skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason,

People are loyal to people and institutions they respect. People and institutions that give them value in their lives. There is no respect simply because you're in charge. No loyalty just because you're the leader. Those coaches worked long and hard to earn the respect of their players, and that is why they are loyal.

You're barking up the wrong tree. There is nothing inherently broken about "Gen-Y". They are just as capable of loyalty as any generation that came before. The real questions you need to reflect on are these. Are you respectable? Are you worthy of loyalty?
The Wood Age of UI design
I've never said 'this doesn't belong on HN' because we all decide what belongs on HN, but on this one I'm scratching my head.

Nothing against GC of course. Watched this just the other day.
This is remarkably annoying.
Alien Invasion - Why Stephen Hawking Is Wrong
Conceptual modeling in 3D worlds for process communication
Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw
was in 2009*

I wonder what day they stop being YTD profitable...
Google’s Andy Rubin on Everything Android
cool! that was one of my original hangups, if i can call it that.
Seems you haven't read your man pages recently. -j is deprecated. Yes, tar has implemented auto-detection after all these years!

tar xf linux.tar.bz2

Brought to you by "A note from a random man page".
Allowing only signed apps has one huge advantage: no malware.

I do feel that Apple should weaken its requirements and only disallow bad apps.
> Well if you try and review the iPhone 4G you get arrested.

Only if you buy a stolen unit to review :-)
In defense of PowerPoint: Killer Slide Decks
It might not be the world we want to live in, but that's life. Natural selection is the name of the game.

It baffles me that people think social development can be somehow exempted from evolutionary processes. Call it callous or compassionless, if you want, but there will always be less fit members of a species/society. Humans didn't get to this spot on the food chain by subsidizing failure. If we want to increase prosperity, we should stop encouraging the propagation of actions/ideas/genes that would otherwise be unsustainable without throwing short-sighted policy and/or tax money at it.
1889 Pandemic Didn’t Need Planes to Circle Globe in 4 Months
I never saw the original post, but I am interested in the question you posed. Can you summarize the results?
It depends on your definition of OO, because there isn't "a" definition of OO. Typeclasses in Haskell aren't classes, as I well know, but on the other hand it is true that they do fill in for some of the roles that interfaces do in OO languages. Fundamentally, what is an object? A collection of data and associated operations as an atomic unit. Typeclasses do fit that role. Another way to do "OO" in Haskell is:

data Animal = Animal { name :: String,
is_awake :: Time -> Bool,
lives_in :: Environment -> Bool }

and so on, with the "methods" actually being bound at the time of creation of the Animal. See: http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/haskell-antipatte...

Other OO things could be built as well in a perfectly functional way, picking and choosing the bits of the definition of OO you want. What you can't do is choose exactly what C++ or Java gives you, and what you don't get is a Blessed Object Orientation Technique like you do with those languages. But you can program OO just as you can in C. (Only better in most ways. Note you don't get a BOOT in C either, but there are nevertheless OO C programs.)

Mutability is merely one dimension of OO, a term that is so flexible it basically means nothing without further qualification. OO has its place even in a functional program sometimes, as that link shows.
I hear (or read?) you, but it is this complete break from the usual that shows up and makes my day. I just don't want too much of it on the front page ;)
Taste is just a heuristic, and it's based on a definition of "healthy" that evolved in a very different environment. Your taste is as likely to be "subverted" naturally as artificially. For example, strawberries taste much better than kale, but they're not really better for you — just sweeter.
The History of Libraries Through the Ages
Honestly, I felt like I was reading the cliff notes version of a personal anecdote. I didn't read the rest of the article. I might have if I didn't think that headline and "anecdote" were just there to make me click through.
The paralysis of unlimited opportunity
Pple Needs to Do More to Keep Porn off iPhones, Watchdog Group Says
Ia this the end of the BPM Centre of Excellence ?
More Freelancers Fight to Be Paid
"Just because we go around wiping out our competitors doesn’t mean aliens would do the same"

This is true, but this same statement /proves/ that aliens might do the same (we serve as an example) - imo that is good enough to justify a fear of alien invasion.

"A civilization that has endured for millions of years would have overcome any aggressive tendencies, and may well have genetically engineered its species for harmonious living. Any truly bellicose alien species would either have wiped itself out long ago, or already taken over the galaxy."

Stuff like this is pure speculation without justification - and arrogant speculation at that.

At least Stephen Hawking's reasoning is minimal with the assumptions, and the assumptions he does make are on the "safe" side, i.e. assuming the worst possible risk will actually happen. e.g. aliens exists, they will be as violent as possible, they will find us etc.

I'm not saying its a significant risk though...
I agree, this is industrial espionage pure and simple. Potentially very damaging to the company.
How so? IF some other piece of material property was stolen (which was the only complaint here, no? I could be wrong), disassembling it doesn't add to the charges.

