skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article's point is that a team - a team - of 5 engineers will beat a "team" of 5 primadonnas.
With some quick analysis on some aggregate of 4sq feeds, you could determine the average # of checkins per user per day, which would let you estimate daily actives reasonably well (3m checkins / day)
You can check out one of our sample visualizations - http://vizualizeme.posterous.com/ashton-kutchers-resume-info...
Agreed. It's a great play either way in my opinion. I have a feeling Uber is going to get a lot of new customers tomorrow.
I'm not sure why journalists (in this case, the co-founder of a magazine) feel qualified to criticize immensely successful Tech companies.

There was a recent article stating that Google should push the Android Platform towards—guess what—an Apple way of doing things. As if Android hasn't gotten a huge piece of the market by doing things different from Apple. Android is appealing precisely because it has things the iPhone doesn't. And this comes from a lifelong Apple and iPhone user.

And here's Facebook, a player that entered a quite mature market with well established players and just crushed them into oblivion through sheer talent. In the face of fast growth, Facebook hasn't been through the pains of Reddit or Twitter; they just effortlessly introduce highly sophisticated technology that works on a massive scale.

And yet a clueless journalist comes along and says "hey, you're doing it wrong!". Baffles me every time.
I hadn't heard of this business until now (admittedly I am not in the correct location). Now I have.
Where does it say Bill fired Peter?
You are forgetting about video. Many people use their iPads for Netflix and renting movies from iTunes.
in terms of interface, all tablets are the same.

How true is this? I thought some tablets have navigation buttons while others do not. I also thought that there was some variation in screen sizes, and therefore screen real-estate. I also thought that Microsoft, in particular, seeks to support older windows software (I'm getting this notion from the Win8 video that was released the week prior to WWDC), and therefore has additional user interface concerns. Isn't there at least one tablet out there that has a stylus?

I understand how easy it is to think "glass rectangles; how different can they be?" but I think that's a big mistake. Because of this, I disagree with the notion that the author contradicted himself.
Microsoft releases UI guidelines

Microsoft and UI guidelines in the same sentence, something doesn't compile - I would be happy if they used their own guidelines though.

the menu structure is roughly the same too

Too bad it is getting reinvented; it happened in Office 2010 and it will happen again as people are getting tired of File -> Save; and yet again when touch screens on laptops will become the norm.

So I'm sorry for your mom, but unless she never upgrades, then she's going to have to learn new things.
I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday
You choose Google Apps. Google Apps should not choose you.
Could the timing be worse? "Brian Henerey heads up Operations Engineering in the Online Technology Group at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe." talking about devops? It's almost as fun as Sony's scheduled tweets, inviting to play online while their network was down. Whatever he wrote in this article, I'd be thinking about their security problems and how they relate to what he's promoting...
Gouging may be good for a day (assuming there weren't other good transport options, which is simply untrue in SF), but it sucks as an acquisition method.

My experience with Uber was essentially:
(1) "Hey, it sounds great, but that's a bit pricey. It can't really be worth it, can it?"
(2) Decided to take someone to dinner via Uber because it was more impressive than a cab.
(3) "Hey, this is actually pretty cool and totally worth it."
(4) I'm now a repeat customer, even when traveling alone.

In my eyes, the key is that they need to find a step (2) for a more general case. Having a day where there are no cabs might be a small push, but having a day where there are no cabs and Uber is the price you would have paid anyway is absolutely killer.

Short answer: Long-term thinking is better for them than short-term thinking.
It reminds me of all the talk that "PDAs were just a fad"
Yes, I know about about /ncr but its hard/impossible to set that on a mobile device

Also, it only works sometimes.
Creating chat roulette with node.js, socket.io, and OpenTok
1) Give them your email.

2) They tell you, "Want an invite? Invite more friends!"

Even for a legitimate product, this approach makes it feel like a scam.
And, it's being run on launchrock which advertises "Create a viral “Launching Soon” page in minutes."

