skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would I need to do to comply with the license for a commercial mobile app? Have attribution where I display the article or data? What does share alike do in this case? Would I need to provide a link to the source for the application?
on the other hand, what if every application using that private API call was broken by a new firmware update that fixed the bug they were trying to work around? then the users suffer and that's the whole point of rejecting applications in the first place.
I like mine even though the wind here hardly ever blows so hard that it breaks umbrellas. I like the asymmetry of it, you can hold it off-center (relative to your body) and still be completely covered (when there is no wind and rain is falling down straight from above as happens often here in the Netherlands). Also you don't (usually) poke out the eyes of people you pass in the street.
The One-Way Speed of Light Conundrum
I believe the point of interest is that the CEO of the largest tech company in the United States( by market capitalization, anyway )personally reads developer email and replies by phone call.

As CEO behavior goes, this is not typical; even less so for such a large( again, by market cap )organization.
I have one of these. It certainly is much better at resisting the strong winds England can blow than a classic umbrella (which lasts about 15 minutes around here).

Unfortunately, it has two other problems that hamper any recommendation. The first is, as another commenter mentioned, it won't stay closed when collapsed without a fiddly velcro tie. You have to wrap it around the entire umbrella body, which is keen to spring open whilst you struggle with it. With cold, wet fingers this can be tricky.

The second problem is the build quality. Whilst generally OK, within 6 months mine had developed two flaws. It won't stay fully extended, as one of the little clips that pops out on the telescopic handle failed. It thus loves to collapse down to a size suitable for a toddler at any opportunity. The second is one of the canopy support structs popped out and bent, so it doesn't quite hold rigid.

It's a pity that what is otherwise an excellent design is hampered by one poor choice, and some shoddy construction. I don't know if the flaws on mine are isolated, but if that were the case, I'd have expected one flaw at most - not two orthogonal failures. Moreover, given the price, I scoured their website to find support and customer services when it broke. I had no luck whatsoever in finding after sales service, and couldn't return it to the store (it was a gift).
Sure, so it'd be hard to come up with a bytecode standard that worked really well for anything you might want to run on it - but you could probably come up with a reasonable bytecode / VM that would work reasonably well for most things.

For example, imagine that there was no threat of being sued by Oracle, etc. You could just use the JVM - that already has lots of things that compile to it which work reasonably well. I'm not arguing that we should use the JVM, but only that something like the JVM seems to work reasonably well.

Anyway - having a way that's OK or reasonable to run (say) Ruby in the browser is a lot better than the current situation where there is no such way (without using proprietary stuff).
Could be good idea!

I'll try to get around to looking into it tomorrow...
I think Davis Square is a little too far removed from quite some Boston areas .. I'd suggest Harvard Sq or Central Square if you liked Cambridge ..

I've been happily living in Brookline (Coolidge Corner) for the past 2 years. Not as much of student population as Cambridge or certain other areas of Boston. It's quiet and safe. Only downside: No overnight street parking
I'm just speculating, but if everyone in your close circle of friends does this, then FB might start feeling like IM on steroids. You can only see people who are online. When they're offline, all traces of them vanish.
The standard cp since coreutils 7.6 supports the --reflink option. This e.g. will copy a file with CoW if possible, but fallback to a standard copy if not:

cp --reflink=auto src dst

I did a quick summary of how reflinks relate to symlinks and hardlinks at http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_links.html
You two are talking about two different things. "Whitewalling" is deleting all content from your wall so it's blank (hence the name). "Super-logoff" is when you deactivate your account when you logoff.
The release notes page was pretty comprehensive imho
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3-alpha-1/
"I would love to see Apple solving the problem with typing using a remote(especially things like URLs)..."

They already solved it; you aren't supposed to be typing URLs while laying on your couch watching TV.
I think it's actually smart given the way teens behave. You know how fast things can spiral out of control (look at Lamebook, etc). Someone trusted today might not be tomorrow.
What came to my mind when I read this was the concept of pre vs post moderation. I find myself viewing posts to my wall in a very timely fashion, almost immediately after I receive an email from facebook letting me know that I have a new post on my wall from a friend. The purpose of doing so is more so I can moderate what the individual has posted on my wall and much less because I am so interested in the immediate consumption of that post. I would love an option on facebook to place many public actions in a pre-moderation queue...tagging me in a photo, posts on my wall to name two. In the absence of those tools, the idea of always deactivating on logout seems like an inconvenient but possible alternative to close that time gap.
I use a different way to keep people away from my wall, that is as effective, but less work.

I have a whitelist (a list of friends) that sets who has access to my wall. So, when I accept friendship from someone, this new connection does not have access to my wall and private photos straight away. I must put him explicitly to the whitelist.

