skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't go for startup #1 unless they're able to concisely explain what they did wrong. Typically a startup recoding from scratch means they're afraid to invest in good programmers (leaving too many cooks in the kitchen and a dish that needs to be thrown out).

Startup 2 and 3 both sound interesting, but you wouldn't be a coder in the startup world if you didn't like to go with your gut. So listen to it and enjoy the great opportunity at #2!
MultiTail: monitor multiple log files in the same window
How is that different than me pointing out that Jobs had to ignore more than just one expert's opinion and delivered information that the phone was susceptible to this flaw?
The $10 price is pushing it just a little bit, but I buy enough books of other varieties- older books and public domain books, typically $7 and $1-2 respectively- that I figure it works out ok in the end.
>we always said, ‘Fine, we’ll escalate it to Steve and see who wins.’ I think history has demonstrated how that turned out.”

Really? As far as I understand, the AT&T data network still sucks.
China is now the largest energy consumer in the world
MANO
Happened to me, except the iPad bounced on carpet. Their Friendly Support is excellent, and sent a replacement quickly. Replacement was bowed too, before or during shipping.

They then offered a technique to micro-fracture the outer bamboo, but I'm not persuaded this would help it hold the iPad tighter.

I think they should consider changing the layers to counteract the curvature -- it should want to curve in to hold tighter, not curve out to hold less.

While assembling, they'd also have the option to pre-form the bamboo to a bowed in shape, then glue the layers while bowed. The glue would keep the bow in place, and use the aluminum (not gonna bow) iPad hold it back straight. The case might look odd without an iPad in it, but would grip much better when carrying the iPad.
You had to replace the defaults because they don't work well. Android can't even play a damn wav file without downloading an app. iOS4 has the capability to lock portrait mode. I never once wanted to use my iphone or nexus one as a mass storage device.
I would say second one because you get to apply the knowledge you have in a meaningful way.Having a mentor would be the added advantage.
"Disallows" and "hasn't finished writing software for yet" are two different beasts. Amazon wants you to be able to read your books wherever you want; the more places you can read them, and the happier you are, the more ebooks they sell.
I created WinKeyPlus to map shortcut keys to common tasks.
http://www.winkeyplus.com
Works on all modern(ish) Windows (XP, Vista, 7)
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Jailbreak!

Other than the turn by turn every other feature you said is available with jail broken ios. So you get the best of both worlds: slick usabe interface and powerful features.

I honestly don't know why more people don't jailbreak their iPhones.
This means Apple, out of nowhere, could soon become the #1 or #2 book retailer in the world by next year. Apple has sold 3M iPads, roughly the same as the Kindle - http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/201...

There will probably be around 2:1 iPads to Kindles and Nooks by the end of the year. They are doing what they did with music with books.
Similar but for Ruby: http://www.rubyinside.com/ironruby-silverlight-ruby-in-brows...
I've been looking for a similar app which allows me to display multiple "watch, mytop, htop, dsstat" at the same time on our big screen so that the whole team can see it. It'll be great if the settings are saved in some places so that I don't have to re-type the same command.
FTA, implied to be more of less AT&T's argument: "It didn’t make sense to build phones and offer features that carriers couldn’t support." Message: AT&T expects to solve user experience problems by removing or restricting features, and this is a bad thing.

Your post: "[T]he probability of a negative user experience is too high on AT&T's network ... Apple knows better than to let Facetime get a [bad] reputation[.]" Message: Apple solves user experience problems by restricting features, and this is a good thing.
Quit Job, Learning to Code
Would adding some small booster rockets and control modules really increase the cost that much?
Go for it! Amazon's track record in new media has been very solid. If you're nervous, push for more non-monetary perks (like giftcards for their video service or a chance to tour their HQ). Being their goto-guy for a new platform would pay off in spades and be an incredibly unique opportunity.

I'm sure if you explain your hesitation to them they'll make adjustments to accommodate you. Propose an arrangement that, though still plausible, leans in your favor. They need you & your skills on their platform more than you need them (they're probably trying to skip the lag-of-quality-app problem that Android is still wrestling with).
Or it could've been one of the things mentioned in the original article:

"They complain that Apple hasn’t accepted its fair share of the blame. They say — and Apple sources confirm — that the software running the iPhone’s main radio, known as the baseband, was full of bugs and contributed to the much-decried dropped calls. What’s more, Apple had chosen to source the radio from Infineon, whose hardware was used widely in Europe but rarely in the US, where cell towers are placed farther apart and reception is therefore less forgiving."
Should broadband data hogs pay more? ISP economics say "no"
Do you use Linux? Every Linux distro comes with a Linux kernel. Yet none of the distros are supported by the kernel team. It's a different task. In OSS world there is a concept of upstream, where cool newstuff happens and the package maintainers who pack the released software. The two almost never happen together. If you care to go into business of testing and delivering Android OS for every single phone out there - go ahead. You might even make $$ off of it. But in the mean time the official maintainers are the manufacturers and they are nit going to all agree on when to release the next update - it is a competitive advantage to them to keep the current OS + all the ads and proprietary features running as long as possible.
There was a bit of talk a while back about integrating Moonlight (open-source implementation of Silverlight) into Firefox itself.

