for an account is to allow edits, maybe there is a way around accounts though.

you're right about opentable, i'll take a look.
HN seems insistent on keeping me up to date about it. ;)
SQL Server 2005 Data Dictionary
Don't discount the possibility of windows people having the same lack of critical thinking. I had the same attitude towards firefox until years later when I reAlized they actually had a point. I mean, free software promoters don't have any monetary incentive to do this. So it would be wise to actually give their argument some merit instead of just labelling them as "OMG WINDOZE"
In the beginning, I would go after the smaller golf courses as well as large courses that realize that this portion of their suite sucks, and they want to use something else in conjunction with it.
Rock Band actually has this feature. I believe it's called "practice mode" or something.
Visualize your site load time, online (by the Load Impact guys)
The mouseovers work for me in Firefox 3.5.2. But I'm still not smarter than you...
We use TickSpot.com with a team of 50. Nice UI, good basecamp integration is a plus for us, and has an API for custom stuff.
We're both Swedish but otherwise I have no affiliation with Load Impact.

I think this is awesome. Safari's Developer tools come closest to this, but things like the detailed tooltips, previews of images and switching between different browsers (and thus load behaviors) make this really cool.
I look forward to the day when I don't need Adobe products. (Yeah, I know there are alternatives, but they aren't competitive alternatives.)
Nobody said that Windows 7 Ultimate wouldn't run on a netbook, what they said is that the version of Windows 7 that comes with netbooks is "crippled". I don't recall the details but I believe it has been limited to running 2 applications at a time.
Linux is probably is probably less user friendly, but that's because microsoft is adamantly against ts consumer adoption. Their argument is if we switch off of proprietary, then more companies can create competing OSs. Heck Microsoft could create a new flavor of Linux that looks like windows. That's the true benefit of free.
Note that most VC funds have their fees fall as time goes on. Many fees fall by half after year 5 or 6.
This is particularly questionable:

"7. Threatening user security: Windows has a long history of security vulnerabilities, enabling the spread of viruses and allowing remote users to take over people's computers for use in spam-sending botnets."

The way this is phrased (and knowing the FSF, quite deliberate) is to paint MS as complicit in the spread of malware. This is patently false and I would like to see the FSF called out on this - this draws extremely close to libel.
And don't they use Rails, which presumably makes it very easy, if not the default, to escape HTML output?
OK, thanks. ie at work. I'll make sure to check this out at home tonight.

(A lesson for all of us on what not to do.)
IIRC it's removed some of the non-development related stuff as well (like etoys).
Why is that? Is the video card optimized for a particular orentiation or the LCD?
For desktop try Qt, C#
For web try Python, RoR
Java has a type system?
Send a message from your shell to C++:

$ wget http://google.com/
Words cannot express how much I agree with this advice for non-technical people. My users love it because its easy. (Really. They send letters.)

I love it because failed logins are minimal and requests to reset password even smaller. (Incidentally, rather than "reset password", I give people auto-login links which are guaranteed to be usable for at least one day, and then pop up a message on login telling them how to change their password. This eliminates any needless copy/pasting and supports my ~10 users who prefer to ALWAYS log in via the forgotten password feature. Hey, two of them paid money, I'm not about to complain.)
Oh, stop it. They say that Microsoft "forces updates on it's users" and list some examples. They aren't complaining about windows updates. And how is an OS with security vulnerabilities not a problem? Windows does have a history of poor security. Using a linux distribution is undeniably less of a security risk than running windows. Why wouldn't this be a disadvantage of windows?

And I'm not understanding the mindshare argument. Your point is that locking standards work out is only a problem if you're not (!) successful at it?
At least where I live (NH), diesel is more expensive than gasoline due to higher taxes.
Two I have in my reader:

Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/

Igvata - http://www.igvita.com/ (Ruby based, sometimes too terse)
For those who don't enjoy scrolling iframes:

http://online.tableausoftware.com/views/HowBigIsYourHockeyst...

Somebody change the link to an actual article: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/08/25/how-long-does...
i really like it
i've loaded this twice though and you changed the search from what i can tell.
the first time it was pick a dish, now its pick ingredients

I know there were some comments about picking ingredients instead of dishes, but the search for picking a dish then selecting which ingredients you wanted was really good.

People will often know they want to eat a prairie oysters (for example - not that there's anything wrong with that) and not know what to put into the mix. With a list of ingredient (that make up prairie oysters) where people can check off what they like from recipes and get a custom recipe, thats amazing. don't get rid of that.

I dont know which is better, ingredient search or recipe search, but dont ditch the recipe one. for the love of god
As Cald mentioned below, we hold the meetups the last Thursday of the month.
Postcards printing, cheap postcard printing
You are oversimplifying. The cost of energy is an important limit to the cost of materials, but it is far from the only factor.
To your point, all software has vulnerabilities, its just that Windows is more often the target (if not almost exclusively much of the time) because its a considerable market share. At CanSecWest, the MacBook was the first system hacked, and Vista was hacked on the last day of the conference (soure: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9905095-37.html ). Having a virus/worm targeting windows will have a higher number of infected machines than other OSs, even if another OS has a higher infection than the infection rate of windows, because windows outnumbers the others. Last time I heard, OS X has a 10% share... Disclaimer: I use XP at work, and OS X at home
He should have gone to Florianopolis. The girls alone are worth it. 'sides, they have a great public transportation system (since it is a kinda small island, also, I don't own a car) and the people there are great. One of the best cities to live in Brazil, for sure.
I think I wasn't clear enough. You are absolutely correct in your assessment of those guys, 30+yrs of live system is a big deal. Its the guys these days who, despite the tech having moved forward, and problems having been found, and solutions to those problems being well tested, still insist that modbus is the way to go in new systems, "just run it over ip, it'll be fine, we can artificially limit concurrency out" (their method is DoSable in at least 4 ways).

Sometimes "its been done this way for 30 years" doesn't mean "nothing better has been found", it means "there is a lot of inertia and stubborn-ness".
Its been done: http://www.jamlegend.com

The gameplay of auto generated tracks is different from guitar games, but its fun in its own way.
Unless they don't use typical barcode scanners. I'm thinking photo recognition scanners - they point the camera on their smartphone at the screen of the barcode to be scanned; the app sends the decoded data to the server and gets a success or denied along with ticketholder info (name, etc)....
JRuby. :)

<<dons gasoline boots and flamesuit>>
That's right Adam. I think we can set something up for "lightning" presentations for next month, if we can get determine the right space here in the city.

I'll echo everything you said above: this is our fourth meetup under the name and I've been impressed each time with the turnout (we started small at 20 or so people and last month we had about 70 people show up over the course of two hours, which ended going into three of four if I remember correctly). The types of people you'll meet - other hackers, founders and those who are thinking about startups in general - is quite different from any other tech meetup here in NYC, from NY Tech, to Digital DUMBO, etc.

At it's core, we're about connecting with other hackers and founders who are passionate about startups (and the industry around it) while leveraging each other with ideas, help and support.

If you're interested in learning more, don't hesitate to reach out: daveambrose at googlemail dot com.
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Where in central NJ are you? I'm from Hunterdon County and go back every now and then.