skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this. Feel free to hack up my scripts:
http://procbits.com/2011/10/10/automating-generation-ios-pus...
http://procbits.com/2011/10/07/automating-the-mac-os-x-keych...

All code is open source on Github as referenced in the articles.
I'd point out that we've surrounded command lines with a lot of accoutrement over the years

I would counter your claims with the simple fact that the earliest command-line interfaces had none of these. A process change only has to offer an incremental improvement over what came before to drive adoption. Those of us who used the earliest shells and the job-control languages that preferred them know that the bar for usefulness can be set quite low and the tool will still be used and improved upon.
IE 9 is actually a great little browser on the Mnago version of the OS. What doesn't work on IE9 for you? Which website that you regularly visit on your mobile?
It's feasible that Cyanogenmod will release a compatible version though, isn't it?
The term "cancer", while often used in the singular, covers a large number of diseases. Some of which we can vaccinate against.
Compared to iTunes on Windows, it's heaven. My mother has an iPod and that thing can't do anything without freezing the UI.
No Ice Cream Sandwich for Google's Nexus One Android phone
The Real Story Behind AngelList: Interview with Founder Nivi [Video & Photos]
You see, that's the problem. His mission was to promote free software, instead of the mission the university hired him for: sending the graduates off on their next journey.
This reminded me of quite interesting talk about bing maps: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html

They too showed some interior and (I think) talked about "mapping" it. The talk is almost two years old so it suprised me that it's new in google maps. But I don't know if it's actually used in bing maps as I don't use them (just for the bird-eye occasionally).
Google Tests a New Search Interface for Tablets
His demands are surely the cumulative result of years of travelling, giving speeches, dealing with cat fur, losing numerous tickets etc. I would be surprised if he wasn't this systematic.
The day the Macintosh was introduced (the real story)
I mean obviously, I bet nothing happened before. Who gives someone a parrot?

But he has a short graf on why you shouldn't give him Coke. I had no idea about the "Killer Coke" story. Clearly, he reads up on this stuff; he just wants to share how inhumane the parrot pet trade is, I'd guess.

But still! It's charming in this context.
Space Junk Crisis: Time to Bring in the Lasers
6 Guys in a Capsule: 520 Days on a Simulated Mars Mission
The man is thorough. This line made me lol:

"I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up."
It is (just bureaucratic nonsense) if they aren't willing to sell a foreign version of the game to those who want it.

Steam uses region codes, much like DVDs, to deny you the language of your choice - because they screw with prices by area and don't want to lose this ability.

Even Steam's DRM is too much. If for whatever reason they disable your account or some of your games there's nothing you can do. Your games are just gone. As if someone came in and cut up your DVDs. Except that if you had had DVDs you could just re-download them and your keys would still work.
you need to know what I dislike:

avocado
eggplant, usually (there are occasional exceptions)
hot pepper
olives
liver (even in trace quantities)
stomach and intestine; other organ meats
cooked tuna
oysters
egg yolk, if the taste is noticeable, except when boiled completely hard
many strong cheeses, especially those with green fungus
desserts that contain fruit or liqueur flavors
sour fruits, such as grapefruit and many oranges
beer
coffee (though weak coffee flavor can be good in desserts)
the taste of alcohol (so I don't drink anything stronger than wine)
Filing a patent just to have a patent is a few $100 - even less if you only file provisionally and hope the new employer doesn't understand the difference!

