skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the failed startups of 2000 - 2006.. etc fully represented in CrunchBases database. This alone could account for the curve.
Microsoft Xbox GM Recommends An Apple Notebook To Every PC Industry Exec
> a Chrome Frame download page that is highly convincing to end users

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only people who should be installing Chrome Frame are IT departments in control of hundreds or thousands of desktops that are forced to maintain IE6 because of legacy/vertical applications.

"End users" should, at least for computers they own, be convinced to install a complete browser like everyone else.
Not sure how they could pull off a good windowed UI on a tablet sized device. 1024x768 with the requirement of finger friendly tap targets is a big hurdle. I suppose apps could have a compact UI mode of sorts so you could switch between full screen and windowed mode. Something like switching from the iPad version to the iPhone sized version. In that case you could fit 4 apps on the screen at once. I think it's more likely Apple will adopt the OSX Lion Mission Control feature on iOS5. A quick four finger swipe up to activate it with a live preview.
OMG! "extremely high quality quantum random numbers"

Thats an interesting product to sell.
Now I'm wondering whether it's an alt or a random passerby. Got any interesting enemies?
Ask HN: Hacker Houses in Santa Monica / LA area?
Hi all,

I just landed a new job at a game dev company in LA. I currently live in TX, and am relocating to the LA area. I have been looking for places to live, and want to find a place in West LA or Santa Monica. The company I'm joining will be moving to Santa Monica in the coming months, so that's kind of my target area.

Is there anyone with an open room in a "hacker house" type setup out there? Web dev is my passion and that's kind of the scene I'm hoping to hook up with out there.

If you know of any affordable studio apartment places, or open rooms in houses then I'd love to hear about them! I've only got about 2 weeks. :P

If you have any questions about me, or tips, feel free to email me @ ryancole at unt dot edu.

Thanks!
Correct. Despite popular belief, most devs don't have an infinite number of well-formed ideas in their head. I'd say do your apps on iOS first. Then do the same apps on the other platforms. It's relatively easy, and gives you time as other ideas formulate.
3 cents per hour per instance instance after the first. With this space heating up so much, how do you compete with competitors offering free apps at the entry level. Sure, maybe you pick up better clients, but the other model still give you more prospects.

Either way, it's nice to be able to create dev / staging / experimental instances which aren't costing 3 cents per hour. I could host these on my own VPS and use Duostack for production only, but I'm more likely to use Heroku for the full stack.

Edit: The first app is free, but my point is still valid.
+1 for Ginzametrics. Also, SEOmoz has a service for serp tracking.
I don't think this is enough for a lot of common cases. Let's say you want to write a 'sort()' function. It takes a 'vector' and a comparator function. Unless that comparator function is declared 'const', you can't be sure that it won't destroy your 'vector'.

Another example. Let's say your 'foo()' function calls 'bar.toString()'. How can the compiler tell whether this call should be allowed when 'bar' is 'const'? You would need to know whether 'toString()' modifies 'bar' or not, but you don't have a way to tell. You might be able to figure this out if you look inside the code of 'toString()', but what if 'toString()' is virtual? You can't look at the code then.
Nah, but there are some seriously peeved guys in here that do not want to hear what some people are saying.
You can also eat more. I added a few kg since I started weight lifting.
I'd agree that the news is bad for you. But that "article" was underwhelming, to say the least.
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For starters: You don't. Just do your strength training three times a week, more or less every two days. Works.
Santa Monica can be really expensive. I'd say your better off in West LA and then driving 15 mins to SM.

May want to try out Craigslist for this also :).

Good Luck and Congrats on the job.
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Yes. But just include the workout from Starting Strength (or similar) in your experiments. It should work for nearly all beginners.
> Your HN profile says you love technology and the Internet but your comment doesn't support that claim at all. We don't just want people off IE6, we want people on modern browsers.

