skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On iOS the app switching is handled via a list of recently open applications accessed by double tapping the home button.

You don't get a view of the app's window contents like you do in WebOS. Probably because 1) it wouldn't visually fit with the way the app switching is laid out on iOS and 2) iOS doesn't let apps run in the background, their state is frozen to disk and their process terminated when you switch.

edit: it looks like this http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Lo... -- the app contents push up and the bottom of the screen gets a list of apps inside it.
Kickstarter doesn't support Canadians, but thanks for the pointer!
Mailinator is a great product. My favorite part about it is how whenever I register for something, the clever form validation software always rejects the mailinator.com email address. Then I visit mailinator, see their alternate domain name du jour in image form (so bots can't harvest it, hah!), and then that works perfectly. It makes me giggle with joy every time I do it.

It's also nice not receiving ads in the mail every hour of every day just because I wanted to try some new YC-startup's product.
Ha. Maybe we're both immature, but you're not alone. I'm surprised none of the techies at Ubuntu picked up on it. Or maybe they did...
The problem is that in the first page, there are three links to Ubuntu on Android, and two for the latest Apache release. Really? WTF is up with all the duplicates here?
My Money or My Time. (Just not Both).
"You can't be in that business until you figure out a different way to produce it." That is something a lot of entrepreneurs need to keep in mind.

But seriously, what is this for? A poorly executed campaign if you ask me.
Courts: Colorado woman must turn over password to encrypted hard drive
Reading this article makes me giggly inside.
Do you have enough maneuvering room to implement your own idea? For example, if "keeping the sales pipeline full" is priority one at your company, can you interview some salespeople and apply your software skills to removing a sales pipeline constraint? If you could solve one bottleneck (see Theory of Constraints, The Goal, etc.), possibly just a small piece of work for you, it might have great leverage to the sales department, and then you would have much more freedom and respect in The Enterprise.

Yeah, and maybe you could get a pony.
We have no evidence that they're actually sending DMCA claims at all.
Is it more important that it is available now, like Moblin and WebOS are, or that it continues being developed in the future?

Edit: with a little work one might get a previous iteration of this running; https://lwn.net/Articles/482789/
The (private) drone wars have begun.
Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings in IE
Let's hope the true villains get rightfully punished.
>double-click is (IMHO) the worst possible solution for this.

swiping up with 4 fingers works, too, at least on iPad.
Related:

http://xkcd.com/488/ - on what happens to DRM-locked files when technology changes

http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg - comparison of a pirate to a DVD buyer (via http://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html ; I don't recall the original source)
Hint, sarcasm doesn't come through in text very well.
Great ideas, opened up two new issues.
https://www.youtube.com/t/contentid
Are you familiar with the phrase "reinventing the wheel"?
I thought of this pull request thread first actually:
https://github.com/drbrain/meme/pull/13

Must've missed that one somehow when it was popular.
On second thought, I shouldn't have complained about Android in this way. I haven't used ICS, which might have solved the problems I've encountered, and I didn't explain what I don't like about Android's notification system. So I've removed that sentence from the article.
webOS is far from perfect but damn it is still the best mobile OS out there. I would trade off some performance to have these features in my mobile phone.

It's sad the general public doesn't feel the same way and I really hope other mobile OSs can learn from webOS and innovate on those problems that webOS has solved really well.
Voice controlled TV? Will be an APP for that?
Not disagreeing with the sentiment, but if you’re using Windows, Linux, or OSX, you do have a searchable character map.

That fails when you don’t know the name of the character, in which case you can use something like Shapecatcher (http://shapecatcher.com/), but then how do you know whether it’s a Greek theta or a Coptic thethe or a Cherokee na or Cyrillic fita or Latin barred O?

Clearly our editing powers need to improve if we’re to feasibly use non–English-alphanumeric variable names.
Internals of Cubes – Lightweight Python OLAP Framework
Downvoted for being off topic. Please read the post before you comment. It talks about statistics from a symptom checking website created by a handful of medical students, using searches from Hacker News users as a sample. It has nothing to do with the Hacker News website itself.
I don't think anyone here knows how the music industry works.
Except that everybody always wanted an iOS device, so it was obviously an easy sell for Apple to do that.

