skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh...

I feel bad for the people who have to go to work and their bosses think now that even a ten year old kid can do their work. Sounds a bit like a Dilbert story coming up.

I know some children can play piano concerts by age of 6 but it does not mean everyone can.
I think it is great that children are building things, although I don't think it is news to anyone here, I think everyone here have built things as a child.

The other moral of the story for me is that I should avoid markets where a 10 year old can easily be successful. I mean if the client cannot make a difference between your work and the work of a 10 year old, then you may not be in the good market.
Here in Hungary 'small scale web development' (website creation for small firms) is in the hands of young guys (although not 10 year olds, more like 20) working for very low amount of money. I avoid that market like plague. Also I don't want to be 'the IT guy' for a small non-tech firm, which is very similar.

"He dashed off a check for $2,000"
My god, how incredibly happy a 20 year old average PHP developer in Hungary would be for having $2,000 for the mentioned site...
The boundaries of a bargaining unit are set by the location of work and the job classification. These are obviously fuzzy categories and sometimes the National Labor Relations Board has to step in and decide which subset of workers gets to be in a bargaining unit. However, there’s just nothing in the law that lets workers say “OK, everyone with ten years or more seniority will be represented by Union X, and everyone with less seniority will be represented by Union Y, and we will negotiate separately for contracts.”
original post: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face...

although still no y-axis :(
New T-Mobile Ad Makes Fun of AT&T’s Network
IPhone Versus Android: Nielsen Delivers the Numbers [STATS]
The site is awful looking. However, it's designed by a couple of 10 and 13 year olds. That makes the site pretty good in my eyes.
The degree of harm (if it's considered that) caused by these cameras saving in JPEG is no where near that of heavy filters.

Though I don't think the author's tone is justified. Some people are just having fun and rightly don't care about archival.
It just makes it a bit of a random comparison, if changing one unneeded setting changes who "wins".
I'm starting to wonder if stuff like this gets upvoted so people can watch it go to the top and get thoroughly trashed.
Tango

(US) NATO phonetic alphabet for the letter "T" and for "Target" (or enemy). Example: "We have two Tango's at 3 o'clock - I'll take the right one."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Military_slang
An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for iPad E-books
I think Deep Blue was pretty revolutionary, but I can see why he might not want to admit that...
CoBrowser, An App To Surf The Web On Your iPad Using Your iPhone's Connection
Zoho Suite becomes the most popular app for SMBs on GetApp.com
All sorts of tiny events required massive planning.

We old-timers just used to call it "planning."
Here are some very interesting comments from the author:

I guess with MS killing DLR and Iron languages, that puts more pressure on us, as I think this leaves Irony as the only ongoing technology for parser/interpreter construction in .NET. DLR, in my humble opinion, had never had a slight chance to become mainstream - it's just too complex, and benefits (like performance) are non-existent.

there are other gaping holes in .NET technology, which are screaming "fix me!", and which are more relevant to biz app programmer like myself. Entity framework and LightSwitch are jokes and don't even deserve any serious discussion. That's what I'm trying to do now - fill the void, and sorry to those who work in areas where parsers are more important than anything else.
It's funny how people use a lot of modern, often expensive, technology just to imitate effect of a 20yr old camera you can buy for like $50.

Archeologists one day will wonder 'why did they do that?'
I agree on the design critique, but the interesting point is that the business owner was pleased with the result. A professional developer/designer may scoff and think "I would do better than that," but in reality the boys delivered exactly what the customer wanted. That's real competition.
I agree Flash is a great tool to teach kids. Actionscript is a great foundation language. I've taught some primary school kids Flash before and some of them made some pretty impressive games.
Yea, but that's not what most mean by "write once run anywhere." I don't consider having to write separate view controllers for iPhone and iPad "write once run anywhere."

