skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Senior Software Engineer at Mertado (Palo Alto, CA)
A hotel review from October 2003 isn't relevant information
I think "Trust" is used in a weird context here.. "Why Apple Doesn't Rely on Developers" might be a more accurate title.

He's saying that Apple doesn't sit around waiting for developers to create compelling apps for their products, not that developers are "untrustworthy."

To me those have different connotations.
That's a good observation. I think of cables as an anti-feature. ( as defined by Benjamin Mako-Hill ).

In that, the devices are perfectly capable of syncing and tethering wirelessly, but Apple hasn't enabled that functionality yet. They are going to add that at some point for an extra 9.99$ and going to call it AirTether. Brand new feature of iPad3. You pay a premium for getting rid of cables.
While I like the idea and see the benefits I would feel uncomfortable with people watching over my shoulder while programming.
Can a new cycle of technological innovation save the US from stagnation?
Without designers forcing things on you that you don't necessarily want, and not giving you an option to turn it off, you end up with animated Myspace backgrounds, skinable MP3 players, and corporate portals.

And the problem with skinable MP3 players is?

And how do myspace or corporate portals relate to a twitter client?
Significant bumps in salary (across most spectrum's, not just programming: BA's, PM's, etc.) typically occurs when leaving for another company, not staying with the firm for small percentage increases over 5-10 years. The programmers I found making the least amount who "seemed" to be as or more competent ($85k vs $110k as an example) normally were at large shops for 7-15 years.

However, a few years of experience at a large shop can facilitate that jump.

Related discussion on negotiation / salaries:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2201407
I think the headline is supposed to mean that the GPS device was on his car due to a Reddit comment.

It is a really awkward headline though.
What's the international story? I'm in the UK, so don't have a zip code - does that matter?
we definitely need more stories like these to balance out the belief that doing a start-up is some how "easy". The reason is not to discourage people but to let them know what they are in for so that they can prepare better. It would also give some CS undergrads second thoughts about dropping out of college with the attitude that start-ups are easier.
Also see http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-academic-papers-in-co...
So... while this is cool and all, this isn't anything revolutionary or even 'new' that couldn't have been done in any other scripting language/framework (and, in fact, I daresay it could've probably been done faster in another language/framework).

While I believe Node is pretty frickin' awesome, I don't see a point in glorifying concepts that have already been done to death. Nodes entire architecture allows so many more possibilities than just a HackerNews clone, so let's see it instead of constantly reinventing the wheel.
> but the playing field for Android and Windows Phone 7 seems a lot more level without developers on Apple's side.

The funny thing is, I bet Apple prefers that to the alternative - having the health of platform being dependent on a 3rd-party act. Love 'em or hate 'em, it's clear to me that pretty much all of the decisions Apple made over the last 10 years has been to keep them out of the position they were in in the 1990's where Microsoft and Adobe were essentially threatening to sink the Mac platform by yanking their most popular applications.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408813
"The unemployed will not be considered"
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This is a new blog. I think it must be a play on http://statichtml.com/ which got on HN a day or two ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289610
http://thebrowser.com (or http://thebrowser.com/best) is great too
bash may not, but pdsh is (I personally used dsh, which also multiplexes ssh connections) and the child processes do not bear the lack of multithreadness of the parents :)
Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire
I think this API is over-engineered here is what I would do: 1 global integer called board (9*2 bits, enough to represent every square on the board as 0=vacant, 1=X, 2=O), and a list of agent callbacks.

The program loops through the agents calling each in turn. The agent does whatever it wants, but generally computes the next state from the current state (either via AI, GUI, or network) and sets the global board variable.

It is the agents responsibily to operate correctly. If the GUI or AI wants to cheat, undo moves, call in a pinch-hitter, or change their opponents agent mid-game, let them (all they need do is set the state and callbacks appropriately). Both the GUI and AI should be designed to be stateless in this regard: display or compute off the current state, whatever it is.

There's no need for the API to detect when the game is over, nor enforce rules. The AI plays it correctly or is rewritten. The GUI echos the users desire, so let it do whatever it wants.

If you want to prevent cheating, just add a cheat-detector callback between each agent. If you want to know when the game ends, have your GUI detect it and declare the winner.

The AI doesn't even need to know when the game ends because you'd obviously have a GUI to display the battle -- let the gui determine who has won and when.

