skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they started with Python (or anything else) they would have ended up in the same place. They would end up writing their own compiler and VM because they want and they can. It's actually amazing that they didn't extend the language itself yet.
Interesting outlook on things... I've always thought (and argued when possible) that the key to any software/computer issue is smart people - not 'rockstars' and these developers who think they're the center of the universe, but a team of capable people, familiar with a broad range of technology and capable of solving problems, using whatever tools are needed.
But I have long thought that waterfall just couldn't work - but I suppose it could if you have management and executives that understand the 'product' at the end will be iterated.

I have also been meaning to pick up that book...
"rush into startups armed with an MBA or BBA"

Let me add to your excellent comment this from my experience at Wharton. There are people who go and get their MBA or BS etc who were liberal arts majors or who never thought about business until they decided one day to go to business school. Then there are people (and I'm sure you know these people) who have lived and breathed business since they were 4. In many cases they came from business families and it's part of their makeup. They were always angling to make money in high school and college and did things on the side to earn a buck whatever way they could. Those are the types that you should try to have on your team if possible. They have a seat of the pants feel for business and it's in their blood. Going through business school I was absolutely amazed at the number of people in the classroom (with 1600 SAT's at the time the highest score) who didn't understand some really basic business concepts.

This is not to say in any way shape or form that it doesn't exist in someone who decided one day to pursue business of course it does and there are many examples of those that are super successful. But normally they are not successful out of the box without, as you would say, a few wars under their belt. The person with a business upbringing has a head start.
Yeah. In the Netherlands is very difficult (if not impossible) to sue something like Starbucks if you're stupid enough to spill hot coffee all over yourself (or in this case break your legs going down a slide like this).
I love this little snippet: "wars produce generals for the next wars." It runs contrary to the idea that we may have in tech of producing a "general" by graduating from an elite MBA school, for example. Look for the quiet achievers and the track records, not for bombast and elitism and silver tongues alone.
I like Amber, SproutCore was always hard to pronounce (I'm foreign) or to talk about.
The inverse is more useful.

webOS running with an interface to the Android market and ability to run Android apps. It should not be that hard to get that working if people pitch in to help.

- Dalvik needs to work under webOS which should be a recompile and some changes. There's also Alien.

- Android apps need to have a generic wrapper to put them into webOS cards.

- Some other interface issues to clean up.

So, who wants to help do this?

PS: FWIW, webOS essentially uses an Android kernel already.
Adzerk Launches AdOS, An App Store For Ad Tech
ambert.js
amberlite.js
amberlin.js
amberjack.js
ambers.js
embers.js
Nice to see a website I worked on finally get on HN. http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/
Price check Amazon app takes aim at brick-and-mortars
It's just an idea. Not depending on Google's release schedule for updates, better performance (maybe), easier development, customization. The versions they ship with (1.6, 2.1) leave out thousands of apps anyway.

Android is not free. Maybe some makers are not paying for licenses yet (like the big players are), but they are on target: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Huawei-in-Line-for-Microsoft-... (just hope they don't come after WebOS...)
Bipartisan group offers sane alternative to SOPA
Exxon (which has a similar market cap) has revenues per employee of 5.6M: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=exxon
Call it Milamber.js

Points for guessing the reference.
Twitter Bootstrap Is Ruining the Internet
MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet, Why Can't The US?
(I work on HHVM.) We've dipped our toes into the waters of changing the language a bit. Setting the Eval.EnableHipHopSyntax and Eval.EnableHipHopExperimentalSyntax flags in HipHop enables a few differences, the most notable of which is a Python-inspired 'yield' syntax for generators.
Yass - yet another storage service
He has some points to make for power users, but I like reactive buttons and just an animated UI overall because it lets me know things are working. I would hate a UI that doesn't seem different when the computer is frozen or sluggish.
Washing machines are a common workaround.
I'm totally not getting why you're saying agile approaches are waterfall in disguise.

The essential difference to me is in length of feedback loops. Microsoft releases a new OS every few years; some place like Etsy releases new code many times a day. A developer or product manager at Etsy can know within a few hours whether some change is really a good idea; Microsoft not so much.

You seem to be saying that because there are the same sorts of people involved, and because one has a giant spec document while another has a stack of index cards that might be called a spec, then they're the same. Which isn't making any sense to me.
I would say the former CEO of HP was some kind of trojan horse meant to kill the company.

I am pretty glad that the new CEO, along with all those involved, decided to do this. People love the platform, devs like, other companies couldn't wait to get their hands on it and a lot of users have said the platform has very nice UI.

