skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate as well.

Though, everything works fine if you follow the mind-numbing labyrinth of steps (with pictures!) on their website. It's just as soon as you think the tool chain will be reasonably smart or tolerant of doing things out of order that you screw yourself. And, once your machine or project are in a "bad state," good luck to you.

Just because there are shiny chrome elements on the windows doesn't mean it's any more tolerant than an m4 autoheader/autoconf/configure chain :-)
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Because there weren't any alternatives, but now that I see Google Chrome has restored full screen browsing on OS X, I doubt I'll be going back.
On the spectrum of "shit happens" running from getting too drunk and throwing up on your best friend's shoes all the way to having your house bombed by an F18 because you have the wrong President, this event, while nowhere near the "epic tragedy" end of the scale, doesn't land anywhere near "funny" for me.

We agree on how we'd like things to work out for the engineer. Maybe, let's stop turning him into a punch line.
You really have no idea who, never mind what, you're talking about, do you?
Because Josh Spear is a prominent member of this particular branch of the NYC social media cabal.
Everyone gets the gravity. Its tragicomedy.
Good name for a Boxee box.
He didn't make it. Those shirts literally appeared hours after the story broke and his name was out there.
Then why would anyone want to support this asshole? I'm tempted to go paint over whatever he did.
while I don't want to fall too much into vaporware, the homepage mention might indeed make sense.

Thanks for the luck-wishing, we'll definitely need it.

However it ends up, it will still have been a wonderful journey. Every programming experience should be so.
Is your point, "don't let some random guy's reputation get in the way of our Internet joke"?
i am using it now. It is kinda buggy, but it is really dope. I love how it blurrs out everything else when you get a popup
With all the publicity this story has gathered? I certainly wouldn't. Then again, Woz was the guy that placed professionally crafted signs reading "Warning: Do not use over populated areas" and put them on airplane lavatories, so I wasn't surprised to see him pull something like this.
Sir, I suggest that your sense of humor is challenged in this matter and I decline to discuss it further. Woz has a big heart, I take this as a sign the kid is ok. Have a nice day.
Ha, got that right !
I know it's not free, but I use and love SmugMug. Granted it is targeted toward amateur and pro photographers.

It's only $40 a year. The galleries look awesome. There are no ads. Unlimited storage. No limits on image sizes. Galleries can be viewed as a slide show. There's an iPad app (Meh).

You can also upgrade to a pro-level account and actually sell your pics for a profit, as digital assets, prints, or merchandise.
I don't know the baseband guy at all, even a little bit, if that's what you're getting at.
My favorite feature of the iPad is its $39 Newton wetsuit case. Anyone fortunate enough to have owned a message pad knows the good vibes that flowed from holding their little rubberized-metal gifts from the future. There may be no soup, no NewtonScript, and no book maker, but a lot of the Newton's heart and soul is in the iPad and the iPhone. I don't know who created the iPad or how well they knew the MessagePad 2100, but it is a milestone in personal computing technology that deserves a worthy successor like the iPad and an homage like the wonderful wetsuit wrap.
But I don't think there was any luck at all in how good a product they made, and that was clearly the most important distinguishing factor.
No, it helps people who like one line. You leave soft wrap off normally, and you see your lines the way you intend. If a line extends off the end of the screen, and you don't want to scroll to see the rest, turn on soft wrap to see, then turn it off again.
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The piece itself is not bad, and has food for thought, but I was surprised at the good quality of most opposing comments (now up to 16).
I had no idea Woz is associated with Axiotron. Interesting...
Yeah, it what properties/features such a protocol would require. Distributed is the only way to go, where YOU host your data, or at least get to choose a third-party hoster a la e-mail.
I was expecting an article about Facebook Like buttons, and those little Digg buttons scattered all over the web, but this was pretty good too!
Argh. Will you guys please stop?
I've watched a lot of Steve Jobs presentations, and I can't recall any direct humor (aside from John Mayer and maybe Sam Altman rocking the popped collars).

It just doesn't seem that they'd do something like this. It's not vaudeville night, it's the Reality Distortion Field.
Not yet, thanks for your tip.
The YUI3 based Alloy UI looks awesome: http://alloy.liferay.com/demos.php
There is also Mao, which halts but is just as fun. The first rule of Mao is that you don't talk about the rules of Mao. And the winner gets to add a new rule.
Don't forget to block their Like iframes too.
It's well known that the code signing & cert setup process is troublesome. Apple has a 70+ page PDF of instructions on the matter. That JWZ is having trouble is not really surprising as the error messages are not helpful unless you've built the system, or know it very well.

The problem is that nobody cares about the code signing process itself, we just want to write apps, so we just read enough on code signing to get things working. That's what I've seen and experienced anyway.

