skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I primarily think it is a bad focus for this type of cash. You say it is not worth much for Symbian, in light of other money spent on it. So why give it the money then?

If you spent the same amount of money on other embedded software efforts, where 22M Euro would be a lot, then I predict you would get a lot more value for money.

I don't resent big government money as such being spent on technology, but this seems badly placed. Who in their right mind would start developing new embedded systems on Symbian today? (I am by no means an embedded OS expert, but talking to my friends who develop on mobile phones, Symbian is decidedly long in the tooth these days. I can't see that it will be that much better as an embedded system. Also, see enjo's comment below on developing in Symbian.)
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Been using 1Password happily on Windows with Chrome. Wish there was better integration, but still very happy with the setup.
I see daring fireball has never heard of archos.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/archos-unleashes-five-fiv...
Exposing SCADA Systems With Shodan
The second startup I worked for ended up folding and selling the smoldering remnants of any intellectual property worth having to David Warthen. It was also a solution for a problem no one had, but with a similar slant to the product Ask was offering.
Maybe contact WPEngine (http://wpengine.com/) and see if you can sell there too?
I wish they would try putting a bomb in the seat recline button so all of those would be removed. My knees would be thankful.
I think Bing is doing well enough that Google is having to keep pushing. It has less a share than IE had at the start of the second browser war, so it's not like it can't be overcome. Then you look at smaller engines like DDG and while I'm sure they aren't big enough to be tracked at the moment, I'm also positive Google has them on their radar.
Ah ok. Sounds interesting.
It's a bit disappointing when "the world" and "USA" are used interchangeably. The US market is fairly small. Things are quite different in other places.
You know, I debated of spending some time to setup a bogus scientific journal site just for him... Maybe even charge $30 for the full PDF version.
I still prefer this one: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
This is something my employer has instituted--any employee has the ability to call out another employee for a job well done.

This is on top of an employee of the month program. Upper management takes this program very seriously (the award is a reasonable bonus, plus the winners for the year are given the opportunity to win an expenses-paid weekend vacation. This program is driven by employees as well--upper management cannot vote.

I'm not particularly driven by this sort of recognition, but it is comforting to know that folks genuinely want to reward others for a job well-done.
Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected
If any engineers from Ask.com are seeking employment, please drop us a line - http://is.gd/gSyDd

I'm sad to see them go - they actually innovated a lot of the things Google ended up using (topic-specific link popularity as a concept, the preview pane, the 3 column layout for search, etc.). It sucks to be the first to do something right, then see the market leader simply take your ideas and run with it.
The original raison d'etre of HN was to exercise the one it's built on.
This is not accurate and ignores the bottom paragraphs, which are about how companies compete on design and quality in phones whereas they don't do so in PCs, which are more frequently judged based on specs. You can see this when Gruber transitions: "But there’s another major factor at play, which I believe is more important than volume pricing."

The above comment is an example of why you frequently shouldn't trust the "tl;dr version:" those versions are frequently wrong, or they sheer away a sufficient amount of detail as to become wrong.
Max Levchin: What Startups Can Learn From PayPal & Slide
I believe Twilio has wrappers around their REST API in various languages, so you don't have to deal with any of the web stuff.

However, you'd still have to host your own scripts, so if Tropo does your script hosting, there's that advantage. How do you communicate with the rest of your App though? Or does it exist entirely on the Tropo 'cloud'?

Care to share what the app is if it's a public thing?
Suppose you wrote a compiler that translates to JavaScript in continuation-passing style. (Or suppose you wrote all your JavaScript in continuation-passing style.)

That's the implementation of call/cc.

For how to use call/cc, I recommend my other article on continuations:

http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuation...
So, just for me to make sense of the TSA fury, do you imply that

– these aren't even real threats (more people die in car accidents) and not trying to prevent them the way TSA does will not increase bombings

– if the terrorists want to blow up a plane, they will find a way to do so anyway, albeit at a higher cost/etc.