So, is there actually a product here, or is this just a five-minute market test to see if its' worth building a product someday?
Supreme Court throws out Wal-Mart class action
Best of luck man!
I don't want to transform HN into a sports-related forum, but since The Economist has also written on the subject, I guess I can give it my 2cents...

> Lionel Messi, who at 23 is already being considered as one of the greatest players to ever play the game, right up there with Pele, Maradona, etc

He can dribble, all right, but I'm not the only one who isn't regarding him as "an all time best", simply because he hasn't help his country winning a World Cup final (or even helping it to get there). At 17 Pele was winning the World Cup in Sweden, while Maradona almost single-handedly won the Mexico '86 World Cup for Argentina and helped them reach the final again, 4 years later (not to mention winning the scudetto with Napoli, against possibly the best club-team of all times, Van Basten's AC Milan).

And remember that Barcelona's lineup also includes Andres Iniesta, the man who scored the only goal against the Netherlands in last year's World Cup final, Xavi, Spain's bets man when they won the Euro 2008 Final Tournament, Pedro, David Villa, Alves (one of the best players on his position) ans so on and so on.
Heh, it's funny, yesterday I was wondering if Color was still a thing.

It turns out it never was.
Can we not let Hacker News become Reddit please?

Anyone who has actually dealt with Apple as a content provider knows that they strong-arm big content providers for the benefit of their consumer.

Apple's best friend are those that spend money on them, i.e. the user.

And please for the love of all that is good in the world let us not confuse a patent filing with a product roadmap.

If Apple executed a product roadmap dictated by their patent disclosures they would look like.... Sony?
Mobile client (on IOS, Android). It's trivial to do this on real computers with OS access, but for me, there is a LOT of value to using 1Pass on my phone too.

What would utterly fucking rock is NFC/RFID credentials managed through 1Password too; with a dongle on my desktop, and maybe in my phone, or even a dedicated hw device.

Maybe also manage smartcard/crypto credentials (processed in HW, but this could be the admin UI to shuffle them around).

The other wishlist I have is Linux support (I'm a Linux desktop dev/sysadmin workstation holdout, with macs for mobile and office automation).
There are some famous instances of hackers being locked up, e.g., Kevin Mitnick.

But are there any examples of hackers not being locked up long enough? Someone who gets out after 10 years but hadn't learned their lesson and really needed 20?
My fear is that brokers won't be the ones to buy it: For example a big media company could get ".movies" to control a domain space and use it as an anti-competitive tool against indie film makers who don't even get in the front door. Look if Disney wants ".disney" I'm cool with that, but I don't like the idea of Disney owning ".animation".
Person with great "resume and/or cover letter" only has proven talent in writing great "resume and/or cover letter".

"The Google Resume" is a great book. It's written by a former hiring manager that's worked at Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Gayle Laakman also wrote "Cracking the Coding Interview" and runs www.careercup.com .

Nobody gets hired by sending "steady streams of applications for months". You gotta stand out somehow. In my case, I run two websites that track over 300 start-ups. I was also personally referred to Google by a Stanford PhD already employeed by Google Research. Google has no excuse for not inviting me in the 'Plex.
I think they mean "better deal" to be taken ironically by the readers, who likely have little sympathy for cab drivers. Unlike most public unions who are paid by taxes, the electorate is directly and visibly affected by taxi price hikes. So public support for them is naturally much lower than the unions the rich people pay for. Probably anyone reading this is laughing along. They are thinking that fifty cents per thousand feet driven is more than a fair fare (that is the current rate for SF cabs).

