skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commissiondomination.com review
You can have your contribution factored into all three operating systems, apparently.
http://www.twilio.com/help/lion-tamer
I hope you're right. I should have bought directly from Pragmatic but the convenience of Amazon won out.

ps: congratulations on the book
Cost vs Performance Analysis of the current Mac lineup
I'll take my visible 2D batteries for 24wH any day. :D
"This is mostly about the property-auction rule, which I can confirm that nobody ever knows about."

And still no one knows about it, because it was never explained in that article either.

For the curious: If the player lands on an unowned property, whether street, railroad, or utility, he can buy the property for its listed purchase price. If he declines this purchase, the property is auctioned off by the bank to the highest bidder.
The iOS and Android browsers have laughable HTML5 support. On paper they may seem OK, but implementations are highly buggy at best. (Speaking from the perspective as an HTML5 game dev.)

WP7 might be the first to have a good default browser for HTML5, and that kind of dumbfounds me. Get on the ball, Apple and Google. I know it's in your best interests to keep the more powerful stuff out of your mobile browsers, but the sooner the better.
Shameless self promotion - I'm the author of VueScan Mobile which will let you scan to your iPhone/iPad using WiFi printer/scanners from Epson/HP/Canon. I've been using this for awhile to scan all of those random forms I seem to accumulate and save them in Evernote. I especially love that evernote OCR's and indexes all of the documents so that I can search through every document I have scanned.
Always excited to see another Humble Bundle. I purchased right away and gave a greater proportion to Wolfire in hopes of encouraging further bundles sooner (not that I paid that much, but I don't have that much money right now :\). The Linux support is what makes this such a happy deal for me.
It's sor tof happening (not the tech part). I dated a nurse practitioner for a while, and the medical industry is putting more and more responsibility into their hands to save money.
Interesting that you mention the sign out button; it's in the same place for all the other Google products (except YouTube). Did you sign up for a gmail account just to get on +?
If the concepts of queuing theory and attrition are familiar to you, then you won't be surprised at the efficiency of Canadian health care. Providing fewer services is cheaper, and the resultant long queues (months, sometimes years) results automatically in fewer critically ill people left to serve, and hence more savings.

I've lost multiple loved ones to precisely this "feature", and have gained a sister that almost certainly would have died in the queue -- because she happened to be studying in the US when she fell ill.

I think I personally prefer the risk, and choice, presented by a medical system with (expensive) oversupply.
More to the point, medicine is portable because people need doctors everywhere. You can practice medicine in New York just as well as you can practice medicine in Ouray. Further, barring highly specialized fields (e.g. pediatric oncology, transplantation surgery), the work you'll be doing will be more or less similar and available wherever you go. Software just doesn't offer that.

Most of the places I've seen that advertise telecommuting are really only paying lip service to the idea that where you develop software simply doesn't matter all that much. You see places that say you can work from home one day a week, and call that "remote work." There are some companies that acknowledge this fact, and are structured for true remote work, but software engineers as a class are far more tied to location than doctors are.
Oh, didn't think about that. Just assumed people who would use this already use a tweet button and are interested in more statistical information regarding the people that tweet about their page.
You're not wrong, but it's a touchy subject. Gender issues are always tinged with "discrimination" overtones.

And, just to be clear, there is _plenty_ of discrimination and bias against women. But that shouldn't detract from the fact that you're pointing out a major outlier in their data.

Unfortunately, without knowing the test, it's hard to even guess what happened there. Is it focusing on syntactic vs. semantical correctness? Does it require deep specialist knowledge, or broad generalist knowledge? How is it graded?

Or is it simply a function of the tiny sample size?

Without pointing out what you conclude from that data, people will infer what you concluded. And since it's a loaded subject, they will often arrive at "what a misogynist jerk" without ever knowing what you were trying to say.

Corollary: When pointing out data on a loaded subject, it might be beneficial to point out what you conclude, and why. At least that way, only one of the two factions can flame you ;)

(Disclaimer: I am a woman, so I obviously disagree with the "women can't code theory". I'd still love to find out _why_ women are filtered out by that test so disproportionately, simply because it might hold clues as to why women are not interested in CS)
Please direct me to a common reading experience that does not happen on a computer screen that does not use pagination.
Go Frank!
Choose a developer, not a CMS
I do - but having my email embedded into a part of the file that I'm not going to see while I'm regularly using the file isn't a problem. I'm not distributing, and I don't mind that the file's identified to me. Having my email on every single page of the ebook I'm reading is a waste of space that only serves to frustrate me - why is my email there? How does having my email there improve the reading experience? It doesn't.

It might not be as intrusive as annoying DRM, but it still makes reading my ebooks frustrating.
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BoardGameGeek is an excellent source.

