skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always appreciate a quality call, but I can't agree that native is a good proxy for good UI or even just for the principle of least surprise. We use so many different UIs nowadays. Various OSs, crazy web UIs, different phones, games, vim, etc. So for me, the question is not so much "is this app native?" but rather "am I a native of the app's UI? (or let's say naturalized :)". iCal doesn't feel native to me, even though I use a Mac. It feels awkward after having used Google Calendar for a while. (I would even say iCal has a horrible UI but that's another matter)

I happen to think that a good UI is not just a matter of getting used to it, although that's a big part of it. There are some things I do hundereds if not thousands of times a day, and I want them to be very fast, regardless of what is native. I want them to be the same in that particular app on all platforms I use. I don't want the keyboard shortcuts of gmail or vim to change depending on what machine I happen to use.
A W3Schools Intervention
We've been traveling the world since May 1st 2010, and have used it wherever we can (Vancouver, Melbourne, Thailand, ...).

It's a great idea, love it, and don't want to say anything too negative (it has far more going for it than against it). However, the one problem is that it's quite difficult to leave negative comments about anywhere. One of the places we stayed in... well... the room was great, but the people we shared the place with were NUTS! If you've ever seen the film Away We Go, well, one of the families in that film were the spitting image.

Anyway, we couldn't leave negative feedback for them because then they could leave negative feedback about us! (Although we'd been the perfect guests...). So you just end up leaving no feedback at all, which is what I have to guess all other previous guests of these people did: they talked about many previous guests, but still had 0 reviews / feedback.
AT&T Customer Service Rep Tells Us How She Really Feels: "This is Bullsh*t"
Ask HN:Review my first App "DAWG" and sign up for beta.
Hi All ,
It's my first attempt on my own. I left job in last quarter to follow my heart. I slogged hard, kept myself motivated and developed a very simple social reader for android phones and tablets.

1. It aggregates your Facebook, Twitter accounts at one place but keeps feeds from each networks separated. (Unlike existing products in market)
2. Well supported for android tablets.
3. Less number of clicks and uses gestures for quick glance.
3. Seamlessly updates with real time notifications.
4. Allows you to update with your location as well as post photos.

I am launching it early and want to learn more from you people prior to launch in android market. I need your feedback to improve the product and serve better.

You can signup for beta and view screen shots of application at http://zubhalabs.com/
Have you watched Jeopardy ever? The 'questions' are often pretty obscurely worded, and the IBM computer often comes to completely bonkers conclusions despite your supposed 'confined question space'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

It was an accident, though.
I had similar experience with AirBnb in NY too. It was a week before I wanted to go and it took me about 10 requests to get one that's available.
Very good article. We use Yammer and their AIR client is a constant source of frustration. Bloated, CPU-eating, inconsistent and annoying.

I use Balsamiq Mockups when I have to, but I always find the experience annoying. If there was a Mac-native app with similar functionality, I'd switch in an instant.
"You think it's inevitable that Israel gets nuked? I find that very unlikely, especially since the attacking nation would definitely be destroyed as well."

The biggest fear isn't that Iran attacks Israel. The biggest fear is that they'll make a few nuclear weapons, give them to terrorists that aren't officially affiliated with them, and let the terrorists nuke Israel.

In a case where there is a terrorist nuclear attack on Israel, that can't be directly tied to Iran, I'm not sure what Israel could do.
Del.icio.us, kindle, instapaper - my evolving news reading habits
And here's how that world without advertising would look

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets/72157600075508...

Just came about it on Flickr a few days ago, coincidentally.
Siemens did help them by giving the us access to their machines for "security" reasons.
I used Airbnb to book a room in an Austin Condo for last years SXSW. It cost around half a what a downtown hotel room cost (though was admittedly not quite as convenient).

I got in late the first night with no luggage (thanks airlines) so the guy I was staying with actually drove me to WalMart the next day to pick up some temporary clothes, insisted on buying me breakfast tacos and gave me a tour of Austin.

I used to work for a Fortune 100 company, travelled way too much and really grew to hate staying in hotels. Airbnb is a fantastic alternative.
Full folution and walkthrough: http://b4it.tumblr.com/post/2775347938/dropbox-dropquest-201...
It looks like a permanent marker felt tipped pen. It's probably a Sharpie or Pilot brand.

