skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Department of Education may not issue an informative finding at all.
A Wave of Change: Google Wave and Blogs
If one could lower the cost to $20 or lower, and include WiFi with an open mesh mode, then I could see a market for this. (But it would be grade school children!)
Clojure dates from 2007 according to wikipedia, and reddit did the switch way before that (this post was in 2005.)

Makes me feel positively ancient.
Umm either Metra has shut down the Southwest Service and Rock Island lines or there's something wrong with your script because neither of them are showing any trains from any of the stations or days that I checked. What works looks great though. Thanks.
I think they are.

I havn't explored this yet but from what I've seen there is no competition or extra bonus for modeling a building. I think it could be really successful if it was turned into some sort of game.
I'd say you need to do some things:
Hire a good designer.
Offer some licenses to OS projects.
Offer some more licenses to famous .NET people so they can rate you product.
Awesome. This is so much better than Metra's own site.

A nice addition would be cross reference their service updates for any delay information.
great. now google wants to employ us for free. we do all the work and they have a nice database of 3d building in earth.
I recently switched from DH to linode as well. Best decision I've ever made.
Check http://www.smashingmagazine.com for all things design related. They have a lot of articles, tools, and tutorials for this sort of thing..
Traffic Exchange
I myself do not know much about Internet marketing, PPC and advertising, that is why I hired a marketing firm to help me with it.
Same if you search google.ca it gives better for .ca domains.
A different study reported in various news sources this year

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/20/mismatch

suggests other possibilities.
This got posted to slashdot and from the discussion there, it appears likely that this is not true.

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1401739&cid=...

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1401739&cid=...

We had a similar incident with the kids who had a hair solar panel. Not knowing much about superconductors, I had no idea what to look for. This being HN, I somehow expected the submitter to be knowledgeable enough.

Can we have some submitter guidelines for preventing people from posting such stuff. Digg and reddit fail pretty regularly at preventing this and it would be great if HN could dodge this bullet.
I won't be able to sleep until I know what the fox was up to.
The real logical gap in the thinking here is that they are focusing on replacing the mouse but in reality, they are in fact replacing functions that can be executed simply and quickly with a keyboard. Application switching etc can be done efficiently with a keyboard. At the very least I question the wisdom of moving away from the modifier key paradigm because it is an elegant and easy method of interaction.

I also believe that as we engage more and more of the body in a control interface, for it to be natural it is going to need to mimic real-world interaction so that we can rely on our lifetime of experience interacting with physical objects.

The better solution in my opinion would contain:

-2 mirrored screens so that the one under your hands can be glanced at for reference as well.

-A UI approach that allows you to interact with objects and windows in the same ways you would with real objects. (Grabbing the edges moves the window, pushing down on it 'sticks' it in place, etc.)
I myself do not know much about Internet marketing, PPC and advertising, that is why I hired a marketing firm to help me with it.

http://www.primerealadstate.com/
Stellar.

OT: How many of us Chicago HN'ers are here? We should do a meetup sometime.
no law against having a fox as a pet? aren't they considered wild?
I've yet to find a good comparison of the two.

In fact, from what I've seen it seems better to use MyISAM when you don't need support for ACID transactions.
One way I've found to start reading code (something that I do not find easy at all) is to read code you use. Lately, I've been reading pyparsing and the Python markdown module. As an added bonus, I also discovered features in those libraries that I never knew existed.
Because some of the URLs were multiple lines long, and I didn't realize that HN would auto truncate. Just wanted to save any horizontal scrolling. ;)
Awesome.

Just this posted this to Windy Citizen. Vote it up:
http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago/technology/2009/10/13/ip...

Next time you or anyone else builds something cool and local, share it over there, please.

On a related note, yesterday the WC hosted a discussion thread about Metra's new $3.9 M site. Our commenters sussed out that the shop that won the bidding process employs the son of a former Metra board member.

http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago/business/2009/10/12/chic...
Talking to Microsoft already

and you post this publicly...

joke?
Just to update my comment -- seems I posted a few hours before Compete released Sept. data.

And now indeed Posterous has surged past FriendFeed. I stand corrected. ;)
I spent a few hours mocking up a solution to this type of status updates in code. It seemed fairly obvious so I assumed it was not a real problem. However, if there is any interest I can turn it to some sort of blog post next weekend.
I used to buy all of them but these days I usually go .com, .net and .org. I'll also do any spellings that I think are useful. For example, I have a Twitter app that uses a bot under the username glu. I was originally going to call the app gluenote but I thought people might have an easier time with the name if it was directly related to the Twitter name so I got both gluenote and glunote. It turned out to be a good decision. For the $8 I think it's worth it.
It does now. I posted just before Compete released their September data... so I was looking at August.

