skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how the nexus one is doing, but before that the Droid was easily the fastest moving android device, and while its launch sales didn't rival the 3GS it was also US only and in a completely different landscape. That said it moved quite well and at the same price on contract (and I think off) as the 3GS. While the second part I think is probably true, with Droid users slightly less willing to make the small purchases, I don't think it has anything to do with affluence. Thats just the impression I've gotten from the numbers I've seen and my experience with people who own/want Droids vs. iPhones (actually about equal numbers in my circle).
Why does that surprise you? Your $1-2k laptop was built and shipped from China thanks to it. The world depends on oil and gas, sorry to disappoint but won't be moving away from our dependance anytime soon -- not in my lifetime.
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Here's an experiment: start shaving your legs, plucking your eyebrows and having other bits waxed. I suspect that the amount of time required to keep one's appendages hairless would fill up some of that delta of hours worked. Then there's matching shoes to outfits, struggling into hose...

...I'm joking, and yet I'm not. grin
Well, it's a (slightly) tongue in cheek comparison.

I wouldn't say SLC 'deserves' its Mormonism. I was lucky enough to be raised agnostic / atheist. However, my parents also taught me that I should never take entrepreneurial risks in life. Because of that, I wasted over ten years working in dead end corporate jobs. But did I really deserve that?

By default, children inherit the beliefs of their parents. It's very difficult to break out of beliefs that you have followed for your entire life. If it took me ten years to figure out that corporate jobs were a dead end, imagine how long it would take someone to learn to think critically about religion when it claims their soul and essence are in jeopardy, or to break free of a culture that teaches women are inferior to men.
Don't settle for being better than your competition. 10x better may not even be enough to oust a strong leader. Instead, invent a new category for your product to be the best in.

For example, you can make an operating system 10x better than Windows, but Windows can still have the lion's share of the market. Instead, make a new category of operating systems: operating systems for a new type of computer (iPad) or turn the browser into an operating system (Google Chrome).

In other words, if your competition is playing a winning game, don't play their game. They've already proven they are winners at it. Invent your own game.
I think 3.3.1 is primarily a developer issue, whereas resolution is very much a user-facing issue as well.

With the iPad, Apple didn't force developers to recode their iPhone apps, instead it allowed the older apps to run at native or double resolution. Granted, the double resolution doesn't look pretty, and Apple is strongly encouraging developers to produce iPad native apps, but they definitely seem to be taking advantage of their 185,000 app head start, and 1.5x would presumably look even worse on an iPad than 2x.
There is no actual right to anonymity for sources, is there? That's just a convention among journalists. They go to prison when they refuse to cough up sources.
Link to the original Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7291/full/nature0...
You haven't read the TSA's blog much, I take it? It's all carefree and nonchalant. Nothing to see here, move along. The comment section can be entertaining, though.
As soon as Google stops caring so much about Android marketshare -- and they will get bored, or will lose against Apple, or start dominating -- as soon as that happens, developers' helpful "personal contacts" will disappear.

Ask any Adwords advertiser or Google Checkout implementor.
For all definitions of "a few years" that equal "almost a decade and a half".
There are remote wipe applications available for every smartphone platform I've ever seen. I believe it's built into the BlackBerrys when connected to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Just because Apple had a remote wipe program installed on this prototype, doesn't mean it's installed by default on any production retail phone.
Thanks for all those project names! That's the start of a writeup.
Its interesting (to me) that some of the funding for this work was provided by the Department of Defense. Is this common for the DoD to fund this type of research?
Just celebrated my 1-year anniversary here in Austin, Texas. Took 8 years to convince wife to make the move. Been fantastic so far. Article is right-on in many regards:

Business/startup/tech climate is strong. (btw: norm is mucho less of the douche than SXSW crowd)

Housing: we moved from Seattle. Home prices roughly half (in 'burbs, near exceptional schools). Taxes are roughly double -- a big reason for low home prices, besides all the cheap land.

Lifestyle: Austin's very similar in people-climate to Seattle. Active, outdoor-loving, low-key, friendly folks.

Climate: summer unbelievably hot, rest of the year, pretty fantastic (for a Seattle boy).

While I've seen a bit of the Red-State stereotype, personal freedom and a live and let live attitude (personally, in government, and business) is much more the norm -- and perhaps much of the reason for riding the recession a bit smoother.
Looks like the full article is behind a paywall. :(
Better be a fast-food kind of place. If it's trying to be a real restaurant with real prices, annoying customers strikes me as a good way †o kill repeat business. Unless it's a bar catering to the meat market...
> The average PC manufacturer is hardly rolling in money, unlike Apple.

