skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this tutorial was meant for designers rather than developers who would be familiar with the emulator. You'll note that they went through the steps of informing the reader to actually install the sdk? This way might have a few advantages I think. What if you wanted to get a screenshot of how your app looked on a particular device with a different dpi or aspect ratio than the emulator?
Obviously the euro zone is bad, but I think you're overestimating how healthy the dollar zone is. Oil supplies are dwindling, the weapons industry is losing importance, the financial industry is not what it used to be, the car industry is no longer competitive, few major infrastructure projects are being undertaken, IT is one of the few industries that is going strong, but it contributes relatively little. Europe has a healthy, productive economy to back up the euro and it's a threat to the dollar.
My understanding is that that rate does not exceed the overall growth of the market, though. So Android activations are growing in absolute numbers, but their portion of "all smartphones sold" is not.
The school district that spends the most (D.C.) per pupil is one of the worst. Adding money to something with a broken process doesn't really help. Heck, there are a number of startups to use as examples.
Yes, from a front end point of view you can give the demo page a try - http://localyser.com/demo.html - using B1 1BB

Is that what you mean (still tired, shouldn't drink on school nights!)?
If you're dating someone then I think it's ok to tell them or otherwise let them know that you think they're smart or attractive every six months or so. Less often than that and they get insecure, more often than that and either it becomes part of their identity (bad) or else it influences the power balance and relationship dynamic in other negative ways.
Tumblr is public by default, and doesn't hold pretensions to specificity of content(which always get broken).
As a technical guy the only thing he proposed that got my attention was Build a following. A strong following can be extremely useful in getting a lot of feedback early on.
There are two sides to it. It depends on whether you're overvaluing your own contribution. What exactly will you do while a technical cofounder is building your product? If you don't have a solid answer, you're not contributing much.

On the other hand, technical people, like many people, value money. Hiring an employee #1, rather than looking for a cofounder on equity basis, is the right move for some people. #aaronpatzer
Very often, teachers don't understand the concepts very well either.
Well, I was working on core services, together with fulltime employees (pair programming), after the first two weeks and at the time, they did a lot of pair programming anyway. After two months, I was basically working on my own, but I like to think that I added value much sooner.

Having said that, I don't disagree - it definitely does have a rampup time and I don't disagree with that theres a market and value in unpaid internships, especially short term ones - I'm just saying that I also think theres value for employers and candidates alike in paid internships too.
Cool, now they can bypass the painful step of forcing you out of the CEO role, and just never let you take it in the first place. Also, Fred would not invest in this app and Jordan isn't a real VC, so the piece is pretty bogus.
No, he is specifically looking to create a social network for Douchbags.

FaceDouche.com

The examples of "dishing" above seem innocuous enough in print - but the reality of such an 'app' would be far more harsh.

"This dumb slut let me blah blah blah to her!" and other douchebaggery...
http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/

And JavaScript: The Good Parts book as others recommended.
The devices are great for the price you pay, but there should be a much better selection of apps and features among the product line. I was holding the torch the other day and its practically my dream phone right now, even compared to the iPhone because I know I won't need a new one every 6 months. I love having a keyboard instead of touching a screen, i love being able to tether it, I love not having to worry about using a RIM computer to properly develop for or update my device///

I also use the Blackberry SDK, specifically the Widget SDK, I love being able to use simple HTML/CSS/and Java Script to develop apps. The code signing tool can take a long walk off a short cliff though, and there are tons of bugs with even using simple black backgrounds in applications... The SDK does need to be fixed. A company with RIM's resources should dedicate lots of resources into empowering their developers, and also policing the apps in the app store more to make sure that apps don't link to shady web sites.

The devices also need 3D engines in them, Phones should have rich multimedia and game apps. The copy of Angry Birds you can play in HTML5 should work in BB browsers and more of these popular games should be solicited on the BB (phone) platform.

I realize security is an issue as well, I actually like the idea of the playbook, but phone makers have been losing sight of hand held phones over tablets. People are following Apple's lead instead of innovating where they fall short. Make your system more open, use better components like cameras, and make your screens larger and clearer. The 9800 model should be retired, the screen is too tiny.
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(in (def parseheader ...)).

Lynx says "Content-length:" in the POST requests it sends, which are thus rejected.
It is only a solved problem for all the jurisdictions that have a Target. Sales taxes actually differ beyond the 50 states. For example, MN has a couple difference that cannot be found with 5 digit zip code. You need the whole address / zip+ and map data.
male/female/other is actually pretty good afaik.
>Not sure I want to deal with the overhead of putting a server in my house.

Interesting username then...

