skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how Apple solved this problem:

"Paired Design Meetings

This was really interesting. Every week, the teams have two meetings. One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think freely. As Lopp put it: to "go crazy". Then they also hold a production meeting, an entirely separate but equally regular meeting which is the other's antithesis. Here, the designers and engineers are required to nail everything down, to work out how this crazy idea might actually work. This process and organization continues throughout the development of any app, though of course the balance shifts as the app progresses. But keeping an option for creative thought even at a late stage is really smart."

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/200...
Isn't that what the distributed system aims to solve in the first place ? If they can't shut bittorrent down, how can they shut bitcoins ? They can crack down on the e-currency exchangers, but only those that operate within their jurisdiction. Would like to know if anyone has concrete examples of how they would go about doing this.
Git Driven Project Development
I think there are too many PC's running windows available at a low price point to make this argument even worth considering. You can get laptops for less than the price of an iPod touch.

Add to that, Windows Live's offerings such as Mesh, Hotmail (with Windows Live Mail client), SkyDrive and Office home and student edition are actually really good despite them not getting as much press coverage.

People only talk about stuff when they are directly marketed at, are hyped or are unhappy. If they are happy, it rarely gets a mention. There might just be a lot of happy Windows users ambling past the Apple Store without even looking (or understanding).
Any word on adequate html5/javascript sound support; e.g., does the demo at
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/chris...
work better than iOS4 (where the lag is huge)?
Google and Apple are not competing, especially to the degree that you imply.

You can use gmail on your Macbook, and many do. You can click on AdSense on your Macbook, and many do. Google doesn't need to compete with Apple directly, or even capture their market for hardware. As long as Apple users browse the web, Google is fine.

There is no "battle" unless Apple got into advertising.
That's one line out of a 30 line post. Yes, but the issue is them competing with you (with regards to this iOS5) not them not allowing you to do the feature.
XYDO raises $1.25 million seed round to change the way you experience news
I think generally that people need far less news than they consume. Many things are probably irrelevant and some even harmful to their mood or motivation.

However, I also want to stay informed on certain topics.

Say I'm a freelance graphic designer. Surely would I want news about the latest in CSS and logos, wouldn't I?
How RunKeeper Could Become the Facebook of Fitness
Chernobyl proves that that's not a guarantee.
This link keeps bouncing me to their general mobile page.
It's not cherry picking because the original title of this post suggested that IIS had lost marketshare to IIS and returned to it's 1998 levels. My comment pointed out that this is not true because Apache gains are not IIS losses 1-for-1.
We should copy some stuff from their tax code, too. As you said, they're not collecting significantly more than us, they just have a way simpler rate. Netherlands was explained to me as "25% up to 100k, 50% on income over that". That's fair, simple and actually a lower rate for the vast majority of people. Our system is a bloated mess in comparison.

Not saying that automatically everything done by Europe is better than everything done in the US.. but mindless rah rah just leads to myopia. Let's steal good ideas where we can.
You're exactly right -- Jobs said himself that PCs will be like trucks of the automobile universe and will always be around -- they just won't be used by as many people as often.

Here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Dlq4B56CI
I'm linking it to the federal reserve act and massive credit growth.

Your chart shows persistent deflation in the 19th century with inflationary spikes for wars, notably the civil war.
Signing petitions is fine, but as a tech expert[1] there are many ways of long-term engagement by which you can have a much bigger impact. I just wrote about some of them (I'm an academic computer scientist who's been involved in policy for the last couple of years): http://33bits.org/2011/06/07/bad-internet-law-what-techies-c...

[1] If you don't feel like an expert, don't worry about it. The bar in Washington for who's considered an expert is fairly low :-)

Edit: I just submitted this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2630141
That basically makes it useless. It would be an utter pain in the arse finding leaks in. I don't know why they cant chuck a generational collector in it such as the one in the last ObjC drop in it. Even microsoft with the woefully inadequate WM7 platform has a proper GC.
s/must/may/, or maybe the author is interested in the state of Russia as indicated by his earlier article on the subject.
There's no emulated layer. The CPU offers a 32-bit compatibility mode that works akin to 8086 virtual mode on earlier processors. The 64-bit kernel just sets a few flags and drops to 32-bit mode, switches tasks and goes. No overhead.
This is why they acquired lala.com, right..? </cynicism>
News is obselete. Wikipedia has replaced it.

I don't even read 90% of "news articles" because they're not very factual or objective, and scant on details. I just go to Wikipedia, I go search for first-hand evidence.

I want a service that's just facts not "news."
If you took advantage of properties you could do self.blueView = nil; and have the release be done for you.
@awj has this right. I very much appreciate projects like Spine and wish it great success, but it's an alternative, not a fixed version of the same thing.