So, I'm not ready to say it's just something to "save face". It's their chance to open source something, build a healthy ecosystem and provide a 100% open source alternative for Android.
NYT sucks for not mentioning SOPA. #FAIL.
Currently reading:

iOS Programming - Big Nerd Ranch - 2nd Edition

Agile Web Dev with Rails - Pragmatic Programmers - 4th Edition

A Clash of Kings - GRR Martin
Looks like an impressive, cool project.

The justification for why it matters seems a bit "off" to me:

For perspective on why this matters, consider that many Facebook engineers
spend their days developing PHP code in an endless edit-reload-debug cycle.
The difference between 8-second and 5-second reloads due to switching from
hphpi to the hhvm interpreter makes a big difference to productivity,
and this improvement will be even more dramatic once we enable the translator.

Big leap of intuition follows, bear with me:

Clearly there are some very talented engineers working at Facebook, as evident by this project. On the other hand, apparently a large number of Facebook engineers are spending all their time in a run-debug cycle, trying to "make this darn thing work," and the engineers with talent are being used to incrementally improve the mediocre coders' lackluster productivity.

Guys, if three seconds in compile overhead makes such a difference in your productivity, maybe you should think for a few seconds about code correctness before you hit the compile button.
consider a pair of slippers and laundry service
There have been developments in our knowledge of the market since 1680 (when that quote was uttered).
I think this indicates a problem in your marketing on that site. The first time I looked at the site I thought the same thing: "why is there a download? give me the wikis!"
Guessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pug_(fictional_character) :P
That's the case in all states. You can still be bankrupted by not taking out third party property insurance, but physically maiming someone for life is an order of magnitude worse than writing off someones Ferrari by running into it.

All Australian states have compulsory third party personal insurance attached to the vehicle registration.
How nice. Instead of USA spreading American values to the Chinese people, China is spreading its "values" to USA. Also MPAA's "analogies" to theft are becoming increasingly more ridiculous.
Will WebOS be able to step aside from the patent wars?

If Microsoft and others come after licensing deals like they did for Android that could put nails back in WebOS's coffin.
I admit Mac OS X's behavior is unexpected if you are already a Windows user. Windows, incidentally, doesn't even have the "application" concept Mac OS X does--windows actually behave as separate application instances, and persistent applications require some type of separate status tray element to keep running without a window.

I don't think it's confusing being able to distinguish from a Photoshop window and a browser window, but I do think the cycling behavior between the two should be consistent.
He even models his appearance on the late Paul Harvey.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0903/harvey_0301.jpg
Lager.js
Are you serious? When you group message there is an inherent reply-all... It works that way on all phones, since the beginning of time. All of them.

This guy just doesn't understand how text messaging works. /thread
Except the folks at ZeroHedge are nutters, while Randall Munroe used to work at NASA.
Name it something related to its core vision/goal/function. Anything to make products self-explanatory is always an advantage.
Check out Hal's website with JavaScript disabled:

http://www.halhelms.com/

What's going on there? Hal Helms home helplessly hacked? Or just poor page design?
oh that is awesome! I want to set it up with pygame and a keyboard as a quick "would this make a fun tablet game" prototyper.
It'll be available soon as a plugin for Firefox, with Chrome following "shortly" thereafter.
This is probably a matter of preference. Personally, the OS X way is often more elegant. When I am working with a lot of windows in a particular program (say, five text files) and have another application I want check in on (say, an instant message conversation), the OS X way is wonderful. Not having to worry about the IM window getting in the way of my documents saves me from a lot of confusion.

The OS X way definitely does add complexity to the UI, but I just think it is worth the trouble.
I don't know about Russians, but I don't function in a hive mind with others, even if we both like Apple products. So don't ask me to answer for another individual's arguments.

The difference between flush and inset is qualitative, and even conceding that point there are significant design differences.
This is also the chronic PR problem of public health efforts to stop epidemics: if they succeed in stopping a plague before it gets huge, then it looks like they got all worked up over nothing.
Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom
Command-option-M should probably use a faster animation than the yellow button. I never minimize so it doesn't really bother me.
FRAND means "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair,_reasonable,_and_non-discr...
To be clear...she's in ELEMENTARY school, I don't know if pledging allegiance to the State of Texas is required of high school students here. I can't imagine it is...of course I couldn't imagine a pledge of allegiance to the state of Texas either before I heard from the principal about my daughter's 'disruptive' behavior.
Interestingly enough isn't that how iOS started out? At least to some extend.
It would be interesting to know how mobile/web would look today if Apple didn't introduce native apps and instead fully committed to web apps.
I really enjoyed your writing style. It didn't push its (successful!) attempts at humor and used them sparingly enough to be a joy when they were read.
How about Spore.js? It's a nice contraction of SproutCore, and doesn't sound as silly as the spoonerism KrautSpore :)
Flight time from Honolulu to LA is less than the flight time from Melbourne to Perth.

