skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn't. A lot of companies that sell software now sold other things before they sold software.

Many companies move into software, but of the companies listed on that Wikipedia page, only IBM, HP, Lockheed Martin and arguably Accenture did something else before going into the software business. (Accenture was spun out from an accounting firm, so in some sense they did accounting first, and in some sense they existed long before they actually were a company.)

And of the companies listed on that wikipedia, page, only IBM, EDS, Lockheed Martin, CSC, Capgemini and SAP existed before the 1980s.

Check again. Microsoft was founded in 1975. Oracle in 1977. And while Accenture did not exist as a separate company before 1989, it started as a department at Arthur Andersen that had been selling software consulting since 1953.

Nearly all of those did other things before entering software.

What exactly did EDS, Computer Sciences Corporation, Capgemini and SAP do before entering software? As far as I can tell, nothing.

In any case, the exception makes the rule: virtually nobody was a professional coder before the early 1980s. Of the few who were, many retired rich and young after two of the largest technology booms in world history. They don't make good examples of career longevity, for what should be obvious reasons.

Again false. There were a lot of professional coders before the early 1980s. Most worked in the mainframe world. Much of their code is still running today. And very, very few of them retired rich and young. (Certainly the ones that I know didn't.)
Also, the bummer is that I need to create an account and login before I can do anything. I'd love to be able to see it in action so I can get some sense of what the product is.
That would be just dandy. I wonder how many decades school will continue teaching Java after it has truly and finally become obsolete?
er, parallel to the ground.
Last I heard, Solaris 11 was based on OpenSolaris Indiana with the "new" userland and IPS rather than the "crufty" stuff. I guess we'll find out when 11 Express comes out (and no sooner, thanks to the new "no peeking" policy).
This is great news. I had to hack apart jQTouch to get it to degrade more gracefully on non-Webkit browsers, and development seems to have stopped as the devs have moved onto Sencha Touch.

Nice to see that the jQuery team is taking the project on, and I'll be very excited to use it once it is released.
When I hear "made his first million dollars" in my mind that implies profit rather than revenue - is that just me?
> 2x leg, 2x arm

What!? Talk about having it easy. Arm and leg are only one part where I'm from.
My kid beat me with "yoyoyodog".
Yeah, google could stand up to verizon if they wanted, they would just rather play ball now adays.
Wow - what was the subject of the post they were investigating?
Secrets Of Superstar Programmer Productivity: Planning
Why is this down-modded?

"Cheap" is a property of having a relatively low price. Therefore it's either low prices or cheap products, but not cheap prices.
Revenue Development
Thank you. This comment is a breath of fresh air amongst the cries of, "but, it's just evolution that makes us want to hoard money!" That sort of attitude strikes me as fatalistic. Success is what you want it to be, not what you're told it should be. Even if evolution has drilled into us the need to accumulate wealth, that doesn't mean you have to accept it. I want to make things, and make them well. That is success for me.

I abhor the dating scene, because it perpetuates the morally bankrupt power dynamics that make up shallow value assessments of individuals. People's identities are shattered and reduced to a 3-tuple of salary, IQ, and waistlines.
How Nike's CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry
I don't care about my freedom being attractive. I want a certain level of material comfort without answering to anyone or reporting to a cubicle. Some drives derive from mating impulses, yes, but many derive from hating bullshit. Period.
Truth. As much as I love hip-hop, it's not great coding music because there are too many words which draw your focus away.
I think Oracle will have considered this, no idea what their long term strat is. I sometimes wonder if Larry cares about long term gains or once he retires he's done.
I'm a big fan of words that use w as their only vowel, like crwth, cwm, and pwll. Pwll is especially good because even if they get P and L, most guessers will go through any common vowels they haven't yet tried, and run out of guesses before they even consider W.
Thank heavens! The learning curve and lack of tutorials for Sencha Touch made JQuery mobile a desperate need. I believe JQuery mobile will be the winner of the various mobile app platforms 1 year from now.
startup programmer is so fiercely defended here because it's not in many other places, especially in the day to day work life.