The problem is people are making a big deal out of MS suggesting developers encourage users to upgrade to IE8. Of course MS is going to say that. Developers are big boys and girls, however, and if they want, they can suggest other browsers as well... like they've been doing for years now.

So, this response to MS is worthless. It's saying something everyone who cares already knows about, and encourages those who don't know to do something.

Yes, the best bet would be if everyone switched over to Firefox, open and free standards, cherry pie for everyone, no patents, along with coffee and tea. Everyone running the same standard OS that takes care of updating for you.

But that's not going to happen.

Basically: MS encourages people to move off IE6 to IE8. These are for people who are still on IE6... people who probably don't know Mozilla, don't use Apple, and have no clue who Opera is. Google Chrome makes no sense.
Geek gets upset they suggest IE8 and posts a worthless self-masturbatory rant about how MS wants people to use IE over FF, O, or Webkit. This post then gets posted to HN, where, but some odd miracle, it sparks two types of posters.

Those who are happy MS is helping get people off IE6. Thank god for small miracles.

Then those who are pretty much adding nothing to the discussion by repeating what the original post said. HN's version of AOL's "me too".

Yes. I'm bitching.
For those into forking and pulling: http://fetlife.com/fetlife/open_source_projects
Have you looked at the relevant studies? Stretching can even cause soreness. (Wikipedia is a good starting point. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness#P... and just chase the citations.)
SPI Died for Your Sins - The Death of Wargaming
Sorry, the way we list it might not be clear. The first instance for each app is free. So all apps are free, unless you add extra instances.
http://www.businessinsider.com/through-may-apples-ipod-had-7...

Ok - so I was off by 4% - 24% of people pick non-Apple mp3 players.
These requirements are too stringent. Something better give, or what he wants is a Java that is both more featured, simpler, and better documented.

1. Must run on a very specific instruction set (JVM).

2. Must have (require?) lots of documentation

3. Be both Object Oriented, and Functional.

4. Must be able to automagically do multicore.

5. Must also contain a full type inferencing system.

6. While prioritizing human readability over consistent syntax.

7. And constrain itself to a very specific call stack layout.
Ask HNL: Private credit line logistics
Let's say a semi-wealthy benefactor wants to provide my company with a revolving private line of credit for some relatively small amount--let's say $50k. I do mean private in the sense of a private individual, strictly peer to-peer; for a variety of reasons, commercial lending and credit line products are outside the scope of this question.

From a purely logistical banking perspective, what is the simplest way to structure this arrangement? Are there third-party companies or escrow agents that specialise in this?

I'm not interested in a joint or cosigned deposit account. This needs to be reasonably arms-length in that sense at least.

My initial thought was to set up a separate deposit account for expenses and have him wire/ACH the $50k into it, and at the end of the month I have to return the $50k to him + interest. But then it's not really revolving; I have to pay in way interest on the full $50k because he's out $50k in cash, even if I only need, say, $35k that month. That cuts out a key premise of this instrument. And besides, we get eaten alive by transaction fees (even ACH) sending all this back and forth all the time, even if he agrees to keep the principal deposited and only be disbursed the interest.

What's a better way? Can the investor just walk into the bank, hand them $50k and have them issue me a credit line and intermediate it? Can he just guarantee a retail credit line product as a cosigner and be paid (by me) some extra interest on top of what the bank charges? Both of us would rather avoid that approach because the bank would want too much interest; it's best that he make the money and that this be a peer-to-peer credit line in the truest sense. I understand that some transaction fees are involved no matter how it's done; if it's going to be electronically managed, someone's going to get their cut. But I don't want it to be a 5-15% APR cut.

If you have any particularly ingenious tips on how to structure this, feedback is much-appreciated. As you can probably guess, I have operated entirely bootstrapped, from cash and have no experience with the mechanics of acquiring external capitalisation of any kind, however hypothetical.

