skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't state that engineers don't use pre-existing code. I stated that they don't summon ideas to it. They have to be creative enough to come up with them on their own, or partner up with someone they know well who is just as capable and also has great ideas. That has nothing to do with layers of software abstraction and building upon them. If no new ideas were in play, we would continue using all the technologies you just mentioned, in their current frozen 2011 state, forever.

And let me just emphasize that engineering skill is invaluable and an absolute necessity. I also didn't state that anything is possible. I'm am simply tired of this 'ideas are worthless' sentiment because it is ridiculous. It should be 'an idea without the ability execute on it is just an idea' just as 'execution is impossible without an idea'.
WebOS now open source
This is not exclusive to iOS and it is not a bug.
Except for the fact that it says "Group Message" at the top of the screen (see screenshot of blog post).
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I think they defer to the fact that both Apple[1] and Google[2] also have the same feature in their App Stores.

Edit:
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358134/Apples-Jobs-co...

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/07/google_remotely_kill...
This happens quite a lot in the valley.
I used to think of blogging about this a few years ago, before I started using Chrome all the time, whose completion is a brand-affecting failure on par with Google's decisions about bookmark handling.
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Having a good idea is very important to the success of a startup. However, their market value is lessened by the fact that the supply of "good ideas" greatly exceeds the demand. Between the idea, the talent, and the elbow grease, the idea is the least likely of the three to be the bottleneck. An idea is like a computer. It's essential to the success of your project, but they're not that hard to come by, a lot of people have them, and obtaining one is probably the least difficult part of the process. Ideas aren't worthless, but they are worth less.
I've not studied the issue extensively, but I believe a similar argument was the basis for the "safe harbour" provisions of the DMCA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...
One person per child?
After talking about this with some of my friends, it seems as though my list is a little bit social media heavy. Some of my other friends have more consumer based links.

Does anyone know how to extract this information from Chrome with a script?
Usually when I'm doing work, I'm switching between different apps, copy/pasting stuff (graphics, sounds, text), moving files or just referencing something. I do this far more often than switching to an IM client (for which I just click on the bouncing icon in the dock, then alt-tab back to my work).

The problem is that I want to switch between a few windows that are not necessarily in the same application. In Windows (and Linux), it's a no-brainer. Alt-tab and I'm done. In Mac, I end up changing within the app when I want to change between apps and vice versa. I don't care if they're within the same app or not. I just want to do stuff between windows A and B and maybe C.

Example: I'm writing some code. I look something up in my browser. I also have a second window in my IDE with some more code I'm using as a template for what I'm building. In Windows or Linux, it's very easy to alt-tab between those 3 windows. Alt-tab, Alt-tab-tab. In Mac, I'm always fumbling with which is the right key combination to get the right kind of window switching and is this a text wrangler window or an xcode window? Aargh!
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Nothing wrong with what Paul said - he is just not the targeted user.
MPAA, led by former Senator Chris Dodd
I had pretty much the same dilemma six months ago, finally I went with the 13" Macbook Pro w/ 8Gb RAM and 512Gb SSD. It changed my day to day life (but I also need my machine to do some heavy data crunching while on the go, so the slower processor was a major no for me).
What do you mean by brand-affecting failure?
Motorola XyBoard Tablets to be Launch Today
"Everyone else is doing it" doesn't cut it with Mom or with me. :)
Congress has to do that, the executive branch can't. To the extent that the executive branch is streamlining the existing immigration system, they're being derided as amnesty-offering traitors by the xenophobic know-nothings that want Berlin Wall 2.0.
With iMessage, everyone will see "Group Message" at the top of their screen (see blog screenshot), which I think is pretty obvious.
Macs with international keyboard have Delete (Backspace) right above Return: http://en.newinstance.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/mac-inte... Not an issue.
She started at MIT at 18 (or 19) and is now 23. She should be done her degree (or close to it) by now.
Porting to Python 3: An offer for you
they probably used Google to find the website of the bank they're going to rob so they could get a location and hours. So really the Google and the bank both assisted in robbing that bank.
Misleading title.

This is "the first major release in the 1.3 series" of Pyramid".
She is done with her bachelor, she was doing her masters it says in the article.
one engineer, one idea person

Oh god no. One engineer, one salesperson, maybe. One engineer, one designer. Skills are always worth a split, but the worth of the initial idea decreases at least linearly over time, and a 50-50 split based on that is laughable. If it gets considered in the equity split at all, the idea is worth 5% pre-money maximum.
I think it's great that he is making comments like this. It is such bad P.R. that it only makes it easier to do away with SOPA. I hope he continues to make these statements.
> 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.

No, it's not "almost free". It's paid for by the company.

