skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, ooh, ooh! I love "Amazon should buy Netflix" articles. It's the HN equivalent of "first!" to say that Amazon won't buy Netflix because it would give them a business nexus in a lot of states and require them to collect sales tax there. Ergo, never gonna happen, at least not without some financial sleight of hand like the $175 million "investment" in LivingSocial.
> I've never done this and have never understood why people think it's so important. I prefer to build stuff for paying customers. They're never bashful and are a great way to get really good really quickly.

I'm not sure if you mean in a startup context or a freelancing, but both have some degree of urgency that don't promote writing great code and developing new skills. It's very tempting to stick with what you know because you're out of time and don't want to take a chance on something new.

That said, it's also easy to fall into the trap of never releasing anything so I prefer a mixture of both.
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We're definitely looking into this and hope to find a clean solution soon. We started by indexing RSS since it was what we needed and since it was _way_ simpler to implement for a first version. Stay tuned! :)
Cowboy, Misultin, MochiWeb, Tornado, and NodeJS Benchmark
A couple of years back, federal regulators (thanks to the efforts of EFF) declared that jailbreaking an IPhone is not illegal. Since then, Apple has stopped threatening users with jailbroken IPhones, and also, finding and patching new vulnerabilities that allow jailbreaking has become a moot point.

In the same vein, has there ever been a verdict on the legality of unofficial (MyWi-like) tethering?
"Microsoft has caught the “Wal-Mart Disease” – constantly trying to do more of what it always did, hoping it can regain old results – even as the market keeps shifting. In stalled companies, executives cut costs in sales, marketing, new product development and outsource like crazy in order to prop up earnings. They can outsource many functions. And they go the resorvoir [sic]* of accounting rules to restate depreciation and expenses, delaying expenses while working to accelerate revenue recognition. While Microsoft had higher earnings than last quarter, it wasn’t because customers were excited about their products!"*

Not only is Hartug's claim regarding Microsoft suffering from Walmart disease unsupported by a substantial evidence, e.g. examples of Microsoft cutting back on marketing - just look at WP7; or outsourcing new product development (one example would be nice), but it also ignores the fact that although one could argue that Windows 7 was more of the same, the Kinect was not exactly what their customers wanted but that it was delivered at the right price and in high volume.
They are moving to open governance. So, why not make use of it and let your voice be heard before going through the enormous effort that a fork will be?
IMO it is essential for Jobs to do that in order to demand high quality and perfection. It is better to say things like that in the face of people rather than to smoothen the communication and then let them go or move them to different projects without explaining why. I would absolutely do the same thing in his shoes. It is the fastest possible way to get the message across. Now, this may be unpleasant and he may indeed show some lack of balance of temper but it may very well be on purpose. This is of course speculation on my part since I haven't met the guy and I have not worked for Apple.
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Believe me, they won't ever appreciate code quality - they just care that it works. Clients get more hung up over a typo than clean markup!
I can't believe people are (ostensibly) paid well for this kind of writing. It meanders around and takes the longest path possible to what is essentially a paragraph or two of actual information.
YES! It was impossible for me to close my account.

I emailed them repeatedly and they claimed my account was closed. Then someone sent me a message (because my account was still appearing on the site..) and it REOPENED my account and I started getting email about it again. LinkedIn is the WORST.
Step 1: Place GPS tracking device on every car (alternatives include demand GPS tracking devices be built into cars by manufacturers or build them into license plates as part of a move to save money on toll collections).

Step 2: Analyze data algorithmically, looking for suspicious correlations.

Step 3: 1984.

Another thought: If you don't need a warrant to place GPS tracking device on a car, you ought to be able to obtain location tracking data from a telephone company without a warrant. Wherever your phone goes, the FBI is simply following you with a virtual agent.
Creating Shared Inbox for Google Apps: a great way for improved collaboration
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JavaScript Library vs. App Framework
SwipeGood (YC W11) Makes Giving So Easy It's a Rounding Error
Bingo.

Algorithmic insight = power. But it's difficult to get that insight without the context of experience.
i generally just keep music for my non-work related time. though you're right that it is likely due to my genres of choice.

tv while i work is still my preference and keeps me the most productive. it's like the ADD portion of my brain is satiated by the flickering lights and let's the rest of my brain focus on the task at hand.
Yes, I heard somewhere deep under the hood eduhub.nl is WordPress. Code can be poetry ;)

Validation offers little business value. My reply was perhaps a bit old-fashioned. Why eat your plate, when you can only eat desserts? But validation is a prerequisite for accessibility. Accessibility may or may not add business value -- like an architect that designs houses for people between 190 cm and 165cm might not ever face a problem.

