skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, he could definitely do with some less off-the-cuff guesses. There's actually quite a lot of debate about it in the scientific literature, because bipedalism is a somewhat odd feature, and we don't have enough evidence to really say for sure why it evolved initially, and what pressures guided its subsequent evolution.

Possibly by coincidence, I think his guess is actually in line with majority opinion, that long-distance treks had more effect than running on evolution of human bipedalism / skeletal structure / etc. But some researchers disagree, arguing that endurance running may well have had a large evolutionary role: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/krigbaum/proseminar/Bramble_Le...
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"He writes about startup things that haven't already been written about 9000 times."

Probably he only found these 3 not published exactly 9000 times of all the things he had in mind. That's just deadly info retrieval. ;-)

But I too agree on the last point. We see it happening all the time.
At first I thought the title was a randomly-generated concatenation of horrors, but it turns out to be a pretty good idea: if you have a lot of documentation to prepare and keep consistent, write a lint-like tool that will open up the document and check for common errors (custom styles attached to any text, house-style capitalization rules, etc.)

I quietly suspect there might be a niche for a minimalist WYSIWYG documentation system that only allows template-defined, semantic styles to be applied to text, and then allows exporting to a variety of output formats like printed documentation, knowledge-base articles, online help, etc.
Just try, it's equally inspiring & entertaining pro-TDD anti-ego talk, with some interesting points to history and people behind the scenes (Ward Cunningham!)
The post about prospectus credibility is not bad: http://theplanis.com/blog/latestage/
Does this affect something like MobileRoadie or the other app generation platforms, which translate a data layer into UIs?
The stack doesn't work consistently.

In the old days, when you minimised something, it always went to the bottom of the stack. (Except Excel, which had a silent entry in the stack when you had more than one document open. Outlook has been bizarre for a while, too.)

In one of the NT4 service packs (I think) this changed so that if something minimised to the status bar (rather than the task bar) it worked differently. I'm not sure what Vista did, but XP was bearable.

Now there are lots of variables - different apps respond to being removed from focus differently, I've read that the number of open applications affects stack response to minimise also.

Windows used to be very friendly to rapid keyboard-only operation. You could drop things in the start menu and activate them with two keystrokes. Alt+tab was dependable. No longer.
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You are right, that is pretty embarrassing. It slipped through when I did a template update and I have now fixed it.

Thanks for the heads up.
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They weren't making all software a commodity though, just the ones that their rival had market dominance of, or where they had no chance of gaining dominance themselves.

It's easy to point and laugh at Sun, but that's the same approach to open source (and standards) that Apple used to get out of the shadow of Microsoft and they seem to be doing okay.

(The same probably applies to Sun breaking lock-in to Intel based hardware architectures. Again this applies to Apple as they had to switch from PPC to Intel, but their cross-architecture experience gave them the leg up on ARM based phone and tablet markets.)
"Don't get me wrong, we won't ever share emails, ip addresses of our users or anything."

And I believe you. But if your assets go into a Chapter 7 liquidation, any such intent or formal privacy policy promise goes out the door (or so is my understanding, although we may see some change here someday).

(Or your angel investors might turn out out to be devils, etc., but Chapter 7 is the one risk that nearly impossible to avoid.)

Is there any sign you are losing people due to the lack of a formal privacy policy?

Is there any sign that many people care about the usual impenetrable privacy policies? And how they can be changed without notice?

How many people care that Facebook's motto/MO seems to be the opposite of Googles? Yes, they are big enough there's sometimes a lot of fuss when they do evil, but has it really hurt them?

Personally, I'm looking for a (very possibly implicit) "we won't be jerks and we expect you not to be" social contract. A one liner "we will not share ..." can't hurt, though (I do like to see those), but I'd drop the "never" due to the above control problem that might make it impossible to keep.
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this is the guys homepage:

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It's not just about quality.

As with everything Apple does - there are company-centric motives, which have been neatly balanced against a set of consumer-centric motives.

Apple is run by smart people, who realise they have a dedicated following. By making the 'we don't want to diminish the quality of the App pool' argument clear, they allow their ardent followers to do battle for them.

The corollary of this is that Apple ensure that their platform receives the developer investment it requires, enabling the company to become a permanent fixture in the mobile market.

If Flash developers didn't have to make a new investment of time and money to learn their platform - what would stop this pool of developers from leaving Apple's side tomorrow?

They want full control over what is allowed _into_ their market, and they want a dedicated team of developers who won't walk away.

