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>It pleases the money folk to think [...] That users are happy to live in a highly regulated, Disneyfied app space, without all that messy freedom.

Sadly I think those folks are right. Shiny things do appeal to average people above freedom, flexibility etc. Given enough people with both money and an interest in shiny things, apps will rule supreme.
A lot of our photos are pulled from social networks, especially Foursquare.
Yes, there's been several UI research papers which show that keyboard heavy users underestimate the time their keyboard strokes take compare to quickly switching to mouse because of the higher cognitive load. I know, [citation needed], but I'm sure you'll find them if you google.
While the current version of Ubuntu is trashed by many, its usability is no longer an issue---as near as I can tell the argument is what it looks like with a few quibbles over changes to some standard utilities---the app installer used to allow you to check off the ones you wanted and then install all at once. No longer (or if it does, it is cleverly hidden!) I'd suggest if a user has problems with this particular flavor of Linux, then their chances of success with Win7 or Win8 seem unlikely.
I think the main reason, by far, that more people don't use Linux on their personal computer is that you can't easily buy a computer with Linux pre-installed.

In my experience, something like 95% of all Linux problems are at install time--hardware support, drivers, necessary pacakges...etc. Once somebody has gone through the difficult bits at the very beginning, Linux systems tend to be very stable--after the first week or so, I've had less issues with my Linux computers than I have with Mac OS or Windows.

I set Ubuntu up for my roommate, who is rather inexperienced in computers, and he has had no issues. In fact, some things worked even better than on Windows/Mac--he was able to use my printer without installing any drivers; my roommate last year had to spend several hours and get somebody else to help him to print from his Mac.

Apart from the difficulty of installing, most people don't even realize that they can install a different operating system--they believe that whatever they have is a magical part of their computer. Or something. You'd think Mac people would be better--they are, after all, using the less popular platform--but they are, if anything, even worse in this regard.

Thus, I think the immediate and most important prerequisite to widespread Linux use is not Linux's quality (which is already superb) but its presence in retail outlets.

However, there are two big obstacles to this: Mirosoft and Apple. Microsoft has had a history of anti-competitive behavior in regards to Linux, and goes out of its way to strong arm OEMs into only supplying Windows; both companies ruthlessly market that Linux is not an option--the false Mac vs PC dichotomy is a perfect example.

However, even if Linux isn't particularly popular, it already delivers the most compelling desktop and laptop environment to those who bother installing it; in that sense, it is already the year of the Linux desktop--I can be more productive on Linux than my friends on Windows and Mac OS; if less people use it, well, it's just less competition ;)
Ubuntu does indeed allow multi-arch distros. I've run 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Ubuntu for years; in fact, I'm doing so now.
Thanks - very helpful. Will check the search bug in Safari.
I can only guess that jey's comment was downvoted because R is more prevalent language for statistics and data mining when compared to Python:

http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2011/languages-for-data-minin...

Thus, there is a much larger ecosystem as it comes to STATISTICS and data mining in R. Cluster analysis packages are especially advanced in R.

BTW, there is an effort to have OpenMP support in core R, e.g. the "dist" function:

http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-safely-use-OpenMP-pragm...

EDIT: I was able to compile and run some of the functions under MacOSX 10.6 and R 2.13.1. I couldn't get it to compile with CULA (free version) and my GPU hardware is 1.1 so I can't run SVM :-(
Great to hear you found some new stuff. If you logged in, you should start to see friend check-ins and things that are trending.

Do you think time of day would help or search instead of filter?
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Leaving JSPs in the dust: moving LinkedIn to dust.js client-side templates
We'll have to double check about expired events- they should automatically filter out. Thanks for the catch.
I think you'll find that Hadoop is often used in preparing the data into bite-size chunks for use in Kaggle contests.

