skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had heard of Friends. Looks good. Nice hook.
Is this some sort of licensing model that they don't advertise? The only commercial licenses I'm aware of are per-developer licenses with no royalty structure.
Barry is Automattic's rockstar ops guy. When I see him write "a rather large Distributed Denial of Service Attack" I assume he is still being quite humble.
Yeah, I've been kinda-on-off reading the MEAP PDF, but can't wait to get a print copy to really dig into it.
An Interesting Victorian Children’s Alphabet
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
The career game is not nearly as important now as it was a couple decades ago, though. Now you can easily opt to be judged directly by market, by starting your own company. Customers don't know or care what your social origins are.
I assumed that it meant that you were making taxes related to adwords easy which confused me. I'm not trying to be obtuse or anything but the connection didn't jump out at me even though I really enjoy TurboTax.

I actually having been hoping someone would make a product like yours' too so good luck!
In this context it is. There may be some serious implications when saying that x or y pattern in language z is considered harmful.

In Java accessors are almost mandatory if you intend for your object's properties to be publicly available (even the IDEs imply it, by automatically creating them for you). Whereas in languages such as Python and JavaScript, the implementation of this "pattern" makes them optional. You don't have to use accessors if you don't need them right now, since you can always go back and create them later without affecting client libraries.

What the article shows is that, surprisingly, JavaScript's native feature to do this is actually slower than the Java way (what the author called old-fashioned). Is this really a reason to revert to a clumsier pattern because we're optimizing for speed?

Saying that it's "harmful" might get many newbie JavaScript programmers run to start peppering their code with getter and setter Java-style. What happens later when the different scripting engines fix the bottleneck.
Wow, thanks for that link. IEEE seems to have taken the paper down: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/freesrchabstract.jsp?arnum...

but the Web still has it (PDF link): http://www.tektalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/herbert_sc...

and ACM still lists the reference (perhaps as a snub to IEEE): http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1469852

Amazing! The first line is: The synthesis of fiber-optic cables is a natural quagmire.

And then the first line of the second paragraph is: We prove that cache coherence and IPv7 are often
incompatible.
Would the division that makes the tablet get the CPU at cost, or would they have to bid against outside customers for the part?
Being accepted as a poster in a conference is a very different thing from being published in a journal, as the comments on the article you posted point out.
Leveraging entrepreneurial energy to find a cure for son
Amazing and fantastic!!
WordPress Video Tutorial Plugin only $36 for 3 months
Although never fully intended as a CMS, WordPress is indeed one of the most widely used CMS's in the world. If you've built websites for clients using WordPress, you've probably encountered some difficulties in training your clients on how to use WordPress properly in order to update the content of their website.
The link you provided does not talk about the word 'libertarian' at all, other than its author calling himself a Libertarian Socialist.
1) It's the principle of the matter.
2) That it might be even comparable to those things is a pretty strong argument against it, afaic.
But what if they steal my idea?
The founding premise of this article is that "you get more done just before you go on holiday" which I've never noticed.

I also think it's inaccurate to assume that folks generally have "hidden capacity" that will miraculously allow them to get done in 4 days what would normally have taken 5.

All this boils down to is profit margin on your work: if you're able to build a pricing model where you bill clients enough to fund 15 people taking an extra day off per week, then you can move to a 4 day work week. If not, you can't.
Fair point. I couldn't come up with a better way to display 57 charts on one page which give some kind of interesting information without it being a total mess.

The information is actually tracked indefinitely from when I started monitoring it, and I have daily changes for more than 30 days for each of these accounts at this point. I also have an interface for browsing each one of them in a more granular fashion so that the chartjunk is visible (I can give you access to this if you're interested). Here's Posterous for example: http://goo.gl/QSGp4

Do you have any ideas for how to better present such a comparison between so many data sources? Keeping in mind that scale varies hugely between the smallest and largest.

Edit: To me, the most interesting thing to look at in this showcase is the "shape" of the sparkline (which indicates stability) combined with the percent delta change next to it (click on it to get absolute numbers).
Should I use Domain Email or University Email for Internship Apps?
> The objective is to capture the essence of our next six months work in a simple name.

Nailed it.
From my experience with working with 50+ developers, organized into teams of 3-8 people:
Feature branches are the way to go. We used an adapted version of the git-flow workflow and it does scale pretty nicely.
If you don't make it clear you're doing it, or if you don't phrase it as a question, then you're being dishonest. I don't talk about anything serious anymore with few people who've pulled this trick a few times on me. I'd rather address people real opinions instead of their made up ones.
These numbers are before the iPhone came out for Verizon. It will be interesting to see if the iPhone's availability on more than a single carrier will affect these numbers. I think it's clear that Apple's exclusivity to a single carrier has hurt their marketshare.
suggestion: add scrolling to lightbox for screenshots on home page.
How did his competitors do?
Someone also noticed that Pink Floyd's Echoes is nicely synchronized with the scene. AFAIR, both parties claimed it was a coincidence.
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What's the salary range for mobile application developers?
Hopefully this means that a new PDF is being released soon. The book is great, but I've been disappointed with Manning's early access program. The last update was released in August 2010. Then we jump to March 2011, where we still don't have an update from the publisher.

