skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basically a scam. Temporary threshold shifts revert to normalized hearing from 3 hours to 3 days. Restoration is going to happen anyway: it's like waving a leaf over your stomach for a stomach ache.
Is there a way to be notified of an incoming call?
I agree. Sass has made my projects a lot easier to manager and more intuitive. There is less code bloat than before.
updated with a a link to this HN entry.
If you have data that proves that I've overemphasizing how bad financing is here, please provide it. I am more than happy to consider additional data. Being able to provide a HOWTO that's more than "for God's sake, move to the Valley" would make me thrilled.
DA was a genius comic writer but I think he is never remembered for real intelligence too. For example:

Now that was a very, very silly, but fascinating, story and what it said to me was that this was the first time that we could reach back into the world. #

That's the kind of thoughtful insight that just doesn't occur to many.
Great, now I've gotta slim down before hitting the airport!
I hate CSS that uses class names as stand-ins for typographic properties. You might as well just use font tags, because that's what you've reinvented.

Instead, I'd rather have CSS classes each represent a semantic attribute of the element being styled. So instead of <div class = "box boxColors arial13">, you might have <div class=tabbedPanel>. In your stylesheet, you style tabbedPanel with the appropriate background, border, font, etc.

Also don't neglect the value of containment selectors - if you want to style all tabbed panels a certain way, but only if they're in the main results, you can do:

#results .tabbedPanel { ... }

No need for an extra CSS class on them.
Point VERY well taken. Thanks.

The installed base issue is giant for anyone. It certainly seems to have tons to do with why so many smart folks at MS end up spinning their wheels on creating anything genuinely new. What's that number people throw around? Something like 26 flavors of Windows devices to support? Eee-yuck. That's a lot of masters to please.

Re Adobe and re Pshop in particular I seem to recall a few years back -- and well after the years I would have counted myself as even "competent" at PShop -- people freaked over changes to a bunch of key commands and menu nav (do I remember that right?).

I way get that. So much. It's (again w/ the kitchen metaphor) like having some joker come in and mess up your pantry and hide your knives and whatnot.

It's just that for me, as an increasingly casual user of these apps (as well as a 1-man show who has total freedom to choose/buy/change/try/dump whenever it suits me), it just feels like things are devolving at a quickening pace. Just at a gut level. These apps are no fun to use. Bloat. That's the word I keep coming back to.

FW and DW feel like Java apps at this point. SO far off the mark on performance, UX, and general polish, that I kinda can't believe Pros still pay retail for them. I guess it's just a line item in the Excel. No idea.

I owe a lot to Adobe and their apps and have for MANY years now. And like I say I love the folks I know there. It just feels like the company has lost any interest or ability in making the sorts of things that OS X power users love shelling out dough for. Great software that you want to tell everybody you love, y'know?
Remember, There is always somebody at your heels trying to get a piece of the action.
That code is not more maintainable. You've centralized a single color but now you've duplicated a selector.

The single-rule output mode of Sass is an output optimization mode we plan to add to sass for runtime performance. You should write code the way you think about things and let your tools do the heavy lifting for you.
You projected your desire of getting work done onto the company's desire to keep people working.

Full time employees need to be 'busy' all of the time to justify investments the company makes in each person (opportunity to learn on the job is the biggest investment). If you go there and finish all of the work, there won't be anything left for the FTEs to do.

You're better off giving FTEs (full time employees) learning opportunities and telling them they are really bright.

