skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Wouldn't it be nice if there was an Economist-"briefing"-style overview on dozens/hundreds of topics instantly available on the kindle? Like something between the Wikipedia article and a book?
Why then do I hear/read, Ruby on Rails has problems with routing and templating, and that PHP is just as bad as C++?
Excellent point. I'm surprised that I've never heard this rational before. Compared to the other theories, this is definitely the Occam's Razor version. For many women there is a good chance that their future husband will be the "breadwinner"... What's the point of compressing 40 years of work into 4, if you aren't planning on working 40 to begin with?
I'm not arguing that unions are terrible, just that the perception/marketing of unions is unfavorable for most Americans.

Which begs the question: how does the "little guy" re-take some bargaining power? "Unions" under a different name?
It's just beautiful. One of the best looking interfaces for tablets I've seen so far, and keep in mind Google is not too well known for artistic skills. It looks like hiring the lead designer from Palm really paid off.

Also, the technical details are pretty juicy. I can't wait to get my hands on a Xoom.
The first question I have looking at the video and the gallery screenshots is, "why this and not jQuery mobile on Phonegap?" Particularly since Phonegap has some level of cross-platform capability. Some tutorials and workthroughs that went beyond what's in the gallery
Your competitive advantage over a bigger player like Yahoo will be your ability to iterate much more quickly. As long as you have some sort of quantitative way of measuring your success, you'll have a pipeline you can use to optimize your users' experience and your goal conversions..
MEMP : Mac, EnginX, MySql and PHP
..this release is similar to iOS 3.2. (3.2 was iPad-only, 4.0 and 4.1 were iPhone/iPod-only, and 4.2 finally unified the two branches.)

My guess is that iOS 3.2 for the iPad was a fork of an earlier version of iOS, worked on by a separate group of people than those that were working on iOS 4.0 for the iPhone[1]. The split was because it took a few months for it to all be merged back together in a stable way, not for any big strategic reason.

1. Remember, the iPad was a big secret - even within Apple.
Are you sure it's still far more socially normal for the guys than girls?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/05/22/lw.manimony/in...
What about if we're part-web, part-not?
I wish I'd seen this four years ago. I'd have written a language called "NBL".
Designing for the Mobile Web: Special Considerations
Contractor?

Also why is Microsoft in with the web companies?
+1 one for this model, this is exactly how we're building Decal.
First, the use case for T4 is fundamentally different than language macros. You would't use Lisp macros or C macros for what you'd do with T4. For example, I've seen T4 used to do some elaborate documentation generation.

But back to the point, I partially agree with what you say about C, but I think you misunderstand where the crux of the problem. It's not that they're separate stages -- I believe they are in most Lisp implementations (but I may be wrong), but rather that you can't do macro expansion w/o the context of the full program, i.e., within the context of the build system -- yet the effect is global.
> Note, the power of the macro system is not equal to its general good.

It's hard to quantify "general good" of something complex as programming language macro system with all consequences included.

But it's quite easy to see which one is more powerful wrt expressiveness.

Your primitive macro system _forces_ me to write code like this:

#ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
#define INIT_IDS \
.loginuid = -1, \
.sessionid = -1,
#else
#define INIT_IDS
#endif

#define INIT_TASK(tsk) \
{
INIT_IDS
}

instead of more natural.

#define INIT_TASK(tsk) \
{\
#ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
.loginuid = -1, \
.sessionid = -1,\
#endif
}

> The badness of the C preprocessor starts much earlier with things like include files, and the fact that you can't statically analyze the code in any reasonable way.

Static analysis hardness or easyness has _nothing_ to do with preprocessing, because static analyzer can preprocess code in a very same way compiler will so both will analyze the very same stream of tokens.

> The benefit from the preprocessor is absurdly small.

