skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Course it shouldn't. If you're going to kill off browsers then sooner or later we'll end up with one all over again.
"Feb. 31 doesn't exist."

Maybe they are using MySQL?
http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html#1_14
But if they can't, then what you said was basically wrong. The app store totally lets you make malicious applications. Seems like security theatre to me.
You're right. They would state the answer, and the contestant would ask the question. My bad.
I went the other way, and looked at the site itself. It's for a religious think tank.
good one?
Indeed. I also don't think any clients will accept dropping support for IE6-8, so the IE9 release, whilst nice, will never be a limiting factor in feature support.
This sounds cool but will have an impact on the Internet. We all want more and more bandwidth but it comes at a hidden cost. Today’s computer is so much more powerful than just a few years ago. These computers in the hands of novices coupled with extreme amounts of bandwidth create the perfect environment for hackers…not hackers like us but the botnet credit card thieving type. The average home user doesn’t know how to secure his/her machine. In years past a sluggish computer might have been a good sign you had a virus/Trojan/malware. Today these machines can send millions of emails, portscan servers or participate in DDOS attacks and the user has very little if any noticeable performance hit.

In short more!=better.
Well, this invalidates what I thought Amazon should do: remove all purchasing of books from the Kindle app and make it only able to download and read books bought from the website (which it would not link to).

Apple's now saying, if you sell something somewhere else that can be shown in an iOS app, you need to also sell it through Apple for the same price.

I guess when Amazon pulls the iOS app, I can break the DRM on the books I buy from them and read them on Stanza.
Most of the time I would precisely give the opposite advice. That's especially true if I had to deal with a large and/or legacy codebase.

It only really works if applied equally at all levels of the codebase.
Yup. I just tried IE9 RC. Incredibly fast. Never expected that from IE. Seriously...
Our approach to develop a new web application
So, has the port happened yet? The following title would be more clear: "Planning to port Aloha editor from ExtJS to use jQuery".

Because the current version sounds as there were an easy migration path.
late reply but hopefully you'll see.
AFAIK, stuxnet is not an application where you can simply 'remove' the centrifuge-targeting payload and add your own.
That, combined with the fact that all 4 0-days have been patched, means that I don't think the author's commentary is accurate.
There are much better options for HBGary had they wanted command of a distributed botnet and they would have known that.
"Psychic" cancels show due to "unforeseen circumstances"
Singapore is kicking everybody's ass too!! With 4G all over and fiber cable speed internet throught
I stay away from these types or articles. It is impossible to get an unbiased flamewar starter writeup. Nor do I really care. IE9 works great for me and I like they new rendering engine and javascript compilation to native code.
In chrome you can go to about:flags and enable GPU accelerated rendering. That's in the stable builds, in beta or dev builds it may well be on by default now.
True for a very well-defined set of inputs.

The problem with writing secure code that works well is making sure that all inputs conform to your well-defined set... i.e. they are a subset of your well-defined set.

Compounding on this is the non-apparent dimensionality of your sets. A good example of this would be concurrency. If a function doesn't have an exclusive lock an an array of data it's going to manipulate, the set could actually have two dimensions (one being time), in which the array could change.

I got a C- in Analysis II. I needed a C to get a Math minor, but decided it wasn't worth it.
Wow, awesome to see the demand still there. It would appear that event technology like this still has a nice future!
You probably ought to plan on Apple stealing your thunder with iOS 5.0, which purportedly includes http://siri.com/, a voice-activated app that appears to cover what you're doing exactly.
I read all headlines that make it to the frontpage, which according to Google Reader is about 100 per day (never use Mark all as read). I actually only completely read 4 to 5 articles per day, again, according to Google Reader.
I don't entirely understand the outrage at Demand Media. They're not a bastion of quality, but for a lot of searches, there aren't better results. For example, the other day I was making chocolate cream of wheat and I wanted a quick refresher on the proper chocolate:everything else ratio. I opened a bunch of the top links, and the best one for quickly getting the info was eHow. For searches where there are better results, I'm not compelled to click on the one or two from Demand Media.
HBGary Execs Run For Cover As Hacking Scandal Escalates
Ask HN: What do you *not* like about Basecamp (or your pm software)?
SongVoodoo (Shazaam for lyrics): Text lyrics, get song info (Music Hackday NYC)
How about if Microsoft kept IE but adopted WebKit to display the actual pages instead of maintaining their own renderer (Trident?)?
I'm bemused by this:

"It's more than a shame Microsoft's not providing IE9 on XP. It's positively criminal. Do you know what it's like to target IE8 with a web app that was built for a modern browser? And XP has 60% of the market!"

Considering that, within the UK, IE7.0 is the most popular choice of browser out of the IE range, followed by IE6.0.

