skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only alternatives I've seen that look like they might be potentially production ready are PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium. (both use JavaScript). If you've found others I'd love hear about it. I like the Android framework a lot but I too am not a big fan of Java.
How do we fix that problem?

Loser pays.
There's some truth to what he's saying, in that the most interesting innovation is probably going to happen beyond the web- clean tech, biotech, and life sciences.
Unfortunately, changing the bottom bar properties to place it to the left or right makes the text indicating running apps show up as ...
On the Mac, I make the bottom task bar very small and place it on th left side of the screen, near the bottom - really good for saving screen real estate.

On Ubuntu, making the bottom bar show up on the right side, increase to width by about 20% so ... shows as an app icon, and turn off "expand" provides a similar experience to OS X, but not quite as nice.
Moving my mouse 2000 pixels to get to the menu bar on my other monitor... shudders
That sounds like a great app. I'd definitely use it!
Understanding the Clojure -&gt; macro
Labeling Dataset Contents
> and found it significantly snappier

Snapper than what?
Spolsky rolls the dice
I think that whatever the original reason to limit tweets to 140 characters, it's become such a part of their identity that it would be foolish to change it...
That was a very clever marketing campaign.

(a) It piggybacks on 26 years' worth of Apple's ads, and Apple has had some of the best ads in history.

(b) By pretending to leak the images, they created a buzz among the people who hunted down the whole series.

(c) By pretending to leak the images to news sites, they didn't have to pay for advertising.
Hanoi listed among world’s top tourist destinations in 2010 
Hanoi is ranked third among 12 most attractive destinations in the world in 2010, announced a US prestigious tourist publisher.

Frommer with the most best-selling guidebooks in the US advised travellers to choose Hanoi for their destinations as the city will celebrate its 1,000th birthday and the National Tourism Year 2010.

“Hanoi also happens to be Asia’s most Asian city”, said Ron Emmons, author Frommer’s Thailand and co-author Frommer’s Southeast Asia.

A cultural centre littered with pagodas, temples and historic monuments, Hanoi offers plenty for traveller to seek an authentic experience with excellent meals available at both street-side stalls and fine eateries, the labyrinthine Old Quarter, the area around Hoan Kiem Lake that houses water puppetry theatre and art galleries, said the publisher.

Hanoi will restore important beautiful landscapes, including Bat Trang tourism port, Duong Lam ancient village and Huong Pagoda to mark the National Tourism Year 2010.
You know, that is a great format. I had to think for a few minutes what's going on. They just print his answers, and leave the questions out. It works amazingly well.
Not only that, but the web browser (Opera) on the 770 didn't really zoom well at all. Nothing like Mobile Safari's double-tap zooming. It is actually quite painful to use now. I occasionally break mine out but it is quickly replaced with my iPhone. It really wasn't much of a mobile platform and quite underpowered.
Well, yes, of course it is a mock patent. The point is that it was even accepted in the first place.
Heads up, if you're looking to try Android development on OS X, once you learn the basics drop Eclipse and just use this TextMate bundle: http://www.onebitwonder.com/projects/android

The only good thing about Eclipse (IMO) is the in-line error handling, otherwise it's just overly bloated, slow, and clunky.
Israeli Soldier Posts Military Details on Facebook, Cancels West Bank Raid
^This.

I sure hope someone comes out with a detachable wall mount+charger for the iPad.
> Snapper than what?

Than doing email and browsing on the local machine.
I really wanted to apply for this, but the project I'm working on doesn't really require any funding at this point. Also, I'm based in NYC.
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This isn't really a spat - and the issue with what Dell charge for gear that goes into their servers has been around for at least ten years. For about a 3 year period, (1998-2001) any Dell Server I ordered would always come with the minimum amount of memory, and we would always purchase the actual memory from Crucial. Everyone I knew who Bought Dell servers did that, even if they were "Not Warranteed" - Dell certainly never confirmed that the Memory in the System was Dell Memory, and they never had a tech blanch at fixing another broken component.

Eventually, Dell was losing enough of their memory business to Crucial that they brought the price back down to market rates. The current pricing distortion (if it exists, I don't really price SSDs in Dell Servers) - will likewise be temporary as people purchase second-market SSDs to put in their Servers and stop buying Dell SSDs.

What I don't understand, after having read the article three or four times, is what the actual "Spat" is - is Dell suggesting that if people put Amazon.com Intel SSDs into their systems that there will be a problem with the warranty, _and_ they are actually following through and refusing service when they discover non-Dell drives in their servers? Now that would be an interesting story, but I didn't see any mention of that behavior in the article.
They are having it and it is here: http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/7287
Yep. I've been going and digging up old ACM and other programming contest problems just so that I don't forget how to actually code something from (near) scratch. I was disturbed to discover how rusty I was.
The problem is that X had a massive amount of crap in it. Getting rid of the crap is hard, and things really had to get worse before they got better.

