skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really understood the Windows/Mac analogy here. I think the main reason many people end up using Windows over OSX, or any other OS, has always been the availability of software. People use Windows because there is a lot of really good software that just isn't available on other platforms. Granted this is slowly becoming less of an issue now that OSX is gaining some ground, but it is still an issue for a lot of people.

If you compare iOS to Android, I think you see the same pattern. One of the reasons the iPhone is so popular is because of the apps, many of which just aren't available on Android. Even when an app is available for Android it often feels like a second class citizen, or an after thought - just as it often does on the Mac.

When I look at the mobile world in this light it seems like we should be comparing iOS to Windows and Android to OSX, but then again maybe I'm just reading into the analogy too much.
> If this bump in the road rattles you enough to close shop, you shouldn't be an entrepreneur.

I question the value of telling someone they "shouldn't" be an entrepreneur. Even that they "aren't" an entrepreneur.

Closing shop doesn't have to be a permanent thing.

Didn't get accepted for this round of YC? Decide what that means for you, then continue to live your life.
I'm not really sure what is wrong, but it might be that you lack OpenGL libraries. You might want to check out this page: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=11

I figure I might as well let you know what you're missing. The guy coded up a 3D world in which you walked around as a square with text floating above your head. It reminded me of World of Warcraft and other MMOs, despite its graphics being far below those of Minecraft.
SLIP

Rogerian LISP?
Somewhat related:

Apparently laundry detergent manufacturers kept on increasing the size of their standard detergent bottle without increasing the washing power in order to make it look more impressive on a shelf. This caused an "arms" race in detergents.

WalMart stepped in and refused to stock detergent bottles past a certain size. At that point, the manufacturers stopped making the large size bottles.

If there's a player with as much power as WalMart then they can dictate pretty much whatever they want - and sometimes their interests are aligned with the customer.
This comment piques my interest. I am a developer and my girlfriend is a digital media planner. We want to maybe start a business together that merges both our skills, but we're not sure how to implement anything you mention. I'd love to chat, but I don't see any contact info in your profile. My email is in my profile.
The disclosure triangles and combo box look native. The icons, scrollbars, tabs, toolbars, status bar, tip-of-the-day dialog (wtf?), and confirmation dialogs all are obviously non-native, some of them in ways that are trivially fixable (such as getting the button order right in the confirmation dialogs).

I understand that it's pre-beta, but if they consider the current GUI to be even a prototype instead of the placeholder that it is, they'll likely never get any traction outside of Java developers trying to cash in on Apple's App Stores.
True, and you can almost reverse this statement and use Microsoft instead of Apple, and most would agree with it as well :)

That said, there still is so much more dev activity on Macs and mobile than Windows, now, it's incredible. Very frustrating as a Windows user...
That's interesting but I'm confident in JetBrains getting this kind of detail right. I don't have appCode in front of me but I'm sure they'll implement something to handle it. They go to great lengths to understand your entire codebase including any libraries/sdks you might link with.

They've had to do similar things already with Javascript, Ruby, etc. Even Java has similar issues - for example you can use reflection to call methods. So it may mark a method as not being used in your project. But for 99% of cases it gets it right.
I've got an original Nook that I like, the eInk is great for readability, I was initially hesitant as to what to think about the Nook Color since it loses the readability advantage over traditional tablets. So now that B&N is opening up the Nook Color with an SDK I'm a little more excited about it. But what I'm really curious about is, does B&N make a profit off the hardware sales or is it a loss leader for ebook sales (is it the razor or the blade)? If B&N makes money on the hardware it will have a nice new revenue stream as ebooks gradually supplant traditional print books, but if they take a loss on each unit hoping to recoup via ebook sales the platform may not have a long lifespan if they discontinue it due to everybody rooting the thing for a cheap Honeycomb tablet with no more vendor lock in.
This is pure tin-hat thinking.

Given the number of Apple fan boys out there, and how friendly the media as a whole is to their cause, do you really think they would view the potential benefits of astroturfing as greater than the potential damage it would do to their brand?

It's not a matter of good or evil. It's a matter of smart vs. dumb.
That does look nice if you have a Windows tablet. Thanks for sharing!
Britain's oldest working television goes up for auction
Furthermore, do you know anyone who doesn't know C but is still excellent at coding/computer-science?

I think this guy somehow did OK, even without knowing C: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scienti...
Real Time Global Incident Map - Earthquakes, Hazmat, Fires, Amber Alert
You might want to look into why the images on pages like http://yellowrubberball.com/why-yrb/ on your site hang off the side of the page in Chrome 10.0.648.204 on OS X.

I noticed it on the home page too.
There should also be an option for: "0 (doing a startup, not interested in YC or YC not an option"
Pretty awesome. It took a restart to get it to work, but it's great now.

