skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see that, but I'd be a lot happier if the new syntax they came up with was more consistent with the rest of the language.

I don't think the current syntax for anonymous classes is 'ridiculous', it's just inconveniently verbose when you only want a single method. If you're implementing a more complex interface, the current method is actually pretty good.
I was going to ask about it: to me the Xbox division seems pretty successful, especially if you consider that ten years ago microsoft was not in the console market at all.

Acccording to wikipedia, they have sold 40M units of the latest incarnation (iphones total at 50), they have probably the best online services (according to my hardcore gamers friends), the most open marketplace, and at least they seem to be trying to innovate.

Is there a reason for never taking this division into
account when talking about how MS is going to die horribly because of only milking the cash cows?
They're not selling that many Android phones. Verizon has a buy one get one free promotion. Which is pathetic if you ask me.

They're giving android phones away for free.

Note how Google doesn't say they "sold" xxx phones. They're "activating" xxx android phones.
Also, http://twitter.com/linode.
Numberplay: A Fond Farewell to Martin Gardner
Snapfinger lets you order food using your iPhone, may spell the end of waiters
That question would make sense if google were in it for the licenses.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.

— Albert Einstein http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21310/

(and Isaac Asimov had a lot of imagination)
This looks great, but the banding and overlays on the sample property report totally threw me off for a moment - it looked like something had gone wrong. Perhaps a less visually distracting approach would work better in that area.
Plus 200,000 more iPhone apps.
I noticed in the test code linked to by the article that the closed over variables are all declared final. I'm not sure if that's just because of the early stage of implementation or if that's actually going to be a requirement. If so that seems unfortunate and maybe an impediment to interoperability.
I always thought the western side of most cities was poorer as a result of having to look into the sun each way on a commute.
What you want is security, but what you ask for is a login page.

Sorry if I didn't make it clear enough, but all I want is:

1. the ability to add, change, or delete my any of my data at any time

2. the ability to share my data with exactly whom I want, no more, no less

OP guarantees neither (and, refreshingly, admits it). In fact, "We'll try our best to preserve your data, but no guarantees" and "not very secure at all" were his words, not mine. I was responding to his disclaimer, not my interpretation of his site's security.

[FWIW, I use ramamia by hner's jasonlbaptiste and markbao, which has a great and appropriate implementation of unique id. But then again, I'm less concerned about the security of my family reunion plan than of my business plan.]
I'm not sure if it matters, but it seems to me the author is comparing early stage VC's with seed/incubator funds.

The VC's are playing a bit of a different market, funding the more mature, post-development companies, where the incubators are working in the idea-to-market area.

The more conservative and below the radar branding may be an effort in attracting more capital for investment than in getting the start-ups excited about the VC specifically.

Just looking at Vantage Point, they report 4.5 BILLION 'committed capital since 1996'. Trinity Ventures recently participated in a 4.2 million dollar round (so assume it's fair to say they put in a few million).

Compare that to YC's recent announcement of 8.5 Million fund. I don't know how much YC has raised since inception, but I suspect they may be sub 50 Million.

Not so say that YC or any of the seeds should be aiming for the 100's of millions in management. That isn't their market. They are very good at picking VERY early start-up entrepreneurs, giving them a very small bit of capital, and actively guiding them through the process of building a valuable business.

Basically, I think the marketing fits the market.
In fact, the syntax is one of the things I prefer in JavaScript (vs for example Python), along with Prototypical inheritance...
I prefer Campaign Monitor. Their interface was easier to understand and get started with.

Plus, MailChimp automatically filtered out a lot of valid addresses and I couldn't find any way to override that (for instance admin@site.com would cause an error because of "admin").
IPad: $1 Billion Later, What Do You Think of It Now?
- I would add tag cloud to menu on front page. I need to visit tags page in order to find some page.
- It would be cool to have some road map for selecting no-sql db for your app or comparision table with features.
It's unfortunate, but it's also the reason we wrote Narwhal, which now means we rarely need to use Rhino at all. A welcome change.
Good point!

Thanks for your thoughts, it's a small thing but it helps to know what other people are thinking.
"Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages."
- From the GNU manifesto

Maybe just implement GCC in Lisp? Or am I just nitpicking?
In my early 20s my wife and I took an intelligence test, since we had both been "gifted" students and it seemed like something fun to do.

She scored about 10 points higher than me, but as we reviewed the test and my answers, I had logical reasons for selecting my choices. For instance in the tests involving figures, I might have counted visible vertexes and found that the initial series all had an odd number of visible vertexes, and only one of the resulting set fit that pattern (although the rotation or whatever the "real" problem didn't work out) There were many more examples -- probably most of the test -- where there was a bunch of implied context that the reader may or may not have accepted. In fact, I'd argue that some of my "wrong" answers were much better in terms of creativity than the right ones. Some involved much more complex reasoning answers. Some involved thinking about a problem in a unique way.

