skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this news? Smaller selection of apps, less competition, tons of users looking for applications. Obviously the average app will have more downloads on the Ovi Store because there are less zero-download apps to bring down the average.

Who are the other two big players in this suddenly-important metric of average number of downloads per app? Windows Phone 7 and BBOS. I think that tells you all you need to know.
I also "deploy" to my local Linux VM for when I want to test a multi-server set up or try something new without messing up my main computer. Otherwise, I code and test almost exclusively on OSX. Haven't run into any situations yet where I wished I was coding in Linux as well. Linux doesn't have Photoshop or iTunes.
He's talking about the situation where you already have bitcoins. If their value is deflating fast enough, then the most sound "investment" is to just hold onto them.
Changing the VLC engine license to LGPL
http://bitcoincharts.com/
Carol Bartz was fired because the MSFT deal for ads has not performed well at all and anyone who had used both platforms before the unification of Yahoo Ads and MS AdCenter would know that AdCenter has always been considerably worse in almost every respect.

AdCenter has always had the problem of MSFT makes it hard to spend your budget to buy any real quantity of traffic. Yahoo was much better at making it easy for you to setup ads, run them, and get traffic. AdCenter sucks at all of that. It is literally years behind of what Yahoo had which was still years behind AdWords.

Even worse, AdWords, even with it's quality score policies designed to drive up the price of ads, makes it so much easier to setup ads and get traffic that there is no way AdCenter can compete.

The secret sauce in online ads is simple - "make it easy for me to spend money to buy traffic". Google nails that every time. Yahoo was pretty good. Microsoft sucks at it.

So, long story short, AdWords is so far ahead of AdCenter that there is no way for Microsoft to catch up. Carol Bartz and Yahoo hitched their horse to the Microsoft AdCenter wagon and that cost Carol Bartz her job.

If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. Microsoft AdCenter doesn't make much of either for Yahoo.
Why is this being upvoted? This article begins with a questionable premise and then descends straight into misinformation.

The problems in the USPS did not begin with email. They began with a highly questionable requirement that the USPS fund a plan to fully cover the estimated future health care costs of all current employees. They are the only government institution required to do this, and it has crippled their ability to remain profitable:

* http://www.plansponsor.com/Post_Office_Says_PreFunding_Retir...

* Read First Few Pages Here -> http://www.uspsoig.gov/foia_files/RARC-WP-10-001.pdf

* http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23postal.html

They have overpaid this fund by billions of dollars, but they are not able to use this money to address their current financial shortcomings.

Somehow the author of this piece is able to extrapolate from the fiscal problems of the USPS to the overall job market. The extrapolation is misguided at best.

There are so many things wrong in this article that I will not take the time to address them all. (Most of Europe was thriving in the Middle Ages? Really? The author needs to define the word thrive.) I just want to say that I find it interesting that there is so much hand-wringing in these comments about jobs being displaced by technology.

In economics, we like to call this creative destruction. Old jobs go away and new jobs take their place. This is a natural process, and their is nothing so magically different about the technological revolution that it will somehow "make jobs obsolete".

Just as The Luddites protested against the loss of jobs brought on by the technological progress of the Industrial Revolution, now some individuals protest against the loss of jobs brought on by the technological progress of the "Technological Revolution". Then, as now, it was all hand-wringing and nail-biting with no serious economic analysis.

The critics say this time is different, this time there will be no new jobs, and we should urge people to find something other to do than working. The critics are wrong. Don't worry people. Employment is here to stay.

Side Note: The author engages in some navel gazing when he says America has all that it needs. I'm not sure if the author has noticed it or not, but there is a such thing as globalization and the global needs for goods and services will increase as developing countries close the ground with developed nations.

This global recession is just another business cycle, eventually the world will have another upswing, and then we will revert to mean again. There is no magic here, just the march of time. I would not put too much stock into those who believe that a single recession merits the reevaluation of the entire modern economic system.

Edit: Trying to trim the size. Eventually, I will learn the art of not making posts into walls of text.
This is the type of service that really brings the benefit of computing to the masses. Sure, everyone consumes on the internet, but something like this lets everyone experience the joy programmers feel when they make a computer do what they want.
considering what's going on at the moment i think one could make the case that they were just two decades ahead of you... ;-)
What is the disk footprint of the existing SVN repository? "100s of GBs"? git's worst case repository size is equal to or slighly larger (few % probably) compared to an SVN repository.

Git will deduplicate all of your binaries across branches (and if you are clever, across repositories, but that's another story) so worst case you will only have one copy of any binary file no matter how many times it appears in your history.

That is not to say that git may be a poor fit for your current project+organization for other reasons but a blanket assumption of ("repository would be too huge") is not generally accurate.
He's saying that the characteristics of bitcoins make it a lousy currency (people have little incentive to spend or loan it).

