skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10K works out to $120k a year, that is about normal for a salaried senior level developer. Given that salary usually denotes 40 hr a week, 2 weeks vacation, sick leave, a portion of taxes paid and 401k matching. If any of those are not in the mix you have to reduce the compensation by that amount to come up with what it equates to in salary. if it is W-9 or 1099 that is about $80-$90k in compensation still at the bottom end of a senior developers salary. Developers naturally assume that there will be crunch times of 60-80 hours per week but if those kind of hours are the norm 10k is pretty low. I work in constant crunch of at least 60-80 hrs per week and my weekly earnings are slightly below the same as that monthly amount my monthly earning are around 3X that amount. I do corp to corp W-9, and I have a rare skill set but ruby developers are not exactly falling out of the trees either. 10K sounds about right to me, it is nothing spectacular and a ruby developer should be able to find that from a variety of potential employers. That said, you should expect normal working hours for that amount if they are a salaried developer, if they are contract you should expect around 30-35 hours a week.
I am hoping for some strange reason that WebOS wins out over them all.
Or Jottit?

http://jottit.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=54977

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73049
Even when one or more of the computers is a public machine (ex. in a library)? This would have been great when I was in college and didn't always want to carry my laptop around.
textread() becomes part of Octave just as it's getting phased out in Matlab :)

textread() is a nice function that essentially takes an array of records (in a flat file) and turns it into a set of arrays. Basically you're performing a projection to get the set of time series you need from a time series of records.

I used to use Octave a lot instead of Matlab in grad school (computer vision) and still use it a good bit now translating/writing scripts for U-Hawaii's Oceanography program. viraptor is right, though, "ipython -pylab" is a great replacement, too

Python is where I keep going back to, for _everything_, because it has libraries for so much stuff, super-clean syntax, relatively easy integration with C, and enough extensibility.
I use Atomic Web, which I like a lot (though I only used Safari on the iPad before this).

Atomic has tabs, a nice full screen mode, and a lot of useful preferences such as the ability to zoom fonts and save font sizes per site subdomain.
Firefox 4 Beta 11 adds "Do Not Track" capabilities
We use it all the time during our closed alpha. Provides a quick and simple way to have users ask questions, provide new ideas, and offer feedback. Allows admins to comment back and answer any questions so its pretty engaging.
Simple, I don't. Most of my purchases are from amazon, and I order and forget. I get reminded once I see it at my doorsteps.

There are few services which you can forward tracking number, and they update you when the status has changed.

UPS shows you how many days till delivery now, and you can have them remind you but it does not work too well, always delayed, but never the else I don't see it being useful as something like tripit at all
Yes, there are signs that the x86 architecture is in the early stages of being disrupted. Here is an article I posted in October that uses Christensen's disruptive technology framework to assess the threat posed by ARM:

The End of x86? - http://www.fernstrategy.com/2010/10/21/the-end-of-x86/
Maybe sibling is referring to an aspect of Python I'm not aware of (there are probably many), but much of the book (or at least the first edition) is language-agnostic. Tasks are pretty well partitioned into front-end, optimization, and back-end sections (further, really), with the idea that each segment of the compiler doesn't have to worry much about other segments' tasks (e.g. code shape is not the concern of the parser).
The thing with email, is that, it's messy.
No matter what you do, you eventually will start getting unwanted email and spam. It's boring to maintain a clean email address.

Unfortunatly there isn't any good alternatives to email.
Google Wave tried it, yet, they failed.
> "However, it seems it would make much more sense for Nokia to just fork Android, which is also a viable platform, and a more popular one at that. Also, it is free of cost, unlike WP7."

I've seen WP7 run faster on remarkably little hardware - it's a lot like iOS in that sense. Where even Froyo would lurch and struggle, iOS and WP7 have been shown to make very snappy experiences out of relatively old hardware.

This can potentially lend a lot of hardware advantages. The current "we have N core in our phones!" race that HTC, LG, Moto, and Samsung are running in is in no small part due to the lackluster performance of Android. The only apparent solution is to throw more and more hardware at it (and to be fair, it's working, the latest generation of Android devices are finally as snappy as my pokey 500MHz iPhone).