If Flash was allowed, neither of these requirements would be assured.
Most of the exceptions are funny enough on their own. Especially NullPointerException.
Not to mention developer-years tracking down really obscure bugs that turn out to be caused by a particular AV application.
Thanks. I actually read the investor update for that particular prospectus recently.

Generally it seems to be working out, and as predicted the technology has very little to do with it. In fact one of the customers is proposing to license it and then use none of the technical solution, instead building their own in house.

The power of golf in the technology business at work :-)
That's exactly the sort of ambiguity people have been complaining about with the app store since it started. Nobody wants to be left guessing about what they have to change to get an app approved.
This is what happens when you host a website on the end of a DSL line.
I think I see where you're going, but

attaching labels to labels

gives me pause - "brain asplodes", as they say, plus cyclic graphs, etc.
Let's be honest for a minute.

Copyright for music is already dead. Consumers like free music. Sometimes they'll pay for concerts, or merchandise, or convenience, or ignorance, but that's it. They might tell you it's wrong on an opinion survey, but they keep downloading.

The situation isn't going to change any time soon, either.
Widespread use of DRM'd hardware might work, but the early adopters you'd need to get the new media formats off the ground already benefit the most from free downloads.

Books, movies, and TV shows haven't been devalued yet, but only because ripping and (especially) downloading them are still inconvenient to most people. Bandwidth can't stagnate forever, though. Like with music, when you can download a two-hour movie in ten minutes, and store them by the thousands on your hard drive without missing the space, the only way to prevent rampant piracy will be to stop selling media.

Regardless of the legal niceties, the marginal cost of digital media is zero plus some rounding error. Isn't that a radical enough departure for us to ask whether copyright itself, rather than just its expiration date, might have to change?
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It does make a difference. Linux needs more users, both active and passive. I'm actually surprised how many people that would be the target audience for Linux have come to use OS X instead.
I'm the developer of this. I built it using the most widely used framework and plan on releasing it for others based on the feedback.

Didn't want to spend time converting it for multiple framework if there's no real interest.
Yah though of using a APNG for animation, but it's just not widely supported enough right now.

It's in my to-do list for sure.
JPG was actually the smallest file size for that graphic because of the texture of the background and the ragged edges,though I haven't looked at those file sizes since that page launched.
This brings a very interesting point. If pensions are a modern invention then they are not necessary something permanent. The logical way to approach the problem is an open-ended way: no more pensions means no more living for retirement. Life should simply be lived the best way possible. Savings are of course necessary, but it's everybody's decision if/when/how they start using them.
Smalltalk & Ruby are deeply interrelated.

Much of the same syntax between the two languages

From 1970s Smalltalk was the language to watch

Smalltalk epitomized Object Orientated Design

Described C++ as a mans language (need balls to code in it and make it work)

Describes Java as an estrogen type language

Smalltalk had a productivity benefit of a factor of 5. Compared to a C application.

Refactoring in Smalltalk was a breeze

What killed Smalltalk? ( umm, at this stage I have no idea, he jumps to a new topic)

Definition of clean code - "when you look at a routine and its pretty much what you expected"

Best metric for clean code is 0 WTFs per minute

What killed Smalltalk is that it was just too easy to make a mess (Finally, 20 mins in!) Quote from Ward Cunningham

So easy to make an indirect and impenetrable system over time

Companies developing in Smalltalk were screwed up at the time

You can make a mess in Ruby, simple, elegant, wonderful language; still easy to make a mess

Projects in Ruby start well, but the framework is often violated over time; making a mess...

Boyscout rule, leave the campground cleaner than when you entered it. (Actual quote - leave life better than you found it) - apply this to your source code. Would make code get better and better as time goes by. Most of the time, cleaning code is hard!

Quote of the presentation - "If you touch it, you will break it. If you break it, it becomes yours. The best policy is to walk away, run. the messes are hard to clean"

Test Driven Development is the solution

Rails and Ruby is great for Test Driven Development.

Other languages have TDD, was born in Smalltalk.

Talks about TDD methods; If you follow TDD, regularly write and run tests, then there is no fear to change code.

Nothing makes a system more maintainable than a suite of tests

He loves Rspec and Cucumber (Behaviour Driven Development BDD)

TDD never really became a part of Smalltalks culture but is integral to the Ruby community

TDD will keep your code clean

There was an arrogance to the Smalltalk community ( I sometimes can see this in the Ruby community )

Our tools are so good, our language is so good we don't need to follow the rules. Smalltalk people didn't want to do regular programming (Enterprise Applications, etc)

Your language may be powerful, but you must be careful with it. just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing (Star Trek quote) Us vs them feeling in the Smalltalk community.