Apparently I've been spoiled by the frequency of updates from PragProg.
The Sokal hoax was effectively a "bitch-slap" to certain philosophical camps that had devolved into a very deep rut of obscurantism. I think that Sokol was perhaps interested in what was going on in those circles but became repulsed by the incomprehensibility of the texts at the time. You really have to (try to) read Derrida, Foucault or Lacan to truly appreciate how FAR from any notion of clarity these dominant philosophers had come.

I take the Sokol hoax as a warning, not just to the humanities, but to any field. At the end of the day if you can't explain the essence of what you're doing to smart 12 year old, you don't understand it yourself and you should be prepared for someone to call "bullshit" like Sokal did.
You're right (and my follow up comment is wrong) but the core of my comment holds - you still probably need 1,000+ samples to get a statistically significant result for a phenomena like this and I really doubt the OP has any knowledge on that order of things.

There's huge noise in terms of the lifetime income / career success earned by any sample population regardless of background and the phenomena we'd be looking for is probably on the order of a single-digit difference.

You'd need something like a twins study to ever really know if this was true.

Do rich kids really outperform at work because of how they behave / think? Or do their parents have better connections? Or do they just have more money to afford better colleges? The OP has no evidence that the perceived better results are actually because of the reasons he cites, or other phenomena.

If point of the post is just "rich kids have more resources so they do better at life than poor kids", well, that's kind of uninteresting and obvious. If it's "rich kids are treated different" or "rich kids act different at work" then that needs to be substantiated.
I am. I live near Sacramento, CA. I am a geo / mapping expert, some hacking, and very interested to learn by doing in the area of getting paying clients and building great tools. Have 8 years of env. science consulting and customer relations and marketing. Would love to make connections. lakeatsion /gmail /.com
Ask HN: What would you like to learn about email for startups?
Hi HN,

I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (www.postageapp.com), and one of the things I really want to improve is the quality and quantity of posts in our blog. Specifically, I want to answer questions you have!

I have brainstormed a good list of topics to write about in regards to email for startups, and I would love to hear more about what problems/gripes/comments you may have about emails. I have run into many questions about resource allocation for emails, integration of a third party provider, and why their messages aren't being delivered to the inboxes.

So HN, what would you like to learn about, in regards to emails for your startups?
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I think I remember this being around since f8 2009. Anyone know for sure when this was introduced?
With so many css and js files you increase the number of requests to the server. It's not optimal.
Apple hardware has never been about price, it's been about profit. In the PC market this generally equates to more expensive like-for-like machines because the Dell/Sony/Lenovo's of this world are sold at wafer thin margins.

When it comes to tablets & phones Apple's costs, from components through to retail, are so much lower that they can sell at lower prices than their competitors and still make a healthy profit on the hardware.

For tablet/phone makers, trying to figure out how to compete with Apple in the mid to high-end range must be a very miserable situation to be in.
And frankly, I think you're missing the atmosphere in which the policy is offered. I think the kind of place that is willing to offer you a 32 hour week with a day off is the kind of place that's not going to be overly concerned about slicing and dicing the policy to the finest point.

It strikes me that a place this good-natured wouldn't split hairs.
I've used icon finder hundreds of times. It's great.

I am also a fan of the Fugue icon set (http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/) with over 3000 (!) super high quality icons. There is a licensing fee if you don't want to attribute but it is pretty affordable ($60).
Execution is what matters. You can turn the greatest idea into the stupidest product in the world if you're not careful.
No, you're right. I edited my comment.
Anonymous Planning Media War in Support of Manning
Motorola says Android phones increasingly compete with consoles like Xbox
The longest blockchain are accepted as the most authoritative.

Why would the nodes be aware of the longest block chain?

Unless the evil peers are able to generate enough mining power, they can't discard transactions.

Lets, for the sake of the argument, assume they don't. What makes you so sure I can't make others do the work for me?

While evil peers can refuse to transmit or rely transaction, it only took a single peer to connect to the authentic network.

How do you know it's authentic?

Also notes that the bitcoin network do not use any form of identities other than IP addresses themselves. So the attackers would need access to million of IP addresses to create that many evil nodes.

or 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of the IPv6 pool ;-)

but actually, BitCount identities are public/private key pairs and you can have them in an infinite amount:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Addresses

Also: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=ip_address

You seem to not have done the math yet.