But consumers don't care about their megahurtz or their cores. They want a snappy UI that works for them - if Nokia can create a better experience for less hardware, they pocket that difference. This can also confer spec-sheet advantages that customers do care about - e.g. battery life.

Secondly, as a "preferred partner" for MS, Nokia might have some say over where the platform goes. I think it's pretty safe to say that Google does what it wants with Android, and if Nokia wanted a feature they'd have to wait in line like everyone else. Given the poor sales of WP7 so far, I'm betting MS is willing to bend over backwards and Nokia may get to drive the platform development in a big way.
I feel these days, we as developers are on a death race for high-performance on every consumer device with all these extensions, new languages. And it does impose a problem to library writers: how can I make my library reliable and fast on as many platforms as possible? To me, it seems quite impossible. Admittedly, the situation now may be better if we comparing with 20 years ago. But 20 years ago, we don't have these complex libraries/frameworks to port over.

Don't get me wrong, I love to learn new technologies and am excited about all kinds of new new new things. But to maintain every "different" version of the same algorithm is quite exhausting.
Email is a protocol. Phones are a protocol. Facebook is... a company. I don't like the idea that the coming nexus of communication is a single-company provider, with zero incentive to open up a "facebook message protocol"... they simply want to be the only source of communication.

I find this scary.
i'm not sure why the firefox option was put in the advanced tab and not the privacy tab.

i just recently setup piwik (http://piwik.org/) to do web analytics for some of my websites and there is already a plugin available to ignore tracking clients with the Do-Not-Track header (http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/2048)
I'm planning to implement the following as possible purchases in a section of the site called the lolstore:

-any color username

-avatar image

-more powerful upvotes (2x)

-raffle tickets to win real life items

The idea is to reward users for submitting quality content. For example, if you submit an image that gets >100 upvotes, that's worth 100 lolbucks.
Perhaps laser engraving.
This has been Microsoft's strategy all along, and it has been an abysmal failure.

A mobile app blown up for the desktop sucks as a desktop app, and a desktop app shrunk down into a mobile app will suck as a mobile app. Apple figured this out, and had the talent to invent a usable interface paradigm for mobile. Which led them to the highest market cap in the tech industry, with a lot of growth potential left.
Yep: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112620
The Pixi has the same size screen. My wife has one and loves it. It's a great phone for the non power user. It handles emails, texts, calendar, and calls just fine. The browser works well, and she uses it to browse facebook all the time. The app store is limited, but she doesn't really mind, as she's not that heavy of a user.
'M' feature looks amazing. Thanks for the tip!
How did WordPress win?
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'll try to summarize. Google believed that queries and clicks on Google search results were being used in Bing's ranking, so we ran an experiment. The experiment confirmed that clicks on Google search results are used by Microsoft in Bing's search rankings.

Things we don't know include:

- the degree to which those clicks are used in Bing's rankings.

- whether MSFT does Google-specific processing of the clickstream data they get, or whether clicks on Google are treated the same as some-random-website.com.

- how long clicks on Google search results have been used in Bing's ranking (months, years, etc.).

Those are open questions that Microsoft could best answer.
At my workplace, the workstations are locked down so much that Dropbox can't be installed. This might be a godsend for me.
By 'fixed money supply' do you mean literally no new coins/notes are 'minted' (except by exchanging smaller denominations for existing bills), or just that they are minted at a stable rate with no chance for government interference?
Government asks you to spy on your neighbors all the time.

But report on big money doing something wrong and you are screwed.

