skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think the folks at www.hackintosh.com will be able to to put Snow Leopard on it? A Mac Mini (with PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz and Blu Ray player) for $300, this would be awesome!
Infibeam Pi - Indian rip-off of the Amazon Kindle for $219
Based on idly counting laptops at conferences and other gatherings it seems plausible. Yes some of those macs are dual booting Linux, but most are running OS X (based on highly unscientific and statistically weak observation) . I won't dare to estimate numbers, but if you ignore developers working on operating system and desktop based projects, I wouldn't be surprised if OS X is moving towards becoming single most popular OS among the remaining open source developers.
Interstitial ads are incredibly user-hostile; these ones actually have a bug right now and so fail to respect the original URL -- so you try to visit a particular article on TC and get bounced to the front page. Awful.

Either TC is having profitability problems or Arrington is getting greedy, and I really couldn't tell you which is more likely.
yet an other reason to read TC from my RSS reader
Heyzap (YC W09) Launches Social Bar for Games
INR 9999 = 218 USD according to xe.com: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=9999&From=INR&#...

Also, Infibeam's website is a blatant rip-off of Amazon's website on top of just the Pi being a copy of the Kindle.

Infibeam on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/infibeam
How does OCW do anything but increase textbook demand?
Not to mention a rip-off of amazon.com
Time & Materials V’s Fixed Price billing
Good to hear there's someone throwing down at least some competition.

I hope Microsoft finds/makes lots more small awesome groups to throw some money at.
Wow talk about talent and hard work..
http://37signals.com/01

Users.
Sounds like a bunch of junkies or gigolos, doesn't it?

The people who visit web sites aren't "users," click-throughs, hits, numbers on a spreadsheet, or some other form of dehumanizing jargon. They're your husband, your mom, your friend, the guy who sits in the cube next to you. They're real PEOPLE, just like you and me.

That's why we think a successful site is one that makes real people's lives easier; One that makes them say, "This site worked for me." So we've made it our mission to ensure this kind of experience at the sites we build. At 37signals we don't see users, we see people.

(note: I'm not at 37signals. That's all copy from their original site.)
That is definitely the most to-the-point response I've ever seen.
Happening to me too :/
You are, of course, aware that Snow Leopard does not run on PPC cores?
Does Your Website Look Dead?
Not saying that Bing is all that great, but it might have made a difference that you are also posting on a Google owned website.
Felix Salmon: Paywall math, Guardian edition
Why D.C.'s Skimpy Bag Tax Works So Well
Thats a good point, I feel dumb
They did say South Park and I believe that and SoMA have most of the startup action, don't they?
Immigrants boost exports from their new country to their old one
I love Lua, but trying to make it work standalone is working against its design goals --kinda like trying to use Javascript standalone. I push anyone with such ideas to really, really think about using Python instead.
nice I like it
Really? Garbage?

Other hackers: I was about to install Google Website Optimizer for multivariate testing on a startup I've been working on. Should I try Mixpanel instead? Or does Google still have the edge?
Seth gets a lot of flak, especially an HN. I understand the reasons, I think, though I don't entirely agree.

In any case, I think he's right on the dot here. He's positioned himself to be excited by potential overturning of any status quo in his sphere. If Apple releases something that results in a medium, he wants to explore what that means.
Usually Tell HN are text, right?
But you made me grin :)
You might consider using FrogCMS (http://madebyfrog.com). Very simple, lightweight and customizable.

I made a post about our switch from wordpress to frogcms... and why we use it. (http://www.pigmata.com/post/website-realign-switch-to-frogcm...)
I hope not - in the UK, tabloid carries the connotation "sensationalist journalism" (i.e. it's a bit of an insult to newspapers).
That's pretty cool of McCarthy to invite the kid over to his house in response to a cold email.
Similar approach to teens and drugs appears periodically.
I do the exact same thing, except I'm more fluid with my layouts.
Reminded me of this:
http://code.google.com/p/madfish-webtoolkit/
I'm kind of appalled at the negative tone and unpleasant assumptions behind most of the comments. Let me suggest an alternative view:

Most geeks have been "weird" their entire lives. From kindergarten on, they didn't quite fit in with the other kids. The teachers actively made their social lives worse by setting them up as an object of scorn: The kid to hate because they get the answers right while the teacher acts like a) you, too, could get the answer right if only you studied more (never mind that is not why the geek kid knew the answer) and b) see, this kid is proof I am a wonderful teacher and your failures are on your own head for being lazy (never mind that she or he isn't responsible for the geek kid's stellar performance either).

They have had scorn heaped upon them until even the ones who started out as extroverts have probably become gun-shy. The vast majority of people around them were also inculcated in this sick, twisted social system so even when you are in your 40's, you run into this "5-year-olds-on-the-playground"-style bullshit harassment and get abused by it no matter how hard you try to "behave" the way other people try to dictate you "should".