Edit: it appears the strike is more about the credit card fees companies charge the cabbies, digital tracking of the cabs, tvs in the back seats which show adverts to passengers, and various other anti-consumer and anti-driver practices. In this case, I can see that public support might be a little higher. I don't like either cabbies or cab companies, but if I had to pick which I like least, it's obviously the companies. In this case, the fair deal bit might be meant unironically.
Doesn't "git bundle" already do exactly this?
It seems to me that most HN users visit it regularly, and therefore new content is more important to them than search box. I like the box being on the bottom, it doesn't distract me. I think that putting it on the top would break simple aesthetics of HN main page.
I regularly see this without clearing cookies, so yes, I would consider this a bug.

There seems to be no discernible pattern as to why it works in one session, suspend laptop, go somewhere else and it stops working. Or it'll work twice in a row and when I return location a (both in the same foreign country), it stops working.
"IMHO if the majority of listeners misunderstand your talk and don't get the point you're trying to make, then you made a bad talk."

Does not follow. It is also possible that he has made a hard point, which the brains of the readers have a hard time representing with their internal conceptualizations, therefore misunderstand, then act on those misunderstandings. I think the presentation is perfectly clear, and do not see any obvious way it can be made wildly easier to understand.

Quality of communication is not just bounded by the quality of the sender, it is bounded by the quality of the recipient as well. The point this presentation is trying to make is intrinsically hobbled by the fact that many people cognitively will only perceive something that boils down to "PATTERNS GOOD" (hooray!) or "PATTERNS BAD" (boo! flames!), and "PATTERNS DOGMA A LOSSY TRANSLATION OF SUPERIOR ORIGINAL PATTERNS CONCEPT" doesn't into either of those buckets very well (the distinction between patterns dogma and patterns idea being a tricky one all by itself), and if that's how one approaches it, it's easy to see how it simply falls into the "bad" bucket.
Tablets as opposed to iPads.
Your problem is that you applied for "15 jobs, 5 at a time." That is an HR red flag.
2 red herrings don't render the journalist 'clueless' and unqualified. Everyone's entitled to an opinion.
Ask HN: see link to hacker news commentary on source page
Did some searching to no avail. Does anybody know if there is a Firefox plugin or GreaseMonkey script that, when you're on an external site that is linked to from HN, adds a link to the HN commentary for that page? For example I'm on http://supercoolbitcoinnews.example.com/omg-another-bitcoin-article and somebody has posted the url to HN, the plugin/script adds a clickable link somewhere obvious on the page so I know that there is a) already an article on HN and b) can easily go to HN and read the comments there.
I'm sorry but people seem to get greedy and too complacent only around nuclear?
Not to mention, it's typically corporations with big pockets pushing for these sorts of investigations.
As yet another aside, has anyone else noticed how it is pretty much impossible to set SafeSearch to off without being logged in?

Trying to set the cookie just does not seem to stick
A few reasons.

Convenience:

* There's a very easy-to-use app to request a driver that shows the locations of nearby cars and an estimate on how long it'll take for a car to arrive. No need to try and flag down a cab or call a company.

* Payment is done via stored credit card info, so no need to worry about paying at the end of the ride. No need to worry about tip, either.

Comfort:

* The town car is far more comfortable than a normal taxi. Nice seats, ample leg room (and I'm a large guy), no ads, actually useful air conditioning.

* There are magazines to read, if that's your thing. Some of the cars seem to be wifi equipped (one of my drivers has told me that that car had wifi, at least).

Experience

* They definitely ride the line between limo and taxi, to the point where I can't help but laugh. The driver even hops out of the car to open the door for you!

Really, if you're in SF, it's worth checking out Uber at least once.
Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
CTRL + F [fir]
Even if you're not in the correct location, you might be some time. I've got a friend who's going to be in SF from out of state tomorrow and he's decided to check out Uber because of this.
I think it's the first tablet to really take the iPad on. They chose to copy Apples form factor - that was a good decision IMO. 4x3 really works well in a 10" tablet. The software looks very compelling from a user AND developer POV. Hopefully it's not too little too late as is predicted in the article though.
Few sensible C++ developers in 2002, let alone earlier, could or did use STL iterators, generics, or templates on a large scale. Yes, they all technically existed, but it wasn't something you'd put in production code yet. The ideas and prototypes were a few years old at that point, but the shipping libraries were very new, and if you were trying to write cross-platform you couldn't count on them existing at all.
Yes, this is a real product. We are not running a test. We will be beta launching in mid July
Sounds like the Ubiquitous Language idea from Domain Driven Design is a closer analogue. I haven't read Christopher Alexander's book so I'm just going on the article's summary.

