skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're half correct. While Apple certainly has every right to try to put mechanisms in place to prevent you from doing certain things on your device, the fact that you purchased it gives you the right to legally circumvent any of those protections to run whatever software you would like as long as the software is also legally obtained. That's why exempt from the DMCA rules are:

"Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset."
Oh, please. We are advanced beings with complex neocortexes that are capable of ethical reasoning. Surely we can agree on an system in which we can find solutions to our fundamental needs without resorting to killing one another.
The implementation issues comprise a very good point. Do you think this is solvable by better libraries? I've been working on my own solid implementation of OpenID for Django to plug-n-play with the built-in authentication system. Can it be saved and, if not, what's the alternative? Teach developers about bcrypt?
That's partially attributable to the legacy of Katharevousa, which was basically Ancient Greek with simplified grammare. During the two centuries of Katharevousa's official use, a LOT of heavily Ancient Greek-inspired vocabulary migrated in to the vernacular.
why should he have to be sensitive at all? It's his opinion.
Really interesting concept. Any plans to pair it with location checkins to let people chat with other people at a specific location (i.e., a specific restaurant rather than a general neighborhood)? I could see that as being interesting -- for example, arriving at a restaurant and either asking about what's good, or viewing a cached transcript of recent chats.
Facebook's Very Long Road to China
I wonder how much of that is due to the popularity of the language and how much is due to other publishers. I have 4 Ruby books, 3 of them are from the Pragmatic Bookshelf and the other is O'Reilly. For C# stuff, I'd probably start with O'Reilly, but for anything Ruby, PB is usually my first (and last) stop.
Is The Motorola Atrix Cooler Than the iPhone?
Former Nokia Designer: Nokia Bosses Have No Taste
Check this out guys! A reply to Mozilla:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/02/15/a-modern-bro...
I'm impressed by the shear amount of knowledge the kid had. Especially at the age that he did it.
It basically is already, except they're all written in VBA/Excel. This goes some way towards explaining the mess we're in IMO.
Everyone is a minority depending on what criteria you use.

People should grow the hell up and stop being offended by everything.
Due to their awe for what you created? Maybe.
I agree with your point, but we shouldn't forget that this article is clearly sympathetic to the kid. Maybe he isn't quite as cute and cuddly as they make out.
Flash is a technology that had it's best days in PC era.

Probably noone can imagine YouTube or banner ads without Flash technology nowdays, but new devices are coming to market where Flash isn't best choice anymore.
Just as floppy disks served world in it's days but are now replaced with USB keys or broadband connections and clouds storages so it looks like Flash had it's days and will be replaced by other solutons (like H.264 codec).

Putting Flash on Android tablets seems like they want to compete "has flash" VS. iPad's "does not have Flash", but that doesn't really serve to users.

It goes the way nature has invented long time ago and it's called evolution - where old dies (even very best of it's time) away and new takes over.
> It's hard to carry the FOSS banner at that price.

Are they also counting the extra downtime, anti-malware packages and so on?

Because a Linux desktop usually just works.

And, BTW, in order to Sharepoint be as cost-effective as the worst open-source alternative (as in "groupware for masochists") Microsoft would have to pay you a truckload of money.
Will You Miss The Browser Address Bar If Google Kills It?
I don't have an answer for you, but a great place to ask this question would be on stackoverflow.com.
PBL can be very powerful in the right setting, but as you point out, it really boils down to student/professor rapport. In the best case, PBL is a fantastic learning tool, but in the worst case, as you say, it can be incredibly divisive.
Following fraud, Alibaba CEO steps down
I believe he meant hacker, not hitchhiker.
The i/o ventures application deadline is today.
Kno looking to sell off ambitious tablet hardware business
I highly recommend "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj for anyone who has been meditating for a while and is looking for some orientation in the face of changing reality. "I Am That" is a pure, direct discussion on understanding the nature of reality, with no dogma, no particular Hindu leaning other than some of the language used.

edit: PDF: http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/I_Am_That.pdf
I liked this quote:

"For some reason they thought there was a connection between me and Sasser, which I denied. Sasser was big news back then and its author, Sven Jaschan, was raided the same day as me in a co-ordinated operation, because they thought I could warn him.

