skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foley hits on a key point of integration.

The other key factor for Microsoft is the company's history and view of perseverance. Windows took 3 versions to get right. Word was an underdog to Word Perfect for years. Excel lagged behind Lotus. Outlook/Exchange struggled to catch up to Lotus Notes for ages. Windows Server and SQL Server were laughed at when the company tried to enter the enterprise market. It took a whole generation of consoles for xbox to start beating Playstation. All of them are major cash cows today, and execs know it's because they outlasted the competition and finally found a way to win. Ignoring naysayers is a badge of honor for these guys.
THIS.

A lot of people would be surprised to learn that America in 1500 was arguably less racist than America in 1850 or 1950 simply because the concept of "race" wasn't well established as being a particularly important way to categorize people.

There is a tendency to assume that people always thought in the categories that we use now.
Android local service binding
A quick guide on how to local binding between activities and services. This can be useful to get information to an activity of progress or state from a background service of your application.
Is there a way to disable the animations? Maybe I've just used computers too extensively, but I (and I imagine a lot here) find them really slow and unnecessary.
These bundles are all great. I keep pointing them out to my non-gaming friends as much as possible.

I've dumped my consoles in the last year and moved to finding 'indie' game devs like these because, as the old saying goes, 'It's not about graphics, it's about gameplay'[citation needed] and I don't care how many polygons you can throw at /next big game/ it is almost invariably yet another FPS.
Looks like they built on AWS to achieve that scale. Pretty cool.

http://discovr.info/2011/07/scaling-a-rails-webservice-on-aw...
> Somebody is trying to list a antique China doll and can't seem to find the submit button. Why don't you ask if she would like you to walk her through it? If people aren't going to read on the Internet don't force them to read.

I think this is a great idea. It can even be a javascript plug-in for restaurant websites where you can just call if you don't want to deal with online order placing systems. It might make even more sense for someone like Yelp to integrate this as a feature? Who pays for the calls is a question that needs to be solved though.

Pulling numbers out of the air -

0.25c / min * (2 mins / call (on an average)) * 25 orders / day * 30 days / month = 375 $ a month ? Holy crap.
Yes, but there is no train of thought from semiconductors to stupid ideas about eugenics. There _is_ one from anti-socialist rhetoric to killing members of a left party.
Wrong. Seniors owns America.

Social security liability: 15 Trillion

Prescription drug liability: 20 Trillion

Medicare liability: 79 Trillion

US unfunded liabilities: 114 Trillion

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
The real meaning of "hack"
Good point. I have failed to find many points that do not involve racism and violence, but if you can find anything good in those 1500+ pages, please, share.
In other words, you, my minions, should obey my superior intelligence and work in a way that doesn't annoy me.
Will it also run Internet Explorer?
Mike,

Nice reply. I agree that this guy seems to have it in for The New York Times. He says, "CNN has a nice format halfway down the page". How is that different from the INSIDE NYTIMES.COM section of the Home Page?

His case for clean design rests on his assumption that the Times can charge enough for content to pay the expenses of the newsroom. He says nothing to back up that assumption. I love his confidence, and I wish shared it!

Tim
Linux version pays the best average amount. Is there any message?
I'd like to think we've grown a lot as a culture since then. I mean, seriously, do we really want to return to a time when the ALTER verb existed? :3
How will it 'feel' like a bank? I sure as hell hope it doesn't. I use my online bank account to look at how much money i have every time I get paid. I avoid the bank because I hate long lines. That's it. My bank account is not at the center of my web experience NOR is it the center of my life.
I promptly forgot Buzz as soon as I heard about it, so I cannot speak intelligently about it. But I've been using G+ quiet frequently now for the past three weeks and it's in desperate need of Twitter-like functionality, and in its current incarnation it's simply not set up like that as you can only search for people and not content. Discovery vs. Cataloguing.

I'll cite as an example the POTUS appearance on the telly last night. As a live even it was all over Twitter, nary a mention on G+. And Facebook carried very little for me aside from announcing the event.
Martin Tobias of Tippr explains how Groupon could become insolvent [video]
and looks like they're a/b testing it; http://i.imgur.com/NsjwG.png
I think Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. are piling up cash because they don't want to pay taxes on it to repatriate it. By 2013, they estimate $238 billion or so of tech cash will be overseas, and each of those major tech companies has double digit billions.

People complain about the customer service of their bank, can you imagine the customer service of Google bank? "If your account is closed due to TOS violations, please post in our forum to beg for access to your cash."
Pyline: a grep-like, sed-like command-line tool. (Python recipe)
This happens with all social media and you cannot really prevent it. It's just people who want to beat the system. It works too, if you are careful (Google will try to detect it eventually and prevent it).
Counter point: I configured my browser (Opera) to heavily use single-letter shortcuts, such as Q/E to navigate to next/prev tabs, W/S to scroll up and down, T to open new tabs, etc. This and mouse gestures were a great improvement in my browsing experience.

