skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your observations about a pre-Gingerbread device, however it is remarkable how much 2.3 has improved. It is very competitive with the iPhone now from a spit and polish perspective, even on older hardware. So imagine the shine on a device like an upcoming Galaxy S II.

This segues to arguments that have a freshness dating. Android used to have crap hardware (the G1 was junk). Now it has amazing hardware. Android used to have no apps. Now it has an unbelievable number of apps, and almost all of the top tier apps. Android used to be a duct-tape clunky mess. Now (Gingerbread) it's a completely different beast: It is actually a loveable operating system.

So if Android made most of its gains when it was a shadow of what it is now, what are the detractors left with?
Only have to do this because the accessory kit in iOS is so locked down and Apple wraps that mess up in their "Works for iPhone" program.

The dock connector has full serial bus for accessories with power. It's easy to program and build accessories. No weird hacks converting to analog and then doing software signal processing and generating power with continuous tone.

Apple just locks it down from developers getting access unless you follow their strict guidelines. One of which is that your accessory works for iPhone and only iPhone and not multiple devices. They also have licensing fees involved. It's arbitrary.

The also do this same program for Bluetooth. They claimed custom protocols at WWDC a few years ago that gave me hope I could connect to common bluetooth devices (like a laptops and my Lego NXT device). Entirely not the case.
It's nice to see a detailed comparison from an iPhone user that doesn't hate on Android just because it's not iPhone.

I went from iPhone to Android after 6 months of owning an iPhone 3GS (I went to the original Motorola Droid). For me, it was a big relief, even though it was in many ways a step backward. The entire time I owned the iPhone I felt like I was doing something the benevolent overlord didn't want me to do - I jailbroke to enable some features (some of which are addressed with newer OS since then) and never knew when I'd be stuck between upgrading or losing my jailbreak.

Android isn't without some of the same problem, but at least I can do more with it out of the box without some exploit.

I have the iPad and the Xoom, and I haven't touched the Xoom since the first week (I'm likely returning it). The iPad is everything I love about iOS, and the things it's missing aren't AS important to me on the tablet (although they are important). For the iPad, however, applications are significantly more important for me than on the phone, and most applications I use haven't made it to Android.

The things I absolutely don't want to lose and thus won't switch back to the slightly superior (more refined) experience on the iPhone are:

* Notification bar. iPhone's modal pop-up is just incredibly annoying.

* Native Google Apps. For this I mean everything Google releases. I use a lot of it - Reader, Gmail, Maps, Navigation, Latitude, Google Voice. These are all web apps or backdated or both on iOS. The Maps experience, for example, is significantly better on an Android device than on iOS. You can simply do more useful things with it. And that's ignoring Navigation, which sells Android on its own if you drive a lot.

* Background processes. I haven't used iOS enough to tell if its half-way implementation does enough for me. It very well might, but I know it is more limited. Sometimes this doesn't matter, but every now and then I just want to run multiple things at once without fighting the OS.

* No reliance on iTunes. (I'd repeat that, but that'd be rude)

* I can develop for it without an Apple computer.

* I make my money off of Android right now. :)

All in all, they are fair competitors with different mentalities. If I didn't use Google so much, I might be less inclined to stay with Android. Most of your complaints about Android are pretty fair and accurate.
"If You’re Not Paying for It; You’re the Product"
source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5697167/if-youre-not-paying-for-it-y... (ok, actually from MetaFilter user blue_beetle)
Totally agree, developing hardware is like playing a hand of blackjack that you've bet your mortgage on where the dealer doesn't turn his hand over for 12-18 months after you do.
1. Re-open http://www.lazyweb.org/
Can't kickstarter.com already be used to do this? The live video could go on Justin.tv, USTREAM, or whatever.
If by "pick out of the trash" you mean "really cheap" then I think that has already happened. You can pick up a G1 for $20 on eBay.
There is some commentary on the terms that the Department of Justice have put on the deal here: http://www.tnooz.com/2011/04/08/news/google-ita-software-dea...

In brief:

- Google will be required to license QPX software to airfare websites on commercially reasonable terms.

- Google will be required to continue to fund research and develop the product “at least” at similar levels to what ITA had invested.

- Google will be required to develop and offer ITA’s InstaSearch product to other travel websites.
Yeah I've found the same thing. It must depend on something back end, like the encoding used when the file was uploaded, or whether the servers holding that particular file are busy at the time. It's very frustrating.
No, because the decision to interview is made subsequent to a presumably non-biased application. Asking people to show you their skin color (and age, and gender, and disabilities, etc) on a job application is, if nothing else, against the federal Civil Rights Act.

