skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think none of this is relevant, it's pretty clear Arment personally doesn't believe that anyone can make an 'Android Instapaper' with the same quality, features, and level of support, running on enough compatible devices and sold through enough Android marketplaces, to make it _as profitable_ as just concentrating on iOS and be done with it.

The challenge he puts forward is for someone who disagrees to take up. Personally, looking at the Android ecosystem and the quality of applications in the Android Marketplace, I think he's right. It's perfectly possible to write great Android apps, and many exist, but if you look at who makes them, they are without exception applications made by big corporations who don't make money off the apps themselves, but from associated services, ads, etc.
Tis the season for extra staff
> Some minorities are worth worrying about but others aren't, and they're not the same in every situation.

That's my point exactly. A direct quote from the post you're replying to:

> My words are merely a caution against blindly following the numbers.
He links to and quotes the same source article one post previous:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/07/schmidt

However, I agree; given Gruber's track record I expect him to post a correction soon.
I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and I can assure you that the chip exists. If you do a bit more googling, you'll find it's in already out there in the millions in other devices - the Roku set top box, for example.

That thread you linked to is from early on in the summer, before we had finished negotiations with our vendors and had documentation in place that allowed us to say that the SoC we are using is the BCM2835. If you search for BCM2835 on our website, you'll see that since then there's a lot of discussion about it with the name there in full.

We're all on track to have the first units out by the end of the year (which will be auctioned) and to be producing them in large numbers in January - there's not much more I can say to dampen your speculation, so I guess you'll just have to wait so you can watch us pull it off.
Your idea doesn't seem like one where first-move takes all (whether it's customers, hype, media press, etc). I recommend just going all in with the enterprise market, and marketing it as a tool for employers to keep track of the skills their employees have. Sort of like a poor man's SuccessFactors.
Some people need challenges to grow
Nvidia  Tegra 3 Quad core processor: Side by Side Comparisons [video]
No. There is, not surprisingly, another sensor in the airflow for that.

http://www.lindenhillimports.com/images/photof48.jpg
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Flashback from 1996: Internet Explorer 3.0 with support of VBScript and JScript (reverse-engineered JavaScript) released.

Notabene it also featured CSS, ActiveX controls and Microsoft Java VM with Java Applets - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_3.
OTOH, if you are going to fabricate stuff, a quote from a major CEO that is in public is not the way to go.
nice article.
It's somewhat ironic that spam and porn are never cited when someone quotes their vanity metrics, e.g.: http://mashable.com/2011/08/31/tumblr-record-uniques/
As an Opera user I find it a bit annoying as well but I think it's just a silly warning that doesn't impact functionality.
Add AirTunes protocol support to Google Chrome
If it cant cure cancer then it isn't likely to be worth much.

If ti does cure cancer, she will make a fortune through patent grants.
spam and porn are part and parcel of any successful website
thanks for telling me, we actually are just about to release a new product in the coming days that allows all browsers, is much clearer in the message and hopefully will clear a lot of these issues! really appreciate it!
I love this. I recently started my first project using node and these blog posts have been extremely helpful in figuring out the right way to do things, even if I'm not using the specific modules the posts are about.

I kind of felt that the nesting of functions was really ugly, positive there was a better way to do it, but unsure of how to even go about finding out. Can't wait to get home and try out seq now.
Chunky- I suggest you continue to give them status updates on a regular basis, but gradually drift off to be working on your own project.

By May or so, you should be ready to find a cofounder (Choose someone with some money, that you trust), and release a your own project, which is very similar (but not legally identical) to their idea.

After you get some initial traction, take off, and move to Silicon Valley, but leave your new co-founder behind. Maybe send him off to run the sales division in NY.

In SV, meet up with some charismatic bigshot (Preferably someone who had their own company before) to gain some publicity. Use him for intros to VCs. It's OK to party with him a bit.

When your Cofounder later comes to SV, dilute his shares to the point of basically kicking him out of the company.

Don't be surprised if the bigshot gets busted for drugs at a party at this point. He is Charismatic, after is.

At this point, you'll want to be careful- You're about to have some lawsuits.. Your Co-founder will sue you, as will the two college guys you're working for now.. But don't worry, your company is now on the road to success, and soon you'll be on the cover of TIME.
Can you file a bug or email me (jbarr at amazon.com) so that we can investigate this issue for you?
I think this feeling is a staple of all involved in "longer-term" creative efforts that have to compete for the same mindshare. I'm sure PhD/grad students have the same horror when one of their Google alerts pops up with a conference paper abstract that reads just like what they've been slaving on for three months :o !!
yeah, most common feedback, that's why I decided to trim it down and we'll release a new, much clearer product that uses this beast as a backend, and has a clear message up front. just not ready yet. man i wish i knew this would pop up so much here on HN. THANKS!!!
One minor thing I'd pick out of this rant is your exasperation at the fact that VCs did not respond favorably to being cold-pitched.

