skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, you are right Gloob. Real is a bad choice of words.

If the iPhone were available on every carrier their would be a lot more people using the iPhone. It's almost like its every carrier and every phone manufacturer vs Apple.

Don't get me wrong, if I were in contract at Sprint or Verizon I would be on Droid also.

I have invested money in applications (not a whole lot). Switching platforms would also mean finding new software and purchasing some of them.
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I suspect that building a company around finding the best devs wherever they are (and keeping them there, vs going through the whole get everyone a US visa hassle) might be more common in the future than it has been so far.

On the ground(here in Bangalore ) I see a distinct increase in individual developers being targeted by startups/early stage companies in the USA (vs trying to hire an outsourcing company etc). Given that the alternative in Bangalore is working on some outsourced enterprise maintenance crap project, this is a win for the good devs as well. The real problem is that if you want really really good devs (and most startups do) there are only so many around. So i suspect that in the end this will turn out to be a temporary fix and the global shortage of good devs will continue.
Yeah, because nothing says "I condemn the devaluing of this currency" like asking for 1.5 billion of it right as said devaluing is happening.
just an example, but thanks for your valuable opinion.
Icebergs are a good analogy for technical debt as well. The hackish stuff below the surface, often done against better advice invariably causes serious damage.
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This makes me feel ill. This is the computer equivalent of breeding human-animal hybirds. Eugh!
Wow, best pickup line I've ever heard :-)
2007? How accurate was this prediction?
Our free package is a trial. The 300 free bookmarks either run out quickly, so the user has to select whether to pay or leave, or they last long enough that the user needs no more, at which point we don't mind the cost.

It works out much better than a time-based trial, which I don't think makes very much sense when you can have other factors.
A list of stuff that people with well paid jobs probably have? Great...
Good example you've chosen. Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchwork_Girl_(hypertext) using (coincidentally created using the same authoring system that you link to) is another fine, if not finer, example.

However, owing to the youth of the medium, and the very slow uptake I feel we have as yet to see any outstanding works in hypertext fiction. By which I mean of great artistic merit and a piece of work that transcends its form so that it is just thought of as a great work of fiction and not just a great work of hypertext fiction. (Non-fiction is a different matter entirely). As is suggested in this thread it is very possible that by sacrificing pace that a crucial component of fiction is lost to the author in the hypertextual realm. Ask me again in 50 years, really we're back in Gutenberg times with electronic literature - very exciting stuff, but really what we have are a lot of hypertexted bibles and not much else. (And I say that with all respect to the authors working in this field.)
The OP is using Rails, so probably the easiest solution would be to use https://github.com/johngrimes/t-minus.
Please please when articles are this long can someone provide a tl;dr?
Yep, most services won't have anything approaching our cost. A commenter on the blog offered a good compromise: Send the user an email after, say, two months of them not logging in, saying "click here to keep your account or wait 30 days to have it cleared out".

I'm guessing that would take care of cleanup very very well, while not inconveniencing users in the least. Users who use the service frequently will never even see the email, since only inactive users get it.

We might implement that very, very soon.
Amazing advances in medicine continue with the help of animal testing. In this case, rats were deliberately wounded to observe the healing process. A moral minefield.
Review my startup: free services for casual game developers
We consider support to be an integral part of the experience and treat all users the same in this regard. When someone emails us for support, we don't even know if they're subscribers or not. Replying to support emails doesn't usually take more than a minute anyway, so it's the least of our costs and it makes users very happy.
Actually the Move has poor accuracy over distance. This is similar to when the Wii complains "move closer to the screen" when you're only 20ft away and the cursor starts jumping around.

I fail to see how the Kinect is the 'least accurate' when it can actively track peoples fingers. All other systems are tracking one object, whilst the Kinect can track each individual finger on two people's hands - meaning 20 distinct objects.

The advantage of the Kinect is that I'll actually be able to use it in my living room without having to stand in the middle of the room because it's allegedly accurate over 50ft not the pathetic upper limit of ~20ft with the Wii (I've heard similar distance limits for the Move).
So no looking around and enjoying the scenery... if he or anyone ever builds a "two-seater" (not a seater to begin with of course) this would surely, well, take off.
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If the market functions well, wages should be approximately equal for the best developers worldwide, at approximately the value they add to companies.

Given that top engineers in SV only make $200k or so, there are still inefficiencies to be exploited. smiles
I found this one particularly amusing :)
There is no shortage of good devs. THERE IS a shortage of good devs at whatever price you are willing to pay, which is obviously not attractive enough.

This strikes me as the same rhetoric Microsoft uses to demand each year more visas for foreign talent, pretending there are no engineers to be hired in the US. There aren't at the price they want.

