skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's strange that www.cloudclimate.com/cdn-speed-test reports Akamai Global Average as 1301 ms (102250 Tests)

Though it also reports Rackspace Global Average as 695 ms (91990 Tests)
This logic could have been applied to Android. There were numerous "leading" mobile operating systems when Android launched. Likewise for Apple launching the iPhone and iOS.

Sometimes, a company has to bet they can beat the competition, or we get stuck with the same old crap, forever.
Ah, well in that case their list definitely deteriorates.
Checklist of Web App Error Notifications
Was the Courier ever anything more than a bunch of concept videos? Was there ever a prototype or anything close to that?

Making futuristic looking concept movies is pretty easy compared to actually making and shipping a physical product.
Intellectual Ventures has way more than these couple patents. Google/Apple's user base is more important than these couple patents. They only have them to protect themselves, not to assert them, so invalidating them won't do anything.
The Agreement references the AUP, so it's on the same level as said Agreement.
I find it kind of odd that it doesn't actually say what language I am learning. (I mean, yes, I can tell, but if I were learning I wouldn't.)

Was that on purpose?
By being faster, easier to use and cheaper.
The lesson told me I was learning Javascript?
They chose a pretty bad name for their website.

What happens when they need to charge more (or less) than one dollar? Also, they're also locking themselves into the "scanning" market with the word 'scan' in their domain name.
Looks great guys. It might be useful for new developers to be able to reset the code in the textarea to its original state if they mess up or get lost (I was looking at http://www.codecademy.com/programming-intro/7 when this thought came up)
"Sour grapes" implies winners and losers.

Did we read the same fable? Sour grapes is about something you don't have, which does not imply winners or losers.
for lack of a better name... in any case - Im just curious to understand why it happens
Sort of like what IBM used to be before they sold their hardware division to Lenovo, then.
Maybe Weather Underground? http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML looks decent. I use their regular pages all the time.
There are some exaggerations there. Corners, like edges in general attract attention and our visual system exaggerates them (but not in the retina as is suggested). Just like gradients, round edges do not attract attention. I don't think it's true that the computational/metabolic cost is different for the visual system. So, use corners when you want to attract attention (that's why arrows are jagged for example)
http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/HP_Q3_2011_earnings_call

Height of vague cluelessness in the non-answers. Scary given the impact of the announcements.

"all outcomes are possible, including a potential non-transaction" [about the PC business spin off ] - Why announce anything right now then?

"How will you make webOS profitable? A> We expect the dev expenses to come down dramatically -- down to 1 or 2 cents per share a quarter. If you look at the run rate losses there, you can attribute them pretty much to Palm" -- i.e. we will make it profitable by killing it!
I don't read Mueller or Groklaw that much, and never did until recently, but when I do, it comes off to me as Mueller trying to sound dispassionate and hide his biases against certain parties, while contributing mostly FUD. Whereas Groklaw wears its biases openly.

Again, that's just the impression I got. I'd be interested in seeing a data-based comparison of predictions, though.
In the end he says that after having had 5 kids he believes that nature has a much stronger impact on people's personalities than nurture. That surprised me, I wish he could have elaborated on it.
Building my first startup - Day #4
Takin' VC Money (Money Cash IPO's)
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I can no longer see a conversation about round rects without thinking of this fascinating story on developing the first Mac's drawing subsystem:

"Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.

When Steve and Bill passed a no-parking sign with rounded corners, it did the trick. "OK, I give up", Bill pleaded. "I'll see if it's as hard as I thought."

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...

Interesting example of Steve Jobs' leadership style that doesn't revolve around him being an asshole. Also, given how prevalent round rects were in classic Mac system software, surprising to consider they almost weren't possible on early systems.

Amazing, the cleverness once required to create things we now take for granted.
I definitely think the hackers of the HN Community should help create lessons for the site, it'd be really beneficial for the non technical folk. I think if more lessons were added it'd be even more powerful.
Directly to the service: http://spearheaddev.com/qrcardus/

Disclaimer: I co-founded it
As an "average" non-programmer I love this. I'm teaching myself to code and this looks like a framework for learning that's perfect. I'll send feedback as I go through the lessons
Multi-zone is already natively supported, and multi-region is coming soon :)
It's very addictive. One of the few use cases where I actually enjoyed the game-like features.
Not sure what's wrong with the site, but the top left is just one big empty area of white space and the get started button does nothing at all. I've tried both FF 6.0 and Chrome.
Code and Creativity by Geoffrey Grossenbach
You make assessments based on everything else you know (I think he mentions that at one point).

Of course this isn't unbiased, but at least you're thinking for yourself.

