skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.flippa.com is sort of like an ebay for websites. And, just like ebay, it's mostly full of (literally) derivative products sold via a combination of SEO and regurgitated ideas.

It's interested to check out if you haven't seen it before, though.
A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search
I'm jealous. For the last three years, living in Daytona, I've vowed I would drop everything to see the very last launch. And then they extended the program, and the launch was in the summer while I was out of state.
Archipel Beta 3.1 Released
My friend and I launched this last weekend after a couple months of building it on nights and weekends. (There is a video there that can give you a quick idea of how it works.)

The idea is to make it cheaper and easier for the average app developer to set up sites for their apps, while providing websites that are visually and functionally better than they would typically do on their own.

It scrapes info from the App Store, creates complex product shots from multiple screenshots, provides text message and QR code downloads, allows for custom domains, does logging and reporting, supports custom stylesheets, etc.

We're looking forward to adding more templates and providing this to other markets (e.g. Android, iPad.) However, we think it should useful to a lot of folks now. :)
Apple will always need a development environment for iOS, separate from iOS that 3rd party devs are comfortable with. This is why OS X will always exist in some incarnation.

I would say that OS X keeps the lights on, iOS lines the coffers. Apple could easily stay afloat and be posting great quarters with only OS X, they just wouldn't be rolling in extra cash like they are now.
The more libs like this I see, the more I feel that the core HTML controls should be improved and expanded. They are getting really, really dated and don't address a lot of common problems.

Things I feel would make a lot of sense:

Collapsible trees.
Numeric sliders (preferably done like draggable digits http://worrydream.com/Tangle/).
Native drag-and-drop sipport for elements. (And yes, this can be done with plain forms. I can explain how if you want.)
Native rich tooltips and a standard notation to show that something has a tooltip.
Maybe tabs. I think you could do tabs with CSS, but I'm not 100% sure.

If most UI libraries have something, it probably would be a good addtion to HTML spec. It would work faster and eventually have better compatibility.
The Howler Project: Get Loud
Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed
Choosing the interstate car transporters
Sculpting an interactive doodle for Alexander Calder's birthday
BITS Python scripting: use Python in ring 0 to twiddle hardware and ACPI
> reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States

I think it does. I'm no lawyer, however.
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University of Michigan to offer master's degree in entrepreneurship
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Except that it didn't. Even if it were true that most people were intimately acquainted with the pricing habits of tablet makers (and they're not), the fact that one product in the Apple canon happens to be comparatively cheap is not even really salient information when virtually every other product in the Apple store is not cheap. $100 for a power cord? You've got to be kidding me. I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro that I bought with my money AND I'm aware that the iPad is cheap, and I STILL think they're a bit expensive.

But of course, the fact that the iPad is cheap is not really that well-known, and particularly not among the people who are likely to say such things anyway (i.e., the people who have already written Apple off). And in practice I still hear this all the time. From friends, from family, from other nerds.
Is it just me or does anyone else find the words geek and nerd to be simply offensive?
But what does it do if five pedestrians jump in front of the car and it has to turn and kill a different one in order to save the five?
the only division to post a drop in revenue was the Windows and Windows Live division

If Live Messenger is any indication of how this division operates, the reason for this is exceedingly clear. They manage to make their software less user friendly, slower, more of a memory hog, and crash more with every major update. Additionally, they manage to cut out distinguishing features absent in competitors.
"no-doubt OS-specific delay" - on Windows, this delay is a factor of the double-click speed. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/23/84175...
I would try and look at consulting and your business as two separate things/projects. Consulting is consulting and product development is product development.

The way I've tried to manage it is my day job is my day job and building products is what I do at night or in my spare time. It takes longer but there is a clean separation and it forces you to focus on the most important stuff and less busy work.
Once we lock down a date I'll post a facebook event so we can all RSVP and I know how many pizzas to order.
First, let me point out that once again we are comparing Java - a runtime, a language platform and an entire ecosystem comprising many frameworks - with Rails, a specific web framework designed with a specific philosophy (opinionated defaults that work in 90% of cases, YAGNI, etc.) for a specific range of uses ("rapidly prototyping a small-to-moderately sized web site").

So just because Rails developers hate something doesn't mean it's generally evil. It might just be wrong for Rails. Many things are; otherwise Rails would have no texture. Saying no to things is what design is about.

Now let's talk about hate. Everyone hates something. There is nothing wrong with hating things. Hate is just personal taste turned up to eleven. You should strive to hate politely and with grace, to realize that other people love the things you hate and are nonetheless human, and probably even smart. And you should strive to remember that there's an important difference between the things you hate and things that objectively suck. Java, for example, does not suck. Not always. Lots of work has gone into it. Lots of Java-based tools are essential. There are big classes of problem for which Java is currently the best solution.