And yes, paying yourself is tax-deductible in many circumstances.

I've actually paid for health insurance out of pocket as an "older american". Rent was more expensive.

That said, healthcare could be a lot less expensive, but since much of that expense comes from govt involvement, it's unclear why anyone would think that even more govt involvement would help.

For example, there are a lot of procedures for which I don't want coverage, but thanks to govt requirements, I can't opt out and pay less.

> 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.

Student loans are one way to pay college costs. The method of payment doesn't actually affect the costs much.

Increased student aid seems to increase college cost.
"Perhaps allow for the input of an arbitrary number of components into a "bar", which then generates a list of potential drinks."

That is exactly what it does. The second line of the description states "Alcohology is specially designed so you can see what cocktails your home bar can actually create" and the 3rd and 4th bullet points are "Customizable ingredients for your bar. Toggle to see all recipes or only recipes your bar can make"

Your comment has made it obvious that I have utterly failed in getting that point across. I'll re-work the description and screenshots to change the sales pitch.
Moralizing isn't the point. The point is that, for a given value system, there is one charity that best optimizes for those values. The vast majority of the people who donated to that museum would agree that the thousand lives are more important than the painting, yet they donated to the museum instead of the third world anyway. This isn't because they're immoral, it's because they're irrational: they're not optimizing with respect to their own value systems.
Ha, I didn't see what I did there until you pointed out what I did there.
Debatable. They clearly have enough calories, but you need more than just that to live and be healthy. I would strongly argue that omega-3's and vitamin D3 are essential nutrients that a substantial portion of the population are deficient in.
Were she to delay the exam, her life would have gone on pretty normal for a while, Eventually the lump, the cancer, would have grown, all the while trying to sneak into the rest of the body. Perhaps she would have eventually made it into a GP, and not a place that specialized diagnosing breast cancer. Lumps are normal, she's young, it's probably not anything to worry about, come back if it grows.

It's cancer, of course it grows, she goes back in a couple of months, eventually it's large enough to warrant removal regardless of what it is, they'll do the biopsy after they remove it.

Biopsy comes back, now she know it's cancer, but hopefully it's not too far along. They get her a PET scan, hopefully it's not in the blood.

The PET scan comes back, it confirms multiple tumors in the body. Metastatic, they call it. Atleast that explains the back-pain. Her options are limited now, there are treatments that can slow the growth, but not much hope in the way of getting rid of the cancer.

Chemo is much less useful at this stage, Chemo is a much more distant worry now, loosing your hair a much more distant worry, which makes it feel, a bit less real. The treatment is still very minor. She still feels pretty healthy all things considering, and this is just what the doctors are telling her. It's not real, but again, the cancer doesn't much care.
Maybe. Keep n mind these's a lot of parts of a differential (or motor) that _dont_ need replacing when reconditioning. In a diff, there's maybe 9 bearings, the pinion and crownwheel, and maybe the 4 spur gears. If you start with an undamaged but worn out diff, replacing those parts effectively gives you a brand new diff. The bearings are standard industrial parts worth maybe $40 or $50 ( at retail prices) and the auto manufacturers can't affect the cost/margin on them. The crownwheels, pinions, and spur gears are already all available from aftermarket manufacturers for any model likely to be used as a cab (at least here in Australia).
Kent Beck calls this the "Red Test Pattern". If you do test-driven development, check in your code, write one more test that fails, and only then stop working.

Works wonders for me.
Eh. I think the success of companies like patio11's is proof that technical achievement really doesn't matter at all (no offense intended to patio11!), and that marketing and finding the right niche (both of which are more related to ideas) are really the most important things. Hire good marketers, but skimp on engineering (or just outsource it).
How about EmberJS ?
Domain name is available, it's similar to AmberJS but a little cooler.
If you google the "Early Stage Innovation Fund" this is the first result:

Early Stage Innovation Fund - COMING FY 2012 | SBA.gov
www.sba.gov/node/15261
Early Stage Innovation Fund - COMING FY 2012. Earlier this year, the President announced the launch of "Startup America," an initiative to support high-growth ...

http://www.sba.gov/node/15261

If you go there, you get:

<title>Access denied | SBA.gov</title>

Seems rather fitting for a government effort. Further digging shows that these funds are really only open to VC firms with $20 million in funds already. http://www.sba.gov/inv/earlystage
> There have been developments in our knowledge of the market since 1680

Yes, but the argument for regulation is that said regulation provides more benefits than the incurred costs.

Considering how badly regulated markets do....