Oh and the IRS just waived sanctions for offshore accounts recently too.
I like this.
Very minimalistic, easy to use.
Article Directory Script - PHPLD Article Edition: Promising?
Is it possible that the new product announced during the Fall event is actually a 7-inch retina display iPad? Apple might find it expensive to build a 9.7-inch retina display and that could explain the $3billion+ investment that Apple has put in (possibly for the 7-inch retina display screens). Yes, Steve Jobs did say that 7-inch tablets are DOA but it was the same Steve who said Apple doesn't see e-books as a big market.
Microsoft generally botched it with Windows CE/Mobile (I recall counting five full seconds for the 'Start' menu to open), so I suppose it was a reasonable question to ask of Apple back in 2007.
I think the problem wasn't Microsoft entering the market too early so much as never really rethinking their approach to a platform. Their idea for PDAs/phones was a tiny version of desktop windows (compare that to Apple's Newton, with all its flaws). Their idea for tablets was a pen based version of desktop windows.

Microsoft has NEVER really originated a UI paradigm or OS, they just copied/bought/stole stuff from other people, and generally did it badly. (No question they sometimes contribute refinements.)

We're just lucky they didn't try to put a tiny version of DOS on PDAs and a pen driven version of DOS on tablets.
Yes, the FCC has an enforcement bureau (http://www.fcc.gov/eb/).

They unfortunately do not have nearly enough officers to really do anything particularly effective, but if you are really egregiously bad about your spectrum abuse, to the point where you generate complaints from other users, they do sometimes pull licenses.

The only interaction with them I have any sort of knowledge of is secondhand; a friend of mine spent months trying to get the local power company to fix a bad transformer on the street that was failing internally and creating a lot of noise, pretty much from DC well up into the HF. (And I suspect it was making some pretty ugly AC waveforms.) They wouldn't do anything, and he eventually got one of the FCC Enforcement Bureau people involved.

You have to be a very "squeaky wheel" to get any sort of attention to a complaint, though; my friend had what amounted to a fairly serious engineering study of the failing transformer, done with parabolic antennas and spectrum analyzers, so that the FCC guy didn't really have to do a whole lot. (Presumably he verified things, but I don't know for sure.)
Does it "undo" one keystroke at a time?
Very nice site and well executed, however...

It doesn't support Unicode?

I created http://namuna.pen.io/ with devnagari script and it shows garbled text. I hope you know that ~2-3 billion people don't use Roman Script.
What about this article is bullocks? Would you please elaborate on it? The only thing for aviation is:

"The results are even worse for the aviation GPS. The FAA has essentially discontinued support for the old LORAN electronic navigation system in favor of GPS, and now LightSquared has proposed a system that essentially disables GPS in exactly the areas aviation needs it most."

The author is agreeing with you in that it would be a disaster for both commercial and non-commercial.

Was the article modified since you posted your comment?
"Is he that unusual?" - well, either he is or I am. Almost all of my roommates and coworkers have apple products, most more than 1. Those that do not are still hardcore gamers.
Good luck teaching that to a 4 year old, or someone who's barely numerate. Higher bases are better for learning counting because the person can count a variety of small quantities without needing to understand the concept of a number base. It's not that I don't approve of binary counting by hand, but it's hardly useful for beginners or primitive societies.
API access for subscribers only is a really interesting idea. I'm curious how it will play out. Are there examples of other apps using a similar scheme?
thanks for the link, really enjoying this book. packed full of amusing ideas and projections of current trends. i burst out laughing when he introduced the 'reputation' market and said it looked like another 'honesty bubble'
I clicked on this thinking it was Instagram, I'm still waiting to hear back on the dev API registration :(
At high power you can overpower adjacent frequencies wether you have good band filtering on it or not. For example a 2 Watt FM transmitter at 100 Mhz can easily overpower radio's tuned to 95 Mhz just because of its power, even with the appropriate filtering.
Thanks for posting -- this is an amazing resource. Here is the link to the successor institute for computational science at Harvard:

http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/
This is why it should be possible for theatres and the like to set up alternate base stations that cell phones connect to, this way 911 calls and text messages incoming may still be delivered but no incoming/outgoing calls may be connected.
Military GPS receivers operate on two carrier frequencies, only one of which is used by most civilian models. (And it's the shared military/civilian frequency which is adjacent to the spectrum in question.)