So supporting IE8 needs a small fraction of the time needed to support IE7 and IE6. Fixing IE8.0 isn't going to significantly reduce support time and cost. (Juxtaposing that with the XP market share figure of 60%...).

Thank goodness for progressive enhancement.
IBooks detects jailbroken iphones
Hey check your facts. I just tried with the RC build of IE. It never loaded the site but the browser didn't crash and the rest of the tabs are working fine.
Is implementing status 418 a requirement for teapot atheists?
That's only compositing acceleration though: I don't think Chrome does content acceleration yet.
Apple Is Now Dead To Me
Hirelite event tonight - 5 minute interviews with SF Bay companies
Re-using Backbone.js Models on the server with Node.js and Socket.io
Poor teaching engenders a poor nation
I wonder if it's going to extend to content as well. If Amazon is forced to sell books directly through the Kindle app, will Apple get veto power over the books they sell? Will they be able to ban an "Android for Dummies" book?
>So people often seem to say, yet I find very few portability/compatibility issues with running my web apps on any recent browser. I was surprised to find that in the last problem that did arise, it was actually IE that was compliant and Chrome and Firefox that were implementing non-standard behaviour.

Go on ... I've come across this once before several years ago but would be interested to know the details of this?
How much in US dollars do they pay for that?
I am not suggesting they don't take a cut, but when running the financials for the startup I am working on, 30 percent of every item is a huge chunk.
Great story. re: view.io, I closed my registration window, so I lost the link to send to my friends. Is there no way to get it back?
Understandable, and I agree that they definitely tackled the meat of the problem. I think there could be some interesting problems in the computer vision aspect of it, though. Seeing and interpreting the board is subtly different than a straight OCR problem.

Maybe I'm overstating the difference, though.
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD555-Professional-Headphon...
Note to self: Hack my Mr. Coffee to support an IP stack, and implement RFC-2324. Maybe a good chance to do some Arduino hacking?
"Secondly, when it comes to performance, IE has been getting better with every version while Firefox has been getting worse."

Your point about the lack of out-of-process tabs is legitimate, but I'm unsure as to how Firefox is getting worse. Could you elaborate? As far as I can tell, Firefox 4 is better than 3.6 in terms of performance on virtually every measure.
True, but Mojang grew 7x after most of that revenue ;)
Anyone want to place bets on when Amazon pulls the iOS app? Seems the only possible retaliation at the moment.

This is absurdly anti-competitive.
>No-one who is actually developing web sites can use all the bleeding edge stuff the day it's released anyway

Progressive enhancement disagrees. OK well maybe not quite but all the new features ...

I've used a few sites in the last couple of days using the new HTML5-ish drag+drop file uploads in the wild (not yet officially released browsers working to not yet officially completed specs).
Yes, I chose to pay for the phone. Apple chose to sell the phone at a price they felt adequate compensation for their "decades" of work.

Apple is currently seeking to leverage their monopoly[1] on the iOS platform by extracting additional rent[2] from content providers.

Their probability of success directly correlates with their pricing power.

Is this rent-seeking good for Apple customers? Unlikely.
Is it legal? Depends on how the FTC views Apple's pricing power.

kb

[1]In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly)

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
Plenty of tech-savvy people I know in real life think that Chrome has a terrible UX. There's no way they're going to be installing it on anyone else's computer.

(How do you move the refresh button to the right of the address bar?)

edit: to elaborate, the principle Chrome seems to work on is responsiveness above all else. I'm not sure responsiveness is the most important barometer for good UX in non-Western cultures. For instance, there's no way I can sacrifice the ability to customize my UI for slightly improved responsiveness.
Your clearly a good programmer I just don't see the goal of your apps. In addition they all seem to be slight variations of the same core idea. Trying to arbitrarily come up with an idea that you think is going to instantly gain traction and become viral is just a shot in the dark, unless you have evidence suggesting your idea has that ability.

If your goal is to start a business/make money then find a problem in society (with a substantial market) and provide a solution. It's really that simple, and there are plenty of problems. The type of problem is up to you, I'd go with something you find interesting.
I've been using http://ohlife.com pretty consistently since they first announced it on hacker news, and I'd say it's a pretty good place to start. A video journal might be kind of cool, but I would imagine it'd be hard not to be somewhat self conscious about it and not act.
"compare with New York, say..."

Last I checked, NYC has nothing even resembling 1GBps speeds, not unless you're willing to pay for an OC12 line, which I think is in the US$100,000-200,000 per month.
The ingredients aren't a secret - they are published by the people that certify stuff as kosher for example, or by equivalents of FDA in some countries.

Of course the proportions and mixing might be secret - but really it's coke's brand and ubiquity that is their 'secret'.
Heh, yeah, I think that's the same page I originally used to come up with an approach to doing this. There are also some discussions of this same topic on StackExchange and some other sites.
> it's wrong specifically because it negatively effects other drivers on the road.

