skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't close apps on the Mac either (you can, but it is only for experts). I guess no uninstalling is just the logical extension of that concept.
I just deleted CoverSutra which I purchased this morning off the App Store and it went from "Installed" to "Reinstall" or "Not Installed" (I can't really remember which) and I was able to reinstall it with one click and it came flying back into my dock. Pretty darn easy if you ask me. However, I'm not sure if the purchases are stored locally in the app itself/cloud? Say, If I just got a brand new machine, would my app list be stored in the cloud and ready for my viewing if I logged in with my account in the App Store? I'm not quite sure about that part though.
Definitely agree that some kind of sport which is fun and requires and rewards fitness is the way to go. Rock climbing is great, but biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. would all work as well.

SCUBA sort of works, but isn't really strenuous enough.
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Google letting spam sites live for $$$?
I find it hard to believe google cannot differentiate between auto-scraping sites and original content sites with like 95%+ accuracy.
Things that I actually heard from fellow students when I went to college over a decade ago:

"The most important thing is to get a degree, I don't worry about what major I'm going to choose."

"I want to make the big money so I'm going to major in business and start out as the boss rather than the engineer." (I also heard something similar substituting communications for business.)

"They may not make as much as others, but elementary school teachers can always find work."

I was fortunate to have professors and older friends who were up front about the differing opportunities provided by different fields. Many of my classmates seemed to feel that the world owed them a six figure job in whatever field they chose.
whereas Twitter has... ??
Cute. I might have to add one of these to my mailbox.
Not really. Sure if they auto-ban you it sucks, but how hard is it to post something, inform google of it and wait x hours for it to show up on some autoscraper site. (of course this requires google cooperation).

Edit: it seems like a good solution from google POV would be to inform people of their impending banning and give them the chance to defend themselves by posting original content that then gets scraped elsewhere.
Strange to see a name on HN and think, wait, I knew someone with that name. Wait, the guy I knew went to Princeton. Wait...

I never met Bill in person, but we collaborated on a couple projects and used to exchange random e-mails and IMs. He was a bright guy and I enjoyed our correspondence. His note is heartbreaking, and I hope he has finally found peace.
Instead of:

$(document).ready(handler);

you can write:

$(handler);
Powerusers don't want a UI. They think they want a scripting language. Most of them really want a butler, though.

Just make everything directories and let the power users do what they want. Just don't do that in the mainstream app. Keep stuff like that in the power user's special app.
Where can I find more DJB publications / activities? His cr.yp.to website doesn't seem to have been updated in ages.
I don't follow. Command+Q and AppNameMenu->Quit both disagree with you.
"Awful and artificial".
Effortless is the key point, though.. why use someone like these guys if I'm going to have to put a bunch of effort into it?
I have played with FC++ a little bit. Its nice, but if you are used to scheme it will feel verbose. But one cant really complain, C++ wasn't really meant for this.
It's updated constantly.
Of course there are. It is a community and discussions can be interesting.

However most of the time that I and most people come across SO it's the top search hit for a technical question. The answers are seldom unique, but instead are usually pulled almost word for word from the online manual for the same.

That is overwhelmingly the value of SO -- it benefits by collecting aggregated content from all over the web. It is, hilariously, by design exactly what many in here are complaining about. In that case instead of an automated process it's a mechanical turk.

Hey I don't care because it gets me my answer, but I can see the hilarious paradox in some of the complaints.

I was once searching on a problem -- one that I had faced years earlier but had then forgotten -- and the top link was a SO QA. The answer sounded oddly familiar, when I remembered that it was actually from a blog entry I had posted two years prior.
There was a Frontline documentary (I think it was them) detailing this risk and it coming to a head in a smaller community where too many people were skipping vaccinations and the herd immunity was significantly diminished. It was a really interesting piece on what could happen if too many people start skipping vaccines.
Actually, that's a pretty clever optimization for caching, IMO. The user tends to leave apps in memory, leading to much snappier performance on machines with sufficient RAM.

EDIT: And if you're savvy, you can always manage memory manually and quit from the top menu or from the Dock.
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What's especially bad is that the apps are installed as root and belong to root. This means that removing them causes a password prompt.

I wonder if the inexperienced user understands that for installing you need to provide the apple store password, but for uninstalling, you need to provide the admin password of your machine.
They don't do dependency tracking, but will notify you of updates. I don't think Mac developers believe in packaging libraries, since it requires the same version of the library for all programs. The preferred way to do things is statically compile all of your dependencies into your binary. This has the advantage that you can just drag your .app bundle around.
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Visibility and Value. Athletics are far more visible, and thus on the community's mind to a greater degree; plus athletics has a higher value than education for most of our parents here.

