skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wires? Yea, we still need wires for some things. Apple doesn't do stuff that's not going to be a good experience.

Having to plug crap in and out is not a very good experience though. In fact, Apple seems to agree. See AirDrop in Lion.

> Memory? ...don't know, don't care how much memory is in my original iPad - I only care that it performs well - and it does.

Disagreement, Safari is a pain to use on more than two different page (outside the issue of not having tabs or anything simple) because it keeps reloading the fuck out of them due to lack of RAM (iPhone 4 has far less issues there, with a similar resolution)

> Megapixels? ...pointless fluff marketing numbers.

Yeppers.

> Storage space? I bought a 32gb and wish I had saved the 100 bucks. All my content is on my Mac which has many hundreds of GB of storage.

Well yeah but not everybody's is, and iPad would be even better if there never was a need to tether it to anything (but a wall outlet for charging).

This is not the case currently.

On the other hand, storage space — as screen resolution — is a technical problem: you can't find 128GB NAND chips on the market, not in the amount Apple needs anyway. That's also why the iPod Touch still has only 64GB NAND and the iPhone finds itself lagging at 32.
If at some stage, the money goes into improving productive capacity, then it is not too bad. The consumers themselves may not be increasing productive capacity, and in my opinion are generally not, but the companies their money goes to often are.

US purchasing power parity GDP per capita is in the top ten in world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...

This seems to me as good a measure of productive capacity as any. The consumers of the US may be borrowing heavily, but the previously borrowed money mustn't all have been pissed down the drain.
I thought this was a pretty good read. Here at blip.tv, we have a few sizeable JS projects in the wild (our HTML5 player, our distributor dashboard, and our destination site), each with shared dependencies.

Keeping discrete files in JS is one step from bringing your work from quick hacks to complete projects. I disagree with a few of the patterns in the post, but I thought it's on the right track.

As far as handling many asynchronous events, we follow a naming paradigm similar to Apple's Obj-C. It works surprisingly well for JS. We deviate a little bit with global (page) events via our own fireEvent() methods. There are also local (component) events that communicate within pieces of a page itself. We maintain a loose coupling of all elements on the page and thereby increase usability. We still provide a messaging system for other components to listen to, which allows us to have strong and consistent integrations across pages.

I'll write a followup on exactly how we do our concatenation and minification in a later post. I think it could be useful!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2319.html
For the New Team Lead: The First Six Things You Should Know
Startup idea: Donate money to make money
Indeed! If only he got more mainstream support, could be expanded to more people
Now it becomes all apparent why BlackBerry was so heavy handed with Kik Messenger: http://kik.com/blog/2010/12/a-sad-day-in-waterloo
1. Is there a demo of the CMS somewhere?

2.Is the API for the JSON/REST backend documented anywhere?

It is awesome to see someone implement this architecture.

I have been working on a similar concept for quite a while, but didn't have time to build anything more that prototypes and proof-of-concepts.
Ask HN: Anybody want this stuff?
In the process of looking for a particular router that I knew I had somewhere around here, I've uncovered a few pieces of hardware that I'm not going to be using anytime soon.

If anyone can make use of this stuff, let me know and I'll send it to you (ideally as 1 kit, I just want to put it to a good home):

Clearpath 1201 Network firewall (basically a mini-itx box with a 256MB CF card to boot off of.

Mini ITX chassis with 4 Ethernet, USB, VGA.

(2) Fairly standard Mini ITX MB's and cases.

Large box of random bits: couple of uninstalled P4 processors (they were supposed to fit on of the mini-itx boards, but didn't). Collection of 2GB ECC RAM chips). New mini itx system board (that is confirmed to NOT accept the P4 processors :))

USB composite video capture dongles (3)

Bluetooth GPS module with charging cable

PIC Programmer that connects to a parallel port, should work with almost any PIC.

Other random related things along these lines.

