skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, good but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_hierarchy_theorem says no.
What a tool. It's a shame this made it to Techmeme. He really had to twist the facts to make his point. Here's what he didn't say:

ZDNet 2001 (Dec 2001)
Article is actually Adobe: OS X's new best friend?
"Analysts and creative professionals say that Adobe's release of products for OS X could be the most significant turning point in the new operating system's adoption."
"Developers privately complained of stability issues with the original release of OS X, saying that these problems hampered their efforts to move their products to the new operating system. That finally changed in September, when Apple issued the Mac OS X 10.1 update."

A slice from 2002
Article is from March '02: OSX 10.2.1 was established as default OS on Macs only 3 months prior!

What he left out: "Adobe is actively working to add support for the full version of Acrobat 5.0 running in OS X native mode."
"Adobe currently plans to offer native support for OS X in the next major release of After Effects." etc.

CNet 2004
"At the same time, Apple has quietly pushed Adobe out of a few markets by selling its own applications or bundling them into its OS X operating system. "

John Nack, 2006 (Feb '06)
No Intel OS X updated Adobe apps till 07 "Ever since Apple's Intel announcement last summer, they've told the industry (at least the consumer side) that Intel Macs would appear by summer 2006."

Wikipedia: "On January 10, 2006, the new MacBook Pro and iMac became the first Apple computers to use Intel's Core Duo CPU. By August 7, 2006 Apple had transitioned the entire Mac product line to Intel chips, over 1 year sooner than announced."
All replies to the parent are interesting speculation as to whether the author was screaming at, into or under the water, and what the water was for.

The key thing to notice, though, is that the author screamed. I have screamed, and life is bloody awful at those points in life.
This sounds a lot like a perceiving vs judging issue. Judgers tend to like knowing what they're getting into ahead of time. Perceivers (such as myself) tend to get bored when their future is mapped out.

This posting definitely leans more toward the perceiving end of the spectrum. That isn't necessarily bad or good, but it definitely makes this posting different.
Shareholder activists will usually argue how companies stupidly waste money on consultants. It's just that there aren't a lot of them.

In the past, Buffett has criticized consultants.

1995 Letter:

Concluding this little dissertation on acquisitions, I can't
resist repeating a tale told me last year by a corporate
executive. The business he grew up in was a fine one, with a
long-time record of leadership in its industry. Its main
product, however, was distressingly glamorless. So several
decades ago, the company hired a management consultant who -
naturally - advised diversification, the then-current fad.
("Focus" was not yet in style.) Before long, the company
acquired a number of businesses, each after the consulting firm
had gone through a long - and expensive - acquisition study. And
the outcome? Said the executive sadly, "When we started, we were
getting 100% of our earnings from the original business. After
ten years, we were getting 150%."

“I would rather throw a viper down my shirtfront than hire a compensation consultant.” -Charles Munger
Don't people hike the PCT because they've taken a break from the "scream into a lake" lifestyle?
That's exactly what I thought the moment I saw this. The other options are a working quantum computer or he's retiring.
Yeah, it's strange.

I spent some time in Turkey and you get to talk more with people in the street than with some of your neighbours back home.
The ban that was there since the beginning wasn't against all interpreted code, was it? It was against being able to run interpreted code that wasn't originally shipped with the app. So I don't think (before the recent 3.3.1 changes) that Ruby or Python would have been against the rules. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You are completely incorrect, the free market is a moral system because it does not rely on coercion or force to compel others to interact. All interactions in a free market system are voluntary and beneficial to all participants in the transaction. No other economic system can make those claims.
"I’m a free marketeer. I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system — goods and services represent tangible benefit to people, market prices represent the true value of goods in society, and wages represent the value that a worker provides to others. Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man. A high income is not only justified, but there is nobility to it."

Oh, man, it'd be awesome if we had that. But then, much of the Web 2.0 "industry" about which this site revolves would not exist.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [1994]
I don't know. High speed rail makes a lot of sense for dense countries. For countries with a lot of empty space in between, airplanes start to look relatively better.

(Fast rail may still be the way to go for NY to California, who knows. It is definitely viable inside the sprawls, like the East Coast or the West Coast.)
Steve Jobs Just Murdered the Web
There has been a lot of debate about the infamous changes to section 3.3.1, however it's interesting to ponder how the web fits in Steve Jobs' perception of reality. Will iPhone 5.0 see the browser removed, that layer of crappy subpar "apps" replaced by the iTunes panacea?
He's going to write and direct a musical adapted from "The Art Of Computer Programming"
Ask HN: Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system?
Personal finances are finally getting complex enough that just checking the balance is no longer really suitable to managing my money. Multiple accounts, automatic payments, and variable incomes are running rampant.