Nonetheless, I hate Java. It is a handy mental shortcut, one that has yet to lead me astray. My belief is that the problems for which Java-the-language is the solution are problems I don't want to work on, and that I don't have enough time in my life to address the problems I do want to work on, so I should simply develop a Java allergy that kicks in whenever I see the generics syntax and that causes my eyes to water until I flee towards fresh air. It works well.

(What's sad is when you find yourself hating something that is smack-dab in the middle of a set of problems that you want to work on. Hello, PHP! This requires a much richer set of coping techniques than simple allergic avoidance.)

(And, of course, Java is not just a language, and JRuby appears, from the outside, to be awesome, and my curiosity about Clojure is rising, so I may soon temper my simple hatred of Java into a rich melange of love and hate. The stuff of which novels are born, really.)
you also have to thank tbassetto for that! :)
"Online services revenue grew by 17 percent year on year to $662 million for the quarter. Full year revenue was $2.56 billion, up 15 percent. The growth came on the back of a 20 percent increase in advertising revenue, primarily driven by search. The division continues to make losses, however, and in spite of the revenue growth, the losses also grew, up 9 percent to $2.55 billion. Profitability for Online Services remains elusive."

I guess it's not that easy to compete with Google...
Perhaps there should be a button under the dash labelled "Manual Control" that disables all automatic driving features.
No business or web site which has 10K concurrent users will be using just one server. Scalability beyond 10K users/server doesn't buy you anything.
Improved handling of URLs with parameters
"Online services revenue grew by 17 percent year on year to $662 million for the quarter. Full year revenue was $2.56 billion, up 15 percent. The growth came on the back of a 20 percent increase in advertising revenue, primarily driven by search. The division continues to make losses, however, and in spite of the revenue growth, the losses also grew, up 9 percent to $2.55 billion. Profitability for Online Services remains elusive."

Makes GroupOn look like pikers ...
Transactions costs are low, just 10%.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/07/giv...
If this works, and scales, then it will be fantastic. It will also be disruptive to the ~$450B diabetes industry.
What's the general consensus in the HN community regarding GWT? We're pretty happy with it and I think it has a lot of advantages over other frameworks.
Is Analog log analyser dead and abandoned?
Granted I've moved on to using Piwik for most projects now but I still use Analog for deep dive data crunches. So... There's been no development since 2005 and the support forum stopped accepting posts in December 2009. Has the program truly been abandoned? Anyone know?
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Google+’s Antisocial Mobile Strategy
Wow that sounds scary. Does the prius have some noise generator you can turn on?
Finding such non-invasive glucose meter has been a longstanding research goal but with very little success so far. Hope this guys have more luck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor
There's a lot of major things here.

1) Tattoo is invisible. No stigma attached.
2) No blood drawn for testing for various materials
3) If processing and power get consolidated onto the phone, this will be massively portable and accessible to the masses, assuming they manufacture large quantities of the case.

Currently, the iPhone is basically just a camera chassis. You could achieve the same effect by building a case for your cheap little Canon Powershot, which has the benefit of including a removeable SD card.
Not much different than Myspace deals.
I finished it yesterday, got stuck for a while in the Asynchonous Callbacks exercise. It wasn't completely clear to me what you wanted.

I went back today and saw that you changed the exercise and description.

"Define a function named doStuffAsync that takes one argument callback, that reads the contents of the file "passwords", appends "OWNED" and writes the results to file "world.txt", then calls callback. Remember, read doesn't return the file contents directly."

From the description shown above, It wasn't clear that you wanted world.txt to contain the content of 'passwords' plus 'OWNED' appended.
My plan for the last one was to go to Daytona since I figured the traffic would be horrible in Titusville and the Shuttle takes off to the north anyway. I ended up driving South until I hit traffic, which happened to be extremely close to the launch. I live out of state most of the year, so I was happy to hear the last launch would be during the Summer.

Though it wouldn't have worked well on the last launch due to the clouds, I'm sure there's other launches you could have seen from Daytona.

Another anecdote:
The first launch I saw when I was a little kid, probably seven years old. I was riding in the back seat of my mom's car and happened to look out the back window. When I looked back, I saw the a fireball rising into the sky, which of course was the shuttle.

Also, about two years ago, I was driving home with my girlfriend one night and we saw a star which seemed to be moving higher into the sky. Suddenly, it disappeared. I couldn't find any mention of rocket launches until, after extensive searching, it turned out to be a secret CIA satellite.
It explodes, killing only the environment-ruining automobile driver.

