skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even for editing text files you still need - maybe not a GUI, but a layer that checks the file format, gives meaningful error messages on where a syntax error is and why, etc. It's not quite the same amount of work as writing a GUI maybe, and I would also argue that you need this anyway, even when you have a GUI; but I used to think the same until I wrote a few tools that I was going to 'slap a GUI on later' and found that writing/maintaining a command line application also takes time; it's not just a few lines of code that you put before the library that's behind it.
Differs widely from company to company.

Identifying and brainstorming new products, talking with users and potential users, figuring out if the product makes financial sense, writing up requirements (with widely varying levels of detail), working with developers to ensure the product being built matches the requirements, keeping people across the company informed about the product's status with the appropriate level of detail, describing the product to and then training sales, coming up with longer-term plans (the 'product roadmap'), creating marketing materials for the product, chatting with the media about the product -- I've done all of those things as a product manager at a variety of places.

Product managers become useful when a company grows, people specialize their functions somewhat, and everyone no longer knows everything about what everyone else is doing. Good product managers do their best to eliminate surprises.

It's the sort of job where you learn by doing, and in my experience there's a lot of terrible product managers out there.
How did I get the iPhone number so wrong?
Go to a user group: http://communityjs.org/
Is it too much to ask for at least one dvcs to implement true sparse checkouts? It's the only reason I'm stuck with svn right now. :(
It's called IRC.
I can access all sites.
I'm on some IRC channels almost all day long but I just want some kind of extensive random chat :)
Not really.

Exposé hasn't been good since Leopard. In Leopard, there were some simple rules.

- Every window on the screen is fully visible.

- Windows are sized proportionally.

- Movement from the original position was as minimal as possible.

Snow Leopard removed the second two by arranging all of the windows in a grid (iTunes is the same size as a tiny Adium window). Lion removes the first one.
Groupon, snapdeal will go stagnant , may even fail after certain point
True - remember the blogspot blocking fiasco a few years ago?

Edit: Details: http://jace.zaiki.in/2006/07/17/blogspot-blocked-by-indian-i...
While Flash will likely become irrelevant over time, this move by Apple should not be condoned by anyone. It could have been any other technology that they are not interested in partnering with.

Nearly all my hardware (computers, smart phones, wifi, tablet) are Apple products, and I m very unhappy with what Apple is doing here——they are obviously aggressively trying to kill or stifle the Flash technology. This is going too far; this is not about Flash not working well on the iPhone, as Apple has publicly claimed.

I have personally developed a ground-breaking Adobe AIR application that used Hardware acceleration on the MAC to play 1080 videos at fullscreen. Here is the link to the case study on the application:
http://interhaptic.com/case-studies/profiles-in-science/

Irrespective of the technology, this kind of stifling of technology should be spoken out against.
Ubisoft Is Playing With Linux & Xen Virtualization
Actually the article is more about trading in "secondary markets", something that had been completely off my radar:

"the secondary markets -- the private exchanges where early employees and investors can sell off the shares they hold in not-yet-public companies to willing buyers."
the whole 2005ness of this post, which I just discovered after reading the whole thread here, renders it mostly useless to me. I get what J's saying about the evolution/de-evoluion of frameworks - but wow, in the time since, things have played out differently.
Is spam primarily an issue in search? I get maybe 1 - 2 @reply spam tweets a week. I occasionally search for stuff and see spam in there. However, I've never felt "OMG SPAM!" about twitter's experience.
Spaces in prev OS X was almost terrible, it was just half-baked. I think they brought this feature to Lion with some nice tunes, but not sure they did great on showing multiple spaces on the top of Mission Control.

Plus, Mission control itself doesn't really make user focusing on each window(app). even if we don't care about multiple displays environment, Apple did some good, and some wrong.

And I'm using this BIG cat right now.. :P
crlt+alt+cmd+left/right moves you between desktops
I'll add my own bit of anecdata. I love my family fiercely, but trying to work while they're around is very distracting for me (often this is through no fault of theirs at all) and is likely to have an adverse impact on my productivity. That doesn't mean I never choose to work from home based on family-related reasons. It just means that, everything else being equal, I wouldn't choose to work from home in order to be closer to my family; in that case, I'd rather simply spend less time at the office.

Here's what does make me choose to work from home, usually one day a week, in no particular order of importance:

# Avoid driving. Santiago is a jungle on wheels and even one day of not having to deal with it helps immensely.

# Wake up later than usual and/or have a short nap after lunch. It might make me spend less time doing my work, but I'll be a lot more focused on it.

# Listen to the music I want, on my speakers, as loud as I want (within reason, of course). At the office I use headphones, to avoid bothering my co-workers, but it's really not the same thing.

