skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of creating such a table would be not to convince people to use alternative software, but just to expose the buried information, and to start a conversation with software users.

(Btw, personally, I'd prefer a .com informational website in the vein of www.riaaradar.com instead of a table on wikipedia.)
I have to disagree with RMS here. As an example of ebooks attacking our freedom, I agree with someone else that the problem is DRM and not the ebooks. Amazon, for example, lets the publisher choose whether they would like DRM in their ebooks or not. More so, the publishing platform lets the publisher to allow lending. The issue of Amazon wiping out 1984 is one of those things that has been done to death as a news article on the internet. Sure it was wrong, but from the copyright holder's point of view, it may be justified.
Those topics have been covered in depth dozens, if not hundreds of times on HN.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+choose+part...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+startup+loc...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+incorporati...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+startup+ide...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+market+fit

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+merchant+ac...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+startup+law...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+business+pl...
It's difficult, but you really need to move your parents to where you can get a good enough job to support and care for them. If your main concern is money, being willing to move anywhere is quite attractive to many employers (e.g. they need someone at the Dallas office, but the geeks all want to live in Austin).

Their desire to stay put does not override all other concerns. If you were rich, you could hire a full time nurse, but you aren't, and your whole family needs to accept that.

I saw this when my grandmother couldn't take care of herself anymore. My parents dragged her to their house kicking and screaming and moved her into my old room. There just wasn't enough money in the family for anything else.

Forgoing building a life of your own so they can stay in their comfort zone is asking too much of you.
Video of Large Solar Flare, courtesy of NASA
You have less freedom because you can no longer do with it as you will; you can only do what they let you. And I've never heard of anyone losing access to a real book just because the publisher went out of business and closed down their DRM authentication servers.
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To be fair, it's less that we're in a negative tree and more that we're not adding value to the discussion.
Then companies should use the proper wording - "rent" instead of "buy".
That is an interesting way to tackle the "flood of resumes" problem. I'm tackling this problem too, but I took a very different approach to the auction model.

Hell, I never even considered the auction model, it's quite ingenious. Good luck to you guys.
To me, that a viewer of any age can watch is practically the whole point of Khan Academy. Kids learn at different speeds and are interested in different subjects at different ages. Whatever subject you're talking about, there are some 8-year-olds who could benefit from it. The traditional approach of having grownups decide what material is suitable for what age is guaranteed to produce a mixture of kids who are bored and kids who are lost; khan materials present the promise that kids might be able to learn at their own pace and according to their own interests. The ones who find history of X fascinating will race ahead and do related research and file info away for later; the ones who lack context will probably be bored and lose interest and want to study something else and that's okay.
Herd mentality is the result of domain knowledge. All programmers experience problems with ToDo lists.. How many programmers experience retail analytic problems?

There are many, many more of these niches. If you want to find a good market start talking to people outside the software development industry. The further the better:

- Doctors
- Notaries
- Florists
- Elementary school teachers
- etc..

You will come across some many problems begging for solutions you wouldn't know which one to pick.
Not necessarily. Depends on hiring plans.
>We should be immersing students in good code. We should be burying them in idiom after idiom after idiom, allowing them to acquire the ability to program without explanation.

Does anyone have suggestions of some good code to read?
I believe that every business (in a certain segment) has its own KPIs. Without knowing what space you are actually in, it might be hard to answer that question. For some this is sign-ups, tweets or MAU. Identify the key metrics first and concentrate on those for the dashboard. The less you have the more significant they become and thus you can tailor your efforts more effectively towards achieving those goals.
You're going to have to explain why you think this is incoherent if you want people to argue against your position.

Right now, it looks like you're saying that the first quote's adjectives describe a meta-viewpoint that need not be examined as a viewpoint in and of itself.
Chrome updates so often, even I don't know what version I'm running at the moment. Not that it really matters either.
Is Apple Afraid of Lodsys? Or preparing to pounce like a Lion?
We know that Apple responded strongly to Lodsys’ threats against iOS developers using In-App purchase technology.Apple recently updated its itunesconnect Developer Guide to include the following for In-App Purchases in Mac OS X Lion:

If the developer does have a legal issue, say, a cease and desist from Lodsys, it must indicate that fact as follows:

Is Apple worried about incurring liability for developers’ infringement of the Lodsys patents? Or is it instead seeking ammunition to file a declaratory judgment action against Lodsys and invalidate its patents? We shall soon see.
Optimizely (YC W10) Increases Homepage Conversion Rate by 29%
Why Microsoft needs to buy Netflix
DRM is the problem here, not eBooks. eBooks themselves have a lot of potential, especially when you consider they don't ware down or degrade, they take no physical space, and that you have the option of changing things such as font size.

