skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rams has been cited as a major influence on Jonathan Ive's designs for Apple, so iFans may find this book interesting.
When I first saw this thing, I thought, "It has a mouth, it's hungry, and it's squirming." Zoom in, and it's a gothic nightmare, only organic.
I was greeted with "G'day you fuckin' long streak of pelican shit" just this morning. I'm not in the least bit offended, far from it - it's how I know my world is in order.
> Silverlight apps can look just as polished as desktop apps. This is not true with DHTML/Javascript.

You should really try MobileMe, or 280slides.

There are a number of other web apps written in Sproutcore and Cappuccino that feel exactly like desktop apps, without an ounce of flash or silverlight.
The ENIAC women would simply “set-up” the machine to perform these pre-determined plans: that this work would be turn out to dicult and to require radically innovative thinking was completely unanticipated.

Underestimation of a task seems to be key in allowing women to succeed. Not only does it fool the gatekeepers, it also fools the women themselves. Put a mop bucket full of water in a typical woman's hand, and she'll lug it around as if it's nothing [EDIT: assuming she's into that kind of thing.] Hand her a dumbbell the same weight, and she'll wilt and clutch at it with her other hand. Take her backpacking in the mountains, and she'll prove herself ten times as strong as she would allow herself to be under a squat bar. Same thing in computing -- female office workers who can do wizardly things with spreadsheets and accounting systems often don't see themselves as having any aptitude for computing or programming. They see the IT help grunt who fixes their email login as being naturally much more gifted than them at "computer stuff." If they knew that what they were doing was basically computer programming, far fewer of them would develop any skill at it.
There is STUNT for that, but I have no idea about its current status. [http://nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/stunt.php] [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-08].
Before: Lame QA Automation Gigs

Startup 1: Lucision - process-flow based document organization for law firms. http://www.memestreams.net/users/jello/blogid315504 Saved money and moved to India to build a prototype. Lawyer friend bailed.

End State: The Beach. The Himalayas. The Dalai Lama's birthday party.

Startup 2: Upon return to states, kept the company name, changed the tune - http://www.lucision.com Web-based appliance for slot machine analytics. Focused on tribal market. Raised seed money, lots of industry press, beta install at one casino, integrated with leading casino management system. Slugged it out for two years as salesman and developer, and doomed self to failure with a front-heavy pricing model (coulda signed up many casinos for a monthly fee), bizarre denial about the reality of a two year sales cycle, gross underestimation of competition, FOSS stack in an MS centric market, being a lone founder after the first three months, selling to the gaming market from Atlanta (why!?) when I should have been in Vegas, too much time spent very ineffectively trying to raise money, and figuring out what the hell I was doing. Should have failed way, way sooner.

End State: "Hey, with my experience I can now get good jobs!"

Startup 3: http://www.starcaller.com Star Caller - went to beach to relax after a couple years of intense international consulting, surfing buddy is a film hustler... a startup happened. Didn't go full time on it, learned a lot about producing multimedia and the film industry. Think we coulda made this work if we were in LA - we had leads, just not a thick pipeline. Still get calls from studios to pitch them campaigns - decline. Was always a sideline.

End State: "Hey, cool - I know about (prematurely) scaling things using AWS!"

Startup 4: Cloud Stenography http://www.cloudstenography.com - prototyped a web-based Apache Pig GUI. Early abort - after some good interest, decided I had insufficient personal savings to even think about pursuing a company.

End State: "Hey, I know Hadoop - I can get a job in Silicon Valley in big data!" Moved to Silicon Valley.

I've lost a lot of money tanking startups, but its worked out reasonably well career wise. I can't sit in a classroom for more than 15 minutes without going nuts, so I figure I got my street MBA and some technical skills. Did a lot of consulting in between. Can't say I regret anything other than not moving to Silicon Valley sooner.

My next company will be with talented people from my network, in silicon valley, solving a data problem that cures someone's pain.
Thanks for the reminder - I just went through and fixed all the fuckups the wizard made. That serves me for trusting Facebook to do something right.
Remember how before all of our consumer electronics became Chinese they used to be Japanese. Also remember how most cars that work in america are also Japanese. We have been running a huge trade deficit with Japan since the 80s.

