skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My in-laws gave me Monopoly: the .com Edition when I started at my first startup. We get a game going about once a year. The best part is that the denominations are HUGE. That's a part of the bubble they really captured well and leads to tons of unintentional humor during each game: bloated values of nothing companies bought with play money.
Since you mention .erb, I'm guessing Rails. There was a Railscast covering this exact thing recently: http://railscasts.com/episodes/180-finding-unused-css
So, can we please have the link to the peer-reviewed paper that proves beyond statistical doubt that resveratrol really has this effect on humans ?

There are plenty of studies on insects and mice, and those are usually in concert with very high fat diets (in case of the mice). The effect on a human with an already healthy lifestyle would be the most interesting case.
Why your site traffic data belongs in a data warehouse
Frederick Bodmer's "The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages", an oldie but goodie from 1944.

Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid".

Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies".
... outside of black hat circles.
Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
Just looked those up. Sounds, er, fun. I suppose the clean implementation in Objective-C is a side effect of it being an oddly static dynamic language. But the oddness does yield a very nice application framework.
'Saving Wall street' was intended as 'saving the financial system'.

A collapse of several banks/insurance companies would trigger a run on the remaining banks, complete break-down of business lending, mass bankruptcies among non-financial companies, mass layoffs, civil unrest, sky-rocketing costs of servicing state debts, drop in foreign capital inflows, currency devaluation and likely default on government bonds leading to more misery. The crisis would be world-wide, affecting international trade and investment and well-being of billions. The costs of doing nothing would be enormous.

Markets is a complex nonlinear system that can go into a state of positive feedback -- trouble would breed more trouble. So US central bank tried to stop this vicious circle from developing by preventing Wall street from collapsing.

These measures may still fail, primarily because earlier the Fed did not do anything to prevent said positive feedback when markets and investment risk appetites were going up (also known as 'the bubble').

Populist soundbites on HN always surprise me.
Diet fad scam of the month plus the word "startup" still equals diet fad scam of the month.

Harvard Medical School has even that Resveratrol “could arguably be the biggest medical discovery since antibiotics.”

Yeah, that pretty much says it all, doesn't it.
I think the observation that conditionals are difficult to work with is valid, however the suggestion that "proper use of object oriented principles" is the solution to that problem is totally mistaken. To understand why I say that, watch Jonathan Edwards presentation "No Ifs, Ands or Buts" about Subtext (http://subtextual.org/subtext2.html)
I never even really thought of this until you mentioned it. There's probably a ton of unused elements in my css.

Just found a firefox tool that helps with this: http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/
Lawyer's Unemployment Benefits Yanked Over $1 A Day From Blog
Like it.
The header part is to big in my opinion. You should come up with a nice slogan or a line to describe what your project is about.

How do you do approach new customers? What is the business model behind it?
Most of the web isn’t real-time
Thanks. I hope to roll out to more cities (including Los Angeles) pretty quickly once the initial phase of ironing out kinks has passed.

The idea of displaying up and down votes is something I had thought about and I can certainly see some of the benefits. However, it is at odds with the driving force behind the site which was was to simplfy the criteria by which venues are "rated". That said, if it turns out that it's something the user base really want... well, everything is flexible :)

Buzzes don't wear off after time although the default view is "most recently popular". I like the idea of displaying buzzes by time. I might develop on that. Thanks.
Thanks, I had no idea; I've only ever done animation in flash and—without thinking about it—made the assumption that canvas would also be vector based.
Knowing this is going to be really useful at some point, so again, thanks.
The top 10 answers may be far more interesting and insightful.
I think this analysis is pretty accurate. Since there's no indication of online status in Wave, you can see a message come in (in real time), but you are under no obligation to respond right then and there. You certainly can, but you can also treat it like an email and save it for later.

However, I must admit that watching someone type a message which you do not immediately respond to makes you feel like a stalker.
I have talked with a neurologist's office at length about brainwaves and the behavior associated with them. We all exhibit these wavelengths, but in different ratios depending on individual makeup/what we are doing.

Typically Alpha wave activity (8-12 mhz) is associated with creativity and calm alertness. According to the neurologist, certain relaxing activities can boost Alpha waves such as taking a walk or taking a hot shower.

The next bracket up is beta waves. the higher range of Beta is the stressful "fight or flight mode". If you are on your third cup of coffee and frantically trying to get something finished before an impending deadline, odds are that if somebody did a EEG on your brain you would see high levels of beta activity. Trouble is, this is where a lot of people live these days and we function in this mode as the norm, which becomes counter productive to creative thought.