Switching acceleration architectures to something that's not from the '80s, allowing modern hardware to effectively accelerate the UI, allowing video to interact with OpenGL and so on needed to be done, and there was really no good way to do it painlessly.
Unlike Windows 7, Linux has proper virtual desktop support, so you can get a big working area without actually having that huge resolution.
It's worse than that; if you attach non-Dell disks to the latest Dell RAID controller, it refuses to work.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_g...
My comment I left on the post:

I guess it depends on your motivation. I don't program because I love creating complex data structures or innovative new algorithms, I program because I want to create innovative new applications that change how people live, think, work, learn, etc. I signed up for programming so I could change the world for the better in my own little way -- not improve how an electronic machine inputs and outputs binary input.

But to each their own. It seems everyone likes to work at different levels of abstractions. I think we can both agree that those electric engineers are weird :)
these are the only domains available + short enough + pictures related. photo[x] are either taken or too long.
Just to be factual. Apple is not asking anyone to snub Amazon. They, according to a single anonymous source, are no longer providing promotional support to releases that give a competitor an exclusive period and then grant the iTunes store the right to sell their material after the best selling day is over.

Sounds reasonable to me. I wouldn't allocate my best marketing spots to weakened releases either.
Motorola to Milestone developers: "Buy HTC"
You don't have to get an H1B visa right out of university to start working. You can use your OPT (Optional Practical Training). That will allow you to stay and work in the US for 12 months in your field of study, and it's possible to apply for a STEM extension (17 months).
Is rating people by phone or email controversial?
Yup - I didn't make it to the end (it was a good read, but I got the point without needing the math) so would never have found that out if it weren't for you posting it here.

Not really a "First of all" if it's at the bottom.
thanks but the .com is not available. :)
PicPong?
Tocuhscreen PDA's have been around forever, I'm actually a bit disappointed that the above quote appeared in the article.

My first smartphone was a Sony Ericsson P800 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P800 ) which was a touch screen device with a web browser and it was released in 2002! The iPhone was not, at all, revolutionary in that regard. It's merely a really good refinement (multitouch and a flush display) of what came before.
Ok, so are these going to be a bunch of Cider ports? I don't tend to get very excited about those.
Eco-entrepreneur
Thank you both.
I don't know if you've read atlas shrugged or not, but a large part of it is about collusion between government and private corporations.
"...but Bergman said he’s OK with his drives failing, and has planned for that in his network architecture (he uses RAID 0), so Dell is “optimising for something we really don’t care about.”"

I am pretty sure all of this is just taken out of context by an ignorant journalist, but raid 0 is striping, not mirroring, so if one drive goes, the whole array goes. Even if it was supposed to be Raid 1, I hope that they also have real backups (aka raid is not a backup).
that's a broad brush, in many cases i would absolutely disagree. really depends on what you building and how well you are building it, particularly when you want flash to work with old plugin version and on mobile devices. and maintaining flash can be a royal pain in the ass, certainly can't just ssh in to the server and poke around with your images and code on a flash site.

but yeah you can bang out some fancy stuff pretty fast in flash.
Please, no more of that numerology nonsense :/
Just because it's an interesting connection: Anne is Sergey Brin's wife.
Open-source hardware takes steps toward gadget mainstream
Question I've been wondering. Is it ok to buy into a bond fund like VBMFX right now in this low interest rate environment?

If interest rates go up a lot in a year or two will my share price drop a lot and cancel out any gains from interest?
This actually just seems like a list of 55 open-source apps involving education. How many of these are really "transforming" it?
She really really did. I have read up to that last long (very long) speach by Atlas, which is plenty to note: most of the worst characters are business men. One of the most disfavorable characters in the entire book is Dagny's brother James, who unlike her grasps at the government for support.

Also, she anchors her book in America. Imagining how America could go wrong, but uses the socialism in Argentina and Mexico as a backdrop. She spends quite a lot of time giving examples of good selfish capitalism and bad selfish "capitalism"
Faking it: seven-segment displays
I know exactly how you feel. Having to pick up all those different knowledge sets is something else. However, I balance the fundamental desire to build things against a fundamental desire to build things people can use.

It's the pride in me. The closest I came to it a long time ago was when I animated a bunch of search algorithms for a class project in college. That was one of my favorites because I could show my non-geek friends what I was doing and they could appreciate it.

It's a big reason why I am now focusing on my web app. The web is at a point where I can build something and get (potentially) millions of people using it. I'll sacrifice some hands-off-ness in my programming for that.
Linux distributions can get all the face lifts in the world, but at the end of the day they were not designed to be cute and accessible.
I'm a hackintosh user with an android phone and loving both (had a Mac and an iPhone). I actually feel glee every time I crack the hackintosh (Dell 10v if you're curious-- flawless so far). I'm a fan of Apple's products but I increasingly find the company... distasteful.

