skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Buy, download, and even redownload. its amazing how apple expected customers to pay for the same digital product over and over."
Hundreds of millions of searches and visitors in aggregate: yes.

Hundreds of millions of searches and visitors in any one keyword niche: not so often.

Many websites live off a handful of visitors a day coming from a few core keywords and associated long-tail traffic. For a keyword that only gets 100 searches a day, it wouldn't take many down-votes to affect the rankings of the relevant sites.
Apple cuts iPhone 3GS price to $49
I'm pretty sure most people are glad that long time linux users were not employed to point out any deficiencies in any UI metaphors (like Spaces).

(And I say this as someone who likes Mac OS X almost entirely because of its Unix underpinnings)
Care to back thar up with some explanation. Having switched to iTunes long ago and use it daily without ever having problem I fail to see your point.
Startup Quote: Larry Ellison, co-founder, Oracle
Or just don't use google anymore. I've switched to Duckduckgo and Blekko. So far, so good.
Do you think the term "political correctness" or the word "bowdlerize" is the gratuitous editorial spin? If it's the latter you're wrong, this is exactly what bowdlerization means. In fact I mistakenly used "censored" at first, than I changed the title. If you read the discussion here (and elsewhere), you'll see that the reason Alan Gribben made the change is mainly that he saw people were uncomfortable in his public readings in Alabama. His audience understood and absorbed the book alright, they just found this word objectionable.

However, if you take issue with my labeling this as PC, this might be debatable. On the one hand you have sensibilities, etc, on the other respect for an author's text. If you read Paul Butler's (in my opinion quite flawed) comments in the discussion, you'll see that he doesn't actually object to the usage of the work "nigger", he just doesn't like it when it is appropriated by people other than African-Americans. This is a common approach, which I tend to agree for now. To try to use the current situation to change Twains's work is indefensible.
OTOH, Apple is pushing iAd pretty heavily for "free" iOS apps. Don't see why they wouldn't take that to the desktop.
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

- Larry Ellison

http://startupquote.com/post/2623990861
Why not just create a user curated search engine?
I've been reading a lot of the Google-related search engine complaints. Who hasn't? They're everywhere for whatever reason. A common theme that I seem to see in most of them is that people seem to agree that some sort of user interaction is one of the few ways to eliminate spam and SEO content farm results.

So, why not just create a user curated search engine? Web pages would be indexed. Users would filter them, using queries. On a per-query basis, indexed pages would be subject to a reddit-esque voting system for relevance to that query. There would be no visible up voting, though. There would only be a visible down vote option. Up voting would be done automatically when a user clicks a result. Down voting would be done if a user visits a page and the page is not relevant to the query, so they come back to the search results and down vote the result (it would remove the automated up vote + 1 more to net a subtraction). Pages indexed more recently would be given priority over older pages. So what would eventually happen is the most viewed and newest pages for a query would bubble to the top, and older posts would be in the middle, and down rated posts would be at the end or maybe even excluded all together.

Obviously there are holes in this, such as people scamming the up-vote clicking mechanisms but I'm sure that could be prevented with more thought.

I think the key is that all of this voting is done on a per query basis, for relevance to that query.
you'd also be alienating a large number of non-technical users who just want to see a large download button.
I don't know if I have ADD / ADHD; but I find it hard to concentrate for a long time. I think the biggest thing I did was accepting that I suck at dealing with distractions and don't have much willpower when dealing with them.

So - I put in artificial barriers in my environment. I keep my room and desk clean so there's nothing to distract me. I installed LeechBlock on Firefox to block twitter, facebook, and all the other sites that distract me for the whole day except 8-10 pm (I should do this on my office computer too!). Every night - I make a list of what I need to get done and the next day I write down if I was productive or not.

All in all, cultivating the awareness that I suck at time management and inserting artificial barriers in my environment has helped me a lot! Good Luck!
Coffeescript I'm familiar with and yes, is very nice indeed. It's some of the others I'd be more concerned about.
It is so much cheaper to cook your own food even if you take into account buying the supplies. I have a cutting board ($5), a small non stick pan ($20), a medium non stick pan ($30), and a 6"-8" diameter 4" deep pot with a lid. I have some nonstick spray, some spices, a knife or two, a spatula, flipper thing, and tongs.

My total investment has to be under $100. I've been using the same stuff for 5 years now. I assume you have a toaster, a microwave, and a coffee maker already.

You'd be surprised the difference in your day between having a bowl of cereal to start off, and having a bowl of cereal, an english muffin, and a bannana. That doesn't take any extra time to do (toast the muffin while you eat the cereal).

For lunch I make myself a sandwhich and throw in some other stuff. Sure, that takes 2 minutes.

