skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a little too cynical for me, and runs counter to Google's very origins (not to say that the managers and execs in charge of today's Google may have diverged from that):

http://bit.ly/uvHu5n
"[Excite CEO] Bell was visibly upset. The Stanford [Google] product was too good. If Excite were to host a search engine that instantly gave people information they sought, he explained, the users would leave the site instantly.
Yes, I don't doubt that the iOS5 login bug was not intentional, however every other issue I mentioned has been there since I switched back to an iPhone from Droid when the Verizon iPhone was released. That's nearly a year of a completely malfunctioning app (although, I could actually log in to that one.)
Great idea and I am looking forward to the eBook. I have always used and created designs based on what I have liked / what has inspired me and it would be awesome to have a high level structure to go by, that comes from a professional designer. It would be helpful to have a "Checklist" of the most important aspects to ensure which would help validate / update past designs.
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Turbocharging MobileWorks: Job management, webhooks+callbacks, and HTML5 support
I love 3 monitor setups, with the big one in the middle and two cheap small ones on either side. All my input (editing, browsing, etc.) happens in the big fancy middle window. Test logs on the left, and server logs on the right.

The only time I use the side monitors for anything else is if I'm following along with a screencast.
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I wanted to link right to the source, but news sites have more info, eg: http://gigaom.com/2011/10/31/republic-wireless-to-launch-19-...

edit: which I now see was submitted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180702
Why doesn't Google promote innovation in United States? US is going through a pretty big crisis.
Scumbag Hacker says nothing really too remarkable here... remarks.
Majority of American Workers Not Engaged in Their Jobs
When I want to remind myself of what it's like to use a non-iOS device, I'll open up this Gmail app.
There's no sticky sessions, and the balancing is purely random (so statistically roughly the same as a round-robin) - it was primarily designed for large numbers of small backends, rather than one or two sites with ten backends, though we'll be adding in more balancing types as we go.
Wait, why did he leave?

It's not like he'd get deported even if he got arrested, sure as hell wouldn't happen in California. Just continue working and have your lawyers stall and get the Visa stuff handled. You won't be able to travel outside the states and then come back in until your paperwork is done but that shouldn't be a huge problem in the internet world we live in. Or have an investor sponsor you at one of their (most likely many) companies so you have a valid job that the government can't complain about.

To be fair, the government is only going by what they know. If anyone could go created an LLC, call themselves CEO and be free to work here then everyone would do it. Most likely he didn't keep up with his visa paperwork and this is the result.
It looks like the goal of the swap was to have a spartan, lightweight, cool (temperature) workspace.

It seems like a MacBook Air accomplishes this better than iPad, stand and keyboard.

The only difference I can grok from the article is that the MacBook Air is somehow more fragile. But is it?
I find flash sites seem to be the big problem, if I have flash block on then the same sites don't cause the same slow down.

This on Kubuntu 11.10 with FF7 (which FF I'm finding more responsive than previous versions).
Isn't this sort of a sanity-level thing you'd check in QA? You know, install the app and boot it?
Yes and no. You have to remember a lot of jobs in $MEGA-CORP don't need much more than a warm body that can open a spreadsheet and mail it out. I deal with these idiots everyday and they often have titles of Project Manager, although I've recently been dealing with ones that have VP titles. The thing is, even in a giant company there are very few people pushing the boulder forward so to speak. So when hiring for non-boulder pushing position it's easy to hire someone with the right credentials because even if they are not the greatest hire ever they can still do the simple job they are given.
I think you may be missing the point about mechanical keyboards, my friend.

The appeal of a mechanical keyboard stems from the switches under the keys that offer varied pressure curves, pressure thresholds, and physical feedback (depending on the switch type).

Both the apple wireless keyboard and MBP laptop keyboard use scissor switches which are the typical laptop keyboard switch type. Some people like this switch type, some people do not.

But if you're to say something like "it's easily better than a laptop keyboard" you can only make such a claim based on size or number/position of keys, since both use the same switch type. I'd wager a guess that the nature of the key switches is probably what your parent is interested in.
Another interesting mechanism is what ChessTempo.com uses. Players and puzzles both have a Elo-like dynamic ranking. When a player beats a puzzle, the player's rank increases and the puzzle's rank decreases. This makes it easy to, over time, present players with puzzles that are of appropriate difficulty.
I don't get why we as a society push so many kids into college telling them it's the only way to get a good job then laugh at them when they graduate because they got a degree in under water basket weaving.

