skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, we can discuss whatever we want.
Of course, it's a screen 1. You can see it on any promotional picture. This, for example:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/
Apple creating hype is nothing new..
You are right. I hadn't even noticed those checkboxen.
60K - 100K is too wide a swath for this poll to be useful IMHO
This sounds scarily like what happens to my projects :-/
You only get invites is you have a premium account (2-3/month if I recall correctly).
yeah, it's hard to imagine being similar to someone who built something covered in TC, when something I built has only ever been covered on my (small) college's website. they don't seem to compare :)
Can you, without giving away too much information, tell me what kind of market you're talking about (i.e. are you thinking of embedded, financial, whatever)?

I'm from Germany as well with (depending on skill) 5-10 years experience and your numbers just don't match mine. Maybe you just confirmed once more that I fail to negotiate, but.. by a large margin.
This is exactly why I moved from Germany to the US. I was tired of being on the end of the salary bell curve at international conferences. Higher salary and lower taxes mean that my disposable post-tax income is now 3.5 times what it was in Germany. And I am not even in the Bay Area yet!

From my point of view, the situation for software developers is particularly bleak though. You don't have to move to the United States to do much better. Going to Switzerland or Luxembourg is pretty good too.
Pretty ridiculous, but great stuff. So the corporate matching is your twist on the whole crowdfunding idea...intriguing, good luck!
I kind've hate when people say this type of thing. It reminds of high-schoolers getting annoyed when another student was disappointed with getting a B. People have different standards of success. It's true- not a ton of people will have this choice, but for the people who do this blog post could be very interesting/useful.
It is far more important to have critical thinking, than good memory. Memory can be incorrect or incomplete and without critical thinking, can go unchallenged or unimproved.
No, it's not the functional equivalent. My phone is not a web browser, and it's broken to try to treat them the same. My web browser's back button never drops me into Office, and it never dumps me onto my desktop. It moves through my web browser's history. It doesn't try to build some awkward linkage between what I've done in my web browser and what I've done outside my web browser.

The idea that you have a linear sequence of "actions" across all apps seems pretty weak in a multi-tasking environment.
No it's not. Github it's a shared repository tool.
You can email me and I'll give you some guesstimates. Also give you some tips on how to make sure you're presenting the message you think you're presenting and what it means for your job prospects. Something like this: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/what-your-resume-r...

I would happily accept some figurative payment of good will and satisfaction of you getting more out of your career :)
Anyone have an idea as to how so many Y-Combinator companies get this kind of mind blowingly awesome press? is it just the brand recognition of being a YC company?
I once read somewhere (I honestly can't remember where) that if you are the only one pursuing a business idea with absolutely no competition, you are either a genius, or a fool.

This all comes down to such trite sentences as: "Ideas are a dime a dozen", "Execution is everything", blah blah blah.
I've seen Pete speak about BuzzData and his vision in general -- I can't wait to see this launch!
"The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learner’s souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing." -- Socrates, in Plato's "Phaedrus"
What is wrong with only programming 10 hours a day?
Maybe I should have been specific and said that I am a developer who is now the founder. I pay well above average, but I hire people who earn it.

Still, as the company grows, there will be a need for more junior developers. In our market (Nashville, TN) many senior developers still make less than $100k while some make $60k fresh out of school. As I look at how the poll numbers play out, I suspect that is true for most markets and not just mine. That is why I say the range is too big.
What Apple chose is very clearly not the "first screen of apps". If that's what "home" meant to Apple then we wouldn't be discussing it, because that's all the "home" button would do.
You can't maintain the same level of housing no matter where you are. That's what my example comparing my home town (backwoods Connecticut) with San Francisco is about--it simply doesn't make any sense at all to compare a hundred acres in rural farmland with the equivalent housing situation in a major metropolis. Cost doesn't really enter into it.

The type of housing you can afford is a quality of life issue as much or more than it is a cost of living issue. If you live in San Francisco or New York, you accept a smaller living space than you'd get elsewhere. In return, you get access to nightlife, concert venues, and other amenities that can only be had in a densely-populated area.

If living on a hundred acres of woodland is important to you, you will not live in San Francisco. If being able to bike to work is important to you, you will not live in Los Angeles. If staying out of the cold is important to you, you will not live in Minneapolis. Money won't buy you any of these things.

At some levels, it may seem that it's just an issue of money. You can, of course, buy a detached, single-family house in San Francisco. It'll cost you millions, but you can do it if you're rich enough. Attempting to paint this as a difference in cost of living, however, is simply disingenuous--the detached home in San Francisco is the local equivalent of a mansion in my home town. It's not equivalent, any more than hiring Michael Franti to make a personal trip out to Connecticut to play for you would be equivalent to catching a show at a local concert hall.