It is surely wrong if the person is traveling below the lower speed limit (be it specified explicitly or legally in the absence of the lower speed limit markers). Otherwise, it is just other people being impatient, and their reactions -- such as abruptly swerving around the driver or making a lot of distracting noise -- also cause the unsafe traffic condition.

Note carefully my point, as it ties to my first post: Both actors involved are at fault. Both actors involved are assured they are right. Both actors exhibit negative, antisocial, and unsafe behavior. Neither is an angel; neither is "better".
We (Bump) have 12 redis machines now with 72 or 96GB each. 6 masters and 6 slaves. The slaves are hot spares and persist to disk, per the blog.
Generally speaking (Basecamp user here), I feel like there's too much noise and it's difficult for me to focus and navigate through what I need to get done daily.
this ongoing battle is annoying. I just need my iphone to be a hotspot and I need a better notification system. Then i'll be happy.
[backporting IE9.0 to Windows XP]:
"It may be commercially sensible for them to do so, but that depends on many other factors beyond the preferences of the web development community."

It's not within Microsoft's strategy of planned obsolescence. For their continued survival they need people buying newer versions of the same software.
This is not a news story, it's a marketing story promoting the company. The reason is that the claims are not remarkable at all, but the story promotes them as if they were, which is misleading.

Per-employee profit and revenue is larger in general at small successful tech companies than big successful ones.

For example, I make far more per employee than Valve, Microsoft, Google or Apple and you don't see Forbes writing about me, nor should they.
And you should realize that things like the Kindle app provide added value to the iOS devices that otherwise wouldn't exist. It's a two way street, and it is not just magical handwaving that lets Apple's actions become justified.
It seems like you are just trying to set up a situation where you can do what you want, and any effect it has on others is their fault for being self absorbed.

Have you considered that the anger is not "they do it different" but "their actions are causing measurable negative consequence to me"? If the inefficiency caused by a door stopper causes me to miss a train connection, is it really all about my ego, or is it about that person screwing up my entire travel?
It can also be viewed in the context of recently posted (don't remember who's) article which analyzed RIM's "interactive pager" vs. TIVO's PVR as example of marketing positioning of "extension of existing product" vs. "a product creating new product category".

In this case it may have been more successful if they developed and marketed it as an "live collaboration" extension to GMail or as interactive collaboration layer on top of Google Docs.
Hi there, send me an email and I can get you the invite code back: felix@view.io. Thanks!
Darpa gets $500M for "cyber technologies" from FY2012 budget
yes. I didn't like measuring it. My partner thought it was significant though.
I haven't used other browsers besides Firefox in years, so I'm not qualified to provide a comparison. What I can say is that on the "profanity uttered"/"hour of usage" metric, Firefox has been getting much worse. Hell, I used to praise it.
Jailbreak your iPhone? iBookstore purchases may be unreadable
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Until their greed chases potential app developers away from the platform and in to the waiting hands of competing devices.
"and neither HTML5 nor CSS3 is a standard, nor will either be for several years at a minimum"

Actually, HTML5 will never be a standard (at least not one released by the WHATWG), see: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/HTML5-to-become-a-liv...

(Yes, I know that the W3C plans to release an HTML5 standard based on the WHATWG work in several years from now. But based on the current track record of the W3C I predict that this will either fail, or that the standard will be outdated by then.)
Some alternatives to yanking the app would be to adhere to the rule but make it laborious and sufficiently buried beneath menu layers that it becomes too difficult to use versus a link that breaks out to the web browser. Or begin charging on the AppStore for the Kindle app at a price point they believe will compensate for the losses.
Why did you sell? Besides the offer, were you sick of the business?
I don't see Amazon offering Apple's ebooks on the kindle.
How much was the deal for? Great job
My husband and I loved Myregistry.com. It easily allowed us to add items from stores like Target and Babies R Us and keep them organized online.
Interesting, but let's be honest for a second, in 99.99% of the cases, a classic Apache+mod_php will be well suited. You could count on your hands the number of sites that require a setup that needs to handle 12,000req/sec and more.

If you need to speed things up, reduce the memory footprint, i'd recommend using APC or eAccelerator, and put something like Varnish or Squid in front. As well as ditch stuff like WP or Drupal, might be nice and easy to use, but the code behind it is just a disaster if you want something fast and optimized.
Use extensions like XHProf or Xdebug to profile your code, and find the bottlenecks and memory eating functions.

Stop blaming Apache/PHP, they both have defaults, but in most of the case, the default is in the code.
Haha, thanks. Yep, we get lost sometimes. There isn't a Feb 31 :)
There's another side to this.

In San Francisco it's illegal to ride your bicyclist on the sidewalk. I got knocked down pretty hard a week ago by a hipster douchebag on his fixie who decided he could go faster by switching from driving the wrong way down a 1 way street. He screamed at me, calling me a "fat ass", and stormed off while I laid there dazed.