I think Pingdom is not about page speed, but ping speed. Things like javascript resources won't be downloaded in parallel right now, no matter the Pingdom score: combining your 7 jQuery plug-ins will increase page speed.

You really need a front-ender for the exciting stuff, I agree. A statistician with front-end experience would be even better.

I understand that in iterating fast like you are, you might leave some crumbs, to move on to bigger and better things. But also in practice, as a good front-end developer, part of a good team, it is possible to validate and speed-optimize even the largest of sites.

And the multi-functionality you rightfully demand from a front-ender, you can extend to every scrum team member. That means if the front-ender hands in a valid template, back-end devs should take care (know just enough) to not invalidate it.
most 24-hour clocks and watches have 0 or 24 at the top. i've seen a few with 0 at the southern-most position but they are not very common.

here's my watch:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/5703135927/
Yes. To quote Jesus Christ (in translation, of course :) "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Or to put it another way, you're only hurting yourself.

To be specific, the Sabbath is the last day of the week, so all the Christians who use Sunday both as the first day of the week and as their day of rest are already ignoring the Sabbath.

If you're interested in how that happened, it's to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, which was on the day after the Sabbath (because Jesus was crucified the day before the Sabbath and rose on the third day, the day after the Sabbath). So no matter where you put the Sabbath, Christians will still observe their day of worship on the day after.
SPOT watch ver.2: D.O.A.
bmw.de. It's a URL that typically people from the US don't hit, so it is a good check of DNS and connectivity.
Google only recently made it possible to do in app selling, which I believe will actually make it much, much easier to get money for our games, especially as android users are more willing to buy in game upgrades.

But that is only half the equation the other part being that users can expect to find an app that can solve their problem - which is important for the users to buy an Android phone in the first place (it is also partly why I have written of Win7 phone).
I haven't used XUL, but XAML on Microsoft platforms, and for that matter HTML, show that the basic concept can work very well. My biggest gripe with XAML is the heavy XML syntax, which it looks like QML ditches.
Apple is world's most valuable brand
The Progress Principle
FBI Tracking Device Teardown
In a very theoretical way you are probably. right. But the real world doesn't work that way.

The reason companies resist paying dividends is because investors take that as a signal of maturity and maturity is the antithesis of growth in the market.

Once you start paying dividends you become the stock that people keep in their portfolio to hedge against market instability. Like Microsoft or GE which might grow slightly over the years but remains relatively flat.

Becoming that company makes it hard to move forward. You can't use stock options as a draw so it's hard to get talent and your generally viewed as static which makes it hard to get media attention. Hence the stagnation.

If you're an executive like Jeff Bezos who is actually committed to the company becoming "mature" basically means the CEO jobs is just maintenance from that point on and I don't think he's ready to do that yet
What is interesting is driving force behind so many more developing for Android. What is the cause?

* It is not the profit.

* It is not the user base. Unless your app only appeals to smartphone users, iOS outsells Android by leaps and bounds.

It is, perhaps, an indication that Android is winning in the minds of geeks who go on to write their own software for the platform they use, while the average Joe continues to use iOS and is willing to pay someone else to write the software.
Pretty hard thing to do, so many of the applications that most regular computer users use everyday are either not present on linux or nowhere near the amount of polish. That's not to mention gaming which makes even the mac a hard sell on the mass market.

Even as a developer that interacts with linux on servers every day I still feel no great urge to run a linux desktop.
I do exactly the same. Lastpass has my social sites passwords, and other not-so-relevant sites. I commit to memory my hard-to-guess passwords for email, bank and Paypal accounts.
I think this is the same as was submitted a year ago. Twice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322135

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197949
Qt has been a huge platform for some time now. It's what I call the Boost syndrome: if you want to use a small part of Qt, you have to shove your whole arm in the machine.
i use Montezuma, tiny Lucene clone in CL.
I have cut back on watching TV. Using a DVR helps: not only for skipping commercials but for some reason when I am watching something that is recorded it is much easier to bail out and delete it after a few minutes. I try to watch about 4 hours of TV a week and perhaps 3 movies - this may seem like a lot, but a decrease compared to 10 years ago.

My big time sink is reading: I read about 3 technical books a month and about 2 novels. For a mindless vegging-out activity, I like hiking.
Here is a list of all JS Conf 2011 slides
Google Watercolor
It's actually really fun. I think the end all greatness of this would be if I could play minecraft, and enter an arena, and start playing this. (guy can dream)

I love the jump height...do not change that.

Powerups might be cool, but not necessarily required.
Too high. They should learn from Bill Gates.
Doesn't this presume that the app vendor can be trusted not to be intercepting your traffic?
I think its a useful application. Hope you can add a way for users to invite others to their pack manually by entering email address (instead of directly importing contacts).
You don't have to worry about exiting an app in webOS in order to leave a review.
Well...I hate to be this blunt about it...but if Amazon were to buy Netflix it would be to get their subscribers and to get their content licenses. Since any merger would take time and netflix has already said it plans to do everything in its power to move away from shipping DVDs.