But if you want a patent to be of value, then it needs professional drafting and filing in multiple countries with specialist lawyers who understand for instance why Taiwan is different. That and translation and renewal fees costs $10-100K
Flash Crash: Klout’s New Scoring Model
That's reasonable, yes. The two paragraphs on the subject of parrots, however, seem rather unnecessary.
"Google - Indoors" for privately-owned houses and flats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhK4jW8HYo (in German)
I noticed this trend while reading through a few presentations on SlideShare the other day. A lot of slides but each one has been tuned with just enough content to get the point across. Of course, the audio of the presentations would be nice because I'm sure the presenter goes into further detail but it's a nice trend nonetheless.
Excellent, I have high hopes for this being a resource for real world Django. You guys have my eyes and ears!
Except HTC doesn't control the software on the Nexus One. Google handles all Google-experience devices like the Nexus One, Nexus S, Xoom and the new Nexus Galaxy.
Damn. This bums me out.
I'm slightly blown away by this. Call my naive, but perhaps I knew this was possible but just wasn't expecting it to look as good as it does. I'm not sure what's more surprising, how good the logos look, or the fact that someone had to have spent a tremendous amount of time designing all these from scratch with CSS.
plessthanpoint5, I'm in the process of doing some research on techniques for learning software development online. Any chance I could email you with some questions? I'm at jake@noteleaf.com.
How is this different than Apple's iOS5 compatibility list?

Well, besides how much easier it will be for third parties to add ICS to Nexus One.
Why You Should Wait for the iPhone 5
Eventbrite officially launches in Europe
Tiny Tower: Why Irrational Elements Are Fun
PlayBook OS update delayed 4 months (or maybe forever)
Hope for medical device startups
The main reason I use IntelliJ products (IDEA for Java and AppCode for iOS) is the keyboard support. These guys are serious about making sure every feature is easily done with the keyboard. Xcode drives me crazy because I feel like I'm always reaching for the mouse or tabbing through fields or buttons to drive the UI.

The most common refactorings, like rename method/variable/field or change signature are all easily done through the UI. Example: rename (anything) is Shift-F6, <type new name>, enter. I do this all the time.
iOS 5 runs smoothly on a 3GS, a phone older than the Nexus One.
Is it time to fix SSL?
Comprehensive.
Mr. Stallman is neither nice in manner or smell. His ideas, while visionary at times, are not pragmatic. He is his own worst enemy. Perhaps, however, it takes an unfriendly, smelly man to trumpet the ideas of freedom in the digital age. I'm ok with that.
You don't hire a missionary with a vision to pat yourself or your audience on the back.

That's like expecting Sylvester Stallone to do higher mathematics or Mother Theresa to do an arms deal for you.

Some people are what they are and their environment/audience will have to accept them as they are.

The problem lies squarely with the person that hired him, the abstract of the speeches listed should have adequately explained what they were going to get. That's exactly what that rider exists for in the first place, to avoid misunderstandings like that.

I highly doubt if RMS could even tailor his speech to the occasion, he must know it by heart by now except for the Q&A part.

What I found interesting on reading the 'rider' is that he still refers to the GNU operating system as though it is in daily use. I've yet to see a HURD based system do anything useful in production but half the world wide web seems to run on Linux these days. Of course linux is 'merely a kernel'.

But if you write free software the you also give away the right to name that software, after all, a fork is under no obligation to be named after the parent. So RMS holding on to insisting to call Linux GNU/Linux looks to be against the self-imposed freedoms.
I think the reaction is largely over the perceived short lifespan of the hardware in relation to supported software updates available to it, which in this instance favors poorly against Apple generally supplying software updates more than two years after a phone is released.
Okay, I found the speech on YouTube, it's in three parts and it's over 30 minutes long:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbsifBoI_0E
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APb1tNxvGMY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQURxJ2QYc

If you're looking for a quick laugh, listen to part 2 where he starts off going on a rant about how the university is using Windows Media Player to stream the convocation and forces users to use Windows. He tells the audience to "throw Windows out of the computer, or the computer out the Window." He did get a lot of cheers for that remark though.
And yet I doubt that satisfying each of these requirements would actually make him less cranky.
I'm a longtime Jetbrains fan (ReSharper and TeamCity).

I looked into AppCode a bit earlier when it was still rough. Getting tight integration is the key for me. Refactorings would be nice (XCode has Rename already), but really what I want are snippets, or something to take some of the drudge code away.

For instance, to add a property I have to add 4 lines of code in 4 different places. This should be one action (which can be overrided later).

