skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This is actually is one of the main points of contention... that the dmd frontend is 'source available.' The community is doing some things to address this, but that's all I'll say.

LDC is a really great project. It's not being abandoned anytime soon, trust me. Those guys are working hard, and they answer bug reports really, really fast. Though I'm admittedly slightly biased, since they use my kernel as a test case.

There are several IDEs that support D, though I can't think of them off of the top of my head, since I use vim. Posiedon?

There have been several intersting D projects, but you're right, more would certainly help. The blog post I linked to's author wrote a little language called MiniD that's pretty interesting, I (and several others) are writing a kernel, etc... but dsource.org can look like a graveyard sometimes...
when will i be able to get a google wave login?
Go further. Why not try living out of a backpack? Why not live in India for 6 months, then Peru for 6 months, then wherever you want. There are no limits.
I often wonder how this sort of mawkish spam continues to have a foothold in the internet.
What's with the 16 colors graphics?
Love your humor.
Did anyone else find that women hard to listen to? She had a jarring quality to her presentation. I'm glad I wasn't there for an hour!
They're right - this won't kill the iPhone by any means, but RIM and especially MS are on notice. Too bad it took 3+ years to release a phone that's not even at parity with the original iPhone. Now we've got to wait for their app store to beef-up.
God Will Help You Prosper If You Ask Nicely
The article argues that all such apps are "swinging for the fences" and I don't completely agree with that. You can plateau a lot smaller than twitter and still benefit from delayed revenue, or alternative revenue models.
MIT researchers develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
Don’t Tell Geico: You May Be a Natural Born Bad Driver
Newer WebKit browsers use the GPU to accelerate css-transform animations (giving your CPU a break). Check out the example on this page in the latest version of Chrome or Safari, for example:

http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/
Just finished the audio version of The Good Soldiers by David Finkel. Awesome book. After "reading" that book, any frustration I have had this week is nothing in comparison to the trials found in "The Good Soldiers".
But in technology this happens not only with PBHs. Many startups are more interested in young people, even if they don't have all the necessary skills, because they can stay on the job 16h/day. While an experienced guy wouldn't do this. Also, startups don't have money to pay for talent, so unless you are a co-founder you won't get paid what you deserve.
Check out a open sourced version written on top of SQLAlchemy. http://github.com/bickfordb/waffle
Hi Michael - I manage Northern CA for SVB. We've had an office in SF for many years now - 1999 to be specific (down at China Basin, but moving to 555 Mission in Q1-ish 2010). Sorry we have not reached-out to you. We have a number of tech, lifescience, VC/PE clients in SF and we are very bullish on the region. Let's talk about how SVB can help technology start-ups. You would never have to leave SF to bank with SVB.

I am in Palo Alto, but I can introduce you to our SF team at your convenience. Call me at 650-320-1113. If I am out, that will forward to my cell phone.
- Mike Selfridge, Head of Northern CA, SVB
The more I think about the video, the more disappointed I become.

You're right: these "genius entrepreneurs" were selling the time of their classmates. The 3-minute slot had no value if their classmates didn't tolerate the fact that their time became a commercial - one which they certainly didn't opt into.

On the one hand, it's probably true that the timeslot they sold was the most valuable thing they had, for the purposes of the demonstration - and on that basis, they get a "gold star" for making the identification.

On the other hand, their actions were questionable at best, and unethical at worst. Imagine, for example, if professors routinely sold part of their lecture time to any startup that wanted a few interns. It's a strategy that doesn't scale, because it erodes trust and reduces the chances that it will work in the future. Therefore, it's a bad strategy and a bad "moral of the story."