Not 100% sure of the status of anything, everything should have been in working order, but no guarantees.
That view would seem to have some pretty far-reaching consequences, insofar as many of us produce information of one sort or another and nothing else. Sounds like the only way we should expect to get paid is through generous benefactors and donations.
The web works unregulated because (other than people in some countries), it is the client, the consumer who is utterly free to do what they want.

This model does not apply to the real world, for instance -- if someone online sees a site and thinks that it is terrible, there is far less overhead to setting up an alternative.

Banks, telecoms, energy -- all this has to be regulated because the markets are there such that there are monopolies, people are locked in, and providing an alternative can be exceptionally difficult.

The market is only as free as the consumer.

Net-neutrality ensures that freedom. If they were to allow companies to fast-track their sites, that essentially makes the market less free because it is a barrier to competition, which gives way to monopolies.

Finally, the web isn't entirely unregulated, just the small bits of regulation that there are, are very important in protecting the freedoms of the consumer.
Answering the crucial questions on quora....or not
Copy pasted for convenience. Will delete later if it's distracting.

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The coverage of the Arrington kerfuffle provides some great examples of a form of structural bias against women that most people overlook. At this point about 65% of the posts I’ve linked to above are by women (31/47, I think). Here’s TechMeme’s summary of the debate:

five guys and Shira

16.6% women.

In a comment on Gender, race, age and power in online discussions, chapter n back in 2008, I talked about representation issues on Techmeme:

the majority of these blogs are generally what Susan C. Herring et. al. refer to in Women and children last: the discursive construction of Weblogs as “filter blogs”, commenting on external events, as opposed to “personal journals” or “knowledge blogs”; TechMeme’s technology is a natural for filter blogs, so it’s unsurprising that this leads to underrepresentation of women and youth.

It’s nice to have such a clear example!

At the risk of being pedantic,there are a couple of important lessons here:

- The “neutral” algorithms of sites like Techmeme, memeorandum, and mediagazer are in practice heavily biased against women, and so present yet another challenge for women in general — and women in technology, politics, and media in particular

- If you’re getting a large chunk of your news via Techmeme, you’re getting a very male view of reality
Funny thing, Germany does not have copyright. Instead, it has creator-right, which is very similar and usually compatible with copyright, but not exactly the same.

The difference is that copyright gives rights to the copyright holder, which may or may not be the author. With creator-right ('Urheberrecht'), these rights are always bound to the author and can not be sold.

I think this is interesting, because I would agree more with Urheberrecht than with copyright.
Scott Bellware: A Simple, Definitive Metric of Software Development Productivity
you mean disconnecting?
Abuganeb
It's probably the only all-in-one-page version of the article.

Although I do agree the dialog popping up at the beginning is annoying, it's only one click (or key) to dismiss it; I prefer that to having to click on several "next page" links.
If only that were actually true.

Colin Messitt actually ran an experiment to figure this out. I reposted it about 15 years ago with his permission:

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19990420024127/http://scraw...
My thoughts exactly. They're signing their death sentence.
In Chrome, when you hover over the pins at the outer side of your browser, you can't read the whole text in the box.

Besides that: Beautiful :)
The background pins/info is pretty sweet, tells me exactly what your service is all about. I would probably look into making those pin speech bubbles orange (like your "boom" button), they'd pop with a lot more contrast, IMO. Of course I can only base that on the city background photo, don't know how else you're using them.
Your second sentence disputes your first.

> This is still early days in the market, nobody has a lock on it. How old was the mobile MP3 player industry when Apple introduced the iPod?