Dinner is the only meal you actually cook. You definitely save money cooking yourself. Compare $7 to $15 for chinese, sushi, pizza, burgers etc to $3-5 per meal. If you can cook pasta (boil water, add sauce, its the same as ramen. throw some freezer meatballs in the oven at the same time and your're done), chicken (throw a little olive oil in a pan, put it on medium, flip once in a while, cut it and make sure there is no pink left, don't over cook it) and steam vegetables (boil a little water, put the lid on top, steam it to taste) you can eat 3-4 nights a week really healthy with some variety.

Then fish is just a variation on cooking chicken, you just do it quicker. Your variety comes from the spices or condiments you throw on the chicken.

Total time is around 1/2 hour per day including cleaning up and eating. Each of those meals takes under 10 minutes.
Still is if you want a box:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB957Z/A
Agreed. Also, { foo-bar: 'baz' } is not valid either. This is kind of a shame per the JSON argument as well.
Oh come on. I'm sure they could easily get it through donations if they really can't handle the $99/year.
Ha - I remember seeing something similar for Reddit a few days ago. Did you make that too?
Really? I think SCUBA can be one of the most exhausting. You work your legs hard if there is a current. Not a cheap sport you can do anytime you want though.
"Facebook had net income of $200 million in 2009 on revenue of $777 million."

It's interesting that it cost Facebook $577 million to run in 2009. I'd love to see a break-down of where all that money is going. On the face of it, it seems like an extremely wasteful amount of money to run a site like that. $1.6 million a day in operating expenses.

Yet people are still falling over themselves to invest.
Do you think this could be improved by alternate wording? Instead of reporting 'spam', ask the user 'was this useful?' or 'did you want this?'.

After all, the real goal is giving people a better, more relevant experience, detecting and removing spam is just one facet of that. Whether it's email or search.
It just means the garbage will be submitted by people with $100. There's plenty of junk on the iOS App Store which has the same developer license required.
Anecdotally, most people -- whether they have CF or not -- would be well served to make significant dietary and lifestyle changes. Having a life threatening disease just provides more incentive for this to take precedence over many people's personal mantra of immediate gratification and lack of serious introspection.

This doesn't really have any bearing on the efficacy of vaccines, though. Perhaps certain lifestyle changes do dramatically reduce susceptibility to certain diseases, but that doesn't mean one should also rule out current scientific literature.
Sky falling? No.

I do expect that there will be some short-term pain. iOS device owners are pretty well conditioned to expect low app prices from the App Store.

Eventually, though, users will adjust. The App Store will have the software they need. Desktop software isn't dominated by impulse buys the way phone apps are.
Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun.
Primordial Soup
I know plenty of weaknesses in Google, and we work hard on the problems that we think matter the most (e.g. in 2010, we worked a lot on hacked sites so that regular people wouldn't stumble into an awful experience).

But it's very helpful to get independent, outside examples. It moves the conversation past "Google sucks" to "Google sucks because of query X." Sometimes those queries are new, but often what's just as useful is hearing what people dislike about the current results for the search X.
Not at the moment, but it's a feature we're looking at adding in a future update. You aren't the only person to bring that up.

Thanks!
You're right. But at the same time I wonder how many users understand the distinction. You can get 'rid' of a window by either hitting the red x (which I presume is the same as Ctrl-W), Alt-Clicking the dock icon (which I presume is the same as Ctrl-H) or going to Menu->Quit (Ctrl-Q).

It's easy to understand this, once you realize that window management is app-centric and is organized by Application rather than individual windows but that's a subtle distinction most normal users will not understand on their own.

To compound things, for some apps,closing the window will actually quit the app. And for some, closing the window leaves the app still running in the dock but clicking the dock icon doesn't bring up.
Most popular android devices
That's far from the only speed record he's set; among other things, he's also held the record for the fastest AES implementation and the fastest FFT.
Looking great. I spend A LOT of time on that website so I hope it's as usable as it is pretty.
While driving, it is rational and justified to believe that the vehicle's speed is 60mph when the speedometer reads "60mph." However, if the speedometer is miscalibrated your belief is incorrect.
Droid Marketplace: LauncherPro Massive Fail
Today the free version of LauncherPro that I had installed on my phone completely bricked the phone. It insisted that I update the app by blocking access to everything and opening up the browser to take me to the launcherpro site.

The problem was that the site was down. There was nothing to do. I could not even make a phone call. It had blocked everything.

Apps like this are pure evil. But that is besides the point. I think that Apps like this are why the uncurated Droid Marketplace will never beat the App store.

Developers can make a change in a newer version that fundamentally change the quality of the app but ratings from the previous versions carry over.
Or use stacksearch.org (to include serverfault et al.), or the custom search built into stackexchange (which uses Google behind the scenes as well).

stackoverflow has been my first port of call for programming queries for quite some time. If Google wasn't so filled with scraper junk that probably wouldn't be the case.
Biking would also work, since performance is measurable. Though probably not to the same degree as climbing. Hiking and Kayaking are great, but probably wouldn't fit the World of Warcraft-esque requirement for measurable improvements to simulate leveling up.