BTW, I'm a foreigner anyway.
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Try this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/17/250

and this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/17/254
Ask HN: UK parcel delivery service prime for disruption?
Backstory: I've just lost a 3rd undelivered parcel from Amazon/HDNL in as many months. No idea where it is. Amazon will end up refunding my money (for the 3rd time) and HDNL will take a loss (for the 3rd time). I work from home, nobody ever rang my bell or put a missed delivery card through my slot. FWIW I have no mysterious address and am easy to find. I work from home and am always available to collect my deliveries. HDNL has successfully delivered 3 out of 6 orders since March 2010. Related - Royal Mail doesn't even bother to ring my bell, so I need to hike up to the sorting office 4 miles away by taxi. Looking for a way to vent I found this: http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews-all-150787.html
</rant>

Punchline: I am tired of this nonsense. Does anyone know of any startups who could finally provide a reliable parcel delivery service in the UK? I'm no supply chain engineer but I am thinking something like ubercab for parcel delivery.

If anyone can recommend an alternate and reliable service, please do! Also feel free to vent your similar experiences :)
Quote from that article:

A URL invoked by cron is subject to the same limits
and quotas as a normal HTTP request, including
the request time limit.

And I'm looking for some tips and tricks to do heavy processing (which is really needed when working with non-relational datastores).
Yes, though Wikipedia's internal wrangling and deletionist slant can be ugly.
> Therefore until shown otherwise I have no reason to assume they do exist.

I'm sorry, you are an agnostic. If you are willing to accept the possibility of the existence of god, proof serving, then you are agnostic not atheist. Atheism requires faith that god does not exist.

Now please, stop trolling me with your ignorance and inability to understand distinctions.
ah reasonable enough request, the beginning of the article talked about the acquisition of youporn.com by vivid entertainment (a large porn company) however they were experiencing problems with labor unions who represent plumbers (a key component to many a porn film) apparently they feel these films poorly broker an image of the life in an every day plumber, additionally it is creating a dangerous workplace by increasing the expectations of lonely cougars. To counter act this they are asking youporn.com to be shut down as it is most commonly reached by middle aged housewives typically looking for youtube.com in an effort to find videos about knitting.

However this article was from 2007, and obviously no court would uphold the labor unions case.
"This strikes me as the same rhetoric Microsoft uses to demand each year more visas for foreign talent,"

whoa there! I didn't mean to spout any "rhetoric", least of all anything to deprive any devs (I am one myself, and have worked in the USA, before choosing to come back to Bangalore) of a decent wage. Just reporting on what I see here,because I thought it might add some value to the discussion. Feel free to add the word "perceived" before "shortage" if that makes you more comfortable.

I'll put it this way, If as a startup founder if you want to hire m very high quality developers with n $ ( I make no judgement as to what the "right" value of n should be) it may make sense to also consider assembling a remote team. Nowhere did I make the argument that you would save money by doing this.

My points are orthogonal to whatever MS's lobbyists say to your senators. And the people I were talking about (really good devs who choose to live in India. All of them have worked in the USA/Europe and could work there again any time they choose) are making from 60 k$ (Java enterprise dev) to 100k$ (embedded/kernel/hardware dev) so I am not sure how much money their employers save (though I am sure they do save some)
I am just getting in to this sector. It would really be great if you could write about your experiences in this domain. Those would help people like me avoid making some obvious mistakes, and also help us learn a thing or two for our ventures.
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Exactly. I was expecting a list of super cool stuff that I haven't heard of yet.

Most people that are employed with an average job already own all this stuff no?
> new function() {

Well this is both pointless and dangerous.

Also using underscores is pointless, because those variables are in a closure, you don't even have to tell people that it supposed to be "private".
thank you. But this totally lacks security. What if someone steals the cookie?
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Depends on how you look at it I suppose.

If one thinks that unique human beings are more important than lab rats that are farmed to be experimented on then it is perfectly moral.

Put another way, if someone in your family had 3rd degree burns to their face and whole upper body and needed new skin. Would you sacrifice a few lab rats to save your family member's life and let them lead a normal life again?

Or would you say, sorry we could have helped you but we couldn't bear to hurt the poor rats to find the solution to your problem?

(and we can replace skin with hearts, liver, kidney, lungs, eyes and any other organ that might be able to be replaced in the future)
Very nice game, but a little basic. Some enemies seem to behave differently (vulnerable to different weapons), although there is no indication with color or shape. A minor bug: Once you click on a unit to build, you can't change your mind and "unselect" it anymore, forcing you to build that even though clicking it could have been a mistake.

Also it's a bit annoying that if you want to build the same unit type multiple times, you have to click on it every time again. Keyboard shortcuts 1-4 to select each unit to build would be great. Another shortcut for upgrading and selling, and the game would be a lot more usable and fun to play.

Still, quite addicting game! :-)
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tl;dr OP would like a tl;dr.
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I'm heading out there in January, couldn't be more excited :) Any HN folks out there?

