skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, the Hubble ran on 486 chips at late as last year. Not sure if this last mission upgraded the hardware or not. I believe that the reasoning behind it was that that chipset was more resistant to failure induced by radiation than new hardware, or at least the effects and failure modes where more understood with the older chip. Much less of an x factor.
I don't live in Visual Studio much these days but from a brief look at your website your tool looks great.

Have you spoke to the Jetbrains guys at all? Nitriq looks like it could be the perfect complement to Resharper.
Got one, never mind.
Would it better for me to charge my electronics during my morning commute, by plugging them into the car charger?

A commute long enough to charge your electronics is probably a bigger "sin" than a cell phone plugged in overnight.
Are you kidding? Some corp poisons a whole lot of people, a law firm tries to gag a news organization and thereby rights to free speech and all you can muster is "Meh"?

Come on, now.
Amazon (Joyo in China) don't have Chinese Kindle books. And Kindle doesn't support Chinese characters without hacks yet.

With censorship on print books, China is already the biggest market for eBooks (no copyright though).
Thanks for posting the printable version of the article. Much more pleasant.
Two Reasons Why Twitter May Not Be Worth So Much to Google and Microsoft
Having an intuition for the scope of a task, and for the likelihood of being able to complete it using existing components, is part of being a good programmer. His post would seem to imply that the only acceptable way to write big software is to stumble into it by accident.
You are right, in fact a game theory prof I heard lecture brought this very example up.
The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The first is insanely superior. The second just really really good.
I haven't really talked to anyone outside a few friends. It would be great to get acquired though :)
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This idea came to me as a tweet, but was way too long for a tweet.

No it wasn't...

"A lot of small things tied together intelligently is often better than one big thing."
Have you ever seen a social bird?
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I am thinking of the words opters and non-opters to describe such people. Lucky/unlucky would mean they have better odds at games with random elements such as roulette, or better chance of walking over money on the street or so on.

[Edit] As jodrellblank replied that would mean a person for which the laws of probability/statistics do not apply. [/Edit]

opter - n. A person(or agent) who is good at seeking opportunities and is able to take advantage of them.
I wonder if Steve Ballmer considers this 1.5% as also a rounding error...
It seems like the phone 'knows' when it is fully charged, so why don't phone manufacturers simply disable charging once it is full?
So far Google Wave is like Google Docs with a better diff if not using extension. It will replace Google Docs before it can even replace Gmail.
Your username is venturegiant. The url of the post is venturegiant, and you're commenting as if you're talking to a 3rd person?

Your intro video (which is actually kind of annoying) says you are the "leading online solution for pitch ideas" (or something like that). Yet it looks like the site has been up for about a year. Quite an accomplishment that is...

Oh, and it looks like I have to pay a fee to get any real value out of the site.

Just what the industry needs, more fee-based VC "helper" services out there masquerading as something useful.
Github down
It is not just down. It is completely down. There does not seem to be a http server running even. I just get a connection refused.

Anyone know what happened? Migration issues?
Incredibly, she hasn't monetised her site and hasn't put amazon affiliate links for every book on there
Parcel this up as a message about making your own luck or being determined, taking advantage of opportunities or consciously priming your selection bias in your favour, and some kinds of people are all over it.

Parcel up the same message as positive thinking, cosmic ordering, the law of attraction or subjective reality, and the same types trip over themselves to be the first to ridicule it.

And it does seem to be the same core message.
I really really doubt twitter had anything to do with anything here.
IPhone app (Viper) lets you start your car
I always thought it was a mistake to position your business as if your product was a "must have", mainly because it's not.

Treat it as a "nice to have". That will force you to do everything else better.

A lot of people have learned the hard way in the past year that very little is a "must have".
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I expect the MSM to try and keep their audience entertained with this inane charging your electronic crap is killing the earth meme. But I would think HN is the one place this meme would not be able to infect. Am I wrong?
Is it OK to link to Print-format pages?
Occasionally, posted URLs link directly to pages intended for printable output, excluding advertisements, links to other features of the site, and other browser-oriented niceties.

On one hand, it's true that nobody much likes ads, and multi-page articles are annoying.

On the other hand, the folks that are actually creating the content need their ad revenue to stay in business, and from an artistic point of view, it seems proper to let them display content as they wish.

Should submissions link to the "native" page, or is it OK to link directly to print-formatted pages?
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Lucky/unlucky would mean they have better odds at games with random elements such as roulette

If you define 'lucky' as someone for whom physics/statistics do not apply then you make it a pretty meaningless term for the real world.

or better chance of finding money on the street or so on.