Whether or not it's an asset worthy of investing in is a separate question. (I'd argue that it isn't, but that's a separate issue from the characteristics that make it a bad currency).
Software Engineer Proposes Using Google Maps
AMD's Bulldozer processors now shipping; in servers by end of month
Sunrise B: Brand Blackmail, early period

For what it's worth, it looks like the Sunrise B is for blocking/making it impossible to register .xxx domains with your registered trademark such as MarthaStewart.xxx instead of having to pay to register (and presumably not use) MarthaStewart.xxx

If any other TLDs work this way, I don't know of them.
Wow, I was thinking of making an entire app for this, but it's just a simple recipe in ifttt!

http://ifttt.com/recipes/75
User Interface Patterns
It's mainly due to the lack of human resources (e.g. engineers, testers, PMs, and etc.) You have to understand that the Hyper-V was a extremely team (less than 100 people) during the Win7 time frame.

At the time, the team's #1 priority was to make a product that is competitive to VMWare on the enterprise level. Therea re additional issues and overhead associated with porting Hyper-V to the client SKU's. And they simply did not have the time or the resource to do so.

Now, they are able to bring Hyper-V to Win8 (the client SKUs) since they have a bigger team and more resources at their disposal.
You do not have to innovate to be successful. The overwhelming majority of profitable businesses out there have never innovated and never will. All you have to do is provide value.

In fact, the majority of innovative businesses fail and fail miserably. You still have to translate innovation to value. That's really hard.
All the cool kids use Ruby 1.9.2
I'm a big fan of the Ratchet and Clank games, so I first thought of Lomba.xxx
How I founded, bootstrapped, grew and sold my web startups
I'm really happy to hear they are getting a lot of attention, and I hope they make a paid service with an SLA - I'd happily be charged a yearly fee knowing that it was keeping their servers up and my computer might stand a chance of phoning home.
Link to the real website: http://www.parse.com.

No idea why the appcelerator page is the main story link.
Not at all. Where did you come up with that? That would merge in any commits in master not already in experimental and the next command would fail because a branch 'master' already exists.

To do what you are describing you would do this (or something similar:

git checkout master; git merge experimental
> You know who would interpret it as evidence for God's existence? People who already believe in him.

And actually, that's probably not even true. If what you described literally happened, I wouldn't entertain for a minute that it was God's work, it being so profoundly unlike him on so many levels.
A currency that people are hoarding because they feel that the faith and credit of Switzerland is proportionally better than other currencies, especially the Euro.
Nice idea if still a bit rough. My advice would be to start with one city like LA, NYC or Chicago. Spend all your time and promotion getting it working really well. Easier also to interest local media to publicize it that way on a modest budget.

Then collect locations of those wanting to use it so you know what cities to roll out to next.
The easiest is to make two installs of OSX on the machine. The first has full admin access and prey running. The second has full disk encryption and locked down.

Default boot into the first partition. If the system is stolen they will reboot and you can track. Because it has full admin they are less likely to reinstall.
I actually love the site design.
The Great Gatsby and Waiting for Godot: The Video Game Editions
Why you should work at Xobni (YC S06)
Mathias, what Riak (or other distributed databases provide) that Mongo doesn't is "just-works" scaling characteristics beyond one machine.

* If I want to ensure that my data is written to three machines, all my writes will stop working in MongoDB if one machine goes down. With Riak, it will start issuing the writes to another node in the cluster and rebalance when the missing node comes back online.

* If I'm running MongoDB in a sharded configuration, if one of the shards cannot be reached, all writes will stop. With Riak, any node will accept the writes and, once the network issues are resolved, move them to the appropriate node.

That said, conflict resolution is hard and there's no real way to get around it when you're using a distributed database like Riak. With Riak, as Chad says you get "increased development complexity for massively decreased deployment complexity." There's no silver bullet, it's important to look at the trade-offs of each option.
"Even if the only expense was food, absent government help one person would have a hard time staving off malnutrition on that much money here in the US. That's living under a bridge and wearing trash bags to work."

Exactly.

"I don't really understand why that's the case, either." I'm not sure I understand the question. If you mean, "Why do these other countries cost less to live in?" it is the case that some things cost the same in both 1st world and developing countries. Some of it goes back to Brenton Woods, and some of it goes back further. It's a really good question, but it seems that the more 'developed' a country the higher the wages, AND the higher the cost of living, which in a lot of areas leads to equillbirum, but certainly not in every area.

One example would be the family car, which might cost 20K new in the US, and about the same in Vietnam, so only very rich people in Vietnam can afford a new car. One of the reasons the U.S. got out ahead on this industry is because a lot of the inventors in the field were, and have been American, and because of trade deals, and tariffs that used to protect the industry.