Trying to sell people an Android phone that happens to have Ubuntu on it? How are you going to reach consumers? Are you going to get a carrier on board? Good fucking luck.
Samsung Galaxy 5.0 Review
Hah, that's kind of what I thought. I think people must be secretly jumping on their gaming servers.
Feedback for my site: Queue and schedule chains of web-related tasks
Hello all, I've been working on a web-app on my spare time over the last few months and it's finally ready for some public feedback. The site is basically a queue scheduler - where the queues are chains of web-related tasks like sending an email, SMS or posting on twitter, etc. Individual actions or queues can be periodic or scheduled so users can build things from simple reminders to more complicated, timed sequences. For now the interactions with the queues are fairly basic, but I hope to add more advanced functions in the future.

Queues are the heart of QueueBot. Assign actions to a queue from the range of possible tasks, such as posting on Twitter or sending a text message, and they will be executed in order at regular intervals or on a schedule.

I posted a link on Reddit about a week ago and made some tweaks related to that feedback. Now I would appreciate your feedback as well! It's in closed beta at the moment, but I'll activate a few accounts if people are interested.

http://queuebot.com/
Disclaimer/shameless plug: I just published the first in a series of e-books to try to teach people without them having to pay so much for consulting

Interesting testimonials. :)

http://tiny-giant-books.com/agile-adoption.htm#testimonials
I can barely fit all four fingers on my iPhone's screen.
How Google +1 affects SEO
Not having worked with SproutCore, I honestly can't comment on whether it introduced more bugs. Working with anything async is always going to introduce some complexity; but given the poor DOM performance on low-end devices, deferring rendering is often a very helpful concept.

I'd be interested to hear what type of bugs were common in this scenario; my understanding of the runloop is that after the DOM update (at the end of each loop) the UI should reflect the application state.
The .com domain would be within reach of law enforcement no matter what country houses it. It's not a choice of "U.S. or nothing", it's a choice of "which nation do you want to regulate .com". The U.S. is certainly not perfect, but it has accessible and transparent legislative and court systems, and the strongest Constitutional protections for free speech in the world. It has an open and liberal trade policy and it welcomes and protects foreign direct investment. And it is large enough to set its own course on the world stage--no other nation holds much leverage over it. There are a lot of good reasons to leave Internet governance in the U.S.
Silicon Valley Sets Up Shop in New York
I really hate to say it, but I would agree. Either Canonical has a sense of humor, or they need to think about how their users interpret their interfaces more.
I believe this is how it should be. Most popular music today is mass produced by rather untalented people. I wouldn't even call them artists. They assemble components into something that works. Much like a programmer. But are programmers labelled as artists?

Music from an artist is generally produced from an internal artistic drive. These mass produced tracks are simply made to make money. They cause the industry to be inflated because they probably wouldn't have become successful or even have been made without huge amounts of backing capital.

In other words, if the value of the industry was based on artistic merits, how much do you think it would be valued at?
Exactly. My impression is that the U.N. negotiations are largely noise, since nations will regulate things as they please within their own borders anyway.
Fake ID's were everywhere when I was in school. However, I never bothered acquiring one as I was a little older than my peers and just didn't get carded at most bars around Vanderbilt in Nashville. For those of you that haven't been in undergrad in the last five years, according to an undergrad I just talked to, good fake id's cost anywhere from $125-150 apiece and if you are lucky, a little more for a pair (backup).

That being said, it was kinda shocking to see the first paragraph mention that Josh Buckley has fake ids enroute from China. Having a fake id, especially having one confiscated seemed to be some sort of badge of honor to some people I knew in undergrad. I didn't get it. I would hear both friends and random people around campus hold a conversation that went as follows:

A: Where were you last night? I thought you were going to meet us at bar XYZ?

B: I was there but I had my id taken away and the bouncer wouldn't sell it back to me for $50 like they usually do.

A: Oh bummer, I hate it when they do that, you actually had a good id.

B: ya, I know, now I will have to go buy another, but I am going to go to the same guy because it was so good. What state should I be from this time?

A: blah blah blah

I guess the ultimate badge of honor is being stupid enough to discuss illegal forms of identification that are in the mail to you. Josh, good luck with your business, but you sir were wearing your idiot hat when you took this interview.
Yeah, proving extensional equality in general is undecidable. Maybe the author is thinking that the constrained input size matters?
The most legitimate use for this is for top-level namespaces, which need to be short or they'll junk up your code like crazy. jQuery already took $, and Underscore took _. Maybe 木, ϗ, _⃗, 个, î, 人, Ǝ (not ∃, that's illegal!), ℵ, 二, ℜ, 龍, ℕ, 八, Δ, 大, ʃ, ː, 卐, or as mentioned below, λ? ˀ is probably too obnoxious though.

For no particularly good reason, ☺ and ☠ are illegal. I think the Plan9 strategy of considering non-ASCII characters as identifier characters by default is probably a better one than changing the language grammar every time the Unicode standard revs.