Edit: Just found out there's a BarCamp there - http://groups.google.com/group/barcampkerala?pli=1 - maybe I'll head along!
Hey - thanks for this news. We were not selected for the YCombinator round, but I just sent in an application for the seedcamp 'india' edition. Im from Mumbai :D
The key is to combine cron jobs with Tasks. Tasks are am easy to use and powerful feature of Google Appengine that let you deal with the standard limitations. For example, rather than doing some operation on 1000 entities in one request, you spin off 1000 tasks, each handling the operation on one entity. Read up about them at http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/

You can also explore the new Mapper API at http://blog.notdot.net/2010/05/Exploring-the-new-mapper-API
That's a 404 now.
When Parrot has its concurrency and GC acts together, it's potentially worthy of consideration. As I understand it, neither (which are inextricably linked) are in good shape today.
It is somewhat comical hearing these $40k+ a year schools talking about what they perceive as a coming paradigm shift within academia. If people are taking free courses online, or teaching themselves or others with the only cost being the time they put in, how could universities possibly make money off a situation like that?

To me it seems that this shift isn't happening within academia, but is a shift away from academica. Who needs them anyway?
As the Zen master would say, we'll see.
For the better part of 20 years, Mac lovers fumed in frustration as Apple languished in sub-5% PC market share territory.

That's the very first sentence. Take a wild guess at where he's going from there.
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Software environments, languages, and other such abstractions aren't there to be perfect. They are there to help human beings manage absurd numbers of machine instructions. Maybe when we fully understand the human mind, we'll figure out the perfect way to map machine instructions to concepts that humans can grok. Until then, we'll have to make somewhat subjective design decisions in the face of uncertain constraints and priorities, which is certainly not going to lead to a "best" solution.
Two things worth bearing in mind. 1. Google had acquired the Android team before the iPhone became popular 2. Mobile phones will sell whether they are smartphones or not, just because a user has a phone capable of utilising a function might not mean they use it, especially if they are purchasing bargain price phones just for making calls and sending texts
I think the term "beat" is used loosely...Will there be more Android devices than iPhone's....certainly...but there are more Kia's on the road than Lexus' and I'd hardly say that Kia won the car battle...
The article writes, "As this issue went to press, YouPorn's Alexa rank was 51 and rising".

Today it is 72, and falling since 2009. Still a damn big site though.
If you read to page 2 you'll understand a little better. Even today, the way people think is derived from how the most prominent people think, whose ideas/methods/conclusions/biases all drip down to the masses. Now, it's Harvard-educated producers and writers working through Hollywood. Then, it was people like TS Eliot and Ezra Pound working through literay magazines. No, they have no power today, but Commentary Magazine (read its byline) is interested in them as a case study. The manner by which high-level thinkers influence the "proles" is largely technical. When schools and churches and magazines lost power, it was mainly because of the invention of television and movies. That influence is changing again.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could take a minute to answer a four (EDIT: turns out it's five)-question survey on pricing here:

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We plan on giving back to the community for this help by posting the results on our blog. Thanks!
Deducing the y-axis for the Facebook Breakup graph
A recent link in Hacker News showed a plot of Facebook breakups, but neglected to provide a y-axis. I tried to deduce the y-axis from the data provided.
You are correct, that's the point I was trying to make.
Apple will always be the Maserati of smartphones — leading-edge, trendy, stylish, downright awesome.

I understand this is hyperbole, but I would have said BMW or Mercedes rather than Maserati. BMWs and Mercedes are know for being classy, solid, expensive, comfortable cars. While there aren't as many on the road as Fords, they are definitely "daily drivers."

Where I live, Maserati is nowhere near even 5% of the market.
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Why would consumers want either brand to "win?"

Three or four really good smartphone options will keep prices down and innovation high.
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you are screwed either way. that is what Firesheep does

the solution is to use SSL and set the secure flag on the cookie
Real analysis takes balls.
I'm convinced that CityLink UK have lying to the public as part of their introductory training. There's so often a phantom "failed delivery attempt" instead of admission that they can't/won't hit their date.

Coincidently my most recent dealing with CityLink was via Amazon Prime. When the inevitable happened, I sent a mail to Amazon to ask they cease using CityLink and cancelled the Prime trial.
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thanks. Turns out one of the founders of Kik was working at RIM on messenger.
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oh I couldn't agree with this more

landing on blog posts where the template/sidebar etc. give you no idea about the service or even link to signup/homepage is so annoying yet so easy to fix