As a minor aside, is there a way to get Chrome to treat .dev domain the same as .com? Whenever I type in my .dev app name, it tries to google search for it.
0 (doing a startup, but not an option or not interested)
GCC would give a warning if you tried to compile this, and Xcode 4 would highlight the offending line with a yellow bubble. appCode's behavior doesn't seem too inappropriate in this case.
Our startup's main product uses Java for a UI heavy app because makes it cross platform out of the box and is relatively easy to develop a nice, native looking UI with if you know what you're after.

Our closest competitors locked themselves to one platform and have faced challenges trying to go cross platform.
I'm such a good liar.. On the internet.
Modern Antique Beds
Newel antiques provides the best antique furniture and beautiful french antiques furniture. Antique furniture can be an attractive, economical and stylish option. Further details about furniture antiques please visit our website.
Same problem, but using Terminal.
My point was that you can retain the ability to email the user their own password with no loss of security (provided the user has a public key—like, say, Github or Heroku require, as they use passwordless ssh for repository synchronization.) My point was not that keeping someone's password around, is any better an idea than just allowing them to reset it :)
Ah yes... The inventor of LISP.
Bah! Sounds like a typical academic. http://blog.fogus.me/2011/04/07/academics-vs-the-real-world/
Jumplists seem to work fine.

For reference: Right click on the taskbar, click Properties, and change Taskbar buttons to Never combine.
Canceling the JWST will be a catastrophe for NASA.
But even if (especially if?) you confidently foresee eventual failure, the net present value of your assets may be maximized by milking them right now. Just because there also exists a profitable market in cannibalizing your product, doesn't mean you have to be in that market.
So, their color Nook gets an SDK after a few months. And their Eink ones still have nothing. Why no love, B&N?
Mobsters are defined as "bad people who will try to shake you down for money or possibly kill you for no reason".

I'd hope the court system could aim a little higher than that.
It's not even in beta, it's in EAP.
Nice, you can change the env variable POW_DOMAIN to ".local". Much better in my opinion (works better with chrome at least)

EDIT: scratch that. You can't do this.
> but if they consider the current GUI to be even a prototype instead of the placeholder that it is

I doubt it is. It's not the first Jetbrains IDE on OSX. They may decide to go a very different graphical route for this one as it's pretty obviously OSX-only, but that's not really a given.
I guess their is a limited window going down the same path, I applied this time and while I can't rule it out, I think I'd be more likely to apply again if I started something new. Going down the current path with the app it will either be less attractive in 6 months time to us or we haven't gone places with it and we are unlikely to be more attractive to YC next time round.
>> Also, I appreciate what YC does and offers, but my personal philosophy is that a lot of ideas which seek out funding don't need it.

YC isn't about the money. It's about the people.
that's not true. those are big markets to compete with for small company. Its a strategy decision based on amount of funding you have to attack small or huge markets.
(doing a startup, but not an option nor interested) should be (doing a startup, but not an option or not interested).
> Now the internet lets us find the most emotional people possible about a particular topic and put them all together in one "place".

Sort of reminds me of the White people that are able to find each other on the internet and hate on another race. It has formed segregated groups and have executed killings based on what people and communities talk about online. I pretty much agree with your assumption. Its going to get worse.
I an avid user of Reeder on the iPhone too. I use FeedDemon on the desktop. But honestly, when it comes to the deuce, I'm in and out - no time to read. Never really thought of the BR as a great place to chill, lol.
The tl;dr version:

* Facebook
* Infighting
* Facebook
* Scaling problems
* Some more infighting
* Facebook

and

* Facebook
Yeah, I don't really know what's going on outside of HK island.

I can think of plenty of cities where you'll pay 2k a month for rent. Hong Kong might be a bit skewed upward vs salaries and quality of life though. If I'm going to pay 2k for rent I'd rather live in a Western city (food, music, space, etc).

Why China? If you're looking for low cost of living you can't beat Vietnam at the moment. If you want something a little more civilized you can check out Bangkok (where I live). Bangkok rent's are less than half of Hong Kong's and it is a great mix of Western and Asian cultures. If you're looking for work though HK's salaries are better for foreigners. (I've either contracted internationally or run my own business here so the lower salaries are a boon.)
an angry executive who has the budget to buy not just security and investigators, but also law enforcement, legislators, the media, and anything else that's required to discredit you, and ruin your entire life?

I think that describes exactly why they're on the receiving end of such disgusting behavior. Geohotz is being ruined in that exact fashion. Sony execs can't be both terrible people and exempt from backlash at the same time.
Applied for the first time this round (S11) with http://interstateapp.com and have been invited for an interview.
This is another reason why it was a good idea to have my big application consist of only one public file which can easily be whitelisted. Everything else lives outside the web root and is never directly executed.

location ~ ^/index\.php {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
}

Everything else in the web root is static files and can be served directly. The rest of the application uses an URL routing scheme based on PATH_INFO
Chrome and Firefox seem to do a good job of going cross platform.
We will either be quite successful by the time the next YC application deadline rolls around, or we'll have determined that the concept isn't viable and will be doing something else.