Although YC isn't hiring for jobs, screening people for funding based on skin color, age, gender, and other physical characteristics on the application itself is still wrong. In YC's case, if they don't like the look of you then you don't even get an interview. YC's decision to interview is based on natural bias of whether you look like paulg, paulb, robert, jessica, harj, or trevor. There's a word for that: "prejudice".
I would be happy if my designer gave me untitled layers. I usually have to use the magic wand to cut out layers from a flat picture myself. Very fun when there are gradients, drop shadows and similar stuff on a jpg-compressed image T_T
In the end I'm essentially redoing all the work the designer did.
Apple has open sourced a lot of their projects. Check it out: http://opensource.apple.com/ http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
I read it as an offhand comment to the effect of: remember when people at Microsoft thought that "Don't be evil" (and Google in general) was a joke?
http://www.domu.com Streeterville 2010
I agree. I saw ThisWeekIn is scheduled to stream This Week in Startups on Tuesday. I watch the show, but never live.

However, I read rumors on reddit a few weeks ago about YouTube trying to offer NBA and NHL games via live streams. Sports are a different story, for me, and I am willing to pay for access to NHL games. NHL's GameCenter has blackout restrictions that eliminate it as a cable subscription replacement. I know Google won't have that sort of crap, so I'm hopeful for YouTube Live Sports.
Unfortunately for Justin.tv, those 'approved partners' is also likely the key players where the money is for live events (Olympics, sporting events, etc.).

Starcraft/WoW matches and such will only be so popular.
Why you need OAuth for your API or App
Indeed, I've been wondering what could be an alternative deus ex machina.
On the other hand, it says that 690 meters is the average. I wonder if the accuracy is higher or lower in more densely populated areas. My uneducated guess is that it would be higher and that you'd actually have a more accurate location for densely populated cities.
Create an Application with LinkedIn's JS API
LinkedIn has just made our Javascript API public. I've written a quick tutorial to demonstrate how this can be used to create a profile/network stream widget. You'll need to log in with the "Log in with LinkedIn" button before you can see the functionality, and the post walks you through the necessary steps to get it working for yourself.
Steps to a Successful Startup
Funny and quite true.

And it is also true for many other countries, with a mostly poor population. All over the world, one of the big benefits of wealth is the ability to build your own "island" or castle.

But here's an interesting question. If we force everyone with wealth and power to live like the masses, then the only way to improve their lot would be to improve all of society or emigrate. Would we then see a much stronger push against corruption and bad economic policy?

This is obviously a purely intellectual exercise for fun. Some people believe that at some point a country's oligarchy will try to improve things for everyone at least a little bit. This is a very naive view of wealth and power in a chaotic country.

The only ones who can, and some times do, push for reform are the masses. But mobilized masses have short attention spans and can never push for important details. The details remain the devil's domain. This is why masses can get rid of dictators, but everything after the dictator is a painfully slow grind of minuscule improvements.

I believe a slow grind of minuscule improvements describes India's past 50 or so years quite well. Things are improving, just not nearly enough within any one human life time.
The whole point of the article is that the data-driven approach turns out to be a lot more robust that existing academic initiatives. Could anyone else have done it? No. So I think it is fair to say that they developed this technology.
A modest proposal for an interstellar communications network
This is not a counter-argument. You can't read every line of code that this will run every single time you go to run it. Unless you're very skilled and focused, you may miss a hack that's been cleverly disguised.

Executing a `rm -rf /` is not hard to do, and you wouldn't even see that text in a program. Basically you're depending on the statistical probability that if there is a hack, someone else will get hit before you and it can be identified and resolved before everyone is affected. Someone has to take one for the herd.
I'm pretty sure this drastically increases the odds of a Google acquisition of Hipmunk.
Minor point: Extensive use of GNU extensions, so not really C.

Major point: Very much easier to do this in C++ by overloading operators for list<>:

L2 = L1 + L3; // L2 is L1 concat L3
L2 = L1 < 3; // L2 is L1 elements less than 3
L2 = L1 | even; // L2 is L1 elements passed through a filter for even numbers
GNOME 3.0 Has Finally Been Released
Tech Bubble 2.0? I don't think so
My guess is because of petroleum exports. Presumably Norway would not be able to have a tariff on exports to other EU countries if they joined the EU.
Check out this blog for a lot of free resources
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That's because it's Google PR (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html). Nuance Communications[1] (who makes Dragon and N other speech rec systems), is really the leader in this space. They've done server-based recognition solutions ~forever, and is the solution Siri uses for their app, for example.

