skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been asked to do this for a couple non-tech founder friends. All I really do is have a fairly casual 20-30 minute conversation with the job candidate about the state of whatever tech the product will be built in - "what's the quirkiest thing you've found in iOS?", "which backend platforms do you like? why that one instead of this one?", etc. Throw in a question about big O notation if you think this job requires some CS knowledge.

It's generally pretty easy to see who can walk the walk, without resorting to grilling candidates with trivia or detailed hypotheticals.
Hopefully someone with experience will step up and coach you a little. Either way, you will need to rise to the occasion and grow into someone more than an idea guy.
"Insider trading isn't illegal in Brazil."
I hear you. Disabling the home button for a preset amount of time, or until you press the top off button, would be a godsent.
>The difference is in how many users are on XP (50%?) vs. older than OS X Leopard (low single digits).

And the reason for that is probably that Microsoft keeps so much backwards compatibility that the cost of not upgrading the OS is much lower than on OSX.
Yeah. I think you're right.
Some of the things they don't support aren't new, and are important for an "immersive experience"

Perfect example:
CSS transitions. It's been around a while... like 3 years.

Having no support and nothing to show for, in respect to something with an Editor's draft out from the W3C, (css transitions, for example), just proves you're really good at dragging your feet.
This article doesn't make sense. Recap:
Apple gets people but doesn't get the internet because the internet is too messy.
Google gets the internet but doesn't get people because people are too messy.
Wait you got the CAPTCHA?

That's Cloudflare's Bot protection. You should have never gotten that. What IP did you try coming from if you don't mind sending so I can send to them to have them look into it.

I've not heard of anyone else having been caught by that (other then bots) which makes me wonder why you got caught in it.

P.S. if you go back to site you will see the "innovative" or "visionary" is a joke :)
Also, if I do buy a new engine that needs to specially fit into my awesome Mercedes, I do pay my mechanic a small fee, but the mechanic is the one that makes it work in my Mercedes (the programmer that makes the program work on an Apple OS). I also pay the manufacturer of the engine (the programmer that manufactures the program).

Just to be clear, I LOVE Apple for almost everything, and have owned an Iphone for years. Have used Apples for work and will readily admit that they're the absolute best you can buy for design work. Also, sorry if I use incorrect terminology at any point (I'm a business student). I'm just trying to wrap my head around how this situation became legal.

I sincerely appreciate all of the feedback about this subject, and I hope nobody takes offense if I argue points back. I'm simply trying to learn more about the situation, and arguing a point and being proven wrong is the best way I've found that I can learn more about the current issues in tech.
I have to ask, because you seem like a committed defender of Microsoft: Are you affiliated with them at all, or perhaps a .Net/ASPX coder?
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Since the comments on Tim Sneath's original post are broken at best, I'll paste my original reply here:

First, IE9 doesn't fully support mature HTML5 and CSS3 standards. Congrats, the only tests you pass are the ones that your own department submitted to the W3C. Everyone else's show IE9's Release Candidate as having less support than other browsers released 1-2 years ago.

Second, nice job cherry-picking a single paragraph out of one of the few comments in the Hacker News thread supporting your position. You also conveniently omitted the scalding final line of that paragraph: "It's just a shame they're not providing it on XP." This is typical of your response in general: you've responded to absolutely 0 of the actual criticisms of your product, and instead decide to praise the few improvements you happened to make over IE8.

You're only providing your new browser to a small fraction of the OS market, it still doesn't support stable and mature spec features, the ones you do support are still wildly broken (canvas, ahem), and you remain silent through it all.

I had high hopes when you initially announced your plans for IE9 all those months ago. It's a damn shame they turned out to be nothing more than marketing smoke and mirrors.
Very good points all around.

One thing I'd add: IP- and idea-defense isn't always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. Oftentimes, companies are stealthy just to generate hype. It's a marketing ploy, plain and simple, usually correlated with an invite-three-friends beta a few weeks after some tantalizing tidbits about the company are "revealed" on TechCrunch.

That said, marketing gimmicry like this often makes me wonder what the company's trying to hide. A half-baked product? Timing delays? A lack of total confidence in the product's superiority to all alternatives on the market, or about to hit the market? It certainly raises more concern than interest, at least in this user.
Or look for a really good technical project manager with a proven track record of rapidly building a technical team and driving them to execute (I know, I know all you hackers are laughing at this post because 99% of the PMs you've worked with are crap and have zero understanding of technical issues - but if you can find that 1%, they can be invaluable).
Ask HN: Have you tried out the Tokbox API?
Just wondering how long it took you to get it up and running on your site?

