skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Baha'i's a religious status, not an ethnic status. Not that I'm defending religious discrimination or anything, but that's orthogonal to the point I was making about treatment of occupied ethnic substates. Points taken that discrimination exists everywhere, is officially sanctioned many places, and certainly that the islamic republic isn't the model state.
It's interesting how inventions from the early part of the 1900s are becoming more useful today. I remember reading an article which stated that engineers were re-discovering mathematical models from the early 1900s for use today.

The big concern I have is that we'll end up with more expensive hybrid cars and China will have the cost-effective stuff.
Having actually worked in an incubated start-up, I can say this article is overstating both the pros and cons of working in one.
Rare-earth elements are not actually that rare.

A few Canadian companies hold the rights to many of the resources in the USA.

For example there are some nice lithium sources in the USA but the Canadian companies will not mine them until there is a certain profitability level.
It doesn't hurt. Though an impressive Github repo might make more waves with developers. Depends on who your trying to impress/appeal to.
I've been designing (read: wasting time) in Photoshop for years now. Taking your path now - lest Photoshop. I use it to generate nice noise. Make some visual effects or resize thigns.

Biggest reason is that photoshop forces you to get into details. Taking your focus away from design - that' will be why something is there? Is it the best way to put it? best size? Can there be better layout? What do you want users to do? What do you want them to think? THat's design and Photoshop doesn't respect it.

Do not waste a single minute trying to learn that monster. It's meant for Photos, not for design.
Reading what I wrote, I now understand that it both sounded too harsh and completely lost the sarcasm in "snob western" (I should have added a [;)]). Believe me, as an Italian living in Brazil I have too often been accused of "western imperialism" to know what it feels like, and I hate it. I am really sorry, please excuse me.

And as I intended to say, I was agreeing with you: I would not trust my entire business to a .LY domaim, and do believe that .DE is more stable than, say, .SO. I was saying that the lack os research combined with the Germany/Colombia example was not the best way to defend your position, particularly in face of those who would probably consider it a cultural-imperialist one.
The iOS MLB app (especially the iPad variety) is probably my favorite. The Android MLB app is probably my least favorite. It's just ugly ... only does a fraction of what the iOS app does, and provides very little beyond what you can get for free from any number of other sports or baseball apps.

People will pay for quality. Right now, the Android app isn't anywhere near what I'd consider a quality app.
I second that. I already 'know' C, but it's mostly self-taught, and I feel like I'm missing a lot of the little tricks and some of the fundamentals.

Also, even if it only had a chapter on ZeroMQ, I'd be ecstatic. I've messed around with it a little, but a good review of it would be wonderful.
You Are Not the Average Smartphone Consumer
Does the author have any direct experience in an incubator, and if so which one(s)? Might be better written from an insider perspective.
$160,000-a-year geek to consolidate state computer system
Problems with the Libyan internet began well before the US began active involvement.

The .ly ccTLD has nothing to do with Obama and everything to do with unstable regimes.
From the article:

> There is no way in hell any company would launch an engineering or accounting competition.

Ahem: http://www.netflixprize.com/
The DNS for .ly is distributed. The point of failure was the registrar.
I wouldn't trust Germany either, unless I'm German. Country code domains are meant for residents of that country. If you're an American use .us, if your Chinese use .cn, if you're Libyan use .ly.

Or use .com, .org, .net, .info
I agree 100%. However, I tried the amazon app store and instantly felt better at actually spending money. Somehow it just "feels" less shady.

This is probably all irrational and the Amazon store most likely doesn't address the real issues with the Google run store. But at the same time, I know the next time I want to look for an app, I will go to Amazon first.
Maybe it's worth that, but it's also likely that there are N other books promising agile goodness for much less.

That said, you can always drop the price later, at the risk of pissing off a few people who already bought it.

I'm interested to see how it goes, I think the ebook space is fascinating (and at this point have something of a vested interest myself: http://www.liberwriter.com ).
Certain extensions are not accessible through the proxy where I work, e.g., .nr. That represents about 180,000 people in about 100 countries worldwide. I assume it is not specific to this company.

Just a little something else to think of.
Well, you hit my big one: which one will make money.

Which one solves an actual problem that is already being experienced by people who want it solved? Related to which will make money.

Which market can I reach effectively? i.e., I have no way of marketing to Hospital Administrators without big cash infusions to pay salespeople.

Which market is growing? If both, which is growing faster?

Which ones have visible niches that I can carve out a home in?
JRumble: A jQuery Plugin That Rumbles Elements
Interesting, we'll definitely look at improving the landing page. Good point on the logout button that will be added shortly.
Larry Page Sets Himself up for Failure at Google
I'm a very experienced designer. This has nothing to do with competition (seriously, if a contest can unravel me then I'm not really a professional).

