skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates"
"Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on."

How does a music download service commoditize anything about Ubuntu?
Developing Rails apps on Windows (the joyful way)
If you doubt BillG's technical acumen:

A Joel Spolsky classic story, "My First BillG Review"

"Bill came in...

He had my spec in his hand.

He had my spec in his hand!"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
Consider using log charts to show the differences at the lower end more precisely. This would also save screen space: you could make the bars vertical rather than horizontal.
Network Infrastructure Automation Increasingly Critical
You mean like Hackernews, but for designers? ;-)

-runs off to thread where industry X is RETARDED because they don't know anything about computers

(Aww, I'm just kidding you, Hackernews! You know I love you.)
Wouldn't sending metrics to my own server still be the second party. In fact, the device doesn't need to be involved at all. The server could record the hit to its API from a device and generated the metrics entirely server side. I assume one could do whatever they want with this data.

Presumably, one could justify creating a url connection to a server on the internet for any reason, for example to let the server knows the users current local time.
No - they're often more like multilevel marketing.
My favourite segment:

"Publishers didn’t like the fact that Amazon.com started selling e-books for $9.99 each. (They thought that was too cheap, if you’re wondering.) It didn’t affect publishers’ margins, nor authors’ royalties, since Amazon.com was selling below cost to promote its Kindle platform. But still, publishers were uncomfortable with the idea of books being that cheap. So they went to war and forced Amazon.com to bump up prices to $13-$15, in exchange for taking a lower royalty on each sale.

Let’s review. Amazon.com was eating it in order to allow you to buy books for ten bucks, instead of twenty or thirty, while paying authors the same royalty. Publisher intervenes, and now books are more expensive for you, while the author gets less. Also, the publisher gets less. Oh, and I didn’t mention this, but during the war, Amazon.com took down all the “Buy” buttons for Macmillan books, so you definitely couldn’t buy them no matter how much you wanted to and nobody made any money at all. "

I thought these companies love saying how they have an obligation to make their shareholders money?
It's PHP code, so I assume you'd upload it to an FTP server and then test it in an integrated browser (as in Coda and Espresso).
Some real perspectice...

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ask.com,+nytimes.com,+cn...
If you extend alexa timeline to the max, you see a large spike at the end of 08 that drops dramatically in January of 09 and it's relatively flat from mid 09 to now.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com%2F%3F...
Noooo! There goes the next few hours/days. :) This is awesome, but I've already opened 20+ tabs in just one section...
For the DRM signing stuff, yeah I would guess you almost certainly do need Apple's toolchain. I wouldn't be surprised if you can use other tools to do everything else though - indeed, Adobe was just using LLVM to output ARM assembly for their Flash-to-iPhone compiler.

From the legal side, I haven't seen any requirement that you use their toolchain - again, it's just been the "originally written in" stuff.
tl;dr version: The 'joyful way' to develop in Rails on Windows is by installing Linux in a VM on the machine (and then developing in that). No seriously, that's the author's argument. Can't say I disagree, though.
Went through the same experience--Ubuntu (via VirtualBox) on a Vista machine saved me from pulling all of my hair out. If you have plenty of memory to play with, certainly the way to go.
I think he meant: 'do the things that only you are capable of doing.'
I am doing something similar with my redis-node-client as a base.
Maybe adding one of the most vital parts about the weather, humidity, would also help.

How on earth are you supposed to know if 25 °C or 77 °F is going to be sweaty and uncomfortable, if you don't know what the humidity is?
I guess rokhayakebe is asking if anyone around here went the route of making your product better by making it simpler i.e. removing features.
Same colorscheme, too.

Granted, I have my vim configured to look almost like TextMate in just this way, so maybe he's just ripping off textmate… somehow I doubt it.
hmmm. my first thought, as an engineer, was "thank goodness i'm not the one who has to review that code".

is the guy really keeping track of recent changes? can you really criticise his work just like anyone else? seems like he might be making life harder for others...
Just for another random comparison:
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=webcrawler.com,+excite.c...

It's a little amazing that iwon is gaining in market share...
Valid point but the author misses the mark a bit. Apple probably won't move away from ARM but instead enhance and mutate their own ARM design. The A5, A6 and beyond could retain 100% binary compatibility but also offer many new features. At that point it would technically be an ARM CPU but to be used to its maximum you would need a compiler ready to support all those new features. In the case of a product like the iPad that was unveiled to the public only 2 months before it went on sale it would be difficult for third parties to keep up. From Apple's perspective sharing this type of information publicly on a reasonable time frame to support third parties could take away a significant advantage they have with in-house CPU development. If you're going to tell your competition 6 months ahead of time what you're doing by the time you ship a product they're going to be less than 6 months behind you.
Yes, if Hacker News was invite only and originally secret (it's only been publicly viewable for a month or so) -- with public upvoting, no downvoting anywhere, an explicit popularity contest, no outbound links, and metered posting.

