skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GSM/3G SIM format is ubiquitous: there are billions of them in active use. Micro-SIM was meant for devices smaller than phone handsets and has seen very limited adoption. There's no good justification for breaking compatibility with existing SIMs.

At this point, I don't think any other phone vendor will start using it aside from Apple, so it's just a clever move that makes it that much harder for users to move between networks and devices while maintaining a facade of "hardware innovation".
I have had that look for several weeks. It is weird because I am the only one in the office with it.
From the offer description: "Salaries range from £30,000 to £45,000."

That seems a little low? Is this typical for Cambridge? I'm not familiar with UK tax law, so what does this translate into in terms of take-home pay?
I've been curious. Does this include the tweets of "private" accounts?
What do you find tacky about this?
The whole code is on GitHub. http://github.com/vti/showmethedrawing
That's nonsense. I won't sign up for it then.
I know I'm being a stickler here, but setTimeout() is conventional JS...
I've not used this yet, but based from the screenshot it's a shame the time sorting/filtering options don't seem to be available or quickly accessible. I guess this is under 'more search tools'. I probably use this feature the most of those on the left panel.
Real estate prices will rise and fall to reflect demand. If prices are ridiculously high, that's because lots of people really want to live there.

Or:

1. It's extremely difficult to build. Only moguls can build new properties in New York, hence the emergence of the massively overpriced "luxury buildings" with unnecessary and expensive conveniences.

2. Government irresponsibility. The New York government should be barring the parentally-funded nonproductives
(e.g. fashion interns who whine to their daddies and get $5000/month apartments and useless hipster idiots) from living here, because of their effect on the rents, but right now that isn't happening.
£30,000 = £22,000 take home

£45,000 = £32,000 take home.

+ the benefit package yada.
We think Redgate are awesome too and we don't have office there but sneak in whenever we can for lovely breakfast and lunch. Last time we were there we took some pictures http://thebln.com/2009/10/inspiring-workplaces-red-gate-soft...
They said there are huge opportunities for growth. They can expand into berries. Or fishing. The pitch and jury questions section was funny as hell. That counts.

Seriously though, as a small 4-person team they developed an impressive mobile + Facebook mapping / events / social application that can be tried out in many revenue-generating businesses. What they need to do is experiment, iterate, get mentored and find their way. There are so many opportunities where they can grow. Using mushrooms as an example does not mean that's what they actually want to do for the rest of their lives :)
I think that if people pay taxes, they have the right to complain that their government isn't keeping a proper lid on real estate prices. We pay taxes, among other reasons, to be protected from barbarians and invaders-- and what exactly are real estate speculators, after all?
I am always curious when reading these articles: How much are about unique optimizations for this specific language vs. general programming tricks. For example, his use of the classic "calling a function on every iteration vs. calling it just once" is pretty basic.

Do you guys do the same thing? Review every "optimize your Python" and "Ruby speedups" etc. post and tick off various iterations of "Intro to Programming Day 2", "RTFM", and "finally, something I didn't know based on the implementation of this language"? And do you feel that most of these are really about the language, or about programming in general?
That's about £23,000 to £33,000 take home.

A bit above average for a graduate CS job. Less than you'd expect for a 30-35 year old with degree plus experience.

(roughly anyway)
He's not talking about commit access. He's talking about actually having a chance at getting code in, rather than rejected outright.

The entire process is daunting. Here is the problem in a nutshell (or a comment):

1. I have an idea for something. I'd like to code it. First, I want to find if someone is working on it.

2. I try to search the mailing list, but don't find anything. Some things slightly cover it, but most don't.

3. I'd ask in the mailing list, but frankly, I don't want to sound stupid. Besides, talk is cheap, code matters, right? Besides, what I want to code up is small.

4. So I just code it up. I hack it up, and get it to work. Yay! It works for me!

5. So, now I need to send it back in. Hrm, who do I send it to? Lots of emails. Do I submit a bug report and then a patch? I can try that.

