skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's less than 3 cents per day; not a huge cost, especially if you're using it for work.

If you use it for work, I'd expect you have a (paid) developer account, therefore you got it for free.

Professionals using Xcode for work are by far the least likely to need to pay for Xcode 4. Hobbyists or free-software developers, on the other hand...
The alternative to a shanty town is not a safe, well built suburb. It's homelessness or at least deeper poverty (pay more for housing = pay less for food).

You get shanty towns when people are too poor to afford anything else. People don't live in a shithole just for kicks, they do it because they have no choice. We shouldn't pretend this tradeoff doesn't exist.
Winter 2010, taught by Paul Hegarty, is the best introduction I've found. I have some books, I've watched some Apple videos, but I was still confused. Mr. Hegarty really explains things the right way. Highly recommended.
Massive Japan Quake: First Photos
If you go with your first model, you are creating more a lottery.

The second model ties payment to the more valuable reward of an actual match. It might not happen that often but if you go with this model, you are betting that your app will work and provide value to your users. This is an actual service and the route I believe you should take.
This would look great on a YC application :-p
You're looking at this from the wrong angle. A DM sent to girlgeeks will be delivered to girlgeeks, exactly as the sender specified... much in the same way that a postal carrier will deliver private snail mail to a street address even if the intended recipient has already moved. Unlike snail mail where you can address a specific individual by name (thus making it illegal for someone else to open it) Twitter is the equivalent of "Dear Occupant" and whoever is at that address can open it.
It also means apps don't receive as many redraw events. It's interesting how priorities have inverted over the years: when windowed systems were first developed, RAM was in short supply, so not storing invisible pixels was an important optimisation, as was avoiding updates to pixels that hadn't changed, as blitting involved the CPU and was super slow. Nowadays, RAM is plentiful and blitting is essentially free, so we try to keep the number of updates (which wake up the CPU and consume cycles and therefore [battery] power) to a minimum.
> Are you denying, then, that there are a whole class of applications that are possible on Android that aren't on iOS?

No, why would I do that? I only pointed out that your example was stupid and was not an example of what you asserted.

> yeah, the Android ecosystem is awesome.

I guess, if direct IP theft is awesome.
> but outside of the geek-culture you are not going to find a lot of people where this is acceptable

I would say the opposite, most non-geek people I know consider computers to be useless without an internet connection, geeks can always open a terminal and do some hacking though.
What I heard is that they dropped the price of XP significantly, but not below 0. I'm having a lot of trouble believing that Microsoft would sell Windows at a loss.
You can expect fairness. You can be disappointed when you don't get it. You shouldn't be surprised when you don't get it.
Mono does give you the ability to run C# code everywhere. So, correct, it's not the language itself that's preventing you to write C# once, run everywhere. Perhaps you understood where I was going in the first place?

Anyway, people choose Java because they can write once and deploy everywhere. If you write in the C# .Net ecosystem on Windows, it won't run everywhere, which is fine if Windows is your only target.
My contracting business was legally formed once I already had a client on the cards.

On the other hand, for a start-up, I'd go more for the order in the article, with the huge caveat that any idea I considered ready to build into a business was probably already supported by at least a significant amount of asking around and collecting opinions, even if no-one had yet committed to becoming a paying customer.
Ritchie's anti-forward is the best:

I have succumbed to the temptation you offered in your preface: I do write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memories. The systems you remember so fondly (TOPS-20, ITS, Multics, Lisp Machine, Cedar/Mesa, the Dorado) are not just out to pasture, they are fertilizing it from below.

Your judgments are not keen, they are intoxicated by metaphor. In the Preface you suffer first from heat, lice, and malnourishment, then become prisoners in a Gulag. In Chapter 1 you are in turn infected by a virus, racked by drug addiction, and addled by puffiness of the genome.

...

You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in whining.

Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
Amen to that! It's creating a killer app, by coding, which makes an app worthwhile enough where marketing and promotion almost become moot. I'm currently trying to update my own app after outsourcing most of the code. It's good, but I need other things that people want to talk about. That's what separates apps that sell, and those who don't.
I don't understand where you're going, no. I write C# on Windows and deploy to Linux and Mac pretty regularly. I know someone who writes C# on Windows and deploys to Arduino.