Things get horribly broken with pages that have their own shortcuts too. For example, when I'm quickly pressing E (next tab) to see all my tabs and happen to find an open Gmail tab, it'll archive the message displayed, no questions asked.

Thankfully Gmail allows the user to disable such shortcuts, and there's always the "undo" button, but I'm not willing to hunt this option in every single website I visit.

I have the NYT page open right next to this one, and I get stuck whenever I come across it because none of my shortcuts work there.

I think individual websites shouldn't be able to dictate what I can or cannot do with my browser. It should be a browser option to ignore such shortcuts, but while that doesn't happen, be mindful of users like me.
Aren't we missing something here? Med schools try to have 50/50 gender split in their incoming classes. Heck, patients certainly 50/50. Med schools don't even want gender diversity, they want gender parity. CS departments can't fathom such a thing. And while employers like diversity, they don't need parity. Startups need skills, not stats, so it's not a priority for them either. I'm not saying females are not on par with their male counterparts in s/w and medicine by any means. But at least their are role models and courtship in medicine.
Granted, I know very little about how brain work, but assume that general principle is dynamic building network between small elements in the brain which is affected by different signals (which can come from both outside receptors, or could be generated by brain itself?)..

So... Can someone explain in simple words why human brain _need_ to sleep to consolidate memory? What is memory? This is not like RAM in my desktop where you need to do map reduce to aggregate information... This is state of network which is constantly and dynamically changes..
I don't quite understand what's happening here. Could someone summarize it in layman's terms?

As far as I can tell, Apple has patented something that has been produced before, and the website is requesting evidence of that to undo the patent?
> "given how people aren't fretting about Japan."

They aren't fretting about Japan anymore. But in the 1980s there was an anti-japan screed equivalent for just about anything you read today about China.

With regards to economics anyway.
I don't think that's related. Aaron's talking about request handling speed; the people above you are talking about boot speeds.
That's fine, it'll still work, you just won't be able to read content offline.
Dude: get glasses.

I not even squinted to read the text on his examples. I mean, contrast is important but the guy needs glasses. Or a readability bookmarklet.
That was my first thought, that these "computer analysts" of the 70s were glorified secretaries running punch cards through a system. It seems like I would have remembered or known a few more older female computer scientists if they were really 40%+ of the work force.
My first thought when seeing this was that it's not a very democratic thing to do. Ironic.
It is when your debt is approaching 100% of your GDP and you owe 40% of it to yourself. Think about it. If GDP and our Debt are roughly equal how is 1 or 2% a year increase in revenue going to be able to pay 40% + interest of debt?
For getting likes on Facebook pages definitely.

If I was you I'd integrate my product much more closely into FB as well. At the moment the content on your FB page doesn't give anyone much reason to "like" it.

I presume you're generating a stream of audio recommendations for your iPhone app, so why not publish them to Facebook as well. Have each recommendation (or a subset if there's lots) be a story on your Facebook page so users can "like" and discuss an individual recommendation (and push it to their friend stream) as well.

Here's how I do it for my web comic:

http://www.facebook.com/theoryofgeek

Here's how The Economist do it:

http://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist

If you're a content provider your Facebook page should be much more than news about your company.
This article seems a little out of date. It's missing most of the things I have looked at over the past year. E.g. Riak, MongoDB, Redis and so on.
It seems strange to me that they announce this without even mentioning ChromeOS as if B2G was conceived in a cave.
Great thread! So the next thing to expect after the Chrome laptop would be a Facebook laptop?
(if you don't know this you should read the link):

If (# CPU Cores / Load) > 1, shit has hit the fan

I disagree with 0.7 being the starting point for investigation on extraneous load, but you should be more worried about changes in 1st or 2nd moments in the load (velocity and acceleration), which as analogy on the link, you don't care too much about steady traffic, it's when traffic starts bursting at the seams.

Having a machine running at 0.75 load for a shared machined (say a development database) might actually mean your resources are actually being consumed regularly. Albeit seeing that average load climb slowly towards ~1.0 means you need to fix it before the pipes clog shut.
I don't think it's fair to say it's "yet another FPS". I think that people who only play Indie titles are missing out just as much as those who only play huge AAA releases.
I'm dying to know...what are you airbnb-ing? I'm very excited to see airbnb applied to other things.
But that argument is incomplete! It boils down to:

. The current trends lead to a projection of a different genetic makeup than the current

. The projection is a bad thing

Therefore, the current trends are bad.