5a. Hey look! No one responds to my patch after weeks of sitting there!
5b. Hey look! Someone responded! Yay! They explain briefly that this is the wrong place for the patch.
5c. Hey look! Someone responded! Yay! They ask a question regarding something you have no idea about that possibly relates to your patch and Sparc processors. WTF!?

Here's the thing: open source projects generally make it difficult to contribute easily. This is a good thing. It forces people to truly commit to getting their code live. However, it is also a deterrent. Couple this with piss-poor documentation, and you have a serious problem. I'd love to develop user side apps for Gnome, but honestly, I just don't have the desire to wade through the mountains of misinformation and back and forth. I want to code, not spend time Google searching every 2 minutes.

This is something MS does very well, and why it gets the love of developers. They present an easy way to get up and developing on the MS platform, on any MS platform, with little to no effort. Developers spend their time developing, not installing half a dozen packages and then finding out that they don't have the exact version number of the package they need to have.

Yes, I've contributed to OS projects. I've contributed fixes to problems I've had. Heck, I remember doing some stuff with X to get multihead monitor support in my WM of choice at the time, and sending it in for a fix (not sure what came of it).

A lot of rambling here. I guess it comes down to developers scratching an itch. And since developers who are developing already have an environment setup, there is no need to scratch that itch anymore.

I should point out that most of my OS/Linux days were pre 2005. Mostly 99-2004, and so things probably have changed since then. I just remember the confusion, the lack of direction, etc. Maybe it was my inexperience at the time.

Edit:
A good example is: http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome This is where I was directed on joining Gnome development (from here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gnome-devel). And currently it's down for me. Maybe it's just coincidence. Ahh, so much fun.
Can someone explain in simple terms what this actually is? The page is so vague and markety I'm really confused.
Same for me. We had a post on here about three months ago about how to set a cookie so that you saw the new design. I like the new design way better than the old one.
Thx! Any improvement/interviewee/subject suggestions? I'm really trying to nail down every angle on getting traction in as much detail as possible.
This "majority of America" has good mid-size cities that could be great but have a critical mass problem due to the suburban mistake (e.g. Minneapolis, Madison). The cities themselves are competitive with the nicest coastal places, and the people in them are smart, talented and interesting (although not quite as ambitious as on the coasts). The suburbs are depressing and hideous, as you described.
Will an anonymous benefactor please donate the Mechanical Turk money needed for text transcripts?
Some people are perfectly OK working for someone else. They enjoy the labor of it, they enjoy the pay, they enjoy the company, they enjoy the security and relative comfort and anonymity. It doesn't really bother them that someone else is making 3x more off of the work performed than they are.

These people seem almost mythical... I've never met anyone like that.

There's all kinds of people who are OK with this idea, too, but believe me that it's much better for some types to remain content with this than to branch out.

Why should I believe you that it's okay for people to be content with that? If I met anyone who was content with that, I would try to wake them up to the reality of what's going on.
Think about it. A FREE iPad?
Those are absolutely amazing pictures. I never realized that a volcanic eruption would be accompanied by such intense displays of lightning.
Micro-lender bringing his vision of helping the poor to D.C.
The truth about Mac malware. It's a joke
How social media changed disaster response in Haiti
You can also check out my project Colorillo http://colorillo.com/

It also uses Canvas but doesn't need non-standard ports (this one needs another connection on port 843), allows semi-opaque colors, etc.

Apart from that: what does "clear" actually do? Does it clear the screen for everyone?
Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers
How about adding this to the Point class?

def to_hash
{:x => @x, :y => @y}
end

def to_ary
[@x,@y]
end

def [] i
case i
when 0,:x
@x
when 1,:y
@y
end
end

Should work if the receiving method interprets the arguments properly.
Will you at least let us know when they acquire a giant penny to go alongside the dinosaur?
No magic at all...
I had my "monthly bluescreen of death" but the "Fixit tool" did not recognize the error. It just told me about a crashing Internet Explorer. This is interesting because I never used my Internet explorer.

