skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt this will ever happen.

If Apple clarifies that only Flash is evil through an offical statement of acceptance for other technologies, they make themselves vulnerable to antitrust and free-market jurisdiction, at least in Europe.

IANAL.

But I have the nagging feeling that the best PhoneGap users can hope to archive — is a silent allowance.
Simplest thing to do right away would be to place the Facebook connect login button where it currently says "Please login to respond to the article." At least people who know how to use that login will be able to comment more easily.
the right is http://www.istockphoto.com/kreci (without the backslash at the end - end then view portfolio). Just fixed it in my post.
This is so close to being really cool. Usually what's needed, though, is to compare two or three time zones text to each other. In this system, they're far away so that's hard to do.
Here is the mp3 only feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mixergy-main-podcast

its also on iTunes
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But users don't care about technology, they care about getting something useful - and the few times I used it the results were almost laughably bad.
“Infographic” (How they are abused...)
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. A hammer is a tool. Therefore "mere" tools can be said to shape ones thoughts.
Very nice, I've updated my profile and will be sure to use this to seek other people!
What woukld you call this as?
http://www.url2it.com/crbn
can someone confirm this story?
There are two kinds of background processes in Android (unless it's changed since I last wrote an app, which is possible - that was for OS 1.5).

This article is describing how the main app (the bit you see) functions. When it is swapped out you get an event, then again if they are killed. The OS manages that.

However you can also write services/daemons which are persistent and (as far as I know) not suspended by the operating system. I don't believe they can present a UI but they can communicate with your main app.

These are intended for things like occasional server polling and pushing notifications to the bar. But I don't believe there is any technical restriction on using them for other things.
In an ideal world, users would look at something they don't understand and figure it out. Not to a level of mastering all the underlying concepts, but to the level of becoming functional with it. In an ideal world, we don't feel the urge to hide something we think the user will not understand. Instead, in an ideal world, we teach the user. Be it by presenting the subject in ways the underlying concepts become clear and obvious, be it in showing them progressive levels of functionality and abstraction. In an ideal world, users are intelligent, curious and do not feel the urge to run away from things, they feel, are too complex for them.

It's disturbing when someone advocates the idea of dumbing down what is a powerful idea in order not to upset those who think they would be upset, preventing them from learning something useful.

I use URLs for many things, from describing database connections to navigating hierarchical datasets in data-driven visualization tools. There is a lot to it beyond HTTP.

The Internet is not a blue "e". It's not a place of consumption, but one of sharing.

And when it becomes distributed, like you say, URLs could really serve us well, not by mapping to server:port/folder/document.html but to content and letting the underlying, non-http protocols, work out what's the best place to get the resource you need. You say "in the future" but p2p file-sharing networks use URLs in the form of network://hash-to-what-you-want.

If you assume your users are stupid, not only will you limit you product to those who know little, but you will rob them the possibility of learning something.
I think what is most apparent is that different people drink different ways. There is nothing unreasonable about the "hypothetical" case.
Similar, also support pdf by e-mail http://www.web2pdfconvert.com
Careful! If he paid $500 + tax, then after eBay fees + PayPal fees + shipping costs, he's quite likely to take a loss selling it on eBay.

It may still be less of a loss than Apple's restocking fee, though.
Web2PDF
Web to PDF conversion online, may be useful for someone.
And that underlines how important it is to live in the present, and not in the future; not to always be forsaking what you want now, for some eternal tomorrow that may never come.
Why when I log out does it also log me out of Facebook?? Is that a limitation of FBConnect?

EDIT: I see that it is a limitation.. that sucks.
I am only surprised it's second to C.
Some context: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/04/is-a-human-spac.html
(definitely worth reading the comments on that too)
I think it may be the format the result is presented in. It acts as if it can give the world then gives very little. If they were upfront about the level it is at by making the design more about listing pieces of information rather than trying to assume they all mesh together nicely they may get better reviews.
The 5D Mark II came out at the end of 2008. The Mark III is widely rumored, but hasn't been officially announced; most people are guessing it will arrive toward the end of 2010 or early 2011. canonrumors.com has lots of this kind of speculation...
Please do not detect the browser! Detect the feature!
Feature detection is preferred by many to browser sniffing to support future browsers: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.ht... http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/feature-detection-state-of-... https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Browser_Feature_Detection
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Great idea. Do you think it would be useful to make the skills section more like tags to keep it consistent?

