skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5% would be a conservative estimate of the sites I find completely unusable on my phone for reasons that have nothing to do with Flash: text too wide and tiny to bother, centered popups that are bigger than the screen (so I can't close them), essential functionality based on mouseovers, random failures of over complicated JS/CSS, neglected mobile sites that mangle content or don't show it at all, mobile sites that break hotlinking and just take you to the home page, and so much more.

The point is, Flash is just a small part of a big problem. Web design still has whiplash from the mobile explosion. But it's going to recover real quick, and when everyone starts making mobile friendly sites, they won't be using Flash. It's on death row and Google is just dragging it out for a cheap shot at Apple.

Just grit your teeth and bear it for a little while longer. You'll have to do that anyway, with or without Flash.
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Just make something people want or, better still, make something you want. Is there much advantage starting out defining how rich you want to be? Just keep going for a few years and then, if you're lucky, you can look back and go "Oh, I've got enough now, I think".
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"(or parents, who can filter the content their kids see)."

Hard, when the kids are directly connected to their own 3G data plan. Hence, putting the controls on the phone.
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I agree, the comment aggregator has some merit.
In his third response (when he gives "a few ideas") "speedy" basically describes Dropbox:

Don't you wish you never had to worry about your
computer crashing or hard disk dying?
An idiot proof backup, and one where I don't have
to set _anything_ would be nice.

I bet Dropbox is making a million bucks.
It's kind of like how online games on pretty much every console warn you that you might hear some nasty shit when playing online. I know nobody reads those warnings, but they say that, trust me.
Did this not scare anybody else?:

Something about his halting, monotone speech, perhaps slowed by his medication, got the officers’ attention.

An ambulance arrived. “After a few moments of conversation, they just kind of exchanged a look and told me to get on the stretcher,” says Lamo.

We are going to see more of this. The more we label this kind of behaviour, the more people will be institutionalised.

He obviously has the support of his family, so who made this decision?

...where he was placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold under a state law allowing the temporary forced hospitalization of those judged dangerous or unable to care for themselves.
OP's #3 above with the cookie pointing seems to tell the lie to, well, that lie.

You can't put it past big co's (or even small co's, and individuals) to come up with the strategy:

1. We'll do this naughty thing

2. We'll make it look accidental

3. Then if anyone finds out, we'll pretend to be bumpkins

It's a classic foil. Basically, it's a reverse pool shark hustle.
The failure to use the existing technology is peculiar.

Only if you have never coded software professionally in your entire life. A junior engineer on team B did not use the library code written by team A several years ago, which is probably documented mostly as a matter of oral lore among members of team A. Instead, mistakenly believing the problem to be trivial ("I have the URL they're going to! All I need is to output it. Hah, psych, I'm going to run it through our HTML escaper to make sure there is no cross-site injection. Security++ I am the awesome."), they handwrote a one-liner which worked fine. Two years later it is the subject of a WSJ article.

This only happens every single freaking day on every project I've ever been on. Heck, I have missed opportunities for re-use (and caused subtle side-effects through doing so) frequently when I was the only coder on the project.
The Gervais Principle is an awesome read, and I might even be convinced that it applies to a majority of workplaces, but that whole dynamic is one thing that people who work at startups are actively avoiding. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in startups, but it doesn't happen in successful startups (at least until >50 employees or so).

Also, fwiw, I wouldn't classify the Gervais Principle as street smarts. It's more like a parallel "bureaucracy smarts" that only makes sense in an artifically controlled environment like a large company. Whereas true street smarts are the kinds of things that would serve a street hustler just as well as an entrepreneur because they are applicable to all uncontrolled human interactions.
- Wake up
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- Google Reader
- Work

Later in the afternoon:
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Claims to be a list of free apps, but there are at least 3 that aren't free.
Totally true, My boss keeps telling me that, "Don't come to me with Problems, Come to me with Solutions" and I think this really is a good advice, but I don't how it makes you streetsmart.
Google open sources things when it is beneficial to them to do so, or when it is not very central to their business strategy. Every time an oem takes the android source and makes it run on a new device, they are doing Google a favor, and missing an oppertunity to differentiate themselves from other handset makers.