I'm not sure whether it was decided to be infeasible but I really liked the thought of having a general purpose VM available directly within the browser.
Donate to a couple of Android devs. Cyanogen and probably the dev of LauncherPro.
WebGL, Firefox's new audio APIs and near infinite number of css/js toolkits are blurring the lines in all of those categories. I understand it's a ways off, but if you used nose-bleed versions of Chrome, Pepper, NPAPI, etc you can have extremely close to native capably apps through the browser. This is where I highly expect Android and Chromium OS to converge.
And, more tellingly in combination with this, the Iphone is still AT&T exclusive in the U.S., even though making a T-Mobile version would be essentially trivial (different UMTS band) and Apple already has a history of larger radio hardware customizations for carriers (no wifi in mainland China).
Cartoon: A book? How do you search that?
The core difficulty with that statement would be that it's wholly false. The cause of the loss of the rig and the ongoing spill was not due to unexceptional circumstances it was due to negligence on BP's part. BP management overrode the better judgement of Transocean personnel and they ignored the established operating procedures and best practices of the industry. Had those procedures been followed there would have been no loss of life, no loss of the rig, and no spill.

Instead, BP chose to cut corners in an attempt to save a tiny amount of cost on what was likely to be a hugely profitable operation regardless. There's no excuse for that.
But also remember that many people don't own kindles, but buy books & use the software on other devices -- quite often Apple devices.
Hey flapjack, I'm developing a tool to do this and would love to get your thoughts. If you stumble across this comment, shoot me an email: matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com.

Same goes for anyone else -- the app is still a ways away from prime time, but if you'd like to play a part in the development and testing process, let me know.
All it needs is this:

http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/Elite_Pro-89-37.html

and a suitable targeting system of course.
I have a similar problem with YouTube, but on adsl and with full proper bandwidth available on other websites. YouTube itself throttles the client after the first few seconds, on the theory that many people will quit watching and it's a waste of bandwidth to read ahead too aggressively. But the feature seems flawed in my case, leading to stuttering on an uncontended connection. I often have better luck using a download manager and playing back the flv offline.

Either that, or my ISP is packet-sniffing and throttling video, which seems unlikely since e.g. BBC and ITV can stream fine.
Thanks for all the helpful feedback.

So what languages are you skilled in? Feel free to say hi im ryan@sleep.fm or ryanspahn on Twitter.
sun block, coconuts, and a bit of gasoline
According to their bios (http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/), every senior exec who isn't doing hardware of software has either an MBA or a JD. More anecdotally, I know at least three people with MBAs working in middle management there. Apple does a good job of maintaining a counterculture image while remaining a pretty average place to work.

Of course, you could make the case that Apple is run by one person, and he didn't even graduate college.
Increasing the max price will not speed up launching.
Another aspect of this is whether the project is used by anyone. If a project like wget loses the maintainer, it's a big deal and we should shout on street corners about it until someone steps up. If a project is simply a piece of code that is of no use to anyone, even the original author, then we should at least rank it lowest. So maybe for the former it makes sense to add the extra field so that people can be notified instantly and someone could step up. Then again, IIRC wget did lose its mainrainer recently and someone stepped up very quickly since the project has other communication channels.
This was a great PR stunt that further ignited Android as premium SmartPhone OS/experience and alternative to the iPhone.

I own an iPhone and prefer it due to hardware/software experience, but the Droid is pretty cool and the Droid X has some killer features.
My physics is getting a bit foggy, but I'm pretty sure I remember a lecture in which we were told that 30% transmission efficiency is actually about the best we can achieve with current materials science (without going to insanely expensive exotic solutions that don't scale or require non-room-temperature conditions).

