skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description of the group could simply point them to those URLs. The link would nearly be in the same place as it is now, and many un-tech-savvy people wouldn't even notice anything changed. In fact, I'd bet many would think that the feature got "Upgraded"
I had a H1b but just about maxed it out so now I hold a TN1 (I'm Canadian).

The upside of the TN is that I can (in theory) get an unlimited number of them and there is no cap on how many can be issued in a year.

The downside is that if I step off of US soil I immediately lose it and have to apply for a new one at the border when I attempt to re-enter. Should the INS agent dislike me for any reason (or for no reason), s/he can deny my application and deny me entry to the US. I would have no recourse if that happened... which makes crossing the border kind of stressfull (so I don't do it anymore).
There is a small chance that this is true, however it's far more likely that it's either related to the truth, or simply wrong. Linking to early research like this (complex topic / hard to verify) is generally a waste of time.

PS: I am not saying it does not belong on HN so much as it does not belong anywhere outside of a research community.

Edit: Linking to the actual research would be fine IMO. It's the 2nd hand press release of this stuff that's horrid.
sell sugar water.
This article (please read the whole article, including the PDF that is mentioned) mentions that Google might be "open" regarding the source code, but it is not open regarding which components can be replaced in Android.

It seems that Google doesn't allow the carries to replace the Google Location Service.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/the_welcome_to_android
That's nice, but they know that idea is not commonly held. The only reason to make a logo for it is to intentionally scare off/irritate people who disagree, further contributing to reddit's homogeneity.
Does this also apply for an application that was submitted before the deadline? More specifically, is it fine to make an edit to the application after the deadline period?
It's not the form factor it's the cheap quality of $400 netbooks.

Jobs said they couldn't make something in that price class without it being crap.
Not in 10.7
I was the first actual employee (everyone else is considered a founder), and I was hired after the acquisition. Yes, it is true that I would have joined beforehand too for a lot less, but just the same, it was nice to have health care and a steady check.
Check out Next Big Sound
We have a new guy starting in November, but yes, it is true. We are still in the corner of Wired's office.

We figure we can get at least 8 people in there!
Maybe with faculty, especially those who travel much. I think students will lean toward the macbook as being better value for the money.
I think that is all of us. :)

We're not in it for the money, because the money isn't that great. Conde is a private company with no stock either.
View From Above: The Startup Map
That's absolutely true. If I had stayed at eBay, I would be making more money, and would be responsible for a tiny little part of the company.
Steve specifically said that it was an option for install programs.

Parallel "they could in the future" arguments could be made for any Android device manufacturer or PC manufacturer, and yet people aren't afraid of buying those. Being afraid of Apple doing this is a logical fallacy.
This is very exciting for those users who would love a fully integrated computing experience.

I am someone who uses multiple computing devices throughout my day, and the idea of having my phone, a hand held tablet, and my desktop/laptop all in sync sharing my data with a click of a button is a very enticing proposal.

Yes there are concerns about whether Apple completely closes down developers of OS X, but I just cannot see this as a likely event.

Apple is all about user experience. What Apple is doing right now is laying the ground work for the future.

Imagine 10-15 years from now your vehicle, home, place of work, even a personal robotic assistant all running on one platform acting in sync. Some may think it is scary, but to me it is the natural progression of technology.

Helping to make life more entertaining, and helping to rid us of our everyday problems is why we consume these devices. I think we are all lucky to experience what is happening in this industry.

Change is hard, but we are the consumers of these products and we get to shape them contrary to what it sometimes feels like.
Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review
Looking at all these comments. I see, people like to argue a lot; some of them just for the sake of it. I think we should always read an article from the writer's point of view. That won't suppress all our mismatched feelings but will certainly reduce it to a great extent.
Actually I wasn't really making a point. I am genuinely curious what the performance difference is.
15 min in, we have a pg impersonator it seems.
I am a musician (singer) and i can not listen to anything without focusing on music - so I like silence when I am coding:)
What is code walker?
This analysis seems spot on. Windows Phone Seven's low information density has troubled me from the first time I saw it. On a small screen like a phone, pixels should be precious. The fact that the contacts app uses a fifth of its screen telling me that I'm in the contacts app seems objectively wasteful.
Phishers would have an absolute field-day with that.
As an Australian indie game dev, this presents an interesting situation. To sell games in Australia, you are legally required submit your game to the Office of Film and Literature Classification so that its content can be rated. This can cost upwards of $1000 per game, which isn't chump change for indie devs. For us, the iPhone App Store has been somewhat of a loophole, as games sold on the App Store somehow manage to avoid the classification system entirely.