But I think that if it is an appliance rather than a server -- this thing is great.
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As someone who jumped from Windows XP to Linux (Knoppix, Ubuntu, and Arch) and now back to Windows 7: 1) No driver issues. I've heard bad things about Nvidia Optimus drivers for Linux. 2) I don't have to worry about not being able to install software, or other compatibility issues. 3) Games (the Mac gaming situation is pathetic). 4) It doesn't force me to muck around with the system all the time. 5) Windows 7 is actually really pleasant to use - much more so than XP or OS X; out of the box, it's only a bit less pleasant than Arch after I've spent a day installing and configuring software.

My misadventures with linux include forgetting to set up a netbook to connect to unencrypted wireless networks and the latest kernel update breaking wifi after suspending or hibernating; I've never had to deal with any of that on Windows. The most time that I've spent on system administration has been switching to an SSD, which became extremely easy after I found the right software to mirror my disk.
I would also appreciate an invite: timtdnguyen at gmail.
Thanks!
Thanks for the effort!
I carefully restrained myself from accusing you of having a predetermined conclusion and rationalizing it at all costs to logic, sanity, and undesired side effects, but after seeing your studious refusal to address the situation as it actually is, rather than how you'd like it to be, I regret my restraint.

I'm sorry this is actually an issue about cross-state jurisdiction, rather than the duty of large companies to be responsible to society and dutifully pay as many taxes as they can, but this is the situation as it actually is.
China is buying euros and European debt by the billions. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/China-buying-Euro-debt-21897....
We've solved this type of problem before with a set of meta-config entries. Each field gets an entry in the meta-config table. There is a small mouse-over widget next to each config field that allows you to view/edit comments for that specific config item.

It's no where near as simple as comments in a text file, but it's more "user" friendly, where the user is someone other than a programmer.

The primary reason one builds a GUI around a configuration is for guidance. Text based configuration is great if you're accustomed to reading error messages that contain line numbers, but GUI interfaces are able to provide a lot clearer direction for visually oriented people. With a GUI, you can highlight the issues using color, weight, and even motion. You can also provide guidance for correcting the error directly next to the item with the issue.
Ash Maurya (author of Running Lean) is also working on something similar called Lean Canvas (http://leancanvas.com/)
Hi I'm an author of this framework. I must point that this is just experimental framework it works only in Firefox4 and later.

Back in 2008 I build Malo - CSS Framework http://code.google.com/p/malo/ that already is using the solution that you pointed (div inside div). Malo works even in IE 5.5.

The problem of this solution is that you have extra divs or paragraphs or you mast build complete typographical solution like I did with Emastic http://code.google.com/p/emastic/.

Other solution is to have % margins(gutter) Example: width:24% and margin-left:1% total 25%. This is good solution if you have fixed container like 960px or 1000px.

So if we have 1000px container is very easy yo calculate that 1% will be 10px.

But what happens if we want to have 80% container? Meaning 80% of any browser size. There is no way that we can calculate that. That is calc() is cool.

We can do calc(25% -10px) margin-left:10px
Here is working demo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2111778/Foxy-CSS-Framework/calc1.htm... .

The concept is: Fluid % main container (it can be also fixed), fluid % columns, fixed px margin(gutter).

I repeat this is just experimental framework with the goal to show potential use of the CSS3 calc() function. I think that the calc() function has huge potential for cool layouts in the future..
A key point here is that you already knew one of the guys.
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Actually this app could be useful this -- input an address and a radius, and it could tell you what stations are available.
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U.S. caught China buying more debt than disclosed
Is this a common thing? I've got some friends looking to raise a seed round for a B2B small biz product with 50 paying customers, and the deals they're getting offered make my stomach turn.

One party offered them < $300k for a 50% stake in the company.
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This chart is misleading with regards to the current US debt. It claims our gross government debt in 93.6% of GDP. There are two types of government debt -- debt held by the public (currently about 60% of GDP) and intergovernmental debt (the social security trust fund, medicare trust fund, highway trust fund, etc.). The latter debt can be wiped away by act of Congress -- they simply need to change the payout formula such that this debt remains as pieces of paper in a filing cabinet in West Virginia. We don't even pay interest on this debt -- we send more pieces of paper to the filing cabinet. Our real debt is not at crisis levels yet.
All my friends will be on google+...

I like google+ versus FB because:
- I trust google more than FB
- It doesn't exist as a walled garden

Facebook is succeeding because it is simplifying the web for the masses, which is the exact model AOL used in the 90's. It was successful for the masses, but eventually people always follow what the early adopters do. If google accomplishes what they are trying to do, which is provide a way for you to curate web content via your circle of influence WITHOUT having to be behind the FB wall, then it is a better model and people will move. Facebook will have to adapt or go the way of Myspace or AOL.
I'd be interested in seeing this once you're done. Is there some github profile I can watch or somewhere that you plan to put it?
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I came across this company last week, really friendly staff helped me get my leaflets printed in time for an event i was organising. They were a great help, and I took delivery the very next day. I am really please with them.
I would also love an invite: timtdnguyen at gmail.
Thanks!
Is earth travelling at 0.88 speed of light
Hi,

I am confused by the article on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13964767. If light left the black hole 0.77 billon years after the big band how can it take 12.9 billon years for the light to get to the earth?