How much of that money is coming from iPods, iTunes, and the iPhone?
Really? When was that ad from?
Labor costs are a function of cost of living.
If they just let the phone out into the wild instead of micromanaging the leak, they wouldn't control what company broke the story.
It's interesting how the world is changing. A whole host of "security" measures protecting all manner of information and services at companies both big and small are often based on a combination of security through obscurity and the assumption that any attack will be limited in scale.

Much like the phase change that occurred in the industry as the internet became popular and software developers could no longer ignore security I think we're headed for another phase change / inflection point as the stakes get raised. 5 years from now the default security assumption will probably be something along the lines of: "assume a hostile 1st world nation already has access to your internal network and is using a significant amount of resources to gain as much information and access to internal services as possible".
Huh? I think you're making the wrong comparison. It worked well for Microsoft, the creator of Windows, not for PC manufacturers.
"What you're listening to is my voice!" -- from the video

Wow.

At the very top of my list of "most annoying personality characteristics" is "won't shut up". I can't imagine someone thinking that teaching a computer to spout senseless drivel is somehow adding value.
This commercial is from almost a decade and a half years ago?
We're in Akihabara because: (1) Good public transport access (JR commuter rail to Tokyo station or a 20 minute walk), (2) convenient walking distance of lots of downtown stuff (for values of "think nothing of walking a couple of miles"), (3) a really cheap hotel deal, and (4) Nerd Paradise.
It should be noted though that Android Scripting isn't usable for producing a standalone .apk. ie, you can't use it to build an app to put in the market.

Scala on the other hand, is supposedly production ready. I haven't tried it yet myself, but it's on my to-do list. :-)
While I understand the merit of what this article is saying I really want to caution always requiring a strict high confidence level when making a decision in start-ups. Requiring a strict confidence level does make sense for a company like Zynga who has nearly a limitless supply of users to run tests on, but for a start-up the value of being able to make a decision quickly often outweighs the value of being '95% confident'. Let's not forget all this wasted time worrying about the details of all of this math.

In my opinion, peak early and often and when your gut tells you something is true, it probablly is.

It is actually a mathematical fact if at any point in your A/B tests A is bigger than B, based on that data there is at least a 50% prob that asymptotically A is bigger than B.
Amichail, I've said it before, you are in a class by yourself.
Event based JSON and YAML parsing
When somebody creates a post like this I ALWAYS go to the site before reading the posts description, so that I can see if the site is what I thought it is.

In your case, I had absolutely no idea. I got that it had videos, I didn't get why they were there.
I thought the sites was going to be something java related due to the JRA.

How about just a tag line, description or even title that says what the site is.
A video site for...

Even your description of 'It's basically like popurls or a Google News-like thing for Reddit and Digg' means absolutely nothing to me.
Is this the most popular videos on Reddig & Digg? Is that what you're trying to say?

You need to tell people what you're building in the simplest language possible.
Wow. That was... underwhelming.
I wondered the same thing. The intonation and excitement behind their voices are remarkably similar.
Good languages actively fight off poor programming. Take ML or Haskell: if you didn't think about the problem well enough beforehand, it won't compile.
An apology...
Those are more like dialects than languages, IMO.
Summary:

Energy is driving Texas economy. Suprisingly not from oil, but from natural gas and wind power. Texas has has its own electricity grid which has allowed it to embrace alternative energy technology with minimal hurdles. In addition, exports are rising - almost 25% in Q1 vs 2009.
Ask HN: Which oral language (after English)...
would be most useful for a programmer to learn?

Just curious.
You're right :( The article is pretty remarkable for its breadth. Let me try to give a synopsis:

They synthesize a new biotinylated ketone. They determine that this compound binds to fascin, which has some molecular biological background as something that bundles actin, and some population biological background as something that corresponds with worse survival in breast cancer. They then develop the crystal structure for fascin both with and without their new molecule, and they show that their macroketone binds to the actin binding sites on fascin. They also use electron microscopy to determine that their new molecule indeed appears to disrupt actin bundling by fascin.

They then gave to immune-deficient mice human breast cancer cells. These cells typically metastasize aggressively. They gave the mice a 'placebo' and/or shRNA against fascin and/or their new macroketone. The shRNA and their macroketone successfully cut the metastatic burden by ~50-80%. (shRNA ultimately leads to downregulation of the mRNA of target proteins, so their shRNA should reduce fascin synthesis while their macroketone reduces the function of already-made fascin.)

It's not a silver bullet against metastatic breast cancer, but it's an impressively complete story for one paper. And promising, perhaps, as a therapeutic.
I think for financials it should be Python. It is perfectly fit for it and a DSL would only further cloud the amount of people that can easily look at the operations. I think Python is perfect for open financials and maybe gov't.
It'd be incredibly stupid. The language and some other programming languages don't even have proper standards written out or they change on the whims on their creators or community. Which version of Python will you use? 2.x or 3? Oh hey and will you use the map and filter functions or use generators instead or maybe you'll use a for-loop? What are the rules for that?

