skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a military specification for brownies to be packaged in MREs, not a recipe. Probably not much different from software specifications.

It's not uncommon to find documents like this is government. Everything must be explicit so that there is little room for assumptions (I guess that's why it's called a specification). If you have a question about something, you refer to the spec. It also ensures that each brownie produced meets a certain quality standard, and that contractors producing the brownie know exactly how to produce them.
The figure to measure is 'retention'.

When cancellations equal signups (in this case 10 per day) you will stop growing. With the 10 signups per day as a base and a retention of 6 months on average that would mean that you stop growing after about a year and you'll end up with 1800 active accounts at that point for $36K per month in income.
I'm buying 'R in a Nutshell' and 'The Art of Debugging with GDB and DDD'.
If Froyo and Google TV is the best Google has to offer, they're in trouble
Google missed the mark with Froyo and Google TV at IO and Apple will eat their lunch.
He's reading way too much into it.
Call my cynical but my impression of this is that when I pre-ordered they must have literally had nothing done. I understanding some of the tricks you might pull to perform customer validation but their approach seems unambiguously disingenuous in hindsight...
I think Redis is great (i'm using it for a few apps as a backend store for resque, and soon as a rails partial cache with better control over expiration based on an object's dependency-graph).

Yet, I don't understand why people use such superlatives constantly about it. Is anyone else a happy user but a bit overwhelmed by the hype? (And i hesitate to use that word because it sounds overly negative.) Call me a student of human psychology noticing a trend that in this case happens to be in my interests. It would be much more irritating if I hated Redis - I don't, but I still can't ignore the squirmy feeling i get when I read about it...
My co-founders and I are in this situation, and we did YC this winter (Zencoder), so it definitely can be done. We basically ran on savings for four months, and were able to raise money quickly, so none of us lost our homes or wives/girlfriends.

But not risking your savings, on the other hand - if you aren't willing to risk your savings, being a startup founder might not be for you. :)
I've taken the approach of selling a service for $250,000/year to a small number of people. The sales cycles are longer, but the customers are very loyal if you provide good service, and it's much easier to support 5-10 clients than 200k clients.
Straight out of Feynman's lectures. Well said.
I am still excited to receive my WakeMate, but why did they not send me this update via email? Why was this in a blog post and not sent to the email I used to pre-order?

Furthermore, what is the point of saying "still a long way to go" - I am literally almost 6 months past the date I was told I'd receive it. Did WakeMate not have any software or hardware done at all when they posted the pre-order?
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I suspect that the wakemates themselves aren't doing the mobile dev work, but are outsourcing it and spending their time on the difficult stuff - getting the hardware operational and approved. In that case, if you've got the money, why not get them all developed simultaneously?
Don't scoff at this until you've tasted military-grade walnuts.
Hm...Server seems very busy, can't place my order :(
I followed tlrobinson's advice and bought Sleep Cycle for the iPhone. It's 0.99 and works well. Still, I'm optimistic about WakeMate, especially the analytics.
Maybe they're sleeping too soundly.
Googles' new smartphone OS increases speed by 450 percent
Is that a bug? The Eris in the middle is showing 8:10-:8:30am as the answer to waking up by 2:39pm?
Honestly, I don't think it matters who the developers are or what their coding expertise is at this point. They were there in the right place at the right time for the media to latch on to their story and to bring those issues into the light. They could take the money and run away laughing at this point, and they still will make an impact on Facebook because the media were able to point to their business model and say "See, things could be different!". Yes, they have ideas that have been tried and failed before, but their story is "sexier" and better timed than those. It's not so much the people or the code, but the position and timing.
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The reason you don't do all simultaneously is they all will likely suck, and then you have to redo three apps instead of one.

I would think you would want to do one mobile app just right, and then port it to other platforms. You might do a spec for all three up front so you think through each platform, but why not push one platform, iterate, and then take what you've learned before building?
> The complexity of the instructions will likely be turned into long checklists and procedures for the actual producing plant.

It'd be nice if our system of interpreted case law were turned into some form of checklists and procedures; then we wouldn't need lawyers.

That is to say, the one "contract" that affects every man, woman and child—federal law—has been screwed up in exactly this way, by providing so much of it that no one has any idea what it says without years of study. There is a difference between clarity and verbosity.
You are correct that there isn't a big price difference this time around between Apple and the alternative. But, standing in for the price difference this time (at least in the US) is carrier availability. To you and iPhone you've gotta switch to AT&T who doesn't seem to be going out of there way to care for those iPhone customers (at least, that's how it appears to me as an outsider hearing constant stories of dropped calls and poor call quality). Android is available on any of the major carriers in the US (although admittedly, with less support from AT&T then from the other 3 major carriers).