What one may call close-mindedness may be what a community strong identifies as its values.

Regardless, welcome to HN. 12 days is but a blink. Keep participating. If it doesn't jive with you, perhaps you can find it in other communities or one that you start on your own.
Do you have any evidence that this has ever been done in the past?

It's not inconceivable, but it seems like a huge leap.
Go for 65, then lower to 55. If they bill 100, they want some profit, but they mostly don't want to loose their client if they can't handle the work themselves. Really, ask 65 with a straight face.
Ah, I saw that and came here to post it, too. It's fascinating.

I learned a bit of Haskell on project euler, and when you solve a level you get to see the other solutions; the APL ones just blew my mind. What a strange little language.
btw, I hope I don't sound like some kind of -- Oracle fanboy (which would be quite ironic considering my comments yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598533)

just trying to state that (IMHO) Oracle is a very different beast to Google, MSFT, et all.
Less than full net-neutrality is good for big players who can take advantage of the situation and negotiate deals that are favorable for themselves.

It is bad for small players and startups who would like to compete with the established players on equal terms.
It does make sense if they can't handle the load, and know and like your work.
If you're a lazy language designer dynamic scope sort of emerges from the design proces while one really has to do extra work to support lexical scoping in a language.
I won't.

Oracle took a very clear stand about how they intend to generate value, one I cannot agree with and that I will not enable. I am an enthusiast of open-source and free-software, of value created by sharing and openness instead of ruthless competition and secrecy.

I was considering the use of OpenSolaris in a production environment, mostly due to ZFS. Now I won't. Maybe I'll think again about ZFS if and when FreeBSD takes whatever they can and fork it into a filesystem and toolset that's useful for me. These developments go completely against what I want and what I believe.

Enjoy your legacy products and your short-term profits, Larry. It won't last long.
or beans.
Do you anticipate Google negotiating deals of this sort?
Having a dog around can boost human cooperation levels
Side note, but http://branchr.com/ is really nicely designed: clear what it does, what the value proposition is, and even signing up is nice and straight forward.

big kudos to the success, but I still find the age kind of irrelevant in this day and age.
I can assure you the GPL parts of NetBeans will survive. I cannot say the same about the CDDL parts. I assume people will still contribute to it, but I guess it's a question of time before Oracle decides to turn a quick buck out of NB and close down the CDDL stuff.
The just did a few days ago...
I mean the battery lifetime. I use my iPad a lot, like now for instance. Mostly to surf the web. I don't really need backup. For me It is an interactive media.

I don't expect these other devices to beat the iPad on this aspect soon. I heard HTC is planning to increase their CPU speed. For me autonomy (energy) is much more valuable.
It's really rather simple. We'll be posting more info soon! Sign up for our news at gearbox.me (I swear I don't spam).

~Ian
At least as long as iPhone is AT&T only

Which is probably a few more months. Yes there have been iPhone/Verizon rumors forever, but I get the impression they're real this time.
Part of my story is that I gave up a National Merit Scholarship and quit college to go figure out who I was other than an obnoxious brainiac. I grew up in a school system that shaped me to have no friends and then lord it over everyone else that "I'm smarter than you!" as the only ego defense I had available in the face of tremendous amounts of social rejection and negativity. I'm satisfied with some of the big pictures outcomes and it is clear in my mind that my choice to walk away from all that was critical to being able to get my life to work. I know people who didn't walk away from something similar, have similar sets of problems to mine, and aren't getting them resolved the way I am getting mine resolved. So I think I did the right thing.

I have seen many people who were so invested in "being smart" or "being right" that they just couldn't let go of an argument and couldn't give up habitually arguing with people when there was a huge social downside for doing so and no real upside that I could tell. I used to be more argumentative than I am now. My life works better now that I am clearer about when to just shut up and walk away.