They call it further education and not job training for a reason. College was never meant to train a person for a specific field but to make a person a more well rounded individual which would appeal to an employer.

It's no longer being sold that way yet it's still being ran that way which is why we are seeing a huge issue. For profits are taking advantage of people because they appear to offer the job training you would not get at a regular 4 year. Also thousands of recent graduates who are now working at places like wal-mart and the like are scratching their heads because truthfully they were lied to.
Weren't Asana the guys working on Lunascript? I remember being pretty excited about it, and it'd be awesome if you built off of it for this.

What's the status on Lunascript?
Also $ESCAPE-space and $ESCAPE-backspace move sequentially among screens. control-a is screen's default $ESCAPE, but it's a poor choice given the use of control-a for beginning-of-line. I'm pretty happy with backtick (`) with no modifier now that I'm using $(...) for bash sub commands. You can't use byobu to change $ESCAPE to a sequence that doesn't use control, but it is easily set via "escape ``" in ~/.screenrc.
Seems like a lot of work to save $15 reg fee.
That blog post breaks scrolling behavior on iPad and iPhone. Amazing.
Still. For a couple of days of "just learning the language" I'm ready to come all the way from Italy.

; )

Anyway, a few suggestions:
- Clojure for Processing large amount of data (MapReduce);
- Clojure for Web Development;
- Clojure for When Other Languages Are Simply Not Enough(tm).
When it launched, the mobile Gmail app was great. Unfortunately they decided to break scrolling by poorly reimplementing it in JS and it's all downhill since then.
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Very interesting. Did you ever consider the same setup but using a Chromebook? I've been thinking about doing that for a while now (I'm on an MBP currently).
http://www.google.com/chromebook/
I also love Veil¹. A lot of applications I write are LOB apps with a lot of contorted ACLs on rows.

For example a user with role "Secretary" can view all calendar entries of her department, but not those of other departments, and a user with role "User" can only see the calendar entries of his office mates.

With Veil I can implement those access rules on the database once, and they are applied to all frontends for the data (web apps, desktop apps and mobile apps)

¹http://veil.projects.postgresql.org/curdocs/index.html
This is true - the Google Voice app is now much much better, but it is worth pointing out that there were tons of bugs that weren't fixed for over a year, like:

* freezing irrecoverably when opening the app/going to inbox very often

* losing all the text you've typed when anything causes the textfield to lose focus

* things like gaining network connectivity causing said textfield to lose focus

Perhaps this qualifies as ad hominem, but this experience was biblically awful and from a major software company. Seeing how this new Gmail app is a bunch of Web views and needlessly non-standard widgets (=> part of the worst dredge of apps), it makes me start to feel pretty cynical about their iOS strategy.

Then again, taken the experience using the Android browser while developing mobile websites, maybe it's an institutional inability to develop polished mobile applications.
Yeah. There's also just a huge amount of boilerplate HTML an CSS you need when you start a project, it would be great to be able to leap frog some or all of that.
The Magic of IE: Conditional Compilation
Small Keyboard Redesign Proposal
Fixed :-) https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/commit/f52a699bbc9e...
"I'm using time machine for backups, so i don't think i'll lose much"

Time Machine is great, but as others have mentioned that may not help if the building catches on fire. It's good to also have your stuff backed up at a different location, preferably in a different time zone. :-)

Edit: Like others, I use DropBox for stuff that doesn't really warrant a full-blown source control system. It's very easy to just right-click, compress, then copy the zip to the DropBox folder.
The title is a bit disingenuous. Before clicking through, I was wondering how he managed to maintain his productivity level with a touchscreen keyboard. I'm disappointed he's using external hardware, because otherwise I'd love to try a similar setup.
That is the exact comment I gave to Google (via the feed back link) when I changed back to the "old" version.
No, I meant the actual Mr. Ponzi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi

It was a rhetorical question. The point was, Andrew Mason's accomplishments don't seem quite so respectable anymore.

The article is about the growing number of Liberal Arts graduate s. My point is that if you are going to study liberal arts in this economy, you'd be better off studying somewhere good and have more opportunities later.

I submit that if you get into a name brand university, you probably already have the upper-middle-class/upper-class background, connections, and upbringing necessary to do well in the job market regardless of what you actually study. And either way, now that you're in the elite social category of "people who got into a name brand university". That's all status, and no one ever argued that status didn't get you places in the world.
"grep" came from ed: g/re/p "global regex print".

