skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, people most of the time fail to see that the universe does not turn around them. What percentage of users want it ?
Minorities. Celebrities and mostly people who refer to a big audience of people.

But what will happen if Google will keep adding everything that will turn out useful for someone ? Those people who wanted to use those features will again say that Google+ is geeky.

Twitter has only one way follow, nothing more, facebook has either only one way follow (for pages) or the whole clutter (All you network).

Shut up and stop trying to make the world fit you, try to fit in yourself
Well, it is a nice solution to make someone's life easier when there are no signs of a cure coming. For example, this font could be set up as a system's default (or even it could be enforced as the 'one and only' typeface) and thus it will make dyslexic's life better. IMO it's a win.

Also you should note, that this font was created by a dyslexic, so I think he knows what he is doing.
"Also, it's probably helpful to learn a new language without the instant crutch of auto-completion features."

How is that? Why is poring over the API docs of a library to find out if you need GetSize(), get_count() or Count() better than having the computer look it up for you while you're typing? Auto-complete doesn't help in learning a language, only in using an API - and at that it's good.

I guess I'm being all Statler and Waldorf here, but the hipster 'look at me I only need a text editor' is bullshit. In the OP the author boasts about using makefiles FFS! If there is one over-'engineered', obscure, bandaid-over-bandaid 'solution' for problems that only exist because of historical cruft and that is inscrutable to beginners, it's make!
You should look up some more seo tricks to get your site more popular!
It's an exaggeration, but the difference between getting a "winning" ticket in the freak accident lottery in Europe is worlds apart from the same thing happening in the US. In Europe you might lose your business. In the US you'll probably never get a chance to try again.
According to the master's thesis there are no significant main effects:
http://www.ilo.gw.utwente.nl/ilo/attachments/032_Masterthesi...

I could imagine that this works well for specific kinds of dyslexia.
Twitter Spam
Roller doors can actually be pretty tough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gtiQ9qSYj8

It'd be hard to keep it so strong in the middle for such an unusually large shutter, though.
I don't think the parent poster was trying to say that someone should use a sparkline instead of a slopechart. I believe they were saying that they weren't impressed with slopcharts to the same degree as they were impressed by sparklines. If that is their sentiment, I agree with it fully. I found most of the examples non-intuitive. I had to really study it to try to understand what the chart was showing. That said, before I would say yea/nay, I'd like to try them with a dataset that I understand really well to see what they look like.
Yes, I'm against protecting abstract ideas with no implementation.

Even when there is an implementation, it's not obvious to me that it should be especially protected by a government (especially a fallible government, which is all of them, as well-meaning as they might be).

I'm definitely not in favor of granting you protection on a "new form of scheduling". A program or calendar or whatever that implements it, sure.

See for example:

http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,4296,00.html

"Patent No. 5,715,314, for example, gives the holder a monopoly over "network-based sales systems" - we call that e-commerce." (yes, Amazon among others is a licensee)

Other horrible examples:

http://w2.eff.org/patent/EFF_Patent_Busting_Project.pdf

See also for a broader view, the ideas of economist Friedrich Hayek:

http://blog.mises.org/9247/hayek-on-patents-and-copyrights/

or, a mainstream view on an industry without copyright, the fashion industry:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/20/copycats-versus-copyright...

Another well-known case is of course Coca-Cola, which protects its core formula via trade secret rather than relying on the government.

(I am in favor of copyright, and protecting implementations as well - a reduced form of patents).