And speaking as someone who has owned some of his books for decades, I worry about the long term implications of owning a collection of books encumbered with DRM.
You're missing my point, which is that more books and cheaper books equals more freedom.

I'm not arguing against the notion that you should be able to do what you want with something you've purchased. But every business model ever conceived limits freedom in some way, and the echo-chamber argument that's put forth here consistently fails to take into account the fact that ebooks (and the business models that accompany them) have the potential to increase freedom by promoting reading.

At the end of the day, nobody's preventing you from buying a paper book; if you want to lend the book out, buy the paper version. Simple.
Can you link to examples? Random guess would be that they are not sold by Amazon directly but by third-party merchants on Amazon.
Cupertino "downtown" is a joke (I used to work there)... it's basically the intersection of two large streets (Stevens Creek at De Anza).

Likewise Sunnyvale and Santa Clara are quite anemic, but Los Gatos, Saratoga and even Los Altos aren't bad. MV and PA are great places to dine.

Cupertino is the only town I've worked in that never had a downtown.
The first sentence is sarcasm. The financial district is pretty dead after business hours (as is midtown).
The open_file_cache_* options in nginx (but other server have similar options) allows to cache in memory the file so the disk is used only when the cached value is no more valid (timed to 30s lifetime on the linked tests).
After a quick refresh of how the buffer cache works, i'd say that you are correct and that with the option above the server is also using a simpler data structure to retrieve those cached pages (no blocks list to traverse, no access locks). The difference in performance with and without this option was huge in a quick test, enabling the server caching i saw the number of req/s increase 400%-500%.
I think it's because the first one is sarcastic, but I'm not familiar enough with nyc to be sure.
Maybe if you have absolute control over the HTML that's ending up inside your pages. Mostly I work on sites where someone's going to be using a WYSIWIG or raw HTML to add content, and I have no control over what elements they use or which browsers they test in.
The DRM used on ebooks is pretty weak and easily removed.

So in practice, there's no real difference.

The trouble is that doing so is a violation of the DMCA, which can result in criminal charges.

So the simple act of keeping a DRM-free copy (to prevent Amazon from yanking it off your Kindle), or lending it to a friend, etc. opens up all kinds of potential problems in theory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPypDaXfIV8&t=01m18s
I think the slow degrade of our freedom is meant. It is not an aggressive full-blown aggressive attack which we would probably oppose boldly, but a slowly creeping loss of rights and possibilities that people accept because "ah, I can live with THAT". It is hard to give a good title to that process so "attacking our freedom" sounds out of place.
How about https://github.com/josevalim/inherited_resources, very active (last commit was yesterday).
I believe that Windows keeps patch downloads stored somewhere even after they have been extracted and installed.
I've taken the editor role in a couple of recent contract jobs. While the clients were both complimentary, I think I didn't do too well for one of them, where I came in to an existing codebase with a shortage of domain knowledge -- and this is going to be a general problem for a specialist editor, more so than with prose. I was more like a copyeditor. (For the other client I'd written the code they started with.)
I wonder if a project like Andi-Land, or another similar game or even a Zorklike, built around natural language parsing would be the right way to teach a language like Lojban.

edit: Oh, someone's already done Colossal Cave.
Pretty much how I read it though a bit overboard in characterization.

The story comes off to me as: Knuth calling Jobs out for flattery/embellishment. I bet everyone Steven Spielberg meets tells him he's their favorite director and they've seen all his movies. But if you look at the numbers for Empire of the Sun that just isn't possible.
Global Logistics Media Launches Free Blogs to Logistics Professionals
On the Purpose and the Engine of the Web
Yes. That is what I am saying. That even if Apple could make the building itself as green as conceivably possible, simply moving 12,000 people's workplaces to the city of San Francisco would create additional problems and be a net negative.

If you want to call that "bursting at the seams" that's fine, but Apple isn't in a position to reengineer the whole dysfunctional city of San Francisco.
That includes your mail, facebook updates, twitter mentions, weather, etc. Had that idea some time back. Could be cool!
I feel like I read a product announcement that claimed this thing is here, and world-changing.

But I couldn't see anything I could use today, as a consumer, merchant or developer, so it didn't feel like it was here.

And I couldn't really understand why it was so great, even if it was here... so it didn't feel world-changing.

I've seen a lot of companies do this, where they pump up things that are still in the pipeline for one reason or another, and the net result is that visitors like me feel like we wasted our time by giving you our attention.
Don't forget that every time an apple mobile device is sold, they get money (the A4 processor is part Samsung technology). Many other phones use samsung technology and phone is just one thing Samsung do. They're the biggest company in South Korea.