SCUBA has measurable goals, but alas they mostly just measure how much money you've spent on SCUBA diving instruction. (I've spent enough to get myself to Rescue Diver.)
My knee-jerk response is licensing the search and analysis technology back to the ad company. Abstractly, not necessarily a terrible idea, other ad networks could compete using the same base search tech, and the GoogleAds could switch engines or merge the opinions of more than one. Concretely I imagine it would take the respective halfs of the company a number of years to actually detach their tech stacks from each other enough that a switch would be practical, let alone cost effective.
One important factor that you missed is that where you study is also hugely important. Here's a graph of some similar data from the UK:

http://i26.tinypic.com/8ywawn.png

(Data based upon surveying graduates 3.5 years after they left uni)
The kids are not paid directly[1], but the kids that go to the schools that you see on TV are paid indirectly in the form of scholarships and other perqs.

Depending on the school, a full ride scholarship has a value in the range of $10,000 to $50,000 and up.

[1] "Gifts" do happen, but there are severe penalties for both the kids and the schools when caught.
Basically, cities with decent mass transit in general have decent mass transit to the airport.
Unless you are a trained medical professional in this particular area of study, you have absolutely no business making up your own mind.
Along the same lines, I wonder how the app store handles this. As a comparison, Firefox disables add-ons that don't work after an update.
If you look at the history of Apple this is something that they do often when they believe in something strongly. Removing the floppy drive, being one that I remember very strongly. I feel Leopard support would have been useful, however I'm sure they have a good reason for it. I actually welcome the App Store and I have some ideas for Mac-specific apps that would be very difficult to market for the money they would achieve and hopefully this will be a good route to market
The binary and libraries and accessed (and perhaps saved) files should still be in whatever buffers/cache the operating system maintains in the unused portion of RAM, but the state of the application is gone (unless the application saved its state and will restore it upon starting up again, of course).
"Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern."

Apparently not common enough to warrant having a back button on the iPhone.
Categories aren't working properly in the Turkish store. More often than not, I get the "One Moment Please..." message when I click on a category, and I have to go back and click on the category again.

Is anybody else experiencing the same thing on non-US stores?
We're talking about Safari and iTunes--two of Apple's most frequently used apps. They might represent 1% of the app space, but they represent a large majority of the app usage space.
Hi,

I think this is a hard one without working on a big project with senior people. I struggled with this for years and still do but have gotten a little better thanks to senior developers guiding me. I think besides reading books and attending lectures or listening in on talks online, I think you need to find a problem sizable enough and build it from scratch. My work with senior guys has shown me that designing on paper and the white board is essential to tackling the problem for understanding and eventually building it. The patterns will reveal themselves as you go through this exercise if any patterns are needed at all, and I think this is something you definitely will not learn overnight but overtime by getting your hands dirty. If you have not visited this site infoq.com, please do so. It has tons of experts speaking on it. I have been able to incorporate some of what I have learned from here to the job. A quick link to how YouTube was built: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5_eEKEC28&feature=youtu...

Really good talk with lots of jewels. Another good book for you: http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Theo-S...

Hope this helps.
Perhaps because you are reading an article in O'Reilly's website, whom sells David Flanagan. That out of the way, I thinkn he's entitled to a little self promotion at any point in the article since this is the man behind such gems as JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and The Ruby Programing Language.

He is trying to sell you stuff, but honestly you should go right ahead and buy what he's advertising because his books are really that good.
When you make your profits on margin rather than market share I guess you can afford to leave older versions behind.
Picking Virtuous over Demand Media is your opinion.

Personally, I've been using eHow's results for cooking for about half a year now.

I don't need pictorial aids for cooking--I know how to cook. What I need is a recipe, and a series of concise steps to follow. It's easy to toss it up on the laptop or table, then glance at every so often to make sure you haven't strayed too far from the recipee.

Demand Media is like a virtual cookbook, Virtuous is like calling your parents for help and having them hold your hand through every step.
I think you have to seperate vegetables from herbs. I would never finish even cilantro, parsley, basil etc.

But I can finish vegetables and fruit. I shop once a week and it takes like an hour, and everything I get lasts all week. Get your bannanas a little green and it will be fine. Vegetables usually last longer than that.

I also get a lot of frozen broccoli, green beens, peas, corn. They last forever and are simple to make but very healthy. They also double as ice packs if you hurt yourself.
The article should really note that the latter is just an alias for the former.