I've been on there for more than 6 years [1] and it really is an example of a well targeted niche web app.

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[1]: http://boardgamegeek.com/user/Tulkas
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

-- Linus Torvalds
Why OS X Lion’s full-screen mode doesn’t replace Quiet
This is great feedback, thank you.
It is VERY hard to believe that you are going to leave systems admin, security, performance tuning, on-call, etc to either consultants or developers. There will be a role for high level ops people in the future -- I hope ;) Many aspects of IT will become redundant but someone still needs to wrangle these VMs, manage the overall security picture, and fight fires.
Mick Gill's Tumblr, Microsoft Reader: Enjoy a personal, portable library
I think Google+ is the glue to connect all of google services (next to search). Imagine Mail, Photos, Music, YouTube just tied together in one place. It's not about SEO.
Agreed. Copyrighted content delivered solely via HTML5 has a long way to go. Proprietary runtimes controlled by large companies with DRM technology are currently the safest method (for copyright holders) to deliver that content to a paying audience.
I never really played a game of Monopoly where the person who landed somewhere didn't buy whatever they could. And it never worked out badly for them either. YOu not only make income from it, but block people from making money or getting monopolies (if you don't get a monopoly yourself).

There are something like 100 board games out there that are a lot better than Monopoly.
There's a fine line from shielding people from crap, and shielding people from reality. In my experience, the latter happens way too much.

So I prefer to shield people from having to deal with the crap directly, but I definitely inform them about said crap, and how what they do can help me keep the crap at arms length.
tl;dr -- Mozilla thinks it's a good idea to write an operating system in Javascript.
Keyless Home Entry
So glad you use Reeder in your example ... I bought the Reeder app on Sunday and the low contrast thing really put me off (among other things). The app looks really sexy, but sitting there reading tons of articles when you're struggling with the low contrast headlines, can get tiring.
I've been self employed for my entire adult life, and have not seen a doctor since I was under 18, which was a long time ago. I can't afford insurance, which is very expensive when you're not part of some large pool, and by the same token, can't afford retail, a la carte health care, which is extremely expensive if you don't have insurance (to the tune of 5-30 times as much as insurers pay for a service).

I'd take waiting months or years over a choice between no health care or extensive debt/bankruptcy.

If I was in the country illegally, or had no assets or desire for future credit, I could go to an emergency room and receive plenty of services without a need to pay a cent. As a law abiding, legal citizen with moderate assets, my options are very limited in the US. In all directions regarding healthcare, there is an absurd subsystem seemingly designed to require that one works for a large corporation which provides health benefits.
This is an interesting point, especially considering they specifically mentioned their lack of a marketing plan. Somebody got on the phone/plane at some point, or otherwise utilized existing connections. I took a screenshot[1] of the results (it appears they launched in mid-June), and most startups I've seen will kill for that kind of covdedrage.

[1]http://i51.tinypic.com/2d7bqcj.png
Also libssl098 from AUR. If anyone is not doing it already, install yaourt and/or aurget, they make AUR packages much easier to install.

Note that most of these problems come from a closed-source application A) being linked against old versions of stuff and B) not using statically-linked libraries. I know that statically-linked libs are widely hated but at least where you know newer versions break compatibility, you should include static libs if your app is closed source. Of course, an open app can be rebuilt and/or tweaked as necessary so static libraries aren't needed there.

The one thing that would make HIB more exciting would be an immediate release of source for all games involved. I know many participants in HIB1 did this after HIB2, but that's not the same thing.

EDIT: Oh, and it appears Crayon Physics Deluxe must be launched by ./launcher, NOT ./crayon.

These installation issues will go away as quickly as someone puts a PKGBUILD in AUR. :D
Just navigate to chrome://flags/ and you can enable it there along with many other experimental options.
As someone who doesn't know too much about this kind of stuff, this seems rather awesome.
"eBay has also counter-sued, however I am not sure how that effects how we can respond"

Contact eBay.
Great idea - I just don't understand why this needs a different/proprietary button in its implementation.

Surely this is just a case of analyzing twitter users who mentions your url (or any url with your domain, even), and then ranking them by Klout (or just follower score)?

(This would then pick up tweets that don't use a button, too.)

Point is, that is a backend process, why should I change my site's buttons?
Come on, "changing genetic makeup" != "reformed along the lines of current mid-eastern muslim nations".
I was thinking the same thing as you, makes sense now.
At this point I really don't know what to reply- I really don't understand how on earth you'd read the comment I posted and interpret it as "Apple should scrap Mobile Webkit". You seem to have interpreted my comments to be the exact opposite of what I was actually saying. How does "I think Apple are holding back HTML5" (my original comment) end up meaning "I want Apple to remove HTML5 features from their phones"?