Recap: good exercise in identifying valuable things, bad exercise for determining sustainable growth.
Ask HN: Handling NoScript on Your Web Site
So, how do you handle NoScript users on your site if you utilize such functions for required operations on the site? I was thinking about having a redirect that only works if JavaScript is enabled and giving people a warning they need to enable it if they stay at that page, but is there any better method of handling these situations? Are there so many people using NoScript (such as myself) that I should consider it a concern?
you're more than welcome. thanks for being nice about me being a grammar nazi :)
Let a human test your app, not (just) unit tests
A "convince store"? I think I am going to open one of those... then I can just convince someone to give me $10,000 or whatever.
Patience: The little things are faster butthe big things don't change much. Technology does not speed up raising a child, preparing for retirement, learning a language, understanding what my life's about.

"Most of what passes for 'wisdom' is merely knowledge" - Perhaps. But I'd also suggest that many young people wouldn't know wisdom if it bit them on the ass. And no, wisdom can't be "googled".

Faith: No I don't mean trust. And I don't mean religion.

Financial maturity: I'm not saying that old people are "necessarily" anything. But people that have learned to manage their affairs through many decades may have learned something useful. I'm just saying.

Honesty: Personal surveillance? WTF? I'm not talking about stealing candy bars from the corner store. I'm talking about living long enough that you're comfortable being real with the world.

Thrift/self: "There's less and less need for this" Oh really?

Perservance / wit: I do respect and admire the perserverance of someone who's ploughed through four years of graduate school. I have tons of respect for someone who's been on the line for their family/colleagues/whatever for 50 or 60. I find young people often mistake being clever for wit.
Too bad all of the "studies" they discussed were clouded by suggestive comments made to the participants for "ethical reasons." Those darned ethics always get in the way of science and business (well, only sometimes with business).
You know, I almost used "eager" too. English was never a strong subject for me. Come to think of it, neither was math or science or history. ;)
http://xkcd.com/179/

I'm sure almost everyone has seen this anyway, but why not post.
Never underestimate the power of customer testimonials
When I see what Flash does to my CPU on OS X I somehow doubt that it is more efficient.
My grandma's wisdom on marriage "Cooking lasts, kissing don't."

My grandfather and I refinished a cabinet and stained it. He had us smoothing out the stain with our bare hands because the brushes left strokes in the stain while telling me original stains where made from ashes and dirt. Hence the name of stains like burnt sienna. I don't know if he was pulling my leg or just talking crazy, but I love that experience much more than a google search. I still laugh about how crazy that day was.
And when that happens, I expect the talk to be of higher quality. That's the standard I hold myself to, anyway.
Interesting sets of tools. I have one recommendation though...check out Grooveshark instead of Last.fm and let me know what you think :)
Send the GNU GPL to the Amazonia (MySQL, Oracle, licensing)
There is no comparison chart for user experience
I normally hate watching videos to get information, but to the credit of the presenter this video is very concise and quick. The whole thing is insightful.
I'm curious, why don't you want to do the switch to D2? Is it because it's not mature enough?
> You're right: these "genius entrepreneurs" were selling the time of their classmates.

Exactly. But you miss the fact that they already had the time of their classmates to sell. No matter what happened, the classmates would have to sit through 3 minutes from this group.
Exactly; the old now compete with the young. It used to be that people's value morphed from physical capability to knowledge as they aged, but these days, you can keep doing the same work your whole life.

The downside is that you can't look forward to relaxing and coasting on your accumulated knowledge. You can only look forward to relaxing and coasting on your accumulated wealth.
Totally worth the time. But its great, instead of thinking of what you can do with what you're given, think of what you can do with what you already have. The funding money and time you have to do anything is only there as a buffer, a push in the right direction if needed, but that money is not there to fund your work, your ideas are.
once. not twice.
It's just choosing a different life style. I can't imagine a world where everyone is content with what they have.

Some choose to be content and live a nice simple life, some choose to be overly ambitious in constant pursuit of something better, some have no ability to choose and just live with no control over themselves.