Also, code navigation. This was terrible in XCode 3, better in 4, but nowhere near ReSharper or IntelliJ.
Ever visited an Arabic country?

Whatever an American might think, this is THE major problem - not terrorism - but being 'hospitalitied' to death!
Yes, there's a good chance of such a release considering the history of CyanogenMod [1].

Too bad the update won't be straight from Google this time. One of the key benefits of the Nexus One for nearly 2 years comes to an end.

[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
Okay, then instead, tack on a random amount of time.
See my comment above... I posted link to the speech on YouTube.
Watch it. If they find out you do that they'll disable the games and perhaps your whole account.

Region coding should be illegal. Or rather, enforcing it.
There's no incentive for Google to provide backward compatibility for Android, hence they don't.
Choosing a Minimum Viable Cofounder
"You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things."
Blackberry PlayBook OS 2.0 slips to February
Hey, sorry about that. Updated!
I've always wondered about this, especially in embedded devices. Amongst the many mistakes Microsoft made with Vista, first and foremost was allowing the bloat to get so bad that it wouldn't run at all on machines that ran XP quite happily. Later Windows 7 could actually run on those old XP machines with many, if not most, of the features that Vista bragged about.

So here we have Google, arguably a company which can hire all of the worlds best engineers, why are they succumbing to the code first and ask questions later philosophy that gave Microsoft such heartburn?

Andy, I know you read HN, tell the team that their bonus depends on Android 4.0 being runnable on a Nexus 1. It isn't about supporting the platform with the least market share of any Android phone, its about instilling in the team a philosphy that taking the time to run great on hardware of that capability pays huge dividends in the phone world.

Many engineers today were brought up in a world where the next PC will be 1.5 - 2x the 'size' of the current PC so bloat is fine, schedule is king. This is a bad philosophy in the embedded space. That 1.5 - 2x the 'size' phone means you can't cut your phone costs, you can't grow your market, you are stuck waiting only the latest / greatest chips which are always in short supply to ship volume. Help those engineers break the habit, I know they can they are smart folks. Challenge them, as Ben Horowitz would say use your lead bullets on this one.
BSNL - India's No. 1 Telecommunications company website hacked
Considering the hacker community got the SDK version ported to the Nexus One[1], I think it's entirely feasible once proper source code gets released.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUkxwT-fdI4
Are you going to be doing some intense marketing in small geographic areas? This is the type of app that depends on high participation in a small area - I have a hard time seeing how it will succeed without focusing on a small area first.
I'm sure. There are hacked versions of Gingerbread out there for the original Droid, even though it was officially deemed too underpowered for it. Given the number of hacker types that own a Nexus One, I'm sure it'll be on the way.
Groupon IPO: Buy or Sell?
Stripe and Samurai don't work?

Recurring is built-in to both of those platforms, and the fee structure is far less.

I don't know why you're willing to put up with the credit card processing status-quo.
I've got both the Nexus One and an iPhone 4 and I can never understand why anyone would choose the Nexus One over an iPhone, it's such an inferior product both hardware and software wise. The comparatively poor quality as put me off anything but iPhones.
Do I need a technical founder in my team to get started?
Furor over new Klout Scoring System (see comments)
But the last official update for the 3G turned it into a dog. I don't think any company is blameless, here, but I'm far more disappointed to see Google doing it. Linux still runs on a 386, last time I checked.
See the last statement from hacker(he has got a good humor sense)
"Hey Admin: sorry, just logs and database deleted"

Here is a link to the screenshot if BSNL fixes it before this post (http://i.imgur.com/K1ciN.png). I think the fix won't happen because today is a holiday
Yes, we're starting on HN here just to get word out, but next up is hitting several cities in order. The stream makes it possible to enjoy without having anyone else nearby though, and you can keep participating in a thread you are in even after you've left an area.
Perl6 already is out - there's a Tetris-implementation using GTK for Niecza, a Perl6 implementation on Mono/.NET. The implementations are not feature-complete, but if that's your sole criterion, then neither C nor C++ are out yet.

