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BOOM: Apple Passes Android To Take The Market Share Lead In The US, Says Kantar
Congressional job approval rating has been hovering around 10% for quite some time. Worse than Nixon during Watergate. The powerful incumbents responsible for the clusterfuck will remain in power. The swing seats will continue to be passed back and forth, perhaps a bit more quickly. That is the nature of our two-party republic.
Ask HN: Does location matter?
I'm thinking about moving back to the Bay Area to continue working on my startup, but now I'm wondering if that is even necessary?

What's the matter with Boston, New York, or even Washington D.C.?

Why exactly does everyone flock to the Bay Area these days to work on their startups, and why should I bother?

(Yes I'm trying to go without VC. How well does it work to just fly in when there is a need to meetup?)
So I wouldn't quit my job to start this but having purchased a copy of the report, the idea seems pretty sound. But this is a cash business so I am surprised to hear that the local employment agencies would be interested in promoting it as a job creation tool.
Let's not forget Vodafone, who released an update for Android at about the same time 2.2 was arriving. Only it wasn't 2.2, it was a whole load of Vodafone-branded cruft for 2.1 that couldn't be removed.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/625774/vodafone-no-froyo-android-upda...
Well, the other half of having 3 employees is that you move on to the next game, and the old one is left as-is.
Some people who have exhausted all other treatment options might opt for it even then, though. At least they can.
I think he meant "ordinary" not "average". Average has a specific meaning and as many have pointed out, you can't make everyone above average.

What we've got to figure out is how to keep the large mass of ordinaries from being made into Eloi by a combination of welfare states, machine productivity, and wealth disparity.

Or, failing that, find a way to prevent the Morlocks from eating the Eloi when it suits them.
How Ben Lerer used email marketing to build Thrillist [video]
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Focusing on number of employees is pretty pointless, since outsourcing randomly makes departments internal or external. Zynga has an accounting department and HR and janitors and receptionists, which 3-person companies just do not have. Heck, the guys who make Tiny Tower don't even have someone to do music since they licensed it.
Can you be a bit more specific about the latter? I don't really get what's so wrong with that.
Yes. Yes they should be restricted. We artificially limit people to protect other peoples freedoms all the time.
I had code in there to do just that (at a 2x ratio) but commented it out before launch.

I am going optimism that it will not just turn into an ad site. If I end up wrong, then I will do something like this.

So far it seems to be a site where people that love dinosaurs come. Go figure.
Sorry to be cynical here but I see that the myriad of new Tech companies do all pretty much the same thing and users don't stick to their product. However at the end of the day these companies do not survive and I don't even know if workers see that fact. For Business Investors it's a typical situation where it's "Make a lot of cash, fast, SELL". They all know that the company is not going to survive past the buzz, but they don't care because in the meantime they can make money out of it.
People if you want to dream, do a product that is really useful, forget the "social", "new consumption" keywords that we hear everywhere and build a product that will last.

Also 70k in Silicon Valley is not great. Living there is very expensive. I know they have stocks but look at the fine prints to resell them! Remember that a salary is relative to an area.

But anyway keep on dreaming, it is not forbidden.

</cynicalguyrant>
Ask HN: Building a search engine using the Hacker News archive
Hacker News has the most brilliant submitted links from all across the web. And they are also already indexed based on their popularity.

If I were to leave a search engine to index these links, then I would have a very useful vertical search engine for anything and everything that interests people like us.

I don't know how this is done, other wise would have done so.

Any ideas why this hasn't been done yet?
I'm a huge fan of processing and processing.js . I come from a design background without any formal training in software development. Processing has been a really easy way for me to get visual results quickly without a degree in software engineering. I've tried to start using it on my blog as a way to quickly visualize ideas about more abstract topics [1]. I'm hoping to do a lot more experimenting with it in the near future.

[1] http://www.emergentforms.com/blog/2012/01/23/growth-vs-robus...
It's not backwards at all. Understand that the allusion to concise letter writing speaks to more than literal lexical length; it speaks to the effort required to optimize expression. And none of this pretends that "it is, or ever was, easy to get great performance."
What about rules for an educational material? Let's say I create an open source project for others to learn from. It cannot be too complicated but it should do something useful. Here is what I think:

Is the project actively developed?

Yes but no new features. Just docs improvements.

Are there more people developing?

That would be nice but not necessary. Educational material shouldn't need a large codebase.

Are there releases?

There should be no new major release for an educational material. We want new people to be able to get up to speed quickly.

Are there docs?

Educational material should have very thorough documentation. I'd say there should be 0.5 ratio of comments and code.