My advice is to make sure you give yourself time to downshift into the calmer, more creative state as much as possible. Take a walk, take a shower. Practice slower, deeper breathing.
I make sure I get enough sleep often enough. Also, I lift weights and go off of caffeine (for some reason, when I get back in the caffeine addiction, I have far less energy during the day and just get cranky and unproductive).
JC tells well that everything about start-up pitches aren't positive.
Wrong. The rule of the optional comma is: Add them where it aids the readability of your sentence by breaking up your clauses.

Punctuation was made for the reader, not the reader for punctuation.
You have two solutions: play the Amiga version in UAE or play the DOS version in DOSBox. Both will run the game almost perfectly.

... or if you're especially enterprising, I suppose you can play the C64 version under VICE.

EDIT: There is a downside with emulating the Amiga version: you don't get the neat disk gronk-noise remix of the music.
The problem is that a CSS selector in a rails project may be hidden to you but not to someone else. Thus, it would consider that some selectors are not used when they are by other users.
Fear tactics on HN suprise me as well.

Neither you or I know what would have happened if we didn't create massive amounts of debt. But to solve a problem that was largely caused by massive amounts of debt by creating more massive amounts sounds unwise to me.
You can of course work with vectors on the web as well by using SVG. Well, if you ignore IE, but then you’d be ignoring it by using canvas :) They’re both good at their own field. SVG gives you the doctree and accessibility, canvas raw speed and bitmap tricks.
Of threads, forks and PCLSRing in high-level languages
OH THE IRONICAL-NESS! horrible.
Russell Kay was my boss for five years, at the game company he founded on the Lemmings royalties, great guy. Our on-hold music was from the game.

Fun fact, DMA also created the original GTA!
Ask HN: Is my project more than a work sample?
Over the spring I wrote the site at http://www.grantvote.com.

I've heard mainly good feedback, except on the note of complexity, & not to mention the bottleneck at available funds vs. submitted requests.

What does it most need? Is it worth an advertising campaign? Can the source be opened?
Luckily, thanks to the efforts of a Belgian "chocolatier", MacRuby has a serious shot at changing this.
True enough RE: importance of saving the financial system, though there's plenty of room for debate about the best way to go about it. For instance: what should the government (read: taxpayers) get in return for their guarantees of these companies' debt? (As any other lender would!)

I'm all for saving the financial system - but to the extent that we're socializing losses, it's importance to balance it by socializing some of the future gains as well (via stock, for example) - otherwise, we get into the sort of crazy loop where there are effectively unlimited guarantees for screwing up.
Avoid Demanding The Last Minute Meeting
This is a very valid point. I have always wanted to do a study of articles submitted to HN that are blocked by the major corporate firewall companies and wonder if they get more artificial upvotes. I think this article might make the research valid since it's a known blogging platform and is probably automatically blocked.
Not to over-nitpick, but there's surely a difference between private and government debt. Not that public debt is a good thing by any means, but the trend of treating of the government as a "family" that needs to "live within its means" strikes me as pretty silly.

(Just to be clear, I'm not accusing you of making that argument, but the conflation of private and public debt is along those same lines).
Google Replaces Tele Atlas with Street View Data in US
The case against IBM, continued
Thank you for straightening me out, jedc. And thank you for your service.
But that doesn't mean everyone who didn't have a technically inclined college experience and doesn't have a hacking job should give up on the whole concept of cofounders.
The title is a bit misleading. The concept of Passive-aggressive behavior is something different, and you can do it through email, phone...
Synchronous/asynchronous would be more accurate.
"Every Xanadu service provider"

I would much rather live with broken links than rely on the centralized infrastructure that would be required to implement anything like Xanadu (which would ultimately end up being a government, university, or business run system anyways). Sure, Facebook Connect and Microsoft Passport are commercial "poison" in terms of centralized identification and authentication, but at least we have the ability to choose or implement our own systems.
English has idioms. "So true" tends to mean "I agree".
Except in many societies they don't.

I'm an American from the DC area who moved to Vienna, Austria.

The difference in dress and grooming between men and women here is nowhere near the grossly exaggerated level it was in the DC area.

Many parts of the US aren't as exaggerated as the DC area either, but it's a startling difference.

Women here rarely wear much makeup at all, don't run around in miniskirts in the winter, rarely wear impractical or dainty shoes, and don't dress up more than men on average.

It was quite a contrast with DC, where a significant portion of women would go on dates dressed up in fancy dresses, with fancy shoes, makeup, and jewelry, and their dates would be wearing khaki pants and polo shirts with ballcaps.

Women here are more like "real human beings." I caught myself thinking that way one day, with a kind of horror, but ruminating on it, it makes sense that the sexy, perfect image you devote your time to creating can backfire.

And, it's made me realize how similar men and women really look, if you took away head and facial hair.

(I joke about DC that you can't play "spot the hooker" because of the typical level of dress for women vs men.)
There's one more case OP doesn't mention that affects many of us programmers...