We might apply again, but my tendency is to do things that don't seem to fit the YC sweet spot.
What's wrong with not knowing C? Programmers will program in tools they know in the domain they're familiar with.
Would be interesting to see how many people have also applied to other programs (Techstars, etc.)
And? That doesn't take anything away from the the point, which is Android apps are, on average, uglier than their iPhone counterparts.
This needs to be stopped, seriously. I refuse to believe that HFT really adds anything of value to the world.
They're not proposing to cancel JWST.

It's just that its $6.5B price tag is overwhelming the whole astrophysics science effort. The original design was supposed to come in around 0.5B. See

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/71607/title/Star_...
Indeed too good to be true:
HEALTH
Thorium-232 is an alpha emitter very radiotoxic. For this isotope, the annual limit on intake (ALI) by inhalation of 90 Bq / year compared to that of plutonium 239, which is 300 Bq / year. It means that the thorium-232 is considered almost 3.3 times more radiotoxic that plutonium
Poll: iPhone or Android
Do you prefer iPhone or Android as your primary mobile phone?
This. A lot of people are coming to Android as a step up from feature phones. In fact a lot of Android phones ship without any way to install third party apps and act as essentially glorified feature phones. I'd love to see the statistics of Android phones sold with the Android store versus iOS device sales to get a better idea of where the two platforms stand in relation to each other.
Fixed with restarting my machine. And it's worth it.
The list does cover all but some oddballs are missing (N800, openPandora)
Better to have one more option for Other, as there will always be others.
> would it work? Yeah.

Do you really believe that somebody with access to incredible resources is going to get harassed at home and think "well, I should go easier on this fellow, since his internet friends are stalking me and harassing my wife"? Really? If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.

This is a horrible idea that can only go badly.

Escalation against a well-armed enemy is an incredibly bad strategy. In fact, it's hard to think of a worse strategy.
C was my first real programming language. Loved it. I just don't use it much anymore. Most of what I do is either web (Ruby/Rails, PHP, etc) or mobile (Objective-C).
Can Blogs Make Money?
53 metric tons worth of fuel?

The fuel requirements to decelerate are much lower than the requirements to reach orbit, for multiple reasons. You aren't fighting against gravity, your weight is greatly reduced (having burnt the fuel to get to orbit), and you also don't need to fully decelerate, only decelerate sufficiently to avoid burn-up upon reentry.

The original comment said that fuel was very cheap, and the primary expense was constructing the launch vehicle. Suppose it required five times as much fuel to be able to launch a rocket with sufficient additional fuel to be able to decelerate out of orbit. Wouldn't this still be much more economical if it meant the ability to easily reuse the launch vehicle after reentry?
For people developing for newer browsers only (e.g. browser extensions or corporate), I'm curious to know how many of the guidelines still apply. e.g. are forEach/map slow or are the anonymous functions inlined? Also, I'm surprised that he says that setting style properties one at a time is slow; I would have thought that reflow happens lazily (at the next read of a layout property or on the next idle spot on the event loop).

My main takeaway was that HTMLCollections (including the return value of getElementsByTagName, form.elements, etc.) are evil. Looking at the jsdom source, the one thing that really bugs me is that they have to maintain all these live lists on every change.
There might be slight differences between "normal hdpi" screens but those differences won't affect a good design and the developer won't have to worry about it. And it definitely has nothing to do with why the meebo app looks like crap. It looks like crap because meebo didn't put the effort into it.
My take is that most purchasers of Android phones are probably quite disappointed with the experience.

From last September, 65% of Android users are "very satisfied": http://www.therealmacgenius.com/2010/10/iphone-os-or-android.... That's less than the iPhone's 74%, but a far cry from the fanboy fantasy of Android being abandoned in droves.
Now that you mention this, I think it's highlighted in a muted color as a warning, not as a glaring red error.
congrats, I think you're just about the nearest startup to me (I'm in Leamington) - so I'm "routing" for you! (pun intended)
Oh cool! I was also based in Coventry myself for a year prior to working on Interstate :) Thanks, aha!
If you've ever read The Facebook Effect;

"That’s the difference between a Los Angeles company and a Silicon Valley company,” he said. “We built this to last, and these guys [at MySpace] don’t have a clue.” - Mark Zuckerberg
It's a poll comparing the two main mobile platforms, which I think is fitting given how much talk there is here about developing for them.
U.S. Government Considering Big Changes to Rules Governing Private Stock
Likewise. I used the flash player in state A, then moved to state B and bought an iPhone, but I continually get adds related to state A on my phone. Never got a single add when I actually lived in state A, though.
> I don't get the idea that some people seem to have that performance doesn't matter for distributed systems, when the truth is the exact opposite.

