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You mentioned in your essay on this that you wrote a sign-up program for it. Just out of curiosity, did you use Arc? If not, why not? If it was written in Arc, I'd guess that it was much simpler than HN in terms of complexity.

(Blatantly copied from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=659520)
There's also DXPLAIN. I wonder if the datasets are open anywhere?

I've always wanted to build something around medical bulk data. Lots of places you could do interesting stuff: diagnosis, symptoms, drugs, drug side-effects, outcomes, etc.

I'd kill for a set of symptom -> diagnosis priors...
I primarily use Chromium on Linux without the flash plugin. Sure, I miss like 1/8th the internet, but I didn't care about most of that anyways. If there's something in flash I really want to see, I'll fire up Konquerer (which will use the Firefox flash plugin), paste in the link I want, and go about my merry way.
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I also think that automation has been imminent for long enough to be suspect.

But people responding to feedback is not something to just dismiss. Monthly isn't the same as on demand which isn't the same as "out in the open." If sockets changed colour from blue to red as the burned electricity, consumption would go down.
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It's somewhat similar in the way big vendors (enterprise software companies) or homebrewed systems at large companies are refusing to adopt new technology (newer browsers).

But it's mainly to save money, not make it.
Thanks for articulating it better than I could have.

This is exactly my sentiment. There's been over the last two years an occasional sense that the Flot guys have held the project hostage in some ways because for a long time it was the only viable library that did things the "jQuery way" with a sufficient number of fixes to remain stable on IE.

Late into the project (where they stand now), it sucks to see important patches languish because the maintainers aren't vigilant or have more important things to attend to. The fact remains, visualization is now a fairly important component for a fair number of people who are working on data/analytics applications. It's easy for people to bandy about anecdotes of other projects or maintainers which do well on mailing lists and non-DVCSes .. but in this case it's not working terribly well for the Flot guys.

So technical merits aside, this is why people might wander away from Flot and to projects like Dygraphs, beta warts and all, all because of issues not relating directly to code. Github may not be a panacea but when you see people like John Resig saying stuff like "I'm loving the influx of new contributors to jQuery core since moving to Github.", it must mean they're doing something incrementally better :)

It's time for project owners to ease up on the reigns a bit, and I'm pleased to see more and more interesting projects hosted on github for this reason.
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In trying to make it sound "less bad" you've confused what the real question is. It should have been "Have you every exploited the fact that something is publicly available for your own gain?" Take any design pattern (code design pattern). Now, there will be several variants on how to code it, but there will be millions of instances of nearly identical implementations, at least half of which started as a copy-paste (or type it nearly exactly the same from repetition, or copy paste from an earlier project, or reuse a file). To "borrow" in the term you describe, I could look at a site, and code something myself that looks exactly the same way, and it not be considered borrowing. However, it's still "taking" it.

Think of it like this...every single piece of code can be reduced down to a specialized chip that performs the same function. Did you create a chip that did exactly the same thing intentionally, or did you create a chip that did something different, or did you plug in their chip?
Ask HN: Extracting the Twitter Social Graph
I have an idea for a webapp, but I would need a local copy of the Twitter social graph to make it. Any suggestions on the easiest method of getting it?

Originally, I thought of creating an app, or using 80legs, to crawl Twitter's social graph API. But even if I were whitelisted (which allows 20,000 requests per hour) it would take months to finish. So instead I was hoping someone has made a CSV or database dump of a copy of the Twitter social graph, but I haven't found anything online. Is anyone aware if such a thing exists?

Surely someone else has had this same need. How did they go about doing this?
Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal

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I meant that the Google dashboard seems to be quite simple in its list of features by comparison with the TED5000, Wattvision or my planned features for Gridspy.

Also, saying that Google is competing with Wattvision is not quite accurate since vendors like ourselves are hoping to integrate with Google's (your) solution. The only way in which it competes is in exposing smart meter data to the average user. That data requires a smart meter and is often expensive to collect (using GPRS for example) so is collected relatively infrequently.

Now in many of these areas I have to speculate because smart meters aren't yet being rolled out where I live. To use Powermeter here in NZ the user has to spend money for a solution such as Wattvision, TED5000 or Gridspy.