Pseudo-setters exist in Backbone for a very good reason: change events, and Collections are (IMO) more than 50% of the entire usefulness of Backbone in the first place. The point is that you have solid aggregation and analysis functions to base your model manipulations on: map, reduce, filter, find, every, some, etc etc.
Is the browser needed from a technical or usable perspective? I do not know, but it seems difficult to separate that from the economic-architectural aspect, which really seems important.

The browser is 'needed', is valuable, because it is an independent, unowned 'medium' for other products and activity. It allows something more like real competition. That independence is part of the open architecture of the internet that is probably what makes it all so great.

. . . and what would an independent rich-client look like? Would that not be a browser pretty much? . . .
Games which do more than entertain are exceptionnal which makes your idea exceptionnal too.

As CF is a genetic disease, how does a game help ?
Your comment feels like it is giving Jobs and Apple a bit more altruism than I think they deserve. They are absolutely in it for the money, but I think you are also right that they see this as a better way of computing: a way that can make computing better and easier for many people (who, in turn will give Apple more money).

It is a win-win for Aplle and the consumer, which is a great place for a company to be.
Yep.

I should note that OO means "objects having state".

You can send identical messages to different processes and they can respond with (structurally) same answers, so Erlang is polymorphic enough to be OO.

"Erlang might be the only object oriented language because the 3 tenets of object oriented programming are that it's based on message passing, that you have isolation between objects and have polymorphism": http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop
ah, the joy of libertarian thought. Let a thousand meltdowns bloom.
Capture your all fans' passion with VideoGenie
A lot of people would hope that. However all available evidence suggests that people will and do cut corners until they get burned. And companies that refuse to do so will find themselves becoming less profitable than their less scrupulous competitors.

The result is public pressure for regulation.

Unfortunately economic theory and practice show that once an industry has come under regulation it becomes their priority to get control of that regulation. This process is called "regulatory capture" and inevitably succeeds. Once it has succeeded, the protections erode and the regulatory scheme is used to create barriers to entry for competitors. See the recent financial crisis for an example of this.

Depending on your politics you are likely to think that one of these failure modes is a bigger deal than the other.
+1 for Cherokee. We use it with php5-fpm - it's rock solid, low on memory consumption and super fast. The admin interface rocks. You can edit the config file by hand or by scripts, the file is just not very "human readable".
Yes, embedding HTML in strings is an awful pattern, and something you should strive to avoid at all costs. Backbone.js is intended to work with the templating library of your choosing, and there are good JS templating helpers for Rails in the form of Sprockets 2 and Jammit.
I am currently working on shaping my identity on the web and I feel exactly the same way. I think I'm going to use Facebook for personal use (family & friends) and twitter/blog for technical. If I happen to make a friend on the technical side, I can request them as a friend on Facebook and open them up to the rest of my life.
It's from the movie Spaceballs.
Nah, those are browser issues. As tablet javascript performance comes closer to that of the desktop, these issues will go away.

And frankly, those same complains can be said about The Daily.
You just described part of the plot of "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men". Highly recommended book!
On mobile, these "corner cases" are the majority of sales: every year there is some "new king of the hill", from random Nokia or Motorola devices, through Palm, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry.

And, even on desktop with our example: Windows itself was the lock-in, not the sale; if a competitor to Windows did show up, the apps would rapidly move (and were in fact already selling both executables): if the sales were caught up in a monolithic App Store, users would balk at developer's inabilities to give them upgrade discounts, and are much more likely to stick to their platform.
People are worried about the cloud-killing PR mistake or security breach that will cripple the efforts to get data into these controlled data centers, so this makes perfect sense. Start the focus with something everyone will know: Music. If someone breaks into your music collection... oh no? I was keeping my Duran Duran passion a secret.

Once this catches on, any mistake won't be a crippling one or a business-critical error, just a little frustrating. Gradually promote the other cloud offerings afterward, even if they have been there the whole time. Tied in with Lion's auto-versioning options, this just means everything naturally goes to the cloud, and no one will ever think of it again.

As stated, this isn't to kill Windows, this is to kill the pain of buying more devices. This is the first step to build that confidence and show it off in something people will have fun with.
This is called "code golf". You try to get the final program with the minimum of "shots" (bytes, lines, tokens or characters). It's amusingly addictive.

And I really hope you misplaced that hyphen in "cow-orkers".
Weird. I've never had a double post before.
You might be right, but consider the adoption timeline for major technologies. It isn't sudden, and I really can't think of a big visual change, other than Flash. I remember when Flash 4 was new, and I was making Geocities websites with frames on Netscape. Most widespread technologies will be adapted by browsers before the masses use it - it's inevitable. I don't think feature-innovation is a KSF for browsers.

