skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read especially for someone who is still in undergrad.
One thing strikes me though:
"though I suspect the brand cache of an MBA program will be longer lasting"

I disagree. This is the modern industrial age. This is the time when 20 years from now, history books will look back and talk about the Carnegie and Rockefellers of our time.

And when grade school kids are memorizing facts about important figures, Techstars and YC are going to be two of their vocabulary words. It will be the first time those schools of thought appear -- HBS will still always have a great reputation and its own prestige, but in the long term, the brand cache of TechStars and YC will leave a different, more unique mark in history.
#justsayin :)
Sorry, I should have explained more.

You're correct, you can bind keyboard shortcuts to most actions in Xcode. The problem is that the UI seems to have been built with the mouse in mind, with keyboard navigation as an afterthought. Is it really all that useful that I can pull up a dropdown menu with a shortcut if I still have to arrow up/down to pick my file? AppCode allows me to pull up a list of recent files with a shortcut and has the last file edited as the top option. This allows me to quickly switch between two files. In Xcode I can pull up the recent files menu, but it's not ordered in terms of recent usage, so I'm constantly having to find my place in it.

And there are some functions I couldn't find a way to bind. Can I bind a key to 'jump to definition'? Or how about 'find usages' or 'rename variable'? I tried to make Xcode work for me, but I just felt like I was having to fight against how Apple wanted me to use it.

It could be that coming from the Java world and using IDEA I was just more used to the default shortcuts. But I really think that IntelliJ puts a lot of thought into keyboard navigation and builds the UI to be more conducive to keyboard navigation.
I don't know if we're understanding each other... I'm saying that there are carbs that get transformed into fat. These calories, by definition, do not get used until the fat is released from that cell. Which could be a loooong time.

You're right, glycogen is another place that carbs can go. But unless you're exercising there probably isn't a lot going there.
git is an extremely powerful tool - but it's interface is far from being smooth - maybe it will come with time. For example the usual pattern of a copy command is:

copy source destination

The pattern of git push command

push destination source:destination
I've been using iPhone for a year, and this seems perfectly intuitive for me. Maybe this is a bad assumption - but most people have common applications on a page or in a folder. Remembering home screens should make it easier to access other applications that are USUALLY used with the current one.

For example, I group all my work (let's say .doc, .xlsm, .ppt) into one folder. When I exit or alt tab, should it switch to the last thing I was on, or should it go to my desktop?

You only need to hit Home once anyway and the bit about the double tap is a little silly. A simple tap on the screen will get you out of the folder, and a finger swipe is a reliable method to change screens. I use my phone A LOT: text, email, twitter, fb, linkedin, lal, bloomberg, fxtrade, google voice, skype, and calender on a daily basis... and it's organized in patterns, so it minimizes browsing time.
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Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks for the Rx. Is it pretty quick to work with for you?
I think you are confusing your disagreement with the original article (which I did not write) and my comment. My comment [mainly] addresses the point about that cletus brought up about people that don't have enough time to do open source or side projects.

I did not say anywhere in this thread that Github was a requirement and I don't believe that to be the case. I also assume you read my parent comment in which I addressed the fact that Mercurial-based repository sites and Google Code both achieve the same goal.
Why did everything suck? Are we even addressing the problems as we trudge along your linear development path? I think what your parent was getting at is that increasing complexity of SCM software is orthogonal to the problem, which hasn't really been defined well.

It's easy to say that something sucks, but it's harder to say why.
Meanwhile I'll use this as collector

@techstarsjobs

@FoundryJobs

@usethesource
I had this crazy idea that I'd buy a vanity domain with my name in it. Use it as my personal email, which is used an all kinds of technical newsgroups. Setup a web page where I described myself, linked to various projects, source code, etc. A site that has a better indication of my personality than github ever would, and has some projects that will never go in github for various reason.

After seeing the last one of these articles, I actually put a note on my github site directing people to my primary site. Seems silly that I felt I had to do this, but oh well.

It's also a shame that the last few patches I did, involving smartcard hardware for gnupg, doesn't get me any bonus points, since that project, like a majority of major projects, hosts its own version control. Not to mention, 9 times out of 10 when I open an issue on a github project, I hear nothing back, making me really unmotivated to fork the project and fix something.
Any tips on how to find a job in those regions?
Yeah the sort of places that split dev into front end and back end will pay less. Kind of like the places that split software development into analysis, design and typing in. The typists always get paid less, that is why I always insist on being involved in every step of the process from the customer's concept through to turning the software into money.
If it's not complicated, why do some Android users complain about it? If it's as intuitive as you say, shouldn't everyone be happy with it?