Finally, all this is moot if you want a system that can localise the power usage to particular circuits in your building such as Gridspy.
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My point is that long-running AJAX requests for Comet really isn't that complex or ugly of a solution. I definitely agree that it's not the most optimal (I believe it can sometimes cause problems once a large number of requests have been made, right?) A solid, native browser implementation is definitely the way to go going forward, but I'm saying that I'm not looking forward to implementing a server for a new protocol that has the same server-side problems as current Comet implementations.
I hate rotated monitors. I love the dimensions, but the way the LCDs are designed, I just can't get a good crisp picture for the full length of the monitor. Now, if a company with design a 9:16 or 10:16 monitor instead of 16:9/16:10, I'd buy one up in a heartbeat.
There's a huge difference between copying some CSS and ripping an entire design. In the programming world, it's the difference between copying a C header file to do bit manipulation and stealing an entire program.
That's much older than Steve Jobs. Igor Stravinsky said the same, and I'm pretty sure it's much older than him.
Then it works just like my installation of Outlook at work.
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Sure. I think starting off looking around for sites you like and then doing something somewhat similar is fine. I don't think it gets sketchy unless you're trying to confuse customers or perhaps if you're knicking things off of a direct competitor.

When we did our redesign a while back we came up with a list of sites that we liked. The one we took the most from was frogmetrics, and you can still see notable similarities:

http://www.frogmetrics.com/

http://www.directededge.com/

(Notably, that's where I got the idea of having something interactive in the center-right.)
Yes, I did.

But I gave it back when I was done.

More seriously, how in the world can you do anything without some degree of aping others? "View | Source" gave us the Web we know today.

There's a difference, though, in a) glomming full implementations, and b) copying things because you like how they are done, understand how they work, and see little point in trying to "clean room" your own version just to get the same end results with "original" code.

Originality is overrated.

Giving credit makes the world a nicer place.
Well, he stole it.
For business books, there is definitely a pirate community. I've noticed it specifically with anything related to investing.
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Google Code doesn't do Git. They do support Mercurial, but given Git's popularity I think it was silly that they choose to support only Mercurial.
At some level, I think that anyone who hasn't borrowed code (or layout, if you're a front-ender) can be fairly classified as an idiot. No, I don't approve of site-lifting or mindless copy-and-paste "development", but if you've never paid the sincerest flattery to a problem elegantly solved you're either pathologically incurious or pathologically obstinate.

On the other hand, passing off visual design without modification (other than, say, the logo) as your own work is rather less than honest. Using someone else's code without understanding it (and without being able to judge its merit as written -- and assuming it's not a part of a "you are not expected to understand this" library) is equally reprehensible, not so much from an IP point of view, but because you are making yourself out to be something you're not.
Do you send them to the downloads tab or just a link to the source at a branch and tell them to click the download button?
Totally. It was definitely the 'greys.' Someone was drunk at the controls.
Link to thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=988816
What makes a "bad" sound?
I hope I didnt' come off as competitive with Wattvision, the more people helping people save energy, the better we all are.
And I suppose you read all your EULA's in their entirety...
Hmmm. I don't have it. If you don't find it, get whatever sample of the graph you can now. If you can get people excited about the idea you can make it happen.
Does anyone still need Google Wave invites?
I just got an influx of wave invites, and if anyone doesn't have one that wants one, I'd be willing to give a bunch away.
We're talking in the context of "truly great programmers". It makes sense that truly great programmers get that way by programming. That doesn't mean blogging is a useless activity, or that bloggers are bad programmers. Actually, I think most bloggers are good programmers, better than the average non-blogging population. But by and large, they aren't great programmers, because the jump from good to great takes that extra bit of concentration and attention that's consumed by blogging.

Think of programming ability as a pyramid. There're a vast amount of programmers that show up at work, put in their 8 hours, and never really think about what they're doing. These people generally don't read or write blogs. Then there're the people that are passionately involved in their craft. They blog. Then there're the people at the very top of the field - the Guy Steeles, Rob Pikes, Jeff Deans, etc. They usually don't blog, because they put all their concentration into their code, and when they take a break, they do things like photography or swing dancing that take them completely away from programming so they can recharge.

