skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always qualify "isn't very much"... for the U.S.

I could definitely use U$ 20.000, it's more than a year and a half of my (post-taxes) salary here in Uruguay.

(And yes, I should look into consulting, etc. HN is a great way to nag me to move forward and it's good advice).
It's VERY hard for even a paid iPhone app to make enough money to justify a large enough sale for people who invested $8m into a company to give the go ahead. Maybe impossible. A free iPad app is orders of magnitude away from that.
Transparency in how providers muck about with wireless connections is nice and all, but honestly, what real use is transparency unless you can act on it. Between the wireless industry's pervasive contracts, and the low number of provider options, the average user has little recourse when they get poor treatment.

Google is pretty much telling us that it is too much to ask that we have choice, transparency and neutrality on our public airwaves, a common good. I do not agree.
I see a lot of conferences each year and the Business of Software Conference was by far the best one that I saw last year.

For the people here on Hacker News, it's a major alternative viewpoint on entrepreneurship. A very large number of articles that get posted here are tainted in some way by venture capital. There's not nearly as much advice from bootstrapped and owner-operated businesses.

I went into the 2010 BoS conference wondering if 37signals was an outlier in the owner-operated world. But after talking to a lot of the software businesses there I realized there are many successes. I asked one guy how big his business was, expecting him to respond with a number of employeers--his answer was $100M.

Also, the speakers last year were fantastic. Instead of having to choose between several tracks filled with un-rehearsed, amateur speakers, BoS gives you a single track of mostly keynote level speakers.
FTA: you can probably already access Apple’s trackpads via javascript. The problem is that Apple has already built a bunch of system level gesture support into them so you’d have to figure out how to override that first.
great speaker lineup!

price a little too steep for my tastes at $2000
That is frightening logic and factually incorrect. History is full of examples of minority abuse at the hands of the majority.

Here is a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy#Oppressi...
Nice advertisement.

Can a moderator please change the title to the real title? 95% of the content is specific to this one conference, yet the title is about conferences in general.

It doesn't explore the idea that conferences should help hackers get rich at all. It has one sentence that more-or-less states that and then goes on and on about how great this particular conference is.
>My daughter just turned one and we still use it every night and for her naps.

Will you find it a problem when she's 7 and still "needs" it? If so get another one for spare before they're discontinued or perhaps start on the methadone now.
Attempt At P ≠ NP Proof Gets Torn Apart Online
How many medical procedures have you seen the cash money prices for? In my experience, major open surgeries can be paid for with just over $1000 down and between $50 and $100 per month for a few years.

As for mortgages, what's the saying? You can't con an honest man?

People pay more money for take-out coffee than it costs to make a decent and nutritious meal, and this is considered perfectly normal. It's not impossible to be fiscally responsible, just unfashionable.
Any many of reasons,

Win7 may have a simpler apis then OSX to do more with multi-gesture that isn't the pre-canned pinch/swipe etc actions.

The developers may have received funding from Microsoft.

The developers may have had more access to Win7 multi-touch tablets etc.
>That way we can leave the kids at home and go have a nice lunch together and maybe see a movie without the hassle of babysitters and late nights.

Don't have kids, no "hassle"!

As for (d) kids are your productivity, they're are what you've produced, they will be your lifes work. Don't sideline them, don't let nannies have all the fun.
That is a valid concern, although a well designed micro language will likely also reduce the code base significantly and thereby leave less to learn. If it is well constructed it will also serve as an easy way of learning about the domain which you will have to anyway.
Great response. I would say that developing on Heroku and Google App Engine drives practices that lead to the ability to scale. This can be done with any hosting provider, as long as you are ready and know what to do.
Null pointer exception are bad because they typically are thrown in a different place than where the actual error occurs.
Losing your principles is failure.

At least, it is from the public's perspective. For Google, it's a win, but only in terms of adapting to a business reality rather than resisting it.
Perhaps what is needed is a conference about raising money for hackers to be able to attend these conferences.
My Experience with the TechStars Application Process
I agree but a lot of people (myself included) thought Google was large, rich, smart, respected and brazen enough to fight this fight so we were all thrilled when they dropped the gauntlet against the carriers.

At this point I'm just dying to find out what they saw on the horizon that made them come to a full stop.
Really? I love solving problems, and I'm lucky enough to get paid to solve problems for other people. Often times the solution requires software, sometimes it doesn't.

The thing is, if I was able to quit working today I would still look for problems to solve. Sure they may be different problems, but I would still be working even in retirement.