The rejection of contests has to do with wasting time on wishful thinking without even the minimum form of reward: constructive feedback.

Our advice is based on actual experience. What's yours?
I think .ly domain owners should consider switching to .li domains. Liechtenstein has a better track record for stability and rule of law to limit the exposure to arbitrary shutdown.
This was about 5 months ago, so it's possible they drastically improved it in that time (although it doesn't sound like it). But I ran into the exact same issues.

Debugging was a pain because of you were writing JavaScript rather than Obj-C and the line or file on some errors were on were entirely unhelpful.

Performance (which you don't notice in the simulator) is poor. I was working with tables on iOS, even after cutting the app down to using 10 rows, people noticed a lot of lag on iPhone 4s (and it was unusable on a 3G or 3). This was with the only scroll events being a scroll position check suggested by the KitchenSink demo they provide.

Entirely possible this was something I missed, but while it says cross-platform, you don't really get cross-platform. The difference in UIs between Android and iOS means you're going to be writing quite a lot more code to actually get an app that works on both Android and iOS.

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Engineering, accounting, and other +regulated+ fields use social engineering to solve the problem of how to be paid handsomely. What they have done is convince society that there should only be a limited number of engineers and accountants, those that are highly trained and have passed rigorous examinations.

Yes, they've made an argument to society. And that argument is not entirely empty or "social engineering". With engineers, the argument is that the cost of, say, a bridge failure, is borne by not just the bridge builders but the people who might be driving on the bridge at the time of failure.

Thus society, and not just the individual paying for the work, has an interest in requiring that certain work is done competently.

It seems like a reasonable - it may be applied wrong -headedly or corruptly in places but for limited areas it seems entirely reasonable.

You could answer that argument but when you just label the argument "social engineer" it more like your engaging in this yourself by dismissing the argument without engaging it.
Personally I've always found it annoying when my countrymen are taken to task for being 'ignorant' of another country's culture. As I have to constantly point out to people from other countries - you're aware of so much in American politics because, like it or not, we're a (if not the) world super power right now. There's one (or a handful) of us, and hundreds of other countries. I can't be expected to be conversant in the politics and culture of all of them and still live my life. If someone insists on pressing the point, then I just pick a random country off the top of my head and ask them how much they know about it's culture and politics.

Usually that gets the point across. I also like to flip it around and point out to them that we're a nation of 300 million people, more divided and complex than they usually realize - and I almost never have a problem getting that point across pretty quickly. Most people from other countries who think they know a lot about America don't know as much about us as they think they do.

It's not that Americans don't want to learn about other countries - far from it. It's just that there are hundreds of them paying attention to us, and as citizens, we just can't individually return the favor and learn the ins and outs of all of them.
In the world of payments, that doesn't really matter at all. Payment processors can't afford to have high fraud % customers, so if fraud becomes a problem they'll just drop him.
Ahh, but PyPy is not being written by web developers -- or for them. The main guy behind the project is a research computer scientist (http://cfbolz.de/) and most of the people who are excited about it are also doing scientific computing.

I am one of them, and the ability to write scientific code in Python that runs as fast (or faster!) than C would be so awesome that I can hardly put it into words. Unlike web development, performance is still a huge bottleneck in this field; people still mill about for 3 weeks waiting for their job to finish just like it was the 1970s. Consequently, most code written for research projects consists of lot of arcane, difficult-to-read C, C++, or even (gasp!) FORTRAN.

The benefits of switching to Python in terms of development time, ease of debugging, reusability, potential for collaboration, reproducibility, etc. are immense, but the performance penalty is such that it rarely happens. Even in spite of that, Python already has a large academic following; if PyPy manages to pull off its stated goals, it would be revolutionary.
How about there is no Honeycomb version of At Bat, but there is an iPad and iPhone/iPod version. Basically, they don't support Android the same way they support iOS. I have both and iPad and a Xoom, but I only purchased the iPad version because there is no Honeycomb version.
retort "that's not a newborn" when the babies face first appears on camera

Some fathers too :)
The Turkish Story
Interesting, I experienced similar frustrations starting out with rhomobile and was hoping the grass was greener on the other side.

My ultimate complaint with rhomobile is that the "native" apps are running in the web browser. I plan go into further detail in an upcoming blog post / presentation.
I haven't found on device performance to be too terrible for latest gen iPod Touch and iPhone 4. It's definitely inconsistent in places though.

