skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snarkily, the article makes me wonder how many people can work remotely as Cisco. I did some work there as a contractor ages ago, and it was a very very very cubicle focussed place. Good cafeteria, though.
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The real question is how did Apple's QA that checks apps for the store not catch the problem beforehand? VLC is easy to Google, and GPL 2 license isn't tricky to find. I'm sure Apple has plenty of lawyers and computer people that are involved in checking licenses, so they should have either an argument stating why they believe they are in compliance, or they shouldn't have let the app in.
+1 People need to separate what they like about the work experience from a startup founder/employee experience.

You can build the experience you want out of a job by 1) finding the right place 2) building the role that rewards you.

For some people, that requires running your own company, for most I don't think it does.
Also -- the exact numbers I've seen might be proprietary, but here's part of the value prop of online quantitative advertising: if you take ad spend and divide by minutes spent in a bunch of areas such as {TV, magazine, newspaper, online}, online is an extreme outlier -- far lower than all the others. That indicates that most likely there will be at least a further doubling or tripling of online advertising spend. Add in trends you see like people ditching cable (just in the bare beginning, but itunes / apple tv, netflix, roku, googletv, et al are beginning to be a real competitor for people who aren't super techy) and it's not unreasonable to assume increasing movement of tens of billions of dollars of brand ad spend online. And fb will be a primary beneficiary of all this because of their ability to do very precise demographic targeting -- want to show your ads to eg self-identified unmarried asian women who like tennis, who are between 24 and 35 years old, and who have a kid in the house? fb can make that segment for you with high confidence.
and possible bug, the p tag showing above?

+ link to karma change post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853893
Apple has said barely anything about A4. All the 'misleading' and 'deception' you mention comes from people speculating about what A4 is and isn't.
I don't think that's really true. Microsoft only tends to push incompatibilities AFTER it achieves dominance. For example, Internet Explorer was by far more standards compliant than Netscape (at least through version 5).

That's not how I remember it.

Microsoft pushed lots of incompatibilities that had no uptake. (VBScript anyone?) Microsoft added lots of extensions to the standard. Because Microsoft did a good job on them, many made it into the standard and so now look standards compliant. (XML-RPC anyone?) But from the point of view of cross-browser compatibility, they were bad news at the time.
That's actually a quote from a relative. I went to the Indian Ocean side of Thailand the year following the Tsunami. Being December, I was asked if I was worried to be there during Tsunami season, since everybody knows that once-in-500-year random events happen in December over there.
and minor ui change today? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853932
> Many of its 2,000 members, he adds, are unwilling to invest in new initiatives while there is so much uncertainty about future policy.

What is this 'uncertainty' Obama is supposed to be responsible for? I don't think Obama has been particularly unclear about his intentions, and when he's compromised it's almost always been toward more conservative positions. His opponents have fallen in love with this term lately, but to me they feel like weasel words used because complaining about a Democrat in the White House sounds too, well, partisan.
Management of "karma" in systems like Hacker News is critical to long term success. Watching the community, and the flow articles, in Reddit shows that minor changes in algorithms make a big difference.

One further thought: your "karma" in a site like HN is a very serious asset. Access to a post which reaches the front page can make or break a company. I would easily pay $100 for someone to post a choice blog post reference that would hit the front page, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

We also know about Digg's kabal of a few high-karma individuals who tilted the entire news site to the political right.

People don't game a site until it's important, and you don't find out the effects of your site's algorithms until the site becomes popular.

The owners of a site must be diligent, continue to understand how articles are floating to the front page, and be willing to make changes. We as users need to be supportive of the changes & experiments they make - even at the cost of our own "karma" (ie, real-world-dollars).
I don't feel like people here are down on Obama at all. They're down on things the government has done and not done, which is now (to some extent) Obama's fault since he's (to some extent) in charge of it. But I don't hear any grumbling about him personally.
Well, for one thing, RPM-based distributions are the leaders in the enterprise market. They are also the only ones, I believe, that actually make money. If you look at where the contributions to Linux come from, especially in the kernel, the employees of those distributions are contributing much more than those of the other distributions.

For instance, in 2009, the top Linux contributors were Red Hat (12%), Intel (8%), IBM and Novell (6% each), and Oracle (3%).