Seems I jumped the gun a bit. ;)
Another example of people upvoting articles they don't read!
If all you did was explain why you disapproved of things you'd be giving undo (reasonably) attention towards something you felt was stupid. Why waste the time when you're not obliged? That's all I'm curious about - you could find another topic more important and make that topic popular.
I've met with people that use an app called TimeDriver. It's alright, but maybe not ideal (I found the experience both useful and cold at the same time). Perhaps you could warm it up by having goofy confirmation messages. It goes for $30 / year for a subscription.
The Young and the Neuro
I tried a few months back. Enjoyed a tasty 312 by myself at Hopleaf for my troubles. Perhaps someone with more clout needs to convene?
The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice
yeah. and if you write small, anybody else can likely do it, too. so, you write big and complex, you have barrier to entry. but it's hard. you write small and easy, you dont have barrier to entry. which is hard. welcome to planet earth.
Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks!
Nice... makes we want to spring for a smartphone just so I can see it in action!
It's sort of poignant, in a way. Like, "For sale, baby shoes, never used."
Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease
Guidelines exist and can be viewed here:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I felt that the veracity of the claim itself would be an interesting discussion on HN. It's been talked about on other sites but we tend to have more informative and knowledgeable discussion here than happens elsewhere so I felt that it was worth posting if only to be able to discuss the deeper implications and the nuances of why, specifically something like this may in fact be impossible as claimed.

As the guidelines say: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

There are also some guidelines about the appropriate way to handle submissions that are off-topic which might be helpful to you.
No Snow Leopard support, plus a bad error message that fails to communicate that.

Google owes me 180 seconds of my life back, well I guess they've saved me more than that, we'll call it even.
Don't forget the WWWDOMAIN.COM typo... I think TechCrunch recently had a story about that.

edit: Yah, it was TC that had the story... just visit http://wwwtwitter.com to check it out.
Even after you've spent days tweaking the performance, you are still left with a fundamentally slower engine.
Yeah - I much preferred "The Emperors New Mind" Which covers many of the same themes without the pretentiousness.
Yes! Twitter has singlehandedly changed the game! Before twitter, people didn't communicate online. And you couldn't leak stuff and have it indexed by google.

Of course now everyone, law firms, governments, corporations monitor twitter all day, and base policies and legal precedents on what is trending and what isn't.

It's only a matter of time until we do away with the outdated elections and vote using hashtags.
Where was documentation on with:public hidden? I perused the starter waves, but didn't see anything about that or the group: prefix.
Works in Firefox on Snow Leopard, but not Safari.
memcached

It's short and clearly written. And it demonstrates some neat things, like memory management.
Hackers spend WAY too much time worrying about the desktop OS market specifically.
Visualizing RFID fields
CouchDB first beta is out
There are a lot of people who really enjoy this sort of thing. For example, there are online forums for skyscraper enthusiasts that attract pretty big audiences. I think given the interest out there, it will be successful regardless, for much the same reasons that some people enjoy woodworking as a hobby.

Some way to publicize one's work -- to get more recognition for it -- would certainly make it even more successful though.
I really don't know what I'm talking about, but just throwing out some conjecture on the subject... perhaps this falls under the maxim of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing?" Maybe stopping at figuring out the behavior stems from something that happened to you at age 9 is a bad thing, but perhaps if you took it further somehow, to the point that you were able to let go of the experience, things would improve?
I found it akin to having 100 IRC chatrooms open at one time. It was a bit too overwhelming in that new conversations kept being found/updated/changed.
What this article seems to portray is that retweeting is the same as marching in front of Parliament. The fact is in spite of the heavy retweeting, although it gained the attention of people for a short time, its actual impact is not much more than #MUSICmonday or #Followfriday. The idea that changing the world happens by copy and pasting is something ridiculous - look at Iran for example. I fear that social change over social networks will just be style over substance, further adding to the soundbite culture we live in.

It's good that such an issue is brought into the limelight but the fact is on twitter with just 140 characters there's such a detachment to the realities of a serious issue that it all becomes trivial.
Flagged as misleading. Really gives zero idea what the link is about.
Sure it's obvious until you have hundreds of millions of nodes that each link to somewhere between 100 and 2,000,000 other nodes that need to be updated when any given node updates (assume around 5,000 nodes are updating every second with a power law kind of distribution).

If you think that's obvious, I think you're significantly beyond all of the people with all of the "hello world" twitter clones out there.
3. Get as close to you can to a sugar mountain. Marc Andreesen has always said that you will have the best chances if you are located at the geographic center of your industry.

This article seems to have failed at its own metaphor. A startup sugar mountain is not a geographic location, it is a growing market.
Well, we get to use this nice database too. Except my house is just outside their current coverage area :-/ But if you want a feel for how impressive it can be, try roving around, say, downtown San Francisco.
Awesome!!!

Just sent this link to quite a few people I know and posted to Facebook. Lots of people I know will be thankful you made this.