In fact that's not much different than many existing cross platform applications that have a platform agnostic core with a layer of platform specific UI code on top.
The Mobile Developer Journey from App Design to Monetization (Infographic)
I spent a minute trying to figure out what you meant by saying "because it's funny few I thought..." when I realized you actually meant "because it's funny phew".

I'd also mention something about the punctuation, but frank, it was the few/phew slip that really confused me. =)
Google web api dead, Bing the sole survivor...
Google announced on Nov 1st that their web ajax api was deprecated. Now that the Yahoo BOSS api will be switching over to the Bing index, the only api alternative left will be Bing (or BOSS, but thats the same). Kinda scary to go from three apis (G,Y,B) to just one in a few months, limiting choice and potential competition in the industry...
I've noticed that some groups of people never meet at the place previously discussed. It's like "Hey, let's go to X" really means let's go some as-yet undisclosed location downtown.
Yeah, but conservatives really hate hippies. You sure that doesn't trump everything else when it comes to pot? Most conservatives I've talked to recently are extremely emotional/cultural on their reasons for being a conservative.
It was already mentioned : " is it legal?"

But maybe I can go to China open a sweatshop of 10 year old kids developing websites.

If Nike can do it ;)
I've got nothing to add to this - but did want to somehow express my complete agreement with this sentiment in a way that somehow goes beyond a mere upvote.
Go back in your hard drive and look at photos you took with your cellphone 5 years ago.

Ha ha, oh wow. No single sentence underscores the author's misapprehension of why people take most photos better than this. What's astonishing is that this is after he correctly grasps the concept of Instagram:

...it connects you to your friends, and it provides a way of sharing content with your friends that keeps you coming back to the app.

The astute reader will note that this doesn't sound like a solid data preservation strategy. But neither does connecting with friends sound like something particularly deleterious to the formation of memories. Quite the opposite: sharing signals memorability. If that comes at the expense of "destroying" the photo's accurate representation of the color of your couch cushions or the oiliness of your skin, so be it; those things are not memorable. The photo is not the memory.
This reminds me of the rants akin to Twitter's 140 character limitations back in the day. Instagram is useful and fun. I suspect Instagram is going to be just fine!
Or, in GNOME, it's Compose, +, -.
Face Detection with HTML5 & JavaScript
Fuzzy Mathematics with Python (FuzzPy, part 2)
This second post provides an introduction to the various types of fuzzy numbers, how to work with them using FuzzPy, and how to create visualizations for your fuzzy numbers and fuzzy or crisp graphs.
Buy Term Paper and Leave More Time for Your Individual Interests
Although term papers are assigned at the end of a semester, it will take up much of the student’s time. This will leave less time for the students to concentrate on other aspects of their lives. Buying term papers will solve this problem greatly.
Why Oracle Bought E-Commerce Company ATG
China Mobile Joins Linux Foundation (& Why Developers Will Care)
And yet the artists of the day will understand perfectly.
Different contributors join at different stages for differing motivations. There's absolutely nothing wrong w/ putting this out there now and asking for help. There is never a perfect time. You can always have more tests. The well designed, general-yet-comprehensive, clear API you thought you needed might actually be entirely wrong once 5 or 10 people start submitting patches.

It is never wrong or a bad idea to ask for help. Whether you're at the idea stage, only have some hacked up barely working code, or are a mature project with a stable set of APIs. Asking for help is well, exactly that... asking for help.
How WikiLeaks Exposure Could Have Been Prevented
"There is no way in hell I am paying frontlist pricing for the work of a dead author whose works can be had for about a buck in used paperback."

Well said and good point.

I know that many publishers are justifying that they are charging near dead-tree version pricing because of "costs associated with conversion to eBook formats." That's a sham, because 99% of the eBooks out there do not even have formatting as nice as the printed books, nor do they have the photos or imagery associated with chapters. At least, the Amazon and Apple eBooks. I have seen some PDF eBooks from notable publishers (O'Reilly and Pragmatic) who format their eBooks quite nicely.

