skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm disappointed with the hand-waving dismissal of "why should we pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to do it?"

The list immediately after that of some of the headaches that getting e-mail delivered entails (monitoring and responding to blacklists, various configuration, feedback loops, etc.) is a very good argument for paying somebody to learn and handle the details. I don't see a convincing argument that getting 1% better delivery is worth spending time on instead of doing something else; indeed, they make the argument that improving validation and reporting on the app side is a much better use of time than fighting for that extra 1% on delivery.
I've actually been surprised by Portland. I received four emails (from my profile here) from strangers recommending Portland.
URDU SEX STORIES: Bhabhi & Her Hot Friend.
I was going by other private surveys of specific subsets of the hn population. Number of companies, it's 10-20%. Lots of smaller companies or earlier stage; basically everyone who does Rails deployments (since that was originally Heroku's strength).

GAE is the one very few people are using or want to continue using, especially after the Google price hike.

I still prefer colo/managed hosting at scale, with EC2 for trials or surge capacity, myself.
Do you have link?
Like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3533320
The Perfect Solution For Your Debt
Have you read it? I just checked, and it's not yet released, though I'm aware Bruce distributed some galley copies for review.

Might wait until the book's actually available before you tease us with it.... ;-)
Firefox 10 Released.
My source is this very article we're commenting on, citing those decade long studies.
Yes, but that's a moot point unless one of the following is true:

1) Twitter monitors all tweets itself for any "subversive" content, and then takes the initiative to report that to the appropriate authorities.

2) Twitter gives full access to all tweets to the FBI, regardless of their content, so that the FBI can sift through the data themselves.

1 isn't such a big deal, but 2 certainly is.
Information Does Not Want to Be Free
Because software development is an act of invention. While experience and education often tell us that something is possible to accomplish, the route to the end is unknown.

The metaphor Michael Wolfe provides is good. But software scheduling isn't so much about diversions and stumbles as it os about the trials of invention and artisanship.
The Rise and Fall of Megaupload [Infographic]
Find a local RUG, ask to subcontract under someone. They'll pay you less, as you aren't putting your reputation on the line nor are you landing clients, but it will still pay well enough and will give you the experience you need.
Nearly 10% of films at Sundance 2012 were backed by Kickstarter
Why?

Flickr is one of last Yahoo products people I know sometimes still use. Facebook does a poor job at retaining high res pictures, few non-photographer friends use 500px, G+ doesn't have as much control, and Instagram is only for specific mobile photos.
Steel Salvation and Super Rockstar Creatures by Sumersion Studio
Twitter and Google work to reduce US taxes
It's called a "sandwich". It's the right move to make, emotions aside.

Squeeze from top and bottom, and the middle goes. The middle is where you can make most improvements and cut costs in organizations. That is where most improvement is made fastest FYI.

It's where you start.

Higher and lower levels stay - while the middle layer is squeezed and improved first. Sometimes that means layoffs.
Note that in regard to the US, many foreign visitors do not need a visa if they enter through the visa waiver program (90 days duration, tourist classification only, no extension).
I think describing it as flawless is a bit much. It is a great improvement over the status quo. It allows you to put what you've learned to immediate practical use. It is a brilliant example of a satisfying non-monetary trade. It takes a desire for knowledge, provides that knowledge, and allows the recipient to "pay back" the favor by using that knowledge to assist Duolingo. It makes learning fun and enjoyable.

That said, there are glitches. It can be very inflexible at times. There's more than one way to skin a gato, and Duolingo can be very forceful on it's interpretation. I'm also not sure how useful it can be when it comes to learning a new language from scratch. I already had a few years of Spanish before I started, so it was a lot of fun brushing up. However, learning a new language without a human being there to help you and talk you through it can be rough. Duolingo tries to compensate through a forum/qa solution, but there's nothing like talking to a person in the flesh.

That said, it is miles and miles above stuff like Rosetta Stone, etc.
Incidentally, this site is almost unusable on an android phone. Flash and detail popups that are always floating off the side of the screen, despite scrolling.

It would also be nice if there were links to the market so I could read reviews of the games.
I agree with your evaluation, though I'd also add that there was quite a bit of concern about no longer being able to get licenses for FCP 7 that took quite a while to get cleared up (IIRC, it wasn't possible at all to get them, at least from Apple, for a few weeks).

I think that's what really took it from a "calm down, stick with what already works until the new infant version is suitable for you" story to a "this could really mess up some businesses" story.
Effectively, yes. Thinking about syncing the data as a concept was challenging: how do I track which rows have changed? How do I confirm that the data transfer was successful? etc. etc. All new concepts that I didn't have to worry about so much with a web site.

