skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last comment: this has long ago passed the point of diminishing returns.

I originally wrote "intellectually dishonest" mostly out of habit. It's a phrase I like. But then I looked at it and realized that was way too harsh of a statement. Buffett is not lying here. He's just a nice old man (probably a little on the cranky side) who wants to play at politics a bit.

I don't think there was any subterfuge or lying at all going on. What I think is that he could have used a good editor, but probably when you are worth 3 kazillion dollars it's tough to get somebody to take you out to the woodshed and tell you to tighten up your piece, make a thesis, and then support it. I have structural problems with the article, not concerns about the honesty of the author.
I was thinking about the cumulative 10-year deficit. I swear I've heard the number $14.6 trillion somewhere, but maybe I'm thinking of the debt. At any rate, I wasn't that far off. From the link you gave:

By 2021, the budget deficit would be about double the baseline projection, and with cumulative deficits totaling nearly $12 trillion over the 2012–2021 period, debt held by the public would reach 97 percent of GDP, the highest level since 1946.

Adding in this year's deficit, it comes out to $13.5 trillion.
Hi everyone. I'm the main person behind this event so feel free to ping me with questions or comments. It's going to be awesome.

(something must have killed the earlier announcement? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888229)
This guy is a real hero. The work of going into such neighborhoods and providing services is a highly commendable one. Even if these kids are probably going to destroy this computer, there might be that one kid in some home like this who actually starts using computers the way they must be. Reaching out to such people is the best thing that can happen to them in the long run.
I'm also irritated by the inaccuracy of that attitude, which is why I never expressed it. Of course genetics are a big deal. They just aren't the only thing, which was the subject at hand.
>>> "Don’t be afraid to compile code and modify it"

I was a bit thrown by this advice. Are there folks out there that are afraid to compile code and modify it?
I wouldn't even argue that the kid is the problem, but rather that the kid's behavior is symptomatic of a completely dysfunctional family.

At a certain age, responsibility starts shifting to the individual, but a 6 year old can hardly be considered the heart of the problem here. How to fix the deeper problem (having a mother that doesn't/is unable to care for her children) will always be an unsolved problem, but the best solutions I have seen so far involve beefing up our public school system so that the kids have a place that they can be given individualized attention.
These sound like reasons for Apple not to do retail stores. :)

In fact, I think Apple has lots of room to win in these areas. From TFA, think how much waste there is in cell implementations for legacy/interop-- not to mention carrier overhead-- that could be eliminated if Apple made every single device on the network?

Apple is full-stack from today's perspective. What if tomorrow's "stack" includes the towers and the complete customer billing relationship? People might say this was an obvious step along the road to e-wallet phones.

I agree this feels a little far fetched. But so did AAPL becoming the world's largest company, and switch to x86, before the fact... :)
I had the rare opportunity to speak with Mr. Raymond Chen and Mr. Larry Osterman last week. Both were extremely down-to-earth and full of enthusiasm for windows 8. I mean, this product has 1 billion users across the world and for a lot of people, this will be the first computing experience. I am truly excited about this windows release.

Disclaimer : MSFT Intern but I haven't worked on / don't work on Win 8.
>They are coherent and they have arguments, they deserve a response and not just blind attacks.

The OP is a good example of this. Asymco's wrong many times and whenever it's wrong it's seems to have erred on the side of Apple. Still, the headlines draw interest and page views. What does that tell you?

For example, lets take this post. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/15/apple-samsung-im...

If it was Google or MS instead of Apple there, Gruber would be screaming bloody murder about wilful manipulation of the law to further their ends and harm Apple's ascendancy. Am I wrong?

Since it is Apple, it is just 'one image' and 'sloppy lawyering'. Very predictable even before you read it. This is the opinion that we are all supposed to respect?