I hate having to edit off the end of the URL and going to just the domain to find out what the product is about
I'm not a game developer, but even if I was one, I don't think I'd be able to tell right away what your service is offering me. Tell me within a sentence or two exactly what I'm getting if I use your service, not just that your product has great features. Screenshots on the landing page would help.
I work for a US-based startup with management in Boston and a dev team in Slovenia (EU) and I can only confirm the benefits (and the problems) that were pointed out in this article. Developers in Europe have a culture and work ethic similar to that in the US and working together with colleagues from across the ocean has never been a problem. A thing that helps a lot is having someone from Europe on the management team in the US and also sharing equity with some European members of the team. This creates a great atmosphere in the company because the EU team is not just "hired" by the US company, but we're actually all in it together, as a mixed team of Americans and Europeans pushing our business from both sides of the ocean.
Tl;dr: porn DVD sales through floor. Big studios nervous. Youporn mysterious, huge, unprofitable, looking for a buyer. Big studios won't bite, due to obvious potential legal liability of hosting user generated content.
This reply from a few days back should shed some light on the issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1823362
Any chance someone "translate" it to plain modern english for us poor foreigners ? I find it quite hard to read for non-natives, not even talking about cultural references.
It wasn't implying 30,000 feet of space. He was referring to the '30,000 foot view' - the 'high view' of the project/company. It's easy to have a 'big picture view' of things at a coffee shop - "we'll have a login screen here!" - but you can't map out how you want it to work without delving in to more details than is practical to do in a public space.
Exactly, it depends on the value you put on animal welfare.

I don't put a particularly high value on it, but I can see that deciding where to put the line is a "moral minefield". In this case, I am more than happy to sacrifice lab rats.

But what about when the product needs to be tested on pigs/monkeys? What if the product then fails its human trials. Is it still worth it?
I don't think why intended the book to be quirky so much as that was just his personality (or the character he was portraying).

Writing a book and allowing your personality to come through is more interesting than making it quirky because it's fashionable to be quirky.
I would add a pay per use plan. once user runs out of 300 marks he can buy X for Y usd. also a small one time payment to permanantly store user data.
Not sure how this will format but here is my tracking log for the most recent delivery with HDNL. Calling them up is painful, and nobody has any idea...

Date	Time	Location	Event Details

4 Nov 2010	05:51:01 PM	Newhaven Depot UK	Arrival Scan

4 Nov 2010	01:07:05 PM	Newhaven Van UK	Delivery attempted

4 Nov 2010	08:14:36 AM	Newhaven Van UK	Out for delivery

3 Nov 2010	06:19:58 PM	Newhaven Depot UK	Arrival Scan

3 Nov 2010	03:50:46 PM	Newhaven Van UK	Delivery attempted

3 Nov 2010	09:29:13 AM	Newhaven Van UK	Out for delivery

1 Nov 2010	04:02:18 PM	Newhaven Depot UK	Arrival Scan

1 Nov 2010	10:29:54 AM	Newhaven Van UK	Delivery attempted

1 Nov 2010	08:50:27 AM	Newhaven Van UK	Out for delivery

1 Nov 2010	05:26:32 AM	Newhaven Depot UK	Arrival Scan

31 Oct 2010	10:41:31 PM	Droitwich UK	Arrival Scan

31 Oct 2010	12:00:00 AM	Web Customer UK	Order has been handed over to the carrier and is in transit

The funny thing is that I live about 1.5 hours from Newhaven!
Another conclusion is that scientists gain very little by publishing their code. In research terms, they're evaluated on published papers, receiving grants and graduating students. The incentives just aren't there.
No, thats a copout. If you don't have an educated guess, thats fine, but don't pretend thats especially wise, there is value in predicting the future, even if you are sometimes wrong.
I think I might have to add "Hi, I'm d/dy" to my mail signature collection. So random.
I'm afraid he is misreading what is happening. Apple was never going to own the cellular market like it does the portable music market.

The real story is how Android is destroying Windows Mobile, Blackberry and et. al.

But alas writing such a story isn't as sensational as "Apple Loses Again!!"

*Sigh
Google Acquisitions Infographic
That's where the real story is.

A small startup decided it couldn't scale what the users were offered in an earlier version so the natural decision was to pull the plug.
It is hard to argue with someone who creates their own definitions for words. For clarity: theism is a belief in a god or gods[1]. Atheism is lack thereof, both in modern usage and normal latin meaning of the a-prefix. (Ideally of course atheism would not need to be distinguished separately - only theists vs. everyone else.)

Agnosticism asserts that the existence or nonexistence is unknowable[2].

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theism
[2] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agnostic
Sure but it's true anyway...
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Because you aren't a moron.
Also, X10 is noticeably slower than Z-Wave.
On the App Store page Kik notes:

"This is just the start. The next step is adding free (legal) music sharing, and it will be sweet. Really sweet."

Curious. I guess they aren't happy with sticking to messaging and will keep adding social features.
It's a rhetorical question, of course it did. Here's the japanese translation, still up:

http://jp.techcrunch.com/archives/20101105trial-by-twitter/
Ask HN: what happened to Offers?
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