You're dead right on debugging, it's pretty much guess and check, all the way through. Painful puts it mildly.
You might want to handle this exception. http://d.pr/UZOm It sucks that Twitter's 'Over capacity' responses are being sent in HTML, rather than as an API response.
Not to further pile on, but this is also a great reason to register your critical domains for many years into the future. Even for boutique TLDs, the yearly registration is pretty trivial compared to the potential downside of losing your name.
I wonder what registrar they were using? I registered status.ly 2 years ago with libyanspider and they seem to be pretty up-front about what's going on.

http://libyanspider.com/m/announcements.php?id=19
http://libyanspider.com/m/announcements.php?id=20

They even have a big red phone number on their homepage for emergencies.

I no longer own the domain, but it seems like their customers aren't affected by this.
PCI compliance is only an issue if he's storing CC data.
Why does nobody mention that this competition is for "chat styles"? That the content of the chat window is the only part of the new oh-so-awful Skype 5 for Mac that you can change with custom "styles", and that no matter how good the UI/UX designer, they can not fix any of the perceived problems with the Skype 5 UI by creating a "chat style"?
I agree, PhoneGap today looks much better than it did when I started this project on Titanium about 6 months ago. I definitely wish I'd gone that route in retrospect.
Marko Gargenta interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2011
See also dnode: similar functionality, but more mature.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5317282/what-is-the-diffe...
Politicians manipulate people's behaviour by appealing to their perceived best interest. So do companies marketing products. So do the Society of Engineers and the College of Physicians. Come to think of it, so do unions.

Is there any "reasonableness" to their position? You can decide for yourself. If you don't like the expression "social engineering," I'm perfectly happy with "Engineers manipulate public behaviour to solve the problem of how to be paid handsomely."

Whether that manipulation is in society's best interests is another argument, and yes I am avoiding it.*

* "Avoiding it" does not mean that I disagree with your point.
I think that "country X vs Y" stuff is much of why, when an American is ignorant about facets of another country/culture, they don't default to feeling like they are in some way at fault for that ignorance. That isn't the same thing as being proud of their ignorance (which is around in America, but much less common than one might fear), it is a reasonable position to have.

Any time spent learning about the details of some other culture/country is time not spent on learning about another. Faced with the abundance of sets of details to learn, and with little to make one country/culture's set of details stand out as the one an American might want to learn, lack of self-recrimination is a pretty healthy response. Maybe it would seem more polite if American's made like they were embarrassed about the ignorance when it comes up, but that would go against being honest.
Yeah, it's too bad. I know a guy on the development team, and I think they're doing a great job given the complexity of the task they've taken on, but I can't recommend it for anything other than prototypes or very simple applications.
If you've ever thumbed through the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll know these are all very valid questions. :)
This applies to apps too. Here my simple logic.

Android phones are available for free from carriers. Thus, the typical Android buy is more price sensitive. They are more likely to choose free content & apps.

iPhone customers don't get FREE iPhones. They are willing to pay $200+ for a phone and contract. Their willingness to pay for apps & content is higher than Android users.

Just look at Angry Birds. It's FREE on the Android store, but charged for on the iOS store.
Please show that there's some substance behind your "suppressing further debate" accusation.

Obviously your opinion wasn't suppressed on proggit.

Obviously your opinion wasn't suppressed here.

And nothings been done to stop you posting in the discussion forum or commenting in the tracker.
* Font - really? I thought it gave a "fun" sort of image to the site. Which font are you referring to? I'm using 2 main fonts here.

* I've removed the period at the end of the sentence as well, if the user's wager already has one. Thanks for pointing this out.
> He was in the Wehrmacht

Wait, what?
Awesome! I'm doing Net 60 as that's what Stripe does. The CC data is safe, but of course there's no reinforcement on-site. I'll add something.
Isn't the issue here more that they waited until the last minute to renew their domain and because a war broke out they are S.O.L. ?
Loved TSN for that part too.

Another awesome one (less technical but a spot-on acknowledgement of tech culture) was the 30 Rock spoof of the iPhone launch keynote: http://www.hulu.com/watch/67267/30-rock-the-keynote

I laughed for two minutes straight and my wife missed it completely.
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I agree that engaging in the movement of capital doesn't build any real value, however this applies to only certain sectors of the economy- if you look at places like Silicon Valley, we are creating value through the start up scene, and this is real value because it creates jobs and new ecosystems that fuel further growth.

I think you will begin seeing a trend away from the "no value creation" capitalism of the past 20 years- we're seeing people becoming more interested in physical inventions (see the popularity of the Make Fest and workshop clubs) and a rebirth of US industry (opportunities will open up as China and other "low-cost" centers see wage growth and people see other openings in fields such as shoe production, just to name one.).
I think that's also because the American show was intended to last longer. Ricky Gervais' character was truly repellent, and probably wouldn't have been tolerable for 7 seasons.

FWIW, I think both versions have their charms.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that people aren't used to giving money to Google where they are more likely to have a trusted customer-vendor relationship with Amazon.