Oh, and as a bonus-- I can make phone calls on my cell phone again!
Another Mixergy interview about how you have to slog through the hard times to get to the pay off! They're the best, they're the ones that make me feel better about the stuff I have to deal with. The ones where they breezed through (though generally it is their second or third startup) don't do much for me.
Twisted 10.0.0 released
Software is also somewhat protected because unlike a physical device reverse engineering is far more difficult. I can open pretty much anything and have a CAD model in less time than the original engineer took to design it.
Which is a software patent.
EvilShare - File Sharing and Media Search Engine
I kind of like it.

The thing is, most of the languages you mention are pretty good at what they do. Python is a good general purpose language, and Django is just a Python framework, right? (Not a Django developer.) XHTML does a good job describing hierarchical content to be displayed. CSS is a good language for styling content separately from the structure on a site wide basis. JQuery and Javascript can be looked at as a single thing, and if you know the syntax for Javascript data structure literals, you pretty much know JSON. Google App Engine seems to potentially offer a lot for the learning curve required (not an App Engine developer, just read some tutorials).

XML, well, there's just no excuse for that. :)

Some people complain about all the parts you need to know to build web applications as compared to desktop applications. But I think that the different languages each doing their thing well makes for a better development experience. The other great thing is the diversity of choices for the backend technology stack, like Viaweb deciding to build web apps just so they could avoid Windows and use Lisp (...and some Perl and C++, I think).
What's the difference/relationship between OStatus and OpenMicroBlogging? Are they the same thing or something?

I tried looking into OMB for a side project about a year ago and had a very hard time finding any clear documentation, and just looking again now it doesn't seem any easier.
why shouldn't Apple get compensated for the lost value?

Because most of the cited patents are probably just restatements of research done at universities and research labs (like Bell Labs) in the 1960s and 70s. Note that I haven't read the claims to avoid polluting my own work. Most patents don't seem to explain anything, they're deliberately obscure, when they're supposed to be teaching future inventors how to reproduce the invention.
Be a Magnet, Be Leo Laporte
except that if you charged a 2% fee and reinvested half of that, you'd make more than if you just charged a 1% fee, for any time period.
You're basically SOL. Work visas nearly always only go to well established companies or body shops (who've learnt how to game the system). Plus, in this recession, it would be hard to prove there is a lack of Americans willing or able to do your job.

Even the startup visa being debated now, is only meant for "founders" and not for folks who just want to work in a startup.

If you really want to stay in the US without worrying about being kicked out of the country the moment you lose a job, you need to do the time to get a GC (either do a PhD and get the GC faster or get in the queue with the normal folks and wait 10-15 years)
We use RAID 0 all over the place. Great Performance and no additional overhead on disks - Raid 1 requires you purchase twice as many disks, raid 5 has the 1 disk penalty (which, for 3 disks, means 33%). Disks have become pretty reliable lately, and, if you have a redundant machine architecture, you simply boot the bad disk and rebuild the machine. So, I'm guessing based on the context of the article, that yes, Raid-0 is precisely what they are using.
SQL, or more accurately, relational algebra, is a thing of pure mathematical beauty.

The problem is all the other crap that you have to layer on top of it for it to be really, really useful.
I'm not sure your advice is correct.

First of all, small companies have no more problem applying for H-1B than larger companies. Especially in the last 2 years, where the quotas were not met on day 1 of the application process.

Second, graduate students with a MS have their own special category (not subject to the H-1B cap). And they can use the OPT training program to get a job without having to go through a visa.

Bottom line: check out usvisanews.com, not hackernews, to discuss this.
Wowsa. Now _that_ is a story. Dell is effectively exiting any of massive-scale markets which rely on smart algorithms and redundant architectures on best-price commodity hardware. I have to believe this is a signal that they are going to focus their efforts on the Enterprise Market in which this "Certified" environment has value. Thanks for the link.
all true... but note that this only works for news items that are news-worthy already.

Someone sends me a "leaked" image about their uninteresting startup, I'm not posting it. :) That said, Valve should have released a new image every day, not all at once to 6 different sites.
Is SaaS a friend or foe of open source?
It's painful, but I intend to -- I was planning on getting a new macbook pro soon (not to mention a bigger ipod), but while I love their hardware I think I've bought my last piece for some time now.
One is to do what Google does and keep the knowledge of your best stuff to yourself.

Any suggestions on how to do that with a product as opposed to a service?
I thought the same thing at first. It's cropped out, you can see a row of pixels at the bottom and the panel's shadow. The screenshot-taker probably didn't want to list their running programs.
I think to do actual "programming" you need to work for a software company. Google and Facebook and other gargantuan sites have as much interesting CS stuff to work on as you could want. I'm sure many at Apple and Microsoft still get down and dirty with OS internals. There are a lot of companies springing up focused on machine learning over massive datasets.

