skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see no reason why Twitter should open source their app. They have absolutely no obligation to, and IMO, should not be pressured to do so just because some blogger feels that " there is an increasing divide between the UI patterns in their Android app versus the UI patterns that most developers work with".

The author says: "And lastly, Twitter should release this app because they said they would.".

Well, here is the statement from Twitter:

"We had a great time working with the Android team and are thrilled that Google will be open sourcing the code used in this app in the near future."

Saying Google will open source the code used in this app is completely different from saying "we ourselves will open source this app". It almost certainly means that Google will open source some small component that is used in the app. IMO, it is a bit of a leap to interpret that statement as saying "Twitter will open source the app".

IMO, in the absence of a more complete statement from Twitter regarding open sourcing their app, it is dishonest of the blogger to say Twitter "has no interest in making good on their word" when it seems like the blogger is putting words in Twitter's mouth. If a more explicit statement exists from Twitter, then the blogger should have cited that, instead of the slightly-but-not-really-ambiguous statement from Twitter that he used.
Senator Bernie Sanders brought in a bill last week to amend the constitution to invalidate Citizens United:

http://sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=f1c2660f-54b9-4193-8...

This is something that could actually pass if people rally around it.
It's irritating -- there's surprisingly little data on how Mobile factors into the worldwide browser market share. NetMarketShare breaks it down by Desktop and Mobile/Tablet [1] -- but it's impossible to see them both on the same graph.

StatCounter has a bit more info [2], though.

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2010...
saturdaysaint said GUI.
If Redmond insist to have this option, please make it super hard for users to do it :D
It can be in B2B. Most people at larger companies have to spend their budgets or risk losing it so you will often see people making any purchases now they project they will need in the next 6 months. Also for small businesses like mine I prepay for my SaaS products and buy any new equipment I need for tax purposes. Make sure that you allow customers to prepay for your product.
Nice idea, I hope you're going to start sending anniversary reminders for those who do use your site.

I like the shopping cart items appearing in a bar, but honestly, I had no idea it was there... it was below the fold, and it was only because I started fiddling when the "add to cart" button appeared not to work, that I found it lurking. Try putting it somewhere up higher at least people can see the new items dropping in.
You don't think webOS is innovative because it isn't dominating? Therefore you believe there is a relationship between domination and innovation? I'm sorry, but I disagree. Brand loyalty, marketing, and just plain inertia factor into all of these technology choices that we make every day, including what browser we use. I choose not to use Chrome, not because I think its dominating, but I do not share your trust in the company behind it (and you have yet to explain why you do).
I thought Google was terrified of this because its no good for injecting ads?
HDFS: Towards a scalable and highly available NameNode
If they were clickable, this would be an easy way to get around the 'link can only be submitted once' rule.
Most of Facebook's Android app is just a web view as is their iPad app and probably their iPhone app too. I wouldn't be surprised if the Twitter Android app is also a web view.
Can you tell us more about newsledge? Or are you just referring to it as a domain that you are selling?
The Facebook app for Android does a decent job with pull to refresh.
This move.. which as far as i can tell would be to make IE upgrades opt-out instead of opt-in, could be a seriously great one. It just might go a long way to killing off IE6 and IE7, leaving IE 8 as the only non-current version requiring support.

It's great to fantasize about no IE or the latest IE on XP, but in the real world this is a very positive move.
Here is a interesting SVG image[1] from Wikipedia [2], comparing the development of different Unix-like systems.

[1]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_hist...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
I am proud of the fact that most of my comments are clustered around -4 and +4.
I haven't checked this out, all I'm saying is it looks a LOT like http://mobile.twitter.com. Same border, same pull down to refresh. Mobile web FTW.
Sure, its just stupid Windows users, they don't care. Is that it?

Chrome follows the same model, which is what I use, and I prefer it. So, I think it's a good idea, and not because Windows users are "stupid."
No Excuses
Off-topic: I would like to find the person that made the decision to implement that POS "mobile friendly" theme and beat them to death with a shovel. These themes are crap on both my iPad and my Touchpad running Android.
If the browsers are going to battle each other by parsing javascript faster, rendering styles more correctly and driving adoption of the newest version, the 'collateral damage' will be a better web for everyone.
So currently this is based on taking a sizable rolling window of textual posts for each topic then running it through our synt library (http://github.com/tawlk/synt) which does sentiment classification with a NaiveBayes classifier trained against iterations of a couple million samples. This setup averages about 80% accuracy against new labeled sample sets.

We however only have the server resources to have a large rolling window for a limited number of topics (currently the ones in the side bar).

When you searched for "Barack Obama", it based the sentiment score on just what your browser collects live on the fly, whereas when you searched "obama" you got sentiment calculations based on our server collected rolling data set which is far more stable.