Perth is the most geographically isolated city in the world.
I currently work at a NOC. We've built a pretty nice setup to do our jobs (mostly software) but I've got no idea what others do. As for hardware, I don't know how I could use more then 3 or 4 screens or how the team could use a big one.

(Though we do want one but only because they're cool.)

I'd love to hear some war stories and see how you work with other teams.
Just because the Chinese limit people to one child per couple why can't the US?

I don't think justification to do something that someone else does no matter that it is an oppressive regime.

EDIT: fixed person to child
Reinventing Education with Khan Academy and AI Class
Here are 2 naming suggestions following the cabbage theme for your inspiration: ;)
Brocco.js
Brussels.js
Why we need even more programming languages
Not to harp on a horrible metaphor, however I would say Google is more like a metro or subway than a getaway car driver (or car manufacturer).

Yes, you took it to the bank robbery -- however it also took lots of people to other places, and didn't know nor care where you were going or why. Nobody would accuse a bus or train of being an accessory.
The open source definition and free software definition both prohibit a "not for profit" clause. What is something that you consider to be an "open source project" that has such a clause?

http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
It's still Linux under that software stack. The rest of it shouldn't require that much effort, provided the sources for the stack are 100% open and there's a healthy ecosystem.

If people in the community created cyanogenmod and hundreds of other custom ROMs for all kinds of devices, they will also be able to do this with WebOS. If enthusiasts can port WebOS easily to a device, a company should encounter no issues when doing such a port.
Scientists closing in on elusive "God particle"
Not everyone drank the agile koolaid.

Whether or not one drinks the koolaid doesn't matter much.

15 years ago, 1-3 year release cycles were the norm. Now they're uncommon, and becoming less and less so. Some well-regarded shops (e.g., Etsy) now release many times per day. This isn't driven by what process is fashionable; it's happening because of improvements in technology and the way the Internet has shifted everybody's expectations.

Whether you're officially using some Agile(tm) method or not, you'll have a lot in common with those folks if you meet user demand for faster delivery. There are some niches that are lagging on this trend, but my pals in those areas still feel the pressure. They'll still be able to be waterfall-ish for a while longer, but I doubt it will be forever.
The bar is a "transfer accelerator facilitator." Really, it's just something to help you sit down in the slide.
It's an hour longer from Honolulu to LA (or vice versa) than from Melbourne to Perth.

The flight from Perth to Melbourne is only 3 hours and 30 minutes, less than flying from LA to Chicago.
SproutCore was a nice name, Amber doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe Sprouts? SproutFrame?
This is with iMessage, not sms, right?
AFAIK can't do that with normal sms messages?
This is your brain on silent films
Fix student loans, please. That system is so corrupt it makes me sick.
Ah, thanks, good to know. I do know that ~15 years ago someone was complaining about the high cost of victorian car rego, which was basically due to the TAC payment he didn't have in his home state.
Taking pot-shots at America is a favourite pastime of the Australian left. The leaders of the left side of politics usually take turns at doing their best to insult the American president and/or the American people.

Of course all this sniping is done behind their back. If Air Force one actually touches down, they line up like preening peacocks at the bottom of the steps.

The article is really about (a) trying to convince people Australia is on the right track politically and (b) trying to say 'hey, we don't have a 99/1 wealth spread like Americans do'.
That's correct, although I've seen the same sort of thing happen with MMS.
We're approved! http://itunes.apple.com/app/date.fm-simple-private-free./id4...
Philip Roth's 'Indignation. Julian Barnes 'The sense of an ending'. And a few other novels. Plus I'm reading 'The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs. I would recommend one and all.
The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-un...
...if the app arrived on the device from the app store.
Just a guess, but this lets HP achieve the two things they've wanted in trying to find a buyer: allow webOS to live on in new hardware made by other company, and still allow HP to use webOS in their new printers. Although this is just a rumor, I don't doubt they'll come out with webOS printers since they've kept announcing it ever since Mark Hurd was CEO when Palm was purchased. Not sure how webOS printer sales would translate to the bottom line for HP, but I'm curious to see and use such a printer (I currently use the Pre 2 as my mobile phone).
All engineers, those who work on HHVM like me included, spend their lives in a run-debug cycle trying to "make this darned thing work," whether "this darned thing" is a language runtime or the new photo uploader. The tighter you can make that loop, the more productive the engineer is, because she has less time to keep all the items she's mentally juggling pinned in volatile short-term memory.
CERN manages expectations around Higgs rumours
Forking the project is less than ideal. Client libraries will have to spend time making sure they comply with both versions, and development in general will slow as each project will have fewer total devs. Better to bring that other team "in house" and have them help with any issues that come up due to the new cross-platform code.
Not to mention piracy is rampant in China, so I don't know what he's talking about when he says "it works" there. It makes me think that the main backers of SOPA want something more than just to fight copyright infringement, and this is why they are asking for "China-level" control, even though piracy is just as bad or worse there.
Node.js core contributor explains why it’s ready for the big time (video)
I can ditto this. I've known Clark for years. He is an honorable person, as is his coworker Ben Nadel. Fault them if you will for 'inventing' something that already existed, but this was - at worst - an innocent mistake. How many people here have reached out to them to try to help correct their mistake?
You know cyberspace is better than sex when...
We've just been approved!
If you rename amber, please, do not rename it brite or bright, as I have already a project with solving the same problematic (with a different approach). https://github.com/jeremychone/brite

