skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, of course, there's fine print, down at the bottom of the post in very pale letters: "Note that this is in the second beta, and that it’s not dead certain that these features will arrive in the final version of the operating system."
WebRTC is a better reason to be ringing the Skype-is-now-a-commodity bell.
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> window.onerror is now supported.

I find this even more exciting.
What was the fred wilson quote about not being _____'s bitch?
We all do at one point or the or the other. What separates men from boys is willingness to take on the pounding that follows and improve oneself. So far you seem to be handling it very gracefully. :)

PS: By "pounding" I mean constructive criticism, not the criticism for the sake of criticism.
Shop's won't take 50s and 100s for another reason. Almost nobody uses them within the borders of USA. The clerk at the store (often a kid from a high school) just don't know how they are supposed to look. ;-)
Of course it is! As a customer, they can recommend me products based on what I've bought before. And if they sell more, that's valuable to their shareholders too. They can predict what might sell more in the future, what might go down, etc. which gives them a lot of leverage over competitors when it comes to managing the supply chain, negotiating partnerships, hiring new staff.
This is a great chance for Google to take over the market with an open source VOIP alternative. Microsoft has already started driving Skype into the ground, and if Google can integrate their new service well with Android, they would have a good shot at establishing themselves.
More here: http://bit.ly/iKyBQt
I got a BA in Computer Science (with mediocre grades) in college because I wasn't mature enough to apply myself in the difficult mathematics courses. I'm not sure if I can manage to do interesting/valuable things without going back to school.

My entire career has consisted of making and maintaining more or less the same applications for 10 years. I know I could just self-teach it all, but I do much better with a peer group and a little structure.

Sad, but I don't see a way out of it.
I wrote my answer here: http://bit.ly/iKyBQt
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How does native Android scrolling improve over WebKit scrolling currently?
I wonder if zombie movies aren't rooted in a parody of governmental fears about widespread drug use.
Thanks for the graph, I've added it to the blog page
Hopefully an upgrade too, as an update alone wouldn't do anything.
Your 2 cents doesn't count. Just kidding. I have outlined for the most part if it is an Apple resource (it is the first one), etc. There are people who disagree with this resource being useless. Something I clearly failed to do and I was trigger happy in the process was calling the subject "Startup Hacker Beginner Resource guide" or something to that effect.
Why Ruby/Rails? I have included some Python resources. "Startup" Hackers will use lots of these tools and then some.
If plenty of people say a certain resource is junk then I could pull it but I am confident there are some quality resources. I do not have to be an expert to know if something is decent or not as I put plenty of time into this.

To answer your question and be as open as my introduction to the page, I just started learning HTML/CSS & Ruby.

Also, I think you meant to say "Short" not Shot /typo.
I clearly failed to use a proper term of a startup Hack or Hacker. My bad to the masses in the peanut gallery of correctness.

Never assume, it's bad for your health and usually incorrect. Thanks again, as I appreciate your input.
They forgot to list CODASYL.
> Elop seems determined to walk in Adam Osbourne's footsteps:

Rick Belluzzo's footsteps are a better comparison: (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo for more); He killed HP's processor business (giving it to Intel for free), then destroyed SGI (killing MIPS and IRIX in the process).

The main beneficiary in all three cases (Nokia, SGI, HP) is actually Microsoft - where Belluzzo got a job later, and I'm sure Elop will go back to later to collect his reward -- after all, he sold Nokia to MS for $1B, way below market price.
Oh, that theme is so awful. Besides the horrible scrolling it is also very buggy for me, especially after rotating the device. Who had that idea?

Browsing websites on the iPad works great. There is no need whatsoever to turn a standard website (like a Wordpress blog) into a web app. That’s just stupid. This should be used for web apps, not for websites.
I take back my earlier thoughts about the deal -- Skype sounds like a perfect match for Microsoft.
Out of curiosity, how many hackernews folks still IRC? I do, and IRC periodically gets in the news (usually through chatlogs posted from hackers, LulzSec, etc.), but what do y'all use?
That's what I've found myself having to do. I've never had to have a sorting strategy before living in the US. The lack of distinction between notes is frustrating. I love it when Americans tell me they have colored notes too.

I still can't understand the preference for one dollar notes. Whenever I use a washing or vending machine I need to flatten out and align a dollar bill or insert dozens of quarters. Every few weeks I have to buy a couple of rolls of quarters from the bank. I paid a cashier with dollar coins yesterday and she did a double take and inspected each coin.
I was a "closeted" geek in my high school until people found out I had made $15k in a few months off my Cydia Store iOS tweaks. My classmates responded positively, which is understandable. However, most of my classmates don't care that I'm a passionate programmer, or was one long before I started to make money. Most of my classmates simply view me a success from a monetary standpoint. I don't think geeks are necessarily becoming respected in droves by their peers; if anything, people are now recognizing that geeks have the potential for great success. For example, most of my classmates (again, most), would probably not respond positively to another, hypothetical geek student who is a brilliant programmer and prolific free software contributor. They would likely ridicule him or her for not trying to make money.