I fing lists a very good tool to set who sees my wall, pictures and info, and even to set who sees what on my wall (more personal posts are just visible to a subset of the whitelist).
Yeah, Ross Ihaka just received the "Lifetime Achievement in Open Source Award" at the New Zealand Open Source Awards the other day.
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It's like getting a call from Jesus ... only better.
How Facebook's Poke Might Look If It Had Been Designed by a Woman
Bummer, the middle phrase is short one syllable that would make it a 5-7-5 haiku
It looks like Ram sort-of capitulated. Granted it was to a request from Steve Jobs and granted he agreed to the no private API policy when he registered as an iOS developer, but it seems like he didn't get Steve to understand his point. I'm glad Steve took the time out to call him to explain (which is pretty awesome) but it seems like it was done just to get Ram to submit his app without too much fuss.
I don't see why you have to do a postback to start the timer. I should be javascript only in my opinion.
So if you want to search for something on TV, which GoogleTV is supposed to enable you to do, how would you do that using Apple's three-button remote? I have an idea about a prayer and Steve Jobs, but wouldn't elaborate on it.

I think the blog post doesn't have a point at all, since it compares apples to pears.
P vs NP - an overview and explanation.
The problem isn't friends looking up data when you're gone (I agree with you on this one), the problem is that you don't want your friends/classmates putting content on your wall when you're not around to mitigate it.

If you read the original article [1], it provides more details on why someone would to this.

[1] http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/11/08/risk-re...
Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music#Histor...
Whoever was holding the camera was right under the power lines that fell. Why on earth didn't they run away?
Why not make the 'byte code' the LLVM IF ? That way you leverage all the stuff from the LLVM project for making it go fast.

The main thing to do then is just to have a front end for your favourite language the outputs LLVM IF.
If only Netscape just pick up Lua or Python instead of creating a language in a rush.
I can't play now, but your site looks great. I wouldn't hide the "Go hunting" button when an user clicks the arrow, though (the change page thing).

Do you pay for shipping worldwide? If you don't, it would be nice to make a footnote, otherwise there will be complaints.
"kaisha thompson recently sent me this invitation to microact[…]"

"Microact"?
Can't help but to think 'What are the odds of Apple PR saw this guy was a active blogger and made it part of their agenda to call him?'.
http://recurly.com/ works with paypal :)
Oh! I didn't see that the time was in the url so that you can launch it just by having the right url. Maybe you could try using a way that is url and javascript friendly like a hashtag?
Clickable: http://thetreasureblog.com
It's the balance between engineering and design. Apple naturally knows how to find that center, most others seem to skew too far in either direction.
In fairness, it could be a language issue. The story of the company references newspaper ads that are in some Scandanavian language I don't recongize...(maybe, that's a guess). Writing in a non-native language, even when your fluent, can leave the odd syllogism here and there.
I once got a call from Apple's review team from a man named Steve. This news for me is like hearing that the lotto's lucky numbers changed and I just threw away the ticket.
I thought he might finish off there at the end with key passwords, like the email account that all the change of password notifications go to.

As once that one's compromised, you've pretty much been compromised everywhere on the internet apart from maybe banks that require phone or fax steps for password changes.
I think people downvote you because the topic is about programming language, not human language.

I have to agree with you though, knowing English and Mandarin are better (at least for me) than knowing programming languages.
All true. But I think the potential benefits are real, and I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing if the JS VM was specialized for JS. Standardizing the byte-codes could allow a looser coupling between browsers and JS. It could also allow for people to play with JS optimizations and augmentations without having to touch the VM internals itself.

All of this makes me think that if I was a VM researcher, I'd seriously consider going in this direction. And not being a VM researcher makes me think maybe I should be one.
I empathize deeply. I wish I had more design skill than I do, and while I tend to do better than any other programmers I've worked with, I am a far cry from a real designer. The designs that I do manage to eke out are a massive effort.

I am glad that the one thing this has really given me is an appreciation for stellar design. People who can take a blank canvas and build a beautiful, functional design that works is absolutely worthy of the same, or better pay than what I get for cramming values into a database.

I'm sure it's biased in that I know how to do what I do, and I don't know how to do what they do, but a good designer is worth a mint. As is a good developer.
That was actually what was in my mind when I originally mentioned the idea to andrewducker!
It's not misleading, it's just not overly literal.

I think it's pretty easy to make the connection that Free Apps who also have revenue are selling things within the app.