The colleague whose mistakes affect you most is long gone.

I do a lot of work that depends upon those who preceded me. I may "borrow" their code to avoid reinventing the wheel, I may need their libraries, I may have to modify their app, and of course, I may just have to fix their bugs.

So I have to add to my project: understanding their code, refactoring it as needed, rewriting gross violations of standards (and common sense), or just cleaning it up in order to build upon it.

Management doesn't want to hear about our problems with the pre-existing code base. But they are very real, sometimes doubling or tripling the resources needed even for the simplest projects.

The best way I have found to handle this is to always do what I think is the best thing in the long run, lay it out clearly, and make it clear why we'd all be better off in the long run. This is not always automatic or obvious.
I don't really think this classifies as an illusion. Granted, it is fascinating that a simple change in contrast can cause our perception to change, but I don't quite track with how this is considered an illusion.
Yes I have taken to a long run at about 4 in the morning for the past couple of days, and it does seem to help. I'll stick to this till it becomes a habit.
Agreed, I read the comma before people as adding emphasis, almost like saying PEOPLE.
This is so great. I've been looking for a place just to get work done after my day job. At roughly $200/person/month this would be perfect.

Question: how is security and leaving computers and documents at this place? My biggest concern would be whether or not I could just leave things unlocked up there. Or if you have lockable cabinets.
What is the purpose of this feeling? There is no obvious evolutionary advantage in "feeling" the red.
Okay, I'll start planning my work ahead. I've never planned my programming ahead of time, and in fact I have never planned anything other than travel ahead of time, so maybe this is something I should make a habit. Thanks.
Ahh I gotcha, I'm unfamiliar with rails dev. Thanks.
I don't necessarily disagree with the author, but I would be more inclined to take his advice if I knew he had succeeded at least once.
Immaterials: the ghost in the field
Star Diaries +1 (what a surprise that you... :-))
Brave New World.

I read those when I was 12... then everything I could find by Lem and Huxley too.
Hmm, maybe I am approaching this incorrectly, but I'll go out, drink it up with friends, and not think about work, or my side project. I'll come back to it a day or 2 later, after not looking my problem for a bit. Sometimes that break lets me see things another way, albeit a little hungover ;).
The bottle looks like Tru Blood: http://img.listal.com/image/324275/600full-true-blood-poster...
Dust-Me Selectors (http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/) has worked for me along with getting organised in CSSEdit (http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/).

Best approach I've found to keep it all under control and avoid getting in a mess in the first place is to use SASS (http://sass-lang.com/) & Compass (http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass).
This is why probing for rules rather than accepting the documented ones works better :)
I guess that would be writing some prose for me. It's been a really long time since I actually wrote anything worthwhile, but the problem with this is writing requires some amount of creativity and I seem to be stuck, so whatever I write doesn't really feel right, when I read it later. Regardless I think I'll try setting aside some time especially for this. Thanks.
There are a multitude of very well established projects making the sending of email trivial in PHP. This feels like re-inventing the wheel for the sake of a blog post.

Also, for me personally, I think you're going too far over towards self-promotion. There is nothing wrong with self-promotion but save it for your best articles rather than submitting every article you put together.
Open Subtitles
With currying, you can easily make functions of n variables out of functions of one variable. To avoid syntactic confusion, here is a comparison in JavaScript

// Call this with foo(x, y)
function foo (x, y) {
return x*y;
}

// Call this with foo(x)(y)
function foo (x) { return function (y) {
return x*y;
}}

The key thing to notice is that you can get from one form to the other with a straight text substitution. So restricting yourself to functions of one variable involves no loss of generality.

Going back to the lambda Calculus, you can do Boolean logic there as well. See http://safalra.com/science/lambda-calculus/boolean-logic/ for details. In fact I believe that the if construct in Haskell is just syntactic sugar around that. So it isn't that there is a decision made within the function, but rather that you call a function which turns out to be one of two different functions.
DOSBOX?
Less verbose and more information rich writing requires a more nuanced and deeper command of the language. Think of it like a compression algorithm. Algorithms that can encapsulate more information in a smaller file size are much more complex than less information-efficient algorithms.
Only failed twice? The author obviously isn't working hard enough.
(UX point of view comment)

Hmm, the design is inspired by www.kontain.com? It's well done though. A few UX quirks here and there, but most of it is fine.

Maybe that nice image and copy on the login/register page should be on the homepage when a user isn't logged in? I'm thinking it could convert more in some way. (though the content is also good, you'd have to sacrifice some other part of the page)
No, this is not 'Nam, there are rules. If you are going to type between grammar nazi tags, you don't get to drop in commas wherever you feel the sentence could use one. Check any major style manual.

Keeping the swastika.
Whenever I have issues getting something done next, I say: "What activity, if I do it right now, will bring me closest to the next payment" I then do that.