It's called spin, or a very biased opinion that needs to be taken with a spoon of salt. It's as close to Apple PR as you can get, aimed at a very specific audience.
The terrible numbers that Groupon doesn’t want you to focus on
Allocate GPU usage on Mac with gfxCardStatus
Stealing Trademark Traffic aka Black Hat PPC
This is great! I'm currently working on a small web editor called anyfnwhere. In development at the moment.

check https://github.com/keyle/anyfnwhere
Vancouver has a lot of catch up to do with other cities in US.
I'm glad to see it's heading in the right direction though.
Yes, we have a thriving start up community in here, everyone is excited about YC spirit !!! We need u guys to be here in London !!
Was it your first run barefooted? Did you get sore calves?
I disagree - we're talking about at least an order of magnitude difference in "sought after". The Droid, Evo 4G, and now the Galaxy 2 are all highly sought after phones... in the smartphone enthusiast community.

Which at the end of the day is just a subset of the "gadget/tech enthusiast" community, which is a tiny subset even then of the greater population.

The cachet and demand of the Evo 4G to, say, the iPhone, or BlackBerry during its heyday, are completely different.
Gruber generally never screams bloody murder. You also should never read him expecting an unbiased opinion of Google. That’s not the value proposition and it never was.

It’s very weird what you expect of Gruber. It just doesn’t make any sense.
The slogan was never "do no evil"; it was "don't be evil", which is a considerably lower bar. "Do no evil" is an anti-Google propaganda slogan invented by Google-haters.

Their interpretation of "Don't be evil" has never prevented them from writing proprietary software.
A golden decade for defense companies is ending
I flagged this, due to your inflammatory topic, which has nothing to do with the linked post. The linked post describes how Windows Phone developers can submit Mango-ready apps.

It has nothing to do with fragmentation and everything to do with preparing for the next major Windows Phone upgrade.
You Don’t Truly Understand It Until You Think It’s Obvious
That's what China tried 20-some years ago.
What about Paris? I'm hearing from neutral sources (not me, I'm biased) that Paris is ahead of London in terms of startups. I actually was surprised to hear that.

I understand that the language barrier can be stressful for Americans. London is therefore the default choice.
What does this using buy you over using Celery?
So basically, Anonymous gets to shut down Congress all the time for no good reason.
Study Finds Android App-makers Careless With Some Data
I don't know...

I like that you're trying to address the problem, but I think this points to another problem, which is the core issue of whether you actually care about your employees' success as much as you do about the company.

On a grand level, no, of course not, but at the micro level, you should.

You want people to stay, even though they're considering moving on to form something of their own. You want them to feel like they are 37 lifers.

Obviously, you want some to graduate and move on to bigger things too. These types are also valuable.

All in all, it doesn't feel to me like you care about your employees, especially when one founder is busy in LA and/or racing around in expensive cars, and the other is writing posts like this.

If I were an employee and presented with a plan like this, I wouldn't feel the need to invest in anything more than a paycheck, and while that's great for many companies, that doesn't seem right for one, like 37 Signals, that once was cutting edge.

I want something I can sink my teeth into, and feel like I'm going somewhere. I have a feeling many other HN'ers feel the same. This won't attract people like that, or get them to stay, but maybe those aren't the type of people you want?
Anything that needs C-like levels of performance in Ruby can be implemented in C. The C Ruby API is pretty straightforward. :)
Just learn vim.
Actually, Ford never said that.[1][2]

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747106

[2] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819549
awesome, thank you. now if only we could do split panes...
Anonymous Group is on Operation Britain Now
You know. The interesting thing here is; I had a Droid via work when it came out (and it was a beast). I also got my personal contract iPhone 3GS the same time.

Thew droid felt defunct somewhere in the middle of last year (and thus I upgraded), but my iPhone still feels awesome, even though I know positively that I am holding out an upgrade till iPhone 5 in a few months.

I've never really considered it from that perspective before... but nevertheless interesting. There is possibly something there that Android needs to look into.
It may not be what he intended but that how's the term is in usage.