In fact I am surprised that China overtook Japan already.
Short Methods in Arithmetic
Someone posted, a while back, a link to the Wired Wiki on some shortcuts in Arithmetic. I thought I would post those plus more that I have found.

To multiply a number by 5, 50, 500, etc., divide by two and multiply by 10, 100, 1000 (or multiply then divide by two).

Ex: 84 * 5 = (84 / 2) * 10 = 420

To multiply a number by 9, multiply by 10 and subtract the multiplier.

Ex: 35 * 9 = 35 * 10 - 35 = 315

To multiply by 11, multiply by 10 and add the multiplier.

Ex: 76 * 11 = 76 * 10 + 76 = 836

To multiply by 25, 250, etc., divide by 4 then multiply by 100, 1000, etc (or multiply then divide).

Ex: 52 * 25 = (52 / 4) * 100 = 1300

To multiply by 125, divide by 8 and multiply by 1000 (or multiply then divide).

Ex: 848 * 125 = (848 / 8) * 1000 = 106000

To multiply a number by 33 1/3, 16 2/3, 12 1/2, 8 1/3, 6 1/4, multiply by 100 and divide by 3, 6, 8, 12, or 16 (or divide then multiply).

Ex: 84 * 8 1/3 = (84 * 100) / 12 = 700

To multiply a number ending in 1/2, as 2 1/2, 4 1/2, 11 1/2, by itself, multiply the whole number by the whole number plus 1 and add 1/4 to the product.

Ex: 8 1/2 * 8 1/2 = (8 * (8 + 1)) + 1/4 = 72 1/4 (72.25)

Those are all of the ones I've found thus far in my books and on the internet that seem the most applicable (there are some that are shortcuts but they aren't by much).
Why do I have to click checkout to find out what the sensor price is? Even the pricing tab doesn't help...
Shameful. The cofounder has spoken at TED to boot. You'd think that type of person would know better.
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the Bayeux isnt accidental complexity, its hard bolting a bidirectional asynchronous protocol over plain http.

the protocol is simple to implement (10 lines server, 10 lines client for an echo server), and is a completely natural extension to traditional socket programming.

I am pretty excited by it.
Getting to know the Irrlicht 3D engine - Particle Systems
This site defines "data" rather narrowly, as "transit schedules."

That's nice for commuters in that particular city, but a more expansive definition of data would include, e.g., how many trains came in on schedule, how many passengers on the train, where they got on and off, and so on. These in turn would allow a lot of interesting analyses-- comparing cities, studying how road networks interact with trains, looking for regional and seasonal variations, and so on.
"It seems like a nice layer over a new Comet method that's even more complex than the long-polling method that we're using today."

Exactly backwards. Comet is a thick, ugly layer that is way more complex than sockets. It adds staggering resource overhead to the real abstraction you want; it will in the end be way easier to support a ton of WebSockets than a ton of Comet connections. (That may not be true of pre-optimized implementations, but it will be true of final implementations.)

You don't add Socket support to your HTTP server... you have to add HTTP support to your (TCP) Socket server!

This is the minimal interface; it's Comet that's the hacked up hideous ugly kludge that should never ever have been born because when that dude at Microsoft went to add XMLHttpRequest, if he'd had a clue what that bastard monstrosity would become, he would have created WebSockets right then instead. I don't blame him, it would have taken a lot of vision at the time to understand that. But this is what we should have had from day one, and Comet should never have been.

We have spent a truly astonishing amount of time in the web world deep in the woods, failing to take advantage of simple things that have been known since the 1960s. We've been in the woods so long that people have come to mistake the hacks for the right answer. They're still hacks. Sockets are the not-a-hack. (Though personally I'd still have gone for real sockets.)
I think the biggest problem with flash sockets was the flash part :)
This addresses your 8th point:

http://lifehacker.com/5422014/make-google-chrome-open-with-p...