So yes, it is good to show that there is a way to make money giving away open source software, but i'm not at all convinced it is an example other companies out there right now could actually follow. Google is in a position where they can make lots of money off of people's attention without directly taking their money, so they can afford to give away a MASSIVE piece of software to anyone who asks. Who else could do that? Maybe Microsoft. But I can't think of anyone else. The amount of money and man hours Google has spent on Android must be truly staggering, the fact that they can recoup it on advertising dollars alone is really, really impressive.
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bill at $52/hour

If you have year-round, full-time contract work with no downtime due to acquiring new clients or negotiating new jobs with existing ones, then you probably don't have enough clients to be truly independent.
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Well, anytime anyone proclaims themselves smart, they are, at best, insecure about their intelligence.

Declaring yourself street smart is especially ironic since an actual street smart person would be looking to conceal their true intelligence.
> Mainly it needs an object system where different programmers' versions of objects can interact with each other easily and seamlessly in the same way.

It has one, as long as you don't need to inherit from other people's objects. But inheritance is a pretty poor way to compose code in most OO languages, especially single-inheritance ones like JavaScript and Java.

> Who rolls their own prototype system in Java? Nobody. Who rolls their own imitation of classical objects in JS? Most people.

Well, a few people. Mostly people familiar with class-based programming languages, which you are surely aware is a minority of the JS-programming population. One of the first things I did in Python was roll my own prototype system, actually.

I really think you should organize your points better. There are some really serious flaws in there (the need for hasOwnProperty() and global-by-default) but you've mixed them indiscriminately with minor annoyances (keyword inconsistency, the absence of classes, no block scope).
I'm thinking more along the lines of a general accomplishment. This "doing well by doing good" thing could inspire people who run companies in other industries as well.
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> javascript is clearly the most popular and widely used programming language in history.

I don't know, I think Excel formulas might still have it beat.
> Caffeine makes him feel like carp

How do carp feel? Are they happy?
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On an unrelated note, am I the only one bothered that a lot of online publications put the stock "name" after the company name?

... favored by Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT).

What good does this really do?
Well, drug dealing is a business - just not a legal one. Most of the same rules apply - there is a chapter in Freakonomics pretty much making this point (and pointing out what a pretty awful business drug dealing is for most participants).

So from that perspective I would say that drug-dealing probably does have more to do with running a normal business than any academic field.
It does not solve the community-drift problem.

Unless you keep raising karma thresholds for moderation and posting to keep the where-is-the-next-Digg crowd out.
Well a typical work day looks like this for me

0630 Alarm, out of bed, shave and shower, dress, etc.
Somewhere in here read all my email

0715 Sit down to breakfast with the family
Do whatever tedious house work things need to be done
such as loading the washing machine

0745 Walk to the bus stop and get on the bus
Here I'll have 30-40 minutes alone so I can read,
listen to podcasts, or write

0900 At work
http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/

The categories and best of on the right side are great.
Or, switch to inductive heating.
I would add that you need to get paid in relation to the value you are creating for who is paying and less about your own perceived value of the work - which is usually based on totally different metrics to that of the client.
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It was also a Douglas Adams/Hitchikers Guide reference :D
I didn't figure you would find it ridiculous, but I think looking at the expectations most people have of devices that are just as much computers but don't look as much like computers is instructive.

I'm sure (a) would be feasible in the way you describe, or some other. I see the problem as (b) and that would trump (a).

The place where I differ with all the people saying Apple is so evil/closed/whatever is that I've seen Apple, from the beginning as far as I can tell, be obsessive about their reputation. And it’s hurt them along the way. It may end up hurting them in the end. But I’ve also seen Windows get a bad rap for things that weren’t actually their fault. That’s the cost of being so open and unless Google does a lot of testing they are going to feel this pain on Android at some point (unless it just never gets enough users).
I agree. I mean, most of Google's software projects are open source lately. Not only that, but they encourage developers from all over to work on their projects to make them better. I think the comparison to Microsoft in this article are kind of off base here. I mean, look at WebM... Google acquired the codecs and technology when they bought On2 a while back and now instead of sitting on it or using it for proprietary purposes, they completely open it up so people have a choice for an open web standard.
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Fair point. "financially independant" wasn't the proper phrase. I meant being able to have a good middle class, or better life without punching a clock for someone else. I resist anything that would mean our only asperations can be (a) be the next google or (b) sit at a desk in a sykscraper hammering a keyboard.
Just wanted to say this is one of the best Ask HN topics ever.