The Social Network has contributed to this new stance towards geeks, which, save for the cringe-inducing "I know HTML so I'm gonna make the next FB!", is generally a good thing.
Simply the irony of people using geek-worthy computers for socializing.
Julian Assange has worked on a filesystem that does precisely that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system)
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We are doing a simultaneous release on Android for this project as well. check it out and let us know what you think.
When I made my first pop pop boat, I simply coiled a piece of small hobby tubing for the boiler, with the ends poking through the bottom of the boat.
Glad to see that this will not be a part of a patent dispute that hurts everyone, but something that all Webkit-based browsers may benefit from.
it doesnt, but currently users cant scroll elements that have hidden data with overflow:scroll on either devices, this fixed it for ios, I would like to see the same fix for android.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat~ Sylvester Stallone

I eat what people like him will spit out on a bad day! Bill Cosby said I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody!
I screw up a ton, I will screw up a ton more, the difference is I am not afraid to rock the boat. When the boat crashes, I will swim. The key is we learn and help others to learn. A grandiose attitude is for inferior people who have issues getting laid or a low self esteem! Appreciate your comments!
Sure, but it's still progress towards making our profession a bit more respected and glamorous.
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Many supermarkets in the UK have donation jars at the checkout. I'd usually just leave all the coins I got in change. I haven't noticed that here in the US.
I would expect nothing better from a PE firm in a restructuring, but I'd like to see Andreessen Horowitz (and ideally also Microsoft) respond to this. a16z's reputation among top-tier hires at portfolio companies (and thus their reputation with entrepreneurs) is worth more to them than their gains from the Skype deal.
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No they're not. They're green. It's so frustrating. Our Australian notes may look like Monopoly money but at least they are much easier to use.
Excellent list of the tradeoffs. Thanks.
Give. it. up.
a16z's reputation among top-tier hires is worth
more to them than their gains from

I really doubt anyone's reputation is worth more than 6 billion dollars.
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You're admitting you have a passphrase, and therefore that you have access to the information it protects. This piece of information is non-trivial, as it eliminates one avenue of plausible deniability, and actions that implicitly provide this information are recognized as testimonial in nature.
Check out Noisebridge, a primarily hardware oriented hackerspace. The general fantasticness of whoever is there when you show up will blow your mind.
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Pagerank determine crawls rate amongst other things. I find it is also likely that short URLs (especially in the case of a directory-type site) are seen first by the spider and that this order is respected by the crawler (FIFO).

You can also ask in #seo on irc.freenode.net I know there are knowledgable SEO people in there who might be able to provide you with a decent answer.
We've screwed them over in war, taken land, and forced them to accept unfair treaties. While that's not all that's happened to them, it is enough.

Like Iraq. It may crawl back to where it was before the attack but only at ten times the effort. Likely it'll bear the scars of the war for a century and, if the USA gets its way, suffer "treaties" long after that. Is it insulting to the Iraqis to say that this will set them back, or is it realistic?

> Everything else you said is simply biased slander on your part.

I could say you're a pro-USA fanboy who'll blindly support them regardless because he's afraid his loyalty will be questioned and his citizenship revoked. But, even if I feel you act that way, I won't. Srs. So don't do it to me either, k?
What do you use as a replacement for terminal? It was freezing my comp for 2-3 seconds when I'd switch spaces, so I moved to iterm2, and it's not great...

I'd like to see something that does a better job allowing me to distinguish sessions to different servers (diff background colors, etc.)
Wow, that is truly horrible.

Although, think of it like this: AT&T is doing what every web developer in the world wishes they were able/allowed to do. It's getting people off IE6.

Granted, the process should be "If IE, then update, else, just show form"
They still have to be okay with the significant probability that they end up having worked below market value. Many of the smart people I know working at startups are perfectly okay with this because they love what they're doing and the potential big dividends is just a really nice bonus.
Pagerank determine crawls rate amongst other things (http://techpatio.com/2009/search-engines/google/matt-cutts-g...).

I find it is also likely that short URLs (especially in the case of a directory-type site) are seen first by the spider and that this order is respected by the crawler (FIFO).