It's still the case that people want their cars to come more highly trained workers than say their shoes (not life or death if they're junk). And those workers end up costing more to train and keep, thus the high price on this kind of good.
Yahoo needs a young visionary product guy who understands the web, mobile, etc.

The last thing Yahoo needs right now is an "experienced" executive from another company.
Create another account and give out the password in the login screen (either check "Show password hint" or go to Security & Privacy -> show a message when the screen is locked).
Bitcoin is not a flawed experiment -- it made the mysterious early adopters quite a bit of money.
It is not true that "everyone was provided the same, regardless of their skills or efforts" in actually existing socialist countries like the USSR.
Some data for example on GDR(German text, but the numbers should be ok): http://doku.iab.de/mittab/1990/1990_4_mittab_stephan_wiedema...
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." - Jim Rohn
From the FAQ:

> Will this license change allow VLC to be available on the Apple stores?

> So far, we don't know if this will change anything.

Any comments or insight to this matter?
What's with the domain name? I see you own ifthisthenthat.com as well, just curious why you choose the abbreviation.
What's happening now is nothing like what's happening in Japan.
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It's turing complete!
That's a great point and fairly accurate from a bird's eye view.

However, MobileWorks does much more than connecting developers and humans. MobileWorks lets developers define the tasks and then makes sure that the workforce comes to the right conclusion. In some manner it lets people negotiate on the answers. However, this is completely transparent to the developers. For a developer, it is more on the lines of 'call an api and get an answer'.

I think MobileWorks is closer to something like Heroku than to say AirBnB.
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Where I get off that train though is the idea that we should just dump the human leftovers of "creative destruction" (ok, that's not Hayek, but another Austrian, Schumpeter) into the garbage. No government support, no health care, no education, no nothing.

That isn't Hayek either, though. Some Hayekians, yes, but Hayek himself was in favor of safety nets, and even argued positively for them in a number of places. He grouped basic healthcare along with fire protection and a police service as the minimal services a state should provide, and also supported a subsistence-level guaranteed minimum income (as a direct transfer payment, rather than as some complex combination of food stamps, rent control, housing subsidy, unemployment insurance, etc., etc.). One of his arguments was that a background safety net promotes individual freedom by lessening tribalist instincts--- if there's no safety net, people will cling to things like their church or ethnic group for a safety net, out of fear of being left out in the cold.
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Heh.

Also, when did chrome stop antialiasing text? If I somehow checked a box labeled "make text look worse", then someone please enlighten me. http://bbot.org/etc/aliasing.png

EDIT: Ha ha, Windows, you card, always with the case-insensitive file systems. Got me again! Link should work now.
Rice University has figured out how to double capacity on 3G/4G networks
Heya,

Thanks for the suggestion. How did the conversion rate from killerstartups.com compare to ad campaigns, if you tested those as well?

Thanks

Max
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Japan and China also had an advantage over the Industrial Revolution countries in that all of their capital didn't have to be created anew. It took 150 years for the US to get to where Japan got in under 60.
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I could have sworn that Joker was hosted in Switzerland, which is the big factor in my recommendation of them to people worried about government interference in domain handling and DNS. Maybe I'm wrong on that, though.
That's not at all because of a lack of global brands or innovative products though: Toyota, Sony, Honda, Hitachi, Panasonic, just to name the first ones that came to my mind...
Nintendo Gets Sued Over The Wii
Hey Dundas,

Thanks for the links, those are helpful. I'll take a look and follow up if I have questions :)
>Not sure libertarian means that you want people left out of the system and starving though. I am a libertarian and I've spent 90% of my time post college life running or helping to run a food pantry in my spare time. Seems silly to suggest that libertarians don't care about such things.

I think you're missing the point. It means you endorse a system where food pantrys are necessary because there's no way everyone 'makes it'. You're just on the right side of the food line.
from the modern ferret-attention-span point of view such dismissal may be a valid one.

Looking at the other time scales - there were periods when the world around China was striving to and happy to be "me-too of China" and there is nothing that precludes that from happening again, even more - China seems to have learnt the lesson about the limits on trusting to Western civilizations, and their current "me-too" is manifestation of shrewd practicality as it is the fastest way to get the humongous country from being mostly agricultural 10-20 years ago to the leaders of the world. You just may not like the "Apples" that will come out of China :)
Be warned, shortly after nodes join/leave, Riak has a real possibility of rearranging which nodes will respond to requests for which keys without making sure that those nodes actually have those keys. The result is that key/value pairs can become inaccessible for some time until data migrates under the hood.