And don't burn bridges - just fake it and pretend to be nice - life sometimes works out in really strange ways.
You may be kidding, but you are right on both counts. Emacs is so much better when your control key is next to 'a'. Your hands prefer it when 'aoeu' is right under your left hand. You will prefer it when your colleagues can't figure out how to type on you computer.
MacRuby seems to be the new hotness for Ruby + Cocoa. Have you tried it? If so, how does it compare to RubyCocoa?
Cisco also comes to mind as example.
I think there's more to it than this point, but I'll the easy argument to articulate here is, "you can get funded as a company domiciled in Chicago by a firm or investor that isn't local to Chicago".
Non-HN because I don't want to insinuate that people who read it should vote this up.
The last time Adobe let their desktop publishing app slow down on development, QuarkXPress ate their lunch and they had to invent InDesign to compete again. Adobe Pagemaker used to be a serious competitor. (Of course, it also used to be Aldus Pagemaker).
Smuggling Europe’s Waste to Poorer Countries
Pretty good and easy to use TeX editor but the long braces need some help :)

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgd9zp8h_53ddfrc4hz
You don't use ext4; problem solved.
Have you seen sqlite under Cygwin/Windows?
I've switched from Terminal.app tabs to screen for a couple of reasons:

1) It's obvious why you'd want this for remote sessions, and I want a consistent feel whether I'm sshing into remote machines or just on my local machine.

2) I like to allocate a different screen session for each project. I can use the Terminal.app tabs to differentiate between these and between remote sessions on other machines. I could technically use multiple Terminal.app windows instead, but meh.

One thing I've found to be annoying: I can't get gnuplot to work from within a screen window (using the default AquaTerm output).
I read Britcher's "Limits of Software", http://www.amazon.com/Limits-Software-People-Projects-Perspe... , years ago, he also started back in the batch mode era; his take was that having to write everything out first and the slowness of the feedback, resulted in programmers being much more careful and producing fewer bugs in the first place.

ADDED: This actually ties in a bit with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846579 , "Working Hard is Overrated" and James Watson. I have a quote from Watson that I made into a poster back 25 years ago, "Never confuse hard work with hard thinking". Britcher's and to an extent, though they never made it explicit so I might be wrong, Joel's and Zawinski's view might be to think hard about what you are doing while you are doing it. This would also fit in with Joel's final claim that most people can't do successful duct-tape programming, because they just aren't good enough.
Well benchmarks in general are rather useless. It's very rarely speed determining choice of platform.
Perhaps, but there's an author listed on the API docs page with an internal Yahoo email address FWIW.
Link is the one mentioned above, http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html
I haven't tried it, no. It does look cool though.
Elastic IPs are about having the same functionality as static IPs, every instance has an IP per the previous link I posted. Every time you connect a new network device to any typical network, it gets an IP. I'm not sure how that relates to scalability of the bandwidth.

You are limited to some number of instances (20, 50?) and yes, you have to fill out a form to get more. The previous example with animoto shows how far you can go. I would wager that finding the funding for a large # of instances is more problematic than getting the approval.

I don't see why crawling several different domains quickly will be hard? There shouldn't be any difference between a bunch of instances on EC2 and a bunch of machines in a data center, from a technical point of view.

As far as the cost argument goes, of course I agree with you. If you can project a high level of CPU/bandwidth usage for an extended period of time then of course you should buy dedicated servers.

The only argument I was trying to make was that it is completely possible to do crawling on EC2 or any other cloud provider from a technical point of view, the only limitation is cost. I see the advantage of utility computing is that it offers a cheap way to handle bursty traffic, which you may certainly run into if your server utilization projections are off? I don't think you should use it as your primary set of servers if you can project some large volume of traffic.
I also don't think people should go to "university" (or apprentice) just once in their lifetime. Education, and a diversifying of knowledge, should be life long.

i'm not talking about vocational training, more akin to pair programming for accountants or something.

everybody has an intern, everybody is an intern somewhere else.
I haven't tried either of those things and frankly I don't think it's likely that either would be effective, at least based on the explanations I've seen for them. They seem to be based on fixing problems (e.g. misalignment of bones and nerves or who knows what) that I don't believe have a basis in objective reality. On the other hand if people get relief from them I can't argue with it -- you can only go with what people report. As the old saying goes: believing is seeing.
Google Cracks Down on Android Developer, Offers Olive Branch
Ask HN: experienced this? Overcame it?
I have a fun job that lately I can't do. I'm used to being an above average contributor but for the last 6 months I just can't bring myself to get the code written. I just don't want to do it. I stare at the screen, I rearrange a few things, but fundamentally make no progress. I'm getting pressured because of missed deadlines and it is making the same problem worse and worse.

