skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing people forget in this is the handheld that is not a phone. 60+% of Apple's market is the iPod Touch and now iPad as an addition. Until Android has a good handheld that is not a phone and a pad then it won't match.

66% of devices in Apple's eco are iPod Touches who buy 50% of the apps. The app market is still Apple and will be for a short while yet. Granted Apple is silly not to sell on other carriers, but iPhone is only half the picture when it comes to development.

http://metrics.admob.com/2010/02/january-2010-mobile-metrics...
Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

I think gardening is pretty nice. Poking around in the garden feels meditative, and nothing is so relaxing to me as sitting in a garden and smelling the flowers.

You get to be creative, and possibly make something that can give you enjoyment for decades.

Maybe I'm just becoming middle aged though.
:)
I agree with the message but this post is really lacking. Only 2 sentences are spent on why founders need hobbies and much more on a list that, as one of the other commenters already pointed out, is irresponsibly expensive for most founders. It would be better to hear how a founder with a hobby is more successful thanks to his hobby.
Designing is aiming, not locking down on a target.

In comparison to shooting at random, when designing you still don't know if you're going to hit the target but you've at least made it clear what and where you think the target is.

Further, design and planning is a courtesy to the users. If you're churning out prototypes and basically shooting at random then you have effectively demoted your potential users into mere filters to help you see what will hit the wall and what will not.

I don't mean to defend waterfall design or any of that ancient crap. You can't design software like that but you must design it somehow.

Prototyping—seeing yourself what works and thinking about what would Joe or Jane want to use the software for—is a great way to design. But prototypes aren't real products. They're not even eggs of real products: prototypes are really meant to be thrown away.

It is not imperative to spend years with design committees just as you don't have to "do it fucking now" either. Release something small but make sure it's something you've truly designed. If you just throw anything that merely compiles or runs onto the market then "I'll fucking leave now" (and won't come back).
Why not use something like http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=google%20mobile%20search ?
Quoting NPD Group's online survey as fact is highly suspect. Take a read of the methodology in the original press release.
http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_100510.html

NPD trades surveys for sweepstakes. They are the Zynga of market research. Take a look at what survey respondents say by reading the comments here:
http://www.imreportcard.com/other/npd-online-research
Oops I forgot HN doesn't like jokes haha
Need more <blink> tag
Any reason why you tried so hard to no have the jar run directly upon clicking on it ? You seem to use Main-Class in the MANIFEST, why the magic first argument ?
Somebody needs to take a stand at some point. The C-style equality and assignment operator conventions are awful things.
There's a whole industry build up around this? How bizarre.
Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations
Web 3.0: The Semantic Web, a short film
Actually, it does not work, it's incredibly slow - 2kb/sec
Email was invented in the early 60s. In 1975, you could move to a technology hub, get an arpanet account, and get a Xerox Alto which had both GUI and networking, an email program, a bitmap editor, games, and ran Smalltalk and Lisp.

Inventing the future could be posh, if you're not a Unix weenie ;-)
This is probably on your to-do list already.

Beginner gardeners usually start out with herb pots (i.e. basil, oregano, parsley) because they offer longer-lasting rewards for less initial effort and applied skills.

Having this option may give impatient beginners a sweet preview of what they can do (which of course translates to more revenue for you), as suppose to trying to grow difficult plants, get discouraged by failures and never use your service again.
... Apple is silly not to sell on other carriers ...

It's not Apple's decision. Even if their AT&T exclusivity were expired, Apple couldn't just start selling a device on e.g. Verizon.

Consumers are trained to expect several hundred dollars worth of subsidies when "buying" a phone. The carriers control the subsidy, so they decide what devices go on their network. (Initially in 2007 Apple tried the waters with an unsubsidised $600 iPhone. That didn't work then, and competition is much more fierce now.)

