skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much agree with the "location, location, location" idea.

I am sure there are advantages to doing a startup in Chile and in Montreal. But I still think that to make it big, you have to do it in Silicon Valley.

The concentration of talented and smart people is greater in Silicon Valley than in any other place.
Wow, thanks for the NSFW title...
Microsoft's revenue from Android near equal to WP7
Yeah, and its a pain in the arse. While native widgets aren't perfect, I'm much happier to deal with them instead of a reimplementation of one. Even when the web guy tries, they never work exactly the same, and they hardly ever try. The browser is a box where users have to throw away all the assumptions they have about the way controls behave because everything is done wildly different everywhere.

Users are forced to return to figuring everything out as they go, and then start over again at square for the next website. Visual cues are frequently sacrificed for the visual mess someone called a "design". For people highly familiar with native widgets, they just can't navigate around as easily in a webapp as they can in a first-class gui citizen. Not only because everything is different, but because the extended functionality that comes baked into real toolkits just isn't present in the web reimplementation. Things like the history api are even further eroding what assumptions can be made about gui behavior on the web.
Implementing WWW::LastFM, a client library to the Last.FM API, with XML::Rabbit
Loaded fast for me with no lag or anything (AZ, United States)
Other tablets have no true purpose or useful content to consume. There is no thought put into the user experience of the Galaxy Tab or the like. They are simply "me too" devices and fall into the meme of "ipad killer". Where, as w33ble put it, the Fire is an Amazon Portal.

Apple and Amazon are in the same space but came from two different sides. And Apple is trying to cover the "harder" side, which is server and cloud computing. While Amazon had that down before diving into consumer HW.

I do think they are missing an opportunity without a camera. Think about the opportunity to scan bar codes or book covers and instantly see the Amazon price, and purchase right there. Imagine being in Barnes and Nobles and buying the book on your Fire.
Reduces readability without reducing file-size. This belongs more on http://wtfjs.com/ .
The comma in its typical uses in variable assignment is pretty useless IMO.

var x = 1,
y = 2;

Destructuring lists would be a much more useful application

var x, y = [1, 2];

or

var tmp = [1, 2]
...
var x, y = tmp;

would be far more useful.
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Yeah, in the blog post Jason added the example of our thank-you cards, but I personally think the actual product design is even more important. Kevin gives some examples in his "Designing Web Apps Users Love" presentation:

http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/09/sunday-video-wufoo...

Edit: Also, thank you! It's always nice to hear feedback from people who use Wufoo.
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We just moved into a new office and found an abandoned TRS-80 in the attic. Unfortunately, it doesn't power-up. Any guidance on how to learn to fix one of those things?
everywhere where you need hydrogen for electricity generation and have some water and sunlight. combine it with a fuel cell and you've got a closed cycle, self-sufficient, localized power generation.

looking a bit further into the future, you might have a variant of this device produce petroleum or similar fuel for your car, with an added bonus of reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
I'm sorry but there are innumerable solutions for multi-provider authentication. Unless you only spent marginal time on it. In that case, I'd wait for soliciting feedback from a potentially Fb-skeptical crowd.

Feel free to ping me when you get that part done; you almost had me playing.
If Apple was liquidated today, i.e. stopped manufacturing goods and services; it would have $76bn of cash in the balance sheet. Apple's total number of outstanding shares is 927 million. That values each share at $82/share of PURE CASH. Can you spot the flaw? This case goes both ways, why don't you the maths?
Google+, Viber, Maps, SPB Shell 3D?

Yes, many Android apps looks bad (a lot of them appeared in the beginning of Android, made by hackers that dont care about design or poorly ported from other platforms) but this is not the case anymore.
I dislike this. It gives me no actual information.
Kindle Fire a win for the Android ecosystem
Technically S3 is not Amazon's CDN (CloudFront is) it just behaves like one and a lot of people use it like one.

For a localized readership, it is fine since all the data will be coming out of a single regional location. If you have global readership and need locality, that is where CloudFront comes in handy with 20 POPs around the globe that data is distributed to.

Serving off of S3 is not that expensive, even if your site goes gangbusters.

Serving off of CloudFront can surprise you because of the sometimes unexpected number of origin pulls that can occur as your data is expired from the edge locations.

You are sharing cache space on each edge node with every other CloudFront user, if your content is red hot it stays in the cache, but if it is low-volume (which is a relative term to the other traffic coming out of the node) it gets expired much faster, sometimes hours so any future hits for it will pull (download) it again from S3 to CloudFront, then back out from CloudFront to the client.

The performance implications aren't horrific (they can be for video) but the cost can double what you are paying with enough origin pulls occuring requiring redownload over and over and over again for the same files from the edge locations.