Not everyone wants to switch to AT&T. Hell, if there's been a 3G iPhone available for Tmobile I would have bought one long before I'd ever heard of Android.
A question to those in the know: what kind of education / experience schedule would one need to even think about doing work like this?
Nice. However from a further vision perspective, canvas might wind up gaining 3d hardware support. Or it won't matter. idk.
I don't think this is entirely correct. Good investors understand that different founders have different situations. If you're 19 years old and your personal expenses are negligible, and you pay yourself $90K, investors will wonder if you're committed to your startup. But if you're leaving a $150K job and have a family, and you pay yourself $90K, your investors won't mind. Or else they shouldn't be investing in you in the first place.
Yes, that is definitely part of it.
See my response to the other commenter's similar comment... but yeah, basically so you start with a good MVP instead of three products based on preconceived notions about users.
A) any religion that promises salvation to a Self group at the exclusion of an Other group or promotes faith-based thinking
I'm still getting 60% (of one core) CPU utilisation playing HD youtube videos. Playing HTML5 video tag version of the same video, its only about 20% utilisation. As far as I can remember, 60% is about what it was at before, so I'm not really seeing any improvement.

One of the videos I used to test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ_z-_4fF4Y

I'm using Safari, and also ClickToFlash for switching between Flash and HTML5 HD video on Youtube. Hardware is a 2009 Macbook Pro 2.53ghz.
Install xcode + mac ports? True about the terminal settings I guess, especially if you use screen + irssi.
The time consuming part is probably getting the HW manufactured. Why not code up the software for multiple platforms while waiting on that? I think covering both iPhone and Android is a pretty good move.
Thank you Patrick. Wow. Really, that one word says it all, but on a little longer note, and from a bit more than twice your age, you impress the hell out of me.

Not just because of your age, but mostly because you have things so 'together' at your age.

Most kids at the age of 15 are laying the seeds for the wasting of the next decade of their lives, you decided to lay the foundation for the rest of your life instead.

Keep going! And don't burn out! (please) The energy pit is not endless, even if it seems to be so. I've found that out the hard way.
The left side has measurements, I'd guess, of 0.5s.
Why? His solution automatically works for anything, and your site doesn't even appear to be up at the time of writing.
Not if you anesthetize the animals first.
I think you're only partly correct. Android itself isn't the important piece for Google, it's an open ecosystem for their advertising. In the keynote yesterday they said something about the importance of a future not "dictated by one product and one man". I'm willing to bet Google sees the avoidance of that future to be of vital importance to the survival of their company.
For anyone else trying to find this out and finding the site to be amazingly slow:

Use coupon code FAVFA - prices won't be discounted until check-out.

It works for multiple books, although the headline looks like it's for a single book.
If its sneakers you're looking for, you need to check out New Balance; they have many sizes...check out their wikipedia page.
it cant find the habs. I dont think its working :S
I do it all the time on my iPhone (though usually I use blue tooth). It allows my laptop and my daughter's iPod Touch to get connected when they otherwise couldn't.
I guess they gave themselves a DDoS...
Their server seems to be swamped. There's nothing like a unresponsive server to sober you up from a whimsical book purchase on a FRiday.

I was trying to buy:

* Making Things Talk (great into to networking with low-level HW)

* The Best of Instructables (excellent selection of mostly simple projects, includes IKEA hacking)
Apparently this is overwhelming the Firefox support forums and chat lines:

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/678373
I meant that they should write down these trivial things once in a standard, and later just refer to it in every recipe in two words.
This spec already contains references to several federal and military standards, but clearly not enough. Thats why it's such a bloated piece of sh... paper.
Size isn't a problem for me, but comfort always was until I started buying Blundstones. You get them 0.5-1 size smaller than you usually wear and break them in. Worst, most painful 3 weeks of my shoe-wearing life, but after that they were like indestructible slippers.
Free to Choose ebook deal of the day

Oddly, "Free to Choose" (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_to_Choos... ) is not one of the books that you can buy.
HTML5 localStorage for JavascriptMVC
That is because you are trying to use your Mac like it's a Linux box. Use the OS X keyboard shortcuts (which happen to be the same as Emacs, Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E respectively) and grab MAMP and you are good to go.
I know on my STB, the list that the search returns is just the title of the show (for instance, 30 Rock). It gives me nothing more than the title, so I have to click around till I find the one that I want
Sometimes I wonder how much of this drama is staged, or at least welcomed, by both parties.

I remember back in the 90s how the desktop war was always discussed in terms of opposing giants. It was always PC versus Apple. There were a lot of interesting competitors that had to struggle to get a mention: OS/2, NeXTstep, BeOS. You see that in the browser wars, too, with how Opera has to struggle to even get a mention.

