skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jQuery does not purport to be a JavaScript application development suite, it is a common DOM API and some widgets, nothing more nothing less anyone trying to make jQuery something else is doing it wrong. If you want to build applications like GMail or a trader platform you need to be looking at a comprehensive JavaScript application development toolkit like Dojo or bolting on complementary products to jQuery like Backbone, RequireJS, and underscore. Even then Dojo has more maturity is this space, there are most certainly two levels of Javascript development in the industry, the "lets just sprinkle some in" crowd who rightfully so are using jQuery for it's ease of adoption and then those of us who are writing full on JavaScript application as the face to a RESTfull Service Oriented Architecture, the latter should not be solutioning in jQuery, if they are they are doing a disservice to their clients. I personally use Dojo for my application architecture and jQuery on top of it, to take advantage of all of it's ready built widgets.
If they can't get the next revision of the OS on the same terms as their competitors, it's not open for them. I think you're glossing over the practical realities of shipping products that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to launch.

If you want to assert that it's not open for end-users either, I won't argue, but I'm not sold on that.
I've been happy with Namecheap and I believe they're running a promotion specifically for people switching from godaddy.
But most of China's raw materials importing is driven by their huge expert market, how would a collapse of domestic spending affect that? Isn't it everyone else that's buying Chinese goods that's driving the demand for resources?
I think the word "open" is now just too overloaded. What does open mean ? Does it mean that I can read the source? Does it mean I can read the source in a timely fashion as soon as the product is available? Does it mean that I have the right to modify and execute the source? Does it mean that there are reasonably good chances that if I make a valid and valued change to the code it will be integrated upstream? While Gruber has a biased take on things, there is some truth to the fact that there are definitions of open by which Android is not an open system.
From the original post which started all this:http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2....

"After an in-depth analysis of the laptop, my conclusion was that this software was installed by the manufacturer, Samsung. I removed the keylogger software, cleaned up the laptop, and continued using the computer."

So, the author, Mohamed Hassan was able to uninstall a software which was never installed? I think he would have deleted the folder in question and called that un-installing!!
Yes, though I'm not sure if that's the original or one of the edited versions he tried for a few days before just taking the article down.
Are you saying most Android users don't want it to be open?
High School denies pupil records have been stolen by computer hacker
Considering founderdaily.com is the only source of this at the moment, I'm taking this as a farce?
tangental, but the actual source of that comic: http://xkcd.com/386/ or http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png
This is going to sound like a nit, but it's actually a critical point: Google did not throw ads all over the place, at least with regards to their search results. They carefully introduced them on the sidebar, clearly labeled, and have made further motions since, all also carefully considered and clearly labeled. They are also tied to the user search and therefore actively connected to what the user is currently trying to do, making them even have some value to the consumer as well as the advertiser. This is not the last-ditch pray & spray approach that your quote is implicitly referring to.

Twitter can still get some context out of the user but they will forever have the problem that most of their ad impressions will not be connected to the user actively searching for something. Google's an advertising monster for a reason, and it's not as simple as "They had a big bully pulpit in the form of their search engine".
What if the S is actually a 5?
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It has precious little to do with the legality or morality of the action. Circumstances don't really matter here.

What "matters" is that you have a picture and video clip that can fuel a he said / she said segment on all the 24 hour news channels and various organizations now have something they can spin for their own purposes. CEOs should know better.
Exactly, I think the main difference is using the old "how to cook a frog" analogy. You can't just throw a frog in boiling water, but if you turn up the heat slowly he'll be happy.

Twitter went from no ads to AN INTRUSIVE AD YOU CANT ESCAPE AND RUINED YOUR NORMAL EXPERIENCE. Google on the other hand went with very low touch text ads, then added ads to your email etc... such that there are a lot more ads on Google now then there were, but it was done so gradually and with so much A/B testing that we care less.
I just did an update, and I don't have the dickbar.
I think that these two programs offer starkly different things. A focus on the money alone is very short sighted.

ycombinator has established itself as the "Harvard" of tech startup incubators. MassChallenge is... well... MassChallenge.

As an analogy, when I was deciding between business schools, I had the opportunity to take a scholarship to a lesser MBA program. Or I could pay full price and go to a much higher ranked program. The difference was minimum $50-60k of my own money.