IBM offers, I believe, Red Hat and SUSE on its mainframes. Oracle offers their own version of Red Hat. So that's 27% of contributions to the kernel coming from companies focused on RPM-based distributions.
quantcast (we) are free

http://www.quantcast.com/info/measure
By "Full support" I meant that it fully supports the feature (without a prefix or huge deviations from the spec). It doesn't have anything to do with browser versions.
Fantastic read. One sample:

" It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable."

(The Anna Karenina principle, in other words.)
Is this supposed to be interpreted as a bad thing? Presenting this fact with no context around it is confusing.
Silverlight infuriates me because the performance of it on my Mac is abysmal. I think it's a bit of a throwback to the old ways of the web.

Thankfully not many sites seem to use it.
Technically no one knows exactly why the white iphone hasn't been released. I've seen plenty of solid 'leaks' claiming button colors and camera problems, but no one really knows the real reason. It could be strategic for all anyone knows at this point.
> That doesn't include a 200 million dollar data center project to be built in Pineville, OR.

Which will, in the long run, be dramatically cheaper than leasing space - which has all the same costs, plus a middleman to pay, minus the efficiencies of an entirely custom setup.
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I just didn't want to clutter it with duplicate things like <dt class="opera">Opera</dt>. I kinda agree with your point though, it was something I also wasn't very sure about.

I also agree that box-sizing is better, I have also used it in a few places. I mentioned it in my talk too, I just didn't put it in the slides. I just wanted to experiment with calc() a bit too :P
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Most Maemo (Meego compatible) apps I use on my N900 are written in python.
Three, concrete steps Obama should to take to redeem himself with the tech crowd and revive the economy:

1) Immigration reform.
If smart engineers from abroad want to study here or work here we need to let them, and let them stay as long as they want.

2) Better science and math education.
It might be a long slog to catch up with some other countries, but we need to start. One suggestion: A national "learn to program" initiative in low-income elementary schools.

3) Focus financial industry reforms on making life easier for small businesses (i.e. startups).
We create the most jobs and account for the most innovation, and yet the bulk of Obama's economic policy has helped big incumbents. Easier access to credit, federal startup grants, and small business tax reform would all go a long way.
Looking at the leaderboard, the relationship between high ranking hn members and average comment quality seems fairly weak to me:

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

This is probably due to the fact that some people spend a lot of time commenting on threads that don't get much viewership. I doubt there's much harm in showing the average as a reminder to try to keep the quality high, but I think there are probably better ways to encourage it.
Except Netflix, unfortunately.
If you post a lot, the noise of one or two unpopular comments gets drowned out. I'm at 14,613 karma with an average of 6.02. If this post gets downvoted to -30, I might end up with an average of 6.01. I doubt I'd notice.
I don't think either of those are examples of superior performance.
Yeah, they eventually took a seed round, but the revenue from tap defense let Ben comfortably quit his day job at Google.

Didn't know that Offerpal had renamed themselves, cool!
Why doesn't flattr just give people a javascript bookmark? Just click on the bookmark and it will register that site as being flattred, once a site has 10 (or a hundred) flattr hits flattr the company can attempt to contact the site owner. The problem with all these micropayment sites is that only 0.01% of site visitors use them and only 0.01% of websites use them, so the odds of actually coming across a micropayments site, even if you have a flatter account, is so low that it is silly.

Also, there should be a public aspect when I flattr someone, I should be able to do it privately if I want to, but if my friends are following my flattr. That does two things, it makes it transparent that flattr is not just a scam, because if there are 1000 people that flattr a xkcd comic and xkcd comes out and says that he never got a dime then criminal charges can be pressed. The second thing it does is it shows which sites are actually worth checking out.

I assume that there is going to be a long tail of flattrs, to handle that flattr should keep a pool of money set aside that earns interest, that way they can give someone the net present value of their flattrs when they finally get their cheque 3 years later.
(Coming in a day late.) I'm not going to trust the Shock Doctrine after reading about how its "facts" were collected.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp102.pdf
Non-linkjacked: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/10/26/macbook.airport/
As part of your experiments, have you also changed the downvote threshold, or modified it to be based on average karma, not total karma? I ask because I notice that I've lost the ability to downvote - not that I'm especially irritated, as I'm of the opinion that downvotes are generally not an especially good thing, as they can encourage negative behaviors, but just wondering.
I was actually musing on this very point in the pub earlier, having re-read an article on Apple's novel-ish approach to the SIM card (i.e., not having one) and what that means from a business perspective.