I use it for 3 different pinned tabs at startup and it works great. It would be nice to have it configurable from the options menu, but I will take what I can get.
It's $149 after the $50 TC coupon, will update, thanks for noting this.
To be fair, Joe Armstrong just adds interest and credibility. It's not as if this is gossip. When you click the link, you get a working example of an Erlang program connecting to Chrome's new web sockets interface.
> Of course, Silverlight and Flash both beat the pants off of Javascript for practically every benchmark.

Last I checked, this is not true.

In my darker days, I spent six months on a contract developing a third party full screen media browser for Windows Media Center Edition. Windows MCE is basically a giant IE window, and your apps are web pages.

The architect benchmarked flash vs javascript at the time, and javascript won hands down for the type of work performed.

Using bubblemark in webkit, I get 58 FPS in flash vs 98 FPS in DHTML.

http://bubblemark.com/

I wouldn't be surprised if Flash beat Javascript in IE nowadays, but in that case Flash is just faster on some platforms.
I don't think that would have made him many friends.
GO ON SAVRAJ MY MAN!!
I don't think the holders of US debt are related to trade. I think most US securities are held by governments and institutions as reliable, steady investments.
And congrats to you too Staunch for your 1K day on Hacker news :-)
Tobi, That's a mistake on our part, and we're going to fix it. On another note - the techZING guys were some of the funnest I've spoken to. :)

Between working on startup and preparing for finals, things have been pretty stressful over here.
Homepage too;

http://shopify.com/
http://indinero.com/
Yep, we made a mistake. And we acknowledge it.
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True indeed (and that's why I used both words), although for a general-purpose protocol intended for wide deployment, you probably want both properties.
It seems to me that live monitoring is most useful to people who look at the power bill and wonder "where did that all go?" The biggest people asking this question would be large power users such as businesses.

Businesses spend more money on power and need more detail to really drill into their power usage. That is why Gridspy (my startup) is focusing on them first.

http://gridspy.co.nz/

Because of this, I think that Watt vision and Gridspy are in slightly different markets, perhaps even complimentary.
Dude, that's a pretty sweet problem to have. "Shoot!! all these people keep calling me about how awesome I am and how many job offers they can get me. The nerve..."

Not the kind of problem to be upset about IMHO. If I were you I'd send them all Christmas cards and be glad that you're so sought after.

:-) cheers!
The old firefox had a single X that worked on the current tab. It was superior in every way. Took up less space, prevented accidental closes, easily allowed rapid closing. They got rid of it, and I never could figure out why.
I'm confused, then; what do you mean autopost as a group? Does that mean letting multiple people submit content, which is then posted to a single Twitter feed?
The original paper published about it was called "The Fortran Automatic Coding System".

They did realize, though, that they had created a language as well as a compiler: "It has two components: the FORTRAN language, in which programs are written, and the translator or executive routine for the 704 which effects the translation of FORTRAN language programs into 704 programs."
To square a number, adjust it up and down by the same amount to get two numbers. If you choose carefully, one of them will be easy to multiply by. Multiply them, then add the square of the amount adjusted.

Ex: 53 x 53 converts to 50 x 56. 50 x 56 (using your methods) us 100 x 28, or 2800. We adjusted by 3, so add 9 giving 2809.

I used this the other day to compute 3^10 in my head and stunned my work colleagues.

3^10 = (3^5)^2 = 243^2.

243^2 = 200 x 286 + 43^2 = 57200 + (40x46+9) = 57200 + 1840 + 9 = 59049.

Alternatives:

240^2 + 6x240 + 9 = 57600 + 1440 + 9 which are all numbers geeks might know (although this is a completely different method)

243^2 = 236 x 250 + 49 = 118 x 500 + 49 = 59 x 1000 + 49

Finally, 3^10 is also 9 x 3^8, and you should all know 3^8 is 6561, because that's so close to 2^16/10, so the answer is also 65610-6561, but I can't do subtractions like that in my head.