And, finally, it's important to remember that unless you're living entirely hand-to-mouth, not all of your income goes to living expenses. If you're in the well-paid engineer club, then hopefully only a relatively small portion of your income goes to living expenses. Moving from a cheap location to an expensive one may increase that portion, but it doesn't make any sense at all to multiply your current income by a constant factor to determine the "equivalent" in a different location. That's what that calculator does, and it's deceptive and wrong.
I'm from Colombia, and currently I get paid around 20k USD yearly. I have more than 5 years of professional experience, and degrees in computer engineering, and a master in computer science.

For someone as me, those numbers are astounding.
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Sure. The back button is completely intuitive, and that's why no Android user has ever complained about it.
Were you thinking of ZeroCater?

http://www.zerocater.com/
> Math can usefully be described as a nothing but a bunch of design patterns, discovered and built in just the way you say.

Well, kinda-sorta. It depends on how you define a design pattern, and how you generalize that definition to mathematics. The way that I define design patterns, I would disagree.

I define design patterns as "an abstracted, re-usable piece of functionality that cannot be made into a library." I think that the non-libraribility is the defining feature of design patterns: it's why you have to learn to implement them, instead of just linking to them like most other forms of re-usable functionality[1]. As soon as you can figure out how to factor that functionality into a library (or template or inheritable class or interface or whatever), it's no longer a design pattern.

When I look at mathematics, I would consider that to be mostly a collection of libraries rather than design patterns. Theorems, obviously, are more like libraries because you can simply plug in the antecedents and get out the sequents without looking at the proof. There are also things like design patterns, techniques that you can apply in related domains. However, mathematicians have a pathological urge to turn these techniques into theorems by proving properties about what they will do and when they can be applied. The result is that math tends to have many libraries but few surviving design patterns at any point.

[1] Note that this definition is language-dependent. It also dovetails somewhat with the "design patterns are evidence of an underpowered language" line of thought, but is distinct because it deals with extensible functionality rather than built-in functionality.
I'm glad to see something coming in this space. I had been very sad to see DabbleDB go away, and Google Fusion Tables, Google Refine, and Google Docs Spreadsheets seem promising yet somewhat neglected, unfocused, and disjoint.

Surely, though, there must be a more descriptive term for this than a "social network"? Even though you could consider it (to some degree) to be a social network, Github doesn't describe itself as one.
Are you sure there's no "permananent storage"? Who has verified that?

Second thing: there have been numerous instances of TSA workers leering at the scanner screens as people (esp attractive women) walk through. There have definitely been instances of attractive women being "randomly" selected.

If you think petty bureaucrats should have the power to leer at a curve-revealing outline of you and your loved ones in private at their whim, I'm sorry but you're just too complaisant for a strong democracy.

On a related note, how do you feel about airport toilet/shower "security" cameras with a promise that the tapes are deleted every hour? You know, just to prevent people from smoking drugs there. Airport is a public place, so it should be ok to watch you at all times, right?
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All this discussion of swiping presupposes that it's reasonable to organize things iOS-style. I think that it isn't.

1) I organize my Android's 3 screens by function: (left) Scheduling/Tasks, Home, (right) Social stuff. On each screen are a relevant widget (or two) and related apps.

2) The Android app drawer is much more useful than iOS's app pages because the app drawer is arranged alphabetically, is continuous and is organized top-to-bottom. I use the drawer about 10% of the time and, when I do, I don't need to "recall where all 80 apps live" because I recall the alphabet.

... a total of 6 swipes. I'd bet that this is a
pretty common scenario for most people with enough
apps to fill 5 screens.

Agreed. But only on iOS.
At a 6% stake, even a $15MM acquisition leaves you with $900k, or enough money to fund 50 new startups (almost a full YC round). Are you saying these acquisitions have little to no impact on your bottom line?
An article that mostly toes the Anti-Piracy At Any Cost/Infringment is theft dogma.

You can tell because it misses the other side of the coin: Did movie or recorded music sales rise in France? Because notationally, that's what Anti-Piracy is all about, right? If grotesque, massive dragnets like this eliminate "piracy", yet sales don't rise, empirically, we can all get off the Anti-Piracy bandwagon, and stop paying for the dragnets.
How is that possible? Does an iPod cost 1/2 of a monthly wage where you live? How much does someone cleaning toilets make? Or are we talking net income here, after all taxes etc?
> Is it any more of a ripoff then any of the other MP3 players which were manufactured specifically to compete with Apple?