Semi-related... I wonder how many active HN users there are?
You're missing a word (my guess from context: "stop").
Wow what is all the fuzz about the product is prefect. check out john carmack on cpedia
http://cpedia.com/search?q=John+Carmack

well i think the result is excellent
Please do not disable the context menu. Seriously annoying.
No, I stand corrected.
No, no, the correct company to choose for that joke is Nokia! Argh you've ruined everything!
Yeah, cool to look at... but not as useful as this one:
http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1133613)
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Quoting from http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....:
"The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C's number 1 position is not C's uprise, but the decline of its competitor Java."
Is it cause for concern, or just a statistically insignificant blip?

It seems obvious to me that it is neither. Even among java programmers, a miniscule fall that brought it a tiny bit below another language that isn't generally used for the same things as Java is totally unimportant. Not to mention other JVM languages are climbing up the rankings. And it's not very sound as a basis for what languages are important.

And it's definitely not a blip. Java's been going down for years in the TIOBE rankings.
We seem to be getting a lot of low quality css, javascript and htaccess tips lately. (Which make it pretty high in the voting list.)

The content just seems to be compiled from other sources: http://www.opensourcehunter.com/2010/02/27/26-cool-and-usefu... (Which, to be fair the author links too... I'm just not sure why the submitter doesn't link to the original source.)
Apple's troubles in the mid '90s were not the fault of third-party developers. Windows NT was a better OS than classic Mac OS (and I was a Mac guy at the time). Macs of the day were uninspired and expensive. The recent switch to PowerPC had caused issues with a number of applications; most still worked, but it wasn't exactly fast. The phased introduction of PowerPC meant a lot of people considering new Macs waited, and some jumped ship.

Apple's recovery didn't have anything to do with playing hardball with developers. Apple recovered because it started making better products. Apple can retain its position in the smartphone market by continuing to make the best product. All they'll get from acting like a bully is ill will.
From what I see so far, I think you have a promising start. I understand the problem you're trying to solve, and this is a good attempt at a minimum-viable version 1, as pg is always counseling startups to do. It will be interesting to see how you iterate with this.
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It's the OP. He made three in the last couple of days, two of them went dead, and I'd like this one to follow.

Where's my three strikes rule?
I agree. Really useful.
Picking just the timezones you are interested in would make it perfect for the job.
Great work!
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I am on facebook, but don't want to use facebook connect. Maybe I'm also a minority I don't know. I sort of like my facebook being separate to everything else.
Beautiful, well executed. To make it even more useful I think it would be cool

* to provide selection of countries to be included in the graph, because what matters is usually two or more countries, say, participating in a conference call

* to have another sliding bar that can be adjusted manually, e.g., to find a point in time most suitable for all participants of a conference call
Bug report: there's a minimum login length of 4 chars, but many HN usernames are shorter than that. It seems to make sense to let people use their HN usernames here.

I also find it curious that you seem to have decided we'll all work for $100/hour. I will, but I suspect there are some people on that list who won't.
At the end of the article it says

the GAO also noted that numerous experts told it that "there were positive effects [from piracy on the economy] and they should be assessed as well."

But it doesn't state any. Does anyone know what these positive effects might be?
It's the new COBOL!

It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, I think one of the worst reasons to use a particular language is because of it's popularity. Java did a lot of great things but I think its time has passed.

The codebase that is out there makes it difficult to make any significant changes to the language. (eg. generics)

It's lagging because its popularity makes any revolutionary changes impractical to enterprise customers (eg. Oracle). I actually think that Oracle may piss the community off enough that the open source forks of java start making improvements to the language. (eg. MySQL)

New language features are being added to JVM based languages such as scala and clojure instead. This allows new ideas (i realize these are old ideas from a LISP perspective) to florish and reuse the extensive codebase.
And if I did?
At Interop You Can Find Out How Five 'Ates' Can Net You Three 'Ables'
Does it really need confirming? Even if it's not a true story for this guy, something like it will have happened somewhere I'm sure.

How many people must have run into Sergey Brin, or Bill Gates or Steve Wozniak at some point when they were young, derided them as 'nerds', ignored them, and later realised that the person they looked down upon is now an incredibly successful and influential person? This is just a (whimsical) parable for that, and I don't think the veracity of this particular instant is particularly relevant.
The My-Cast weather app shows weather based on your location by default. Full disclosure: I work on the backend systems for the app.
I noticed the delta from #1 to #2 is 0.007%, i.e. in the 4th significant digit if you round.

(I suppose that if a C programmer had the flu for a couple of weeks, it would be a tie ...)
Simple, great looking site. Well done!
You're putting words in my mouth. I'm not at all suggesting that you need "world-class rockstar skill" to succeed. You do need some skill (I suspect less than you think), and the more you have the more likely you are to succeed. And that's the way it should be - success determined by skill rather than your ability to raise capital.

