skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boot To Gecko is not a project to build an operation system.

IIUC, Mozilla is planning to reuse Linux and core components of Android. If anything, I would think Boot To Gecko would be better thought of as a shell around the OS. Using process separation (underway for a while now in the Electrolysis project) bugs/leaks/crashes in Gecko should be isolated and not significantly more disruptive than in normal Firefox.

I think the major value provided by (and work required for) Boot To Gecko will be on creating open standards (in the open) for access to the device so that web platform can be a first class citizen of the device.
> There's a second problem that's popping up lately: font-face on the body text.

Plus, browsers will flash the body text in the alternate system font (or a blank page) while the font-face file is downloaded from the web server.
Jonathan and Laura took us to dinners when we were almost out of money and hungry! They are truly the kindest people I have ever met.
A short sighted decision, indeed! :)
For the record, ZumoDrive didn't do ZumoDrive when they were in YC. They did Versionate, a versioned Wiki.

Your observation does still stand, though.
The tone of that article seems to be "some college students are trying to game our grading system by learning programming in advance. Let's crush them by making them program in an obscure language!"

To me that sounds like "some elementary school students are trying to game our grading system by learning reading in advance. Let's crush them by making them read in an obscure language!"
http://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/images/iphone_nyt_... -- in here lower-contrast is used properly, I think. Low-contrast allowed to hide the low-priority details allowing the brain to quickly navigate through important, high-contrast titles. Not all text is important.
On the contrary, a lot of what we try to do is longer-term behavior modification - "gamification" of the "get out of debt" process if you will. Once you sign up you'll get monthly and weekly "goals" that we encourage you to complete, simple things which take no more than 10-20 minutes each, but will effect longer-term change in the way you use and view credit. Alot of this isn't visible from the front-end yet, but we'll be adding more material as times goes on.
Yeah, there isn't a very good interface between the events passed to Javascript and IMEs yet... and this causes the headaches with non US/EU input. I had the hidden text field method down as a last ditch workaround.

I do plan on learning as much as possible about the current attempts to do similar projects. But I feel that the current options do not adopt enough of a "get out of the way" approach for me. I'm hoping to write an alternative for those who don't want a browser based eclipse. I've been poking at WebGL for this and I really do think it can help... but I also understand that I may be eating my words here shortly.

Thanks!
Not only that, but you're gonna be crushed by debt and won't be starting making money until you're in your mid 30s. Programmers come out way, way ahead once you consider the lost opportunity and cost of all those extra years doctors spend in school.
I wouldn't call news stories "long form content".
Really? I never ever think about patents. Ever (except when reading HN). It's just not a real day to day issue.
For Chrome, see the extension at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbd...

I agree with geius that I'd rather have some indication of what I've blocked. I like the Murdoch blocker (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/moepiacmhnmbiilhpo...) for that reason - it'll tell you why it's blocked you from a site, and gives you the option to whitelist it.
it actually already has traction, so at what point does it make sense to separate (if ever) ?
How are people doing on this? 100%?
A tool to help me blog more
This is something I built one night to convince myself to post more often to my blog. Hopefully, this will be useful to someone.
Billionaires’ Rise Aids India, and the Favor Is Returned
I doubt the best salaries are in the valley. Too many people still trying to get rich off of stock options. If I were going to try to maximize my base salary I'd move to NYC and work for a hedge fund.
I particularly like the Extendable with JavaScript part.

A minimalist kernel implementing the Js API, the windows (with a possibility to split them), the plugin and a theme system is the way to go IMO.

No cloud, no extra feature. Everything else can then be added by plugins. Git integration with github? No problem. Backup with DropBox? No problem. Syntax Highlighting? Np.

It'd be particularly awesome with the plugin system.. if you can browse and see new addons/plugins. Same with the theme.. where anyone could upload their tweaked theme. :)

I can't wait for something like this to exist..

(let x (new awesome-web-based-editor)
(while (not (ready? x))
(sleep)))
You want a global internet filter bubble then?
The idea is that if a company wants to reserve the right to customize, commercialize and close the code they can... but only by supporting the completely open version first.
I would _love_ to be able to do this myself. Extensive travelling is actually probably one of my highest goals in life and being able to support myself as a developer through that would be _so_ awesome. Totally down for helping you build this network if you're lookin' for it and there's interest.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. For what it's worth, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment on leaving your dog with someone that you've built a relationship with over time, rather than a stranger. Or even more pointedly, leaving your dog with someone you know, and someone that knows your dog, v. leaving them with a "professional."
Hook.io - a full featured i/o framework for node.js which aims to take on erlang
I like it. But it looks like it re-compiles the template every time. Or am I reading it wrong?
That is a very interesting point you make about assumptions being applied to "both" genders. In particular, that advertising competition is considered to be a way to attract manly men to a tech startup. Is this really the best approach? Sure, the high school football player is interested in bashing in the head of his competition and causing them pain. Advertising for those competitive traits are undoubtedly an excellent approach to attracting the most sociopathic used car salesmen and wall street traders for who the customer is an enemy to be bilked.

