skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large issue of the revenue difference is that you can return apps for up to 24 hours on Android but you can't return an iPhone app. Because of this, friends of mine who use Android phones will routinely download an app to use for a specific situation they're currently in, then return later the following day. It's not the app is bad, it's just that they used it for the one thing they wanted to use it for, and can now just get their money back. It's like buying a tux for your wedding and then returning it the next day for a full refund. This may be a huge plus for users, but as a developer it really, really sucks.
Do you work for LinkedIn?
I used to have the same fear about Linux, command line, vim, etc. You sound competent, I suspect the learning curve will be a lot less than you fear it will be.
The site shows two watches and one of them looks like it has an e-ink display and no OLEDs. The "Digital with 96x96 reflective / always on display technology". That sounds and looks a lot like e-ink.

Seiko and others have also released watches with e-paper displays: http://www.seikowatches.com/baselworld/2010/precon/0402-epd....
You heard that (partially) wrong. The only part of Eduhub that is Wordpress is the article section and then only the backend part of that. All the article views and the rest of the site are served by CakePHP.

Most (not all) of the validation errors on our page are caused by external Javascripts (eg. VWO) by the way. But you do raise a valid point about some performance related issues, like minifying JS/CSS and combining files. The good news is, we're working on that!
Frameworks like Jekyll are a good choice if you want to use github pages.
The cultures of Amazon and Netflix are more similar than the cultures of a generic mature company and a start-up. Amazon is still taking risks and starting new businesses - AWS is one example. Most recently, they started venturing into video streaming, and MP3 streaming. And, unlike other companies like Yahoo!, Cisco, or even Google, Amazon's investments and acquisitions have been quite smart, see Zappos and LivingSocial.

All in all, I think Jeff Bezos would love to buy Netflix - strong brand, entrepreneurial culture, outstanding execution - but Amazon doesn't afford to pay the price for it. Additionally, Reed Hastings would do anything to avoid such an acquisition.
Can it search atom feeds as well?
As the owner of registered trademarks on FACECASH and INTERBOOK, and pending applications on FACEPASS, FACECHECK and FACEMAIL--not to mention the existence of THE NORTH FACE, FACETIME, PLAYBOOK, and other famous trademarks, some of which are decades old--it should be pretty clear that Mark has exclusive rights to neither FACE nor BOOK in this country, whether in California or elsewhere.

More detail on all the reasons Facebook, Inc. is incorrect in its views here:

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91198355&pty=OPP&...

Congratulations, Teachbook!
It's only a Ponzi scheme if you're lying to investors about how much money you have. If you invest in something and then it fails due to some unforeseen factor, that's just bad luck (or bad planning), not a Ponzi scheme.
I find it to be a tool to find and research prospective employees. I've hired multiple programmers from the site; some I found on LinkedIn, some I've looked up more information on someone who sent me their resume.

Like most tools, they are largely worthless unless you know how to use them properly...
Video of the Future - reelTime demo with popcorn.js etc
OnStar has been tracking GM vehicles for a long time. I bet Microsoft Sync does tracking for Ford cars now too. Then of course there's LoJack for fleet vehicles etc.
Google to build new GooglePlex from scratch
Interesting.

Honest question: why would anyone use this? Are there particular use cases you were targeting? Why would someone choose to take a survey on their phone over a website on their computer?
If the valuation starts off so high that means future growth has already been priced in, which means there's no compelling reason for any new investor to buy the shares. The share price will drift downward for years (which happens to most IPO's) unless they can completely blow the doors off with new revenue.
You're over-analyzing. Alex is just providing a list for his list of preferences for a minimal stress computing experience.
You could build it yourself from the source? http://code.google.com/p/sshtunnel/

At some point you gotta trust someone though.
AirRun, a Zaarly competitor/copycat has a new YT ad
YouTube Founders AVOS Acquire Tap11 Analytics Firm
Yes, it can handle atom feeds too. If you have a feed Tapir can't read, let me know and I'll look into it. :)
It's certainly hard to deny Apple has done better with him at the wheel. So clearly his style -- whatever it actually is -- works.
At this point we're not just a tool for searching attachments in Gmail. We support Yahoo Mail, Twitter, and Facebook as well. We also plan to branch into other services, e.g., general IMAP. We let you pull together these various accounts into one simple, visualized, central index.

