skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The policy has to be proven to no longer be beneficial, and I'm pretty sure every major OS has had a way to remotely set the card to a fixed configuration or autoneg since around then, but that's a separate issue.
That's why I hate OSX. I have plenty of real live humans to condescend to me in my life, I don't need inanimate machines to also treat my like I'm too stupid to live.

I've only just moved from XP to windows 7, so we'll see how that goes. So far not too many complaints, but you can definitely tell that they were pulling heavily from the OSX experience, much to my sadness.
Why wouldn't every penny matter? People are still buying from stores at least some of the time. The greater the price difference, the more business the stores will lose to Amazon, presumably.
For a small consulting company? </sarcasm>
>Claiming to have invented the most well know and also the worst software development process is honest?

They claim to have developed the best process, just like all the agile con artists out there.
Upvoting it allowed me to put off something more productive.
Where is the money coming from?
Doing a Job
One thing I don't understand. If the server has asked the client to cache an image for a year, and the image is indeed updated in that time, is there some way of telling the client to download that image anyway?

I'd take it to Google, but I have no idea how I'd ask that in Google query form.
My point is that retail won’t be doing that much better if Amazon has to pay VAT. An example for this are countries where Amazon already has to pay VAT and retail isn’t doing that much better.
Why? Bacteria are complex adaptive systems that have found a niche in the ecosystem. So are we. We perceive ourselves as far more intelligent than bacteria, bacteria routinely kill us, and yet they persist and even thrive despite our existence. Anyone arguing that transhuman AI is a threat to our species needs to explain why this time it's different.
We develop a very specific niche web app which we charge for running even if it free and open software. We live of it, all 15 of us who work with it. So for us it is practical.
Depends... is Amber still affiliated with Sproutcore at all? If so, something like Sproutcore Slim would be cool

Of course, all the good names are taken: http://slim-lang.com/
The problems with proportional would be twofold:
1. How can the company taking the investment verify that the investor doesn't have other Angel investments? Remember: this is most important from a startup perspective to make sure you're able to do clean funding rounds without dealing with the fallout of non-accredited investors.
2. There's nothing to stop people from repeatedly losing 10% (or whatever percent you allow) on stupid gambles.

I'm not convinced that academic credentials would be that useful either. I'd trust someone who's run a plumbing business for ten years far more to evaluate a startup investment than I would your average MBA. I thought it amusing that Swenson talks about university professors as if they are automatically financially sophisticated (one of the few points not backed up by data in Unconventional Success).
I've noticed too that when people recommend books or say what they're reading, it's almost never novels. It's either technical, or memoirs.

Here's one novel I just finished rereading that's almost like an anti-Oprah book in that you won't identify with any of the characters, it doesn't build to sweet resolution, it doesn't say great things about the human spirit, yet at the end you feel enobled for having spent time with such a true work of art: Michel Faber's Under the Skin. http://www.amazon.com/Under-Skin-Novel-Michel-Faber/dp/01560...
TL;DR -- Old man yells at cloud. (http://www.oldmanyells.com/omyac.jpg)

I can't believe The Verge, whose tech reviews have quickly become among the very best on the web, would post such an idiotic, pointless rant.

He doesn't like the genie effect in OS X. So change it! I did! It almost seems like he thinks that UIs should change themselves to suit him, rather than the other way around.
Github - Code repo

Skype - phone calls

Pivotal Tracker - Agile - Yo baby!

Raven Tools - SEO and reporting

Freshbooks - Billing

Quickbooks online - "accounting"

Balsamiq Online - Collaborative Mockups

and I think my new SaaS that I will be announcing in about 5 days will be well worth the money :-)
The TARP money was just a payday loan until QE1, QE2, and now QE3 can take effect. Of course the banks paid the money back, they got the money from the discount window for free, which was printed by the gov't printing T-bills. Why stay on TARP when you can borrow money for free and pay TARP back?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
Look at the debt expansion which is necessary to directly funnel the money to the banks.