And now that there is an iPod, how many credible challengers have we seen? None, really. So Apple is able to lock down a market. The question is whether or not the competition is catching up or falling farther behind. Android is a great platform in principle, but the high price of hardware may be a barrier to entry for mainstream buyers.
Apple, Google, Amazon, And Microsoft 4 Of The Top Most Admired Companies
my great grandfather gone blind years beofre i was born. when i was 5, he pointed out the birds by kind in flight and distance, and built all kind of house furniture, home repair. strangely to me, he was able to somehow 'see' the tape measure, maybe just he had a keen sense of measures. a few years later, his sight started coming back he said, then he passed. this is not such a great story, just an example the human brain and personal encouragement can go a long way. hats off to mr kish.
I would recommended hiring people that are the best fit for the position. There are plenty of reasons to hire someone that will do a good job, rather than a code ninja that finishes projects in 15 minutes.
Yes, but they often cover minutia to death. I unsubscribed when I got 4 stories about rumors of a white iPhone in my feed reader.
The exclusive right to control the exploitation of your creations is something that can be stolen though, technically speaking. Because if someone else appropriates control over what can be done with your work, the exclusive control over it is taken away from you. By the definition earlier, that's theft.
So incredible. I would love to learn to do this myself - seeing the world with sounds must be so different. If I were a billionaire I'd pay invest that $15M and hope I could learn.
Decision Making & Variety: Why Speed Dating Rarely Works
A Declaration of Cyber-War
Heh... It's possible to fool aerial viewers as well:

http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/08/19/1034/
Large companies benefit from the current patent regime as well: it is hard to acquire a patent portfolio, and once you have done so, you have an advantage over companies that don't. Increased barriers to entry is good for large, established businesses.
I really like AVL trees (or balanced trees) and the way they are restructured.
Read this. It's ICANN's summary on the last DDOS on the root DNS servers.

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/factsheet-dns-attack-0...
could you give us some idea on how big your sizable js apps are? I suspect this is a case where quantity does turn into quality. I.e. as continues to get bigger problems morph.
Site with more information: http://www.benunderwood.com/
I'm curious what you think of "theft of services". The deprivation may only be temporary, not permanent, so would it be theft?
1. Not really, but you can download and run it yourself. Online demo will come at some point later

2. We're passing JSON-LD (http://json-ld.org/) over the standard Backbone.sync API (http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Sync). But for other systems that can be replaced with a different JS implementation to the fit the API conventions of the back-end you talk with. Just override Backbone.sync

If you're working on something similar, then our JS libs will probably be handy: https://github.com/bergie/VIE
You know you're at the right place on the web where you go to type in a joke, but that joke has already been left.
I can buy this if somehow someone illegally obtained your copyright.

Other than that, you don't lose your right to exploit your work. Someone else is exploiting your work in addition to you. They are infringing on your copyright, not stealing it.
This is 100% correct. I have worked with and hired people at both ends of this spectrum.

And I would even say it matters as much as native talent.
I love the simple landing page. The only thing I'd change are the screenshots. If you add a highlight to the CC textfield for example, it'd more quickly illustrate the point. Centering the object doesn't really put enough focus on it.

Also, you could put more context in the example. Like saying it's for birthday party or for vacation photo's (like Apple does).
That's why I miss Running Times...
He's not the only one. Here's a documentary about a boy who uses the same technique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA

I have once seen tests in some popular science tv show. They blindfolded a few people and let them walk in front of a door (or sth like that) to check if they'll stop before they reach it, and somehow they managed to do it. We can use echolocation by nature, we just don't develop this skill.
What's classic mode?
Well I think Google would quite like the opportunity to find and pitch qualified people. I'm sure they'd happily pay $500 for the opportunity to pitch directly a good candidate who just wanted the bonus on his way to a competitor or startup.
I'm not sure your exception is an exception. In the company I work for, there are some amazingly bright guys, but I don't hear about them being in any open-source project. I would suspect only the interns and a few of the younger guys have code published on bitbucket or whatever.
The 'g's I'm okay with dangling, though I still don't think they look great.

What I was specifically talking about with the 'floating sausage' remark was the 'o', 'u', 'o' and 'e' in the logo, and how they seem to ALMOST touch the border they sit above.