The same pattern plays out in the DVCS space: it's always Git versus Mercurial. Sorry bzr, no mention for you.

So I wonder, is this enormous conflict between titans really just their way of freezing Windows Phone 7 and Palm out of the trade press?
I am not a hardware guy, but the few pieces of hardware I've seen ordered took a week to get a run of 100 test units, they spent two weeks working some bugs out, then put in an order of 1000 which came a week after placing the order.

This was done out of a shop in the US, not sure what it is like doing production runs overseas, but I can't imagine it's much slower.

This of course ignores the time spent designing/redesigning units, however, ordering batches of something from a manufacturer doesn't take long.
Congratulations! Can't wait to see the new classes and what they do to evolve the web.
Why are we jumping on Facebook for this? Google does this all the time with e.g. their search volume graphs. Perhaps Facebook is simply trying to show relative.

Admittedly, the unit on these graphs is quite important while the search volume unit isn't (as) important.
Ask HN: Putting most of your home directory in version control?
Dean HNers, Any of you tried putting most of your how directory under version control? I've always wanted to do this (though TimeMachine and Netapp versions are really nice also). I figure the only obvious open source choice is GIT as CVS and SVN write dot files everywhere and BZR and HG are said to not handle multiple GB. On OSX I am trying the experiment (excluding super large stuff like media, obvious places programs write caches like Library). It seems to work- anyone else care to share such an experience?
Absolutely, but the question is how frequent they happen. Are they business-as-usual, or a gross anomaly. When it happens to enough people, and those people tell their friends, the brand erodes.
And here I went, "So, all six of these are being done by someone, so why don't we have a web application directory?"

In comes google with three of them.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/
http://appuseful.com/
http://www.go2web20.net/

Now, if only they were comprehensive... Makeuseof is pretty cool, though.
Today or yesterday?
When I open Firefox I get pacman sounds in the background...
You're totally right - they're doing the exact opposite of "underpromise and overdeliver".
I don't know that I agree. StackOverflow become popular by being the Anti-ExpertsExchange. The elevator pitch was literally "Experts Exchange with out the evil" and they seem to be doing quite well.
Especially for technical books where I end up flipping around pages back and forth something that the computer probably will never be able to model intuitively.

Though I must say I like my kindle enough that it is readable for normal books.

But there is just something about paper :)
"It is extremely easy for developers to provide fallback content when Flash is not availble."

Really? How? I was an actionscripter for years before I dropped Flash from my arsenal and worked at a game company that would've loved to provide their games on systems without Flash.
> Javascript: The definitive guide

I'm waiting for the 6th edition:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805531
As stated by another reply, part of it definitely is the shift from managing people to managing managers.

The other main shift is that the scope of what you are doing goes beyond what one person can keep in their head. You can't know everything going on any more and you can't be telling people exactly what to do.

The closest analogy I can come up with it that it's kind of the like difference between "procedural programming" which you can get away with for the $1M company as compared "object-oriented programming" for the $10M+ company.

You can't possibly know every detail of every object's design and at the same time you need to have techniques to discover how well all the objects in the company are being constructed and acting as the "system engineer" making sure all the "objects" (ie: teams) still interface together well.
Pure CSS3 Page Flip Effect
I'm getting Confessions of a Public Speaker, I was long interested in this book.
Hey Gabriel,

Fantastic work, a case study in dealing with problems in a product.

If there was a prize for stuff like this you ought to get it :)
Can anyone please down-mode this deceptive crap?
Great. You got me fired for playing. I blame you.

:)

Addictive. Still needs some help from frame-rate awareness. When a "slowdown" occures the game needs to be aware of it's processing slowdown and slow down the game fps to compensate otherwise things "jump".
Same in the UK, but looking at the cost of iPhone contracts and HTC desire contracts, the difference in cost does seem to be borne out - iPhone contracts look to be more expensive here.
Part of the beauty of Android is that you're not stuck using the music play that comes with your phone. There are many, many music players to choose from in the Android Market.

I'm currently fond of MixZing (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.mixzing.basic), but Cubed (http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.abrantix.rockon.rockonnggl) seems to be rising rapidly in popularity. There's even btunes (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.bmayers.bTunesRelease) for all the ex-iphone users out there. :-)

Not to mention of course all the streaming apps like Pandora, LastFM, GrooveShark etc.
Can I plug my canvas game too?

I just finished up a tetris clone last night:

http://kibabase.com/jstet.html
TroopSwap is gonna be awesome! It will be a great resource for soldiers and vets. I hope its up soon so I can sell some of my unused equipment to new or young soldiers and save them a bunch of money. Plus a portion of the money that Troopswap earns will go to our injured brothers. I see great potential for this Company.
Great, they pass an incomprehensible bill, then allow us to read it later.