The money goes from the Govt to the Fed who lends it to banks via the discount window, IIRC the rate for the discount window is still 0. The Fed still holds $2 trillion in assets which is up from $500 million pre-2008, there's the $1.2 trillion (and a bit more). The TARP verbiage is just a smoke screen because that's where people will look, so they moved it to the discount window.

I think the graphs over at ZeroHedge that come from Bloomberg terminals are a tad bit more accurate than XKCD, that's just my opinion though.
The Chinese relish any opportunity to make the claim that the U.S. is no better than them. There's a chip on the shoulder of their culture, which is strongly encouraged by the Communist leadership as a way of maintaining social order. Nothing suppresses dissent like an external competitor/enemy.

But the reality is that SOPA is no more capable of overriding our Constitutional rights than any other law that Congress might pass. It's a significant difference between the countries that can't be wished away.
Perhaps this is whooshing over my head right now, but I meant that I prefer websites without social media integration.

I don't like that they slow down the web, I don't like that they track me, and I don't like that they centralize a large part of the web's content to a few number of companies.
And before that I read, back-to-back, George W. Bush's and Keith Richards' autobiographies - both great reads though odd shelf-fellows.
In HTTP, since it's stateless, you don't "tell" the client anything without it first asking. The usual way to bust the cache is to add a junk parameter to the end of a GET request.
The name is not Amber, but Amber.js, which for me is clearly a js framework and as a whole a good, unique name. I do not think there will be a lot of confusion.

Also I do think that moving away from Sproutcore is a good choice, because when I talked with fellow rubyists about Sproutcore, I always ment Sproutcore 2.0, but this always caused confusion because people always had 1.0 in mind (it is huge, too much, ... which it is not).
Oh, now we're going to get into the perpetual argument of what is really agile? Agile's like porn. Everybody who does it claims they know what it is, but nobody can define it. Instead they call "successful" projects properly agile and failures are just shoved under the rug with claims they didn't do agile hard enough.

So please, save your criticism that you know what is and clearly I don't. You can't define it, and if you think you can I know you don't follow it.
To be fair, they do have a point:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6r09d/fisa_passed_...
This is actually referenced in the article. You can use the Last-Modified date and the server will either return a 304 (Not Modified) or the modified image if it is newer.
My state had line item on the tax form asking for the amount of goods purchased online so then they can tax them.

Always wondered what people put in there and if the state even did anything about it (audited people).

I guess they could ask Amazon for records (threatening a lawsuit) and cross-reference with all the reported taxes based on name and address. If user bought just from Amazon more than what they reported they they have obviously owe some money + fines & late fees.

(But I suppose I am making gross assumptions about the competence and general technical abilities of my state's tax collecting office).
Great to hear it worked for you. But in my case if I'm selling 3k per month with $5-10 per user, one option would charge me around $270 and other around $500. Not really good for micro payment based products.

And this isn't about SaaSy. It's same with all services out there.
Glass-Steagall myth

Your apparent theory that too-big-to-fail corporations should be allowed to play heads-I-win-tails-you-lose with taxpayer money (and then buy politicians with the winnings) is comical.

Isn't this in itself a repudiation of democracy?

No, it's honoring the practical core and the historical roots of it.

If you're worried about a candidate advertising a lot, that's pretty much a vote of no-confidence in your fellow Americans' ability to weigh options and vote rationally.

If you actually believe that advertisements are about delivering information to inform a rational decision-making process, I can't help you.

tell me where the line should be drawn?

Personally, I'm for public funding of elections based on achieved milestones. With pretty modest amounts of funding. Forcing information on people made sense when information was scarce and difficult to get. Any voter with an internet connection can be as informed as they want to be today. Anybody who has an opinion can publish it with worldwide reach.

why can't my incorporated flying club make a contribution?