I was looking at Mint.com, but the idea of handing over my credentials to all my financial accounts, plus the privacy concerns has me backing away. Of course the other option is Quicken, or hacking up my own account management solution.

What do you use, would you trust mint.com, any other recommendations?

Managing multiple books is a plus.
Where are the Americans?
The internet and cell phones have been around for more than 15 years. (Even the web has been around longer.)

The record in mathematics is pretty good. E.g. compiling functional programming languages made huge strides in the last two decades. And so did linear and integer optimization.
Not true, as the iPhone gets more popular, Adobe will take care of those custom features.

Adobe's history of failing to update their products to take advantage of OS X, of Intel processors, of Cocoa, or of the Mac platform entirely seems to give to lie your belief.
Fascination with Dynamic Languages
I bet facebook is working on integrating divyshot with "Dorm View"
The joys of linear optimization. Do you know if it also supports integer optimization? (Doing that fast enough would be a feat in pure Excell.)
Spiral optical illusion: JS canvas rendering demonstration how it works
Hitler's new iPhone app runs afoul of section 3.3.1 [video]
In addition to up voting you I would like to add that this is a pattern. Steve Jobs dishes some use then provides for it. Perhaps the interpretations are:

1. Misdirection or
2. Change of mind (being wrong).

I favour 1.
Given the volume of idiotic blog writing, I hope I'm forgiven for giving up on this one after the first three lines (and subsequently wondering wtf all the HN comments were about).
Get Things Done Like a Zen Master
Here's a graph showing how bad the current recession is wrt jobs loss compared to previous:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/S7kz7N40TqI/AAAAAAAAH9...

Doesn't look all that promising for a speedy recovery.
Younoodle is hiring: http://younoodle.com/static/jobs . The company and people are awesome, we're doing some cool stuff (we're like an iceberg - our front page is only 10% of what we do) and the perks are awesome.
What do men want from online dating?
Keep in mind when looking at the W3 Schools stats that mostly web devs and techies go to that site so it would be best to view them as a sub-set of the general public's browser stats.
Sarcasm on the internet is really not a good idea.

it's never the readers fault when sarcasm isn't obvious

I completely disagree on both counts. First of all, just because some people get duped doesn't make sarcasm a bad idea. In fact, getting duped by sarcasm can be an educational experience.

Second of all, there is a lot of sarcasm and satire out there that is so obvious that it is a clear reading comprehension failure to miss it. If there is enough appropriate context, voice, and tone in a piece of writing and you fail to detect any of it, it may not be the fault of the writer. You can't just take a whole style or mood of expression and say it's not appropriate for written form. The most you can say is that it should be used with care. In this particular piece, the proposals and ideas put forth were very obviously constructed to be self-contradicting. If someone didn't mark this as satire when reading through it, they have a reading comprehension problem.
I believe it does. And, IIRC, it's a native code library that uses Excel for data input and results presentation.
This is fantastic. I met a client a while ago and we took to each other warmly from the start. I found out she had MS. This is right up her alley, as she was explaining alternative treatments she tried which helped, although not yet endorsed by the U.S. I'm forwarding this to her right now.
they didn't blow up Philadelphia... they blew up New York.

That's because they were scared of Philadelphians. We threw snowballs at Santa after all.
Personally, I think 'believing in the product' is overrated. If you emphasize that too much, you end up with a bunch of yes men who can't see (or at least won't mention) problems with your product. Overconfidence is dangerous. The ability to be critical of yourself and your company is essential to avoiding death, I think.

That said, there is no way I'd hire a customer service person who wasn't a customer first. (but then, I sell a product that is of interest to technical people, and I target the low end, so really, #prgmr on irc.freenode.net is probably a fairly decent place to pick up cheap SysAdmins.) If I sold to, say, real-estate agents, I might feel differently. Also, if I was looking for an MBA, my customer pool would probably not be a very useful place to fish.

Really, people I know, and people who know people I know have been a more useful resource than anything else. (I don't mean people on my "social network" in the sense of facebook, but, for example, I met the co-author of my book because he was the roommate of one of my employees.)
Why does it only return immutable collections? Because the spec says so, or because there is some principle suggesting that it should?

Personally, my first instinct was to read the syntax as a form of initialisation, not something that would bar me from adding or deleting elements after the set is instantiated.
"At my salary level, and with my expected advancement path, I could comfortably retire in my thirties."

I've heard this or statements like it in quite a few articles over the years, but I've never actually met a retired thirties business consultant. Do they exist and am I just missing them? The only ones I know are well into their thirties, working 70+ hours a week, and looking forward to making even larger boatloads in their forties.
I don't think the staff working in bars in and around the RLD in the Dam care too much about the health sex and drugs tourists who pass through.

