skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you can create a child that solves the 1000 hacks before you die. That's the closer you can get of a high order function that solves that for you :)
Right, sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you'd decided to jump on some kind of "Steve Jobs is evil" bandwagon. The story seems balanced, probably more balanced than it would have been if you'd written it back in 2003 (I'd wager.)
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Any big company. Anyone who I had promised my clients I could deliver them to, then changed their mind.

Really more my fault than Apple's, for promising something to my clients before I had a signed contract in my hand.

But the way they made it sound at that initial meeting, with the full pitch, immediate contract, and short timeline, made it sound like the contract was a small technicality.

Lesson learned, as usual. ;-)
This is another case of Apple not allowing third-party apps the same features of it’s own apps (the previous privilege being multitasking, now mostly allowed).

This disparity makes it hard for a developer like Marco, who is only trying follow his rule of “If in doubt, do it Apple’s way” (as repeated in the HIG and similar documents Apple provides to developers).

That said, with the new multitasking support in iOS 4 for newer devices, perhaps this issue is less important than it once was, especially for apps that you use often (and thus keep running).
Depending on their profit margin, yes they do. Revenue is worthless. They aren't making much money now and will have to make tons to be worth $100B. They're not a huge number of people with money left to register, so it's up to making more with what they have now. We'll see I guess.
Global mobile phone sales up 35% to 417 million in Q3: Gartner
I like the new Google Calendar extension, but I think it would've been nice if they had integrated the functionality of the Calendar Checker in to the new one. I like the badge that pops up displaying just how many days/hours are left until my next appointment rather than having to click to check myself.
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The derivative of that ratio is far more interesting than the ratio itself.
I'm so happy to see somebody say this. There really seems to be no limit to the insanity of bonuses and retention packages and signing perks and soforth for executives.
Are the RockMelt guys shitting their pants yet?
Yes and some people are born naturally skinny but if they don't take care of themselves they could become obese. And a naturally chuby person with some work and will, good eating habits, regular exercise can become well fit. There are ranges, any IDIOT knows that. As long as you have some minimum level of intelligence you can accomplish almost anything as long as you work on it.

To the brain all inputs are the same. The same basic neural circuit is repeated again and again all over the brain. There are no specialized circuits in our brains. Our brains are general intelligence machines equipped to learn any input pattern as long as it is repeated enough. For hearing, speech, audio, motor skills, memory, thinking, the same neural circuit is used over and over again. If you are able to learn and read by your expected age level than that means that you should be able to get a phd on anything you want (assuming no learning disabilities).

Learning to speak is actually pretty hard. It takes years for a child to speak properly. The child brain has to be exposed thousands of times to the same speech patterns until it finally starts to learn them. This explains why it seems so hard to learn high level stuff like advanced math or science, because in order for us to learn knew stuff those patterns have to be repeated hundreds if not thousands of times until our brains finally starts to learn them. For people this is boring which is what makes it hard, not that it is hard to learn. LEARNING QUANTUM MECHANICS IS JUST AS HARD AS LEARNING TO SPEAK. From the brains point of view everything is a pattern. And that pattern has to be repeated a minimum number of times before it learns it. So you see, a child is exposed to speech patterns all the time even if it doesn't want to. The brain will learn on its own. However, you are never exposed to quantum mechanics patterns like in speech. Rather you have to actively seek those patterns. You have to exposed your brain to those patterns just as many times as you had to exposed your brain to speech patterns.

Finally, the mere fact that kids are rarely skipped a grade level or fail a grade level means that we are all within the same level of learning ability which means that if your friend from your same grade level is able to become a scientist you could too if you wanted to. So the conclusion is that the differentiator is work and persistence as mentioned in this article. I'm really interested in your counter arguments.
I wish we could dumb down programming! That would mean that we knew how to program easily and safely... The problem with wizards, code generators etc isn't that they dumb down programming but that they fail to dumb down programming.
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Yeah, but you just scored $3.5 million. I think most people can deal with a bit of awkwardness and danger for that kind of cash.
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Given the fact that server failure is a 'when', not an 'if', I'd recommend using "Google Apps for your Domain". It takes the hassle out of it all (as you already likely already know!) and leaves you (and your team?) free to focus on making money.
That's so unbelievably not true. Both can be difficult in their own right.

Making a lot of revenue is certainly not easy. Not a lot of business models scale up to making hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of revenue per year. Achieving that part is ridiculously difficult.

Making profit, on the other hand, is relatively simple: just control costs. We're making many millions of profit per year because we have a high profit margin. Making profit, relatively speaking, is easy.

For us to grow to hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue, that will be hard.