Maybe because the end of your slippery slope is oligarchy and/or crony capitalism masquerading as representative government?
I'm not dogmatic about these kinds of things - I will support anything that has a strong body of evidence supporting it (with the caveat that rights don't get violated). Regulations are not sacrosanct - there are bad ones and good ones, and sometimes deregulation kills the bad ones, in which case it should be supported. Sometimes it's just regulatory capture in action, as you said, in which case it needs to be stopped.
That's a news speak for "Balmer said that Gates told him" but he wouldn't be cited on the record.
These interfaces have millions and millions of users, many of which are by no means experts with a computer, and may even only use it sparingly. The design has to be universal, and these cues make the interface that much easier to use across the general userbase.

Saying you don't like the interface because 'its condescending' is like saying you don't like your suit because it doesn't fit perfectly on you. The solution is to just go get it tailored, because that suit wasn't custom made to fit you. I also use win7 classic theme because I prefer it over the bells and whistles in Aero.

There's really no need to complain about what companies ship as the default. That's just the setting they feel will work best for the average user. Fine, you're not the average user. That's why they build settings to allow you to change shit. So fucking change it and you're fine.
Rename it something with an Endoskeleton theme: "terminator.js" "arnold.js" "t-1000.js"
Yes. Handy for debugging. There are some sharp edges, but by and large, it is useful.
You should call the 2.0 "SproutCore" and you should change the 1.0 to "SproutUI" or "SproutWidgets" or something.
Searching for "amber js" does bring up the Amber Smalltalk project right away though.
Simple and sexy app mockups.
This isn't a really helpful reply since I still have to set it up myself, but I noticed Homebrow has got Auctex although it needs to install the full TeX distribution as well.
Amber is not affiliated with SproutCore at all anymore.
Nope, this Palm (fka PalmOne) that HP bought doesn't own any of the original PalmOS or BeOS assets; they spun them off as PalmSource in '03 (at the same time they bought Handspring IIRC), who got bought by Access a few years ago.
Although I think 'substrate' is a cool name, it's already taken in GitHub.
Simple JSON formatting from the command line
I don't know if it counts as invention, but surely we've seen such technologies in science fiction movies like the Minority Report. The idea must have existed before.
Looks like I will be holding onto these Touchpads! Very exciting news.
> Let's be honest though: the stuff Gates is doing today is
> way more important than any of the things Jobs did over
> the last decade.

That's bullshit. Not in the sense that what Jobs did is more important, but in the sense that these things are not comparable at all.
I know you say that in jest, but I would say that it is still good to know the underlying technology. It is much easier to debug issues in the future once you understand them.
> I've still no clue why humans procrastinate.

I do - it's a sign you need a rest and a sign you've been doing too much of the same and some variety is required. Take a day off, do something different, get some fresh input.
Ah, the easter egg is in the announcement page, not in the game. Thanks for clarifying!
WebOS hacked together for HTC's EVO 3D, a proof of concept for the time being
Discrete math is what tends to be useful in programming. I have a couple years experience as a developer but I guess I'd say I'm sort of in the same boat as you where I am trying to gain a more solid grounding in mathematics to hopefully eventually move away from doing CRUD style development. I got a book off Amazon called "Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics" that was really cheap (the total with shipping was like $4-5), so maybe check that out.
We need to leave some namespace for all the future MVC frameworks to come =P
Can someone explain why Stripe doe not allow marketplace transactions but WePay does? Is this primarily due to issues of fraud? If so, how does WePay get around it?
I've merged in your changes and made a few improvements, too. I streamlined the timeout handling so that it uses setTimeout instead of clearing and resetting setInterval. I also used color literals instead of CSS rgb(). I removed the reset to black in I() since recreating the canvas context does that automatically.

Thanks, biot, you are officially awesome!
The best way I've seen for dealing with cache expiry, which the article does not talk about, is to use version numbers on assets. We found this to be especially important with javascript, css, etc -- if all of that stuff doesn't expire at the same time, it can hose the layout of your site.