Also, sometimes the contest winners do win by fetching more data related data than Kaggle provides. This happened in the Wikipedia participating-prediction contest, for example.
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Blocks8 is correct about the source. We are looking into both getting more/better sources of photos as well as improving how we select and reveal these images to the user so that we are showing the best and most relevant images

Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for the feedback, I'm choosing to leave it up for now.
Facebook Makes Up 52% of Sharing on the Web
On OS X:

gcc stderred.c -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -ldl -fPIC -shared -o lib/stderred.dyld
alias stderred='DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=$PWD/lib/stderred.dyld DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE=1'
stderred python -c 'import os; print "Yo!"; os.write(2, "Jola\n\r")'

(replace $PWD with the absolute path if you're adding this to your shell config, of course)
The authors point is that the system has changed:

Before: Founders put together a biz plan and raised a decent seed round and then started hiring the first few employees.

Now: Some person gets an idea, pitches it to another person, and they start building it, then they pitch it to a third person. They don't pay themselves salaries, live off their savings and their credit cards. An 'incubator' may give them some cash to pay for things like AWS instances and filing incorporation papers. They may be up to 5 or 6 people before they have a 'minimum viable product' (MVP) and are willing to pitch it to VCs for a real series A.

The author points out that all of the first 3, 4, 5, or 6 people who were working to get the company to the MVP point, they are founders. Not just the 'idea guy' or the 'wizard' that they snagged to help implement the idea. Everyone who came on board before series A has made it possible to get to that point is a founder.

And yet there are companies that treat person 2 - n as 'employees' and give them way less equity. Because of that people don't want to be employee 2-n, and thus hiring them is 'hard'.

I've noticed this as well, and have been puzzling around with the following thoughts.

Lets say you create a company and decide that prior to series A, 80% of the company will be owned by the founders and 20% to outside investors. You start with 10 shares, 2 for an angel, 8 for the founder.

Now you add a founder, you double the share pool and now you give 8 to the new founder and 2 to the angel (distribution is 4 + 8 + 8). Now you add another engineer/founder and you now add 80 shares to the pot and distribute them 27 + 27 + 26 for the founders and 20 for the angel. Add a new angel and you double the shares to 200 where each angel get (20 + 20) and founders get (54 + 53 + 53) shares.

The idea being to keep the ownership percentage of the company 20% angels, 80% workers.

Now you go for series A - my thought is you pick three ratios, investors/founders/employees. That may end up being 49/31/30. Allow your angel to either contribute their shares to the series A (cash out) or to participate. But at the end of the day the representation is 49,31,30. Same deal when you add more investors, add to the size of their pool so that works, add to the other pools to keep it balanced.

I am undecided if it would make managing the equity table easier or harder.
Thanks for Fastmail!
I hope netflix doesn't commit yet another blunder. Though verizon would benefit enormously by this deal, the end users are at risk of locking in with verizon.
Or use writev for that matter.

Note that using ordinary write multiple times has atomicity implications - if you have multiple processes writing to STDERR, you might find their output interleaved in unfortunate ways. Using a single write with a temporary buffer or writev avoids this (provided you're not writing more than PIPE_BUF bytes total)
I wholly agree (and ended up buying a tablet precisely because I got sick of reading blogs with vast swathes of empty space at the side), but not everything is necessarily better in portrait. I was going to forward the sketchbook link to Mrs Browl, who is redesigning the UX for her firm's browser-based product right now, but then I reflected that that application involves a lot of tabular data and records management and that many uses of the product in a portrait orientation would be terribly frustrating. She is interested in bringing it to tablets, and portrait orientation would be appropriate for many use cases, but not all.

I do think the UX sketchbook is very neat - the squared paper inside the broswer frame is genius. It just seems perverse to only offer a single orientation in 2 different sizes. If it had portrait on one side and landscape on the other I'd buy it in a second (he hinted, in case the makers are reading).
This is just OEMed from Dayton in Hong Kong.