http://domaindrivendesign.org/node/132
That's a downright twisted use of the word "solidarity".
Agree with you, but he has a point about the "talent acquisition" hires. They do tend to underperform when acquired (perhaps they feel 'accomplished' + there 's no pressure since they no longer work on a startup). Can someone name a few developers who did better after they were 'acqhired'?
Hacker News Sidebar https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma...
(didn't test it)

Also check the ongoing contest http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672793
"Sure, the large may be a very good deal, but that's completely besides the point. It's more soda than they really need, and they are wasting money by buying it."

You actually put your finger right on the fallacy. It feels that you're wasting money by buying a GitHub account with 100 private repos when your repos are largely inactive. But the way to make smart economic decisions is not by measuring hypothetical waste (i.e. how much of the account you are using) but by comparing the options side by side. You pay more for GitHub, yes, and you pay for stuff you might not use, but if it saves you a few hours per month then it's a better choice than going for a service like CodePlane.
agreed, though its a great way to get the word out. Posted it in an IRC channel and got 22 people to sign up in about 10 mins hehe, thought i did get a few people feeling like they got scamed aswell
Mr. Nguyen said the company had taken the criticism to heart and charted a new course. He fired Color’s president, Peter Pham, and its engineers are building a new version of the app to be released later this summer.
Color will make it. They are smart people. Bill sold companies for a total of $900+ M. Peter was the guy who got T-Mobile to introduce BillShrink to its millions of subscribers and more people (through tv ads). Apparently they also have LinkedIn former chief scientist on staff. Teams like that win. Sooner or, maybe in this case, later.
> Did you read what I wrote? I mentioned Google Maps as one of the two places I found AJAX useful.

Yes, and I was dissecting why you may have found it useful, because the same principle applies to hundreds of other situations that you may not have recognized.

> The applications on my mom's PC do have much better UI standardization than the web does. Microsoft releases UI guidelines. alt-f4 does the same thing in every application I've used

Questionable. About the only key shortcuts you can rely on are the ones that will work in your browser too. Alt-F4 will close your browser--that's what you wanted, right? Cut/copy/paste, print, etc. all work there as well...

> the menu structure is roughly the same too

Ha, you mean the invisible menus on Explorer and IE>8, the mega "office button" menu in Office 2007, the delightfully inconsistent menu bars in WMP>9...
Not sure about others, but I don't always use Firefox on all my systems (some don't even have it installed).

1Password has abstracted the browser away from me, so I can use Chrome, FF, or Safari with ease on Win or Mac.

Dropbox integration seemed nice, but I'm now strongly considering moving my keychain to a different service.
This is a legit product, and it's not a scam. The reason we want people to sign up is to show that the idea has demand. This is important for us to validate our own efforts as well as to show our stakeholders that people are interested in the idea.
I wouldn't take it personally. I was in the exact same situation. I applied to a Google position that my qualifications absolutely crushed, I was sure I'd be contacted almost immediately. Nope. 6 or 7 weeks later I finally got a response for a quick phone screening with their HR guy. I thought it was insulting.

I don't think Google's hiring is really any different than headhunters. They drop a lot of hooks, get a lot of resumes into a database, and when they really need to fill a position they just do a search and drill down the list of matches.