– there is some better way to fight off these threats

Also, when 9/11 happened, I was still a kid, but I clearly remember everyone always saying "they [bush/gov/cia/etc] knew X and did nothing, that's why that happened". What would be the natural response from and average American, if a couple months from now you had a printer cartridge bombing. Would not everyone blame TSA et al for not banning them, especially since it's not as big of a deal as these nudoscopes?
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I disagree with him on the include part. It is very difficult to remember the order of includes + dependencies for each file you want to include. It becomes very messy.
doesn't jquery already do this with $.post?
As much as I am not a fan of Ask.com's UI (too much clutter and annoying ads) there is still quite a bit of valuable content that ranks fairly high in search results.

Unfortunately I can't point to anything I searched for recently to back this assertion up.
The majority of people/groups I see selling Drupal stuff sell themes which I see as legitimate... It takes a lot of work to make a well-written theme and once someone buys the theme, while GPL'ed it's possible to redistribute for free but why would you want someone else to use "your look"? Selling modules and functionality on the other hand... well, I suppose it's possible but why do it? Isn't the point of using software like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, et al to be a part of a larger Open Source community? I know I would never sell a module or theme rather than release it to the community, because that's what's been done by my predecessors in the community. I would be out of a job if that community didn't exist because by myself I don't have the resources, talent, and myriad of other attributes required to put together as complete and functional a product.

There's a good thread here http://drupal.org/node/237682 discussing just this and the general consensus seems to be that it's possible but generally harmful to the community. I think this applies not only to Drupal but to every Open Source project in general.
Um... a kind of noisy way is to follow me on Twitter (@sh1mmer).

I'll throw up a site soon dedicated to this. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll announce that on my Twitter feed ;)
We think so. It's actually sort of a strange world. The industry so trained and experienced with the sort "send it through an awkward C interface" school of inter-language communication that there isn't really a lot of talk (in the industry) about what happens when you have lots of languages on a single language runtime.

I'm betting that it's going to be superb. Our FE guys can work with jRuby and their web framework of choice. Our Scala fans can use Scala, and Clojure can do what it's good at in our stack. All of them can talk (with a bit of care) and seamlessly integrate java libraries. Every time we're discussing architecture I find myself needing to remind myself that this is possible.
The more I read Economics blogs, the more I get a sense that this is actually the right thing to do. Don't give your employees perks; just turn every perk into a dollar in their pocket, and be very flexible to how they use the money. If they want to use part of their paycheck to buy a dual-monitor setup, let them (in fact, just give them an empty desk and $2000 and tell them to buy their own workstation.) If they want to pay their boss to thank them when they do good work, let them. If they want to buy a foosball table for the break room, let them set up a WePay arrangement with the other employees to get one. Otherwise, if they don't care about those things, let them remain dollars, rather than being unappreciated sunk costs.
I don't have any first-hand experience with the non-native English aspect, but I doubt such a person can remember how to spell MaximumPhysicalAddress without looking either.

If you stick with a consistent mapping of terms to shortened version ("maximum" always becomes "max") throughout a code base, these names read (and can be typed) much more smoothly than the 30-character monstrosities common in big frameworks.
That's interesting to see it actually analyzed by someone with Mr. Khan's math skills. Not to mention the spreadsheet liked to from the 3rd video in the renting-vs-buying looks like it be a useful tool for running the comparison in your own local market/circumstances.
great offer for papers
I'm not a C/C++ expert but I can highly recommend the book "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" by John Lakos. It gives an extensive discussion on how to structure programs and addresses the issue above in detail, in addition to many others. I'd be very interested to hear the opinions of any HN C++ experts on the principles espoused in this book (assuming a few have read it!).
There is in fact a very strong correlation in both cases! ... just no causation in any direction in any case. =)

* Any case out of the 2 cited by OP. (Thanks Alex3917)
I refactored my app using Backbone.js, and it really hits the sweetspot in terms of being lightweight and flexible. I really like how view objects, collections and models abstractions are so simple, yet fit so well together (change:attribute events etc...) Until now I also used jaskenas HashHistory snippet for routing...
"Though its traditional search business hasn’t grown, IAC is increasing its “toolbar” business, which places various clickable tools on the browsers of Internet users, and enables IAC to collect a fee each time the toolbar is used."

