skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I graduated last year and in general Amazon's offers were above Microsoft's by a fair margin (10% or more).
Can someone with a stats background explain why the article claims there's a correlation? Those charts had R^2 values of .428, .344, and .403. I thought low R^2 values indicated no correlation.
I don't think the games listed are shocking, the shocking part is either Apple don't realize how big games are made or they don't care.
I was thinking the failure for Chrome was UA-sniffing related, but it could be a/b testing as well.
contributes -> rich : (not rich) -> (not contributes)... what exactly are you arguing?
Every Comment is an Admission of Failure. Write self-documenting code instead.
This is how a news site like this works. If somethings get popular a lot of people will get interested in the topic and post stories about it. Then more people get interested in the topic and so on. It's also a reflection what other sites write about. I don't think somehow limiting how long a topic can be discussed will be good, as a lot of insightful stories will be posted some time after an event occurred. It will fade naturally with time as it becomes less topical.

There's always going to be people that don't find a certain topic interesting, but if something is upvoted it means that other people are. So just read the other stories that you feel interested in and when something you are interested in comes up, others can return the favor.

Also, I do think there are some "less than optimal conditions" at HN, especially for new stories. But I don't think something becoming "overly" popular is because of those conditions.
"As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good," he said.

That is one of the best ways I have ever seen someone say volumes by saying so little. Masterful!
Google Data API supporting HTTP PATCH verb
Why are all the fun courses so far away?
How To Improve Clojure Startup Time With -Xbootclasspath and Nailgun
Does not require Flash (Chrome seems to be directed to HTML), but if you have Flash you will see the entire page is a Flash swf (except some people aren't seeing it, but it seems that most are).
There is tons of competition on features and price.

That's exactly the problem. Apple does not compete on features and price, they compete on user experience.
did you forget to upload the CSS file? or are you just taking the whole minimal design thing too far?
Proceeds from investors (debt or equity) are not profits, and the company receiving the investment will not pay taxes on the amount.

The investor will have to pay taxes on any capital gains / dividends / interest she receives.
Research Reactors Pose Challenge in Push for Nuclear Safety
There's absolutely nothing in this email saying they stored passwords in "clear text". They could have been stored hashed with an older algorithm. Maybe not the best thing to do, but that's not the same as clear text. If someone obtained the hashed passwords, they might be able to crack them (salted or not).

They are doing the responsible thing by informing their users. It's posts with titles like this that prevent more companies from disclosing security breaches.
You say "stock-based compensation", I hear "golden handcuffs".
The "runny tally" part says something very different than A -> B. It says A <-> B.
Average Reading Time certainly seems like something you would have to try if you want to find out whether it’s useful.

They should also drop the pseudo accuracy. Telling me the time down to the second (or are those minutes – hm, another source of confusion) seems ridiculous.
Columbia University will soon offer a combined cs and journalism degree
Apple's precedent seems to be pull the games immediately from the AppStore and not wait for an update. That being said, it would be extremely strange in a corporate sense to see a fair number of top grossing apps disappear.
I read that, but it doesn't excuse them. Existing users should have been migrated to the secure setup.
"If Adobe actually wants to persuade Apple to support Flash on iPhone (either as a plugin or compiled to native apps), I know how they can do it. They can get an awesome, high performance, Flash environment working on Android, and get a bunch of great Flash apps running on Android phones"

So true.

Apple has every right to do what they are doing with their new developer's agreement. It's their platform, they own it. Just like it's every developers right to choose whether or not to develop for it. Let's face it, if all the developers stopped developing for it Apple would change their approach.

Adobe should stop complaining and put all their efforts into other platforms like Android. I think they have rode the Flash wave for too long and have become too fat and lazy.

If Android gains a lot of traction and Apple either becomes stagnate or falls behind because of lack of Flash support then I bet you would see Apple either try to make a deal with Adobe or they would build their own SWF player.
The profit you make on investment is taxed as capital gains. The law makes a distinction between short-term and long-term gains: if there's less than a year between when you invest and when you cash out, you pay the same tax rate as for ordinary income. If there's a year or longer, then you pay the more favorable tax rate of 15%. If you lose money investing, you can claim the loses on your tax return and use them to offset gains in future years.
ClickToFlash behaves as if Flash is installed and working, it just prevents it from being displayed.

In other words, you will always see that gray 'Flash' box with ClickToFlash instead of getting any no-flash fallback content that may be setup.

Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy way to temporarily and completely disable Flash in Safari for sans-Flash testing.
I get the feeling these phones are aimed at phones that shouldn't be able to get into bars - it's a Sidekick 4.0.
The point isn't that it doesn't degrade, it seems to do that fine, the point is they did an entire webpage as a Flash movie, duplicating the scrollbar, all the page text... it's a complete disaster.
SparkFun vs SPARC: Coexistence Agreement In Place
2) Marketers, 3) Users

3 is 2. The hype about iPhone and iPad was there before Apple said a word about these products.
Why the Decks are Stacked Against Software Startups in Patent Litigation
I wonder about her assertion that scientists rarely write novels: I wouldn't be at all surprised if the proportions of published novels written by trained scientists was greater than the proportion of trained scientist in the general population.
I don't understand why that's a problem.
I think you need to be very, very careful doing this. I know personally, I've spent a bunch of time renting co-location, which has been labor intensive, and barely break even.

It sure sounded like a good idea, as there is some money to be saved buying larger amounts of rackspace at once... but the thing is, buying more than a single rack at a time ends up requiring a lot of planning (and a lot of expensively fallow space)
The Biography Of Union Square Ventures – with Fred Wilson
In my opinion, people don't get to really disrupt. Disruption happens.

How many video sharing websites existed before youtube - quite a lot. Before facebook, quite a lot of social networking sites.

What happens is that someone does something that has already been tried in a somewhat different manner, and this particular combination hits on that particular thing that makes it grow rapidly, and with the rapid growth comes the disruption.

It's like ChatRoulette. You couldn't have done this successfully before now, cos flash just was not ready for this.

It's very difficult to sit down and plan disruption, because even things that are obvious now are not obvious at all before they exist.
That's actually a very interesting read! Thanks for sharing!
In California the assets of a corporation are taxed I believe, so the stuff you buy with the investment has a liability.
Yeah, this is super-impressive.
It's really not that big a deal. No need to explain yourself.
In other words, he is not preventing you from doing something - he just won't do it himself.
We found that the iPad applications we designed, made it relatively easy to be translated back into websites. The iPad could prove to be a wonderful blue print to design web sites and applications. If it works on the iPad, with a few tweaks, it will work on a laptop.

In that case you might as well skip the iPad application and focus on the cross-platform web application. Many of the current iPad applications don't really need to be native apps.
Anyone have a link to the original paper?
Icerocket is much better. Most of the results at tweemp return loads of spam accounts, not real human beings.
Einstein did not contribute to the market, and thus shouldn't be judged by that. You could say he gave his insights away as gifts (or in exchange for reputation?).
How "elite" dating websites scam people
Nothing really new here since the last article about Gosling leaving Oracle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1254839
No. It's undoubtedly a bad bet to put your time and energy into creating a product that is in direct violation of the policies of the store in which you plan to sell the product. I'm not saying they will definitely ban you, I'm saying the risk of putting all your eggs in the Unity or Lua basket and getting banned vastly outweighs the potential reward of a lucrative app.
I like Robert Baer's take on things. He seems quite level-headed (and I believe I worked with his brother, who was a helluva good fellow himself).
It's fascinating. This is the way I look at them, as being on the side of people who agree with Apple on this one.

#1: Don't agree. Apple has 180,000 apps in their App store, maybe a good time to remove incentives for a new influx of non-programmer-written apps straight from Flash? Oh, they're getting rid of other stuff that also encourages people to use other tools than their own? I think they can live with that.

#2: They're not. Tell me where and when Apple said: "You will be able to develop for the iPhone using any and all tools of your choosing." They didn't. They're simply clarifying what's been their position all along, that XCode/Cocoa is the environment in which you create iPhone apps. Sure, other stuff have been able to sneak in stuff, but hardly with an Apple seal of approval. If you're using one of those tools without a suspicion Apple might not like it even before this, I'd say you're a bit naive.

#3: Irrelevant. Apple has told developers which tools they can use from the get-go. I imagine the existing cross-platform products have been too small to have been a priority, but here comes Adobe with something that creates iPhone apps straight from the desk of a designer. Yes, did you see the CS5 presentation? "Create iPhone apps without writing any code!" Sounds like great apps to me.

#4: Of course it's unfair. But there isn't any better way to enforce their rules. Naturally there'll be apps that fall through the cracks. But a "Aw, why can't I when that app could?" whine sounds very 7-year-old to me. They're putting up rules, if you follow them you should be fine. If someone does something that might be within the rules, but they're not sure, they might get rejected. If someone else tries the same thing, they might get rejected, regardless of whether the first guy was caught or not.

