skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for "printed yesterday's news".
I regularly spot things (mostly research and interesting facts) on NH which I've read in Computerra about, half year ago.
Yeah, nobody berates a gas station owner who doesn't provide a game-changing way of pumping gas. Likewise, most realistic entrepreneurs are just trying to make a product that some people will use and pay for.

Solve a problem. Charge a reasonable fee for it. Iterate on this.
That was my thought exactly. The axiom reads: you get what you pay for. But in this case, I think more accurately it should be: you get what you ask for.

Nothing in the way the "client" conducted himself (or themselves) indicated that they should have gotten anything better than what they received.

This whole post seems like a poorly conceived (and failed) stab at humor. Meh.
Maybe. I never had a fear of commercial flying, but the first few lessons in a cessna 152 on a sunny day sure reminded me why people are afraid to fly.

That, and me almost killing me and instructor a few months later did that too. At least now, I can slip on landings in a very safe and accurate manner.

edit: I'm sure a few lessons can desensitize a person
Oh, they work for me. They mainly work on the physical side effects of anxiety -- the muscle tension, pain in the chest, etc. I need to also take a melatonin to be able to sleep.

The mental fear is still up to you. Usually I just embrace it and take the moment of takeoff as a time to reflect on my own mortality -- if you can come to terms with the chance of your early, violent death then there is no need to panic.
Definitely one of the better postings I've seen on HN.

In very little space it teaches you a lot about clojure + scala + concurrency. And it seems to me (coming from a scheme + java background, so with no particular horse in the race) to be a rather honest comparison.

I'm eager to see what the Scala community responds with (and hoping they take the time to show code).
Alternately, you can try with all your might to innovate and create brilliant new concepts all day long and fail miserably.
I got a lot less comfortable flying after working in engineering for a major US airliner. I participated in an investigation as to why an engine suffered a catastrophic failure. The investigation was indecisive, the most likely conclusion being some mistake made in maintenance. There are still plenty of Boeing 757s with Rolls Royce engines flying so I don't think this particular event was indicative of an actual flaw with the engine.

Rather, what makes me uncomfortable, is that sometimes very important parts of the plane blow up and the engineers can't figure out why. But hey, at least there are two or four engines and three or more power supplies.
Reverse Engineering the Nintendo DSi
From the guys who reverse engineered the Wii.
I'm really impressed with the look and feel of the site. Good luck guys.
Who has better passwords? Men or Women?
Kim Stanley Robinson: Science fiction: The stories of now
Start-ups by definition don’t have the experience, market position, funding or resources to tackle obvious market opportunities.

Utter bullshit. I'm surprised she was brave enough to print that in an article that mentions mint.com

Look at an existing market, find how it's underserved, improve it, even if just a little, get rich. Mint did it, 37signals does it, and plenty of successful startups do it.
You might be able to get a prescription from a doctor for Xanax. It's an anti-anxiety drug and it's addictive, but one for each flight won't cause any problems. A friend of mine does that for his flights.
LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis
Yes. The fourth and the fifth were both quite funny.

Eoin can't pull it off.
That's the very definition of an irrational fear - one that has nothing to do with the actual risk of an activity.
I'm always amused at how people try to squeeze "hack" into defining a submission. I guess I love jargon hacks.
He had 10% so normally he would have made around 400 Million $. I believe after taxes he made around 100 - 150 Million $.
Spread the word: Parlerai harness power of Internet for special needs children
I'm surprised file systems don't offer the ability to save data to disk as an error-correcting code.
Intuit has it’s own back-end account aggregation service that it will use instead of Yodlee.

Nooooo. I've used Quicken for Mac and this feature really sucks. They didn't support direct download/connection with Bank of America, but they did with Citi.

Ever since I switched to Mint.com I never looked back at Quicken. In Mint.com, all my accounts synced and it just worked (thanks to Yodlee I assume). With Quicken I had to manually download/import files, and then re-categorize every single transaction (hyperbole). With Mint.com, I only have to fix 1-2 transaction's categories within a month.