I chose to go to the higher ranked program, because of the network that I would be able to build and the long term reputation that came with attending that program. Part of me wishes this wasn't the case; that one's success in life is purely based on their talents and how far they are able to propel themselves on their own steam, regardless of their affiliation with universities or other organizations. Unfortunately, that's not the real world. People care about which organizations you are affiliated with, regardless of whether the education at one is truly better than another. In truth, if you're motivated, you can probably get an equally good education at a community college as you can at an Ivy League school. However, the network you build at these different institutions is vastly different, and I would argue can't be replicated between the two.

ycombinator has a track record of producing successful tech startups. This leads to high demand, and the ability to set its own terms. Likening that to "molestation" is not only insulting to the program, but also to all the people who applied to the program (like me). It implies that we don't know what we're doing, and that we are suckers for giving away equity to Y Combinator. I would counter that, contrary to this assertion, I am fully aware of the equity stake that is taken, and believe that it is worth having the Y Combinator organization on my side, as well as the cache with future investors that comes from having participated in the program. I will admit that this decision was not taken lightly, however, and I talked with many founders and funders in the startup world before deciding to apply.
Dropbox image url blocked? :(
Wireless HDMI mirroring on ipad2
Totally agree with you. I also believe that operating systems should embrace the chrome way of just updating silently by default. Power users can disable this.
So much for Groupon's Super Bowl commercial looking bad ...
I commented on yesterdays piece and my thoughts can be seen there.

But....

It did feel like an orchestrated dialog from supporters of Mass. I wasn't surprised to hear they were asking for votes via Twitter. The comments were largely from people involved and they seemed rather defensive.

Creepy is one word - I would call it tacky.
I just saw a TV ad for a Windows 7 phone last night that heavily touted integration with Xbox Live.

Much in the spirit of Bing & Youtube, I wonder if other mobile devices will be able to integrate just as easily w/ Xbox Live?
Most people generally aren't comfortable conflating certain flukes of genetics and social privileges with merit.

Being born affluent, white, and male are the three factors which for the last couple of decades have made you statistically most likely to have owned your own computer prior to college. Because most people don't consider males to have more merit than females, or white people to be more meritorious than minority groups, declaring programming a meritocracy ignores and conceals these important factors in the makeup of the "programmers" social group.
In the grand scheme of things, my 27 domains switched from GoDaddy won't change much from their company's perspective, but I will not continue to use them as a domain registrar because of this.
See:

- Namecheap promotion [HN discussion] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390764

- Ask YC: Who's your favorite domain registrar and why? [2008] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561
I haven't looked at the source, but I really like your idea of dynamically generating code for speed. Good work!

I'll be sure to check it out next time I work on something personal that isn't already jQuery centric. :-)
That's actually what I mean. Technical content that I might possibly use in a startup definitely qualifies. I just had a hard time with the 80-character headline limit.
I find it hard to come up with a definition by which Android is an open system. It seems to pretty much boil down to:

Some of the time, some people can see some of the source, but some of those people may be restricted in what they can do by licenses'.

If that's what passes as 'open' we need a new word.
ActiveInbox is a great tool been using it for years. The combination with Integrated Gmail (another addon) makes for the perfect gmail experience.
> a feedback/patch process for community improvements

http://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch.html

http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html

Seems completely transparent and open to me.

For the rest of your criticism, Google is very clear that as time goes by the process will get more and more open.

> It's our intention to move more of these parts to open development over time.

From http://source.android.com/faqs.html#aosp

> Android is pandering to developers (developers, developers, developers), not open source.

The latest Android 2.3 phone source code is here: http://source.android.com/source/download.html

Again: That's the latest, most up-to-date Android phone software Google has developed.

I can't speak about why Honeycomb isn't open source yet, but I imagine it will be very very soon and this discussion will immediately be meaningless.
If a news story is being posted on a fake news site, it's probably fake news. :P
Asking people how they would legislate while in the grip of rare but extreme emotional distress tends to produce the kinds of law that grievously undermines the sorts of open democracies that are - generally speaking - far safer, healthier, and more peaceful than those in which this kind of manipulative fear-mongering drives policy making.

[Exhibit A] The Patriot Act. [Exhibit B] "Freedom Pats" by the TSA. [Exhibit C] Warrantless Wiretapping. [Exhibit D] Retroactive Immunity for Warrantless Wiretapping. [Exhibit E] Suspension of habeas corpus.

Do you really need me to go on?

And about your neighbor: you say the "only proof" was provided by telcom records. But does that mean this was the only evidence available? Or was this the only evidence the police actually gathered? Specifically, how do you KNOW that, in the absence of this resource, the police would not - and could not - have realized that the story about the stolen car was a lie?
I think John was definitely in the wrong for attacking YC like that, especially on HN. I agree that definitely wasn't the way to promote MassChallenge.