Much appreciated.
My childhood coming back to me !
Fasterfox: Add-ons for Firefox
The problem is, his statement is false:

"Which brings us, finally, to the One True Way to get a lot of traffic on the web. It’s pretty simple, and I’m going to give it to you here, for free:

Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again."

That isn't the One True Way to get a lot of traffic on the web. It's A way, and not the easiest way. Maybe he thinks it should be the best or only way. Maybe I think it should be. But it isn't. As long as search engine spammers can make a living, they will continue to spam search engines, and simply declaring that that is "bad" is going to have about as much effect as declaring that dealing drugs or prostituting oneself is "bad" has had on those professions.
Ask HN: Would you go to a programming/development/startup workshop by the beach?
So I am from Jamaica, and am wondering if you guys (you are my target market) would be interested in attending programming/development/startup workshops in a tropical location?
I am thinking of a similar structure to 'Big Nerd Ranch', except it will be a more 'relaxed' environment - with the waves crashing in the background and all.

There are many beautiful locations to have these workshops in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, so not all will be by the beach...but you get the idea.

The price range would be similar to Big Nerd Ranch - $4000 - $10,000 - depending on the workshop you sign up for and the location we have it at. Everything would be included except airfare. We would even have a bunch of extra activities included - horse back riding, 18 holes of golf, jet skiis, banana boats, snorkelling, scuba diving, cliff jumping, etc.

The general workshop would be about 5 - 7 days, it would be structured so that there would be a lot of good 'tutoring' along with downtime to allow you to work on your own projects with the knowledge you learn in the workshops and get guidance if needed.

So overall it would be a package of work & play.

Would love to hear feedback on whether or not anyone would be interested and what would appeal to them. What would be make or break, e.g. the quality of the instructors, food, accommodations, extra/included activities, etc.

Thanks.
What do you get out of snarking towards things that really aren't worth snarking towards? There is no live search as valuable as Twitter's. Google doesn't do live search. Stop making up shit that the article said and then making fun of it, especially when so many TechCrunch articles are saying stupid shit.
There is competition, as noted above, plus you might find this interesting (requires a plugin, but worth it) http://www.c3technologies.com/en_demo.php
This rocks - was so upset at the new Metra site and its inablity to be used on any mobile phone platform! Thank you so much! So sad to see they spent 3.9m on a site that you really cant use unless your home on your computer.
an intro:

http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
/raises hand
This is a good look at how high the cost of customer acquisition is in the hosting business. It surely dwarfs their hardware/bandwidth spending.
What carries you up will also bring you down
You're right of course. I should do some work :/ I just get bored with the endless "Twitter is changing the world" output from Techcrunch that's all.

And even if it were true, I don't think mob rule is something to be encouraged.
This link was up earlier today (11:30 AM EDT). The expiry date was listed as 11:59PM EDT on Oct 13.
The author calls this "making good websites," and believes that if you run a website at all, you should be forced to learn about all of this stuff, even if your passion is just for writing. Further, he goes on to say its "obvious." By no means do I agree with him, just letting you know how he'd respond (taken from his response to similar comments on the article.)
The comic would seem to imply there are more than three people who care about Sun per se.
The models you create will be in their 3d warehouse and are keyed to your Google account. So if you're an awesome modeler, unlike me, and/or you live somewhere people want to look at buildings, then your model will rack up downloads among sketchup users.

Incidentally, to make this work the coverage areas seem to have multiple aerial views, not unlike the maps on MS Live (or Bing maps or whatever it is now). Seems as if Google has quietly taken up doing streetview-air.
Thank you for saving me the trouble. Metra's new site is truly a disaster on mobile devices.
"But seriously - there's a pervading myth in the search engine marketing and optimization industry that if you're a good boy, the engines will pat your head and will reward you with fine rankings, even if it may take an incarnation or two. That's unfortunate because not only does it fuzz up the hardcore technological issues involved, it also attracts all sorts of gut level thinkers to the SEM world, flogging their gut level advice ("content is king" being just one pervasive popular myth in question) and confusing each other and everybody else. This is a basically religious, moralistic attitude, and quite an inadequate one when dealing with technological issues." -- Taken from http://www.searchengineblog.com/interviews/interview_ralph_t...
This looks great! I'm already imagining some quick Python scripts I want to write to help automate component selection
I never found any Danno. Someone else pointed me to it.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll be doing a lot of modification of the next month or so.

As far as the pricing goes, I did this because I'm hoping that it is low enough that your standard developer will just open up their wallet and buy the software without worrying about getting their boss's approval. In other words I want the price to evoke a "why the hell wouldn't I buy this" response.

My competitors charge several hundred dollars per seat, but I think most companies end up just buying one or two licenses for their architects. I'm hoping I can make near the same amount of money because a company would look at the price and buy a license for all their developers.