As with most things, constant practice helps.
I don't think it has a very good success rate. I'm guessing that for a truly reliable TCP solution you would need to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks: uPNP, NAT-PMP, and maybe this STUNT/ICE-TCP thing.
Oh crap I'm on deck next!
In fact the name stands for "Formula Translation," because the math expressions were where the compiler had to work the hardest. The rest of the language was practically assembly language with syntax.
I've been using a similar device for a year now - the Wattson Home Energy Meter (http://www.diykyoto.com). It's not as full featured as Wattvision and doesn't connect over WiFi, but the information it reveals is extremely interesting and enlightening.

It's easy to merely understand power usage (I always have done), but to see it revealed and presented like this is particularly fascinating. It's makes you stop and think. This is a good thing, for both environmental and educational reasons.

I can't wait to get my hands on Wattvision, and good luck to them!
I think you have a good point, but in this case Facebook seems to be doing this for their own marketing purposes, not to give customers anything they want, or even that Facebook thinks they want. I just finished trying to set all my privacy settings in Facebook to how I want them. I know exactly what I want. After many pages of pointing and clicking, at what should be on oen page, I still haven't found some of them.
The title of the image says "who owns America's debt" (the total amount of bonds we've sold), but the caption, and the dollar amount, suggest that it's actually about the deficit (the total amount - in a given year - by which government expenditures exceed the amount of money taxed from citizens).
If the AJ in AJAX uses web sockets instead of XMLHttpRequest, isn't it still AJAX?

Besides which, the X in AJAX is JSON often enough nowadays.
I've always thought that light switches & sockets should have meters on them.
How much of the debt of these countries does the US own?
I'm amused by the fact that it says "Draft copy - please do not circulate" ... and we're all reading it.
People won't pay $200 to save a little money on their heating bill. People WILL pay $200 to have a facebook widget that says they were the #1 greenest home in their neighborhood/city. A little game theory applied to reducing energy consumption. Doesn't really have to be realtime either, if I could plot the energy usage of all my neighbors on a google map it would certainly shame people into submission.

Nobody really gives a damn about being green, green chic on the other hand... I can't wait to try it out.
This is kind of an odd event. Canadians aren't particularly concerned with national identity, and tend to look down on patriotic grandstanding. But it is organized by Canadians, so maybe you feel differently when you're living abroad. (Though my feeling is that America barely counts as "abroad.")
oops - sorry , my procrastination settings on HN mean that i have to type really fast , meaning no time for proof-reading.
Reading while rolling Cuba's famous cigars
I thought the same until I was doing my time in silicon valley. I got made fun of pretty mercilessly at lunch meetings when I said "about". I figure Americans tend to say "Abowt".

The only the that bothered me was that the British guy got a pass for pronouncing "Java" with an "R".
Sacramento-computer-repair
Is your computer running extremely slow? Are you looking for computer repair service who can remove virus from your shop? It could be a virus or trojan.
Note that this graphic only accounts for ~25% of total US debt - the foreign-held portion.

The majority is owned by US institutions (mostly the fed):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estimated_ownership_of_tre...
If you meant server-side , then it really doesn't matter. Its just byte-codes and GWT encourages modular development for client and server-side.

So write your server side in your favourite JVM language and keep your client-side to Java.
It'd be sweet if they actually got you an appropriate job - if all they do is mangle and falsify your resume and send you on inappropriate interviews, then they're a bother.
Unless the Arabic localization is just a straight-up vertical (or horizontal?) mirror of the layout and layout-handling code.
You can just click on all the tabs you want closed

Another way to do this is to middle click on the tabs you want to close.
"Canadians aren't particularly concerned with national identity, and tend to look down on patriotic grandstanding."

True... unless they are Québécois :)
But you have to watch underwater for frigging birds and there's flying fish! The southern hemispheres wildlife is insane.
Actually I think it might be both. As I understand it, the US tends to pay for imports in USD, which it can do since it is the world's reserve currency. Trading partners then invest their USD trade surpluses back in US securities, I would assume at least partly to avoid affecting the values of their own currencies.