(Before you laugh, consider that this design would reduce the API size from [assumably] ~150 loc (plus comments) to about 5 simple, flexible lines of code: 1 global variable, 1 global array of callbacks, and 1 function to unendingly iterate over the callbacks.)
It is about a DMCA notice. The GPP said "the developer of the original app had been trying to get Google to remove the offending apps for more than a week." He wasn't complaining about trojans, he didn't know about them, he was complaining about copyright infringement. I'd be very surprised if they would have remained for long at all if he had submitted a DMCA compliant complaint correctly.

Once they were reported as trojans they were pulled the same day.

I'm not sure what is expected from google here:

Clearly they need to get a better handle on licensees pushing minor updates. That privesc has been around forever, and it's still there on my phone and that's super shitty - updating is android's achilles heel. But even if they get real good at that there will still be some exploits out there, every platform has them.

Do people expect google should be able to make it so no malicious code can ever be run? Seems like that's a battle nobody has won. Do people expect google to switch to a curated, only google approved apps marketplace? I'd sure be unhappy if they did. Do people expect google to pull apps from the marketplace on copyright complaints even if they aren't submitted/sworn correctly and potentially let all kinds of fraudulent takedown mayhem occur (because the submitter wouldn't be liable)? Seems unwise.

Do people expect google to do automated scans and blocks of suspicious code on the marketplace? Sounds like what they are planning on doing.
It can be worse. A O(n log n) algorithm might be slower than a O(n^2) algorithm for all practical values of n.

Also, one should be careful what to count. Sorting strings, for example, is not quite O(n log n); average string length/expected offset of first difference/whatever should also be in that O().

Along the same line, for many algorithms, cache-locality is more important than number of CPU cycles. So, counting cache misses rather tha cycles can be the better way to judge an algorithm.
42 minutes? I recall more than one ACM problem that could be bruteforced just within the running time (in C). Actually, I did really badly in one contest because I applied serious mathematics to one such problem (which gave a much faster program, but writing it took a lot of time and fast enough is fast enough.)
That I guess, has to deal with people not filing patents until actual use, so people can't just sit on their inventions forever.

Things that are patentable could be made not patentable simply by publishing it.
It's probably fairer to say that Joel solved the chicken-egg problem by leveraging his existing community and fanning antipathy against experts-exchange. If the model was primarily SEO I'd expect them to have an easier time bootstrapping their non-tech related communities, especially now that they're investment-backed and can put money into user acquisition:

http://gaming.stackexchange.com
http://cooking.stackexchange.com

All that said, I appreciate the thoughtful reply. It's rare for people to link to supporting data like this. And maybe you're right! Upvoted.
I am 30 and am constantly in search for more knowledge to consume. I intend to do everything I can to see that the quest for knowledge never ends.

Whether it be programming, other technical things, art, language, various books, or any other skill... I don't know why anyone would ever stop.
I chose Node.js for no reason other than Fun. Coffeescript gives it a good spike as well.

Klonoar, follow the github repo for future diversions from HN, or make a pull request and I'll see it through to the live site.
This looks pretty cool and I'm impressed that anyone could build something like it in HTML5, but as a non-gamer and someone who hasn't played a game like this before I wasn't really sure what I was doing or how I was suppose to play.
>Exactly what is the damage this guy suffered? What's he suing over?

This argument reminds me of those who say "you should not care about privacy if you have nothing to hide". Anyway, he is suing to bring more attention on the case, to make people aware that in the USA it's enough to be brown and write a tongue-in-cheek comment on reddit to get the FBI on you.
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Pfff. Religions are flexible. They will cope with everything you throw at them. They must be, their lifetime is measured in centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation
Jungian theory of personality, career, social divergences at ~10 year marks, "mid-life" crisis'.
>Not trusting developers is kind of a problematic approach when your platform's key strategic asset is a vast library of third party applications.

I still don't think that's true. The key strategic asset is the unbeatable user experience and the core functionality - web browsing, movie watching, book reading, maps, stuff that comes built in.

A very large number of iPad users have never downloaded an app. Same for iPhone users. They find the core functionality to be sufficient for their needs. And they would be unhappy with ANY Android device because the user experience is sub par.
But I also think there is more to it than that. Apple needed to provide those services in order to highlight the devices they were selling, because specs alone don’t sell. [...] And you can’t trust third party developers to do it for you.