I think you're going to see a lot of people work their entire lives because a) they really do enjoy it and b) as long as you have your brain you can keep doing knowledge work. It's not like any of us are digging coal out the ground to the point where our bodies break down.
This has nothing to do with democracy. It's about business interests colluding against the public interest.
I've been waiting for this release for a looooong time. Bravo!
What handset are you using?
I don't know, but I have a guess. Investors model VC returns very carefully and use them in their portfolio to achieve a certain kind of risk profile. That model is based on each dollar being invested once. If it's invested more than once, the model gets exceptionally complicated.

But like I say in the article - I'm not an expert in this stuff; I'm just a well motivated student. I hope someone from a firm will weigh in with a more definitive answer.
Marijuana may cause Canada's economic comedown
Ged rid of the ideal of a "well-rounded" student. We've been stuck with this since the middle ages (see the Seven Liberal Arts), and it has been a major source of compulsion in education ever since.
India threatens to suspend BlackBerry by 31 August
I work full time for another company (got to have income from somewhere) and whilst I work my other interests I figured the office would be a good idea.

I have so many projects in my head and my time seems to get occupied so easily with stupid things (youtube, hackernews :) ) that some office space seemed like the easiest way to stop that.

As I mentioned its more of a personal choice I would imagine, trying to see if I have considered all the factors or anyone has any cheaper alternatives.
> They all just want to sell units. It's a mess.

Actually, they want you to buy a 12 or 24-month plan, The unit is just the bait.

In this scenario, it makes sense to build non-upgradable phones so that users opt to get locked in for another year just to get a "free" new phone.
> So far, Apple has failed miserably at cloud computing experiences.

So far, Apple has barely showed any interest in it. How can they fail at something they never even tried?
Actually the best VCs get even better terms - e.g. 3-30. But I've heard VCs say that anyone who comes out with sub-market terms in their fund has a positioning problem: the best returns come from a tiny number of firms, and the returns dwarf the management fees, so LPs are entirely concerned with quality and only minimally with cost.
Rethinking Some of Those Funding Success Stories
Almost every practical algorithm I know behaves differently based on input. That doesn't mean it is a different algorithm every time.
I'd go the opposite direction, personally. I wanted to take more humanities classes as a CS major, but was compelled to take a bunch of specialized/unnecessary CS classes in sub-areas I don't care about (or could've read about on my own) instead. I tend to see majors and disciplines as the major source of compulsion in education--- they all have ideas about "required cores" that everyone must take, often motivated more by politics than anything else.
>After 9 months your kid will get into a rhythm, sleep at night from 7 till 7 and take 2 two hour naps during the day. This will give you more time to start hacking again. After another 9 months your kids rhythm will change again. Still sleeping from 7 till 7 at night, but only one longer 3 hour nap during the day.

Ha ha ha. Neither of our boys has ever slept for 12 hours AFAIR. I'll agree with the distinct changes in sleeping patterns though - usually within a week for us and it's all changed around, it seems to indicate a big change like teeth coming or growth spurt, etc. or follow one like walking or taking more regular food.
Why is this comment not welcome here? I would like not to repeat my mistake in the future but I'm not sure what I did wrong.
Is It Easy To Be a Developer in Agile Team?
Conventionally role of developers in a project was fairly narrow. Project Manager was assigning tasks to developers; they were working on it and when done whole process was repeated for another task. Usually developers where left alone with their task, not bothered by the outer world. Now, consider how different expectations are for developers in agile teams. Agile methodologies are tailored for cross-functional and self-organizing teams. That means a set of completely new responsibilities...
Dave McClure on His Investment Philosophy
This is awesome. Nobody will use it. People feel stupid talking to computers. Remember how you embarrassed you felt the last time you were forced to bark at one of those computerized phone operators in a public place? That's this, only all the time.

Would you not feel like the biggest doofus in the world whipping out your Droid 2 and performing "note to self [note]" in front of people?
Given that they claimed "Unlimited" bandwidth, I would say that you already paid for that slice of bandwidth you're using for your computer.

That said, it would be nice to have explicit limits at different price points, regardless of how you're using it. They don't seem to be doing this, though, even on AT&T where you're specifically paying for a given amount of bandwidth. You have to pay again.

So, parent was hyperbolic, but not bullshit.
>My experience 1 year into Fatherhood agrees with this. We put baby on a cyclic routine of Eat, Play, Sleep since about day 7. She was sleeping through the night at 8wks. Check out "On Becoming Babywise", Gary Ezzo.

Didn't your wife find that her breasts were painfully engorged by not feeding the baby all night?
Is the FCC so hapless that they can't make independent decisions about this? I sincerely hope that their logic isn't just: "Well, since Google and Verizon both agree on this then we better agree with them too!"