# My coffee might suck compared to Starbucks, but it's a lot cheaper than it. And it's infinitely better than the free coffee at the office.

# My home computer has no annoying web filters. I can hook up my company laptop to its VPN and use my home computer for browsing in those idle moments.

# Hot water! Believe it or not, Chileans don't have a habit of washing hands with hot water. It probably has to do with the fact that they use mainly gas to heat water. Whatever the reason, being able to say "and now I'm going to wash my hands with hot water" is a really pleasant change ;)

In short, it's creature comforts that drive my decision to work from home. Most of that stuff could be improved by living closer to the office or the company providing better "stuff" on their premises, but those solutions seem rather inefficient compared to giving employees freedom to choose to work from home.
Just install both alongside each other.
This site is missing a LOT of info no? I'd like a little bit more info before I download a file... Must i download just to read docs? Are there even docs bundled?
SeafoodWatch already has a pretty solid iPhone and Android app that does this[1], but I'm all for more options and having raw JSON available.

[1] http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_i...
To better understand how different ClojureScript is from CoffeeScript, read the last paragraph on the ClojureScript wiki's Rationale page: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Rationale

It's purpose is not to compile down to vanilla, readable JavaScript, but rather to make it easy to write production-ready JavaScript applications that can easily leverage the "advanced mode" of the Google Closure compiler.
The article mentions "Spending less than 50% of the time in the office," I think the key there is choice. As soon as going to the office every day isn't compulsory, you feel that you have more freedom; very few people respond well to a situation where they're told they "have" to do something (or is it just me?!).

You can also pick your working environment to suit your mood, I find sometimes I want minimal distractions and no commute so I work from home for a bit; after a few days of that it's refreshing to be in the office and around people for a while and then the cycle repeats.

What I'm getting at is I think people who have the option to work from home are likely to be more satisfied rather than people who exclusively do.
I wrote an article "What does a product manager do?" to answer that question... but the previous commenters did a pretty good job of explaining too.

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1627668
It seems like the market for html/css tools is so vast, it doesn't seem hard to build yet another tool that can end up being profitable. I've been working on a grid-based rapid html prototyping tool
http://pageblox.com
and I was looking to incorporate live css editing similar to this into it. Of course Fog Creek put a twist on it I never would have considered (editing/modifying css of an already live site). I'm very curious to see how (and learn from) how this will evolve as I assume this is their feedback/iteration phase.
I think I was oh-too-cleverly pointing out the absurdity of having so much memory in a laptop and thinking it might not be enough.
Hey Steve, we do have plans to open source the code in two parts. The first part to likely be open sourced will be the high performance logging library that was written for it. After that, the proxy component. Keep an eye on the Tumblr engineering blog for a notification.
I think the biggest roadblock to moving closer to work, is that a lot of people are home owners.

And selling a house is a pain in the ass and is a huge commitment.

Which would be fine if there was job security, but in this day and age, you won't be working for a single company your whole life
I think everyone wonders "what if?"
The Micropreneur Manifesto
How does Feynman have a verified email at google.com? He died before Google even existed.
Share This Circle
Share and subscribe to the most interesting circles of people on Google+
"Which are okay to eat?" implies how much mercury is present, but it seems this question is from an environmental perspective.
Anonymous Hacks NATO: Claims over 1GB "Restricted" Data
That screenshot is painful to read. Why did you use a JPG rather than a PNG?
Steve says take it and like it. So shut up and do without.
Please Stop Quoting Your Product's Price
With the OS X menuying system that sticks to one monitor, I've always found using multiple monitors awkward on the Mac. I've never had a good solution to this other than learn shortened for every app. But there isn't always a shortcut for what you want. Has any HN fellows ever found a good way to make multiple monitors more usable on the Mac?
When I tried opening megaupload last night, I was thrown a blocked page by my ISP (Reliance). Upon checking the page source, I noticed an iframe content that redirected my request to the blocked message. Playing around with the iframe source, I found that my ISP is using Netsweeper Business software for blocking the file sharing services and the control panel is publicly accessible (http://ipaddress:8080/webadmin/start/ is the link for my ISPs netsweeper control panel login page. If you're lucky enough to crack the password, you can unblock any website you want ;)). I don't really think there is any need for blocking file sharing services in India and I feel that these are just the desperate attempts by the so called DoT and the govt. to say that they're doing something.
>Who cares about urls?

Google does. If you have a non-descriptive URL, you're missing out on an opportunity for search-engine optimization.
See the "--depth" argument to git-clone.

See the "--lazy" argument to darcs-get.
Agreed. That's exactly what we set out to do with Git. Shameless plug: http://gitpilot.com/
I have been tinkering with Clojure off and on for the past year, and I only recently have started with Clojure's web technologies.