Technical debt also means making a mess. Because you were trying to get it out the door asap. Or you didn't really understand the paradigms of the language you were using. Or the framework. Or because that part of the system was written by someone who's not a very good programmer. Or because requirements changes and you didn't have time to fix it properly as the db schema change was too massive to do all at once. Or one of the many other reasons.

Because so many people use it that way, that's the definition now.

tbh I have no idea what Uncle Bob's talking about in that blog post, it didn't make much sense to me and he really seemed to be grasping at straws with that example.

You use a crappy old paradigm (frames) because you're not good enough at the new one (ajax) as no-one really knows what to do or what works best and there are no established patterns to copy yet. Why you then need more tests or more pairing when the code's simpler and the paradigm's known to everyone doesn't ring true to me at all.

These days of course the opposite is probably true of that example.
It doesn't matter - Joyent doesn't own the copyright for Solaris so nothing that they do can change the licencing conditions for Solaris itself.

You can write GPL'ed device drivers for Windows - doesn't make Windows GPL.
Yes, actual fluid dynamics are extremely slow and not needed just for the visuals.

Read this seminal paper for the details:

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/pdf/...

Sample quote:

We believe that a better alternative is to use the physics of fluid flows which have been
developed since the time of Euler, Navier and Stokes (from the 1750’s to the 1850’s). These
developments have led to the so-called Navier-Stokes Equations, a precise mathematical
model for most fluid flows occurring in Nature. These equations, however, only admit analytical
solutions in very simple cases. No progress was therefore made until the 1950’s when
researchers started to use computers and develop numerical algorithms to solve the
equations. In general, these algorithms strive for accuracy and are fairly complex and time
consuming. This is because the applications that require these solvers have to be physically
accurate. It is obviously crucial that the stresses and drag on an airplane or a bridge are
calculated precisely.

In computer graphics and in games on the other hand what matters most is that the
simulations both look convincing and are fast. In addition it is important that the solvers aren’t
too complex so that they can be implemented on standard PCs, game consoles or PDAs. In
this paper we present a set of algorithms which meet these requirements. To achieve these
goals we depart from conventional wisdom in computational physics and develop algorithms
custom tailored for creating visual effects. Unlike physically accurate solvers which have strict
bounds on their time steps, our algorithms are stable, and never “blow up.”
Notably absent: Yahoo!
Throw a novice Ubuntu user into a FreeBSD system, and tell him to install a port, and 9 times out of 10 they'll freak out once they see GCC output on the screen.

Nothing against Ubuntu (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Arch, et. al.), but source compilation is something they all have been letting their users avoid for a long time. The target audience is different.
this would be spot on if it handled the drawer nicely and the opening of folders. Mind it seems that Sublime Text 2 also poorly handles new files opened when the app is fullscreen. A proper implementation would once again make TextMate unbeatable on OS X.

Glad it's there in some way or another though. Using fullscreen a lot more than I thought I ever would.
No cite for my specific claim, but I found this Engadget article claiming MS's Entertainment & Devices Division (read: Xbox) was $80 million in the black in 2008:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/xbox-goes-profitable-almo...

Note that I got the write-down year wrong--it was 2007.
Doesn't that miss the point of giving your employees incentive to work "above and beyond", to the benefit of the company and all? It's a good thing they don't tell the employees, cuz what would an employee want with worthless "BIG IF" points?
Same here, switched to Sublime and haven't looked back. Not happy with the Textmate2 situation
Lessons learned at startup weekend
buying Palm for $1billion seems like a steal.
I think everyone needs to differentiate language, ruby, from implementation, aka the standard mri vm.

The stock mri vm has a gil, and historically, with 1.8, a very naive iterpreter+garbage collector. 1.9.x helps with this, but still suffers performancewise unless you get into massive object creation/etc...