The surge in Android marketshare is strong evidence that Verizon can do very well for themselves without Apple. I'm not sure if Apple's bargaining chips are very strong in this game anymore.
As always with data when it comes to dynamic areas such as economics.

"The map is not the territory"
That was a viewer, not an editor.
Wow.

This is hands down the best explanation of unicode in general, but UTF-8 in particular I've seen by far.

and I mean by FAR.

Thank you so much for this link!
"I took two numbers that depend on the size of a certain population, let's call it X. Those numbers were X1 and X2, and were, predictably, of the same order of magnitude, since they're just different measurements of the same thing (the upvote activity of the entrepreneurial community on social news sites).

Then, I took the first number and multiplied it by 10. To my surprise, after this operation, the first number was about 10 times bigger than the second number!"
Flash for Android running fairly well on the Nexus One
so, what's the conclusion? really?
An ad hominem, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument toward the person" or "argument against the person"), is an attempt to persuade which links the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise. The ad hominem is a classic logical fallacy.

It's not an ad hominem, it's an outright insult. I am not attacking his character to win an unrelated argument. I am just attacking his character.
This might sound naive and OT but how hard was it to implement a payment gateway for this project? Please consider I am a lowly PHP programmer and am merely curious of how hard this is to implement in RoR.
Html5 on iPad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
This is a huge problem for the intelligence services, and is an excuse frequently made for why the CIA failed to stop 9/11 and MI5 7/7. With the sheer amount of data logged and available to the services, how can one reliably wade through such huge amounts of data?

Being perfectly honest, I wouldn't be surprised if a Google Translate-style statistics package was in use right now. You, sir, fit the profile GeekWithGuitarAndCat72.
In that case, you want to target Windows and Blackberry instead of OS X and iPhone OS.

("NDP Group’s smartphone survey placed the iPhone with 21%, Android platform with 28%, and Blackberry with 36%.")
The 5 Dumbest X-Men Characters
The X-Men universe is filled with awesome and cool mutants.
It's a great way of advertising too. For example, it could be integrated into facebook too, this way, people know what their friends are planting, which helps spread the news about your site and service.
Ajax-widget based "CMS" is online: Patapage 1.0
I still don't understand what you're saying.

It's obviously not a bug. It's a hidden feature. An easter egg. A floor in their design.

They didn't "accidentally" make a special command in tweets that can cause others to follow you. They specifically intended for it to be that way.

Suggesting it's a "bug" is silly. Suggesting they "fixed the bug" is misleading.
Android is a platform, like Linux for server market, so you can do anything, while iPhone OS is a totally restricted, proprietary business ecosystem, and you must obey the rules.
Comet with Bayeux: node.js vs Jetty and cometd
The most honerous case of that that I've run into is in the ChucK programming language (for audio synthesis, MIDI processing, etc.). In general it's quite nice, but the assignment operator is "=>" and the assignee goes on the right, e.g.:

140 => int beatsPerMinute;

http://github.com/scotchi/Chuckery/blob/master/MidiDelay.ck

It's really close to all of the other Java-ish family of languages for the most part, but I find myself having to fix a dozen auto-piloted assign errors every time I try to run the code.
One of the cleverest survey questions I saw was in a bunch of questions asking for a 1-10 response, "How many eggs in a half dozen?" thus weeding out all the people who are just clicking through the survey randomly for a sweepstakes award. (or those too ignorant to know what a half dozen is)
Well done short documentary on the promise and problems of the semantic web. A lot of familiar names interviewed on the topic. Berners-Lee, Shirky, etc.
I'm not sure I follow. What do the troubles of the U.S. have to do with the price of tea(or freedom) in China?
So I can play Farmville?
I suspect the location of the post makes a difference. If, for example, it was posted on the wall of an anti-censorship group that is decidedly opposed to the actions of the Chinese government, then posting "freedom" there could quite easily be seen as expressing support for the group and therefore "disharmony". Probably it wasn't quite as clear-cut as that (such an overtly anti-censorship group would probably be inaccessible on the Chinese Facebook anyway), but the context probably had something to do with it; I'd be curious to hear what it was.