I don't think it's just about thinking from first principles, it's also about being able to change your first principles as you go along and understand that you need to reassess everything else that depends on it.
I feel the same, this morning I had like 60 within a few windows and already made my Macbook Pro become very slow. Especially because a few have flash video loaded or flash and HTML5 elements.
If brightness at the edges is the visual cue, would you get the same effect as rounding by fading out straight corners?
Courier was a concept video, not a product. There's a significant difference.
Question, what do the long hours that are part of investment banking fall under. I haven't worked in it but might yet so I'm curious. I know there's a lot to do in a short amount of time in terms of the mood of the stock market like a small business, but c'mon, these are smart people, surely they can streamline some of these processes.
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You could argue the same about essays instead of programs/software.
UTF8 preferred, since I'd be doing mostly Japanese. Shift-JIS would be acceptable. Basically just plain text. For books, anyhow. If I sent any comics, I'd want image files.

Though, after thinking about the cost of shipping, book, etc, I'm not sure I'd send much... It'd be only things that I really, really want to read and just haven't learned the vocab for yet. And there really isn't much of that.
Berkshire Hathaway also owns NetJets which allow its executives to fly private jets around the country in a way that best meets their tight schedules. You better believe that Buffet flies all over for meetings.
I've uploaded the Series Seed docs (http://www.seriesseed.com/) and made them public. Check it out here:

http://doccompare.com/compare/viewresults/314170241641/
You have to enable/allow javascript (for the host itself as well as for facebook)
This can't be true because usually the applications would be oversubscribed within one day of the new fiscal year. One day! I remember that clearly because it was such a big crapshoot whether you'd get granted a h1b or not.
> faster

DeltaView has right-click integration; that will always be faster than opening a web browser, logging in, and transmitting files into the cloud.

> easier to use

It's a tie at best. See the right-click integration point, above. DeltaView has a huge amount of customization potential, but most users don't need all of it.

> cheaper

That's what worries me most. What is the revenue model and why should lawyers trust a stranger to not misuse their docs (or Anonymous to not hack the server, etc)?

To put it in perspective, DeltaView is (at most) $175 bundled with other software. To a lawyer, that's an hour of billing time at most. I don't know why a lawyer would rather risk sending confidential docs into the cloud when the alternative is software that costs (at most) one hour of billing.

I don't mean to come across harsh, but the product appears to be at best an iterative improvement in an industry that is very slow to change and is very concerned about confidentiality. The benefit of "it's free" does not carry nearly as much weight among lawyers, who often able to pass costs along to their clients and don't have the same cultural attachment to "free" as do average 20-something developers.

It just seems like the professional legal market is the wrong fit for a very powerful tool. Are there other markets worth considering?
Most music available for purchase these days doesn't have DRM but in the case of video, you are correct.
HP: ‘We are not walking away from webOS’
This is definitely genius. Even for programmers the service could be very valuable in learning new languages. I love my O'Reilly books, but I would throw all of them away in a heartbeat if the content was wrapped up in an interactive console like this.
It looks like the extension was removed from the store, was it intentional?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alelhddbbhepgpmgid...
We are going after the same problem with a different solution - http://codeacademy.org

Looks great, looking forward to seeing it develop!
That is not an option for low-level programming.
I've found previous articles from the same source a bit thin. And I have a personal dislike of the author after reading the comments on another article on the site:

http://uxmovement.com/navigation/designing-tab-navigation-th...

I was happily surprised as this was a pretty good read with some interesting references (with criticisms as well). I hope the articles keep improving!
Lesson 4 "which number" instructions is lacking which name you should use, it should specify the variable name "number" clearly.
There's a startup somewhere in this idea. I'd pay to be a spectator of this match.
They are teaching javascript
Law firms are changing. They are moving away from billable hours and towards fixed price contracts. They are making better use of non-partner track lawyers to handle routine stuff, and those lawyers get sane hours and lower salaries.
Takin’ VC Money (Money, Cash IPOs) – A Startup Rap from Cardinal’s Cory Smith
3% cpu in Safari 5.1
Who has the most mobile patents? Hint: Not Apple
Well, it still helps - you can OCR a book file yourself, even if you can't see; just a few clicks and then go do something more interesting. Scanning your own book is possible, but requires sitting there throughout.

Edit: http://1dollarscan.com/pricing.php says "OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. The PDFs will contain the OCR text layer behind the images to make the text searchable and selectable." This service is labelled free so I guess you get it (or can get it) for each scan.
Um, that's what is supposed to be. It is not a chat room. It's a place to get answers (or give them).

"All questions on Stack Exchange are expected to be objective and have concrete answers; we’re not a place for conversation, opinions, or socializing. We also expect questions to represent real problems, not just imponderables, hypotheticals, or requests for opinions."
Maybe HP can slap Android on the TouchPads they haven't sold? :)
Some thougths on "Perlis Languages"
Oh, thanks. It's odd, the CLI doesn't even appear here. Had to go to Firefox to see it. Probably some blocking extension getting on the way.