I highly recommend the new Sharpie 'Pen' if you're looking for a nice writing pen. (This is not the one he's using.) http://pen.sharpie.com/
While it is true that you credits will get sliced and diced if you transfer (this is somewhat true of any transfer, but more so with UOP), they are accredited and if you complete you degree at UOP you can go on to be considered for a Masters program at any regionally accredited school. Most state schools and many private collage are regionally accredited. So if one plans to bank a bunch of credits at UOP and then transfer to get a "better" degree they should reevaluate their plan. If ones plan is to Bachelor at UOP and then Master at another school, then so long as their GPA and GRE/LSAT/WHATEVER is up to par, they should have no issue with accreditation.
I agree that it's a well written article and provides a very good overview. The tables are especially helpful.

However, there is one rather large oversight:H.264 is an open standard

This is not necessarily correct. As a citizen of the EU, I have to disagree. One of the EU pre-requisites[1] for something being qualified as an Open Standard is: The intellectual property - i.e. patents possibly present - of (parts of) the standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#European_Union_de...
Same for me in Sydney. I like to think if they can solve this problem they'll triple their growth rate.
This was one thing I was starting to really dislike about the article - as if they hadn't quite plugged the output into the input. It's rather a chicken and egg - it was obviously started by many years of oppression, but now both the culture and the lack of social mobility are cause and effect - it's a big cycle, that needs to be tackled on both fronts not individually - black culture is a huge rebellion against the norms perpetrated by the square America, the same America that has locked them out of it, and in doing so making the only dignified reaction to reject it. Of course a disillusioned youth is going to ignore an education that is perceived as teaching culturally irrelevant principles and skills.

An (sort of) example from here in the UK is that in a local comprehensive school, teachers were getting a lot of flak for having less great English results than the local Catholic Grammar school. This completely ignored the fact that the vast majority of the intake at the comprehensive were people who did not speak English at home/spoke it as a second language, whereas of course the grammar school had their pick of the white, middle class students who'd passed the entrance exam. This of course is one in a multitude of reasons why school league tables are awful, but that's a tangent for another time.
DailyJS has an excellent tutorial about using Express.js and Jade http://dailyjs.com/tags.html#lmawa
I've heard about this dynamic a lot.

This is why somebody I know hasn't pulled the trigger on putting his place up: People aren't flaking so much as being extremely selective about who they rent to.

Basically my friend totally wants to go on AirBnb, but knows he will only offer to people he can semi-cyberstalk to his satisfaction/hope to be 3 degrees of separation from via industry/community circles (to make him feel comfortable).

Right now you don't have to rent to anybody you don't want to, even when you put your availability up for a certain time-frame, which is great. But it does confuse potential guests who get false positives for available places.

I think AirBnb needs something beyond ebay-style reviews to resolve this. The groups thing could be a good start (there are are interest/ community groups, like HN group, on AirBnb).
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2087622 for the previous discussion of the same article.
The Resume Is Not Dead
If you're interested in this thread I highly recommend Backus's "Can Programming be Liberated from the Von Nueman Style". It covers both the evils of accumulators, as well as creating languages with provable algebraic properties. Certainly I don't think anyone today would really enjoy programming in FP or FL, but I do think his thoughts are ripe for modernizing.
Inspiration for startup ideas
Have you checked this website? I just found it last week. People are sharing what they miss on the market so anyone can get inspired for their business: http://www.ideaswatch.com/
I read through the message/post but I still don't get it. What exactly are they saying?
I'm an example. But the reason in my case is lack of an engineering degree which has luckily helped stay away from management.
Check out https://github.com/mauricemach/coffeekup too: similarly spare and elegant markup, and nothing but CoffeeScript. (Especially ace if you're using CoffeeScript throughout the stack. And why wouldn't you be?)
Wow, sounds like I've been doing it all wrong for four years. Pretty much just thrown up some adwords and worked on my game and never really thought about SEO at all since it all seemed a little bit sleazy.
I have been predicting this to friends for a couple of years now - there's absolutely no depth. Infosys, for instance makes only ~15% of their revenue through app development, per their latest quarterly report. When the IT boom started, it was mostly all s/w dev and maintenance. Slowly it has been replaced by non s/w dev activity to the point that s/w dev is only a minor activity (revenue wise).
I live in a safe place. If I'm going traveling (To likely a more dangerous place), I'd be safer staying in some sort of 'official' establishment, such as a hotel. Rather than staying with random people. They could be irritating, unhinged, dangerous, murderous, thieving, perverted, etc

Random people scare me. Maybe I just assume the worst in random people. How many airbnb rooms have spycams installed in the showers? I'd bet it's more than in hotel rooms :/

It's just the same reason I wouldn't hitch-hike or go in an unlicensed taxi.
When different customers use different key to encrypt the data, even if the source is the same, the outcome is different. So it is not feasible to do de-duplication across different customers' data, unless all of them use the same key.
The game reminds me of Kurves, and is also similar to the racing game in the Tron movie. Maybe the inspiration comes from Tron?