It's actually interesting. I asked a few friends about this, and while all of my consultant/banker/business friends agreed with me, 3/5 of my engineering friends talked about features.
Tineye suggests that it comes from Spaceballs - or at least, of the other similar images it finds, most have Spaceballs in the filename.
I'm just curious. What's the relevance of how much they paid for the enhancements?
Women in leadership roles
Sorry. Hard to say without a smiley since it woudn't be the first time someone argue that Google is just good and nothing else
First Chromebook preview, selling for 500$ at Amazon
Every site is different. What works for someone else might not work for you. That being said, your question is too broad and generalized.
oh, it's real. and it's just one part of the overall "unternehmensgruenderprogramm"
I'm only counting full-time employees.

I don't have numbers on full/part-time work of government employees so I'm using the basis that $53K average salary[1] implies that nearly most are full-time, given that the average income overall is about that amount (edit: wow, it's totally not[4]).

Some more information. The average hourly wage for full-time employees is $24.72 across the entire population [2]. The same data shows that the average hourly wage for both part-time (25 and older) and full time is $24.89. This is not apples to apples, just giving you some expectation on what you can expect for a professional workforce that works both part-time and full-time.

Assuming, then, that full time is 2000 hours (40hrs/week*50weeks), the average hourly wage for part-time and full-time government employees works out to $26.55 [3].

So based on that information, I am comfortable saying that an insignificant number of government employees are part-time or they are excessively overpaid.

Further, I am then comfortable saying that 27% of the Canadian full-time workforce works directly for the government.

Not good for progress.

Edit: updated 100 times to clarify.

[1] http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/govt62a-eng.htm

[2] http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/labr69a-eng.htm

[3] http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/govt62a-eng.htm

[4] http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil21a-eng.htm
How would the compromised product's competitors know?
I mean, what do you use on a Mac to compose documents? Word.

No. I use Pages (part of Apple's iWork) for almost everything. If I need Word comparability, I open LibreOffice.

Given how seamless the iWork experience is becoming between iDevices (which will be including Macs), how much cheaper iWork is, and how much better the iWork user experience is (they don't have 20 years of feature-cruft littering the interface), there is absolutely no reason for a home Mac user to use Office and few reasons (usually an iron-fisted corporate IT group) for a corporate Mac user to use it.
Build an app that makes science more open and win $16000
Click on the huge "Chrome" icon to access the preview. The message displayed is Tim Berners-Lee's original memo calling for people to help with his WorldWideWeb project.
GoDaddy is one of the major .Net shops in the Phoenix area. As far as I know, they're predominately .Net.
Government Agencies Ordered to Improve Customer Service
Right now people are speculating with incomplete information. Still embraced by the famous Jobs reality distortion field. If this all comes to pass then there will be a huge opportunity for the first person who can get your data back from either the iCloud or the gCloud.
Joe Nocera has written quite a few opinion columns about Russian politics, including a couple about Khodorkovsky. Looks to me like he's just interested in the subject.
What is Cloud Sprawl and Why should I Worry About It?
Because Twitter is the real-life equivalent of getting everyone you know in a room and shouting things at all of them.
Why You Should Not Implement Google +1 Button Yet
Google recently introduced the Google +1 button for websites, which is their way of competing with the Facebook Like button. While the idea is good, Google's implementation of the Google +1 button is unacceptable and not up to par with today's standards..
Higher/cheaper/universal healthcare and less gas usage definitely lead to a healthier economy.

Ever seen the numbers on how much of your car's sticker price paid for health insurance? If we spent less on the health insurance, we'd be more efficient, right?

How much money we shipping straight to Saudi Arabia in gas usage? If we could get the same stuff done on less gas, that'd be more efficient, right?

The 2 months of vacation is just a bonus.
you miss a point--there will be certain players whose opportunity cost will be higher than waiting for others to liquidate theirs. Those people will liquidate theirs for USD to do productive investment that will earn returns far beyond just playing chicken with the rest of the people to see who will circulate theirs first.

So it's not a tragedy of the commons situation--it will make perfect economic sense for certain people, if the hoarding gets too extreme, to change their currency for USD or other assets.
I watched the Steve Jobs 1997 Keynote chat this week and he again defined focus, which the subject in that post is lacking. Jobs (paraphrasing): "People think focusing means saying 'Yes.' No. Focus means saying 'No.'"
No, he's saying the opposite. He's pointing out that most online communications channels haven't solved the problem of filtering your output to specific audiences as you deem appropriate. For any single service, you're generally either communicating one-to-one or one-to-everybody, with no options inbetween.

This is a problem that is more easily managed in "real life" by the obvious limitations of presence.
No. For the car example, lock-in means you aren't able to use off-brand accessories, or service your car in an unlicensed shop. However, cars are mostly self-contained, so this mostly only comes up with aftermarket stereo systems and membership programs.

