skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do! (Read the OS X Server license.) The "bare-metal" just has to be Apple-branded metal. :-)
Given the popularity of Wordpress on LAMP, it could be something like KeepAlive: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...
Seems like kreci just discovered a new way of making money:
1. find some easy to implement iPhone app
2. rewrite it to Android
3. profit!
>It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it.

Join the Open Handset Alliance if you want an inside track. That's the group that develops it.

Android is not in any way open in the same sense as the Linux Kernel is, for instance. Google is the main contributor, and they tend to contribute in massive chunks, primarily when a new version drops.

It's more akin to MySQL's open source edition, where in no way do you know what the core team is really planning or doing until they pull a shocker.
As someone just starting up their first website (http://wayofthescholar.com), there's a lot of helpful material here, and a lot I still need to work through.

Although each item may be obvious and discussed in greater depth a thousand other places, a list is sometimes really helpful.
Wow thanks for all the responses everyone. I am actually going with a few other students for a college class and am not sure how much freedom we have (to go and grab drinks etc) but I will let those who offered to meetup know when I find out.

It is actually a finance class and we are going to look at some publicly traded companies, but Startup Saturday sounds awesome. I am going to go and talk to my professor and see if we can all attend in either Delhi or Mumbai (depending on our schedule). It would be great to be able to check out some smaller and newer companies as well as the larger and more established ones already scheduled, at least that's the argument I'll make with my professor. And it just looks like a lot of fun.
Just as an anecdotal piece of info: most musicians accept that the human brain can keep track of eleven notes. Beyond that, you can change the scale progression and the transition will be (relatively) smooth to the human ear.
uh, if you stop working with server side frameworks, how do you serve information to the front end javascript framework? do you intend to just expose your database to the end user's browser?
The point maxklein was making is that these apps are useful to someone, otherwise, kreci wouldn't be making money from them.

Just because we don't deem them useful here doesn't mean there aren't people who do find them useful.
It's working again now. Although I had to lower the number of maxworkers to get it stable, so it may be slow.

And yeah, I'll be investigating why it's so slow tomorrow after the heat dies down. I think this is the first time that wordpress instance has served more than a few hits per day, so I'm kinda not surprised it's gone horribly wrong.

Mirror at http://bieh.net.nyud.net/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/
Have you looked at using IntelliJ instead of Eclipse? I've not used it, but it might be more of what you're looking for.
I don't think MSFT will want to encourage mobile app devs to write apps for any platform but WP7, and I also think that there is a market for this product. I personally would buy it. So you will not likely face competition from the biggest party who could summarily put you out of business, but there will probably be other small teams that think of this.

You just need to work better, not necessarily faster, than them.
No it doesn't.

For one thing, 12 doesn't have the factor 5. Who says having the factor of 3 is better?

And the whole 10 fingers thing? That might be useful to keep.

I assume the article wasn't meant to be taken literally, but it's hardly high-quality content, and I'm sure everyone who reads HN knows about non-decimal based systems.
Because it doesn't load? :)
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I have looked at it, but I haven't given it the amount of time that I have given Eclipse. I just ran into too many bugs that revolved around its interaction with the emulator.
Oh man ... it's a little cruel to post something like this on a _Monday_ morning when I can't play it!

(Excellent work, though. I love rogue-likes and this one looks like fun).
This was posted yesterday. It was and still is a list of items that people with well paid jobs probably already have. Not a list of particularly exciting exotic inventions.
You can't convince people the shinier product is better when they're buying servers based on actual numbers instead of whatever their impressionable peers say they should have.
Agreed. All interesting languages.

Not a groovy fan, but groovy++ and compile-time AST transformations sounds like fun.

Speaking of stab, an Eclipse plugin commit just hit svn:

http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/source/detail?r=280
As always, a major key, if not the major key, to success is to be useful to other people. If they don't understand what you have to offer, you'll have a very hard time being useful.

This article is, though, a neat illustration of that basic point.
If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling
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This kid has gumption.