Yes, most of those did not look almost exactly like shuffles. TFAA was selling shuffle knockoffs: http://imgur.com/s2v8A

That's not the kind of "business models" which should be condoned.
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(I'm presupposing, of course, that "social network" sounds as overused of a term to everyone else as it does to me.)
Agreed. 100k is a tech-lead salary in St. Louis area...but houses can be bought for under 100k so I guess it balances out.
Out of the gate, we're dealing with tabular datasets — think CSV, TSV, Excel and soon Stata/SPSS.

In the Fall, we'll be adding support for map shape data and structured/node in the form of JSON/XML.

Politically, we're trying our best to be a neutral common carrier in the same way that Vimeo, Flickr and Scribd are.

We're progressive individuals so we'll try to stay on the side of fighting the good fight. <- not approved by legal :)
Then how is the question of screen swipes even relevant? If you're not using the left and right screens, then it's kind of a moot point. I'm not trying to be rude here. I seriously just don't see how the left and right screens can be considered a benefit if people don't use them.
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> What exactly is the concern? That someone is going to snap a photo of your TSA security image and post it on facebook?

Yes. http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-bo...

And if you're not concerned with an image of your nude body being seen, please put your naked photo where your mouth is, and upload one here.
This is great! We are trying to do something similar for middle school kids in NYC in a program called MicroInterns. Check these kids out on twitter (http://twitter.com/microinterns) and on Inc : http://www.inc.com/articles/201102/george-haines-tech-compan...

It is amazing how savvy these kids are on new media stuff.
I find it interesting that so many people are highly concerned with keeping the image of their nude body from being seen (especially temporarily without permanent storage).

Really, you find that interesting? Try to walk through a female locker room shower (assuming you're male) -- and you can note to all the women you have no recording device -- any view you get is only temporary, and frankly all women look pretty much the same to you anyways. Your explanation will turn out to mean very iittle.
Dude.

Help us find better words. We hate it at least as much as you do. If someone told me two years ago that I'd be passionately building a social network in 2011, I'd have laughed in their face.

That said, it's inarguable that you all knew what we were talking about, even if you groaned. That's what we're up against.

All I can ask is that you suspend your judgement and assume that this is the effort of people with a clue. We're motivated to be loved, not hated.
> If it could reasonably be mistaken for an iPod nano

It looks like a shuffle, with buttons replacing the wheel (nano would need a screen and be far more expensive)

> (I can't see the image of his player because it won't load for me)

http://imgur.com/s2v8A
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Whilst I understand and really like the non-tied in aspect of it, I'd probably implement some sort of facebook/twitter/google account authentication alongside of it.

Reason being is that, it too is just another authentication service that I'd rather users not have to make the effort to sign up for.
How many $100m startups did Harvard produce in its first 5 years of founding?
Xcode 4 on one monitor, AppCode on the other. Xcode has a great debugger and build process, but it seriously sucks for refactoring code and editing text. AppCode is a bit slow and weak in some areas (namely obj-c analysis), but running both side-by-side gets one the best of both worlds.
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Which is no different from having your top talent poached based on resumes or word of mouth.

Quiz: if you're worried about your best employees being recruited away, how do you react?

1. Give them more opportunities to grow, learn, advance, and increase their earnings.
2. Try to chain them to your company with restrictive policies.

If you said "#2", I can tell you why your people are looking elsewhere.
Can someone explain what makes this a browser ID? I don't get it...
Salaries in Britain are in general lower than the US, especially as measured by purchasing power parity; the difference is about 30%. This is recouped in theory by the increased services provided by the British government (e.g. NHS and the Dole).

On the other hand, New York is more expensive than the Valley and salaries are, IIRC, even higher.
I'm seriously considering spending 2x my monthly salary on a Mac, just because us Windows users are now second-class citizens on the internet.
Then just hit Home?

It makes sense with the way Android works. Applications are often interconnected. I can browse to reddit in Browser, click on a YouTube link and open it in the YouTube app, hit share, and open up GMail to send it to a friend. I can then hit back to go back to YouTube, then again to go back to reddit. Believe me, it feels so natural to me now that I find iOS clunky to use without it.
If you want someone to look at something, only give them one thing to look at.
> tl;dr: Apple does not like people selling cheap knockoffs of their products for some reason

fixed that for you.
As I said to commandar, I don't really understand the argument in that case. If you don't actually use the left/right screens to store apps, then saying that it's a more efficient way to access apps is meaningless. On the iPhone, where screens 1-N are typically filled with apps, the left/right scrolling would be very unfriendly.
Even if you go out through the window, it is still easier to come back through the front door.
How is it different from OpenID, apart from it's not decentralized?
Lots of stuff! More than I have time to type into this textarea.