Don't kid yourself, there's still a lot of room for ambiguity.
Not sure pg's ever admitted that fact (or maybe just doesn't see it that way?).

http://mixergy.com/y-combinator-paul-graham/

"Originally, Y Combinator was just going to be like regular angel investing, asynchronous, not this whole batch model. We discovered that later by accident."
It was first run in 1997, and then again for a short period of time in 2002.
That's because you're taught recursion is bad/difficult, and you're probably operating at the bucket and pointer level of abstraction.

Binary search, and more specifically recursion over lists and trees, and the logical reasoning over with induction is one of the most primitive skills one acquires while learning Lisp.
Rtm is completely stone faced, so that brings down the average in interviews.
Decorators, generators and all the other syntactic sugar that's been added over the years is already too much experimentation with obfuscation for my liking.
An Open Letter to John Battelle
I think most of those lines would apply to Apple even today.
Apple feels like a cousin who hit the lottery and is now too cool to chill with you anymore.
Linux feels more like he still cares.
> Presumably one day they'll get good enough at munging bones to move people's eye sockets.

I have no question in my mind in this regard. So long as we don't wipe ourselves out first, I'm pretty sure we'll eventually be able to sculpt ourselves how we see fit. Well, so long as laws and money don't restrict availability.
All I can think of right now is this: "Short Apple, buy Google"

Building products is HARD, even when you have a completely dedicated fanbase. Fixed costs per unit are just too high. Physical store presence is needed. Things come back on warranty. Support costs are high.

The difference is that not only does Google have none of those drawbacks, but their product actually becomes more valuable as more people use it (more statistical significance on predictions and tests, finer grained advertising offerins, etc). So, in other words, their sources of revenue get more value out of Google even if they are only targeting the same raw number of people, because it will better optimized.

Also, Google's per user costs are so low and the scalability of any software they design or buyout is so high that they have a much, much higher chance of ten folding their earnings in the next two years than Apple does. And at the end of the day, I don't look past two years when investing.
Gawker has some serious explaining to do.

Its sleazy to pay and it is sleazy to make fun of guy.
The possible public service that the news offers, which can be debated, is overshadowed by this corporate espionage mode of operation.

With that said, the extreme paranoia apple exacts on media, only serves to make this more acute, Apple carefully mandated scripted "magic" moments also feel sleazy at times, and heavy handed.
Ask HN: Review our video
A couple of authors are at Brookhaven; 1% of Brookhaven's funding is from the DoD. But also, yes, the DoD appears to offer plenty of grants funding medicine. Example: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=pfpnLNPH...

You can find more at grants.gov: http://www.grants.gov/search/agency.do
Is this a sign AAPL is over-valued? Not trying to rag on Apple here, genuinely interested.
Because when something happens over and over and over again, you tend to expect it to keep happening.
To add my own opinion to that...

Users (and "the product") are more important than your developers, more important than vendors, and more important than business partners. Apple gets this, most other companies don't.
Texas 2009: "The governor signed 1,656 bills and resolutions, vetoed 38 and allowed 12 to become law without his signature "
http://www.txddc.state.tx.us/public_policy/txlegis.asp

California 2009: 675 signed, 257 vetoes
http://gov.ca.gov/bills/#all
Germany and Japan have big tech cultures.
ah, thought it was 96, and didn't recall the 2002 run.
My favourite quote from Eat, Pray, Love was (roughly) "Why would you learn Italian? So that if they ever successfully invade Ethiopia again, you'll know a language which is spoken in two countries?"

With that in mind, it makes sense to learn Spanish, which is spoken through much of Latin and South America. Chinese (Mandarin) has replaced Japanese as the 'next big economic language', so if you're looking to converse with a large new market, then perhaps Mandarin.

But for me, I dream of taking up French again. Limited global reach. No economic benefit. But I love the way it sounds coming out of my mouth. Does a form over function answer negate the 'useful for a programmer' part of your question?
Two Halves of Apple
Your password strengthening won't help.

The forensics guys will clone your drive, then feed huge fuzzed dictionary attacks using the same algorithm until they find something that works, and they'll do it with machines a lot faster than your laptop.

They don't have to brute-force the keyspace. They only have to brute-force your password-space.
Devver: Closing up shop
That's a terrible shame, but I hope you find your current career fulfilling. I hope we can all move past gender biases someday.
Smart move by Google but at the same time I feel like they have some bigger issues to address. We know Android devices are selling pretty well. Why aren't good apps appearing organically? I'd look at 5 major problems:

1) Descriptions and other meta data for apps in the Android Market is atrocious. Lots of apps don't even have an informative description of what they do. Most apps don't have screenshots. This is the developer's responsibility however it hurts the platform as a whole when the user gets frustrated.