I wish I had some street smarts to distill down to a comment, but it's difficult.

At 31 I feel like I'm getting my feet under me in that department a little bit. When I look back at myself at 21 it's almost embarrassing how naïve I was. I guess the biggest thing for me was just thinking more actively about other people's interests and motivations. It's sort of disillusioning and machiavellian in a way, but if you don't you will get taken advantage of.
The MPEG LA CEO: "[...] there have been expressions of interest from the market urging us to facilitate formation of licenses that would address the market’s need for a convenient one-stop marketplace alternative to negotiating separate licenses with individual patent holders in accessing essential patent rights for VP8 [...]"

He's making it sound like people are desperate to pay a license fee to MPEG LA and wanting to be saved from Google's evil open source, royalty free clutches. However, it is his company that is creating this situation by threatening to patent troll VP8/WebM.

I read his statement as a thiny veiled threat: Dare to use WebM and we will unleash the dogs and make your life difficult. Classic FUD, Microsoft would be proud.
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Dive in now. I am using Rails 3 for our new project and it works perfectly fine. There are no real reasons to spend effort on building something on Rails 2.3 now. Especially, given that Rails 3 has significant improvements and is a pleasure to work with.
I'm guessing you'll never read this since I've taken so long to notice your comment and respond, but the answer is quite mundane — I don't like to spend a lot of time reading the news. AJE has good coverage of South-East Asia and the Pacific and to my eye, is effectively as good if not better than BBC News and ABC News (Australia, unrelated to the American one) but with less filler. Just out of curiosity, where do you source your news and what is there not "to get" about reading AJE?
Oh man, really?

If you get killed because you drew Mohammed, then,
1) you totally had it coming

I think we have a reasonable right to expect not to be killed for being rude/offensive. There are lots of rude and offensive people in the world - they don't deserve to die!
This is an old saw! The way he delivered it dates back to, apparently, a kind of wandering Indian sufi-style legend.
On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into
Modules

D.L. Parnas

Carnegie-Mellon University

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 1972

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Only you can work out what the upside of 1 is but if the upside is significant and you think you will be able to consult as well then you have the opportunity to take the leading role in creating something. You can be the one to shape the structure, which seems far more appealing to me but then I'm an entrepreneur.
Before I read the article, based on your quotes here I guessed that someone was saying Google bought Android specifically to copy the iPhone. I didn't anticipate it would be Google themselves. Is it just me or does saying they created Android in response to the iPhone make them look worse than the reality?
I like the food idea.
You do realize that by saying "I'm book smart" and then devaluing "street smart," you're doing exactly the same thing, right?
Sounds like your lacrimal fluid would boil off, but maybe if you keep blinking you might be able to operate the airlock handle when jumping between airlocks?
Plus, unless you're selling insulin to diabetics, making 200k sales on the Internet probably means having 2MM to 20MM good prospects. Not visitors from Techcrunch, not uniques on your blog: millions upon millions of qualified prospects. That is highly non-trivial. Then actually converting them is also non-trivial.
This article just leaves me wanting to ask more questions...
It's important to avoid revisionist history but regardless of Google's ulterior commercial motives they are currently providing a badly needed alternative to Apples vendor lock in, DRMed, crippleware pile of crap that is iPhone OS.
Wow, Interpol is the win. They're 30 steps to Band of Horses: http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/?start=Interpol&end=...
Well, yes, but you can change the numbers to account for that. Say, bill at $100/hr? Or take the route of selling software. My main point was that the bar is much lower than the targets he gives, if your goal is "make a good living" rather than "become rich".
Feedback for Startups is intriguing because the pain is definitely there but this approaches it from the wrong perspective. How can we help startups get feedback from potential users in their target market, not just those seeking incentives for doing simple tasks?
Yes, case in point Evernote (which I would call a very popular app).

- Premium accounts are $5.00 / month

- 50,000 paying subscribers

- 28 Months (time it took to get to 50k paying customers)

http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/03/26/freemium-summit-eve...
Ask HN: Hackathon tips?
A friend and I are going to spend a weekend hacking in a couple of weeks (and hopefully release something worthwhile at the end of it) and I was curious to know how most people split their time during a hackathon in terms of time spent on tasks - brainstorming, design, coding, sleep etc.

Also, what is the consensus on pair programming and whether it would work for a hackathon?
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So if google does one thing you like, then their off the hook?