It's sick how much money IAC is making from this crap.
I seem to recall they were paying software developers to bundle the Ask Toolbar long before Google started doing it.
The USA is the world's largest consumer goods market, surpassing the next one, Japan, by a factor of 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_market...
I'm going to stay ignorant and not read this article.
Do complex numbers really exist?
The 2nd paragraph: "Now, even putting quality aside, competitors can’t match Apple’s prices."

Does not jive with the prices mentioned later:

Apple Ipad - $599/$699 for the 16/32 GB models

Samsung Galaxy S - $594

HTC A8181 Desire - $527

I don't know what the author's definition of "match" is, but seems to me Android tablet makers have matched prices quite well. *Edit: fixed my formatting
That is a good post, but as Christopher Mayer points out on the NPR piece, you have to be very careful about the market.

Cities with historically strong housing markets, such as Seattle and New York, have a very high ownership premium. Other cities with a more traditionally flat housing market, such as Pittsburgh or many rural communities, do not.

So if you live in Seattle like Tim, by all means, renting might be better for you. But in Madison, Wisconsin you might spend the same amount to own a house as you do to rent one.

YMMV.
Can Heroku (YC W08) Become the Official Cloud of Facebook Apps?
Modularity is great, but you don't need to worry about the way this is going. The entirety of Backbone.js is still fewer lines of code than just the jQuery Address plugin. ;)

Now that there is a bit more client-side-only code, in the next release, we'll probably split the source into individual components, so that you can just load Models and Collections on the server-side.
Camel was one of the first for Amazon shopobot just looks to be a copy of the same idea. Look at how much price history camel has. It goes back over 3 years for some stuff.
Another factor here is that mobile devices are all a tier or two down from personal computers in terms of the raw number of dollars. Seems like a 15% premium is something people will consider paying if it only amounts to $30, but might not if it's $300.

This was especially true in the early days of the PC revolution. The Mac 128K sold for $2495 at the time, which is more than $5000 in today's dollars[1]. I can't find any good stats on what a typical PC cost at the time, but let's say it was half that. That's a HUGE difference; a mortgage payment (or more than one!) and not something many individuals or businesses are going to pay, even for substantially better quality.

Other factors:

* No amount of speed was enough. People bought computers to, well, compute things, and there were real limits users experienced because of slow processors. This is no longer true for most uses. Faster speeds are nice to have, but it's no longer true that 20% faster number crunching is a huge win for many people.

* With such expensive kit, businesses were understandably reluctant to commit to any platform that didn't let them multiple-source parts and perform repairs. Backups were expensive or non-existent. By contrast, a defective mobile device is simply exchanged or written off.

* In 1984, worldwide PC shipments totaled 6.3M units. Commodity parts were the only way to achieve any kind of economy of scale, not to mention the benefits of competition. 20 years later, it was 177M. [2] At that level, even a minority player can get the same economy of scale that the entire PC industry enjoyed a decade earlier.

Anyway. Nobody knows how this will all shake out. But the spectacular success of the modular PC market doesn't mean it's the inevitable outcome.

[1] http://bit.ly/9P293K

[2] http://bit.ly/a9XLJF
You misread the comment; read the first sentence as "[there is] hope for the future", not "[this is my] hope for the future"
I think a related part of Apple's pricing advantage comes from the fact that they are good at taking technologies developed for the iPhone and using it in other places instead of reinventing the wheel for every product.