Both are fairly accurate, however they differ in how large of a window they are averaging against.

As topics become more popular and as server limitations allow we automatically migrate them server side for more aggressive collection to provide more reliable sentiment.

We also only provide scores and reach assessments for topics we posses enough server-side data for to justify it.
When those cars make into our roads, I expect them to have way less accidents than us, humans. Therefore, more and more the human driving insurance will start to spike to levels that make it not cheap to drive your own car.
Yeah they held back their perfect Siri-beating tech because they were sure nobody wanted to talk to their phone.
Marketing, marketing, marketing--best advice in this thread. Why do people care about what you're doing? Why do you care about what you're doing? You need to have story to tell and you need to connect with people at an emotional level.
>> As developers, I suppose folks are glad to reduce their support matrix?

Not just the number of elements that we have to support, but the sheer amount of time spent in trying to emulate and workaround severe limitations of previous versions, which easily added up to a significant portion of development time.

>> that the browser choice has been hijacked?

To me the browser choice should be between brands not builds.

When you choose to keep an out-of-date version around, you are actively halting the innovation pace for the web.
I was hoping for a humorous cookie recipe.
I don't think that it will be a big issue since the major reason for end users to still have IE6 around is inertia.
From what I've read, they have said it a few times.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014426/twitter-android-a...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3413980/android-twitter-a...

Twitter has a solid collection of open source stuff on GitHub, i.e. the Twitter Bootstrap. Sure, maybe they don't have to release the ENTIRE app, but it would be ideal if they could contribute some of their work (such as the UI patterns) back to the community.
Opposing someone whose policies are opposed to civil liberties (like Bush)

Not that I disagree with you, but I'd like to point out that "civil liberties" is a very broad category. I think that if you examine the question deeper, you'll find that Obama also explicitly eschews some kinds of civil liberties.

Liberals, and specifically Obama, are openly hostile to one's right to property and the fruits of one's labor. And they're not too keen on the sovereignty of the individual: their right to decide their own values, and act as they deem best to maximize their own values.

The way our current system, with a single "left/right" dimension, divides up support for these seems to demand that we all take a position on which grouping -- column A or column B -- are more important, and that's very unfortunate. But even more unfortunate is that the media seem to implicitly consider only those in Column A to really be civil liberties, while either ignoring, or considering as an entirely different species -- those from Column B.
Some constructive criticism:

1. Making the blue background lighter or changing to a different scheme may be easier on the eyes and less agressive

2. Please use a custom theme for the jquery-ui widgets (like the autocomplete). It's like default and it doesn't match the page

3. I don't think blocking the search button is a good idea, if the autocomplete goes slow or the user is fast it will create the illusion of a broken button.

4. Give the search button a little bit of button style

5. I don't like the sign on facebook popup that gets on the way of the search, maybe putting it on the results page would be less anoying making users click on sign in only when they have tried and liked the application.

6. If you don't like 5), at least put the 'No thanks, show me generic results' on a button, something green or so, like the search button

7. Fix the 'Sorry! No items match this filter.' message, it's only text, you can do better using some cute images and inviting the user to re-search or change tabs.

That is about it, looks nice.
It is known[1] that tracker sites insert random IP addresses.

[1] http://opentracker.blog.h3q.com/2007/02/12/perfect-deniabili...
I think you misread him.
Voices of finance: IT consultant and developer
Interesting, can you recommend further reading for the rocket engine optimization?
It seems though, that in this case, SpaceX's Merlin Engine will be used.
Ask HN: Is it time for a new browser?
Recently I've seen more and more comments on HN and on other sites about the history of browser becoming bloated and needing to be replaced. Chrome replaced Firefox for many and, while lightweight and fast in it's early days, it has too become bloated; they are even working on a terminal emulator[0].

I'm also seeing a rise of distrust towards Google, as they are growing in size. Google is the new Microsoft but it's still 'cool' in the tech world. We must not forget that Google's business is that of serving advertisement, all their products are geared towards this. Yet they also improve the web by pushing open standards (Although the HTML5 player on YouTube, e.g., is inferior to the Flash player).

While Chrome never was very configurable (How does one change the shortcut for opening a new tab) Google really cut in this area. Without an extension you can't even change the New Tab page, and their recent revamp of it certainly isn't popular with everybody.

Now I ask you, HN, do you think it's time for a new browser?
There is an incredible concentration of smart, competent people on HN and I think that this could be project carried out by this community. This is the chance to really scratch an itch and a lot of people would profit from this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3344678
Pardon my ignorance but ... what do you mean by AD?
Pagoda Box Provides Near Real-Time Application Analytics Using MonetDB
How Cloud Computing Will Disrupt our Businesses in 2012 - Forbes
A good attempt, but I spot an error:

"They’re not lvalues because both are temporary results of expressions, which don’t have an identifiable memory location (i.e. they can just reside in some temporary register for the duration of the computation)."