Here's to hoping I can get away with using this loophole in the desktop App Store as well.
Any reason it doesn't work in other browsers?
It'd be better if it didn't reset the scroll every time someone says anything + have wall of some crap about curl.
That's what I was saying all the time
Hehe, that's the exact definition of the Dilbert Principle. The problem though is that leadership is responsible for building and setting the culture. It's a recipe for poor organizations and poor morale, no?
To demonstrate, go to chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in firefox
Hahaha! Very true. Plus you should be lucky enough not to have a spouse hanging around your neck all the time questioning your every move and asking for justification.
Making visible a picture of the user, and by extension their real identity, primes them for social interaction other than showing their penis to the other party. It is a "power of nudges" sort of thing. Sure, you could trivially get around it, but taking one's clothes off is fairly easy and yet we don't.

There are definite community and marketing advantages to clothing being worn in the overwhelming majority of all interactions on your site. If that is not the case, that defines your site.
See this for highlights from the list: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/20/apple-posts-guidelines-for-ma...
His story proves that anyone can be successful on the internet. And that it's better to be lucky than good.
As the Facelette proprietor, I agree that Apple's FaceTime server capacity is the probable fail point, and guarantee that my freebie Heroku instance and shabby code is virtually infallible.
"How many people are crap at something, realise they can get along without it, and thereby conclude that it's useless? Most. It's like being incompetent and unaware of it. It's an unknown unknown."

The reverse is also true. If you know a lot of math, you don't really know how you might have gotten along as a programmer without it.

You might know that you would have struggled at the mathy programming you have done, but you wouldn't necessarily know if you would have excelled at other kinds of programming despite a lack of math depth.
256-color xterms work in MacTelnet (which I wrote). Despite its name, MacTelnet can be used to replace Terminal on Mac OS X.
They really need to add time-limited trials to their app stores. It's one of the great aspects of commercial mac apps, and one of the reasons I won't pay much for an iOS app (I can't judge their real value before buying).

e.g. I bought and quickly rejected 3-4 crappy rss readers before finding "Reeder". In the end it was worth it, but I really wish I could get that money back and give it to the Reeder guys.
"especially when the storage requirements are so tiny"

Hardware is not the only contributor into the cost of keeping data available on the web site.
There is electricity cost, servers administration cost, cost of keeping up with the updates, legal cost of dealing with requests to put data on your servers.
Finally, there is opportunity cost -- the same team that manages these Group features could be doing something more useful.
That's why Google is not maintaining unsuccessful applications.

There is another reason to forget old data: reducing noise.
Usually newer data is more useful than the old one, so it forgetting old data reduces noise and makes it easier to find more useful information.
"Why limit your options?"

I suspect that focusing on mathy programming jobs would tend to limit your job options, at least in most regions of the US.
Try using Chrome or Firefox.
You have to remember that Tufte's area of specialty is in the area of visualizing quantitative information. He's not a designer (although he is a sculptor, apparently) or GUI guru even if he has opinions on them.

Clearly a "dated" design isn't enough to stop you from visiting a site. Hacker News definitely has a dated feel too.
Time in your local timezone:
http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=8:30pm&tz=Pacific...
Thanks for that, they'll definitely be additional plans! :)
Ted Dzubya says: "Non-brain-damaged web design and link building are 100% of SEO."[1]. Patrick says a similar thing somewhat less confrontationally - "People treat SEO like it is black magic, but at the core it is very simple: Content + Links = You Win."[2]

They're both 100% correct, but both gloss over most peoples understanding of "content" or "brain damaged web design". Read all of Googles guidelines[3] and ensure you're not making any obvious mistakes. Make sure you know what keywords you're targeting, and test and iterate and re-research as a continual process. Make sure you've got analytics in place so you can see what's going on and measure the responses to changes you make. Keep in the front of your head that (for most websites) the goal of SEO is not really "more traffic", it's "more conversions". Learn about goals, goal funnels, and conversion rates. Learn about A/B testing (read _everything_ Patrick/patio11 has generously given the HN community about this).

That's the "easy" bit.

They're also both possibly not strongly enough making the point that on-page SEO is the easiest part of the job - way too many people desperately hope that guessing the right keywords and changing their titles, meta tags, headings, and body text will shoot them to the top of the search returns. It's not that easy, unless you've got unique keywords or are intentionally targeting super-specific long tail keywords, you're going to spend more time link building than tweaking your own website.

In my opinion, unless any "SEO plan" you're being offered includes a description of an ongoing process for link building, they're only addressing the easiest part of the problem. (And yes, I think _that_ part of the problem is ripe for automation, and I suspect probably _has_ been automated by the very successful people).