In our community, the football team is number one. The team (and coach) receive far more media coverage for their wins and losses than classroom students get for test scores. Parents of football players value the victory more than academics as well. Parents will purchase hundreds of dollars in gear, shoes, summer camps, etc. but those same kids have no internet access, no notebooks, no highlighters, no basic computers or software.

Losing 10% of football games in a season gets the coach fired because everyone hears about it every day and because it is important to the school board and parents. 50% of our students drop out before graduation and it gets a paragraph on page 6 of the local paper, and no one cares because we have a great school: the football team won the conference again.
Source: http://playground.mobily.pl/assets/demo/blocks/js/mobilybloc...

Why are there variables called 'social' in the source?!

Also ... seems like it could be packed much smaller. The author should run it through the Closure Compiler. In the least, lots of local variables would be obfuscated.
LG and T-Mobile announce the T-Mobile G-Slate, dual core Honeycomb-powered
Well, I'll be, Spiderweb Software on HN.

Just so you guys know, this is a lifestyle business he's been running for, like, 15 years. You should definitely check out his games if you like retro RPGs.

Just some more background. His situation is really a little different than most game makers with respect to the forums, and I'll tell you why:

A long time ago (like '90s long ago) he released a game creation system called Blades of Exile, based on the IP of a commercially successful trilogy he had released. A small but very active and very vocal community built up around this specific product. They had a lot of demands for bugfixes and feature enhancements in this product, to which Jeff was not particularly receptive (especially the latter), since he preferred to focus on writing and selling new games rather than extending a game creation system for free.

This created some ill will with the Blades of Exile community (but not the larger Spiderweb Software community) and it was also true that a lot of the Blades of Exile luminaries considered themselves _better game makers than Jeff himself_ and did not hesitate to insult, not only Jeff's games, but _fans_ of Jeff's games on the Spiderweb forums.

The Blades folks all hung out in the Spiderweb forums, and they _stayed_ there, loudly insulting Jeff and complaining bitterly that he wasn't interested in maintaining Blades, and loudly asserting that their creations surpassed anything Jeff had ever done, for _years_. Eventually he just open-sourced the damn thing, but it kind of poisoned the forum dynamics for a long time. He's actually sworn off of creating another game creation system ever again, because dealing with the communities surrounding them and their maintenance requests is more trouble for less money than cranking out a good RPG every year.

So, in his case, he really is right: he had a small group of vocal customers who were basically attacking him to

1. Get him to put in free work on Blades

2. Establish their own artistic credibility

and this bunch wasn't representative of most of his paying customers.
So don't use the blacklisting stats for re-ranking everyone else's then. I didn't consider that when I put the post up. An instant way to filter sites just for yourself would solve 90% of people's complaints straight away.
Why Groupon Isn't in Australia
You're right, I simplified for the example and assumed only one canonical job for each major. However, that doesn't undermine my criticisms. You'd still have to multiply each job by the amount that the degree helps you get that job.

So it's probably pretty hard to become a quant without a degree, so multiply that by some high number like 95%, but it's really easy to become an entrepreneur without a degree, so multiply that by some low number like 20%.

You're also right about the relevant question being "what is a degree worth to me?" That makes prediction even harder because the value of the degree is largely going to depend on the person's opportunity cost of going to school. Consider Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook was the opportunity cost of his getting a degree, which would make the degree's "value" be several billion dollars negative.
The second example doesn't work for me.

var image = $("").appendTo("body"); //Nothing appended to body.

I think it should be:

var image = $("<img>").appendTo("body"); //img node appended to body.
See my comment to see why his situation is a little different.
Minor historical note: the .app extension for application bundles is a holdover from NeXTSTEP. I don't think that has anything to do with the usage of "app" on the iPhone, and I think the Mac App Store is branded that way for similarity with the iPhone store.
I'm not sure about all of them but CoffeeScript emits good, portable, fast JS.
LinkedIn plans to go public in 2011
The non BS answer is while math might not change, the standardized tests do. Every year the state will change what teachers are required to cover for each subject. Add in some new textbooks and shifting holidays and a good teacher will reorder their schedule each year, and then fine tune things around snow days etc.

PS: And let's not forget a little experimentation, keep what works and try out new ideas to replace what failed.
Surely it's not that hard for a scraper to post something original, inform Google, wait X hours, then plant it on StackOverflow/wherever?
commonly used like this:

$(function() {
// write the stuff you normally put in $(document).ready( ... );
});
Sounds like a support headache. I'd love the feature but I don't blame Google for not just rushing out and adding this.
Will the Mac App Store make the sky fall?
Boston’s Android Dev Group
Call me old fashioned, but I fail to see how implementing a corporate middleman between developers and users can be a progress... OK, from a developer's stand point, this could be really beneficial (distribution, centralization etc), but as a user, it feels like seeing independent record stores about to be crushed by a shiny new Virgin Megastore.
I can't help to hope this will be an immense failure
Google acknowledges Android messaging bugs, working to fix them
Given that Google gets hundred of millions of search and visitors, then you'll need a hundred of thousands of down votes to get black-listed. No black hatter can really do that (create a 100K account/IP to avoid Google radar and down vote the website).
We are already able to (badly) mimic true human intelligence. The problem is when our mimics compete with humans in general contexts. There, being smarter means you can cream the competition.