The difference is alternative implementations like jruby+rubinius can drastically shave time off of computation. Much like the difference of CPython to pypy. If however you're overly worried about computational speed and need to have the fastest possible speed bar none, then do the right thing and use c++/java/c. But for exploratory learning or non-time critical computation, why not use a language like Ruby or Python or Lua or whatever?
I think you're splitting hairs in the difference between "do no evil" and "don't be evil", and I suspect the altering of the phrase was due to an indifference to your level of specificity before it was due to any sort of anti-Google malice.
Really cool to see Vancouver jump on the start up bandwagon. We applied hoping for just the mentorship chunk, but I think they were looking for participants for the whole she-bang.

Would be interested to find a mentorship/marketing knowledge "incubator" for an already established corp.
Hard to know whether they aren't the best tool for the job without at least familiarizing yourself with some alternatives.
Ahmed, anyone can come up with ideas, but fewer people execute on those ideas. Even fewer people end up being successful from those executions.

If you think you have good ideas, you should execute on them in whatever way you can. You will never have a 100% unique product without competitors, so don't worry about anything other than what your product does for its users.

Its never too late to found a startup or project, there are always opportunities as long as technology changes.
In America. I wonder about the situation in other legal systems.
Digital Chocolate Scoops Up Game Publisher Sandlot Games
So?

Slashdot, news.yc, reddit, fark or digg aren't exactly the most important of my accounts. I sure wouldn't want my bank to leave me logged in by default, but I find the rest of my accounts to be near worthless.
Why do I get adverts when I search if they are totally separate? It's all connected to the adverts, surely. That's the driving force for the company isn't it?
MediaNews launches online paywall at 23 newspapers
This article never mentions the demographic makeup of the test group that was used for this research. I think thats a critical missing piece of information.

I wonder if this holds true for a the millennials, who are brilliant at multitasking with listening to music, texting and also conversing at the same time.
IE9 Wins Malware Blocking Shootout
Have you tried using Missing Drawer Plugin for TM? I updated my post with details.
Edward De Bono has long said that "Every valuable creative idea will always be logical in hindsight."

Also "What is obvious in hindsight may be invisible in foresight."

http://www.edwdebono.com/msg19k.htm
That actually seems reasonable to me. There's no easy way to swap a car out of the train in-station, and it would be next to impossible to keep everyone out of one of the cars in the train. Would probably be better if they had some way of quickly locking the door closed, but the trains don't seem to have that feature.
I started out with a good knowledge of HTML/CSS, learned the basic ropes of javascript to meet my needs, and then dove into Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I'm really happy to have chosen that path, as with RoR you can build cool functioning prototypes without tons of experience (e.g. for me a month or two of casual learning). RoR is also pretty common in the start up world, and just knowing the ropes of it can be a great advantage even just as a designer.

I'm not sure what you're plans are for your year off, but I would live in a city with lots of companies/industries and activities that interest you. Not everyone feels this way, but the vibes of being in a big city aren't really matched anywhere else
Some more still:

"May I mambo dogface on the banana patch?"

"My hovercraft is full of eels"

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"

It turns out that this - "things I've never heard class of person X say" rhetorical device is a fine way to lend credence to what would otherwise be a simple collection of one-line assertions about how to do startups.

Not saying that I agree or disagree with many of the sentiments here, just that this is a very back-door way of adding authority to a bunch of statements. In the case of Jason Cohen, I'd pay attention if he just made the statements flat based on his own experience.
Works well with the missing drawer plugin: https://github.com/downloads/jezdez/textmate-missingdrawer/M...
Given that Android was such a complete and utter ripoff of iOS I don't think a couple of features is much to point out. Lets put it in perspective here.

I think Android's great, but seriously, come on. There's homage and there's 'shit, touch phones rock, we need to completely copy iOS now!'. Which is exactly what Google did.
I'd be interested in exploring the ascetic dimension of procrastination.

That may ring the wrong religious bells but the problem of procrastination in the West was first of all, and there's a lot of documentation surrounding this, a religious problem. Saint Jerome is the first to directly speak of idleness but it's even there in Paul's letters: How do you secure a base of pagans for your Judaic sect in a world swimming with very similar cults and mythologies? Keep em busy with your sect.