I am going to push brite quite a bit next year.
We've just been approved! http://itunes.apple.com/app/date.fm-simple-private-free./id4...
Shoot, I think I responded to the wrong comment.
Nobody is saying that they should standardize on Windows, just support it. The way Microsoft did the patch, using a cross-platform library that has support from another popular project, is the perfect way to address this issue.
Completely untrue. Australia economic growth only got going after trade liberalisation was properly implemented and removal of tariffs.

Further, the improvements in living standards are directly attributable to lower cost imported goods.

There are still pockets of protectionism around, but in world terms these are quite small. There is nothing like the agricultural protectionism of the US and EU, for example.

I do agree with you that luck has a lot more to do with it than good management.
Yes, but complaining about this is like complaining about the cost and inconvenience of getting vaccinated for polio: If the cure seems worse than the disease, it might be because you don't clearly remember what the disease was like.

I assure you that however clued in we all are on HN, the OP is right: The notion of the "top-secret killer idea for a website" is alive and well outside of geek culture, having captured much of the aura surrounding its much older cousin, the "brilliant idea for a movie that will make me rich in Hollywood unless it gets STOLEN". As a web-publishing consultant I had several people ask me to sign NDAs in the first half hour of the sales process, sometimes before they would even tell me why they called, because they were terribly frightened that their brilliant concept ("It's a review site. For local hobby shops. On the internet.") was going to get "stolen" by someone who would go on to reap the millions that were rightfully theirs.
Entrepreneurs Possess the Dark Triad: Narcissism, Manipulation, and Psychopathy
Is the SC namespace going to stay or is the code going to be refactored (ex: SC.Object becomes A.Object)? Just curious.

For the name, how about dotbind.js :)? (I LOVE SC.Binding)
I'll keep that in mind my irrevocable Constitutional rights when I receive my full-body patdown before flying home for the holiday break.
'WildChords' is One of the Coolest Things I've Seen the iPad Do
That functionality is by no means hidden behind the keyboard shortcut. You can just as easily use /Applications/Utilities/Grab.app (whose app icon is a window behind scissors) and choose the "Selection" option from the "Capture" menu.
These bindings are only for M-x. This is still useful (M-x is really common), but it's not a full replacement for all meta bindings.
Gypsum deposit on Mars provides definitive evidence of water
Forget compiling; if (for example) you want to have a couple of meaty java projects open in an IDE plus an appserver plus a db tool you're way over 4Gb before doing any work. And then if you want to run the database as well, or say virtualbox, or use a browser...

Plus RAM is ridiculously cheap; I've just seen 24Gb for £100 plus VAT.
Same awesome data, Sweet new website for the chimps
Based on this, I made Shit Snake[1] in a data: URI: http://philh.net/datashitsnake/

[1] http://www.draknek.org/games/shitsnake/
AirBook Not a Macbook Air
This exact thing happened to me last night. A friend got a new number and send a group message out to around 50 people, I then got probably over 100 texts the rest of the night as people had conversations through the group messaging, and I was pretty sure those messages weren't supposed to be seen by me. Thanks HN, now I know why!
That says more about Hacker News than anything. Inciting a flamewar over sexism does not demonstrate the value of the original flamebait.
Egads - having filled out the application forms for government export grants, I can only imagine all the strings attached, hoops to jump through and everything else.

Use the money to pay down the debt and just relax the regulations on capital formation and hiring and let the private sector do the work. And work some type of internet freedom into the constitution alongside freedom to have guns.