"My bot used the same vulnerability in the LSASS service that his did, except it didn't crash the host system, so I guess they thought I gave him the exploit code. Of course I denied this and told them that I never write such shoddy code."
First the first time you use your iPhone you need to accept agreements in iTunes. Second, originally cracking iPhone to install custom firmware was prohibited by DRM, which was bounded to DMCA, and now becomes one of the exceptions.
Being an American programmer going to university in Montreal, I totally agree with this statement. :D
Please stop; I'm already drooling over this thing...

Seriously, I so want one of these. And if they really are launching it on AT&T so much the better, since I am (for better or for worse) already on AT&T.
From the YC FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/faq.html):

We've already been working on our startup for a while. Is Y Combinator appropriate for us?

We've funded a lot of startups like that. In fact, we especially like them. We can probably help any startup that hasn't already raised a series A round from VCs.

Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. It's easier to start with our paperwork than to transfer an existing LLC or S-Corp to a C-Corp.

We've already taken some funding. Can we still apply?

Sure. We've funded many startups that have.
they're using different terms, but if you look at the details they're saying the same thing. i'm just wondering, other than getting rejected by YC, why would you choose another?
I mean, maybe it is a dog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y... who is paraphrasing Greene:) But who cares? It is Greene "at least in this context".
Once he matured to become a responsible adult, yes.
That sounds like the man who beat his head against the wall; because it felt so good when he quit.
That brings up a really powerful point: what users do and say they do are generally not the same. Finding out why there's a discontinuity between the two usually leads to discovering a great opportunity.
But it is not working with iPad's safari version
I would be interested to know this as well...
Klout is really just an arbitrary reputation ranking system, just like the Bartonphink system. However the difference lies in what people conclude from an individual's ranking. People use Bartonphink to rank someone on their pertinence to bartonfink. People use Klout to "measure someone's online influence". This is extraordinarily important to businesses looking to do marketing, sales, customer service, etc.

The point I think you are missing is that Klout, and other ranking systems, can give a quick and objective assessment of someone's value or ability in a certain area.

Here's a list of ranking systems and what they indicate:

Klout -> online influence
StackOverflow -> programming expertise
FourSquare -> loyalty to a business
Credit Score -> fiscal responsibility
HackerNews Karma -> ability to provide interesting and pertinent points of conversation
From the earth observer's point of view in one second the photon will have moved 300 megameters, and the spaceship with astronaut will be 1 meter behind it.

From the astronauts points of view only 1/300,000,000th of a second will have passed. They are going to smack into the planet and won't even know what hit them. The resulting explosion will make Tunguska look like amateur hour with a whoopee cushion.
Triple of zero is still zero. The open letter states that their current share is 30%. Apple would essentially get 100% of their profits.
HTML:Mason 2 is out!
The rule has been in the T&C since launch of the AppStore. Apple didn't provide a mechanism for in app purchase of subscriptions, and so was lax in enforcing it. But it isn't like this is news to anyone who read the T&C.
Could you elaborate on why you don't think the parent comment has a point?
Have you asked your existing investors if they'd be cool with it?
How to Write an HTML5 Game in 30 Days with JQuery and Python
Why I’ve fallen out of love with Twitter
Danger Is Pent Up Behind Aging Dams
Actually there is a minor point that I am trying to make here by using the stock name. As techies we often forget the end goals of a business, by using the stock names I try to remind myself and hopefully others that no matter how cool is sounds from a purely technical point of view, if its not a good business, it will not survive long.
My experiences with nailgun have been mixed for rails development. Nailgun doesn't search & parse all the ruby libraries found in your Gemfile, or included as part of the rails startup time, so rerunning "rails generate x" doesn't seem to help the startup time at all.
"but rather what people in the community think it's important in a conversation"

should be

"but rather that people..."