It reads as if the author is trying to say that the reason for using $(document).ready(handler) - to wait to run certain functions until the entire DOM has loaded - is no longer necessary.
Obviously there are holes in this, such as people scamming the up-vote clicking mechanisms

I think you put your finger on it there. There are folks who have a financial incentive for their pages to rank high. A "user-curated" system just opens up additional avenues for "spam and SEO content farms" to game the system.
At which point every developer (except those working on platform-specific projects) would switch their work machine to Linux.

Phones and tablets went that way because they're new devices that weren't already entrenched in people's daily lives, and they're complementary to your primary machine. The fact that they're locked down is a dealbreaker for many, but it doesn't imply a wholesale ship-jumping like locking down a desktop would.

[Edited to clarify that I wasn't talking about the platform developers would target, but would themselves use].
Would be a good gesture if they were to make it free for open source apps, even free apps that are closed source but don't contain ads.
Facebook recorded revenue of $2 billion, with $400 million in profit in 2010
MinUnit - unit testing in 3 lines of C
Based on a few emails floating around among us, it sounds like we're getting together Wednesday the 26th at 5:30 at McCoy's in Westport.
Sounds like a perfect challenge for 4chan
iDevice backups take forever and the iTunes Store is frustratingly slow to browse.
Thanks for the insight!

The screenshots are the same as on the App Store right now, where Apple demands 1280x800 screenshots. But I'll follow your thinking and remove the status bar in those screenshots so it is only the app on a small part of the desktop.

I thought that the site was looking well, same goes for the looks of the app. I also got pretty good beta tester feedback for that. Could you pinpoint your criticism by providing some links to sites you like? That would be great!

Again, thanks for your criticism! :)
Any covered bowl will work as well. What you need is to keep the vegetables out of direct contact with the condensation moisture inside the container. That is why I rarely use bags any more for vegetables in the fridge, but even recycled sherbet containers work very well. It does need to be covered, and preferably airtight, or they'll dry out and wilt (though wilted veggies are perfectly edible, they just don't look as good or have as good a texture).
The big problem with this idea (other than the fact that the wikipedia fundraising model isn't broken at all), is that it's asking Wikipedia to use it's hard-earned clout and prestige to "improve the world" in an area that is not part of it's focus (micropayments).

Not to mention that if a banner once a year asking for money looks awkward, a micropayments button next to every single article is going to look a lot worse.
Yes, but apply the Wikipedia phenomenon here. With more users using it for good, perhaps it'd outweigh the bad? This, combined with actual measures to prevent abuse of the system.
I'm not sure they'll lose every developer to Linux. App Store will provide incredible exposure for their apps, which just may make it worth it for them.
Web Design Trends in 2011
The web design segment of the Internet has been evolving the past few years, especially in 2010. Some clear trends have surfaced, which are likely to continue in 2011 as well. Long gone are the websites that we were accustomed to in the 90s, with dozens of flashing banners, heavy animations, and background audio.
I launched this site last January, and there was a great response for the SICP class. This year I was feeling like learning C, so I started this class based on the K&R book.

I'd be interested in any thoughts you have on this class or the website as a whole.
They allow redownload. How nice... I got burned by the removal of this in the iTunes app store when upgrading my iPad failed.
Phreebird isn't critical in any way to the arguments he makes, it's simply offered as an example of online signing with DNSSEC. It's right there in the first paragraph, mentioned alongside existing, well-known servers which are purportedly adopting more online-signing-like features.
People would always be trying to game such a system. If you worked at company A, and search for keyword shared with company B, lots of people would be tempted to down vote company B in results
That depends. My mom and dad share the apple account (why buy all apps twice) but not their machines. I'm going to have a hard time explaining this to them.
Bummer - no way to create promo codes for Mac apps as of yet in iTunesConnect...
Jimmy Wales has been asked this a few times (probably a lot more than that), and their independence is more vauable than the money they would get from such sponsorship.
I think this is a good point.

However, if we maintain the standardized testing, I would say also reward teachers who improve students from say 95% to 99% or keep them scoring 99%.

When I was in school, I would consistently score 98-99% on standardized tests. One of my teachers was forced by the principal of the school to apologize to my parents for not improving my scores.
Another weekend project: you-know-what-flow in html5+css3
The same reason people don't just write in assembly (or more accuratley, C) to write a desktop application very often. Javascript is the assembly language of the web.
Mentorship, Maturation, and Youthful Hubris
To that point, most of this is stuff we've extracted from the existing hosting services we provide to our clients.

edit: we == Eldarion
It's becoming increasingly more popular for developers to release a free, ad-laden version in addition to the paid version though. NetNewsWire is one example and Kiwi is another.
If this wasn't at all preventable the idea of adwords would never work, people would just be running up competitors costs.
Can you imagine the volume of junk without $99?

Also it helps pay for the reviewing of apps, although they still take a loss on running the appstore, last I heard.