skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In which case the solution is just better suburb design. Make sure there's an area zoned commercial within twenty minutes' walk of nearly every house. Big enough to support at least a small supermarket plus a few cafes and restaurants, and ideally an elementary school as well. It's bad if you have to drive just to get milk and eggs or to take your kids to school.

I'm familiar with a fair number of US suburbs (mostly in California) and that's true of all of them.

How about some actual examples of American suburbs for which this isn't true?
I'd be interested, save me getting sucked in when I visit.
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Ben Horowitz: Things Some VCs Do That I Don’t Like
Because the stack overflow clones aren't exactly finished

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-...
I second the recommendation of Yosef K's FQA. It's not just an anti-C++ rant, but a pretty detailed explanation of a lot of C++'s features, interactions between features, and corner cases (and how those will bite you in the ass).
What's dystopian about a Hooter's waitress throwing a hammer at a big screen TV?
Javascript Magic Search Bar (impressive search engine)
You do know that people have gone to jail for less than what you just did?

It's silly, but the laws on the books for computer crime are not rational or fair, and unprotected admin interfaces are still protected by the law.

Makes me wonder who's minding the shop on the backend though, since a few thousand access denied errors should trigger a look from whoever is watching MySQL.
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If the privacy of what you browse on the web is of no importance to you, then I recommend it as well. Even through Java on Windows Mobile, Opera Mini is quite usable.
but instead Apple decided to let Adobe invest time and
money into the development of the product only to rush
in at the last minute and say, "sorry, you can't do that."

Uhm, did Adobe even ask Apple about its plans before starting to working on the product? Did they discussed "business plans" with Apple? Does Apple owe something to Adobe?

So now if I own a platform and have plans for it, should I go around asking all the guys "hey do you plan to do something on my platform"? If they are going to do something, they should approach me and discuss it.
Sounds like a design by committee
Microsoft IT is responsible for all workstation computers. They force you to install an anti-virus, updates, etc. They are also who you call if you have network connectivity problems or other general IT issues. Everyone is an admin on their own box, but they run tools to verify compliance via nagging. Generally, MSIT is a bit of a joke to the engineering teams. One more joke that I won't have to deal with any longer: I've got a meeting at 3pm to inform my manager that my last day will be April 30th. Startup world: here I come.
Q&A SITE != COMMUNITY
"My job title is Principal Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop."

Why would you expect the PM of Photoshop, commenting on a completely different scenario, would be consistent with anyone involved with Flash?
http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html
Here are more (with many language-specific discussions): http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+pro...
I think their current strategy is a winning one: people like Sense more than stock Android, but they also get phones compatible with the Android Market.

Dumb phones will become smart phones as hardware gets cheaper, third party software is a huge part of that and Android has the ecosystem.
Is beta 3 working on Ruby 1.9?
And, as expected, daringfireball finds MobileSafari better and points towards the security flaws.

But, indeed, there is something nice about Opera Turbo (or Opera caching proxy that Opera Mini uses): it's really handy when on a slow connection.

I was outside 3G coverage for about a week and using Opera (the desktop browser) with Opera Turbo activated made browsing almost livable. The EDGE connection speed reminded me of the dial-up days...

Btw, Opera Turbo doesn't have any security issues, it only uses the proxy for non-SSL connections.
An Introduction to Google's Go Programming Language
That deleted comment was mine, the text was: "You get what you pay for ;)"

I admire your attitude, nopassrecover. And you're right, even as contractors we can shape the outcome of our projects. Software development seems linked with cynicism (see: http://thedailywtf.com and others) but it's better to be proactive and help guide projects to completion.
... and if it is, I hope you're blocking cookies from *.google.com.
Although Apple didn't buy a company to customise its own powerpc chips, did it?
Thank you! I understand your point. There definitely will be a way to run Akshell applications outside of Akshell.
As troubled as I am about giving children LSD, those are some fascinating accounts and the treatment seems to be effective.
I lost interest when he said a good product isn't good enough, you need some sort of spam engine.