The philosophy of "why build something, because company x, with infinite money, will just build it better" I think is a flawed one.
If it goes before the current supreme court, the country is screwed, they will rule it legal and then it will be "settled law" for decades to come.

Few warrants are ever turned down at every level of law enforcement (feds have 100% approval apparently) why do they endanger any case they may have by skipping a warrant? Is it ego? Is it laziness?
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough - I didn't miss the point you were making, and I completely agree with it (one of my other comments somewhere on this page makes that same point), I was just pointing out the flaw in your example that travelling forward through time zones many times won't make more of a difference than doing it just once.
"In February, a secret meeting of the European Union’s Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP) resulted in a worrying proposal."

How can some small EU working group even dare to discuss my human rights in a secret meeting without any democratic legitimacy?
YouTube Founders Buy Social-Media Analytics Firm
Source? From what I can gather, Android barely outsells the iPhone alone. The iPad and the iPod touch sell millions more.
It probably largely depends on your platform. In Alex's case, he uses a Mac laptop, which has a trackpad. Apple has done a bang-up job of making the trackpad useful and dare I say "expressive" in Mac OS X.

On the Mac, the latest gens of their trackpads have obsoleted mice for me.
> rate of $5 per 1000 queries

Damn, search is expensive
I guess watches won't be allowed during school exams in a near future.
Some shareholders are selling in the IPO. It's covered in the post.

It's more common for selling stockholders to sell in a follow-on but not unprecedented.

It will be great to get some liquidity into the hands of fantastic investors like Reid Hoffman.
I use Armin Ronacher's rstblog site generator. I'd say the inverse of what you said is true, at least in my experience. At some point it is much simpler to just use a static site generator. That point is when you nail down your workflow. I wrote about this very topic this morning:

http://mattdeboard.net/2011/05/09/more-tips-on-rstblog/
Interesting how most developers prefer to have their icons left as-is. That shine doesn't seem too popular.
Mobile phones charged by the power of speech
As a recent convert to Ubuntu, I seriously doubt it without drastic changes.

The problem I have with the system, the problem I see making the masses balk once they've been convinced to give it a try, is that, simply, things don't work out of the box with linux.

That's not Cannonical's fault, and indeed, they've put a lot of work into their app repository to build a pile of things that do....but every single time I've tried to go off the farm, install a game from CD, install something from makefile or a tarball..I'm missing repositories. I've the wrong..something. I'm trying to build a massive skillset and understanding of the thing, and I don't have the background to do it. Very few people do.
People will install it, browse the web, and then run into walls. They'll be angry, they'll blog about it. They'll leave, and they'll poison the public view.
Or you can try IndexTank. Free up to 100k documents, $49/mo up to 500k. Unlimited queries. (disclaimer: it's my company)
Thanks for finding those, it's a shame it didn't get more discussion.

"The Art of the Propagator" has been submitted a couple times, too, but seems like it hasn't made it over the threshhold to get noticed.
Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse
That's a great question. The answer is no, but had you used LinkedIn that would have been easy to figure out.
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The refund window was reduced to 15 minutes a while back. Which IMO as an Android developer is too short; 1 or 2 hours would be better.
I disagree. Things work better out of the box for me running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad than either Windows or OS X. The Ubuntu Software Center works great and doesn't require agreeing to a 56 page license or handing over credit card details.
Billion-dollar PSN outage may not be fully remedied until May 31
There's a huge difference between jailbreaking an iPhone, which the EFF established doesn't (necessarily) violate the DMCA, and breaking your contract by using services from AT&T that you're not paying for. The first means using something you bought and paid for in a way the manufacturer doesn't want you to. The second means using a service that the provider charges for, but you're not paying for. The law is never going to protect the second one.