2) The top charts are heavily biased towards geeky applications. I have no doubt they register the most downloads but they may discourage people from exploring the Market deeper. A "top grossing" list would be valuable here.

3) The Market displays apps in other currencies. This is confusing. Easily fixable.

4) Some apps in the Market simply aren't compatible with some devices or are otherwise very buggy. This also may discourage people from digging deeper

5) Google Checkout is a total flop. Few use it outside of the Android market. Not sure what the solution is here but it impedes impulse buying for lots of people.
This isn't too surprising. The slate seems too much like a "me too" device, with more hardware features than the iPad, but not enough thought put into the UI and UX
That's like saying Amy's software project is better because it has fewer files than Bob's. Bob may just be better at keeping code in separate, logical units than Amy, who just crams everything into several large bills... I mean, files.

Anybody want to run a diff on the California and Texas legislation?
"Scala Vs Clojure", What the market thinks.
"41 iPads have been seen and 22 have exhibited the problem, eight to the degree of having been blocked from further access to the network"

Presumably they all have the same software, so they're not banning machines that exhibit a problem so much as those whose owners behave a certain way.
NASA Sience
Reading is something you get significantly faster at by doing it a lot. You recognise words you are familiar with much faster etc.

Expect anyone who reads a lot to go at at least a page per minute with full comprehension. Speed Readers often read with reasonable comprehension at 3 times that rate.

Things that pop out as being quotable are generally pretty apparent if you read a lot simply because they'll be new and somehow interesting.
This isn't a good metric for measuring government "productivity" at all. More information is needed like the size and scope of these particular bills, for just one example.
For user notification, get yourself Growl.

tput and reset are present.

If you really have a VT serial terminal, then setleds is going to be an echo and a tr to ship out the escape sequence. Might be a different (or easier) way...

If you're working with a standard Mac keyboard (and not a VT terminal), here you go http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/04/manipulating-keyboard-...

Applescript can do dialogs (there are hooks in Xcode) or the Applescript editor. (You can get the scripts stuff up in the menu bar for quick access.)

logger is present in Mac OS X.

pmset is a path akin to setterm.

smbclient is available. (Few Windows boxes have this path open, however.)

There are various approaches for the tcp stuff. Start with nc (netcat), which is built in.
Are they? Any data to back up your claim?

(As an equally plausible hypothesis I'd guess that outside of extreme regions like Antarctica, higher wages are a prime reason for real estate values, and thus contribute to higher costs of living.)
Benjamin Franklin answers questions pertaining to the Django development process
Q: When will Django finally have every feature I want?
A: "Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us."

Q: What the fuck is taking so long?
A: "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we
should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

Q: Should certain Trac fields only be editable by commiters?
A: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
What a pretentious piece of crap.
Universities Ban iPads
Wherecity- White Water Rafting in mumbai
As another comment mentioned, the full paper is subscriber-only.

Paywalls for scientific research are evil.

Do something people.

Here: http://209.20.67.195/misc/nature08978.pdf
There can be gradual shifts in either direction. Complete independence from oil won't come anytime soon, though.
Because the US takes immigration and police in general too seriously. Everyone is a criminal. Nobody is to be trusted.

Compare this to Europe (minus the UK and France), where people in positions of authority treat you nicely until they have a solid reason to do otherwise.

"Cultural difference" or whatever.
I'm not that paranoid. The worst the government can do is hold me in contempt of court.
For Earth Day, 7 New Rules to Live By
Google Hypocrisy and Its Defenders
So does Oregon's but our economy isn't doing so well.
tl;dr January 12 attack on Google China
By clicking on a link and connecting to a “poisoned” Web site, the employee inadvertently permitted the intruders to gain access to his (or her) personal computer and then to the computers of a critical group of software developers at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Ultimately, the intruders were able to gain control of a software repository used by the development team.
That's not rational, this is: http://docs.python.org/library/fractions.html
Agreed. It seems too simplistic to chalk thus up to just the energy sector alone.

A good quote from the Krugman piece:

Why didn’t the same thing happen in Texas? The most likely answer, surprisingly, is that Texas had strong consumer-protection regulation. In particular, Texas law made it difficult for homeowners to treat their homes as piggybanks, extracting cash by increasing the size of their mortgages. Georgia lacked any similar protections (and the Bush administration blocked the state’s efforts to restrict subprime lending directly). And Georgia suffered from the difference.
Is Eric Davis a great developer?