Our use case: give a user the ability to video chat directly from the browser.
Usually, it's people you've worked with before and that want to work with you again. You call X, you say: quit your job, work with me on this.

Failing this (which might be the case), find that first person, give them equity, and they will find those people.
Actually emailing you if you can respond with IP I would appreciate it.

Thanks
"Amateurs study cryptography; professionals study economics." - Allan Schiffman
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It's controversial in the UK too. My colleague, Simon (who used to be the FT's stats editor), writes about it on our data blog:

http://byline.timetric.com/2011/02/14/uk-inflation-bad-decis...

(which has subsequently been picked up by a couple of UK papers.)
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wow. neat! could of been useful. The version we used was C#.. First was a WPF app and the second as Silverlight app. The rewrite was a web version with a WPF frontend client.
iTools, .Mac and MobileMe. Also, Ping.
I read it as more of a politic answer, there's been a lot of inpulse bashing it seems over what appears to be something that they are doing to try and help, not thwart hackers.

Encouraging us to get one for the Blackberry is all well and good, except its pre-order only, not shipping yet.

I wish the blackberry 'edition' was $99 (for black.) Then I'd get one. It seems disproportionate to the blackberry cost itself at $199
Sorry, this is very snarky, but seriously (over)paraphrasing:

``We didn't really have anything to sell until "we rewrote everything [and] made it configurable".

Would you say you could have sold without a rewrite? Did you try and sell before that and fail when the buyer started their due diligence?
Except that they responded to none of the real concerns with IE9 being labeled as a Modern Browser, and instead listed off the same marketing drivel we've been hearing from their camp for the past year.
Nice example of confirmation bias going on here.
You're either trolling, or you're woefully out of your depth.
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Thanks for the encouragement, appreciate it.
That's pretty cool. Like an asynchronous functional version of Cocoa's Distributed Objects.

Are there ever problems with one side referencing objects that no longer exist on the other side?

I've run into these kinds of problems due to the lack of weak references in JavaScript. Hopefully a future version of JavaScript [1][2] will fix that.

[1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:weak_referen...

[2] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:weak_maps
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I built a live, weekly web show using it at overloadshow.com. It didn't take me very long to get up and running. The main work for me was making it so that random people couldn't fire up their video. Once permissions are added to the API (I hear it's a priority), a lot of that won't be necessary. I have plans to make it so I can let people start video long enough to ask a question, then kick them out again but I haven't yet implemented it. While there are a few places I think the API could be cleaned up and some features I'd like to see added, overall though I'm very pleased with how easy it was to get started working from the many examples provided.
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Go ahead and scream and/or laugh in disbelief.

Consider it done.
One word: Backblaze!
Of course my stop is one of those on the docket to be eliminated :(

How am I not surprised that Caltrain, who can't even process a credit card payment over the web and apply it to my Clipper card in 24, natch 48, or even 72 hours... can't seem to run their company at a profit. I'm shocked, SHOCKED!

San nothing of the asanine way they handle tagging on and off for 8-ride tickets within a given zone.

Sigh
Which project management tool for small team/multiple parallel projects ?
I have just been appointed as the IT manager of a small web agency. One of my first job is to find a tool for project management. The required feature set is relatively straightforward:

- create projects with deadlines

- add tasks with duration estimation to projects, and expected time of execution

- assign tasks to people

- check if the deadlines are doable

- allow people to register the real time spent on every task (=filling timesheets). This would be useful to bill clients.

- offer a dashboard to every user showing the most urgent tasks and deadlines (in a calendar view, as much as possible)

I have been evaluating OpenERP, but the UI/UX is really too bad, especially for a web agency, and it does a lot more than strictly necessary. We are also trying Basecamp, but it lacks scheduling and reporting about timesheets.

Finally, I ended up on wikipedia with this page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_management_software

There are way too many options to evaluate. What is the Hacker News crowd using ?

P.S.: For us, it could be self-hosted (I could manage installation on a server) or SAAS, but should not be too expensive (basecamp prices are acceptable). Plus, it should not necessary include a bug tracker.
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"Modern browsers enable rich, immersive experiences.."

To use their own example:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/VideoCity/Default...

vs

http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/mozhacks/flight-of-the-na...

Which one is more 'modern'?
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Yes it is... don't state things like this with no knowledge.
I and am Born in Brazil and here it's definetly against the law, the thing here is that it takes forever to arrest them... but they go to jails anyway.
Very well, I'll explain myself as well.

Firstly, the statement "the only rule of the road generally recognized, followed or not, is the letter of the law." genuinely does concern me.