Someday, after you have twisted yourself all out of shape trying to do what other people claim would make you "socially acceptable", you eventually figure out that just knowing more than other people or just thinking differently about problems is inherently verboten and there is no social disguise that will make you "acceptable" to most people. It doesn't matter one iota that you are sharing information out of genuine enthusiasm for a topic or out of a genuine desire to make the lives of other people better, you will still be treated like an egomaniac, a threat, a bitch/bastard...etc.

So maybe if the more "normal" folks who think "social skills" are vastly more important than "hard"/technical skills would exercise some genuine compassion, refrain from being too quick to judge and other types of social wisdom that they like to brag they have more of than the "geeks", they would find that geeks aren't so dreadful after all. They can be coaxed out of their shells if you don't start off by automatically labeling them and being openly hostile. And if you don't hate them on sight for simply existing and are kind and patient with their foibles, they may not need to act like know-it-alls in self-defense, which is probably the only ego defense they had in many ugly social situations.
Should we let Apple decide what we read?
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I suddenly realized that everything I wrote would be inside the program's code, and that nothing more would.

Uhh... what does this mean?
Tomshardware Catches ATI (and 2D rendering in general) with their pants down
Yes correcting someone (especially publicly) is status lowering: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kgxNXpw1kdgJ:greenlightw...

Geeks can't see when they're lowering the status of the other person. In fact, they're inept at knowing when to play higher or play lower. I do improv acting. I find improv acting provides an incredibly useful lens to view social interactions.

(Cached link because the Improv Wiki is down.)
I've used both. Mixpanel is much, much easier to setup and use. Plus it's more helpful in understanding where your bottlenecks are.
ITC to investigate Apple at Nokia's request
Hi vinhboy, I'm sorry you had a bad experience with us. As you can imagine, we have a lot to do as a 2-person startup and we have to prioritize things. Deleting funnels just hasn't made its way up the priority queue yet =)

I'd appreciate the chance to talk to you further and get any other feedback you have. My email is tim@mixpanel.com. Thanks!
Actually, in many US states in order to start the simplest kind of business all you have to do is file a form (at no cost) online.
Ok let me explain myself. MP is very easy and reliable to use, but the problem is when you get into their dashboard. It's hard to analyze your data since there are no reporting tools. In Analytics you can create really detailed reports to segment your data and measure against certain metrics, in MP you just get basically a click logger. Also my gripe with the funnel setup is that you can create an unlimited amount of funnels, but you cannot delete them. You can only view your funnel by week-duration and no other time frame. There are also no built-in baseline metrics. If you want to track user's browser, OS, or whatever, you have to log those yourself. Some might consider that a feature, I didn't enjoy it.
Venturebeat is down right now. I'm sure it will be back up soon, but in the meantime check out our blog post:

http://blog.heyzap.com/general/heyzap-launches-social-bar/
This is true. I think assuming that Apple will remain stubbornly wedded to their hardware business, and its hefty profits, at the expense of being there for the thin/cloud future isn't giving Jobs enough credit. We already know he understands where things are going, because of the ever expanding iTunes empire, and because of the App Store. It's unfortunate, however, that Apple wields this knowledge to evil end rather than good. (It is evil to use near-monopoly strength to impose closed ecosystems on consumers and developers, in case anyone here isn't already aware of that fact. We mostly all agreed on this when it was Microsoft doing the imposing, but now that it's wrapped up in a beautiful package and presented like it's a bag of magic beans to a credulous audience at Mac World, many of us forget it.)

Luckily, I tend to think openness wins eventually, even if we have a few detours along the way. Hopefully, the detour won't last much longer in the mobile space. In content, it's finally starting to get straightened out. Consumers may be stupid, but they're also cheap, and openness tends to have some advantages there.
Hey Tim, and anyone else reading this. I don't mean to criticize, and I have spoken with you before and I know you guys are working hard. I just wanted to give others perspective on my experience. I hope you guys keep up the good work.
"MySql is GPL'd, so you can't even link to its client library in a closed source app."

AFAIK it's GPLv2 (and not AGPL) so this is only true if you intend to distribute your application itself, not just host it yourself.
So DNA is a long string, with certain identified parts that have meaning (code for something we know). What would a layman like myself need to get myself to a hello world program that could take an actual DNA string(file) as input and give a hello for the presence an actual known gene? Not code-wise, that's obvious. I'm asking where I could get a sample genome, information about a gene, fill in the gaps of my understanding, etc. Anyone know?
I mostly agree with you, but don't overlook Lua+C with Lua driving. (I edited my comment a bit to make this clearer.) If you don't know C, Python's probably a better choice.
Additionally, the iPhone checkboxes were created because clicking checkboxes is hard to do with the iPhone interface, not because they're better than plain old checkboxes.

