skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is uptime really the measure of a great mobile device? I've had some apps crash on my iPhone, but it's a minor annoyance to wait for a reboot. Also, I don't recall native Apple apps ever crashing.

I doubt anything that RIM can do will outweigh the painfully outdated licensing and proprietary server technology that is their platform. They had plenty of time to evolve, but they didn't. It's hard to imagine how they can catch up again now that most people would trade a good browser in their pocket for anything RIM has to offer instead.
:D

I meant C++
I think the thing that might give this some oomph is Google's newly introduced black nav bar -- for those of you who haven't gotten Google+ access, there's an alert on the bar when there's new Google+ activity, which you see whenever you hit any Google page (search, maps, images, news, etc.) so long as you're logged in with your account. It's a pretty clever way to take advantage of the fact that most people hit multiple Google pages a day, if only briefly.
My initial reaction was "surely the NR liabilities can't be that much" - turns out they are £110 billion out of a total UK public sector net debt of £910.1 billion - which is a pretty big chunk!

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/uk-economy/uk-national-deb...

http://www.heraldscotland.com/northern-rock-could-be-left-of...
I've done something like this:

{"height": 100, "width": 150",
"__comment__": "This is a comment"}

Of course depending on the implementation details this may keep the comment string in memory. I agree JSON should have native comments, as well as optional trailing commas.
Better title:

How to create Cappuccino interfaces using XCode4
I don't have anything running on that port :/
What caused you to think HN was "land of the free"? That's not implied anywhere.
A brand new, high performance, Clojure-based Twitter api
> ...for people who give a high priority to 3d graphic performance, there is little reason to select an Apple product

As a software developer, I much prefer working in the OS X environment and living with this hardware on my desk. I can run Windows on my machine with little difficulty with full driver support for the graphics card, so there is little reason for me to select a non-Apple machine.

My specific complaint (whine?) is the difference in performance between Apple's OpenGL and Direct3D 9 on the exact same hardware. I am not qualified to argue more about the limits of particular hardware, drivers, or libraries. But I expect comparable performance between the two.

Didn't I start this by saying I don't blame Apple? Go figure.

Edit: I can confirm that under Windows my graphics card supports OpenGL 3.2. Under OS X, I only get support up to 2.1 (plus selected extensions). In this case, it is a software issue. It is believed that the next OS X release (Lion) will provide OpenGL 3+ support. I eagerly await its arrival.
I'm completely with you, in that I've been a loyal Blackberry fan for years, currently on a 9700, and absolutely can't imagine using anything else. (And yes, browsing on it really is awful.)

The problem is that there are three types of people:

1.) They want the lowest common denominator in tech, the easiest and simplest option, the Nokia 3310.

2.) Features, features, features. This letter makes the point that no-one ever choses option A over option B because of an extra feature, and while there is some truth to that... that is with regard to iPad vs. PlayBook, or iPhone vs. Android. Anyone I've ever known chose an iPhone over a Blackberry has used reasons such as "better web browsing", "a music player that doesn't suck", "wider range of better apps" and so on. And those are hardly subjective, in my opinion anyway. Phonecalls, SMS, BBM, Email, you can't beat a blackberry, pretty much anything else you want to do, even simple things like watching a video or using as an MP3 player, it just sucks at. There are some blackberry apps that are great, for example (in my case) UberSocial for Twitter, and the MLB At Bat app, but those are few and far between.

3.) The third type of people are people like me who know exactly what we want, to the extent that we don't mind missing out on the features we could have with a different phone, but don't want simple either. We're pretty rare.

The problem is that the first type of person, the features of a blackberry are perfect for them, but using it? It confuses the hell out of my father, who took to an iPhone immediately (and found an Android phone just as easy). If you're not simpler and less confusing, or offering an even comparable range of features, and costing the same, then there's very few people who will chose you - at this point, sexiness of the product is hardly even relevant, that only comes into play if both products would fulfil roughly the same role.
Please don't just rely on the nonsense they taught you in econ 101. You need to understand the relationship between debt, the currency, interest rates, and a government's ability and willingness to repay. These factors make government debt potentially VERY risky.