If publishers can make their eBooks look nearly as fantastic as their dead-tree versions (if not better), then I think it's fair to charge near dead-tree pricing. Otherwise, who are they fooling? Most of them are doing a "print to PDF" not actually formatting it.
Could be anything from my wildly different views on the world (theism vs atheism; government's place, opinions of other people, etc...), to being the middle child. My two sisters seem to get along fine with them.
88 'high-risk' security defects found in Android kernel
They aren't dueling teenage street gangs, The Conservs and the Hippies. You've talked to a strange little subset of conservatives. I'm a liberal, and my next door neighbor is an extremely emotional/cultural liberal too.
Was it on the same idea or different one's?
u mad.

Images need to be uploaded. My iPhone uses T-Mobile with Edge. I do not want to wait for a 12MP photo to be transferred, ever. That is a prohibitive user barrier. Besides that, in the future they will be able to just say "ENHANCE" like in Blade Runner and this won't even be an issue.

Based on his other articles, this guy is either being intentionally inflammatory or should probably be medicated.
> the Indian caste system makes the worst excesses of Apartheid look like a teddybear's picnic.

That seems somewhat contrary to what I have read. Details?
Maybe hippies is a bad way to put it, but how to explain "Take OUR country back" without hippies and race?

Not saying it's all conservatives, just a significant chunk. And, yeah, cultural liberals exist too but we don't have the anger level, you never see liberals get angry about the heartland the way conservatives are angry about "libs".

EDIT to reply since I'm heading out the door: Yeah, signs at rallies, plus Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, several people I met while canvassing, every outspoken conservative in my hometown that I've heard from..

Yeah, SF contrarian-libertarians don't talk like that. But a significant subset of the conservative movement does. We'll see if it changes now that they don't feel so emasculated after taking the house.
Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
That's a glass-half-full interpretation of what happened, but be aware that there is a valid half-empty take: 55-45 is, in political terms, a sound defeat. It wasn't a squeaker. The measure lost in a way that will make it harder --- either marginally or significantly, who knows? --- to legalize statewide in California in the next cycle.
It's your own choice still. I don't have a cell phone and never had one.
Original post by pg:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577
HTML5 Resources Roundup
This commentary assumes, as its driving premise, that most users of apps like Instagram really care about data fidelity or picture quality as measured on a scale not immediately perceptible to them. I would wager that they don't. Furthermore, I take issue with the assertion that putting a cute filter on a photo is "destroying" its quality. To the users of Instagram, they're finishing the photo by doing that. It's part and parcel of the final product. The photo is not destroyed or degraded with the filter; it's made by the filter.

Not everyone (and, in fact, and perhaps a bit unfortunately, most people) cares about quality. They'll take fun and convenience every time. This is why you see people still using MP3s or lossy AACs on iTunes, for instance, and not filling up drive after drive with lossless rips directly from CDs. A lot of folks just want ease and fun and sharing, and there's nothing wrong with that in principle.
AOL’s Third Quarter: Revenues Drop 26 Percent, Profit Surges
Thank you for this wonderful post! I was beginning to feel left out.

While the rest of the U.S. is consumed with mid-term election results, World Series celebrations, fantasy football, Survivor, and Justin Bieber thinking he can dance with 5th graders, we hackers pay little attention and keep on working.

Then you guys come along with fresh hacker-friendly drama. Thank you! It's been 3 weeks since Angelgate, and things were beginning to get monotonous alt-tabbing between my IDE, my debugger, my test runs, email, and hacker news.

</sarcasm>

Now that the sarcasm tag has been lifted, let me say what I really think:

Why is it that those of you who have so much spend so much energy being drama queens? We hackers struggle every day, sometimes for years, building stuff, but if we fart wrong during a pitch, you send us on our way as if nothing we ever did matters. Anyone who comes to this board can bitch and moan about a million different things, but most of us don't; we just keep on working.