It's nice when stories focus on the positives and not the negatives of everyday life.
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I respectfully disagree with Steve's assertion about Tivo's issues. Blackberry had a huge advantage : it had truly pioneering technology and competitors did not emerge for quite a while. Tivo, although very cool, did not have huge technological head start that could sustain it. TV cards for computers had existed before Tivo; you had the media center PC, Save TV, Hauppage and , my favorite, MythTV. All of these were positioned as an alternative to VCRs. Had Tivo positioned itself as better VCR that sold at $800, it would have been laughed out of the market.They could have locked in deals with cable cos and Dishnetwork -- they chose to compete/sue and failed miserably . Therefore , it was not the positioning that mattered here; it was poor go-to-market strategy.
I don't know anything about Visual Studio, but I do know it's quite possible to do Android development in any text editor, although it's certainly easier in an editor that understands Java. You don't need any special IDE support, or even an IDE at all. All the project creation, building, etc. can be done quite easily from the command line.

I built my first Android app using Emacs (and the command line), because I already was somewhat familiar with Emacs and was completely unfamiliar with Eclipse. Then I switched to Eclipse, mostly to get familiar with and see what all the fuss is. Like you, I'm not a fan. I'm currently trying out Intellij, which so far seems pretty nice. I'd really recommend trying it.

IMHO, I think the hardest part of your project will be trying to get Visual Studio to support Java.
Self Comes To Mind
So 20 people upvoted a password prompt?
To me, (as a "enterprise" developer), discipline means knowing when to say NO to a feature. I think traditionally Enterprise software is developed with the crazy "advanced" (5%) scenario in mind vs. the "regular" (95%) use cases.

Edit: Just re-read the article an realized he said the exact same thing (95% vs 5%).
Happy holidays from Google Chrome: free holiday Wi-Fi at 30,000 feet
Each table (dict, hash, whatchamacallit) has a hash portion and an array portion, and contiguous integer keys are stored internally in the array. So, tables automatically adapt their internal implementation for use as an array, a dict, or both, at runtime. They're unique to Lua, AFAIK.

It also has an interesting hash table optimization (that I don't quite grok). I've been reading through the Lua code bit by bit, but haven't made it there yet. Lots of other interesting stuff, though.

LuaJIT's not too shabby, either!

Lua's my favorite language for quick hacks, period. I wrote a library to add fairly idiomatic pattern matching (http://github.com/silentbicycle/tamale/). Every language needs pattern matching. :) I'm still working on explaining PM to people who aren't already into Erlang or ML, but it's documented now.
My weekend project: Cost Behavior Analyzer
The thing that Firesheep brought to people's attention is that the login is not the only thing that needs to be SSL protected. The cookies you get after signing in are often sent in the clear, and that cookie is just as good as your login for gaining access.
The point is that 12 has more factors than 10 making a lot of everyday calculations easier.

Sure you lose dividing by 5, but you gain dividing by 3, 4 and 6. Also, you get nice decimals for common fractions.

I assume the article wasn't meant to be taken literally

I think it makes a lot of sense to use base-12 instead of base-10. Of course, it'll never happen because it'd be an almost impossible change given the weight of education and the metric system.
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I think we crashed notepad.cc :/ sorry.. any suggestions on a more stable site to post simple text to with reasonably simple presentation?
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On "Android Developer Income Report"
At least on the Eclipse front, one thing that may not be obvious is that it comes by default with some very low and inadequate memory settings. This can lead to abysmal performance with the Android SDK.

The fix is easy: up your memory settings in eclipse.ini

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

Specifically, I'd look at these minimum/maximum heap size settings:

-Xms40m
-Xmx256m

Mine has:

-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m
would be great to have a web interface.. for 1. convenience and 2. privacy as i wouldn't want people that check my twitter timeline to know that i'm trying to find something similar to fill in the gap
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/07/clifford-stoll-on-this-...
this will have to do: http://jlank.posterous.com/32876942
I tried this, the site seems much more responsive now. Thanks!
Model-UI separation is a pretty basic principle that decent programmers put into practice every day. I find it tends to aid the design process rather than obstruct it.
In the book "Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers" by Michael Schrenk, there's a topic that deals with automatic procurement and 'sniping' for those who are interested in reading further.

See #19 on the section list for a description:

http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/DSP_inside.php

(Not affiliated in any way.)
It might not be completely on topic with the thread, but I (personally) don't think it's that far off.

I had a couple of friends from my lagere school (like middle school and elementary wrapped in to one) which I attended at Lagere school Prinsstraat in downtown Antwerp that went to a beroupsschool (like a career college but starting younger during high school years). So I know there was a big difference in their lives both during their school years, and I would even venture to say their current lives. I think the atmosphere of a beroupsschool would be a lot more like the high school I went to in Colorado.