Anyways, the Kurves game (http://flashkurve.com/) has a similar concept, it is maybe less complex, but much more addictive.

On a gameplay side, I prefer the Kurves game. It is a bit slower, also is heavy multiplayer, but is more addictive and fun to play.

On a technical side, they are both nice. The Kurves game is made in Flash and works as expected, and the HTML5 game is also awesome from the technical side. I may be wrong, but I think that it is still quite easier to develop in Flash than JS.

JS+HTML5 seems to be ready to _compete_ with flash also on basic games. I wonder whether we will see some games with OpenGL compete with the 3D Flash games (or Shockwave).
I still am. I know a couple people who still are too (the 3G iOSv4 wouldn't have needed an update if the market share weren't significant).
EDIT: Probably using just 2 keys to turn and one to shoot could be better than using 4 keys. The keyboard gets very clustered when playing with many folks.
I think I remember this story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/technology/internet/30goog....

Oh wait: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/technology/28yahoo.html
The inspiration comes from CRASH from Digital Nightmare, itself inspired by the original Tron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0whHiwr4os
Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
Late night I have to be in f.lux land or my eyes are not happy campers:
http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/
That's why the 4 keys are next to each other. You can play with one hand.
Ahmadinejad (Iranian president):
“Is there a craft more beautiful... than the craft of giving yourself to martyrdom and becoming holy?...”

"What is important is that they have shown the way to martyrdom which we must follow."

http://www.realite-eu.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=9dJBLL...
I should flesh this out a little bit... the original poster asked for a world without advertising and how a company would find customers in such an environment.

My answer: SEO.

A world without advertising is a world where search engine optimization rules supreme because you must be at the top whenever someone searches actively for the answer to a problem.

Of course the whole proposition becomes nil once you realize that what we call advertising is really just suboptimally placed commercial information.

We stop calling it advertising when it's relevant.
I always found the fact that Wikipedia doesnt exactly assure you of having discovered final, exact truth absolutely delighting ;-)

Maybe we will see the cultural influence of this 'negotiation' 10 or 20 years from now. It must have some kind of influence that all kids in the last few years have learned that actually all knowledge is fabricated by humans, rather than representing a historical or scientific truth. Not saying that there isn't one, but it makes the process of power and arguments that lead to a 'common sense' on any subject more transparent.

"There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened."
The architecture really doesn't matter, in the context of a course. Understanding concepts like scheduling, filesystems, mm etc. and perhaps tinkering with a reference implementation is more rewarding for beginners, and Minix is simple enough to allow a CS undergrad to get involved rather quickly.
Unshortened

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f2tjw/my_friend...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f2tjw/my_friend...
I don't buy it. To believe the black family is in such a state purely because of racism is to believe racism is worse now than it was in the '60s.
I made something like that also, but the problem is my name is local. I have e-commerce.ccTLD/e-store.ccTLD meaning in my language. That is great, but I looking at global name for my biz.

I like the bottom line, the product and all around it (sales, marketing) is what is important.

Thanks,
B-Scan
As predicted on HN: Kindle Lending Club
I would guess it's a combination of Not Invented Here syndrome and different problem spaces. Despite the fact that ITK seems to focus on very small things, while NASA tends to focus on the quite large, I've found that image processing, by and large, is image processing, so I'd think the former is probably more important.
7 Coolest Weird Buildings
Designing a weird building is pretty simple...Take a look.
This is a great story and i think sums up the feeling about programming for many people on here.
That said it also shows a typical human behaviour. We like new stuff, we get excited about stuff we havent really done before and want to work on it immediatly with unmatched passion and will power.
However on the other hand, if we are working on stuff for a long time already, have to deal with the "not so fun" stuff of running a project for example and the big hit is still alot of work away, keeping this passion up is the really hard part which might be one of the key factors to startups that hit big or fail.
I symlink all the music I care about into Dropbox, which gives me access to the music I listen to most at my office and on the road, but doesn't mean Dropbox hsa to have sufficient space to store ALL of my music. This hybrid works well for me personally.
How do near-match domains do? I have [adjective][keyword].com and it certainly didn't jump into the SERPs.
Javascript, CSS, and (X)HTML entities in numeric order
It is saying that the FONT and CENTER tags were added to HTML after CSS was a public draft.
Ah, another article that doesn't even understand how Wikipedia functions (doesn't know how to check the history of an article, seems to think that you need the Watchlist for that), never mind how it works. There are certainly sensible complaints that can be made about Wikipedia, but this article is still living in 2004.

Wikipedia is at least as accurate as any other encyclopedia, but unlike his Britannica example, when it's not, you can actually do something about it.