Anyone experienced this lack of will to get the job done? How did you overcome it? I can't take vacation at the moment nor is it a good time to consider changing jobs (and I'm not rich).

Any hints VERY appreciated.
It finally happened, I agree with you entirely, though I'm sure we can find something here to argue about - erm, web design isn't art .. discuss.
MadnessOrSparta.com

This would be a silly time-wasting site like KittenWar but with much less cuteness and slightly more pointlessness. People can upload pictures and visitors are presented with one picture at a time. For every picture, visitors vote on whether the image is closer to "Madness" or "Sparta".
The title of the document is not correct English.

Instead of "To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor", I would change it to something like, "How To Be a Consultant, Freelancer or Independent Contractor".
If I'm not mistaken (I'm more of a DB2 guy), Oracle implements MVCC too.
a one day project related to natural language quantification?
What do you think Philip's article is? Its a generalization of people with anecdotal evidence.

This is not about Philip himself. I'm not sure why you brought him up specifically in the first place.
And also, are you the type for whom walking stimulates the creative juices?
For the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't in the least criticizing you. Only Phoronix and their not=obviously-helpful benchmarking and reporting practices.
"With these two popular free software operating systems.."

On what planet is FreeBSD popular?
The cascade is a good tool. it's the reason why elements look "right" by default when nested another element within the document.

The application of multiple classes to an element has nothing to do with the "Cascade". Your classes should describe their meaning, not their appearance. CSS was created to abstract away the appearance. Sass makes CSS more "CSSy" in that respect.

In the end, built-in browser support for a higher-order stylesheet syntax will be driven by increasingly complex cross-browser issues, over-the-wire transfer of complex stylesheets and rendering-time performance issues.

It could be the case that a few simple extensions to CSS would enable css preprocessors to do their job better, I have some ideas about that and will post them eventually.
I agree. Sales tax kills newegg for me though I prefer shopping their because there search is way better.
I used ctrl-z, when I'm in screen I rarely need to push something to the background (prefer to just start a new vc in screen), and ofcourse I can still background something with ctrl-z z.

A screen within a screen gets ctrl-v, just because it seems mostly unused and is next to z on a dvorak keyboard :)

(And no, I don't ever nest them any deeper).
HN is not a popularity contest

Yes it is.
This is quite interesting, but being a CS guy who just took a few hardware courses 15 years ago, there's something I'm missing here.

I thought that if you took a ROM and just fed addresses and a clock signal into it, you'd get the data on the data out lines.

Clearly there's something trickier going on here.

Can anyone explain?

Thanks!
Or you stop flying and start taking the bus.
Google: Taking the Open out of Open-Source
Great writeup, I just implemented delayed job on my development machine last night but I can totally see why I would ditch it in a heartbeat.

Some things I would like to see in the article:
* Logging a job
* Error handling when a job screws up
* Stopping all workers
* Clearing the queue
* Reading the queue
* Queue Priority.

Time to do some more reading I guess.
The code in the linked article has a bug: it doesn't wait for the queued tasks to complete, so the program will exit while people are still waiting for their haircuts - or worse, while the barber's actually cutting some hair.

You can fix this by using dispatch_group_async instead of dispatch_async, then after the loop (before releasing the queue) call dispatch_group_wait to make sure all the queued blocks have completed.

This plus creating and releasing the group only adds three lines of code; the rest of the author's algorithm is correct as far I can tell.

I guess it just goes to show that even with Grand Central you still have to be a little careful.
I will never understand why people don't give new (ahem) ideas the time of day. There's no reason why C has to be set in stone.

