skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's misconstruing what happened with Mini and Nano iPods. At introduction the iPod Mini only cost $50 less than the full-size $400 iPod, with less storage, and it was perceived as a pricing misstep until they sold a jillion of them. People couldn't get their heads around the idea that Apple wasn't selling a cheaper device, they were selling a smaller device. Some people still can't.

This lesson is not applicable to Apple's current crop of devices, because introducing a new screen size would throw a huge monkeywrench into app development. Anybody blithely asserting that Apple might do it to save a few cents on production has a credibility problem.

So, this post boils down to an assertion that Apple could allow manufacturing prices to dictate the size of a device, even though changing the size would have dire effects on its usability and market acceptance. Does that sound like Apple to you?
This is also relevant: Fears of the Super Rich: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-f...
Chrome Will Get Smartphone App Screens
http://answerin30.com/ in private beta right now.
I am pretty much doing the same thing, and I've found good success using Ruby Koans, Rails for Zombies and then Rails Tutorial as dustinchilson points out.

The order helped me out though. I started with Ruby Koans which taught me the fundamentals of Ruby and let me make a program or two without needing to setup a dev computer...it's an easy way to just get a feel for programming and learn about why Ruby works in the way it does.

http://rubykoans.com/

Next I moved onto Rails for Zombies. This was a great, great site because again you could learn the fundamentals of rails with a lot of tutorial help in a completely online browser based environment.

It really helps you get the basics of creating a typical application and it's fun too.

http://railsforzombies.org

And finally, I moved on to Rails Tutorial which is amazing because you actually learn how to setup your computer to program and deploy code (which I think is harder than writing it at the moment)!

It goes from zero to deploy and you write a similar app as the one you will see in Rails for Zombies, but this time from complete scratch. Which is an amazing lesson that I can't stress enough.

http://ruby.railstutorial.org

My recommendation is in that order because it allows for quick wins, overall understanding (I get MVC now!), and a meaty project that you can feel proud of at the end.

It's grueling at times to learn, but well worth it. Good luck and try to stay dedicated and focused. (I've been wavering a bit, but I'll figure it out).
The market will decide. The market is the final judge on all decisions. Sometimes it takes a little longer for the dust to settle, but if a decision ended up being a bad decision then either change or get owned for it.
If you are in the UK you should complain to the ICO:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/data_protection.aspx
If you have a major deal in the works, be very careful about cutting him out without letting him know. There are all kinds of rules about disclosures and negotiating in "good faith". Talk with an attorney on that one because even if he couldn't "win" by challenging the situation afterwards, he might be able to make you lose.

If he's really not doing anything though, document the hell out of it and go to him with it. Lay out the case and ask him to fill in the blanks that explain his behavior. Unless he has some compelling data & reasons to back up his point, execute your plan to cut him loose.

If he has tangibly failed in his responsibilities to the point of hurting the company, "a few points" is probably too much. Buying him out might be a better option. If he's just been annoying or a pain in the ass, that might not be enough. Once again, talk to an attorney.

What do your agreements say? If you're in the US, check out SCORE.org. It's mostly retired professionals consulting on small business.
So, I'm working on a web design tool called jMockups and one of the routes I'm considering taking is focusing on the ability to export your designs to HTML/CSS. You could then visually design your site from scratch or start with a template that we provide. Either way, when you're done you click Export and it produces all your HTML and CSS.

Since this is very much on-topic, how do you all feel about the idea? Would you use a WYSIWYG web design tool? And if not, why not?
If an apple is not good for you, what is?
No, no, I meant he's not worth keeping as a partner, not you!
I use this guy, simple flat $500 per page, if you have 10 pages he'll probably cut you a deal, especially if you pay upfront, or if the other pages are simple variations of the original.

http://highendcustomlayouts.com/images/thumbnails.php?album=...
The description makes me think I'm trying too hard at this stuff. What does an investor think when they see words assembled in this way?

I'm not bagging on this guy specifically, but this article/description is below-average writing even for a high-school dropout. I'm not trying to quibble on semantics or be a grammar-nazi, though I'm sure I'm doing both, but it's long, vague, jumpy, and plain hard to read.
Thanks for posting this - I think regardless of market rate you've identified a key problem in the hiring industry, especially in software. The incentives for recruitment agencies/headhunters to do ridiculously shady things like copy your ad and then sell you candidates (without even necessarily telling you they promised the candidates more money) are high because companies feel so lost in the hiring process, sometimes they are willing to pay. And they usually get burned/waste a lot more time and money (in my experience).