The idea behind valuing "top line" revenue is that the leverage there is unbelievable. If you increase your efficiency by 1%, you've instantly made tens of millions of dollars per year in profit. In the meantime, most companies voluntarily choose to pour all of their profits into growth, like hiring ahead of the curve.
This article is totally overblown; if a site is available over v4 and v6, why does it matter which one you use?
My top ten list (I just thought it up now, so this is not my final list):

1. Making my own uC architecture and write it in HDL.

2. Make a lisp machine

3. Hacking a game for a old game console (not an emulator, you have to actually get it working on the physical machine).

4. Experiment with different types of OS on uControllers.

5. Hacking to gather a home automation system.

6. Implement a whole web server in the uController from scratch (means you have to make your own protocol stack and such things).

7. Make a widely used C library.

8. Get my long standing dream of localized electronics kit store to launch.

9. Get a patent on something new

10. Make a super computer cluster from home PC's

I know lot of these are very hard but hey I am just 19 and have a whole life ahead.
In addition to light text on a light background with a dark shadow, they also tested light text on a dark background with a dark shadow. It was just as useless.

Why wouldn't they test dark text on a light background with a medium shadow or any other real-world combination?
Movie hacking - Telnet my SSH via BIOS ... or something
For the same reason that criminals are often caught after they bragged about crimes to their associates (who then give them up in order to get a deal for themselves if they are caught): because people just have to run their mouths sometimes.
That's because they were o-line.
It's clearly not. When they state user numbers, they only ever state active user numbers. And it's growing like a bat out of hell.

Let that sink in for a minute. Almost 600 million people use Facebook every single month. That's not the number that's signed up, and left. It's the number that is still actively using Facebook.
IQ tests are generally a good measure.

I say generally because I broke the test - I was really bad at the short term memory tests, yet good in other sections. Because there was such a big difference, a proper score couldn't be worked out.
The $3.5m is restricted shares. No where does this say this is some kind of salary or bonus.

Being restricted, probably prevent him from selling it except under certain conditions (like company buy back).
No engineering interns? Thats a bit odd.
http://socket.io/ is a good example of it making it harder to read.
You guys forgot to link the "You know the first names of who designed this chair" to the Eames's chair picture in the UI Designer position ;)
Running the numbers:

Projected Facebook IPO value = $35,000,000,000

Facebook ownership offered to Engineer = 00.01%

Value of Facebook offer = $3,500,000

edit: Google counteroffer = $3,500,000
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Windows Messenger now a facebook app?
I would just forgo the launch image for Instapaper then. Just get the UI up as quickly as possible. Also, supporting "multitasking" on iOS 4 helps with getting the UI up quickly when brought into the foreground.
And if you're going to ask those questions, you can at least ask it like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896245

"Curious and inviting further discussion" tends to beat "snide and dismissive" here, hands down.
I'd also argue that with all the major names leaving recently, you don't want another major name leaving you and bringing the morale down. That alone might be worth $3.5 million.
I feel this way sometimes about using Rails. It's not the same thing as visual studio but there is a nagging feeling of dependence that goes along with writing a webapp without knowing how a server works, why all the generated code looks like it does, or even knowing what TCP/IP is. ( I know the IP stands for Internet Protocol).
You realize you rallying against an article that is primarily about installing Linux and the joys of figuring things out. You realize you are on a site called hacker news right?
Exactly. I read an article like this as implying that, "serious money is only for executives and rich people, not for workers. Workers are commodities, tools."

From the article: "How many lives could be saved through research, aid, or vaccines? How much good could be done with $3.5 million?" The author is literally implying that giving $3.5 million to a world-class engineer is a waste. Not a word about the millions or billions of dollars of compensation for management, as you said. None. It's as if the author can't possibly imagine that a single engineer could do work valued at $3.5 million, ever.

What causes this type of mentality? What is this even called? Crab-bucket mentality? Self loathing? It's one thing to see workers struggling for fair compensation for their contribution to an organization's financial success and quite another to see a resistance "from within" to that struggle. Don't programmers, engineers, designers, etc. want their peers to be more successful?
3% is about one day's worth of service. Seems pretty fair to me to refund for the amount of time the service was unavailable.
I used the Senz Mini for over a year. Once I ran two city blocks back to a movie theater because I had left it under the seat. It's an umbrella that stands out from the crowd. I stopped using it because, in practice, anything over a 20 mph wind will guarantee wetness no matter what umbrella you use. Also, I made the mistake of using the 35-mph rated Mini in a storm with 45+ mile gusts - and it literally ripped the support from one of the umbrella links.

In a strong enough storm, you'll just be like Mary Poppins.

