skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 lessons learned from running a startup
Nice. FWIW, We emit "direct" postscript for most of our generated warehouse documents like packing slips, gift cards, snail-mail gift certificates, invoices, etc.
Revisiting Knuth and McIlroy's word count programs
Bad Engineering Properties of Object-Oriented Language
Of course you can sue the government, the question is for what?
4 Reasons Tech Hiring Will Explode in 2012
Are Happy Times Here Again for IPOs?
I see it more as a civic opportunity.
IOS Podcasting: 5 easy steps
What is the incentive to the Redis developers in expanding their target audience to include enterprises, which generally demand a vastly different feature set?
I guess from MPOV, "eloquent" formatting shouldn't change based on the size of the content... ie the difference between standard indenting and tab-aligning commas vertically. There's nothing eloquent about stepping through a dozen lines of code, tabbing each out, because a value was added that's a little longer than the rest..
And how did you read the lat bit about iOS?
What Are Events, Why Might You Care, and How Can EventMachine Help?
most of that made me feel sick
Even if you find a solution at the DNS level, the government will just go a level deeper.

There are really not that many ISPs and fewer yet you would have to control.
A1 tough book of Panasonic features and its review.
It's the overall design aesthetic. It's not just one design feature that is being used from the iPad. The crunch pad had a 16x9 screen and was thicker than the iPad.
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The point is that openness is irrelevant in this discussion. I really don't understand why the auhor of the post attempts to wage the open-vs-closed war, except to distract from the real issue: Android's UI is laggy.
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Verizon ends satellite deal and will stop FIOS expansion
Bring Out the Performer in You with MyLAB Pro iPhone App
Would you like to sing with a full vocal range, hit notes with crisp perfection and have people enraptured by your singing? Would you like to learn to speak a new tongue almost effortlessly?
Is there another tech bubble?
Afaik, Adobe InDesign and Quark dominate the market, with InDesign being the de-facto standard. They're not as high-priced or numerous as they used to be, though; there were a bunch of sold-to-professionals-only packages in the 80s, but there seems to have been a convergence between desktop publishing and professional print prepress, so everyone just uses InDesign or Quark now.
Slideshow+ The Smart Assistant at Rest and in Business
The Christmas and the New Year holidays are near at hand, and it means the required meetings with the family and relatives, congratulations and a lot of unforgettable holiday moments that you want to keep and share with friends....
Is there a complete lack of quotes on the record in that article? I see the lawyer's name for dajaz1.com but no quotes from him, no owner is named, no quotes from him... Just sayin'.

Everything is not right here. This is pretty basic stuff though, an accused man deserves to face his accusers, who is accused? The whole story is just better when there is an actual victim of the government tyranny. I expect it has something to do with payola but .... the feds will never defend themselves and who knows how much traffic this site is going to get now.
>Why in the world i'm being downvoted?

I imagine it's because we find your attempts to correlate maintence of the plugin repository by jQuery's shepards and the quality of plugins developed by independent people illogical.
> The notion that a company can patent rounded corners and sue others claiming innovation makes me sick.

Apple didn't patent "rounded corners". Apple v Samsung is more than that repeating mantra about rounded corners.

Why would Apple sue Samsung after GalaxyTab 10.1 and not when the original Galaxy Tab arrived?

* original galaxytab http://www.ebooksytablets.com/68-224-thickbox/protector-pant...

* second galaxytab http://messenger.com.es/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/galaxy-ta...

I suggest you to read early Nilay Patel analysis for more understanding about trade dressing and the reasons behind Apple's requirements.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analys...
So if these 40% of cancers were eliminated, what's the chances that the survivors would have ended up with one of the remaining 60%?

You have to die of something. What's important is years of high-quality life, rather than merely avoiding death from any specific ailment. And of course, quality is ultimately a subjective measure. All the behaviours that you must conform to, to avoid these specific deaths, may themselves detract from your quality of life.
I gave a TouchPad to my mother-in-law for her birthday and she loved it. I think the TP is a great transition device because the interface is quite easy to use. Plus she was able to print to her HP printer, so she was happy. The TP didn't get a lot of love from reviewers, but it is a solid tablet.
It's a framework, which is what it's filed under.
Android tablets still unwanted? Honeycomb makes up just 1% of Android usage
Yes and no. I sometimes develop in Windows (I find the UI easier to work with than OS X or Linux, just a personal preference) and I just run all the server-side tools I need in a tiny Linux VirtualBox VM.