The interesting thing about this distribution is that the average blogger is a better programmer than the average non-blogger, but the average great programmer does not blog.

FWIW, I consider myself a good programmer, but not a great programmer. And I've suspected for a couple years that the reason I'm not a great programmer is because I talk too much and code too little. So I dunno if I'd tell the general blogger to shut up and get back to work, but I certainly tell myself to shut up and get back to work, usually with lukewarm results.
Hmm. This looks a lot like Xero.com, only less mature. Also the top google result for "indinero" is a secure (https) page, which results in Google warning me that this site "might not be what I was looking for". I'm not sure if it is Google or the Chrome browser generating the warning, but either way it's probably not good to be on that list.
I didn't vote, because neither really applies to me. I don't think anyone can claim that everything they do is completely original without being either ignorant or lying. Everything I do is influenced, subconsciously or consciously, by something I've seen before. So on that level, "everything I do is original" would be a lie for me.

At the same time, I've never "borrowed" anything directly by copy and pasting, with the exception of open-source code and always with copyright notices in tact. What Indinero did (it's not just the layout, another poster noted that the marketing copy is almost verbatim from Mint), though, is quite different from "borrowing" open source code. So I didn't feel like I should vote for that one either.
I have some too, if zck runs out.

Seems like Google Wave invites are worth about as much as Gmail invites are now.

Are Google Voice invites still hard to get a hold of? I'm in Australia, so I can't even use the thing.
Agreed. The real issue is with sites posing a "security" question that is researchable. However, this is still a very common problem. I've taken to giving a password when somebody asks for my mother's maiden name.

I'm in favor of genealogical research, but by my estimation that isn't nearly as difficult these days and Facebook probably poses no obstacle nor discernible benefit. I was simply pointing out a possible vector of exploiting the information and that was the first one that came to mind.
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I prefer the option provided by the Firefox 'Tab Mix Plus' extension: a single close button on the far right of the tab bar. Never moves no matter what you do, frees up space for more text on every tab.
My apologies, you are correct about that article. For some reason I thought that article provided better information.

I can however state that from my personal experience all of my information was set to "Only Friends" and after selecting "Old Settings" for everything, most of my privileges were reset to "My Networks and Friends" ... I don't have documentation of that, but that was my experience with the tool. I had to manually go back through each to make it map to my desired privacy settings.
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This looks like a great product. Nobody seems to have mentioned the competitors, though, which include some pretty mainstream brands.

Black & Decker EM100B Energy Saver Series Power Monitor:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-EM100B-Energy-Monitor/dp/...

Blue Line PowerCost Monitor:
http://www.amazon.com/PowerCost-Monitor-BLI-2800/dp/B0028LS5...

I believe I saw the B&D model on an episode of "Ask This Old House". Not sure if any competitors offer a web or iPhone interface, or just the receiver devices, but in any case this is a useful form of feedback that will likely become a standard feature as the monitoring equipment gets cheaper.
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Yes, the comments essentially discounting women programmers of the 1960s are, uh, infuriating.

Further, I believe the women retained a good representation into the 1980s.

In many ways I think it was de-skilling of programming itself that broke the trend. Essentially, being a programmer is no longer a career with a future, seriously. It's more like bike messengering than accounting - they work you to death, you get the cachet of industry excitement and then you get thrown away.
Saving energy doesn't only have to be about money.
Bad usability not only sucks in a "this sucks, but let suck it up anyway" way, bad usability sucks in a big way, like "this sucks!". It's only bad culture that lets you esteem otherwise.
Kill-A-Watt is for a single outlet, which in certain cases is more useful and cheaper.

Wallvision will do it for your whole house.
The title doesn't imply that programming was ever female dominated.
Ah. So this is why Google built their own browser. I fully expect to see more goodies coming out of Mountain View in the future. Heck, even I might finally decide to play with web technologies :p
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A good friend of mine just "borrowed" the CSS layout of my final CS project... for his final CS project. We're a year apart in graduation, and it's a different prof, and he recolored it.

Another good friend took my resume for the same class; some paragraphs are word-for-word, which is appropriate because our work and education is similar.

Really, I'm flattered.
That "tree" ordering is subtle, but when you realize what it's doing, it's genius.
This is total nonsense.