#5: Not sure this ia a very good argument either. For me, I develop for Apple products because I love the platform, and I think there are quite a lot of other apps that have been hanging around with Apple because we feel that is the best platform in the world. Not perfect, but best. And I like it when Apple says that what we've learned during the years of sticking by the company because of that conviction, rather than some sense of duty, is going to pay off. Sure, Apple could release the platform to any and all languages out there, implement C#, Java and whatever else might be popular right now. But that would seem to me to cater to the populist crowd, rather than the faithful, so to speak. And those programmers are the same programmers that will move away from the platform when something else catches their fancy. I think Apple wants people like Omni Group rather than the "Oh, lord, another device, another language, who cares? I guess I'll _have_ to learn it, then."-crowd.
I think a careful implementation of Lua integration 'avoids' 3.3.1 but 3.3.2 which forbids interpreted languages (except those within the official SDK) catches it.
an example, how does google display text ads on 3rd party sites? do they use Iframes?, JSON? that is my main challenge now.
The Friendship Paradox: Why People's Friends Have More Friends Than They Do
> 5. For developers it’s about more than just business

I imagine Jobs might reply, 'for business it's about more than just developers'. Adobe's proprietary attempt at creating a cross-platform layer is thwarted. And Apple counts on having enough developers for new apps who already have a background in (or are willing to learn or relearn) Objective-C, C, C++ and JavaScript. It's simple and pragmatic.

That said, I'm a developer and I generally only use FOSS products for software. But I give Steve Jobs and his advisors more and more credit for business intelligence.

A lot of these comments are about Android. Could be that Apple learned from Sun's mistakes, whereas Google wasn't old enough to be around for the full cycle of that. I love Lua and Scheme. I wouldn't be surprised if senior engineers at Apple also love various different VMs, etc. And yet they would fully support this strategic move by Apple.

Why? Steve Jobs' genius has less to do with his douchey presentations and more to do with seeing the big picture dozens of business quarters before everyone else. When you've been seeing that far ahead for three decades, and have all the experience and confidence from succeeding with that like fourteen times, controversial decisions like with Section 3.3.1 aren't as difficult. They are one of 50 decisions that you've made 6 months ago with many different things in mind that won't be released to the public for quite some time -- many of them involving hardly black-and-white tradeoffs (see the Wikipedia entry for Jobs quoting Wayne Gretzky).

Apple has a model that works for them. And free software, free digital rights management, openness -- if it gets in the way of their business strategy, by default they're going to plan around it.

If you really want Apple to change their policy, get the CEOs of businesses who develop apps to voice concern to Jobs. Show that Flash and Lua and Mono or whatever are mature enough technologies from a business standpoint. Make the argument that it's too much of a gamble for the iPhone/iPad 3GS to be without flash support with other tablets on the rise. (Apple is of course betting on HTML5 pretty heavily.)

I guess my point is that: 'Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy' is a good start. But those are mostly developer-based arguments. As a developer whose not in the embedded space, I have no idea what the business strategy arguments would be. But as a developer, I know when a client's use of a library's interface is slighty off. Or something like that. Maybe I don't even know that. Anyhoo.
Do you by any chance need a place to rent starting June? ;) Incidently, I'm going to be moving out of my place downtown in June. Drop me a line if you might be interested :)
This is, I'm assuming, a startup responding to RFS 1: The Future of Journalism (http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html).
Funnily enough, your code won't compile. The generic signature of your hash map is incompatible with the signature of your variable declaration. You'll instead get a verbose error message like the following:

Test.java:6: incompatible types
found : java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String>>
required: java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.util.List<java.lang.String>>
Map<String, List<String>> buf = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>>();

There really are productivity wins to using some of these newer languages, but you'll never learn that by just whining about their existence.
ugh, acronyms. does it really take that long to type out "you are not a lawyer"? sorry, pet peeve.
I read the whole thing and learned nothing about design for iPad. Confused.
> domain name/IP address in the URL

civilian what's a domain? Is that like a mailing address? the Uwhat? Stop being so technical!
Could you expand on that? Perhaps, if you're comfortable with it, explain your experience with hallucinogens and the conclusions you came to in the end?
Actually, rather more like saying "We won't accept another shipment of flowers mixed up with weeds until we sort the weeds from the flowers we already have."
It's interesting you report such disdain with the product. I will admit I was a SQL employee working on a component that was shipping in VS2010 (there's a handful of teams that did this, Entity Framework being one of them, although I wasn't actually on the EF team, they are a pretty visible example). My team really grew to dislike DevDiv and their practices quite a bit in a lot of regards (however, in other areas I enjoyed DevDiv a lot). To be totally blunt, SQL has their shit together a lot better than DevDiv does. And to be perfectly blunt again, it was the thought of doing this all over again for Dev11 that was a major motivator in me wanting to leave MS.

And is 2010 worth the upgrade for most people? Hard to say. There's nothing in it that is truly mind blowing or "must have", it just iterates and improves a ton of stuff. I don't think .NET 4 alone is a compelling enough reason, most will remain happy with 2/3/3.5 for the time being.