And yes, mild lock-in is very common. That doesn't make it a good practice from the consumer's point of view.
Dwolla Grid is here. Cash just got more secure than plastic.
How to find the right designer
The Curated Web. Improve Findability Through Curation.
If you use Skype's services extensively even before Microsoft came along, you would have noticed a lot of bugs (I know I did, and their support was meh), but they try. I would like to blame Microsoft for this, but I don't have any solid evidence to do so.

A lot of business's rely on Skype, so for them to just go out and say sorry is kind of bullshit. Where are the backup systems. There must be some process put it into place that compensates for situations like this. Maybe Microsoft can throw some coin at Skype now for a brand spankin new data center.
Type M for Murder: A Mystery Short in Graphic Design Terms
A follow up to Pub and Marriage by Alexa Lash – a writer, editor, and on-the-spot poet. Former Floridian and resident Bostonian, she has written for the Seminole Chronicle, Momslikeme, and the Central Florida Future, and is currently working in the Journalism Department of Emerson College. Header image by Jessica Hische.
OK, fixed. (Refresh the main page to see changes).
yep this a good open question. The bitcoin guys will say, in parts of the world economies where bitcoins are taken for both input costs and for selling prices, then exchange rates are irrelevant because bitcoins are used in all transactions, so there are is no forex volatility. Of course we are far away from that sort of adoption.

The more persuasive argument is that people are worried that sovereign currencies will themselves become too volatile for real economic transactions if debt problems grow too much, debasement by central banks cause inflation, etc.

In this sense, bitcoin is a great hedge against world uncertainty, and will do very well if problems with the euro mount, USD debt skyrockets, etc. For the same reasons people care about gold when people lose faith in fait currencies, there is a good chance people will care about bitcoin if things go crazy.
Can someone explain why he does two more if checks after he's set the denominator to "php"?
> This energy is currently supplied entirely by fossil fuels, and is probably not substitutable in the near future

[citation needed], and [citation needed]. There are electric drilling rigs out there, pumping the oil out is often performed by electric pumps, and pumping water / gas in doesn't, AFAICS, require specifically fossil fuel power. I don't see anything than couldn't be done with electricity, coal, natural gas or whatever else.
Being bi-lingual adds even another dimension.
Poor man's approach in practice
Implemented by http://simplehonestwork.com/ who, if I read their project list correctly, also did whitehouse.gov among other things.
Throw a non-negotiable 1-year imprisonment into whatever penalty they enact for using bitcoin. Then imprison the thousand most prolific users (business that accept it, people who publicly exchange it, etc.), and continue doing sweeps of anyone who admits to using bitcoin for the next few years. Suddenly, the only people who are willing to use bitcoin are those who are already using it for illegal things.

Keep in mind that they don't need to kill the entire system, they just need to make it too risky for the average person to even consider using. That is sufficient to make it fail.
"Please leave this field blank:" probably works wonders. Visually impaired users aren't mentally impaired, regardless of what the Upright Citizen's Brigade has taught you.
SCOTUS Rules Against Stanford in Bayh-Dole Patent Case
Well until that major outage, I don't know how much infrastructure skype was running. I recall something about supernodes (or super super?) that they would be hosting to prevent these cascading failures. The whole P2P nature was the clever trick, not sure how much more data centers will actually help when it's software bugs that seem to take the system down.
"Having been shown the way by Apple, I expect Google to shortly do the same thing, adding automated backup, synchronization and migration to Android and Chrome."

Doesn't my android phone already do this?
> Maybe if someone in the next 2 days randomly asks me if I know anyone in online marketing looking to make a jump.

My agency is looking for a talented strategist who has the flexibility to work on a number of different accounts across industries. Feel free to pass along my info (in profile).
Use a different browser. iCab Mobile supports uploading, downloading, and side-loading to DropBox or iDisk. The only time I use Safari is when I clock a link in Mail or Twitter or some other client; otherwise, I use iCab almost exclusively.
You're not getting his point. He's saying Apple wants customers to buy apps to be locked-in.
US Constitution
Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 3

"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

Will a legal scholar or similarly minded person please explain why this isn't an ex post facto (after the fact) law?
PC is still the mass storage device where you can keep your lifetime of pictures. But some people don't think of pictures in terms of archiving. They think in terms of taking pictures, sharing them, and moving on. I'm not a "Post PC" person because I want to store my TBs of photos and maintain the external HD and DVD backups of same. Today's teenager is probably happy to let Facebook "store" their photos for them.
What does iCloud have to do with Windows? It's not explained anywhere in the article. The purpose of iCloud is its utility, platform lock-in, and the "cloud" checkbox ticked off in every major Apple product. All of those things will probably kill Windows a little bit, but that's not necessarily the main purpose. If anything, it's positioned against Google.
There is a book called Beautiful Code by O'Rielly http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046