I'm considering asking someone for such a thing, but before I do that I'd like to know how it is actually done from a pedestrian angle.
It's bizarre that they mention EA Canada for Vancouver yet don't mention that Montreal, due to Quebec's very significant tax incentives, is where all the new traditional games studios are being created. EA made a Bioware satellite studio out there, THQ is opening up a huge 400 man studio, and Warner Bros is doing a studio there too. Vancouver in contrast has shrunk with EA Blackbox collapsing and being absorbed into EA Canada, and Radical downsizing into a one team studio. EA Canada itself has had rounds of layoffs.

Now that's not to say that things are all bad for Vancouver. Many traditional games studios have disappeared but smaller studios have appeared in their place. Xbox Live focused studios such as Klei and Hothead for example. Microsoft bought Big Park and they're creating casual Kinect titles. Finally, Vancouver still has their digital effects industry with Sony Imageworks and Pixar opening up studios.

Aside from traditional console games I just noticed a few days ago that EA is opening up a Playfish studio in Montreal so that's another point for the Montreal column.
Are We Entering the Dark Ages of Mobile Apps?
Not sure I follow.

Since sites opt in to Chrome Frame using the same X-UA-Compatible mechanism Microsoft introduced for IE7/8 emulation, it shouldn’t be breaking anything — even (especially!) “legacy/vertical applications.”

Added: Heck, why not one targeted toward IT admins, too :)
...and likewise for those who accessed the site(s) after the suit was filed.
With phones screen sizes are all fairly similar, 3.5 - 4.? inch screens and developers accommodate for these screen sizes. Tablet's are different, an iPad app is designed to fit that screen real estate and features of that device.

If Apple released their own open OS they wouldn't be able to develop in the way they do. Not that they would but hypothetically.

iMovie for iPad: Editing and viewing video is designed for their custom screen resolution and if Apple made a 16:9 device or allowed the OS to run on many devices they'd need to make a version which fits with many screen sizes meaning they'd skimp on UX and try and make a satisfactory experience on as many devices as possible.

Android devs will have to constantly think about 7", 10" and other sized tablets and if their app will work well on each. Other wise buttons, specific features and controls won't work well with smaller screens.

This won't kill but slow their inovation, Android needs more specs to be developed to how one of these apps should look and feel on multiple resolutions. "This is what an Android tablet app looks like".
BlackBerry Maker RIM To Build Cheaper Phones
Using BugMeNot on NYT's site tends to be a game of "Nope, they've blocked that username/password ... and that one ... and that one", at least for me. Simply not reading NYT articles tends to appreciably reduce the frustration in my life.

The linked page shows the "best" of their available logins having a 55% success rate, the next at 52%, and everything else at 50% or below, as of the time of this post.
That explains why my server OCZ Vertex SSD died yesterday after 1 year of use... I'm eyeing a Corsair now but still kind of weary of SSDs now.
Some of the least technically inclined people I know massively prefer Chrome to Internet Explorer. Chrome has a noticeable speed advantage, nags less and within an hours casual use it has their favorite sites one click away when they open the browser. These are all noticeable improvements, even to users who couldn't care less about web standards.
Can you post an audio sample of this? I'd love to hear it.
I've was mostly a web guy, riding the internet from '94 until about '06 when I started to get into more serious stuff...up until that point it was C, Perl, Java etc , but it was mostly pushing business data around, which is what I think 90% of all commercial programming is these days (so don't knock it...it pays the bills).

In '06 I joined a startup and we needed to scale. I hadn't had experience with this stuff and neither did most people on my team...so here is what we did.

* Try new things, but basically find out what most people are doing that have already gone down this path (stand on shoulders of giants, as someone mentioned)

* Read, read, more reading...talking to other devs...network...DO NOT REINVENT SOMETHING (I also call this the Kiss of Death). Unless you are Google, Amazon or Facebook, use off the shelf if you can.

* Use technologies that will work for your problem. We chose Erlang for ours b/c it of what we were doing. Something like Java would have worked, but would have made the job 10x harder. C would have been ideal, but we would have to reinvent nearly all of Erlang, so just choose Erlang.