I actually don't think Google really cares too much about network neutrality one way or the other at this point. What they do care about is gaining clout in the mobile world, as the wired internet becomes increasingly irrelevant.
That is amazingly sweet. Could you link to the comment opn proggit itself as well?
What about MobileMe? I'd say they've tried, and they've been an also-ran since the beginning.
Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis
> one in a million horror stories

Even if the stats are really that low ... why does that horror story have to exist? Why can't they be fair to everybody?
A common, deep mistake in polymorphism
> Also if you're simply buying the blog to point some links to another site for garnering Google linkjuice

That sounds like paying for a link to me. Does it count as paid links to them? I always wondered about this kind of thing - I would never keep visiting an authored website if something like this happened to it, and I don't know anyone who would, so I've never understood what the buyer gets in this situation.
This sounds a lot like our philosophy on sleep.

My sister gets in a panic if the kids aren't in the bath at a particular time, aren't in bed on routine haven't finished a meal at the set time, etc.. PITA I say.

We've had problems now that J has gone to school. We couldn't keep the same sleep regime as we had to be up to get to school.
Was anybody else bothered by how every other sentance was in bold?
Or worse - you get Helvetica bundled with HP print drivers, that is unsuitable for any kind of screen reading.
In this case, since it's a direct manipulation interface, a multi-touch screen makes more sense than a multi-touch trackpad
http://www.typetester.org is a great resource for making comparisons.

That's a great resource. It also highlights the futility of specifying alternate font families. I couldn't find any font family combination that looked good side by side using the same size, leading, tracking, etc.
do the things you describe really have anything to do with extroversion/introversion?

i mean, the inability to go out into the world and make something of yourself is more along the lines of social anxiety disorder, not introversion.
I don't think I know any active Yahoo! users who consider it a search company (not that I know that many Yahoo users). When I think Yahoo, I think Mail and Flickr. Besides that, there is always room in the market for different styles for a product. Look at the Travel search engine space and compare Travelocity to Kayak; can't both find a user base?
@pbhjpbhj > Nope. In the early weeks, she did feed the baby about every 4 hours, but after about 8-9 weeks she woke the baby around 10pm and fed her and then again at around 6am. We considered it "Through the night" because it was solid sleep for us.
I don't know about them yet. I hope somebody answers you, though.
Why doesnt Mozilla adopt the already widely deployed JavaScript touch API that is already implemented and widespread in Mobile Safari and in the Android Browser?

I have used that API a lot lately in my project and it works excellent. The API concept in this Mozilla effort seems exactly the same only different names for everything. NIH syndrome?
Consider the gold versus dow ratio:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/141811-the-importance-of-the-dow-gold-ratio
I'll agree on one thing, there's a very strong need for kids and teens to get a better understanding of personal finance. Although it's probably a lot more effective coming from parents than from the state.

But I think you are giving the consumer way too much of a free pass for their own misbehavior. I'm not completely without sympathy for people who are honestly having a hard time paying for the essentials of life. But what about the people who finance a new car because a 10 year old used econo-box would be beneath them? The people who buy expensive packaged foods instead of cooking from cheaper raw ingredients? People who have a satellite dish on their doublewide? As evidenced by the recent increase in savings rates, US consumers have the ability to cut back when they need to.

As for getting "snookered" into mortgages, who the hell makes the biggest purchase of their lives based on a 5 minute sales pitch without doing any research or considering what happens when the ARM resets? I'll give a 90 year old grandma a pass for getting snookered by fraud, but some people are just plain careless with their money and mostly deserve the consequences for making bad decisions. That's not a popular viewpoint in the current environment, but the alternative leads straight to "too big to fail" and taxpayer funded corporate losses.
They fought for net neutrality for the longest time, and I believe they still do it's just that they were doing it alone, the FCC seemed helpless to do anything so they negotiated with Verizon, and in the corporate world compromises and piratical solutions are the reality.
tldr: Screen resolution isn't fine enough to properly render Garamond.
he might have figured it out much sooner if he had access to the internet when starting out
Interestingly the Wikipedia page doesn't say what it actually does - you'd think it would be headline info, what's the intended result of the medication.

Seems modafinil replaces amphetamines for keeping you really awake when your body wants to sleep. I don't think that the first response to your body saying it needs sleep should be to reach for some mood altering drugs to make it pretend to itself that it doesn't really need sleep.