This is subjective and unquantifiable.
Introducing Human Intent detection technology
I haven't found any (documented) limits to their free API. While it doesn't have the new added benefits, will it stay free? Unlimited requests?
Seeing how this guy comments about loop, be a little careful when using it. There is no formal standard on how to implement loop, so what you write might result in different answers depending on what Common Lisp implementation you use. Evaluate these loop-expressions and see what happens (from ANSI Common Lisp by PG):

(loop for y = 0 then z
for x from 1 to 5
sum 1 into z
finally (return (values y z)))

and then evaluate this:

(loop for x from 1 to 5
for y = 0 then z
sum 1 into z
finally (return (values y z)))
On contract with HP during the day, but I have a startup in my spare time.
Consultant/contractor/hired gun.
The classic advice is pg's essay "How to Make Wealth" (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html):

"At Viaweb one of our rules of thumb was run upstairs. Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

What this meant in practice was that we deliberately sought hard problems. If there were two features we could add to our software, both equally valuable in proportion to their difficulty, we'd always take the harder one."

In addition, I would say: (1) provide extremely good customer relations (any post submitted to your site blog or email sent is answered in half an hour max) and (2) use your personal network, Yahoo is not a person, so it doesn't have any friends, you do. Use them and their friends.
As a man named William Shatner once said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." Or was that Shakespeare? The same is true for good programs, I think.

When we see problems like this, it's right to ask questions about what the language design encourages its programmers to do. Additonally, languages have "personality" just like people do, and those personalities evolve with the user base of the language as they adapt to the language's environment.

The question of whether this type of code is more common in Java than say Python or Perl is empirical, and my gut says it is. Java is the commoditized, corporate language par excellence. The features it implements and the way it implements them have attracted the kinds of programmers who would write code like that. That's not to say that Java code forces its users to write code that is so inelegant. That's just to say that it creates incentives that often push toward ugly code. C++ does that too. On the other side, Python (to name one example) seems to set up its environment in such a way as to encourage pretty code.

There's no clear-cut good or bad here, only interesting trends in the code produced in various languages.
Critical Code Studies 2010 Conference Proceedings
http://igodigital.com
Interesting, I guess we are doing it wrong. I see what you are saying about skimlinks, we have received this advice in the past. It's just not something we are looking into now.

We might be up for a commission based remote worker. :)
I'm surprised they're still persisting with the faux-7-segment retro digital clocks.

See bottom right of: http://developer.android.com/sdk/images/3.0/home_hero1.png

The reference will be lost on non-geeks, who will just see an ugly looking clock.
"No, no conspiracy, just conventions that we would probably do better without but which are deeply ingrained in society. .. So deep that we're no longer even aware of them."

This is so silly. If that was true, gays would be executed/exiled, interracial marriages remain banned, slaves would continue to serve the masters, etc.
it's unusable on my i5 either. clicks take 20-30 seconds to register. Just sad
May want to add "Other" as an option.

Consider a smaller company that develops a couple of established products. Or one-person consulting shops. Or contract developers, etc. In short - just add "Other" :)
Neat project... except for the 8 games available on it. Why develop for something with 20 users when you can develop for a (more powerful) mobile phone with several orders of magnitude more potential customers?

Pretty cool that it's open and finally (after what.. three years or so?) shipping units, but I doubt it'll ever gain steam.
This is a conference that went on at USC recently, and all of the videos of the presenters. "Critical Code Studies" is an emerging humanities sub-discipline that's trying to approach source code from a literary angle, and I think it's pretty interesting.
They have claimed it will scale to all screens [1], but I am bit skeptical. There hasn't been any demo and I don't really see how.

1. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/exclusive-interview-googl...
Startup founder (and sole employee) here.

Interesting poll, but at first I thought you meant "where" as in what location. That's a very interesting question that I'd like to hear answered. Especially if you're freelance, on your own, remote, or otherwise don't have an office to go to.

What I've noticed is that I can't seem to work in the same physical spot for more than 2 months in a row or so. After that all my creativity seems to drain out and I can't get anything done. As soon as I move to another spot, I'm back in business.