As I mentioned, if it's not obvious, and the big guy requires resources to copy it, they might be better off purchasing the small guy. If it was easy to copy, well, let's hope the small guy's execution was better than big guy's. (I do realize that big guy has an advantage in marketing, etc.)
Drag and Drop CAPTCHA - Original Paper - Need help for Open Sourcing the Code
Oh, and also (while I'm ranting):

"Plus IDEs are sometimes fiddly to get set up right for a given language; it's easy to sink way too much time into getting things set up when you could just be writing working code. "

Right, because using vim or emacs is a matter of apt-get and off you go rollseyes . I'm pretty sure the configuration-to-actually using it for productive work ratio for vim and emacs users is way higher than for your average VS or Eclipse user who most of the time wouldn't even know how to configure it.
Need help to Open Source my Drag and Drop CAPTCHA project.
I have all the source code , need support of Hosting server, earlier I hosted with eatj.com
The same as the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns.
> if they ride the wave of positive sentiment they've gained

It's interesting to consider what the impact of the goodwill many people feel towards Google will be on Google+. With traditional commodities (e.g. cars, detergent, etc.) companies are keen to maintain trust, a positive image, and so on, amongst consumers.

That seems to have been less a factor in the success of companies like Facebook, perhaps because what they offered was so new and compelling that many people were willing to overlook trust issues, ethical and privacy lapses, etc.

Perhaps social networks are now becoming a commodity, and as a result, these factors may end up being much more important. It would be fascinating if Google+'s success was less about the technology and more about how people feel towards the company - if people say, "I can get the same experience from product X as I can from product Y, but I trust the company that makes product X more."
That's precisely what I've been thinking since I heard that. First FaceTime, now iMessage. Apple is sure not making friends with carriers with this...
CloudFlare Raises $20 Million
In his defense, Fabric is not django specific.Though it is pretty nice.
News of the World saga: Email management lessons
Does the kindle support custom fonts? It would be cool if one could experiment with this and other modern fonts focusing on readibility
The rumor is that the carriers didn't hear about iMessage until Jobs announced it at WWDC.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/06/imessage
Yup. It still is a pretty awesome piece of architecture though of course. :)
http://hcpoca.co.uk/images/House-boat-on-River-Murray.jpg <-- actually Zombie-proof house design.
Buy your name and the common misspellings?
BBC Worldwide to offer TV episodes to rent for the first time on Facebook
What part of this nonsense hasn't been solved 10 times better by bulletin board systems and usenet groups? A stream of 1000 users is a stream of garbage.
I'm constantly telling off my friend (an established programmer, just not with C#) for using Resharper with VS2010. He responds with "But it helps! It's easier to use!", then asks me "What's the difference between a reference and a 'using' statement?".
Thanks for the context. After reading that article, I took a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots_in_popul...

The riots really do seem to have had a significant cultural effect.
Forget about git? U crazy?
quote from the article:

...the music industry, when it began to feel the effects of the technological change coming, doubled down on stupid....

And the video industry is providing the sincerest form of flattery.
Agreed on all points - it's a chicken/egg situation to be sure up front. It's something I've thought of doing just because of my circle of contacts - I know many fairly well (probably 5-8 pretty strongly), know their strengths, know what they'd like to be doing, and I get calls from both recruiters and companies looking for people with XYZ skills/interest. I'm not sure it's enough for me to do full time, but it's made me think more about this issue, and the state of the industry.

Getting the 10% out of some people would be hard - I guess you just wouldn't use them as clients(?). Would you collect up front? Weekly payments? I don't know many developers who can easily just hand over $8-$10k in a lump sum, so you'd probably have to collect over time, and if they're not good with budgeting, that's a whole other problem.
Very true, people's emotions tend to take over any rational thinking, and the results are pretty scary.

That said, your comment reminds me of a particular part in the game Left 4 Dead(a zombie FPS) where you see graffiti scrawled along the walls on one particular safehouse that reads, "MAYBE WE ARE THE MONSTERS, NOT THEM!" with an arrow pointing to another bit that reads "Hey asshole, have you looked outside?!" :)
Thanks for such kind words!

Since we're on HN, I thought I'd also share the tech behind iWantMyName.

It's a catalyst app powered by a RabbitMQ based backend flavored with a lot of CouchDB and sugar coated with some Redis: http://lnz.me/K6MP
Why not work with the code/examples in "Why FP matters"?
It's a tricky one. Technically speaking it already works like this for contractors.