After that experience we didn't do any more tests or think much about them.
>I'd really wish for some AppEngine developer to tell me how's the proper way of designing entity groups.

here are some helpful links:

http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/datastore/overview...

http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/datastore/overview...

http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/scaling/contention...
MySQL Challenge Contest
And a useful video:

http://code.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/OfflineProces...
I'm a senior at Penn State and we use Angel. It's decent.
Marc Andreessen - Three Necessities for Start-up Success [video]
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Person A makes a sweeping generalization to justify terribly bad advice. Person B shows one instance where said generalization is completely flawed.

Zed has a lot of qualities, but I would not accept his career advice.
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Wow, this is literally the first time I've ever heard of Dropbox actively losing data. Not that this is especially helpful, but were the files at least available inside the Dropbox web UI?

For what it's worth, I've been using the 0.7x series with several small-to-medium-sized Git repositories (over a quarter-million files/directories) with no ill effects to speak of beyond Dropbox taking a while to initialize.

Of course the repositories themselves have several copies on the various developer machines and GitHub, and I keep a Time Machine volume handy as a backup.
how often do you get inspected? — I get a once per year walk through from the fire department, more or less unannounced. They might schedule others, but I'm next door to the station and I think they go just hit me on their way back from other inspections. They wouldn't care about a laser cutter, but show an interest in my battery banks, egress paths, and flammable material storage. Oh, and they really hate my staircase, but I have a note from the city that says it's ok.
Clojure was always a bit of a hybrid- long before datatypes and protocols (see multimethods, hierarchies). Clojure preserves the many good parts of OO while stripping away the yucky cruft we've accumulated over the years.

From what I've seen of Scala, while delivering on a good dose of FP, it continues on with the fundamental problems (encapsulating state inside the object, poor notion of value, and thus very primitive tools for concurrency).
1. Use Action words : Use words like Designed, Implemented instead of words like Learned.

2. Put down other interests section : I have talked to a lot of employers about my hobbies. Many people say this is a bad idea but from my personal experience, it has worked like a charm.

3. Do not exaggerate on your resume : If you were not involved in making X decision which was a crucial part of the project, do not claim credit.

4. Short and Descriptive Action sentences : Instead of "I put together an interactive site" write " Designed a website that uses whatever"

5. If you are a software engineer, write down the software method used in your previous team. I have had conversations with managers that didn't adopt X method or the ones that did and either ways it has helped me.

6. Write down, Learn and be prepared to discuss the business impact. Designed X feature for X product is not adequate. What was the problem that it solved?

7. Use consistent design : If your dates were on the right column for a section, use that for everything else. If your position was after the company for the first one then use that for every single position.

8. Do not forget to mention that References will be furnished upon request.

9. Do not forget to write your objective that you are looking for interns. I have had people call me up to interview for full time.

10. Try to buy domain for your last name so that you could have firstname@lastname.com or use your colleges email id. This is just my personal opinion but @yahoo.com in the resume seems a little ...
Did I say for just $199?
For many reasons I believe that education is one of the wonders of the world. I admire students who truly understand the power of education, and I unconsciously turn away from those who don't. Having finished my high-school a few weeks ago, I remember asking myself almost every week whether I deserved my education or not. That was one of my leads to success. There are so many young people who would perform better that I did, but can't afford it. When I run out of will to study, I think of them.
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...because large-scale C projects end up reinventing C++ features in a more complicated, error-prone way.

C++ is much more expressive than C. It can compete on equal terms with other high-level OO languages, it has some functional features and it contains all of C.
On the downside, it's difficult to learn and takes much time to become proficient in.

Once you become proficient there's no contest.
you are rigth i also hate politics...
It used to be that, in some of these situations at Starbucks, you could request the cheaper drink with a modification that made it essentially into the more expensive drink. For example, ask for the large but with only so much ice. The experienced baristas often knew what you were about, but never seemed to mind.

A bit of a waste of a larger cup, but then... Maybe you could order the large drink in a medium cup?

If you order a hot tea with only one bag but in a grande (medium) cup, they are supposed to only charge you for a tall (small) (or were supposed to, at one point). (Some staff knew this; others did not.)

I feel a bit silly, making this comment. On the other hand, it is another aspect of Starbucks allowing the customer to customize/"hack" their drink. It seems to accomplish a certain level of customer "engagement" with the purchase activity and product offerings.
Sendgrid.com has been very good for us.
If you're interested in more gory details feel free to email me at mike at tophatmonocle dot com.