If you are building applications for end users, though, it's hard to justify not leveraging libraries and frameworks that already supply much of what your users want. Especially if the software does not directly make money for your organization.
I wonder if there is a way to profitably exploit this?

Presumably bad news in the hiring market for new graduates is good news for YC: when the alternative to YC is picking up the phone and having Google and Microsoft getting into a bidding war over you, startups look insane, when the alternative is being a "parasite single" (wonderfully evocative Japanese English coinage for "lives with Mom and Dad"), having your ramen paid for for a few months must look pretty attractive. Granted, the vast majority of people capable of starting startups are probably much more employable than the average college graduate or the average inner-city dropout.

Is there anything the rest of us can do? "10% discount on lifetime wages if you hire during a recession" seems like it would matter if I were hiring, but I'm not. Does anybody have any other clever ideas?

I've got one: I can't offer anybody full-time employment but if somebody could vastly decrease the friction of employment I'd love to have employment available as a service. Something like what the India/Philippines virtual assistant companies perform, except with a more consistent level of quality.

Working for it wouldn't be the most fulfilling existence in the world, but it would pay for rent, food, and loan payments while folks look for more permanent opportunities, and the virtualized nature of it would make it more conducive to that than e.g. trying to get a job in food services. Plus, unlike your local On The Border, I'm not going to ask "So Joe, are you going to be available in 3 months or will you be going back to school?" because I have no particular need for Joe to be personally available in 3 months -- I don't have to train Joe, so it doesn't matter to me if I'm working with a new Joe come fall.

Currently I do a wee bit of this via freelancing, but freelancing requires friction from me -- I need to find freelancers, supervise them, pay them, find replacements when they flake out, file tax documents for them, etc etc. That's a whole lot of grunt work for something which is supposed to save me from doing the grunt work. I want the API to grunt work.
There seems to have been a mass renaming; Laconica/Identica became StatusNet and OMB became OStatus.
The iTunes Music Store launched on April 28, 2003.
Interview with creator of ChatRoulette
an example would be great; i'm confused about what this is. the open source part indicates technology, but the site looks like some guy offering consulting to businesses.
Personally, I have not heard of any startup willing to spend the time or money to sponsor a H1B. Many startup jobs are advertised with a clear restriction that they are looking only for citizens/GC holders.
Every now and again? What?! If you can't find problems with today's internet technology, you aren't looking hard enough.
The way Apple has been able to attract developers to making all kinds of applications is really amazing. And this is despite all the bad press over the App Store's review process.

Having a strong developer community is typically where Microsoft has excelled. What happened?

Even the biggest incumbents have already been left in the dust. I've been looking for some 'cool', high-quality symbian apps, and as far as I can tell there aren't very many.
Car guy here. Restored several cars from the ground up, including complete strip-downs, body work, engine overhauls and so on.

When restoring 'young' but interesting cars (my favorites are 'minis' but I've done two Citroen DS's) it is not unusual to put a lot of money and time in to a car that you end up with a car that has a book value that is less than the money that you put in to it (and that's already valuing your time at '0'), that really doesn't have any bearing on anything else other than that restoring young cars is a thing you do when you plan to keep a car, or for sentimental reasons, not because you think of it as a business proposition. Hobbies cost money.

Who knows why that engine and gearbox ended up in that car, it simply may have been what was available to him at his budget at the time, or it is possible that he got it in that state.

The fact that Daniel did that, and is willing to sell his car for it's market value in order to extend the 'runway' of his startup speaks volumes about him and his character and gives you an indication why he has quite a few people that wish him the best, apparently unlike you.

The ability to put sentiment aside and to look at a car as a liquid-able asset is really a pretty strong indicator of a business mentality that transcends simply asking others for their cash, plenty of us 'successful' entrepreneurs have at one stage or other in life done just that in order to be able to make something happen.

> Daniel and I disagree pretty strongly on environmental matters, and I'm trying very hard not to let that affect my reaction to this.

I think you utterly failed at that.
its about the same, when you consider standard of living costs.
I'm in the same situation. I was waiting for the next generation macbook pro, but now I don't want to buy it.

Unfortunately, buying a windows laptop and supporting Microsoft doesn't appeal to me either. Now I have to decide if I am unhappy enough with Apple to justify the effort that a linux laptop would entail.
That's because twitter is a public forum and by asking it in that way you are effectively making a public offering.

But mailing your buddies is a different matter.

Think of it this way: there has to be some - minimal - pre-existing relationship between you and your target investors.
Agreed, overall "meh", but I hope there's a clone of the final theme except with min/max/close in the old position.