Also there are may be many layers of caching between you and the user; not only HTTP caching in the browser, but you have to take into consideration any CDN's (Akamai, etc) and sometimes even caching reverse proxies in corporations.

At my previous job, we handled the versioning with deployment-time rewriting of the assets included in the base page to include the version number (As tagged by the build software with branch name + build number).

That said, enabling browser side caching was a huge win for page speed on the site.
SpellTower shows power of creating games in genres you hate
Yep, that was an accident. I've removed the parameter entirely. Nice catch!
While I agree about the credit card number + random form = iffy part, I think you're being too hard on the app itself. Sometimes a simple idea implemented in a very stable way is a good product.

Also, I think your tone might not be ideal for what you're trying to do -- it sounds like you're mocking the developer or at least asserting some superiority over them. Even if you're right, sometimes ideas are better expressed with a modicum of humility. (I realize it's hard to project an "attitude" over the Internet, so I just thought I'd let you know what kind of attitude I felt you were projecting).
Yes, but these are all separate decisions with their own (opportunity) costs, aren't they?

Think of it this way:

Why would the government invest in Facebook or Twitter when there are plenty of people who already have their wallets open? That goes for many tech startups -- YCombinator alone is very beneficial for the government in an indirect way because the government no longer needs to think about funding tech startups -- someone else is already doing it really well for them.

So the real necessity for government intervention is for extremely risky and potentially extremely unprofitable ventures that allow for amazing possibilities (think NASA when the US was afraid of the Soviets). Pure scientific research is often this way as well.

And even NASA is a small fraction of the federal budget (I remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson repeating "half a penny to a dollar" a lot.

So my point is this: startups, research, or pretty much any economy-advancing investments aren't going to exceed the cost of trying to keep people happy. The War in Iraq is an example: we wouldn't be there if we weren't scared 10 years ago. We wouldn't have been eager to go to war unless it made us feel happier or safer or more content. In contrast, how content do people feel when they hear about a space shuttle explosion? Or money "wasted" on research that could be used to feed the poor?

Why did we even fund NASA again? Oh yeah, we were afraid. The United States collectively didn't give a crap about space until we imagined the Soviets creating the Death Star before us.

I'm not saying any of this is rational. Actually, I really agree with you, but the fact that money is going to startups is a good sign. The quantity is low because nothing will cost more than making people feel happy, safe, and secure right now.
Throwing $2B at startups isn't going to create a new generation of entrepreneurs.

1. Fix the healthcare system.
Right now, you're punished if you don't work for a large company in the sense that you're charged up the wazoo for health insurance. Work for a large company and it's close to free.

2. Fix student loans.
One could argue don't go to college but I think we can agree there's some value to good schools.

3. Educate tomorrow's would-be entrepreneurs.
A lot of America is taught to go to college and get a job at a large corporation after. Let's shift the perspective. Let kids know that starting your own business is a possibility and not something to be ashamed of.
What are your thoughts on paper mockups of apps? Is that already in your design flow? Do you have any recommended processes or products you use?
New dedicated email client coming soon to iOS
Video: Romain Guy & Chet Haase from Google - Intro to Android 4.0
Mackerel Management
I think you should consult the Amber Smalltalk people

If they agree to a linkback, great. Going ahead with amber.js without their consent would be morally grey.
The Condescending Author

Talks about how he feels to smart for the UI, but doesn't bother looking up the substantial body of research explaining why it's useful to any user (novice to expert).

It's 2011. I thought HCI had some respect. Stuff like this seriously makes my throat clench a little bit.

Half the complaints cover things that help your subconscious have a better idea of what's going on, from z-order to spatial changes in windows. The other half cover adding more useful context to a window. Without the dressing, the address book is a list pane and a few text boxes. If it and other windows (say, iTunes) were plain controls-in-windows, you'll have to spend extra time figuring out which one is which.