Currently the documentation is a mess. I've slowely been learning by looking at very basic examples, and then needing to read source code to fill in the details for the stuff I wanted to do.

While there's a great deal of excitment for ClojureScript, I feel that it as an entry point (at least for me) wouldn't have enough docs for me to learn quick enough so I wouldn't become frustrated. YMMV, of course, but I think you'd be better off looking at Compojure or Moustache, Enlive or Hiccup, and Ring , or even Noir: www.webnoir.com
They're just far too incompetent.

Disagree, I think it's a case of being far too competent; I bet the spec came in listing the sites without subdomains, and the developers have completed exactly what was asked of them.

Which must be annoying for the client, but if this is the case, more fool them.
I can only comment on America and Japan, but I'm fairly sure that if it were that simple to implement resumable downloads, Apple would have already done so. Who knows - maybe they already have. After all, you admitted to actually restarting the download from a different IP, which means that the issue may be something completely different.
WordPress browser detection and OS detection with body_class
I'm really not for anything that can't readily be done in HTML5+CSS3+JS atm. Especially If i need to make people _download_ a 'player'. What is this, 1999 all over again (some might say yes ha).

I can see big corp. getting excited over this just like 99% of the crap they buy and don't use.

That said, this doesn't exactly move forward with global progress on the problem or solution (as well it shouldn't wolfram is a corp after all... in the business to make money).
The Importance of Networking – My Experience with Power Users
Is there no one at Adobe who is a registered Apple developer in charge of regression testing their plugin on developer previews of Lion?

Did anybody see a smoking gun that suggests ill intent? I missed it. Does anything point to anything but regression?
Configuring Kannel to send via an SMS API
Nexmo lets you send and receive high volume of SMS at wholesale rates using web technologies that you already know.

With Nexmo you can:

* Benefit from our direct to carrier model that improves deliverability.
* Get connected in less than 15 minutes through our simple Restful API.
* Reach over 200 countries and 5 billion mobile phones.
* Know more about your traffic with our analytics and delivery receipts.
I agree it's cute when you first crack this open to think that you have to have a 1:1 mapping between your circles on G+ and what you considers your "real life" circles to be, however this isn't the case.

You just need to break down your circles to be based on the audience for what you share, sometimes this is as easy as "social" and "professional". Everyone lives their lives differently though.

"circles are ... less for sorting incoming broadcasts by topic"
I disagree with this because streams are linked to circles, so you can easily create a circle for people you follow (like Twitter). You may not want to add these people to your "broadcast" circles.

p.s.: You aren't obligated to put people who follow you into a circle. Famous people probably ignore these requests (again, like Twitter).
If a user wants G+ to be like Facebook's friend system they can just make one circle called "Everyone."
A better URL would be http://reillybrennan.com/2011/even-a-url-tells-a-story - stick the year in there to get a fresh namespace every 12 months so as not to end up with collisions some day.
Funny source code comments
Who cares about urls?

Clean URLs can help developers to better manage their site. This is because they provide an intuitive way to organize site content. By design, this also means that users can find information easily.

As a simple example, imagine surfing an exotic car website. You want to find information about the Koenigsegg Agera. Now, imagine the following two URLs which both point to the page about the Koenigsegg Agera:

1. http://www.example.com/vehicle.aspx?id=0x5F3759DF

2. http://www.example.com/vehicle/koenigsegg_agera

Clearly, the URL in example 2 offers:

1. An intuitive way to navigate the site's content. As a user, you could enter a different vehicle name, using the given URL structure, to locate other vehicles:

http://www.example.com/vehicle/ariel_atom

http://www.example.com/vehicle/porsche_918

2. SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This is a topic unto itself. In general, one of the areas of SEO is optimizing URLs in order to achieve the best results with regard to indexing and ranking. Please see Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (see link, below) for a more in-depth treatment of this topic.

References:

Clean URL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_URL

Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (See page 8, "Improve the structure of your URLs")
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimiza...

URL structure
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

Search Engine Optimization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
How do you bind "switch to app X" to a hotkey? I'm in Keyboard Shortcuts, and I while I can see how to define shortcuts for app menu items and such, I don't see how to specify switching.

I agree with you on the context-switching issue in spaces- it seems counter-productive to have to switch to a separate space for email, terminal, whatever. I like being able to have all my apps in the same space (albeit on two physical displays), and Expose and Cmd-tab seem less disruptive to my workflow than Spaces.
I think people are putting way too much time and effort into circles.

If you have something you want to share with a select group of people (who have a shared interest, obviously) then make a Circle for them and share it.

Other than that, don't fret about it.