* LEARN about things like good architecture design, SOA and failure (when a system goes down, what happens...).

*Invest in a good test suite or test infrastructure, but realize that it will be nearly impossible to test at scale.

During that time I felt like I was constantly reading every paper I could find, blog on scaling and back-end systems and talking to every dev or had ever done it. It was work, but not the type normally associated w/ dev....but was 100% worth it.
Those “web” apps are then already broken, by definition.
Not too scary when you're funded by YC and Sequoia
Holy crap. 3000$ for a redesign could pay me a penthouse here at Buenos Aires.
I thought the title was talking about a meaningful glance between Jobs and Zuckerberg - not their dress sense!
Your HN profile says that you have a high karma and a high average comment score. This implies you know the culture of the site quite well. It would be really nice if you tried to uphold the quality of conversation by avoiding personal attacks.
That's true, the blog is mostly about web design so I was thinking about web development when I wrote the post.
Is this just a move because they don't want to support it or is there another motive in shutting this?
It's a good PR move for MS, and one that will hopefully help them in their apparent goal to win devs back over. More importantly, for some random stumbling across the site, a prominent statement that this is MS's idea would be more likely to get them to upgrade than if it appeared to be some random site. The IE8 bit is highly unfortunate, though.
+1 for good backups

My strategy from now on is to to mirror the SSD to a traditional HDD. That way, in the case of a SSD failure, we can accept the performance hit and still be able to run smoothly from the platter.
Only time I'm satisfied with the 'nature intended us to' argument is some combination of walking/running. The way a good, smooth runner's body flows when they hit a fast jog screams to me "my skeletal and muscular structure was built for this!" Otherwise, yeah, as best I can tell adaptability is our only real designed-in-feature.

We're not as fast as most animals out there, but I don't think that means we didn't run a lot in prehistory.
The docs page has been updated to note that the listed pricing is per app, so it will always be free to run single-instance apps. Thanks for the feedback.
AIUI, showing it to the neighborhood is okay; it's charging admission that's verboten.
I was forced to use a 1024x768 screen during an internship and it was nearly impossible to put two windows next to each other. I always – always – have two windows next to each other on my 15" 1440 pixel wide screen but I was using all the programs in fullscreen mode on the 1024 pixel wide screen.

That’s the pixels but I think that even more pixels won’t help much. The screen size stays the same on those tablet devices and fingers don’t get any smaller. You might well be able to put a bit more text on the screen but not much else. It’s a challenge.

Easier application switching – lowering the cognitive cost of switching applications (something like the mindless alt-tab that saved me on the 1024 pixel wide screen) – can certainly be a first step in making tablets better. It’s not quite as good as simply moving your eyes to a different part of the screen but it’s certainly possible to at least improve the tedious switching process. I think that gestures are perfect for this.
It's not really a question of talent you know. It would be like a designer saying they can't understand an if/else statement because they have no "talent" for coding.

Painting the Mona Lisa takes talent, but designing a log-in form does not. Like coding, design is about following simple rules. It's just that those rules are less obvious.
You are a bad translator and your attitude is perplexing. RH is conforming 100% to the GPL.
They stopped services for their web search api and web search ajax api - so there's really no way of doing this anymore unless you scrape the results pages - which will probably get shut down sooner or later.
"for the rest a brute-force search could be done..."

Huhwhat? Brute force: A + B + C = D, where D and A are known.
I remember writing a bit of assembler in A86 shareware on an 8086 machine with 640k RAM, 20Gb disk. One day I discovered it had a Hercules graphics card. Another day I found a book on TSR programs. Later came turbo C & turbo pascal, which I appreciated all the more after some lower level experimenting.

What I do find remarkable is that you started a company by 22... I would have loved to have done that but maybe just didn't believe it was possible at the time.