I really hope Inuit's backend has improved since then.
A clarification on the purpose of all this – this was done by the community for fun, little else. It’s a private community, so this was not originally meant to be made public. So there’s no motive to illustrate design value to clients or anything like that; $50Logos offered unlimited revisions, and we put that to the test. That’s it.
I'm not worried (much) about crashes and the like: I realize it's not very likely.

I'm anxious because I'm very high up in a small tin can and can't get down.
The last two flights I took, there was something physically wrong with the plane. The first of which occurred after takeoff (the landing gear would not retract), forcing us to circle at low altitude for about 40 minutes before landing; and the second required us to be grounded for about 60 minutes (a component on the wing needed to be replaced in order to pump fuel into the plane).

It doesn't give me much confidence in the quality controls of flying, but the fear mindset is much more insidious - and more importantly - in my own personal control. Whenever that mindset kicks in, I joke to myself that life has been good to me, and usually that takes care of things...
Hey I think I'm one of the people who flagged the rope story after the reading the post warning it's blog spam. And I still think it was blog spam despite the fact that it's pictures were bigger.

The original source with smaller pics provides more relevant information. I think I flagged correctly.

And I don't recall the HP digital photo thing story, but a quick scan of the comments reveals a lot of complaints that it's not a PC, just fancy digital frame. I'm guessing your title reflected HP's marketing speak and the mods changed it to a more technologically accurate description, which just happens to not be at all what HP's marking language is. I full agree with the mods here as well.

It's too bad your views of what's accurate seem diametrically opposed to what the HN community thinks is an accurate description of reality. I guess different people just have different perceptions, much like taste, you probably can't argue about that.
All of these lessons are powerful and communicated in a wonderful way, but #2. Make Everything Your Own - Self-Reliance, is something that all aspiring entrepreneurs need to focus in order to take an idea and make it a reality. There are many talented people in the world who fear losing a steady pay-check regardless of the potential innovations that could be created. Stability means that you are actually moving backwards on your personal continuum of life because if you are not evolving, then you are going to compromise who you are for the sake of something other than yourself. Be creative, be alive, and realize that the most severe risk that you ever face is the risk associated with living a life that someone or something has created for you to live...be the creator, director, and artist of your own world!
a "super liquid" stock market as you put it means lower spreads... that benefits you. The people who are losing money because of high frequency trading are algo traders... that is not you (unless you're a hedge fund)
Interesting. Kind of the junk DNA of chips.
Medical Editors Push for Crackdown on Ghostwriting
Oh, please. If we're calling that a hack then it's a hack when I put butter on waffles, because it's using one thing to modify another.

Furthermore: It is not incredibly fucking tied to Adams's writing (note that his name is AdamS and not Adam, kthx). There is only one thing that remotely relates to anything he wrote, and that's the "whooshing deadline" bit, and that was terribly unsubtle. Douglas Adams never wrote "it's okay to say 'that's all'", or "So, could you not, please?" It's just some jackass being snarky.

This is not fucking Hacker News in the same way Monty Python is not fucking Hacker News. I might like John Cleese's use of language and movement but I'm not submitting any dead fucking parrot sketches, and I'm offended by your perversion of the word "hack" to defend your shitty submission, and by the fact that for a self-proclaimed Douglas Adams fan you're so fucking terrible at defending the man as a writer.

This is not Hacking. At best it is nerdy. It is not News. It refers to an article that is a year and a day old. It is not valuable, it adds nothing interesting to the conversation, it is not interesting to look at, and so the only conversation of value to be had here is that Hacker News is jumping sharks all over the place, and I blame you for thinking that this was at all worth a moment of anybody's time. Unless the new standard for relevant content is "It uses Helvetica," this will be flagged and you will be made to feel momentary embarrassment before we forget this and go back to arguing over Twister or whatever it's called.
Free (as in freedom) tech books
Not sure about how many people actually use it though, HN is the only application that I'm aware of that uses it.