The problem is that lvalues _can_ "just reside in some temporary register for the duration of the computation". Any decent optimizing compiler will treat simple loop counters that way.

I am not even sure the C++ standard even mentions registers.
Here's the actual graph, the image in the linked article is terrible to look at.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-201132-...
Build an HTML generator of function PreHtml -> HTML that is quirk compatible with all browsers. Yes, you will has many bugs to fix over time.
Now have all your templates code emit output of type
PreHtml and your final page generation phase is the function above.

Pay attention here: any template that attempts to emit HTML will fail to Typecheck.

Not a panacea, but static enforcement of Don't Repeat Your Bugs, even before those particular bugs are discovered.
Eager Android fans line up for Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus
Drive Car on Google Maps on your Desired Place With Mini Map Flash Game
"You'll notice that Twitter is no longer using the standard Android ListActivity. There is a slight border around this list right now, which is VERY new to Android apps."

A ListView with some layout_margin ? Am I missing something special ?
Even the legendary 3310 (2000) had voice dailing.
Yes, but only if they don't try to compete on exclusive APIs. Compatible standards are key for all these browsers to stay relevant and a viable alternative to native apps.
Tom here from Scirra (http://www.scirra.com). Our cost composition is:

Adverts (50%)

SEO (0%)

PR (5%)

Website Dev (0%)

Hosting (45%)

Support (0%)

Important to note about SEO is this overlaps with our advertisements campaigns they are not always distinct from one another.

Also important to note is that imo startups shouldn't be paying for SEO
Zeitgeist 2011: How the World Searched
With regards to the HTML5 and CSS3 level standards that Firefox, Chrome and IE10 are going to be supporting by the end of 2012?

Yes.

Compared to these, the IE8 JavaScript engine is quite slow too.

it's worth looking a few years ahead if IE8 will have another decade of popularity, which isn't impossible. Even without that longevity, the hindrance of the installed base of IE7 and 8 will grow over the next couple of years.

We know what IE10 will have, and roughly when, since it's part of the win8 plans.
Live video of House SOPA hearing
As a Malaysian currently living in Singapore, I'm just grateful to finally have a decent internet connection.
I've searched for more info on this, and each time it comes back to that one quote I posted. That quote, IMO, absolutely is not saying Twitter will open source their app. It sounds to me like they were saying Google would open source some code used in the app.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I really do not see that quote the same way the OP does.
I always felt the ListView needed to expand the screen. I could be wrong though, this might just be a layout_marginLeft or layout_paddingLeft attribute. Either way, it is a very new pattern for Android apps. You'll also notice the rounded corners, which I don't think come naturally with a ListView margin.
It is possible to access the source via Vtunnel [1]

[1] https://vtunnel.com/
Sorry to disappoint, but there is plenty of fun stuff about cookies ^_^ http://tawlk.com/#!/cookies
Profiling and optimisation is a big bonus for me. I brainstorm a bunch of ideas in different branches, test them after, then merge together the ones i want to keep.
IANAL but from my understanding, copyright is implied by default. You don't have to apply for a copyright, you get it automatically when you create something. knockoutjs.com would be considered a group, and a representative from the group could be appointed for legal purposes.
On the other hand, it you already know what a derivative is, you already went through all the lineal algebra stuff, have an idea of numerical methods, etc, I appreciate not wading into those side areas. Specially if you have kids, a dayjob and doing the AI-class at the same time :D
Look, my point is that for $35K, a newly-built commerce site should follow basic best practices. It isn't exactly hard to implement, esp. if you're worth $35K. It isn't about someone stealing my account info – it's about evaluating what he got for $35K.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683185/android-listview-...
"the only way to gain ground is through propaganda, FUD, and sleazy underhanded maneuvers"

Really? Browsers don't have to be neutral platforms that simply server a site's content to the best of their ability. FF long ago showed that with extentions. RockMelt did a good job of reimagining the browser experience from scratch. What about a browser that analysed your link history to recommend content? I think we're just scratching the surface for what browsers can be like. The machine OS might be pretty much done for a lot of people - its just a platform to host the browser. But with the browsers as the new OS, the ability to provide additional features* in a coherent, tailored and fast way will make a huge difference.

*features that enhance, not just features for features' sake
> Apple: Lets innovate here and add Siri > Google: Voice?
> To control a phone? Lets do that!

No, Apple acquired a company that was using DARPA-funded research from the SRI. Their software was in the iOS app store and on its way to Android/Blackberry when Apple bought them.

> It seems that when Apple innovates, Google copies.