Am enjoying reading HandBook Freemium.
The story was impressive, more so because you have high credibility in HN community. But inspiring? perhaps. I'm your usual hoi polloi tech support/sysad worker, it took me ages to to get comfortable in programming. To hear someone learn and did the things you did as young man was more of a case of an exceptional programmer narrative against all odds. Perhaps if you glossed over the age-factored accomplishment (it did jumped out at you) it would been more accessible and more life-lesson like, and the hard work you've put in would have been more pronounced. As it is, your life story was impressive and you were exceptional.

Great post and more power!
Thanks, I think this its going to be my weekend. Between this book and fmw's mention of the intuitive syntax, I think Python might be the way to go.
You know, with the new thunderbolt tech, maybe one day we can see the iPad complimented with an Apple display, using it like a drawing tablet or an extra screen as well.

I don't know how practical or good of an idea this is, but if it has any merit I'm sure someone more sober than I can put it eloquently.
Messrs Jobs and Zuckerberg were sitting to either side of President Obama at that February 17 dinner [1]. They very well could have exchanged a meaningful glance, perhaps in response to something the President had said!

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5455525432/
wtf i got this through google reader and i was shocked that some people pushed the "like it" button!
Wow! I know I've seen things like that in the past.
Can you use it with multiple monitors?
I don't disagree, but in a world where so many startups are reliant on just one API/platform (startups making Twitter clients, Facebook apps, and even iOS apps to some extent), Greplin seems to be relatively safe.
Fabric is turning out to be really nice.

There are some new features that are should be merged into the project provided from here: http://tav.espians.com/fabric-python-with-cleaner-api-and-pa...
Your government isn't just tasked with defending the people, but also with acting on their behalf; given this, the persons that form the corporate entity Sony are not absolved of personal responsibility and subject to criticism.

The government may be allowing them to do this, but it isn't making them do it.
90th percentile?

Maybe ~99th.

The author has been developing software for 20 years. He is likely a fine applicant for a significant number of software dev positions, since he can learn and apply many different technologies very quickly, from what he has said. And also, from what he has said... he doesn't come close to what you described.

I've been developing software professionally for five years. I've been programming C/C++ for 10. (I'm 23; my passion has been for gamedev.) And I don't come close to what you described.

If I devoted myself to learning what you just described, I could probably achieve a thorough understanding (deep knowledge, an important distinction from superficial knowledge) inside a month. But at the end of that, it seems doubtful I'd be much closer to accomplishing the author's stated goal... I would only know two essentially random cornercases.

All of that said, thank you (and SpikeGronim) for mentioning Lamport timestamps; time to go a-wikipedia'n.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps
Which, depending on how cynical you are, might be the point.
Beautiful execution. Gorgeous really.

Would like to see pricing. Don't be shy about it, dude. This is valuable service you're offering with a barrier of entry about as high as placing a LIKE button on one's page.

I experienced a bug with the demo. When I entered the first letter of the verification code it said "message recording". Subsequent tries didn't work either.
Actually, the UK allows people of any nationality to enter the country for up to 24 hours for transit, including travel between airports, as long as you have evidence of your connecting flight and a visa for the country of your destination:

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/inf20transit#23...

Even though they say that entry is "at the Immigration Officer’s discretion and there is no guaranteed right of entry", I've used this concession twice (I'm a citizen of Armenia) with no problems, and have never heard of anyone being refused entry.

The first time I used the concession was when I was flying NYC -> Heathrow (arriving at 2am), followed by Gatwick -> Prague (departing at 10pm). Not only did this allow me to take advantage of a cheap EasyJet fare, but I managed to fit in a full day of sightseeing in London into the 24 hour allowance.
This makes no sense. Both Firefox and Chrome are faster than IE6 on identical hardware.
Have your businesses been successful? Either way, hats off to you!
I have the very same app 80% complete. I haven't launched it because of all the caveats with international numbers. It's hard to try to sell this to web stores and the like that take orders from around the world if I can't support half their customers' numbers.