They're < $35 in volume. Given that the Wahoo ANT+ Dongle is $16 in volume from the same OEM (Wahoo has their own firmware), one has to wonder how high the price for the HRM might be.

I fully expect Nike or Adidas to bring these to market, leveraging their very large channel and ability to take down more than the MOQ (5k pcs) to drop the price to around $45 at retail.
Definitely. As I mentioned, I installed Ubuntu on my roommates laptop. He is completely inexperienced in computers, and not only has he had no problems with Ubuntu, but he has also become more productive than when he was on Windows 7.
I wouldn't got as far as saying that it makes him look like a complete hypocrite. After all, much of the rest of the talk, he makes no secret of his business-sense ("saw dollar signs"). To me, Mr. Jobs was above all a pragmatist, which is how he can reconcile both the hacking in his early and the position against hacking in his later career.

I suppose it's all just part of the natural circle-of-life thing - in his later days, he would probably just brush off questions about this with "being young and wild" or something similar. This change of focus is typical for a matured businessman and puts him at a disadvantage against fresh entrepreneurs and innovators. But that's just how the world turns.
Minor bug. The Home and End keys don't seem to work in the search box.
I hope I can give people some context. I have never thought I would feel so down that I would consider ending my life. I don't mind poverty, I'm very flexible in relationships, lots of things in my life have not turned out the way I hoped. And of course, there are lots of things I never expected that have enriched my life (one of those things is programming).

But for the past 10 years I've been in pain every day. Even that is bearable (though most painkillers have no effect on my pain). The thing that has got me down though, is the pain that comes all through the night. Not being able to sleep night after night and the exhaustion that comes from it is the most depressing thing in my life.

Even then, I know things could be worse. I could be disfigured. I could have lost my sight.

Of course, those rationalisations are of little comfort when I'm being woken up for the 20th time, and bed feels like an implement of torture.

Most things in life are "fixable" if one changes one's attitudes and behaviour. But uncontrollable pain is depressing.
To me, this seems to be an "opt-out" rather than "opt-in" sort of thing. The easiest parallel would be maximizing windows in Windows or most Linux WMs: you can maximize all windows by default, but they are free to disallow maximizing. This seems a more reasonable approach.
Can you elaborate? What would make one harder to pull off without a cofounder, in this case?
What are you attempting to say here?

While Apple has made recent changes to MFi (can't discuss, NDA), these are expressly NOT about access to Bluetooth LE or 4.0 "chipsets".

What IS true is that you don't have to go through MFi to have a device that talks LE to an iOS device.

Is this what you were trying to say?
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Oops! thanks for the input, we are planning on improving the autocomplete for cities in a few ways, added this to the last, thanks!
Guess that's the perfect reason why it should exist: People who are already involved in existing projects could look out for low hanging fruits and that would be a win-win. The site could implement a project alert.
Yes this is one of the main reasons why I am not working for a startup currently even after running my own startup for 2 years and having loved the experience. Over the course of interviewing with multiple startups and getting offers the amount of equity being offered was so little that the companies would have to hit ~250 Million valuations for the options to be worth in the mid 5 digits. From my perpective the risk-reward ratio for the first 10 engineers is much much worse than that for the founders. I do intend to go back to founding something again in a couple of years.
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i actually liked hacker evolution, so i might get the gala. thanks!
Steve Jobs was definitely not a pragmatist. He believed there is a moral dimension to his work and products.
> The static compiler that preceded HHVM was started in a different time; it was 2008, and the JavaScript wars were just getting started. Conventional wisdom (to anybody who hadn't worked on Self in the late '90's) was that running dynamic languages fast was just kind of a lost cause.