But the argument fails to address why the projection is bad. That premise needs to be justified for the argument to be valid.
The problem is, what if somebody stores their data in your server, and then you decide to turn it off? Will the data have to be automatically mirrored on several other servers (inefficient) or will it have to be mirrored when you want to shut off your computing furnace (slow)?
But again (as I said below and was completely unfairly downvoted) we have no way to raise that much money to pay the seniors. Because Tax revenue tends to stay consistent as a % of GDP(http://tinyurl.com/3dgkupq) even when the top tax rate is raised to 80 or 90% (which it was in the 50s).

So the person who really owns America is whoever is going to lend us the money to pay the seniors (and those becoming seniors) in the next 30 or so years.

(And yes I'm prepared to be Downvoted here too but I'd rather be downvoted while trying to get people to face an obvious truth than hide from a bully with a quick mouse finger)
My understanding is that some (maybe many) of those subscriptions are heavily discounted which might be why they are advertising subscription numbers, rather than revenues.
Yep: http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/perl/kcpassword.html
It's not exactly secret. Just disabled.
Aurora critics can remain anonymous, judge rules
".NET is all about dashboards" or "Where is the open source in .NET"?
The testing lifecycle at LinkedIn
Ever tried using Plex? (Not saying that's perfect, but in 2,5yrs of usage, and 24/7 on, it has yet to crash on me).

http://www.plexapp.com/
I assume the reason they're on a ThinkPad/Lenovo is that there is a well-deserved reputation there for running Linux well.

I recently picked up one of the new Toshiba Portege models to run Linux, and stock Ubuntu is giving me flashbacks to the circa-1999 Linux experience -- it doesn't detect when a monitor appears over HDMI, randomly will run up to 100% and freeze (kernel patch coming soon!), power management settings seem basically ignored with the display dimming when that is both disabled and I'm typing... and the worst part? Mentioned it to the local department Linux people, and they just said, "oh, yeah, you should've bought Thinkpad."
This has probably more to do with the fact that Linux users are quite often part of a community that promotes this kind of thing.

Also the statistic don't account for people with multiple systems. Windows on the desktop for games, Linux in the desktop for development and OS X on the MacBook is not an uncommon setup for developers.
I read a lot of arguments about how 'multiculturalism' and 'too many muslims' will lead to loss of social cohesion and lead to inevitable social conflict.

My thought is how come Europe managed to have CENTURIES of warfare (100 years war, 30 years, LOTS of civil wars, World War I, World War I and LOTS more) and most of these conflict were purely intra-Europeans? The Englishman in 1700 saw the Spaniard as being just as foreign as a Swede sees a Muslim today - probably more so if the Muslim lives in Sweden and speaks Swedish.

My point is just that if immigrants didn't exist people would still find something to fight over so this whole "immigrants are the very cause of social conflict" logic seems very dubious to me.
If it gives him a higher profile it might actually result in more consulting gigs.

So if you take one gram of sodium and add it to a room filled with chlorine gas, you end up with a wee little pile of salt. Pumping more gas into the room does not increase the amount of salt you get, because the sodium is the limiting reagent.

The limiting reagent in the number of consulting gigs I do every year is not the number of people who wish me to consult for them. It is closer to "How many weeks do I want to spend consulting?" That number is about ten to twelve weeks a year. I can fill my dance card at that number without needing to work very hard on getting the word out to new people.

It might make sense if I wanted to scale a consulting business up by hiring employees, training them to be Mini Me, and then closing clients on consulting engagements with fulfillment to be done by the Mini Mes. That is an option. It isn't one which really fits in with my plans for life at the moment.
Stopping the patent troll scam
There's a button on every keyboard to do exactly and exclusively that: Page Down. And it even works with the standard scrollbars.

Yet people still prefer to scroll. Think about that.
Yes, Windows and MacOS users spend more money on buying software so their budget is already stretched, while Linux users have money to spent.

Or Linux users cannot assess the worth of software as they are not used to buy software.

Both probably not what you wanted to hear, and probably not the real reason. I just wanted to point out that we can project everything into the fact that Linux version pays best average amount.
Criticize so that it improves his credibility.
> I'm sure lots of male devs would be more attracted by constructive rather than competitive language.

I usually look for some measure of professionalism. There is nothing wrong with being passionate about your work but talk of ninjas and rockstars stinks of arrogance and is always offputting. Things like this are much more attractive, personally:

Rethinkdb: "While everyone at RethinkDB has the determination to move heaven and earth to succeed, we prefer to get stuff done quickly and go home to our families, instead of living our lives in the office."

Jane St: "We put aside ego, politics, and appearance to focus on truth. We try to admit when we are wrong, talk about our mistakes, and challenge our previous conclusions."

Basho: "If you are smarter than everyone else, the absolute smartest person you know -- as in you win every argument because you are so smart and no problem cannot be solved by a quick application of your smarts -- please do not apply. We are human and will disappoint you."
Jailbreak your iPad, install Facebook for iPhone from App Store, and download FaceForward from Cydia.

