skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any hope that someday people will stop to think that more Mpx is more quality? It's just bigger size, that's all.
And if more Mpx are crammed on the sensor of the same size, that usually means more noise too.
If your primary revenue stream will be ads (and I hope it isn't) then you should probably run them as soon as possible. I think you should launch with ads and make a concerted effort to find a new revenue model as soon as possible.

an off-the-cuff (and probably bad) metaphor:
It would be insane for new restaurant to give away excellent food (a useful, ad-free site) for its first few months, and then once it had a strong clientele, start charging for a product that is not as good (same site, loaded down with ads).
patio11 --- are you going to roll your own CrazyEgg now?
I found it interesting that javascript with canvas works on the iphone. (Albeit slow on my 3G only ~5fps - and since it uses keyboard control, you can't get out of the cage.)
Another interesting factoid: if you select people 25-44 with college degree, you can improve your score by selecting women instead of men.

Who would have thought? Educated women are doing better than educated men? I like it.
Once I got to the second screen, crouching and shooting one of the guards prevented me from getting back up. I could still shoot, but none of the other buttons were responsive and I got stuck in a crouched position.

Amazing for javscript! Yay HTML5
I haven't tried gity, so I can't comment either way. But I can recommend gitx, it's great.
No excuse really not to be running it.

That's actually something I really admire as a developer in the OS X platform: the users upgrade quickly making it easy to take advantage of new technologies.
Wow very interesting link.
Agreed - I'm a little confused about how to use it because I couldn't find the documentation.

I'm wondering how much of an impact on site load something like this would have. Thoughts?
I don't think the LHC is breaking because it will kill everyone. Science seemed to conclusively decide that there was 0% probability of that happening. As another explanation, that leaves some type of external force preventing the LHC from working. Perhaps if we are living in a computer simulation discovering the Higgs Boson could help reveal the exact nature of that simulation, threatening the very existence of our universe.
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This only means the LHC can't kill you; it doesn't make you immortal. The LHC will continue to fail, but you're free to leap from the Empire State Building and have several people observe you die in that particular reality.
Wiring typically has ~100% safety margin built in, however this cannot be counted on. If your wiring takes 15A, it should in theory handle 30A safely. HOWEVER, any nick or sharp bend in the wiring can increase resistance in the wiring, or even worse decrease the electrical resistance of the cable insulation. Heat also amplifies this problem, so an overloaded wire handling 30A in the cold of a Siberian winter might not handle it in a sweltering summer.

The safety margin is there for safety, just like how skydivers have a reserve chute, it doesn't mean you should rely solely on your reserve day after day.

Personally I would never overload house wiring, it's just not worth the risk. However I do occasionally overload extension cords (they have the same ~100% safety margin) for certain quick tasks where the cable doesn't heat up, but I'd certainly never push a 15A cable to 30A . . . I got close to something similar, a 14A appliance on a 8A extension because I was a moron and didn't read the label.

Also it's good to note that, not all cabling or extensions have the 100% safety margin, this margin is in place so that any defective products should still meet the minimum requirement.
Shunting-yard Algorithm
Does a Compiler Class Still Matter?
I think the take-away point is that this system would provide a way to have (one or more) communities within the community. The various subcommunities would overlap and cross-pollinate, so to speak, but if there were a small community of serious thinkers, they'd generate interesting talk on their own. This doesn't exclude the larger community - in fact, it permits the existence of a larger community to continue, and occasionally to cross over into the inner community.

I'm not expressing this well, on reading back over it. But I think you're miscontruing the point. It's not that online communities die because there are too many sub-par people; it's that that many sub-par people dilute the original community and everybody throws up their hands and finds another place. This allows the original community to persist amid the din.

'S perfect. I like it.
I had issues with my WPA2 keys in 9.10. Could not get my router to accept my password. I downgraded back to 9.04 were everything works flawless.
>Free software is supposed to improve with each new release. Take OS X, which gets faster. Cleaner. Better.

Funny, my experience has been just the opposite...

(before you downmod: I'm referring to 10.6, and yes I know it's been fine for some people and not fine for others; this is my personal experience)
I installed 9.10 on my MacBook Pro yesterday. My main issue was that I couldn't get the non-free wireless drivers started without uninstalling and installing a package followed by restarting.
But the LHC can't kill you is because if it does, it would be unimportant since I wouldn't be around to observe such a reality right? So all realities I observe are those which I am conscious in right?

So if I jump of the Empire State Building, I die. However that reality no longer matters because my consciousness no longer exists in it. But another reality where I didn't jump off, I'm still conscious, therefore it's all I remember.

Am I getting this right guys?
Picked one up yesterday.

Has a nice heft to it, it's very snappy, and the screen is _beautiful_.