Unless I have misunderstood the article. A quick response will stop me pulling all my hair out. Are we saying at that time or as the light is near a black hole the laws of physics were different. Otherwise we would need to be travelling at about 0.88 speed of light for it to be true. Cheers guys.
The Nexus One is considerably faster to boot than a Blackberry (I've had both). If you're connected to a BES the boot time is even worse.
"First Class Functions in Go" and new Go course notes
During 2002 (post-bust) I got approached 5 times with the sweet deal of developing a product for Nothing, and no specifics at all for equity down the road. Got to be a joke with my technical friends - How many are you up to today?
Everytime I see a price drop my first though is always, "I wonder how much this increases Dropbox's revenue?"
Civilizing the 'Net: ISPs told to play copyright cop
The USD has a century of relative stability behind it - there have been ups and downs, but there's never been a full-fledged currency crisis, and a USD from 1911 can still be used today. The Euro is a stronger threat to the dollar than we've had in some time, but it's still a relatively new currency and it's showing strains already. There's a reasonable scenario which the Euro is a secondary reserve currency, but it's going to take some time and some drastic crises in the US which somehow don't spill to the rest of the world before the USD gets dethroned.

You're right, though - the picture's looked an awful lot rosier. I don't believe there's anything concrete that assures the US's decline, but that's not for lack of trying on the part of Congress.
Google's design takes a step forward
Google tried to recreated that invite scarcity with Wave as well -- didn't work out too well for them there.

Seems like the odds are pretty good that by the time they open it up to everyone, the hype will have died down. I understand the desire to scale up slowly, but this invite-only model is getting annoying.
I saw several online-IDEs, but none offloads hosting to Google. What a great idea.
Unknowingly, all of us who use technology have been touched by your father's work. Thank you very much for his contributions to the world.
On the other side of the spectrum -- as an attractive young man who first bought into this philosophy that "looks don't matter" -- I realized only in the relatively old age of 26 that I could control other people's first reaction upon meeting me by controlling my appearance. Then it came to me that control of one's appearance is a far more sophisticated and deep skill than most people realize -- almost akin to programming. Caring about looks is just as much advertising your complexion as it is advertising the fact that you possess enough intelligence to have mastered the relatively complex skill of controlling one's appearance.

There is much more to knowing how to present oneself than the shallow mindset most people ascribe to those who are good at it. For as long as humans existed, people have been equally idolizing and denigrating that which they don't possess.

I do not mean to encourage talking to young girls in terms of their appearance -- as a matter of fact I support gender-ambivalent parenting. It's just that the author's attitude strikes me as hateful.
While I don't doubt that blocking competition is a happy incidental, the timing of when facebook and twitter were initially blocked makes it clear what the primary purpose was. July 2009, just after the big Iranian election demonstrations that were fueled at least in part by social networks, and immediately following domestic upheaval at the Ürümqi riots. And while I realize this isn't a popular idea among western tech populations, one should realize how much of an opportunity there is for foreign intelligence services [1] to play agent provacateur on these networks when they're controlled by "the home team".

[1] Solicitation for Persona Management Software by USAF (also solicited by SOCOM, etc.): http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/person...
This: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=28237

Is a lot more helpful. There's still a lot of market to cover, so it's not like iOS and Android are cannibalizing each others sales yet.
Ahgh! 80mpg! mpg!

I hate it when I do that.
Didn't Heroku have something similar to this a few years ago?
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Is he not allowed to ask a question relating to something the parent said? It's an interesting question.
Dude, $5K would be living like a king in SE Asia. I travelled to Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar for a month in Feb, and I spent $1,500 total including my air fare.
But I am an airline employee so I saved about a $1,000 worth airfare.

And I was staying on $8/night guesthouses, or if you want to update, maybe $15-20/night room, but if you want to splurge, $5K can easily be wiped out in a week :)

Yes, Singapore is on the higher end, and I love the food there! Not that I don't like the food in Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, well, let's just say I'm a foodie :) Food is one of the reasons why I travel.

Ok, about meeting people. If you don't have a Couchsurfing account yet, then I suggest you shd sign up at couchsurfing.org

You'll surely to meet other travellers and they do have local meet up and yes, they can also host if that's your cup of tea, on your first few days. It's a great way to meet a local right away! Talk about cultural immersion.