Oh and to answer the comment below, I'm aware of what you can get for €50 by windowshopping, but:

a) it wasnt my intention to spend €51 on absinthe, I wasn't aware of what I was doing after shot number 3, plus where I'm from it's €100 minimum when I hit the town

b) I really don't go for that sort of thing. Another funny sight I was a line of guys, all British and members of what I took to be the same Stag party, lined up one after another to 'frequent' the same window. Granted, the image of beauty in the window looked like a Victoria Secret model, but seriously.

Another night, myself and my highly irresponsible drinking buddies ran into two Irish-Americans from Boston in their 60s, (married, with kids, retired) in some random sports bar (we're Irish, which quite stereotypically explains our behaviour). We got chatting, and entertained them with the merry tales of me falling about the place hammered on absinthe and generally causing concern for the local Dutch police.

Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, around 3am, all of us tanked up to bits on absinthe, whiskey and some disgusting piss that passes for lager locally in Amsterdam (definitely not Heineken), we decided it would be a good idea to have a wander around the RLD. At this stage, a New Zealand dentist who "was in the city for a conference" (yeah right) and some other chap (Aussie I think) decided to join us. We wandered for a while, then one of my (evil) mates suggested to the Boston boys that it would be a good idea to check the prices in two nearby windows. (One of the Boston boys goes to me, clearly still rooted in the Cold War mentality: "Is she Russian? Looks like a commie". To which I replied: "No man, it's cool. She's Polish, they're on our side") So the Boston boys head into the two hookers, which is quite a feat considering their age and martial status.

After that it quietened down a bit, we still managed to run into another American who claimed to be exiled from the States by the US Marshalls or something. Sounded BS to me, but he did have the accent plus he gave us an informal tour of the RLD at 4am.

This is all true i swear, even if it sounds like Tucker Max-style bullshit.
Changes to the iPhone SDK happen around yearly at best. Even vendors such as Adobe can manage a yearly release cycle. Beyond that, why does this need to be in the ToS of the SDK at all? If they only want applications that do a good job of supporting their APIs, then when a new app is submitted for inclusion in the App Store they can say "Hey, your app sucks for multitasking." The concern should be quality of application, not the toolchain used to develop the application.

I suspect that many Flash-to-iPhone conversions would be rejected from a performance, stability, or other perspective, but there are better frameworks (such as Titanium) that play extremely nicely in the ecosystem and can be used to build real, performant applications.
This argument only really flies in my mind if you implicitly accept that Apple is the Font of All Features, and there are No Features but Apple's. If I have an iPhone problem best solved by Erlang, I'm going to be twiddling my fingers for a very long time; there's nothing like it when you need it, and it will be a very long time before they offer anything remotely resembling it if we have to wait for an Apple-Blessed version of the features. (Remember, Erlang is way more than just "green threads", there's a lot of library support, cross-process communication, OTP, etc. Nothing I know truly matches it, few things (but not zero) come close.)

After all, the entire reason that someone wants to use these other languages or frameworks is that they offer features Apple doesn't.

It's still naked self-interest by Apple at the expense of its developers. Which they are welcome to. Frankly, if you knew the history of Apple the company you shouldn't be surprised when they choose to do something in their interest at your active expense; they have a long history of this.
Twitter's response to the developer community
Not sure, but if those are SVN revisions they could be on different branches?
Agreed. The only retired consultants I've met had white hair (most didn't even have hair).
Or anyone who were to use Flash to create iPhone apps.
Coincidentally, I was in the process of doing the same thing. Then I came across http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184403224 which said what I wanted to say, exactly.
Your attempt at an aura of wisdom is rather sullied when you tar half of a country with a crude sexual epitaph. (Or are you perhaps one of the apparently large number of people who are unaware of what "tea bagger" actually means?)

I suggest that your "maturity" is still perhaps not to the point where you should be lecturing others quite yet.
eh, personally, I am not the sort of person who buys or develops for apple products. Much like the author of the article, Apple makes a little bit too many of my choices for me (and more to the point, they make those choices assuming user that has different needs.) however, I also avoid flash, for my desktop, security is fairly important. this means noscript, and no flashplugin.

Personally, I'm pretty happy that apple has decided they don't like flash; because of this, fewer websites will require flash, which is good for me.
Commodore 64 app is still on the App Store. It was taken off briefly when it was found to be able to run interpreted code that wasn't originally shipped with the app (specifically, code the user typed into the emulated C64's BASIC interpreter).

So it's hard for me to see why an app that was written in Ruby or Python would have been disallowed before the recent changes.

And it seems the C64 app (the one that's up now, that can't run arbitrary code) will be disallowed after these changes go into effect.
And Jobs isn't the inventor of Objective-C.
I think there is one technical argument for 3.1.1.