You can also ask in #seo on irc.freenode.net I know there are knowledgable SEO people in there who might be able to provide you with a decent answer.
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I wasn't aware that Microsoft had taken control of Skype yet.
I'm also new to RoR and just started with it
Corporate users need to seriously rethink their glacial technology adoption cycle. In the BigCos I've worked at in the past, we're usually told it's due to security,

That's not the main reason (security). It's usually getting stuff working at all given the sheer size. There was a Fortune 100 company I was consulting at and they had more "important" LOB apps than they had employees. And this was a big company. The sheer amount of code they had internally would dwarf the amount of code that MS ships.

They build this code against a given browser (although a lot of it isn't browser based, but for the sake of this discussion). They can't just take a new browser and break half (or even 10%) of their apps. At the same time, it will take a year or two to get their apps all working.

And these transitions do happen, but they're multiyear affairs. And in particular the one I worked on got 15 year support guarantees from a couple of companies before they moved forward -- they don't want to do this effort every six weeks. They want to do it once, and be able to stay on it 6-10 years (if not longer).

Strange that the vast vast majority of web sites on the open web don't seem to have a problem with this.

Again, for major companies 75% of their apps or even 90% working isn't sufficient. Today 100% of our apps work -- tomorrow 100% better also work.
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Why is the form asking for gender as a required field?
A time-dependent password option would be better such as so that in 90 days the password is void and all data is lost.
I have been using Google's Voice&Video chat exclusively since the day Microsoft announced the Skype purchase. Compared to skype, the experience is horrible. The audio and video quality is sensibly worse, the number of random disconnections and video freezes is pretty high. After a few minutes there is a noticeable lag in the voice connection, which gets higher with time. The general audio quality is worse then I remember having with "Speak Freely" back in the 90s, while I used a dial up modem. The Firefox plugin randomly refuses to work, and returns also random numeric error codes. Skype had, in my experience, none of these issues. Everything "just worked". Google is far, far away from that. All in all, it is so bad that it should be embarassing for Google to have it associated with its name.

The only thing going for Google is that it is, after Skype, the only cross-platform voice&video offering existing on the market.
It's probably just a language thing, so the forms can say "him" or "her"?

Edit: or in support calls, they sometimes accidentally say "sir" to a woman etc., this might help with that.
Recently, in the tech and geek community, I've noticed a backlash towards magic. I understand it in the contexts of the rejection of blind faith and superstition, but I think it fails to recognize the larger scope of the word magic.

I did a cross-cultural developmental psychology experiment on the way children think about magic. In brief, children in the USA showed an inverse correlation between their ability to understand something and their attribution of magic (i.e. if they didn't know how something worked, it was magic, and vice versa). In Mexico, I found that the correlation was not so mutually exclusive, children were willing to attribute things to magic, even if they knew how it worked.

Understanding magic not as something distinct from science, but as something that is the realm of things which you can explore to understand better is, in my opinion, a better way to frame the debate. Telling someone to stop believing in magic because no such thing exists is unlikely to change their belief system. Encouraging them to explore magic, and seek to understand it and find the magic in everything around them, has a greater chance of spurring them into a more inquisitive frame of mind.

The theory of Wonder I developed for my masters thesis posits that wonder is an emotional trigger that positively rewards us for finding things that we can't explain. The evolutionary basis for this is that the more things you find that break your world view, the more likely you will learn something to new that will positively effect your ability to survive. This could explain people's fascination with magic: we have an innate drive to find the things that baffle us, an internal reward system for experiencing wonder.

I could go on about this for days, so I'll just stop now.
these new bills will be quite similar to the bills in Hong Kong.
How has Microsoft "already started [to] drive Skype into the ground"?
A faster approach would be to spoof your user agent -- announce yourself as IE 8 on Windows XP.
>"The key thing here is that Microsoft is going to be the company that is left holding the bag."

It's not as if Microsoft is getting a company gutted of people with technical expertise or domain expertise - and the key assets of brand, infrastructure, and technology are not being affected.

Looking at the people who have been reported to be affected by this, it is hard to see any key personnel involved. Yee Lee appears to be just another employee and the executives alluded to were at least in large part, fairly recent hires; and none of them were founders or early employees - any of those who were eligible would almost certainly have cashed out in 2005 when eBay bought the company (and potentially cashed out again when Silverlake purchased from eBay).

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2693496]

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672786]

I would suspect that most employees who stick it out through the acquisition are looking forward to the differences of workplace environment which will come with the transition from a private equity culture to Microsoft's corporate culture.

This story seems to have traction on two fronts, both as a Microsoft bashing peace and as a cautionary startup tale neither of which is accurate: it is unreasonable to imply that they could (let alone should) have made Skype's existing employee stock purchase agreements a point of negotiation. Likewise, Skype is not a startup. It's the Jeep of the digital age - Skype has been little more than an asset within a portfolio since 2005's purchase by eBay.
Over the last 7 years I've set up more than half a dozen DSL/cable/FIOS modems and routers (I've moved a lot). I've always used Linux or OS X (which was as problematic as Linux in 2004).