I know I've seen a few good blog posts warning us that this is going to be a startup angel funding killer. I'm sure eventually the investment community will work around it, but short term this may be a real kick in the nuts to many startups looking for funding.

Would love to see some smart startup lawyers read through this bill and post some analysis. Any takers? Thanks in advance
correct,they had nothing at pre-order time. Minimal Viable Product for hardware.
This is funny. Obviously the preview function of Firefox hitting Google's Pacman gag. But in all seriousness Firefox's urge to pre-load stuff is going to be one of the things that gives people reasons to more away and kills Firefox (I guess Chrome benefits from that in the end). I have an earlier complaint about this and cookie pre-loading during Google searches on Firefox: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/should-your-mom-use-g...
So you don't have to pay for a separate cellular data account for your iPad! :-)
Get friends who are artsy.

In all seriousness, I like working with a designer rather than hiring one. Part of it is how one sees design. Is design something you can just purchase? If so, isn't code just something you can purchase? I think that part of the reason we're here is that we realize that you can't just buy your way out of code problems. Code is important, it takes dedication and hard work not the fulfillment of some sort of spec list.

The same is true, in my personal opinion, of design. The design and interactions that users are going to experience are of a lot of importance. It's not that hard to find a designer who will work with you on a project. The key is to treat them like a partner rather than someone who is doing some lower form of work that you don't really need, but will make it look flashier to users. Even if you don't have money, it's possible to get people to come on if they're a partner in the project. I mean, artsy people really understand not getting paid (especially if you're in the same not getting paid boat). They don't understand being belittled and unappreciated - really, who does?

So, respect, partnership and working together can go a long way on random projects that probably won't amount to much. There are lots of sites like http://99designs.com where you can get people to compete on spec. It feels a bit cold to me - as if once a design is made, it's done. I prefer a more continual improvement thing.

I'm not saying 99designs doesn't serve a good purpose. It's just not my style. I also have a lot of artsy friends so it might be easier for me than you. If you can find someone who is good at graphic design and understands user experience, data layout, etc. it's awesome.
Yeah I agree. If the margins are that high, then you'll have a ton of competitors come in, which will end up lowering it in the end. It may be possible in the beginning, before the competition forms.
This ruling involved denial of a preliminary injunction request by P 10 and thus did not involve a ruling that "RapidShare didn't infringe on copyrights."

To get a preliminary injunction, a party must show, among other things, that it is likely to prevail on the merits of the case and that it will suffer irreparable harm should its request be denied.

A court does not rule on the ultimate merits of a case one way or the other in ruling on a request for a preliminary injunction. At the preliminary injunction phase, everything is gauged on probabilities and a judge has a lot of discretion in deciding the issues.

As reported in this article, based on P 10's preliminary showing, the judge was not convinced that P 10 would likely prevail on the merits based on the evidence submitted (meaning, the issue of whether infringement occurred remains open for trial but the judge did not see compelling enough evidence at this point), was not convinced that P 10 would suffer irreparable harm if the injunction were denied (since it waited 4 years even to file the suit, the natural question in the judge's mind is "what's another year or so to get to trial" if no urgency has been shown to date), and was not convinced that the public interest would be served by granting the request.

Thus, a significant victory for RapidShare but, at the same time, just one more step along the path of getting to trial, where the merits of the case will ultimately be decided. It may be a precursor of things to come but that will depend on whether P 10 can shore up its evidence of infringement before the actual trial itself. Based on its sorry history, it probably will not but, technically, this remains to be determined.
Actually the years of study aren't to figure out what it actually says. They are to figure out the many ways you can use it to convince a judge that it says what you want it to say, which can then be used to get whatever result you're being paid to achieve.
Scientist Claims To Make First Man-Made Cell
We will be able to live to 1,000
its -> it's (sorry)
Yeah I got tossed on checkout too. There's a major nerdgasm going on there.
Average time on site: 3 hours.

(no, not really)
I remember learning about her in my introductory telecom course. Amazing story.
I think you're wrong about the write-once run-anywhere software ecosystem that Windows had to deal with. There was an incredible proliferation of different hardware -- including drivers etc. -- and it was mostly up to Microsoft to make sure that the OS continued to work flawlessly (or at least at whatever level of semi-stability it managed to attain) across all of these different configurations.

This is an enormous responsibility that Apple has never had to deal with -- there's a difference of at least 3 if not 4-5 orders of magnitude in the number of different types of hardware platforms that each company had to deal with.

Android has a few dozen phones to support. And yes, the "metaphor" is slightly different across phones, but it's nothing like having to deal with every random piece of hardware that every company puts out.