skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's important to understand that policies with terms such as "funds, space, personnel, equipment or facilities" uses "or" and not "and". Space, equipment and facilities means that if you are sitting in the student lounge or in the dorm you are paying to rent and writing code for your new business on your own private computer that you bought with your own money, and you never plug into the university's internet connection or use their wifi, you are still using the university's "space equipment and facilities" and if your business becomes worth something, it is the obligation of the university legal team to take you down and seize ownership of your work.
I think the parent was using the work "they" to refer to the ads, as in:

"Apple fans don't even realize how damn tasteless the ads are".
Self employment does not measure entrepreneurship
>It's more like Linus say you can't use the code, but Google use them anyway.

By installing the Bing Toolbar, users are giving permission to track their clicks. If Bing's server farm is searching Google and parsing the results then it is more like your example.
One way of yielding the same effects without even factoring in search inputs would be to assume a probabilistic relationship between the words on an origin page (e.g. a Google search result page, or a bog standard web page) and the destination URL the user clicks through to. This seems like a pretty reasonable design parameter for the Bing Bar to learn "Suggested Sites" and if you're collecting that information anyway why wouldn't you add all those associations into your search engine to help it rank those tricky obscure search queries?

For synthetic words like "hiybbprqag" that rarely/never show up on the internet [except on Google search result pages generated by Google engineers systematically searching for it], the basic probability algorithm would weight heavily towards assuming an association between "hiybbprqag" and the destination URLs viewed by people immediately after looking at pages referencing "hiybbprqag". Since probably the only people looking at pages referencing "hiybbprqag" were Google testers searching for it, who had been instructed to always click on the "synthetic" Google result, the probability of someone viewing a page referencing "hiybbprqag" subsequently going to http://www.teamonetickets....wiltern-map.html* would be close to 1 - suggesting a pretty strong association between the terms.

If you incorporated these associations into the Bing search engine in any way, it would be perfectly reasonable for a search engine to assume that that page is the most relevant result for hiybbprqag*, given the lack of any alternative data on what to show.

Obviously this isn't as simple as the other solution (and Google could have done more sophisticated tests which rule out this kind of algorithm as being behind the results), but the competitive end of search isn't simple.
I think you are confusing the average smartphone user with the average Basecamp user. The former is interested in shiny apps that make them feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. The latter wants something that is fast, easy to use, and saves time.

37 Signals has made a pile of money by ignoring all the cw about what customers want. I wouldn't write them off just yet.
At least I can still get the old site at (note the www):
http://www.mailchimp.com

I think the new site looks even worse when you can compare them tab to tab..
Mizzou Senior here -- I am very satisfied with my University's decision, I just wish this story isn't the "rare" exception.

Full details:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilfjD3zn6I...
The purpose of this would likely be to ensure that purchased digital goods are always linked to an Apple ID - even if they were purchased externally.

>>Are you effing Idiot! What about User privacy?? Why should the user tell Apple about all ebooks he is purchasing??

For instance, if you restored your device, you could be assured that all your digital content you bought via the Kindle app itself would be restored with a single tap

>> Another idiotic comment, Apple does not stores the "content" how the hell it can restore it??? Only the true provider in this case Amazon can restore it.

It's idiots like you and two people who upvoted you, who are ruining HN.
I know for a fact that there's already a very very big content publisher working on that exact workaround as we speak.
FPIP: Foreign Policy by Internet Protocol
His title is clearly calling out 37 Signals, not every company. Are you a bit defensive? 37 Signals has thousands of users, maybe even more. It's my understanding that there is constant demand for a native mobile app.

If your business doesn't need a native app, then don't create one. It's really that simple.
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Most of people I talked to seem to be ok with this; also it only is important for those who decide to maintain or create their own packages — agner users don't have any hassles with it. And it's not that bad anyway :) — plus if the package author doesn't want to bother, he doesn't have to — anybody can submit a specification.
Can't you use scipy.__dict__ to look up the function name in this case?

scipy.__dict__[x](2)
If Amazon don't roll over, then someone else will and they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
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Come on. It'd only be linkbait if the meat of the article didn't address the title. I thought his title was very relevant to the content.
and techcrunch has long been hosting google ads. so.... what?
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A lot of desktop computer based software migrated to the web where it ran on the server. Made things simpler and avoided "updates downloads" since the updated could be pushed to the code running on the server. With the different platforms, and so many versions of Andriod floating around, doesn't what 37 signals is doing, make things that much simpler? Basecamp is about online collaboration. How could a "native app" do this without the internet?
Heh. Clever, and I suppose nobody would be trying to find security vulnerabilities in Matlab scripts.
Tools never die ... never
I don't care to participate in SO often. I don't have high rep.