But still there were problems: the CLI did not recognize my keyboard layout. I could not type quotes, so I couldn't even say my name... Too bad, looks cool.
This is a pretty cool product. My cousin and I are actually developing a very similar product, but it provides enhanced information similar to that, along with different templates for different industries.

Hopefully I'll see your product out there again once our product is released. There is nothing like some good competition, and I think we found it :)
Knowing Peter wrote the book that describes this situation[1] and then denying that it's happening makes me seriously question whether this is Morton's own doing (great PR) or something that was discussed beforehand. Regardless, this is clearly just PR and in no way reflects customer service. Not to say Morton's doesn't have great customer service--it appears they do based on their high satisfaction rates--but the event was not causal.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Outrageous-Stunts-Work-Company-Needs/d...
I'd rather see them come out brandishing the Palm brand, and acquiring Fon, and then going after a "home cloud" machine. We could use the "unlimited" home connections we already pay for that are often pretty good (<40ms latency, at least 2mbps up). Handling the home-router firewall in a simplistic way seems to be the best way forward.
Show HN: Stupid simple news via email
Visualisation of your Java projects
What about "Cryptography Engineering"?
No, you don't fail at life. PG et al makes a point to explain the team members being more important in the application process than the actual idea.
Are symmetrical solutions valid?

Of the form

abcde
bcdef
cdefg
defgh
efghi
That Remake of AOL? It’s Still Being Written
But still makes money, and that seems to matter most for certain people.
No. A particular investor declined to participate on one opportunity to do business with you. 500Startups had opportunity to do business with someone else. These are mostly unrelated to each other.

FWIW: Investors being herd animals, noting fundability of a close substitute generally helps rather than hurts future pitching.
That's great reasoning, and it gives me an idea: let's book the $45 profits as soon as the customer signs up! (of course, we can calculate the PDV, to make sure everything's honest, so it's really only $38).

In fact, we've calculated that it takes $5 to bring in a new customer, and we have a $5M marketing budget, so let's book those million customers now, too. That's $38M in profits the first year! Not bad.

But hey, why don't you give us $5 billion? Then, we could get a billion customers, and bank $38B in profits the first year. Minus a few billion to cash out the early investors, of course -- but hey, we can still give you a 30X return on your money.

[END SARCASM]

Yes, we understand the story. We're not stupid. It's not that complicated of a story. But we want to see how often the story intersects with reality, and how much is fiction. Accounting is the tool that allows us to measure the story against reality. If we start weaving stories into the accounting, then it's no longer a-counting, it's a-wishing.

None of that means Groupon is a bad business, it just means that they are trying to insert marketing material into their accounting statements.
Javascript Error Reporting with Airbrakeapp
Those future optical cables won't be faster. Some people are optimistically misinterpreting Intel and thinking that they'll get 100 Gbps out of existing Thunderbolt ports, which is definitely not true — those ports are already going as fast as they can. Optical only gives you longer distance.
Apple does more than "relabel" their chips. They bought Intrinsity specifically to create customized Arm chips for their products.
Glad to hear–competition is what keeps us all on our toes, so I'll be keeping an eye out for you guys :)
If these things came up on Woot, I would buy three. Might get a few friends to buy some more.

The hardware is fine, and the open-source software that would surround such a release would, I'm sure, be awesome. Please, HP?
True, but the tablet market is in one important aspect different from the phone market, in that the distribution channels are vastly different. Many who buy a new phone just take what the carriers are shoving in their sales channel.

In the best case scenario the iPad could play out more like the iPod: year after year there were prominent iPod-killers like the Zune and cheap knockoffs and year after year Apple dominated the market.
No idea where you see disdain, and I certainly haven't taken anything back. Progress bars are inaccurate, in the sense that they're simply not a good way to convey accurate information about task completion to a human user. Them's just facts.

But that's not bad. I said it was a nice scam. Sometimes it's good to be fooled. Putting a minigame during the load screen doesn't make the real game load any faster, but it makes the time seem to pass faster, and that's nice. Doesn't make it not fooling.

As for streaming video, as I said already, a video buffer indicator is tied to a UI element in the timeline. It tells me where I can scrub to in the timeline and have it play video immediately without buffering. That's useful.

It's not useful as a progress indicator, for telling me how much longer I need to wait to watch the video-- because my computer is way, way better at doing that math than I am. I would much rather have a simple indicator that tells me, given my current download speed, whether I will have to wait for buffering before it finishes playing, and if so, how long I have to wait until that is not the case. In fairness, you can get a decent idea of that based on whether or not the buffer indicator is advancing away from the playhead, which is another detail that distinguishes a streaming buffer from other sorts of progress indicators.
"What you fail to realize" <- ?