Or did Apple (or the police) assert that IP and/or trade secrets were stolen, in addition to (or exclusion of) the phone itself?
Wouldn't the stats here be for web sites rather than apps? Otherwise the metric "web traffic" wouldn't make much sense?
wow, i completely forgot about kid pix. seeing that green box of kid pix 1.0 brings back fond memories.

when i was really young i used to make animations with it. for some strange and awesome reason, the program had the ability to export your animation as a stand-alone executable, so i would make comics of a stick figure named "stampy" and give them out at school on floppy disks.
> Why is that a flaw? Why should the numbers include those devices?

My guess is that he's trying to compare OS vs OS, as opposed to OS vs device. Do these #s include traffic from Android tablets or MIDs? (Are there even any available for purchase at the moment?)
I thought steps WERE taken, and subsequently rebuffed. And as soon as the "owner" and the eventual party of possession were aware of each other, the device was returned.
"took ... my girlfriend"

This implies that your girlfriend was something less than a rational, value-seeking adult human being; that you own her, in some respect, as property. This is so completely wrong that I don't think you really meant it, but that's what those words mean.

In all realms, including romance, your girlfriend is a free agent, and so are you.

And if your former girlfriend just wants whoever has the most money/status, without being valuable in her own right, why do you want her anyway? Contrary to popular conception, love is something you can reason about.
Odd to remove the "Admob: " prefix in the headline, it's very important to the story.
The stats are for "AD" content, not Web Traffic.

I would estimate Android has more ad-supported applications so I'm not surprised at all.

To reiterate, this statistic has nothing to do with web traffic.

Original release: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmV...
Good post. I have had similar thoughts lately, but have never taken the time to articulate them. The analogy to the writing industry is a very good one.

I once heard that the people who did best during the gold rushes of previous centuries were those who sold picks, shovels and gold pans to all those with the big dreams of striking it rich…
Yes, but those who are against environmentalism for ideological/tribal reasons are generally in favor of any support wherever they can find it, even if George Carlin is on the record ripping their political party every time he's had the chance.
"You do not truly know someone until you fight them"

-Seraph, The Matrix Reloaded
See below, under 2870.a.1. That definition can be all encompassing.

2870.

(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

(b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.
What? What?!? Hey, PTC (socially conservative Parents Television Council) is your marketing and recruiting efforts that weak that you have to ride the gravy train of higher-than-the-usual iPhone media buzz to put out this statement?

Here is a crazy idea... DON'T let your children have iPhones OR take personal accountability and monitor your children. Oh, wait, I get it. If you did that, then you wouldn't have a "council" anymore--you sly devil's you.

But, I really like this one "The group has publicly demanded that Apple stop providing porn to children -- and clean up its act."

I'm sorry, I missed the part where Apple and similar companies' products market this as a toy or for children. Should they start selling these in sealed plastic bags with a choking hazard warning in size 18 font written repeatedly all over it like a McDonald's drive-thru toy also?
You can thank Tynt for that - and it's not just used by TechCrunch. The easiest way to opt out is to block tcr.tynt.com in your hosts/adblock/privoxy settings.

Offending file: http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js
I disagree, regarding JavaScript's ability to scale. It is quite easy to implement classical inheritance inside JavaScript, public and private methods really do not seem like a must have to me for code to be 'scallable'. It seems to me that these concepts are loosely enforced (or not present) in many popular web languages already.
Those graphs are brutal. The graphs are 3d and on angles, so numbers that are the same actually look different. Just a complete mess. I know thats not what the post is about, but It makes the post considerably less useful and the graphs considerably less usable.
Also a good analogy.
Chrome on Mac does look a bit weird, yes.

But I feel that on Windows, this "non-nativeness" actually works to its advantage. As an example, by avoiding window chrome, the UI becomes more compact, taking over almost the entire screen for browsing.
There is a big difference, actually, that is better/worse depending on your needs. Dropbox (at least right now) automatically syncs all files to the local disk of all linked accounts. This is often advantageous (the files are ready right when you need them), but for some things, such as a large MP3 collection, is unnecessary and wasteful. For that use case, S3 or one of the other synching services would be a smarter choice.
Uh... my man page says nothing about deprecation, it just documents its behavior.

And I certainly still find it useful, in any case, for situations where autodetection won't work -- for example when you are creating an archive. Y'know, with the "-c" flag that apparently you haven't read about yet.

Bazinga!

(edit: What I find most interesting isn't so much that you goofed your snipe, which happens all the time. It's that someone upvoted it.)
Totally offtopic I suppose, but relevant to the parent comment..