But it's a pretty bad sign when, seeing someone use the word "freedom", your immediate reaction is suspicion, trying to decide whether or not it shows that the speaker is an enemy. And that's how it must be for the Chinese internet police who make decisions like this one.
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Whilst it wont really go anywhere substantial I still find it alarming that it can even be seriously talked about. I find it alarming that experts in the area are ignored. I find it alarming that fear and ignorance are being used to stir people up.

Whenever I hear politicians talk about protecting the county/children/us from foreigners/drugs/paedophiles/criminals/whatever it always reminds me of this quote from Hermann Goering (a senior nazi)

"it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

I worry that all it would take is one or two Internet related incidents, a murdered child, something like that, and that would create enough fear for people to go along with this.
But interestingly, the Nexus One performs better.
Big in Japan, Banned in China.
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like the graphics
I'm in China now, & this kind of shit has bothered me for a long time. Eventually I will probably end up over here (family). Sure, I have a VPN set up, but that just makes things slower. How on earth am I supposed to run a business without Google, Facebook, Twitter & Dropbox.
Linux Ice maker and vending machine, Cool
Interesting:
Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>

(probably the Julian Assange of wikileaks fame)
In this case internationalization is not trivial: you may have to deal not only witch different languages; but with different climate, plants, etc. (the UK or German climate is much different from the Spanish or Italian one).

Focus now on making your business GREAT for the market near you, and later expand to other countries.
You claimed that 41% of Entrepreneurs succeed on their first go, and then quote the above link, but now you've got me very confused. The paper says that of those being surveyed, 41.4% were on their first business.

Interesting paper, but I don't think it supports your assertion.

For example, it may be that 100% of entrepreneurs succeed on their first go, but that 41% of those interviewed are on their first (of many yet to come).

On the other hand, it may be that all of these on their first business will fail, but potentially go on to succeed on subsequent attempts.

In short, that 41% doesn't at all say that 41% of entrepreneurs succeed on their first try.

Can you explain your thinking further?
Is it just me, or was the scrolling incredibly slow? And the hockey video's playback choppy? It's also interesting that the phone was being charged, considering the battery usage the last time flash was demoed...
You can count on me too, running OSX on the bad side of the firewall
there are so many things to add to that list. My favourites would be:

* move away from situations when you don't, on a regular basis, feel like smiling whilst, for example, walking down the road. The world is huge and your spending power relative to many places is vast. Don't be afraid of leaving the rut.
* from time to time strip everything away and rebuild. Some of the best forests need wildfires to sprout the seeds cast by trees. Throw junk out. End an overly demanding career. Rebuild things that have been static for a while.
* scale your expectations down. Get used to bland, unexotic foods, then reintroduce, gradually, the more exotic treats we have become used to - asian foods, spices, heavy seasoning, etc. Each rediscovery will be amazing
* Controlling for everything else, having a bigger house is not normally worth the longer commute, happiness wise. Stay close to work, or find work close to your big house
* Live with a large number of people or get to know neighbours
* Don't bother with traditional donation-driven charity (pay and forget), which will not make you happy, but do add a social enterprise angle to your work. Take an occasional pay cut to give discounts to needy customers, or even do pro bono work
Just in case someone misses this - this is circa 2005.
+1 on the "fancier" sounding names/varieties being a good idea. Makes the comparison to random packages-of-99c-seeds more in your favour.

Nifty idea overall! But add me to the list of I-don't-have-a-zip-code.
The one thing shows like 24 get perfectly right is that intelligence and warfare is now much more about computer scientists analyzing data than people on the ground.
Great list.

If you want to break those into new lines, you need to insert a blank line. More info here: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Here's a screenshot of the scary sign in chrome: http://grab.by/4jd4

As you can see, it is indeed pretty scary. Definitely fix that.
The rules haven't changed since 2005 BC. 'Cept they didn't have phones or TVs then.
> They aren't able to keep a lot of logs due to the volume.