What people seem to gloss over is that Apple's major innovations come more from (or as much from) business revolutions than from hardware:

- iTunes: re-invented MP3 distribution (it was even DRM'd at first, remember)

- iPhone: screw you, carriers, it's going down like this from now on

- iOS: we've got any app you can ever imagine - our devices will make you happy.

They also innovate by knowing what their customers truly want:

- Do you really want a keyboard on that phone? Wouldn't you prefer it thinner?

- Do you really need a CD drive with that laptop? Wouldn't you prefer a bigger battery and thinner?

- Do you really need that much RAM and CPU when apps instant-resume and you have a Flash system drive?

Plus, they innovate in manufacturing (unibody, advanced castings and extrusions, laser-machining) and marketing and sales (direct-to-consumer, store layouts, try-all-you-like).

Ok, so some of the approaches they use are bought/licensed (processors, casting tech, hardening tech) and many are out-sourced. But I really don't see anyone else in the public light who are pushing hard at so many new approaches right now. How many other companies are filing so many patents in everything from chip design to UI to manufacturing methods?

So... I think I basically disagree with you :P
> 4. Remove every extraneous word

I singled out directness because that is what most of the rest of this HN thread seems to talk about.
To add to the potential for confusion in that example, one of the DEC engineers that worked on the Bliss compilers was named John. (Seriously.)
http://notch.tumblr.com uses it too.
True, Youtube is also questionable. BUT, Youtube got bought by Google, and Google does generate massive revenue, so it's a different story.
What taxes are going to be raised to pay for the radical increase in spending? What's the next industry to be demonized and have punitive penalties, taxation, or nationalization applied to it? Is somebody else going to be shaken down the way BP Oil was even when there was no legal authority to do it [1]? What other radical changes to the economy are going to be proposed if the recovery continues to be anemic, and how many dollars are going to be vacuumed out of the private economy to accomplish these changes? How much more loan disasters have been hidden, and how will the administration react, and how many dollars will be vacuumed out of the private economy to implement the reactions? How will the government react to the oncoming pension crises, and how many dollars will be vacuumed out of the private economy to do it? By what order of magnitude will the Obama health care bill's costs be underestimated[2]?

It doesn't even matter whether these are true; I'm not really trying to argue these points or I'd back them up better, I'm just answering your question. (So, for instance, replying to me to argue about the legal authority for the BP Oil escrow account would be missing the point.) It only matters that enough people in business think they are true. It doesn't matter whether they are entirely correct, it only matters that the concerns are correct enough. Somewhat loaded terms were chosen deliberately to give a more accurate impression of how these people are thinking.

[1]: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/16/politics/main65881... , if you don't remember this

[2]: I don't even mean this as an attack specifically on that bill; observing that governments almost without exception underestimate costs is merely realism, not politics, and when you're talking about something the size of the health care bill, being 50% off is a big deal.
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Not necessarily. There are a number of ways to interact with hardware from userspace: uio[1], libusb[2], spidev[3] and etc.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/232575
[2] http://libusb.org
[3] http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/spi/spidev
> The MPEG LA said that it would assemble a patent pool against VP8

They said the same thing about Vorbis ten years ago, don't hold your breath.
If by architecture you mean arm / intel / ..., it's just a case of recompilation. You can crosscompile to another architecture quite easily if you have a well configured environment provided from upstream. Since the system is the same, there shouldn't be many problems.

If you mean architecture as in screen size, etc. - you just need to test for what's available.
More is not necessarily better though is it?
Apple has done a good job cultivating a user base that doesn't really care that much about the sausage making process. Whatever shows up on our new MacBook is what we're going to use. There's always a little Internet Riot over major changes but it fades once people realize it just doesn't really matter that much.
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Apple is very familiar with the GPL. Their NeXT veterans tried to withhold the ObjC frontend they added to GCC, and only met their obligations under legal threat.
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Same story on engadget http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/29/transparent-material-deve...
I feel like news sources are down on him. It's a better story with a scapegoat.
Sorry. Halloween fail :)
"When a good manager meets a bad business, it's the business's reputation that stays intact." -- Warren Buffett

I think a lot of Obama's difficulties stem from having to steer a massive federal bureaucracy. There're lots of power centers in government besides the president - the American system is designed that way, so that any given bad president can't do too much damage. (Though that didn't seem to stop Dubya...maybe it's easier to blow things up than it is to build them.) I'm disappointed at Obama's inaction on net neutrality, but he's been distracted by other major initiatives. And the health care bill is huge for potential entrepreneurs; one of the major disincentives to quitting your job is the lack of health insurance.
That would be awesome. Looking forward to it.
is it too late for me to chip?

if a user is downvoted>n times, delete the comment with added penalty factor. this would keep the content clean forever.