C# seems to be roughly as portable as Java does to me these days. I'm sure I could be wrong, which is why I'm asking which places you can run Java that you can't run C#. Yes, you can write non-portable C# code, but you can write non-portable code in every language.
I would think that the PS3 supports more than just ES, as Unigine has been offering their engine for use on the console, and their benchmarks using said engine use the latest OpenGL 4 features like HW tesselation (http://unigine.com).
Good grief I hope you never do this. Do NOT use a port > 1023 for anything that should run as root. If you do, and your machine gets compromised, any unprivileged user could start an ssh daemon, you might think, oh, why is the key different, accept it, and they've keylogged your login attempt.
This is a pretty common problem across the spectrum of scientific publishing. The best way to solve this is to dissolve groups like the ACM and make all scientific published facts, notes, journals, etc the legal property of those who founded the research.

In the mean time, the best way to stop this nonsense is to refuse to cite papers from publishers who won't give authors the right to publish their papers outside of their systems and who charge people to access their systems.
I dont have a nytimes account.

not even readability can save me here.
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Also, people might dig it if you could filter out family members from the list of people to pick from.
For SSH break-in attempts an easier solution would be to use a random (at least alpha numeric) userid. These dictionary based attacks only use standard, most generic login ids.
I actually took pictures of the first people in line, waiting outside of NYC's 24hr Apple store last night - one of our rainiest nights of the year! You can check some of the pics out on my flickr page. #candyspan
Decent building codes don't necessarily stop economic growth. Housing is slightly more expensive and it takes more capital to build, but its really not 2 or 10x the price of an unsafe home. Heck, some safer designs are cheaper than unsafe designs.

I don't really buy the "safety is cost prohibitive" argument much. Modern societies have no problem absorbing the cost. Not to mention the cost of post-earthquake cleanup is less.
We should be looking at ways to decrease autism rates.
Are you offering?
I created a free test server on Windows Azure a few weeks ago with remote desktop access enabled and had failed login attempts within 2 minutes of the server going live, without publishing the ip address or dns name anywhere.
Are We Heading Back To The Days Of Yellow Journalism In The Tweet Stream?
That's been my impression as well. X11 as is works perfectly fine for me. Or I should say it did until they started that XCB nonsense. Now some of my apps no longer work.
Acoustic Levitation: Scientists Use Sound Make Objects Levitate
I don't know what the story is exactly (I quit my job at a major UK developer shortly before I was supposed to start working on a PS3 project) but there are some details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSGL

Since RSX is rumoured to not be that powerful, I suspect Unigine might be doing the tesselation on the Cell's SPUs.
bugmenot.com can probably help.

Or you can just sign up; it's free.
As far as I can tell, there shouldn't be any problem using X as a Wayland Client to do your network transparency unless your remote window needs direct graphics acceleration. Its possible that in the long run some programs won't work with X, but I also expect Wayland to get network transparency in the long run.

EDIT: After looking at the Wayland mailing list, it seems there are already people hard at work getting network transparency in. So we can probably expect it in the medium run rather than the long run.
Compare two workforce management apps and one integrated suite
He's also on record to have said...

http://www.youknowwhatscool.com/
Hopskoch, A Photo Challenge App That Changes Every Day
JS? 300 http codes cause a redirection without any JS whatsoever.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
Now imagine a neurotypical person reading this comment. What do you think they'd say?
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy; like self-confidence. If you have no confidence, you're more likely to screw up. By simply having more confidence in oneself, one is more likely to do better, and reinforce his confidence.
I'll have to take a look. Which UI toolkit do you recommend?

http://www.mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits
Biggest Earthquakes In History
Twitter, Facebook vital as Japan cell networks jam
I'm surprised there is no corresponding "Where the boys at?"

This reflects the asymmetry of power distribution in the sexual market brought on by nature's unfair dispensation of vaginas.
Egregious typo alert: "telephone polls" in item #8, referring to the slender, vertical wooden members that keep electric, cable TV and telephone service wires aloft.
Photos of Japan earthquake and tsunami: The moment nature engulfed a nation
Then again, a bird in the hand...

Another approach would have been to auction the spot, thus guaranteeing* a $900 minimum and also opening it up to competitive bids.

* enforceability with strangers on a street in NY notwithstanding
Who gave Crowdsourcing a Bad Name?
I never saw a photo of tsunami like this one:
http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3507657.html#cutid1
Which is why this great gem was created: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/05/what-time-superbowl...

Don't create SEO-ified crap and pretend that it doesn't get in the way of great journalism. Jeez.
Ive never understood how people could want something so bad to wait in line like that. I really don't get it.
Yes, it just seems apparent to me (like an earlier commenter grouk said) that the underlying point of the article and the discussion around it appears to be about competing ideas of libertarian vs. interventionist market principles. I was asking my last question to see who agreed. I guess not too many people, or I was unclear with my question. (edit) And I was frustrated with the implication made that a person who may think this is a conspiracy theorist that finds hidden meanings in every New York Times article.
It is a bit similar, but I guess its not as open, more restricted.
How exactly is that not a (false) sense of entitlement?
It certainly appears that as far as these companies are concerned, users are owed nothing and developers are owed nothing. We're just stepping stones on the way to an IPO or exit.