The most feature-complete implementation - Rakudo on Parrot - is not production-ready, though, and currently somewhat stalled due to low bus factor: The object-system refactor (which made things like natively-typed attributes possible) introduced a lot of regressions, and the regex engine in particular is not yet fixed as the lead-developer was hit by real-life issues.
And this isn't limited to Apple - Android manufacturers offer handsets in a variety of different resolutions. But that variety is not reflected in typical Windows laptops, so clearly the mobile phone market is not a good comparison for the laptop market.
...or like expecting Steve Jobs to give a great graduation speech.
NASA: "Interplanetary bogeyman" comet Elenin is no more; it's an ex-comet
Great. I guess I can stop hitting the "Update" thing every day in the hope that 4.0 will appear.

I can't help but note that the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch purchased the same month are already running iOS 5.0 and I haven't noticed any speed issues.
Care to include any examples? You wrote a long winded rant without any substance. I took a look around the http://www.npr.org/sections/news/ and didn't find anything that came close to your straw man.

Meanwhile your characterization of http://www.npr.org/music/ is a complete joke. Just glance at the categories of music NPR covers in the various colored tabs.

I suppose a kind reading of your writing would be that you misunderstand what you are hearing when your local classical station syndicates NPR content.
I hope Cyanogenmod or someone else will release one. Cyanogenmod version of 2.3 for N1 and other phones, came out as 'nightly' release ages before the official Google release.
Does anyone know what are the hardware limitations to adapting ICS?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1135679/does-using-xor-re... gives more answers than you want, especiallly if you read that Intel PDF.

It is not 100% a "smaller is better" choice. You also will want to check whether an instruction depends on an earlier one (for example, the XOR technically needs to read the register; if the CPU does not know that that is not actually the case, a self-XOR may introduce pipeline bubbles), what instruction unit (if any) it uses, and whether you want to preserve flags.
taking the time to run great on hardware of that capability pays huge dividends in the phone world.

It really won't though, that's the problem.

The Nexus One is nearly two years old. It's somewhat of an anomaly because it'll have a higher than average number of off-contract purchases, but in general once a person's contact has run for two years they get a new phone.

Two year old phones just aren't that important. Speaking as an N1 owner, I'd love for them to be. But they aren't.
Sigh. Well, then. I guess you just don’t get it.
Show HN: Turn your Android Phone into a game controller
Great resource if you are following Euro crisis
Sounds like America will need more programmers-at-arms, soon, if they're going to go the modular route.
Elaborating a bit on kenjackson's reply, the code in a finally block is guaranteed to run after the code in the try block, which is the whole point of finally. A use block unrolls into a try/finally block where the finally cleans up the resource declared in the use initializer.

I'm not sure about try/catch without the finally, perhaps there is some error check that occurs in the IL after the body of the try block?
Ah, the benefits of not making low-pay jobs illegal: the maid _has_ a job, and a middle-class family can afford to hire her for what the work is worth to them.

This in contrast to the USA, where it is illegal to pay her what the work is worth (thanks to "minimum wage" laws), so she doesn't have a job and must be given some form of welfare, which the middle-class family which wants to hire her ends up paying without the benefit of a clean house in return.
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Food:

I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about
what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up.
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Love it. Anyone know why?
Thanks for the feedback. Updated the copy to make that a bit more clear.
Richard Stallman rebukes University for streaming with Windows Media Player
>I provided the sample, randomly pulled from CPAN and that dude harped on one small extract.

I missed that part. But I find it highly amusing that you randomly pulled a sample file from CPAN an already failed your own test.

>Hm, gonna have to admit i have no clue about those. Will read up at some point.

Fair enough, but I feel compelled to point out that you've been harping on me all over this thread for not reading things yet you declare perl's OO (bolted on via a library, no less) superior to ruby's without even knowing how ruby's works.

>Perl is on every linux

Linux yes. Not every Unix, not every Windows.