Even in the U.S., which is generally very responsible, government debt has been a terrible investment at times through the years. The U.S. massively devalued during the Great Depression and devalued again after World War Two. An investment in a U.S. ten-year bond in the late-1960s would have been absolutely creamed, I'm talking about losing much of the real value of your investment. That's not anyone's idea of safe.
Upload is probably much less than half of dropbox's bandwidth. If multiple users have the same file, it only needs to be uploaded once; but it needs to be downloaded every time someone syncs a directory containing it to a new machine.
SMS API prebuilt libraries
A quick start to Nexmo SMS API prebuilt libraries - PHP and Java start, installation, configuration and examples.
They should have gone ahead with a much smaller launch and based on the response go ahead with a single world wide launch (with at the maximum one month between the two). Right now it appears as if every blogger and his dog is up and running while every one else is waiting..
I'm not sure how long an iPhone takes to start up again, but the ironic thing with Blackberries is that if they do reboot for some reason, it can take an absolute age before they're fully awake again. Well, muultiple minutes, which sure feels like an age.
I think there's even more to the parallel: many unpaid interns are kids coming from expensive schools with high levels of student debt.
4chan is an English-language site. Most Chinese people aren't going to be able to understand it, and those that do are likely already a lost cause with regards to censorship.
How Much Does Google Make?
Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center
There's some troublesome logic in this post. The central argument is:

X has never had y->You never do y on x->x will never have y

These things do not follow from each other. And people do still try stuff from Google out, despite failures. I'm trying it right now! And it's great.
The Path Forward: Evolution, Errors, and Recovery in Apple
What's interesting to me here is the impact the right naming for a feature can have.

I think "circles" as in "circles of friends" would be intuitive to most users. Probably because the concept corresponds to how people already organise their social groups anyway.

An "aspect" on the other hand focuses not on the who, but on how you present your self. I think this would be much more obscure for most users to get used to even though the end effect is basically the same.
IMHO, that navbar might just be the thing that would somehow make Plus popular. I've got my Gmail tab open at all times, but I don't want to have the Plus tab just to see if someone mentions me. That's why I'd forgot about any new social network.

But on the other hand, do I need notifications in my e-mail? No. And if notifications get too much right in my face, I'll probably disable Plus somehow.
If Google can successfully integrate Google+ into their other applications like gMail, gTalk, gReader, and avoid making people want to turn it off like they did with buzz, I think they have a very good shot with this one.
{lessins} - a mixin library for {less}
> That's the thing, a domain squatter's sole intention is to profit from buying and reselling domains, while a startup's intention is to profit by creating external value through a service utilizing that domain.

This is my problem with your solution. It seems to think that there are only two groups registering domains: squatters and startups. Even if we expand "startups" to "companies", this is clearly bullshit.
HP's Pitch to TouchPad Developers: We're Number One - and Not Too Late
First, while I can't speak for all BB users, I have stayed loyal to this brand because I love the devices and the software. I know the flaws, I notice lack of innovation, and I don't even use BBM.

Second, shorting the stock of your own company, are there no legal issues there?
Google+ will succeed because it's simpler. Everybody wants to control their data and have online relationships that mirror real ones in terms of context. You think mom's don't worry about who can see the pictures of their kids? Or non-technical professionals don't worry about whether or not it's safe to add your coworker to your friends list?

Facebook makes that process tedious. Google+ bakes it in to the foundations and at every step in an obvious way.
If you didn't hear liberals complaining that we couldn't afford the wars and Bush's tax cuts then you weren't paying attention.
It throws up a bunch of content out there when I choose a spark. I don't know how they rank the content or how relevant it is to my spark. For example, I tried "Soccer" and it threw up a bunch of results - one them was a link to http://kelviniransomes.blogspot.com/2011/06/eastern-district....

I'd imagined that when you add a spark, you get a bunch of stuff grouped under various categories and various types of information like News, Companies, Products, Blogs, etc. And in case of Soccer, I'd have wanted to see scores, league standings, etc. Basically be intelligent about the topic.
Dan Ariely:How online companies trick you into buying more[pdf]
Hi guys! :)

I just wanted to share with you my experience about making a video for a startup.
The average age of my team is 19 years old and we don't have a lot of money. We are working on Dayri (our startup) for passion and because we love doing it. But we really wanted to make something great, to stand out. So we thought about a video. Here is the result and how I made it.

Let me know if you have any criticism/suggestion/question. ;)
Hack for a Cause
My path so far with javascript (with examples!):

Desire to make neat web pages. Learn enough jQuery so that you can make something move and change colors with maybe two lines of javascript instead of 20. Keep trying to one up yourself in what kinds of cool shit you can make (I use the term shit because you won't be making anything useful persay, but it will be something that will make friends say "Shit, that is cool. How did you do that?")