Plenty of micro business owners have found this out the hard way on sites like Etsy or eBay, for instance - they might think that the shop is theirs, and put the URL on their business cards, promote it at craft shows, on their cars, in expensive promotional graphics. All it takes is one idiot admin to close your account, and it's gone (Etsy in particular has notoriously poor practices regarding closing customers accounts, going back for years. There are plenty of of customer service horror stories there. eBay has a long history of NARUing sellers also). I've heard stories about flickr recently, too, deleting accounts - people lose photos, messages, contacts going back years and the company responsible simply doesn't care.

The only thing to do is to have your own domain, own website, use open source software, and know what you're doing technically or be close to someone who does. The only people who can take that away from you is courts or the government. This is also why we need networks that work like Diaspora vs. ones that work like Facebook.
The comment talked a bit about why they chose to stick with OpenGL, but mentions only "inertia". I suspect "we can support Linux and Mac, maybe some mobile platforms too" might also have a bit to do with it.
there are many who would classify some building codes as unnecessary and some as absolutely essential, but for others the difference between the two is just too much to fathom... and as a result of their brains hurting so much, or from ulterior motives, they come up with something completely asinine: remove all regulations, they're too hard, and let's just find out what happens!

turns out, most of the time that's actually too much for everyone else to fathom, frankly.
Xcode 4 hands-on: be sure to RTFM first
Mathematica and Free Software
600 million users can't be wrong? Do you really want every comment you make on every blog ever to be permanently attached to your name ... and searchable by employers, wives, girlfriends, family, the police ...

Ah ... its like that bit in Hitchhikers where they have the cow that slaughters itself.
Shanty downs reduce the incentive to build high quality structures. Basically there is little incentive to build structures out of sink with the property value of the land they occupy. And the value of land is dominated by the value of the infrastructure around it.

You can build a surprisingly nice house for 1,000$ worth of materials, but there is no incentive when you build in the middle of a shanty town.
If we can find ways for men inside the spectrum to hook up with women outside the spectrum, that may help in the long run.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html
Copy the title of the article and paste it into Google. The link from Google will always return the full article.
I bet the NHK has a special team always waiting to report on earthquakes and tsunami warnings. They report on many of the smaller quakes very quickly too.
AngelList for the common man?
Not sure how time spent across borders really matters, but I'm foreign born and have spent years outside the US. I'm currently in Chicago and have driven to Florida, New York, Colorado, Nevada and have gone north and south of the border. I frequently visit relatives that live in rural parts of Iowa and Indiana.

My point still stands, you won't find as large a cultural gap as you would traveling to another country.

> Interestingly enough, I referred to places in the US where English is not the dominant language.

Of course you'll find small populations of foreign speaking people in the US, just as you would in any country but you're missing the point. You can't compare going to Chinatown with actually going to China, that's ridiculous.
Why are we assuming that a tech conference should be anyone's sexual playground, be they male or female? Also, what's up with all the boy-girl, girl-boy heteronormative assumptions?

At the end of the day, all this site did was show me 2 sexist coders (gasp!) who will likely never have enough respect for women to be able to work with any real women in a collaborative or professional setting.
The point is that there is a cost and there a benefit to being a brand.

Being an honest/ordinary provider of an honest/ordinary service is easier. Have a skill, have satisfied customers who'll provide references. There are more people who will succeed doing this than there are people who become brands.

On the other hand, a brand can be a great shortcut to extreme, wild success, the difference between millions and billions. And also being a brand can give a kind of success that is deeply dishonest and unbalancing (as Hollywood, modeling and various other pursues will show).

Steve Jobs also makes the point that a brand is a simple point that evokes strong feelings in people. This allow the people to remember the brand. But by that token, it is inherently impossible for there to be a lot of brands since each brand is simple thing remembered by many people. Thus with millions of people in the world, there just are not going to be many people who are successful at being brands (indeed, the greater unification of the world, it seems there are inherently going to be fewer and fewer brands since any given brand can serve more and more people).

And certainly, someone who successfully becomes a brand takes the simple idea and makes as much as possible "who they are". Yet given that human are complex and varied creatures, it's a onerous task for someone to continuous exemplify any quality, even "excellence". The stories of Steve Jobs screaming at subordinates do not make it sound like the existence of a Steve Jobs would be entirely pleasant despite his wild level of success in not just making money but changing the world. (On the other hand, I am impressed that Google's "don't be evil" seems to have so far stuck as quality they exemplify - seems like something you'd want to look at if you were to be going for a brand).