Just because Apple does it, doesn't mean it's the best way to do things all the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if OS X is moving towards becoming single most popular OS among the remaining open source developers.

This assumes a shrinking pool. Open Source development is happening at a higher rate than ever before, and the number of Open Source developers and users is higher than ever before.

Yes, Apple has seen a dramatic increase in market share, but before that Windows laptops were abundant at Open Source conferences; before a few years ago, running Linux on a laptop was a harrowing and challenging experience, and most people (even developers) simply could not make it all work. I'm only on my second "fully functional under Linux" laptop, and I've always bought laptops with Linux compatibility in mind.

Apple happens to make the nicest laptop hardware, and Mac OS X happens to run best on it. And, for many tasks, particularly tasks common to laptop usage, Mac OS X is an acceptable substitute for Linux in ways that Windows never was.
I think he means is something like, "...the program would be what I wrote, no more, no less". Pretty ambiguous, though.
Oddly enough I'm back to C++ too, after Ruby.

One nice thing is; in a fast language, tests run quickly too.

Also, Python and Ruby don't have the equivalent of an ASSERT (you could roll your own but it's not standard practice).

Also, C++ has standard hash lists and complicated data structure are actually going to run quickly.

And while memory management can be a pain, you are doing it yourself so you can track down memory leaks rather than having them be inherent in the interpreter...

...as in Ruby AND Mono.
I think he means C doesn't require a framework or VM of monstrous proportions in order to do its thing.
There are two languages that would be a good first choice:

Ruby with the Ruby On Rails framework

CFML using the open source Railo with the CF on Wheels framework

Follow up second language would be javascript
Definitions, Definitions, Do We Need Them?
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> Even if Apple provided an "Advanced" setting which gains you root access on your device the malware writers would simply instruct the clueless user to enable it, and I KNOW that 99.9% of people would do it without hesitation, for the promise of nothing more than a cheap thrill.

...and 80% of statistics are made up on the spot...

No offense, but isn't this the kind of 'protect people from themselves' crap that gets ragged on in a political sense under the term 'Nanny State?' Are you advocating this?

Let's say that Apple does have a 'press this button for root access' option. Once malware starts telling people to enable that option, don't you think that it would be HUGE in the media, and word would spread like wildfire that you shouldn't do that or your identity will be stolen? People are dumb to desktop computer security because it doesn't affect their 'bottom line.' When someone's computer becomes part of a botnet or installs popup malware, they likely don't know the difference from when their computer is normally functioning.

How many people have actually had (for example) their bank accounts emptied because of a computer virus? If such incidents became commonplace, you can bet your butt that people would get smart real fast. Right now there is just no incentive for people to get smart to these things because "the computer is getting really slow" is the only difference that they notice between an infected desktop and an uninfected one (and when it's their employer's computer they have even less incentive to care because 'IT will take care of it').
Oh, irony.

I guess no one got the obscure Feynman reference.
"they often make heavy use of technical terminology because it's the most concise and accurate way to convey their thoughts."

If you get your point across by using terms no one understands, you're not getting your point across. It's not efficient at all, since you'll have to explain yourself further. But we all do this, not just "geeks". We're inferentially distance from each other. Who doesn't compress their understand of the world into their own specialist jargon?
We'll find out tomorrow.
What does security have to do with a tightly closed environment?

You're conflating two separate issues, and when you come to the (obviously correct) conclusion that users are generally stupid and shouldn't be able to easily break their computer, that it has something to do with Apple deciding who gets to build applications and how one uses the machine. Apple does not provide better security in Mac OS X or on the iPhone than Open Source operating systems, in general. As far as I know, Android has at least as good a security history as iPhone for the time it's been in existence.

Sucks, but what else can they do?

They can do the right thing, and not act as gatekeepers. Or, they can do what they've always done, and maximize profits, minimize consumer and developer freedoms, and charge a lot for it.
Hanlon's razor is a pretty straightforward application of Occam's razor to sociology, as far as I'm concerned.
In that case I don't really understand your point. There are lots of ways to send messages other than through Apple's visual voicemail if you want to set them up. Yes it's true that you can have Google Voice handle your voicemail for you if you go through a set of steps to set it up.

I don't own an iphone, but I imagine there is a native email application that Apple wrote. Let's say you have mac mail, and are popping your mail to your phone. I also imagine there are plenty of other email clients, which notably Apple has not rejected. If you then download and configure one of these other clients to pop your email is that duplicating a native function of the phone? Is it confusing? I argue no, and apparently Apple agrees since said apps certainly exist in the App Store.

