skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me that the original article writer is flamebaiting and being deliberately inflammatory with his assumptions. I'd say the main issue here is that Apple does not agree with the GPL license family (which we all know since long; they've voiced this before), and that they don't really care for GCC anymore now that they have set aim for Clang-LLVM.
UI: MeeGo is their first UI that doesn't have massive echo's of Symbian in it... and while it looks clean-ish, it's not necessarily any improvement over Android, which already has years of improvements, and 3rd party UI goodness (i.e. HTC Sense) built atop it.

Developer platforms: Nokia's owned QT for a while... what did they do? Nothing. Nokia had the WebKit WebRunTime years ago... what came of that? Nothing. Nokia actually enforced arcane third-party code signing/testing for apps on Symbian... who builds a developer platform and thinks that's a reasonable idea?

Ovi Store: Whereas RIM also does carrier-integrated billing for BlackBerry App World, RIM provides the developer with a consistent 70/30 split on app sales, and consistent payment intervals. With Nokia? Your split varies WILDLY from operator to operator, potentially being 35% of gross app price or lower on some operators, and you get paid depending on when those operators decide to remit payment. So, even with the most carrier relationships on earth, Nokia can't even do a decent job getting developers paid.

So, Nokia hasn't got an especially sexy UI w/ Meego, they've not got a great developer tools story (indeed with WRT and QT they have a history of screwing up even when they have a technology advantage), and they understand so little of the app developer needs that they can't even build a billing solution that competes with what RIM have built with App World.
Good point, as long as it is possible to place the self-talker in a place where others aren't bothered, whether that's alone, or with people who aren't bothered, it wouldn't be too bad.
I'm not seeing much about Git, but it's a nice overview of Mercurial.
"For-profit higher ed is one of the greatest successes in American business"
On any other platform users would decide for themselves whether it's something they want. Why are you giving Apple a free pass here? The world doesn't need your, or Apple's, determination of whether flash sucks. It will figure that out on its own.
The top rated chef's knife by Cook's Illustrated is only about $30 (and it's awesome): http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-47520-Fibrox-8-Inch-Chefs/d...
Reminds me of the bums who are up-front about using your spare change to get beer.

I don't mean that he's a bum! He's just honest about the whole thing: "give me $5 for beer and I'll draw you a shitty logo." Love his candor.
the main issue with that for me at least is offline useage. I often use my phone on the London tube with no internet access so having things offline or cached from the cloud is great. Local processing is absolutly required.

LTE and new wireless standards may eventually change this but currently you can't beat something that runs locally. So more powerfull hardware on phones is absolutly required
I had a similar case with PayPal, back in 2001, but the sums were much smaller. I was doing freelance work, and most of my clients paid me via PayPal. Then PayPal froze my account, when I had about $2,500 in it. I needed that money to pay rent. It took about 6 weeks before they re-opened my account. To pay rent I had to borrow money from friends and family. PayPal was very hard to deal with. They kept asking for proof that I was me. They wanted me to send bills that verified my address, but I was subletting an apartment for 3 months and had very little evidence that I was really me.

At another time some friends of mine started a business with me and we had a PayPal account for awhile. At some point we stopped using it, and then someone sent us $200. I've no idea what happened to that $200. Possibly it got auto-refunded at some point. Possibly it is still sitting there, in the account. Whatever email address we used for that account was tied to the company we had, which had a domain name we gave up on years ago.

All the same, PayPal is the easiest way to go when you are starting up a new site. And PayPal has aggressively bought up some of the competition that used to be a lot better than PayPal. (PayFlow Pro, for instance)
OK so the guy gets a degree in computer science, then trys his hand at investing and stock picking, fails, and concludes that college is a scam?
Oh I support their right to waste their money.

But next time I read the 5000th article on the NYT about poor Johnny that can't find a job because he only has a degree in art history, yet has $200k in student loans, I'm going to lose it.
Although the underlying story is interesting, I'm not going to vote up this particular article due to the horribly misleading title.
wordpress, blogger, digg, pligg, and other social sites push links to the mid-level sites
Heres my Sprred - http://kuldeep.sprred.com. you can also see how its different than tumblr/blogger. It offers better videos and photo support and lets you create a complete personal website with all your info and content.
Ha, did you see the one for The Schiffer Firm?

I noticed this in the FAQ:

"No. What you get is the final logo. I will not redo any logos."

Why not charge more for real designs? Or farm it out?
I just had an epiphany.

You need to sell this service to Foxconn! Imagine how many suicides you could prevent!
Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound
I have posted this before in here, but it seems fitting to do it again in here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200226
If you're bright and motivated, and can learn a lot on your own, you can learn even more when you are with people who already are knowledgeable. I don't know why people don't do this. If you go to class, read more than what the teacher assigns, and think of interesting questions, the teacher will talk to you and give you insight, even if that teacher is teaching a 300 person lecture.