I have seen this catch a handful of people offguard to the tune of $100s of dollars or thousands on the forums over the last few years because they didn't realize this could happen... they just looked at the bandwidth rates on the site, multiplied by their payload sizes and thought that was the fixed rate.
Only mods can see what you put in the "email" field. If you want people to see your email address, put it in the "about" box on your profile.
Usually the share of contributions to the EU by national states are proportional to GDP. So everybody (who adopted the Euro) is contributing, but Germany has the biggest proportion. A lot of haggling was needed to convince Finland to contribute...
Anyone care to give it a review? I, for one, am all ears.

However, if you get distracted easily, you end up downloading 33GB of academic papers and maybe reading some of them. Or you get caught in a HTML5 version of Mario and there goes your day.

<blushes>
I was all ready to sign up as well, I do have a twitter account and I was still put off.

My twitter account is, like my facebook account and my google+ account, private to those whom I know and trust. why would I give that information to some random website?
Great point. Spokespeople / mascots are great. I think Alexis Ohanian is adamant about how having a mascot was a big part of what made Reddit succeed in growing and building a cult (and now massive) following.
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I haven't seen a stated resolution, processor clock speed, or RAM amount

Amazon has already set a precedent of operating like this, so I am not surprised. I am a techie with a head for specs. I've owned my Kindle 2 ever since the day it was released, and I haven't the foggiest idea what CPU it has, how much RAM it's got, or even how much flash it has or what version of the Linux kernel it uses. It's just a Kindle 2.

They don't hide the specs, but they (rather honestly) only talk about the specs that actually matter, and leave the other stuff in the wings. I figure it's part of their strategy of marketing to ordinary folk- not too different from Nintendo's marketing of the Wii, as compared to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

To give you an idea of specs that "actually matter"- while I know nothing about the internal specs of a Kindle, I know (thanks to Amazon marketing) that the Kindle 3 has a 50% better contrast ratio than the Kindle 2, page turns were some 20% faster, and battery life was improved. Upon seeing one, I saw it was noticably smaller too. I think you'll agree that in a Kindle, these specs are far more relevant and honest than clock speed or resolution.
I can't say I understand the feeling as I haven't been yet battered by the corporate machine.

My advice is to try and find something you can do by yourself that you will enjoy. Obviously, it would be better/more profitable to stay within your field, but who knows - lots of successful people change from field to field and remain successful (see James Altucher who has had many career changes). I would suggest you put some serious thought into what this special thing is, though. Do not quit your job before you do.

Some people might tell you to quit immediately for your own health, but I think putting some serious thought into your options will go a long way into keeping you happy. Sure, you're working in some corporate gig, but you've got some consulting business you're planning...something like that. Good luck, whatever you decide.
SPARC T4 looks good enough to stave off defections to x86 and Linux
Compared to 10% for photovoltaic solar cells, according to the article.
Totally agree. Wufoo has so much personality it would take an entire series to write about them and I didn't think it'd be fair to the other websites. =)
Well, lucky for you in Javascript 1.7: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7#Destr...

(though I kinda feel like panning syntax sugar as 'useless' is a little useless. What, are we going to count chars as a scientific comparison?)
20% seems way too high to me. I bet if you took a truly random sample, it would be less than 5%.

But per app or per developer statistics don't really tell you anything except that the app store is saturated with junk. It's just noise, and there is a world of mechanisms to filter it out.

The real interesting stat would be revenue per talent-hours or something, but obviously that is hard to measure objectively.
Loaded slow for me, and in bits. I am at HP in Roseville CA.
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I would say that your (perceived) personality IS your brand - your brand being the identity that your users see in you.

If by brand you meant your logo, consider that your theme and your logo will be for sure noticed by your users/visitors and what they communicate will be taken as part as your brand and personality.
Health coverage.
You'll find more gory details on this Real World Tech discussion:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&...
Pretty slow here in Sweden on first load with empty cache. The main culprit seems to be http://my.betali.st/widget/4qvp5few.js which takes 450 ms to load.

I also ran Firebug with Page Speed and it reported 65/100 on the scorecard. YSlow reports 86/100 with the ruleset set to "Small site or blog".
Cool, also saw Professor Maldonado talk about this on "Saturday Morning Physics":

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgne...

video:

http://lecb.physics.lsa.umich.edu/wl/umich/phys/satmorn/2010...

his research lab:

http://www.umich.edu/~mgroup/research.html
Actually, in one of Neal Stephenson's articles/booklets, he actually compares Unix to a very large drill (working the metaphor in some comic depth). When said drill is told to turn, it turns, consequences be damned. ("In The Beginning Was The Command Line")
Though strangely enough, the per-capita contribution of Germany is lower than that of Ireland.
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I wonder if a (rough enough) algorithm might be to filter all apps in the app store and only analyze apps that have more than 1k downloads then see what the profit split looks like so you (hopefully) filter out brand new apps that you don't care about, or junk apps that have been buried algorithmically by Apple already.
Nope, it isn't made in PhoneGap. The only native (visible) controls are in the web browser header.