So since Netflix is already running on AWS and Amazon is already maintaining their infrastructure there wouldn't be much need for Amazon to take on Netflix's employees or physical assets.
Agreed. The whole idea of a logo is to pack up the most information into the easiest to digest form. Like a pun, of sorts.

That may sound oxymoronic and/or very difficult, but that's why good logos are hard to do.
thank you, thank you!
What is the value of the metric? And what metric? App submissions per unit time? I suppose that metric has some value. The projected date that the Google app store will have more apps than Apple's iOS app store is not a metric: it's a naive extrapolation.

What value do research firms deliver? For whom? In the past, many people have accused various research firms of shilling for various industry players, e.g. Gartner for Microsoft. I've never heard of a research firm providing insightful, actionable, accurate, non-trivial analysis. ("Sun will rise tomorrow!") The only people who I know of who cite research firms' reports are people in large corporations who are out of touch with reality or sales people or people at companies that have an interest in having others believe what a research firm is saying.

Market research can be scientific in that it can reflect a basic intellectual honesty and be the result of critical reflecting on findings and asking whether they make even the least amount of sense.

When people use the term "scientific" the way you did, it often appears to be a defensive move, a way to say, "Of course this isn't a repeatable double-blind controlled clinical trial!" But there's much more to science than that. Most of what we know we know through the application of scientific methods (perhaps better-called habits of mind) in situations where gold-plated studies are impractical or impossible.

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ADDENDUM

I am being harsh because research firms contribute little or no value. They're little better than web content farms in terms of the volume and value of information they produce. They feed pointless speculation. They flatten complex issues into simple-minded horse races. I am far more supportive of people doing real work that turns out to be spectacularly wrong. Research firms produce thick, black, sooty smoke that pollutes the marketplace, both the literal marketplace and the marketplace of ideas.
Sometimes, writing is about more than just "actual information."

If this kind of writing bothers you, you definitely don't want to subscribe to the New Yorker.
Until we all stop living on a globe.
In the Beginning, There Was a Vaguely Defined Business Model.
I wouldn't call that a waste; you no longer have to look up to know if it's sunny.
I thought the "meandering" was actually a lucid explanation of the difficulty in choosing a suitable order of names in what is a highly sensitive location.

Anyway, I thought you chose an overly verbose way of saying "tl;dr".
More machines, more reliability
+1. Overall a good list, but I hugely disagree with recommending a laptop and no keyboard/mouse peripherals.
Thanks! Actually that's on the to-do list. I will make users be able to add others via their username on wolfpacktales rather than having to go to the sites to import. At the moment, it works nicely because of the early virality that brought on board.
Being in-kernel, acunu is very far from the lightness of LevelDB.
Tips on Selling Your First Company
This seems to be the effect in Minecraft, too. The initial draw to Minecraft was that it was a ridiculously simplistic sandbox, but now users want an infinite number of improvements: better textures, anti-aliasing, better shading, and less "blockiness".

It's an effect in pretty much any piece of software. See also Firefox, which used to be prized for it's minimalism, but is now considered bloated next to Chrome. Eventually Chrome will get Minecrafted too.
Been following the blog - currently using "word-clock". This watch face is the best conversation piece I've ever worn.

This watch totally revitalized my BlackBerry experience.
I was being sarcastic when I said that it was secure....

It's true that sometimes having very secure banks can be a pain... But, I would much rather have a bank that is very secure and a bit of a pain to sometimes access compared to a bank like mine where it's trivially easy to get access to someone's bank account...

I currently use 1password because it's not hosted, it's portable and I find it quite convenient...

BTW: You got my name but haven't got my correct birthday date. I've avoided having it in clear on internet because of identity thefts :-)

If you ever drop by Shanghai, feel free to hit me up for a drink
I mean writing things I'd rather not have on my permanent record. E.g. an overly emotional and poorly thought out political manifesto, or giving personal details that people I work with might consider 'too much information' or "overshare"

Especially for the latter, a pseudonym seems polite. I mean, you need to be aware that if someone /really/ wants to find out, they will. But using a pseudonym, I think, is a polite way to separate your personal life from your professional life.
When I read what Jobs' is reported to have said my first thought was the song Stan by Eminem. I don't know why but the tone just struck me a very similar.
Schema Validation offers a false sense of security
They would probably loose the content licenses. The contracts between the content holders and Netflix says probably something about a right to cancel the contract in case Netflix is bought.
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Thunderbolt Macs are Here, But Where Are the Thunderbolt Devices?
Look, this is cool and all from a technical perspective, but why are people strapping themselves in static site generator straightjackets like this? At some point, doesn't it become much simpler to just use a server side framework?
I agree with @ThomPete. The value I get from it is:

- Ideal for work colleagues especially from previous work. I keep my Facebook to IRL friends and Twitter is fully open but linked in is that nice middle ground for colleagues.

