skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Recession's Toll on the Green Economy
I am fairly certain that paramedics and fire fighters already have private radio frequencies that they use.
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Being German I have to say I really appreciate my countries concern with privacy. ( Despite this rather ridiculous attempt to protect it ) The mega-corporations that are hoarding our data have a habit of being as in-transparent about privacy as possible ( Google excluded, maybe ). Government entities are in a unique position to enact legislation that levels the playing field and puts consumers back in charge of their data. I'm hopeful that future generations will demand unrestricted control over their personal data as a basic human right.
I have to disagree. These are not entrepreneurial habits. These are top habits for good managers.

The good entrepreneurial habits are:

1. do one thing every day that scares you

2. whatever you do it must not suck
It's surreal when I think back to between 2001 and 2005 I honestly thought the iPaq running Windows Mobile was going to be the future of computing. Microsoft and HP looked poised to dominate forever.

... and then nothing happened. Both HP and Microsoft turned out to have ZERO vision, and just decided to stop innovating, kicked back, and collect their big fat dividend checks. And now Apple is eating their lunch with two fists.
I guess that begs the question, relative to the apparent hike in rental prices, are the SF-based tech companies paying enough to get by on?
This really should be called, "A Day in the Life of the Shallow San Francisco Hipster (Who Is Tragically Out Of Date And Trying Too Hard)."

I'm not going to pretend like these guys don't exist, but this guy moved to ground zero (the Mission) for goodness sakes. What did he expect?

Hipsters aren't the only subculture in San Francisco.
Ask HN: What APIs are out there? (node knockout)
I registered a team for the node knockout and just found out that the api we were hoping to use can't be obtained for free. So now I'm looking for new ideas. I was hoping if I could find out what APIs are available out there for free I could come up with a new idea. What free APIs are out there? Any suggestions?
Android Surpasses iOS On The Web
Why You Can’t Trust Google
That's cute, since it was your unsubstantiated assertion in the first place that the word was being misused.

Tip: when unsure about the definition of a word, try googling define and the word in question. You will get results from a number of sources.
You sound like my manager, refusing all requests for training, and saying 'HANG IN THERE BUD' all the time.
Ridley Scott is Making a New ‘Blade Runner’ Movie
"Notice how stable it hovers. This exploits the natural stability of maple seeds" (erm.. I tried to quote as good as possible).

And it seems to reduce the complexity of the device itself a lot. One motor. One wing. I looked at it and thought "Wow! What a great and 'simple' (as in reduced) idea".
We have a doctor here in our little town in Western Massachusetts that is doing the same but set it up as a non-profit. He accepts barter as payment and supports other small providers with an open source EMR system:

http://www.cottagemed.org/index.php?option=com_content&v...
Everyone jumped on the app contest bandwagon. Now what?
I hope they can do an IPO, and short it, along with Demand Media. You gotta invest in what you know.
Work Market, NYC, looking for fall intern.

We're building a new labor management platform. You would pretty much have the ability to get involved in anything that interests you here--though there would be an emphasis on business.

Unpaid, but could be a great opportunity if you're interested in startups/entrepreneurship.

Apply here:
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EU population is actually over 500 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
I don't understand, from Blodget:
". "As of June 30, Groupon had $680 million in current liabilities -- bills the company has to pay,".... "Meanwhile, Groupon only had $376 million of current assets with which to pay them." "

If they pay their merchants faster, where would they get the money?

I just checked at Wikipedia, and,

"A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors. "

It kind of sounds like existing merchants "Daily Deals" are being paid by new merchants. Because this isn't really an "investment" per se, I guess it's not illegal - but right about now I'd be a little cautious if I were a small business engaging with group on - at least determine what level of protection I have.
This article is kind of a yawner. No new information and not exactly the magazine I would go to for this topic. I don't really understand the final paragraph which suggests a $6b exit might have been favorable to a $10-25b exit.

Groupon-hate is tired. More interesting is a bull case: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2904187
Lisp: The Programmable Programming Language, with Manuel Simoni
People saving money are using coupons (I mean old fashioned coupons in newspapers like P&G Brandsaver). For example, lets say you need bleach, and you have a coupon for 50 cents off. You'll wait til Target/Walmart has bleach on sale for 50% off, then purchase it with the coupon as well. You can sometimes get bottles of bleach for 25c or sometimes free. My family does this, so don't tell me it doesn't work :)

Most of the dollar stores do not accept coupons (Dollar Tree definitely does not)
In a federal prison somewhere, Andy Fastow mutters "...amateurs".
A Ruby programming competition for Whyday
I just don't see how Groupon, as it currently operates, is going to make money. And I wonder how well its IPO is going to go, now that they have had to admit that they are losing money.
It's basically the simplest version of a helicopter possible where the entire craft is the rotor.

It's pretty much impossible fly fixed wing UAVs indoors. This concept is pretty amazing.
Always nice to see that friendliness can go a long way for smaller local places, that aren't necessarily restaurants.

Of course, not all dollar stores are created equal. There are some nice ones, but also "soul-less" ones that just sell complete, Toys-R-Us bargain bin junk that no one would enjoy...
If I had a billion dollars, I would do nothing... or maybe two chicks at the same time ;)

But seriously, I'd set sail and never put a foot on land again. About the most work I'd do is rigging and some weight lifting. I would do that until the day I die, which with any luck would be sooner rather than later (being old and rich doesn't appeal to me almost as much as being old and poor). Does this mean I should look for jobs doing those things right now instead of in tech? No, that's silly. In fact, the best chance I have right now for ever being at the point in my life where I can do that is if I stay in tech and work my ass off for a decent paycheck.
OS X Lion: Change the Dashboard Background Graphic (how-to)
position: absolute; much?
I was just rephrasing the headline.
I know some of these habits like seem a lot like project management, but in my experience managing yourself is necessary to reach your entrepreneurial potential.
Android GPLv2 termination worries: one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3
Groupon actually reminds me more of Value America:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_America
As already mentioned, Google Analytics also had to reduce the data send to US servers. It is (more or less) forbidden to generally log IP addresses now (the big web hosters already anonymize their log files - the default apache logfile format is somehow illegal in Germany now).

I am german myself and fully agree with the privacy enforcing people in Germany and EU. Everytime you visit a website where someone added a Like button a whole set of tracking data will be submitted to US servers without a chance for me to forbid this. (Never saw a message "Is it ok for you that I load the Facebook Like button where your data will be transmitted to Facebook?") And after Facebook has a nearly complete profile over my web activities (every 2nd page already has a Like button) practically the US government also has all those data (edit: for fairness: everyone who pays for the data too)
Two points. First, when you're requesting a patent be reexamined, you're talking to a patent examiner. To a patent examiner, patents are the most convincing form of prior art--if only because she's used to reading them.

Second, it's widely thought to be risky to have your engineers read other people's patents, because then, if they later infringe those patents, the court is more likely to hold that it was willful infringement, and triple the damages. So, if you've got to have your engineers spend time reading patents, looking for prior art on your competitor's patent, you generally want them to be reading your own patents.
I think you can become a great programmer without any natural talent for it at all. I just don't think you'll find it that interesting... so staying disciplined will probably be very masochistic.
Interesting perspective - Particularly as I see so much crappy enterprise software being installed in our company, for pretty much the reason you are communicating.

But, where does salesforce.com come into play? They seem to be pretty successful.

If I had to bet - it will be short-term (5-10 years) enterprise software continues to be successful. But longer term (10 years+) cloud software demolishes the whole concept of "Local installs and management of every enterprise software under the sun."
Lesson 6, exercise "Inequality" is wrong for the same reason. It tries to compare the string entered with the integer 5, which again does not work. If you "complete" the exercise as instructed, run the code and enter 5, nothing happens.
Chrome extension to search multiple text in a web page
Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com
> Do you know anyone anymore who doesn’t have a camera in their phone, or anyone who doesn’t have a Facebook or Twitter account?

I kept thinking "ME, ME, ME" as I read that.
DeployMint: A Git based Staging and Deployment System for WordPress
But the TMG as well as the BDSG are federal laws and after reading his paper I would agree with his view of them.

It would only take someone to go to their local data protection supervisor (Datenschutzbeauftragten) and complain about being tracked by the facebook like button on a site hosted in germany, the data protection supervisor would have to issue a fine (if he agrees with that interpretation of the law) and it would go to court, since the owner of the website would naturally dispute it.

Difficult to say how the court would rule.
Looks pretty nice. But how did this come out of twitter? I haven't seen half of these elements on twitter.com.
wow, this is interesting. What a contribution.
Instead of checking Twitter and Facebook that much this san franciscan should probably build stuff instead.
oops...my mistake!
True. And not. Continuing with the sports analogy I think the comparison of sprinters and marathon runners is an apt one. It's been found (http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/Mu...) that sprinters have a muscle metabolism that is much more anaerobic than normal from birth (you never exhale during a 100m dash), so good sprinters are pretty much born rather than made. On the other hand, although good genes do help (why are marathon winners generally from Africa?) you can train your muscles to have more efficient aerobic metabolism and be a top-notch marathoner.

So Gates is right in that top talent is probably born, there's nothing you can do to attain that level (which is true for most things, btw). But you can become a damn good programmer by practice.
I don't think the new proportions are better.

For example, the first comparison http://cl.ly/9RHh if you look closely, the list on the left has a slight left indent, whereas the list on the left (new dimensions) is aligned directly with the buttons above it.

The original list looks "better" to me, as it coveys a subtle sense of depth that the redesign removes. The Likeables app look very WP7-metro to me and alien to the iOS platform. Not saying it's worse, but would work better in a properly tiled OS system.
How I Think Posting HTML In Comments Should Work
Yes, it's a journalistic cliche. I would hazard to say that the average adult is also more likely to be playing video games or cruising Facebook than pursuing scientific research.
Tweets Get Chipotle To Change Menus To Show Pinto Beans Cooked With Bacon
Isn't it better to buy stock in the midst of the panic?
πrotype.js: JavaScript prototype mutation stolen from the gods [whyday]
This post has good intentions (I'm all for the sharing of professional knowledge!) but contains a lot of red flags, such as sending data to clients that they don't need and can only use incorrectly, inadvertently, or maliciously. The whole thing is topped off with this alarming statement:

> If you’re not using JavaScript, you’re not using the web. Special considerations shouldn’t be made for you.

The practices described in the post may "work", but they are irresponsible and shouldn't be encouraged. As shapers of the web we should strive for better.
I've done this (GMail setup). Didn't work for me. It appears to be a common problem.

I also installed a number of patches from Preware, but nothing to my knowledge really addresses any of these concerns.

The "laggy" effects are software, not CPU. Even another 50% CPU isn't going to help a 3-second pause every time you send an SMS. It isn't going to prevent clearly software related bugs in the Mail app. It's also not going to make the buggy software decide to start triggering events on buttons it's clearly already registering (due to the droplet indicator on taps).

It's not going to make copy/paste as smooth as a double-tap, drag a point to highlight selection, tap "Copy" and done. Honestly I never did figure out the way to highlight the selection I wanted consistently. I'm pretty sure text-selections are not an OS-wide feature.

Even if in the past 30 days community patches came out to address all these issues (I seriously doubt it), who wants to depend on the grace of others for a product you just paid $250 for a couple months ago when the company that sold you the product is more interested in releasing and patching/updating a tablet?

Add to that no Pre3, the 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 fragmentation, and it was clear that without some major, visible effort on HP's part the Veer was already dead.

Plus the damn phone doesn't provide an option to keep the screen off on the Touchstone charger without a community patch. That issue has been around since my old Pre Minus! Seriously WebOS? 9 out of 10 smartphone owners I know use their phone as their alarm clock. I don't want a damn flashlight to turn on 12" from my head on my nightstand at 3AM because I got an automated email. If it's not a SMS or Phone Call, turn off and stay off when I push the Lock button.

The one redeeming application on the app-store was the Remix music player. First non-iPhone music player I could get behind (I used to own a Nexus S, never found anything on Android that seemed to focus on the simple act of browsing your music library quickly and just playing). HP should've bought the app and replaced their ugly WinAmp3/Win95 era junk with it. :-) Too late now...
"Why isn't writing software like chess or sport?" ... "There are obviously natural geniuses in our field, why not natural dunces?"

Precisely because 5-standard-deviation-above-average natural talent isn't required for success in our field. There's only one chess champion in the world and a handful of grandmasters, by definition, and those are gonna be the ones with talent and hard work. But to succeed as a programmer requires more work than genetic luck. An average person can probably do it with enough work.

(But I would point out there is, by necessity, a floor of base talent required somewhere. But it isn't necessarily as high as commonly supposed.)
This is a common objection but if you actually do the calculation you find it's bunk.

44 fps / 1.30 = 33.8 fps, still ahead by anywhere from 45% to 200%.
You got your politics in my tech news!
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> The tree design takes up less room than flat-panel arrays

The tree takes up less "floor area", but it takes up considerably more volume because it is significantly taller. That's why, in most places, you probably don't want to replace large panels with a single tree, but with a forest of mini-trees.

Trees also have a "concentration of weight" problem, which can be an issue for roof-top installations. The entire weight of the tree is on its trunk, which has a lot smaller cross-section than a comparable panel. Roofs that can handle weight that is spread out often have problems with concentrated weight. Again, the solution is a forest of mini-trees.

Note that the optimal spacing for solar-panel mini-trees is different from tree spacing in nature because nature's trees aren't just trying to optimize energy collection, they're also trying to crowd out their neighbors.
The Guild of Silicon Valley
Common Lisp had safe memory references and garbage collection. It did have CLOS, but I don't think many people used it. CLOS also was a very different take on OO.

The core of Java is the OO programming model, and "good" Java programming revolves around what works in that model.

Lately I've become a fan of "import static", which imports static functions from another class. "import static java.lang.Math." is good to do if you need to do a lot of math, for instance. "import static com.example.mysystem.MyDSL." sets you up to use an internal DSL.

Faking Lambdas with objects is cumbersome but not difficult, and remember there are many tricks like new ArrayMap<String,String>() {{ put("k1","v1"); put ("k2","v2") }} which let you build structures the way you would in Javascript, Python, PHP, C# or whatever.
The only thing easier is making fun of Internet Explorer - Less.app
Ok, fine. I guess I would settle for it just not being reposted to HN all the damn time (and upvoted!), if we're not the audience.
I'm available to defend my integrity personally, if need be :)

It's just a silly hack, but I'm hoping it will start a discussion at least.
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and the mountain, have defended the removal mining in West Virginia. The lowering of the Appalachians is certainly an ugly process,
GeekStack Postmortem
Main dev is Mark Dotto who previously released Bootstrap.less: https://github.com/markdotto/Bootstrap.less

http://markdotto.com/bootstrap/
I support any developer that releases toolkits on Github, but Twitter would be the last place where I'd be looking for any type of front end guidance, let alone conventions. In other words, find and employ the tools you feel more comfortable with working across a variety of projects, not just one with a front end designed by the engineering team.
You are right: genetics can certainly give you an edge and this is briefly mentioned in the book.

But do you mean that someone without the right genetic sequence can't play music? Or do you mean that someone with the right genetic sequence but who never does deliberate practice will be better than someone who has practiced 6 hours per day for the past 20 years under the best masters?

I think you don't mean that and the book did not mean that everyone can be star.

I'm sure some programmers are advantaged by their genes, but saying that all the bad programmers don't have the right genes and should look elsewhere is another thing. I would prefer to look at their learning practices and motivations before studying their genes. I'm sure I would have a lot more success than a geneticist in this case.
Great question.

I have tried to understand this myself without a good answer.

Google chrome UI team had an article on how they didn't find good user controls or windowing system for Windows and had to write everything from scratch. The chromium source was way too complex for our needs so we ended up not exploring it.

Still open source GUI code. (So good open source GUI code in Windows has been hard to find, but that's a good bet).

You probably want your app to run on both XP and 7 ?

8 is vaporware as a target platform for releasing and scheduling purposes.

We started with Windows Forms for our work because we were familiar with the code. (We did use MVC pattern using MVCsharp).
We meant to switch to WPF but we never made the leap. There are UI-controls you can buy (with source) which you can use as plug and play. There are a few popular vendors.

Windows Forms still look ugly (lipstick on a pitbull kind of thing)

WPF is supposed to be a panacea with XAML being markup and that letting you generate "fluid-UI" just like HTML with auto-resizing and scaling as in the browser for your web-app.

I'd explore WPF and figure out a MVC-pattern library for separation of concerns.

Hope this helps.
Modern and Green Design of the House Natural Environment
http://www.programmableweb.com/
Demand Media was a great short...until the borrow cost went through the roof (same problem with LinkedIn). Did not want to cover that but didn't have much of a choice. This was before options were available on DMD.
Paris Airport Gets Holographic Boarding Agents
How often does the Dollar Tree sell things that you could actually find a coupon for? Around here at least the overlap between items in the dollar store and items that have enough of a brand name to print coupons is zero or indistinguishable from it.
How exactly does UTF-16 make HTML twice as expensive?

I guarantee you that there are very few apps that will double their memory usage if you start using UTF-16 text. Even if you start looking at bandwidth once you compress the text there is very little difference. (You are compressing your HTML right?)

The case for UTF-8 saving memory makes a lot of sense if you're writing embedded software, however in most stacks the amount of memory wasted by UTF-16 is trivial compared to the amount of memory wasted by the GC, bloated libraries, interpreted code, etc.

If you're using .NET or the JVM char is 16 bits wide anyway. The UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 debate is a perfect example of mircobenchmarking where theoretically there is a great case for saving a resource but in aggregate makes very little difference.
Hedging your predictions with qualifying statements is something that any good lawyer will tend to do, and also just plain intellectually honest since predictions about legal processes are rarely 100% certain.