It all sounds pretty reasonable until you remember that the 30% tax is more or less aimed directly at removing Amazon ebooks from the platform, and that the kindle app was available well before iBooks.
Tibco RVD (Rendezvous daemon) vs RVRD(Rendezvous Routing Daemon)
Interestingly, Chris Dixon's own Hunch has a pretty good potential for SEO with their long tail of multiple answers questions (teach-hunch-about-you), but they do not exploit it. These are user-generated questions and answers, currently hidden from Google in Javascript. Text in the form of questions typically ranks well because this is what users often type in the search engines, and very little text on the web is phrased as questions.
Sure, some can be bruteforced, but typically it's intentional.

A good example of what I mentioned was an assignment this week. Last week, the input size was constrained to a thousand or so, and Floyd-Warshall was able to solve the problem. This week, it's the same problem, but with inputs up to ~50,000 in size. The old program, run on the new test cases, doesn't finish in a day.
You are correct. Sorry I misinterpreted what you meant.

However, I wouldn't be too surprised to see a completely closed Mac/PC ecosystem in the future. Not now, but in the the next 5-10 years. As things move more and more "to the cloud" and the desktop becomes a dumb terminal, the easier it is for Apple to just tell everyone that they must go through the App Store.
This is actually an extremely interesting technical problem though, isn't it? Given all the computational power Google has, I'm sure they could dedicate one emulator per new submission, and run continuous checks on the app without ever resorting to manually reviewing the apps the way that Apple does. My guess is that the Android team is the most overworked team inside Google, and they're struggling to keep up with their own growth, so they've had to deprioritize some things like the market, and focus on simply getting Honeycomb out of the door. By my theory, the Market should see some real improvements in the coming months. We'll see, I guess.
We are adding a number of measures to help prevent additional malicious applications using similar exploits from being distributed through Android Market

Am I the only one thinking they might be planning to leverage their recent acquisition of zynamics on this front? In particular, zynamics seems to have developed some tools[1] for classifying malware based on (as I understand it) some sort of static control-flow analysis. I'm far from an expert on the matter, but that sounds like it has some potential with regards to keeping malicious apps out of the Android Market.

[1] http://www.zynamics.com/vxclass.html
Any cool examples of Node stuff you'd like to mention?
To be honest, I prefer your "Cat & Mouse"...
I don't think this is a troll at all. I'm long term unemployed and I am having a similar experience. Most companies simply won't see the CVs of the unemployed because agencies won't be sending them on.

Anything such as working on a personal startup or returning to education is seen as non-work and counts against you (I've heard this from several agencies in Europe and a careers advisor).

As it is, things are looking up for me but the situation as described in the question strikes me as being very real. I imagine graduates with no work experience are having a terrible time.
For a more thorough explanation of functionality, motivation and how it works: http://tagaholic.me/2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.h...
A very large number of iPad users have never downloaded an app. Same for iPhone users.

er, I'm going to need some sort of citation on that as it's pretty much the exact opposite of what I've seen
It is.

## WebGL Test version... ##

The WebGL version of Tankworld is under construction. If your browser supports WebGL then you can already check out a preview level...[1]

1. http://www.playtankworld.com/level/60_second_shooting_range?...
> And the problem with skinable MP3 players is?

Some people are still angry about Winamp.
Full paper can be found at http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html
... and Android turns into Windows. Pre-Win7 Windows, that is. This time the threat is more serious. Android powers always connected communications devices that have access to all your email, social network profiles, contact information etc.
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Well I have heard on a few occasions that over a third of iPad users haven't touched the App store.

I would assume it's even more for the iPhone... I know several non technical people with iPhones who have never used the app store but they're still happy with the phone.
What window manager, by the way? I'm in UI-rage mode at the moment, and stability sounds beautiful.
Remember that some sites redirect to a different iPad version, and that the HTML5 video is only on that site, not the main one.