So I find myself hopping every 2-3 months between different coffee shops, tea shops, restaurants and coworking spaces in my area. I always wondered if anybody else has the same thing.

Sorry, this is kinda off-topic. Maybe I should make a work-location poll.
Seriously consider it.

Hit me on email and I'll tell you more detail: david @ buro9.com

There are a couple of specifics to get right, mostly it's about giving a reason for webmasters to use it and what is massively under-estimated is that a lot of webmasters hang out places just like this and are asking for solutions to both embedding stuff and earning money.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but on the off chance that you are not that describes the situation in fairly large chunks of the world.
Thanks for the input. Do you have any input on how much these types of consultants charge? Is it hourly, by project, by performance, or some combination?
Databases for startups
Ask HN: Head First Books?
Hi, im a selftaught programmer. I know how to program VHDL and other hardware programs.
But now i wanna do software programs and they recomend those books. But I cant find those books in my country (I live in Mexico, Tijuana to be exactly) I can go across the border but i dont know where could i buy those books)would buy the ebooks but i just got my lap stolen. any tip or advice where i could get them or any other books you would recommend would really apreciate it
In a decade or less, the Lispers will see this light too.

Right. It's just been invisible for the last 25 years. Or maybe the last 50. Whatever. One of these days...
Netflix -Letter to shareholders and Q4 financial results
Not to mention "unemployed".
Non-web company seems awfully broad - there's probably some interesting information lost in there.
Where were you when IOS 3.2 was released?
I'm curious, why is there a fear of pregnancy?
Ask HN: Working on a Ground Breaking Project. Lost on how and where to execute.
Excuse the rambling but I need to explain my history and my challenge. Ok, so, Im on my 3rd startup, first 2 were ecommerce startups that were acquired(small exits). I worked my butt off and built those businesses with less then $100. I read and discect EVERYTHING thats Silicon Valley related daily."Family thinks im possessed" but i just cant not analyze everything thats going on in silicon valley and tech and biz related. I live in Dallas(cheap real estate but no startup scene.) You may say that there is "SOME" startup scene but there is NO culture that empowers tech startup, there is minimal funding, and the talent/ desire to leave a good job and help someone create a huge market disrupting company is not here. Im currently working on a "social experiment" that will push the boundaries of whats possible in a . It has been bootstrapped by me, but I dont know what to do. Do I continue, launch with no financial backing, but be near homeless-ness?(with family) Or do I slow down progress and try to get funding in my Area? Or do I pack it all up and go to the Valley?

I love the valley been there about 5 times. It feels like its where I belong. But the gas prices, state income tax and real estate is so darn expensive its hard to live comfortable.

I need to community to help me with this one..

Help !!
It's a really schizophrenic strategy

It's the same strategy that virtually every maker is following now. It's building out a platform, and its what you have to do to compete now.

I get the impression that Honeycomb isn't going to be coming to phones.

Their introductory video specifically says "built entirely for tablets". I don't know what the credibility of it is, but there was the rumor that the next iteration will be 2.4 and will be for handsets. Such a versioning strategy makes sense.

Obviously they would share considerable amounts of code. The "shell" is just a replaceable process.

Google certainly aren't doing well at pleasing their current customers

It's clear that Google and its open handset partnership is perilously understaffed right now, and they need to cut the umbilical going to whoever is screwing up this opportunity.