Example: Say I place you in a 6 month contract where you get paid £500 per day (I'm an optimist!) in such a deal my fee to the client, your employer, would be anywhere from £50 to £100 per day meaning I could place 4 good people and make £2k a week before costs. I work for an agency currently but if I was self-employed (and a lot of successful recruiters are) that would be £2k a week in my pocket.

Your next question will probably be 'Why aren't more recruiters doing exactly that?' and the answer is simple, it's the same as launching a start-up. You become self-emplyed and your income isn't secure. More importantly it is almost impossible to get traction as a self-employed recruiter unless you've been in the game for at least 5 or 6 years and have a littany of highly successful relationships with hiring managers that regularly recruit.
Does Google have a "always play catch-up" mantra in addition to "don't be evil"?

- Hotmail (Gmail)

- Mapquest (G Maps)

- Firefox/IE (G Chrome)

- iOS (Android)

- Apple TV (G TV)

- Twitter (G Buzz)

- Facebook (G +)

- Groupon (G Offers)

etc.
Decentralized Zero-Conf VPN: what do you think of this guy idea?
http://jimeh.me/blog/2011/01/06/concept-decentralized-zero-conf-vpn/

Similar to the Tor Network but I like the idea of piggybacking on BitTorrent.

Any implementation of this concept?
3rd party comments: Which system is best for your website?
Google plus invites sold on eBay
Lean Business Processes
Lean for Business Processes - UT Knoxville offers lean business process improvement workshop to learn the fundamentals of effective business process management.
Creating a new kind of social browser game: Adslife
A word of warning: It can mess you up when it comes to raising future investment rounds if random people no-longer involved with the company own equity.
Apple have never shown any interest in being friends with the carriers. Since day one of their foray into the mobile phone business, they've been barely tolerating their partner carriers - like a horrible roommate, you cannot kick out because you need their share of the rent. It's just now Apple feel strong and established enough to completely shun them.
Isn't this somewhat like a consulting firm? Those didn't survive the busting of the tech bubble all that well.
it takes guts to launch a language in 10 days.

until protoype/jquery came in I was clueless and thought flash/actionscript was better at crossbrowser client side development
Difference Between Quality Assurance, Software Testing & Quality Control
This post explains the basic difference between Quality Assurance, Software Testing & Quality Control.
If it was really that easy to spread this questionable message for years, it would be as easy to spread other articles as well.

So it wouldn't need more than a few articles, like "nginx + ssl = works like a charm", or "nginx has better SSL support than Apache". It would not matter whether those were actually correct, just a single article of questionable quality would be sufficient.
Ask HN: What do you all use for your documentation / help / community software?
I'm currently looking to write some help docs and documentation. I'm considering a standard wiki but wondered if anyone has any better experiences.

Edit: I've got a web app and I'd like to provide help in the form of a set of web pages. I need something simple and wondered what you all used.
An IP troll is properly a non-practicing entity. Both RIAA and Oracle provide the IP in question.

The excessive requests are partly negotiation - in our adversarial system, it's counsels' job, on each side, to put their case as strongly as possible, and the judge (and jury if applicable) to decide. So they ask for as much as they can. The decisions often seem excessive to me - but that's the fault of the judge, jury and law.

BTW: given that Google knew they were on dodgey ground when they used Java differently from Sun's licensing, and a lot of money has changed hands based on it, there could be a high pay-out. One guide is when Sun sued Microsoft for breaking compatibility with Java: $20 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#... (though MS was happy with the outcome, and I think they know they got off lightly). OTOH, when Oracle sued SAP for some dodgey business practices, they won $1.3 billion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#... (SAP wasn't happy).
How has Social Media Changed Our Lives in 2011
It's also worth pointing out how, even when humans work together, a single bad decision can make even the most elaborate plans fall apart. There's always one person who has to deviate from the group only to become feed, or in the case of 28 Weeks Later[1], giving a janitor access to the most restricted areas of a military base brings about the second wave of infection.