To be fair, LuaJIT has been blazing trails in running dynamic languages fast since 2005. But maybe it wasn't well-known enough to make its way into conventional wisdom.
SaaSy.com is all-inclusive.
I am surprised that many of the big sites are just now getting around to moving away from the server side frameworks for UI. The benefits of doing so are just so great that I am surprised that they ignored it for so long. Flattening the web stack makes development rapid again, UI engineers can stub out JSON files to emulate the REST back end and iterate through bugs so much faster. At many of the companies that I have implemented new style web front ends out TCO dropped significantly. I guess it's telling of the times when you are more shocked to find out that people are just now doing as opposed to the fact that they are doing it.

As well I enjoyed the article, I have not used dust.js yet so it was interesting to see how it works. Dojo has a good templating model and I tend to prefer it over some of the other offerings, it is good to see that others are getting into the space. Though I do prefer Dojo's widget based templating over standard tiles type templateing, I find that it makes the code more compartmentalized and reusable. More of a black box, where code and template can just be added to a page and it works.
Brilliant work. I've never actually enjoyed searching for domains before! Depending on how the service holds up, I'll definitely look into transferring my domains over from GoDaddy.

Quick question: do the credits expire? I don't have a domain to register right now, but would love to use my credit later.
Offtopic, but there's something really off about Gun.io

Looking at their listings under Freelance / Open Source, the prices offered for those gigs are not even laughable, but an insult, even for developers from third-world countries.

So am I missing anything? Do I need to be logged-in or something?
Not to mention Super Meat Boy, which is (in my opinion) one of the best modern platformers.
Honestly I am not a fan of the skeuomorphic stuff - that way lies the hundreds of ugly-ass mp3 player skins that look like some little physical device sitting on your desktop - but the Apple stuff has been relatively inoffensive. The version of iCal that I ditched is the one on the iPad, because it requires me to poke at tiny buttons on the bottom of the screen to go to next/previous month/day/week instead of just doing a nice easy swipe like every other iPad app trains me to do. (Or even like I can do in iCal on my Mac, if I'm interacting via the trackpad instead of my Wacom tablet!)

I think it's worth noting that the latest version of iBooks on the iPad has an option to drop the semi-skeuomorphic* borders. It's a thing they tried. I wouldn't be surprised to see the cute borders vanish sometime.

I'm also not a fan of PURELY TYPOGRAPHIC ui designs, as those require a TON of whitespace to work. There's a medium to be struck. Usually Apple does pretty well, I think; OSX as it stands now (Lion) is really, really good at quietly conveying information without screaming it.

Maybe I just have a different idea of what's pleasingly minimal than the author of the piece at hand. I dunno.

* I say semi-skeuomorphic because they don't change depending on how far you are in the book - if it did then it would actually be a pretty damn slick way of subtly delivering the same information as a scrollbar.
Won't work for FLOSS/CC licensed material, or public domain works. The distributor is not an agent for the copyright holder; she either has a license which allows redistribution, or does not need one to legally redistribute.

So, your disclaimer is reduced to "I am legally allowed to redistribute this media". Which is pointless. It's inherently implied by the fact that you are redistributing the work. Unless you are breaking the law - in which case, why would lying about it bother you?

Oh, yes, I am totally authorised to redistribute this media. And these genuine Rolex watches I am selling for $20 fell off the back of a truck. They are definitely not fakes infringing on trademarks, nor are they actual genuine articles which are stolen and being fenced, no siree!
Checking out your competitors and drafting a version on your own is often a good starting point. You can sometimes save on legal hours and get something closer to what you want if you try this first and then run the result by your lawyer.

Side note, avoid direct plagiarism.
more likely scala than clojure - i think a lot of the clojure community are there for the language, and see the jvm as incidental (or even an annoyance). newbie questions on the clojure mailing list are divided between "new to fp" and "new to the jvm ecosystem", and the clojure-in-clojure (with an eye on eventually targeting multiple platforms with a core layer) project has a lot of excitement around it.
I get how they can crawl ads. But how do they figure out the most effective ad? The only thing I can think of is that the most effective ad is the most frequent one. But that isn't necessarily true.
They also said that the EFF would be returning as a charity in future bundles.
This resonates with me unfortunately well. Note that happiness has definite genetic links - twin studies show that it is a somewhat heritable trait, and some mechanisms have actually been found as to how it's heritable (for example, see http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/genes_economics_and_happiness.pdf).
mid 5 digits is 50k?
50k / 250M = 0.02%

That's perhaps ~10x less than is typical.