You seem to assume the value of BTC is not going to increase despite them becoming increasingly hard to generate. Are you saying you expect bitcoin to fail?
Some people feel that paying money for something that works better for them or causes less problems is worth it.
The Mac Mini is a great deal compared to everything that's not at least 3 times larger, especially if you consider performance, because everything else the size of the Mac Mini has an Intel Atom at best.
This only works if you can compare a rich kid and a regular kid who had the same opportunities, particularly educational but also in terms of their friends, etc. Otherwise there's no control. Presumably, we spend all this money on education so that it results in more success for the same amount of work later in life.

One thing I've noticed, anecdotally: kids who grew up in Manhattan have parents or know parents who were investment bankers, corporate lawyers, etc. This gives them a leg up in getting into those professions over kids whose parents were in more common occupations, if only because they know more about those industries. It has nothing to do with their attitude. I'm guessing that it's no coincidence that lots of successful actors and musicians have successful actor parents, too: Charlie Sheen, anyone?
Ah, excellent. As much as I like my Xoom, the Android tablet market would benefit tremendously from lighter, cheaper tablets. It wouldn't hurt to have some 7" devices, either, running Honeycomb and a real GPU.

Apple has some terrific advantages in the tablet market: A unified vision, a larger marketplace of tablet apps, and good vertical integration. Android, on the other hand, benefits from the fact that multiple manufacturers can launch multiple devices per year. Look how quickly the Android market went from the G1 to the Nexus S.

I'm bullish about tablets in 2011 and 2012. Both Apple and Google are executing very credibly, and the Xoom is a vastly better first attempt than the Android 1.5 phones. So with any luck, we should see significant consumer adoption and growth in the tablet market over the next two years.
9, actually. maybe there should be position numbers :)
Does anyone know of anything in reverse (iOS for Android developers)?
Talent-poaching revs up among tech firms
Are the icons in this set actually usable? http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:social

What are the legal issues there?
Its a percentage increase and pretty meaningless in my opinion. I was the first employee there and Head of Technology in 2006.

From the original press release re increase:
The report reveals that BeatThatQuote.com grew its monthly audience of unique visitors by 1,165% from December 2006 to December 2007. Facebook came second in percentage terms with an increase of just 781% in comparison.
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=369...
They were offered 25k funding by The Capital Factory, received mentorship from super-angel Naval Ravikant, and had coverage all over the media like WSJ.

The reason the team didn't proceed is because of personel issues among the team which had they planned better would have no been an issue.

So how's this not a startup? All that would have needed to happen to make it a legal "business" are some documents signed by everyone (which were already prepared)
Intel's Tick-Tock Principle
Not down with this as a Front End developer here. It's rare that I am able to work along side a developer to understand the structure of his components. Rather we code to a defined spec in HTML/JS/CSS and then throw over the wall for integration with development and back end. This could be near-shore, off-shore or internal - but rarely know before hand.
The funny thing is, Apple's CPUs are manufactured by Samsung.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5
That's why it's suggested you using Jammit (for Rails), or similar asset packager. Django has django-assetpackager. Or you can write your own pretty easily. Scoped selectors makes concatenating style-sheets safe.
FTA:
Would a leading North American journal of cultural studies -- whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross -- publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions?

He was about 10 years ahead of his time. This is more or less the formula for most blog posts. Even people who should know better throw in some bullshit because they think it will look good. Take the machine learning post that appeared here a bit ago. At the level of precision laid out in the article, model complexity and scalability are at best totally-ordered sets, and there is absolutely no way you can do a regression of any sort. The graphic, however is cute and appears to flatter the reader's intellectual sophistication.

http://metamarketsgroup.com/blog/machine-learning-in-wonderl...
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Great work. I just tried it out and the process was very simple and easy. Keep it up. Good luck
Could you add @lanyrd ?
From my reading, it's a 40-hour workweek in which the last 8 hours are paid rest. If they weren't paid, they would have no legal basis for banning the workers from working on Friday.

However, the workers may do as they like over the weekend--including working.
"A society where rich kids don't have any advantage" is reductio ad absurdum.

No one is talking about that. We're simply talking about meritocracy, which has been the path of progress since the Enlightenment.

It in no way debases the rich if Johnny can't get into a top university because his Daddy can't buy his way in.
great, thx for trying it out. after bustin my ass for 6 months it's nice to know the process works:)
You seem to assume the value of BTC is not going to increase despite them becoming increasingly hard to generate.

/economics fail

Difficulty to generate bitcoins does not cause them to increase in value. Their increase in value drives up the investment in mining, which then drives up the difficulty.
There is extensive discussion on the bitcoin forums about these attack vectors and others.