Per David Allan Coe, this would have made it perfect Country Music story (from the song: You never even call me by my name):

I wrote him back a letter and told him it was NOT the perfect country-western song because he hadn't said anything at all about
mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk.

Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me And after reading it, I realized that my friend had written the perfect country-western song.

And I felt obliged to include it on this album. The last verse goes like this here:

Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.

And I went to pick her up in the rain.

But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train.
Generalizing from a situation where it may apply (close relatives) to one where it does not apply isn't rational, even if it's a vaguely similar-looking situation.
Why is a Scandinavian asshole blocking the article?

http://grab.by/42AG
Funny that an economist[1] has an immeasurably more coherent and logically compelling model of the probability of alien spacefarers, and what that means for us, than Stephen Hawking and the WSJ put together.

[1]http://hanson.gmu.edu/greatfilter.html
Bloom, a cloud programming language
So people are not allowed to leave their position after three years? Wow... you're more hard core than me!

Seriously, you have no idea. Mark and I have been close friends since 1994 or 95 and I think I might know the situation a little better than you.

I mean, it feels like you're looking to make this into something bad... I think it's GREAT if someone I work with moves on to another company I'm associated with.

anyway, enjoy the rest of your day trolling on HN
ok great, so they know what movies and music we like and are gona target us with better ads, but isn't that a good thing? I mean I may actually pay attention to ads if they try to sell me things I want.
Taliban poisons students in Afganistan
Whoa, that was quick.
Are you talking about trade secrets or theft?

Gizmodo never disputed that the phone was Apple's property and they returned it to Apple as soon as Apple claimed it. If Gizmodo physically damaged the phone they should be responsible for the damage caused to the device.

I actually don't see a huge problem if I lose my phone, someone else pays $5000 to the finder and then turns around and returns it to me when I demonstrate that it is mine.

Taking photos of the device isn't the issue. Anyone could easily have taken a photo of the phone at the bar. If you are saying the visual appearance of the product is a trade secret then it should not be paraded about in public by employees.
I would estimate Android has more ad-supported applications so I'm not surprised at all.

I can't think of any ad-supported Android apps. (I have a lot of apps, and none of them have ads.)
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Difference between position, static, relative absolute and float in CSS
I agree. At first glance, their length makes it appear to be a reference work, but when you look at his writing style and the exercises at the end of each section, it seems quite clear that he intended otherwise.

That being said, I haven't finished the series.
Write the stories you can source. Sure you'd write less, but it would have more impact. As is your writing is frequently vague and anecdotal, and easy to dismiss. I might be more inclined to believe the anecdotal stories if you had other posts with more meat to them.

NB, I find it interesting that you refer to your posts as stories as your usage connotes that they are fiction.
I've never been so excited about FTP in my life.
Gruber: Expert (or at least informative amateur) on the iPhone.

Not a lawyer though. This is for the lawyers to decide at this point.
Agreed 100%. You never know what someone is willing to do until you are in a heated argument with them.
Apparently he attempted to contact the owner (Apple Inc.). Just because Apple's bureaucracy prevented the phone from being recovered immediately doesn't mean he stole the phone.
Follow a millionaire entrepreneur as he makes his website wildly successful.
Interesting captcha system on the login page: http://learnpythonthehardway.com/login
I understand what you're saying, but what the iPhone really excludes is unapproved malware.
He must have written a perl script that automatically writes a python book.
Be sure to read the end.
But why would you want to develop for a minority platform

You may want to do that if majority of paying customers are on that minority platform.
Selectively enforcing high-profile offenses is a valid strategy if you want the increased awareness to be used as a dissuader for similar offenses, so, I understand when the prosecution wants to be "overzealous" when it comes to a valuable prototype.

Having said that, what happened to that woman is inexcusable. I understand police doesn't want to be used to intimidate a parent on behalf of other parent, but this inaction is absolutely shocking.
> Andriod will be the cheaper but less polished product sold to the masses, while the iPhone will be a more upscale, more expensive product for the people with discriminating taste

Okay a lot of people have given you a pass for this (as Hacker's News, almost entirely as a reflection PG's spoken beliefs, is very Apple-fawning), but this is silly. You aren't special for buying a Mac, nor are your tastes better.

Everyone's anecdotes are different, but personally I equate owning an Apple PC with being very susceptible to marketing. The iPhone was a clear winner until maybe 6 months ago, however since then anyone choosing an iphone again is mostly a "Consumer" and not a discerning purchaser.
The government pays to fix your stomach problems, but not your car problems.
I still want Lazlo Hollyfeld's closet.
Apollo 11 launch revisited in slow-mo HD
Palestinian girls get ticket to Intel science fair
You can safely add "Goedel, Escher and Bach" to that list.
Probably worth mentioning few paid apps display ads. As such it seems like paid apps would be excluded from this sampling for both iPhone & Android. There's definitely some value in the trends but that's about it.
Either way, the POINT of the shield law is to protect all other items not connected to the case.