For what it's worth, we're an angel funded startup with some extremely bright hackers and we were signing praises about the App Engine until about 3 months in, when we started hitting it's various brick walls.

Oh, and take a look at: http://code.google.com/status/appengine

Click through the various items with green checkmarks to see the actual data that GAE considers "no significant issues." Including fun stuff like 80% datastore error rates.
Pretty cool! Check out the "By OS" button - most of the graph is Linux. Way to go! :)
Tulsa, OK has this property as well. Also, West and North Tulsa are where the poor whites and blacks live respectively.
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If you think depression is a choice, you are incredibly ignorant.
Agreed with your last point. I have read about people who loved Lisp so much, that they wrote Lisp to write programs in other languages for them. Two cases:
* http://www.merl.com/papers/TR93-17/ (Lisp to Pascal)
* Erik Naggum told of his dissatisfaction with C++, and wrote Lisp to do his job for him.

Well, the first is more of a demo, actually.
Thanks for that feedback. Searching about Angel reveals it's been purchased (as others have) by Blackboard. The past behavior of BB suggests this may not upgrade BB as much as it may just reduce the competition.

Where is the Linux of courseware?
yeah, whatever ;-)
It was in answer to the earlier post mentioning 100K Android devices shipped on a daily basis. Whereas Google makes no money from each Android device sold and in fact bears the cost of developing Android, Apple on the other hand is recovering its development/marketing expenses and takes all the profit from sales of the iPad.

How many Google ad impressions does a consumer need to see before the payoff is the same as that from selling an iPad? Or... how much is your personal data worth to you? To Google?
I can't find it now, but amidst the 3.3.1 kerfuffle someone blogged about what the iCar would be like. Here's what I remember from it:

If Apple made cars:

* You'd only be able to drive them on Apple-certified roads
* The cupholder would only accept a proprietary Apple cup
* There would only be one pedal
* You could have any color you want - provided it's brushed aluminium
Moodle is OSS. Why not get involved and contribute there?
You can undelete files through the website.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/11
There's a very interesting paper about an archival storage system built with that kind of hardware: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/storer/...
Related but a bit off-topic:

Has the security of dropbox ever been analysed by someone who knows what they're doing? How safe are my files there, from a "not losing them" point of view, and from a "not being hacked" pov?
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Right. If anything is the "Linux of courseware" it's Moodle.

Personally, though, I think the whole concept of a "course management system" goes away in time.
Should I move for a job or go solo?
Erm, narwhal actually uses rhino as its default engine. Perhaps you meant to say that you can now target the narwhal API, instead of waiting for rhino to expand its API offerings?
I'm surprised nobody here is talking about the instruction set architecture aspect of this. CISC won the first round of RISC vs. CISC saga.

X86 is bloated, legacy mess. It has been riding on the coattails of Intel's success in marketing ("Intel Inside"), silicon wafer production process (a couple generations ahead of AMD), and Microsoft's desktop platform (which only runs on X86).

RISC is a better architecture that should have won, and it's finally going to get its time in the sun.
Skype Ready With 2-Way Video Calls on Nokia N900
New experience: Interns pay to work
I won't decide on the iPad till I see the crop of competitors in action. Android-based ones are the most interesting to me so far, but HP's WebOS tablet is certainly promising.
I am not discounting the application of "poetic" solutions, certainly there are cases where this is a justified approach. E.g. I think this is particularly relevent in regards to parallelization.

There's a time for poetry and a time for prose: I'm merely saying that neither side should be throwing epithets.

pg extracts shareholder value by managing the artistic/economic gap. I am not being critical: this is a perfectly valid thing to do with one's time, I'd take his job in a heartbeat =o)

However, I'd wager that if you added up salaries forgone by ycombinator participants and compared them against aggregate payout it would paint a fairly bleak economic picture.
Looks familiar.

s/rival/CrunchPad

Oh, there it is. A recycled press release from the last time somebody offered to bring out a tablet at half of Apple's price.

What I find interesting is that Apple prices their products very aggressively these days. It's true that cheaper tablets are "just around the corner," but why do we assume that Apple's price will remain at its current level? WHy do we assume that Apple won't be just as relentless at reducing iPad pricing as they are at reducing iPod pricing?

Sure, there will be really cheap no-name competitors, but I think the prospects for name brands like Dell or HP are daunting.
Afaik Dropbox also uses hashing to recognize already existing files (eg. Windows XP SP2, etc.). In their scale that will save quite a bit of storage too.
It is fairly easy to setup a US LLC, see e.g. https://www.delawareinc.com/ (they’ll handle all the paperwork for around $450).

This will give you an Employee Tax Identification Number (EIN) which can often be used instead of SSN.