One thing I find interesting is how the p2p trust setup starts to model "reality" or psychology. The question "How do I know whats real?" has an overlap with the million-evil-peer scenario you described. If ten of your friends told you a bus was on fire in the next neighborhood, would you believe them? My point is the attack you're describing is so general that its beyond trying to fix with a particular p2p setup and we have to go with whats 'good enough'.

Thats the basis of the bitcoin system and probably many others. It asks "is this transaction real?" and its real if "most people say its real".

Whats even more interesting is that hard crypto enforces a very small number of properties of the bitcoin system. The hash rate difficulty control, the number of coins awarded for "mining", and others aspects are controlled by, as you have described, the majority installed base. Like a game of Othello or Reversi, majority rules.
How to give an Ignite talk
If we are testing a web server on port 80, such that ServerIP,and port are fixed, then the only way you are getting more than 64K connections is through multiple client IP addresses.
Be careful: some icons that have free licenses actually use elements of images that are not under those licenses.

Examples:

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7395/128/finder_mac_wi... (XP wallpaper, listed under GPL license)

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7512/128/application_a... - Apple's icon
Mommy, what does the Internet look like?
This is pretty easy to solve after the fact by combining assets.
I updated that forum post with new numbers showing that at the current difficulty it might cost over $700 to generate a single block, and at the estimated difficulty which will happen tomorrow, it will cost over $1000 to generate a single block.

Generating a block currently gives you 50 bitcoins that are worth about $45 at the current market price.
I once gave somebody my ID when I was 20 in order to get into a 21+ show. I really wanted to see this band, and I figured the worse thing that would happen is I'd get turned down and have to sell my ticket. So I went in, threw down my ID, and the girl looked a bit confused, but let me in anyways. To be fair, it was only 3 months before my birthday, but I did it in total confidence.

She probably thought I must be 21 because who would throw down proof they weren't 21 in order to get into a 21+ show.

Before that, I worked customer service at a grocery store for a while too, and it got to the point that I could tell who stole something in order to return it by just how they were standing in line waiting, and even if that didn't help, their first few words would give it away. Of course, that didn't mean I couldn't help them. My boss actually was really upset when I told one person to never come back... go figure.
It says at the top: License: Free for commercial use, but I also recommend going through the Readme to make absolutely sure.
It works for me on our Nexus One with 2.3.3 - can you email us with more details? rhys@socialcam.com
If you have to sacrifice organization to gain performance, I think that's a sign you're doing something wrong. If number of requests is a concern, you should probably be doing asset packaging.
Can Samsung use the A5 in their devices? Or do they just manufacture them for Apple.
Show HN: Hacker News Radio
This is a little project I have been working on that lets you listen to Hacker News. Please note that is SERIOUSLY BETA.

http://hackernewsradio.com
Uber’s Private Cars Are Preparing For A Secret Push Into New York City
This biz idea reminds me of Hipmunk. Even though I know Hipmunk is more or less just an affiliate referral service for Orbitz, the UX is enough "value add" to win my business.
I completely agree with you. Having a positive outlook is essential to coping with any disease. I find myself felling more depressed when I really focus on my disease. I understand the need to relate with other people with a similar condition. However, it is important not to let other people's experiences directly affect your state of mind.
Link us?
I'm still waiting for the "Android Developers surpass iOS and RIM developers for Monthly App Sale Revenue".

Soon, soon.
Idea: clicking on a sparkline opens up a lightbox with the larger and more detailed chart.
I mean in regards to them being mostly trademarks of other companies.
The science behind traffic jams
Limitations of a mobile and webapps developer vision .
How do we "release" objects...? Just kidding, awesome tutorial, I was looking for something like this, thanks.
The problem with the Twitter ecosystem right now is that all the other Twitter client developers have more or less given up.

Birdfeed was the second best Twitter client during the great iPhone Twitter client wars. This has since been acquired by Brizzly and has fallen into a niche irrelevant (to me) market.

Twitter (Tweetie) is now junk thanks to the new trends popup ("#dickbar") and shockingly the Twitter CEO seems to have missed - or, probably - be ignoring the blatant fact that the first 250,000 Tweetie users fell for that client because it was beautifully crafted. Tweetie was alongside Delicious Library and a few other pieces of software that was as close to art meets practically in software.

Now, Twitter Inc chooses to add features based on what their company directives are, or "for the greater good" of the community - which might be all well and good, but the vocal people who use Tweetie/Twitter now have nowhere to go (as everyone else has given up.)

The most offensive thing about this entire saga is that it is the "early adopter" users of Twitter - the people that were using Tweetie 1 and such, were the Twitter die hard fans - remember when Twitter would die during the Apple keynotes? and now Twitter Inc is happy to ignore them for their millions of Justin Beiber fans.