It annoys me when someone tries to suggest that a certain lifestyle is ideal for everyone but I guess some need to be reminded that they do have a choice.
Pi is defined as the circumference of a circle of unit diameter. This isn't somehow less correct than the alternative of making that circle one of unit radius. It causes some annoying extra factors (as the PDF points out), but the alternative would cause different complications. The area of a circle, for example, would be r^2*pi/2.
My trainer use that method for more than 50 years: he started at 18 years in 1958. ;-)

Rules are simple: pay $1 and throw ball to basketball basket 6 times. 5-6 hits - $10-$20 worth ball, 4-3 hits - 10c worth prise, 1-2 hits - a sweet.

He started with single ball.
Out of curiosity, what does your 16k a month produce in AdSense revenue?
It's only 6 minutes, but if you want the 10 second version, the winning team sold their 3 minute presentation time in class to a company called Frog Design that wanted to recruit Stanford design students. Frog Design paid $650 for this 3 minutes.

Lessons learned in this experiment: Successful teams did not frame the problem in terms of the $5 limitation. Instead, they thought of the problem in terms of services they could easily provide where salesmanship and timeliness were valued. The most successful team forgot about the $5 limitation and the 2 hour time limit altogether.
She teaches a class at Stanford and offers each team $5 of 'funding' in an envelope. She tells them that once they open the envelope, they have 2 hours to make as much money as they can.

She cites three teams' approaches:

1) First team opens a free stand that offers to check peoples bike tire pressure for free, then charges $1 to inflate if necessary. This team changes midstream to accepting donations instead of charging, and makes more money. Lauded for rapid iteration.

2) Second team makes lots of reservations at local restaurants, and then sells them to people waiting in line for same restaurant. Didn't use the $5 at all. Lauded for realizing that the $5 constraint was artificial, and that using it constrained their thinking.

3) Third team skipped the exercise, and sold their 3 minute class presentation time as a advertisement to a local company. Made the most money. Instead of presenting, they recruited. Lauded for realizing that the 2 hours was also artificially hampering their thinking.

Personally, I found the presentation glib and condescending, and the solutions immoral and dishonest. I'm hoping for good discussion about the issues here, but I would not recommend the video.
Social Media Marketing for car dealers
Will somebody actually call me back? I've been shuffled off to two people so far, none of whom have returned calls .. I can be treated like that at BOFA, and know that they have a branch every 10 feet ...
As product manager for the restaurants product at TripAdvisor, I'd love comprehensive opening hours.
Nice links man, thanks a lot. Got some nice talks from Evan Willians at there. Recommended http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1388
Did you choose the dark blue on dark green color scheme for that adsense unit? :/
hmmm, could be prep for this: http://bit.ly/L1a1Q
Being a Man in the 21st Century (Part 2)
He claims it's tested. Seems improbable though. It would be worth hearing the details.
Evangelist: beware
Spoiler: The team that won got Frog Design to pay $650 for the students to give a 3 minute presentation to the class.
I would love to know why there seems to be such variation in QSB performance. It has been nothing but a dog-slow pile of fail for me and everyone else I know who has tried it, but apparently it works just fine for some people. Quicksilver was always fast for me and now that it is no longer being maintained I have found LaunchBar to be a nice alternative if you don't mind paying a couple of bucks.
Welcome to the web graphics time-warp
You're welcome!!
Musing about downloads in the UK
I'm confused about your point - you seem to be arguing against yourself here.

Yes, there are huge swaths of knowledge that by certain, subjective metrics won't be useful to certain people, but the same could be said about a lot of things. I don't need to know the same stuff that an architect needs to know for example.