Blocks in C have lead to a great simplification of my own code. A lot less jumping from method to method. There is no way that these are a bad thing.
"hire for the personal values, train for skills". Skills are easy to acquire - changing someone's attitude is not...
On the other hand, they do mention that "Each operating system was tested with its default settings (including any _debug_ options)".
Is there a client-side Sass-to-CSS parser? Seems totally doable, and it would address build-complexity problems.
There are a million types of people, and your argument is reductio ab absurdum.

If you want to boil down the whole world to "hard work makes Johnny rich," by all means, go ahead.

But, as I said, many many people have gotten rich without hard work at all.

To deny reality is to deny yourself those "learning experiences" you are talking about.

I never said that hard work can't pay off. I never said that you can't create your own luck. I never said that if you are not lucky so far, give up and resign yourself. You seem to be assuming that because I said "lots of rich people actually didn't work hard," that I am somehow saying those other things -- but I am not.

I'm just a true lover of reality and reason.

Hard work doesn't necessarily pay off, and Caterina's essay made many very good points.
I love the little projects that I work on; sometimes I learn more from them than my day job (because I feel freer to experiment).

Here are a couple of my "toys". Maybe they will inspire some ideas for you:

http://www.alphabetclock.com

http://2rgb.com

My 2rgb project is open sourced here: http://github.com/techiferous/2rgb It's basically the equivalent of taking a programming method and putting it on the web. So if you have an interesting programming method or algorithm, that might be a good idea for a microapp.

Here's another source of ideas: http://r09.railsrumble.com/entries
No idea who voted you down for that, I explicitly asked for feedback :)

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, I've updated the title.
Thanks, I was thinking of having the phone number in google ads and being notified of calls. Congratulations for the great app!
For those of you who work in Rails, there are a couple of rake tasks that do this already. I just found out myself while mucking around a couple of days ago.

rake notes:todo

and

rake notes:fixme
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/god/-/base/argumentmaps
Comments on the pages are now enabled, that way if you want to critique a certain section you can do so in the most relevant spot.
Can't you two see that you are talking at total cross-purposes?

You are talking about success by other people's measures: getting your paper accepted, being rated as "top" by other people, best in class this, accepted that.

He is not talking about those things at all.

You are never going to see eye to eye if you can't both A) see you are talking about entirely different things, and B) meet somewhere in the middle.
True, for now. I can't stand security theater but basically we're quite well off insofar as we have the luxury to complain about it with a relatively low expectation of anything bad happening (as in being blown up, rather than annoyed by officious and undereducated security staff). As a sometime screenwriter I often come up with ideas which seem so obvious that I wonder why terrorists don't employ them, but I'd rather not repeat them here.
The Dunbar Rule Of 150 Friends
There's this: http://github.com/clr/sassijs/

But I've not tried it yet and it's not provided by the Sass team so YMMV. It probably doesn't support the most recent sass syntax.
What does 'looks rad' mean ?
Can be done with one line of cat and grep. So why did you bother to reinvent the wheel in a python script?
No, you're right, except that the while-loop condition is YES, so it never exits! It's worth noting that all threads in Cocoa (and GCD) are detached pthreads, so whatever you do you have to wait on critical operations.

The sample code is technically correct, but your argument is also valid. I was going for a demo of something that applies in the larger scope of real-world apps :)

GCD, by no stretch of the imagination, negates the requirement of thought!
Alan who? Andrew what? Since when two individuals with less than 3k followers each fighting on twitter is news worthy at all...?

People desperately need to feel famous, these days...
Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering with Hadoop
DA is not actually discussing the idea of an actual god - i.e. a deity.

The thrust of the speech is about the idea that some of the crazy notions humans come up with might have sound basis in facts we are only subconsciously aware of (he has a couple of excellent examples).

The point being that we should be careful to dismiss it as unscientific bunk without at least bearing it in mind in the future :)
Article raises a good question.