Unfortunately my system is running smoothly for the rest, so I can't evaluate the ability of the Automated troubleshooters.
2 hours of usage and not impressed so far.
I calculate the tweets data must be around 3.5TB so that figure seems about right (if you throw in user and times tamp data)
As the person alleged to having made the initial remark: nobody at the Collaboration Summit panel said that Linux is not attracting younger developers. Every three-month cycle gets contributions from over 1000 developers, many of whom are new to the process. Attracting developers is not the problem.

The thing I was concerned about was the ageing of the core group of subsystem maintainers - who have been doing the same thing for a long time - and whether there was room at the upper levels for up-and-coming hackers. A real concern (though not a huge problem, yet), but a different one.
...It has 384 ports–think of them like pipes for data–that connect to racks...

Seriously? Pipes for data? Sadly, the article does not go on to say

...really deliver 10 gigabits a second... think of a gigabit as a lot of water...
What you don't seem to understand is that most people can't make themselves see far enough into the future to deny satisfaction. That's not a weakness, that's normal. The ability to see beyond that and delay gratification is a _strength_.

It's something that irks me about people who are gifted with a lot of will power is that they (myself included when I was younger) assumed that people who didn't possess their traits were weak; they're not weak, you're just gifted. I've worked for everything that I have (and I'm not doing too shabby) but I won't pretend for a moment that my position in life isn't due to happenstance of genetics. I can delay gratification, many people can't and that makes me lucky.
Mentioning Madison and Minneapolis in the same breath is silly. Sorry Madison, you are in no way comparable. Minneapolis is about twice the size , harder to spell, and prince can be seen here.
Not sure how stealth this is, I've been hearing about F# for years. I'm glad they are finally releasing it.
Your response didn't make it clear to me where my recollection is wrong or in which ways I'm confused.

The Apple II was doing very well at the time the IBM PC was introduced, but no one system dominated in any sense. It was clear early on, though, that IBM's entry into the market was going to be a milestone for the industry and that IBM was going to dominate in the business market, almost regardless of product quality because of the "IBM" name and marketing channels. Apple floundered with responses including the Apple III and the Lisa. Jobs clearly felt that IBM domination was nearly inevitable: look at the 1984 Mac commercial.

I don't recall the "partners of IBM (which had a license to clone IBM PCs)": if there were any, they were very few and insignificant. Compaq was the first successful unauthorized PC clone and was promptly sued by IBM, who also became distracted for the rest of the decade trying to re-proprietarize PC architecture with the PS/2. IBM was seeing tremendous success with their PCs before clones became popular, though clones and the race toward low-priced commodity certainly helped the PC architecture become further dominant and ensured its continued dominance until the present day.

I mostly agree with your statements about OS/2 vs. Windows 3.0/95/NT, and your point about Microsoft's partnerships leading to more Windows drivers is a good one. IBM wasn't in a good position to do this, since they were only interested in selling the whole box. This was certainly a factor in Windows' ascendancy and something that IBM didn't begin to catch onto until much too late.

I don't foresee users becoming locked in to phones in anywhere near the same way as they did with PCs: even most users who have many apps on their phones and use them for some sophisticated tasks wouldn't have much of a problem jumping to a different mobile OS. This is due to several factors, including the types of tasks that people do with their phones (generally simpler tasks with less integration between multiple apps) and the ascendancy of both open/compatible document formats and web services. On the hardware side, people are already used to throwing out their cases/chargers/adapters when upgrading from last year's model to this year's model by the same manufacturer, so there's little lock-in there, though Apple at least has some capability for lock-in through so much of their (very popular) stuff being standardized around their proprietary Dock Connector. I'd say Apple's recent moves show that they get that mobile lock-in doesn't work in the same way and isn't as much of a factor as it is in the PC business: they're not trying to use their current market position to lock users in nearly as much as they're attempting to lock developers in.
I had the new look for about 10 minutes a few weeks ago
Making ISPs common carriers? Congress, the FCC, and public interest
The micro-=SIM format adds a bigger phonebook and better protections against spoofing.