But, this story isn't about UIs. He's building himself as a curmudgeon character (have a look at the author page). It's a new sort of mid-level ludditery. BeOS? Haiku? Fucking really? There are at least a half-dozen changes you can make to a stock ubuntu config (mostly turning off unity) fit that mold today. But it's not about getting somewhere he prefers, it's about complaining.
No it's not difficult to separate the two. You test a bunch of people that have never smoked and see what the effects are.

I bet this has been done before.
Monsanto said the same thing about their genetically enhanced crop. Now those genes that rendered those crops resistant to roundup, have been transfered to other plants such as amaranto.
What about resin?
For what it's worth, this makes me want to go get a routine physical again. I've been avoiding it because "I'm a man!" ... but really, men get cancer in our more personal places, too... and often we ignore it/think little of it.

Best to catch these things early.
He invented it at SRI, not Berkeley
God damn, Zed. You sure jump to conclusions that people are going to fight with you! Not that you remember it we've met twice and had perfectly normal conversations.

No, I agree, dammit! So take that!

Although I can see where you may have misread my honest question as rhetoric to indicate conflict. That was, as I said, an honest question--though perhaps missing a few words. I was inquiring whether the "agile" consultants you've known start coding on a new project from day one of the project indicating that, in those cases, they aren't taking much time at allfor research or planning.

Agile is a broad label that doesn't make a lot of sense. I've been in the biz 16 years. If there's anything that I preach it's "it depends" and "YMMV". Please don't assume we're all out to get you or that we all believe that we know better than everyone else.
When I first heard this, all I could think about was "Amber Alert".
"Many" companies were rumored to be interested in buying Palm's patents. I don't know why HP didn't sell the Palm patents. I'm curious to see what the webOS open source license will have to say about the use of Palm patents.
I don't recommend angel investing for anyone who can't afford to lose a fairly substantial amount of money, which pretty much excludes anyone who isn't already an accredited investor. Finding the next Facebook or Google is a lot harder than you might think, and even if you did, they probably don't want your money. You are better off investing in your own self (education and the like).

Eliminating the wealth test would mainly benefit scammers.
Bitbucket now has side-by-side diffs
HP had committed to producing Windows 8 tablets, even before they killed their webOS tablets:

http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/28/hp-windows-8-tablets-arriving-...
We emailed them immediately once we realized and they (of course) said they would prefer if we rename to something else.

Because we had been using the name publicly for so long, we decided to lay out the relevant details and ask Hacker News.
How do you go from being a "normal" to being an expert? Learning. It's much, much harder to do that on one of today's macs. Of course, if you're suggesting that we don't need experts, that's something else entirely.
megaduck, you can already dive into parts (well the non-compiled bits) by taking the webOS doctor apart (it's just a jar).

The WebOS Internals team is happy to accept any patches which are then made available to users with Preware.

So you don't have to wait to get started and we would love more hackers joining the effort. We are also usually available on #wosi-dev on IRC.
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson - for pleasure

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide - for fun

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - for work

Effective C++ by Scott Meyers - for work

More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers - for work
LXer: Xubuntu 11.10: Unbelievable Easyness of Humanity
Ah, so there is a way to stop icons from bouncing. Thanks.
You could even count AOL Aim away messages as an early (but not not the first) way of setting your "status".
Casas Inteligentes
Las Casa Inteligentes sin lugar a dudas que representan un nuevo paso hacia el futuro, y sorprendentemente en nuestro país, son cada vez más personas las que han optado por este servicio, el cual te permite tener el control total de los equipos de tu hogar, así como también mejorar el rendimiento y por ende, el ahorro de energía.
We use both internally, actually. GNU gcc/g++ and IBM xlc/xlC all support doing this:

#if defined(... all the compilers above ...)
# define PRAGMA_ONCE _Pragma("once")
#else
# define PRAGMA_ONCE
#endif

Specifically, MSVC and HP cc/aCC do not support it. Oracle cc/CC does the #ifndef/#define detection and internally does something similar to what the pragma enables in other compilers.