(I'm heavily generalizing and obviously there will be exceptions where people have learned about code signing in depth)
i won't argue on that :)
that's my point of view over current microsoft-bing-yahoo-whatever relations. don't take it literary.
If you use Java it is a no-brainer: GWT. You can check out our app for an example: http://demo.teampostgresql.com. It is a fairly complex AJAX app written 99% in plain Java. GWT automatically compiles the source to JavaScript targeting different browsers. Awesome.
This is the third time (at least, as I do not see every post by a long chalk) that this self same item has been posted to HN in the last 48 hours.
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This seems like a good place to solicit feedback on my css style. (Update: css for my current project: http://readwarp.com/main.css)

I use one-line CSS selectors.[1] My CSS tends to the minimal because it's not my differentiator. Especially in the small there's a huge difference between having two screens of css vs six screens, with little extra complexity.

I rarely have long lines. Mostly because my styles are minimalist, but also this: selectors occur multiple times in my css. I organize my css into thematic sections. Layout. Fonts. Colors. Different 'aspects' of the same selector occur in multiple sections. Is this wrong? I haven't noticed any browser unable to handle it.

I do indent nested classes - but only in the layout section where the cascading matters most.

When I do have long lines I hard wrap and indent and use two lines. Still maximizes screen use, so I don't understand those who say 1% of selectors being on two lines defeats the purpose of one-line selectors.

Like jules, I don't understand the counter-argument that you can just use folding. The whole point of one-line mode is that you can see attributes.

I use folding to collapse sections of a file. To have to open and close folds at such a fine granularity strikes me as ridiculous. I would just end up having the folds always open.

[1] I'm a programmer first, so I guess that runs counter to JoelSutherland's generalization.
Its always good to zig when others are zagging. As dollars chase the flavor of the month, there are likely voids in other markets. Perhaps enterprise software?
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thanks. sounds good - $40/y is not that much, it's almost free. I think I will try it.
Scully oversold the Newton idea to the extent that the MessagePad 110 seemed inept. By the time the 2100 was released, the Newton brand was sullied enough to ensure its transformative ideas would not take hold. We settled for a decade of calendar/address book PDAs and incremental laptop evolution, to arrive somewhere in the same neighborhood as the 2100.

Mac OS X, iPods, and iPhones seem to be evidence that Apple and Jobs overcame the need for revolutionary, high-risk-high-reward leaps in favor of ratcheted, stepwise refinement that draws the market toward the same location in design space without risking quarter-after-quarter of red ink, product shortages, blown deadlines and vaporware saviors. I don't think it's a coincidence that the underlying software is (openly code-named) "Darwin".
Analogues, just as right, mostly wrong:

"Never join a startup. Never. They make terrible employers." (i.e. god complexes, lies, broken promises, dumb ideas, untested leadership)

"Never join a publicly traded company. Never. They make terrible employers." (i.e. quarterly earnings statement syndrome, god complexes, layoffs, corporate culture, brain-dead middle management, political infighting)
Sorry about that. I only happened to see the original (author's blog, I think) get 'dead'ed for some reason a couple of days ago, and liked the comments on BI, which in average seemed exceptionally well thought out and presented.
I have a friend who invested ~$10k in AAPL in 2003.
He's considering moving to NV or TX for a year,
to avoid the massive CA 10% long term capital gains tax..
we joke that Steve Jobs is partly responsible for CA's mass exodus.
I'm not sure if this unit does take advantage, but GSM encryption was cracked late December 2009.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=gsm+cracked
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The most important similarity between a musician with a major label contract and an a venture-backed entrepreneur is that both people have sold a piece of the business. "If all goes well", both people will be making money for someone else.

Never forget, MTV and Techcrunch are both the same kind of lie.
The case is a scuzz magnet, doesn't work with the dock, and has no clasp so you still have to worry that it is going to fall open in your bag. Your post is cool because I honestly can't tell if it is sarcasm or not. Kudos!
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I don't think getting permission was ever part of the protocol with graffiti artists.
i have two machines on a similar theme the first is called battlestar. and the other is galactica. my backup box is called medic.
Google Closure Library is also cool.
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There is some humor (Remember the reference to the tablet rumors when the iPad was introduced?) but hardly any self deprecating humor. I can‘t think of anything. Bringing him in would be a great thing to do but not something Apple does. Probably. He might at most get a spot in the first row or something like that :)

Nevertheless I’m really looking forward to that Keynote. It will be really interesting to see how they handle that. We had the situation where blurry photos of new iPods leaked, Jobs only acknowledged that by saying something like “I think you may have seen that one before” and carried on like nothing happened. I don’t know whether Jobs can do that this time. That would be pretty ridiculous.
You don't really need to. goog.dom's stuff is very powerful.
Alright but for your information that post is almost a year old and GAE/J is now much more mature. IMO, a developer should just use what they are more comfortable with. Sadly, it looks like the groovy framework has not been tweaked to work well on GAE.
That would be great and it would show Apple has a sense of humour. Powell could walk out in a black turtle neck and Levis and talk about magical devices...
The thing to do is to have the chief mechanic along for the check ride.
benefit is probably a better term than advantage. Then your case would be included.
It's not apples to apples. They are totally different tasks and frameworks.