Good for you for calling them out when they're clearly not providing a respectable service to you OR the jobseeker.
Derek Smith on the Myth of the Magical Teacher
"Since every value in a dynamic language is classified in this manner, what we are doing is agglomerating all of the values of the language into a single, gigantic (perhaps even extensible) type."

Yes, that's right, but you're overlooking the upside of doing things this way. What this gives us is the ability to define new types -- to extend the universal type, if you want to put it that way -- at runtime. No longer do we need this strict separation between compilation time and runtime; no longer do we need the compiler to bless the entire program as being type-correct before we can run any of it. This is what gives us incremental compilation, which (as I just argued elsewhere, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345424) is a wonderful thing for productivity.

"[...] you are depriving yourself of the ability to state and enforce the invariant that the value at a particular program point must be an integer."

This is just false. Common Lisp implementations of the CMUCL family interpret type declarations as assertions, and under some circumstances will warn at compile time when they can't be shown to hold. Granted, not every CL implementation does this, and the ones that do don't necessarily do it as well as one would like; plus, the type system is very simple (no parametric polymorphism). Nonetheless, we have an existence proof that it's possible at least some of the time (of course, it's uncomputable in general).

"[...] you are imposing a serious bit of run-time overhead to represent the class itself (a tag of some sort) and to check and remove and apply the class tag on the value each time it is used."

For many kinds of programming, the price -- which is not as high as you suggest, anyway -- is well worth paying.

In particular, dynamicity is necessary whenever data live longer than the code manipulating them. If you want to be able to change the program arbitrarily while not losing the data you're working with, you need dynamicity. In dynamic languages, the data can remain live in the program's address space while you modify and recompile the code. With static languages, what you have to do is write the data into files, change your program, and read them back in. Ah, but when you read them in, you have to check that their contents are of the correct type: you've pushed the dynamicity to the edges of your program, but it's still there.

For this reason, database systems -- the prototypical case of long-lived data -- have to be dynamic environments, in which types (relational schemata, e.g.) can be modified without destroying the existing data.

So to argue -- rather arrogantly, I might add -- that dynamic languages are really static languages is to overlook an operational difference that is a commonplace to anyone who uses both.
Bypass Activation Screen Android Incredible
My go-to JSON viewer: http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/
Trying to build the next Facebook is a great thing. Declaring "I'm gonna build the next Facebook! It's gonna have millions of users!" and then abandoning your project after a month is a bad thing. Saying "I'm going to try to build the next Facebook" is an acceptable thing.
What Digg Was Really Like at Its Peak
Your salary is absurdly ridiculously pathetically low given the things you were asking for. It almost seems like a joke or onion article. That's obviously why you had a problem and all the rest of the insights you are having about this don't really count since the ad would not be considered serious by any qualified candidate. Sorry.
Ah, good point about the lack of trim in OS X. The Sandforce controller would indeed be a better fit there.
I would say a Senior iPhone Dev in London would be £60k+ but since the number of com's who need ObjC is pretty small (even though London has a lot of Mobile dev's) then I wouldn't be surprised if it topped-out at £50k.
In London, a £75k job is very well paid, even in finance, therefore a £100k job (I assume you meant $160k) is getting into higher-management or Contractor territory, not Senior Dev.
Generally FPGAs aren't used, but there's nothing stopping you from going from HDL to an ASIC.
According to this (pretty amazing) UCSB lecture:

http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/bmonreal11/rm/fl...

... fear and lack of communication did grave damage at Chernobyl as well. For example: because the authorities could not get their stories straight, they were unable to advise local farmers to dispose of contaminated cow's milk,w which may have been the vector that dispersed the majority of the radioactive iodine to children in the affected area; elevated thyroid cancer among children is one of the clearly indicated aftereffects of that disaster.

Fear may be rampant in Japan right now (who could blame them?) but my understanding is that they are, for the most part, doing everything right: monitoring mSv exposures, watching the food and water supply, liberally evacuating the surrounding areas. This stuff sounds simple but is almost literally the laundry list of things the Chernobyl authorities did wrong.
I am in sales and honestly, the most use I have had is researching (cyber-stalking) names for making sales prospecting lists.
the poll should weigh answer count with karmas, as, for example, nobody cares that I didn't apply because nobody knows me :)
Das Capitalist (review of new biography of Adam Smith)
No, better words would be: "Putting passwords in php file under doc root, why not keep it outside doc root?"
Money has a sort of Maslovian pyramid: Survival, Leisure, Comfort, Status, then Power. Most middle-class Americans are in the second level (Leisure) while the Koch brothers' ambitions exemplify the fifth (Power). Most upper-class people are in the fourth (Status). A lot of people think they'll "get off" at the Comfort level, but few people do.