Using two frequencies makes the military receivers more robust, and also lets them do some clever ionospheric distortion cancellation that you can't do with one channel. (Basically they get the benefits of WAAS without actually needing to receive the WAAS signal.)

That said, neither the FAA or the military are going to tolerate any significant degradation of GPS, domestically or otherwise.
Shigeru Miyamoto is quite an inspriring figure for the techie generation. To say he has reached the top of his profession would be an absurd understatement, the man is practically a legend - yet he works for a large corporation on a fixed salary and sounds totally content with life. (read: he could be a hell of a lot richer if he wanted to be)
Webapps are ruining your life: Or, micropayments are the future
YoFile - Friend-Sourced Profiles
good compiler books for the begginers:

http://pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr/the-definitive-antlr-refe...

http://pragprog.com/titles/tpdsl/language-implementation-pat...
TrueCrypt + DropBox = protect your data from almost anything.

I've been using this for programming, it has been working flawlessly. And DropBox is the only system so far that handles my 1GB file without choking, and does so quickly enough that a day's changes (and the repo changes) only take a few minutes to scan and upload.
> Anyway, i don't agree that technological civilization is not intrinsically unsustainable

Objection! That sentence should be taken out back and shot.
It doesn't communicate growth -- there is nothing to compare against. If you were going to do that, you'd simply provide a something like YOY% change in revenue.

A run rate is just inflating/fabricating PAST revenue by speculating on the FUTURE. Refer to my helpful chart:

| / <- SHOW THIS NUMBER TO INVESTORS, PRETEND IT WILL GO ON FOREVER
| /
|/ <- HIDE THIS NUMBER, TOO LOW
+---
I wouldn't go as far as saying WP7 can run better on older or lower end hardware than Android. Remember Android runs pretty well on 500 Mhz ARM11 chips, while WP7 has to run on at least 1 Ghz Cortex A8 chip. I don't think that requirement is a coincidence after seeing how slow the Xbox Avatar was moving for example.

The problem with Android has always been lack of hardware acceleration, and I agree that Google made a terrible mistake by not supporting it from the very beginning.
or two drunks tied together will walk in a straight line
you can use https://github.com/aaronblohowiak/Random-ID/raw/master/uuid.... -- just call newId(4) to get four characters of b64uri randomnes.. or newId(10), &etc.
Simon "sr" Rozet is a GitHubber - GitHub
Gus Van Horn: "Ford-Chevy" Arguments
A million page views in a week while Reddit does a billion in a month. So about ~250 orders of magnitude.
You know, I bet two drunks tied together would be way more stable than one. Four legs are better than two.
This is exactly the point and where the future is going because of Moore's law and all the various others ways ourt gadgetry gets cheaper and faster every year. Remember when laptops were too expensive and underpowered to serve as a geek's main machine? Now that's the norm. In a few more years, all the computing power, storage and connectivity most people will need will be inside a phone. The Motorola Atrix may be ahead of of its time but I think it is a harbinger of things to come.
most blogs are database backed. this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=699780) had promise but it seems to have been both abandoned and gone.

I can write one obviously, but I was hoping to find something that did the layout like pen.io does. Jekyll is close when I looked at it. Maybe I should revisit.
No-one else can be Apple. It's questionable how long Apple can continue to be Apple. They got to own a stack because they started way ahead of the competition and haven't slacked or hit any technological walls. Upon the inevitable moment they lose momentum, the clones baying at their heels will eat them. This happened before, with classic Mac before the Jobs renaissance.

As for Nokia, the market has reached a point of consolidation on standards comparable to the collapse of competing computer types in the early 90s from Atari, Commodore, Acorn, Amstrad etc to PC and Mac and nothing else. So they can either sell hardware or die.
By the time the GPS signal reaches earth it is at a very low power, think milliwatts.

Lets think of it as you trying to eavesdrop on a meeting.

You have your ear pressed on a big thick wooden door that lets very little sound through, you are attempting to hear so you have everything around you very quiet and try your best to hear that very faint sound of your boss talking about the companies plan to fire everyone. Now your co-worker just a cubicle down is on the phone and instead of keeping it down is talking very loudly. It doesn't matter how hard you try to listen for the sound from inside the meeting all you can hear is your co-worker.