The turn-by-turn works well, and the voice recognition is _phenomenal_.

Oh, and the camera sucks (in bright light it's not bad, but in low light, it's unusable).
I don't think you have much to worry about if you pursue C/C++ right now. The paradigms in C++ carry over to Java and other OO languages pretty easily. When I said it's a lot easier to learn the second language after learning your first, I meant it. Once you get one language down (and I mean actually get it down), the concepts pass from one language to another fairly easily. From there, you're just learning syntax and some of the oddities of the language of your choosing. It took me probably two years to really learn Java, but I learned Python in 6 weeks. I was able to sit down and be productive in php after reading about it over a weekend. Ruby (on Rails) took me about a month to learn. COBOL was probably a week. Now I'm learning C and Assembly without really being taught much C and Assembly, just the concepts behind them that differ from what I'm used to. My point is, I stuck with Java for two years until I really got my head around it, then I moved on to other languages with relative ease. I can only imagine that becomes easier with time, not harder.

I definitely think it's a good idea to learn other languages, but what, exactly, is your goal? Are you trying to understand CS concepts better, or are do you just want to learn another language?
The many-button mouse is appealing as way of reducing movements between mouse and keyboard.

But it's even better to just stay on the keyboard and skip the mouse altogether. Mice have to be the number one source of computer-based tendon injury. Fortunately, the standard laptop is relatively "ergonomics".
> What's amazing, however, is that we're almost 3 years past Steve Jobs' first demo of the iPhone at Macworld, January 2007. I still can't believe how well they nailed it, first time.

Let's not forgot that many features were missing from the initial iPhone release, and that there were rumors of the iPhone for years (i.e. how long were they working on it pre-release?). I imagine that the internals could have been a mess too; there was no SDK for that initial release other than "Use AJAX and Safari to make Web Apps for the iPhone! Yay!".
I just did try it. Gitx has nothing to fear for a while.
Unless you're on a PPC processor.
It sure looks like a 3D rendering to my eyes.
GitX has a Snow Leopard userbase of 61%, so I'm not sure if it would be worthwile to make it Leopard-compatible. I don't think many users would upgrade to SL only for Gity, though some participants of the GitX user survey said they would if GitX were to require SL, so maybe I'm wrong.
They should have just put a laser tracker under a keyboard. Then you'd have a 104-key mouse and you'd never have to move your hands again.
Is that due to "Java vs. ObjectiveC/Cocoa" or is this an evaluation of the actual APIs?
Head First iPhone Development
Ya know, as soon as I hit reply, I knew I should have tried the arrow keys. Thanks for the confirmation. :)
Are you sure Gity is the same thing as Gitty?

Gity (this app, by Aaron somthing) and Gitty (a different app, http://macsamurai.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-new-project-gitty...., by Colin Wheeler) have similar names, but I don't believe they are the same applications.
I read another review that put the browser performance as better on the iPhone.
Do you have any specific examples? I've been bumping up against this wall a bit lately and have never tried Debian.
I'd actually be interested to have the area where my wrists make contact with the keyboard be responsive like a large version of the old Thinkpad "TrackPoint" cursor dot thingy.
This article is a good example of innumeracy on top of personal bias.
The undeniable proof of the blog posting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougerino/4077512246/

Blog posting of worse comedic quality than the actual mouse and if he is serious well then I fear for his logical thinking.
In that case, you're using a machine thats 4+ years old and its about time for an update. Especially if the machine is being used for development.
Interesting library. Thanks for sharing!

One question though: where does the screenshot of the item which has been clicked on come from? As far as I understand your lib does not provide any means to create a screenshot? Is this correct? Would it be possible to add this? If not could you explain how you would make sure the coordinates and the screenshot at any given time match?

Just curious and interested in using your library :)
Check it yourself. Click the title and visit the site. Click the picture to view screenshots and around two images in, you can see the title of the application is "Gitty."
Did anyone notice this is Glamour magazine?
i'm trying to follow your last paragraph.

"while it is funny to talk about how unlikely these events are ..."

individually the scenarios may be highly improbable - but as a category, aren't there more ways a mechanical failure point could play out at the macroscopic level, than ways the particle collision event could spontaneously "mis-manifest"?