I _can_ provide insight.

every once in a while I find somewhere that I can provide some value or insight, whether via editing an answer with a url that's out of date, a comment expanding on the answer, etc... and it seems like I never can.

I don't care to jump through the hurdles to get to that point. I didn't come there to ask a question. I didn't come there to sift through questions to answer.

I came looking for something. I stumbled upon something where I could provide value and was shut down because I have better things to do with my time than to jump through hoops.

It's fine for the power users who want the world to see their rep, or the people trolling for questions regarding their pet projects. It sucks for the casual user.

So, yes, in theory the rep hurdle is quite low. I've just got better things to do with my time. -- Which I already wasted trying to help someone in the first place.
You're probably never going to hit the swap for a good reason. You might hit it if you do a mistake (resizing an image by 5000% and not 500%), in which case you will suffer if you let your gigabytes of swap get filled), or if you have specific needs (video editing, and still...).

Keeping a swap partition in a 2011 computer is 1. a waste of disk space, 2. an unecessary matter of worries (2-1. may leak some infos, even if your other partitions are encrypted, if your computer is stolen, 2-2. a source of potential bugs).
Where are all the Wiki-Women?
You don't think the companies using the shiniest new web apps aren't using the shiniest new phones?
Hope annoying ads will disappear from publisher sites this way
Has everyone forgotten about Books already?
RIM Shows Off Playbook's Business Capabilities, Saves Users From A New Data Plan
Even if it's wrong, they're still pulling similar bullshit with publishers who try to give their print subscribers free access to their apps. They're not winning any friends here.
After that we'll go through our normal process of evaluating each company and deciding if we want to invest. We do not have any information advantage. We may say no to a company not because it's a bad company, but just because it's product doesn't fit our strategy.

If I understand this correctly, they may turn down eligible companies that want in on this? Of course I know they always have a right to, but I was under the impression that "blind investment" means they would not do any judging as long as you are an eligible YC company.

There is a chance he may have been talking about future rounds after their 150K conv deb. Unclear.
If this article is accurate, this is the problem with "integrated" systems. I love my iPhone and iPad, but if this continues I'll be switching to Android.

This is also a taste of problems to come if the rumors of iPhone 5 NFC payments are true.
That seems like a terrible approach to me. If your application's bottleneck is in parsing templates, either everything else is really fast or you have way too many complex templates. Maybe caching is a better strategy in that case. Then again, for a variety of reasons I have decided not to touch GAE if I can help it.
If I had a magic employee that could make any job automated, I'd put that employee in the highest paying job I offer.
Not really. As the other poster said, IE was intentionally abandoned after Microsoft "won" the browser war to drag out the desktop market a few more years. Honestly, until the last few years, web development technology stagnated HEAVILY because of Microsoft's abandonment of IE. They were able to vastly slow the forward movement of web technology for almost a decade.
I guess that is one case I can see it being used: where actual manipulation of the source code is the only way to get the job done.
It's frustrating to me when people say something along the lines of "go write one and stop complaining." It's hardly a useful retort. I think his main thesis is an important one to take note of. One that anyone who runs a software company should consider.
The DMCA only applies to mechanisms which protect copyright.
This is directly addressed in the article:

“Lots of people buy lottery tickets in bulk to give away as prizes for contests,” he says. He asked several Toronto retailers if they would object to him buying tickets and then exchanging the unused, unscratched tickets. “Everybody said that would be totally fine. Nobody was even a tiny bit suspicious,” he says. “Why not? Because they all assumed the games are unbreakable. So what I would try to do is buy up lots of tickets, run them through my scanning machine, and then try to return the unscratched losers. Of course, you could also just find a retailer willing to cooperate or take a bribe. That might be easier.”
Not quite. Another way of describing this; if the content is available for sale outside of the app .. it can't be accessed within the app, unless it's also available for sale via Apple's store.
> IPv6 is already being deployed from top tier mobile carriers and that allows globally rout-able addresses even behind NATs.

You're making a lot of assumptions:

1) That IPv6 will assign a unique and constant IP to every device. Many ISPs provide this as an up-sell feature, not the default, and I don't expect them to change their behavior even if the cost of it approaches 0.