I just recently applied to YC and it wasn't an easy decision. In fact I almost didn't apply for various reasons. Ultimately it was what the YC alumni have said about YC that made me decide to push forward. Getting $50k in cash is great, who wouldn't want that? But ultimately the odds of succeeding are dependent on so much more than whether you have enough cash to survive 3 to 6 months. Free doesn't make it better, it just makes it free.
I am definitely stealing this. Even if I don't have anything to convert to, the smugness factor is off the charts.
Offered as advice: s/through/threw/
Google app cloud juices Java and Python
NameCheap.
>But no, Gruber is not wrong. It's just that some people think he's wrong and are compelled to argue with him personally rather than either (a) identify which facts he is wrongly reporting, or (b) give their own alternate interpretation of the same facts.

The problem is there are lots of other people who take his fawning writing as the gospel truth and mindlessly upvote any posts in favor while downvoting any that are against.

>are compelled to argue with him personally rather than either (a) identify which facts he is wrongly reporting, or (b) give their own alternate interpretation of the same facts

You forgot (c) Get mercilessly downvoted and/or watch nonsense rebuttal replies get upvoted.

This is the real reason that the discussions around Apple on tech sites are so polarizing, the disconnect with reality and objectivity.

There are even a bunch of people who have left HN in disgust over this prevalent practice of Apple worship over proper discussion on here.
I think you are making a big deal out of nothing.

There is no social pressure to actually follow them on twitter, no one will be offended if you totally ignore the sentence on the page.

Where as in your example it is socially awkward to refuse to give your number to some guy asking it because they want to be your friend.
I'll agree that Google is taking steps to make Android less open for vendors, but it's still more open for vendors than it is for end users (largely because of vendors putting restrictions on the devices they sell).
And they do. Any publicity is good publicity.
Google preps identity spotter app
And yet, there are devices sold that don't have to be rooted, which you can't say about iOS.
Corporate America explained by Calvin and Hobbes
Show HN: This is what happens when you VNC into the machine you are VNCing from
Last night I was testing that I could VNC into my home machine remotely. I used the external URL to VNC into my machine using the built-in Mac OS X screen sharing tool, and within seconds my machine was spawning VNC window after VNC window

I had to snap the pic with my phone since the resources on the machine were quickly used up.

I was wondering if I would be sucked into the digital vortex it was creating and then have to start racing my processes on really cool motorcycles but that didn't happen <grin>

I thought it was cool so I thought I would share.

nJoy.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391901

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391565

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391257

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391236

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390224

Why this endless fascination with car-crash celebrity gossip?

EDIT:

And to whomever provided the drive-by downvote - thanks. You've almost completely convinced me not to provide value by making sure comment threads are less splintered.
Can I test-drive the Terminal on their remote system? :P
What is really odd is that the FBI is handling this case. What made this a Federal case?
I wouldn't expect Amazon to rat people out. There is a small chance that in the future they stop accepting songs that appear to be borrowed.
How to build a great mobile development team
The problem here is that Google used the word "open" as a feature of Android and marketing term against iOS/Apple. But don't forget that a lot of parts of iOS are open source and several parts of Android are closed (Google branded apps). Does the percentage of opennes matter?

Gruber might be biased but that doesn't mean he is wrong or off-base.
Totally :)

Although the "TPS report" one is heavily edited - poll on how many people get that reference?
I felt if they had made it an optional item in the settings they would have avoided the backlash, and they would still be generating money off of it. The fact it was not optional, then they announced limited API access for developers whipped everyone into a frenzy.
Laguna Beach Coffee Break Money Management Part I
"Obama birth certificate may be legit. But eyewitnesses at his birth have still not come forward. And several potentials have died over the past 50 years. Suspicious? You decide."
I don't agree with GoDaddy's lowest common denominator branding strategy, but it seems to have served them well over the years. It's hard to argue with results.

Make no mistake though, this is just as much a part of their branding strategy as their stupid, tasteless Super Bowl commercials. They'll probably make a token PR apology to hedge their bets here, but this reinforces their "brand" more than it damages it.
Ask HN: Help writting a Google Summer of Code application
I was planning to do an internship this summer in a startup in the US, but they changed their minds. So with no that much time before summer, I guess my best option to land in an internship is Google Summer of Code. I had participated twice in GSoC, but I only have one week to prepare an application.

I wonder if any HN fellas with experience in any of these topics can help me developing any idea that he would like to see implemented in any of the projects below, or reviewing my proposals before submitting them.

These are a bunch of organization that I would like to apply to.