It's often been observed that as PCs kept getting faster, apps stayed at the same speed (or even slowed down), as layers of abstraction soaked up the extra cycles. To remain snappy, the iPhone simply can't afford that. At least not yet.
I realize this is supposed to be satire but I think it's not too healthy to obsess/rage over something you can easily avoid. Go download the Android SDK, BBOS SDK or WebOS SDK. Unlike almost any time in the past the barrier of entry to different platforms is ridiculously low. My personal theory is the success of the App Store and iPhone OS devices is creating this ethical rift in people who used to be able to see the computing world in very black & white terms. Suddenly they are confronted with the idea that maybe there are deep issues in an open platform that generally make the user feel stupid, confused, and frustrated leading them to be less likely to actually use the device and put money into developer's pockets. It's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with to understand why people obsess over everything iPhone OS related. Otherwise they'd just man up and go write Android apps?
I thought it was pretty funny.
That actually undermines his main point -- that he stuck to his "morals" and forgone the "large" hush money check at the end. If he was making enough to retire by his 30s then $16k wasn't that significant of an amount. That means the didn't really lose a lot so his "moral" stance is more symbolic, and not the tough financial decision that article might imply.
Cached data invalidation in SchemaForm: an introduction
There's plenty at the local Apple stores and Best Buys around here.
> I wonder how many children get sent to college by dads like that.

Given the amazing human capacity to rationalize everything, I would guess -- a lot.
I think Apple will profit hugely from iPhone, iPod and iPad; however they won't take Microsoft position. Windows 7 is selling like mad. Software is more profitable when you sell it!

Google is making money from ads and search which seems to be a big promising market.

IMO, the most solid company is Microsoft. I can change my iPhone in 24 hours with Htc or N900, I can change my iPad with HP slate in less time. However, it'll take me months to decide if I should change to a Mac or Not and may be a couple of years to change to it permanently.

Google also seems to be more solid, If I chose Gmail, Google Search, Google Docs for my business, I won't change that easily.
YouTube - Search Stories
similar advice from Marc Andreessen: http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-pers...
They think they will retire in their thirties, but they never have enough.

"At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have...

Enough."

http://www.johnboglemedia.com/component/content/article/1-la...
As if that could stop Knuth...
Tensions Rise for Twitter and Outside App Developers
Floodfx -- Amazing article. Thanks. I've never seen that, but I am a big fan of GTD (who he mentions).

Thanks a lot. Bookmarked.
One page per day
please review a quick project:

http://www.onepageperday.com
Why not list both the "District" of Columbia and the "city" of Washington on the same map?
How Do Open Source Developers Talk about Users?
http://www.onepageperday.com clickable link.
I wish people also appreciated how incredibly complex and nuanced (semi)automated map labeling can be. It is ridiculous.
I was wondering how Apple PR would handle this issue, and they are being very clever. They try to frame this purely as a spat between Apple and Adobe. And lets face it, nobody really likes Adobe nowadays because of various issues about cross-compatibility of Flash and their attempts to kill HTML 5. So of course Apple is confident that once the issue is framed as a spat between Apple and Adobe most developers would go on Apple's side.

But is that really the main issue? If you think about it, the controversial section of the agreement affects much more important issues that Adobe and flash.
.emacs:

;; Remove the toolbar icons.
(tool-bar-mode 0)

;; Remove the menu bar.
(menu-bar-mode 0)
Consultants are often brought in order be blamed later. In the article, the development company could always try and blame BCG when their shareholders wonder how come $1B was wasted. By that time, the CEO of the development company would have left deploying his golden parachute, and BCG would have been able to somehow cover their legal ass with some small print on a back of their contract agreement.
He has a point, although the way he arrives at the conclusion is flawed. Adobe made a rational business decision at a time when nobody could have predicted the Apple renascence. This decision might cost them dearly now, but that doesn't mean that given the facts known at that time, they should have made a different one.
you mean something like this? http://presslift.com/

or this: http://www.pitchengine.com/

(both via http://www.inc.com/howard-greenstein/2010/02/2_services_to_h... )
Women Violence: 12-Year-Old Yemeni Bride Dies of Internal Bleeding
Well, that's the most overly sensationalist headline I've read in quite a while.

Murdered the web? Come on now.
Can you be specific in why you don't like Microsoft shops?

A few years a go, I worked at a web design agency that used a ton of MS products. They produced some really top-notch work for their clients, and shipped it all on the MS stack. The impression I got was that they wanted to focus on the product and not spend time fixing ActiveRecord bugs, etc.

Are there really no good MS hackers out there? Is it a cultural thing?
"Even better, some enterprising start up could make an Objective-C game engine."

Isn't a game engine a bit like some sort of interpreter (which are banned on the iPhone)?...