Dribbble is a hugbox. HN is more of a bucket of dicks.
I've got to disagree there. Sprinting around chasing a tiny yellow ball and hitting it is extremely fitness based. This is especially true of a top ranked tennis team like the Stanford women. The players on that team are already going to be pretty good, and most likely are not going to have an overall increase of that large a % over the course of a few months of training. (These women have most likely been playing tennis for years and they keep up with their training in the off season, it isn't like highschool where the team has a month of everyone 'getting back into shape').

A criticism that you could have is that 'fitness' is very ill defined. Are we measuring sheer physical endurance or ability at a physical task? I mean, your brain is connected to the rest of your body, and it governs your body's functioning. For purposes, it is just another body part (albeit an important one). So it strikes me as strange that we would really even want to measure mental ability separately from physical ability, as they are pretty much impossible to measure independently.
Actually they're completely free to create their own last-mile connections, most simply choose not to and try to irk out their living being the middle man.
Dude, that's not Twitter.
Great! The trick will be doing their sample + generate trick. They didn't bother really finishing the implementation for Pig, but when it works its amazing.
How the fuck did this comment get 145 upvotes?
Safari and Chrome Web Inspector Updates
Google May Free The World From Flash Slavery
Disclaimer - I posted this and I'm a Flash guy...
If you're offering Zuckerberg "secrets of success" I really hope you are a Steve Jobs sockpuppet account.
Can someone explain why I'd ever want to write code on something without a keyboard when I could get a net book for so cheap? I'm baffled. There are a million great uses for the iPad form factor, but coding isn't one of them.
Some Thoughts On Comments
I don't see any evidence that this is a "reverse engineering" of a Segway - it seems to be more of a "re-engineering" from scratch.
Is Recent Earthquake Activity Unusual? Scientists Say No.
You can modify youtube links to go to specific times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24#t=25m25s
In the dump, I think for robustness and ease of extracting subsets.

Robustness: Having to essentially play back a log to recover any particular revision increases a chance of something eventually getting corrupted, and so it's somewhat safer to avoid it in something intended to be archival.

Ease of extracting subsets: For researchers, having the revisions be independent allows you to filter the XML dump through a SAX parser (or similar) to grab only revisions meeting particular criteria. If deltas were stored, you'd have to reconstruct those revisions from the deltas, which would make it really expensive to do things like, "I want to look at every article as it appeared at noon on April 1, 2007".

In the live DB, I think just because it's cheaper to get a ton of storage, esp. for rarely-retrieved old revisions, than to add the overhead of computing deltas and applying them to reconstruct revisions. In particular, you'd have to compute a diff for every edit in that situation, whereas currently MediaWiki only computes diffs when a user requests to view one from the "history" tab, which is a tiny proportion of all edits.
I have been using Cygwin to develop for Django, combined to native Windows Emacs. It works, but I would not call it joyful.

Obviously, I never noticed Ruby can't do SQLite on Windows. I find that somewhat weird, as Cygwin appears to hide Windows very well and has its own builds for Ruby and SQLite (I use Cygwin's Python instead of win32 Python.

At first, I was considering to congratulate the author for being able to use "developing", "on Windows" and "joyful" in the same sentence.
A company I worked for tried to remove a feature:

One release added a "tagging" feature (similar to Gmail tags) while the next release had a "hierarchical folders" feature (similar to Outlook folders).

The thinking was that tags and folders did pretty much the same thing, and folders were clearly superior since they were hierarchical. So we stripped the tagging and shipped with just the folder feature.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there turned out to be customers that had built a whole lot of import/export/processing infrastructure around the tags, and were less than happy about having to reimplement it all using folders. Plus they had a ton of tagged data and we hadn't included a tool to convert the old format to the new one. (Because we thought noone were using the tagging feature, it had only been in the product for a single release.)

The lesson learned is that released features are similar to published APIs: If you remove or change them you will inevitably break something for someone.
Blake Ross can't see Mark Zuckerberg's commits? What kind of silo'd operation do they have?
Thanks, looks like a good start and is much needed.

plugins.jquery.com is a pain to navigate, hopefully this will evolve into a full fledged alternative.
Regular Heptadecagon Inscribed in a Circle
I have a lot of experience with this. Did three Ironman tri's (with 12 half-IM's thrown in for training) during my late 20's.

While training for the first Ironman, I changed jobs to one that required a commute and a fixed "out the door" time to beat traffic. After starting this, every Friday was cold-day. I'd get so rundown from a lack of sleep, only 8 hours/night, that I'd get a cold every Friday. After knocking off for 10+ on Friday night it'd be gone Saturday.