There is a lot of non-visible Obj-C, e.g., for controlling caching and other niceties.
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Google opens first retail store in London
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What I was trying to get across is that commenters should own up and stand by their words and not hide behind the keyboard.
Basho Releases Riak v1.0.0
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Why not just generate a unique token for each user then?
Done. Thanks for the help.
Sure. It's a complex and fuzzy process, which is probably why it hasn't been explained well. It starts with you & your customer.

I see that you're behind architexa and I can see you're not sure what kind of personality you want for your product. Why did you decide to make this? Is this a personal problem you have? Who is your target customer? Why do they want your product? Do they want to work faster? Or prevent mistakes? Or use something with very little friction? And don't say all of the above, because no product can be all things to all people, just like no person can be likeable to everyone (well, except Ryan Hupfer).

Answering those questions starts you down the road of developing your product's personality. Also check out 37 Signals's article on finding an enemy - http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php
> Big fan of Flask, so I do hope there will be other methods of authentication (or none at all until you want to save your work).

Sorry for that. I thought it would be the easiest way for people to sign up but I guess I will add OpenID as well.
Stanford "Data Visualization" course - Fall 2011
My Trip to the Beach
I would be interested how the bailout is perceived in the US. What is your understanding of the workings of the eurozone?
According to WhatsMyUserAgent.com, Firefox 9.0a2 (alpha channel) looks like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20110930 Firefox/9.0a2

Doesn't look very weird.
What's wrong with local gov: Montgomery County MD charges $120+K for GIS data
The latter. Germany is responsible for about $280 bill. But this is a fund. We don't know how much will actually have to be footed by the govt/people when it's all over. TARP cost much, much less than its first price tag. The bailout of Greece will probably cost mcuh more than today's price tag.
I guess I should've qualified my statements first by alluding to the fact that unless you're a Ruby dev or come from that kind of background, Github may seem foreign and weird in a fuzzy way. Github is in many aspects a reflection of a particular community's philosophy which may not fit with others.

I guess one has to consider the lifespan of hype. I've been a paying customer for two years now and it doesn't get old. I don't follow the Githubbers around, I don't wear their schwag and I only go to a random drinkup if it's convenient but if there's anything I tell emerging developers it's "Get thee to Github". They're always innovating and sharing with not just their customers, paying or otherwise, but also with the developer community as a whole. Their efforts transcend just a couple of commits.

Also, they're making money as they're supposed, with hard work, innovation and a commitment to excellence. To me, it's exciting to be a part of their experience. It's empowering. And if I look at it from a financial perspective, I make money from using their service.

It all goes back to asking if using a particular service or product is going to get me laid. Github will. Unfuddle and Bitbucket not so much. Hype and buzz is something nice to have in a fast-paced world, but being indispensable is awesome.

Forks, pastebins and wikis? That's called opening the door to the reclusive developer communities of the past. Do you know how hard it was to get a dev to fix a bug in their code ten years ago? Nearly impossible. Patches unwelcome.

Sure, a service and technology will emerge in the coming years that will surpass Github, just like any other business, but I'm willing to bet right now that they'll be based on Github's model with a lot of lessons learned from that entire community.
iSuppli routinely made the same claim about iPhone 3, 3GS and 4, as well as the iPad 1 and 2. They take the standard, off-the-shelf component prices, make an addition and publish a press release "Ta-da! They must be losing money, those sneaky bastards!". This is getting tiring.

Amazon, just like Apple, doesn't really buy components by the million at street unit price, is this a surprise? Why do people still comment on these non-events, insignificant press releases? This is only iSuppli marketing, and not much else.
Made it by the end of the month as promised!
about 2.5 seconds from start to finish. 50Mbit home line.
Which ones in particular do you feel are bad? Most of everything is crap, and there's certainly no lack of it in the app store. In my experience the "top-tier" apps tend to look good on both platforms, often identically so.

So what iOS apps in your experience have "ugly" Android equivalents?
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The more interesting question here isn't "what % take in the most money" but what kind of money can you expect to see? As in, if you write an iphone/ipad app, what are the maximum returns you could see?
It'd also be interesting to find out how much money has angry birds, or fruit ninja made off just the app store?(not counting merch sales) Additionally, how does it break down? (in app purchase/initial purchase, ad revenue, etc)

Overall reports are interesting, but not that useful, since there is a ton of crap that no one in their right mind would buy...and if you're doing it as a business you wouldn't produce a product that low quality (we hope)
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Exactly. As a friend of mine once said, "being in shape and being able to get into shape aren't the same thing".
I'd love to check it out too, Eric.
Haskell won't run in a repl, will it? GHCi and Hugs demand that functions be specified in a script file and not at the prompt.