Maybe go apply to Facebook instead.
SSL Vulnerability status of major ecommerce sites
You might want to learn about "fundamental attribution error " as the truth is somewhere in between the op position and yours imo.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Direct manipulation by touch is a 21st century computing paradigm which Apple used in iOS and which they're bringing to Lion in a big way.
I can understand not wanting an iPad, but why limit yourself to Android?
They're using LaunchRock. I think this brand of scammy must be some kind of default setting, I've seen it a number of times.
Avalanche "pretty sure" of new console hardware in 2014
Assume that the superstar=100*average_programmer is true, then tell me: How many of these superstars are there in the world and how likely is it that they want to work at your startup?

It seems that many people here have experience with these superstars? Maybe they are not so rare after all?
You have a point. I spoke in anger.
That's misleading. Google Apps has Google in it, but (unless I missed something) GMail as a seperate product is not what is talked about here.
For nearly 30 years we have had two Global Strategies working in a symbiotic fashion that has created a virtuous economic growth spiral. Unfortunately, the economic underpinnings were flawed and as a consequence, the virtuous cycle has ended. It is now in the process of reversing and becoming a vicious downward economic spiral.
> W7 + OneNote would make a very nice (and expensive) electronic notebook if the tablet was thin and had decent battery life.
Hasn't this existed for years (TabletPC) running Windows (well except the thin and decent battery life part)? Why haven't you gotten one already?
I'm not asking for any services. They're being shoved down my throat, whether I like it or not. I'd gladly pay for alternative providers if I had the ability.

If people don't want higher taxes, then reduce services. It's simple, but not politically viable.

Don't say that you should raise taxes just because there is a revenue shortfall. That only encourages the bastards.

Edit: It's not inexplicable to lower taxes. The average tax rate in Canada is 40% including all taxes. That is insane.
I stand by my argument. While some tablets have more or less buttons, that is hardly a significant factor. In some new Android tablets, where the OS demands dedicated back and menu buttons, are implemented on screen in software. It's really just not that much of differentiating factor. Screen size is a bigger factor but we've already seen that play out on smartphones. And despite a number of 7" tablets, the market is clearly leaning towards a 10" form factor as standard.

Microsoft does seek to support older windows software but the user interface concerns comes from the fact that they're bringing that to touchable glass rectangle hardware.
Heh, they're opposing more cabs on the street? Well there's a surefire way to endear your cause to the people of the city...
Macros in Racket and rolling your own object system
PC-BSD: Devil With Human Face
Worst case scenario at a coal-fired power plant is what? The plant gets destroyed? A few tens or hundreds of people die?

This is a tragedy, of course, but nowhere near the level of a nuclear disaster like we're seeing in Japan right now.
Engineer context would be nice.

Are these standards being relaxed because they were initially set overly cautiously tight, or are they being routinely relaxed without appropriate engineering?

For example, the steam valve leakage. Apparently some leakage is acceptable. Over the years they have quadrupled the allowed leakage and gone from a "per valve" measure to a "total for all valves" measurement scheme. Is the measure there to predict valve failure? Is the measure there to control total radiation release? Cooling water loss? Steaming the staff? I'd have gone "per valve" if I was monitoring the health of the valves and "total aggregate" if I was concerned about the other effect. Did they decide that the "per valve" number was dominated by the other measure?

The article claims the existence of an engineer that thinks the standards are being loosened too much, but if you have three engineers and you can't make one disagree on some things, you have too many engineers.
So, There's something like 21 million bitcoin possible, and 6 million 'in circulation' now. A sell order comes in for 1/12 of total amount of outstanding bitcoin. And the system processes it, flashcrashes, and. 3) Profit, I guess. or 4) rollback.

That's something like what would happen if someone dumped 1 trillion USD onto a bond exchange. There are only a couple entities who could do this.

So how did 1/12 of the value in this ecosystem wind up in one account at Mt Gox? I'd have to think that it's likely an insider/early adopter. (or Mt Gox itself?) There's a limit on the number of entities who could amass that sort of 'fortune'.
When you have 1000 developers, you would organize them in teams and appoint middle managers to reduce the complexity..

That is quite normal :-)