Now think of your boss in the meeting as the GPS satellites and your co-worker as this new company.

Unfortunately when it comes to transmitting power, the more you have of it the more likely you are to overpower other signals. This is the same issue that FM transmitters have as mentioned in the article.

Unless we put better band filters on GPS devices and attempt to filter out a very high power signal GPS is going to get lost in the signal that is being transmitted from the ground.
Thin phones are not practical. I can tell that as a proud former owner of Samsung Ultra -- 7 mm thick -- that broke in half when I forgot to take it out of the back pocket and sat on it. It was a delightfully elegant phone, but very fragile.
And gets priced!
I don't think being rich and being happy are mutually exclusive, so why ask for one and not the other?
Ask HN: My Verizon iPhone - Network or coincidence?  Searching...
My Verizon iPhone arrived Monday. Tuesday, I had to reboot because "Searching..." along top wouldn't go away until I did so. Today, this has happened three times. The phone will NOT re-establish connection with the network on its own. The only way I've found to do it is to recycle.

Called Verizon today and asked if this was a coincidence, or if network was having issues. He stated coincidence, and had me reset connection via *228.

Twenty minutes ago...lost signal again, for third time today.

I've been a long time Verizon customer and I've had other phones work without flaw from my home (where I've been all day). I gave up my droid and am definitely second guessing this decision - for reasons more than one.

I am totally in love with the responsiveness of the iPhone touchscreen. But I definitely need a phone too and was hoping the connection issues were tied to AT&T - a company I would never switch to and is why I gave android a try to begin with.

So, I guess time will tell. Do I have a defective phone, is Verizon network having a temporary glitch, is Verizon network suddenly being bogged down by all the activations or is this simply a coincidence that will disappear in a day or two? Time will tell, but I'm curious to know if anyone else on Verizon with iPhone is having same issue.
A "Donations Only" Clinic
i think it looks thick because of the small size in other dimensions. it would also feel thick due to the same reason.
The History of Vaccines
Which smart phones were running Unix in 2007?
This is a very interesting compromise. I wonder if it will have the side effect of confusing users who are not subscribed (and may not even realize what "subscription" means). It could backfire especially if a third party paid app is released. "What do you mean I have to pay for a subscription? I paid for the app!"

Still, a smart move for keeping Instapaper profitable (or at least to keep the API from eating at Instapaper's profits).
The opposition was vehement, yes, but limited to strongly worded letters from (mostly) small general aviation companies. No Boeings, no American Airlines, no 'big guns' with be-suited lawyers to make the FCC wake up and smell the jet fuel.

Wait until a couple airliners go missed on RNAV GPS approaches in low IFR conditions (visibility < 1 mile or cloud ceilings at less than 500 feet). The airlines will raise hell, the FAA will get involved and that'll be all she wrote.
If all that they're doing is trying to "balance the legitimate right", then why aren't they following all of their standard procedures before granting access? The mere fact that they have not followed standard procedures is pretty good evidence that LightSquared is getting special treatment.
You could try to convert them to djvu
http://djvu.org/
That might help your size issue but I have no idea if it will be readable on a ebook.
I wouldn't worry that much. Phones were a company once too.
You'd have to define "this kind of partnership". There are a number of mobile device makers building Windows phones. And there have been many co-development and branding deals over the years with Microsoft and PC makers. Many have been successful, many have failed.

This, however, brings to mind the OS/2 deal, to me. If Microsoft culture is anything like it was in the 90s (which may not be the case), I would expect Microsoft to be a loyal partner with Nokia until such time as it is advantageous for them to go their own way, leaving Nokia holding the bag on a jointly developed "standard" platform that no one else wants.

But, hey, I'm a cynical old nerd that's been involved in technology too long. The fact that Microsoft is a distant third, and losing ground daily, in the market might make a difference in how they treat their friends.