The Survival level is met when one's basic needs are met. This doesn't mean the risk of insulting inconveniences (such as having to move under adverse conditions) go away, but one isn't at risk of starvation or homelessness once it is achieved. Leisure is the level of most middle-class people: buying TVs, going on longer and nicer vacations. Comfort is having cleaning services and getting to fly business or first class when traveling: essentially having a life with as few annoyances as possible.

Most normal, man-on-the-street types will admit they want to be rich enough to max out the Comfort level, while frowning upon those who care about Status and Power. The problem is that one doesn't max out the Comfort level until over $500,000 per year. Most people think they'd be happy to "get off" at that point, but it's really hard to keep that kind of income, steadily, unless either (1) you have $30 million net worth or so, and most people at that point feel like they're entitled to more than a lower-upper-income lifestyle, or (2) more commonly, you get some sort of job paying that much income. You simply don't get the latter unless you convince people that you're "special". This is what draws rich people into the idiotic status obsessions-- the need to socially climb in order to continually prove themselves to be worth those kinds of salaries and favors-- and that game is pretty much never-ending. It's gambling: spending money in ways that seem ludicrous on high-end art, real estate, club memberships, and alcoholic beverages simply because they are exclusive and expensive in the hope of improving one's social status and, therefore, future income. As with any gamble, some people lose everything. Rich people are no exception.
I think this is a Federal Crime in the US. If he was an idiot and actually disclosed his details, they can find him and actually extradite him from Australia for this.... not a lawyer but wow, but he did not think this one through
Warfighting by the US Marine Corp is actually a very great book for entrepreneurs to read: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/mcdp1.pdf
Indeed, that's the range you get if you include PHP devs and corporate IT folk. For specialist iPhone devs who are provably good at what they do, however, $150/hr is a pretty good starting point, and there are plenty of companies willing to pay more than that.

With that in mind, I don't imagine you'd find many good devs with solid iPhone experience willing to work for less than $75/hr, which coincidentally translates to about $165k/year.

Incidentally, if you're a company looking to put out an iPhone app, you absolutely should seek out a guy who's good enough to demand $150/hr. Given the esoteric nature of the platform, you'll probably find you save money in the long run going with a guy who doesn't need to train himself up on your dime. He might be 4x as expensive, but he's probably also >4x as fast.
I also use Linode, the London data centre. Very happy too.
thanks for this. I think I just saved myself several thousand dollars. Some of those themes are as good as anything on dribbble or sortfolio.

Looks like off-the-shelf + customisation is the way to go. Thanks everyone!
I don't get why "seek advice" is the generic end point. Surely "have traction -> know how to get more users -> not seeking investment" shouldn't result in "seek advice".
I get the feeling if Motorola could have got their price down, the iPad 2 would be cheaper. Motorola just doesn't have the ability anymore to be price competitive with Apple. I would guess HP could and Samsung should (although they haven't shown it).
Google is really doing this to get people to put this in silicon for consumer devices. VHDL/Verilog aren't tied to FPGAs at all - they work equally well for custom silicon.

FPGAs aren't appropriate for high volume - they cost far too much per unit. (Silicon has massive upfront cost, but very little per unit cost.) FPGAs are useful in low volume applications and places where the hardware may need to be modified.

Cell towers were (are?) big users of them because 1) cell specs were changing frequently and the FPGA behavior could be modified and 2) there weren't enough cell towers to make the front loaded cost of silicon worth it.
AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion
I think the phrase is quite apt if you remove the "successful" qualifier. Most likely this was just an oversight in his writing.

"Imagine record labels staffed with nothing but the people from bands, using their money to give other artists a faster way to the top."

This actually resonates with me deeply, as the record label I just launched (http://tableandchairsmusic.com) is staffed with 14 out of 14 artists, and we re-invest 100% of the money we make back into helping our artists grow. I wouldn't say we're successful yet, since we just launched last Saturday, but we are in extreme support of innovation :)
And then there were three...
Yes, but we are not discussing copyright, and I'm not making a case either against or for DRM. DRM is just a technical means used to prevent someone from making a copy, or use something in a manner not intended.

My only point is, that neither the tea party, french revolution or the peoples uprise in Egypt tells us anything about the dos and don'ts related to breaking DRM protection mechanisms. Never mind.