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with universities from either side so I'm not sure how those would compare.

On the note of bullying; My father is American while my mom is Belgian; when I was younger (from age 1 through age 12) we moved around a lot - from country to country and then from state to state. When my parents separated, I moved back to Belgium with my mom and I experienced tons of discrimination for being the "American". When I moved to the States at the age of 14/15, I was discriminated for being the "Belgian". I don't think there was much difference in that aspect at least form my personal experience.

In the end I think the educational system in the US has a lot of room for improvement, and as it was 15 years ago, the material being taught was at least 2 years behind the material I was being taught back in Belgium.
There's a tip that should be more public! I will try that.
Launching Gmail on April fools' day was, for me, hilarious. At a time when Yahoo! and Hotmail were offering 5/2 Mb, Google came out with 1Gb. It was so obviously an April Fools' joke... but then... wow!

But I can see that from their perspective it caused a lot of confused users - although it probably kept the story in the news a day longer than it would have been otherwise.
There's nothing wrong with "finding muses" to support yourself.

For all we know, Kreci already has an amazing and interesting project he's working on, but it takes small android apps to fuel him time to work on it.
I can't imagine Google pays much attention to this anymore. Many of the categories have near absent editors and it can take over 6 months to be added.
Damn karma whores...
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

Please link to the original source or the best authority thereof if the original isn't available, not a damn blog.

Flagged as spam.
+1 for not saying "8 Things You Should do..."
You're absolutely right. Getting VS to edit Java files and build the apks wasn't too difficult. What will make it awesome is getting intellisense working. I will have to write a language service for that.
Yes! When Android first came out I submitted an app to Google's app competition. I hated the experience in Eclipse so much that I never went back. Visual Studio support would be fantastic.
That would have been incredibly handy in the age of sail.
Why do we need academia for mentorships?

Certainly academia is not useless (though I guess I was implying that in my previous post with the "Who needs them anyway?") but I do think that academic institutions will likely become less and less relevant. I'm currently in a PhD program studying Environmental Engineering and its so structured and balkanized and specialized that its really pretty ridiculous (and I'm at one of the more progressive, liberal Engineering programs in the country). It occurred to me that it would be incredibly interesting if, instead of having to research at Universities and thus, working within their outdated framework, what if people began researching at places like Google? What if companies like Google funded imaginative, interdisciplinary research? Stuff that gets bogged down in the highly procedural academia?

I might try and think of a way to better articulate this idea and see what the HN community thinks of it...
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QED meets General Relativity
The Google Docs presenter-tool in slideshow-view is pretty "clean".
I like John Gruber's comment on this: "They solved the problem of Chrome having a nice, simple, minimalist interface."
You've then just moved all data processing to the front-end, and the MVC framework moves into the client. You are then charging the consumer a tax for the processing and battery power of a presentation that could have been served with an infrastructure designed to handle it.

Moving UI to the client does nothing but move the UI to the client - it still has to be done and Javascript performance varies too much for this to be the catch-all option right now.
Startup Kroud - Can you help me test my new Q&A community app?
The script has 341 followers on Twitter. I love technology :)
Eh, I guess the closest answer for me would be "Other." I'm not currently enrolled in any classes anywhere, and nothing else quite fits. I finished 3 Associate degrees, but never finished my Bachelors degree. But I still intend to go back and complete the B.S. "one day." And the material I ready/study/learn on my own goes beyond B.S. level in some areas anyway.
I've gone in and removed mine. I can't be certain but when I signed up (before it went fully public, I think) I don't remember it saying the e-mail would ever be visible (and I used the same unique e-mail address I use for all my Git work/commits). So it's well worth GitHub users double check what they have in their profile "just in case" they entered it at a time they though it'd be private.
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For the title you gave this on HN you sure to present very many reasons as to why it makes a lot of sense (other than more factors).

I think probably the hardest part for me to learn to count and do math in base 12 would be to use and learn two new symbols to represent 10 and 11.