This is what the article is talking about - the chance of money being on the street stays the same, the 'lucky' person is more likely to spot it.
OK, and how much options would you give?
I see we take different things from this. I personally don't think that there is anything fraudulent going on, and don't want to be accusing anyone of anything. And, I don't care in the slightest either way really so let's stop indenting a nicely formatted article :)
I don't know what that is, but you could use a MIDI pedal and hook it up with some controller software!
I get paid to make good technical decisions.

Used web-service based architecture; small independent modules, each with a light json-rpc based API.
That idea has a name, and it is "Unix". qmail remains my favorite example of this philosophy put into practice.
Heh. I read this as a travel-safety tip, "Avoid Exposing Currency [...]", which made the last two words amusingly surprising. :) Perhaps that doesn't work if you're a native English speaker, though.
They do.

But the switching power supply that regulates the mains voltage to 5v (or whatever is required) is always on, and although they are extremely efficient the loses do add up.

Arguably it should be possible for the phone to switch off the supply before the switching power supply, but this will add complexity and cost to the product. And because the power supply is normally seperate from the phone some kind of signalling from phone to power supply would need to be implemented. Again adding complexity and cost.

As mentioned in the article, http://www.withouthotair.com/ is well worth the read, and will help you understand what is actually worth doing to lower energy use and carbon footprint.
(The book is considerably better than the appearance of the website would suggest!)
I've always been amazed at people who can read books very quickly. By comparison, I'm a slow reader, and I find myself reading paragraphs over and over since I rush it a bit.
This was one of the best talks at the Future of Web Apps. Well worth a watch.

I found the HTML5 forms demos much more interesting than the canvas (Flash killer) demos.
Ask HN: Open source 3G phone?
Seems like every carrier has the 3G USB dongle for $40-60/mo. I would love to have an open source phone that lets me plug a dongle in and connect to my voip service dujour. For an open device with network portability I think I would be willing to sacrifice a little form factor. Is battery life the real killer for a device like this?
But if you're doing the commute anyway (you sinner)...
Yes, it sounds like some bad stuff. But not frightening IMHO. I'm not worried :/
Saving the environment is a task that's too difficult for one person to understand, so anything that seems slightly inconvenient is good enough to satisfy most people's "needs". Changing when you charge your cell phone is a lot easier than planning your life to be lower-impact.

(I love all the SUVs filled with one grocery bag at Whole Foods. Do you really think that buying some locally-grown organic carrots offsets the energy you spent driving your military vehicle 3 blocks?)
the sheer pervasiveness of digital interception/intrusion tools

Are you claiming that given physical access to the transport medium digital communication is easier to intercept than analog?
I don't know whether to point out the article is arguing against that it's killing the earth or question if you even opened the link before responding. I thought hn was the one place the latter was avoided (and hey, why comment if you disapprove of the thread's popularity?).
50 amazing tech start-ups of 2009
Looks like it- http://www.justin.tv/startupschool
Pretty diverse list of companies

http://nyfi.observer.com/politics/464/startup-incubator-vari...
I leave my phone plugged in overnight, and when I get to work, I have it plugged into the USB drive on my computer. On the occasion where I'm driving, I've got an Alpine stereo with an iPhone adapter, and a mount for my phone, so I leave it plugged in there.

I haven't done any hard numbers, but my battery capacity doesn't seem like it's worn down from when I got the phone over two years ago.

Nonetheless, there are definitely more important things to worry about whether you're looking to cut back on your electric bill, or are trying to be more 'green.'
I suppose you can sort 50 blogs in some way. But I doubt there are a total of 50 biotech blogs worth reading. 50 is a large number if you're looking for intelligent writing.
What's worse, having your account suspended or having to read that message explaining the reasoning? Talk about adding insult to injury...
Connectivity problems between their front- and backend servers.

http://twitter.com/github/status/4835070431

http://twitter.com/github/status/4835640473
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Optimizing for your software project becoming big is the same as optimizing a car to hit a rock wall - you are optimizing for failure

No you're not. You're optimizing a car that can survive running into a rock wall. If that's what the car needs to do, you're doing exactly the right thing. If, instead, it needs to get people places, or be fuel efficient, or drive over 120mph, then you're probably doing the wrong thing.
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Maybe it is more valuable as a part of the puzzle that is Lenoardo da Vinci. We never got a chance to hang out with the guy, so piecing together everything he did in his lifetime gives us some sort of context to appreciate and learn about a human genius.
The submitter is a blog-spammer. Flag it and move along.
Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
I realized recently that it's been a long time since I looked at anyone else's code outside of the context of debugging or working on it for hire. In your opinion, what are some examples of particularly well-designed or implemented software projects worth looking at to broaden one's own horizons as a programmer?
The solution to such a problem is pretty simple (and what they've done in Holland): Force everything to go through a single General Practitioner (of their choosing).