or

"...think is important in a conversation"

For the record, I agree, but enjoy irony.
My point above is that there's a vast difference between (1) something being possible by a tech-savvy user spending time to jury-rig a solution, and doing it on a case-by-case basis and (2) the same kind of thing being done as a commodity - something that runs commonly on the platform with no effort on the part of end-users.
Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers
This is really interesting - thanks for posting. I have a goal this year to meditate for 3 weeks straight and have not started yet. Very inspiring.
Everything means anything depending on what definition you use. That's not supporting your viewpoint, it's an excuse to avoid having to do so.

It's an adult's place to speak up when they think something is wrong. And I'm sorry, but some things are worth being offended over.
How Twitter DDoS’d our Website 61 times in Past 2 days
Cheers for a brilliantly composed article! Looking forward to the interrobang - I'd never heard of it until the Oatmeal gave it a shout-out recently. Don't worry about the articles "liv[ing] up to the first one" - you're obviously thorough and articulate, so I wouldn't say you have too much to fret about!
It's not limited to language. It's also very much about culture. Montreal is literally and figuratively half-way between North America and Europe.
What it Means that an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food
Adobe has been in a serious funk since they took over Macromedia. We shouldn't be surprised competition breeds better products.
The 70-30 cut alone might be acceptable, but what makes it ludicrous is that the developer is forced to offer the in-app purchase option for external services like Instapaper, which are not in any way tied to the iOS platform. I mean, what's next? Should Evernote, Remember the Milk and Dropbox, to name a few, all be forced offer an in-app subscription with 30% Apple cut just because they happen to have an iPhone client among other clients?
Actually I also have a question. One of the main reasons that I wish to start meditating is to stop being so negative about BS stuff. I hear things on the news, get cut off in traffic, shit breaks at home, have to pay unexpected bills and I tend to get bitter. I need to just CHILL the F OUT. I am not sure if you can relate to this, but I would be curious to hear anything that might be a motivator to use meditation to decrease negativity.
Minecraft Coming to iOS Later This Year
Very well written and a lot of informative content!

But I had a question about general solicitation in connection with a private placement? Wouldn't selling your startup (shares) on ebay be in violation of SEC regulations?
No .. iOS is a global marketplace and Apple are the gatekeepers for that marketplace.

The "global marketplace" is the one in which you can purchase a piece of hardware, install software of your choice on that hardware (albeit sometimes with a great deal of effort), possibly licensed from a third party (again, albeit sometimes with a great deal of effort).

Apple sells a service - they make it easier to install certain software on the hardware you purchased (from them, although that's irrelevant), to the extent of pre-installing iOS and various applications, and they facilitate discovery of individuals willing to license software to the owner of the hardware and transactions between said individuals and the owner of the hardware.

They are free to provide or not provide this service as they see fit.

If you really believe that Apple should provide this services gratis to developers as some kind of latter-day addition to the Bill of Rights, perhaps you should lobby the government to purchase the App Store infrastructure and oversee it instead?

Comparing the iOS with a magazine is slightly disingenuous because the scale is much so larger.

All of his points map exactly onto TV stations. Is that large enough scale for you?
School of Webcraft – Plans for 2011
Sure SQL databases can scale. Oracle for instance has a parallel query option, but it costs real money and needs a lot of planning and configuration.

NoSQL databases scale much easier. Just add a new node and you are done. +1. Many of them are also freeware. +1 again. Many of them are also faster, because no parsing is done, +1. Many of them don't have and don't need locking. +1. No looks mean no write waiting. +1.

Decide yourself.
StartUp lawyers in San Francisco?
Do you know of any StartUp friendly Law Firm in San Francisco. I am talking about Firms that do not charge 700-1000$/hour. I would appreciate feedback from people that you have worked with.
I understand that, Vrish - and I agree. My point isn't with Klout specifically, but rather the author's explicit assumption that I would even care about it and that if I don't I'm in some sort of online minority.