>You wouldn't include Moose in a boilerplate thing.

It was. It was a boilerplate list of things one should use to make perl a modern language. I think they wanted to make one module that did all these uses for you so you could just use that, but the point remains. It takes a lot of modification to stock perl to bring it up to the level of the competition.

>The problem you're running into is that i've already spent a hell of a lot more time thinking about those criticisms than you have.

I worked daily with perl for half a decade. I can believe that you have spent more time thinking about the criticism because you apparently like perl. I had no emotional attachment to it so when I saw languages that didn't have those problems I left it and never looked back.
I'm wishing I bought an iPhone instead of my Nexus One now
I really, really love Jetbrains. Even though I'm not an iOS developer, it's still nice to see that they are working to add their own flavor to the mix with other languages.

I wish so much that they would create a Visual Studio replacement. I'm primarily a Ruby/PHP developer and use their PhpStorm and RubyMine products constantly, but whenever I am stuck doing something in .net and have to open up Visual Studio, I just get a gross vibe from the entire experience... And this is with Resharper installed as well!

I see Visual Studio get a lot of support on HN, so maybe I am just weird, but I've never enjoyed using Visual Studio as a whole.
Gmail was pretty disruptive, not to mention Chrome which reignited the browser wars in a way that Firefox never really did...
Can anyone recommend any similar existing resources?
Android is not a real-time OS and is not designed for embedded devices. the kernel is not real time and java has severe latency problems caused by asynchronous garbage collection. A workaround is to allow the garbage collector to run on a separate core (one of ICS's main feature), but Nexus One's cpu is single core. I guess Google did not have the foresight to design Android to disable garbage collection. as I mentioned before, automatic garbage collection is disabled in iOS/Obj C primarily because of performance issues/battery life.
Adobe being first didn't impress me much, Twitter made me curious, and I was extremely impressed by Steve Jobs, Apple, BP and Nike.
I've always wanted a service like this.

I needed a USB hub the other day, and I couldn't really wait days for it to show up from an internet store.

I could search the website of a big (expensive) chain store, PC World, but we have lots and lots of tiny local computer stores, and supermarkets with small tech sections, whose inventory is an absolute mystery unless I was to go and expend gas driving around them all. I often just bite the bullet and pay over the odds at PC World because I know they have the item, and I won't have to spend money and time travelling round and round.

I've often thought "where's my nearest store that sells X, right now?" would be a neat idea for a startup. It sounds like an administration nightmare, though.
Thanks for the kind words. Good point on horizontal expansion - I think our name might limit us for now ;)

Also, we certainly agree with your point on the FAQ and will address it soon. Thanks again!
CSS3 3D Transforms
in Russia, where it broke the countries record for pre-orders

What was the previous record? For all I know it could be 10.

the phone was sold out by the end of the N9 launch in Russia’s Nokia flagship Store

So it sold out in the main flagship store? That's not really saying a lot. We also don't know how much stock they got in.
Makes him hungry for breakfast.
Just looked the other way for a tiny moment and Europe is equalled with the UK.

But perhaps from 501 Folsom St. Third Floor San Francisco California 94105 Europe looks so awfully far away, that one can only see the UK.
Shopify Experts
Excellent work. Can you imagine how amazing it would be if there were a tool that allowed us to convert/output all our images as CSS/SVG/etc instead of bitmaps? I, for one, look forward to the day when the only static assets we have to worry about are text-based assets such as CSS and JS.
Wrong! http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox
Given the kind of talks he does, I can see where he's coming from with this; it sounds like the kind of list that was built up over time.

In general, I would imagine he doesn't want to repeat the kind of incident that happened at linuxworld 99, where the he was given the torvalds award[1].

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxMJQLXmBE
Three months later: Why is my hard drive full? Lemmie check the downloads folder..... OH GOD!
> Allow companies to patent innovations but legally force them to license it to others for a "fair price".

And who gets to define what is a "fair price"? The whole point of patents is that they are a monopoly, and they are inherently anti-competitive.