[1] Yes, technically they weren't "zombies" but that's not what's being debated :)
http://thechangelog.com/

http://slashdot.org/

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
Good point. I can't imagine is $3-$4 million though. But I might be wrong.
The huge success of an AppStore failure
Customized check-ins for Facebook
Wow. I'm no huge fan of recruiters, but I'd also never send anonymous hate mail to one. Sorry you had to deal with that, and I'm glad you're making the effort to stick around on HN.

If I can ask one question, though: Why do some recruiters seem keen on ignoring the phrase "I'm not interested in new opportunities at this time"? I have set my LinkedIn profile to say this, and it's the first thing out of my mouth when I get cold-called, but there are some who are not stopped by it. It'd go a long way in my view if recruiters would simply take it at face value when I tell them I'm not interested at the moment.
In need of quick backend admin, I used the Kohana 3 framework, its ORM and the formo form management module: http://avanthill.com/formo_manual/
https://github.com/bmidget/kohana-formo

Any php framework with ORM and forms management support will get you there.

You will probably need ACL / Authentication support wich Kohana provides.
While I agree there will be tons of people upgrading via hardware, this article is specifically about making users update their old phones with the genius of iMessage. I have to disagree with that premise. iMessage will be big, but only through nerds who will update and new phones.
Well, considering that they started out taking an existing concept and making it better...

- Google (AltaVista/Lycos/etc)
Has anybody used the __builtin_expect feature to good effect? We had been using this extensively in our codebase in places where there is an obvious common "fast path".

I tried an experiment where I did a comparison of the __builtin_expect version against a version with our likely/unlikely macros defined to the identity, and I actually saw no difference, which was disappointing. When I did some digging I found this blog post: http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2008/04/measuring-performance-of-... which suggests the same result for the Linux kernel.

FWIW GCC also has a reasonable set of PGO options (not mentioned in this article), and those actually can (anecdotally) make a noticeable difference, although you're subject to the overtraining problem if you're not careful.
Our german netflix clone is called Maxdome [0], but unfortunately Mono Moonlight lacks the DRM parts of Silverlight. So Linux users are locked out. It should work with Windows and Mac, though.

[0] http://www.maxdome.de/
Interestingly, the much hated font Comic Sans is another good font for dyslexics because the letters look more different from each other than e.g. Times New Roman. Therefore, if you're making invitations to your son's 7-year old birthday, Comic Sans is a great font for the text.
My Dad had never connected his iPhone to a computer, until he ran into a specific problem (the proximity sensor wasn’t working well) and Apple told him to update.

On the surface this sounds great… but my Dad has never attached his phone to a WiFi network either.

OTA backups and updates would need to work on 3G (so that the user doesn’t have to do anything special to get them) to help everyone.
However, tumblr does not provide an easy way to export your content.

This makes it not viable as a blogging platform for me.
No website, no information, sits on SourceForge with a tar-ball download and nothing in source control.

Kind of hard to take seriously.
What's missing from that equation are two things:

Incentives for the recruiter to place someplace that's most beneficial to the developer. The person paying for the service is the employer. YOU might not make an bad placement, but many other recruiters I've worked with don't know how to tell a good one from a bad one, and if the employer is initially happy, that's all that matters. If the placement doesn't work out, I've found employers tend to blame the employee more than the recruiting firm (maybe that's not always the case though?).

Long term relationship with the placed candidate. There's no incentive for a recruiter to keep moving someone from company to company every year because they'll get a bad rep with the hiring companies. If the person paying the recruiter is the employee/contractor, the focus would be more on making them happy vs making the employer happy. In an ideal world, all parties are happy, but if it comes down to making a decision, people will come down on the side of the money.
Pointing out that bug to the developers (with a patch for the html code to fix it in Safari) would be a wonderful way to apply for the job :)
Orkut was huge in the beginning too. I mean plus is a nice and clean interface and I am all for people to use that all kudos to Google for doing it.