That's pretty much untrue.

Anyway, I don't imagine it's too hard to grep the logs for the last day's worth of POST and 'accept .*' and undo all the follows constructed from that.
what about netbeans? isn't that the 3rd contender for main stream java development?
@font-face rendering - four different possible results
3 Reasons Why Employee Engagement is a Scam
Huge data sets is the new Oil, processing this new huge data is where the big money will be in the future.
Being from outside US, I sympathize with that but:

1) It's a new service. It's reasonable to restrict your audience at first. Making it more international requires more work (shipping, billing, etc) which might end up being useless. It makes sense to test with domestic users first.

2) You should take a lot of care before shipping seeds internationally. Some countries (well, all countries I have flown to) have strict regulations on importing seeds and plants.
I misunderstood you for a moment. I thought you meant to use that instead of scroogle.

Now that I know what you mean, yes, that looks like an ideal solution. The Scroogle people are moaning for no reason. It's not Google's job to provide them with the layout they prefer. How hard is it to scrape Google anyway? It's not Flash-based or anything. Jeez.
Stefan Sagmeister says something similar in his TED talk "The power of time off". Every seven years his firm takes a year off to travel, work on hobbies, and kick around ideas. He goes on to say that some of those ideas influence most of their work for the next seven years, allowing them to consistently produce fresh and amazing work.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_pow...
Packshot Creator launches an innovative product photography solution
Yeah, sorry, in this utopian future we are describing, there is no USB drive :)

You just take all the information and apps with you on your device.

Or you beam it up to the cloud.
http://www.serversproxy.org
Not only is it irresponsibly expensive, those don't really sound like hobbies (not in the context they are putting it anyways). A hobby is something you dedicate and involve yourself with that isn't your profesional line of work - which means spending a significant amount of time with it. Doing something once or twice is not a hobby.

The items on that list sound more like Bucket List items - something you'd do once and never again. That makes an experience, not a hobby.

I do agree with the premise though - it's important to have hobbies. Personally I do a lot of photography - film specifically so I can spend less time in front of the computer.
Internet approaches addressing limit
Thanks! I stand corrected. On my 6110 Navigator (S60 3rd ed feature pack 1) I get the "broken image icon", and clicking on it the phone tries to open it with it's FlashLite player and gives "Flash 8 not supported error".

But as you said, works fine on E72, which is S60 3rd ed feature pack 2. I'm impressed!
It's a really nice idea, and well implemented, but it takes content away from the site/hides it with js, so it's not so useful for SEO.
True. 16% not 26%.
No mention of how it handles hover events...
I think the comment quality is quite high here given that it's such a dynamic site. I'm hard pressed to think of another site with such story traffic that matches the comment quality.

It seems the solution to that isn't really technological, it's the community peer pressure the site creates. It's cultural, in terms of the culture of the site.
80Mhz clock and SSE2 equivalent + 4Mb RAM in 1977, not bad at all
It's actually shorter than "receptionist" :-P
If you've heard of movie studios screwing people out of bonuses, then you have probably never worked in the industry.
Probably forgot a “b”. Ro-b-oters.
> "Smile at and/or say hello to a stranger at least once each day"

Must emphasize this - I find that a lot of times when I'm feeling very blah a surefire fix is to strike up a conversation with a stranger, or at the very least exchange pleasantries.

It's depressing how socially disconnected modern life has made us - we live in the densest conglomeration of humans history has ever known, yet we've never been more alone. You will shuffle past thousands of fellow human beings during your daily commute without ever having learned the slightest thing about any one of them. You will all sit silently, absorbed in tedium and boredom while a vast treasure trove of experiences and stories goes unheard you - including your own.