The actual implementation was relatively simple though, and worked well. That said, I'll admit the sync functionality my app needs is about as simple as it gets. I'm sure there are more complex scenarios out there.
I think you brought up several interesting points,but to answer the first question, So, why is BoingBoing's reproduction more wrong than any other?

BoingBoing's re-posting does not provide additional value and in fact reduces value. The additional value that Letters of Note provides is in finding the content in the real world, digitizing, and including necessary references so that all possible context is included.

BoingBoing did the opposite, they added no new value and reduced value by removing context and citations.

I agree with the continuous stream being a part of the total value, but on a per article basis they provided no additional value to this piece. I don't argue that aggregation is bad, I agree the manner in which it took place.
Cheaper access is good, open access is even better. Winning this fight is worthwhile on it's own and it brings open access closer.
while I agree that calling out unethical behaviour might be best for the industry as a whole, for an individual? calling out someone else is almost always self-destructive. There are two sides to any story, and just like how an insurance company will avoid a customer that gets in accidents even if it wasn't their fault, in business, people often avoid people that get in a lot of disputes, even if they were the wronged party.
Yes, but it was much easier before September 11. Uruguay was in the Visa Waiver program back then.

"Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush Administration decided to tighten entry requirements into the United States"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program
I have to respectfully disagree, while outsourcing provided momentary relief for the enterprising all we did was utilize the capacity that these nations had. Technical people represent about 10% of the population, of that only a small fraction of them choose software development as a profession. Until that number changes no amount of outsourcing will improve the situation, because outsourcing causes innovation in the market that is outsourced to, consuming those resources. Therefore the equilibrium is only momentary disturbed.
My son is 6 months, so don't have any experience yet from this side, but my dad started teaching me GW-BASIC when I was about 7. I'm not sure what the modern equivalent would be. Python perhaps.
Well that's weird. I tried giving the demo a Photoshop CS5 file and it doesn't like that. I thought maybe it was a parsing problem, since I remember there being something about the latest Photoshops doing something to PSD's. PSD's made in Photoshop 7 do not seem to work either.

I wonder what is going on? I've tried this on Chrome 16 and Firefox 10.

Well that's weird. I tried giving the demo a Photoshop CS5 file and it doesn't like that. I thought maybe it was a parsing problem, since I remember there being something about the latest Photoshops doing something to PSD's. PSD's made in Photoshop 7 do not seem to work either.

I wonder what is going on? I've tried this on Chrome 16 and Firefox 10.

--
Edit:

Oh, it looks like browsers don't appear to be sending the MIME-type. In fact, there appears to be a lot of file types which I'm randomly throwing into filereader that don't appear to have any MIME-type attached to them. How very interesting indeed!
You can turn any search result into an rss feed with /rss, and put that into Google Reader or your favorite rss reader (I use NewsBlur.) This works best with date-sorted searches.

If you survey your friends about Facebook, you'll find that many of them like the idea of seeing their friends' likes and comments in searches. Personally, I don't like it, so I clicked "No Facebook" in the prefs.
Joey's example is bad (or, at best, fragile) Perl, but he's also written a fair amount of useful and popular code in Perl too.
EXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and UXPaaS
eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced general availability of eXo Platform 3.5.
RIM marketing interns apparently have lots of free time on their hands
I definitely understand that feeling. My thoughts about your other apps:

-Reminders: I can see why this one has so many great reviews. It looks like a very cool productivity tool, and one that I'll likely buy.

-Tymoot: I remember how motivated I was by "star charts" as a kid, so it's easy to see the utility of this one. Any plans to make an iPad version? I think it actually might be an even better fit for a larger device. Also, have you reached out to any parenting blogs about trying out your app?

-BoardBox: Not only is it awesome that there are 20 games in one app, but I absolutely love the design of the boards.

-Versatile: I would put this in the 2nd slot of your eventual video queue. Although just about everyone is familiar with this type of game, I think a video would really sell the features that make your version even better.

-Weblicious: This one looks quite cool and useful. The only issue is the reviews for the current version are a little lackluster. Any plans to release a new version?

-Notator: Another quality app. The one downside is you have to compete with free apps like PhotoPad.

It seems like a large percentage of companies with numerous apps end up sacrificing quality for quantity. However, the work Ripe Apps has put into every app really shows, so keep up the top notch work!
Getting whitelisted and managing your mail server isn't easy and usually costs a lot. I think it's only something that should be optimized when you are sending millions of emails pr. month (like they are).

For everybody else, you can save a lot of time and money by going for Amazon SES, Google App Engine, SendGrid or Postmark (etc.) A lot of these services also include analytics and monitoring and will be cheaper than rolling out your own customized solution (in terms of time and money).