That's not been my experience, neither from a maker or buyer perspective. Good software sells itself.
I met my girl friend on okcupid, We've been dating for almost 2 years now :)
From the inclusion of Adobe Reader on the list, I take it the author believes that there are only 21 free to download closed-source applications in existence.
For me, Dropbox solves the problem of sending files. I keep most everything that matters (work related) on Dropbox. I can access files using the Dropbox app and email file links to whomever I like. If only there was enough storage for all of my media...
Gordon Brown is wrong and News Corp's paywall will work just fine
I don't understand why this is worth writing about. The nexus one isn't for me, and neither is the iphone, I didn't run out to blog about it and repeat the same point 200 other people have already made
I have a friend at MTV and gave him a heads up. I think they'll fix it shortly.
What Makes A Great Product Leader?
As a matter of general principle I agree with this, but I've had so many problems with 1.9.1, I moved to 1.9.2-pre, and it's been working a lot better.
Interesting. I haven't played with CoffeeScript before, I'll have to try it out.

I stuck to straight JS since I'd like the source to be simple for most developers to understand.
Another reason to think it'll repeat itself is that Apple is picking a fight with seemingly everyone. It's fighting MS, Google, Adobe, its own developers etc. It wants to own and control pretty much every aspect related to its products and that's not sustainable.
A counter point is that consumers have had years of headaches with traditional "open" platforms like windows

Apple has been gaining market share for a nearly a decade on their messaging of simplicity and stability and plenty of non-techies that I know LOVE their iPhone vs. frustrated with the lack of continuity with Android already.
Excellent advice, you can never hear stuff like this enough times. I don't buy everything I want/need. There is some stuff I simply care more about, and that's where my attention goes.

In addition to asking 'does the customer need this?', you should ask 'does the customer KNOW they need this?'. If the answer is no, your startup has two insanely difficult problems instead of one.
That's not my personal review. It's a review from the perspective of my wife and in-laws. They don't use smartphones and are the kind of users that like to do things in familiar ways.

I think it's interesting that kids take to the device more easily than adults. Part of that is simpler usage, but part of it is not having preconceived notions about how to use the device. It also makes me think that a certain class of users is going to have to take some time with the iPad. My wife hated our netbook when I bought it; now I have to pry it from her hands.

I'm not disappointed at all in the iPad, but then again my expectations weren't extremely high. I knew typing would be a chore. I knew that there were going to be ergonomic challenges. I wasn't expecting the browser to be on par with the desktop. Also, I mostly bought it to develop for.
I don't understand all the naysaying on here. I think this new plan has a pretty good chance of growing the business well.

Mind you, I'm a bit unclear exactly what the sources of revenue are. I'm sure very targeted advertising would be one revenue stream.
Imagine wanting a blog and WordPress or Tumblr thought you undeserving of a top-level domain.

And just look at how many crap blogs are on each of those platforms. Their goal is to curate quality content and the free-reign model has already proven itself to be incapable of it.
I tried POF, I find its a different type of person who uses it. If OKC has those people, it isn't showing them to me (well it wasn't 2 years ago)
Cost of a decent computer in 1990: >= $2000

Cost of the best smartphones in 2010: <= $200

"Good enough" is a tradeoff someone makes when they're forced to drop a significant fraction of their yearly income on a product. Smartphones are so cheap, the quality of the user experience is going to be far more important than it was with early PCs.
I don't see how your experiences have any wider ramifications- tethering and not being able to access a file system have nothing to do with the reasons Mac OS got killed by Windows in the late 80's/early 90's. It was pricing.