Despite the downvoted comment being hidden, it almost stands out the elitist comment(and nowadays the chain of explanations growing usually offtopic)

Could we restrict users to one user per ip? I sometimes suspect people using multiple ids to upvote their comments/posts. There are some posts way out of HN league that get upvotes within minutes from the new page (even the spammer ones).

Would it be hard to have new users moderated? One way is for new users to write few lines about themselves. Moderator would look for human(no-spam) and genuinity.

Show a warning or part of content from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html upon submission of a post or comment - until they attain their downvote karma rights.

One liners like 'i like it too' should be deleted. Perhaps there should be a minimum amount of words for a reply or a warning telling the user to verify if he really wants to post.

Link searchyc.com on top of the page beside 'submit' - new users don't know of this awesome search site. While there is a search link at the bottom of the page, I wouldn't be using it more than once that I know it's googlified. SearchYC works! with lots of criteria. imho, this would reduce many of'django vs rails' kind of questions, that have been discussed in the past.
I love the message and the attitude in this article. Although it's about writing in the entertainment industry, I like that it's part of the Hacker News list. The point of this article (To get where you want, you have to make sacrifices and work your ass off) is applicable across anything in life. As a hacker, as an athlete as a business person, etc.

This is hard to do. Why do you think there's such a short list of people that are absolute "guns" at their trade?
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That's an interesting figure - thanks. I'd really love to see the breakdown - the manufacturing geek in me is getting all excited thinking about whether or not they deburr, how processed the parts are when they arrive as Foxconn etc etc.
Now I found the phantom character!
Whenever I got an email from someone they'd randomly have 'J' in it for me and a bunch of other people who received it (I used thunderbird, and most everyone else I talked to use gmail).
It's odd that Microsoft didn't use an ascii/unicode special character or a embed image in the email (alt-texting it).
"More is better" is implicit. If the number has no meaning, then why calculate and display it?
Not coding, but PragProWriMo sounds relevant:

http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/190
Yahoo Search Marketing has merged into Microsoft AdCenter - review
I've been advocating that sites should try h-index: http://www.quora.com/Should-Quora-ever-consider-using-H-inde...
For those wondering.

What's an Aylesbury? It's a breed of duck. We like
ducks, so we plan to use duck-related names for
each major libvpx release, in alphabetical order.

Aylesbury is a sleepy dormitory town in Buckinghamshire near where I grew up and is famous for very little except giving its name to a breed of duck. I was pretty surprised to see a codec named after it.

Probably more important:

Our goal is to have one named release of libvpx
per calendar quarter, each with a theme.
Agreed. Yet, to a lot of the readers here, it's impossible to understand why the "little things" make a big difference. They simply cannot understand why this attention to detail in a product is worth paying for.

And I think this is key to Apples success, because I suspect that a lot of CEOs and product managers in other companies simply don't see this either.

You see this with a lot of laptops where the only attention to detail is in the obviously visible parts. Compare this to Steve Jobs / Jony Ive that obsess over how their products look on the _inside_ (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...)
For Erlang specifically, you should probably use rebar (http://github.com/basho/rebar). It is pretty much the best thing ever.

A common pattern lately is to use rebar with a very minimal makefile that just makes things like "make" and "make test" do the equivalent rebar actions so that people unfamiliar with it don't even notice.
Just a quick note: The Nobel prize in economics is not actually a "real" Nobel prize. It's called "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" and was instituted by the Swedish Central bank in 1968, 73 years after Alfred Nobel's will. Apparently, Nobel wanted to promote real sciences and some people couldn't accept that. A few laureates (including Hayek) have protested the prize.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...
>That is to say, if you assume a) through d) then you assume your app is of little value and you shouldn't be building it.

Or, you feel your app is so valuable that it is worth the time and effort making it capable of reaching the widest possible audience.

It really depends on the target demographic of your app (technical vs non-technical users).
Related to your question: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html