Secondly, I feel that anyone who seriously suggests that signaling your alarm to other drivers in unsafe situations is a display of narcissism is not actually interested in an intelligent conversation, and is probably a troll.
This is an example of creative, derived work that should be enriching the public commons, when the original is quite old, by a long dead author, yet is still troubled by potential copyright claims.
Apologies, it's terribly easy to drop into jargonland when discussing Wikipedia.

AfD is "Article for Deletion".

WP:N are the notability guidelines Wikipedians are supposed to use when deciding if something is notable enough to be included and to keep out one-off topics.
I appreciate the effort and insight into the process. Thanks again. I spammed the hell out of my delcious tags and traditional bookmarks so that I can find it easier in the future :P

I'm always interested in peoples processes for "finding" and relating things in wetware memory like this, and how they apply it to web tools to find what they are looking for.
Their search engine is being constantly improved every day by people using it. Every search result you click on is recorded, along with no doubt the time elapsed before you clicked another result and so on until you found what you were looking for. Google is a gigantic statistics engine with a growing data set.

And in terms of Google employees testing their search results - 1) their employees aren't exactly the average Google user demographic 2) their emplyees is way to small a number to draw any conclusions about how useful/accurate their search results are. They can only figure that out by trialing new algos on a fraction of users. If successful, they push to all.
Apple's single app store can only exist in the economic distortion created by U.S. government regulation which provide severe penalties for unlocking an iOS device.

If it were not for these regulations, we would see kiosks in Wal-Mart sponsored by EA Games to get a free game by just plugging your iOS device into the kiosk, which would give a free game, unlock your device and install the "Wal-Mart apps store" all in one go.
A lot of people are making the same mistake in this thread. the web != the internet. By focusing only on the web you are leaving out other great, open technologies that helped the internet become ubiquitous. IRC, FTP, VoIP, IM, USENET, just to name a few.

Yes, HTML is a big part of the internet, maybe even the biggest, but its not the only one.
I think I agree, but I'm not good enough at language design to be sure. :) In the current language, all uses of type literals need to be known at compile time; if I could pass a variable containing a type to "make" or use it to instantiate a map, the language needs generics to deal with that, and all of the complications that come with it.
The current idiom seems to be (if I wanted my own "make"):

myslice := mymake((MyType)(nil), 10).([]MyType)

which is much uglier than the built-in way. However, I'm kinda okay with reflection-laden runtime tomfoolery looking a bit messy, mostly because I rarely use it, and when I do I like it to stand out and be obvious what is going on.
Agree the account is new - this is what happens when you go from /. to digg to reddit and then have your brother point you to HN over the years.

I assure you there is nothing trolling here, I have been a successful entrepreneur who sold two businesses for over 1.2 million in the past 5 years. One of these was an ISP / web hosting provider and the other an IT support company for SMB's running windows. A long time member of Vistage international and a supporter of Open Source initiatives for years. Just not a programmer, but I can spot the bullshit.

I have hired / fired over 60 people during my career and the largest company I ran had 15 employees and 1.2 million in revenue.
They might require this only for new apps. Besides, the idea that they'll require Amazon to pay up 30% of their book revenue didn't seem plausible either, yet here we are.
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OC-12 is a lot cheaper than you think. It's in the range of $5-15K a month depending on the location and carrier.
Comparing the 30% commission to a transaction processing service is a bit ludicrous. A transaction processor does not provide a marketplace for you to sell your products, they just process the transaction.

Apple's cut on in-app purchase is more akin to an affiliate marketing network or selling your wares on an internet marketplace like Amazon, than it is to a transaction processor. You're free to go make your own sales however you choose, but when your affiliate or marketplace makes the sale for you, they get a cut.

That said, I believe 30% is a bit much. Between 15% and 20% is more commonly found in the industry. And even that, I consider to be exorbitant.
Baby's phone is not on me but if memory serves, ShapeBuilder, MatchingZoo, ItsyBitsy, DJBaby, and a few others.

Don't take the list above as endorsement though. From a toddler's perspective, they leave a lot to be desired. I have some thoughts you might find useful but perhaps you could elaborate on what kind of app are you building first?
So I have done some calling to people who would use the product and asked a simple question. If I could solve X for you, what would you be willing to pay for it?

And then asked how many of X can you use per month. Worked backwards from there.
Oh, but it is.

Most of the people who can't stand it, are those that like to micromanage their music collections.
Thank you, meaningful and helpful advice. +1 for you
Micro-subscriptions are (finally) here.
I agree with you that they are trying to be classy. The problem is that they are just plain wrong and they have no supporting evidence besides 'OMGZ WEB SOKETS.'
So, you choose to NOT sell on Amazon. Try that with your iPhone app.
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I completely agre with you on one of these
I wouldn't be surprised if companies in India, Russia, etc., tried copying the formula
Hong Kong's government is very well run and largely corruption-free. It is an institutional legacy of the British civil service. They also have arguably the freest economy in the world, which reduces the potential for corruption.