Also, the article makes clear, it's not just people paying for the "full versions," but for virtual currencies, select features, etc.
I do wish they'd change the name, R is such a difficult search term
Modal Form sheets are by definition supposed to keep the keyboard displayed even when there's no first responder, so I don't understand why the author thinks that's a bug. That behavior certainly is not going to change.
Not sure about the rest of the field of health sciences, but everything in genetics is written in C or in R (and usually as C libs for R). The generation above me used SAS, but they're no longer writing code.
This is definitely added to my list of beers to try. Thanks!
Thanks! Good suggestion on the button.

And there is a footnote buried in the site somewhere, to the effect that I ship only in the United States. I should probably make it more prominent ;-)
Maybe - but I find it handy to be able to use the browser's URL autocomplete to fill these in for me. That is, I type "5" and firefox pops up with 5.minutestocountdown.com and I can just hit enter to start it.
(I didn’t downvote you but) you answered the wrong parsing of OP’s original question: It wasn’t “why can’t we use JS elsewhere?” but rather “Why can’t we use other languages in the browser,” a semi-tired plea from those who haven’t learned to love JavaScript and/or don’t realize that due to the countless number of browsers out there, JavaScript is going to be the only option for DOM scripting for years, at minimum.
A lot of Apple 2 apps were written in Basic, if I remembered correctly.
Wait, so there was a workaround (by not using a modal form), and yet we're here after a round in the app store, a call from the messiah and a blog post.
A Mini-Course in Cryptography
it's Gödel or Goedel btw
I don't know if it will bring on ruin, but I certainly found the old image search much more friendly and usable. Both this and page preview seems like "another useless feature that someone thinks improves the experience when it does nothing but show off the fact that someone can code JavaScript or some other display manipulation language." Clean and fast wins the day with me ... Duck Duck Go?
What bars do you go to where people discuss server-side javascript frameworks?
That probably explains why Amazon was saying that I would probably not receive it until December. On the plus side, they must've gotten more in, because I just received my copy on Tuesday of this week.
Ask HN: The Hacker skillset
Eric S. Raymond says in his primer:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

"It's best, actually, to learn all five of Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, and LISP. Besides being the most important hacking languages, they represent very different approaches to programming, and each will educate you in valuable ways."

Is there any language you feel should be included/excluded, and why?
The blog post doesn't say, but I wonder if at any point the author submitted a bug report about this to whatever bug-reporting tool Apple publishes for iOS developers (assuming they have a public bug reporting tool).
I lived in the UK for nearly a decade and knew nobody who walked around with that much cash.

For that matter, I grew up in a third world country and nobody walked around with that much cash there, either.
It's an interesting theory, but ultimately irrelevant. The thing is that there are SO MANY people working right now to make JavaScript incredibly fast. It's not hard to imagine a future where JavaScript is the fastest reasonable way to write software -- simply because it's the language that has the most R&D going for it.

Did I say future? Oh, hello NodeJS.

I don't envision that we'll be writing JavaScript itself forever -- but rather a super-syntax on top of it that compiles down to JS. CoffeeScript is the first generation of this kind of programming language.

I do, however, believe that for the foreseeable future, JavaScript will become the lingua franca of day-to-day programming.
Steve is so hands-on that I wish he’d fix it personally. Maybe he’d redefine keyboard modal view class to inherit the proper UIKit methods.
"Worst possible"? Sub-optimal perhaps, but Javascript is becoming very fast in the browser, perhaps it's not such a bad choice after all.
You'd do it by grabbing your iPad off of the coffee table, searching for something, and clicking 'send to TV.'

So much easier and simpler than trying to make everything do everything. Leave the keyboard to a device that's better used with one, and make the two work together nicely.

I still think that little 'Oh, and I can push stuff to my tv with my iPhone' feature they skimmed over at the Ping event will end up huge.
Some people simply cannot be dissuaded from occasionally posting inappropriate content. If they do it all the time, you might want to de-friend them. But it might be only occasional, and de-friending may have other real-life consequences (if only to your social life).

What kind of inappropriate content? The canonical example, I think, is for someone to tag you in a photo where you are doing something against the rules or otherwise inappropriate. It doesn't even have to be illegal; I've read a number of stories (and heard some personally) of elementary and high school teachers getting in trouble for simply being in a photograph where alcohol was also present. Even if they're over 21 and so is everyone else in the photo. I think it's horrifying that school principals and school districts are able to have that kind of policy, but some of them do.
I think you're missing the point. The comparison of the remotes isn't intended to point out the "better design" of the Apple version. The comparison is of the overall approach to user experience. It's obvious that Apple doesn't think people want to search when sitting in front of their TV's, whereas Google almost can't approach a problem that it doesn't think centers around search.