As for poorly-written apps dragging down the experience, I don't think that's necessarily a given. Obviously if you have a crappy app, then using that app sucks, but that crappy app shouldn't also make the experience of using other apps crappy.
Strangely, though I've flown out of San Jose, San Francisco, and Chicago since these new rules were put in place, the only security I've been through has been the same old metal detectors and carry-on x-rays. Even though I've been departing from major airports at busy times (Thanksgiving, Fourth of July), the security checks have all been fairly quick. I'm really confused about how inconsistently the TSA seems to be doing this.
I already responded to this partly in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764736 — We think the integration into a single deployment is in itself a big gain. Maintaining several of those infrastructures can be very painful, especially as your clusters grow large. Also, as mentioned, we’ve also already added several features on top of Lucene, and we’ll be adding more in the future.
How much does rent/food/computers cost?
Find a niche and own it.
I think you should decide what you hope to accomplish. However, on a window's machine, there is small basic: http://smallbasic.com/

It's windows, it's powerful, it's simple, and it's highly visual.
So the back button on your browser sometimes takes you back and sometimes dumps you onto your desktop?

Also, sometimes the back button in my browser totally sucks, such as when I click a link to a Twitter message and it decides to totally break my back button so that I have to press 3 times rapidly to go back. I don't want this experience with apps on my phone.
Thanks Mike, challenge accepted.
Evolution's Delusive Backdoor-Programming in our brains
Personal Blog-- Some analogies and a tribute to a lovely book written by VS Ramachandran
Ask HN: Top Chicago (or Midwest) tech VC firms?
We're looking into Venture Capital, primarily in the Midwest and more specifically in Chicago.

We've heard accolades about LightBank. Any other high-quality vc firms in the area that we should look into? We'd really prefer Chicago but Philadelphia could also work. Thanks!
Are salaries generally higher at big companies (google/twitter/fb) or at startups?
Where is "less then 15K"??? =P
Heh I read that as "as someone who pays developers, I am much more interested in the low end, or at least believing that most developers are that cheap"
As a recent high school graduate I wish we had something like this in the inner city schools of NYC.
Modifying Keyframes with KeyTweak
You are one the wrong track. You'll be surprised. Look up algebraic data structures and zippers. The partial derivative of an algebraic data structure is its zipper.

See e.g. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Zipper

And, yes, automatic derivation of zippers is mind blowing, when you encouter it for the first time.
Android does do this from any screen, you just have to press the home button and hold it down, which will bring up the 6 previously used apps.
flietz, nice points but a bit facetious. Of course I only wrote the post because CA's law and Amazon's response directly affect our site. I might have thought it but not taken the time to write it if it wasn't so personal.

Amazon is a net good, I think. It's made products from anywhere available to anywhere readily, reliably and cheaply. It also had created a wonderful ecosystem for small businesses. This is why we chose to affiliate our site with Amazon.

That said, there's no question that Amazon's success further decimated / continues to decimate small independent booksellers and other retailers who contributed more readily to regional economies - creating local jobs, supporting local events, paying local sales tax, etc.

Your local consumer may have more money for local coffee if she doesn't pay sales tax, but her local government has less. Beyond that, her local economy has less from any profit on the TV going into circulation in Washington State rather than staying with a locally-owned business.

That said, I value Amazon's right to compete with local businesses, and the value and innovation their success brings to me, my city, our nation, and the world at large.

Whether or not you agree with sales tax is one question - the one addressed by your points above. But if it exists for some, how is it fair for it not to exist for all?

(The argument that the consumer is expected to pay it either way is not a valid point - the reality is the consumer is escaping it with one retailer and coughing it up at another.)
I'm a happy Schwab customer and an out of necessity BoA one.

I keep the BoA account around because they're pretty much the only bank that actually has branches in all the cities I visit and sometimes need a physical branch (deposits and large withdraws mostly).

Happy Schwab customer because they refund ATM fees (even international) with no minimum account balance and when I created my account they had a 2% cash back card (which unfortunately is no longer available). Their online interface is super dated, but it's functional and has everything I need. Customer support has been top notch (I haven't had to use it much, but hey were able to help me figure out how to do a wire transfer to Tibet while I was in Thailand).
My personal experience, and what I've noted of other Android users is that you generally don't fill your screens. Home screens tend to get filled up with your most commonly used apps - I have a page with a handful of social networking apps, one with news apps, etc. Everything else gets left in the app drawer, which is organized alphabetically and can be easily scrolled through or searched.
+1 Damn!
Check out HomePage on BigBoss. It goes to page 1 instead of the last viewed page. Unfortunately the last time I tried it it had some bugs with open folders but that may be due to InfiniFolders.
Yes, design patterns are a sign that your language lacks the needed capacity for abstraction.