(Please note: tongue-in-cheek.)
"How to manage G-R-eeks" is more important a question really.
"Windows" doesn't, the device vendors do.

I don't know anything about this particular bug, but it's no big deal: no doubt fixable for any given device with a quick patch ("If the DMI string is this and the BIOS says this, then it's lying and pretend it said this").

In the PC world, all the vendors have huge teams of engineers doing exactly this: applying hacks to get Windows running correctly on each new device. Then they package those hacks in per-device "driver" packages. This is the reason why, for example, every motherboard has "Windows drivers" for download where in Linux it's all part of the same kernel.

But this bites linux in the face of BIOS bugs: it has to make the assumption that the BIOS follows the relevant standards. It's not that you can't do the work to make this happen on any given device, it's that no one is paying the teams of engineers to actually do the work for every device.
Is the tech bubble real? Technology/Industrial ratio at all time low.
And how exactly would that work? They don't have any products of their own, so they can hardly be sued for infringing on anything.
Google Wave and Buzz were published with minimal fanfare, and used a paradigm unfamiliar to Facebook users. Google+ is so familiar, and became so quickly wrapped up with everything else in your Google account, that transitioning and participating were easy.
Google Plussed - Need Feedback
I put together a project, GooglePlussed, which is basically a news and blog aggregator that pulls in latest content related to Google Plus from popular technology sites.

I need your help in figuring out how to obtain feeds related only to "Google Plus" from various popular technology sites. The regular homepage RSS does not do it since it has other news as well, and I only want news related to Google Plus.

It was rather easy for sites running on wordpress.
For example, for Techcrunch, since the writers tag every Google Plus related post with "google plus", I was able to use the following URL to generate a feed: http://techcrunch.com/tag/google-plus/feed/

However, it is not so straightforward with sites running on other platforms (or at least I am not familiar with the process).

I would really appreciate if you guys could help me out with only "Google Plus" related feed form major online tech publishers. I am interested in blogs as well as news sites like NY Times Tech.
You can submit your suggestion directly here: http://www.googleplussed.com/suggest-a-site/ or leave a comment below.

I am also playing with the idea of live Google Plus buzz. You can check it out here: http://live.googleplussed.com/ Currently it is mostly populated from Twitter but I would like to incorporate others. Any thoughts/suggestions?

One more question, I would like to add Google Plus search results from HN as a resource. How can I turn this into a feed: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22google+plus%22

Thanks!
I think some level of this is ok, just as long as one is clear about the difference between a generalization and a stereotype. IE, "Geeks tend to want X" isn't necessarily bad, but "Geeks always want X" is probably bad.

I mean, it's somewhat naive to assume that there are absolutely no common threads between people of the same profession. The problem begins when you start treating these ideas as rigid rules: "Geeks know nothing about the business side of things. They need us managers to tell them how to build a good product."
iOS is a much deeper base more willing to pay. It's worth the cost of a mini or air, and would also happen to safeguard you against patents more (Apple's already batted down lodsys for instance).
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And the different copy may include something that would look pretty bad for the linking party; e.g., "AP claimed they were linking to a Boston Globe story about the Tea Party, but instead it was something about a Lemon Party! And it didn't look like the kind of party I want to attend at all!!"
Unless you have horrable retention issues highering someone who does not know the language your using is not that big of an issue. Taking a C# ASP.NET developer > Ruby on rails is faster than bringing a Java developer who knows nothing about the web into a large Spring/Struts project.
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I wonder if some of this has to do with guys like Fred Wilson really evangelizing the tech scene there. Most Boston VCs are just plain a-holes imo.
I don't know, maybe in the most trivial "if it wasn't going to cause a problem, why were they hiding it?" sort of way. But it's not "reason to believe it could be used", it's "reason to believe it was to be used". That is, Anonymous would have to have thought that the Internet intends to use this to hurt the United States, that the people to whom they deliver the information -- people like you and I -- intend to harm the US. Not that they could, but that they would. Harming the US is not among my goals, nor is it among the goals of most people who will see the documents. That's where I think it gets up in the air. I don't think most Anons want to start a war, they just want the American people to protest government secrecy. Bradley Manning didn't get hit with "delivering defense information to aid foreign government" and considering the amount of egg he got on the military's face I'm sure they would've liked to.
Multiple APKs: More Freedom or More Headaches?
All I could think of while reading was the old "limited life experience + over-generalization = advice" even though there's no actual advice here.

But I mean, "The more intelligent of you reading this article have also probably noticed something similar to my various observations." WTF?

I don't see what this has to do with real-life urbanization, either. The architect built a city no one wanted, so they made suburbs. So what?
I wouldn't be surprised if groups that work with visually impaired people, for example, lobbied to get a minimum noise level added to regulations.
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I'd like to see the graph of how long it took Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to reach 100 million users. Oh wait, Twitter and Google+ aren't even close to that.