There is no reason why App Store apps could not be written with HTML5. It works offline. It has local storage. Apps written in such a way could work on iOS, Android, WM, WebOS... the whole lot. Yet they are not allowed in the App Store (or Android Market, etc. etc.)- this holds back HTML5. (and of course they would benefit from it- users go straight to the App Store to download apps. Offline web sites just don't have the same understanding)

I am not suggesting that the manufacturers throw out their existing native layers- there are times (3D games, etc) where they are entirely appropriate. But while they are the only option, developers are forced into walled gardens when writing apps. I can't work out how anyone would perceive that as a good thing.
I'd love to see your variation tested too but the data-driven "above average" feels much less accusatory and supportive than subjective labeling of "poor student" and "valued contributor". Makes me wonder if poor students are less valued?

Also the fine-grained payment distribution scrollbar controls make me feel empowered and better about my participation in this cause. Getting rid of them would disappoint me.

This reminds me of someone's donation button on some open source project, it was something like:

Donate [$5 — buy me a beer] [$20 — buy me dinner] [$100 — buy me a gadget]
If you have too many customers for the time available, why not increase the price?

And about the book, you can write down a somewhat detailed point-by-point walkthrough and outsource the actual writing of the book. Then sell it as an info product on your website for, say, $150 -- it is easily worth the money, which you get to keep most of and you can A/B test it like crazy.

Heck you could dictate the book while traveling and never have to write a line.
Amazon uses a custom JVM on Kindle devices and they paid a per-device licensing fee to Sun (and I assume they still do to Oracle). If I recall, this is actually how Sun used to handle their licensing; if you had a completely standards compliant implementation then you didn't have to pay licensing fees, but if you have any sort of custom VM that ran java (even if it was a strict subset or superset) you had to get them to agree to licensing terms.

Maybe I'm off base, but it seems like just because he made a statement that he was happy to see that they were going to use a java-based VM doesn't mean he didn't assume that they were going to pay licensing fees for it.
You seem to be under the impression that the difficulty of putting out a working product is something the consumer cares about. They don't.

Results are what matters, and for all too long Mozilla's results have been poor compared to Google's.
>Most IT departments are a shadow of their former selves. They’ve drastically reduced the number of tech support professionals, or outsourced the help desk entirely. They have a lot fewer administrators running around to manage the network and the servers, or they’ve outsourced much of the data center altogether.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics begs to differ:

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos306.htm

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos258.htm
Node.JS and Socket.IO online support-style chat
a) The Twitter Search API is really flakey searching for urls. Twitter is shortening tweets with their own shortener, t.co, which is screwing it all up. We thought capturing 100% of tweets was important.

b) You can use any button you want. We provide simple iframe implementations for our button and a Twitter tweet button. We also give you code to attach to any js event.
UK Plans for Human Animal Genetic Hybrids
“I think the disappearance of Flash is closer than
people think,” ABI senior analyst Mark Beccue said
in a press release accompanying the data.

This is from the mouth of someone who doesn't really understand what Flash is, apparently. HTML5 may dethrone Flash as the defacto video delivery system. But, to say HTML5 completely obliterates Flash is...kinda hyperbolic in a way.
Ask HN: Is it possible to back out of a non-compete/non-disclosure agreement?
... that I signed 10 days ago?

Curious if there are any links or resources that are on the web (with relevant code for state of CA)?
Apple can enter the streaming music market whenever they want to; that's why they bought Lala.
"There is no 'we', people act individually."

There are many 'we's," people act together and individually. Some of the ways we act together are strictly voluntary, others are coerced (tax supported activity) and we either agree and go along or disagree and go along. Some people don't go along at all in rare cases.
>There are memory bugs that have been open in bugzilla for years

As one of those who used to love Firefox (back when it was marketed as being "light and fast") and now has switched to Chrome, I think this is really where the hate towards Firefox comes from. Mozilla apparently makes enough money that they can continually increase the scope of their company, while at the same time years-old memory bugs are left to linger.

Firefox became popular precisely because they were the anti-microsoft and anti-netscape browser. They have succeeded in taking netscape's place as the slow bloated web browser.
The debate is very old. But the explosion of news coverage around the word hacker has happened in the last three years.
We had a really old version of Monopoly growing up, and the rules said something like "Players may make any agreements they wish" (the rules don't say that now). That's what real Monopoly is about in my book: deal-making rather than gambling on the dice.

For example, if one player owns all the railroads, the rent is higher for each railroad. So, a common deal would be to "give" all the railroads to a single player, and that player would then divide the greater spoils.

Similar "pool" deals could be made to collect properties without needing to hope that you got them all by luck, or making similar deals to block other players.

There are also a large number of books that talk about Monopoly strategy and even analyze it statistically.