Android, I think, succeeded far beyond Google's dreams (originally tablets and PMPs were a no-go, but they've become a primary focus), but it seems to be moving far too slowly. A bunch of stuff they promised for 2.2 still isn't there in 2.3, and is only rumored for 3.0. They need to seriously pick up the pace.
FCC Already Overwhelmed With Net Neutrality Violation Complaints
Looks like the corporations are trying to call their bluff. Let's hope they can actually regulate this.
Or "student".
I like the design, though 10 seems like a bit much
It also requires instructions in order to figure out the quickdial function... which is more than I've ever needed for my iPhone. (BTW my toddlers can work iOS devices just fine.)
Shapea helps you validate your startup ideas
not to mention, declarative
Long term contractor for a vc backed company, I think? I guess I'm not sure if that would count as working like an employee, or just being a normal contractor? Didn't vote, don't think any fit me :-(
If 4% of founders in YC are female I would be interested to know what the breakdown of male/female entrepreneurs are for businesses outside of tech. My initial guess is that there are a lot more female entrepreneurs outside of the valley than there are in the valley. This article (http://www.examiner.com/women-s-entrepreneurship-in-washingt...) would seem to (albeit not definitely) agree with that assumption. So if we think there is a significant difference I would be really interested to see a profile of a female tech entrepreneur and a female non-tech entrepreneur. That profile would reveal a lot about why more women don't create technology startups.

In the end I think women are quite entrepreneurial and can make the sacrifices, tradeoffs, and decisions necessary to succeed. I just don't think the type of businesses that most women are interested in creating are technology in nature.
Apple released iOS 3.2 which only ran on the iPad. Then iOS 4 which only ran on phones, and then 4.2 that finally ran on both.

Google may have a similar strategy in the works. 3.0 will be tablet-only, then some future version will consolidate things. Since they're not as secretive as Apple there may not be as long a break while things are integrated properly.

That said it'd still be nice to hear about such a strategy if it exists.
Nice use of AJAX. It looks like you don't need to fill out all ten, in fact just one works.
Great article. I actually think this could be a severe risk to Apple. The trend in any competitive market is for margins to converge towards 0. In particular, iOS is already facing competition from Android, and RIMM isn't exactly going to die without a fight either. Having so much of the company's margin wrapped up in one product would set off alarm bells for me. I don't care what their current stock valuation says.
I think there might be Wordpress addons that do this. It looks like Patrick's blog (http://www.kalzumeus.com/) uses one and I've seen a few other blogs with the same thing. It's annoying.
adult industry.
Does the SunChips bag really break down in a Compost Heap?
The Hot Girl Effect: A Month Proving It
There is more to the post than just one reading of its title. You seem to be arguing with the proposal "Do things you are not passionate about." That isn't remotely what the article is saying.
Are we discussing USA if not the western world? This was assumed from the author's article of why women are given as much chance as men to be a founder yet prefer not to (She's promoting a female founder meetup in NYC).
Government contracting. Can't wait to get out.
How does Weave use Cryptography?
At a company that was once a startup, is now highly profitable, but venture backed.

And my side businesses, all of which are profitable because they're bootstrapped.
I don't mean in bytes, I mean in how many elements it applies rules to (see rimantas' comment). I'm also not sure it _would_ lead to a much larger CSS file (only 16 tags differ among browsers, and I doubt 16 CSS rules would be required for normalization).
And the counter part to that, "Work? Already sold my company, suckers!"
I have a similar experience. I work full time for a BigCo, so I have to work at finding spots off campus where I can go and comfortably code for an hour or so during lunch. It has been a non-trivial venture, living in a not-so-tech-friendly area.

After a while, I become apathetic to the place I am working at over lunch and need to move to keep interest... else I will just decide to skip the offsite work and sit at my BigCo desk and vegitate.
The article title is misleading. After the 4th paragraph, all of the advice is equally relevant to males and females.
Feel free to not comment next time you don't feel like saying anything.
First off, I'm not really sure the author knows what "loophole" means. And second, why would AT&T want to let people switch to an unlimited plan because they use more than 2 gigs a month? Seems to me that if you're watching streaming video all day while jailbreak tethered to your laptop which is hosting a dozen torrents, AT&T would probably be better off if you moved to Verizon. They know how much data you use and probably only let you go back to unlimited if you're not likely to use it.
Thinner Nanowires Exhibit Giant Piezoelectricity - 100 times greater
I admit that I have never been a landlord per se, but I do understand that a Tenant From Hell can exploit the law to screw well-meaning landlords.