From the other point of view, Android is way ahead and iPhone is catching up slowly. A tray for multitasking? Notification pulldown from the top statusbar? Microphone-on-keyboard for dictation? All Android features, some from day one.

Face it: everyone takes good ideas from wherever they're found and builds on them. Treating Apple as if it's some divine font of innovation that everyone else can only copy is absurd.
I agree that we have a problem today. But it's really unfortunate that when people see this, they immediately jump toward a solution that would cut to the very core of the First Amendment.

It's the politicians who are really the evil ones here. It's to be expected that corporations will jockey for favor, and it's the job of the politicians to honestly weigh all sides and do what's best for the country.

In that light, why would want to curtail the freedoms of the People in order to allow the politicians to keep following the same evil patterns? And that goes double, when the restrictions being contemplated can't possibly be policed. There are far more ways that a private entity can support a politician than through money or even in-kind support. For example, corporations could still easily and untraceably give favored politicians insider tips for when to buy and sell stock.

As far as I can see, the only way to block the problem without shredding our 1st Amendment is by taking away from the politicians the product they're selling to private interests. That is, strip the government of power so that it doesn't have the ability to create winners and losers.
Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but this has just made my christmas and new year. If this has a genuine impact, and means people are running IE8 in the worst case, then I will be a very a happy dev.

Patiently waits to see browser usage trends once this rolls out...
True, but as long as no browser is really dominant, few sites will be coded to use browser-specific APIs. You don't want to cut out 2/3 of your users, after all.
You'll need a license to purchase spray paint, of course - what are you, some kind of anarchist?
Why is Paypal's IPN Terrible? becuase it's terribly complicated and poorly documented. The documentation is scattered and dis-organized and there are dozens of different events that can happen, and you have to be prepared to handle them all.
Take a look at the IPN Variables: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...
There is so much room for error, or for the programmer mis-interpreting what a field means, compared to the other, simple solutions.

I'll give you a good reason for not using paypal... paypal freezes accounts all the time, for reasons as simple as 'you made too much money too fast'. Google it, or just watch the front page of HN for a month. I'm not risking my whole business just to use paypal.

I understand that you think the rates are high on fastspring, and there are many alternatives if you live in the USA. Try living in another country, we don't have the same alternatives that people in the USA do. As far as I know this is the _only_ alternative in Canada that doesn't require a monthly fee, credit check, merchant account, and that does have an API to sell a SAAS product.
I agree the manufacturer would not necessarily take on the bulk of the risk. However, there is supposed to be less risk once this technology is perfected. If the technology is indeed superior to human drivers, auto insurers will offer discounts to self-driving car owners. Furthermore, autonomous cars make more sense economically if they are part of a fleet service like a robotic taxi service. The future subscription-based Zipcar or ad-based Google Cars service would carry the insurance. The human is just a passenger no more responsible for an accident than a human-driven-taxi passenger.
Report: Apple ups ante with Israel R&D center
This is very exciting. Apple may have gotten to the market first, but Google has proven themselves to be an AI company at the core. They have have a pretty good head start on some more complex intelligent tasks (Image search for example via google goggles). It's not hard to see them surpassing Siri in quality.

Additionally combining that with an open source platform such as android, the possibilities for what this could do really open up excite me. Google TV could be voice controlled "Can you record chuck tonight?". You can be standing in the kitchen talking to your house computer "what was the next step in this recipe?". The real power is you're not constrained to just your phone or tablet.
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The post-Google appocalypse
Feds get low marks for online spending transparency
That's how I've always thought of it as well.
Define valid. The reason in the giant organization that I work in is broken internal applications. The number of internally deployed web apps that were targetted for IE6 and nothing else is truly astonishing. And the speed with which they get updated is astonishing as well. We finally deployed IE8 this year after almost 2 years of remediation effort. Which just kills me. (And of course because of thinking about security harkens back to the 1960s, we are a full year into exploring the deployment of Chrome or Firefox as a supplemental browser, but at present it is too risky)
Finally! I have been waiting for this news for a very long time. I wish Microsoft would also push something like Chrome Tab to those users who opt out of the update, so a website can set some special http header/meta tag and then the website gets rendered with lasted version of the rendering engine.
I've made this app : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cardiweb.carrefour...
See the third screenshot : https://lh6.ggpht.com/FOyDJtPGapRpBk0zSpFcXVUu45zHEY5OTaHfto...

The list at the bottom is just a RelativeLayout, with some rounded corners. Wrap this in a ScrollView, and voila.

See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable...
omahaproxy.appspot.com

this lists latest versions on every platform for every channel.
Did you read the article? You post suggests you only read the headline.
I have heard and read a lot about the arguments against SOPA but what exactly are its chances of passing either the House or Senate?