First, I believe there is a cultural difference between Canada and the US. In Canada, a Master's degree is typically not a professional degree and you usually cannot buy a M.Sc. Typically, half of the credits come from courses and the other half (often even more) comes from your thesis. I don't know about the situation in the UK, the author's country of origin.

Second, I TAed and taught programming, algorithms, and software architecture courses for undergrads, Master's and Ph.D. students so I'm well aware of the advantages and limitations of higher education. I saw students in an advanced architecture course who did not know what a thread was or who had never written a single SQL query. Well, they learned it in my course.

The graduate students that I described aren't rare. At least 75% of the Master's and Ph.D. students in the SE lab and PL lab at my university match that description. Maybe they would have a hard time building a web application in a day, but I think they have demonstrated that they can learn pretty complicated things and that they will learn how to solve your particular technical problems.

I felt the article was really about "degree snobbery", meaning that the author promoted snubbing people with degrees. I understand the frustration of people without degree who need to prove every time that they don't need one. But I don't believe that having a systematic negative bias on candidates with a degree is wise either. Honestly, does it make sense as the author says that someone with a bachelor in C.S. don't know how to implement a binary search (see [1] for a possible explanation)?

Regarding the vocational training that needs to be removed from higher education, I believe a compromise is needed. I agree that you cannot efficiently learn development process and all the latest languages and frameworks at school. But you need to learn some good programming skills and software engineering practices, otherwise, it is a lot harder to understand and play with more complex concepts and it is also more difficult to bring a significant contribution if you do a Master or Ph.D. later.

[1] http://www.skorks.com/2010/10/99-out-of-100-programmers-cant...
Eh I'm just being a pedantic ass, sorry, been a long day. I think it's time to leave the office and grab a beer.
you have a h1b visa with one company

another company applies to transfer it to them

you continue working at the first company

when the transfer goes through, you give notice at the first company and go to work for the new one

if it fails, you continue working for the first one like nothing happened.
Mark Suster: 73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up
iPhone didn't immediately command a large percentage of the market, the iPad does. This is much closer to the iPod situation where many companies tried to match it but failed.
Have another one for me.
I think that's generally true, but let's accept that startups aren't businesses. They're potential businesses. I suppose they fall into the 'failing' category in your example, except that's not very fair.. they haven't had much of a shot yet.

Until something gets off the ground, I wouldn't say working long hours doesn't make you lazy, greedy, incompetent or stupid. That said, it can certainly be counter-productive if done for too long.
I'd like to pick one up for $50 or less and try to shoe-horn Android on there.
Guess that's possible. You don't need upvotes to game the system. I usually don't read a story w/o comments. I'm sure I'm not alone in doing that.
This has the hidden benefit of being great for review when you forget a concept. I gave up on programming as a trade after almost 15 years of false starts, but I do have to dip into code from time to time.

Having this to review with will be handy.
HP buying Autonomy for $11 Billion, leaving PC business
Start up's Progress
Webinar Analytics-Is Anyone Listening?
Well done. I like it. I especially like the interface. I hope this idea catches on. Continued success. :)
Related to HP halting WebOS devices, they want to get out of the low margin business
Any reason that I simply can not type quotes? Is it dependent on the keyboard layout? I'm using US Alternative International layout, Firefox 7, ubuntu 64-bit.
Your first principles are the constituents of your worldview. Put in reverse: You worldview is the sum of your first principles.

Unfortunately, understanding your world view is a daunting task. This is why most people don't start with first principles. They have yet to know them.
You have to get through the first lesson before it tells you that you're learning JavaScript. This isn't terrible considering the audience this seems to be targeting -- the name of the language is an implementation detail to a beginner.
This seems scary. The risk of the confirmation emails being interpreted as spam or not seen is just way too high.

Due to the sensitivity of the information being sent out, there is zero margin for error. Even an after death personal message is pretty hefty if it's a false positive.

I would much rather prefer a service that requires my family to get to the info from a will or lawyer to gain access to my sensitive info.

I'd be interested to hear about the business model to this.
Ari Jaaksi, HP's SVP in charge of webOS and services had an interesting tweet 40 minutes ago;

"We will continue webOS platform full speed! #webOS"
On the other hand, Jobs had founded the corp, had an almost mythical aura and the previous executive team had spent a decade fucking up Apple.

Oh, and he refocused the company on its original core business, where Apotheker is moving HP away from its historical roots.
I like the idea. Did you borrow inspiration from www.tryruby.org ?
I assume they're just random numbers encoded in "base 62" or similar.

http://birdhouse.org/blog/2010/10/24/base62-urls-django/
Charging $41/hour to learn Rails isn't a different solution.