The iPod touch, Apple TV, and iPad are all variously stripped, screenless, and scaled versions of the iPhone. They share the same processor and underlying OS. This allows Apple to not just sell a lot of stuff, but to sell a lot of the exact same stuff. So not only are their marginal costs lower from buying in bulk, their fixed costs of research and development are lower, too.

Could an iPad's cost $499 or an Apple TV $99 if they didn't sell the iPhone? Probably not, and definitely not if they wanted to keep the kind of margins they command right now.
It's difficult to know exactly which point in the article you take issue with. I didn't see anything that indicated Gruber is unaware of the Archos.
7" screens vs. 10" screens?
1Password is awesome, and works nicely with Dropbox if you want to keep passwords in sync between multiple computers.

Their Chrome extension has been getting better (Chrome silently updates its extensions).

And their iPhone app is pretty good as well.
With Kindle's free 3G downloads, is that really a disadvantage?
The labels do have to be created manually, although it only requires two taps to do so, and it can be applied retroactively.
Independent ebooks for everyone
Let's see:

I would love to buy a $229 Android device that’s the
equivalent of the iPod Touch

Which one of the Archos is equivalent to iPod touch?
Great - we've got two moderately large (12+ instances) clusters with them, one in the US, one in the UK - both are fast.
I don't want this to be a "works for me" response, but I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) on 64-bit and for me the Flash Player performs excellent. I can watch hours of YouTube videos, switching to full-screen and back, without a hitch. My primary browser is Chrome (installed from the Ubuntu repos, not Google's nightly builds) but Flash Player also runs just fine in FireFox. It might be worth checking for the latest version of Flash Player.
Since he starts with a bad premise, the whole thing is flawed.

"This sort of advice would have you believe that if you simply put your all into something you will be successful."

... that's not what it says at all. In fact, it says the opposite: If you don't put your all into something, you're much more likely to fail.

'Be Passionate' is great advice.
Also Gibson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_Market
Next version of Microsoft SQL Server Announced - "Denali" comes in 2011
There's also a tool called Winsplit Revolution which does the same thing. It's like Divvy on the Mac.
Debugging Ruby (My notes)
My notes on the fantastic Engine Yard Debugging Ruby webinar given by Aman Gupta
CSS Cross Browser Transforms — even in IE
My take is that gp talks about equivalent to iPod touch, but I cannot really see how Archos are in this category. The smaller ones have resistive touchscreens with lousy resolution, the bigger ones are different form factor, pricier and no Android market :(
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For me it provides incentive just to get out of the damn house. :P

And it's really great knowing how long I've been at work without needing to keep track in my head.
Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s Convenient”
Having just recently priced laptops, I didn't have this experience. A 13" MBP is $1200 for the bare-bones options (4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, 250GB 5400 RPM SATA). It weighs about 4.5 lbs. They want an additional $400 for an extra 4GB of RAM (wtf?)

A Dell Inspiron 14" with the same specs clocks in at $665 at 4.9 lbs (which is still under the 5lb "ultraportable" mark). A Lenovo U350 with similar specs clocks in at $700 and 3.5 lbs.

The Apple tax is very definitely still in play.
Google is specifically demanding an API, and further making demands about performance, uptime, availability, etc. of the API. They're being perfectly clear that exporting the emails to .csv file that then gets uploaded is unacceptable.

And again, it's their service, and their servers, and I'm libertarian enough to say that they should be free to do what they want with them. However, I'm also free to question their "Love is Hate, War is Peace, Closed is Open" syllogism with respect to Facebook, and I find it preposterous.
Any "Android tablet" lacking Market access, as these do, might be competition for the iPod nano, or the Nook, but it's not in the same space as the iPod touch.
Lucky for Apple's competitors they have Android, otherwise they'd really be up a creek.