My "online influence" has zero effect on my professional or personal life, and I suspect the same is true for many other software engineers. That's the point I was making, and the author's first erroneous sentence is roughly where I stopped reading what he had to say.
Will not miss it on PC as I always press F6 to get to the Address Bar so I'll be happy to gain extra 20px or so vertically.

I'm not sure if average users of Chrome and majority of new Chrome users is thinking that way.
RAC uses a shared disk; it doesn't eliminate the single point of failure. The shared disk also adds a contention point, such that RAC often stops scaling after a handful of nodes. Even the first few don't give you linear scalability without changes to the application and extensive tuning.

I'm not trying to defend the article though.
Any idea what the statute of limitation would be for his crime in the US?
Spotify is an example, but you can find many others like Evernote, Steam or WoW. It depends on your users willing to pay on a monthly basis. But you are the one that best know your product, if you say it'd difficult, it must be true :)
"I waste less time on mind-numbing activities like reddit" - what about posting to Hacker News?
It's surprising how often people answer the question about having hacked some non-computer system by saying that they never have. This just can't be true. Our 2 year old already has 1001 tricks for getting what he wants.
Techcrunch story formula:

find a rumor, write about it in alternating tones of reverence and derision, then post an insightful "what do you think, is zuck the devil?" story, then write a "zuck might be the devil!" story. rinse and repeat, preferably over as many posts as possible.

this formula can work for anything, even interviews of insiders where they reverse it and ask the subject, "some say that internet users are the devil, is this true?"

TC hasn't led a story since the Great Twitter Outages years ago. In fact, I'd say their "Amateur Hour Over at Twitter?" story was their last swan song for me.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitte...
> Linux already clobbered Windows on the server

It did? What do you base this conclusion on?

Don't get me wrong, I'd pick Ubuntu server any day, but I was under the perception that Windows clobbered Linux in the server wars.
We actually sold all the assets (which was specified in the auction), not the actual company itself. The assets included the domain, code license and database.
Of course, but said system would be unnatural and artificial. Real, yes - but artificial.
What is Lean User Experience?
Silicon Valley is Hollywood for Startups
Just know that even though the front end is Open source (and looking pretty awesome might I add), the backend telco stuff is tied to twilio which means you'll be paying their usage fees.

Unlike other open source solutions such as Asterisk or Freeswitch (which both suck in their own ways) where you can buy your own VoIP trunking/termination service from any number of companies and negotiate your own pricing.

Tropo has Twilio like functionality and some out of the box features for pbx-ing, but they allow you to either run hosted, or if I'm not mistaken, purchase their own backend telco engine and run in your own network with your own trunking provider.
Also there are lots of other lovely methods on Array and Enumerable:

* Array
* new method:
* Array#keep_if
* Array#repeated_combination
* Array#repeated_permutation
* Array#rotate
* Array#rotate!
* Array#select!
* Array#sort_by!
* extended methods:
* Array#{uniq,uniq!,product} can take a block.

* Enumerable
* New methods:
* Enumerable#chunk
* Enumerable#collect_concat
* Enumerable#each_entry
* Enumerable#flat_map
* Enumerable#slice_before

http://rbjl.net/27-new-array-and-enumerable-methods-in-ruby-...
It does prevent multiple convictions if the crime only happened in one jurisdiction.

However, since in this case the defendant wasn't tried in the United States but in Germany it would all depend on criminal offense treaties between the two countries, not just US law.
Fair point. I think it comes down to the potential loophole that could be exploited whereby an app is offered for free but the full version can only be activated by clicking a link and following a separate payment flow that deprives Apple of 30%. This could also pose a long term usability problem.
Nice hack. In case you are using Node.js in the back end, you might want to check out socket.io. Provides Websocket support as well fall back transports for browsers that don't support WS.
There are multiple types of meditation.