To start with, tethering without paying for it is definitely a contract violation, and AT&T could cut off your service, retroactively charge you for it, or do whatever else (within reason) the contract provides for. There is little or no legal ambiguity about this. You are getting a service for free from AT&T that other people are charged for, so you're breaking your deal with them and owe them damages.

The (slightly) more interesting legal question might be whether AT&T could ask a prosecutor to bring criminal charges. My uninformed guess is they could, based on something like "theft of services." If I charged $20 a month for you to come fill up a one-gallon bucket any time you wanted from my well, and instead of a bucket you filled up a tanker truck, it would be theft plain and simple, because you'd knowingly be taking something from me without my permission.

(Actually I hate physical metaphors for computer stuff, because they usually distract more than help if you're talking with reasonably technical people. So let's not get sidetracked with questions like, "what if I filled up the tanker truck _with the bucket?_" [Unless you happen to enjoy pointless arguments as much as I do, in which case go for it.] The point is that the contract permits you to access AT&T's network in certain ways for a certain price, and you're accessing it in different ways without paying the different price, and the law's not too likely to be on your side for that one.)

This is all probably hypothetical, though. AT&T wouldn't bother to bring an expensive lawsuit or risk negative publicity from criminal charges, when they can (perfectly legitimately) charge you extra under the terms of your contract and dare you to fight it.

IAAL, in case that changes your assessment of a random person's opinions on the internet.
Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout Now Has a Playable Counter-Strike Map
There's a correct way to call bullshit outloud. Usually it fits the format of:

"Here is why what you're doing is wrong, here is why, and here is how to fix it."

Most things that don't fit this format are self-serving for the person doing the calling.
They don't need legitimacy - they have guns.

Fortunately we have compilers and computers so the fight isn't going to be fair.
I reckon that most developers don't bother to update their apps once it's in the store. They make their initial $0.99 and leave it as is. There might be the occasional bug fix if they find their ratings drop, but that's it.
or 69% of apps do multitask.
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I upgraded my installation of Ubuntu last weekend (fresh installation). Since then, the window management is broken (including X server crashes). ...... 200 Million users in 4 years? Naah! Never!
I have to agree with the fact that one has to be patient when it comes to programming,it takes time because its skill that needs to be mastered by repetition.Also it doesn't improve you if you always code alone,large projects are done by teams so it is important to start working with other coders as soon as possible.
So, can we study the frequency and if the out signal uses any encryption?

Maybe we can use a homemade receiver to find the people the FBI is tracking...
The article only analyzes free apps, so there is definitely going to be some selection bias here. Many apps (especially most free ones) would not have any use for multitasking anyhow.
Would you be interested in stats regarding the age of those 2000 apps?
JSConf, NodeConf, and Open Government
I was just wondering that because I just joined the Apple Religion (I did not buy a Centi-pad). Another member of the Apple Religion was hyping up Thunderbolt, but I have nothing to plug it into. Is there some hardware out there? It would be cool to have a backup with a thunderbolt attachment.
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I don't enable multitasking in my apps because I'm worried the bugs will accumulate in a long-running instance, and many users don't necessarily know to restart the app. I am planning to add component-by-component restart logic and trigger it periodically before enabling multi-tasking.
I agree, but only to a certain degree.

I do not say one should implement a linked list before writing the customary Hello, World program. Off course, it will be a couple of months before a "first time programmer" implements the first data structure program. But saying "Screw 'em! You can learn them when you need them" is a very very bad advice.

One should be aware of data structures and algorithms before writing any non-trivial program. Heck, data structures should be everyone's first non-trivial programs.