Start to learn more and more jQuery until you think in callbacks and events.
Use the canvas to make weird patterns (treeowls.com).
Make something using Ajax (try the hnsearch api: pretty fun http://zacharymaril.com/HNSearch/Topics/testing-api.html).
Try to solve a hard problem with JS that requires lots of computing (some work with Ramsey theory: http://zacharymaril.com/thoughts/constructionGraph.html) .
Mess around with Three.js (http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/693) and Processing (http://zacharymaril.com/).
Use chrome or firefox with the debugger.

Then get bored with frontend stuff and jump into node on heroku or whatever hosting service is popular but has good documentation. Make a chatroom with a lazy bot(zackbot.com) and a static file server. Look into the database bindings. Look at the stuff DailyJS puts out on node(http://dailyjs.com/tags.html#lmawa old with bugs, but very in depth for the time). Make something neat (still working on that part).

Read a bunch of Javascript/jQuery blogs. If you learn that way, pick up JS The Good Parts. Read anything/everything by Steve Yegge, John Resig, and Ryan Dahl. Use the jquery documentation from the website, then get frustrated with it and use jqapi.com

But that is all based on one approach. It sounds like you are interested in more backend stuff. Starting out with node would probably be what you looking for, but without much know how of how to make things work, you might not get thrilling enough results to actually stick with it. I would say stick with the frontend to learn how javascript works and where it came from and then when you get really really bored go mess around with node.
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What would you consider fair and reasonable? I'm one of the people who needed to read this article, because I am not as technical as I need to be to see my idea through, but I'm also not a "business" guy--and I am coming into this endevour with little to no baggage or pre-conceived notion on how things work--I honestly thought if I ever did find someone technical (I'm paying freelancers right now) it would be a 50/50 split--but in your opinion is that undervaluing a technical persons worth on a project?
Oil is not in high demand. US demand is actually down b/c of the recession and the higher price in dollars. It just takes more dollars to buy the same amount.

You could also measure against corn, or gold, or the cost of college. It's been pretty ugly for the dollar for the past 11 years, and it may get worse.
Yes, _at least_ a nation-wide launch in the US for the second stage.

Things become old news quickly on the net.
> though i have looked at euler's identity with awe, it's mostly been a mystical sort of awe.

betterexplained also has a fantastic visual explanation of euler's identity: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...
Exactly, and will vanish overnight when Northern Rock is later sold, hence why they're not really a part of the national debt in any real sense.
Oh also use scriptsrc and jQuery UI some. Saves time and headaches.
Rewriting something is most definitely a good way to learn that a) rewrites are easy to underestimate, and often not such a good idea as they seem, and b) the previous programmer may not be such an idiot as you first thought.

Understanding the thinking behind other peoples code (yes, even crap code) is one of the hardest programming skills to acquire.
Scientists use inkjet printing to produce solar cells
If it is real, the letter is an impressive piece of soul searching at RIM. It bodes well for the company that within its ranks, a senior person is willing to put these thoughts to paper in the hopes of steering a change. How much follow-up will happen is anybody's guess. The whole Co-CEO deal is pretty strange to begin with...kinda defeats the "buck stops here" position of the Chief. Imagine two US presidents trying to run the country...
Agreed. I set up Orb about 5-6 years ago to stream my music and videos, but it was always too much hassle to make sure I left my desktop on (and that it didn't go into sleep mode).

For music, it was more trouble than it was worth - I always had enough to last me on my MP3 player.

For videos, Orb didn't work well on my internet connection (I think 5mbps at the time). Also, I never had a good enough reason to actually stream a personal video, other than to show off the Orb service to someone.

Especially now, with the proliferation of Pandora and Hulu and Netflix and YouTube and other always-on media services, is there really a need for this type of product? I say no.
True, but I'm not sure removing form fields and renaming filtering data constitutes innovation.
PCIe, power management, and problematic BIOSes
Why do I feel like my teachers intentionally made math harder than it needed to be? Some concepts just lend themselves to simple visual representations and just never seem to be taught that way...
I started using one just recently. I'm not a web developer and I just installed WordPress less than a month ago. Apparently, PHP scripts are heavy to execute :S

It seems to work better now.
I hope your method works. I posted in another thread and was forwarded to the exceeded capacity page and now I am getting a 404 error so I guess that invite link doesn't work.

Any who I shall email you.
Compared to the stock market (Depression) or moving your money overseas (WW2)? It seems like the US was still the best of what was available at the time. Gold and commodities would have been toast in an invasion (the axis invading the US) or collapse of society (French Revolution-style uprising).