I hope that makes some sense to you.
The simulated fibers on the Kindle's eInk screen are pretty incredible.
Information Diet
Best possible response. When you rent you are constantly and painfully aware that this stuff (whatever it is) is owned by someone other than yourself and that you are paying them for the 'privilege' to use it.
CAPTCHA Economics: $1 for 1000 [pdf]
I have to say I also really like the fact that recovery is possible to begin with! Are there any other extant db/data store tools which enjoy the same append only awesomeness (as i understand, append only writes are the only reason this recovery is possible, plus in principle allows pretty awesomely fast writes).

<Now goes back to coding in a functional language, which tends to enjoy append only writing when theres no state>
With all due respecy John, I think we all should focus only on the latest-and-greatest WebKit platforms or on platforms that are comparably good. Mobile development is exciting precisely because it's a road to the future.

Look at the place we are in desktop web development because we have to support old browser. We are stuck 7+ years in the past.

I understand the intellectual allure of writing a framework that supports a gazillion different devices and I appreciate what you've done with jQuery for web development but frankly, I don't care about jQueryMobile.

Except that it scares the hell out of me the day some client starts asking me to support 5 year old Nokias.
Competition is a good thing. Choice is cool.
Erik Trimble answered this: "With the various Linux
projects, Oracle was pretty much required to share back, so they played nicely. With Solaris, the mindset seems to be that "We own this, so let's make fat bank on a cool technology, and not let others steal our business"." http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/20...
I don't really relish a future where one browser engine dominates the way IE has in the past. I fully expect and hope for more viable mobile engines.

Even still, jQtouch (at least, I haven't messed with the Sencha thing) is very iDevice slanted. There's "webkit" and then there's "webkit on iOS", and most tools are targeted specifically at "webkit on iOS".
Are you talking about german volume training?

http://www.ironworkout.com/german.htm
More discussion is over this way -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601247
Pedal Brain website down at Apple's request
Clickables...

http://nasr.ath.cx/?q=node/79

http://nasr.ath.cx/

http://ihackernews.com/
OpenSolaris Killed Off
My guess is Nike+ infringement of some sort?
A side question - BP has set aside billions to help people affected by the oil spill, maybe they should reach out to BP to repay the loan or buy the flip flops or something.
my favourite hangman word is tmesis.
i'm yet to lose a game with it.
it works well psychologically: people very quickly get to t_esis (e and t being the most common letters) but m takes too long: although m is common, tmesis is the only word in the english language that starts like this.
Google cache for those unfamiliar with the startup:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...
wow, that's nice. i'll be sure to not think twice about hooking my wagon to apple.
Oracle will become the most hated company in the world (after mircosoft) when they kill java (because of ineptitude), kill mysql (because they can) and kill opensolaris (oops, they just did it)
Oracle's Java lawsuit undermines its open source credibility
I really wish setting DNS TTL's to 5 minutes meant that browsers and everything else (OS caching) would respect that but sadly in my experience it doesn't.

Surprising that it works so well for you.
Topic model analysis show evolution of WikiLeaks report summaries over time
Eh, what? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V

No, Linux is not SysV based.
Yes, but I'd bet that many UI developers have built up a set of common selectors and techniques to make this easier. A framework just codifies that practice for use by others.

An advantage of using a framework is that a good one will not just get you want today, but make it easier to change that layout tomorrow when the client has new opinions.

If you use something like 960gs, for example, it is trivial to create any of the layouts shown for Primary. But it is also trivial to add or remove or grow/shrink subdivisions with 960gs, whereas Primary looks a bit hard-wired.
That's not standard.
It was the nightly basis that allowed a lot of other products (Nexenta) to work well, and get updates faster. It was out of these nightly code drops that OpenSolaris was created ...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445
Yes.