Last but not least:

AMOUNTS IN BILLIONS	WON|	DOLLARS|	EUROS

Net Sales*	220,120.4|	172.5|	124.1

Total Assets	343,811.6|	294.5|	205.3

Total Liabilities	212,512.9|	182.0|	126.9

Total Stockholder's Equity	131,298.6|	112.5|	78.4

Net Income*	17,663.8|	13.8|	10.0

source: http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/corporateprofile/ourp...
Quick Intro to Live Programming with Overtone [video]
It really isn't renting, either, is it? It falls in this strange grey area where you don't truly own it, but there's nothing comparable to a lease (though I can see someone arguing that a ToS agreement is akin to one).

DRM'ed books seem, to me, like buying a dead tree book, but only being able to read it on a particular kind of desk, or using a particular kind of lamp, each probably made by the book publisher. And yeah, that little detail about not being able to sell it, or even give it away once you've read it.
Who says they haven't been? They certainly were in markets where Symbian was dominant. When I was in China (2008-2009), the developer support for Symbian was dramatically better than BlackBerry or iOS.

Now that Android has exploded in that market, I expect most of those developers to migrate away from Symbian to Android if they haven't already.

One thing to remember is that we're talking about the entire population of software developers. Certain demographics (like HN readers) will show up more heavily on certain platforms (like iOS). However, the general trends will always mirror marketshare.
This is an app idea I've turned over a hundred times but never dove into.
Actually, Facebook Friends Tattoo Was A Hoax
http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=pr...

Nokia shipped 100 million 'smart' phones in 2010. Samsung shipped 23 million. That's a big difference. If Samsung bought Nokia it would own over a third of the global smart phone market. Notice also that even though Nokia isn't growing as quickly as its competitors, it is still growing.

And, looking at the entire mobile phone market. Nokia sold 453 million phones while Samsung sold 280 million phones. Combined that would be over half the entire mobile phone market.

http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=pr...

But you are right in one respect. Samsung has been extremely cautious about mergers after several failed mergers in the 1990's. So it would really need to have a good reason go down that path again.
Gnip Partners With Twitter and U.S. Library of Congress
This sounds great, I assume there's no way to view these files on an iOS device (which is still quite workable encryption - only for dekstop)
Debut of Cambridge crude - biggest battery breakthrough ever
Apps From Foursquare, LinkedIn, Netflix Put Data at Risk
That seems a highly tenuous line of reasoning. There could be any number of other reasons for its lack of adoption so far, mostly involving the lack of other people who speak it.
One might wonder why they simply didn't limit the number of log sends per day. Then they would've had no zombies at all..
You are absolutely right but there are a great quantity of Hackers who will downmod you (or me) for simply suggesting that OpenOffice is not an adequate substitute for the M$FT version.

The dogmatism on these issues is sufficient deterrent and frequently I would rather avoid stating the truth than face the wrath of the FSF enthusiasts.
Flipboard's Traffic Just Quadrupled: Now At 400 Million "Flips" Per Month
They do already use Silverlight, but I doubt Reed Hastings would be willing to take orders from Ballmer.

I think Amazon should buy Netflix. Bezos+Hastings would be a great combination of talents.
This is with reference to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2630308

and to a TechCrunch article submitted to HN earlier today. By the way, I found the previous submission with Google but missed it with HNSearch.
I hear you, but I think the headline really invites the strong counter-response. The use of the word "dangerous" is provocative to say the least.
From the article, Khan lectures on things he knows nothing about. Is that the revolution in education everyone is so excited about? Getting teachers that don't know the subject matter? His background is math and engineering, his history knowledge he gets from movies and his biology, he gets from pondering. Charlatan, definition of.

Khan on history of D-Day:
"if you’ve ever seen Saving Private Ryan it starts with this and it’s probably, you know, I’ve never been in, never been on . . . never stormed a beach, but I can imagine it is probably the most realistic re-enactment of what it was like to storm the beach at Normandy"

Khan on Entropy:
In a recent talk he explained how he prepared for his lecture on entropy: "I took two weeks off and I just pondered it, and I called every professor and everyone I could talk to and I said, Let's go have a glass of wine about entropy.
If you need to minimize it, run it thru Sass as the final step before publication. Sass will blackbox the living hell out of it. But, you know, in a way that makes sense.
I agree. For me RAII is almost like a Litmus test. I can comfortably write away in C# for a while but there's always a point in time where I want RAII something and realize that it's something extremely useful you give up when transitioning to a GC language.

The author did mention that GC has been around for C and C++ for ages yet people don't seem to use it. If manual memory allocation was such a big problem for C++ programmers people would have adopted a GC library long ago.