Grandparents. If you've got 'em close enough (ours aren't) then they, or other friends/family that will do a couple of hours with the kids, are what you need IMO.
i switched to a nexus one/android recently for a few weeks. the experience made me really appreciate the importance of the intangibles involved in hardware design.

if i had to break down the iphone and nexus/android into a comparison of features the latter would have dominated for me. the native gmail search, beautiful google voice integration (i make a lot of international calls home which are super cheap on Goog Voice), turn by turn car navigation, reliable and good voice recognition, instant set up via my google account - each of those individually is a killer feature for me. these new voice actions again sound killer.

yet i still found myself yearning for my iphone and i eventually made the switch back. not because there was any one feature i desperately missed but because the overall experience of using it just felt so good. scrolling was flawless. the touchscreen always accurate. switching between apps incredibly smooth. all of these little things added up to a whole greater than sum of its parts (features).

you have to presume google spent a long time testing and developing the nexus and android yet it still lags behind the iphone on the intangibles. clearly getting these things right must be a non-trivial process and i'd come to take them for granted after becoming accustomed to the iphone. i won't make that mistake again.
> Tethering completely upsets the usage models. Their choice is then either to increase prices for everyone, or, if it remains relatively rare, increase the prices for the few. They chose the latter.

The only way they'd be forced to increase prices for everyone is if they were breaking even. And there isn't a usage model in existence that makes a $20 tethering charge on top of a $15 200MB data plan even remotely reasonable.

Don't come up with flimsy rationalizations just because it serves your personal desires.
What I'm saying works just fine. If you want humanities courses, get a humanities degree; If you want chemistry, get a chemistry degree. If you want both, get both degrees. Lots of people double major, or get more. One of my friends completed five non-trivial, non-overlapping majors in college! This would work so much better if the majors were pure and no general requirements interfered.

It works both ways. I wanted less humanities and more science, but there are plenty of people that don't want to take a single math or science class in college if they can avoid it. Why force people?
I completely agree. Itunes really is a terrible way to manage both an iPhone and an iPad. The result of a sync is always a bit of a surprise these days...

I don't even want to begin to imagine what it must be like for a family with multiple iPhones all syncing to the same machine....
And that's Internet how?
A social network too far
Beware putting swapfile in /tmp. On many distributions, /tmp is cleared when the computer restarts. Lose power -> lose all your changes.
Ooh, okay, I think I see where the misunderstanding is: I was asking Alma (in questioning time at a talk at the IFIP/PrimeLife summer school ( http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool/program.html ), which was unfortunately not recorded) about website users' information, not the data of the website itself. Though it's a pretty fine line there, isn't it!

I told her that I blocked google analytics because I didn't want it to find out things about me for advertising etc. She responded saying that Google doesn't do that, but now that I think about it she was probably saying that Google doesn't profile me specifically, nothing about anonymised data... yeah, now I'm not so sure. :)
This adds nothing useful to the discussion, and has a deeply unpleasant tone about it.

Don't waste your time.
Recruiter: "how much did you make at your last job so we can trick you into making the first move and losing the advantage in this Game Theory-based negotiation?"

Candidate: "how much are you willing to pay?"

Isn't that how it pretty much works always? I mean, personally I'm pretty bad at negotiation. If it is something that really matters, I always need to get multiple bids. I mean, personally, I switch jobs fairly often, so I think that my old salary is usually pretty fair... saying "I am making X now, beat that" seems to work okay. I am leaving some money on the table, yeah; The thing is, as an employee, there really isn't that much room to negotiate most places. Especially larger companies have strict guidelines for pay for particular positions. Even at smaller places, the boss is very conscious of perceived 'fairness' - The boss might not like his employees talking about money, but he knows we do it anyhow. The idea is that paying one worker more than another without an externally visible reason can be damaging to the business above and beyond the extra cash expended.

The problem is that the employee is at a /massive/ disadvantage, even if she is a good negotiator. As an employee, you are applying for a job designed for people who are not primarily driven by money... and you are competing with other people who are also primarily not driven by money. If you apply for a full-time employee position, you are saying that you don't really care that much about maximizing your cash return on your time... that's not what full time jobs are for.

Listen to all this talk of 'work-life balance' - most jobs are not designed for people who want to retire at 30. most jobs are designed to be comfortable enough that you can do them most of your life. And really, that's what most people want.

It's easier to maximize cash as a contractor, 'cause people who value safety, stability and comfort leave contractor positions as soon as they can, leaving the field to the mercenary and the incompetent, so it's a place where a competent mercenary can thrive.
(1) I have an iPhone, but I'd really love this type of functionality. I agree I'd probably feel weird saying this to the cell phone. However, when I'm using my earphones with microphone built-in, it's actually extremely handy to issue a command (like switching songs, calling someone, etc) without having to actually whip out the phone.

(2) It's interesting that they trust the voice recognition so much that you can say "Call X Company" and they will google it and call it. If they get it wrong, you'll end up dialing some really weird place instead. This is a personal problem I have with the voice recognition commands on my iPhone. I've ended up calling completely unintended people because the phone misunderstands me, and I can only imagine adding an extra factor of error may make things worse.

I really hope this type of stuff catches on.