They are probably having the same issue Rails 2.x has on it. Each request needs to have several libraries loaded. Scala is probably just using servlets fairly directly which entails a minimal spin up time.
You admitted that two of the problems you listed were known RC bugs. Have you upgraded 7 from the release candidate?
Or just bring along the mechanic responsible for keeping the plane from becoming a twisted pile of metal and death.
MooTools
Jstle: a terse Javascript language for RDF graphs
CEO of SimpleGeo here to clear some things up:

SimpleGeo does provide "writeable layers". This is our primary feature. Essentially, developers can create a private layer, then start populating that layer with points. Those points can be checkins, media, breadcrumbs, points of interest...anything, really.

The SpotRank data (provided by Skyhook) is an additional API endpoint that allows you to see the current population density of a given area based on cell phone usage.

We do provide breadcrumbing, or user history if you will. This pairs nicely with iPhone OS 4.0's new background location.

Beyond all of this, we're turning on our Marketplace shortly. We've gone out and found lots of great geodata to expose to developers. Some developers have also begun to contribute their own geodata to the Marketplace.

Hope this helps! (We do need some better messaging on our website for sure).
Great point regarding the lack of involvement of "normals".

However, the presence of "normals" alters only the magnitude of a phenomenon, not the shape.

I'd suspect the shape of a phenomenon wouldn't necessarily change due to the presence of "normals" because it can be shown that "normals" don't make better or worse decisions on average than non-"normals". Furthermore, many "normals" in the dot-com situation were guided there directly or indirectly by overeager pension funds, brokers, analysts, and the like (non-"normals").
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Short-term, it's a PR win. Long-term, what kind of message would it send to the employees?
Well, what practical problem are you solving?

All of them (except squid) are pretty trivial to deploy and have gone through years of optimization. It's a bit hard to believe you could beat them on performance by a margin large enough to make it worth paying money for.

Have benchmarks?
Another vote for SmugMug. Pro accounts can also do custom homepage design, you can create a CNAME for a domain you own that points to your SmugMug homepage, the forums are great, and they offer an extra-cost "vault" feature for backing up RAW images or other originals.
You're very welcome.

I understand the vaporware concern, but if you e.g. are saying to yourselves "this won't be successful without concurrency" then you might as well mention it as an in progress feature. If you are at least playing around with it, serious discussions, designs or even have cut a little code for it, that's not dishonest in any way.

For a lot of people, including myself, it's now a "checklist" feature. So are exceptions, but those are a bit obscure, or perhaps more appreciated by the more experienced or something like that. Those who know about these things also know they're hard to do (right).
Why can't we all compromise and make our IDE's fold functionality collapse/expand one-liners to block format instead of hiding all the attributes?
This is why it's always good to hang around people smarter than you are. Thanks for all of the great replies.
We (SimpleGeo) have some large customers right now, however, can't really say who they are due to privacy policy.

I can, however, describe some of the technology that we use.

We've built the platform using a multi-homed, multi-master database solution we call GiselleDB. It's based on Facebook's Cassandra, but we've forked it since then. Basically we're able to handle lots of read volume, lots of write volume, as well as push the data to all of our data centers. We're currently housed in three datacenters and will expand to more later. Essentially this means we can handle plenty of volume and it's always redundant (with API failover if a datacenter goes down).

I'd encourage you to get ahold of me (matt [at] simplegeo [dot] com) or our developer relations guy (andrew [at] simplegeo [dot] com) if we can answer some further questions for you.
nothing new here...
I knew I would risk karma on this one. but I'm not trolling, and these are the names of my computers and servers. It has worked well for me for years.
Ha!

Indeed, and those too are pretty obnoxious but more tolerable; I expect a Firefox add-on any time now to zap them.

I too didn't really know what to make of the title when it showed up on a mailing list and have added context to the HN title. Thanks.
No sarcasm. I don't love the case qua case, but for it's feel in hand and as a reference to the Newton's case material. I'd prefer a Newtonized bottom in lieu of the wrap, but you can't have everything in one swell foop.
How about this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os
I suggest reading the nascent PDF that he's posted, it's very good in some ways, less good in others, but if Zed keeps it up and is willing to have others help shape his voice, then this could end up as a very valuable project.
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I don't think you are getting the whole 'street art' thing, hugh3.