- Weak connections - I subscribe to the RSS feed of updates, filtered out new connections and when someone joins a new firm or gets a new title, I just send them an email with a congratulations. Like Facebook news, an update can prompt a catch-up that I would not have thought of before

- Groups - groups are a lot more focused and active than Facebook. I have had good responses and engagement to blog posts and participated in some good discussions in niche areas like NFC security or security architecture, security in agile development

- Recruitment - as Thom says I have had recruiters contact me based on Linked in. Most people are hesitant to provide a written reference but on linked in I have got quite a number of recommendations which are basically the same thing.

- 2nd and 3nd contacts at prospective clients / firms - if you are considering joining a new company you can see who in your network knows someone that works there.

I think they will continue to do well and could be one of these IPO's that provide a lot of value to early investors.
That's exactly what I tried to do in my previous post: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2011/04/26/visualizing-time-with-...

The big downsides I was trying to overcome with line/bar charts is the difficulty in preserving the continuity from the end of the chart back to the beginning. A normal bar chart usually just breaks the data, making it hard to understand the trend that occurs in the time period that spans the break. But you're definitely right that that type of visualization makes comparing the bars much much easier.
Sounds like an e-ink display, not OLED. On the website it says there are two platform, and for only one of them does it say OLED.
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I would disagree. From what I have seen, videos are more engaging than a feature list.

However, everyone is different, and I appreciate hearing that not everyone feels that way!
While I appreciate your choice of examples to make your point, I'm not convinced that pulling a slab of electronics out of your pocket every time you need to know the local time is already the peak of perfection.
New search engine Blekko hits, and misses, at the same time
We have a venue and if the sun holds it's going to be lovely :)

Bryggens spisehus
Islands Brygge 18
2300 København S

http://bryggens.dk/

See you there!

PS Please signup to the Meetup group too so we can let you know of any last minute changes
Look at advice to beginners like a conversion funnel. If you end up losing 90% of people who try programming when you start them off with data structures and lose only 80% if you start them off with a little JavaScript game why not start them off on the latter? After their first public launch they will cling to interesting topics, but in the beginning it just seems like route memorization. The what but not the why.
So, basically, the same best practices all front end developers should be following anyway.
Jailbreaking was given a temporary exemption from the DMCA. That doesn't mean it's necessarily legal, nor does it mean that it doesn't violate the terms of the contract with your carrier.
It's cheaper, there's no app server to crash, the best code is no code, etc.
I wish I had some major time waster like that to eliminate ...

Maybe you're commenting on it? :P
I switched from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu 10 recently and the only thing I miss is TrackaMania (and not that much).

Open Office has all the features I need and I can open all my spreadsheets and docs from MS Office. The support for my HP 3-in-1 is great and I found the software a lot easier to use (because its simpler) than HP's. Scanning is a lot simpler. My wireless got working before I noticed it.

So I see no reason to return to Windows unless you are a gamer. My parents and in-laws certainly don't need to stick to Windows.

What Ubuntu needs is a bit of marketing.
Does anyone know if tethering can be detected on Android phones? I'm curious what other provides do to try to detect tethering on Android phones.
I have no useful comments for you, but I just wanted to say that this is very cool. I love when people create useful and educational apps.

Kudos to you, good sir or madam.
Perhaps, but, the downside, is that free Android apps that make no money don't really pay your bills. Doing apps on the side is one thing, quitting your job and working on Android apps full-time is quite another. I don't see many posts about developers doing the latter.
" iOS outsells Android by leaps and bounds"

No it doesn't.
"However, another fiasco like the one with Ubuntu 11.04 will make 200 million users a distant dream."

What is this fiasco that he is talking about? not including wayland on 11.04? talk about confusing writing.

I do think 11.04 is immature compared to previous versions, but is in line to what you should expect with such a radical change as Unity.
Are you this guy?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
11 months after iOS 4.0, 31% of apps don’t multitask [App File Stats]
Jon Skeet: Eduasync part 1: How does async work in C# 5?
1. You can't search your attachments in Gmail. At least I can't (though these days with split testing you never know).

2. Ben and Jesse are in the top 1% of Toronto talent. Ben did his masters in NLP.

3. Google has a history of buying off companys like this for 20 to 30 million, so if you're an investor that is comforting.

4. Jesse has cofounded a successful company before.