So if Gizmodo say, talked to a source who committed a crime last Feb, THAT correspondence should never ever should end up in the hands of a prosecutors office unless they subpoena it and Gizmodo gets to go in front of a judge and move for the subpoena to be quashed.

For journalists, you have to subpoena items, not seize them. That's the important point now.

The DA's may or may not be allowed to see what giz knew and when they knew it about this case. But it's very unlikely they are allowed to know everything else on that hard drive, and they went about getting what they are allowed to know the wrong way (search warrant rather than subpoena).
Don't let the complete lack of detail in the original article hold you back from making some giant extrapolations there.
Paper will be around for a loooong time. There isn't yet a medium with the same longevity. I use both digital and paper formats depending on why I'm reading (research vs. leisure).

The Publishing industry will continue to change drastically. I just marvel at how long it's taking.

My fear regarding content moving to digital-only media is that we'll no longer be able to own anything.
Legal analysis of it by EFF's Senior Attorney:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/gizmodo-search-warrant-...
... and I can't think of any iPhone app using AdMob
Yes. I have seen all those and I think they just make the App Store more cluttered. I guess I don't understand the point of building an app for this kind of thing when you could put the effort into a better website.
Losing something does not extinguish title in that thing.
From the IAMA thread : "Yes, Facebook is required to add comments."

Reducing irrelevant comment noise by linking it to FB Connect is not a solution. This is not for me then.

Edit: Just noticed this : "On reddit, anonymous accounts add a lot to conversation. So we intent to add semi-anonymity, where no-one but us can tell who you are." - Again, not sure , how that will be a solution.
If you are interested in the history of libraries, I strongly recommend Henry Petroski's "The Book on the Bookshelf" http://www.amazon.com/Book-Bookshelf-Henry-Petroski/dp/03757... . It's both full of information and an entertaining read.
We don't trust government, but we like government websites
OK, so if we want to get technical...

taste cells on the tongue contain chemoreceptors. Those turn chemical signals into potential - i.e nervous system signals.

Since normal food has normal type chemicals, whereas manufactured, msg type food has make-it-taste-nice chemicals. Those are two different sets of chemicals and so, yes. food which tastes good is different from thinking it tastes good - they activate different chemical pathways and trigger different receptors.
Ah, where I live it is illegal to work more than 50/hrs a week (on average) in those kind of jobs, so my info is not based on those statistics.
That is just how fossil rolls.
Link to the full report form AdMob - much better reading than the TC articles.

http://metrics.admob.com/2010/04/march-2010-mobile-metrics-r...
No, QNX and RIM actually came from the same birthplace - the University of Waterloo. I bet you the principles of each company even had beers with each other when they were in their salad days, debating technical decisions, or hashing over names for their respective products - So for RIM engineers, buying QNX is pretty much the equivalent of reuniting with your long lost twin brother. While they are in radically different industries, and have radically different products, the laser sharp focus on engineering is the same.

And I bet you any RIM engineer you ask will definitively state that QNX is a much better real time OS [focus being on real time] than anything RIM has ever put out - it's akin to asking whether your kid brother who competes in the Olympics is good at their sport or not.
Club-K Container Missile System
Almost all fascist/totalitarian movements have a strong element of health/environmental purity in their dogma. One thing people miss about past totalitarian movements is that they truly believed they were making the world a better place.
Qt is used by heavy-duty desktop apps like the new release of Autodesk Maya [1]. Nothing solved there?

[1] http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/autodeskae-mayaae-2011-qt-hel...
I gotta confess that after reading the title I laughed out loud and now I feel bad for my utter lack of empathy.
I think I'll believe the lawyers at EFF more than a disgraced liar of an analyst and a professional Apple fanboy.
Is this a common problem among technical founders? As a designer, I've often had the opposite problem.
IFPI’s child porn strategy
> The complaint is that if the law is the law then every case should be handled the exact same.

If every case "should be handled the exact same", explain to the LAPD they don't need seven (7) divisions and could save tax dollars:

http://www.lapdonline.org/detective_bureau

- Vice Division
- Juvenile Division
- Commercial Crimes Division
- Detective Support & Vice Division
- Robbery Homicide Division
- Force Investigation Division
- Gang and Narcotics Division
Much too highbrow for me.

39103 * 136

Then turn your calculator upside down and read the result.
systematically broken in ways that a mere cog cannot hope to rectify

So true. Cogs cannot rectify. Therefore, either give up hope or switch to a context where you are not a cog.

It's surprising how far people can string themselves along refusing to admit this (cf the fantasy literature about "organizational change"). I did it myself for a few years before snapping out of it.