It's an ideal setup, really- when I'm done with development and watch to kick back and watch a movie, I just put the VM into sleep mode and kill off those background tasks.
This is more paranoid gibberish. Nothing you say is unique to Google's SaaS and appears to be a nearly incoherent rant about SaaS in general.
Are there actually any modern payment gateways available worldwide that don't suck? I've tried Paypal and Ogone and they both are a serious hassle. How i would loooove stripe or wepay to become available worldwide!
Such things aren't choices in any conventional sense of the word - they're package deals, and you don't get to renegotiate the package. You can live in London for the opportunities and culture, but you can't easily escape the crime and traffic pollution.
This is like Fox News style reporting; misquoting everything.
>> You can no more declare that investors shouldn't have liquidation preferences ...

Not suggesting that. In fact, I have no objection to any clauses or terms that are negotiated in the original funding, although employees don't always have access to the terms in these agreements. However, these negotiated terms merely form an upper bound to what employees actually get.

There are a variety of situations in which the investors end up with more than the original agreement would suggest, and employees end up with less. Some of them are discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2958766

Founders sometimes end up with an outcome similar to the investors, but more often an outcome similar to the employees. Employees expect that their interests are aligned with the founders, and that founders will protect them, but this is not always the case.
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Sarah Lacy And Mike Arrington Are Starting TechCrunch 2.0
As someone who prefers iOS to Android I found this article very enlightening (moreso than the earlier article) and I appreciate the design tradeoffs more.

I don't think the problem is that Android has jerky animations, it's that it had certain design tradeoffs from the beginning that were all about its security model and allowing third party apps but not about the kinds of UX stuff Apple obsesses over. That's fine -- I don't actually think that all the animated UX crap adds that much value. I like it, but I could live without it.

I know there's this cult of "delightful" UX design with animated window transitions and so forth, but every time an app stalls or stutters while trying to animate a transition gratuitously it pisses me off. (Make no mistake, some apps use transitions very skillfully to help the user retain context, but these are usually very simple apps. There's plenty of things I'd fix in Photoshop's UI but adding transitions is not one of them.) I know plenty of Mac OS X users who love Apple to death but switch off every UI animation they can. Let's put it another way -- I love Dropbox and don't think adding "UX" crap to it would improve it in any way.

The problem is that having made these tradeoffs in Android, either Google or the Carriers then tried to layer a bunch of half-assed UX crap on top of it, and surprise it doesn't work so well.

I'd love a mobile or desktop OS that was all about functionality (which means good, attractive UI design but doesn't require UX frippery). But what we get instead is something caught between two worlds.
Tim Ferriss on Marketing In 9 Sentences
Great marketing concept - I hope he finds this funny as well, at least for your sake
I wonder how much Google feels comfortable with this level of risk due to the speed with which they are able to push out updates and the rate at which their clients autoupdate themselves.
We've invented waterfall
1) Does it count Genius Bar or backroom service employees? Should it?

2) Does it count full or part time workers? If yes, are they counted the same? If not, why not?

3) A corner convenience store / gas station probably has higher numbers. Is that meaningful?
My Platform If I Were Vice-President of the US
Eating healthy and exercising improves the quality of your life right now, as well as in the future. As does cutting back on alcohol, and smoking.
Apple using patents to undermine open standards again
I sympathize. It can be hard to cover all the browser/platform options.

I'm still getting the scroll bar. There may be other reasons as well, but it looks like your header image[1] is 1016 pixels wide. I tried reloading without cache, but it is possible I'm getting an old version somehow.

I'm not sure how wide the scrollbar/window chrome typically are but I think I'd allow a 20 pixel buffer at minimum (i.e. 996 width). Personally, I'd probably allow a 40+ pixel buffer just to be safe, but I in practice I just use the 960px width that 960.gs and others popularized. 64 pixels might be a little generous, but it does allow the page a little breathing room even on 1024 monitors.

1024 might be becoming a rare screen size (I don't know either way), but the vast majority of the sites I visit work at 1024 without horizontal scrolling. (A bigger problem for me is the 600px height. Even at full screen the modal popups some websites use are off-screen. I know how to scale and/or drag the window to work around that, but I'm sure most users don't.)

[1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/solarhost/21/assets/57/header.png
Apple has to stop selling iPhones/iPads in Germany (German source)
It seems that today a German court ruled in favor of Motorola and ordered Apple to stop selling iPhones and iPads on the German market.It relates to a patent for GPRS protocol packets, apparently.
eating well

I'm not sure "eating well" has the same meaning for everybody. :) Perhaps we should say "eating safely" or something.
Very chilling read.
How do entrepreneurs prepare to pitch? Results of a quick survey.
In my opinion, the second looks like an obvious progression of the first.
Is android Google wallet's pickpocket?
The advent of Native Client combined with this move means the Chrome Web Store is going to end up positioned as a direct competitor to Steam.