I'm not sure if that's true on any of those sites, as I'm not American, so haven't visited any apart from Youtube and Vimeo.
If I got a dime for every time NASA scientist has found alien life...
If your changes were method changes, one9 should catch them. As explained in the Rails section of this post, http://tagaholic.me/2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.h..., you can always jump into a troublesome gem's source, install its dependencies and run one9 on its tests.
This works for the discrete version, but not for the continuous one (if your prior, likelihood and posterior are distributions).
I was booking between Europe and Asia. When I have chosen the legs it says:
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What kind of videos? It's important to know what you're selling in order to come up with some idea of the value of it. If you're simply aggregating the work of others then the value is less than if you are creating original content for example.
With this invite system, you're deterring users who would otherwise make comments that showcase your real-time features.
In fact it's very much like email. You're just sending messages back and forth between people. Really, that's all it is. Most people won't leave Facebook - even if you delivered an electric shock every time they hit the FB website. It's where their friends are.

But there is room in the world for a decentralised and distributed social net. I wrote one (called Friendika). There are people who have a need for a social service of their own. There are online communities which still exist and where people send messages to each other and interact.

It is not whether or not they will replace Facebook. It is simply that Facebook doesn't cater to every social need of every organisation on the planet. Other services need to fill the gaps. One day some will realise that they are spending more time on network 'x' than on Facebook. In fact many of us are doing this today. At that point Facebook becomes irrelevant and loses its grip. Most people don't care who runs the servers. They also don't care if it is centralised or not. All they care about is communicating with people who matter. I would like to point out that girls who rejected you in high school that are now on your Facebook friend list - don't matter. If your mom is on Facebook - chances are that it is reluctantly and she'd much rather you just called her on the phone.
Nintendo might be the same way, which is why the own so many of the big title characters for their machines. Sony and Microsoft picked up on this, and own their own franchises as well.
While I know that feeling you could minimize it by streaming just your browser window or some other part of the desktop.
9% of iPad users haven't downloaded an app. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/connected-...
I suspect the only reason people concede athletic differences is that they are far easier to spot. The actual amount of evidence isn't that different than it is for some other pursuits.

The link about art wasn't talking about other species. It was about the development of our species. Genetic shift doesn't happen to an entire species at once, it's a gradual shifting of allele frequencies. If you admit that genetic differences make us more capable artists than our ancestors, it's difficult to defend the claim that all current and ongoing variation in people is irrelevant to artistic skill.

>"Far, far more important to being a successful musician are three components (which the article cites): support from parents and mentors, instruction by experts, and dedicated practice. Variation between ability in people comes overwhelmingly from those three things and genetics plays a tiny role, if any at all."

This is just utter bullshit and it convinces me you have no direct experience with the field. I grew up in a family of professional musicians and have seen overwhelming evidence that nurture and nature both have significant effects. For a heartbreaking personal example see my comment on another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291295
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This is great advice for people who are not depressed also. When you work on something for a long time without releasing, you start to scrutinize everything you've made and lose faith in it. Releasing in shorter cycles/getting user feedback keeps you motivated better.
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> crypto.createHash('md5').update(password).digest('base64')

Any reason you chose md5? Props for at least salting and running it 1000 times.
I would share my desktop. I figure that the idea that somebody could be watching would be very motivating. And since the chances of someone actually watching are so slim, I wouldn't feel too embarrassed.
I'll just leave this entire list here: http://nodeknockout.com/
>“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis ... No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”

Seriously? That seems... sad. Borderline pathetic, that they're apparently that insular.
No, I just wanted a well optimized hash function. Would you suggest another?
To reiterate

(1) The security problem existed for more than a week.

(2) Google's post makes no mention of (1). Instead it talks about how the issue didn't impact certain Android versions and about how they removed the malicious apps "within minutes"

Regardless of your views on how many i's you'd like dotted and how many ts you'd like crossed for a DMCA form, ...... do you think that a "security update" post should suppress information about the duration of the security problem and just talk about "Within minutes of becoming aware" ?
hsqldb is more than adequate for a diaspora node. diaspora in a jar is completely doable and outperforms any rails/django setup.
Ah. I'll get a test server up soon so people can test the latest github version, with open invites. Thanks for this.
I honestly think that Getting accepted to Stanford for undergrad and Getting accepted to HBS for b-school is just preparation for Bootstrapping and selling a startup for $10M (assume 100% ownership). Even though 10M is not a lot in the enterprise world, you can always do it again and aim higher.
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Why not use both? Spotify scrobbles. You could use Last.fm to make recommendations based on your listening data, I do.