I guess the basic fallacy I take issue with is that people are now measuring the value of a person based on the relevance of the knowledge that person has, and I feel that our value as people goes far beyond that.
It's a shame, really. I was looking forward to this site when I saw the title.
Thanks for the synopsis. I'm curious, though, what makes the solutions 'immoral' or dishonest? They seem perfectly legitimate to me.
Right. Silly me. s/U.S./world/g, or go back in time 30 years or so and use Feynman.
The best part is that they're pursuing criminal charges against him.
Nice to see him recommend and praise GetSatisfaction and showing that although they've received quite a beating recently, 37signals/etc, there are customers out there that actually find them useful.
Ron Paul: Let the dollar prove itself
60-80% is typical for industrialized countries. I'd be interested to know if the increase is projected because of shrinkages of rural/small towns or growth in urban population from births, immigration, etc.
It doesn't seem like he uses D anymore. His last two games were written with C# and XNA.
Make some microsite that explains how to do it. Voila.
Steps to fixing any bug
Six steps that should resolve virtually any bug.
See, the problem here is that she hands out two artificial constraints, and then praises the teams who ignore the constraints.

1. Used a device to measure the tire pressure and materials to build the booth and signs. Did they cost less than $5? Maybe. Did it take less than 2 hours to create the booth, the signs, and perform the services? Unlikely.

2. Well done on finding something you can acquire for free and then sell. However: did they make the reservations at 6pm and then sell them before 8pm? If not, the process of making the money took more than the 2 hours allotted.

3. You had two hours. Instead, you spent 2 hours talking to an advertising company and then a week later you sold 3 minutes of your time. Total time used to make $650: a week. In the real world you can't just discount lead time and idle time; that's a mistake made by a lot of starving contractors.

The point of the puzzle is to work inside the constraints. "Thinking outside the box" is a great skill and all, but basically all these teams are doing is finding creative ways of breaking the rules. It means the puzzle isn't "make the most money in 2 hours with $5", it means the puzzle is "find out how far you can stretch these rules without being disqualified". Points for creativity, sure, but that wasn't the problem.
thanks. I would have failed the "winning" team. From my perspective, they made nothing from their two hours. The money was made by the 3 minutes in class which was not part of their 2 hour earning time.
probably the best they can do at 7k

http://wave.google.com/maintenance/images/feet.gif
First of all, D2 is not mature at all. It's like asking "Is C++0x mature enough?"

Secondly, lots of people won't ever switch to D2, even when it's done, because they feel that it adds a lot of feature bloat for very little gain.
it's an obvious generalization... every app is going to be different depending on it's purpose and target customers/users. Your example of plentyoffish is perfect. A site/app like that DEPENDS on having tons of active users, in which case the fastest route to that is free.
That's exactly how I took Zuckerberg's comments.

Zappos also has fewer engineers relative to total staff. Lots of call center people, warehouse, logistics, where the work performance, management, and career paths are more straightforward than for programmers.
There are several reasons. I'll try to list them, but it might not be complete:

- D2 looks and feels foreign to me as a somewhat D1 experienced user

- Templates maelstrom and strong emphasis on them

- D1 grew organically, D2 looks like an academic exercise where stuff is put in just for the sake of it by the people that don't write programs in D at all (Andrei)

- D2 book and Andrei are a filibuster for D2

- Walter Bright listens to Andrei (ok, a smart guy) but he doesn't write D programs, I doubt even Walter writes them (seriously). If you look at his code, it is more of a C in D than D code.

- I have little to no trust in DMD/OPTLINK, LDC/LLVM is what I'm after and that front is D1 only, and looks like it will be

- Lots of people smarter than I am are on D1 also (Tango, namely) - and I don't want to go against the trend since it would isolate me from little support I can get

these are just of top of my head, there are more. General summation could lead to "It just doesn't feel right" - at least for me as a heavy D1 user.
Indeed, accountants looking at this from an accrual perspective would dispute that he made much money at all.
While in theory you are correct, there are a few points to ponder upon:

Laptops are not like stocks or other exchange commodities. As in, their prices won't fluctuate like crazy (unless of course you manage to get pre-order commitments to like 10,000 laptops.) At the scale we are talking about, we have a pretty good idea of what price discounts we'll get. And more importantly - who will be able to deliver them well.