That's pretty interesting, honestly. It'll mean great things for consumers: I bet playing a game in your browser could be really convenient compared to downloading and installing Steam and then going through the motions for that platform. But Steam has 7 years on the Web Store with all kinds of great platform features like Steam Play, Cloud, Wallet, etc.

An exciting time to be a web and game developer, to be sure!
This post, like almost every other on the subject, misrepresents the content of the testimony being cited, and thus the arguments being made. Please read it yourself if you care about having discussion any more sophisticated than "Apple is the Great Satan!"/"NO U!"

(Edit:"Reading primary sources is heresy! Downvote! Downvote!")
It seems that today a German court ruled in favor of Motorola and ordered Apple to stop selling iPhones and iPads on the German market.It relates to a patent for GPRS protocol packets, apparently.
I'll agree it isn't a lifestyle choice in the conventional sense of the word. But I personally think each person should individually strive to make it so. Mobility is hugely underrated. And some packages are better than others.
I don't think there are any. In what way was Ogone a serious hassle? Was it difficult to get to the point where you could accept payments? Payments that didn't get processed correctly? Downtime?
World Shout
Huh... you're kinda wrong. Microsoft has never been stronger in server market and it's one of the platforms where their penetration is growing.
"Dediu reckons that the average Apple store employee creates sales at the rate of about $278 per hour."

Creates sales? What percentage of people wander into an Apple store and buy solely on the sales pitch of the retail worker?
In praise of LXDE
The problem with doing it that way is that someone who comes across a checkout of your code will have no documentation. Think about the case of a distributed tar.bz2 or having a python application installed on your system.

I prefer to have the comments in the code, in a form that can be used to generate documentation on the side (eg. doxygen, epydoc, etc.) so that they can't get lost, and so that you can read them as you read the code. It is difficult to re-combine the git commit messages with the code, but not hard to extract the comments from the code to create documentation.
Motorola wins major injunction against Apple's iPhone, iPad in Germany
elemeno clearly stated that rounded corners alone is not enough, it's part of many other things. You may disagree that design patents should exist at all, but they do not just cover a single thing.

Also, the "ridiculous" stuff is unnecessary.
Am I the only one who finds something odd about these numbers - 9% are using .NET yet less than 4% are using Visual Studio.NET? My personal observation is something close to 90-100% of .NET developers use VS.NET.
I think another major difference is that in most planes, you can feel when the other guy is screwing around with the controls because they're connected, so you can yell at him to stop doing whatever he's doing.

It seems to me that it would be worthwhile to fake this in a pure fly-by-wire environment. The added cost and weight of a force-feedback system on the control sticks should be minimal compared to the aircraft as a whole.
After reading the article, I was all I was doing was wondering how could these trivial things possibly get patents that supposedly claims to be new innovation.
You don't need to choose between safety and no redirects. One of the major points of the article is that you can not touch the credit card data yourself, AND still get a 100% uninterrupted payment experience for the user.

Again, it's still early, but we are seeing better conversion rates so far. The PayPal redirect gave some of our less technical users fits.
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At the margin, each additional hire likely does create additional revenue. Otherwise, Apple would be laying people off at their stores. If anything, Apple stores feel a bit understaffed. After all, most purchases can't be made without an employee; if you have to wait 30 minutes to be helped, there's an increased chance you'll abandon your purchase.
I was making the reverse point: SQLite provides an excellent experience on Linux, OS X and Windows, and has consistently done so for as long as I can remember. It is, as far as I'm concerned, the perfect counterexample to joelthelion's argument.
Sexism in tech reporting
And it's illegal or impossible to leave London? You can't renegotiate the package, but you can always choose a different package.
Yes, professional sports people do feel taken advantage of. Did you not just see the NBA lock-out? Players genuinely feel like management is taking advantage of them. See this excellent Bill Simmons analysis over at Grantland: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7250994/business-vs-pers...
The devops_jerk experiment ends
Oh okay, maybe the downvote was because you didn't make that clear :-)
In more depressing news: 60% of cancers may not be due to lifestyle. The correct phrase would probably be "known lifestyle choices". But seriously, shouldn't people be surprised lifestyle only accounts for 40%. What if I rewrote the entry paragraph in the following way:

Nearly half of low intelligence diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including not reading, debating, or thinking about interesting problems.
The iPad is just a larger IPhone. The real innovation in design here was the iPhone which release pre-dates even the first announcement of the JooJoo. I think it is naive to think the sleek iPhone design didn't significantly influence all current tablet designs.

To illustrate how not-obvious the design is, compare the original kindle (released prior to the iphone) to the iPad. And now compare the Kindle Fire (released after the iPhone/iPad) to the iPad.
Russian Twitter political protests 'swamped by spam'
> Do you understand what "valuation" means?

More than most people.