With the hardware volume purchasing advantage combined with the many-year head start they have on the OS, it will be surprising to me if any competitor obtains a 10% market share in the iPad or iPod Touch markets.
Don't support foxit reader if you also despise this "business" as they notably include it in their installer.
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The blog makes for entertaining reading, if you like the crazy espionage conspiracies.
I can see that - that's what it looks like to me as well
I would very much like to know how exactly they can be so cheap. Their 10" tablet will sell for $350 (16GB), the spec-wise very similar 16GB iPad costs $150 more. (The one downside is that you cannot buy it yet, it’s supposed to be out “this fall”.) Oh, and if Archos can do that, why not Samsung?
The A8181 Desire you link to has no built-in memory and a screen that is less than a quarter the size of the iPad's. You're comparing apples to oranges.
The other thing worth noting is way better support for dependency injection, through the DependecyResolver class. I'm becoming particularly attached to the IViewPageActivator interface for providing custom view creation logic (in my case, injection of helpers and custom session information into the page object).
Insightful, thank you.
If you want to review where Alcohol stands compared to the other psychoactive components:

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml

From my personal experience, I don't drink alcohol at all and find always fun to see the regular alcohol consumption and its effect on people. The effect on me, I'm always the driver at the end of the party...
I'll plan to be there, provided I don't end up on a trip to some random place.
Let's take your example of the IIfx: off the shelf 68k processor on NuBus. ASICs and I/O coprocessors are just devices. Granted I didn't know about the custom processor work on the Newton, but if IIfx counts as a new hardware architecture, then so does the x86 move from ISA and 8259A to PCI-E and APIC. And I don't think it makes sense to argue that today's Macs have anything resembling a custom architecture.

Symbolics' systems and the first AS/400 models (the last new hardware/software architecture developed by IBM) are in a totally different class.
Yes, I didn't mean to dismiss backbone as a whole by any means. It's in fact on my "try asap" list (still undecided whether backbone or knockout is the way to go).

With modularity I don't strictly mean LOC. Rather I think that most of these lines in the address plugin are probably in there for a good reason. Thus if backbone ships its own solution to the problem, but that solution covers only part of what I need, then I'd have to integrate both - and perhaps deal with conflicts. That would be undesirable.

On the other hand I recognize that introducing dependencies to specific other plugins is also undesirable. I'm a bit torn about which is the lesser evil here.
My boss had a better slogan: JEDI (just effin' do it). We always took it to mean 'do it, don't just talk about it/don't ask permission, just get on with it'. Getting that JEDI mindset is important in lots of workplaces.

Back to the original point: don't wait. There are so many things you might be thinking of doing and saying 'When I get my new team...', 'When I get a free afternoon...', 'When I've fully mastered Rails testing I'll start doing BDD...'
His definition of "match" seems to be device dimensions, performance, and battery life.

Juxtaposing the iPad with a smartphone in an attempt to compare the prices doesn't seem right (you linked to an HTC A8181, but mentioned the Galaxy S). Did you mean to compare it to the Tab?
Blacksheep answer to Firesheep
Hmmm, my coffee must not have kicked in at that point. I skipped right over the "mouse pilots" part and just assumed "mice."

It seems entirely plausible that they have exposed mice to backscatter scanners for extended periods and studied the reactions/effects. That study I would be interested in, but it seems rdtsc was making a funny. I understand now.
7" vs 10" screens but failedl to mention that the Galaxy Tab also has dual cameras, a GPS chip, a cellular chip, and etc - things not seen on the ipad.

I think the Tab could have been priced lower but Samsung wanted to see if they could technically compete with the ipad at the same price point first. And if things don't go well, reduce the prices later. Why shoot yourself in the foot to begin with?

And additionally when Android lifts the hardware requirement to obtain the Android Market, you will definitely see much cheaper tablets such as Archos and even the Galaxy WiFi Tab.
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Back in the dark ages the Sun JVM used green threads. More recently, JRockit added "thin threads" to win VolanoMark. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs81b/jro...
You're reading it wrong. Question 7 ("Used the internet yesterday") was only asked of people who answered that the use the internet at all.

Which is actually an interesting data point -- seems like although a small number of seniors use the internet, the ones that do use it quite often.