This is unlikely to be a problem in practice. But it is a possibility to be aware of.
Breve historia del origen de Donkey Kong Jr
Well, its a question audiences ask after a motivational speech directly to the speaker in the Q&A session. I tend to agree with the article and finally have an explanation to give to the audience when they ask....
Britain, the Low Countries, France and the German States all went through this process in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Historians call it pauperization. The only good solution seems to be keeping people from starving to death (the above named societies often did not, incidentally) and wait for/encourage the economy to find a way to suck up the surplus labor.
A penny is made of zinc, but not all zinc is a penny.

A square is a rectangle, but not all rectangles are squares.

Scott is on the right path -- there's some sort of threshold where a substance is more valued as a transaction medium than for its intrinsic value.
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Someone just submitted this link to Coffee & Power (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971171). I haven't tried it, but this concept seems like a small but good start to solving the labor granularity problem.
No, it implies that US dollars are a better means of transferring value for time, because they're for example, highly liquid and fungible.

Properties that they posses at least in part because of the fact that currency is not a good long-term value storage proposition, and so they are not hoarded.
>We're talking about the complete obsolescence of an entire group of skilled tradespeople due to automation.

Coincident with a huge increase in unemployment and a saturation of educated workers without employment, this means a _broad swath_ of the workforce across many strata is simply _going unused._ This is unsurprisingly making us wonder if the concept of everyone having a job is going to die.

The continued existence of jobs wouldn't contravene the death of employment as a societal universal.

which is to say, I'm not saying that there won't be jobs, I'm saying that _what we're actually discussing_ is exactly the deconstruction you recommended.
Salesforce.com CEO: Sorry, virtualization isn't cloud computing
If you're mostly looking for headless VM, you should check out Vagrant. It makes setup, teardown, and provisioning pretty straightforward.
If recent events are any indication, the proper course of action for Nintendo is to countersue, claiming the WavIt remote infringes on some of their patents.
1. use or utilization, especially for profit

Well, in this case, the girl will be exploiting the old man. She's making profit.
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Facebook should buy Yahoo.
Wow, for all I've read about Austrian Economics, I've never heard that simple yet devastating argument.
If you want no-gui VirtualBox that "just works" try vagrant.
The Pitfalls of Working from Home
OK, so if you replace his 38% chance of $200B with 28%, the valuation is still $79B. I think the qualitative point about upside potential stands, unless you find it completely unlikely that they will succeed big.
JSTOR Makes Early Journal Content Freely Available
@danmaz74

there were very little innovation that came out of Japan in the last 20 years. They were overtaken by their Korean counterparts (LG/Samsung > Sony/Panasonic/Toshiba/etc.) and American (HP/Dell/Apple/etc.). Ok you have Toyota/Nissan/Honda,etc. but their success was not due to innovation but was mostly due to GM/Ford/Chrysler's inability to make good cars.
The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included
Funny, and kissmetrics added cohort analysis this past week. Glad to see the competition between kissmetrics and mixpanel creating better products for us!
I thought it was a little odd that he (seems to be) comparing the svn GUI with the git command line experience even though there are GUI tools for git as well.

Have you tried Tower (http://www.git-tower.com/)? I used it briefly for a small project and thought it was nice, but didn't really have time to get to know it that well.
>Living within your means, yes, investing, yes, but saving under your pillow, especially if you had a non-inflating currency, isn't good for the economy.

It's good for the individual if investment opportunities aren't adequately regulated.
Prey looks cool, but... a non-ssl sign-up/login? Ridiculous!
Police officer suspended for downloading movie in his squad car
Uh, looks exactly like the new Safari downloads window.
Well, the issue is that the Apple Store Terms of Service are too vague to be able to be 100% sure if they are compatible with the GPL or the LGPL.

Moreover, whether we will be able to relicense enough of VLC modules to be useful on iOS.
just downloaded, very intuitive
if you're really worried about a wiped/new hdd, lojack for laptops will embed itself in the BIOS, which allows it to survive OS reinstalls and replaced hdds.

I have it on my thinkpad, and despite numerous windows reinstalls and a couple hard drive replacements, it's still on my system.
You are being downvoted because your statement was not a constructive comment.
And it creates a feedback loop: TechCrunch is the most-reputed site because of its scoops. Startups offer TechCrunch scoops because it's the most-reputed site.

Jumping to the conclusion that the end of TechCrunch is a good thing from that observation is bizarre. You could say the same thing about almost any major site, like Reddit or even Hacker News. HN has a good reputation and large userbase because it has so many awesome links. Why does it get so many awesome links? Because of its good reputation and large userbase. Not exactly a good reason to wish something dead though.
Sure, good points, I was speaking of "that train" to mean the hard-core "no government" people.
Don't forget:

0. Repeal the First Amendment.