NewMogul

http://www.newmogul.com/

also uses the same software to run its site.
Why 5000?

Personally, I would quadruple that:

http://usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_htm...
http://usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pi...
Yeah, during a performance a few years ago he was caught lip syncing. So he just mumbled 'Vitamin Water' into the mic and walked off stage.

http://mediatakeout.com/2009/7622-busted_50_cent_caught_lip_...
Thursday at the Summit - John Rose reflects on Rich Hickey's Keynote
"too many people wanting to be the next Mint.com, not the next Google"

Google started by trying to do better search (big change to search geeks, incremental change from perspective of people outside the search world). Google could have easily been an early sell to Yahoo, MS, AtlaVista, etc... After they hit big, they were able to dream big. I'm pretty sure AdWords was not in their original biz plan.
How come we haven't seen a backlash? Songwriters with websites that display "Proudly not a member of ASCAP!" After all the crap they've pulled recently (royalties on 30-second snips? royalties on ringtones?) I'd certainly try harder to support people in the business who realized that the landscape is changing, and worked hard to find where the new sweet spots were.
I enjoyed your article. Gets me thinking about how to setup a dev environment where you constantly and visually see progress towards goals you've set. TDD is kind of like that already. As you knock out functionality for the tests you can feel your progress and get that sense of achievement.
I don't understand the confusion that someone who is supposedly rich would fly JetBlue.

They are pretty sweet as far as flying goes.
He's just described ZenTest::Autotest.

http://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/Autotest.html

I've actually been spending the last week getting this working with my java/junit/ant workflow, so it's at least somewhat portable to other languages/environments.
Maybe. But flying in small general-aviation aircraft, the risk of anything happening is a lot higher than with transport aircraft... Seems funny to start doing something riskier in order to be able to do something less risky...
"RAID is not a backup solution. Anyone that seriously uses RAID knows what it is and when to use it. If you are worried about the integrity of your data than you need a real backup solution. RAIDn won't restore your data incase of shock, fire, or hurricanes."

You say that like it has something to do with the article. It doesn't and it is not implied in any way.
It’s a private community, so this was not originally meant to be made public.

"I only submitted it to the hackernews aggregator totally by accident, I swear."

Look, I'm sure you were just having your fun and all that but frankly I found your childishness in treating people who are just trying to do a job utterly repellent. The kind of fun you're talking about is the same kind of fun kids get frying ants with a magnifying glass - smallminded, petty and vindicative without anything redeeming to show for it.

EDIT:
p.s. You're an even bigger liar than I originally intimated because if this was not originally supposed to be made public you wouldn't bloody well have submitted it to:
Digg: http://digg.com/users/sxates
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/user/sxates/
and whatever else social sites you're on.

Utter bullshit.
agreed. I've had huge audacious failures. Its took years to recover. I'm not gun shy, just learned and now have a family to balance in my decisions.
> about as much fun as hitting myself in the nuts with a hammer over the course of a month

Actually having been hit in the nuts by a cricket bowling machine (I.e. a baseball * 1.3 weight at about 50 miles/hour), I can tell you that every other concern seems petty in comparison for the 20 or so minutes it takes to get ones senses back. But I'm not about to recommend it as therapy.
Greene: Hey Fiddy, I just wrote a self-help book.

Fiddy: Great, here's a photo of me and I'll send you a few zesty rhymes about being the best.

Greene: Cool, we'll profit share and you can read the final draft before it goes to print.

Fiddy: Word. Split it into 50 chapters.

----

I saw a Hugh Hefner self-help column once: don't even know if Hef even knew about it. Here it is: http://tr.im/z3yQ
Loaning people money is the best way to turn your friendship in to a business.

The borrower is slave to the lender; why would you want that dynamic in your friendship?
Filing patent cases in Texas smells like a business method to me.