And, besides, as a power user you can just jailbreak and install NetModem, or you could have gone into Google Apps, forwarded yourself the actual PDF, and then forwarded that forward on. Those are roundabout, but we're talking about edge cases, and in a well designed UI, edge cases are handled in an edge fashion.
Did someone take a screenshot for posterity? I suspect the good folks at MTV will fix the issue soon and HNners who are a little late to the party will be left wondering why this article is at the top of the page?
Who cares how powerful iPad is as long as it is fast?
And it is fast. And, for the hudnreth time: iPad comes with IPS screen.
This is what I want. Hooray.
Why do you think iPod would have been cannibalized? IIRC its market share was holding steady at >70% when iPhone was announced.
You could have said the same about barely wired desktop PC app piracy in 1991 as ubiquitously connected mobile device app piracy in the year 2010?
perhaps you thought you could also do some serious work on it

If I can do work on the iPad, does that mean my work isn't serious?
Nice. I didn't know about range operator
This article was a nice change of pace from the usual quality of apps, poor adobe kerfuffle.

I personally am intrigued by this battle unfolding between Apple and everyone else as I was too young to fully digest/enjoy Microsoft's battles with Apple/IBM/etc.
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I doubt that it being free has much to do with "VC rules!". Given the success of fogcreek, I'd guess that they could've made stackexchanges free from the get-go. They just found a new business model. Maybe with the help of their VCs.
My wife and I are in that 800,000. When we bought our new house a few years ago, it came with an antenna on the roof, so we decided to fore-go cable and try OTA for a while.

A few years later, we watch almost nothing on the TV anymore (including OTA), and get a lot of our video entertainment from Netflix, Hulu, the occasional torrent for "niche" material, and local movie theaters if we're feeling particularly rich (or want a night out), or manage to catch a matinée showing.

But, in general, we consume considerably less non-interactive media these days. It's done wonders for my honey-do list. ;-)
One guy writes that iPad is not for him and that means that "this device won't go so far"?
Selling 300 000 of these on the first day means nothing I guess.

The iPad OS is a phone OS, whatever powerful it is,
it'll be always way behind any desktop OS.

A car, whatever poferful it is, it'll be always way behind any train. So?

And about iPhone OS 4.0 multi-tasking, it just made
me laugh, it just proved me Apple failed to support
real multi-tasking.

You laugh, users don't care. Will they be able listen Pandora in the background? Sure they will. Will they receive skype calls, even when Skype is not in front? Sure they will.
Will navigation software run in background, even you switch to other app? Yes it will.

Meanwhile enjoy your well thought multitouch suppor of Windows 7 on HP slate and the battery life with real multitasking.
Germany. Insurance is a percentage of your income, up to a maximum (something around 700 to 800EUR). That's if you are on "public insurance". At the moment I can't switch to private insurance, also not sure if it would be a good idea in the long run.

I suspect a lot of Germans are not consciously aware of how much health insurance costs, because the employer pays half of it. So they would think they only pay 300€ for health insurance, when in reality they pay 600€.
butbutbut people will complain that everything is too small!

I am not one of those people. And I wish OSes would get off their asses and do resolution independent rendering so we could move on.
That doesn't always work, because sometimes the review is "Amazon didn't send this to me," or "This isn't the version I thought it was."
This seems like history repeating itself. Joel's first foray into the consumer market (CityDesk) was a failure but he was able to fall back on the large community of programmers his blog attracted to make FogBugz a success. With StackExchange it seems like things are happening in the reverse order.

It must be frustrating to not be able to break out of the programmer oriented market. I'm not saying this will be a failure but without the large audiences from Joel and Jeff's respective blogs they've got some serious mass marketing to do. It might be time hire a marketing firm.
I did not have to think much about expenses either. But did you plan to buy a house, or start a company? That is, have you tried to get significant savings on the side?

Also, how old are you? I think when young, one doesn't really have a feeling for how much money one might need in the long run. Alone, I don't need more than maybe a 30m^2 flat. I don't crave any luxuries (except a fast computer+internet). Once family enters the picture, things might change dramatically. Suddenly you need a 4+ bedroom flat, a car, finance your kids education etc. Also, the older you get, the more you realize that you need savings for old age, good health insurance, and you might not be able to always work as hard as you used to.
I think he's taken too much inspiration from politics. Turfing out the simple "pay X, get Y" idea, we now get ~1000 words explaining a concept, its bureaucratic underpinnings, and a rationale of how something that offers less is, in fact, offering a lot more. Yet no longer do you "own" a site you can invest time into, you're instead a caretaker for a site that stays in the SO fold for them to monetize.. a bit like a sub-Reddit (except Reddit's source is open so you can take your toys home, if you wish).