Google+ is still a novelty. That doesn't mean it won't eventually become something useful, but right now I have 20 people in my circles, and not one person posts anything. It's more accurate to say there are 10 million accounts on Google+, not users. Users implies people actually use it.
Have you tried jrebel to cut your compile time? It might ease some of that pain.
Geez, tough crowd. Why does everyone hone in on the negative news, ignoring the good?
Don't just throw it away; it's great for ergonomics. Most people's monitors are way too far below eye level.
"It's interesting how closely tied to Google Closure this is. I wonder if that will present issues in the future."

It will definitely present issues to verbal communication.

"Yes, you see, Clojure uses Closure as part of it's implementation blah blah..."

"Wait, Clojure uses Clojure?"

"No, with-a-J-Clojure uses with-an-S-Closure..."
How to tell if your interviewer is an ass.
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Alexander Calder's 113th Birthday; Google Logo (Moving mobile w/ shadow)
More discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793745
Interesting scripting for today's Google main site logo. :)
> Google let its relationship with Twitter end during the first week of July

Do we really know that? Couldn't it have been Twitter which didn't want to continue the relationship?
JRebel isn't applicable to Play - Play (both when running Java and Scala) hosts its own compiler. In dev mode, when you change a .java or .scala file, it recompiles it and reloads it on the fly.

Which is why Play is freaking awesome--well, one of the reasons.
i agree on the last two points. it's been fun, but at the end of the day the kids go to jail and the people in suits get bigger contracts.

once i was on a panel answering questions about the roles of 'malware authors' and vendors of security products (reps from M$, symantec, mcafee, etc). i was in a ski mask representing malware. what i reminded them (and everyone in the audience) was that without me, they wouldn't have a job; they need malware, black hats, etc in order to have something to sell. and if it works too well, they wouldn't be able to sell new versions of it. funny.
Either that or they will over focus on #14.

"It says here you geeks need my help not overengineering things. I think you guys can get this done in a week without any of your fancy testing or requirements."
For the multiple select, I like this one a lot: http://loudev.com/

It's way simpler for the average user.
Just FYI, I'm french and here right wing means a whole different thing so I just took I wild guess at what that would mean for the average reader here. Thanks for the additional information though.
Fantastic guys! Excellent for a certain segment of apps.
Does anyone know if this could be used to detect alcohol levels?
Huh, didn't think of that. I'll have to try it. Thanks a lot.
+1

It reminds me of the Monster Cable lawsuit against Blue Jeans Cables[1] and any other company using "Monster" in the name; including, but not limited to, a go-cart racing company.

Fortunately, the BJC owner was a lawyer in another life and peeled back the layers of the lawsuit to find exactly what you describe... a giant, non-sensical, non-cohesive set of documents showing nothing in particular, not even addressing the specific complaints, just meant as a "pile of scary papers" to make people freak out and write checks.

You are absolutely right, this IS extortion and it IS illegal, but there aren't a whole lot of protections in the system for a little guy trying to counter-sue a firm full of lawyers that have more financial resources to drag it on.

[1] http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
Alerting driver of potential pedestrian = good

Automatically making a decision (that the human is better at making) and potentially causing an accident due to a random sudden stop = bad
This is how you leave a company
I think investment banks fulfill that purpose
Is there any reason to want to terrorize Norway?
Perhaps install some big subwoofers in the trunk and play the music a little louder than is polite? (semi-serious here)
My bad.. thanks a bunch tbassetto!
Can you please give me some advices how to get more traffic to my store?
The moral is to find out from an insider on what AOL wants, build a company around that, and then sell it to them for a ridiculous price.
Double Currency and the Grecian default
They have been very active in Libya ...
Only on the electric models, the gas ones will fly over the pedestrians using a rocket booster.
I'm really glad that it's a rainy holyday with not many people out in the streets, if it was a sunny day with a lot of people out in the streets and full offices it could have been a lot worse.

Some of my friends were in streets near the exposion while the windows exploded and they were quite shaken up.
Does anybody else remember this demostration of a Volvo featuring a similar characteristic and utterly failing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg

These technologies need to gain the trust of the drivers before they can become mainstream.
You can watch Al-Jazeera English live for free here:
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
They're covering the Oslo story right now.
More precisely, it's that the team of engineers which is generally willing to do the work for every device, for free, is prevented from doing so by not having access to the internals of the product.
Can you post a link to an app that is using it?
What is this restricted access junk?
And easier when you can spread the launch through other social networks. Most of my the people I follow/are friends with posted the phrase "who wants a google+ invite?".