Choosing to consume your data in a way other than Apple intended seems to be the problem with Google Voice. The argument of confusion by duplicating functionality is patronizing to users and pretty thin.
At first I assumed they had been hacked again and just closed the tab. I checked the source the next time around, but I wonder how many other ad-blocking readers only saw a "Skip This Ad" link and did the same.

It's not like I really needed another iTablet rumor fix today, anyway.
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It's registered to GlaxoSmithKline and limited to class 051
"Cosmetics and toilet preparations", specifically described as PILLS. So probably a coincidence.
You can write the stuff that needs to access system calls, deal with hardware, heavy number crunching, etc. in C, but use a language with garbage collection, real strings, and a REPL for all the stuff that doesn't need to be chiseled out of diamond (and will probably change, anyway). For many things, slow prototypes are good enough. When you could do 95% of a project quickly in Python/Lua/Ruby/etc., writing everything in C anyway has the same downsides as any other form of premature optimization.

As a bonus, the border between the two languages often settles along conceptual seams in the codebase -- your low-level graphics rendering code shouldn't be tangled up with your enemy AI or UI templates, for example.

Rather than writing everything in a language that tries to do everything and winds a mess (C++), you can use two smaller, more focused languages.
It really does a lot to hurt the community here. I joined HN because it seemed like a more critical and intelligent community than most others around, and yet this kind of unscientific garbage makes the front page with depressing frequency.
C++ doesn't actually have a standard "hash list" (I assume you meant hash map or hash set?). Depending on your implementation, you either have hash_{map,set}, unordered_{map,set}, both, or something entirely different. tr1 specified unordered_{map,set}, but tr1 is only technically a proposal, not a standard.

I think a safe assumption is that tr1::unordered_{map,set} will be available in all implementations by now, but until C++0x is ratified and implemented by major compilers, you will run into different platforms having (possibly) different implementations. And lets be honest - even after C++0x has been implemented in major compilers, you will still have subtly different/buggy implementations.

edit: I had conflated {hash,unordered}_{set,map}. Fixed
Anyone else remember ISAPI?

I still use it. Every day.

It really isn't as terrible as you'd think.
I've always been impressed with Heyzap's willingness to describe itself in terms of other well-known services. e.g., "Meebo bar for games", "YouTube of flash games."
The reason why dynamic scripting languages are more appropriate for web applications than C++ is simply that the bottleneck is somewhere else - namely, the Internet is slow enough to make the performance of the server-side code irrelevant. That can very easily change in the future.
It's hard to keep it anonymous when you shed it everywhere you go, and it's not illegal for people to pick up those particles, analyze them, and hold it against you in a court of law.
You can use Batik - see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/#uses

[edit: and that actually uses http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/]
Granted, core language designers are very careful about what they add; but I don't think it is the main cause of the issue you mention (proliferation of incomplete and incompatible variants of useful libraries). De facto standards could have emerged wihtout PUC's blessings, and sometimes they do: luasocket comes to mind.

It seems to me that the main social reason is a love for poor, partial and repetitive wheel re-invention. People come and reinvent yet another OO framework, OS threading interface, preprocessor, bit shuffling lib, functional table handling lib, etc. again and again, instead of focusing their efforts on a couple of most promising candidates. Java, for instance, doesn't have this issue.

Why is it so? I'd guess:

- there's no std lib: therefore you look slightly less foolish trying to write a half-assed std lib for Lua than for Java or Python. For this reason Lua is probably doomed to consistently attract wheel re-inventors.

- the language is too fun for its own good, with all of its meta-mechanisms. You can have a lot of fun writing a bad library, much more than in Java or in Python. Java is dull, so people communalize their boilerplate; Python has an opinionated dictator, and a culture that frowns upon gratuitous reimplementations.

- Lua's canonical use-case is to provide logical glue around a C library. This means that "serious" Lua users don't need standardized libraries, and such wannabe-standard libs are therefore mostly written by "non-serious" Lua hackers.

I'm not sure that Lua presents enough advantages, compared to Python, to develop a high-quality "batteries included" libraries set. Python is good enough to prevent replacements from being completed, just as Emacs, or LaTeX, or Windows as a mainstream desktop OS, are good enough to prevent direct competitors from emerging.
Because he's not accusing her of being the problem, he's accusing her current behaviour of being poor and improvable. A case of accusing the sin, not the sinner, if you like. It's not an attack on her, they can both gang up together and attack the behaviour that leads to those errors.

Well, they could if she thought of it like that.
I think it could be used on any kind of catalog page to allow users to rotate the product image. Wonder what it would take to add a vertical scroll so you could rotate it in any direction. This kind of image manipulation is something I have no experience in.
If his works do not work, he is damned