I have a few very broad Circles that I initially classify people into (they usually only get put in 1 Circle) and that's been good enough so far.
Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI
Since the OP did not provide one: http://store.apple.com/
What would convince you to build an MVP for somebody?
This is very similar to org-mode with babel and latex output. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
LulzSec vs The Sun: a Case Study?
If article is correct, Lulz exploited an XSS vulnerability they found on a server running an old version of the newspaper web site as the initial penetration point. They then attacked the content management platform from the compromised server. Nothing innovative, illuminating or new about the attack methods. Just another case of poor inventory/patch management, lax log/monitoring practices.
The title sounds a lot like the sort of press release republishing that goes on in games reviews.

Remember when XP came out? (oh god, did I just age myself) That was also chock-a-block full of press release style articles in the news about how impenetrable it was.

Mac is "king of security" only in the sense that it covers about 10% of the market and people aren't writing viruses for it.

Oh well... really "punchy" headline though got me to click.
I don't think he meant for the 3 bits to be per-column, I think he meant 3 bits total - one for each row below the top, meaning "does this row have a hole that is covered? (and as such, cannot be cleared unless a line above it is cleared)". This effectively turns all board states with the same exact topology and potential for clearing lines below the surface into the same state.

I think his overall strategy is similar to a point that I intended to make - that there are large sets of states that are effectively equivalent, and treating them as such reduces the complexity of the problem. Not that dissimilar from alpha-beta pruning or branch-and-bound.
HackRoulette? Could this be done with Goole+ hangouts? I think I'll have a look into this.
Yes, let's agree on and further reason from the the premise that it is not currently true that most Zimbabweans drive Mercedeses ;)

My point was: your argument seems to be based on refuting the argument that the JSTOR subscription is not expensive for the average library because it is only about one yearly salary of the average rank-and-file employee, by saying that that only holds for the libraries in the US (maybe some parts of Europe, but let's say the US for the sake of this argument), and that in many other countries salaries are lower and therefor the relative cost of a JSTOR subscription higher.

So, my (perhaps naive) interpretation of this is that your ulterior argument is that JSTOR is too expensive for many libraries outside of the US, and that they therefore don't have access to its contents.

I further deduce from that, from the context in which you bring it up, is that you don't find it a problem that people take the content from JSTOR and redistribute it to people who don't have easy access to libraries who do have a subscription. Now I'll grant that this is a fairly big leap to make, and maybe you're not holding that position; but within the given context (of people arguing pro and con the actions of the Reddit guy what's-his-name), I think it's not unreasonable of me to assume so, either.

So, to close the circle, my 'question' was (but of course it is a 'question' that is, in the end, a way of stating my position in the discussion...) if it is reasonable to hold that when something is too expensive for people, it is OK to circumvent the rights holders' restrictions on the use of something. (I'm deliberately being vague on issues like 'moral ought' vs 'legal ought', if JSTOR really has a common-law variation of a database right on their collection, jurisdiction etc. - I don't really think they're important for the question at hand).
Software exoskeletons
Note what it actually said:

"Spending less than 50 percent of the week in the collocated office affords more flexibility and aids in the balance of work and personal roles, which teleworkers find satisfying."

Less than 50%. When I was a more of a contributor versus my current manager role, coming into work 2 days a week and getting my stuff done at home would have rocked.

There are also many things that weren't said. I have a 10x16 office with a door and windows. The folks on my teams are in 4-person semi-private pods with plenty of room with attractive color schemes, reasonably high quality furniture and natural light. It's work, but everyone is pretty happy.

In other roles, I've been in 4x4 high-wall cubes in windowless pens with 40 people where the brightest colors in the room were the red nubs on IBM thinkpads. That was a miserable working environment.

Personally, I'd rather work in my current environment than home. On the other hand, I'd rather work in my basement sitting on a stool and using my furnace as a desk than previous, crappy office environments/cattle pens.
Its not just those. There is application sandboxing too. The one good improvement is the separation of web form processing in safari into a different process and sandboxing it.
Why do you have to do that? I don’t understand. I invoke Mission Control and select any window of any app, just like before. Two steps, just like before.
This is not only a dupe, it's linkbait.
Basically taking advantage of the fact that those markets are small and not yet regulated. Am i right to believe that the secondary markets operate in a gray area and that regulation will put them out of business?
Browser HTML games can have a story, require skills and be innovative
Totally agree. Some time ago I saw a html template engine with something like this:

$framework->outputTextInput("name", "value", "class");

And after running +50 lines of code this would be the output:

<input type="text" name="name" value="value" class="class"/>

It had nothing to do with keeping the state of the app or something, just outputting HTML...
Again, as I stated in my original post, I'd like to see evidence of any of this.
The environmental perspective is the most important. The truth is the oceans are dying and overfishing has created colossal dead zones.

The best option that should be on this list is to not eat any fish at all.
Frameworks adhere to the Greyhound principle: Leave the driving to us. And to the Hollywood principle: Don't call us, we'll call you.