You can also access the iPad version with FullForce or via editing the plist, but you will not be able to connect to Facebook due to their blocks.

It is unnecessary to download an IPA and to install it this way.
Indeed! Warehouse automation software prevents scores of back injuries in the first place, ergo women are shallow.

That's tongue-in-cheek, but I'll bet there is a study out there to support the idea that humans do not value indirect effects as much as direct effects.
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Every company I have worked for has treated developers like sh!t, so I can imagine women would not put up with that.

Like expecting you to code over the weekend for 16 hours, and not being understanding if you want to take Monday off.

Or forcing them to program like crazy for non-important projects, just because you can. It's a thankless job, I don't recommend programming/software development to anyone.

It's a joke of a field really...
Completely agreed with your point and all your examples. However, isn't that how most everyone succeeds? Google, Amazon, AirBnB, Apple (recovery), etc. It's almost always an uphill battle against naysayers.
> The advantage of moving sideways is that that's how every reading experience a user has ever experienced works, outside their computer.

Most of your customers are comfortable with the default scrolling experience. Those that are not are older; they are not your future. The fact that you have to include navigation instructions for your page shows that you're breaking expectations.

> For instance, what you are calling lag is the animation. Most people find computer navigation hostile because things move around and they don't know where they are going.

I was actually referring to the lag I experienced when testing the site on an iPad. The scrolling is jittery, it is pretty smooth on desktop Chrome though.

> In the case of scrolling, I find scrolling long documents a hostile user interface. It requires a great deal of user interaction and minute control over position. Pagination simply requires "next", "next", "next". I don't think every web site should work this way. But for long form content, it works a treat.

We've had a solution for long documents in HTML forever: the fragment identifier. I've recently seen a few clever sites use a fixed position div to provide a table of contents that updates as you scroll down the page. I wish I could find one; the affect is gorgeous, and still conforms to the normal web UX (and degrades gracefully).
You sir have hit the nail on the head. The article reads as is they invented something revolutionary. I do think there is great potential in browser os market and a little competition is all that's required to pave the way for the 'next big thing'! This might just do good for the ChromeOS.
Looks like PhonoSDK requires the use of PhoneGap for iOS clients. There are no details, but I hope that Twilio doesn't.
There is a plist file called Three20 in the Applications folder for Facebook. :)
An interpretation of that clause would be that Apple either has to release Mac OS X under the GPL, or get that commercial license (I haven't checked, but it probably isn't free).

I do not think the GPL license implies that, and as another poster said, that interpretation would probably not hold in court, but why take the risk?

Also, shipping this in the past does not imply they were happy doing that. They might have found the alternatives not good enough before, just like they did with gcc/clang (I am not sure gcc is completely out yet, but it certainly is on the way out)
that;s just so wrong. speaking from my experience, I was one of the 10 girls in a freshmen class at uni (100 of us) and yes, i was the only one that knew how to program (taught myself) but then, maybe only 10 out of all the other boys knew how to program.
"The tiny proportion of people who use Linux on the desktop will pay more for your game if you frame it in the context of 'look, you can be superior to the people who use those other OSes'?"

I buy then under "Linux" because I'd like to see more Linux games, but I only very rarely actually play them under Linux. Because it's way too much of a hassle to actually do it. My reasoning is that, perhaps (and it is certainly optimistic), a greater adoption of games on Linux might make the process of getting them to work (and, similarly, the process of developing for the platform) less obnoxious.
Congrats... nice to see some real hackers get a leg up!
> The Englishman in 1700 saw the Spaniard as being just as foreign as a Swede sees a Muslim today

Um, no. The reconquista and various crusades were pan-european wars against muslims way before 1700. Englishmen died driving the Moors from Spain. There has definitely long been a European identity.
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The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.
That is still under debate AFAIK. The latter form would allow you to compose multiple index lookups as well, which is why I'm for it (although the query planner might not support it yet).
Nicely written... but looking at the last section "Bringing it Home" I'd like to point out that if you were to, say, do a make -j<#cores> in the Linux source tree (or any other bloated GNU monstrosity) you'll get a 15-min load of well over the 70% desired :) But it's not a bad thing... it just means Firefox will run like crap for a while. Also, don't do that on your web server, which is probably what he was talking about anyway.
That's $.0025/min * (2 mins / call (on an average)) * 25 orders / day * 30 days / month = $3.75
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When I was an education major, other people in the field told me that it was great that I, as a man, was going into education, because I would be serving as a male role model.
The average is going down, too. Was at $4.81 when I first went there. It's at $4.42 now.

I wonder if letting people know the average before they donate was a mistake after all?
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The HTML5 boom is coming. Fast
You don't need to go back a century - just think of Yugoslavia 20 years ago...