Even for them they would only pay around $6000-$7000 pr. month by using Amazon SES.
Help There's a patent on my idea. What now?
The HDL/LDL ratio of eggs are even, and your body creates cholesterol if you don't eat any, and reduces it's cholesterol production if you do to compensate.
Maybe one of the reasons it's one of the vanishingly few economically useful places for the government to put money in is that it is one of the vanishingly few economic places that the government doesn't put money in.
I believe this tweet by the author sums up his true feelings on the matter: https://twitter.com/#!/vibhu/status/164282933153239040

"Seeing Twitter Bootstrap is starting to annoy me, it is not that different from geocities templates and such, except made for programmers..."
Apple’s Cash
Most of the times doing bad things do not yield more results than doing good things, and highly increase your risk. Attacking a competitor's site is a sure loss for the perpetuator, in my opinion.
Are we really similar to them?
How about instead, we have a pool of customers which are GOOD CUSTOMERS but which you in the future might want to move on from, for various reasons? Other developers can pick up the slack -- and some work! They would also be able to have a transition period. This website could even make a small commission from the handoffs.

The best way to avoid bad options is knowing where to find a lot of good ones. Then the others have to prove themselves to you, and you can take them or leave them :)
To some degree it answers why they are raising money in the first place.

Agreed, though, his essay doesn't answer either (A) Why $2.7B in particular, and (B) Why in just three years - other than the fact that purpose people believe in their approach so much that it was easy to do so.
I feel that the days of a shell being used for scripting are past.

I've noticed this attitude among those who tend to use sysadmin-minimizing features of the internet, such as cloud hosting. There's still a whole world of real server out there, though.
The blog post by Gowers that seems to have started much of the current activity is here:

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-i...

There's been a lot of discussion of this on science blogs lately, and I do think the momentum is picking up (though it's easier for us physicists than it is for people in biology and medicine). But while Elsevier really does seem to be worse than most academic publishers, the whole system needs to evolve. One proposal that I like is John Baez's idea of independent "referee boards", described here:

http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/ban-elsevier/
FWIW we haven't done any "paid" whitelisting. That's too mafia-esque for us.

SES requires each sending address to be verified upfront. For us that's an issue.
Good question, I have filed an issue against the tool used to generate the doc: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco/issues/80
Say what?! It is the UK Ireland Act (1949) that recognises "Republic of Ireland" as a name for the Irish state. Under Irish Law, "Republic of Ireland" is only a description, and the official name (in English) is Ireland. The only insensitivity (and ignorance) in this instance is that of the the UK border agent.

I cannot disagree with your main argument however.
Searching for "wtip plugin" I get:

"Showing results for wTp plugin"

So you're out of luck if you're expecting type-in traffic.

jQtip, wowTip, jQryTip?
Let us add custom foods. I have these %50 fat and %50 protein cheese sticks at work that make awesome keto snacks.
Flickr deadpool?
I wonder how much of this is because iOS apps are typically priced so cheaply. The thinking goes something like "If you can buy quality apps for $1.99 then how much could they cost to make?". Of course some apps make a lot of money at this price point, but it's widely reported that the vast majority make a loss on the developers' time. I suspect even the majority of non-junk apps (which rules out a lot of apps!) make a loss in this sense. If developers aren't valuing their work correctly, how/why would the people hiring them?
"It's a bad idea to sell cars to dealers. Their entire profession revolves around capturing the spread between car buyers and sellers."

Well a few things. It depends on the car and the value of the trade and how much time you have.. They do provide a service (they find a buyer) which can be quite helpful if you don't want to have to deal with strangers coming to your home or office to test drive the vehicle as well as other things that need to be done to facilitate the transaction.

There is also the issue of state sales tax. If you trade a car in of $20,000 trade in value you are saving sales tax in a state that charges that. So in NJ for example by trading the car to the dealer you save 7% of 20,000 or $1400 right there. Now of course you can also do what is known as a courtesy trade running the paperwork through the dealer if you have a buyer all lined up ready to go. That's not easy to do though. A dealer can smell when you need to complete a sale. I've done this exactly once in the past. The other times it wasn't possible to coordinate the two sales.

Of course a dealer makes money and can plays games with your trade. But you provide a service and charge for what you do as well.
I think you got downvoted because, while it may be a standard move, it's a very, very foolish one.
Upfront: I'm using Bootstrap currently for the admin interface of a project.

I think the author of the post is getting bashed a bit unfairly right now. In the comments, the author links to a blog built on top of a bootstrap and to be honest... it looks terrible. I can almost deal with bad design better than something that looks prefab.

I can completely understand wanting to have some kind of baseline start point for building a site. If you are in a hurry, Bootstrap is great but if you have the time, don't use an unmodified version of Bootstrap. Dare I say, it might be better to start with something like HTML5Boilerplate that leaves the design far more open (again, if you have the time).

Edit: More...

I guess more than anything I think Bootstrap has a time and a place. If you are doing a public facing site I don't think using a base Bootstrap site is really appealing.