FWIW, every company I've worked with (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, others) has a method of activating everything that does not require installing any software. If you have a technician on site installing something they can do it for you; if not you may have to call them to do it.

In my latest round with Verizon FIOS (4 months ago), the technician let me know that they have the option "in case you just moved in and your computer is packed away." Use that as an excuse, or say you haven't purchased your computer yet but your family is over visiting and need to use the WiFi.
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For this same reason, I continue to use Skype. However, the technical issues you mentioned are nothing to Google if it puts its mind to it. The difficult part is getting a userbase that justifies those efforts. This period of market instability is the perfect opportunity to do so.
At least on iOS, you could scroll one of these elements using two fingers but it was awkward and felt strange.
Scrolling with bounce is nice, but does this mean you can finally use position fixed and have it fix to the actual phone window? That's always been the real issue: you couldn't fix a toolbar to the top of the window, for example.
Well, it's barely conceivable that Apple would take it out before the final but it's not very likely.
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I don't get the whole idea of NYC being a startup hub. Sure there is capital here, but the nearest decent engineering school is in Boston and there is not a top-notch state engineering school in the entire northeast. How are you going to have a tech mecca without a read supply of talent? It's easy to wire money to other cities; not so easy to get top talent to relocate to the most expensive city in the country.
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Have you seen Eclim?

http://eclim.org/

You can either 1) run a headless eclipse with a vim front end, 2) use a headed eclipse and vim together, or 3) use a headed eclipse with gvim as an embedded editor.

Looks like it might be worth a try.
So, you do agree though, right?
That would work if they hadn't used ActiveX
I think powerful plaintiffs frivolously suing indigent ones is far more common than the other way around, and a much bigger problem. Without some kind of loser-pays it's always possible for wealthier individuals to sue poorer ones and win a war of attrition.
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I have a hard time believing that.

The Microsoft and Skype deal just received regulatory approval on June 17th from FTC. There may be still be other regulatory hurdles to still pass in other regions.

The events in the article happened before that and it is unlikely that Skype would receive direction from Microsoft prior to closing.

Further, this is not Microsoft's first acquisition and the pattern is more consistent with PE than Microsoft.

If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd be very interested.
Anyone with enough karma is a moderator. You have way more karma than me, so you're a moderator too.

I think the title you chose was a bit flamebaity (I wouldn't have flagged it myself though). If you had made a blog post about the state of software/tech reporting that linked to the Pogue piece and included quotes, then posted that to HN, I don't think it would have been flagged.

As it was, you were insulting about Pogue and didn't make your broader point.
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Do you know if there is a solution that will work in Europe (230V/50Hz)?

I was really looking forward to the Google PowerMeter, even email my local power provider, but with no luck.

If I could install such a device in my house, without the need to talk with the utility it would be great.
Every application and environment is different. The great thing about cloud providers is that they are so easy to get up and running. Test it out! Benchmark your app in both environments and compare how it performs. Weight the costs/benefits of both solutions (not just in terms of performance, but also in maintenance, friction to change, etc.) and go from there.
Maybe it's the mindset of the kinds of authors who write about such things, but it's interesting that this author seems to conflate kids with computer skills and homosexuals.
Would love to read your masters thesis on the theory of Wonder, if it's done! Research for my universe.
> I think it's important to tell nerds "it gets better." Better still, tell them to get a GED, form a company, and sell a product. Go to college if you really want to. Just get the hell out of HS.

If you're implying nerds should be home-schooled before college, I disagree. As unfortunate situation as it is with high school being a big popularity contest, if you acknowledge it and work hard on social skills, you can succeed. Just have to spend time on sports and socializing, and not 100% behind the computer. And if you enter college without any real-life social skills, that's going to be a disaster.

The earlier in life you learn social skills, the better. When I have kids, I'm definitely going to spend a lot of time teaching them that.
They didn't own 100% of the company; probably more like 5-10%. So it's really less than 1x on one of their funds at stake here.

Plus, it's not like it was "do this deal like this, or walk away entirely". What is at risk is either the $100-200mm to fix the options concerns for everyone, or at most, the breakup fee for this deal with Microsoft. Skype probably could find another buyer, even without the Microsoft deal.

Maybe Microsoft overpaid by 2x their nearest competitor. So, a16z only made $200-400mm on this vs. the best alternative (and really, I think it's less than 2x).

The reputation of a top multi-stage fund is worth more than $400mm for sure.
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