If I have enough warning, I will actually wear a lightweight version of the same waterproof pants used by highway workers over my jeans.
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Congrats to the jQuery project. Here is the link to .fadeToggle()

http://api.jquery.com/fadeToggle/
You're actually on the right track!

You now need to decode the string that came back...
Huh... if it is evolutionarily ingrained, then that means that Dogs would be far better space-pets.
The utility of text shadow really lies in the 3D aspect of it. If you have white text, adding a black text-shadow at -1px distance makes the text look inset. With black text, a white text-shadow at 1px distance works too.

It enhances contrast... and looks sexy. Win-win.
I get that, I am saying they did it on purpose regardless.
I agree, very simple to use and allows for A/B testing too.
Seems odd that a 6 year old company with 2000 employees and almost 10% of the planet using its services is still referred to as a startup.
I'd suggest ML rather than (or as a complement to) Haskell. The pervasive laziness in Haskell makes it rather unique - sometimes in a good way, but it means that algorithms often don't translate well to non-lazy languages.

ML is just as good for algorithms & complex data structures (H-M+ inferred static typing, pattern matching, etc.), and has optional laziness (in OCaml, and IIRC as an extension to some SML implementations), but is usually easier to translate to more conventional languages as necessary.
In current psychological literature, the term "genius" is developing a generally accepted definition. Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton is the leading author on the subject. The basis idea is that a genius is someone who performs at a level that is reliably superior in a statistical sense (that is, an "expert" in the terminology of K. Anders Ericsson) AND produces a new paradigm of performance in the domain of performance.

Comment on the submitted article: the Mozart biographical materials I have read suggest that Mozart's sister didn't reach Wolfgang's high level of performance partly because their father really did have a child in whom more was invested, consistent with sexist attitudes of the time. After edit: I guess the author of the essay has ten years to learn how to write a well researched essay on a topic that is well sourced in the standard scientific literature.
Not probably, it definitely is. Sir Ken Robinson is amazingly brilliant, and his value for creativity is revolutionary. Creativity defines the world we live in. He defines creativity as "the process of coming up with original ideas that have value." Just think about that. Everything in the world that we use and take for granted is the result of some creative person somewhere taking a risk. The importance of creativity is the most undervalued characteristic of people in the world. We focus more on SAT and ACT scores, both of which are only a fraction as important.
Create your own computer from scratch
I wrote the post because a friend of mine who is just starting to freelance wanted to know how I work. It's meant to be targeted at beginners and I agree, most people who have freelanced before should know most (if not all) of it. I do think they are still decent reminders, or at least I hope they are.

Anyways, I didn't expect it to hit the front page really but I guess some people are finding it somewhat useful/interesting.
You need to be pun-ished.
I don't believe the launch image is something you can just forgo.
Richard Feynman can't tell you how magnets work
He said it's too small for an experience like you get on the iPad. And sure enough, apps on the iPhone are much more simplistic than apps on the iPad.
IANAL, but isn't that precisely what the MIT license requires? That everyone who gets a copy of the software must also have the right to modify and redistribute it for free?
When wizards, etc. actually work, it often just means we can move on to the next interesting problem.

See e.g. http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
There are a few issues. For me two of the most basic are 1) the lack of a ubiquitous NA across all data types and 2) lack of 754 floating point behavior. The lack of custom infix operators is also a bit painful, especially if you view matlab as a competitor. The unquoted formula type is also nice, although you could get some of that by parsing strings.
Everybody's right. Science wasn't necessary, it's obviously useful in a limited set of circumstances. (One could argue that such text without contrast shouldn't exist, but that's easier said than done in a dynamic environment such as a game.) Zed's still right in the way he meant it, which was not about those limited sets of circumstances.

In other news, the well-known true statement "the sky is blue" isn't actually true. Right now it's black, studded with these little white spots. But we still know what that means. Context.
Yes, and it is.
It's only hard for you to grow to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue because of your profit margin. Start selling stuff for a loss and you'll have tons of revenue (given that your goods are in demand and you are selling them for less than everyone else). They're are tons of businesses with plenty of revenue but shit to show for it. The auto industry comes to mind...
That's a pretty bold statement : The Goldman trader's NPV will be pretty solid in cash terms (given that Goldman's risk group actually does a decent job, and values things accurately). The NPV created by a Google engineer is more difficult to judge - depending on how far into the future it is, and what risk/reward is embedded in Google's stock valuation.

I'm not arguing that either one is over or under-paid. Just that it's not apples-to-apples.
Tim Ferriss: Let Me Promote Your Product
Reminds me a lot of Skeet's "C# in Depth". Thanks for sharing.
I'm not talking about pulling C libraries into the browser. I'm talking about expanding the use of the JavaScript language outside of the browser (beyond even something like Node.js).