IPO --> pressure from shareholders to increase short term profits --> raise prices to increase margins --> slower growth + customers migrate to Amazon --> company plateaus, stock tanks (no longer a growth stock), but founders/early investors rich.

Any reason this is not going to happen?
The will to complete a task is a state of mind. Talking about a "finite supply of willpower" implicitly treats willpower as a substance, rather than a computational state. It's like claiming that a computer has a "finite capacity to run emacs," and you're using this precious capacity up by playing video games.
The author, Pete Skomoroch (http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch), will be giving a talk about TrendingTopics.org at Hadoop World NYC this Friday. Registration is still open ($400):
http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-world-nyc
What exactly do you mean by "debug mode"?
FreeBSD has some standard debugging features during development (-current) and beta stages like WITNESS etc, but those have been disabled for 8-RC1 and later.
You don't get why the hate? Really?

Just think about it for a second.

Someone who has had pretty big success wrote something that contradicts the many-times-chanted mantras of large groups of people yearning for success, who haven't found it yet.

She just shot down their personal god.

And what do beliefs do when they come under attack? Counter-attack!

If Caterina's essay were all about how hard work is the god she worships, everyone would have loved this article. The dissenters would be few, and gentle. Because the realists, who are anti-hard-work-pr0n, on HN are the philosophical type. They have had more experiences to weather their blind devotion to any mantra and are more likely to say waffly things like "Well, good for him, but that's not true for everyone. Remember..."
Ignoring RIAA lawsuits is cheaper than going to trial
Do not underestimate the commercial power of human stupidity; http://www.i-doser.com/
Virtualization: Solution or Problem?
Continuous Deployment in depth (video from SF Selenium meetup)
Very good. How did you decide whom to offer referral fees to? How did you decide the amount? How did you approach people with the offer?
pardon me, I meant to say that it (tmux) looks neat and useful!
Well, sure. But I believe that the traction/revenue/user bar to do so is much higher here than it is in a more robust funding environment. Also, it's much, much harder to get a deal syndicated here.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rad

Basically short for 'radical' and a replacement for 'awesome' or 'cool.'
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I was actually only talking about speeding cameras. The red light cams are ok with me as long as they don't change the yellow length to make more money. If speeding cameras were used to improve overall flow of traffic I would be ok with them too.

I can see them positively affecting traffic because I have seen how backed up traffic can get when a cop pulls someone over for a speeding ticket.

Spelling mistakes == commenting from my iPhone.
Reminds me of the incredibly creative hack where one of the iPodLinux developers dumped the iPod's bootloader by sounding out ticks on its crappy piezo.

Archive.org link: http://web.archive.org/web/20070519081643/http://www.ipodlin...
First Steorn, and now this. I apologize on behalf of my nation :(
The Difficulty of Un-Authentication (by Bruce Schneier)
I really wish there was a way to use the sessionname in the hard status line formatting.
I don't know the answer, but basic color correction isn't really a cardinal sin like pasting/clone-stamping is. Performing white balance or converting to B/W is usually fine (after all, a lot of newsprint images end up B/W).

Here's some examples where this behavior has been uncovered:
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28082

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/05/magazine/2009070...
Yeah, Tineye looks cool. Slightly different application however.
I know that there was a patch (a long time ago ~2006) for gnome-terminal that made it 'screen aware' so that each screen 'window' was a gnome-terminal tab.
Hey, this isn't my idea but I wish someone would do it. Only useful to programmers or web developers, but hey..

A little tray-app (or something) that works like this:
- You select text representing a color in a text editor (i.e. something like #ff00ff, (1.0,0.0,1.0), (255,0,255) etc..
- You hit the tray app or some magic key combination and it sends a Copy message to the window, pops up a nice modern color editor, you edit the color, then you hit "Apply" and it sends a paste message with the new color formatted in the same way as the old one.

This would allow gui color editing in any text field with almost any program, and sharing of palettes between programs that use different representations.

This is totally doable in X11 or Windows.
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