Which is not to say Go might not gain traction for other reasons but it's not really clear to me what problem it solves, even after reading the otherwise very entertaining and informative article.
Groupon’s Business Model Grind: Trying to Make a Dollar out of 15 Cents
I half-heartedly started down the path of researching and developing a couple of apps with this in the back of my mind. Rental property management software and janitorial service management sw was where I went. I had experience in both and areas and I knew that there's boatloads of money waiting to be made in just these two fields, but finally I realized it was boring beyond belief, so I lost interest.

And that was a big mistake! The mistake was in focusing on how exciting it was to write code for that domain but instead I should have focused on how great it would feel to help people in that industry with their problems. Approached that way it becomes, for me at least, much more interesting.

Going back to the article, I'm sure that many entrepreneurial devs would love to start a business in retail software if they deeply understood how much impact they would have on people's lives and livelihoods.
Yes lifes hard..suck it up kid. If the area sucks and you want to be an entrepreneur...be the first to change it. With this current attitude I'm not quite sure how anyone would ever want to follow you into the tough road of startup hell/fun.

Sorry if this seems harsh, but I have little patience for self loathing, especially with the many greater tragedies that happen daily in the world.
Computer security: Is this the start of cyberwarfare?
> And that is to me what history is. Perspective. There are no right or wrong perspectives. There are simply perspectives trying to describe to the best of their vantage point.

This sort of claim is vulnerable to a popular philosophical dilemma: the more plausibly you interpret it, the less interesting it is; the more interesting an interpretation you give it, the less plausible it seems. (The tl;dr version of this argument is "vacuous or false".)

Here's a plausible interpretation of what you might mean: everyone puts their own spin on things, and no view of history is completely unbiased. This is very likely to be true, but it's also not very interesting. Everyone is likely to agree with it.

Here's a radical and interesting interpretation of what you might mean: all historical statements are completely perspectival; no perspective is more valid or more likely to be true than another; there is no way to choose among perspectives; all perspectives are equally valid. Now that's a bold, interesting claim. It's also preposterous.

Consider: two people arguing blame about WWI. One person laying all the blame on Germany. The other laying quite a lot of the blame on France. Well and good. Now a third enters. He lays all the blame for WWI (and the Great Depression to boot) on the Alpha Centaurions who (secretly) invaded our planet in 1912. These are all perspectives. Are they really equally valid? Are we unable to choose between them? Be careful how you answer: if you say, "Well facts are facts, but when I say 'history' I mean interpretations of those facts only..." That will only push your problems one step back. Are even all interpretations equally valid? Do you really believe that?

If I had to guess, you're aiming for the radical end (based on how you defended your original post), but I'm not really sure. There's a lot of room between these two poles. Would you care to elaborate your view?
Like what, the Blarney Stone? Nothing south of Chambers is worth going to at all, except maybe the 2 overpriced bars on the water next to WFC.
> What? Of course SS and Medicare count. They're taxes.

I pay the City of San Jose for garbage services - is that a tax? Of course not.

SS isn't a tax because the benefits are (roughly) in proportion to what you pay?

> And, nobody in SS is subsidized by anyone -- those who max out don't pay any more beyond the max.

Do you really misunderstand this or are you just being annoying?

For low-income/low-contribution folks, the ROI for their SS "contributions" is positive. The ROI for high-income/high-contribution folks is negative. The positive return for the low-income folks is the money that the high-income folks lose.

On the off-chance that you think that SS problems can be solved by removing the cap, I'll explain why SS advocates introduced it. They wanted a system that had popular support and didn't encourage organized opposition. For popular support, they wanted to cap payouts. To avoid organized opposition, they wanted roughly proportional payouts.

If you want uncapped contributions, do you want uncapped payouts? If so, you get to explain why Ross Perot gets $300k/year. If not, you get to defend a program that is a significant tax on folks who are very good at fighting taxes.
This article makes no sense. First, Reed Hastings would never be a co-CEO, even to Steve Jobs. Second, just this week we've hearing of Reed's disdain for hiring quantity over quality. The Netflix and Microsoft cultures probably could not be further opposite.
great, high-res images here: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/159616/20110608/biggest-sola...
Here's another article discussing this technology:

http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/tapping-into-cambri...

I've had a number of friends here in Michigan tweet about this today. Unlike a lot of inventions your hear about this guy has a proven track record which improves the chances that he can deliver.
Dave McClure:Taking Advantage & Arbitrage of other Investor’s Disinclination
The financial district spews absurd amounts of money into the city. More than the tech sector.
Show some start up love? and maybe a photo too?
How Apple Can Make Money From Higher-Quality Songs
If they have lots of fears, they may be ashamed of needing help and imposing on others. Naturally they will fight the source of that shame by withdrawing from the help. If this is the case, a good strategy might be to maximize recreational contact and limit assistance to emergencies involving imminent death.
would say we already figured this out a few days ago...... that it's all about hardware sales