skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was pretty disappointed by this statement. But I guess the truth is sometimes painful.

Even if one tries to ignore the hype, there is some grain to the truth that Facebook and Twitter are the "operating systems" of the social web. It is hard working on an OS that keeps taking away system calls based on monetization efforts.
I didn't mean to imply he shouldn't negotiate or that it wasn't a good time for it, only that some things are easier to negotiate than others.
I love BART, but it's a fairly unreliable system with very few stops in San Francisco. MUNI is actually several connected systems, but the majority of them are unreliable, expensive, and not implemented well.

I would not say the Bay Area has great public transit. It just has some public transit, which is more than you can say for a lot of California.
Mobile browsers are just 4.7%? Wow. I would have thought they'd be about 25% now.
Yea it's a mess.

Google is going in an interesting direction with Native Client, Pepper, Go-lang and ChromeOS. I remember them (might have been Brin) saying web and desktop will merge and looking at Native Client, the capabilities should merge as well.

Mozilla has their own simplified systems programming language, Rust. They're cooperating on with Google on Pepper so far. In theory browsers could just become agreed upon APIs between operating systems instead of the markup/VM legacy mess they are now.
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Do you have to agree anything to upload? The official Twitter iOS app lets you upload photos to twitpic and I don't think you need to create an account or anything.
I am not a lawyer but I know that a contract has to be fair and obey other laws to be valid.
Sorry for the ambiguity, yes I was referring to Lodsys's foot (comment edited).
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I don't trust Dropbox enough to store more than a few gigs of data in it and I have 10GB for free. All it takes is a username and password to get into there, so I only store stuff in there that's convenient to sync between home and work and that isn't particularly sensitive.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I post a pic, they sell it in one of their publications, then sue when someone else also uses it. I think it sounds ridiculous, but isn't this one of those legal scenarios were it's possible but not probable? No, I'm still not happy about the principal of it.
Surprised Joe Medved @joevc isn't on this list.
...and the other caveat of trying to obtain medical coverage.
I am from ex-communist country. Nothing to say more.
A good counter question is "What is Object Orientation"?

According to Google's definition

"""
(of a programming language) Using a methodology that enables a system to be modeled as a set of objects that can be controlled and manipulated in a modular manner
"""

I think the OO fad wandered down some weird roads with Java and patterns and in some part lost sight of the goals of OO and got focused on the AbstractFactoryFactoryFactoryInterfaceFactories.
Usually (or at least back when I graduated from college the first time) there was a six-month window before you had to start re-paying the college loan.
"If you really feel that way about where you work, you need to get out."

This along with the parent immediately brought to mind one of my favorites of Demming's 14 key points:* "12a: Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The responsibility of supervisors must be changed from sheer numbers to quality."

While that was meant more for line workers than knowledge workers, the basic concept is pretty much the same: if you can't take pride in what you're doing, you won't do it as well as you could. As somewhat of a perfectionist I struggle with overdoing this, but it drives me to depression when I have to work with apathetic folks who don't care how the end product turns out.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Key_principle...
1) There's nothing wrong with .pdf for restaurant menus. .PDF works fine on all platforms worth mentioning, and the files don't even have to be all that large if encoded properly. 2) Wait a year and I'll bet 90% of those restaurants will no longer require Flash. As someone said above, they'd have to be idiots, and they're not, for the most part.

Complete nonissue, IMHO.
I was thinking about creating 100 fake github accounts to fork/follow my projects to get a badge ;)

You don't need to do that: you can force any real account to watch your project by adding them as a committer.
I have never said this on hacker news but it definitely still follows the "to your face" rule, This is terrible terrible advice.

A lot of neilsens advice certainly isnt universal, however the main thing to take away from neilsen is not the conclusions but the methodology in coming to those conclusions. UX is not voodoo, there are certainly parts of it that are more subjective than others however if 5 out of 10 people have a problem performing an actions in your app then you have a problem.

Neilsen provides good methodologies for which you can start performing these tests yourself.
> Do people really disagree that huge, non-OO scripts were the dominant style back in the 1990's?

I don't know python, but "OO changed all that" implies that data-centric approaches are somehow passé, to which I'd reply "yeah, but FP changed all that". Maybe they are in Python though.
Why are you bringing up lifestyle? The discussion is insurance.