Some are about introspecting about ideas, others are about letting go of them and focusing on a simple task (counting, breathing, flames, whatever).

Some of the latter type can really help with that stuff you are worrying about, as you will get better at removing yourself from that stuff.

Even though I last regularly meditated over a decade ago, I can still do the "just let it go" trick usually. Helps tons

Non aff link to book that talks about lots of techniques. I did the counting to 4 one: http://www.amazon.com/How-Meditate-Self-Discovery-Lawrence-L...
All I can say is that, where I worked, it was easy and magical and I never had a problem.

Obviously your mileage varied.
This sucks... For Tinygrab.

iOS users will find an alternative.

iOS + mac users will leave Tinygrab for a system that still works in iOS

The user loses 5 minutes of sign up time. Tinygrab loses income.

Shame there's no way of sending all users to the Tinygrab site for sign up as that'd negate the 30%. but then apple would moan it's a feature that should be available in the app and you're back to square 1
Ad: Maybe, I'll leave that for you to decide.
Spam: Certainly NOT!

Most companies and colleges could care less if you earn or learn anything of practical use. I care! That's why I wrote Marketing for Geeks.
Practical question - if you guys sold assets only did that qualify you for capital gains on the sale or ordinary income tax?
as the story goes, meditation helps against "stuff that ain't you." you might get something out of it.
Foursquare Closing In On 7 Million Users
As a student, I read "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg, which makes several references to this book. In it, they run into just about every conceivable problem a software project can encounter, which makes for a pretty fun read.
People have started relationships on/through Facebook that have turned into marriages. A bit of a blow to the part of me that thinks of Facebook as new.
The metric you've used to measure "betterness" here appears to be sdk file size.
If I understand Readability's issue, it breaks down like this:

What they want:
For a $1 subscription fee, Readability keeps $0.30 and the publisher/writer of the articles viewed through that $1 sub get $0.70

What Apple requires:
For a $1 subscription fee, Apple keeps $0.30, Readability then has the option of keeping $0.30 (30% of $1) or $0.21 (30% of the remainder after Apple's cut) and then the publisher/writer gets either $0.40 or $0.49, respectively.

Why does Readability feel they deserve $0.30 but Apple doesn't? If Apple doesn't deserve $0.30, shouldn't the publisher/writer get the full $1? Without the articles, Readability is worthless. Without Apple, Readability for iOS is worthless.
a pure, direct discussion on understanding the nature of reality, with no dogma

i don't mean to open a can of worms, but these two statements conflict with each other.
Don't know if it's fair or not, but it's not smart.
I'm using EventMachine with em-websocket for the backend. I might convert it to Node w/ Socket.IO to see if there is a performance difference.
Why is it that people all remember this as the golden rule of the mythical man month?

The exact circumstances refer to a particular type of team development (surgical team) form a day when you wrote OSes in assembler and you had to coordinate who used which memory address for which variable.

Yet people use the advice to avoid adding testers or documentation people to a late project to relieve the developers. We have also advanced the programming techniques and tools a little since the IBM360.

Yes adding a large number of rookie/trainee programmers to a crunch project is a bad idea - but so is saying we can't get any extra help (Brook's says so) , we will just increase the hours the devs work until they are back on schedule.
Gilt Eying $100 Mil At $1 Bil Valuation
On the Mark with this one! Nothing takes the place of a "gut" feel or a person's handshake as meeting face to face. Online and Offline meetups are a "part" of the whole process...This was nicely voiced!!!
Ask HN: How to ping a specific user on Hacker News?
How do you ping a specific user on hacker news to ask them a question?

Gracias
So it's purposeful and deliberate - right? Almost like a Trans-generational Ponzi scheme. Strong words - I know!

But think about it. You put in money now with hopes of a decent ROI later. Only now that return ain't coming! And where's your $100,000? Spent. Vamos. Gone! Don't even think about getting a refund. Heck, you got a valuable education - right? You made a wise investment in your future - right?