Methods

Code should be simple - even if it has to do complicated operations. There should be no advanced idioms (at least no language specific idioms).
I'm not sure I know if there's a problem. The datetime result does show in the both queries, though admittedly it's #1 in Google and number 15 or 20 or so in the Python search, but it's there.

On the flip side to that, I don't think I've ever searched for anything on Python.org, so maybe I'm missing the problem, but Googling has always gotten me to the right spot.

Ignoring that, I still hearken back to the old PHP docs, where every function or method had its own page, at its own user-friendly URL, and everything was predictably where it was expected to be.
I expect the dichotomy of machine/human to disappeared before that moment comes.
How about http://www.hnsearch.com/ ?
What? Who? - Most of the lobbying groups and SOPA/PIPA congressional sponsors. Most overtly Mr. Dodd. I assume he is referring to first hand rumblings from his peers. But, there has been a lot of detractors about the events, just not in the pro groups with which we can sometimes self relegate to.

What? How? - Taking that sentence without the following is out of context. He was making a economic theory correlation not a literal comparison, in an effort to lead into the follow on sentence.
It's called marketing. Apple understands branding and marketing; very few other hardware makers do. What's remarkable is that Apple has been using the same playbook for decades now, and nobody else has quite figured it out.

It's the Nike playbook (Steve Jobs once said that he learned a lot from Nike's example). Don't market your tech specs; market your lifestyle. Apple's competitors are still running commercials about the dimensions, specifications, and miscellaneous stats of their devices. Such commercials basically announce "Hey consumers, here's a commodity. For the time being, it's slightly differentiated from other, more or less interchangeable commodities by way of some wonky stats you don't understand. Please buy it."

Apple commercials, by contrast, show use cases and lifestyles. They use metaphorical and superlative language. That stuff works. It establishes an emotional bond with the consumer. Apple commercials aren't even really about Apple; they're about making consumers feel cool, special, hip, and creative because they use Apple products. It's the ultimate in feel-good messaging.

Seriously: watch a Motorola Droid RAZR commercial, then watch an iPhone commercial. The difference is extraordinary.
The negative index issue is a valid bug concern because when I was typing out the _fictional_ PSL code I missed the negative index hence my reply that said language could be smart enough to handle that (ie, tongue in cheek). However, your bug is not legit, because you've introduced extra wording for an assumption you can't make since you're not the creator of my fictional language. For PSL, "Given SET(x), Find SET(y)" implies that SET(y) is a resultant set of SET(X). SET(y) could have a case where the elements are different than SET(x) but only where explicitly indicated by the requirements. The requirements specified by the where clause in this case do not dictate a transformation on the elements, only a re-ordering. So no, it's not a bug.

It's funny that despite it being a passing pseudo example to make a point about programs being compositions of tasks that I'd be this vested in defending the code correctness of my pseudo code but I can't help it.
"However, if you are in danger of becoming management, make sure you stay technical. Write code."

Interestingly enough, 3 reviews back I was offered the choice of going into management. I had been leading a product line with up to 5 engineers at a given time reporting to me, spent maybe 1/3 of my productive day coding, the rest in meetings, responding to emails/phone calls, and just walking around talking to people. It didn't dawn on me that as a 'lead engineer' I had essentially become management.

Something didn't sit right about that experience. On the one hand it was a promotion of sorts, right? I was doing a good job getting that product out the door and this meant I could move on to other bigger, more important products. On the other hand (esp. where I work), no more coding. I felt a deep pain in my gut. Something had been bothering me for quite awhile... every place I'd been hired into was a company with less than 100 people, I always loved working on whatever was thrown at me, and here I was being asked to go into management at a company with 15,000 people, a company I was at due to result of an acquisition from 4 years earlier. It was like I had slowly been stripped of my dignity and never had taken the time to look around and realize it.

Within a week I read a book called the Passionate Programmer, then the Pragmatic Programmer, a few Head-First books (I liked the child-like presentation, thought is was fitting haha) then eventually began working on SICP, worked through K&R C, and so on. On Christmas break one year read through Godel, Escher, Bach. Found Hacker News, mostly as a lurker.