Its important to keep scale in mind.
Of course, you're not comparing fair examples of SWF vs. jQuery. I guess it's ok to ignore the obvious advantages of Flash if you can bash a full features app or animation compared to the Google Wave error page.
One question not asked enough is "why do you want to make a web app?" if it's to do what you love and get paid for it... Then do what you love (make apps) and get paid for it(charge money).

Mark z's goal on facebook was probably not to make millions upfront. He had different motivations and because that came through in his work, the money was merely a side effect.

The mistake some entreprenuers may make is they are driven by what they love as an independent vehicle to monetary success, then choose to make something people won't want to pay for.
http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/78967452/want-to-get-advertis...
They also said those were their goals. They didn't mention their actual turnover. So while Zappos may have lower turnover than Facebook, it's because they're optimizing for that condition. Zappos is explicitly creating a culture of longevity.
He was correct. That pigment came from oxidized (burnt) clay that was originally mined around Siena, Italy. If you visit the city (highly recommended) you should catch a sunset in the piazza there and watch the rays of the setting sun play across the buildings constructed with bricks from this same clay; you will never wonder about the origin of that color again :)
"Thus, the more the dollar is debased, the more capital gains taxes must be paid on holdings of gold and other precious metals. For individuals who may wish to use gold and silver in everyday transactions, this can quickly become a complicated and costly burden."

Ron Paul,

Thanks for not being able to write a single essay without sounding like a complete fucking lunatic with no grip on reality.

Sincerely,
Liberals
I'm as entrepreneurial as the next guy, but jeez. Is it really worth trying to make a bit of money off this? Why not just enjoy the fact that you're helping people out and leave it at that?
I actually find Coke a lot more sweet than Pepsi, which is why I've always preferred drinking Pepsi. To me, Pepsi is a lot more clean and crisp, while Coke is sweet and foamy.

Of course, I'm sure you'll find people fiercely arguing either of the products that have been competing for ages now, so trying to come up with a rubric based on your taste preference is pretty useless.
I'd suspect they are looking into this for their reviews. There are many, many websites that screenscrape the amazon reviews, and try to make you think they were from that site instead.
sure - what is your phone number?
Generators in Objective C
Step out of your comfort zone.

This is fundamental to start change.

If the change is positive this is another story.
Apparently by ignoring the money and the time limit...

Personally I found the latter 2 solutions pretty unimaginative in ignoring the $5. If the exercise is to maximise the $5 (a much harder task it seems) then they seem to have failed.
Boarduino + LCD + Ethernet + Temp monitoring
> The safest approach is just to configure malloc to abort

This seems like a good approach. Could you offer more details? I can do it with the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable in glibc, but is there some better way to do it at link time? In compiling my own code I can use a wrapper, but I'm not sure how to ensure that strdup aborts.
The difference is that when you "google it" you have nothing but a pile of undifferentiated facts and opinions without any context. Just knowing the right book to consult is sometimes a more valuable skill than being able to select the right keywords for a web search. The fact that so few seem to understand the difference between collecting facts and actually mastering a subject is painful to watch.
You have five dollars, two hours, and a three minute slot with a room filled with Stanford students.
The New York Times Blunders Into Linked Data, Pillages Freebase and DBPedia
Lala.com is pretty good too.
It's more about the learning process than it is the few hundred bucks or so.
I agree that Zappos is optimizing for low turnover. I cannot comment on Zappos specifically because I don't know them, I'm just pointing out that some companies optimize for low turnover in a very poor way, so I suggested that how a company achieves its turnover is more important than the turnover itself.

I suspect we are in violent agreement on this, just saying it in different ways.
Who said anything about twice, though? They had 3 minutes and they sold it -- I don't think that means they got another 3 minutes. Now both the students and the instructor might have given them another 3 minutes, but that's not something they could have assumed nor is it somehow wrong.
Hehe, that's PubMatic's color scheme (they automagically optimize)
About 40 bucks. I think it was more back in the good ol' days.
This is the netflix mentality, right? Don't keep anything less than stellar?
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