[1] http://teddziuba.com/2010/06/seo-is-mostly-quack-science.htm...
[2] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/07/17/seo-for-software-compani...
[3] the pdf linked here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-s...
Weekend Project Feedback? Text message recipe search
'why nerds are unpopular' was the first paul graham essay i read in high school (as a sophomore who moved to a new high school). got me hooked =]
Thanks for your response. I actually don't know how wealthy the group is/will be because I haven't actually figured out the target just yet. I have an idea of who the product will benefit, so I'll be trying to reach them and see how they like it. :)

I'll certainly be doing a/b testing, but could you elaborate a bit on interpreting the data correctly please? I know I shouldn't just look at the numbers, but I get the impression that you may have some specifics on interpreting the data that I'd love to hear.
Yeah, but at least it's Frutiger. I'm not a hardcore type nerd, but I remember that because it was the first thing about WinPhone7 that made me believe I might like it.

Microsoft has made some fairly nice fonts like Calibri, Consolas, Cambria etc. so the fact they went with a really good third-party font like Frutiger told me that "NIH", seemingly endemic to Microsoft product development, was not an issue. It was no guarantee, of course, but it was an indication that the team was making a product that was seriously designed instead of just checking off features.
It's sad that we've reached a point where what is good design is such an absolute, with no consideration for customization as a design goal.
ah.. nowadays there are a number of solutions available, so the best one depends on what kind of site exactly you are trying to create. ex:

virtual storefront: shopify.com
blog: wordpress / tumblr.com
personal identity: flavors.me
something else: maybe snappages.com or wix.com
Promises? Corporate promises are worthless.

Rely on logic and assume Apple is reasonably rational.

They mentioned AutoCAD and Steam today. Steam isn't compatible with the guidelines, and Autodesk isn't about to sell AutoCAD through the store.

Apple isn't going to cut them off, nor are they going to cut off the myriad other software vendors for whom the App Store is either unworkable or unattractive or unneeded.
Everything is a transaction at the simplest level. You have friends because it makes you feel good. You wouldn't keep them if it made you feel bad would you?

You give because you think it's right and when you do something right, it makes you feel good.

I do agree with you that everything would be so much better if everyone went around giving but in this world not everyone does. Since some cheat, the fairest is to deal in transactions.

Or my favorite thought of the day.

If I have but one life to live, why not live for me?
Another irc channel: http://webchat.freenode.net channel kapio
I think this is simply stupid.
Like ojoe said, depends what you're after. http://www.squarespace.com/ seems modern and good for design flexibility. For small businesses, I'm building one called NetMate http://www.netmate.co
On Openness
JQuery released Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets
I like Sparkle, but I see a lot of people who seem happy that it will be replaced with the app store's "better" update process.
EBay Now Relies on PayPal for 37% of Its Revenue
I think I was loosely translating "market salary" into "average salary for the work they do" which I guess isn't an entirely accurate translation.

It's plainly obvious that the reddit guys are overworked (that was half point of reddit gold - they needed to hire more people but CN wouldn't authorize the expenditure), so "market salaries" for their job title wouldn't be the same as market salaries for their responsibilities.
Please see Dennis M. Ritchie's short bio:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bigbio1st.html

He has deep mathematical talent.

Ken Thompson also has deep analytical abilities as demonstrated by his contributions to computer chess: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Ken+Thompson

Guido van Rossum holds a master's degree in Math and CS.

I'd say that it is common sense that mathematical talent is correlated with coding talent provided that the person receive substantial training in coding. Generally speaking, everyone is a terrible coder for the first 2 years, it doesn't matter if you are a math genius, you still need to learn how to crank out good code.

The real question is: is there extra correlation between math talent and programming talent beyond both being correlated with g, the general intelligence factor.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_intelligence_factor
I think they mean "currently in existence." Targeting the National Socialists is probably OK because they're dead and gone. Targeting Neanderthals is probably also OK for the same reason. The basic idea appears to be that games must not be hate speech killing simulators.
what's to keep you from going live right now?
credit's cheap.
max out a credit card?
trade on margin?
you really have no access to capital? --or you do but you'd rather use someone elses?
pivot?

i GUARANTEE you that people are already trading based on twitter data. i doubt you're really as bad off as you think.

..or maybe you are. yes. actually, your position is hopeless. might as well go open source with it now. sourceforge link pls?
I did a 'recipes by email' system years ago - this is similar - and potentially useful. I got the most enthusiastic response from the blind community who loved the 'text-only' aspect. My 'search by email' system got similar support from that community too.

Good luck.
The economics of CPC advertising are punishing at low customer LTV, unless you are getting unbelievably cheap clicks. I wouldn't be able to make the math work well for BCC at $.10 a click, and I have four years of conversion optimization and $30 price points to fall back on.
My startup is trying to solve this problem, minus the cards.