I don't see how you can advocate self directed learning, and yet in the same breath suggest that a person with such self motivation and discipline would somehow drudge along with the rest of the class.
Why Nokia Chose Stephen Elop
HP should have paid him a few million every year if he didn't take a job at a competitor that year.
What parents worry about vs what they should worry about
I tried it out for the amusement factor. As wasteful over-privileged american $10 for a random amusement is in my price range. I spend more than that on bad movies.

At first it was kind of amusing. Absolutely did not have any affect of making me feel positive or awesome. More of a 'ha ha check out this wacky service' conversation topic than anything.

After a week it started to get old very quickly. I started to avoid answering when that 'UNKNOWN' number called in, preferring to receive my false affirmations via voicemail. There is an interesting/creepy dynamic in that I am having the same people call every day and forming these unspoken "yes we know each other" type relationships.

The one thing that has helped me enjoy the service again in the last week is that they hired some female callers. I know that these calls are just a service, but there is some deeply hardwired circuits in my lizard brain that make a cute girly voice insincerely saying "You're awesome!" make me feel much better than a guy doing it. Not "Oh my day is great now!" better, but it at least makes me smile and feel good for a moment. Evolutionary heritage at work.

All in all it was fun, but I won't renew for another month. I do feel good about trying it out rather than just passing armchair judgement about whether or not it would actually be enjoyable.
Worth watching all the way through.
Microsoft can recompile the relevant programs when the new DLLs aren't binary compatible, then push those new binaries along with the core update…

Well… they could if only they had aptitude… and a repository for 3rd party's source code. I guess there's no easy way out, then.
Amazon doesn't bill you until an item ships, even for third parties that sell items through them. I've verified this on my credit card statement.
"We named the dog Indiana." ?
A corollary: Anyone with the money to tangle with Paypal has the wits not to need to use Paypal in the first place.
Oh, the smell. I love the smell of really new books, and I love the smell of really old ones.
""Honestly, I don't need a computer more powerful than my Motorola Droid. ""

But the phone does.

Originally the ARM was a tiny, 30,000gate, cpu core in the corner of the ASIC that did all the phone stuff. If the ARM gets powerful enough it can do all the protocol specific stuff and you no longer need an ASIC. So reduced parts count, quicker development, easier to support new phone standards etc.
"All the models are wrong but some are useful". I think that in this case the model was just wrong... or a bit simplistic.
The two text messages for incoming voicemails is fixable. Basically, sprint just text messages your phone with a special text message to say there is a new visual voicemail. You can either block those messages from making through to handcent/chomp/whatever (which doesn't block it from visual voicemail), or you can do what I, and many others, did and use Google Voice for your voicemail instead.

With Google Voice for voicemail, I can at least, you know, get a friggin phone number for the person calling me and not just their pre-recorded greeting name.
Can you put-up flickr like photostream, vimeo-like videstream on your personal website ie. your blogger. Does blogger provide better support for your photos and videos?

As you mentioned facebook is for different audience. The comparison doesn't count.
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This is cool, but also check out google-maps-el, from his website.
Yeah, but the voice service probably does better at hacking your brain's social interaction coprocessor.

They could send MMS with audio attachments instead.
Programmer hiring programmers
Hey HN, I'm a startup founder who codes himself and I'm about to hire 2-3 programmers to give me a hand on the front-end of my web-based app (JS, AJAX, simple stuff). But I believe a large fraction of people who claim to be good at that criteria are noobs. Well, if you test 5 people who claim to be good Scala programmers, 3 of them will pass. But the number for JS is 1 at max. So, what do you guys suggest for hiring a good JS coder who produces good, reusable, extendable code ? Cheers.
Fiver - They're willing to do it for $5
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=geforce+softmodding
Endless youtube is another nice youtube hack. Just put endless before the youtube part of the URL, e.g.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg

becomes

http://endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg

It repeats the video, or a portion of it, and has a neat inline search facility.
I've spoken with many people about these systems and methods. The interesting thing that I've found is that lots of adults are dead set against them, even though some research shows that they are far more effective than previous methods. (No, sorry, I can't cite the research off-hand, it's been shown to me by others and I don't have the references)

Adults don't learn in the same way children learn.

Much of the criticism levelled by adults against these systems (and others) is based on their own ability (or more accurately, inability) to use or understand them. Such a basis for criticism is fundamentally broken.

We need to know how children learn, and how they can learn in a way that enables understanding, and enables future progress. "Chunking" in particular seems to work especially well as a basis for moving on and developing a deeper understanding of division and related processes.

We need fewer fads and more evidence-based child-specific learning systems, especially those that take into account and control for effects such as teacher enthusiasm/understanding and the Hawthorne effect.