I personally find a lot of Sebastian's posts here to exemplify a contempt for the less successful. That may be what it takes for him exemplify the relentless drive for success. And exemplifying that might really help him build his brand. I still wouldn't want to be that.
I really like Instapaper, they seem to be executing the problem of taking photos on your mobile device really well. I dont like long upload time, huge photos nor a cluttered UI. Instapaper gets it.

I definitely see them releasing an android-version of instapaper soon. It would be a wasted opportunity if they didn't
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Cocoa doesn't require hundreds of lines to represent a simple object. Here's code to make a button:

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
[button setTitle:@"Button" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

That's it. Two lines for a basic button.

Of course, if you want to display the button:

button.frame = CGRectMake(10, 10, 80, 20);
[view addSubview:button];

...which is a big part of why Interface Builder is handy, because it saves you from trying to figure out exactly how large you want the button to be and where to put it.

Now, when you put together all the objects in a moderately complicated UI, you will end up with hundreds of lines of code. Some people find it easier to work with this visually in Interface Builder. Others find it easier to manually construct the UI in code. Either method works perfectly well. I generally use a mix of both, depending on the nature of the UI element I'm working with.
Anyone want to sail through the Gulf of Aden? You might die.
This is a fine blog post, but it's really got little to do with being an early startup employee, which is reasonably obvious from the first sentence, "I've never been an employee at a startup, but I wish I had."
MonoTouch and Xcode 4
There is an extensive literature on this topic, and a community devoted to educating people about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_Community
My dad spent over forty slaving away for one employer through about half a dozen office moves and two mergers. After the most recent merger, they outsourced his entire IT staff and asked him as IT manager to take the role of scapegoat for their lousy decision and accept a pay cut as well. He turned them down. This was the first time I ever saw my father stand up for himself.

We all have to start understanding that the only way to be sure you're working for an employer who values your work is to work for someone who is willing to hear your constructive criticism and wage requests without googling "outsourcing" or "recruiters". It's possible your employer turns you down and gets rid of you. In the worst case, they keep you and move you downstairs into Storage B.
http://paperphobic.com/

I thought something like exists. Just searched a bit on searchyc and got it. This idea does not exactly match your thoughts, but somewhat close.
Interesting.. Having followed every crazy conspiracy/alt theory this is something that has come up a lot. Namely, the idea that some of these impossible-to-build stone structures over the years were actually using sound to effortlessly move these huge blocks around.

http://www.crystalinks.com/levitationtibet.html

I also read 'reports' that kids had seen the guy who built Coral Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle) using a flute to move his sculptures around. That was years ago though.. a quick search and I couldn't find that reference again.
Google's Matt Cutts Talks Down Keyword Domain Names
I just wish that delicious wasn't so exact when searching tags. For example, something a search for plugin would not match the tag plugins.
You're probably right, but even so, I have the feeling that there are quite a few people that use FB because they feel obligated to do so.
There is actually a much better way to make private functions and properties in JavaScript using the module pattern and closure.

Since all functions are objects in JS, you can create a function with some internal (private) functions and properties than return a object with some publicly accessible functions. A basic example:

https://gist.github.com/866343

Closure gives you a really powerful structure that lets you encapsulate your code and then you don't have to use this and risk clobbering the global window object :)
Try spacebar instead of tab.
> I don't ... even own my given name.

Sure, but I bet you'd be pissed if N. J. Harman, LTD demanded that your change your name to avoid confusion, and could enforce their demands.
good points! luckily it's a StartupBus project, so fail-early and fail-often is in our genes :)
Indeed. I'd imagine that the image of the tweet on Reddit was seen by someone at NYT then created with the hopes of pulling viewers because it was clearly a hot button topic.

The opposite of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Journalists look to Reddit to see what people are interested in, write the article, point back to self. Reap rewards.

Right? It's the content production business after all, just makes good business sense.
Better? When you flip burgers, you're not in the rain and your shift does not take 41hrs. This neither sounds healthy nor admirable to me.
Yes, but the domain registration process is just another "registration process". The domain one is "modern" (inexpensive, online, self-service), the trademark one (USPTO) is "old" ("manual", "offline", "cumbersome", "expensive").

Why should the government get whitehouse.com - they are entitled to whitehouse.gov. Are you saying governments should have precedence over the priority of other entities?

Since we are discussing here, an international trademark system, I think the properties of the domain registration system are much preferred to the properties of the fragmented and ill-defined international trademark process.