Ruby community is not going to go down this path because:
Discipline - TDD makes you feel good inside

Professionalism - did the doctor wash their hands, did you write your tests?

Acceptance - we need to solve the dirty problems ( Need to adapt to the enterprises needs - do not solve only the problems you like.)

We have a great tool in Ruby, we can kill it, let's not do that!

My thoughts - Great presentation style, he's quite funny. Very inspirational lecturer for developers confirming that TDD/BDD are the ways forward for software engineering.
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That, plus some extra not-label filters, such as by-date and by-source. With lists automatically mined from what's in the box, of course (e.g. top-10 correspondents for the month).

For example: hmm, I'm looking for something from early 2006, and it involved either joe@foo, bob@bar or someone from example.com ...
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He's a Microsoft fanboy writing in 2002 about open source software. Of course he's wrong.

Having said that, I don't think he's wrong on the big picture economics, more on the particular facts of the examples. It's about people wanting to ship binary drivers rather than just release the source so that others can fix it for you. Or generalize it so that your specific hardware widget is just one of many similar widgets all running the same basic code that can be mainained at a much lower cost (by any measure).

Of course hardware folks don't want to do that if they feel they have lock-in, for exactly the reasons discussed in this article. They don't want to be an interchangeable commodity, Linux and end-users do want them to be commodities. Once again Free Software is shown to be about who has control, not how much you pay. (Though probably mostly it was just fear of the unknown)

More recent developements include the Linux Driver Project:

"We are a group of Linux kernel developers (over 200 strong) and project managers (over 10) that develop and maintain Linux kernel drivers. We work with the manufacturers of the specific device to specify, develop, submit to the main kernel, and maintain the kernel drivers. We are willing and able to sign NDAs with companies if they wish to keep their specifications closed, as long as we are able to create a proper GPLv2 Linux kernel driver as an end result."

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view/Main/WebH...
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Yes, I don't like that either. But its better than painting everyone with a broad stroke.

It's no different from saying 'the last 10 apps that were submitted from Podunk were all poor, so no developer from Podunk is allowed to write iPhone apps'
These days, the CPU cycles aren't where we bear the bulk of the cost of malware running on a machine.
the technology has very little to do with it

"amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics" ...

power of golf

Those of us on the "a good walk spoiled" side are missing out then (ah well, there's wining and dining ;-)
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Why should we, as developers, be happy that Apple is creating lock in? Sure, I understand why, but does that mean we should all just accept it? Was the Microsoft era something we all look back fondly on? I think you'd have to be a complete fan boy to have that much vested interest in Apple's success, without actual equity in the company. Clearly it is better to release your apps on all platforms with as little effort as possible.
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Nope, we're good.
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IBM laptops aren't anymore - bought by Lenovo a few years ago.
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We wrote our own, and in 'plain' language, not in legalese. So far it has not ever come up other than when users violate the 'terms' and are banned.

Feel free to copy bits and pieces:

http://ww.com/policy.php3

And keep in mind that a privacy policy only starts to carry real weight when your community feels that a policy is too restrictive or gives you rights that it should not have. A 'reasonable' level of protection of privacy and rights is the sweet spot to aim for.

Too lax and you won't be able to ban users for terms-of-service violations, too restricted and your users will (rightfully) complain.
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I kind of agree with you, except that last sentence.

I once worked for a client with no upfront contract and no initial fees, the agreement being that I had to get paid when the work was done. After the work was done (in an incremental agile process nonetheless) the client said that he's going to go to someone else ... and when that someone else finished his work, I discovered that he stole from me ideas from my design, articles blatantly copy/pasted and some implementation details.

Sorry, but even if the cost of reproducing digital media is zero, the cost of producing it is not. And if I'm producing something of value, it's only fair to get paid for my work.

And in the above case I only had the copyright law to defend myself.

What the media industry needs to realize is that people don't pay for crap. If you want to make money out of movies then stop producing crap like Jennifer's Body and stop promoting crap like Britney Spears.

The price of a movie/music album/newspaper subscription should also variate according to its quality / cost of production.

Personally I buy all the albums of my favorite bands (all 3 of them ... I like supporting them and I like discovering tracks for which there aren't mp3s available on torrents). I'm also going to the local cinema regularly but only to see those movies that are worth the price of a ticket.
I'm confused. The "April 8th HP announcement" seems to be related to the publication in Nature of a paper from May 2009.
A bit of search turned this up:

http://www.physorg.com/news190016024.html

(paywalled)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7290/full/nature0...