See http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageF...
Google Corporate Philosophy "10 things..." (OP Sept. 2009)
Then the kids are right, textbooks are just for losers. Losers of memory, which in the real world gets so many the "loser" tag.
well its been 49 sek in sweden all the time which is at time of writing this 4.67 gbp and 7.5 usd. I guess they just want pretty numbers.
Android doesn't work like that, in a manner of speaking.

In popular launchers (including the 'stock' one) there's the "app drawer", accessible from all home screens. It's an alphabetical listing of all installed apps; it is ~5 icons wide and scrolls vertically.

Icons (shortcuts) or widgets added to home screens are merely user-created convenience shortcuts to get to apps.

This is analogous to desktop shortcuts vs navigating the start menu on Windows.

edit: commandar replied with a similar sentiment while I was writing this.
So, a market sector with no competition? Or is this sector still niche because only one service is addressing it?
Anyone else feel like these articles are just meant to one up each other on fantasy Facebook valuations?

Someone should just get it out of the way and say:

Is Facebook Worth 1 Hundred Million Budjilian Dollars?

Good grief.
Show HN: My Android app that creates customized QR codes
Undoubtedly.

It's really up to you. With most things, it's really about the execution and first-mover advantage is increasingly becoming even less important.

As for competition, that's generally a good thing. It simply means that you might be on to something if other people are pursuing the same opportunity.
That's only "renting" and prices are not too far off in Miami based on your numbers (a place equivalent to yours in Miami I would say cost "maybe" a little less). How about food, clothe, transportation? Are those things also more than twice more expensive? No way. For example, you can live without a car in SF because public transportation there is decent. In Miami you need a car as you need your legs.

And I'm not even considering the benefits that a globalized world brings to "expensive" cities. In other words, if we assume that everything is 138% more expensive in SF then savings will also be 138% larger and, in the "equivalence equation", you have to factor in the purchasing power of San Franciscans in markets outside SF and Miami, otherwise you'd be saying something of the sorts of: To maintain your standard of living when you move to SF from Miami you need to make 138% more money (and by the way, you'll get a 20 days vacation in Spain for free).
It's called "home" button for a reason.
Yes, thank you. Just after I posted my question here I realized that much of what I was wondering about was also answered in another post on the Cloudant blog: http://blog.cloudant.com/technical-look-at-cloudant-search/
Because then you are an expert in information retrieval, not the subject matter. You have no intuitive grasp of the material. You have no way of building on top of the material. No way of innovating, no way of growing.
Firstly, if, as you say, you are curious what people prefer, why do you ask what they use? The answers could be widely different.

Secondly, what is the "If you're not an iOS developer, this poll doesn't really apply." about? I (occasionally) use Xcode to build command-line tools. Do you want me to vote or not?
Hm, as far as I understand multiple-index (core) search has been implemented in Solr 1.3?
FubuMVC: One Model In, One Model Out (.NET MVC Framework)
Commercials are an essential part of the television experience and the main reason why the transition to online is taking so long. Getting advertisers on board is difficult for a variety of reasons (namely that's it's a completely different model).

An episode of a TV show can cost several million dollars to make. Reality shows cost much less, obviously. ER, for example, cost 13 million per episode [1]. Do you think they can recoup that at $0.99 per episode? I don't. Can they recoup that at $9.99 per month for some subscription? No way. The only way they can pay for that is by drilling into your brain brand recognition.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_a_cable_television_s...
I'm particularly interested in feedback on the app's description and icon... the UI....the concept...heck I'm actually interested in any feedback you guy's have :)
Why should operating systems need design patterns more than other software?
When I saw the headlines I was thinking the same thing. Should I eat lobster tonight or filet mignon? Louis Vuitton or Gucci... the choices are driving me crazy!
Almost all the smaller airports I've been to have them. I think they put them in the smaller places as a warmup.
He might like the games factory: http://www.clickteam.com/website/usa/

It's not writing code but it actually teaches you a lot about objects, event handling, conditionals and you can pipe out something really cool/fun in an hour or two.

( my first game I made when I was 12 was a "death star run" game. I had no artistic talent, but it was still fun. )
And your goal is to pretend you're making a huge difference that will probably not get noticed by anyone, and even if it does, it will be for a very short period of time and after a while everyone will die and forget about it, and then the Earth will die of heat death or something, and everything you made with your "YEAAAH!" enthusiasm and pain will be destroyed anyway.

Have fun with that perspective ;-)
So what do you do guys?
Give LauncherPro a whirl. It'll let you pick which screen you want as your default, so you can scroll right all you'd like.
It's what happens with any teacher you get. Everyone has a way that they do things and their own opinions, and my opinion is use html5, always. Just so happens that this is also the opinion of the majority of web devs.