I'm not especially social I have to admit - but I think humans are hardwired to desire contact. I cannot overstate the importance of this - it's simply too bad that society has made conversing with strangers a faux pas... even though in my experience most people crave it more than they'd care to admit.
I kind of hate it for this kid, here he's got a great idea in his hands, and he (possibly) has no idea how much in the opposite direction this site will take in 5 years the minute he starts getting wined and dined by investors.
Agreed. Also, it breaks the back and forwards button. But it's a great start!
What is the link between the post title here and the article?
Dell released a few models last year with what they call Latitude ON:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_ON

Latitude ON runs MontaVista Linux on an ARM-based subprocessor. This so-called MontaVista Montabello Mobile Internet Device Solution provides a customizable, Linux-based Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform the laptop is able to boot almost instantly and view Email, document reader, calendar, contacts and access the Internet
... Dell claims that up to 19 hours of battery life on standard lithium ion batteries can be achieved with this system.
Concurreny in Tcl: Weaving Threads
All benchmarks I've ever seen between tornado/node.js/jetty and other "comet"-servers have been in the authors own words "not-terribly-scientific benchmarks".

Is there anyone who has actually made scientific benchmarks that one could draw conclusions from?
A new series about data-driven companies
I quit going to Radio Shack for batteries when I discovered they didn't have anything any more exotic than what was at Wal-mart for a fraction of the cost. And Wal-mart has better hours.
seems he is getting too much traffic
We are aware of the SEO problem: in fact Patapage is not meant for building the "core" contents of your site, but for collecting the discussion / searches etc. about it. We are also working on the SEO problem - see section 4.4 of the user guide.
The way to do it would be to get a job as a regular employee at somewhere like Microsoft and just wait. Jump ship to Netscape and then Google when the time was right.

In terms of tech skills, what would you actually be able to transfer with you? C and FORTRAN probably. Even SQL wasn't big back then.
It's the title ofthe article too. It's a pretty misleading title, that's for sure.
Yes, the released it in Mac OS X 10.2, one year after Windows XP had cleartype, but they didn't hide the feature away so that only experts could find it and so it was widely used.

But, sub-pixel rendering is just a diversion from the real differences between the two systems, one fits to the grid via hints, the other anti-aliases. I believe both iPhone and Windows Phone are now using this system, and without bothering with sub-pixel rendering.
New Worm Spreading in Yahoo Messenger and Skype
A new malware in a form of a worm is spreading in Yahoo Messenger and Skype. Find out how it conceals itself and how you can protect your computer from the latest malware.
That order is really very helpful, thank you. That order plus the Khan academy is what I am going to base my study on for now.
Higher chance of having better apps. Games don't really survive in a low-profit environment -- graphics/sounds/assets costs money usually. There aren't a lot of great open source games.
Right. The entire article is about how you need to do "git add" before committing.

I can tell you read it reaaally carefully.
The Book of Redgate has some nice details about styling and logo usage.

http://www.red-gate.com/careers/book_of_red_gate.htm -- Style guide is at the end.
Looking to discover more tech podcasts. Can you recommend some?
Thanks
If You are coming from the Windows world and use Notepad++ you are definitely on the right track to find a good text editor. I know since I have make that same path long time ago.

Now on all my systems that are mostly Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows I use Vim (vim & GVim).

I like to have powerful editor in all situations on all machines that I work and vim is that first.

The greatest feature is that hands are on keyboard all the time and as You learn the vim features You get amazed all the time and get more productive in every iteration.

The learning curve is easy and the most surprising at first is switching vim modes. That is adopted very fast and all that follows is fun and enjoinment.

Naturally all depends on Your affinity and if You spend lot of time in text editor dealing with different formats of text (HTML, xml, CSS, js, C#, Ruby, Php, C++, java, ...) You should invest some time learn to have real power on Your fingertips.
Viaggiatori-cronisti sul web per raccontare il mondo
Any particular topic?
A current Cray- Release the Kraken! http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken