skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hunch: The real difference between iPhone and Android Users
On a separate note, since you're a Ruby core committer, what do you think of the idea of adding CoffeeScript-ish style instance variable syntax for Ruby method definitions? Like this:

def tenderlove(@tenderness)

end
I think the lines are blurred to be honest. We don't consider ourselves a startup, but rather a project site. I guess KS does as well.
So you didn't want to fill out a form on the developer's website but you had plenty of time to come here and complain? Seriously, a minute of typing your info is too much trouble?
We have 17 hours left but looks like it will make it through.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/LenKendall/gisto-more-kn...
I had the same thought last time the Fremont center went down - and ended up moving my instance to Atlanta - turned out to be a great decision.
No, it's not. A fair bit about this sucked. I found out my linode was down from Cloudkick... tried to ssh, no go. Logged into Linode.. My dashboard says that everything's peachy and my Linode is running. I start freaking out thinking maybe I ran it out of disk space and it's thrashing so I start issuing reboot requests.. safe-mode-reboot requests, etc.. They stack up. Nothing's being processed. Can't console-in either.

Finally I contact support. They were VERY fast in answering, and when they did they pointed me at status post that said Freemont is kinda out...

WELL THEN WHY THE FUCK DOES MY DASHBOARD SAY MY INSTANCE IS RUNNING?

Lame. Oh well. The 45 minutes or whatever they were offline had another 10 minutes of strapped-CPU reboot thrashing to get through before it was back up.

Oh, and this is the third time this year at least Freemont's been down.

So yeah.. cheers for being nice, and whatever.. but I'm not suuper enamored with how much love HN gives folks for ridiculous fuck-ups followed by a "Hey guys, I'm really sorry but here's a long blog post about how our flux capacitor won't ever fail us again (until next month)" blog post.

[Edit: Yeah.. I know. Downvotes were expected. Sorry for the rant, but this little outage of theirs caused a pretty embarrassing situation with an important client. So I'm happy to trade some karma for the opportunity to say 'fuck' in all caps in a public place right now. Cheers.]

[Edit: Oh, the irony! I post a totally obnoxious comment who's valid-points-to-tantrum ratio is way off the tantrum scale... Downvotes immediately. Then I edit a little (heartfelt) apology into it, and upvotes away. This is exactly the sort of psychology that's got me at least a little bit confused and intrigued about HN, and that I was tantruming on about in the original comment.]
Do you have data that indicates that contributes to RSI?

Well, I have horrendous neck and shoulder problems from years of sitting improperly. I had no issues whatsoever for decades of uber-nerdy computing, then blammo, I went from, "my neck seems tense" to "my left index finger is numb and I can't sit at a computer for more than an hour" in a couple of months. An ex, who had previously been a massage therapist, even specifically warned me that I had problems in the upper back area, but since I felt no discomfort I ignored her.

Here's the really bothersome part: while this awful neck/back injury was developing, things that were terrible for me actually felt good. For example, having one leg crossed over the other, left arm on my knee, slouching forward with my chin resting on my hand. It felt like a great neck stretch but, wow, was it ever demolishing my neck!

As for RSI with regards to the wrist and hands, I don't see how proper posture could exacerbate wrist pain. If it does, I would suspect that you need to examine other factors, like keyboard height and hand placement width (e.g. my Kinesis puts my hands much further apart than a standard keyboard, which makes a huge difference in wrist pain).

By the way, did you know that modern shirts are actually cut differently than decades past, because the average person's shoulders have rotated significantly forward? If you try to maintain posture in a typical, modern shirt, you'll have bunching in weird places because it's not cut for that!
He had a minute to come here and offer some astute advice that has the potential to improve the developer's bottom line.
If you're looking for other nice and useful little Mac keyboard command utilities, I implemented shake to undo: http://www.natestedman.com/post/shake-to-undo-for-mac-os-x/
Now Easy to Convert Websites Into Mobile Quickly: Mobilize.js
I am assuming you get a new static IP when you move datacenters?
The interesting part of this article is the "contingent commitment facility"... kind of like Kickstarter for new jobs. Or maybe more like the opposite of mutually-assured destruction?
I think you're being way too optimistic. I'm guessing about 5% of sign-ups will ever actually follow the course once it starts, and of those, I'm guessing less than 5% of those people will complete the course.
A one time complaint is much better than having to fill out the same information thousands of times when I buy new software.

I much prefer the App Store these days when it comes to purchasing software.
Did you read all the way to the end of TFA?
Lion is definitely on the way to fixing this.
I've used vertical mouse (www.evoluent.com) for years now at work and it is great. It's cost per hour must be down in the 1c range.

It feels much more natural on my wrist than one in the normal orientation ... and its always amusing to see people try to use it for something.
Yes, I had several minutes to give feedback of the sort that most people who had the same reaction would likely not provide. I'm a developer, I want to see other developers get paid for their work. I left this feedback here hoping that it would be beneficial to the developer (and perhaps other developers), not to bitch for the sake of bitching, as your reply presumes.
Ok well I agree with that point. It just came off really whiny.
Microsoft is irrelevant.
Apple is the big threat to Linux, on the platform that currently matters ie: on the tablet.

Microsoft has lost the next war.
When I saw the title of this submission, I immediately thought of this video. Everybody should watch this video, at least twice.

And never ever ever start work without a contract in place!

Also, the magic words to avoid the described scenario are "intellectual property will transfer on receipt of payment". The parents video covers this in more detail.
trusko,

i think a graphical programming 'language' would be best for introducing the core concepts without getting bogged down by syntax.

have you found something yet? i'm interested to know.

-p
I'm getting a download rate of anywhere from 4kb/s to 10kb/s for the download. :'(
Who cares about Textmate nowadays anyway?
It's another trick of pushing English, why not support the Kenynian language.
I believe you have problems if your response to criticism is to Google the critic and try to come up with personal information.

A typical headshot session lasts a few hours, involves several outfits, and results in several hundred photos which you progressively narrow down. I used that Flickr set to solicit feedback on potential picks.

I didn't link to that anywhere in my profile, or on my personal site. Your behavior is childish, bordering on creepy.

You should consider how this makes you look. I don't think people would take you seriously after reading this.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html In the middle of the table is an interesting chart that shows the distance that radio can be detected. You will notice that for large distance you need terawats of power and a very low band widths, fractions of a Hz. A big TV station doesnt make it out of the Solar System, while a very powerful, low bandwidth, focused source can be detected for hundreds of light years. Unless someone is pointing at us at the same time we are pointing at them, we will probably miss them.

We can detect quasars billions of light years away because they are big mothers, but really hard to modulate, and turned off by now.
When the choice is between "no smartphone" and "smartphone with suboptimal/clumsy layout", guess which one gets picked?

Not to mention that screen res and "looks good" is a specs geek problem not a real problem, anyhow. It somehow isn't stopping people (in Kenya, where I am in Australia, presumably all round the world at all economic levels) from finding these phones useful.
There's no defensible reason to host in a datacenter in an earthquake zone.
I+G Factory
Am I the only one who read through the article looking for where Binary Decision Diagrams came in?
They've done a nice job with the look of the UI, but I think the UX would probably be very poor. It doesn't seem like you'd have an intuitive understanding of where you are on the home screen, and though they have the small map in the upper right, I don't know that I would remember where I placed what and intuitively be able to get to it.

It is like they came up with the idea for the UI and then created a band-aid to help you when you're lost. Unfortunately, the entire reason you are lost is because of the original UI design.
Android Isn't Free
Yes: https://getfirebug.com/downloads/
Tried that, no dice. Hulu and the rest of the world thinks I'm in silicon valley, but google voice is more clever... somehow.
The only real competitors to Fortran on supercomputers are Chapel http://chapel.cray.com/ and X10 http://x10-lang.org/ ( the proposed language Fortress died an early death).

Toy languages like C, C++ and Java that microcomputer developers play with simply are not suitable for supercomputers. Among other problems, those joke languages simply do not scale to 64,000 heterogenous processors.
I think I am communicating it in a wrong way...I think I should change the name of the app first!!

Yes I think I need to work on my marketing vigorously
Because Google Voice is USA Only right now. I don't know why but that's the policy... and they've gone to surprising lengths to enforce it
Well, I'm using different IPs than the "home" IP we used when we signed up. Any attempts to get into google voice for me, though, say that it is not allowed outside the USA.
I can not trust Linode now.
For a brief period in 2007 it looked like hand, wrist and elbow pain was going to part of my life.

Then for an unrelated reason I went back to the gym and started deadlifting. It hasn't returned.
You could modify MythTV's commercial detection to reduce the audio instead of skipping commercials entirely. Unfortunately commercial detection in MythTV is a non-realtime post-processing step.
I agree with all those points, but especially vector smart objects and vector masks/paths; it's insane how useful they are. Those features alone are worth paying for Photoshop.
Do you know that he was actually responsible for backing up this data? This hosting plan costs less than some places charge just for maintaining backups.
I looked at vows and Jasmine and a few of the other RSpec-inspired libraries for Javascript/CoffeeScript. What I determined was that Javascript simply doesn't have the necessary features to properly replicate RSpec's syntax. For example, if you want to run tests against Internet Explorer, you can't use any method_missing or noSuchMethod magic.

I adapted bits and pieces of CoffeeScript's cakefile. It basically defines `function test(description, runTest)` and uses the builtin node assert module. Simple and got the job done:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/Cakef...
You should have just jumped on IRC prior to panicking--you would have gotten an update instantaneously. Or better yet, you could idle a detached screen in there. When I had a Linode a few months back, there were constantly 500 rather helpful people in their channel.
They seem better. Not sure if it's life changing though.
Ahh, the old 'creepy' defense. Nicely played.

You criticism of self-promotion couldn't have been further off, which pissed me off something fierce. I guess I forgot the oldest mantra in the book, however: 'haters gonna hate.'

Issue resolved and forgotten. Be well :)
Ask HN: Starting salary for new grad at a first round startup in Bay Area?
Hi everyone!
I have been searching the web for more info on this, but I haven't been able to find much. I know the average salary for a junior software developer is around $70k. However, at a completely new startup (first round funded), what is a fair (or average) salary and equity percentage compensation for a junior developer who just graduated?
I'm trying to make some tough decisions now and would really appreciate more info.
One of the things I wish I had is a "white-list" credit card. I suggested to the folks at Square (via their email suggestions, never got a response) that this might be a useful adjacent market for them.

The concept is pretty simple, use the existing payments structure which is built around credit cards and create a card that 'cannot' be used for fraud. The latter bit requires some clarification.

So in my use case, I've got vendors who I would like to establish a long term relationship, whether it's a subscription to the WSJ, or a my App Store credit card on file. I give them a credit card number and they keep it on file, I periodically buy services/products from them, and everything is great until my credit card gets compromised some how and then I have to go unwind all of these arrangements with a new card number. Even when I use a 'special' card just for subscription services (easier for me to monitor) if someone breaks into one of my vendors databases "just for the lulz" and my details get out then I still have to go change all my numbers. Its a fact of life but it is also a pain point for me.

What I would like is to have a payments system where I could give the vendor a "credit card" and they could authorize it for transactions. That would send me a text which says "they want to authorize" and if I respond appropriately the relationship is set up. Now if that number gets compromised, the person who gets it can't use it for hotel reservations or 100 pizzas because it isn't authorized to make purchases anywhere except for the vendors where I pre-established a relationship.

Basically getting my card compromised at the LOLCatz shopping cart portal doesn't give the attacker any power other than to spend more than I would expect to spend at the LOLCatz store. My life gets better, the credit card company has less fraud exposure, and I no longer have 'change the card everywhere' firedrills.

As a bonus if this credit card front end could be attached to other payment sources "behind the wall" as it were (imagine having a credit card number that had properties like a Google Voice phone number, it could draw from multiple sources to pay out.) Then I could do even better by attaching 'dubious' cards to an account with a limited withdrawal rate.

I would love to be in charge of my credit like that and I have a much better view over what is, and is not, an attempt at fraud (presuming of course that I am not the fraudster).

I wish some bright YC group somewhere would build something like this.
Looks cool but if possible remove the dependence on ARC.
actually, a simple equation proves you wrong.

deficit = revenues - expenditures
Ruby Forum is a web interface to the ruby-talk mailing list, and is not an official Ruby site.
Just my luck. I had planned to move to Dallas after last week's outage, but one of my bloggers asked me to put it off for a while. Le sigh.
It's possible that other parts of your workstation are out of place (this is something I need to figure out how to fix myself): chair height, monitor distance, chair angle, desk height, etc.
That's pretty cool. I am sure I am going to be tasked at work with researching it.
Argax~The Elixer of Memories..
Argax~ said to be a mythical elixir made to forget certain memories...
It can be the most embarrassing memory you ever had..
It can be the most painful..
Or it can even be the most happiest memory you ever had...
Slinging Pies, Living the Dream, and Running a Small Business
Why I still program (and, The Theory of the Leisure Class)
The article, and all of the responses I've seen so far, all ignore the problem that sewer water is overflowing with the prescription drugs that people have consumed. Municipal water AND many bottled water suppliers don't even bother testing for drug contamination.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/there-are-drugs-...
I did google around for several prices, but maybe they were all launch prices.

That one seems to be locked to Vodafone (tho I'm not sure if that's a problem, or how much that locking is "worth" in dollar terms).
Yes, aside from the occasional aching in the forearms and wrists the day or so after some tough pulls, working ones grip this way seems to be only for the better. Author got it right that prevention is the best approach to this kind of injury, but may have chosen the wrong method to do so.
Google+ invite links aren't showing up on Facebook news feeds
On the article it says Droid people. Do they actually mean motorola Droid users? or Android. Either way it's a really really bad article.
Seriously. Earthquakes are by far the biggest cause of outages I've seen, far more than power/UPS/cooling/network/disk issues. These silly fools!
Dude, I should have done LOTS of things (including not posting the above comment).. But the fact that their own site was saying "Everything's Clever!" really led to believe that I was the one that effed up... and I wasn't thinking clearly. My wife had literally delivered a big job to a client moments before so I was just in a hot panic to get it up.

Really, if there's a problem in Freemont.. and I'm on my dashboard for my Freemont Linode.. there ought to be a banner or something saying "Hey buddy, it's probly us this time."
401 Keg Plan
Thanks for the advice. My left wrist has had a dull ache in it for years until I realized it was caused by my hand positioning on my laptop. I got some wrist supports similar to those mentioned in the article, but they don't seem to help very much. I'll definitely take your advice and do some physical therapy.
Righthaven defendant wins second attorney’s fee award
The poignant guide was whimsical until chapter 6, at which point _why becomes the true "bipolar artist programmer". It's beautiful, in its own terrifying way.
>However, those topics are also easier to learn and understand on your own without guidance.

Yeah, by 'those topics' I meant the ones covered in the DB course, not the other two. Most aspiring programmers usually find relational theory and XML relatively easy to grok.
It is interesting to see the Friedman families multi-generation effort to create freedom. First there is the well known work of Milton Friedman, and as this article points out, his grandson Patri, is heading up the seasteading effort. Patri's father and Milton's son is David Friedman, a professor of economics, who wrote one of the great practical books about stateless societies: The Machinery of Freedom.

Whenever seasteading comes up in mainstream media, the comments are often filled with standard issue statist worries like "who will provide protection?" or "bioshock!" or "watch out for pirates!" The Machinery of Freedom covers many of the issues that a government free society would need to deal with, and offers practical solutions to dealing with them, along with historical examples of those solutions being employed.

Well worth reading for any libertarians who might read this.
The company that runs the data-center, Hurricane Electric, seems to be really dropping the ball when it comes to providing sufficient/consistent electricity.
Unless you need to support iOS 3.x, you'll get ARC for free for your iOS 5.x _and_ iOS 4.x projects in September with Xcode 4.2 (currently in beta). ARC and non-ARC libraries can also co-exists in the same project.

So it seems quite logical for developers to rely on most modern technologies, esp. since supporting older technologies comes with a cost.
Remap your CAPS key and Control key, especially for Emacs user. It does a world of wonder for your pinky.
Big Brother Season 13 Episode 18
Now you must watch for the other series. It is... Big Brother! Do you want know what will happen on Wednesday?

Big Brother (US) Season 13 Episode 18 "Veto Competition #6" will be airing on Wednesday, 17th August 2011 at 8:00 PM - CBS.
Amazing bionic hand on teenager
LOL! I didn't even bother to check if it's real or not, but just the though of shaking the life out of my laptop to make it undo sounds like fun! I'd never use it, but thinking of it makes me laugh. Thank you.
> They both came late to the game, were largely lacking and underpowered.

I happen to own a Pre 2 and it's really sweet. While the original Pre may have been a little bit slower, the 2 is very comfortable to use. It had multi-tasking and a functional clipboard from day one too (it baffles me how would anyone launch a smartphone without it) and came from a company with very limited resources that was literally betting itself on the product. The only problem I see with WebOS is the lack of applications.

WP7, OTOH, was aimed at phones with better specs than the Pre and it is very comfortable to use from the little I played with it, but was launched without a clipboard years after the iPhone had one and multi-tasking was introduced only in Mango. It comes from a company with pretty much unlimited resources and that has been developing mobile operating systems (they ate Palm's lunch once) for more than a decade.

Are you sure you want to contrast what Palm achieved with what Microsoft did?

> PS: And WebOS is no PalmOS, IMHO. PalmOS was the definition of simple and elegant.

I can tell you from my own experience it's orders of magnitude more practical to use (as in "less typing/swiping/touching) than either iOS or vanilla Android. The attention to every little detail is absolutely impressive and the "Just type" interface, simply brilliant.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems#B5000 for background.

Some noteworthy firsts:

First commercial implementation of virtual memory

Tagged, stack-based architecture, designed for easier compiler implementation

Most of the OS and other systems software written in a high-level language (a dialect of Algol 67)

The descendant of this architecture is still in production as the Unisys ClearPath/MCP architecture

(edited for formatting)
Since Rahul Sood joined them i'm hoping he's doing the hardware for the next XBox.
Does anyone know of a cheap Android phone that can run Flash 10.1 comfortably?
Your absolutely right about the dashboard, but does it give a notice if the whole data center is having problems instead of parts of it?
Not so much "live" now, but the Launch.is coverage of today was pretty good http://launch.is/blog/live-blogging-500-startups-demo-day-au...
Hi - Rand here, CEO at Moz. This story's inaccurate in a few ways:

1) We have not raised any capital. I posted about seeking investment here - http://randfishkin.com/blog/113/inflection-points-bravery-vs... - but no developments since. A funding of this size must be filed publicly, so anyone can check and see that it's not been done.

2) We do not have 35 employees. We have ~45.

3) We have ~14,000 subscribers to PRO, not 1,000

Well, you get the idea. The reporter at VentureBeat published the piece before talking to us (she called the office about 15mins prior to publication, but I was on a plane).