It's much older than vi (1976 vs 1973):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
By purely random, you mean not weighted, so all your backends need to be roughly equal in capabilities?
http://airvm.com
Working from what you like and what inspires you is really the best place to start.

I'm planning to include a checklist in the book that's more detailed than the simple preview/cheatsheet on the site right now. Thanks for the suggestion and interest!
They've had the iOS 5 beta available since June and they didn't bother to fix it before the actual release. If that doesn't say that they don't care, I don't know what else.
A lot of things we do here would make them question our mental health. Say, pretending like you really need more than that $40,000 job the English major can get that lets him live in a small but safe apartment in a fine neighborhood (that has plumbing, electricity, and sanitation) in a non-center-of-the-world American city, and shop for all the groceries he needs in the market 10 minutes away.

Anyway, for a community that loves Steve Jobs so dearly - a man who claims the Mac wouldn't have been so successful if not for that calligraphy class he took at Reed College - there's an awful lot of derision in these comments for non-engineering around here. Of course, this is also a guy that dropped out of school and taught himself technical skills. Just enough to be dangerous... and convince someone like Woz to help him out. Or maybe that was the LSD and Buddhism talking.
I'm really looking forward to this book. It seems like the perfect thing for a developer like me. Usually I just buy a template from ThemeForest and extensively modify it but I'd really like to start from a blank page one day.
What should we use instead?
Empower Network Review - Wow, what can i say?
I don't think I'm twisting the argument. You said that you believe you gathered these skills as a result of your curriculum choice.

Although I think plenty of other comments defending Liberal Arts make this point more explicitly about the relative benefits.
Makes sense.

Maybe it is already implemented, but I imagine it would be possible to let the user know that they are attempting to use an extension and said extension is disable and suggest how to enable it.

Something like Ubuntu's missing command package works. If I type a command that is missing but is installable by a package in apt, there will be a suggestion printed "It looks like you are trying to use this command, it can be installed via apt-get ..."
Now that I've switched to Trello, I can't see trying something new. Looks like the space is getting crowded though.
I've set up something similar for myself, using WebLiveWallpaper to fetch a PNG of the latest local (Finnish) radar + temperature map.

It's rather surprising how easily having a bird's-eye view of the weather sort of fades into the background of your consciousness and becomes an accepted fact. I use my phone often enough that it just feels like I have an extra sense that tells me what the weather's like. Very odd.
Or in the vaunted app review process?
This is a very serious allegation. It would be nice if you substantiated your claims. One could be tempted to write off unsubstantiated claims otherwise.

Hg 0.1 was released around 6 years ago, not a decade ago.

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.2/0670.h...
Also not available for me, in the U.S., browsing the app store from my iPod Touch.
Very interesting article. This is really the money quote:

"There’s a lot of opportunity here. Pakistan is a clean slate in terms of the fact that web companies like Paypal doesn’t work, as soon as they type of stuff is happening, there’s going to be a lot of opportunity for new innovation here."

All the violence in the country hides the fact that it is a very large country with a rapidly growing middle class. I've read how, even in the middle of the Lebanese civil war, most people, on most days, lived their lives in Beirut as in any other city.

The opportunity is immense. Congrats to Trevor making some inroads there.
Here are some weaknesses I see that may be good openings:

- Ebay has horrible design IMO and there's an opportunity to build a better way to browse and discover.
- Discovery/Exploration is lacking and simplistic based on categories + filters. Most people have already done their product research before they get to Ebay. A better site could attempt to build a better product discovery engine.
- Fees - Maybe undercut them on fees or move to a flat rate model to encourage platform adoption and growth.
Googler: "we pushed a bad version of our iOS app for Gmail"
Palestine : Hackers have taken down phone and Internet services
Advanced India and its approach towards friendship and love
A lot of the discussion here has broken down to arguing the merits of a liberal arts vs. STEM education. I think that that line is a purely personal decision, and the real argument here is career driven vs. "pursuit of knowledge" driven education.

I attend a liberal arts school, but we are a career driven school, almost to the point of being conservatory style. I take significantly more credits in my degree program than I even have the option of in general ed requirements. I spend more of my day in meetings for co-curricular and outside paid work than I do in class, by design. Yes, I do take classes called "The Artist and the Making of Meaning" that seem to have no...meaning, but I also already have enough connections in my field to secure me a job that I would be happy in out of college in at least three cities, if not more.
I have a 13" MBP and a USB apple keyboard. The keys really feel different, despite same layout. External keyboard has easier to feel clicks and requires more pressure. Could be the use on my laptop, though (2 years vs 1 year).
I was thinking the exact same thing. It was really neat to read about a real world use of what I'm learning in the class.