(Disclaimer: If you do not run a custom prodcut development company, this question may involve some heavy reworking to get you something useful).

If I'm having issues generating different ways of doing something, I've done Mind Maps sometimes, cleaning things (I don't know why this stimulates my creative mind, perhaps because I hate cleaning things), buy and read/skim books on the topic..

As far as zone goes, I suggest a ritual if you're having problems getting the "cares of the world" out of your mind.

Drink here, notepad here, and emptied, listen to a short song, then go. Or do three jumping jacks, shut your eyes, breath deeply, sit down and fullscreen your ide, etc. Just something to start off coding in a way to signal to yourself "I will be doing this now".

Or a couple day retreat to solve what problems that are plaguing your life and constantly harrying you if you're actually thinking about your problems instead of zoning. While you may disagree, you brain likely things certain things very important and will bug you to holy hell if you don't deal with them completely.
What This Year’s Nobel Prize in Economics Says About the Prize in Economics
I've started using the 960.gs grid system to design sites and it allowed me to reuse more style sheet code therefore reducing the total lines of css.

The 960.gs helps me keep my css clean because I'm able to establish the bulk of the site design using predefined grid classes as opposed to custom defined classes which are tightly coupled to a particular layout.
Yeah, no big deal here, it's not a matter of ifs or not ifs, it's a matter of using the object oriented paradigm properly, and not being stupid. No point in creating a website about it.

Anyway, pattern matching + static typing is much more convenient.
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
An interesting distinction about whether this is a cloud-related failure, or just a regular data-center screwup.

If I were a user of this service, I would find the distinction quite academic. As a user, I am likely to make the distinction about whether the data is stored on a device that I control, or somewhere else. That ought to be the definition of cloud, don't you think?
I'm afraid not: http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=1029

The only one on that list that's not a joke/cartoon is this one:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1133581/is-23-148-855-308...

StackOverflow does have a concept known as "Community Wiki" - if a question gets over 30 answers (which includes nearly all subjective/off-topic posts) the post and all the answers revert into Community Wiki mode. If we exclude those posts from the search:

http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=1073

We get a much more interesting set (including the top result by Alan Kay!)
The reason I see to return regularly, say every week, would be to check out the places gaining traction now. This is a reasonably fast moving area, bars open and close, go in and out of vouge on a fairly regularly.

Regualr users might go out for food or drinks on a fairly regualr basis - whether it's an area they know and want to see if there's anything new/hot or they're going out in a new neighbourhood - I see both as valid reaons to check out the site.
Keep a notebook with out at all times to jot down those random, incomplete ideas you have over the course of a day. Then when you sit down to work you can just go through your list and throw away the mostly bad ones, but hopefully you'll have a good one in there worth expanding on. Either way at least it gives you a starting point to actually start working.
Tearing down the App Store hype
Nice idea and nice design. It would also be nice if you could show people stuff from their own city (IP geolocation maybe?).
Is this in use anywhere?
You would have some lockable boxes for documents and what not, although some stuff you would need to leave out in the open. We've got an alarm system and cameras and we also screen potential tenants which is the best we can do in an open office space I'm affraid
I'd be interested to see a service like this track what is happening real time. So, imagine a user goes to a bar and texts/emails/iPhone app, whatever, that would buzz up that local for the night. Then users could look to see what is going on in real time. That may be what you are doing here, if so, I would make it more clear. As it is, it seems like a review site, almost like Urbanspoon.
You do it by having redundant storage.

I am admittedly not a good sysadmin, but I keep an eye on my own "pirate" server (that is, outside the realm of the corporate network) and I have already ordered additional storage because Munin shows that, at present consumption rates, we will run out of storage in about 4 months, crossing the 70% mark in three. I know they will take at about two months for corpotate IT to spend the US$ 100 it costs for a pair of disk-drives and that gives me a month to set-up a soft RAID before I cross the 70% mark.

It's completely unacceptable not to have the storage mirrored and load-balanced on a second SAN. And mind you many SAN vendors even bundle software that makes it easy to do. Even if you don't have the budget to buy another SAN the same size, you can mirror the data rather easily with a bunch of servers, each with a bunch of SATA cards and a bunch of low-budget drives. Redundancy is the key here - if you have a drive that's 10x cheaper than the same storage in the SAN, you can replicate in a RAID1 with 10 drives. If each drive is 30% as reliable as the high-grade disks that go into the SAN, you are well on the winning side.

And I seriously doubt there is that much data. How much? A couple dozen terabytes? That's fits easily under my desk. And quite probably in my discretionary budget.
Isn't that a minimal use-case??? The presentation of the site seems to suggest that any and all IF statements are to be avoided (though i have to admitted I did'nt get past the landing page).