America's Congress, on the other hand, created a national scheme of myriad local cable "franchises" or monopolies, which are historically awarded to connected insiders. U.S. phone service, the other major source of broadband, is also highly regulated and only the courts (ATT Breakup, MCI long distance case) forced America's greedy political class from keeping telecom as a national monopoly.

Telecom, as an industry, is still the #1 or #2 source of political donations. That's why your broadband sucks.
A lot of this is rooted in the clashes between the legislature and professors at the U, especially those who study climate change. It's not a competition thing, it's a "we want to make sure we can get rid of you if we disagree with you" thing, the very reason there is tenure.
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oops... I think I answered to the wrong post...
Also, as I understand it from another story, 6u24 doesn't break the update mechanism, while the FP bug patch does/did.

Ah, here's the mention, in the ReadMe link located in your first linked document:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/fpupdater-tool...

The FPUpdater tool is not intended for use on systems managed through auto-update as this will disable future auto-updates. We recommend that you wait until the next Critical Patch Update (CPU) when you can update your installation by going to http://java.com/latest .

(Whether you want auto-update is, I guess, a separate question, though not an insignificant one.)
They don't seem to have a problem paying Amazon 35%, say, for an eBook.
They can't seem to get auto update working for Windows 64-bit JDK. Need to uninstall and install on every update. May be by JDK 8 or so we might have a chance of getting that.
I've actually wondered if the next move isn't device subsidies, somewhat similar to console manufacturers. Use their market size to squeeze more money out of app developers, then use that money to subsidize increasing the size of the market, which in turn keeps the app developers on side, in a virtuous circle. It could also act as a strategic blocker on Google, as it would work against their openness narrative if they tried to do the same thing, as well as changing device prices.

In terms of devices, I'm thinking beyond just phones that are already subsidized with contracts, etc.
Obviously I can’t speak for Colin Percival, but I think that the point of the article is quite a bit simpler:

I read this as saying that the mindset required to write proofs is similar to the mindset required to write secure software. The proof mindset is useful for considering “all the real-world ways that things could go wrong.”

I think the paragraphs about Knuth’s famous quote just muddy the water.
The nice thing about being a multibillion dollar company is that you can run private shuttles and allow your employees to isolate themselves from the masses.
I guess we're extending the word to 'corner the market on a single platform', which you clearly object to.

So lets agree to say something else - perhaps "predatory marketing practice". What do you suggest?
This move would simply wake up too many sleeping dogs one the whole "Apple has a monopoly" front.
One of my previous jobs was coding software for banks that handles financial transactions. And I am not entirely sure any more if it was Feb 30th or 31st but one day the product manager came to my office and asked me to change the validation routine in the library that handles the date-related calculations and consider Feb 31st as a valid date.

Can't exactly remember what it was about but I think some banks or other banking applications are acting like there is a 31st or 30th February for some kind of calculation. (Rather off-topic but if I ever 'share' this with the whole world, it seemed like now is the time!)
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IE9 uses a new hardware-accelerated 2D drawing API called Direct2D (kind of a replacement for DirectDraw) and a new text API called DirectWrite. Neither of these is available on Windows XP, precluding IE from being easily back-ported.

So pretty please, with sugar on top, stop making flippant demands for multi-billion-dollar companies to do things you don't fully understand the implications of.
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All articles from Mozilla (especially from Europe) are usually not objective, they always tend to make some buzz around Firefox. Personally I use Chrome, and used Firefox before.

I am not personally familiar with all stuff from MSFT, but I won't take Paul Rouget's trolls into account to make me an objective opinion.
I added some annotations to the infographic. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/534786/ie9_vs_fx4.html

While I love the new stuff being implemented in cutting edge browsers like Firefox, IE9 is a huge step up from IE8. Microsoft had to choose what to implement, and choosing stuff that isn't likely to change soon makes sense for them. We shouldn't be expecting them to implement everything all at once. Here's to more frequent updates to IE that bring these new features once they are more fully developed!
I meant women, although in the cultural sense. This is to my knowledge the first generation of women who were raised to be supportive and nurturing at home while still feeling the pressure to earn as much men.

Having the role of nurturer be challenged, I'm going to assume, is more psychologically damaging for a woman. Especially when that woman has career woes of her own.

No doubt all of these cases have individual components, but doing something nice for your spouse is rarely bad advice. =)