But is that criteria what best motivates inventors and designers as well?

Myself, I design things because I like to make cool stuff for people to use and I am really good at it. I spend a lot of time thinking about and experimenting with usability. I have found that an interest in making cool useful things is something that brilliant talented designers share with me. I have yet to meet any brilliant designers who are motivated primarily by wanting to destroy their rivals.
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Huh. Maybe I need to update Chrome, because it's not working for me. Weird.

EDIT: It was just a hiccup when I checked; the problem is gone now. Thank you for pointing that out; from now on I'll use this method to search Wikipedia.
Windows 7 and Vista now support camera RAW natively
Gotcha. Also, the minimum payment that I was able to select was about $200 more than my current credit card minimum payments. I also was able to select a "how much I can pay" number that wasn't allowed:

"The payment plan and terms selected are not compatible"

That's what I get after I click "Choose this plan and start". It took me a few times to figure out why I got that error. I had to fiddle with the monthly payment to get it above a number that was "compatible".
Ask HN: Would it be possible to make a collective to stop some patent whoring?
The current system sucks. Imagine if, however, a number of companies and individuals join a collective. The legal structure can be whatever it needs to be, but essentially the only people that get sued by the collective are people outside the collective that is suing someone in the collective. I say this as a libertarian, so I'm far from a populist but enough is enough.

After a while market forces would make it unfeasible for real companies to operate outside the collective so the only people doing the suing would be complete patent trolls and then the law could be changed to sunset the existence of them.

There could even be an entrance fee that gets distributed equally to each company on a proportion of the number of their patents, furthering the financial incentive to join earlier. Not sure about this last idea though because it feels like a pyramid scheme.
"But that means that I can’t really talk to my friends about the stuff I do for my classes, which is frustrating. Sometimes, there’s a really cool idea presented in class, but it’s only cool if you already know the background information to understand it – to grasp how and why it’s cool. Trying to present enough background to explain why this concept is awesome during the course of a conversation really just doesn’t work, as they don’t get a deep enough understanding of the background to see why it’s cool and spending several minutes attempting to explain frustrates me and bores them."

As a male software developer, this frustrates me too. You just get eye-rolls and snarky replies of 'flux capacitor?'
To echo DeBuche, yes, it does.
Rather than looking for work on-site, I would try working remotely. You'll have a much bigger market to sell your skills to. Can't really help you as far as specific sites or employers go, but it seems to be fairly common.
Hacker Challenge: The Elusive "LoopPipe"
Great link I found it very readable, hope the guy does more. I intend to buy the book he recommends at the bottom as well.
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The iPhone version has this too: set Dice Mode to "Stack" to get a perfect distribution (as though you were drawing from a stack of numbered cards rather than rolling dice) and "Stack5" for a slightly less perfect one (as though 5 random cards were removed).
The way you can tell an idea's time has come is that it starts showing up everywhere. ;-)
You've already forgotten about the iPhone 4 antennae fiasco haven't you :) ? (Also the overheating problem with the earlier 3GS among other issues.)
I'd assume this is doing that, people just don't know it.
> I know because of Wikipedia's no-corporate-alliance reasons, they probably won't use Google search.

But perhaps some Googlers could volunteer their "20% time" applying their search knowledge (and relevant open-source code) to improve Wikipedia search.
Inspired by the Engadget/PBS piece[1], it seems that an open auction with a few conditions might produce the best results:

1) Winner may sell wholesale only (i.e. independent ISPs
must lease the right to offer the fiber for retail sale).

2) Lowest per bit price for leasing wins the auction
(or maybe there is a better metric?).

3) Add some type of incentive for local governments to
help build-out the last mile (or maybe such a deal
would trigger the initial auction?).

This is by no means a comprehensive list, but I think it would get us closer to better/cheaper broadband.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/why-is-european-broadband...
People who say this haven't done the math or looked at real salary numbers.

The average salary for a cardiologist is $308,000/yr.
The average salary for a software engineer is $58,000/yr.

The cardiologist makes six times as much money. Even with a 12 year head start the programmer comes out behind. Medical school debt can be paid off in 2-5 years. In addition, the cardiologist can keep practicing into her 60s whereas a programmer should plan on changing careers in his 40s.
Now that I think about it, it's really weird. I play FPSes at times, and WASD feels natural, but WASD+JKL for, say, Sega emulation feels wrong compared to ↑←↓→+ASD(/ZXC, for you crazy Japanese-targeted-game fans).
That is the goal. So much of the functionality is already present in the browser. We can use the browser's Javascript interpreter, tabs, web connectivity, etc. We just have to put these together to create the core. To answer your other post this is how 4K becomes doable... especially since this is a project I want to do so badly.
hate to do this, but... "this".