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding NativeClient, that's not what it's about.
i disagree.

i think because you walked away in a classy way you demonstrated power and that brought them back to the table.
Maybe, but your link is about how increased hardware capacity has made life easier. Which is true, but not the same.
The whole fiasco could have been avoided if someone had simply gotten back to you, though.
I am excited to see what World Blender does with location-based gaming.
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Wait until you see the google site!
It can be, or it can not be.

If by "genius" you mean someone who's defined by their actions, then it is [simply the product of hard work].

Otherwise, if by "genius" you mean someone with the potential to be great, then it is not [the product of hard work, but rather one's genes].

Both of these interpretations of "genius" are often used, although there is very little distinction between the two if the "genius" with the potential to be great lives up to their expectations. On the other hand, those who have the potential to be great but don't take advantage of their genes are hard to discover.

Also, the "genius" that -has- potential to be great and -is- great is technically a genius of both kinds. Something to think about...
You're right, and quite quick to respond. I'll wait to post until I'm done editing next time. :)

What's your involvement with Self, PS? Brilliant language.

(Also, there is a LOT of good content on James Hague's blog. Highly recommended.)
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I agree with you that value is not always measured in dollars.
However, if the value is not measured in dollars, then why is Google offering dollars?

I think what is happening is that Facebook is offering more dollars (likely, via stock) and the developers would prefer more dollars to more non-dollar denominated value Google is offering.

Developers are not always the best investors, but at this point in time Facebook would appear to have much more upside in their stock than Google. It's just a matter of time before enough developers vest that Facebook is forced public like Google.
Those are sort of outrageous examples.

I find text shadow helps when I've got the contrast between the type and the background a little close. Text shadow can be used to subtly improve the contrast just around the letters. Done right users don't consciously know there is a text shadow but legibility is improved while maintaining a mellow set of colors.

To be explicit, in HTML-5 land I would be talking about something like a 1 to 4 pixel wide shadow with say an hsla(0,0%,0%,0.25) color to darken a background around some lighter text.
I wonder for how much longer the 'give away the PDF, sell the print version' business model will work. Not that I'm complaining!
It would be impolite to mention who the client is or specific numbers, but let's say this is a fiction based on recent experience:

FooCorp is a well-known software company which makes FooBar, a product virtually synonymous with bar. FooBar's rankings for [bar] suck because FooCorp has a longstanding institutional distrust of SEO which they are only recently recovering from. FooBar's yearly sales are $5 million. Successfully implementing my recommendations regarding SEO and conversion funnels would, conservatively, increase that to $6 million. The marginal $1 million is about 95% profit.

I worked at FooCorp for two weeks. Pretend the client is operating on Google scales, where $1 million is penny ante and barely rates a mention in a weekly summary email. Now pretend that the engineer works for four years. Now pretend that the engineer is provably responsible for at least one 5% improvement in a core revenue-generating Google product (cough only two choices here cough). Now pretend that improvement was highly non-obvious and Google does not believe it would be easy to replicate if they only had a team of genius PhDs and infinite money to throw at the problem. Now pretend that said employee is reasonably expected to do more good work in the future... and just said he wants to go to Facebook.

You tell me, is he really worth $3.5 million?
Possible solutions:

- Make it a picture of the dark mode interface, and animate to the light interface on start (or vice versa).

- Show the splash screen, and animate in the UI components.

I have no idea how hard either solution is, but you might be able to get a less jarring start from an approach like this.

It sucks that you can't take a snapshot of the app when exiting though.
I hadn't even thought about that to be honest with you. What's the process for even putting a license on your code? Do you just say so in the README file or something?
"They edit!" Classic.
A fine article for hiring adequate or average developers.

You can't really hire great developers using any process involving resumes and ads. Hiring great developers involves recruitment. You already know you would hire the developer before you even contact them. The entire issue is can you offer them enough to lure them from where they are now.
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http://soontyphoon.com is coming soon. On it I collect an email address, and give the opportunity to tweet about it.

But honestly, it's more important to get some text up than to collect info. You want to get google cranking, and unless you have some way of driving lots of traffic, you won't get many to join your mailing list. ymmv
This is also an issue for one of my apps, which can launch in a horizontal landscape, there's no way to create two Default.png files, once for each orientation (correct me if I'm wrong, would love to optimise for it).
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"I think there’s quite a bit of promise in the technique of using “real” statistical evidence to back up claims."

That, or, you got punked into blasting a hundred bucks by Zed Shaw via Twitter...