This makes it a lot more difficult for hypochondriacs to needlessly exhaust resources (like specialists), since the GP is aware of the patient's history of complaints.

It has lot of other nice side effects as well, as I'm sure you can imagine.
1. Puppet - being able to roll out a new server in a few minutes on either ec2, external networks connected to our vpn or locally is magic. Having our server definitions version controlled is seriously powerful.

2. AWS - enough said.
Consider your energy sources too, here in ontario my power is coming from a mixture of Hydro and Nuclear. Plugging anything into my car to charge is most definitely worse, as you're then trading relatively clean energy sources for a car engine.

If your power comes from a coal/oil plant, it's a rather harder decision, which depends on your vehicles efficiency. However, it's most certainly going to use more fuel (and thus cost you more) than it would take to receive the equivalent electricity.
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They may have kept the restaurant open and just closed the drive-thru lane. That's pretty much killing your lunch business, but the store is still effectively "open".

[And yeah the coupon thing is still there. I once spent half an hour arguing with a woman who knew about this fact and was trying to convince me a free Strawberry Shake was equivalent to a free Slurpee coupon she was holding. Had to say no to that one.]
"If told they were testing a drug, warned of its side effects, and then given a sugar pill, then of course the mind (which was tricked into thinking it got medicine) would give both the healing boost and the side effects. Pretend that it had none, and the patient probably wouldn't feel any."

Have there been any studies investigating your claim that you know of?
wow! keep with the good work, captain obvious.
sure they do!!! that´s why they grew that big! if a regular site sends you that crap, it is spam... if your pals send it, you cannot just say no.
Real backups mean that at some level you can't delete that data

It goes even farther than that:

Real backups mean that at some level you can recover that data
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Obviously it is a single unified effect, however it is still very interesting that placebos would cause negative side effects through suggestibility. I personally had always thought of the placebo effect as being a positive thing, but as it turns out it can work just as easily to cause negative side effects as positive side effects.
Waiting for take-off ...
I first did this decades ago, but still occasionally do it just for fun.

While waiting for a flight in the gate lounge (the waiting was in the gate lounge, not the flight) I was idly thinking about the acceleration during take-off. Plane accelerates, you get pushed back into your seat, surely there was some way of measuring that.

Obviously you can have a pendulum and measure the angle during take-off, but then you need a protractor, and a calculator that can take the tan of the angle, and it all seems very difficult.

Then I realised that if the pendulum hung on a ten by ten square, the marks across the bottom were effectively units of m/s^2. 45 degrees is 1 gee which is about 10m/s^2, and it's linear in the tan of the angle, etc, etc, so the system is effectively calibrated.

So take a piece of card, mark about 1/12 of the distance from the bottom top right corner up, replicate ten times, cut a notch, hang the pendulum from there. Mark the same distance ten times across the bottom and hey presto, a callibrated plumb-bob accelerometer.

Now use during take-off. (Yes, you do get some funny looks). In the first 5 to 10 seconds the acceleration ramps up roughly linearly to reach about 3 m/s^2. That's held for about 25 to 30 seconds, so all up we get:

V = 1/2*(5*3)+25*3
= 90m/s
~ 160 kts.

Spot on.

The result was really lucky, because in truth the plane bounces around and the pendulum swings wildly. It's tough to dampen the swinging and get accurate measurements, but it's amazing how accurate it turns out.

For extra credit - roughly how much runway was used?

EDIT: All this was to rotation - not to take-off. Once the place tips up a plumb-bob accelerometer is somewhat compromised!
$109,000 and change. For 23 one-bedroom apartments and a third-floor dormitory with 18 sleeping rooms and a communal area. It was built in 1928 by a Cincinnati architect as a dormitory for the women's business college that has since evaporated (I believe it is now the Wayne County Historical Museum).

There's another 18-unit building for $179,000 with all hardwood floors, big units, French doors, these all have balconies - it could be sweet! (The realtor lady thought this idea was pretty exciting, for obvious reasons.)
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Carter Ruck were trying to suppress anyone knowing about the report, to such an extent that they tried to stop the Guardian reporting on a parliamentary question that spoke about it. Twitter, fueled from the outrage in regard to gagging the Guardian, started to link to that report extensively.