I'm not saying your general intentions are wrong, but you should be able to get a much better deal from startups than you have seen to date if you want. I'm moderately surprised at your experience.
The topic of web vs. native is really about APIs.

Developing a native application is not preferred because it is compiled into a binary. Nobody cares about that. It is because the APIs are pleasurable to use.

HTML, CSS, DOM – it is all a painful abstraction just to duplicate what the "native" APIs already provide cohesively.

Projects like Cappuccino have gone a long way to hide the pain and provide a nice native-like API, but then you question why bother with the web abstractions at all? Why not just provide a decent API in the browser to begin with?
Yes, but you don't want to re-litigate what constitutes recklessness in every case. Take drunk driving: a fixed threshold of blood alcohol content (0.08) is a rather crude threshold and takes little account of individual driving performance, but it would be expensive and time-consuming to objectively measure every motorist's baseline performance, degree of impairment, and so on in every case involving DUI. It's already difficult in that smart lawyers will challenge the accuracy and correct configuration of the breathalyzer equipment - as they should - and drivers who test just barely over the limit can often be acquitted or have their charges dropped. On the plus side, the arbitrariness of the threshold not only simplifies prosecutions where users are clearly very far over it, it also dissuades people from approaching the threshold by discouraging them from drinking and driving at all; thus the perception that a DUI charge is a big headache acts effectively to discourage the unwanted behavior. The fact that alcohol intake is objectively measurable, even if impairment is not, provides clarity about both the nature of the proscribed behavior and the risk of liability if one engages in it.

Interestingly, it appears that states where medical marijuana is legal see a lower rate of fatal traffic accidents; stoned drivers are thought to be more cautious than normal, and over-compensate for their psychomotor impariment by driving more slowly and waiting longer at stop signs: http://hometestingblog.testcountry.com/?p=17893
Ask HN: Have you ever pivoted backwards?
Have you ever gone back to an idea you previously abandoned?
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Or 13 11 14 in Australia (Lifeline, http://www.lifeline.org.au).
Stop talking about "natural" sleep cycles or "natural" diet. Stop talking about how the homo sapiens evolved into sleeping or eating like this. I personally think our unwillingness to move away from our evolved instincts is the reason why we're not a more advanced species.

Sleeping at night is obviously a result of lack of light during the night. I don't believing sitting/lying consciously will be that different from sleeping unconsciously as to providing rest for our bodies. It's just a learned habit and we should be able to get over it.

Slavery and dictatorship is more natural, see how monkeys or any other animals group their society? Why don't we give up democracy for something more natural?
A very '80's punk' Charlie Brown Christmas [video]
We're the same. Even though the bulk of our devs are in the office, we still use campfire because it's the central hub of communication. (commit messages, CI build notices, when stories get updated in Pivotal,etc.)

And it's searching ability is very nice. Pro-Tip: Keep that searchability in mind when you discuss a candidate's interview in campfire..they might be reading it later when you hire them. Dohp!
Learning to cook is one of the most important things I've ever done for my creativity. Not only does it help you get into building things, but it's a great way to blow off steam and boost your self esteem with small successes. I learned from a friend who taught me his "no recipes" approach, but I'm sure a cooking class would do the trick if you're not an improviser.

A meal or two per day and suddenly everybody is complimenting you.
Could this be due to the lack of games? :P

(long time linux user, also Microsoft employee. I take credit for the joke, though :P)

[edit: I know there are games for linux. In fact, I applaud companies that go out of their way to make linux versions of their games. e.g. Unreal Tournament 2k4]