That's why I think low capital requirements are an advantage. Not because they make it easier to succeed in some theoretical sense, but because they make things more fair. I'll take the level field with more competition, as it rewards talent and effort.
Shapado looks good, and its Rails based. However it has a dependency on MongoDB , which makes it less suitable for widespread deployment, as well as being licensed under the GNU Affero General Public license, which is something to be wary of.
You should never ignore anyone, but not because you're trying to get something out of it...
This is all well and good, but what is the fix? I am aware that there is a lot of stuff I don't know that I don't know (boy is that a clumsy statement) but what steps to take to avoid the whole Dunning-Kruger effect? I don't want to deprecate myself, but at the same time, how do I go about finding out what it is I don't know I don't know? (!?!?)
"You lose the ability to separate your valuable data from the application, and it encourages lock-in within each app."

Most users of MS Word will be familiar with this.
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Yes - when I'm looking at "Please log in to respond to this article" there is no where else on my screen where I can click to log in. I have to scroll all the way back to the top, by which time my mind is moving past the article I just read and on to the next tab I have open.
I really don't understand why Apple has an NDA on its essentially public developer program. There are so many iPhone developers that all the standard rules and agreements will be made public almost instantly no matter what.
If you look at the list, Objective-C has also jumped up 31 spots since last April. I'm wondering if a shift toward development for mobile devices (iPhone and otherwise) has caused C to leapfrog Java.
or .. "not".
The out-of-the-way station should have cheaper real estate costs, and should have cheaper prices to lure repeat customers to travel further (more customers x cheaper price can be more than fewer x more expensive).
It gets a little silly to talk about "phones" in this context. Making and receiving one-to-one voice communications is already just one of many features, and arguably already not the main feature.
You just proved my point. The actual names of the CPUs are Core i5-520M (2.4GHz), i5-540M (2.53GHz) and i7-620M (2.66GHz).
My numbers are better than theirs: http://langpop.com - I use multiple sources. While I stand by my results, I think that they are, by their very nature, not all that precise, so making a big deal out of a blip like this is great for publicity, but probably not very meaningful.
Ted,

I'm not quite sure where you are quoting from.

In my model, which I call the Entrepreneurial Collective, there is no distinction between entrepreneurs and investors. There is no such thing as an 'outside investor.'

My goal is to create a model in which there is only one role (entrepreneur/investor) and no one has power over anyone else.
I think the VC model can be radically improved for most of us.

The work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is a great example of an alternative to the standard VC model. It gives me hope that we can do better.
Nice. :)

When is me-vc.com going to launch?
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I very much doubt that's true, because you're not comparing like with like. Soyuz isn't carting around all the gubbins needed to be "reusable" for a start. Compare Shuttle to Buran...
Thanks for this link. :) I wasn't aware of it.

Hugging is extremely important as I argue in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemCDigV680

xo
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Consider what that means: at one time Java was THE way to do mobile phone apps.
I have viewed my monthly allowance of 0 articles...
How it's presented is a huge part of why people reacted so negatively. They present the articles as prose, so people expect it to flow like prose. This makes them very sensitive to disorganization.

I think they're deserving of the criticism they've received. Cpedia is an interesting idea, and I assume they've done a lot of really good work we're not grasping. But it's not ready for public consumption yet, and they shouldn't have pretended it was.

They were over-zealous. It happens. What's important is how they move ahead. I'm with wheels on this one. We shouldn't write them off yet.
Top? When did this become Digg?
I'm reminded of what Kurt Vonnegut said about Jesus: "The real lesson of the Gospels is that before you kill someone, you should make absolutely sure they aren't well connected."
I think you might be reading too much into what is a lighthearted video on YouTube.
[Ask HN] Fifth Generation Language (5GL)? 
I read article «What makes a 5GL?»:

> You can't get a further level of abstraction than a 4GL so there can't be such a thing as a 5GL, just as you can't abstract further than meta-meta-metadata (which is what high-end repositories provide).

Why? Can anybody explain?

Moreover, wikipedia article about 5GL seems to be incorrect, as there is no 5GL. 5GL will change the world, so we will cannot miss that. ;-)

Links:
http://www.it-analysis.com/channels/content.php?cid=9096
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_language
Disable right-click
Horrible, horrible, horrible. Also, easy to bypass.

Disappearing search field text
Fair enough, but worth remembering about the HTML5 placeholder attribute.

Opening links in a new window
If it’s not valid in your code then it’s not valid if you insert it dynamically. Just suck it up if you need this.

Detect browser
Really? :(

Preloading images
Guess this could be useful.