By the way German also has separate words for eleven and twelve.
Cue dozens of made-for-adsense sites based on this in 3,2,1...
I learned to recite this poem when I was ten years old, wouldn't personally upvote its submission on HN, though.
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I'm more glad that things I've posted are being "backed up" in various ways. Nothing beats backing things up personally but I'm happy Google has posts of mine from Usenet in the mid 90s. Not something I'd have ever kept a copy of and awesome to look back on.
I've just build my own Questions and Answers app called Kroud. The idea is anyone can create their own 'Kroud' and start interacting with their customers through Q&A. I know the idea isn't original (GetSatifaction and Qhub), but I wanted to have a go myself. Let me know what you think of it. I've started one for Startups and added a few questions.
If app is good (funny or useful) people will come. As I have been experimenting most of online promotion is not worth efforts/time or money that it may cost.
The German hoster regfish offers XServe based servers: https://www.regfish.de/cloud/macosx

I wonder whether they'll continue offering OSX servers.
Related: https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1654943823953920

"Breaking - Nokia and Symbian making "major announcement" at 1530 GMT" tweeted by BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones.
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Well, because the title's so short, I upvoted by accident from my iPad. From now on I'm using HN with a capacitive stylus. :P
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I've never seen you comment on someone else's success without coming across as bitter.
Even if single-page AJAX becomes the standard for web apps, I don't see apps ever becoming the exclusive form of content on the web. It will always be mostly passive text, images, video, audio, etc. for which the thin client model is perfectly suited.
Kindness of a Stranger That Still Resonates
I have also helped Stu give this a whirl.

If anyone wants to see how this could work with a company, check out http://zferral.kroud.co (this is in beta).
You're right that it was not that much different - but it was no worse or notably more expensive than HP or Dell solutions. And it ran OS X Server.
Looks useful for scraping the web and shows a now common pattern: start with a Java library, wrap with Clojure making the APIs nice to use.
Phineas Gage and the effect of an iron bar through the head on personality
Opera holds the web's most valuable secret
This is so scarily complimenting my life I'm paranoid of this throwaway account.
> an HTML5 mobile UI for Basecamp

Oh man, that would be great! All Basecamp iPhone apps are terrible... If you don't mind me asking, is the "hold" temporary, so will the project be resumed at some point?
I think there is a huge difference between a SAN and a Server OS. Specifically, I don't think Promise RAIDs do anything clever to work with XSan. (it's just a SAN with fibre?)
It's a little remarkable that a virtually-real auction house (WoW AH) has better auxiliary tools than a real(ish) auction house (eBay).

If only I could hover my mouse over items around my house to discover what they are worth on eBay!
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
In the book I mention the author uses three words for the current 10 and 11 and 12: dec, elf and zen. dec from Latin, elf from German and zen to recall that 12 is a dozen.

The factors really are the key (since you get lots of easy divisions, a multiplication table that has lots of nice patterns, lots of simplified decimals). Then there's the relationship with 'natural' systems such as months in year, hours in a day etc.
Nothing on the blog itself made me think jgc was making the argument that a switch would "make a lot of sense", just the title he used on HN (and his first comment in this thread). That struck me as slightly odd.
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Love it! Took me a while to find how to turn the music off.

How about a character review at death? And maybe a local and global leaderboard?

Maybe a different colored icon for the stairs down would be nice, but that depends on how easy you want to make it for the player. ;)

My keyboard doesn't have a numpad — maybe a duplicate of the numpad somewhere on the keyboard would be a solution?

EDIT: After playing more, monster and item variety is low. A way to see dungeon level would be good as well.
I predict this is going to be up there with some PG articles as must-read startup material. Excellent.
It's now fast for a few seconds, then gets slow shortly after the footer loads.
Kreci, you used to do monthly income reports. It looks like you're not doing those anymore? I'm probably not alone in being curious how your photography and other streams are doing lately. Thanks for the interesting Android report!
Spanish has separate words up to fifteen. French has separate words up to sixteen.

The linguistic argument for switching is suspect (even setting aside words such as "twenty" and "hundred").
Yeah, God forbid you should number your main points.

Seriously, what is the problem with a list post? Yes, it's a hook. Why is that a problem?
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> I've never seen you comment on someone else's success without coming across as bitter.

Is that so?

Wow.

References please, and don't pull your punches. Then, for an encore go search for those cases where I've done my utmost to get HN'ers stuff launched and helped them with goods, time, funds, traffic and whatever else I've got to give.

What would you rather have, my unvarnished opinion or do you think it would be helpful if I fawned over what I essentially perceive to be a bunch of fart apps?
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

Not a mirror, instead it's the original content hosted by the creators of said content.
Yes, I think a Backbone plugin that provided that would be very well received.
Sorry for misquoting you.

However, with proper CSRF protection your man in the middle argument is not the case is it?