Needless to say, with these rules the game could easily become 'contentious'!
sounds about as bad as "code smell"
Google+ in Asia [stats] - More than 500,000 users; India goes Google+ Crazy
Good job, I really like it, but I didn't understand I could use arrow keys until I came here and read comments
‘Free Culture’ Advocate May Pay High Price
I really don't mean to sound rude, but you're not reading what I'm writing and I'm honestly not sure that you understand HTML5 or the capabilities that current mobile devices have in the HTML5 front.

You can absolutely publish fully functional HTML5 apps right now and any user on any mobile platform can use them. Even more, you can make simple Web View wrapper and publish them to Market, App Store, etc. Surely, surely, you're not really sitting there saying they have to build some new manifest and packaging format to support web apps... in their NATIVE application store, right? The entire point of web apps is that you don't need the concept of an "app". The app is the webpage as it's displayed in the browser. If you want to avoid that perception issue, then use an embedded web view wrapper.

My point was that all of these functionalities and abilities are in existence RIGHT NOW in (at least) the WebKit browsers. You're acting like it's not possible now, or that it won't be in the future. My point was that your accusations imply that Apple/Google/etc will, at some point in the future, go back and remove the Location API or Local Storage APIs or future Device APIs from their browsers... (since that's the only way your accusations make any sense).

You continue to act like the native platform or native app store somehow impedes the ability to use the browser or web views, which is just either above my head or just plain wrong.
I'd be very interested in this as well...please submit to HN if this becomes a reality!
I'm so glad to see this message out there; a frustratingly small number of people are aware of the 1984(ish) peak in females in the field. My mom taught computer programming (Fortran) in a Chicago high school from 1967 until 1984, and was actually kind of surprised when I first asked her about gender balance issues in the field—they just weren't an issue then, and her classes were always more or less balanced.

But what they also were was everyone's very first exposure to a computer. Without exception, her students had never written any sort of program before, and they were recruited from good students in the math and physics classes, coming to programming with an open mind and no preconceptions. (A lot of them, girls and boys both, went into technical computer-related fields.)

The change, as has been noted elsewhere on this page, surely has to do with the introduction of computers, but my hypothesis is that it wasn't just home PCs (not in the 80s) but classroom PCs that were the problem: in a lot of places, computers in the classroom were a fad and showed up with no training of the teachers, so they sat in the back or the side, mostly unused... unless one or two of the students pestered the teacher to play with the computer, and then used the manual and/or trial and error to figure it out. Guess which students were doing that more?

But that, I think, wouldn't be enough. The knowledge should equalise after one or maybe two terms of college CS, right? But I'm pretty sure the real problem was that professors inadvertently reinforced and magnified the difference between students who'd had previous computer experience (primarily boys) and students who hadn't (of both genders). It turns out that as a teacher, it's very, very easy to look around the classroom, see that X% of the students seem to be getting something, and decide to move on. (You can't wait for 100%, usually, so it's always a judgement call.) That's fine if it's something you've taught well and only the weak students are struggling, but what if it's something you absentmindedly glossed over? Half the class understands it, so you must have covered it, right? This is very insidious, and even being aware of it is not always enough to combat it; and if the divide of "has experience" vs "no experience" partially reflects a gender divide, that divide will only get reinforced.
There are, however, three possible upsides you are did not address.

1. The experience of writing what you know down in an organized form is an excellent way of refocusing your thoughts. (OK, you do so much of that anyways that this is not an issue.)

2. An increased demand for your consulting services can result in an increased rate for you.

3. The feedback you might get on a book could make you think of things you have never thought about.
Don't Be "That" Business Guy
I like your site's readability. I also like the body font. It might be my default text font, dunno. But it seems that the lines of &lt;li&gt; elements are oddly compressed.
I agree with everything except sleeping less. If I cut my sleep by two hours every night, then I effectively lose three hours of the day to deprivation. I've tried that too many times to know it doesn't work for me. (But if it works for you, go for it.)
I've always questioned it. Reason: Webcam support.

YouTube was founded on the idea that people could record via webcam and post videos immediately with no knowledge of video files, etc.

How is HTML5 solving this problem for YouTube?
Please some citations for this claimed major genetic shift.
Gyroscope's unexplained acceleration may be due to modified inertia
The Island of Misplaced Stuff
What do you mean by 'framework based technologies'?

There are many kinds of frameworks in many languages and technologies.
curious how others here deal with the issue.
Actually, we primarily look at just the clickthrough rate on the links to determine someone's influence. Influence is highly categorical.

For example, if I tweet about tech things, I'll get many clicks since most of my followers are techies. If I tweet about horses, ... not so many clicks and therefore I have a poorer influence for "horses".

Klout and # of followers abstract away these fine-grained details that, IMO, are critically important in determining social influence.