2) That IPv6 will solve all your network problems. It doesn't solve the issue of a bad link or a restrictive firewall. Consider Hosts [A,B,C] and Firewall F. F will block all connections from B. How will yada connect A and B in this arrangement: A <-F-> [B,C] ? Will is use C to route the connection? How will it determine that C can act as an intermediary, and how will it protect A's data such that C can not be used as a MTM (Man in The Middle) attack vector?
I like to give feedback (eg dont mind signing for services), but do not like to get spam (no offense) emails.
How an NGO invested $300 in Social Media and got $15000 in donations
Agree. Mediocrity always wins.
A nugget from an old version of WordPress:

eval('$v_result = '.$p_options[PCLZIP_CB_PRE_EXTRACT].'(PCLZIP_CB_PRE_EXTRACT, $v_local_header);')
Native apps are faster, easier to use and save time. Web apps are easier to develop for them, that's why they chose them.
I'd like to see an actual case reference for this. I've never heard of ignoring robots.txt resulting in any kind of legal action.

It would take a pretty big leap to go from robots.txt is advisory to ignoring it constitutes a criminal action.
> For the first time in its history, Google crafted one-time code that would allow it to manually rank a page for a certain term

If that's accurate, that's a precedent I'd rather not have seen.

(a little help on the grammar here, anyone?)
Does anybody have precinct-level election results for the USA? A set for recent elections would be great for public access redistricting apps that will become relevant this year.
Anyone can sell e-books on-line and email them to your kindle. Baen's Webscriptions (http://www.webscription.net/) has been doing this for years.
Why not bring the clerks into it? The corner-store I go to near-daily knows me well, and they sell lots of lottery tickets. It'd be trivial for me to go in there and say "listen, I'll give you an X% cut in exchange for your silence and first pick of the tickets."

However, if they're knowingly selling losers, could that be construed as fraud? Then again, the lottery does that already...
Those don't appear to be multiple designs, but a single design which randomly features different "stories."
Answer by the man himself:

http://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-is-Gmail-imp...
> If your application's bottleneck is in parsing templates, either everything else is really fast or you have way too many complex templates.

There are countless of examples where the template engine is the bottleneck of an application. If you are doubting that, I welcome you to try it yourself. Benchmarking Django's templates and Genshi is an eye opening experience. :)
Yes, it was clever, until Google caught them at it and started using it to undercut their "mindshare".
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Specifically, minimized applications got their working set trimmed. You could see this in Task Manager: it's Memory Usage column was actually Working Set (I think they're more explicitly labelled these days) and it frequently went from many MB down to a few KB once you minimized the app. Working set is the set of pages, currently in memory, that the app has used "recently", and are thus less likely to be paged to disk. Shrinking the WS makes pages more likely to be paged out.
So if there are now a whole lot more applicants to YC, more good ones will get turned away than ever before. Suggesting rival seed-funds (or whatever you call them) will crop up to absorb the surplus. Unless YC just increases its intake proportionally (but that could be an unwanted dilution of the guidance/mentoring available to each one).
> furthermore, isn't blaming IE close to blaming the customer?

Not even near. I'm blaming Microsoft for this one.

> The customer has chosen (even if the decision was made for them)

This is self contradictory.

> and that is something that we as developers have to live with

Sorry, but I believe in innovation.
Perhaps 'inferior' in some dimensions, but trying harder with every scrap of legal data they can acquire. That's what I'd expect from any upstart against an entrenched leader, a leader with a long headstart and giant informational advantages via ubiquity and scale.

Google leverages every legal scrap of information they can get their hands on to improve their services – including the outlinks of every site they crawl, and clicks of users all over the net. If there's a legal way to observe the users and content of Google's sites for info about which other sites are good – and I haven't yet seen an allegation from Google that Microsoft is doing something illegal – why should any company refrain from using those signals, given Google's giant use of such info from elsewhere?
Thanks for the reply, but take Skype for example, they have gotten over these technical hurdles. I could give you a huge explanation involving relay points and NAT traversal etc. but at the end of the day, these challenges have been defeated.
Bing Admits Using Customer Search Data
Thanks, my intention was definitely not to create a linkbait title.
It is admittedly difficult to re-learn what you know about computers, and what Windows has taught people (including myself) is that RAM usage must be below ~75% for optimal performance. It has been my experience that paging becomes much more blocking above that.
No. Better economics wins:

Web sites are cheaper to maintain upgrade, and add features to than native applications, which means that for the same price, you can provide more to your users. Think how much simpler it is to provide a web app that works on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian, compared with building it natively for each one.
They are also ruining our youth! Infographs encourage our lazy society to become even more dependent on graphical stimulation and less competent in reading the printed word. I believe the first infographic was developed in Nazi Germany and illustrated SS soldiers goose stepping.
Google are really getting pathetic.
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I was just about to post the exact same thing. I guess it must be a more common technique than I imagined.
Bing responds.

http://searchengineland.com/bing-admits-using-customer-searc...
Get rid of the Gigabytes/mo field. Instead, add a minimum GB amount, say 4GB. So everyone pays you at least $1 and only has to fill one field to sign up.
It might be better to use proper rlimits, and not let a mad process gone wild triggers the OOM. Swap just delays the problem.
I don't see this as being any different from what Microsoft has been doing for 20+ years. They let a competitor put the work into figuring something out, then make a a reasonably accurate facsimile thereof. I think it's lazy, but not particularly unethical. If Google were Benz, would they be complaining that Ford was making 4-wheeled vehicles with an engine? More appropriately, and given that I've been on a Top Gear bender lately, if Google were Cadillac would they be complaining that everyone else was copying their method for operating vehicles, with three pedals, a gear shift, a steering wheel and a handbrake?