I also once had a Roommate From Hell who paid a token amount of rent to me rather than to the landlord... thus turning him into my Subletter From Hell... and when I tried to get him to pay the rest of his share of the rent, he gave me a lecture about how screwed I was. (And because of the damage that his chain-smoking did to the house’s lobby area, I lost my security deposit.) I called his successor the Roommate From Limbo because on the one hand, he had WHITE POWER tattoos, played the same Hank Williams Jr. tape incessantly, and had loud s/m sex with his girlfriend, but on the other hand, he paid his rent on time.

At any rate, I’m not sure a tenant who bombards a landlord with incessant frivolous complaints through a trouble-ticket system is really that much more annoying than a tenant who does the same bombardent by telephone.
You don't have to sign up every time you post, just the first time.

Posterous doesn't even need a sign up. You can actually just start posting by typing in a text-area with a post button - your email client that you already use.

If you know of an easier way, I'd honestly like to know about it.
The whole page disqualified itself instantly, not a single note about `hasOwnProperty` on the whole page :(
Why bundle PHP 5.2.16 when MacOSX ships with 5.3.3?

Why bundle a legacy version of nginx and add an "E" to the name?
Austin is close and does have a fairly vibrant start-up scene/culture. Make the drive and go to some meetups or functions.

Also, don't be mysterious. Remember, even Dean Kamen thought he had a ground breaking invention. After all the secrecy and hype, it turned out to be an overpriced little scooter. Tell people honestly about your idea, they're too busy on their own things to "steal" it, but the feedback you get will be invaluable.
An odd nitpick, but your logo looks like a religious artifact.
The NBL is not going to be Javascript but Lua. It's got some of the same architectural strengths as Javascript (functions are first class citizens, closures, good scoping), it's very fast (LuaJIT), integrates well in any environment and is highly customizable. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1022560/subtle-difference... for some differences....
I'm the Director of Design Technology at WSJ.
Because condoms break and people forget to take pills.

Is this a genuine question?
I tried a similar experiment this summer. I put an empty SunChips bag on top of my compost heap for 3 weeks and didn't notice any degradation.
love this idea. groupon+eventbrite+opentable of sorts
so i hope they clarify on the checkout that tax + tip aren't included. I would have loved to have had something like this in Miami, as we used to organize geek dinners every so often and it was ALWAYS a pain.
Wow, I didn't expect so many (max right now) votes for Non-web company. It'd be nice to hear more about these companies for a change. Who are you guys and what companies are you running?
The LaTeX editing is still pretty limited. You have to take your hands off of the keyboard and click "new equation" before the editor will recognize LaTeX symbols.
As always, the devil's in the details. I wasn't being snarky - it's actually a great way of doing it since you're leveraging so much existing work. I'm also working on project that could be described in the same way.
Small web company with some side-projects. Not really a startup though.
AT&T Loophole allows legacy iPhone Customers Unlimited Data Plan
Parttime in-house developer at an educational/training company, parttime independent freelance developer.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Patent Trolls
Major Newspaper.
"The Medium is the Massage (sic)"

Freudian slip? :)
Companies that aim to transform one of these fields should understand that they need to be in the business of producing at least some of the content in that field, they can't just be bit pushers and rehashers.

Indeed, but as it has happened with Sony, the publishing arm of the company can hobble the device producing arm.
Thanks for the response. Spouse is from North Cali. And moving any further south in Texas will only make for more whining and complaining of the heat. Austin does have alot going on though. So I guess what im saying is that its either here or move..
http://www.amazon.com/Plustek-91N-BBM31-A-Book-Scanner/dp/B0...
It's not actually "open source hardware" in the sense that you can build your own. They were a bit paranoid that it would get ripped off to the detriment of the project if they did that. But it is very community driven and based on a lot of open source software.