One thing you need to understand is that VC is a networking game, not a capital allocation game. You will get nowhere without access to a couple of trusted connections. Your idea, team, market, traction, revenue, and earnings mean absolutely nothing without "knowing a guy who knows a guy".
I suggest you do your job... You were hired to do that, weren't you? It doesn't matter if the 2 guys are slackers, hell they could just sit on a beach all day long. As long as they're paying you, they could do whatever they want.
Minimum Viable Product. Defined in the book The Lean Startup.
Computers Will Entertain Us to Death
You have to wonder if people would even learn to drive manually in a world of driverless cars, maybe only a minority of enthusiasts would want to (cost/time concerns).

Also, if some enthusiasts were perceived to be driving dangerously compared to the computer controlled cars, that all manually controlled cars might be banned.
Why would this be evil as long as Dart remains an open standard? Making it run better on their platform would incentivize the adoption of Chrome and Dart.

Getting near native performance in the browser would help take web apps to another level. Photoshop in a browser, for example.
didn't think of that, but i think you nailed the point right there. the internet made it a lot harder to just not be aware of duplicate efforts...
Node.js modules you should know about: n/a

Unix commands you should know about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567186
GitHub for Windows?
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As it has already been mentioned several times before, the lengthy process of adopting a new technology as a universal standard (via RFC, W3C, etc.) is a necessary evil which has greater advantages to developers/users than a single company going commando with their own great idea. Does Google think Dart deserves an exception to this? Most likely they are seeking a head start at the risk of others not following (as Brendan Eich has already stated Mozilla won't comply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982949).

Edit: Added link.
Accelerometers measure acceleration. You won't feel any unusual G forces for any constant velocity, whether it's climbing or descending.
thing was, i had a prototype and all that, my own money and I figured i can skip the first part of funding and go straight to VC, which sounded like a plan back then, but now makes absolutely no sense anymore. much more interested in business angels and people who can help refine... learned a lot right there... thanks for the comment!
Open standard? Dart is neither a standard nor designed in an open process.
> could potentially help cure cancer.

Sorry for being pedantic, but much harm is done by this misconception.

Nothing can 'potentially cure cancer', cancer is hundreds if not thousands of (often) very different diseases.

Also put another way: cancer is simply the result of evolution at the cellular level.

You can't 'cure' evolution, all you can do is try to implement some 'population control' strategies that will work (for a while) for certain genetic variants.
Check out the book "Genius Denied"
A better article on this story includes this quotation: "Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients." To prevent a jillion people from dying while awaiting treatment, maybe someone could bankroll a $100K "Bring a Product to Market in Less Than 25 Years" science competition.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/05/calif-teen-ta...
The great piano swindle [2007]
it did for a while when we used the canvas I believe, we had some major issues - but there was one charting thing that just needed it and we couldn't get it to work on IE/Opera... so we tried to fix it, but got stuck.
Presumably you can easily disable the safety systems after you get the thing home from the dealership.
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Holy wow, your documentation style is truly awesome. Clear and crisp, just how it should be. I wanna have it's babies.
New Web APIs in Firefox
There are licensed medics out there that can't perform CPR (I've seen one). My government is filled with licensed incompetents that get paid for sitting on their asses from 9 to 5, with a launch break in between. Usually when people see incompetence in action, trying to do the right thing, they'll just throw their hands in the air waiting for a solution from the government.

But licenses encourage bribery, nepotism and other means of gaming the system. The effects are quite contrary to what people want.

Instead, grant these licenses by default without fees or limits, then let the employer decide if a candidate is good enough. Let the market decide if the employer is good enough. And if people's lives are threatened because of somebody's incompetence, then invalidate his license for a couple of months or permanently. If people's lives are lost because of incompetence, then throw that somebody in jail.

This is a system based on meritocracy and punishment in case of big failures. It works a lot better than a government imposed barrier to entry.
> developers don’t need to use toolchains

Sorry I don't get this. If Dart is delivered to the browser in source form, you'll still want script compressors and/or tools like Closure Compiler to eliminate unused code. Even if Dart is delivered to the browser in bytecode format you'll need a toolchain on the backend--and you'll still need symbol tables for client debugging.

If anything, the toolchain and project setup will be more complex for Dart developers if they want to support all browsers. They'll need to create one set of files for Chrome with native Dart and cross-compile to JavaScript for all other browsers. Then they'll need to conditionally include one set of script files or the other.
Very interesting, thanks.