[1] Note: this is not the same as the Nuance Mike Cohen started, but a conglomeration of speech companies purchased over the the years which inherited the name.

EDIT: Added some more detail
Careful; this is the kind of thing you can burn a lot of time and money on without seeing a dime of improved outcome. The companies that get the most continuous media attention aren't getting it because of their press kits.

If I hired a marketing person (it's been considered) and they told me they were going to spend a week or two making hard-copy designer-y drop-off press kits, I'd have a very hard conversation with them about business objectives.
Blockbuster Rumor: Facebook Partners with Baidu to Enter China
Yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I doubt they're inspecting all that traffic just to watch the pretty patterns.
Agreed. Back in the 1980s I did my Masters' project in Prolog (transistor sizing, part of a "silicon compiler") and it gave me a lot of new tools for thinking about programming in general.

The same's true for other langauges that offer different ways of thinking of about world: the LISP family, Haskell, Eiffel, Forth, awk, ...
A punch in the face will also result in feelings of both physical pain and social rejection.

I'm not sure if this should be surprising to everyone. The physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of our lives overlap and are interdependent. You can't isolate one state.

That said, pain is necessary for personal development, physically, emotionally and spiritually. It's such an obvious fact it's not worth belaboring. Without darkness you cannot have light.
The market for Python developers is incredibly tight right now.

If you are talented you should be able to get $90-100k+.

We are hiring Python developers at Catch.com, feel free to shoot me an email ( aschobel@catch.com ).

Here is our PyCon MongoDB talk:
https://catch.com/blog/2011/03/pycon-2011-mongodb-pylons-at-...
Ask HN: (Twitter Search)*3 = Google Search?
Twitter search is now serving 1 billion searches a day:
http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.html

And according to this, Google is serving about 3 billion searches per day:
http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebook-vs-google-buzz-36709

If that's true, then that's incredible. Twitter is already 1/3th the size of Google in terms of searches? Am I getting this right?
> In my experience with designers, none of them care about things like that. You'll see 5 versions of PSDs filled with Untitled layers and no logical grouping.

Work with better designers :)

In all seriousness, I think many designers haven't be shown the benefits of why they should change their workflows. If you can demonstrate how using Git would make their jobs easier, you might get some converts.

Also, most designers think visually, so text-based commit history is kind of useless to them. I'd love to see tools like Timeline [http://pixelnovel.com/timeline], but for Git.

As for not naming & grouping layers? That's just a bad designer. Send them this: http://photoshopetiquette.com/
Clicky:
http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now...
and
http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebo...
As my friend likes to say frequently, "It just depends on who's OX is being gored - right?"
Looks great. Are there any legal issue involved in this?
Looking forward to comments! please leave them here :)
KDevelop 4.2.2 released, KDevelop-PG-Qt 0.9.5 released, new website launched
It's a one click download. OK, actually two clicks, but it's a very clean, unconfusing process. https://www.facebook.com/download/

Not to mention the graph api. They're very good about giving you all the information you as a user might want (photos, links, messages, wall posts) What it doesn't give you is the kind of data that a competitor might want.
Darpa Will Spend $20 Million To Search For Crypto’s Holy Grail
Definitely agreed - it's not the key to getting media attention, but it makes it easier. Shouldn't take more than a few hours to put together a press kit. To me a hard copy press kit is more of a launch buzz activity than PR, and also shouldn't take long.
Mandatory: I use to have a vCard....but i lost it some time ago ;)
> Actually, most of the techniques presented there do have
> some use cases in real code.

Really?

Even the sane-looking entries ("Freshman" through "Another senior") are going to have performance problems. "Yet another senior" through "Combinatory" have some minor applications to real-world code, but none of them are demonstrated here. "List-encoding" and onward degenerate into type-class wanking and absurdity -- they don't belong anywhere near a compiler.
Google manager says tech needs to attract more women
Someone on twitter had a suggestion for dealing with this: "India has more boys than girls. Pakistan has more girls than boys. Fuck the partition, let's kiss and make up." (http://twitter.com/#!/amreekandesi/status/54963127854448641)
Well you can build a strategy game now with old fashioned HTML - in fact I use to play Space Empire as a door and that was all done with text!
"In YC's case, if they don't like the look of you then you don't even get an interview."