For what it's worth, I fancy myself a designer too, and I constantly struggle with letters that dangle and figuring out the appropriate alignment for them.

In general, the site looks amazing, but if I had to point out its achilles heel, it's definitely the logo.
On the flip side, I find that my productivity drops to zero below a certain level of compensation, at least when I'm working on other people's projects for money.
Minecraft won an award (multiple awards?) at the Indie Games Festival Awards at the Game Developers Conference yesterday. That would explain the sales.

It beat out other indie games, which of course wouldn't get as high a sales boost. So yes, Minecraft is an example of a very rare case.
The author has completely missed the whole point of the iPad, which is to make personal computing simple. Consumers do not need to know how many GHz or how much RAM their iPad has, they just need to know that it'll run apps, play games, videos and edit documents. If you feel so inclined, Apple lists most of the specifications on their website.

I know a lot of people who are literally scared of the old-fashioned PC, because of all the jargon associated with buying one. The iPad is revolutionising by simplifying.
Add Some Mindfulness to Your Daily Schedule
Find a mentor. Get an internship.

@naithemilkman posted about how he's just getting into it and he cold called startups to offer to do internships, discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2280070

when you're just starting, the most important thing is persistence. You can't hit it hard for 2 weeks, take a month, then come back to it hoping to pick up where you left off. You need to keep pushing, keep making forward progress and keep it fresh in your head.

Having mentors at a startup who are invested in your success (because you being good == free/cheap work for them) will ensure that you have resources to fall back on, they'll help you past a lot of pain points, and they'll motivate you to keep going.

Don't lean on them too hard, think of them as a spot at the gym. You want to do it yourself, but when you're in a bind, they'll give you the nudge you need to keep going.

Cold call startups and ask for an internship.
Ask HN: Replacement for Ajaxian
I'm looking for regular news on all things javascript. HN is great, but is there any other supplementary resource like Ajaxian used to be when it updated regularly?
Believe what you like, but at some point the product becomes a "commodity" - its well-known and further piracy doesn't contribute to publicity. Then it'd be nice to switch models (which is of course impossible).
Okay, it has less ram than the Galaxy tab.

And honestly, the iPad 2 hasn't shipped yet.
Maybe they realized their death sentence was already handed to them and are trying to shift to other business models. Externalizing what they feel is their core competency (they've had TV ads for BBM (not their phones or OS) for months now) and trying to monetize it may be a step in that direction.
you see Daniel Kish in the doc as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Px-aPnk4ZU
How can an image be "pixel perfect" if the original is not made of pixels? I can understand pixel-perfect image scaling or the like, but a pixel-perfect map of the real world is impossible.
Thanks! I think those are both great suggestions - I'll see what I can do.

Suggestions like that are really helpful as I am definitely not a designer (IADNAD).
I think BlackBerry is doomed[1] anyway, especially with the increasing popularity of Android and iOS[2]. Although it does seem like a last-resort action: BBM is a very strong reason to switch and I know a lot of teenagers and young adults with BlackBerries solely because of it.

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/12/blackberry_u...
[2] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/02/smartphone_s...
I wasn't making the case for software patents -- just pointing out that the logic doesn't work. Just because the constituent parts of a whole don't satisfy some legal criteria doesn't mean that the "whole" itself doesn't.
I love my iPad, but I think memory is a pretty big deal, especially if you want to do real multitasking. The numbers might not matter to the average consumer, but the experience will.

Open up several tabs in your browser and look at the memory that's being consumed, then tell me you won't care about 256MB vs 1GB of memory on a tablet that most people are going to use to surf the internet.

Not having to constantly reload pages was probably the most eye-opening thing for me using the XOOM (tabbed) browser versus the Browser in my original iPad.