Wikipedia's article on the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods system is fascinating reading for those interested in the origins of the current situation (although it's also long and dry).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
No, so long as it is electrically completely enclosed, signals won't get in or out. Doesn't matter if it is floating at +/- 13.89 v ac/dc above ground.
Firstly the others are right: even smart guys write & speak "wrong" English :)

Secondly don't forget this is spoken - emphasis and so forth change in the spoken language. I haven't heard it myself (anyone got a link to a recording?) but it could well be dependant on how it was spoken :)

And finally I think applying strict grammar words to what someone has to say does them a lot of injustice :) people just dont work like that do they. Essentially it is saying were going to ignore any meaning or connotation or mistake and take everything literally - god forbid that becomes a fad! :)
Non-paginated version: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9141692/802.11n...
This chart seems to be off. China only holds over $2b? According to this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Foreign_H...
China holds almost $800b of US Treasury Securities.
Very impressive. Drop kicking my flash charts in the next release. Between Dygraph, High Charts and Cartographer.js there's no reason to use Flash: http://bit.ly/8Yksg4 http://bit.ly/8kAgAu http://bit.ly/2quRUs
"a front-heavy pricing model (coulda signed up many casinos for a monthly fee), bizarre denial about the reality of a two year sales cycle, gross underestimation of competition, FOSS stack in an MS centric market, being a lone founder after the first three months, selling to the gaming market from Atlanta (why!?) when I should have been in Vegas, "

Are you talking about yourself there ? It almost looks like a third-person narrative.
But what scale of measuring is necessary? Do I need to know what devices drain what power when it's simple to assume that electric heaters consume a vast amount of energy during winter and that air conditioners consume a vast amount of energy during the summer.

I believe the OP was asking is what is the benefit of this additional measuring and monitoring. What will it provide beyond the KW/h information I can get from my own meter?
According to this USA owes me $6.5, I accept cash, visa and hot chicks.
Yeah, I had to go through my mother's account and fix that. She keeps almost everything as private as it can be (Friends only for most things), but the wizard changed her settings to completely the opposite of what she wanted. I'm wondering how feasible it is for technically illiterate people to go through and fix their privacy settings or know what the wizard is doing to their settings.
I've been using chrome since it came out, and I noticed the tab features (the close tab button on the right was not apparent as a feature because I am used to it being there) right away because they made a HUGE different. Chrome is amazing.
Yeah, its like describing a dead body :)
We spend $150-$200/mo. We're a small house in Chicago with 4 occupants. For any likely % of efficiency we'd gain by measuring electricity use in our house easily, it's trivial to work out the small number of months it would take for this to pay for itself.

There's also a big difference between knowing in the abstract that (say) water kettles are expensive, and knowing specifically what is costing us money in our house.
Very well executed. Hope it doesn't turn out to be an ice cream glove.
I can write maybe 10 lines of jQuery and hook into some of EventMachine's features using Thin as my web application server to use long-polling Comet. I agree that it's not the best solution, but I don't think WebSockets does a great job of fixing it. I also don't have a better idea though, so I suppose I shouldn't be complaining ;-)
But how much energy? Do you know how many $$ of your power bill are down to AC and how many are due to hot water? If you turn down your AC one degree, can you tell at the end of the month how much you saved?

It is hard to isolate particular elements of your house's usage without either a lot of legwork or a decent sensor solution. Knowing how you use your power lets you make smart compromises and invest in power saving measures such as better lights, solar hot water heating, insulation or smarter appliances.

It is especially important if there are many people living or working in the same building, making it hard for any one person to get an accurate picture in their minds of the power consumption.
Why wow?
They've overtaken Japan only in deficit (i.e. the derivative of debt); Japan could very well still have more debt.
The chart is for deficit, not debt (see the inky dinky text at the bottom of the infographic)
For reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466845 -> http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

(HN's discussion of a prequel to this article)
Their messaging is very close to Mint.com as well:

https://indinero.com/tour/secure
http://www.mint.com/features/security/

http://www.mint.com/features/
https://indinero.com/tour/setup

Perhaps this is another mistake