And my point is that, beyond the elderly, most citizens don't qualify for any of America's public insurance plans (I certainly don't):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_...
Now there's a piece of subtlety that wouldn't have occurred to me without having it pointed out by another. I guess I've got a bit of a blind spot since I don't care much about what other people in the company are getting compensation-wise.
Is there actually any research into how 'determined effort' shapes the course of depression? Measuring such a claim seems very difficult, so I'm curious to see if there has been much meaningful work done in this area.
It's also a way to avoid personal responsibility and human judgment.
Reconsider that. You're missing a large part of the point. The delayed resizing is important because it means it's consistent in allowing you to close tabs both successively and very quickly without moving your mouse.

Trust me, once you get used to it, going back to the Firefox 4 behavior is just very frustrating.
That was the only line that gave me pause, but that's actually where they define what "Apps" means: applications for their devices.
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There was a discussion on it yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568464
And that is how you win this kind of case... by out-waiting/spending the other side.

If Apple does, in fact, gain an injunction, it almost doesn't matter what Lodsys does, as Apple can drag their case out until it's not feasible for Lodsys to fight any longer, or by winning/settling.
Nothing stopping them- until Visa buys them.
It depends on your target demographic, your product, whether you want to convey the message of a "good deal, grab it now" or "this is quality stuff".

One size does not fit all.
I pay for Pandora, too.

I can't quantify it but Pandora does a much better job at playing music I enjoy in the context of the previous music it played and I enjoyed. There will be times when it hits streaks of an hour of non-stop amazing music song after song (with only a few that I've heard before).

Other services I've tried are not much better than a genre on shuffle.
And does it still take a life time to start in Linux? It's crazy how slow it is. Chrome can open and I can manually middle-click six bookmarks to check my social sites before Firefox is even started. And that's with me clicking it's launcher first.

Even the tab behaviors are all considerably less responsive. Every once in a while I'll use a colleague's computer with Firefox 4 in Windows and I'm blown away by how functional it is. It looks nice, it's fast, it doesn't feel sluggish.

It's just a slap in the face of Firefox's original base of users that it feels so inferior to Chrome on the Linux desktop.
I'll take a whack ;D

A la the RIAA shakedown business model a patent troll tried to extort a bunch of independent developers that had no chance of fighting back. Then Apple (with their well-documented $60 billion of fuck-you money) stepped in and said we've already paid you your protection fee-it transfers to our developers, now please go away before this gets ugly.

I think this is pretty great. (Other than the fact that the current software patent system encourages this sort of thing, natch)
It also needs native apps to stand still while all those features get worked out. Which isn't going to happen, nor should we want it to.
I don't think I ever agreed to a TOS. I upload using an API client.
thanks for adding that! Now I can see everything in one place.
I definitely do that.

I have a lot of vacation days through work (6 weeks this year), but have pretty much no desire to go on vacations. I end up using my vacation days to go to Security conferences.

I've found, at least with my favorite conferences (CanSecWest, Shmoocon), that they refill my "info-sec excitement meter" for a good four months before I start considering quitting and going to work in a comic book store.
May I know why you want to go back to school? Are you planning to create your own startup in the future or work at a startup? Or work at big companies?
There's no easy answer to your question. Although Opa raises warnings when it detects that the databases your accessing/trying to modify have changed, I guess you'd have to think of a migration process anyway.

What is your best practice so far? (and your expectations :p)
i expect those game updates didn't use bindiffs, they had to repackage the entirety of each updated file. when you consider that many developers do things like compress all game content files into a few large archives, it's easy to see how that adds up. you end up re-downloading the same content repeatedly when they repeatedly make small changes to a few scattered files in one large archive.
It's a multiparadigm language. There's nothing wrong with that. You should have a feel for which style is predominant in the codebase, or, if the project is new, which style is preferred by your fellow developers. If there is more than one stylistic choice in a given situation and you don't have a strong preference for one or the other, then according to your own judgment it hardly matters which one you choose.
My thoughts exactly.

It's clear why Apple is doing it - it raises the bar for other App Stores. But it sucks that we're in this position at all.
In addition to the SMS service I integrated into our email system (so users could receive a text when they had email waiting) I also experimented with using Twitter for the same purpose - receive a tweet when you have email. My users are well-off, well-educated and ranging from OK with technology to expert. After six weeks, how many people had activated the Twitter service? Just me, and that only for testing. So what did I do? I removed it, and nobody commented or complained.