To be fair, you are right though - I should at very least educate people about this before teaching it. I will make sure to let my students know that if they would like to decrease the quality of their products based on 2% of people (that's data from 2007 as well, likely has gone significantly down) who browse with javascript off, then they should not use any html5 tags. Fair enough?
statistically bigger companies will pay bigger salaries. Personally I am appalled at many of the SF startup salaries
> Determining equivalent cost of living is a complex question,

While that's true, the calculator presented isn't as bad as you make it out to be. It splits up the calculations across several different indexes. Food, Housing, Utilities, Transportation, Health, and Misc.

It's increase is based merely on the average. This is probably fair, considering if you want to maintain the same life style you have in one location, this gives you an estimate as to what you'll need. And I imagine if you live in Detroit and spend a substantial portion of that on housing, you'll need that much of a pay raise to maintain that same level of housing. You even suggest this: "The one kicker will be housing--you'll probably need to settle for a smaller living space."

That's the point. The monetary comparison assumes you maintain the same level of housing. Obviously it's not precise. However, if you accept that housing will be different, you can remove it from the equation. In this case, the overall percentage is used, but housing is the reason for that. Remove housing, and it helps get a good idea of overall living costs.
User akfcypkYsCGqzG4P, thanks!
You could argue for uniformity in the logarithmic domain just as well.
I wrote my senators and congressman in NM a while back about this. I fly for work, but my family hasn't flown anywhere (and most likely won't) since the groping and naked cameras started.

Instead we drive, which is quite a bit more dangerous, and mostly we don't travel very far anymore. Thanks TSA.
4.x has Git integrated which is one difference.
Those are labels with barely any fixed meaning. I will always call myself a programmer since programming is what I do. Architect as a named position mostly exists in companies that embrace Moses-from-the-mountain software development with a musty smell of IBM from the 1960s. Fortunately there are plenty of ways to make good money as a programmer without working at places like that.
Refactoring towards testable JavaScript
hahaha maybe if this first class is successful :-P
Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
yeah, that was one of my thoughts too. If it's already been funded, someone must think it's a good idea.

I think a lot of my fear is they are three ex-tech-giant guys, and I'm one guy who didn't even apply in the Valley because I don't think I'm a coding "rockstar".
XCode 4... where do I start? It's slow, buggy, unstable, slow, bloated, slow, and Apple yanked a lot of useful features, like plugins. So now there is no easy way to get rid of the trailing whitespace XCode loves to insert. External editor support is also missing, so vim users like me are SOL. It's really slow too.

Enough grumbling for now... back to work. In XCode 4.

Edit: to qualify my claims.

Slow -- Need I say more? I'm on a MacBook, 4GB of ram, pretty standard hardware. I can't even scroll without stuttering. Apple: at least support your own damn baseline.

Buggy -- The split view is so broken. And tab titles aren't always updated when switching files, which hugely hinders usability. And it sets CC=llvm-gcc... why, why, why, why?!?! There's more but I don't feel like getting into it.

Unstable -- crashes about once a day, more if I'm swapping devices or using Instruments.

Bloated -- 10GB? Really? I didn't realize rounded corners and a compiler took up so much space.
You'd expect salaries at startups to be lower, but they often include equity.
On my phone, the search button is what I hold down to get to the voice command pop-up. Very useful.
If you have an idea, at least 5 different people have already had it. Blah blah blah all boils down to if you think you can make it, then will make it.

With regards to market position and all that stuff, thats where strategic thinking come in. Its how Apple unseated RIM. Google slammed Yahoo, Altavista and all those others. And lets not forget YouTube. None of these companies were the first in their field, but they are at the pinnacle today.

All that said, practically speaking, it would be an excellent idea to involve others - mentors, board members, financiers, and/or cofounders. Best course of action is to find a startup incubator nearby and get the feel for the people there.
FWIW, Steve Jobs owns 7.3% of Disney, which is a major content provider. While still a small fraction of all content sources, he has a lot of leverage.
I fail to see how that is any different from someone lying on their resume.

If the hiring manager is too stupid to be able to detect the person is lying about their skill level after a 15 minute conversation, caveat emptor.
C++ is an 'Other' language? I am feeling really, really unhip.
Oh, common, guys. "Evaluate your job and all the possibilities and if necessary stay until you have reached financial stability or have another offer, in which case you can contemplate quitting" just has a bit less zing than "Storm into your boss's office say 'I QUIT' then defecate on his desk and leave with Metallica - Battery playing all around you.'
Nice way of abusing QR code's error correction system. I like it!