Whenever I pick up a new programming language, first thing I do is implement simple data structures like stacks, queues, linked lists etc. I have found that this way I can learn the most important parts of the language at hand pretty quickly. This is a habit I picked up when I first learnt data structures and this has stayed with me and has been paying me off handsomely.
would never have realized that this took so much effort.
I'd imagine that machining a piston engine is simpler and moraccessable than machining an efficient turbine.
I have a theory that Verizon, at least, has started installing watchdogs that prevent covert tethering.

My Droid X has an odd property such that connecting it via USB (in USB mass storage mode) causes BSoD, so I've been looking for a way to transfer data without a connection.

The most promising was to run an FTP server on the phone (through a high port, since the lower ones like 21 are protected). This works for me intermittently, and is super-fast when it does, but more often than not, I'm told that it can't connect. The exact same behavior occurs with several different FTP server apps, as well as an HTTP server. It's not due to DHCP shuffling my IP address, and it may even work briefly for a minute before the connection breaks and can't be re-established.

On the other hand, going in the other direction works OK, either through FTP or through an SMB share to my desktop. Unfortunately, this method is painfully slow (I don't know why).

My solution, then, is to do any transfer via my notebook computer, to which the phone can connect via USB with no trouble.

Anyway, the only explanation I can think of for the mostly-not-working FTP server is that there is a watchdog that's looking for the phone to act as a server, and when it detects a port sitting there, it closes it. That's just my theory, but I can't think of anything else to explain the behavior.
IT makes an embedded watch kit.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos?DCMP=C...
If watching TV is distracting you from working on your company, you don't have to sell your TV, just stop watching it. You're going to be bombarded with distractions no matter what you do. Family, friends, beer, the whole internet in general, all have the potential to be really distracting. But you can't just throw them out or sell them at a garage sale, you need to learn to get stuff done with them in your life as well. If you don't have the willpower to simply turn the TV off, how will you have the willpower to say no to a night out at the bar with friends, or when you open a new browser window and reddit is just a few keystrokes away I'll only check out a few links then it's back to work oh look its 4am how did that happen?

Basically, stop blaming TV. TV isn't what's not getting the work done.
The iPod and iPhone are two completely different worlds so it makes sense that you would see two groups of websites rise.

The iPhone and iPad are almost identical. There are plenty in the community who have made the divide between the products. Even if you can manage to get coverage on a site that blends iPhone/iPad coverage that is just fine (I've had this happen, sales went from around 40 to 180). I also consider it a huge benefit to get my brand in front of iPhone only users. It's likely that they'll know friends with an iPad and/or they may become a fan (fb, twitter, newsletter) in anticipation for an iPhone version.

iPhone and iPad coverage is hard in general. Getting my latest product out there has been a huge pain. Originally released on iPad, I had little coverage. I have yet to get coverage on the iPhone, though, it's still early. It's incredibly important that you spend time building relationships with editors, but that's far easier said than done.
Nvidia Buys Baseband And RF Technology Company Icera For $367M In Cash
data mining. it's hard to justify 300 million warrants.
Grow your own clothes: Suzanne Lee on TED.com
As for "The problem I ran into was that it takes you off the website you were searching on and takes you to a Google results page (complete with slightly irrelevant ads)."

You can set it up to load the ads on the same page. For example, running on my jekyll blog: http://paulstamatiou.com/search
Chrome users at risk due to WebGL attacks
I certainly think it deserves more attention, but I also believe it's not in the interest set of the current HN audience. I strongly believe it's on topic, I just think it's ignored by people who are interested in startups, web development, current hacking, and general current affairs. They seems to be the topics du jour.

Computational substrate theory doesn't really get much attention. Sadly.
Every good dealer knows that you don't cut off your customers' supply. You "work with" them, you send someone to break their legs for not paying, but you never cut them off.