One of the author's arguments is that you should understand how it works and I agree completely. You can certainly modify the Bootstrap framework but you've got to understand the moving pieces just like in any framework. Bootstrap is fairly modular but you've got understand how everything is tied together in order to take it apart.

I understand not being able to afford the time or cost of a custom design but I see Bootstrap like scaffolding, as something to use for a quick fix but never in the long term (at least without modifications).
It still doesn't make sense as you can use tools such as Interface Builder.

I was bitten by this on my first major contract iOS app, so I think I know what he means. Interface Builder will get you most of the way fairly quickly, which is deceptive.

Then you start refining to try and match the photoshop mock-up for visual design, and find the built-in UI classes don't handle this. Buttons not supporting labels below an image by default, or multiple buttons next to each other on the navigation bar, or a background that moves with a table view, etc. etc. [1]

You get to work on custom subclasses (or adapting some open source ones). Interface Builder doesn't let you set properties of custom views, so your view controller starts being filled up with all sorts of stuff that really should be in the nib file.

Then you find out that actually, various labels and text views need to support multiple lines of text. This messes up your beautiful layout from IB. Struts & Springs are now useless for half your screen elements, and you put custom layouting code in a custom container view's layoutSubviews method or your view controller just to push stuff down the screen and resize your scroll view's contentSize. The complexity of this layout code grows for every supported orientation and device type.

Your NIB files are now a mere shadow of their existance at the beginning of the project, so at this point, making a change to move some views to a different screen (is that only on iPhone/iTouch or iPad too?) is no longer a trivial exercise at all.

Yes, it's all manageable. But there's a whole range of sudden complexity bumps at "80% done" where the existing tools leave you stranded. If you originally quoted for functionality covered by IB but then need to customise it, that will take a lot of time, and you'd better have budgeted for it.

[1] The situation has improved somewhat with iOS5, which makes supporting iOS4 (let alone 3) devices the IE of iOS development.
Why? Great minds think alike :)
I recently made an Android app for $150. Ad supported. Now with 1 million users. That's about 1/30th of what it has earned so far.

Hard way to learn to value my own work more.
Book: Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod -- coming soon
The Problem with Media Queries
You don't have to pay to get whitelisted with an ISP. You have to have good IP reputation then apply.
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to land a job in RoR?
I'm new to learning RoR and read blogs that talk about how impossible it is to land an entry job (every job require 2 yr experience).

I plan to take 2012 to learn RoR full time. I imagine that working for a company (vs self learn) would expose me to more environments.

I applied to Hungry Academy, and will apply to either Code Academy or DevBootcamp. After that, I want to know what to focus on.

What is most important to learn to get employment?
What companies or industries are most likely to employ newbies?
"German cars tend to be a bit more complicated, since they want to screw people on maintenance costs"

Where do you make the connection between German cars being more complicated and that they "want to screw people on maintenance"?
Can I offer some thoughts that seem to go against the majority opinion so far?

1) Should authorities take reasonable steps to prevent the commission of a crime, or wait until after it's occurred? What if a well-known soccer hooligan has posted that he's looking forward to running amuck?
2) Are threats against an individual allowed as part of free speech? What about against a family? Small business? A neighbourhood? A country? Where do you draw the line?
3) Do you differentiate between personal criminal behaviour and organized criminal behaviour? Or, between explosive threats vs non-explosive threats, like a small bomb vs significant vandalism to public property done for Youtube?
4) How would a third party know the tweeter is joking? (Most people who get called out for saying rude or racist remarks say "oh I was just kidding" afterwards). Do you prefer that all remarks should be ignored completely, or (somehow) checked for credibility? (And I have no idea how one would approach that, btw)

Looking for direct answers to all 4 questions, please. Would like to sample where people stand.
@nelsonMinar @pamelafox @cidbona and any other googlers.

Do you think it could actually ever go back to the way it was? Or is it too late? The beauty of Google in 2001-3 was that it gave you hope for what a company could be in the future. We all knew about the Jobs/Gates/Ellison shenanigans and some of us hoped for a better future. Better work environments for employees, innovating vs stealing, 100% focusing on the user, and not throwing integrity out the window for a couple of dollars per share.

Can they get back there? or is it gone?
The author is being bashed for his tone, and his points.

The actual argument, that prefab styling can hurt you is a valid one. It's a reasonable argument that requires logical points.

The author didn't do that, he insulted it broadly without real content.
I should add that I'm working on the basics now (CSS/HTML)
There is a big qualitative difference between open access and cheap access when it comes to discussing, sharing, and spreading articles with the existing web infrastructure. We shouldn't forget this point. It should be included in every discussion of how paid journals break the web of knowledge and slow the advancement of the human species.

And we're not even talking yet about the wealth of legacy articles locked behind paygates. Someone, or some legislation, needs to set them free.