Sleep is also prominent in modern training programs. The old school train-till-you-die method of unfocused bulk mileage and little rest is gone. Nowadays endurance athletes have narrowly focused training workouts (speed work, intervals, weights, long & easy, etc) with a balance of days off and entire weeks of reduced training volume for recovery where the emphasis is put on rest so the body can rebuild and prepare for the next training cycle.
Holy crap, the Segway was released eight years ago.. I feel old.
Would anyone really characterize the villains in Die Hard as 'terrorists'? What exactly is terrorizing about drilling into a vault in a secure building in order to steal money? How are they not just robbers?
Golden Footballs and the Economics of Groupon
Its bound to given the "free" publicity it gained, in my opinion it isn't borne out by the quality of the app though.

As far as I know, it does exactly what it's supposed to. Browsing is several times faster. Resolution is compromised to this end, but that's a trade off that I'm willing to take. It's better to have enough resolution to navigate than full resolution with a browser that's unusably slow.

I wish there was an iPad version!
Note the comment by Mike Boich:

I was actually present for this. My recollection was that Don Knuth's
response was more along the lines of "I seriously doubt that". (It was
still quite amusing though!)
Organic Startup Ideas
First off, that site is amazing in it's simplicity. Even your sign-up process is the easiest I've seen (though I'd make it more clear that it is a sign-up, because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to already have an account).

As far as monetizing, with the volume of todo lists available, you may have difficulty monetizing in such a direct way as getting users to pay monthly.

You mention Covey, and clearly you are influenced by his work. Have you considered contacting them and seeing if they'd be interested in partnering with you?

They could use your services to build their brand online, and help with defining new features, while you do what you do (which we can see you do very well).

The Covey site (https://www.stephencovey.com/) mentions that they have online tools, but maybe your stuff is better, and maybe you could sell them on it.
Or other competitors who are in a similar market.
Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins (1923, Full text)
> This incredible foresight will allow Apple to stay agile and maneuver in the face of what will be unrelenting competition

I mean, there's plenty of arguments on both sides of it — yay Apple can make changes on a whim, boo my custom-baked solution makes me so productive — but calling it "incredible foresight" is a little overzealous. From Apple's perspective, they want an additional element of control, and to call it a huge breakthrough is a bit magoo.

That said, Apple's not quite the type of company to be overly tied-down in the first place. These are the guys that ripped Carbon out from under a lot of people. Sure, it was clear Cocoa was getting all the TLC, but not a lot of companies would yank an established API quite that quickly (particularly with relative giants like Adobe sitting on it).
Jared Lander discusses the science of finding the best pizza slice in NYC
This goes back to the idea that once someone gets to a certain level they can't write code any more. It can be argued that writing the code is just as important as some of the other CEO tasks.
What a load of tosh. XCode is an IDE, not some magical tool that spits out some iPhone/iPad compatible file.

Aside from that, if Apple planned to change architecture then having apps running on a translation layer (Flash etc) would actually be beneficial.
I did, thank you. Updated.
Phone Halo vs ZOMM. Who shall win?
I'm not saying anything of the sort. The implication that professors are being nice to female students to get sex implies that they are trying to abuse the power of their authority. If they are being nice because they perceive female students as more receptive to/grateful for help, it's a little more benign, no?
https://squadedit.com/
Last year I revived an old, underpowered Windows box by wiping the hard drive and just installing Ubuntu straight-up. Aside from the dramatic speed-up in performance, I can state from experience that Ubuntu is definitely wife-friendly - it was a smooth and painless transition for my not-nearly-as-geeky-as-me life partner. (It helped that we had already been using mostly free software even on Windows.)

As for git on Windows, I've found Msysgit to be a lot faster and more stable than git on Cygwin. You can also configure it during installation so that git commands work on the CMD command line, which is marginally less bad than Msysgit Bash.
No, really, all you anti-microsoft what kind of programming "job" experience do you have to say that M. is so bad? Mac is better? Linux? Really? And for what?: I mean real job experience where you are paid by somebody to do something not just working on your own secret project.They are just tools.It's 2010.Grow.
The Creativity-dopamine (b)linkage: more brains and bonkers connections
Contrary to popular belief though, babies much prefer milk (breast or formula) to candy. So finding a baby with candy to 'take' may prove to be a difficult proposition (for varying definitions of 'baby', I suppose).
Library of Congress to House Entire Twitter Archive
Thanks. That was a good read I hadn't read before. It's so very true. Non-software people shouldn't run software shops unless they can delegate to someone who is.
Did Google Just Kill Ogg Theora?
Hey HN,

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As thanks, here's a special HN discount code for $10 off.