CS is one of the very few industries i've ever been been around which engages in the "i'm better than you" pissing contest, EVERY SINGLE DAY, and yet asks itself why everyone looks the same.

I really do hope that at some point, we lose our sneer and arrogance and stop thinking that we're better than everyone just because we have some kind of exclusive skill that's alien to most.
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And that you now own as little of the profits from it as they think you can survive on.
my experience:
Where I work, on my floor we are either a proportion of 50% - 50% or 40%-60% (in favor for the Girls). Hey, but this is Romania, we don't have feminist movements and so on. Different society. Even in college we are something like 40%-60% (males win here) but we don't take it as a big deal... Btw found CS girls in college that were smarter than me on some fields of this domain :), and I know where to ask if I have a question about those fields.

other answer:
Depends on the "society" although while I was in the USA everybody was blaming it... and believe me is not because of it, is because of those who like to blame it ;).

Last but not least... my girlfriend is a developer.
The article talks about Informatica as an ETL tool provider... I wouldn't agree it's the "last stage" either, ETL is critical to any (E)DW.
Tech News Is So Phenomenally Boring
is there a site where we can see this in action?
Yes, he has. In fact, most people have forgotten about these things. They were either quickly fixed or not the huge problem they were made out to be.

But, by all means, show me another smartphone that hasn't had similar user experience issues on release.
"tasty, weaponized ice cream treats" - I didn't need more convincing.
"In addition, the cardiologist can keep practicing into her 60s whereas a programmer should plan to retire or change careers in his 40s."

And from where do you find this Bullshit?
Your comment doesn't even make sense.

Look, take a few minutes and watch this. http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...

When a site gets blocked by Google, it doesn't disappear from the internet but all of a sudden it disappears to hundreds of millions of people. Poof. Gone.

If a site gets ranked lower, then it won't get as much traffic but at least its still findable. Even spammy sites deserve a chance to turn their shit around (although it almost never happens).

If I want to block a site for just me, fine. There's browser extensions that do that. However, when Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo lets you do it and then uses that data in ranking sites for other people there's a Big Filter Problem.

Or alternatively, there's a Big Fucking Problem.
Linus Torvalds' stance on "nice make":

https://lwn.net/Articles/418739/

Seriously. Nobody _ever_ does "nice make", unless they are seriously repressed beta-males (eg MIS people who get shouted at when they do system maintenance unless they hide in dark corners and don't get discovered). It just doesn't happen.

:)
I actually just heard this story over NPR Radio. It's concerning to think about how companies like this can strong-arm smaller startups. But at the same time that doesn't mean that we should hide in fear. We've got to keep on doing what we do best: developing innovative products and solutions for users everywhere. Torpedoes be damned.
I would like to add the point that even if the person is coming across as direct and undiplomatic, you should never take it personally. All it means the person has lost his/her calm but the channel of communication remains open and more importantly, the other person still cares enough to get emotional over it.

If after a few of these episodes where you keep dropping crunch-time or shit on your team and they just take it - be warned, the side effects will most likely start showing up in the quality of their work or you might be facing a situation where your people are just planning to get their bonuses and leave.

So don't ask for more constructive criticism. The fact that there is feedback coming through bodes well. In the real world where you sell stuff, your customers will just walk away instead of giving you feed back. The people who work for you or are your business partners, yeah, they can do that as well.
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Whereas today, it teaches the much more fundamental lessons that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and that top hats can go faster than cars.
Yup. SQL is from the dark ages. No wonder people are trying to abstract it away all the time.
I think that's how Intellectual Ventures was born.
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On a side note, it's ironic that mobile versions of sites are usually far less readable than regular versions, at least on my Droid X. On a regular page, I can set the zoomed-in text size to large in the settings. Mobile sites tend to make text tiny and un-zoomable, decreasing usability, which defeats the whole purpose of a mobile site!
Death Rates Jump After Getting Paid - WSJ
There's a core issue here I point out to my male colleagues, which I find to be true of myself as a female developer: as a stereotypical trait (I am generalising here, beware!) girls don't find sitting in front of a computer alone all that interesting. I personally value my personal time alone and am fairly unique in this respect (my boyfriend would love it if I wanted to hang out and work with him! But I focus best alone). So I would simply posit that changing the language to focus on the collaboration aspects appeals to more females.