Once you've signed up, join CS groups in the city where you'll be visiting. Just send a message, and let them know of your interest -- 'would like to meet CSers who also do front-end dev' etc etc. If not, people will direct you to people who knows other people who's doing the same thing.

Each Couchsurfing city (say CS Singapore, CS Bangkok) has its own sub groups. See if they have Expats group where you can connect with. Cambodia has an active expat group in Phnom Pehn. But I tell ya, I love Siem Reap, $.50 cents beer!!

Thailand is tourist friendly, very easy to travel there that I find no challenge to backpack, but that's just me :) The beaches are fantabulous! You can rent a bungalow for a month within your budget. I was in Krabi in 2009.

And 20,000 expats living in Chiang Mai could not be wrong. Chiang Mai is cooler with its proximity to the mountains. I was just there in Feb.

I've never lived there (other than in the Phillipines) but had been vacationing the past 2 yrs to SE Asia. Happy travels!!. Send away your questions to me if you have.

There's nothing you can do to prepare when getting back except to savor the memories and prepare to tell stories about your adventures.

And beware, you may not want to come to back to the US though :) And that's not a bad thing either.

Rowena
i guess the real address is http://www.domain.me/blog/facebook-ipad-app-kill-flash-1721
I was just looking at something similar but probably not as old:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.238775029469055.68...
The article mentions $25-$100k for 1-2% is sketchy. With a startup, what percentage of ownership should the co-founders expect to give up at the seed stage? At other stages? Any insight would be great.
It's true that those people are valuable. But would you really believe that this guy was the "vision guy" if he'd just said so? The guy in your story did earn it, so it kind of affirms the OP.
i like Android. Sprint and T-Mobile are already swamped with Android phones. There's no room for growth there. the iPhone is already the best selling smartphone on Verizon after only 4-5 months.
http://allthingsd.com/20110622/whats-the-top-selling-phone-a...

Android should go after AT&T fast.
The 500k are world wide.
How to become the Michael Jordan of business
It also has inheritance-like features that make it really suited to config files. JSON really isn't a good idea for config files when we have YAML.
It's unfortunate that our schools in general haven't been able to convey with as much clarity and passion this concept. I suspect that any passion or enthusiasm for a subject quickly gets destroyed when it's turned into a job (particularly a job in a system run by bureaucrats).

This is why I am excited about programs like Khan Academy. One of the things he's been able to do that has eluded most public schooling is explain a concept simply, and with enthusiasm.
Jeese, I haven't seen anybody ask this question on HN for the last month, but maybe I've been working too hard.
What have you found to be the best way to implement a REST interface? I noticed the @ajax_request shortcut but nothing response code specific. I've been using Django-Piston which has been... challenging at best.
The problem is part informational. Grads take internships in the _hope_ it will lead to a job. For most it doesn't. Hope is perennial, so more bums can always be found for seats.

Banning them is unlikely in most countries as it's politically unrealistic. Exhorting companies not to do it is unreliable. So not easy to close off intern demand.

Tackling the supply side might be a better bet. The answer might be in educating grads to mentally file internships alongside diet pills and pyramid schemes. Providing alternatives also good (but more difficult).
Deeply saddened by the news. Condolences to RTM and family.
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One common method is to work for free for a short time, until you gain the skills necessary to perform a new job.

Luckily food, shelter & transport is free too.

Where I live, the GDP per capita is about 40x lower than the US.

Where exactly do you live & what is the quality of life for those at the bottom?
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I think it's a point to consider but I think the main point is that these "business" people showed passion and had delivered on that passion by creating mockups, logos and so forth.
It's a matter of legality in the United States.

"Among those criteria are that the internship should be similar to the training given in a vocational school or academic institution, that the intern does not displace regular paid workers and that the employer 'derives no immediate advantage' from the intern’s activities [. . .]"
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html
I don't want this to seem like a dismissal, but I'd strongly suggest taking this kind of thing to Stack Overflow or similar. Stack Overflow is optimized for "How do I do this programming task?" kinds of questions, whereas Hacker News is a badly overloaded news/link aggregator. Your question won't get pushed off the Stack Overflow JavaScript category by a story about how somebody built his blog of cats in wedding dresses up to $300/mo in revenue.
The letter reminds me of larger companies I've worked for, where it felt clear to us in the lower levels some of what needed to be done, that moral was sliding, and that plenty of people with ideas and talents were not being utilized. Its really hard to build a corporate culture that has really good feedback and involvement among the staff. My bosses in those companies would have found it equally difficult to really let all of these sentiments out, so I don't think its particularly unusual to feel the only recourse is anonymous airing on a tech blog.