For example it's impossible to reduce CO2 by using solar power because solar power uses more energy to build than it supplies.

Wind barely covers it's own energy cost. And hybrid cars and electric vehicles don't come even remotely close.
Yeah, I don't really think too many people will need an invite, but I wanted to double check.
Borrow, yes. Be inspired, yes.

But if I take some code/design and integrate it without fully understanding it (I'm discounting in this things which are meant to be used so- modules, plugins, and so forth) I feel like it's intellectually dishonest. Of course I won't understand fully in intricate detail the codestack of an apache module. But view-source is useful as a learning tool: how did they do it, how can I do something similar myself?

I'm at a point where examples like this give me a starting point for adapting a technique to my own uses. If I copy/pasted, not only would it be intellectually dishonest-when the customer requests something that would require the infringing block be modified, I'm doing q disservice to my customers: if I don't understand every inch of that code, I'll likely introduce a multitude of bugs and elongate development time unneccessarily compared to if I had written said code myself.

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Why not just Jack up the ebook price then gradually lower it over time?
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The Tree-Style Tabs extension lets you put the tab bar on any of the four sides of the window, although you don't get the fancy collapse/expand features at the top or bottom.
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Dygraph is very pretty but if you have a significant percentage of users on IE I'd definitely double and triple check the performance first.

As I mentioned below, the sample chart is very choppy on IE8 (although it's wonderful on Safari, FF and Chrome).
I'd say definitely give Cake a serious look. It was a steep learning curve for me at the beginning. The documentation leaves much to be desired compared to other PHP frameworks, but it's getting better. I've never had any major complaints about CakePHP and have been using it for multiple personal and school (scientific research) projects. Recently the lead developer and the project manager left the project and started the Li3 project (http://li3.rad-dev.org/). I did not perceive a change in the rate and quality of CakePHP's core development as a result of that.
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I would have to respectfully disagree, having just signed up for both, the critical difference for me is that indinero.com immediately provides support for bank account integration and invoicing without requiring me to commit all of my company details. The reason this matters to me is that I do my business banking with a small credit union that isn't supported by many online systems. The fact that I can find out whether or not the bank is supported before committing all my company details to the system is a big positive for me. FWIW, my bank isn't supported by indinero.com and even after filling in the IRS style form on xero.com I get the impression that I have to jump in with both feet before I find out whether it is supported or not. As far as I can tell, it doesn't actually integrate with your online account at all, you have to manually update or upload statements which may or may not be in a supported format.

Meh! way too much trouble for something that appears to be just an online equivalent of QuickBooks. I've already got through the productivity pain barrier with that program once, I don't want to have to learn a new set of arcane UI and workflow rules for an online equivalent.
Thanks for the tipoff to kohana- as a past CI user I've looked for something similar but not bogged down like cake is.

Of course, I've recently begun to climb the fence to greener pastures (scala/lift), but clients still like php no matter how I loathe it :)
Measuring power at the meter is nice, but I'm wanting to measure the power per circuit in the house. Given how small electronics have gotten, I've been wondering if it's possible to put a simple monitor in a circuit breaker. It would make it easier to narrow down the power hungry devices in the home.
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Ditto. Bidi in application UI is so rare as to be nonexistent.
I once designed a site where the client basically asked us to clone Etsy screen by screen, to the point where we were even using their copy and I had to majorly intervene (etsy has some major usability problems). Not like a little shady outfit either, celebrity ceo with plenty of VC too. Sickening. Needless to say they bombed HARD.
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Thanks,

csmeder
A small javascript function to work with AJAX (years ago, before jQuery), some minor css images (background fades etc since I didn't want to open photoshop just for that), the biggest thing is probably a layout inspiration, although that's changed a lot since the first time I borrowed it.
I'd thought about doing the calorie stats/recommendations bit too - similar to what was in the spreadsheet. However, decided against it since I wasn't using that part of the spreadsheet, and 'cause I didn't want this work taking over too much time. If people are really interested in it though, I can take some time and add those features in too.

Thanks for the feedback.
Sent! The other invites I've been sending out got through pretty quickly, but not necessarily immediately.
Seriously guys? Why can't you just raise the price of the electronic version until the paperback comes out? Why make it difficult to buy your product?