It's not like Google is going to go ahead and say "well let's squash the competition by paying for prioritized traffic for all of our properties." It will be more like something along the lines of "hey let's get android OS updates onto user's phones faster, we can pay to have that "updating service" have higher priority than normal http traffic." Updates are big files, and people don't want to wait hours for an OTA download, so bump up the speed a bit. But from there it is a slippery slope.
The Definition of Cheating?
Cheating in college is rampant. Why? What is cheating? OpenStudy takes a look.
Programming is hard work. Google App Inventor can't change that.
I hope this is an little glitch which turns out to be an obvious oversight (<-oxymoron?), because this just stinks. What an awesome idea for a product; it could potentially drive Apple sales in some circles.

Waiting for more info

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Who knew what the attackers are thinking. Not too long ago DnsMadeEasy was DDoS from Korea.

Maybe there's financial incentives?
Good point. I think they actually have applied for this - but its expected to take a significant amount of time to be all sorted out.
How? I don't see anything that relates to Nike+.
No way. NetApp will rabidly chase and kill whoever dares trying building commercial ZFS applications based upon OpenSolaris or *BSD (CDDL doesn't cover you against patents infringements, remember?).

I know a well-known privately-held extremely-high-end storage company who just canned its OpenSolaris/ZFS projects because they won't take the risk to be sued by NetApp.

ZFS as open-source is cold dead. Sad, but true.
If you put things on a pedal stool you are just asking for them to get knocked down
I hate it when people show "HTML 5" demos and then make them browser specific. The point of standards is to make them work across browser, and when you only include rules for one browser, this is worse than using flash. THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR THE WEB.

(In this case I am referring to all the -webkit flags, with no -o or -moz as well, even though the features are supported by those respective browsers.

e.g. http://studio.html5rocks.com/samples/page-flip/index.html and look for the -webkit)
I'm honestly not sure there's more to it than the charm of it.

I think this is true for those folks who are putting these things off... if you don't enjoy it enough to do it today, there's a good chance that you only find it "charming" in the abstract.

I'm not a vintner or a writer... but I brew beer and I write software for fun, and I garden and cook and all of these things... on top of my day job and my startup. They aren't just charming to me, these are things I love, and I'm excited about replacing my day job with more of that stuff as my startup starts to earn a profit.
Linux was in Time Magazine before Raymond ever presented his "Cathedral" paper. It's pretty easy to compare influencers: just use Google News search.
Python Experiment Suite for generic experiment evaluation
Teenage entrepreneurs
(wild guess) It may be as simple as they haven't completed a Made for iPhone contract with Apple yet, but they are advertising an Apple hardware extension.
Yup, that works for me, too.

Another important factor: Not too many pauses, or I'll catch myself waiting for the music to continue. That rules out a lot of classical music and "serious" prog rock for me.

In the end, it's a lot of middle-of-the-road metal for me, or light prog. Pandora/last.fm stations for Iron Maiden or the Alan Parsons Project work pretty well.
While I enjoyed the humour in this statement, I think it's worth noting that Google's use of Java, particularly with GWT and GAE, is relevant. In fact, I think this form of web development is likely to supersede more traditional server based web frameworks.
I don't think any of us have enough info to merit freaking out about this...

From their blog:

Down at Apple's Request

Apple has notified us of an issue. We’re in the process of resolving this and fully expect to amicably resolve it. Unfortunately till then we are forced to shutdown our website. We’ll provide updates as they happen.

http://blog.pedalbrain.com/
> Compromise is a fact of life for everyone.

I'll just make a quote here :

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
The Mexican fisherman story, in case people haven't heard it:

http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/resources/view_product.do?produc...