It makes me wonder if the data set is available as well.
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Asana-developing-their-own-progr...
the professor did say people make careers off of what we already know with linear and logistic regression.
At least on the XBox, Gates and Allard interacted a fair bit. From the book "Opening the XBox":

"In the next meeting with Gates, Allard, Ferroni, and Thomason broke the news that the machine wouldn't be able to run the full Windows OS...Hase says he admired Allard for 'having the stones' to 'rip Windows to shreds'...

Allard recalled later, 'I think that was the closest Bill ever got to strangling me. But he ultimately came around.'"

The impression I get is that Allard has had his share of interaction with Gates, which is why I think this email thing wasn't news to Allard. But I suspect this time Allard couldn't convince Gates and so it was killed.

But this just me being a pundit speculator.
Happy birthday to the best piece of software I use.
Yes, I would seriously consider that - although I would want to think carefully about the division of group and individual terms, to ensure that individual renters did not get stiffed on things like maintenance and so forth (and likewise for the group to be legally insulated from the defaults of individuals who fall behind on the rent).

I've been home-hunting in SF for going on 2 years now, and it's been a miserable experience. The rental market is not much better; a lot of the housing stock in SF is really shitty, and prices are being kept artificially high by irresponsible lenders and borrowers. This market is ripe for disruption and there is definitely room for alternative business models. What you're proposing sounds somewhat similar to housing associations I've seen in some European countries.
I'm interested, just to see existing products like AccuWeather's Predictive Radar get more open to other clients.

http://www.accuweather.com/radarplus-benefits.asp
Apple iPhone 4S 'drains battery' too quickly complaints
That's exactly the one I had (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3186671). I was pretty sure it was non-unique, but I'm glad you checked it properly!
Check out the photo on https://squareup.com/#!cardcase ; There's an identifying photo associated with each payer, and tipping built into the receipt screen.
Asana is indeed built on top of Luna, our sweet in-house programming framework. http://asana.com/luna

(Lunascript was a DSL we were initially writing for coding against Luna; we ended up deciding that wasn't worth optimizing and going with a JS syntax instead)
Bummer how backbone is free, railscasts was free (and still is mostly free), backbone tutorials are free... where am I going with this I don't know. It is sound from a business perspective, but it goes against the grain of the community.
woah hello HN!
Does the video remind anyone of the secret level in Super Mario 64 triggered by looking up into the sun? Flying through rings and all...

This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NXA7uJj58
Looking forward to the book. We're in the situation at the moment where we have a back-end founder working on our product and me (with no web design background) working on the front-end because I've always had interest in it. Being bootstrapped means that we've had to scour blogs, HN etc and other peoples' designs and consume large amounts of UI/UX books to try do at least the initial release ourselves..
The only way to get that integration is to either use Sprint or jailbreak and use http://gvexts.appspot.com/sms/sms.html
I would like things better if I were the only anything scanning my emails, but we all know that will never happen.
I think you misunderstood me. I'm the person who said how great Screen is at the top of this thread. My uptime comment was in response to someone who said "the only downside is that it cant persist through a machine restart." That's not much of a downside for me because the machines I have my Screen sessions on are down so rarely - literally, less than half a dozen times a year.

In other words, I use Screen when I connect to remote machines. Those machines go down rarely.
Google vs. Web Architecture
I definitely agree, one cofounder & I recently discovered that doing intense exercise in the evening can really help decompress after a long day and clear the mind.
Thanks - we already talking to people about most of those. :)

Also, we will have training for learning the language as well, done by Clojure/core.
This actually is part of the appstore review process (I do this for my job). However, we've had apps slip through before. I'm not sure entirely why this happens, since the checks for missing entitlements or incorrect signing should be automatic, but it does on occasion.

This is a problem with Apples review process as much as anything else, since you can't test the properly signed release version of the app until you publish it to the appstore for all to see.
Fry's Electronics now has quite an assortment of kits that can easily be built, and Microcenter near where I live also has kits from Sparkfun.
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Except that the case of Jobs is a perfect illustration of the grandparent's point: he dropped out of Reed College because he couldn't justify the expense to himself. He audited the calligraphy class, and slept on floors and couches. So he didn't go $100k into debt to take those classes with the expectation it would land him a good job; he sat in on them because he was interested in them but recognized they were a bad investment.
Well, cosmically speaking, that does seem quite close.