Without functions, you really don't have very much of the Haskell language available. It's a partial repl with a fraction of the language at best.
Chrome does not update the running exe - it makes a new copy in another directory. Then the launcher checks for latest directory and runs that.

Existing executables are not modified. Only created and deleted.
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There are several reasons why you generally have a huge disadvantage when doing a startup in Canada, and it's not just about taxes and laws.

Want to use that cool new service (e.g., Stripe)? Sorry, not available in Canada.

Want to start a service that ships anything in the mail? Prohibitively expensive.

Want funds? Banks won't lend you anything and investors are very few and risk averse. $20-50K investments in web startups are rare and big news when they happen.

I love Canada and I'm not moving from it. But Canadian entrepreneurs have much lower chances of succeeding than American ones.

Can you make millions in Canada? Sure, but it's a much less likely occurrence. And if you do, it will generally be still less than what American startups can make.

This is why it makes no sense to start a company like Twitter in Canada. You can't sustain it. The best approach for Canadian startups is to bootstrap by charging money from day one.

So you can get a lot of nice "Italian restaurants on the web" doing SaaS and making good money, but don't expect groundbreaking innovation a la Google from Canada.

With that said, those who are already in Canada, like me, have no free pass. If you don't succeed, you can only blame yourself.

"In Silicon Valley they hand out money like candy" is not a good excuse for never achieving your dreams in Canada.
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Because it's not about code really, it's about design of the solution.

PSP (Personal Software Process) encourages the same thing: do your design on paper and debug it, then write the code, do a visual run through of the code, then run it. For short routines, it actually works very well. The problem is that if you've been programming for years, it feels very unnatural and requires a lot of discipline.
The bigger picture is that Amazon is my library - they keep all my books. Now they want to keep all my movies, music and apps. If they succeed, they will keep me as a customer for life, and that's way more than $10.

Similarly, Apple wants to be my library too - they keep some of my music, most of my apps, and now they also want to keep my videos, my app data (including but not limited to books) and the rest of my music via iCloud.

IOW, they key battle here is for being X in "I keep all my books/music/movies/games over at X" for the average Joe.
I live in Pleasant Hill and commute to SF daily on the BART train. I code for the full 50 minutes - 1 hour each way (as long as I can get a seat).

I haven't found anything difficult about it. If I run into something I need to lookup I either check briefly from my iphone or just skip it until I'm in the office or at home. I also skip anything that would have me sitting idly trying to make a decision because there's plenty of time for that on the MUNI.
I've never played around with Flask before this and now I'm seriously considering migrating my project from Django to this.

I like that it's more lightweight and flexible than Django, but there appear to be some tradeoffs as well. Has anyone successfully migrated a project from Django to Flask? Are you happy with your decision? What things do you like/dislike about it compared to Django?
At some point, it occurred to me that switching everyone over to the same currency should have been the last thing that Europe does to unify its economy, rather than one of the first things. It was a big symbolic victory, but as a practical matter it means the countries in the Eurozone share a fiscal policy, while still having independent economies. They should have waited until their economies were already on the same page before conjoining their currencies, but instead they tried to force a unity that wasn't there yet. Now Greece is missing one of the big knobs that could have been turned (by itself or others) to deal with its crisis, namely devaluing its currency.

This article points out something I hadn't seen before, which is one way in which the unified currency may still end up somehow achieving its goal of unifying Europe: as the strong, fiscally-responsible states bail out the weaker ones, they get to dictate policies in those states as conditions of the bailouts. Politically, the bailed-out states will start aligning more with European interests compared to purely self-interested ones.

It's not the best way to achieve European unity, but it has some advantages. On the one hand, it's a little unfair that Germany gets to strong-arm Greece into doing what it wants, because it's an involuntary loss of sovereignty. On the other hand, it seems like a decent heuristic that the states with the strongest economies get more power to make economic decisions. How well that works out for Greece in the long run depends on the politics and alignment between what's good for Germany, what's good for Greece, and what's good for Europe as a whole. I assume the EU will be making sure German bankers don't simply pillage Greece's economy for decades.
No, the UK. It depends on where you are, as I can access the web in the UK but not in Greece.

However, last time I was in the UK, they barred access there too, which was odd. It definitely worked the first time I got it.
Consider it ~/bin, on Unices, it is a standard way to do user installations.

If there was system-wide vendor neutral update mechanism, (like apt in Debian/Ubuntu, for example), I'm sure that Chrome team would use it in place of their own home-grown solution.