"The universe is not going to reach out across 10^52-ish planck instants to do something like drop bread on a machine weeks before it would be brought up"

a universe could reach out two weeks before, or a week plus 1 femto second, or it may drop cheese instead of bread, etc. - aren't there more histories like this across all the many-worlds, than ones involving last-moment quantum weirdness?
It depends. The problem with the many worlds theory (which I don't subscribe to) is there are many variations. One would be that there are variations of reality only specific to you. Another is that variations of reality exist but continue their course regardless of your interaction with them. The article is funny because it mixes a silly concept with a proven one, that of observation having a bearing on reality.
To be fair, a parser shouldn't by written by "anyone without extensive experience with parsers," and it was unethical for his company to sell such a thing.
I currently use git and the command prompt on my mac. I use the GitGUI on the PC (it kills me using cygwin... I fail and complying to the minor differences). I would be interested in a new GUI option for the mac, I just haven't found anything yet. (I know GitX, maybe I'll check it out again)

I would definitely try this if it were out for 10.5. I'm using 10.5.8. Only because I'm waiting for more complete support from dev tools and dev projects that I use. If 95% of my dependencies and tools work, then I'd still have to find or replace 5%. I can't think of anything that 10.6 offers that is going to offset having to pull code straight from the repository, build, and potentially debug. 5 or 10 years ago, when I was younger, I would have switched immediately and taken on all that extra work. Not anymore. I still consider myself an early adopter.

EDIT: Changed order of text
The standard laptop is hardly ergonomic. The trackpad and pointing devices are somewhat helpful but the keyboards are all (without exception) terrible for extended typing. You're much better off getting a separate keyboard with the left and right halves of the keyboard angled inward so that hands and arms can remain in alignment.
This will be really great for designers who do a lot of formating and dragging things around the screen with little typing. You could set borders, padding, alignment, columns all sorts of things to make documents look really nice.
If you remove all the jokes in the list, you basically get the Apple corporate roadmap for the past ten years.
Jacob Appelbaum & Donald Knuth Demonstrate The Recursive Homeboys Principle
Thats a pretty cool interface to present all that data.
Previous iteration of this was discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360555
Gaia GPS 2.0 is live in the App Store now - sale price: .99
Let's not go here. This road madness lies.

A zero-tolerance policy is needed regarding:

1. stories about police abuse/brutality (tasering stories, etc)

2. anything the guardian publishes

3. inflammatory political dilemmas

Once we go there, we can't go back. So be a good citizen, and flag this post.

Thank you.

Ignore this warning at your own peril.
I checked it out today, I was disappointed with the keypad, which is important to me as I have big hands. The Droid keys don't have much separation and aren't raised like Blackberry's.

If you buy it online the $100 rebate is instant and you can score another $50 off if you are a new Verizon customer or if you're existing and are out of contract.
I really don't understand the point of this article and also lately these kind of articles. People want to write for the heck of writing. All the basic courses are still relevant and valid. for ex. if there is no compiler course then people don't know how to build compilers. If there are no compilers or interpreters, you cannot write code (it will be useless because you cannot convert your code to machine language). Then there will be no products and no innovation.
I meant to mention giving your services to schools free/cost of expenses. You cite a 10x price range, so I'm assuming schools are at the bottom, other venues middle/top.

How much do you promote? Scott Berkun (and let's take another minor tech celebrity, Merlin Mann) does a fair amount of blogging, writing and other public communication to effect the talks side of the business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle
The "Gitty" in the screenshots is the name of the folder the repo is stored in, not the name of the application. Confusing choice on the authors part? Yup.

http://img.skitch.com/20091107-8pwm7hbtsrhc1gs2pn7kk4ba59.jp... is a screenshot after I cloned a repo, for example.
Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox (Closure) to all
This is huge. I've been wanting Closure as OSS ever since I interned at Google. The compiler is optimizing -- it is not a simple obfuscator like YUI Compressor.
This isn't a tech article. It's a women's fashion article.
Very cool! This will be awesome for usability testing.

I like the name too, in fact I liked it enough to create a jQuery templating plugin with the same name a few months ago ;)http://github.com/fitzgen/tempest/
I enjoyed your Django and OpenID talks at Webstock in 2008 - they fit the conference and audience perfectly. However Webstock is a 400 person conference hosted in a remote part of the world. I'm not convinced that the niche of conferences that want speakers for such technical topics is large enough to support an agency you described.
Yeah, and a year later they had the app store, and they nailed that.

That's the exact point of the guy you replied to. Apple doesn't always win feature battles, but it always wins in terms of how perfect its existing features are.
Yes! And this would also help to have a better marketing. News media won't talk every six months about a new Ubuntu OS, but they might do it once every two years. And they would talk about a stable realse. So, we would have happier users and better marketing.
eerie premonition:

We'd all feel better about shelling out the bucks
for a Power Mac 9600 if we could get a tower with leopard spots.
haha! awesome, everybody's playing my port! :)
Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up. And here I thought I found an "Aha!" on the author.
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that it is annoying that you can't have a successful women without focusing on how she looks.
I've seen a lot of articles on Mayer before. She's not at all an unknown. It's just that those weren't submitted to Hacker News, and this was.
I know that until, say, 3 years ago, I wouldn't know a thing about parsers, and if they boss wanted a scripting language, I would have parsed the whole thing by hand in C. It would have been a total nightmare to maintain (and develop) and would have been awful.