You have absolutely no evidence for these accusations, unless you have data which you are not sharing with us. In a more serious discussion avenue, the post you've just made could be considered libelous.
Prolog's ideas are alive and kicking in numerous interesting forms:

* Constraint Handling Rules, http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/
* Gecode http://www.gecode.org/
* Monadic Constraint Programming Framework (Haskell)
http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~tom.schrijvers/MCP/
* Google Operations Research http://code.google.com/p/or-tools/
* Mozart/Oz http://www.mozart-oz.org/
* Datalog 2.0 http://datalog20.org/
By "benefits from Facebook" I take it you mean a bit of publicity and something to prove your targeted-traffic generating acumen to your advertisers, rather than massive amounts of free impressions. If it's the former, I can't see any conflicts at all (in all honesty even if you were the one enquiring about their interest in a case study, which you weren't). The original article reads as a fact-based statement of the value to you of a solution you pay for; it's not at all equivalent to randomly shilling a service you don't use for the reciprocal linkjuice or badmouthing their competitors.

I would be interested in seeing the case study.
Military’s Newest Recruit: C-3P0
Once again, Yahoo was ahead of the curve by 3 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Live

(the other recent example being Instant Search).
Acer's new Honeycomb tablet to compete with iPad on price
Steven Levy: Google's Social Strategy - "A Comedy of Errors"
You can really see the "search term bias" in that snippet.
I can't believe they chose a PIC24F over an ARM microcontroller.
Collectable or Currency? Magic Cards, Bitcoins, and John Law
My salary is public information and easily discoverable. I'd rather be the source of the information than let a nosy HR rep base an offer on my current salary on the sly. It's not information I can keep secret.

I know what salary I want, so it's not like it matters anyway. Plus their low-ball offer gave me an insight into how they value their development team. If they didn't think I was worth what I was asking, fine, don't hire me. But if they're just looking for budget coders I'm happy to stay where I am. They already had two outsourced coders. The idea of joining their staff knowing they undervalue talent and are willing to hire from the 3rd world to replace me was not tempting.
How we completely re-launched our site in 3 days thanks to Django
How we Sped Up our Specs 8-25% With a Simple Change
Agreed. Though i'd like to have someone name me a language, adding which to one's skillset would make one a worse programmer.
You should try it. http://www.facebook.com/download. It's basically a two-click process.

It gives you most of the data you'd be interested in as a user (photos, videos, messages, wall posts). Not so much the data that Google might want, like a easily importable graph. But for everyone else, it's really useful.
Minecraft to exit beta November 11 with $32 million in revenues
I've been looking at EC2 and would probably have used an AMI like yours, if not yours.

So, FWIW, talking as an inexperienced n00b...

As a suggestions, perhaps an as valuable, if not more valuable, (perhaps more difficult) contribution would a set of scripts that would create such an image.

Having the scripts and not the image would allow the many eyes to secure against the pig in a poke while automating image creation.

AMIs could then either be created by users themselves wanting to ensure they know exactly what is going on and then uploaded, or, if I understand what you were offering, public/cloneable AMIs could be created at some public gathering and witnessed and checksummed....
Crash Course: Design for Startups
U.S. Can Conduct Offsite Searches of Computers Seized at Borders, Court Rules
Recently AdBlock seems to have completely zapped Hulu ads (you still have to wait, but nothing ever shows up).
SEC to review rules on how startups raise money
This is a solid example of some old-school PR.

I wouldn't recommend it to tech companies in general, though. In tech, it's a novelty that gets a few bonus points for being rare. But I think it can ultimately send the wrong message. The tech media is immersed in technology and they expect companies to distinguish themselves through technology.

Also, a good portion of them have a superiority complex against PR, and doing anything overtly PR-like will hurt your chances of getting covered. This isn't as bad as sending them a press release, but it's definitely a classic PR move, and for some that leaves a bad taste.

Remember, you're not trying to get people to write about you. You're trying to make it easy for people to write about you.
The key was Google's agreement to continue licensing QPX on “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms”. According to the linked Justice Department press release, they're also required to continue development of the publicly-available version of QPX.
It's not necessarily true that the person who created the content will share the link. Even if they do, if they are far removed from my social network then the only way I will find that content is still by searching for it.
1) "But as you already know, I am here to argue that this is not in fact a bubble."

So get on with it. Dump the first two paragraphs.

2) "First of all, most of the overheating is going on in private markets, and there are only a few companies that are considering IPOs that all have billions in revenue. Many posts have already been made to this effect, so I wont repeat them here."

How does this support your conclusion that we're not in a bubble?

3) "While the number of new startups has increased dramatically, their overall quality has not been significantly harmed."

Supporting evidence? You make this statement and then don't support it.

You didn't really convince me of anything, and didn't leave me feeling any more informed on the issue.