I'd love to work on a team of mixed genders (that includes all known genders) - I have yet to have the pleasure. I find working in a team of hetero males can be exclusionary and exhausting, and prefer to work remotely much of the time rather than be in a room of constant male posturing (which many of you do unawares and outside of the work office I'm quite happy to enjoy watching the escapades).
C was invented at Bell Labs, which is in New Jersey.

For Scala, the article even says, "although not created in Boston".

And Logo and Scheme are dialects of Lisp.

My takeaway is that Boston is the home of LISP and APL.
Who's Investing Faster -- DST or Andreessen Horowitz?
I had no idea what looks like the title of his post links to an external site.
got 4/5. Got the SMT one wrong.

Isn't it true the Pentium 4 didn't have SMT? (the first ones without HT?)
Your perception is wrong. Medicine (and, especially the implementation of it) is (in many areas) changing as much as software engineering.

There is, however, stronger certification around medicine: once you have a medical license, it's pretty hard to lose it - especially through inactivity.
Anyone would be down-voted for saying this. Thank you for doing us the service of saying it.
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A little, but not really. I've learned about a number of really useful tools that I use every day now from usethis articles. Clothing is just clothing after all, but tools make my life easier and help me become a better programmer.
Comparison of svn software. SVN vs GIT vs MECURIAL vs CVS
There are a lot of opinions regarding which version control framework is the best, and can force programmers and project management teams into fierce debate.... a guide for PMs gettting started with version control.
I agree with the comments about the questionnaire being too long. 3 questions max, focusing on consumer experience. Sample questions:
1. How do you communicate w/customers? -- tick boxes with check as many as apply, with field for other
2. Where do your customers find info/bitch about you? (i.e. outside the channels you communicate with them) -- tick boxes with usual suspects and field for other
A commenter on habrahabr.ru+ noticed (http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/gdev/124990/#comment_4110999) that there are Russian black marketers buying bundles for $ 0.01 and reselling for around 50 rubles ($1.50) that, unfortunately, may drive the average price down. Supposedly, people who can't be bothered to get a credit card or Webmoney account buy from them.

I'm worried how the pay-what-you-want model accommodates this behaviour? I hope clients buying directly for a reasonable price will always outnumber the black marketers or people intentionally buying for $0.01 to cause loss, but I don't know for sure.

+ habrahabr.ru is Russian IT news blog filled in large part with content translated from Hacker News.
Ask HN: Give me recommendations to improve jsonip.com
Hey folks. I wrote http://jsonip.com a while back and lots of folks seem to find it useful. So I'd like to ask for your tips on how it might be made better to be more useful for you.

As a quick primer, jsonip.com returns your ip as either a json object, or wrapped in a jsonp callback.

Usage:

http://jsonip.com => {"ip":"your ip"}

http://jsonip.com/cb/ => cb({"ip":"your ip"});

http://jsonip.com/randomgurgltyfurt/ => randomgurgltyfurt({"ip":"your ip"});
I met a bank programmer a couple of years ago. He was driving a taxi. Apparently when his bank got bought by another bank, they laid off the whole IT department.
Handheld Console Made Out of an old N64
>This is what we see by default. Some people like it, most don’t. (from maxvoltar, on the default webkit rendering (subpixel-antialiased))

Unsubstantiated claim is unsubstantiated. I, for one, find that I can read more quickly with OSX-style text rendering, and efficiency matters to me.

As to the "high contrast movement" OP, I find the lower contrast easier on my eyes. And I have friends who have to wear sunglasses to read books / computer screens because of the high contrast. It's a horse apiece.
You assume we have to pay the seniors.

Social security and medicare are both insurance funds. You pay in now to get benefits later.

The current generation of seniors going into retirement spent all their retirement before they retired. They elected the politicians who bankrupted social security through generous tax cuts and costly wars.

The solution isn't an end to social security. The solution is a temporary reduction in benefits for the baby boomers.

That would be fiscal responsibility.
I would add that in my experience, men who routinely engage in this kind of pissing contest are more likely to come across as "sexist pigs" in some sense. I've been in social situations where the signal was "you can't run with the big dogs, you are just a girl". Having good computer skills does not guarantee that one has the social savvy necessary to find the right way to deal with that kind of message.

In fact, if "typical" girl programmers are anything like your stereotypical boy programmers, it may be that they are highly likely to lack such skills. There have been a number of articles posted to HN where women in the industry complain about these sorts of issues (while I read between the lines and wonder how she could have done something so dumb given the context) and I do kind of get the impression that most women really don't know how to effectively deal with stuff that may not really be intended as sexist but is frequently just kind of juvenile (for lack of a better word).
Can you explain what you mean by male posturing?
4/5? You mean you got one wrong or 3 wrong. There are 7 questions in total.

Pentium 4 had SMT. SMT == HT. Saying that SMT wasn't there in parts without HT is a bit circular.
so what is it, then?