Basically, it's the difference between PvP and PvE.
Fabulous. I sure hope I'll soon be able to get versions of all my favourite hip-hop records with the word "nigger" similarly replaced, because it really spoils my enjoyment of the music.
The conspiracy theorist side of me thinks that Google doesn't want to get rid of all of the spam sites because they bring in revenue for Google through AdSense. The practical side of me says that even 95% accuracy wouldn't be enough with 200 million websites out there. A 5% miss rate is 10 million angry webmasters potentially complaining to Google and requesting manual reviews.
Digital Marketing Trends for 2011
Augmented Reality Simulation (video)
Books by the Numbers
Inexperienced users will never notice because they only have one password.
Localot Research. We are 6 PhDs and 4 engineers, working on some very cool machine learning / natural language processing / data analytics problems that need a lot of scaling. Our strongest need is for experienced developers, but we are growing and will need more statistician/ML/NLP/math people and sys-admins. We have an espresso maker (and coffee machine).

We have multiple positions available. We want great people who think big, http://www.localot.com/jobs.html.
Thanks, that's quite interesting.

I can see the advantage of that approach to 'hard skills' like reading, phonetics, computation. On the other hand, I'm not sure I can envision it being applied to complex issues in biology, english or social studies.

I'm starting my fourth semester teaching undergraduate biology, hopefully a little less blind each semester. So far I've never seen a lesson plan from any source that I could just read over and then deliver to a class, but maybe they do in fact exist? Wouldn't that be nice!
I don't think it is a matter of Obama, Paulson had a huge moral hazard during TARP as an ex-GS leader. I think there's a general anti-GS sentiment from the Paulson induced 100% bailout of AIG counter-parties.
Tangentially, I was astounded and gratified to find out that "gazumping" is a real word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazumping
The inexperienced user probably uses the same password for both... so no problem! :)
No, it's not particular hard, but it will make the problem worse.

Why?

99% of users are non-tech oriented.

Those users will not really be aware of the specific problems with the search results, they won't understand the concept of a good vs bad result and they certainly won't bother to tweak/ban/filter their results.

The 1% that do care and are currently being vocal about it will start filtering their results and they will perceive that the problem is solved. They will stop making a fuss.

So now, the complaints have gone away, but 99% of users are still using the broken system, so the good sites that create good original content are still ranking below the scrapers and spam results for 99% of the users.

The problem must be solved for all (or at least the majority) of users.

(And you can't take the 1%s filtering and apply it to all users in some kind of social search because the spammers will just join the 1% and game the system)
Non-technical users frequently use natural language search. The experience for natural language search is fairly poor.

Spot-on.

When my wife has trouble finding something and asks for help, this is usually the issue. The best approach isn't to ask Google a question. It's to picture in your mind what your target page looks like, and enter that into the search query.

But this just underscores what all of us here already know: natural language processing is hard.
odd font choice. Makes it very hard to read on Windows with chrome. Just FYI

font-family: anivers-1, anivers-2, sans-serif;
The first sentence really stops me from reading it

jQuery is a very powerful library, but some of its powerful features are obscure, and unless you've ready the jQuery source code, or my new book jQuery Pocket Reference, you may not know about them.

Why don't you give me the article first, let me read it, get amazed by the techniques and then find out about you and your book and feel like I need to read another book.

This way I feel like you are trying to sell me your stuff.
You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

Editors, please restore the original title. This one has gratuitous editorial spin. In the very first paragraph of the OP, the explanation for the change is given that it makes it easier for students to understand and absorb the book, which is a very different thing than changing the book just to avoid offending people.

I don't agree with the rationale, but we should not editorialize the title to the point of misrepresenting the content of the OP and by introducing an emotionally loaded term.

p.s. The other comments I've seen so far are all commenting on the artificial title, not the content of the post itself. Isn't that why we don't want to editorialize titles?
Which, considering disk space is cheap, is a better way to do it than getting stuck in apt dependency hell.
Absolute nonsense.

Users don't want to search through multiple websites, use paypal and drag icons into the application folder.

You will be disappointed - users will love this.
If the OS is intelligent, the memory doesn't get overwritten until it is needed. Even if an app is completely closed and its process is killed, doesn't it's image still hang around in memory for the next time it is run?
There have been browser based remote desktop solutions for years now.