Seriously, wouldn't it always have been easier just to cut customers off to prevent things like astronomical texting overages? That would interfere with that beautiful revenue stream.
Building mobile web apps: some tips and techniques
This could be really interesting, but for the lack of low-powered wireless. There's a really big market for wearable electronic 'things' in sport, mainly to capture and display sensor data. Personal Area Networking has become a mundane reality for serious cyclists, many of whom have half a dozen sensors strapped to themselves and their bike. Most serious runners and triathletes are using GPS enabled watches from the likes of Garmin and Suunto, usually with multiple wireless sensors.

The ANT+ wireless standard is well established, with a huge range of products available. Of the top ten finishers in last year's Tour de France, nine were using ANT+. An ANT+ sensor can run for years on a coin cell battery, versus hours at best for Bluetooth. Texas Instruments already manufacture ANT+ chipsets and are currently launching an integrated ANT+ and Bluetooth chip.

This stinks of a missed opportunity. Rather than providing a way in to a large existing market, TI and Fossil are expecting developers to take a punt on a product that has repeatedly failed.
It's interesting that so many commenters take issue with the term "dishonest minority." I agree that honesty is usually the best policy, but I would lie to the Nazis about the Jews in the addic. This is the value in the dishonest minority and the conflict that the term implies to people who equate dishonesty with evil is central to the point.
I partly agree with you that learning multiple languages helps. But how long do you keep doing that? Instead, pick some language and just create something. It satisfies the creator's thirst.

Your point makes me agree with Paul Graham, that there is a fine line dividing those who learn stuff for fun (academics) and those who create stuff for fun (creators/hackers). I love how Paul Graham's essay "Hackers and Painters" (http://paulgraham.com/hp.html) differentiates Math guys, traditional CS guys and the hackers(creators).

I'll have to mention that at some point, the interests of these 3 kinds of guys overlap and IMO, that overlapping point is programming.
>> As you said, different months have different lengths anyway, so it's not like an end-of-the-world problem, but for someone in that situation, they will none-the-less be losing money as a result of the change.

No, they're not really losing money, it's more like they're losing the opportunity to make money on that missing day. So a freelancer can, for example work in an extra day that week if they choose.

Public Holidays have the same effect every year, especially in countries where the actual day of the holiday follows the date, and thus in some years falls on a weekend.

Actually they've chosen to shorten a month which has 31 days to 30 days, which is no different than say April, June, September or November. So, by your measure they're being shorted for at least 5 months of every year anyway.

Plus, they've done it between Christmas and New Years, which in the Southern Hemisphere is the middle of the summer holidays. So pretty much no-one is working anyway.

The opposite way of looking at the same data is that they get a "free day" in every 31-day-month. And one of these "free days" is being discarded.

In other words, only us programmer types would try and nit-pick the thing apart. People on the ground haven't "lost" anything really.

My point about the contracts is that nothing is affected. Contracts that say "days" mean days, contracts that say months mean "months". This is built into contracts already because months aren't the same length. a 30 day December is no different to a 30 day April.
it's the new yorker. it's for reading on the john (on an educated, literary, liberal, and possibly jewish, john, i guess).

and i would have loved that job. if anyone has anything similar, contact me :o) (i can't believe people said "it can't be done")
I've found how loudly I call it is in direct proportion to how bad it smells.
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Make Ctrl+Tab in Internet Explorer 7 Use Most Recent Order
Shortcuts are the best way to complete a task quickly .Sometimes these shortcuts are dangerous and sometimes a piece of cake .Similarly, today’s article is on a very simple but significant topic that
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Some apps don't really need multitasking. I have a few apps that I would be annoyed to run in the background.
Thank you for making reddit search...usable.
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I am surprised.

Only two or three of the apps installed on my iPod would have any use for multitasking. Besides not being that useful, multitasking limits you to iOS 4 devices and there are lots of iOS 3.x devices out there.
I don't even own a TV (or a netflix account). I'm quite happy with how much I'm able to get done.
I heard they checked for varying TTL values?