Note though that setting up a US bank account (as a non-resident alien) is more problematic (and you pretty much need that to receive the money). Your safest bet is to visit the US, see http://www.valisinternational.com/us-company-bank-accounts for options.

So I would recommend going with PayPal rather than process the credit cards yourself (though I didn’t check if they offer accounts to people in the Philippines).
There might be some problems but it's great to know that Google system administrators (instead of me) are taking care of it. When I hosted my application on EC2 twice I almost lost all my files due to hardware problems. I had to spend all night preparing a new server, not funny. There are no servers to fail in App Engine, I love that!
You might want to look at www.epsilen.com - owned by NY Times, I believe. Not free or OSS, but more affordable and comes with access to NY Times content.
Thank you for the feedback! I definitely agree with the comparison table. I'm trying to get that information collected and put up on the site, because it needs to be there.

Derek
Shameless plug, I am the author of a mailing list tool: http://simplemailer.pearachute.com

It's still a little beta, but several businesses are using it, and support is an email away. :)
Understanding why many of these controversial diseases are problems in the first place is made a little clearer if we look at the problem through the lens of behavioural economics. Alcoholics, nicotine addicts, many obese people, sexaholics, etc place huge discount rates on future rewards so that in the present, these future rewards are almost worthless. Put another way, these people place the most value on their next item of consumption which allows them to overcome the long-term costs of their destructive behaviour or the long-term benefits to quitting (if we assume these people make an instantaneous cost-benefit analysis each time they eat/drink/smoke/etc). This sort of radical discounting behaviour has been shown to be reversible in those who seek treatment.

Now, to one of the main points of the article: What constitutes an acceptable form of treatment to these gray-area diseases? An economist would probably say that you would have to consider the individual in question and then formulate a solution based on that individual's preferences, likelihood of success, and cost of change. For one obese person, gastric bypass might be the only solution between life and death. For another obese person, paying $25,000 for gastric bypass surgery might be "worth it" and allow them to change their eating habits in a way that would benefit them long-term without having to go through the anguish of months or years of diet and exercise. For another obese person with another preference set, diet and exercise would be far less costly than gastric bypass. Why bring right and wrong into the argument when looking at treatment methods?

Edit: Giving the issue some further thought, some might make a value judgement as to how bad or good heavy temporal discounting is. Given the assumption that it is wrong or bad, then you could hypothesize that the American culture of consumerism has gradually conditioned our population as a whole to shift their preferences to the present, valuing the quick fix over long-term, less costly approaches.
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I know you want to do (1) and (2), but my point is that you're not getting that from the other web 2.0 apps either.

When you delete data perhaps only a is_deleted flag gets toggled in a database, and copies of your work may reside in backups for months or even years. When you want to share your data you want to be reasonably certain the app is secure, but there is no way for you to determine if this is the case. I'm saying that a very simple system with very obvious security implications may be preferable to a complex system. It's easy to get Open Auth wrong, it's easy to get logins wrong, and so on.

Many apps will give you that login form and the share and delete buttons but chances are you would shudder at the thought of using the app if you knew what the backend looks like.

About those remarks on the page. The first one, "We'll try our best to preserve your data", is the best you can hope for in any situation, and the second remark that the website isn't very secure at all is also truthful given that it doesn't even use SSL.

So to reiterate, login forms on an app may make you feel more secure, but it won't bring you any closer to what you want.
Firefox Home Coming to an iDevice Near You
As some of you may know, Opera Mini arrived for iPhone a while ago. It provides a seamless experience to browse the web quickly and effectively. Now, Mozilla, the creator of the very well known Firefox browser for your computer, is willing to try its hand at the iPhone. They have developed a mobile version of their popular web browser!
Last month, I got on the HN frontpage with http://floating-point-gui.de/ - this generated about 17k visits on that day, 1.3k on the next, followed by 500, 400, 300.

This month, I made the slashdot frontpage, which resulted in about 44k visits, then 4k, 3k, 2k, 1.5k
Well what about a site that has polls with young voters about issues such as this and provide some "neutral" resources such as wikipedia about these issues. With enough participation it could have weight.

(I'm also Canadian and would like to participate, let me know if ever get it started.)
Not sure if this is still kept up-to-date, but there a list of Course Development tools at http://www.web-miner.com/detools.htm
I'm happy to pay 50 centimos for a pay toilet in Lima. They're pretty clean.
I definitely agree with the 3 necessities. Our co-founding team is composed of a technologist and a business guy. 'guess we need 1 more technologist for iterations (which is already foreseen) down the road.
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I hope this convinces you more: http://www.vimeo.com/11886557
Interesting indeed. It's good that GCC people start eating their own dog food and allow the use of C++. I'm sure this move will bring improvements to g++.