I'm still working at that job, but I turned down the offer, instead requesting to to work on difficult problems. The following year I got a promotion to a principal engineer. I am a little surprised when I mention things like Ruby on Rails and have trouble actually finding someone I work with who has even heard of it. Then I just remember that was me a few years ago. And I work with some sharp people, they're just isolated in what they do, tend to average in the 40s with families. 'This' has now become my main hobby. You can't ask anyone to do this, they have to choose it for themselves. They have to experience that pain in the gut feeling and act on it.
In fact, there are quite a few other implementations, for various python/node/whathaveyou enthusiasts: https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec/wiki/Implementations

(of course, it'd be nice if people hosted on MapBox, as it's the main driver of TileMill development :)
iexplorer is not open source.
Please do! This sounds amesome!
We need term limits so badly. Most any business would atrophy with the same leadership for 3 decades.
Heads up: With the cached link make sure you click "text only" and it will load right away.
Often in treasury bills, as banks are too risky. Which is why treasury bill rates are so low, and the money does not get relent. Since Lehman's banks are not seen as safe and there is no deposit insurance for these large amounts.
8 weeks = 18.8

24 weeks = 27.2

52 weeks = 33.8

These numbers are tricky though because the longer someone uses Lose It! the greater chance they hit their goal weight and no longer are trying to lose weight. Also, a lot of the really dedicated loggers that have been around a year or more are often high performance athletes that never intended to lose weight in the first place. They are just using the service out of discipline to their trade.

The average weight loss of all users that have achieved their goal and maintained it for at least 2 weeks is 21 pounds. This kind of backs up the idea that weight loss will slow over 52 weeks (on my service) because most people that achieved their goal only had 21 pounds to lose in the first place.
Why do you think the author says iPhone 4S uses a Tegra 2? He doesn't say that.

I'm curious, though, is it really a fully open source computer? How does that work when it uses an ARM chip? Or does the open source part refer only to the OS? As soon as ARM replaces ARM11 with Cortex A7 or whatever, we should ask them to open source ARM11.
People often feel the same attachment to their truck / car / boat.
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My ISP isn't serving up ads based on it. My ISP isn't giving me a UI to opt-out, but then ignores the setting.
"News blow, please." WSJ's Zach Seward on what he wants for the future of news
I recommend this paper for some numbers on the US, UK and Spain, and the different sectors.

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Financial_Mark...
> "When you hear regular people talk about how much they love their iPhone or iPad, it really hammers home what Apple has done not just for themselves but for anyone trying to create better products and hoping to win markets because of them."

As an app developer this rings true to me. Apple certainly has raised the bar, and public expectation, of end-user software. I think back to the late 90s (or even early 00s) and the shite software we'd all put up with, compared to great Android and iOS apps now...

It's gratifying for reality to finally match your values as a developer. I get a sick glee when I see WebView-wrapped apps on the App Store get absolutely eviscerated in its reviews and stumble out with a 1.5 star rating. I love that people not only appreciate beautiful design, now, but they practically demand it.

It's glorious.
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at least this one isn't blocked by WebSense (browsing from work)
I usually will not connect anything to my facebook, but just curious: does it establish these relationships based on my interaction and networks shared with my friends, or some other method?
A great story about Media & the cloud
Revolutionary Wants Technology to Transform Libya
It's not a completely wingnut idea. I first bumped into it in Hayek, who was in favor of it and not much of a socialist.

The rationale works like this - given that some less-fortunate members of society will need assistance at some point in their life, and given that 'conservative' != 'asshole' and we don't want to just let them die in the street, we have to provide some form of limited welfare state.

Since we have to provide some form of limited welfare state, what's the best way to do it while preserving as much freedom as possible? We could set up a large government bureaucracy to do this, with rules and regulations and intrusive measurement for determining who can get what, or we could simply periodically cut everyone a small check.

Hayek thought the small check was a lot less harmful than the large bureaucracy. I'm inclined to agree.

It'd be better still if the government could get out of the welfare business altogether and leave it to our individual communities - I certainly don't mind that my synagogue dues are used to help our poorer members, and if my tax bill was lower, I'd have still more to donate. But that would require a cultural shift to make practical - it's a shame, but most people in America no longer belong to small, supportive communities.
> The only way you'll get that return is if you sell your stock today.

Or, they can continue to use their pile of cash to be able to make good strategic decisions and continue doubling my share value every few years.
Something about the last bit of advice (Find your Center) rubs me the wrong way.

It appears that I'm expected to be excited about either one particular programming language, or hard computing problems.

At this point in my career, it seems naive to be excited about a programming language. In my experience, the programming language has mattered far far less than other factors in the success of a company. What are sales people expected to be excited about? I hope it's not Excel...
I am equally suspicious of those excited by hard computing problems. Debugging memory leaks is a hard problem. Deducing the cause of periodic load spikes on ec2 instances in the middle of the night is a hard problem. I must admit, however, that these tasks does not excite me.

The potential to succeed excites me. Seeing a product I've worked on loved by the public is exciting and satisfying.