Coupon code: IMAHACKER

-Chris Herbert
Undo and the Back Button
More because I haven't updated it in a while :). If pg links it, I promise to update it immediately!
I've been linked this so many times that I assumed it had already been posted - a must read if you haven't browsed before.
Adobe cares, because Flash CS5 only generates ARM code, not secret-crackpot-processor code. In theory.
Rails 2.3, cache_fu and the memcached session_store
Were the rates for Java programmers that:

- Accenture was hiring to build internal infrastructure for Accenture

- Accenture was hiring as subcontractors for Accenture's own consulting contracts

- worked fulltime for Accenture and were being hired out and billed to Accenture's clients
A central point in the article is that Google, which controls lots of video through Youtube, could drop flash and use its own freely available technology.

There are some errors and biases in the article, for example doesn't threaten Apple's 'control' over its users -- I think Apple is interested in controlling the applications on its platform, not the users.

And perhaps I am in an isolated corner of the midwest, but this seems to be the first time that I have seen the term Muktware, and wherever it appears, it is accompanied by (Open Source) or explanation. So why use Muktware?

Then, the last line of the article, often the most important and the one to likely leave a lasting impression is Google, are you listing?. I imagine one could go look at the streetview of their campus to detect any lean (list), but perhaps the author meant Google, are you listening?
This analysis is not yet mainstream

Good, because it's wrong.

but will add tremendous fuel to the fire that perhaps the A4 is NOT an ARM architecture.

No it won't

In fact, it’s highly possible that the A4 is a dual core Power Architecture

No it's not.

If you read other articles from that site claiming that the A4 is PowerPC, it becomes clear that the author came up with the PowerPC theory months ago (before the iPad was released - see http://markstechchat.blogspot.com/2010/02/ipad-saga-week-3-a... for example) and is now grasping at any straw to avoid being wrong.
Are you working for vendor X on the Sprint.com upgrade? 'cuz they seem to be having this precise problem lately. Down since 2300 on Saturday with no end in site.
You have any link to the theory behind the new trend?
Whether it was for a feature or a demo, I like hearing about founders who turn into executives still coding and working on improving the code in their product.
Correct, I considered contacting FranklinCovey but I think WeekPlan.net needs more traction before it can be taken seriously.

They do have a http://PlanPlusOnline.com offering that looks great and provide similar features but the registration form scared me away. (I believe FranklinCovey is very much corporate oriented, you can't even know how much they charge for PlanPlusOnline.)
Google, Others Help Yahoo Fight DOJ E-Mail Snooping
This is fairly worrying:

"When you go to create a space, if you do not have your own plan, you will see a field with the prompt "If another subscriber will pay for this space please, provide his email or login". Enter the information for the subscriber. We will assign the new space to the subscriber, and that person will get a note with the option to decline."

So if I don't check my mail someone could bill me for their spaces because I didn't give my disapproval. Um, I'm pretty sure I have to explicitly agree to pay for a service, not disagree to not pay for it.
They pass themselves off as terrorists to the public to hide the robbery plans, for a lot of people, that's probably what stuck.
Good story. Good luck with the start-up!
Unpatched Java Exploit Spotted In-the-Wild
X-Com / Ufo is one of the best games for a number of reasons, including the destructible terrain. They also explain almost all limitations in-game. E.g. you can only have a limited number of soldiers in a mission, because gameplay wouldn't work with huge armies--but in-game that's because your aircraft can only carry a limited number of person or robots.
Asch Conformity Experiment
Is the rest of the book this good?
NY Hedge Fund Buys Almost 10% of Palm
4 years old?

Are there really people here who don't know how to click through Spolsky's archives?
Serious question here. I come from a game industry background and am /very/ comfortable and productive in a Windows environment. However, I have recently setup my system to dual-boot into Ubuntu largely because I am serious about entering the world of web development and my impression is a *nix core is a must (either OSX or linux).

I am finding the learning curve to be rather steep, but I have prepared myself to pull through and come out the other side a Linux guru.

The question is this: Am I doing it wrong? Given that I am already comfortable and productive in Windows.. is it idiotic of me to try to force my square peg into a round hole? Should I at least go the middle-ground and use a VM so that my 'normal computing' is in my familiar environment and I can just drop into Ubuntu for testing/deployment?

One last bit of context: I am bootstrapping a web startup in my evenings so time is rather premium. My day job is still windows centric so context-switch issues might occur.
What’s So Hot About the New MacBook Pros? The Stuff You Can’t See
Jewelry Box To You
I also wouldn't mind an app that's a virtual environment with bash, ssh, gIt, sqlite, django, a Safari tab, and Vim. If that existed I would buy an iPad tomorrow.
Really? I can't believe they missed the obvious:

"You have a product so revolutionary, you'll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it?"

That's Segway's problem right there. Just because something is revolutionary, doesn't mean it will sell. These business giants made the exact same mistake we all make - assume other people will get as excited as we are.
Most browsers can zoom.