Having people vote for stuff within a framework they ultimately don't control is crazy. We maintain a façade of democracy in politics because it keeps the populace happy, but with Web sites, online communities, and programming languages.. good leadership typically comes straight from the "owners" - at least to start with.

At the end of the day though, I guess Stack Overflow is his baby and he can do what he likes. If Apple can change the rules mid-game, so can Spolsky ;-)
Just for fun: quick word cloud visualization of core consulting skills form the spreadsheet http://twitpic.com/1fe1zt
Sounds as if you are not 30 yet. Maybe your outlook will change when you get older. I don't know the conditions in the US, though. I suppose houses are cheap for one thing (by now).
I definitely agree. That's what happened with the Buzz + GMail contacts fiasco. They were testing it internally where everyone knew everyone so had no idea why anyone wouldn't want to have all their email contacts added as friends.
1995 was not the era of 1200 baud modems. I'm going to go as far as to say the only place you could buy a 1200 baud modem in 1995 was at a junk sale.

USR introduced its 14400 baud modem in 1989
I didn't say that Apple is required to notify Adobe. I said that it was a 'dick move.' I find it highly unlikely that Apple would just happen to change the TOS right in a way that invalidates an Adobe product a few days before that Adobe product is set to launch.

I'm not claiming that Apple needs to ask everyone on their platform for permission to change the TOS, but it seems to me that Apple planned this in some way to 'stick it to Adobe.'

> Uhm, did Adobe even ask Apple about its plans before starting to working on the product? Did they discussed "business plans" with Apple?

No, there is no requirement that people discuss their business plans with Apple before targeting their platform. Is everyone that creates products targeting the iPhone/iPad platform supposed to ask Apple permission before even starting? I'm curious for you to try and defend this position, especially with the AppStore approval process already in place. Also take into account that this move seems to block Unity3D. Keep in mind that Unity3D won an Apple Design Award given to them by Apple themselves. I would take that as a tip of the hat by Apple to the creation of 3rd-party developer tools for the creation of iPhone/iPad apps.

> So now if I own a platform and have plans for it, should I go around asking all the guys "hey do you plan to do something on my platform"? If they are going to do something, they should approach me and discuss it.

So, when I want to develop a piece of software for MS Windows, I should be required to ask Microsoft permission?

The point in my original post was that I'm fairly sure that Apple knew about Adobe's product and purposefully timed their change to the TOS to the maximum amount of damage. If Apple knows that Adobe is developing a product that they will do everything in their power to block, why not be civilized about it and tell Adobe outright that they will not let that product into their platform?

The only way that you can frame this as "Adobe should have fallen before the throne of Apple and begged for permission," is if you think that creating a tool to aid in the development if iPhone/iPad apps is something that Apple will try to block. I think that it was a reasonable assumption to think that Apple would not try to block such things.
> People are getting tired of fart apps.

Sir! Bite your tongue! This truly unique genere of iPhone apps has incalculable (by you, at least) amounts of potential. I'm certain that you would be shocked at the extensive research and development that is going into the next generation of these apps.
Just so you know, I have an open source alternative to stackexchange and we do free hosting too http://shapado.com we also import stackexchange sites (beta).
I noticed that too. I stopped reading after that point.
lol I got 101 on the test.
I would caution against using the music creation applications as good examples of iPad applications. Firstly, musicians rarely skim on their gear, if an iPad and a $10 App will do the same job as a bit of hardware costing twice the price more than half of them will buy the hardware. I've not used a synth very much but I doubt a touch screen provides an adequate replacement for the musical keyboard, nevermind the more natural feel of real buttons and knobs. Finally, any reasonably serious musician will buy a sound card priced in the hundreds of dollars, they will not be happy with a 3 1/4 inch analog output from one of their primary tools.
Maybe a form of selection bias. If you're a talented contractor worth $200/hour you probably already have work and aren't advertising on a google spreadsheet
Goroutines seem nifty as hell; is anyone here using Go for anything yet? Pet projects? How mature does it seem?
Yes, of course. People who recently lost jobs or were working for bootstrapped startups would get an exemption.
Fellow Stackexchange admin for http://sfanswers.com. I'm glad I waited for beta to end, before spending thousands on marketing, shirts, stickers, etc...