It just seems like the OP thinks that his candidates should find the making of sausage enjoyable and pleasant.
The speedup is actually precisely what you would expect from hardware over that time period.

2^((2009-1984) / 1.5) = 104031.915

He's accidentally demonstrated that we would expect a 1984 implementation of BASIC on modern hardware to be exactly as fast as modern Python.
Two benefits I see (esp. w/ rails)

1) Quick console start. As rails developers, we spend way too much time waiting for consoles to start. This could save at least an hour out of my month.

2) Dynamically change production logging level. While their are ways to send signals to your process to control the logging level, this seems far more natural. You could easily open up an existing process change the logging level; finish your work; change it back.

Any other ideas for where the would be useful?
"Why I Left School to Make Indie Games"
"Working-conditions in china? Who cares?"
Let's start with you. I assume, you wrote that comment on the computer. There's 100% probability that this computer was manufactured in China. So its you. You do not fucking care.
Do you really want individual tweets showing up in Google's main search results? Google doesn't seem to individually index Google+ posts, either - there's only 15 million search results for "site:plus.google.com".
Now even the cached version doesn't respond either. Definitely interested in Rails, and hopefully, the site will be back up soon.
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I made something similar last week (http://image-roulette.com/), but it just uses imgur itself, instead of the reddit-curated images.

I think your approach was better.
The only information it uses is "who is friends with who". I'm not looking at messages/interactions/networks/existing groups/friends list. Just the underlying graph of friendships.
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I watched an interesting show on cults and what chemical/neurological things happen in the brain with respect to cults a few years ago, and how corporations have tried to foster this for brand loyalty. What stuck in my memory (perhaps incorrectly) is how few have actually done it. The examples they gave were only, if memory serves; Coke, Nike, Apple, VW, and more ephemerally, Linux.
Actually it has 512MB split into two pools for CPU and GPU.
I could not agree more. I just don't get the connection that people feel with companies like they are their friend or something. Hell, I only care that my company earns money to keep my job.
Apple people, more than everybody else, feel insulted and compelled to convince you that Apple products are "THE BEST" (totally ignoring that people have different use of computers). Just look at his final line:
"Make the best damn product out there, charge a profitable price, and win the world." -> The "best damn product" seriously ? Is there ONE best product ?

I just don't get it...
But how much of a difference would term limits make and how?
I didn't try particularly hard at all. It's a pretty obvious consequence of the two.

It is already a problem for email, but most people are getting much more savvy with this and are mostly at least aware of the risk.

With SMS, it's not so common. So people are less likely to expec it, and (certainly in my experience) they are more trusting of an SMS that looks like it comes from a legit source, especially if it contains personal info about you.

This is partly because people are usually more wary of giving out their mobile number - I know that I've given it out to very few places, and most of them are ones that I trust. The O2 issue massively impacts this, as there's thousands of sites who now potentially have my number (and many of those will be linked to some personal info about me). But it's also partly because most people don't realise that you can spoof SMS headers this way - if you get a text message that claims to be from a particular number, most people assume that it came from that number.

I'm not making any comment on the cause of it (whether it's a bug or a design feature), or whether there's anyone to "blame" (and if so, who).

I'm simply pointing out that there is quite a significant overap between the two, as the combination creates a potential spammers' paradise.
Open-Source Website Designs Can Compromise Security
But as Henry Ford realized, if the consumer has too low an income he or she cannot afford to conume, so your fctory will be unprifitable.
Somehow it smells of ponzi scheme. And check out this

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=webuysoftware
> who fixes your robot?

Who fixes humans? Robots will do this eventually.

> Who builds your house?

Robots here too.

Just because they can't do it today doesn't mean you shouldn't plan on them being able to do it.
The revenue from ads and donations go into one pot, and that is used to fund the hosting and other costs.

But if the question is whether the donations themselves would cover all expenses and thus yield net income (profit), then the answer would be no.

Why do you ask?
still doesnt work from NYC.
I doubt it too. How can this "right to be forgotten" even be serious while the EU is lobbying for data retention laws at the same time?
Great job and many thanks for this excellent framework!

I've been waiting for this release for an upcoming project. I assume the use of HTML5 specific tags is optional. I noticed that the page used for the docs uses "<ul class="nav">" instead of "<nav>", but does utilize the "<footer>" tag. Is there a specific advantage to not using the "<nav> tag?
Has the author not gotten the memo about Security through obscurity not being security at all?
Please do blog about the different aspects of implementation. Or at least post the link to the Github repo. This seems very interesting, and I'd love to hear more about how you did it.