The longer Carter Ruck decided to persue this course of action, the more Twitter would link to the report. Therefore, it was wise for Carter Ruck to remove Twitter's fuel. It was wise to stop attempting to gag the Guardian. (Attempting to sue all those on Twitter would be unfeasible, and suing Twitter itself would add even more fuel to the fire)

I have no proof this is what Carter Ruck thought. But it's certainly a logical and sensible course of action for Carter Ruck, which makes it likely.
For similar services sure, or services which rely on others even if they aren't similar. BK went down and all of a sudden Twitter's throwing 503's. Coincidence, or strain on backend resources from users fleeing to their back-up social network?
for a bit more of an idea about what I was thinking about,

http://techmeetup.co.uk/blog/ are meetups that are ran in scotland by hassy and sam collins, we have had a good few bunch of speakers so far and its been incredibly useful just knowing what everyone is up to, the pizza and beer help as well.
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It's interesting to measure damage compared to specialized news coverage.
This doesn't seem to say anything more than the dozen or so other submissions about this event:

http://searchyc.com/sidekick?sort=by_date
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To give an alternate opinion. You should read through the first dialogue and the following chapter, then decide for yourself. Maybe skip ahead a bit. I read half of it sitting in a library when I didn't really have time to read it, it presented ideas I hadn't thought before. I hadn't heard of figure and ground, at least not generalized, so I enjoyed noticing that my conversations jumped around the subject rather than being on the subject. I also hadn't heard about recursion before, so...

If the writing engages you then you and presents interesting ideas, to you, in a non-obvious way, then it is worth reading.
They do switch the active charge circuit off but they still waste electricity. For that matter leaving the charger plugged in with an LED light on wastes electricity as well, but as the article pointed out the KW per year measurement is so infinitesimally small that you can do more for the environment by skipping a hot shower.
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I'm pretty sure it's easy to realize $300 for a table fan is pricey even without being able to check out a bunch of other choices.
Top-tier VCs and their spin-offs have generally had excellent reputations, which they strive to preserve. At the other end, successful entrepreneurs who later choose to seed selective startups are the best "angels" because they look to add value to a process they understand (and from which they seek to profit as the startup profits). In between are the lower-tier VCs and the "organized" angels - a no-man's land that has occasional pockets of opportunity but that is more often than not treacherous for startups who may wander into it.

My experience with institutional angel investors is that they should be approached with great caution. Some may offer value but caveat emptor.
Interesting theory, but come on. I doubt they know what twitter is.
It's not like there isn't close to a 3/4 million lines of code in JRuby.. Nothing quite like practicing what you're preaching. (The naive code count is something like 250,000 lines of java, 560,000 lines of ruby, 14,000 lines of yaml(?!) and about 2400 lines of xml. About have the ruby is in tests. I just piped 1.4rc1 through "wc -l")

It's almost like he's trying to prove the converse of his thesis. Not to be mean here, but he's a fairly junior level developer, he's a younger guy who done some things but not done that much. I've worked on some very large, highly profitable projects and we always knew use-cases and requirements long before we got in to the project. There are tools that allow not-great engineers to produce good stuff. There are also great engineers which are capable of dealing with the astronomic complexity of a large project and it turns out that people pay a lot more money for software that solves problems that they can't otherwise solve. If there is a simple solution that satisfies the requirements and beats the competition, then more power to you. Unfortunately, many complex problems have complex solutions.
When some people still can't even use a mouse properly (taking 10 seconds to close a window etc), I wonder how they expect people to learn to use more than three fingers in coordination. Most of us don't even bother using mice because it's so inefficient anyway (unless you're doing something graphical). Nice demo though.
This is rather easy to tell. Leave your charger unplugged for an hour and feel how cold the plastic gets, then plug it in to let it idle. If you have a switching charger it should stay around roughly the same temperature as when it was unplugged, if it feels like it gets warmer then that means it's in idle and not switched off.

The flat-form transformers used in most cell chargers are rather inefficient, so the temperature difference tends to be more than expected. However when you're dealing with ~9W maximum, it's likely more energy efficient to produce a less efficient transformer than consume extra time on the production line.
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...chance of finding money on the street or so on...

Sorry, I was not clear. I meant that the there will be money in the street. Not that they will find them. I will edit my post.
I recently got the Kill-a-Watt to test electricity usage by different devices. My laptop uses a mere $13 worth of electricity per year (And that is assuming that I leave it on constantly rather than closing the lid and letting it hibernate). Modern computing devices have become so efficient that they make little impact. If you want to save energy it is better to look at your refrigerator, stove, AC, and the other major electricity burners.
Lock the computer.