When people are in the wrong they know it, and they get especially angry when others notice it, often responding with passive or active aggression. Slow walkers decide they have entitlement to get in your way, and when they notice you're trying to sneak aroundthem, will actively make it difficult by swinging their bags out a bit further.

As a pedestrian, my theory is if a car gets close enough to me in the crosswalk that I can kick it, I do. After getting knocked down the other day, I've been thinking lately I should adapt this to "if I can clothesline a bicyclist breaking the law, I should". #pedestrianrage
It's hard to muster too much outrage about this. You can't read your "rightfully purchased iBooks" on any other device either; you can't read them on a Kindle, nor, to the best of my knowledge, on an Apple Mac computer of any sort. You can't to my mind reasonably expect to play them on jailbroken phones either.

Why are you even buying iBook books? I can't understand the market proposition to them. Kindle books work on Apple and Amazon hardware, and have a wider selection. eBooks are already content-protected (this doesn't bother me, but bothers most geeks); why would you opt into the more protected of the two major options?
Wow! This is an awesome movie collection with the best of folks like Bergman, Kurosawa and Fellini.
So true... Wave was actually pretty damn cool in a lot of ways, but they seemed to do little or nothing to explicitly position / market it. Coupled with the fact that the original UI was a bit, erm, awkward, and we get what we have here today.

Thankfully Wave lives on at the ASF and hopefully people are going to be able to use the technology to do some mondo radical stuff.
can we see how it was put in the window?
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Based on Apple's current track record: Yes
My expectation is that the final decision will be made by technical people. However to get there I have to get through non-technical people first, and then the salary and position negotiation again is likely to involve non-technical people.

As for companies that are engineering oriented from top to bottom, I did get hired by Google. You don't get much more engineering oriented than that!
x (strap)= 26mm, y (height of watch casing) = 50mm, z = 36mm
- Thanks for the tips, incorporated.
- No touchscreen at moment. I like the way you think about wearable UX. If you're interested in continuing the conversation, please ping me at eric@getinpulse.com
- We're testing the selling points. Right now with supply being limited (early stage startup) we decided to let people hack away at their watches. I'm sure as our capacity improves, we'll retarget consumer verticals.
- Here's a cool bit of community news, OpenWatch for Android now supports inPulse (http://beta.smartmadsoft.com/). Marcel, the creator of OpenWatch, was able to get started with our dev tools and integrated inPulse in a very short time!
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Firefox does the same thing though. The only browser that doesn't IMHO is chrome.
So did the shopping mall owners for their tenants but I have never seen such a mall charges you 30% commission for the privilege and convenience (parking, indoors, cleanliness, food court etc) of buying stuff there.
That's a good practice in many languages and systems.

It's a bit different here, as the standard way to handle things in Erlang (as I understand it) is for the function involved to crash, an error log to be made, and then the program to restart, usually seamlessly.

Linking this rule without discussion, context, or explanation is basically useless.
C++0x solves that issue by introducing rvalues.
The TCP/IP stack in that NetBSD toaster is >= as secure as your laptop/desktop.
Nope: https://github.com/novas0x2a/devhouse
Why do people argue this point? It's not insane because people have to do what Apple wants, no one except for a few entitled folks are arguing this. They can do what they please.

It's insane because Apple have been suckered by their own advertising. Yes, the iPad is one of a kind at the moment, but the android tablet is right around the corner. And that android tablet will be running Kindle and Nook apps.

While the payment platform and app store helps create the ecosystem for apps to exist, the iPad owes it's current success to the the apps people sell for it, not to the payment platform or the app store. The app store and the UI library is a precondition, but it is not sufficient -- if no one made apps for it, no one would buy an iPad.

An iPad without Kindle is slightly worse than a sh*tty microsoft win7 tablet IMO. iBooks is currently not very successful as an alternative. because unlike iTunes, Apple has established competitors who execute very well in this space.

If they try to play hardball with Amazon, Google Android tablets will then just wipe the floor with Apple... same way microsoft did in the 90's. More likely, Amazon is playing hardball with Apple... Maybe Apple will make an "exception" using some tricky accounting to get a part of that 30% back to Amazon.
Canada gets 7.5 Mbps for $47 a month

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"That link [Shop in Kindle Store Link], which opens the iOS browser and displays Amazon's Web-based e-bookstore, is currently the easiest way for Kindle app users to purchase new books."

Does anyone know or ever heard any metrics about what percentage of users use that link to purchase content? On a regular Kindle (the reader, not the app), even though I have the 3G Kindle, I never shop from it, choosing to use a desktop browser instead (easier, prettier, etc). Do users of the Kindle app do the same, i.e. just shop on their laptops and use the Kindle app to only read the books?