Step 1, file patent on it
Step 2, prevent patent trolls from filing cases by "licensing" it for 110% of court winnings
Of course RAID is a backup solution. What is a redundancy if not an immediately available backup? Having a RAID 1 or 5 array ensures that you can continue to serve your data when one of your disks crashes. Saying RAID is not a backup solution is just playing wordgames by redefining 'backup'.
A new reality for venture capital
He lived till he was 49. That's not "way too young." It's young, but it's not an enormous tragedy, either.

He wrote five-and-a-half books in the Hitchhiker series, wrote for Doctor Who and Monty Python, wrote an additional two novels, two nonfiction comedy works, and a book on environmental activism, programmed several video games, launched a web site that was a precursor to Wikipedia, got to play with Paul McCartney, and wrote a whole ton of tech columns. That is not an unfulfilled life. That is a man who worked himself to the bone and lived happily.

Sorry, but I'm really pissed off that Hitchhikers fans will so frequently worship Adams without knowing a thing about the man. He wasn't a brilliant writer; he was good, fairly dextrous, but nothing special. HGTTG was probably the worst thing he ever wrote. What makes him incredible was that he was obsessed with learning things, and that at his best he could make you want to learn things along with him, be it atheism or environmentalism or Macintoshes, and he could make you laugh at the same time as you were learning. But no, that's been thrown out the window for teens and twentysomethings who quote him in spurious British accents, and who insist that writing five books in a series is at all not enough, or that his five books are somehow canon. It's the same frustration I get at people who quote Monty Python but haven't heard of Fawlty Towers.

Anyway, not Hacker News, carry on and ignore the deranged ranter.
Sorry for not being more clear, I meant anything else written in arc. There are plenty of sites that use the arc code to serve up forums with a thin layer of css changes to make it look a little different.

But this was about the language, not about the news.arc implementation.

Presumably you could write anything that you want in arc, if the language stands as an individual piece of code then 'HN' is sort of an example of what arc can do. So then the question is: has anybody written any other application using arc. And I'm not aware that that has happened.

edit:

So, after some digging I found this:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgjgbnzn_123dcb5g9hc

http://arclanguage.org/forum
You mean "before writing a blog post that garners them publicity"?
Tool of the Day: ZCope: Collaboration Made Easy
Wow makes you look more dickish than the designers.

I say this as someone who got his start in designing by doing 50 dollar logos(back in HS). I would sell it as a package on ebay. And yes, I offered unlimited revisions. But no, none of my clients were immature folks more interested in a laugh than a logo. It worked out pretty well.

This is 4chan material. That it's coming from a design community is incredibly sad.
Is Scala really more complicated than Java?
I don't hate "flying". I went halfway to getting a pilot's license just because I've always wanted to learn how to fly (for real, not in simulators).

It's not the flying that makes me hate flying on airliners; it's being locked up in a cramped, uncomfortable, jetlag-inducing space that makes me feel like a pig on a CAFO, where I always emerge to my destination with a splitting headache due to an old neck injury.

I don't generally have claustrophobia, but I'm sure that also has something to do with people's feelings about flying on airliners.
Gwt Smalltalk
Except for the thrill of seeing a movie in a large crowd.

A good crowd is worth more than most of the inconveniences of the theater. Inglourious Basterds has to be seen on the silver screen to be really appreciated.
I don't follow the reasoning that Britain's libel laws are too strong.

- Singh could have apologised if he didn't mean it, it is clear that he wanted to portray chiropracty as quackery. From what I heard he also said that the evidence in come cases was concocted: which is counterfeit.

- The raised profile of this case is ideal to get at the truth, I know people have cancelled appointments after they read of this case.

- He's not without friends, fund-raisers have been held across Britain to help him

- This has furthered his career as a freelance journalist.