- Django Software Foundation.
- http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2011

- Python Software Foundation
- Ideas, http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2011

- Code For America.
- http://codeforamerica.org/projects/

- Sunlight labs
- http://sunlightlabs.com/wiki/GSOC_2011/

- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
- http://wiki.hiit.fi/display/gsoc2011/GSOC+2011+Idea+page

- Sencha Labs
- http://thejit.org/ideas/

- Sakai
- https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+2011+ideas+list

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When Google first introduced their text ads, it was in an era when other ads were commonly popups, huge banners, and flash with sound. Their text ads were quite nice compared to the competition.

They've loosened up a bit since then, though..
The best food discovery tool I have used is foodspotting.com The reason foodspotting works so well for me is because I am a sight eater. I will try anything but I want to see it first or I won't order it or try your new place.
Last night I was testing that I could VNC into my home machine remotely. I used the external URL to VNC into my machine using the built-in Mac OS X screen sharing tool, and within seconds my machine was spawning VNC window after VNC window

I had to snap the pic with my phone since the resources on the machine were quickly used up.

I was wondering if I would be sucked into the digital vortex it was creating and then have to start racing my processes on really cool motorcycles but that didn't happen <grin>

I thought it was cool so I thought I would share.

nJoy.
First, I dislike gamification on a personal level, but from a business level it makes huge sense. Trading a reinforcer(badges) of no real value for something of value(data) is smart.

Gamification may be the wrong way to look at this, I believe most of our behavior has rules and rewards much like most games. Gamification is just an explicit way of generating a desired behavior, look at the cliched "gold" star on the top of a students paper, or a badge.

From a business model(using badges as a simple example), what happens when the reinforcer loses value, ie everyone else has all the same badges? Do you invent a new set of badges that are more special than the old ones? Or if the community no longer cares what kind or how many badges a person has?

Disclosure: I do my house chores to avoid an angry spouse.
That's not the point. I shouldn't have to root the phone in order to get bugfixes.
really cool that adobe spends time on an ipad app when their mac version is extremely slow and bloated
Python Web Application Package and Format (we should make one)
But what about all their employees who rely on us continuing to buy domains from their company so they can have jobs? Are they all heartless?

So, you are against slaying a single elephant that jeopardizes an entire villages food supply AND you are for not giving money to a company that pays the salaries of hundreds of people.

Hmm.
Gruber doesn't need to make things up, he just links to half-baked stories as long they fit his "Google is evil" frame and doesn't bother to go back and correct them when there's been time for the real story to come out. This is likely yet another of these occasions.
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I have been with Gandi for years. They are a bit more expensive than some other other registrars, but offer good service, and donate proceeds to non-profit projects:

http://en.gandi.net/supports/
Wow. Just wow.

Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can.

I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.
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I like the ad unit at the top of the blog page.
A fair observer might allow that "Android" is still an Open source project, but only inasmuch as they explicitly identify Honeycomb as currently a closed-source fork of Android. Honeycomb may become open, but to discount the facts of today involves assumptions about future.

If our hypothetical fair observer were to disregard the assumed future altogether, things lean more toward Gruber than Google.

Google has gone out of their way to disavow pre-Honeycomb releases on tablets, and is withholding Honeycomb to only those tablet-makers who sign their agreements. They're currently doing exactly what Gruber asserts will become SOP and what they're currently doing with Honeycomb simply doesn't fit any fair definition of "Open Source" development. Not even their own.
Mathematics is most definitley not that. The fact that your definition probably sounds reasonable to most people who made it all the way through calculus (and even excelled in those courses) probably supports what Vi is saying.

On the other hand, maybe it's okay that people don't really understand what math is (as mathematicians understand it). I don't see any evidence that society is falling apart due to lack of appreciation for pure math.
By the same metric, we need new definitions for what Apple is doing. For example, the forced 30% cut of all subscription content. That isn't 'closed' anymore, like we say 'Windows is closed'. Maybe 'Locked down' is more like it?
I'm a longtime C++ (semicolons everywhere) and Python (no semicolons) programmer who has also used and very much enjoyed Common Lisp and Scheme (no semicolons, but parens everywhere.) Right now I'm learning Scala (semicolons usually optional but occasionally required.) After my experience with all those languages, honestly, I don't care at all whether Rust uses semicolons or not. I like Python's meaningful whitespace, but the lack of semicolons is only a side effect of that, not the primary benefit. Optional semicolons in Scala actually seem like a bit of a wart since you get used to leaving them out but on rare occasions have to include one to make the code mean what you want. Putting them in all the time provides a nice visual cue and doesn't cost anything. Like the parens in Lisp, they disappear as long as they're where you expect them.
Centralizing it so it's under one person's control? That doesn't make much sense at all.
Scaling CouchDB
What do you use a gun for if not killing people or animals?
Interesting. I was looking at the letter strings as possible penny stock symbols