> Not only that, but they encourage developers from all over to work on their projects to make them better.

Of course they do... free labor that they can make money off of, even if indirectly.
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No, that's not what I mean. I just think there's a lot more merit in what Google is doing than what Microsoft did with things like IE, entering in gaming, etc...and keeping everything proprietary on top of it.

Google shouldn't be immune to criticism, but I just think it's misplaced here. Yeah, the draconian comment was stupid and probably not the best reasoning to give, but they're doing things in a good way in my view.
Thanks for respectful answer.

I disagree. You wouldn't say 'but' after it. You might say, "I'm sorry, and" - explaining why, and indicating why you thought otherwise. But that's not what happened here.

"I'm sorry, but" is trash-talk. It doesn't belong here.
In this article in really sounds like Catherina Fake regrets her decision of selling Flickr. It must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very personal work.

What I found interesing is that she underlines the fact that Flickr has been (is) very popular because of special circonstances, the fact that digital cameras began to be cheap and widespread, more and more people blogging...

It seems like Flickr became successful in a large part because of a lot of luck.
I’m not actually so sure about that. There are definitely people who are like that but I don’t think I’m one of them. I don’t really like to buy stuff with features I know I won’t be using.
What's 'FOS' ?
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Life is _not_ suffering.

* When I am unhappy it is because I'm focusing on what I am not, and what the end result should be.

* If I focus on the process and the problem at hand, and I focus really hard, I will not have any more brainpower to think about things that make me unhappy. I get absorbed in the moment, and nothing else matters, but what I'm doing right now.

* Also, if I focus on the process, I will be able to give the best solution I'm capable of, because greedy, envious and ego-driven feelings will not distract me.

I do not see (rationally speaking), how I can get unhappy if I manage to keep this mind state.

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Makes them seem all... businessey?
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So I assume you torrent your porn and transfer it to your iPhone directly then.
It's true, they're not like Microsoft in their method. But every good thing they do makes us more dependant on them. Even if the founders are without spot (hard to believe given the "if you have something to hide" comment), they wont live forever. What will we do when all competition has died off thanks to Googles goodness and they decide that "evil" means "things that don't make us more profits"?

I don't hate google, I use them for things. But I really hate the wreckless abandon with which people embrace them. The market can't "correct" them when they do wrong because they have another source for their income.
7.30 alarm clock rings

7.45 feed baby

8.00 dress, brush teeth etc.

8.15 leave for bus
I have two things:

1. Just ask. Seriously. There is so much that people want but don't get simply because they don't ask and assume the person will reply negatively anyway. Asking doesn't cost anything.

2. if you can figure something out, say you can already do it. Obviously, you need to know your abilities here. But if someone asks a quote to do something in Tech X, and you think you might but haven't done anything with it...just say yes. People like confident people. and I'm sure you like new well-paying, interesting projects. (The caveat here is that you need to know what to say yes to.)
People often criticize of their own weaknesses.

When making a sales pitch to solve a problem, confidence is everything.

Intelligence is not a scalar quantity.

When on the receiving end of a sales pitch, make sure that the technical guy making the pitch are actually responsible for the delivery.

Marketing and sales are generally more important than technology.
Same here, and oddly I seem unable to turn up a good book passage or scientific paper on the subject (maybe it's just that my Google Books and Scholar keywords are bad?). Surely someone, somewhere, must've written a review article with a title like, "The Effects of a Vacuum on the Human Body", providing a nice survey of the known facts?

The closest I can find is a 1974 paper reviewing the effects of local pressure reductions, e.g. placing someone's arm in a low-pressure chamber, or applying high suction to a wound. Unfortunately, doesn't seem to be available online, but here's the first page: http://physrev.physiology.org/cgi/pdf_extract/54/3/566
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> Otherwise their next shot at a media slot is launch day, and they better not mess it up.

(cough) Cuil (cough)
Wake

Try to remember what day of the week it is

Check my email from phone

Realize what time it is

Reply to chats and quick urgent stuff from cofounders through meebo iPhone app

Get out of bed and get ready for the day

Then who knows. Work, play, eat, meetings. It's different every day.
Apart from form inputs getting really messed up, there's a 'massive' speed penalty you incur by using the * selector to reset everything. Where massive probably isn't large enough for most websites, so if it works, carry on :)