With all that said, I still stand behind VS2010. I think it still came together well. I really do hope I get to use it as my day to day environment, I like it that much more than 2008. I'm actually impressed how well it emerged out of the chaos that is DevDiv :)

And yes, MS has dropped the ball on native dev quite a bit. It's definitely an afterthought. But most people who are looking to get 2010 are very much in the managed camp.
bizspark, if you're not a student. Say you've got a startup and you get a free MSDN subscription for three years, then pay $100. Its a great deal
I'd say that for most people, cloning Rails isn't an option if the devs won't put it in there. Having access to code is the same thing as being able to implement new stuff in the product for a relatively small amount of users or even developers, either due to knowledge or time.
From what I know their TOS applies to everything which is posted to the Appstore. As hundreds of people already pointed out by the wording of the TOS, both Unity3d and Flash are in violation of it. It doesn't matter if Unity is a pre-processor or cross-compiler or whatever, the apps are not _originally_ written in objective-c, c++ or c.

This is the official response regarding their contact with apple:

"We haven’t heard anything from Apple about this affecting us, and we believe that with hundreds of titles (or probably over a thousand by now), including a significant proportion of the best selling ones, we’re adding so much value to the iPhone ecosystem that Apple can’t possibly want to shut that down.

Our current best guess is that we’ll be fine. But it would obviously be irresponsible to guarantee that. What I can guarantee is that we’ll continue to do everything in our power to make this work, and that we will be here to inform you when we know more – as soon as we know more."

source: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/04/10/unity-and-the-iphone-os-...
OH NO! Register Globals comes back!
http://php.net/manual/security.globals.php
They were initially calling for 30. I'm not sure how many they're launching with.

(Disclaimer: while I've met the guys who founded this and got a bit of early information on their operation, I don't have a non-publicly good answer to this question.)
There is a free version of Nitriq available (www.nitriq.com), you can kind of think of it as FXCop on crack

disclaimer - I wrote Nitriq
The Android Makers Meetup: Open House
I'm not sure what the rates are in US, but I suspect here in Canada we would pay more tax per capital gains.

In Ontario All capital gains and Canadian dividends are taxed at lower rates than other income.

Interest income and dividend income are received or accrued each year, and are taxable in the year you receive or accrue the income. You have no control over which year the income is paid. You are not taxed on capital gains until your investment is sold, so you have some control over which year you receive the income, because you can choose when to sell your investments.

The tax paid on capital gains is low, because only 50% of capital gains is taxed, and the gains are not taxed until the investments are sold, except in situations where there is a deemed disposition
Invisibility cloak that generates virtual images gets closer to realization
Why not check the adwords script? My guess would be JSONP (note the "P"). certainly the starting point is a JavaScript.
I think of "correlation" as a measure of how much of the variation in one variable affects that in another. This explains why acceptable correlation levels vary between disciplines: one variable explaining 40% of the variation in another is pretty good in social sciences, where you expect all sorts of confounding variables, but quite bad in, say, (well designed) physics experiments.

Disclaimer: my statistics background consists entirely of one class (AP Statistics).
We're sorry, ----@gmail.com does not have permission to access this spreadsheet.

Anyone else getting this? What's the deal? Did anyone get a chance to save it?
Interesting discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1254839

This was posted few days ago for anyone who missed it.
It will still work with a finger, it's just that apps not optimized for fingers require the precision of a stylus to do useful work.
Interestingly if you view the page source you will notice there are 2830 characters of whitespace before the DTD. There are lots of weird tabs in there... It looks like the tabs are for some sort of server-side code that is being parsed/removed but the whitespace is being left in the rendered document.

That might seem like a small issue, but imagine how much traffic their site gets. ~2.8Kb of wasted bandwidth for every request...
Forgot my <sarcasm> tag there :-) Yes, Html version would be nice indeed!
I don't think that's true because customers cannot arbitrarily change industries and so even a very inefficient industry can be just as profitable as any other. As a shareholder you buy profitability, not efficiency.

Of course the likelihood of a more efficient competitor entering a market becomes higher the more inefficient the incumbents are. There are more than enough examples for that.
Express editions are available now. Follow the link from the MSDN homepage
Doesn’t really matter so much now, though. We know that the Gruber interpretation must be very close to Apple’s intentions (with Jobs referring to a Gruber article and all).
Google Plans To Expand Cloud Computing Services: Think AWS On Steroids
150 signed up to use it, we've accepted 30. I think half of them are good to go on launch.
Google is a search company. Their platform strategy is "encourage open platforms".
The launched site will be much prettier.
Very interesting, and you can see some new tools that you didn't know about before.
I'll admit some of the disdain is related to the process with no consideration for the the actual product itself. The taste in my mouth after Dev10 makes me unhappy and my desire to leave MS seems to align with yours: "all over again for Dev11." Good luck in your future endeavorer.
It might be useful for the article submission page to ask you "Are you sure you're not accidentally linking to the comments section of an article?" when it detects an #anchor in the URL.
Neat idea. Does it pull the results automatically, or is someone submitting these somewhere?