Memory is conspicuously absent from the specs page (http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/)
I think you're confusing Apple's public stances with their actual intentions. Did Apple plan to release the SDK originally? We don't know. Do you?
I've met some fellow cyclists on the local circuit who looked borderline anorexic, because they took the "lose all possible weight" theme as far as they could. Even some pro cyclists look unhealthy, to me. What I'm getting at is that sometimes a sport's own internal pressures may cause issues.
Here's a small benchmark that show COG VM improvements over standard Squeak VM and other commercial available Smalltalks:
http://fbanados.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/a-tinybenchmark/
Why won't we be able to practice echolocation? There's nothing stopping you (apart from the fact that it's not very useful when you can see)...
Then again, chances are that for people like that, going back to the market wouldn't mean looking up postings on Monster.com anyways.
Thanks to jokermatt999 for the cut-and-paste.

Yes, later in that thread there's data from Google and Bing -- both in the 45-50% range.

EDIT: Also, here's the link to the Susan Herring et. al. paper I mentioned "Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs" http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html
Forgive me, for I know little in the ways of BlackBerrys, but: what's so great about BBM? Why is it so much better then SMS/Google Voice/IM with push/Facebook Chat that people go out of their way to purchase BlackBerry devices?
Perhaps that's why WordPress doesn't do it yet. To offload CMS functionality onto theme designers (and to make it a requirement to be able to use WP) might prove disastrous; the editing experience could become inconsistent between themes.
Now I'm thoroughly impressed, thanks
Looks great! I think you should rework the testimonials on the site. I don't think your target audience will recognize a Twitter username.

A feature request would be a link to see the full history of the email list. Would be great to be able to add another person down the line and them being able to read up on what topics have already been discussed.
I'd rather have a single page which opened the print dialog than have multiple pages.
Great and valuable read! Is that from your blog or did you write a book? Would love to see more!

Now here is where that last part is really funny in my situation: most everyone of my peers could easily be my mom or dad, they are all way older than me, got family and kids, so there are no after work activities at all, there is no typical coffee room or balcony for smokers where you would "naturally" meet and talk to people, we do deal with different departments as our customers but 95% of them are in that "way older" group too.

Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those young whippersnappers ragging on "old people"; far from it, I am well approaching my 30s faster than I shall like and there are "older than me" people who can really open your eyes with some fascinating stories or experiences! I just find them here all unnaturally passionless, whining and downright boring somehow... not a lot of professional expertise where you could actually LEARN something. More times than not, it is me (from the outside) giving them an idea or suggestion based on technical knowledge. And I have just been here for maybe 3 or 4 years now... most everyone else has been here 10-20+ years.

And I'm the "expert" in my small little local kingdom so, sadly, what I say just goes and there really honestly is practically no one I could get mentoring from, even I don't consider myself that "good" at all, I still am the go-to guy and have always been that everywhere I worked at.

I know my weakness, I know I don't really excel and come up with incredibly creative, sweet solutions.. I guess I am just good enough to know how bad I am and still manage to do well enough.
Indeed, you should always use parametrized SQL statements. This ensures that injections are impossible. Don't bother with manually escaping parameters, as you are bound to forget one case.

The NoSQL databases I've worked with always use the parametrized format (no text-based query format at all), so injection wasn't a problem.
Ask HN: Work visas for US startups.
If I get funding for my startup in the Valley (and subsequently re-inc in Delaware), which work visas would be available to me as a founder?

Its my understanding that there are requirements for pay, title, and job history (the job has to have existed for 12 months previously) in order to qualify for a T1N (I'm from Canada), none of which would apply for a startup founder. Also, the process to obtain an H1B is expensive and extremely time consuming, and also follows similar requirements to the T1N.

Any advice is appreciated.
Fix it.

A few years ago somebody decided they wanted more startup news. Train a classifier to decide what you like and run with that.

source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689204
Thanks! Yeah I just added the testimonials this morning so they definitely can be spruced up I think :)

Archiving is definitely in the works. It'll be opt-in, per list, that way we still never save any emails by default.
In-car apps: Android coming to 2012 Saab 9-3