Now I know about lex and yacc and I know what a parser really is. If everybody at the company was a bunch of random engineers or something with no experience with language design or parsers, its totally understandable that something like that could happen.
This is just another drop in my bucket of suspicions about aspects of creativity and intelligence. Stress free and confident individuals tend to be more creative and intelligent than those that are constantly angry and stressed out.
Maybe... except it's horribly ugly. I don't know any designers that would use it. They'd immediately reject it for the aesthetics alone.
WTF? Weird Alexa Facebook Stats
It says: I am the person Ramiro dis on the air
About I am the person Ramiro dis on the air (facebook.com): Everyone it's time for me to come out and let you know I am the one who Ramiro dis on the air. Not Crazy Ace. He tell people that Crazy Ace and I am one person. As Ramiro has anyone been calling in and playing the dis. To me I wanted him to see how I felt. All you had to say I don't have slam jam by Crazy Ace but you took it to far. Crazy Ace was trying to make has life a litter better and you just made a fool out out of your radio station. I will not good to your level. I am a better man then that. The only way I will Stop is you bring me to the station and put me on the air and you can tell everyone what a big fool you and your staff was. And then you can say how sorry you are and you will not hurt any one else. That's what real men do. Not the kid game you played.
Last PPC macs were G5 towers in August 2k6, which have plenty of power... And raw beefy system specs aren't really that much of a need for people doing e.g. Ruby coding because hey, Ruby is slow anyway. And the cross-section of people who use Git and people who code Ruby is quite large. http://github.com/languages
This is interesting I would have suspected that exclusion would have resulted in a lower pain threshold and higher sensitivity.
his house looks like something out of a disney (or pixar) movie. based on the photos, the inside looks equally interesting.
I never set up cable when I moved into my apartment. I just got internet (through TWC). I sometimes miss being able to channel surf through the few channels I did actually watch, but that's just as easy to do with Hulu. The commercials are shorter, there's less of them, and I can watch at my leisure. Like the OP, I get annoyed watching TV at other people's houses now since cable is completely overloaded with commercials.
Chrysler nearly went under in the late 1970s and came back to lead its industry

Uhhh...
This comes 3 weeks to late for me but I will definitely rewrite something to use this instead of my half-assed workaround. Will message you with hopefully tasty screenshots once I am done.
Hey openoffice mouse, I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish. But iMac's hockey puck was one of the ugliest mice of all time.

edit: seriously, I'm joking.
I currently do zero promotion, all invitations being by word-of-mouth or repeat visits. I have a near full-time technical day-job, and the talks I give are over-subscribed. I'm trying to work out a model that would let me continue to do 80 to 100 talks a year to schools and their ilk, while somehow getting enough top-range gigs to replace the day-job.

Problem is, for the type of talks I do, I'm not sure there's much of a top-range market. They're really aimed at enthusing school kids, and I'm not sure anyone would pay usd1000, let alone usd5000, for my types of talks. I guess that's what I would need an agent for - to create the market and get them.

Well, I'm currently still tied to the day-job for a year or so (MBO, director, share-holder, conditions attached, etc) so I have time to work out the model. Interesting challenge - you've made me re-think.

If anyone here is interested in seeing me in action, drop me an email and I'll send you a list of my engagements so you can find one near you. Currently UK only, or possibly Atlanta sometime in March.
I haven't used the iPhone much so I can't give a good comparison to that. I came from a Treo, and have been a Palm user for about 10 years.

I knew when I bought the Droid that there would be things I'd be missing that I took for granted on Palm. I was right. There are configuration options that seem to be missing completely, like the ability to order contacts by last name. I was also surprised that using an unlock pattern disabled the mute toggle on the lock screen.

I also miss synchronization with my Mac. I think The Missing Sync should work on it soon, but the current prerelease does not.

I agree with ckinnan that the keypad is awkward, and unlike him I have small hands. I've been using the virtual keyboard and it's been working all right.

The email application does what I need it to, although you need to be able to connect to an smtp server to set it up. I use an ssh tunnel to my smtp server, so that was a problem for a bit; fortunately, ConnectBot let me set up an ssh tunnel very easily.

The browser has been fine for me; much better than the Palm's.

On the whole, I think it's going to be a good device. I'm looking forward to getting the SDK so I can scratch some of my itches.
I read the headline as: 1997 is somehow threatening Apple.
Yeah, it's a neat algorithm. I think we implemented it in college. I'm not sure why it was posted here, though. Is there a greater context to this that I'm missing?