Giving the government all your money to keep it afloat in those situations was still superior, even if the government ended up ruining the value.
I'm wondering is Diaspora can sue Google for this "inspiration".

Anyway, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714109 for google+ invitations.
Piracy and licensing is other huge problem. Stealing licences of software product is normal approach even in companies which have close ties with corporations in US. Meaning even repackaging and distributing copies of enterprise software to other clients.
The business model canvas diagram is the only diagram we're including for v1. You will be able to enter your own text in each box, and the system will save state so you can go back and forward in time to see how your business model has evolved.
Inflation-indexed US bonds:

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glanc...
5 Reasons to have Facebook and Twitter apps on your mobile phone
Taking a break and stepping back is vital not only for your mental stability, but also to stay in touch with all the "normal" things that are happening around you.
You're misunderstanding. I'm advocating no photo.
This is assuming that eliminating wasteful programs would actually reduce taxes. History proves that to be false.

Taxes are set, and programs created or cut with the budgets they provide. So the republican way of doing things, cutting taxes and then organize a gunfight in congress to decide how to re-divide the pie, isn't such a bad principle at all.

It is the only way taxes go down, and the only way waste gets eliminated.
Tell HN: We just got screwed by PayPal
We are a small startup here in Northern NJ. We decided to do a deal site, even though its getting a little hairy now, this idea had some twists we thought would be nice.

After designing, conceptualizing, and building the frame, we had to pick a provider for payments. At first Authorize.net looked good but they did not offer a way to build in the tipping concept without us storing the CC#'s on our end (If you have looked at the paperwork involved you would know why this was a turn off to us).

Doing more research lead us to find PayPal, posts on forums pretty much outlined the concepts. Even though their documentation is all over the place (x.com,cms.paypal.com, dead links...) I pushed through it, I even wrote a PHP Class to simplify what we needed.

https://github.com/gtsafas/PayPal-NVP-API

So now it was built, I had tied everything that needed to be into paypal, week of testing in sandbox and everything seemed good to go. After talking to support they informed us we need to upgrade to Website Payments Pro when going to production, so we did.

Week 1, all is well payments / tipping pulled in a few sales.

Week 2, We had a great deal from a really popular place over here so we decide to run the capaign. After starting to get sales (quite a few) we get this lovely email from PayPal...

"After careful consideration of your application for PayPal’s Website
Payments Pro and/or Virtual Terminal product, we are unable to approve
your application at this time.

Many factors were taken in consideration including time in business and
past performance, type of merchandise and delivery risk, and inherent
risk for chargebacks and buyer complaints. Due to the heightened
visibility that accompanies a merchant account, Website Payments Pro and
Virtual Terminal is not available to you at this time."

We never were told it was an application, the words they used were "enable" and the payments were working fine, how were we supposed to know that they blindly let people use the services they haven't approved yet.

So now all purchases fail when the person tries to make them and as a result we now have cancelled the deal and temporarily closed down the site.

PayPal is not for entrepreneurs and I should of known better than picking them as a choice.

(There is much more I can complain about, but what is the point now? The damage to our revenue and client confidence is already done. )

Can someone recommend a Payment vendor that would satisfy my needs and not kick us in the nuts?
A bigger feature missing in most GUIs is that I can't tell what has changed from the defaults. On the other hand, most text configuration files contain only what has changed from default, which is exactly what I want to know.
Warning To All Entrepreneurs About Bad Investor Behavior
Last week I was approached by 2 business type guys looking for a technical partner to start a business. One of these guys I already knew from years back. Immediately I got the impression that these guys were very passionate and very serious about their idea. It helps that their idea was a good one.

What really impressed me is they had already done a lot of the leg work. They picked out a name and had a logo designed. They had used mocking software to mock up most of what will become v1. They had written content for the entire website. They had already started using their competitors products which only further validated their idea. They had also reached out to their contacts to see if the idea had legs and if people would use it. They had a big vision for what they wanted to do.

When guys come at me like this, it gets me fired up and makes it hard to say no. They aren't looking for a free ride and they don't expect/want you to do all the work. They needed a guy to build it and they wanted an equal equity partner.

That is how you land a technical co-founder.
C#, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC
Out of curiosity, can you link to the science on the topic?
What model Android phone?

I'm curious because I remember going into the tmobile store in the mall and purchasing the G1 back in 2008. I had the phone and email setup before getting back to my car.