I think that investment in performance follows a curve.

A bowl, actually. And that this interest is based on the cost of optimisation vs the payoff.

- -
-- --
--- ---
---- ----
------ ------
--------- ---------
--------------- ----------------
------------------------------------------------
<-- embedded ... SME web/desktop ... data-centre -->

Assume that an optimisation costs $X of programmer time and pays back $Y dollars.

When your cost of production is very large, $Y > $X. That's what you see for embedded systems with millions of units shipped and for data-centre computing with tens of thousands of units installed. The cost of one programmer optimising is well worth it.

But for the sunny plain of mediocrity in the middle, the cost of extra hardware ($Y) will be less than the cost of the programmer time $X.

Here endeth the extemporising.
Paying by phone is insecure and unnecessary
The Kindle SDK is still in limited Beta. It's weird how slowly Amazon moves in some areas. Glacial pacing.
What did you do with the startup after you quit. Did you sell it?
I've mentioned this in a previous thread awhile back. My father's approach to the question of "can I get some video games?" was to throw K&R at me and let me flounder.

Machines that I had at the time were a Trash80 something or other mostly running basic and an AT&T machine running some for of Unix...oh yeah.

But, I fought my way through K&R, multiple c compilers, assembler, etc. to actually learn something on these machines.

An interesting comment from an earlier discussion mentioned "this code (in C) is much cleaner than any C++ I have seen!". The truth is, if you know C, have a good style and discipline, you pretty much can produce more readable/reusable code than your normal c++ person.
Paying with your phone is awesome because it's not 1960 anymore
Looks slick! Good luck.
What to Look For in an Online School
Online education has revolutionized the way people learn and earn their degrees all over the world. We provide an effective online school and distance learning education services through online. Visit us for more info.
Rated M for Everyone
I'm 29. I started programming C when I was 12 or 13 and I really think that C is probably the best language to learn to program with. In fact I made that recommendation to a friend who recently took his first programming class using Processing and he thought I was crazy. I think it's important to understand memory management, pointers, pointer arithmetic and such.
I'd guess it's because it's a completely different architecture, eInk is such a niche use that the engineering resources needed to provide an SDK probably outweighs the development community that would make use of it. The Nook Color on the other hand has a huge development base and the SDK heavy lifting has been done already via the underlying Android platform.
I'd love a copy of the software. I'd be interested to see if it works in Linux, and if so, what it can find and particularly what it would find on my system.

If you were in Linux and were looking at porn and wanted to check all of the places you could think of off the top of your head... what sort of places would you look for thumbnails, caches, etc. Kinda curious about this now...
you should ping me @ed_lea if you ever attend http://www.multipack.co.uk/ - would be interested to hear how it goes
I don't think they're taking a loss on it. They could easily have put up a few speedbumps to hacking it if they cared, like not unconditionally booting off the SD card.
People used it to search for information. You would ask
it a question, and it would immediately give you the
answer from huge repositories of information it had gathered

I found this part rather funny. They blatantly lied to this man. Google doesn't give you direct answers immediately, and they never will because that's not how Google makes moey. Instead they present you with dozens of SEO optimized links and paid advertisements that might (but usually don't) contain relevant information.
Having a vim plug-in for Xcode 4 would make my year. For longer coding sessions i've been editing in MacVim with cocoa.vim and clang_complete.
I can add "thought police is okay, pornography is a menace" to my long list of reasons not to click on Forbes articles.

Frankly, I'm proud to run a workplace where I officially don't give a damn what people keep on their computers. I pay them for results, not control of their erotic minds. If someone is horny, they should go rub one out. Then get back to work calmer and better able to concentrate.

Just don't forget to wash your hands.
It would be great to walk up to any computer, plug in a usb stick, have it automatically copy the porn so I could review it later at my leisure.
Who's the first real estate search app for Honeycomb [HOT]
And the winner is…

Real estate search site Hotpads.com has won the race to be first to Honeycomb, the operating system used on Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom with other tablets soon to hit the market.
both apps are as hideously busy as their TV broadcasts
So... a USB stick that can find pornographic images. On your hard drive.

(On the surface level, I can appreciate the technical hurdles required to get here. I just find it hard to believe that this could flag anyone even mildly computer-savvy.)
Larry Page to Google staff: Your bonus is tied to Facebook envy
Although it seems that most apps on Android seem to get the short end of the stick, I would like to point out that there are some apps that do get a high quality treatment on Android.

The Official Major League soccer app, MatchDay 2011, is quite gorgeous on both iOS and Android.

As a developer for both platforms, they each have their positives and negatives.

iOS feels like you're plugging together some pretty good looking (default) stuff and then layering on polish.

Android feels as though you're building from scratch... more like web development, where you need to create most/all of your assets from scratch.