That being said Google is a well-known and trusted brand so I think something else might be at play here psychologically. Perhaps the public perception of Google's products as being "free" (to them) somehow increases the barrier to becoming a paid customer.

I have not an ounce of evidence to indicate that but I think it could be an interesting topic with big implications for the startup community.
I don't disagree with him but I still think Appcelerator is worth it. Because as annoying as Appcelerator can be it's still quicker than writing your app twice and Apple's devotion to objective-C makes it very hard to carry over code from other platforms.

I would give two warnings though (which are supported by the author's piece)...

1. You need to make sure your use case is covered in the Kitchen Sink example. If you can't take those pieces and put together what you want to build than you shouldn't bother with Appcelerator (the documentation is pretty useless)

2. You need to buy support. The community is non-existent but the staff support is pretty good. A lot of times their advice boils down to "just ignore that error" but that's helpful with a lot of the errors generated.

Also note Appcelerator just bought Aptana, a company that makes development software. So clearly they realize there's a problem are are taking steps to fix it.

Edit: One last thing in their defense. Though they've been slower than I'm happy with in making their platform easier they have added a lot of new features. Things like Bump, bar code reading, credit card reader support and in-app purchases aren't available elsewhere (though these were just announced so I don't know how well they work yet)
Sinatra & Padrino
Stripe reps have stated repeatedly that whatever their fee structure looks like right now, it's not representative of what it will look like when they come out of beta.

The only thing that I've seen that was commented on, but not objected to, is that it's 'similar to' PayPal fee structures. But even that's up to being refuted.
> If you get off the coasts you can find a whole bunch of Americans

No, actually you won't. Most of America's population lives within two hundred miles of it's coastlines. This group of proudly ignorant people is therefore much smaller than they're stereotypically thought of being.
Can Rob Kalin Scale Etsy?
Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones never post anything or something slightly more useful.
Nokia's Stephen Elop explains choice of Windows Mobile over Android
The first two points are describing fork(), which python already has on unix-like systems. If he means something different, then he needs to explain more how exactly it would work (especially regarding hardware/os support).
Baird: Android is a Mess, Say Developers
damn, got rate limited just as I was picking up steam in chopping off heads
So nobody else found it suspicious that the source code was promised but not actually available. And now not even promised.
Lots of projects want to simplify the app development process, and there are even more startups working on automating the process. Ultimately it's fine for prototyping, but not much else. Performance becomes an issue and you rapidly hit it wall with anything but native apps.

It's good to get your feet wet and get excited about the platform, regardless of it being Android or iOS, but at some point you need to just bite the bullet and pick up a good book and start working.
I posted a little while ago that Google has very few patents of it's own - only about 600 that I can find. Apple has about 3700, Microsoft about 17000. HTC has next to none.

Now Google wants to spend a billion dollars to buy 6000 Nortel patents. I guess Google learned that you don't bring smart employees, a sane corporate culture, genuine innovation, and a good reputation among your customers to a patent fight.

Another interesting angle to this whole patent auction going on here in canuckistan is going to be Google vs. Huawei. Both of these companies are in the telecom sector, both of them have a metric ton of money (although maybe Huawei has the advantage here - theirs is pretty much guaranteed by the Chinese treasury, in spite of whatever ridiculous claims of independence they've made), both of them are competing with established players with huge patent portfolios, but neither of them have many patents themselves. Huawei has already made it known that they want those patents too. We'll see how this turns out.
I enabled it as well. App store doesn't hang, but is much slower: downloading an app normally starts after 1 second, with the fix enabled it takes 8s to even start.

LoginWindow sleep worked fine when logging off and pressing the sleep button. Didn't have time to properly test your case.

The big question for me is: How do people with iPhone and iPads enable this? The test in the article yields "not trusted" instead of revoked...

Funny that Apple has revoking turned on for App certs, but not for SSL. Guess they value their platform higher than user data...
For a while I had it in my mind that maybe you could save some memory while having safety just by using os.fork() after pre-importing a bunch of stuff; but then reference counting was pointed out to me and I realized it would be pointless -- the act of merely looking at an object changes the object, so copy-on-write means copy-everything.

Reference counting seems like it could be removed... except for all the C extensions that are specifically handling reference counting internally, removal of which I'm guessing would cause a lot of breakage. But then... it seems like those C extensions are exactly the problem, so if PyPy tries to keep them is it messing itself up? (Though I'm guessing it would somehow use proxy objects or some other trick to keep its internal object representation flexible.)
Indeed. Those giant dump trucks often employed in open-pit mines operate the same way. Like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebherr_T_282B

Note the transmission type is listed as "AC electric"
Working on two different ideas with different target markets simultaneously is a recipe for disaster. Facing the challenges of a single bootstrapped start up is hard enough.