(nice pic, but just an echo of yesterday's NYT pre-news) http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/computers/blogs/computer-chip-...

Anyone has better ? (meaning more than was available in the news of six months or so ago)

P.S.

Good short critical comment here: http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/04/memrista...

And finally, the HP press release that search didn't show - had to go manually to the hp.com news page:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2010/100408xa.html
The information I described was released to the public yesterday. I didn't describe any of the API or class reference.
If you like Uncle Bob he was caught yesterday singing Clojure's praises.

http://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/11845284938
One of the better company websites I have seen recently. Love the balance between cutesy and professional.
Unity has a free version and you can first develop with it, then buy a license. Productivity is more valuable than the license price, and Unity is a productive framework.

The price for MonoTouch is something like $399 for a single developer ... which is really not that much considering that you already paid for over-priced hardware.

All of them provide an easier path to developing for the iPhone when you're not used to ObjC / Cocoa and all of them enable shared business logic if you want to go multi-platform.

Apple already makes it clear they want to ban these framework. It's like a bank that has the right to take your house (according to the contract you agreed to) but it may take some time before it does it ... if it's in the contract and you don't do anything about it, then it's only a question of time. That's how things work ;)
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Compare this to the recent Google action of withdrawing from China, which company is evil? It's a no brainer.
TV is to internet as digital tape is to SSD.

Who wants one's time to be held prisoner to 30 secs of ads to get to 5 min of info/entertainment (or to have to tivo and come back later)?

PS: death to the video on mainstream web sites (CNN, etc) that precede video content with add requirement.

PPS: Long live click-to-flash.
This is an intriguing comment, but I'm not sure it's valid in all cases. From my experience, getting up to feed a baby isn't something a woman does to fulfill her role - it's something she does to get sleep. I could not sleep if my baby was crying, or even just restless. My husband could. I could feed the baby; my husband could not. So I was the one who woke up to feed the baby. (Fortunately, feeding him put me right back to sleep, most of the time, due to the drowsiness-inducing effects of oxytocin.) I get the same kind of elevated mood from staying up all night programming or writing, not because it fulfills my role as I believe it to be - though it does, at least when it goes well - but because there is a physiological chain of events that leads to the mood elevation. I'm glad researchers are working on figuring out exactly what that chain of events is, because as a lifelong insomniac, it's a phenomenon I've noticed before, and I've often wished I could bottle it.
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What are the "core" features in an IDE?
A nice service for a website to make screenshots
Anyone remember this nice website, which allowed a user to push a button on the website to make a screenshot of the view he's currently seeing and then automatically send it to the customer support?

I know i saw this url on HN some time ago, but cannot remember now what it was...

Thank you.
I think this is a game of 'what if'.

If providing tools to manage privacy gave MS an advantage, I could imagine there's at least a possibility they might supply them.
So instead of learning to write a better contract, you want government bullies to enforce the contract you didn't write?
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oops. javadoc still can't catch typos:

Turn off your computer and go out and get som exercise.
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> The hardest thing to me about ditching Mac would be that Apple is the only company capable of doing a user interface.

Some systems have a CLUE (Command Line User Environment).
So, is this article interesting because it comes from The Economist? I think most of us here have been reading copyright law analysis and critique that's far beyond this since before the DMCA was passed.
There are enough ugly apps on the app store that I find this argument unconvincing even if you accept the premise that this is reasonably Apple's job rather than customers choosing what to buy.
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And why have you concluded that the clause is made by evil lawyers (who Apple hires) and not by the business? Can I really do anything I want in life, and if I'm criticized, I can just claim, "my lawyers made me do it"?
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probably why it's just a Labs feature for now - i.e., for testing.
And what if I don't want to write in one of the languages mentioned?
Only it they kill some bugs.
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yep.
80 characters wouldn't make sense: most people view text in variable width fonts, which are generally considered easy to read.

A better idea would be to contain the text in something.
Java performance just isn't straightforward. Startup time alone really taints the perception of an app before you get to working with it. Another sore spot is resource loading. Once the JVM is all warmed up it's generally humming along at a great pace, computationally speaking.

Check out Processing for a nimble Java app.
I don't get the non-joke.

Is it because this sounds scarily close to the 3.3.1 Flash kerfuffle? If so, wouldn't this piece then fall into the category of 'it's funny because it's true'?
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