This is related to the consistent demand for communal surveillance stretching throgh all the church fathers; everyone should make sure everyone else is busy being faithful. So I wonder how and at what point that discussion of procrastination transforms into the modern formulation?
The thing that I was asserting would draw attention from anti-trust regulators is paying billions for a cell-phone manufacturer only to shut it down.
Boss gets those few million because they took the initial risk, provided the jobs, etc. Especially in this period of history, there is nothing stopping an employee from starting up their own venture and trying to hit the home run.
Whoa, Digg in 2006.
>What was his pitch to Gates when seeking Microsoft's investment into Apple?

Something to the effect of: "you invest some $$ and we will discontinue the multi-billion dollar lawsuit we're pursuing against you - win, win!"
If you could find the time to appear at that event, it may be more productive it coincide with the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event held in November, or FOWA London on 3-5th Oct, both of which you have presented at in the past.
What a bizarre packaging choice: bash/curl command to pull a shell script to pull and compile a github project which compiles and installs a Text Mate plugin.

Yikes.
I remember reading something by Erik Meijer where he states he also thinks it is an unfortunate name. I think he suggested coSQL, and gave an interesting perspective on the relationship between SQL and noSQL.

This was the article: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-...
And this time, people are bringing their own femtocells!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

(I don't in fact know if anyone is. But they should! Most US carriers offer femtocells for home broadband users that could presumably, with some work, run off batteries and relay traffic up the escalators to a sympathetic ground-level uplink.)
I think both are kind of a touch based ripoff of this: http://img.tfd.com/cde/_PROGMAN.GIF

Only WP7 seems to bring something really new to the mobile UI table.
Our sound designers are using excel with some macros to sort out our sound assets in the game - very useful to them, and very concise representation of data for them.
There's been a FreeBSD KVM port for years too, albeit more a proof of concept than anything: http://retis.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/
And don't even start to look at court proceedings in Germany, where people are astonished that it's nothing like in the dubbed American shows they watch.
rvm and pow.cx also do this.
In my experience, BART trains run very regularly, usually on the exact posted schedule. They have unimpeded tracks, so except for mechanical problems and sabotage, they are very reliable. SF MUNI busses and light rail, on the other hand, can be very slow and random, at the mercy of street traffic for most of the routes.
They would have preferred to go this route in the beginning. I think the main reason at the time for avoiding DOM was actually performance -- probably all the various improvements in browsers since then have changed the situation.
After the startup succeeded or before? :-)
I'm no expert, but from what I've seen, both medical and financial regulation aren't nearly as detailed and absurd as IT-Risk/Compliance make them out to be. They don't say that you can't host with AWS (or AWS private cloud), but both those departments will insist that you can't.

It really comes down to being an unknown and it being easier (and perceived as safer) to "just say no". It isn't the regulation that I dislike, it's that said regulations are used to keep large organizations in the stone age. And, to be honest, from what I've observed, it really comes down to people not wanting to learn/work and having a powerful excuse (REGULATIONS!!) to avoid doing so.
I really like the simplicity and overall fairness of the plan.

The only thing I wouldn't like (and it could very well be that way for technical reasons[1]) is the part where only current employees get a part of it. I understand the idea behind that but if someone were to do fantastic work for them for over 5 years and leave 6 months before Jason Fried and DHH change their mind about selling, that employee might feel stiffed.

Instead, I could see a system where you earn units while you work there and lose them for the time you don't work with them, at the same or different rate. Say you earn 1 unit per year worked but lose 2+ per year non-worked.

But, you know what? It's their company, they do it however they want to :) and considering they have no obligations to put that in place, it's hard to argue.

[1] e.g. maybe it's a pain to pay somebody anything once they're not on the payroll…
don't forget the 'j.mp' URL-shortener!