Why don't you all just STFU and do the same. There's already too much drama and too much work to be done. When Silicon Valley turns into Hollywood or Washington, D.C., we should all start worrying.
My conservative friends don't talk like that. You know what talks like that? Crazy signs at rallies. Consider whether that's where you're getting your facts from.

I'm a midwesterner, by the way. And libertarians kind of drive me nuts. I'm talking about Republicans.
I would say that a conservative wants to preserve the status quo, and a reactionary wants to return to a time period before the status quo with more limited government. Libertarians are reactionaries (this is not a slight on libertarians, just making it clear there is a distinction between people who like what we have now and people who want to roll back even what we have now).

There are a lot more conservatives than reactionaries, most of the tea party is talking about rolling back spending/government to right about the day President Obama was sworn in. They didn't suddenly become Libertarians.
I wonder if these are "invisible" Flash apps. I've heard that Click2Flash lets through something like any 1x1 Flash apps because those are almost always just used for Flash cookies and the like. Would be disappointing (though not shocking!) to hear that some of them are poorly written and use CPU even when idle.
Quite true. I can be a little knit-picky.

However, those are the trade off's and that's not even all of them. It is possible because of avr-gcc to bypass the whole "sketch" thing they have going and compile/load your code without even running the iDE.

Like I said, I do like Arduino for what it is. :)
Useless and useful Japanese Inventions
Agreed. I suspect that Apple have also correctly identified that most of the CPU intensive tasks that people do carry out aren't going to be the sort of things people are using an 11" MBA for.
Emotional Interface Design Notes
Plenty of content here http://www.dalit.org/ or just google for "indian untouchables".
What if what you have is not really a startup but really something that you think is just a coding project - but nevertheless still want feedback from the community?
The situation has changed in the last year or two. Especially since Sony Ericsson and Dell took such a beating for shipping old OS releases and refusing to offer quick upgrades. The only new devices on 2.1 which I don't know to have a clear upgrade path to 2.2 are the HTC Legend and Wildfire. And an upgrade is rumoured to be in the works for those too. It has become clear to the manufacturers that OS releases are something that matter. I am optimistic about the future of these devices.
Just because Paul Buchheit says it's a horrible reason doesn't make it actually a horrible reason.

In reality, the particulars of the law matter, a lot. And, in particular, this law could have allowed people to lawfully drive under the influence, and almost certainly would have caused hundreds of employers to end up in frivolous lawsuits. It manifestly did leave open the question of whether employers would have to allow employees to take one-hitters to their smoke breaks.

The second-order effects were even worse; companies in California are entangled in a web of business relationships that require drug-free workplaces --- FedGov is the most obvious example, but every investment bank in the world has a similar requirement --- all of which would have been thrown into chaos by this measure.

And why? To keep people from getting fired for something that currently gets people incarcerated. A step in the right direction is exactly what this measure wasn't.

The campaign for legalization could have written a minimalist bill. They could have waited 2 years for a more favorable election cycle. They did neither, choosing instead to walk into a buzzsaw. Don't blame the bill's opponents for this incompetence.
You know, this totally reminds me of my view on games like Guitar Hero [1]. "Why spend all that time learning how to press buttons when you could learn the real thing!" I would complain. I finally came to my senses one day and realized that the game was fun [2] and that I had rather been missing the point.

[1] I know there's a version out that teaches you the real thing. Hope it does well.
[2] It's still not my thing--too much time required--but I'm not going to spoil someone else's fun.
When the consumption rate is increasing exponentially, I don't know how you can even imagine that we'll ever be able to sustainably consume more.

Unless you're talking about StarTrek where food can materialize at the push of a button, or after a "warp maximum; engage" they can arrive at an inhabitable planet in one minute.

In the meantime, this planet doesn't grow any larger and its resources are limited.
Exactly my point: OS X seems to suffer from the Windows Effect as well.
Do an "Ask HN: What do you think of this coding project?"
An Open-Source, HTML5 Framework for iPad E-books
Going to the movies? Prepare to be watched while you watch
Why Rich Levandov Invested in Zynga—Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Consider
Pity the poor artist who establishes their reputation in one medium, then sees the medium do a big shift.