Twitter == finger for media luvvies?
When you say "someone else", do you mean you?
What I find interesting about this is that there is nothing in the Apple letter that Lodsys would not have anticipated while deciding whether to make claims against the developers. Do they have a response ready? Or were they, in fact, simply trolling, and are suprised that Apple got involved?

What had me annoyed now has me interested.
The agreement might be rolled into the one you agree to when you use the app.
wait. the recent episodes are free to watch anyway, and the archived ones didn't worked for you... so for what exactly are you paying?!
How do you objectively evaluate "fair"? $0.30 cents per text isn't fair.
I know how he does it, that's my point.

Would you be able to make useful, high-level recommendations to the auto industry after riding in the back seat of 26 drivers for an hour or so? Do you think it matters what kind of car you're driving? What kind of roads you're driving on? What time of day it is? What state or country you're in? Of course it does. If your conclusion is that "driving on the PCH in a convertible is fun" then, no, you don't need many participants or any scientific rigor. But if you're say things like "the roads aren't wide enough" or "radios are too loud" or "signs aren't big enough" then you're going to need to back that up with some context and some data.

My beef here is that people who don't want to really think about this stuff but want to seem like they do will read articles like his, which draw conclusions of the latter type described above, and spout them off as authoritative science, because that's how it's presented by Jakob Nielsen, Ph. D. This confuses clients and teams and ends up having people defend their decisions against a ghost of a misinterpretion of a supposed rule, and ultimately yields an inferior product. I've seen his articles quoted verbatim by designers and clients alike, almost always solely to justify their own opinion, but with the weight of his authority.
No one yet has had the incentive to make a real push (like lobbying) for real patent reform.

There's a catch-22 in this situation. Only large companies have the lobbying muscle to effect change. Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other players clearly risk more than they gain from the current patent system, but if they speak out against it, the trolls will organize a PR campaign smearing "huge, faceless corporations" for "picking on the little guy that drives American innovation."

Meanwhile, the little guys have essentially no voice at all in government, so their actual opinion doesn't matter.

Worse, the entire US government is basically composed of lawyers, members of a tribe that benefits from the status quo.
Not using or paying for content obtrusive pop-overs would be a good start.
Silhouette and 911-inside_job: You guys should really read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2575632
Yeah, me neither. What projects are we talking about here? I'm in Linux so I'm getting the full deb each time. I'm okay with that considering it's managed for me. I'll take that any day.

Adobe? Apple? Those are the two vendors that I can imagine people having installed on most, if not all Windows computers. And I know for a fact they both distribute updates as full copies of their software waying in at a couple hundred to several hundred megabytes, requiring manual updates, pop up windows and restarts.

I've yet to see anyone do updates as fast or seamlessly as Google.
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Do you have that in writing? I wonder if they think they could simply discontinue that policy.

Actually, I worked a a place that allowed you to "sell back" your vacation time as actual hours worked. They could be made to count for time-and-a-half overtime.

If you did that on a week that also had a company holiday, you'd kind of get into this triple-bonus-category. It was great until some guy sort of abused it and sold back a few weeks while also working a bunch of overtime over a two-holiday pay period.
They shouldn't win that one anyway. My TI calculator has an "Apps" button.
The sick days part varies by employer. At a previous employer it was 10 sick days in addition to your vacation days, and unused sick days accumulated from one year to the next. When my son was born 8 week early with my wife in the hospital 2.5 weeks before that, I had accumulated enough sick time that I could take 11 weeks off to spend at the hospital (Caleb spent 25 days in neonatal intensive care) and at home after he was released.
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IANAL, of course, but I looked at the TOS again and it doesn't assign the rights to TwitPic. It just grants them the (non-exclusive) rights to use & sublicense. So they can use, they can sell, but they can't go after you for doing so via other channels.

It's still shady that they can resell your work in commercial channels other than the TwitPic service itself, but it's not like they obtain total control and ownership of your pictures.
I would suggest adding a "how do you find this" for getting your stackoverflow ID. Is it the number in my profile URL?
Apparently the news agency is primarily interested in the photos that Twitpic's celebrity users are posting. That's going to be a severe red-flag to celebrities and word will spread quickly among them/their social media folks to switch to another service.

As these popular trend-setting celebrities switch services, so will their followers. This is nothing but bad for the future of Twitpic.
Make that a provisional EF4 in Joplin, 116 confirmed dead so far, hundreds injured. 2,000 structures damaged, including my apartment building and apartment.
yes I agree thanks, but I haven't see that much evolution in the last year... from the api point of view
Also, users don't assign copyright, they merely (if the users have actually agreed to these terms) grant TwitPic a non-exclusive license. All someone has to do to get around it is tweet @ you and get your permission to use the image instead of getting TwitPic's (or their affiliate's) permission.
You can do similar in Europe as well. At least when I was there, many of my colleagues at Schneider Electric were contractors making decent money (even for US rates).