This is part of why the idea of switching from big centralized power-plants to small localized plants is a big potential win.
vim can be a powerful tool for visualizing regular expressions as well. paste in the text and set incsearch and set hlsearch to match on partial expressions and highlight matches. this allows you to distinctly see the effects of a regex as you type it.

also, python's regex module can show you how it interprets a regular expression by passing the re.DEBUG flag to re.compile:

>>> import re
>>> re.compile('a*b+', re.DEBUG)
max_repeat 0 65535
literal 97
max_repeat 1 65535
literal 98
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x100460230>
Mine was delivered Friday. One of the first things I did was to try the death grip. To get the signal to degrade I had to hold it in a position essentially embedding in the lower left corner of the phone in my palm while holding it unnaturally tight. Then there was only a single bar loss in signal. Holding the phone in a comfortable left or right handed position had no effect on the signal. If there would have not been the news around it I would have never noticed it. Even the technology press seems to be degenerating to Fox.
It would be great to compare that number to the other big blogs: wordpress, blogger, sixapart, livejournal, posterous, etc.
A copy of Lomby Zombie - http://www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=762

And a Pizza from Papa Johns -http://www.papajohns.com/index.shtm

Last buck for the tip (or tax on the pizza)
The same could be said of the iPhone 4 issue as well though. It was negligent. At least one Apple engineer warned that it would be an issue and they released it anyway. No it wasn't to cut costs but it was meant to improve the marketing of the phone.

Yes signal attenuation affects all phones if you hold them a certain way. But it's worse with the iPhone. So in that sense SJ is making the same kind of false statement that BP would have made with this response.
If Apple are so concerned with user experience that they are unwilling to throttle the iPhone to meet ATT's network limitations, then why did they partner with ATT to begin with? ATT are pretty generally perceived as having the worst wireless phone service in the USA, and that certainly dovetails with my personal experience.
Wow, this is something similar to my favorite weekend project for a while, albeit that has a perspective more like http://timetric.com/.

Looks/sounds seriously awesome.
This apparently relies on Silverlight to work. That's fine, but it would nice if pages using it gave some indication why nothing happens if you don't Silverlight. The only reason I know that the problem is lack of Silverlight is from the other HN comments. That is decidedly not user-friendly.
Silverlight runs client side, so I don't really know why you're putting scarequotes around that. It's like saying that Flash games aren't running "client side".
From the essay on determination:

> We can imagine will and discipline as two fingers squeezing a slippery melon seed. The harder they squeeze, the further the seed flies, but they must both squeeze equally or the seed spins off sideways.

I question the physics behind this metaphor
Another take on the Washington Post 23andme mixup story
Canada Immigration Skilled Workers & Professionals, A Possibility to be Eligible
That's the domain of rhetoric. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1530812
Seeing how im advocating that everyone should know when to be using parsing tools rather than cobbling together a regexp cludge, here are some links to some relevant tools in a variety of languages. Note that these are not parser generator tools, but parser combinator libraries:

* Python:
PyParsing - http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ - this
is probably the most well respected parser library
for python

picoparse - http://github.com/brehaut/picoparse - My
parsec inspired parser combinator library. It is
significantly more light weight than pyparsing, and
I would recommend pyparsing in its place for more
heavy lifting parsers.

* Ruby:
RParsec - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rparsec/ - A
ruby implementation of Parsec. I've heard good
things about it.

* Haskell:
Parsec - http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/parsec.html -
This is an amazing library, worth anyones time.
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec

* F#:
FParsec - http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/ - This is
reason enough to learn F#; it is a fairly true port
of the haskell library and very nice to use.

* Scala:
Packrat Parsing - I believe this is part of the
standard lib. http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/api/scala/util/parsing/combinator/PackratParsers.html

* Clojure:
fnparse - http://github.com/joshua-choi/fnparse

* Java:
jparsec - http://jparsec.codehaus.org/

[edits: formating]
http://usualerror.com/e-book/verbal-aikido/
Avoid #3 like plague.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
The biggest problem with this article is that five most important words are at the end and not at the beginning:

"I am not a lawyer"
Not that I don't ♥ The Gruber™, but the link should probably be pointing at the original article, as all John is doing here is quoting from the Wired piece.
could you roll-your-own satellite broadband using this way?
Hey, I work at isocket - thanks for the shoutout! I didn't recognize your username though?

To the OP, ping me if you have any questions at alabut at gmail.
Well, if you have a habit of calling family from overseas asking them to move your stuff from your apartment because you're "not coming back", well, crap happens.

Last year when I was "permanently moving to Australia", my family staged and intervention and forced me to for-once move my things to my parents' house first. My immigration lasted roughly 364 days, the maximum duration of a tourist stay :-P
Ooh, yeah, had forgotten about that one. Thanks!
Counting down to seeing this as a nerd marriage proposal
I'm still trying to figure out this "quick blogging" phenomenon (and microblogging also), having no desire or apparently no inclination to do either of them.

It's a useful medium for people who are primarily curators rather than writers. Consider Dan Gruber's Daring Fireball, for example.
IIRC, Fogbugz (fogbugz.com) - a JIRA competitor - has some capability to generate release notes.
My First Solid Thought about working @Google
.Net has a standard library, that's why.
I was lucky too. My iPad fell onto the carpet. What I did was I used a couple of small strips of black craft foam (<$1 per letter size sheet) and reinforced the bottom corners. The iPad fits in there very snugly.