I would want to deploy ASP.NET MVC3-based web applications so restarting the web server sounds like it'd be my only option (I'm not going to waste my time re-architecting things if it's eventually likely to run out of memory anyway).

Then again, I haven't tackled switching away from MSSQL (aside from learning to use a new DBMS, I'm a fan of stored procs too so I'd have to learn a new SQL dialect), either. Since my time is probably worth more than Windows licenses, it looks like sticking to Windows is the logical choice for now.

Thanks for the offer to pick your brain... I may take you up on it some time :)
IBM Watson to battle patent trolls
Hahaha, this is brilliant! :) well there's nothing I'd like to do more than that, but seeing that I don't even have a college degree (and I'm not in NY) that would be really really really hard to accomplish.

Yet, I probably will start working on a similar project like you suggested.(Although I have no intention of screwing over two harvard twins by stealing their idea)
Late coming back to the post but...

Think of it from the perspective of local news / journalism. Most local papers are going under and their competition is Patch (traditional journalist with a new medium) and their friends on Facebook / Twitter.

From this perspective, which is not a small segment of the world of journalism, yes anyone can be a journalist now.
HTML5 specifies "type" attribute for "script" tags http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

The type attribute gives the language of the script or format of the data.

I see no reason why some WebKit developers want to restrict what languages people can add by technical means. If there's a political reason to restrict it, they probably should discuss it within W3C and remove "type" attribute if they come to conclusion that JavaScript is the only language allowed.
Investment as a cushion or a springboard
well i've always been sort of self-employed before, projects here, projects there, wrote a book, just had jobs on and off - but it was never a thing i did as 100% like now - which is a hell lot scarier
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Pedantic note: I wrote 'text completion', but I meant 'reasonably intelligent text completion based on either a compiler's knowledge about your source code, or good heuristically derived inferences about your source code for dynamic programming languages where that is the best approach'.

Back in 2001 or so, IntelliJ was fucking mind-blowing with its Java completion and high-level insight into your code. Now, Microsoft's Visual Studio or Apple's Xcode can hang, and the other Java IDEs are at least in the same league.

But very few IDEs can do a decent job of completing code for dynamic languages (especially those unlike Objective-C, with its opt-in (but fairly ubiquitous) type declarations). RubyMine (which is a variant of IDEA) does this much better than anything else I've seen.

Most IDEs and editors tend to offer to complete e.g. every method defined by every class, or they fail to offer to complete the thing that you mean. That's pretty much garbage.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote (UK)

Design & development of 2 site pages. Looking for an all-rounder to expand our MVP beyond our Unbounce/Launchrock signup page.

Detailed specs already mapped out. Strong understanding of what is required. Looking to get a branded landing & pricing page created. It's important that it can be completed before the New Year.

Detailed info -

Landing page with simple signup form signup linked to MailChimp list.

Pricing Page linking through to full payment gateway process. No preference which is used - PayPal, Stripe, Recurly etc.

I'm looking to keep the process as simple as possible. I'm looking for a talented individual who can take the project and run with it and keep me updated.

Please contact with cost & links to work examples if interested.

I'm my username @ gmail.com - Thanks.
They're paying me out of the money that the startup makes. If they keep slacking off, they'll just be cheating me, but I still don't want to quite as this is the only place I can actually get some experience.
Calibrating Patent Lifetimes
The title is wrong; this result is from 1942, not 1492.
That Bonin guy was so out of his depth, he should've been thrown out of the cockpit, then again the captain was just too laissez-faire. Bonin should've deferred as soon as captain told him to fly into the storm. Instead he chose to be Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
Conocerte - desmotivaciones.es
There was even a PerlScript plugin that you could use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PerlScript
Google easter egg: search for "tilt"
I'm a huge fan.

The headcount projection caused me to pause a bit. Tripling staffing to almost 400 people seems like a huge jump. I wonder what else they've got going on - it feels like a big number for it all just to be allocated solely against Evernote proper.
Driverless cars seem like a great idea, but I've never seen anyone address the legal/insurance issues.
First, over half of people do not use IE8, so not sure where that stat is coming from. Second, not sure I'd call FF or Chrome niche.