Willis probably could write books which fully encompass the cellphone-era worldview. But will they be Connie Willis books? Or will the loss of all those old tropes make her new style inevitably different from her best-selling old style?

Think of PG Wodehouse, blithely writing novels set in early-twentieth-century England as late as 1975. (Though this example is a bit contrived, since some would argue that Wodehouse wrote about a society that never existed.) Or Bach, plugging away on his late Baroque masterworks years after the Baroque went out of style.
I'm pro-legalization and found the arguments of the "no" lobby persuasive. I'm not a CA voter, but I believe I speak for at least one of them who shares my sentiments. How does your argument --- "wait for the dire predictions of the no lobby to prove unfounded" --- address people who in good faith oppose the proposition?
I agree with something like healthcare or financial reform, but not here.

If we have a crappy law and it creates a bunch of talking points for the opposition, that is worse than no law. The CA law will be open for repeal and other states will be less likely to pass the law.

If CA passed a good law, had a good result over the next 10 years, proponents elsewhere can point to CA as a model example of what will happen.

Any law to legalize pot has to
1) Increase tax revenue
2) Reduce crime related to drugs (especially violent crime)
3) Effectively penalize those that endager others
4) Effectively regulate the industry so that the supply is safe
I've always used debuggers as a faster form of print statements. It faster to inspect several values using the debugger than it is to write and then delete a bunch of print statements.

However print statements become my go-to tool when debugging multithreaded code.
At on-screen viewing sizes of web-shared photos (currently <1MP) you are going to struggle to see the better image quality that an SLR can provide. With prints of 10x8" or larger you will start to notice lack of sharpness and chroma noise.
Redis 2.2: What is new (slides)
OMFG the NY Times linked to a website that uses BLINK.

I am now having horrible 1990's flashbacks.

(and he paid $700, willing to pay $2k for that)

I am 100% for encouraging and teaching kids to build websites, but how about actually teaching them ie. show them how to make external stylesheets, give credit when copying stylesheets verbatim, etc.

ps. I believe they used DreamWeaver, so is that considered "programming" ?
>Different keyboards do not enter the picture at all.

I think, this is not completely true: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860578

Different keyboards lead to different users experience with application.
The situation is getting better with regard to paid apps, 18 new countries got access a month back. Also, Paypal integration is rumoured to be on the way.

And please don't make blanket statements like this unless you have data to back it up:

>Users looking for an "open" experience are expecting free/cheap apps, and are willing to use less perfect free/cheap apps over your perfected "expensive" one

Anybody would rather use a free/cheap app rather than an expensive one. I don't know that FOSS users are any different in this regard.

Edit: Remember Marco Arment's "Two App Stores"? The same is true of Android, and any other market.
Ask HN: What should I read next?
(This is a selfish ask, but I posted it thinking it might help others too)

A few months ago, I started reading Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" and fell in love with it. I went on read the rest of books in the Foundation Series. Sidenote: The books get progressively worse and the last one is a drag. Anyway, the reading was a good break from my startup in 2 ways: (1) I wasn't in front of yet another screen (tv, browsing, movies), and (2) It was, in some way, intellectually stimulating. It made me think.

So, fair HN, can you suggest what should I read next? Preferably fiction (I feel most non-fiction is worth a blog post). Something that fits a short attention span. Something a geek would like (I've already read "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy").
I started as one of those kids (now I'm twice their age) and it why I'm a good consultant. I got experience and made mistakes when I had the time and freedom to. I got to try things I probably wouldn't today. (Mostly because I didn't know better. I wish I had found a mentor who knew about consulting at that point.) So I'm pro these kids exploring making things for money.

I'm bothered by the article though. It's written as if these kids are just as good as a "professional" and gives me the impression that the author thinks the only difference between someone doing this for years and a kid who went to computer camp is a degree of professionalism and responsibility.