FaceCash = 1.5% flat, no other fees. http://www.facecash.com

We've calculated the average rate of some of our merchants by adding up sales volume and fees and then dividing fees into volume. It comes out to 3.2%.
It will be, take another look at that graph over time. Miscegenation used to be a controversy, too.
I'm sure there are lots of small businesses in New Age meccas like Sedona trying to do this. Crystal vendors. Spas. Etc.

Not really the usual HN kinds of businesses, I don't think.
It's not the screenshot that's different - the underlying rgb values are device-independent – but rather, it looks different on every display.

Calibration is the only answer, but really, other than color critical applications, such as press matching, color matching is not as important as it may seem. Every device will display colors a bit differently. This isn't really a problem, since our eyes naturally correct for small differences, ie. you won't see the difference unless you see them side by side.

The color gamut for all monitors is a function of their luminance (ie. how bright they are), plus edge enhancements that push some chroma values further. These devices will actually suffer from color management, since trying to maintain device independent color will actually inhibit edge colors.
That's 40k on top of what they were already making from ads, Which was still more than their expenses.
Ask HN: FogBugz vs. jira?
I am evaluating choices for a project management solution that can be used by a small team of around 10 people, and I have tried out jira, but I heard that FogBugz is also quite good.

Just wanted to hear your opinions / experience with FogBugz / jira / any other tool.

Some requirements:

* No SaaS (we will host it)
* Integration with svn (and git)
* Good user interface (I don't want to use Bugzilla / RT for this reason).
Clickable Link : http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001/
Well, consider this: it doesn't even need to be explicitly enforced to have a detrimental effect. By sheer force of market value app developers will stop developing apps that won't make it into Apple's store and will self-censor and self-restrict what they make to satisfy Steve Jobs personal preferences. A sort of "chilling effect" that will freeze out much of the non-Apple-approved development on the Mac.

As for integrity - personally I think they've done many things that lacked integrity. The language ban was very low and put many small companies that were developing cross compilers right out of business. That's a huge ethical issue even if you think it was justified for whatever reasons Jobs claimed it was necessary.
Ditto on the classical music, though there are types with singing I can allow, such as Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma, Ridi Pagliacco, or any Ave Maria. Anything by the St. Olaf Choir is A-OK too.
About an inch, fairly flat front to back.

They 13-inch air and x20[01]s are very similar. Thinkpad advantages might be gig-e, vga port, thinkpad keyboard (if you like it), and possible i5 in the 201, and its built out of normal parts. To match the air's battery though, you have to get the big one, which bumps weight up to about 3.5 pounds, and the thinkpad costs more. The air does have nvidia graphics too.

I'd be tempted by the air if I hadn't bought the thinkpad a year ago, which to me, is the ultimate advantage it has.
I really wish windows had a really good trackpad with similar gestures to a macbook. I think that's one of the main features that's holding me off from buying windows netbooks. It really annoys me when I'm using the trackpad. It's hard to scroll around and navigate around in windows (without a mouse).

Don't get me wrong - I use windows all the time. It's just the lack of an easy to use trackpad irritates me a bit..
The poster's point was that having a tough boot camp does not justify the highway police salaries, since marines do a similar camp and earn a lot less. Thus saying that CHP bootcamp is a breeze for ex-military does not make that argument not matter, it reinforces it.
Hiring and managing people for a project is a good amount of work in itself.
Well done marketer. Glad to see this getting some more publicity.
Looking at how I just burned 8 points of karma (and probably now more with this post), I guess I should have just done like everybody else and parroted the new marketing talking points and pretended to debate the merit of 11 inches or 13 inches.

(burn baby burn!)
How do do you amplify a start-up culture inside a big company?
God for bid that people who pop out kids should pay for their children's education out of pocket.
Battery life depends what you run on it. I get almost 4 hours on the 4-cell, about 10 on the 9-cell.
Would be cool to pair it with a service that generated an ID with apple for throwaway usernames. Has apple blocked all the mailinator domains?
Seriously though, it's about the same thickness as the old Airs, it just looks thicker because it's blocky and not all tapered at the end.
awesome; that's what i was looking for. And, I was also hoping to get advice on algorithmic or architecture knowledge on distributed web apps as opposed to specific details on languages.

Ex: How facebook scales to 500+ million users or how flickr can serve so many photos that fast. Obviously for my flickr app clone, I don't need that level of performance but I'd at least like some pointers on how to go about it the right way.
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Don't discount PHP yet; the CodeIgniter community is great (http://codeigniter.com/forums/)
Are you sure about this? Hibernation generally refers to writing the contents of RAM to disk so that the computer can power off completely, if I'm not mistaken.