There are Micro-SIM adapters coming on line (or available?); sleds for the 3FF ETSI SIM format to allow them to be used with the Mini-SIM UICC format.

The Mini-SIM was itself a shrink of the original SIM cards.
The out-of-control prices comment is not ridiculous. I also think people probably don't save as much as they should for a down payment (and not just in Vancouver), but even if they did it is hard to look at home prices in Canada and not think we also have a bubble of our own waiting to pop. Our average household income grew at a much slower pace than real estate prices over the last ten years (adjusted for inflation the growth is virtually flat or negative for some professions), and our debt has increased considerably. This is not sustainable over the long term. I mean, the average home price in Vancouver is what, 600K? This is definitely out of control in my book.
Daeken's a cool guy, but the more time you spend here, the more you'll learn that he'd do a press release for an exceptional ham sandwich.
Internet dickwads? On my Y Combinator?
free stuff - its as if they're trying to get people through the door... :)
Don't be a douchebag: Best practices for game mechanics in your web app
I have found the lack of cash means businesses are more likely to offer equity. Again, it depends on the ability, the trustworthiness of the employee and, of course, whether they believe in the business in the first place.
So you want to have to apply to the government to see whether you're worthy to rent an apartment?
Tips for Tech Leads
this isn't ignorance - Mac has a small enough market share it seems it simply isn't worth developing malware for it.

the problem with Mac OS X is that users habitually enter their username and password at "administrator permission" dialog boxes. It probably wouldn't be that hard to make malware that installed and propagated itself around networks. (bonjour, apple script and all the network toys Mac OS X installs..)

I think that if malware ever hits Mac it could be rather damaging.
Wall Street cashes out investment in Chris Dodd
Let's assume that person X applies because she heard about promotion, but wouldn't otherwise. Isn't there an adverse selection here that you would like to avoid?
Lets ask him how much better that makes him feel.
[F#] is the first time we've seen integration of a functional programming language with an industrial-strength framework and toolset

I think this requires very specific definitions of all his terms. It would be easy to argue that Lisp machines met this definition, and that's just the first example that came to mind.
$20M would be awesome deal for Sam - a self funded (?) single founder led company...

I'd bet under $10M, probably closer to $5M. Based on me sitting in my chair knowing nothing.
Um....can anyone tell me how to use these? Do I have to slice them up?
Clojure: Loading REPL with critical namespaces, better (find-doc) and (doc)
Http://www.gsmegypt.com/vb/showthread.php?t=43238
The organisation chart generally reflects the value that they bring to the startup. The higher you are the greater you are expected to add value.
But, if you have a star developer, then yes, you could allocate more share to that individual.
Not only have you been hearing about it for years; it's also been released for years: F# 1.0 came out in 2006! The only difference here is that with the release of F# 2.0, it's now shipped by the Microsoft "product" teams instead of "research" teams: it's included in Visual Studio 2010 available in boxes on shelves, whereas previously it was available for download.
Then its most likely this: http://productplanner.com/
Just copy them using File -> Copy
ncurses supported... will this work with bpython?
A pity I moved away from vim recently.
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The most significant change to me is the expanding of the "More Options" on the search results page by default. This page is critical for Google's ad revenue, so I assume they are measuring any reduction in adwords CTR and comparing that with the additional traffic being directed via the more options links.
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It's peculiar that they would A/B test all those changes at once, instead of testing them one by one to see what's good and what's not.
What's wrong with using the DOM methods and properties as well? Not as sexy? :/

eg

if(element.childNodes.length==0)
Is Chartbeat a drop-in replacement for Google Analytics, or are people using it as a supplement for real-time data?
If I'm not in UK and don't have the right to work in UK, will I still be considered?