The corner bumpers from Dodocase don't inspire a lot of confidence.
Yeah, that's crazy and disappointing. I'm quite sure that if it's legal and not just a bizarre error, it's standard practice for all banks in the US.

In my case, I deposited a single large cashier's check (at the teller due to concern about the process), and then wrote a similarly-large personal check to someone else, which I'm quite sure they deposited the same day...so I had a couple of details working in my favor.

Otoh, there are lots of scary stories about checks being credited and then a week or two later failing to clear and being deducted from accounts. Standard craigslist warning, etc.
I'm sorry for your loss.. :-)
Grand Central Dispatch available in Debian
"Selling something you haven't yet built isn't a crime btw."

Wait what? Manufacturing companies do it every day. For a lot of them, their entire profit margin rides on the fact that their AP is on Net-90 and their AR is Net-60 (or similar). For stuff with long lead times, payment in fact does often happen before delivery. How is that illegal?
Why Principles Are So Important
This video shows us that principles are the fundamental ingredients in good design. Without the principles the design is lost.
You have to inject the drug properly :) From what I understand, a lot of the rush in problem-solving comes from release of dopamine, and dopamine itself is the fuel for problem-solving.

So start slowly, solve a simple task, then ride the dopamine levels upwards by solving more and more, until you hit the flow.

Although, I do not understand why would anyone want to get addicted to programming. Trying to have something that can earn money while getting you high naturally is one thing, trying to imitate successful addicts in hopes of huge success is a cargo cult.
That's a false dichotomy. It can still be better than a 3gs overall AND have a serious design flaw. Technology has moved on and made the 3gs obsolete in so many ways that it can easily move the overall experience to a new high watermark while still having a serious flaw.
>On the other hand I don't see how the CIA could work without secrecy. It's nuts

Names of agents in foreign countries secret = yes.

Existence of the CIA, the number of agents, the cost of operations, illegal operations, agents that have committed criminal offenses = no
Anyone have a metricly.com invite code that was mentioned in some of the posts below? Would like to compare to the dashboards mentioned here.
Agreed. I cringed when I read that line. Parsers can do things that regular expressions can't (paren matching, for example). Yet I've seen people try using regular expressions when a parser would be a better choice.

There seems to be this emerging pattern in my career where I stumble across all the people in the world who have decided to try and validate HTML using regular expressions.
Adventures in Assembly
> Gaming the system by trying to get people to believe your product/service/company is better than it actually is, is as old as commerce, and societies have developed ways of coping with this which while not perfect, do work well enough that the vast majority of economic actors see it as not in their interest to rip people off.

I'm not sure that this is true any more. I remember that it used to be possible to find bad—or even just informative—reviews of products; but now it seems to me that there's a ‘conspiracy’ (in an informal sense, not an actual plotting-together sense) between

• providers who have no scruples about packing reviews with spurious praise,

and

• review-collectors who are either

•• less powerful than the providers (in which case they will winnow the reviews to just the good ones to curry favour) or

•• more powerful than the providers (in which case, because power corrupts, they will informally censor reviews for the providers who provide them bribes).

(Trying to find reviews of apartments, as I was doing recently, really drives this point home. Almost no-one reviews his or her apartment unless he or she is really unhappy, and, since it's so easy to do and there's effectively no penalty for it, it's more or less a given that the top reviews for each complex will be posted by staff of that complex.)
> He spoke indisputable truth

Scott Adams' problem seems to be that he is living inside the reality distortion field. Part of the whole problem with Jobs' handling of this is that he has repeatedly failed to tell the truth (at very least not the whole truth, but arguably he has lied in an absolute sense). To be specific: Jobs stated that all phones have this flaw. But all phones do not have this flaw. The flaw is that the phone has an antenna that is shorted by the user holding it a normal way. No other phones have this flaw. It is an outright lie. Jobs himself made a big deal on stage about how no other phones have this kind of antenna when he was selling it as a good thing. Now he says that all phones have the same problems that are caused by this unique antenna design. No they don't. It's a lie.

The real tactic here is simply to gloss over the truth and hope you get away with it - at the moment I'm not sure whether Jobs has or not.
Because you can't put the oil back in the Earth or bring back 11 dead men as easily as you can take back an iPhone.

They might appear to be logically equivalent[1], but one clearly has hope of gaining empathy from the public and the other does not, especially considering BP was already on the hot seat about their safety record.

[1]I don't think they are - Apple's design decisions are no where in the same league as BP's ongoing record of putting the health of their employees at risk. The only entity benefitting from BP's decision would have been BP, whereas the antenna design supposedly gives better reception when the signal is not being attenuated by the user's grip.
Was responding the the parent implying that selling something that isn't yet in existence is somehow wrong.
> try and validate HTML using regular expressions

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...