I guess you are also wondering where people collected all of those permissions to share media on Pirate Bay, too?
Pore over your contact list and find friends that went to Java shops, or old clients that want to Javafy their back ends. Joining your local Java User Group's mailing list and participating in events once in a while will help you network.
We used Babylon 5 characters on one network, but kept getting "duplicate name exists on network" when we got to "Zathras"
So what's actually the problem here? I'd be pretty upset if someone would would leave out of the blue in two weeks without opening up for a graceful phase-out. (Not that it's technically possible in Sweden, usually there's at least a month lead time but I gather that it's different in the states where you can be fired instantly). Sure it depends on what you actually do, how replaceable you are, if you are working on some core issues and how big the company is.
I haven't read the terms around the Instant Personalization, but it could be used to track users' behavioral data across sites. That's what I'm worried about, not the static contents of my profiel.
awww, I thought we were done with Techcrunch articles rehashing old topics on the front page all the time ...
Yeah, this is why I don't get foursquare. I personally don't really care for this badge nonsense.
Just out of curiosity, how much do you make on writing an article like that and stuffing it with links?
I've rarely seen anyone ask for recommendations/questions on facebook. The few times that I have no one answers.

Seems to me facebook is just a bunch of people screaming for attention and collecting "friends" like baseball cards. Useless.
From the book: "You might not really learn
“programming” from this book, but you will learn the foundation skills you need to start learning the language. "

This is good. There is a place for books like these.

If nothing else, he is at least following-up his "DiveIntoPython is crap" words with concrete action.
I believe you. But I've fallen in to the habit of quoting the bits I'm replying to just to make sure I'm not hallucinating, after the fact edits which make your comments look like you're an idiot happen all too often.

Literal quoting seems to be a good protection against that.
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Seems like a good note to have printed out and hand in during a meeting. I like to handle this stuff face to face. Employee turnover is q sign of internal troubles-- exiting empoyees should be a great way to learn what your existing employees won't tell you. Take that opportunity.
You may be right that Jason has a right to be upset. But the way he reacted was extremely unprofessional. Telling Evan never to come back to the office, nor to email his colleagues, is pretty ridiculous.
How about this: Don't use Facebook if it scares the shit out of you.
Great argument as to why C++, though it works for functional programming in some technical sense, is far less than ideal.
Yeah, I still might build it (a friend of mine from FI was interested in it, but I had to go to war at short notice). It's still not the big project I want to work on though.
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What's a better Internet going to be like?
What's your point? Such a device does not have a mainstream user base without wireless or video.
Or this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
Trailer looks good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE

Always enjoyed De La Vega's stuff around NYC, but didn't see it mentioned:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=de+la+vega+art
Agreed with the latter, there are some truly great opposing comments and the signal to noise ratio is pretty high (very high for this topic).

"'Goldilocks' hiring guys", the poor guy who's had to move every year due to his wife's work, the "SGI Syndrome" (inability to leave the culture of a long term employer behind, very relevant WRT to Sun today), some fields are different; all great stuff in addition to the usual but generally well told.
"This is the reason you want to still work here helping us make great stuff, instead of jumping ship because of perceived morale/culture death," for starters.
Mr. Shaw, i am once again impressed. This is not the first time I've seen Zed Shaw rant about something he dislikes and then goes off and attempts to fix it.
OK. There is humor. I stand corrected, and I still think they won't highlight Graw Powell.

Macworld 1997 Boston
Bill Gates (1984 ad reference) ~33:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI
I have a new theory about life that hasn't let me down yet. It's a variant on Occam's Razor that I call Zoschke's Razor:

The most boring explanation is usually the correct one.

Let me apply it here...

--

Gray has talked to his supervisors, and his job is secure because he's the same talented engineer today as he was last week.

Gray's career options are unaffected by this because who wouldn't want to hire an iPhone engineer?

Gray was scared when his phone was lost, embarrassed when it was found, but already back to business as usual, and actually even wiser than before.

Gray isn't paying attention to any of the publicity, only to the laughs his personal friends are having at/with him.

Jobs wasn't even caught off guard by this, he's seen it all before.

Apple will not comment publicly on any of these events.

Apple will release the new iPhone at a typical keynote in a few months, and will sell tons of them.

No charges will be brought against Gizmodo.

--

All the speculation, here and otherwise, wants this to be way more drama than these things ever are.

We aren't talking about losing the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. We're talking about boring, corporate America that we all know too well.

This is essentially the same as that one time your bug dropped an important table in the production database. Did you get shit canned? Did your company suffer insurmountable losses? Nope. Your company did damage control, you and your team fixed the problem, and everyone went back to business as usual the next day.

Real life is boring, even for the seemingly larger-than-life Apple, Steve Jobs and the iPhone.
I'm quite fond of using typefaces -- you can be surprisingly descriptive:

Arial (laptop), Futura (internet tablet), Minion (home server), Courier (router), Perpetua (VPS), etc.
Deep honesty from Jason there, acknowledging that Mahalo is a dying company. Didn't know they had burned through 4,367 employees already though.