(Note: we also need to understand that there is a huge variation even amongst children, but that's another rant.)
Talking to yourself is fine. It's when you start responding to yourself that you should be worried.
I'm not surprised; Google is an information intermediary (you go there to find something else) whereas Facebook is information (you go there to find out about your friends).
Sex movie worm spreads worldwide
Tips to make long trips more enjoyable
Very insightful, as always. You write "employer" and "employee" a lot here. Do you think it changes anything that the employee was the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation?
Where does one get a datasheet for one of those?

I was looking for the datasheet for previous models, but all I could find were press releases.
I find it interesting that in limiting the account, they still allow deposits but not withdrawals along with a threat of keeping the money.

If they were truly concerned about that something fraudulent was going on they would not allow people to deposit money in either.
Well, this is our second product. First one was redanyway.com. We've been working independently since more than two years.
Excellent interview. SeatGeek is a pleasure to use.
So who's going to spot the $5 for an HN logo? I'd be willing to do it haha
Do you accommodate other preferences of the developer? Do you let them adjust their chair or rearrange their desk? Do you let them come in at flex hours, as long as the work is done and they don't unduly inconvenience others (meetings, etc)? Do you let them wear headphones at work? Do you let them choose their preferred editor (again, as long as it doesn't inconvenience others) or perhaps even OS?

If so, why would you not accommodate someone who works slightly differently in this one way?
So you're telling me that people who have their adress details on facebook need to be reminded that they shouldn't publicly announce when said location is going to be empty?

Should we also warn these people not to run with sharp objects?
No, there's a lot of hard-linking going on in there.
To add to the other poster about collecting payment before shipping: It's not just Amazon that never does this; generally speaking (in the US, at least), nobody is allowed to collect on an item until it ships.

Typically a merchant handles this by initially placing a hold for the amount of the purchase on your credit card, preventing you from using the funds for anything else but without a transfer actually taking place, and finalizing the transaction only after stuff goes out the door.

('Generally speaking' because it's been almost a decade since I've done physical goods e-commerce sites. I'm not sure of the exact source of the requirement (law? contracts with the credit card companies?) nor the cases where exceptions are made.)
Didn't MySpace already win?

Oh wait...
You don't have any choice but to drudge along. The pace of the lectures is set before the class starts. If you're the kind of student that can race ahead on his own speed through the text then why do you need the lectures?

I was in a lot of 100-300 person classes and there were always at least 10-20 people chasing after the lecturer at the end of every class. You were damn lucky if you got more than 2 questions in the whole semester. Upper level classes were better, of course.
Good luck to him, we need the competition to be fierce.
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Silent reading is a historically contingent practice, and did not become typical until the early middle ages, when reading aloud began to be banned in Christian scriptoriums. Whether this was done for pragmatic or religious reasons, I don't know.
By "hiring" do you mean finding enough of those who can pass tests (which I agree are essential)?
no. way.

seriously. i would have answered this question, with those same three things in that SAME ORDER! (LOVE my henckels!)

no really. have you been talking to my wife?

m3mnoch.
In my ING Direct account (savings) I earn 1.1% APY currently, on 600.000 that is 6.600, that is 550 a month. If they freeze your accounts for two months, they have "earned" 1.100.

Now think of the amount of money going through paypal or sitting in paypal accounts, that is a fair chunk of change.
Facebook Places In New Hampshire Turns Into A Real-Life PleaseRobMe.com
I have learned something over few years building tools for my startup and friends. You should identify constructive feedbacks and the one designed to tell everyone: stay away from this product. You should make an effort to respond vigorously to the latter so it does not suck out all the oxygen out of your product existence.

Your response here tells everyone: yeah his right you should come back when I have made the magic work according to this guy. What you don’t know is that the guy will criticize you anyway because he is actually criticizing your existence. My take is you should not let that happen.
We need fewer fads and more evidence-based child-specific learning systems

Couldn't agree more. My partner is a science teacher and this is one of her biggest complaints.

Every week, teachers are faced with new research indicating that what their doing is either wrong or can be dramatially improved through dramatic change.

Less criticism, more evidence.
Linux Mint "Debian" Screenshots
Would like to develop your own tarpipe connector?
Do you also think someone who draws out diagrams on a whiteboard rather than visualizing everything in their head has a "shortcoming"?

Not everyone thinks the same way. This isn't a bug.
http://arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

There's quite a bit of documentation under the Resources tab. A15 docs won't be released until later.
This article is like a time capsule from the pre-Clojure age.
I can't believe nobody knows how to do that. I can't be the only one who's annoyed by this.
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Take a look some really funny photos. I hope you will enjoy.
This is awesome, I'm this ( ) close to just switching from gnome to emacs only :)
Er, no. Apple built off the existing code base. This isn't charity, they chose to use free software in the first place.