> It is the expectation of future profits by investors.

No, that is one component.

> When a company is small but growing quickly is is very reasonable for investors to expect profits to increase more quickly than at a mature company.

Not without more information.

> It's fairly common for small, young companies to grow by multiple-hundred percent per year.

Considering the failure rate of young companies, you have a strange definition of the word "common".
A beautiful new story-telling platform - we hope to catalog the human experience
gotta love the irony in this at least :)
That was just one part of the statement, and I agree with that general sentiment. However:

"There are certainly some advantages to how iOS work, but this view is too focused on one specific detail to be useful, and glosses over actual similarities in how they behave...
...This is very different from iOS’s original design constraints, which remember didn’t allow any third party applications at all."

Really, who cares if they allow third party apps or not? I don't have a jailbroken iPhone, but I've seen jailbroken apps run smooth as butter, so this mystical "Apple quality stamp of approval" argument goes out the window.

The post continues:

"In fact it was just not feasible to implement hardware accelerated drawing inside windows until recently. Because Android is designed around having multiple windows on the screen, to have the drawing inside each window be hardware accelerated means requiring that the GPU and driver support multiple active GL contexts in different processes running at the same time."

Translation: we designed the system to behave in a way which didn't utilize system resources the best way possible. I hope that this is fixed now, but I have my doubts.

"I saw an interesting comment from Brent Royal-Gordon on what developers sometimes need to do to achieve 60fps scrolling in iOS lists... I am no expert on iOS, so I’ll take that as as true. These are the exact same recommendations that we have given to Android’s app developers, and based on this statement I don't see any indication that there is something intrinsically flawed about Android in making lists scroll at 60fps, any more than there is in iOS."

Nobody said iOS is perfect; yes they have their own flaws (e.g. Safari crashesevery on every once in a while, 3GS sometimes runs out of memory in iOS5, etc), and finding a (edge?) case in which the UI is not smooth on a competing platform seems petty.
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I hear you. I'm in the same boat with a game I just released on the XBox, piniq (http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77f...). I tried submitting a story about it here and it vanished pretty quickly (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320826)

If I come across a magic bullet and find success, I'll be sure to share it.
I think there is some serious selection bias. In particular, I think they mostly talked to web developers. (Of course, it's also possible that web developers now make up the majority of developers, but I'd like to see a separate study on that.) They show the "industry" breakdown, but 83% are under "technology" which is too generic to tell me anything meaningful.

Ah, they do say the people surveyed are at companies with less than 100 employees, so, yeah, there's some selection bias.
Here's the clickable link.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77f...
Not really. I also am baffled by django and rails being top, but then eclipse as ide? And Objective-C being below 5% but Xcode 10%.

This just either smells like a load of crap of the survey was done in a very inconsistent manner. (Not giving an option for 'I don't use an IDE' or the likes.
The survey says "the asked 500 leading software developers from around the world".

So, this is more about rock-star programmers and such, not people using .NET/VS in the enterprise. Especially as it talks about companies with <= 100 employees.

Probably people more like the Miguel De Icaza, Jeff Atwood etc types that probably use Vim/Emacs or such to work with .NET.

Even so, so many people using Notepad++? WTF?
That seems like it depends heavily on what you consider "quality of life". In any case, it needs a lot more data to determine (alcohol in particular seems to have both complex health effects, and complex, culture-dependent sociological/psychological effects).

I could just as easily assert the opposite: eating fewer steaks and drinking less reduces your quality of life, right now.*

* But may increase it in the future, depending on various factors.
EagleView: One small company reinvents a $30 billion market
Very good point! My argument is that feeling taken advantage of does not necessarily mean that you are being taken advantage of, at least in an economic sense.
Remind me about those weak Motorola patents again
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One or two drinks a day is shown to have health benefits in other studies.
There are more complex things at play here. Some foods actually contain compounds that reduce or prevent tumor growth. Cabbage for example has highest levels of two anti-cancer glucosinolates and protects against breast cancer and bread crust; has highest levels of Interlukin-B which protects against colon cancer.

As a real world example; Polish women have the lowest incidence of breast cancer and the highest consumption of cabbage.
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Definitely good points. I doubt questions like those will get answered by Apple, though, unfortunately. Would be interesting, though.
So, the Crunchpad is "proof" that -- having seen the iPhone and iPod Touch -- the iPad's design is obvious. The article doesn't mention the prior release of the iPhone and iPod Touch (remember Jobs starting out by saying Apple was releasing three things, one of which was a tablet computer). I agree that having seen an iPhone the iPad design is obvious. Next.
How far do you need to go down the list of top websites by traffic before you hit a site running on a Windows stack that isn't owned by Microsoft? Quite a long way, I believe. Probably more than 50.
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