Edited to Add: No I cannot. I wish it was made clear upfront. Anyway, no worries ;)
It's worse. The average home price is just shy of $1M.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/08/r...
Python support in GNOME gets a boost from hackfest
They got their terminology wrong. They're "tubes", not "pipes".

Journalists really screw things up...
Doubly cool would be if there was a bpython extension that allowed for "send code back to vim". Currently it allows saving code run in the repl, so this might be pretty easy.
I can't connect to the site from Belgium. Is it down ?
They are tubes, not pipes. Intertubes to be exact.
"Yahoo is where startups go to die." Two ex-yahooers echoed this sentiment. A moribund company, falling apart at the seams.
I doubt that capable programmers are going to be enticed by a FREE iPad. You would hire a programmer that came for the FREE iPad?
Here's the one page link http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18open-t.... , I don't know why the original link was to the 2nd page of four.
Which is actually a pretty big deal because it means the integration into VS will be greatly improved. I've not tried the VS 2010 F#, but the plugin version was pretty clunky within the IDE.
Other way to use PHP Random
Omnigraffle is a lot better than this for really making pretty diagrams, because it's connection aware and can do graph layout. Also, if you learn the Keyboard Shortcuts you can be really fast. It's one of the few applications I use as much as emacs, and it's worth learning.

People in this thread have been saying pen and paper, but it's (obviously) a pain to scan a bunch of pen/paper sheets for search later or remote collaboration.

FWIW, a new solution I've been using with some success just over the past few days is Penultimate, a really simple/nice IPad notebook app -- as distinct from a sketching app.

http://ipad.maccreate.com/2010/04/16/penultimate-ipad-app/

Use that with a $15 Pogo Sketch (you can get it in the Apple Store) and a $11 pair of fingerless cloth gloves from Hot Topic (http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Accessories/GlovesArmwarmer...)

The gloves are really handy as they turn off palm detection, so you can rest your hand on the Ipad surface while you use the stylus, just like a normal sheet of paper.
You can do almost exactly that in Resolver One (http://www.resolversystems.com/), which has got a Python console as well as allowing Python functions and Python syntax in the grid. It's a separate spreadsheet program, though, not an Excel plug-in.

Alternatively, there's PyXLL (http://www.pyxll.com/), which lets you write Excel user-defined functions in Python, but doesn't have a console.

(Full disclosure: I work for Resolver Systems.)
Shouldn't that title be "Chartbeat is to Google Analytics as Blogs are to Print Newspapers"

As in, Chartbeat is a more up-to-the-minute version of Google Analytics in the same way blogs are a more up-to-the-minute version of newspapers?
I know I sure can't wait to work with a bunch of people who were bored and unhappy at their previous job but couldn't manage pull their shit together enough to write up a CV or cover letter, and had to be spurred by the offer of a $500 gadget to even bother to apply in the first place.
You have to pass a 15 minute interview before being eligible for the iPad, by the looks of it. So I guess that'll cancel out all the builders and their dogs from walking away with an iPad.

I'm interested in if free stuff devalues the employee or the employer. Or is it just awesome?
That analogy not only works for speed, but for depth of content. Google Analytics isn't used so you can stroke your ego during your lunch break, it's used to optimize your site over the long haul. Conversion/goal tracking is pretty much the entire reason it exists. It would be nice if they had a real time component so you can see spikes in traffic (and more importantly where they are coming from), but GA is all about maximizing your sales and thus making you spend more on AdWords.

Alos, using spammers like Mahalo as a use case isn't a great sales pitch. They have to react in real time because their phony content doesn't have lasting impact.
I imagine they won't interview anyone not "Up to scratch". i.e. purely there for the free iPad.
For me it takes forever to load, but does so eventually.
I learned something when hiring for my current employer: CV's are only really useful as a filter if you're hiring a huge number of people.

Better to chat to them on the phone first; then ask for a complete CV w references if they pass muster.
At least you would know who it's from. Otherwise anyone could phish you or MITM and send you any executable they want.
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