And actually, when they made that choice, it was Apple that was starving. But I'll let someone else draw up the parable. ;-)
Nice gig if you can get it. Not everyone is so lucky, unfortunately.
Yes, but, after the first shot:

* Commit your bugfix / make a patch

* Send your patch to the maintainer of the project

* The maintainer has to look in a central file if you already assigned copyright to the FSF. Since you did, you don't have to do anything.

I'm confused though: Apple already have assigned copyright. Yet, they say they will stop doing it, as if it wasn't automatic, even when done once. Either they assign copyright in an unusual way, or they actively stopped it. Somebody knows which it could be?
Google: Android 2.2 'not designed' for the tablet form factor
[9/10/10 11:49:36 AM] Zachary Burt: =)

[9/10/10 11:49:44 AM] Awesomeness Reminders: hola mi amigo

[9/10/10 11:50:24 AM] Awesomeness Reminders: customer 463...AHHHHmazing..what a story

[9/10/10 11:50:49 AM] Zachary Burt: oh yeah?

[9/10/10 11:51:30 AM] Awesomeness Reminders: when i called yesterday she was at the hospital visiting her neice who has leukemia. she promptly handed the phone over and i was able to tell this kid that she is amazing

[9/10/10 11:51:39 AM] Zachary Burt: oh my god

[9/10/10 11:51:42 AM] Awesomeness Reminders: and awesome

[9/10/10 11:51:47 AM] Awesomeness Reminders: and a fighter

[9/10/10 11:51:56 AM] Awesomeness Reminders: i cried all freakin' night....
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You could learn a lot of what you just mentioned for nothing at the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/). If it's the overall value proposition you want to compare, college blows on a cost per unit of knowledge acquired for someone who really wants to learn. There's an entirely different experience--I'll grant you that. But is that worth thousands a semester?
For extra SamePerson credit, my knives are also Henckels.
the "slideshow" of changing descriptive text is (in my opinion) a poor design. when I first saw the page it seemed very bare and I couldn't really figure out what this thing is, and then a few seconds later I noticed the text changed. I don't want to sit and wait for the transitions to read about the service, nor do I need meaningless statements like "create a complete profile!". instead, put in some concise but descriptive copy explaining the service and it's advantages so I know what it is right away.
Or live in a country where higher education is free.

Paid for by taxes (I just know someone will point this out)
I'm in Indiana and was excited about a tech story based out of this deadwater (non-biotech-wise) state.
revisor, the psychopath/sociopath discovers your algorithm for detecting evil behavior and self compensates. So your notion of "just avoid the bad behavior" doesn't really work. The roller coaster example is an incorrect analogy because the roller coaster is not smart enough to change itself to thwart your negative evaluations.
VS.NET + ReSharper
Techcrunch robbed New Hampshire of its p.
I don't get this. HP = hardware and non-DB software. Oracle = database company. How is HP threaten by Oracle again?
PayPal recently pulled this stunt on me. While very frustrating at the time, especially since there was no phone support available for the next 3 days due to labor day weekend, at least now I have scanned copy of my Passport on my computer.
Quoting and linking back to the tweet seems like a nice compromise.
I just find this highly unlikely... Managers at large multinational companies just are just a few levels deep into management tend to know jack about 'trade secrets' or what the actual secret sauce is much less have their hands on it via separation of duties policies. I don't see the real "threat" here.
Well, it is from 2008. And it does mention Clojure and explains why it's not going to discuss it ("still in an exploratory beta-stage right now", which I'm guessing was true when the article was written) but says it's "definitely a project to keep your eyes on going forward". So if you meant anything other than "This article is from 2008", I think you may not be being quite fair.
Programmer looking for co-founder/designer
Long time reader, first time poster.

I am a programmer and I am looking for a co-founder. I am looking for someone who can take care of the design and front-end side of things i.e. UI, wireframing, HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. You must be eager and willing to work on other areas of the startup as well.

Most importantly I am looking for someone who shares the entrepreneurial passion. Someone who wants to form a successful startup, is ready to work hard towards it, and wants to have a great time along the way.

I have a few ideas. I am prototyping one of them, but I feel the need to brainstorm and work on it together with someone else. I am open to new ideas as well.

Mail me if you are interested. My email address is on my profile. Any suggestions which can help me in my search or any references are highly appreciated.
I'm sadden to say that I'm in the same boat as you. Too lazy to go to the post office, I just login to the website and do a manual payment for my loans.

I think, I'm going to just do it now that I realize how pathetic it is.
I bet half the problem is calling repeated subtraction 'chunking' and breaking a multiplication down into multiple simple multiplications 'gridding'. Those names sound intimidating. Add to that the confusion of mathematics and arithmetic and the fact that many parts are convinced they 'can't do maths' and you have a recipe for disaster.