I get why Google is upset, but this doesn't strike me as unethical behaviour in a free market.
I heard they drastically downplayed their well-known chimp branding and color palette because they'll soon be making a big play into a white-labeled offering which will be totally without branding and customizable. This site redesign is the middle ground to acclimate existing customers to the big change before they roll out the updated app with white-labeling offered.
Exactly, it's not about "in-app purchasing" in general. They're specifically requiring Apple's In-App Purchase(tm) system:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
A bad (IMHO) example of infographic:

http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Typefaces-of-the-world_...

Stylish, but hardly readable and not very informative.
OK guys, this smells like a challenge. Can anyone think of a tool which has been made extinct?
Feel free to mail me (no contact info on your profile). My 9-5 corporate company may he interested in this (alternative healthcare). James.
> You might need to enlighten yourself on exactly which browser first brought us ajax.

AJAX is older than XMLHTTP Request, virtually you can do AJAX with [i]frames, and this method is not even obsolete, because to my knowledge, that is the only way you could do a file upload(that works even in ancient browsers).

> IE was brilliant when it came out.

That still makes it a curse today.
Just picked up a program called Arq (http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/) for OS X that backups a machine to Amazon S3. You pay Amazon based on standard storage and bandwidth costs (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/) and it allows for reduced redundancy storage, so you're looking at about 10cents a gig per month.

Based on your note above, for 385 gigs you're looking at about $36/month ($432/year) -- and that's before you get smoked on transferring all that data to Amazon, which will cost you about 10 cents a gig and run you about $39 for a one time transfer.

Once most those files hit S3 you won't have to re-send them (just backup newly changed files) but Mozy's $439.89 is still looking like the cheaper option.
Agree with you on most points.

However on some points I'm not as convinced. Take the DOM abstraction, it works and is implemented by several SPA frameworks. You can design good looking, "desktop class" applications pretty fast. But problem arises quickly when your graphic designers send you those PSD mockups, full of great looking artwork waiting to come to life.

With a normal DOM approach you've always been able to solve this. With hacking some HTML, tuning CSS and a lot of swearing you pull through.
But with SPA frameworks that favor "components" over low-level, raw DOM elements things usually aren't as straightforward. Very often you need to start picking apart the provided "ready-made components" to get any work done. Ends up being very contra-productive and usually takes way longer to do.

It has happened to me numerous times before with both GWT and Adobe Flex. Nice and shiny, given you don't try changing the layouts too much.
Surely, I'd be one happy camper if this wasn't the case, web development need to move forward. And I hope the goals proclaimed by both Cappuccino and Sproutcore will work in practice some day.

Regarding your other point about routing, departing from the route paradigm will be only be true if what your designing is not a document-centric application. In my world, an SPA can be either document-centric or desktop-like (containing a lot of UI state, as you mention). Think the answer to that is the boring "it depends".

Worth mentioning, many of these issues are stuff we've been trying to resolve with the Planet Framework (http://www.planetframework.com), essentially bridging the gap between client and server.
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I frequent the sister site Super User, I had no problem in getting rep points, so far I am at over 8K in less than 8 months. No these are not forums and you will be berated for not following the proper order of things. If you can't compete stay off the site, its not for everybody like a forum is.
Only 37Signals is a B2B company that has a lot of customers that are developers. They have an API. Their source of income is their subscription and not apps for native platforms.

In other words, many of their customers who want a native app can scratch their own itch pretty easily, and 37Signals can cut down their own development efforts and focus on making their platform better.

The reason Evernote has apps for every platform is simple: that's the only thing they have going for them. Their interface isn't the best, and there are tons of other ways to save notes. They just happen to have really good cross-device integration. Other note-taking tools have users for different reasons.

I agree with 37Signals. App Stores are an obsolete concept that are only making a comeback because we have a new wave of devices without a solid set of mature cross-platform development tools.

EDIT: In other words, 37Signals wants to differentiate themselves from other applications in more unique ways than just "works natively on every device."