There was Facebook Lite that somewhat resembled this (imo) . Maybe google has gotten the 'lite' ingredients just right. Because if they didn't - you know how light mayonnaise tastes like ;-)

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Not yet. We're accredited for some ccTLDs and will add further accreditations as we grow. That's a common practice at lots of registrar companies. Even the big ones like GD, NetSol etc. are "only" resellers for some ccTLDs. We've got an excellent relationship with our ICANN registrar and access to all management functions so there isn't really a difference technology-wise.
Ubuntu's animal names make it easier to search for support and technical questions-- "maverick", "natty", and "lucid" are all much more likely to be associated with Ubuntu than numbers like 10.10.
Don't worry, I'm sure AT&T will filter all your iPhone traffic and count 1 iMessage as 1 SMS message regardless so there's no "confusion" for the end user trying to figure out why their SMS usage has gone down by 80%.
there was a number of forecasts and predictions for some sort of lite interface that was to be crossbreeding of twitter and facebook UIs, in some shape.

This one might just be the winner. Time will tell... or maybe it will just find a niche and rest of the world will quickly move on.
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I gotta say, I'm already burned out on the Groupon-type sites. I'm not sure why they think I need to get waxed two times a week—I haven't seen a relevant offer in months, after buying a few in the first couple months. The only one that I still check interestedly is the Living Social travel deals, because with those, if you get a hit once a year, it was worth it.
Looks like each portion of each episode is 15 facebook credits, which is $1.50 USD.

That makes each doctor who 'movie' from Netflix cost $6 USD to watch once. (Or as many times as you like within 48 hours.)

Seems a bit pricey to me. I'll likely pay for any I can't get on Netflix, but only those.
And you can't beat their slogan: "no bullshit™"
(http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit)
Flights to Colombo from Liverpool
The bridge is SMS. It's seamless with SMS. I would guess that mobile usage of SMS is still more common than mobile usage of IM. Instead of picking some IM app as a brdige Apple decided to pick SMS which seems like the right choice to me.

I don't think iMessage will convince many people to update. Most people probably won't even know that they are using iMessage. The only effect they will see is a shrinking phone bill.
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No one pays any attention to your preferences on Linkedin. Every recruiter believes that the job they have for you is better than the one you've got. Few believe that you are 100% happy with your current career choice.

That doesn't make it right or true, it's simply the way they work.
That'd be nice if such a contraption be nuclear blastproof and chemo / biohazard-proof too.

Looks like a real winner though, if zombies were a reality. )
Reminds me of the British The Office show's intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKTvAP06ECM
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Counterexperience:

I ordered the Apple Developer Program in January. I had some issues with my bank, but eventually got payment to go through. I waited a few hours, no activation email from Apple. So I hit their site, sent an email to developer support, and waited. The next day, still nothing.

So then I hit up Apple's site, found a number for developer support, and called it. A human picked up, asked me my issue. I told him the issue, he said "check your email and try again." I did so, and it worked, and the developer program was enabled for me.

That is literally the best customer service experience I have ever had over the phone.

Sounds like this guy should have just dug up a contact number and called.
The Illusion of Privacy
Sorry, but if you don't take the time to even ask anyone how to best access Apple's Dev support, and instead persist with a channel that's clearly not working, that's your failing. I've had no problem whatsoever with their phone support.
How I’m living in the Cloud and loving it
Thanks for the link. Computing vtables during run time would have been my idea as well. Sorting the vtable is a nice trick to reduce the complexity.
I was one of the few guys who missed out. :( If you do ever get round to it, it would be greatly appreciated still.

I also appreciate this follow up post, I looked a couple of times at the previous user name and realised you'd stopped commenting. It did make me think at the time maybe it was a (rather elaborate)scam to harvest C.V's after all. I'm glad to know I was well and truly wrong.