I emailed them as well. SF Answers is my baby and I will do whatever it takes to keep it alive. SF Answers has huge potential, esp for our city folk, and I hope it can remain a site. Not really happy about this, but I'm a team player and would work directly with them on keeping this site up. Otherwise OSQA seems to fit the bill.. Fellow San Franciscans come join us!

I will continue to use SE, until they officially shut me down :(
Unity CEO Promises ‘Uninterrupted Service’ in Wake of iPhone OS 4.0 TOS Change
I have a stackexchange site. This is what my admin page says:

This site will remain free and operational until at least Tuesday, July 13, 2010.

What is the best drop in replacement?
There are several valid points about frighteningly poor security in Opera Mini. I won't be using it!
> Cost of the best smartphones in 2010: <= $200

You should use the unsubsidized cost. Like if you need to replace an iPhone or buying a Nexus One. More like $600.
I dunno, with services like EC2 I feel like there's far more opportunity available to me on the internet than there was a decade ago. I agree inasmuch as it feels different in some ways, though.
Developing "The Colony" -- a first-person game for early macs.
It's http://shapado.com.
My apps are all 2.3.5 with REE, so I'm waiting for the 3.0 release to move to Ruby 1.9. Why bother doing two upgrades when I can just do one big one?
I really don't get this article. The iPad can go 4:3 because Apple can guarantee 1 million orders and so their manufacturer is willing to set up a separate line to produce just 4:3 panels. Nobody else can do this because there isn't a million customers who regard widescreen as a critical point of differentiation on a laptop when the same specced 16:9 can be had $10 cheaper.
3rd Party Twitter Developer Strategy
I realise comparisons with 1984, and Apple's 1984 commercial, are fairly obvious, but with Apple's recent "must be written in" developer rules, they're now extending their ownership and control into the words you can use (as a developer). ++Bad.
> The anti-burbs imagine suburbs as necessarily this sprawling mess of wide boulevards and rows of gigantic, identical houses while the anti-urban imagine city living as necessarily a soulless forest of skyscrapers.

You're forgetting that many of the suburbians see cities every day because that's where they work....

What fraction of the urban crowd have a comparable experience? ("I grew up in a suburb and hated it" doesn't count.)
I'd like to know how MacOS X is any less of an 'open platform' that MS Windows is. Other than hardware lock-in, there are no tight developer restrictions.

People aren't complaining that they can't run iPhoneOS on another smart phone. They are complaining that they can only run software on iPhoneOS that has been approved by Apple, and that Apple is being an ass towards developers for the platform in general. None of this was true of either Windows or MacOS.

> I know LOVE their iPhone vs. frustrated with the lack of continuity with Android already.

[citation needed]

Cite me people that are 'frustrated with the lack of continuity with Android' that aren't:

* in the techie 5% of the population

* designers that are anal about the smallest of details
I would contest that a visual artist will not be satisfied with the lack of pressure sensitivity, a designer unimpressed with the relatively small screen size, a musician with the lack of high quality audio outputs and I can't come up with a single reason a writer would prefer an iPad over a regular laptop.

I think what the iPad will do is move touch interfaces into the main stream for a much larger class of devices. What I doubt it will do is revolutionize very much.
Creating a fancy Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4
I am actually thinking of making a web app for this, perhaps along with non-freelance profile/job postings, if anyone's interested. :)
Before, there was a music player market and a phone market. The iPhone covers both, reducing the size of the standalone music player market.