And the Microsoft complaint is just bizarre. Calling it (and not just Apple, but also Oracle, and GE, and, well, pretty much every, erm, American multinational corporation) an American multinational corporation is a simple statement of fact that's not in the least sinister! And to expect the Microsoft article to not highlight that they'd been found guilty of significant anti-trust violations in the US and EU would be much more biased than to include it.

This isn't even a good hatchet-job.
But if I have never seen Target advertised and I haven't made an effort to go inside, how am I supposed to know what they sell? Are customers expected to make a visit to each new store that opens? Are they expected to give them a call or google the name of the store when they get home? How else would they initiate contact?
My own strategy right now is to set up a members' forum as part of my paid service, but to make reading the forum free for all. Hope that it will help with content generation.
Avoiding SQL
Have you seen the list of WebM supporters? If having a bunch of big name companies behind it is what you require then WebM has had that since launch day.

http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/
Techniques to draw initial attention to your product
I got a bad review from TechCrunch, lessons learned
Never heard about it. But it looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
There's a cultural issue here. Real name is the core of Facdbook's success. That's what set it apart from MySpace. The novelty of MySpace quickly wore off after the first few months making fake online friends, but Facebook had your real friends from real life that you actually want to talk with.
Blaming culture is the Pontius Pilate method - the people who do so think "it is their choice, they suffer the consequences, so there is nothing we can or should do".
Seems interesting, really hot area.
Japanese society is way more resistant to any changes where
social relations are involved. Facebook-encouraged openness
is too much for most japanese people.
Maybe it's too much for the western society as well, but we
took a bait already.
In other words, you are saying African-American culture is the sole reason for all the problems blacks face in the U.S?

I'm sure that's helpful to the 6 year old child when he is given the book that explains the two different culture choices he has in life, and that he should select one, and it will automatically become his.
Thank you for concrete names! It's appreciated. My favs from here are groovepay.com and cashelli.com. But main focus of my startup are shops (sorry, you couldn't know that).
I love the fact unlike other social application you are not mixing all it one , it aggregates but still you can enjoy functionality of each one differently in one app. I want hear from someone who tried it on tablet. Because android tablet is new and emerging platform.
Has HTML5 been used to deliver any valuable content on desktop machines? And by "valuable" I mean terrible Hollywoood movies or trashy TV Shows.

I was under the impression that they all used Flash and Silverlight because then they could implement DRM. They don't need to do that on iOS devices, because the whole platform is DRM'd.

For example BBC iPlayer is HTML5 to iOS, but Flash to Mac OS X. They've announced that all the other mobile devices will be served via Flash.

People that want to post videos of their cat dancing or a backyard physics experiment on the other hand, have totally different needs, like the ability to post it in their subscriber only cat physics forum without worrying about licence fees.
From the article: "... decided instead to quadruple both directions ..."

Seriously, who starts with the number "2" and ends up confusing themselves? The whole article feels like one of the elaborate proofs of "0=1" that middle-schoolers are prone to come up with.
These kinds of hash functions are actually /designed/ to be slow (so you can't use brute force)

Not so much. I think they are designed to have good mixing, be impractcally hard to reverse, and have other properties. This just makes them slower than hash functions generally used in hash tables. My understanding is that both MD5 and SHA were designed to be efficient under these constraints. bcrypt is designed to be slow, and can beat other cryptographic hashes by ridiculous margins. (Parameterized, actually)
I've long thought that new tools (especially procedurally generated content) will pave the way for a new era of game design that allows much, much smaller teams to create top tier games. It's a lot more difficult to express an artistic vision through a large and complex bureaucratically controlled organization than it is to express it through a small group or an individual (compare the artistic quality of books written by a single author vs. by committees, etc.)

Moreover, the incredibly high cost of production of many modern games limits the sorts of games that get made. Minecraft level sales are barely enough to cover the costs of making a game at a company like EA or Activision.

Hopefully Notch's success will lead to the development of Minecraft as a highly modable platform for roughly similar games and also to the development of new low-cost game systems that produce no less enthralling experiences.
I would suggest the reason they have a cap is because a) it is anti-competitive towards smaller firms moving into the market to challenge the incumbents who make up MPEG-LA b) it would make economic sense for a bunch of big companies to get together and produce a competitive codec and compete with H.264 if they didn't structure their fees in this way.

They are after all a government sanctioned cartel. You don't get away with this kind of anti-competitive price discrimination otherwise.

Which is why it always confuses me that people talk about what an excellent codec it is. How do you know it's excellent when the legal structures are set up specifically to exclude competition, and therefore comparison?
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Is it healthy for the eyes to blink for a prolonged period at high frequencies?