CSS Styleswitcher
HTML has a built in syntax for this: rel="alternate stylesheet"

Columns of equal height
Can be useful, but nasty implementation (global variables a-go-go for a start). You can usually do this with background images in CSS anyway.

Font resizing
Replicates more default browser functionality.

Get the mouse cursor x and y axis
OK.

Verify if an Element is empty
Huh? Why would you even want this?
I found this article quite enlightening, but then, I guess that is the nature of the subject.

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=rosicrucianism
Im not sure why email addresses are hidden behind a "show email" link. That seems counter intuitive (and certainly wouldn't stop a bot etc. :P)
There's this horrible trend whereby people grab 10 or so things, collect them together under the title "Top N something somethings", slap some ads on to make cash and submit it to websites.

I don't know why people vote this rubbish up.
It actually says "$100/hr+", which I guess can be taken to mean "from $100/h and up". That's not how I would interpret it, but then again I lean quite heavily towards literalism with things like these.
Thanks for the additional data.

If you don't mind a suggestion, having the combined index at the top, with details below, would probably be more attractive.

The large logo with vertical color bars also creates an expectation that the monochromatic horizontal bars end up disappointing ...
You can reclaim your account by clicking the "Lost password?" link, I guess.
I can understand your point, but I came to the conclusion (after 20+ languages) that thinking in just one language can be quite harmful to find a good solution for a problem.

Actually PG puts it really nicely [1]:

"The right way to solve that problem, I think, is to separate the meaning of a program from the implementation details."

"What program would one like to write? Whatever is least work. Except not quite: whatever would be least work if your ideas about programming weren't already influenced by the languages you're currently used to. Such influence can be so pervasive that it takes a great effort to overcome it. You'd think it would be obvious to creatures as lazy as us how to express a program with the least effort. In fact, our ideas about what's possible tend to be so limited by whatever language we think in that easier formulations of programs seem very surprising. They're something you have to discover, not something you naturally sink into."

http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003940/learn-a-new-langu...
If you want to discuss the http issue the place is chromium-discuss@chromium.org

Personally I don't see what purpose there could possibly be in removing it. The worst part is that it causes ambiguity about what will be copied (if the user was confused before about http they will be doubly confused when it magically appears after copying it).
Please always send me my password in plain text for the first time after registration.
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I don't know if they will implement something like that, but they are definitly still working on it!
Oh look, an iPad
We don't like it either. On the plus side, it means you're less likely to logout from NewsTilt, but we wouldn't have done this if we could have avoided it.
Also, it's a lot more pleasant emotionally to have the excuse of work\family\money\other for holding you back from your 'dreams', than it is to actually have the liberty to pursue them and have to scrutinize why you aren't doing so. Usually they are reasonable sounding dreams, that plenty of people also deem worthy, and so you may have to introspect rather deeply, with potentially troubling possibilities, to find an explanation.

In this sense, refusing to buy the gym membership raises the plausibility of your superficial excuse for why you fail to exercise: 'I don't have a good place\right equipment', which lowers the need for introspection. This increases your (short-term?) happiness.
Yeh, totally. It's actually put me right off (as a developer) FBConnect as a sign on service.
Only because RTF is not well-known among nontechnical users.
We'll look at the fonts, sure. I wasn't sure myself, but they do look quite pretty.

The notion is to turn journalists into TechCrunch by building a brand around them. This is version 1.0, in that we're trying to attract a community and more journalists so that we can grow to be THE place to go to for news, and to make names of our journalists.
The link to our HN profile doesn't work because you are automatically lower-casing usernames.

Skills are out of order for some reason. I think listing "core skills" in order is pretty important.

The auto-links in the skills isn't implemented very well. For example, one if the links is:

http://hnhackers.com/search/tags/Ruby%20on%20Rails%20(Prefer...

Obviously just using Ruby on Rails would be much more effective.
That's so true, and as I grow I'm trying to break social barriers/shields (being more open/authentic/personnal immediately) more and more with unknown people: it just makes relating to people much more enjoyable and profound! It's not even about the hypothetical profit you could get.
Excellent point, we'll fix it.
Android gives you a readout of which apps have been using the battery.
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I was about to write about how horrible that is when I realized that I do that all the time in jQuery:

$("<div>Foo</div>").appendTo(bar)
I noticed the Objective-C jump too. Action script is still at the bottom of the list too. Interesting to me is Ruby. I would have thought that would be near the top. All you hear now is Ruby, Ruby, Ruby...
What I "love" about the iPhone weather app is that it tells you the weather for Tuesday (yesterday) when today is Wednesday.

(I live in Tokyo but I guess this would be the same for Australia as well)