Remember, regulation is systemic risk.
Looks like Chris Dodd finally took Bono's advice:

"We’re the post office, they tell us; who knows what’s in the brown-paper packages? But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content. Perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?hp=...
I have not, no. I like the e-cig because I can carry it around in my pocket and I can use it at work only when I need the pick-me up. No worries fumbling about undoing my clothes to find a place to stick a patch. Personal vaporizers are cheaper too, and can have any flavor I like.
Am I the only one who agrees? Obviously going back to something like BeOS is a little extreme, but fact is OS X Lion made things worse. I don't need LaunchPad or AirDrop or the AppStore, oh and thanks for hiding my Library folder and reversing my scroll direction, wtf. Now I'm looking at Windows 8 and the only thing that comes to my mind is: Why the hell would I want to install that on my PC? Tell me. My PC is not an iPhone! If this trend continues we all end up using Ubuntu without Unity sooner or later.
i think it's all about apps these days, probably too late for the game?
IKnode: Evolution of an UI
I really hate how companies like the MPAA and RIAA exist. They care about nothing but precious profit. Yeah, let's forget constitutional rights and free speech, and censor the Internet to protect our product that can survive without us. China's doing it! We have the technology!
Maybe Obama should stop "investing", we've seen how that turned out with Solyndra, Light Squared, Fisker Automotive, etc.

Maybe Obama and the Federal government shouldn't be in charge of "fixing" economic aspects of society, as that is not what the founding fathers of this country intended, and that is not really within the authority of Congress.

Government picking winners and losers is a proven way to eradicate innovation and destroy wealth.

No thanks.
Stick with "Amber.js". Everything else would be more confusing as it is already ... and it's short! I like it :)
Fair enough. The patent actually shows a tablet that looks less like an iPad than it does a generic Tablet PC that one might have bought from Dell in 2004, though.
Sadly the iRex Technologies Illiad is no longer available (but it met your criteria)
Being cheaper than rent is a pretty low bar.
There are plenty of nutters who worked and do work at NASA. Let the arguments stand on their merits, not on their messengers.
What about the patents? Scoble said they had patents on webOS. The press release mentions nothing about it.
Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”
Suggestions: peach.js, honey.js and cloudberry.js

I am hungry, in case you were wondering.
Oy, where do we start with this? So wrong.
> I've actually paid for health insurance out of pocket as an "older american". Rent was more expensive.

I think you were very lucky. As a "young & healthy american," that was not my experience.
So, since I hate giving Microsoft money, they won't get any for their app store with this decision.

Same with Amazon and their kindle/ebooks. If you can delete my stuff I don't buy from you.
The US and Canadian government spend the same amount per person on healthcare but Canada has universal health care. On average the US and Canadian healthcare systems provide vary similar outcomes on average.

So, clearly more government involvement is an option. But, so is less the US could save a ridiculous amount of money if we could stop wasting it on end of life care that proves little to no benefit. Healthcare is an endless money sink and because the US government agrees to hand over money with little veto power we have are left with the worst healthcare system money can buy.

Just think about this for a second would you rather have an extra 250,000$ to spend when your young, or have a 50/50% shot of spending an extra 2 months on your death bead in a semi lucid state?
Wrong conclusion. That means that sproutcore 2.0 is also unlikely to be visible on google. new name.
Massive inflation in tuition in the last 20-30 years.
I mean I'm about to switch back to Firefox.
> a huge collection of validated ideas really is valuable

What definition of "validated ideas" are we using?

My definition is "customers are spending real money on product".

There are other valuable points before that occurs but they're less valuable and much of the "value add" to get to that point consists of design and development, not biz dev, deals, and so on.
How do you intend to prove that Larry Page and Sergey Brin were the only humans who thought of that way of ranking links.?

What I can prove is that they were the first humans to come up with a technological system that implements that.
Indefinite detention of US citizens to be discussed by secret committee
Universal abuses YouTube-takedown tool, blocks song promoting Megaupload
pshaw, try data:text/html,<textarea>

that's 11 bytes shorter
This is a better article about skeuomorphism for those interested: http://www.andymangold.com/skeuomorphism-the-opiate-of-the-p...

PS - Skeuomorphism definition: "Strictly speaking it means retaining design features from earlier designs when those features previously had a specific reason for being that way, but do not any longer." - http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy
I think we have a House to put in order first.
I generally don't like the use of a metaphor as an argument since it often misses the point. Watching a movie without paying is not the same as stealing. I cannot give it to someone else what I have watched, I can't sell it, etc. But even if we accept that comparison, adding a second level of comparison by saying that a search engine is an accessory to stealing/robbery is just plain ridiculous.

For some reason, I don't really worry too much about all of these regulations. They will create speedbumps along the way, but the world will move on and come up with more innovative ways to get what they want. If they don't change with times, they will be uprooted eventually.