Actually being a contractor in a country with good social safety net is even better... as you're employment isn't responsible for healthcare benefits* , your options are much better.

* France has a public/private deal where you (or your employer) can pay extra for better service, but the baseline social safety net is quite ample.
good... that is true,
thanks
Why are you bringing up lifestyle? The discussion is insurance.

Insurance does nothing to really insure your health. It is intended to help protect your wallet. A better way to protect your health is to take care of yourself so you are healthy. The discussion in the US about "the healthcare crisis" always focuses on the financial piece of it. There are differences between Europe and the US that impact health having nothing to do with who pays the medical bills: Europe is generally more pedestrian-friendly, there is a different food culture and so on. All of those things impact health. I get tired of seeing "health insurance" held up as a) the only meaningful difference in health costs between the US and Europe and b) the only important part of "how to control medical costs" in the US debate on health care.

That's why I bring it up: Because to me the two things are related.
We're also giving google implicit permission to push code to our machines anytime they want.

We should have conflicting feelings about this.
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Sounds like the perfect case for an A/B test.
The reality is that there is generally a lot of leeway in "fair" as far as contracts go. You can definitely sign an intentionally adversarial contract and it will usually hold up. I have only known courts to nullify contracts when they specifically violate a given law; for instance, a contract where one side can kill the other side in event of breach would not be valid because it runs afoul of murder/assault laws. However, a contract where an exorbitant fee is levied upon one side in event of breach would generally be held as long as all parties were deemed capable of understanding the contract and endorsing it by their own free will (i.e., not under duress) when it was signed.

IANAL, this whole post may be and probably is wrong. Please correct me.
From their TOS:

"All content uploaded to Twitpic is copyright the respective owners. The owners retain full rights to distribute their own work without prior consent from Twitpic. It is not acceptable to copy or save another user's content from Twitpic and upload to other sites for redistribution and dissemination.

By uploading content to Twitpic you give Twitpic permission to use or distribute your content on Twitpic.com or affiliated sites. "

So your images are safe(ish) for now, I think.
My employer also provides this. I like when i need to fully understand the inner workings of some new thing... which occurs once every 5yrs or so...

for day to day stuff, a web search is much more practical... and you get helpful comments on the page most of the time
This is a key advantage of native code, but it is being eroded by the rapid development of WebKit and Gecko. Browser makers are driving the environment faster than we initially expected, with the tradeoff of potential fragmentation.
How is Adobe requiring the chip manufacturers to fix their product/impl NOT their fault?
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Good Splash Page Conversion Rates
I put up a splash page and started a Facebook ad campaign to test an idea and collect email addresses of those who are interested in the product. What is a good conversion rate on click throughs to emails? If 100 people click on the FB ad should I expect 1%, 10%, 20% of people to give their email address? What number justifies moving from concept to code?
Technology is supposed to push humanity forward, make possible the things that once were impossible. The developments in printing made it possible for us, the common people, to own books in the first place. But now technology is also used to limit our use of the books that we own, and I wouldn't call that "a good deal".

I recognise the problems in free distribution of digital goods, author compensations beeing the top one in my mind. But as someone already said, we tend to fix the problems with kludges rather than trying to come up with more long lasting solutions.
I wonder if there is any type of controversy more exciting than this? - Memes and Dawkins are overrated... Btw other very interesting scientists/thinkers on Anthropology, Evolution theory related to humans, are Dan Sperber, Boyd & Richerson "Not by genes alone", Michael Tomasello "why we cooperate"...
I think I might be the only person on HN who actually really likes Twitter. I've found it to be a fantastic way to interact with other developers, find beta testers, head off customer freak outs (many people will complain of your app on Twitter instead of directly contacting you) and other really useful tasks.
One example of ESR's Perl code isn't even that interesting. It's just a monolithic script full of the global variables, repetition, useless busy work, and inconsistencies you'd expect from someone who didn't know the language very well:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/search/keeper-1.54.tar.gz

It's slightly better than what you'd have downloaded from any one of hundreds of "FREE PERL SCRIPT" sites in the late '90s, if only because ESR understood Unix better than most.