The main flaw is that it ignores the massive amount of wealth created by scaling up the fishing operation. The fisherman could've made a much greater contribution to the world by listening to the investment banker. We are all morally obligated to make enough money to buy a yacht with a flag saying, "Chillin' the most" and to subsequently rock that bitch up and down the coast.
Microsoft's lost eight years online: More than $6 billion down the tubes
Nope, decomposing like everyone else.
Avoid Decisions, Avoid Life
The nice thing about this is that now you really can scale CouchApps up to the size of Facebook. Write once for your local laptop, keep it running smoothly for millions of users. :)
I draw the line at like 6 threads deep, so I will shut up after this, but:

At the expense of what family? The hypothetical one which I am purposely not creating? I'm glad that it's worked out well for you (really), but you need to recognize that, contrary to what people want to believe, parenthood and happiness are not synonymous. You look at my life and see empty houses (nevermind that I live with a bunch of fun, like-minded people); I look at yours and see sleep deprivation, debt, stress, loss of the ability to travel and develop myself personally--basically the end of everything I enjoy. Other than conventional wisdom, is there anything to suggest that your life is "immense and awesome", while mine must be empty and sad? For my part, I see a litany of studies suggesting that people like me are, on average, actually a lot happier (http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/).

I would never be so smug as to insinuate that you made the wrong choice. But it's not your place to make face_plains at me, either.
This sounds very likely. I used one of their graphics prior to their recognition of receiving my contract and they weren't very happy about it.
It's not actually the same as E-Ink, it's still an LCD screen when in low power reflective mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
Is anyone else's reaction to the situation: "Oracle is dispensable"?
Ask HN: What crafty wordplay do you love? List it.
I have found to be a better copywriter, finding novel word play (i.e. analyzing the art of a wordsmith) can help me with my craft.

For instance:

"Haters, can make like bees with no stingers and drop dead." - Eminem (Song: Not Afraid)

"Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future" - Warren Buffet

"I am strong enough to go to the club/Or go to the corner pub/And lift the liquor counter up/Cuz I am raising the bar" - Eminem (Not Afraid)

"For all those looking down on me, I am tearing down your balcony" - Eminem (Not Afraid)

Please list any that you have in the comments below that we can use as inspiration.
CAPTCHA Economics
Since cellphones are merely a convenient connection to a backbone network, would it make sense to develop and promote a wifi system with automated handoff between access points that can bypass cell protocols altogether? Being in the clutches of Verizon and ATT doesn't sound like a good strategy.
From the Google cache of their site, they claim their product works with any ANT+ compatible sensor. ANT is the same wireless protocol used by the Nike+ sensor. There aren't any public APIs in the iPhone SDK to access the iOS devices built-in ANT receiver so my guess is they are using undocumented APIs possibly to gather data from these bike sensors which Apple would presumably have a problem with.
The fact that they felt the need to shut down their website over this issue suggests something is a bit off. It may be that the issue is quite a bit more serious than they're letting on. It may also be that they're unwilling to start with less extreme steps because they're scared Apple will ruin their business if they don't immediately and fully comply with Apple's wishes.

If it's the latter, it suggests that Apple has a bit more power than I'd like them to.
Nike+ does monitoring of running and Pedalbrain does monitoring of cycling.

Apple/Nike may have patents on "exercise monitors".
I don't see that as a slippery slope. Those sorts of subtleties are exactly what makes this a complicated issue to address with law, and exactly what this agreement tries to define with some specificity.
Stefan Savage's team strikes again!

CAPTCHA's are done. Bad project idea! Doubly bad startup idea! It costs less to farm them out to Malaysia for solutions than it does to build the rest of your script as if there were no CAPTCHA's in the way.

That doesn't mean "stop using CAPTCHA's" --- they at least limit your attackers to people who actually want to attack you, personally --- but it does suggest that it's not worth investing any time trying to make them better.

This is old news (Jeremiah Grossman had this same point as one slide in his "how to make money as an Internet criminal" deck --- spoiler: not by solving CAPTCHA's), but it's good to have an authoritative source.
i liked it because its conceptual from a comic book standpoint
The whole post is extremely interesting BTW, and spot on. I know many a Solaris sysadmin, managing sometimes ancient machines (up to 10 years old or more) that were more than pissed of by the latest support changes. Be sure they (and many others) won't buy Sun/Solaris anymore if they can, and usually, they can.
I'm not signing up when all I've seen of the service is a two-line description. Where is the sample content I can look at? Where are the pretty screenshots or the demo video?