BTW, logic can't prove the truth of your first premise. But given the premise you can draw logical conclusions that follows from the premise by necessity.
Of course they're welcome! That's why yours is the first response!
To add to bonzoesc, who likes their product getting hacked? It's a business and they're trying to make money. The business plans on these high profile products with years of dev time are made years in advance. In technology, that's a lifetime, and in hardware doing pivots isn't trivial.

There's also very real concerns regarding hacking - i.e. you want to avoid getting the rep for being that company responsible (think Sidekick) for the Paris Hilton situation, where all of hollywood's A-list celebrities phone numbers get leaked onto the internet. You're trying to build a secure device.

The business motivations are obvious. Apple builds a good closed system. Google builds a janky open system. Both models work, neither is right or wrong, and both companys go to the bank.

And just to put things into perspective, there was no App Store when Apple launched the iphone. I'm pretty sure they never intended for there to be, but once they saw what people were coming up with 'off the ranch' it became fairly obvious to them to let developers develop on their platform. The reason I'm fairly certain Apple had no initial plans for this is simply because, on the version of the first public firmware (and only the first one), everything ran as root user... that's just idiotic.
But this whole concept of recharging energy sounds pretty unscientific to start with, unless you're talking about sleep and digestion. Although interestingly I did see an experiment once that showed introverted people salivated significantly more than extroverted people, while carrying out a group task (licking envelopes).
A Geometric Theory of Everything
I don't think this is fair. MetroPCS has their own towers and is a pretty robust national carrier. Leap/Cricket also has a pretty broad footprint.
As someone who's signed to a record label (Victory Records) and has talked with many other bands about their experiences with their record labels, I'd have to say that this post is mostly true in the sense that VCs and record labels are comparable... but it's way over-generalized.

There are some record labels out there who really do care about their artists and do everything they can to help without tossing moral and ethical standards out the window. I know this for a fact. As for Victory, if you know about the label, well... they're not exactly known for their kindness and would probably fall into the blog entry's generalization, but I believe they are getting better about it.

It isn't nearly as black and white as Jacques is making it seem.
8 Startup Founder Qualities You Cannot Fake
SSD stuff is on the horizon. Their site is not very descriptive but SolidFire is doing some impressive stuff: http://www.solidfire.com/ - from the founder of JungleDisk
AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom
Oh crap. There goes my unlimited tethering.
> I get such "would you like to explore" letters twice a week too; and I turn them down also.

Yep. If you don't currently get them and want them, post on some FOSS-related mailing lists. Like magic, you'll get dozens!

A third-party Google recruiter courted me because of my, quote, "reputation in the Python community" after a single message to python-list.
Your 'friend' seems to imply that the favor of being your 'friend' is so difficult that he deserves monetary compensation. Perhaps you should relieve him of the tremendous hardship you have so obviously imposed upon him.
From Friday's HN post "Confessions of an Apple Store Employee":

"We usually have to tell them that if they unlock their iPhone, it won't work. That
it's going to be like a $700 paperweight, and that the antenna will fry itself
on T-Mobile. Of course, that's not true, but that's what we tell them."

Wonder how quickly their tune on that last part will change..
Wow, oversimplify much? I happen to much more on the extrovert side of the spectrum and while, yes, people do sometimes talk about themselves at social gatherings many of us, myself included, also make an effort to hold an actual back-and-forth conversation. It's unfortunate that your experiences have been so negative but don't classify all people based on that.

Though let me just say that:

"this advice is sabotage, created by extroverts to make introverts easier to spot so the E's don't have to spend as much time trying to engage us and can just move on"

Sounds like "Toot, toot, all aboard the crazy train!" to me.
In The Race For More Spectrum, AT&T Is Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion
Exactly. This whole thing got blown WAY out of proportion.
I really like the pay as you go idea. I guess that is agile design outsourcing? I used to attend the graduation portfolio shows at the Art Institute (of Houston, it's a chain), looking for designers that I might work with for web sites. It was depressing for the following reason: On one floor were the graphics arts people, with a stunning visual sense, expressed in physical things like little products, books, magazines, posters, typography, etc., etc. On the other floor were the multimedia designers, whose program required them to do something in every type of techie design there is: Flash, InDesign, videos, web sites, etc., etc. I didn't see the well developed visual sense in the multimedia work, and I'd ask the graphics arts people if they did web sites: "Oh yeah, I did one once." When will these schools wake up and pair the visual sense with the techie in one student? Maybe they should have students work as a team, one techie and one visual. If they could develop these skills sets in one student, we'd see designs like those in CSS Zen Garden.

By the way, what designers have you worked with in Houston? (contact info in my profile)