This is not to say that there haven't been rudimentary search capabilities in the Apple TV. It's just not a focus.
I gave up on umbrellas in Chicago and just got a nice raincoat from Patagonia.
Ah -- you are right! Fixed.
using rseek.org will help for search on R-related pages.
>>[flexible] As opposed to, say, Lisp?

Nothing compares to Lisp there, really. Perl is probably closest of the modern ones. But I talked about those I know.

CL was a favorite when I studied, but has gone the way of my German and French... I don't know it anymore. :-(

Pity it lost out in the market place. Today, CL has too bad library support, afaik.

[Edit: I don't know much about the Perl 6 macro system, but it seems harder to use than CL macros. Hard to make it as neat, for a roughly Algol-like language like Perl.]

>>CLOS, the most powerful OO system in existence

It was more or less copied in Perl's Moose.

I wrote "You'll get more library and language capabilities with CPAN than using anything else I know of."

And got the counter example "Java".

Afaik, you don't get language extensions like a new OO system in Java...?

So after comparing with CL for flexibility -- you compare amount of libraries with a system language, with roughly half the development speed (and a lot more pain) compared to scripting languages and Lisp...?

>>You mean the English inspiration shining through.

Oh, please... that was irrelevant bashing.

I take your point re Smalltalk, I've only read about the language.

Edit: Fixed syntax, clarity.
26 for me
Twitter Joker Found Guilty After Harmless Tweet About Airport
I don't have an AppleTV, but I do have a Mac Mini that runs iTunes and FrontRow. It has a small remote that is excellent for controlling the volume, fast forwarding, rewinding, and so on.

If I want a fuller interface, I can use Apple's remote application on my iPad or iPhone or iPod Touch. I don't care for the idea of trying to make one remote provide both the minimal and the maximal interface at the same time.

Disclosure: I do not hack my Unix filesytem for the sheer joy of nerding out. My opinions about usability probably do not map to anyone who reads HN regularly.
And maybe like, the hacker doing selling part could receive some financial incentive to overcome the wasted time. And that incentive would of course be given by the hacker whose product is sold, because he could make a profit on that experiment. And like, part of it would be fixed, and part of it would depend on the acceptance, which could be called conversion rate?

Congrats, you've just invented the salesman :-) Joke aside, it might be fun to try to do some sales time to time.
I did a test sometime ago and I found JavaScript MVC a bit heavy. I prefer break my JS application in small modules and do their communication via message passing (custom events), like this: http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/code-org-take-2-structuring-j...
They do, it’s called Radar, and if you ever see a URL beginning rdar:// it has to due with their issue tracker. (Outside devs can submit to Radar, but not read it; if you want other devs to see it, submit it to third-party-run OpenRadar as well.)
Four ways to harvest solar heat from roads
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield. It's short but sweet. It's a writers description of "the resistance", an invisible, ever present force that actively works against you when you're trying to ship. More generally, it works against you when you "[try to do] any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of log-term growth, health, or integrity."

The first part is titled "Resistance: Defining the Enemy" and is a great description of what the resistance is and the ways in which it works to defeat you.

The second part is about how to conquer the resistance by "going pro". There's a lot of pieces to this, but basically, it means figuring out how to show up every day and doing the work, day in and day out, with the explicit goal of conquering the resistance.

The third part is a higher level discussion of the resistance, and at least to me, was not as relevant.

Highly recommended book if you struggle with the resistance when trying to ship.
What's really amazing is that people seem to believe that Google designed products that were actually manufactured and designed by Sony and Logitech.
For Veterans Day, a viz of VA Homeless Grant and Per Diem disbursements
It is surprising how many business people aren't afraid to build monstrous macro-driven spreadsheets, but cringe at the thought of programming.

Makes me wonder if it is a UI problem. In the macro spreadsheet, you have data with code tied to it. In the programming world, you generally have code accessing data.

The abstractions might just be wrong for business people and a "simple" change could reduce a lot of IT pain.
When Campaigns Manipulate Social Media
OMG something changed, the end is nigh.
But you can run different languages inside a browser.

Activestate had Perl running inside browser:
http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.8/Components/Window...

<script language="PerlScript">
$window->document->write('Hello world!');
</script>

Also you can run VBScript. I have seen code that avoid javascript confirm() and tries to check first if it can use VBScripts msgbox function, just so it can provide 'yes'/'no' buttons. Aka:

function confirmVB (text)
confirmVB = msgbox ( Text , VBYesNo )
end function

and then javascript

function confirmYesNo(txtText)
{
if (window.vbSupported)
{
return confirmVB(txtText);
} else {
return confirm(txtText + " (ok = yes, cancel = no)" );
}
}

Cheers