What Steve Jobs did was bring great technology and experience to masses faster than most other people. All of this would have been created/invented anyway, but it just would have taken a bit longer. All of these people only slow down the progress (which is still pretty bad), but they won't be able to stop it.
Finding a cofounder in Seattle, struggles with ideas vs. team
> But they do have to pay a fee just for the privilege of doing business, and Amazon gets to do business without paying that fee.

They pay that fee in return for services that they get, services that Amazon doesn't get.
Senator asks Apple to pull fake driver's license app
The point was it's first release of a "major" web framework for python 3.2 - which i think many was waiting for. Django recently started passing tests too but it will probably take a while before we will see release of 3.x compatible django in the wild.
Pyramid is very well tested so the version number - even if alpha - is not that important in the big picture in things.

I know it's not the best title out there but i tried my best to get the message across ;-)

It's a lot bigger thing than it might look like.

A link to changelog if someone is interested to dig deeper:

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.3-branch...
Teen pregnancy is rampant over there.
You can also use Python's mjson tool:

cat json.txt | python -mjson.tool
SOPA Supporter: If You Use DNSSEC You Can Ignore SOPA/PIPA
Thanks! It's easy to get self-conscious about putting humor into a tech article :)
Zero moment of truth
Swapping is far more efficient on SSD and so RAM isn't such a problem. At least it works good enough in cases when you have a lot of data in heap which isn't used frequently (your example of multiple projects open).

RAM is cheap, but it still would take additional volume inside of laptop + use more power.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
It is a bad name for Googleing. Just like Gemstone for another smalltalk, b.t.w.
There is a significant potential saving in temoving the now-redundant controls. Also, as computers become safer than humans, human drivers may be actively discouraged.
Interesting. It seems even if Apple does something about it, the next step would be to slightly tweak each of them to be non-identical to the others.

I wonder if the developer is making a lot of money because that would be the real indicator of whether or not we will see a lot more of this.
Just as a side note, you really don't want an executive branch that can do that (fixing the immigration and patent systems).

edit: sorry if it didn't end up as clear as it should
You're kind of being a jackass. You point blank used this scenario to dog on jQuery and say you would "never touch it" and went so far as to say you'd use a more robust one. You're really going to act like I'm mischaracterizing what you said?

And you're really going to tell me I'm being "young and naive" because I expect that others probably watch out for whether they're using a maintained project or abandonware?

You need to lose the attitude. I didn't even downvote your comments but I wish I could downvote this last one. Probably the rudest reply I've ever received here. It's not as if you're new here. I keep coming back to this and reading it in shock. I can't believe you're being this delusional, accusatory and flat out rude towards me. Someone pissed in your Post Toasties this morning.

I don't even have a point I'm trying to prove here. I couldn't care less if you like/use or dislike/avoid jQuery.
I'm doing my part to help with #3. If more people would take direct action, in large numbers, we can move the needle. Identify bureaucracy/obstacles? Route around them.

ps. well said. and extremely agree on #1.
How the UK handles anti-terrorist raids. (Check out the last sentence.)
The lack of bankruptcy protection comes to mind.
Does anyone know what technologies have been developed in Google that are related to this research? This Google report is pretty impressive and very detailed in its ebook.
Your time is worth money. There is always going to be a magic number that makes it worthwhile to pay someone to do something than to do it yourself. There is a good chance these recurring billing systems fall under that magic number.

If you're not sure how to work out that magic number, just work out how much it costs you to live for 2 weeks, if this is going to take you 2 weeks to develop, there's your number.
Similar to the idea of stopping in the middle: leave something easy. Leave a small task, an easy one, un-done so that you can start with it next time. It works for the same reason, you don't immediately encounter a barrier when you start back up.
I bet sometime soon Facebook's News Feed will be run through an "emotional state/mood" filter to customize the visible feed items that show up to be appropriate to what it infers is appropriate for your current mood/mental state. Unfortunately, for some people the algorithmic pendulum will swing too far to the 'depressed' state and cause unforeseen misery. The FCC will then collaborate with the Dept. of Health And Human Services to create new compliance guidelines. Yay, future!
These assertions are not mutually exclusive.
Its not a function of a modern app store; its a function of mass-producing IT administration.

For better or worse, Apple and Microsoft are moving into a world where they're managing higher-level aspects of computing, like apps. I do think this is better for most users. Its why I recommend iPad's to non-savvy users who just want to check email, surf the web, and install a few apps; they don't need to worry about peripheral crap like malware, antivirus software, etc.

These moves will more likely aliente users like ourselves. I predict open-source operating systems will matter more as mainstream OS vendors worry less about mass-producing operating systems and more about mass-producing home IT management.