Microsoft Live Mesh and LogMeIn come to mind, but I'm sure there are others as well. They require some sort of plugin/Java/ActiveX/whatever, but hey so does video.
Personally, I've learned a lot by attending user groups and conferences. There is no substitute for hands-on learning but interacting with people who have the skills that you're looking for is as close as you can get.
distribution already exists! it's called the internet. fire up a website, have a downloadable app, and you're done. I don't understand why people keep saying the same for "app stores" like iphone and android, and now osx too. why can't I just search for an app on a search engine, goto that apps website, download it and run/install it? how does this system benefit me as a user at all?
Ask HN: What's Wrong with this Website?
http://nciia.org

We're helping this non-profit redesign their website. The target audience is student and faculty entrepreneurs. Please give your feedback.

See if you can answer these after viewing the site:
-What is NCIIA?
-What opportunities does NCIIA offer students & faculty?
-What is I2V and A2V?
I'm okay with value-added metrics, so long as it is not the only tool used to evaluate and assess.

1) Not all things taught appear on a test, or can be easily measured, and

2) Teachers are not the only entities responsible for student growth. There is also the curriculum, the social environment, the home life, and so on.

3) The natural reaction to such metrics, particularly in the current educational climate, is "Holy crap. If I don't do well on this, I'll get fired." Rather than jumping on the "Let's fire 'em" wagon, I feel that comprehensive professional development plans, based around highlighting strengths and excellent patterns, would accomplish just as much. Instead, though, the current professional development plan seems to be "Fire 'em".
the greater of $15,000 per month or 10 percent of a customer's monthly AWS usage fees

$15,000 seems pricey, doesn't it? You could hire 2-3 full time sysadmins for that price, and they would be available to do other things as well. Although, for a company who could stand to lose millions during an hour of downtime, 15 minute response time from someone at Amazon would be a bargain.
NS Basic/App Studio compiles Visual Basic style BASIC to JavaScript + HTML5. Also includes an IDE. Targets iOS and Android. (http://www.nsbasic.com/app)
I went to a Montessori school for elementary school. It ruled. I was estimating cube roots and square roots using the binomial theorem in third grade (not that I knew I was doing that). Of course, I switched schools in fifth grade, and back to addition it was. sigh
Model View Controller in the real world :)
Many people who advocate or encourage skipping college in favor of experience/entrepreneurship overlook one thing: how difficult it is to succeed. Most real-world businesses end up failing and online entrepreneurship can be just as cut-throat (if not more), having a college-level degree gives you at least something to fall back on. College is also a great networking tool to build the relations that can one day help your startup.
GS (and other favored companies) doesn't need to actually borrow - they gain advantage by having access as needed to 'government money', better defined as coercively (you know - prison if you don't give it) acquired taxpayer money. Merely having that access is the advantage - they can take greater risks - and reap greater rewards - than others because of it.
Might I suggest using the Bump API to share scans?
Digikey products now listed on Octopart
I think he should have joined doctors without borders, peace corps or whatever it is called, or one of those Christian mission (even though he had a problem with Christians) . He may have found peace in helping those who suffered more then him
Just in case anyone finds it useful, use this when you have to mix jQuery with other JavaScript libraries like prototype:

jQuery(function($) {
// your code using $
}(jQuery));

This way you can use $ to reference jQuery in your code even if the other library took control of $ in the global scope.
I know there's a sordid history here (http://paulgraham.com/good.html). I'd love to hear about what brought them around.
One of the reasons I'd switched to Opera over Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox was because it remained consistently responsive. A page would be freaking out dog slow doing heaven knows what... in firefox, the browser would be frozen, in Opera, I could continue interfacing and issuing gestures and keyboard commands. Even on my old Fujitsu P1120 - a dog slow 800MHz Transmeta Crusoe beast with 223 MB ram - Opera, while not visually responsive, was at least queuing my operations, and would respond as fast as it was able. There didnt seem to be any event queue in firefox; if the browser was freaking out, keyboard commands &c would be outright dropped.
Clearing the cache directories was also not sufficient for me -- I had to clear the cache directories, then sign out from my Apple ID (within the app store) and back in.
I may come back and ask in a while, so I hope you're right. :)
Microsoft Has Shipped 8 Million Kinect Devices
If the parasite kills its host...
Urban Airship 2010 Mobile App Developer Survey Results
This would only work if 1) it was sufficiently painful to put in a block for your searches and 2) this had no effect on global results.

1) - It doesn't have to be extremely painful, just painful enough, such that true loathing is needed as motivation. This way, we filter out frivolous decisions. A few seconds pause would be enough.

2) - We need to let the reduced ad revenue do the job for us through the market. Anything else will be gamed much to everyone's detriment. Just empower people to remove the annoyance, and let the money do its thing.