Court seems ideal to get at the truth of the matter. My feelings that he will come out of this very well, even if he looses.
More Deadly Swine Flu? CDC Mixes H1N1, H5N1 Viruses in Tests - Health Blog - WSJ
EDIT to your edit: Key word here is "originally". As in, originally when this started (months ago) there was no plan to make it public. I published it because I thought it was a funny read, you think it's mean and douchey, I get it. You don't have to get all Joe Wilson on me.

The Root doesn't have a public facing site, so I published a digest version to my blog instead. I sought permission from the community to publish it, because I found it to be an entertaining thread, and thought some outside the forum might enjoy it as well. Maybe I was wrong.

I think for many members, this was a channeling of the behavior of their worst clients towards a company that is insulting to their industry. Childish perhaps, but probably somewhat cathartic as well.

When I get part 2 wrapped up, I'll address the issues you've raised, as many other members had similar concerns that it had gone too far, and there was a good bit of sympathy for the designers who put up with them. It was ultimately called off.
> He lived till he was 49. That's not "way too young." It's young, but it's not an enormous tragedy, either.

Hehe, not from where you're standing. But from where I'm standing 49 is way too young and a tragedy.

> That is not an unfulfilled life. That is a man who worked himself to the bone and lived happily.

I'm aware of that.

> Sorry, but I'm really pissed off that Hitchhikers fans will so frequently worship Adams without knowing a thing about the man.

That's an assumption on your part that you probably can not prove.

> HGTTG was probably the worst thing he ever wrote.

I think that it has to be seen in the context of when it was written.

Personally my favorite book by him is The long dark teatime of the soul.

> Anyway, not Hacker News, carry on and ignore the deranged ranter.

Why, you thought it was worth writing, I might as well read it :)

Oh, and don't step on the bits of whalemeat ;) (in a spurious British accent)
Terence Tao: A speech for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
GHC's JavaScript Backend
Executive summary:

Ignore this "benchmark", the author simply doesn't have a remote clue what he is doing.

500ms Mean Response Time at 100 concurrent requests, are you kidding? Did you run the "benchmark" over a 56k modem?

For the record, one would expect sub-100ms response times under that load, even on modest hardware.
It's missing so much, like the know used to be defined at 42 fathoms per 30 seconds, giving 5040 ft per hour, which was close to the original definition of the mile. Then when the nautical mile was more useful it became 47'3" in 28 seconds, which equates to 6075 ft/hr, which is pretty close to the idea of 1 NM/hr.

There's more, but it's pretty good. A fun read.

Challenge question, a snail's pace is a furlong/fortnight. How fast is that in SI units?
I believe the site was put up by a group of people who worked with Douglas Adams for a good number of years of their life. As their memories of him are dear, they are understandably upset by the idea that his work could be "finished" by anyone else.

So it's not just some random fans, it's some people who knew the man well, and care deeply for him and the memories he left them.
Vintage Video: Computing Across America
Never mind the language, the programmer is what matters
Empirical comparison of programming language productivity (2000)
Twisted vs. Tornado: You're Both Idiots
If you are looking to hire, or looking for a job, best alternative is www.joborworker.com. No crap free postings like on craigslist and others, direct companies, direct hires, and price for them not hundreds of $, just $25 for 30 days. So it is best place for small business!
Objects and your brain: Why do we love object-oriented programming so
You Will All Work for Google
Father of Information Theory is a little-known character ? I think not. His master thesis is the "most significant masters thesis in the 20th century".
Could it be worse than Salmon of Doubt?
See my reply to rms. It wasn't xanax, but something in that family of substances. It didn't really seem to do much for the anxiety.
I wished the article went more into why decimal pales in comparison to binary. Is it because hardware components are easier to build and more reliable with two states instead of 10?
I don't think there are. Some of us agree that parts of HN don't work as smoothly as they ought.
That design is poor. There should be an actor modeling the seats (passed a customer and as a non-blocking operation either seats them or ejects them) and an actor modeling the barber (loops doing a blocking poll of the seats for a customer and doing the haircut).

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