Not paying too much attention to IE (IE8 specifically) is a strategy worth doing. It's a pain in the ass to support IE8 and not worth the extra development time in the short term. Plus, not sure if this applies to this startup (I'd say it does), users like those in HN (the majority of whom use FF or Chrome) are the users you want initially to use and support your startup. If they like it, they become quite the dedicated user, which really helps to get your startup off the ground initially. So targeting FF and Chrome users is hardly a bad strategy for release 1. Adding IE8 in the mix is way more frustration than it's worth.
Network Rail improves stock visibility with Oracle supply chain software
Sans racism (though sadly not sans the grammatically incorrect and non-existent contraction, "she've")

http://imgur.com/W0WuJ
Mario and Zelda Creator Shigeru Miyamoto Retiring as Head of Nintendo
Yes, I did get that, hence my comment.
The margin between stall and overspeed is something like 20 knots at that altitude. You're not going to be able to calculate your airspeed from the groundspeed within that margin. (FWIW, I'm pretty sure this GPS speed information is available in the cockpit already. If not, you can get it off your iPhone if you really care.)

Finally, the flaps-down speed range of a Cessna 152 is 35-85 kts. So if you're facing into 85kt winds with the flaps down, you're flying backwards and are overspeed. (This can happen with the flaps up too, of course, but winds of 149 kts are a little hard to believe :)
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Ask HN: Please Review My Startup: What Do You Really Think About Me?
Hello HN! We are about to launch a new site and would welcome feedback. The site can be found here: www.whatdoyoureallythinkabout.me?

Overview: Feedback helps us learn how other people see and experience us. The problem is we are not great at giving or getting feedback. We struggle with giving feedback because it is often against the rules of our society to give honest feedback. We fear that we might risk the relationship or hurt the other person’s feelings, so we avoid it. This is often to the detriment of the other person. It can be a minor thing like your boss having terrible breath, but no one telling him. Or, it can be more serious like a friend with an abusive girlfriend or boyfriend. Everyone around them knows that the relationship is bad for them and is hurting them, but no one can risk telling the person. Consequently, the person stays in the bad relationship for months or years. Then, when it finally ends and they see how they were being treated they ask, "Why didn't you tell me?" We stumble and say that we didn't want to hurt their feelings or we say we "hinted" at it, but were not too clear. Well, this site solves that problem. It allows us to give anonymous feedback to people who need to hear it without jeopardizing the relationship with them. Moreover, it provides a framework to help people learn from the feedback.

Getting feedback can also be awkward. We all want it and need it, but don't know how to ask for it. This site provides an easy way to ask for feedback from people you trust and/or others you do not yet know.

Items we could use specific feedback on include:

1. Concept/Idea of the site

2. Virality - We were modeling the viral mechanics of the site after www.threewords.me and felt particularly validated when epi0Bauqu recommended that strategy (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168220). The aim of the site is significantly different, but we thought it’d be a good starting point. Any thoughts on ways we can increase traction?

3. Design/flow

4. Minimizing Harassment - Perhaps the greatest problem is that people could use the site to give wrong and/or harmful feedback to others (e.g., they could give “feedback bombs” instead of “feedback gifts”). We have clearly spelled out in our Terms of Service, and before they can send feedback, that this type of behavior is not allowed or tolerated. Additionally, we have made the site only available to those 18 and older, because kids often don't have the best judgment when it comes to interacting with others. We believe that the positives outweigh the negatives and that we can work towards minimizing these challenges, while maximizing opportunities for people to learn from others. That said, we’d especially welcome feedback on how to limit this type of behavior.
From the perspective of the WebKit team, I think it would be about spending a lot of time and effort to support something that isn't part of their core mission, the standardised web.

It would also saddle them with an extra maintenance & support burden for the foreseeable future, to the strategic benefit of nobody but Google.

I think the original conversation was hampered by a miscommunication - it was never made clear whether it was just about hacking on a custom version of WebKit, or about adding Dart support to WebKit based browsers.
> If you want to use PHP as it was originally intended...

If you want to use teflon as it was originally intended, you should coat spacecraft with it. Whenever I want to fry sausages, I dismiss the original intention as irrelevent. You'd have me donate all my saucepans to NASA every time I got peckish, but what about my sausages? They're not going to cook themselves ya know :)
Philosophical Questions of a Prospect
So lemme get this straight: Morgan Stanley is avoiding updating their browser by... Updating their browser?

A kluge on top of a kluge is still a kluge. Will the penny pinchers ever learn this?
Interesting that they'd go for context-free grammars rather than PEG? A few years ago someone created a PEG-matcher lua lib, similarly aimed at replacing regexps:
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf
And Ward Cunningham's exploratory parser:
https://github.com/AboutUs/exploratory-parsing

Is there a link to the paper somewhere?
Renaissance and Recovery: Florence as a model of an innovation-driven economy
Yes, that's possible. I remember reading an article by the author of X-Plane about how stalls are mostly simulated by trying it in the real aircraft and programming something similar, because the airflow dynamics are too difficult to model in real time. (Incidentally, the Cessna 172 is nearly impossible to stall in X-Plane, but somewhat easier to stall in FlightGear. I wonder who's closer :)