I can say what we're not, however. BuzzData is NOT "a web-service for creating live embeddable charts with comments" so don't tase me, bro. :)
It's only trivial if I know that such plugins exist. And if I don't consider how to improve performance because at the moment I don't care, then it doesn't matter how trivial it is.
I dislike the Alt+Tab behavior so much that I just filed a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654645
I just cancelled my Rdio subscription because of missing artists. There's one really really easy way for you to fix this issue though. Let me manage music that's not in your catalogue so I don't have to pull out iTunes, and so I can mix and match those songs into Rdio playlists.
Why shouldn't she yell at a groper!?! Are you in favor of groping little children??! NO MEANS NO!

I sincerely doubt that non-belligerent objecting would matter much. The TSA seems to have a "procedure is procedure and that justifys it" attitude, along with a strong solidarity inside the agent corps. In short, they're bully boys. Patting down 95-year-old cancer patients, detaching ostomy bags, etc etc.

At this point, we should acknowledge that the cost is not worth the benefits, and scrap the TSA.
Some people don't use them. commandar for one, obviously. However, others make a lot of use of them. (Myself, cristoph and CoffeeDregs in this set of comments, for example). So for the people who don't use them, it's a moot point, but for people that do, it's a nice advantage.

(I think you may not have realised commandar's and cristoph's replies were not written by the one person)
SSL is so minimally computationally intensive that it doesn't hurt to just use it by default for all of your traffic

May I ask where you got that from ?

SSL, or to be more accurate RSA, IS computationally intensive, but mostly at the establishment of the session (you cannot do millions of multiplications on a consumer grade CPU without expecting some delay and heat).

Once the connection is established, and can be reused/resumed, it's relatively cheap.
That's what I meant. Obviously I know he is living in the UK.
But you can't just ignore the back button, because apps use it rather than providing their own back buttons. You have to use it, and there's no way so far as I know to force to behave in a way I would consider intuitive.
"Grope" is a loaded word, but it's not necessarily sexual in connotation. More, modern usage seems to have drifted toward a more broad, general invasion of private space of which the TSA pat-down certainly consists. That "grope" has shifted and is so often associated with the TSA would suggest to me that there exists a sub-critical mass of people dissatisfied with the State Security apparatus in place, deeply so.
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My problem with this is that the patient information is stored "in the cloud". As such, the terms of any agreements always favor the provider if the information ever escapes.
I don't use a public Github because my interesting code often isn't something I want to share with the public, particularly if it happens to include AWS credentials, API keys to various services, etc. All my most interesting sites have been money making endeavors as well, so I don't see any reason to give away the source code, or share it with the public. I do share the URL of the finished product, though, and that has been enough to land me quite a number of job offers, including the one that led to the startup position I am filling right now.

I've never made a traditional resume, and I've never made my code publicly accessible on Github but I've gotten along fine.
Baking in a magic threshold seems to be a worse option. No matter where you set the threshold, it's going to sometimes feel like the 'screen 1' vs 'last home state' choice is random (and wrong).
Not going to speak for dblock, but I don't think that Github is the point here.

Whether on Github or some other open source project depository, the point is that you're self-publishing the code behind a creation.

He says, "If you don’t have a website, tech blog or any kind of useful online presence,..." thennn use Github or in conjunction use Github.

Really, imo, it's more about the fact that people will probably Google you before they try to contact you about a pdf/paper resume.
Truth be told, I hoped for a bit more from this article. Ok, so now we know that the indexOf() approach works great on strings with the length of 1150000 characters or less. But at what point do other algorithms start outperforming indexOf()? In what circumstances (for example the size of the document, length of the pattern and so on) should I use one algorithm, and when should I use another?

Shame that the article didn't really answer these questions.
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It's probably not what you said, but how you said it. It's tone is more confrontational than informative - and that's really just the first few words.
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What's the advantage over openid?
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I would like a button on the front page that says "Tour" that explains what happens.

I tried using it, but I didn't want to create an account. I want to see what it does and how it works. Maybe an example of it or a video demo.

Also I recommend not putting pricing or fees until you've gotten a lot of people who love using the service. Unless you're dying for a few bucks to keep you sustainable.

Otherwise seems like a good idea. I'd like to try it some more to give you better feedback.
Search is somewhat optional, but I guess it got its spot because of Google. It is pretty useful, and I use it all the time, but that's just my behavior.

Menu brings up options for what you can do in an application. For example, in the browser, hitting menu brings up the URL bar and bookmark button (which can also be reached by scrolling to the top of a page), as well as a bottom row of icons with "New window", "Bookmarks", "Windows" (tabs, basically", "Refresh", "Forward", and "More" which contains all the esoteric options for a browser. I guess this could also be put at the top of a browser, but having a handy menu button to bring it up is quite nice for screen real estate. Think of it sort of like hitting alt when you're in a full screen browser to bring up the menu.