I do hope I'll be able to squeeze more money out of the corporate overlords by having an edition meant to run on a build server, that edition will run $200/server.

I know this might sound crazy, but at least for the time being it is more important for me maximize my number of users instead of maximizing my profits. I want to pay back the .Net community by providing reasonably priced software. I'm not saying I'll never bump my prices, but not in the foreseeable future.
This just looks like a rehash of techcrunch 50.
Thanks . . . I think.

As someone more used to playing in the enterprise backend software space, I figured that combining html, css, and javascript was the hell required to really get into web dev. Plus adding in the "you're either have taste or not" issue for UI design makes professional web dev sound like so much fun.

You mention using a "decent javascript library." Is this the first step these days? I've gone back and forth whether to go from "first principles" vs just grabbing jQuery and having at it.
Works very nicely on my ancient blackberry. Thanks much.

Later, will try it on my hp200lx.
Oh my.
The full pipeline could be a litte much.

I added additional words to filter by like HackerNews and reddit.
Going all the way up to Hopleaf for a 312 that you can buy anywhere in the city is a big fail, Brad.
Metra's site is much improved, but is a total pain on anything but a desktop.
Steve Jobs is more popular than Oprah
Old technology. You can buy a range of such things from industrial suppliers like McMaster. http://www.mcmaster.com/#air-amplifiers/=41ls8s. They tend to be loud and inefficient, but useful in dirty environments where fan blades would get damaged.
I'm going to get downvoted for picking a non-open source option but...

The NT kernel is the most beautiful piece of code I've seen. Dave Cutler and team wrote some very, very elegant code that anyone (even if you're not a kernel hacker) can understand. If I need 'code inspiration', I spend some time looking through their code.

Now, the NT kernel itself doesn't have source out there but for folks who are students, you should be able to get your hands on the Windows Researh Kernel (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/windowsacade...). This has all the good stuff (and is much easier to build too)
Then why is it still being upvoted as of 1:49 PM EDT? I think my comment is still valid...
Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics
Still taking potshots at Sam Sethi and UK Laws... Nothing less could be expected of Techcrunch, I guess...
Seconded. Clicking on numerous train lines/stations simply state there are no available trains for almost the entire week.
I'm down. Thursday evening, anyone?
Can you provide some info or a link on this config change.

Thanks!
I don't think the Trafigura part is especially relevant to HN - corporate misdeeds are covered extensively in other news outlets, and are more Business News or Environment News or Legal News. Don't get me wrong, they seem like an unpleasant corporation, but we could fill the front page many times over each day if we posted every such story.

However, the (mis)use to law to attempt a gagging of the press is a censorship issue, and matters of censorship ad information freedom do seem relevant to HN, so I'm glad you posted it even though I've seen this story elsewhere.
That's where people wanted to meet up! It's ok. I brought my trusty WSJ with me to pass the hour in case anyone showed up.

We should meet at Saluki.
Read link #2 in my comment up top for some insight into why Metra's new site sucks.
Garage Access Systems, Garage Door Opener Systems
The Chamberlain Whisper Drive 1/2 HP Belt Drive garage door opener is the ultimate in quiet performance. It features our exclusive Motor Vibration Isolation System.
Everything online is merely "nice to have" but we are still capable of becoming dependent on it. ie: google/gmail
CSS Class Inheritance: Abstracting Selectors
DVD John's DeDRMS written in C#. It was beautiful, but I can't seem to find the source code right now. If anyone can please share.

--EDIT---

Found it: http://web.archive.org/web/20050315135351/http://nanocrew.ne...
This is handy: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/11/01/innodb-perfor...

Lots of good InnoDB-related posts on their site.
HN readers might find that interesting, not only because of the legal ramifications but because SpyCatcher detailed much (not all) of the UK security services' use of public key cryptography, around the same time that PGP was starting to gain traction in the US and the US government attempted to label the algorithm as a 'munition'. Lovers of cloak-and-dagger spycraft were rather disappointed in the book but it's interesting, if dated, for anyone with an interest in strong crypto.
I bought 8 for $200, resold two for $40 apiece, and sold the rest to friends at cost, because ebay started pulling my auctions.
It's not a pet just because it lives in your garden.
So essentially advertising is parasitic? Perhaps it is, in a way, but without it your chance of getting noticed is slim to none. In other words, success is parasitic.
US gov introduces URL shortening service
Are App Stores Evil?
"no clobber" matches the shell option of the same name.
Congrats james and gee! You guys are gonna kill it.
Hmm...maybe his definition of multithreaded doesn't match that commonly used in the emebdded world. Lots of embedded projects are written in C, many using an RTOS to allow multiple tasks/threads to run concurrently on a single CPU.

Or for Joel, all the world's a PC.
Though you say google doesn't do live search, it took less than 18 minutes for it to get this post.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...