(As mentioned in another comment, http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard.html https://github.com/kragen/xcompose. The Chinese I copied and pasted from http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=radicals though.)
Is your startup idea already taken?
This, or something like it, is the future: the computing device is portable, and adapts itself to the forms of input available. There's no reason why your display should have to be permanently attached to the device that drives it, and increasingly, it won't be.

I don't know what the implications are for Ubuntu or Android. But genuine support for a first-class computing experience is one of the few things that would tempt me back onto those platforms.
As much as this looks like a legit business idea, I immediately get the spammy feel in my stomach that says I'm somehow letting someone intrude on my privacy.
Samsung Trojan Horse
Would you care to enlighten us then?
I am so excited about this idea, being able to dock and have a full desktop with full applications and keyboard would be awesome. I have BusyBox on my Android phone but it usually isn't enough to make it function like a real Linux desktop. However, I hope that Canonical will stay true to itself and develop and release this as truly open software.

Edited for clarity.
I think the idea is so that you can just drop in a dock to connect USB, HDMI and power, rather than plugging and unplugging three different cables each time. That is, the dock wouldn't offer new kinds of ports, so much as collect them together for the user.
The same thing has happened for videos created with iMovie. Specifically, a video I made for friends using the trailer creator feature.
Great ad for an Institute of Technology
Ubuntu Android add-on designed to replace PCs
I wish JS was better-suited to embedded DSLs. But without operator overloading, with required parens on function arguments, no (standard) method_missing, no atoms, and a limited set of characters for identifiers, it's pretty limited.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Proposes Copyright Suppression of Price Competition
what did you decide and why?
Redis works great as an LRU cache and is much more space-efficient than an in-process LinkedHashMap, especially when the keys and values are small. Plus, an LRU wreaks havoc with the the Java generational garbage collector as soon as it fills up (every entry you put in is about guaranteed to last until the oldest generation, then likely be removed).
Fluent: A sparrow like UI for gmail
Of course it is never going to stop coming. That does not mean that all is lost though.

The Internet as we know it today did not grow up in unregulated anarchy, it was purposefully structured this way by government action (as the article points out). That is proof that governments, given the right inputs, can get things right when it comes to the Internet. If you're fearful of what the government might do next, the thing to do is engage and influence the government to get it right again--not despair and dream of revolution.
I don't think DFW set out purposefully to write a technically accurate prophetic piece of science-fiction in the way Clark or Asimov did, he wrote out of the typical literary author's urge to clear away an individual's crushing existential dread.

What's amazing is technology in American(or O.N.A.N) culture is presented as the cure for existential dread, so the technology itself is a like a literary character, it's almost the antagonist.
Is there a viable alternative to YouTube that isn't as persuaded by the powers that be? If so, and if this problem were pervasive enough, wouldn't the independent content providers prefer that service over YouTube. Then most independent content would eventually be on the other service which would drastically reduce the value of YouTube.
You'll hear the same thing about any difficult discipline. Surgery, painting, programming, auto repair, biological experiments, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and so on.
ONLINE MOVIES: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Here is the site: http://fluent.io/

Demo is down at the moment (7:30 GMT)...lots of traffic.
Yo Silicon Valley. Bring it. Boston is Back.
Bostlandia a spoof of Portlandia with a tech twist. Enjoy this lighthearted attempt to explain why the Boston tech scene is now better than ever.
It is basically correct. They had ongoing revenue from sales, but also had ongoing costs related to the producing those sales, in addition to overhead from salaries, facilities, etc. What you would need to look at is their profits, because that is what adds to capital. Apple was actually losing money at the time (lost $800 million in 1996 and $1 billion in 1997)[1], so the problem may have been worse than the simplistic "three months away from bankruptcy." It is difficult to tell for sure without doing a far more in-depth analysis, but having 90 days working capital at an unprofitable company makes the "three months away from bankruptcy" assertion quite reasonable.

[1] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/1705877737x0xS10... (page 8), found via http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm (yes, cfm!)
Mailinator, even considering any praise it has ever gotten, is still one of the most underrated tools on the internet. I love it and use it all the time.
In addition to that, I've started to write a JavaScript library for the Slicer server (not mentioned in the blog post). I am just starting with JS, so pardon my style. The sources can be found here: https://github.com/Stiivi/cubes.js No examples yet, however the goal is to be able to browse aggregated data directly from JS and transform them into tables/charts.

Concerning backends: I have not much time to write other backends, however, if anyone is interested in helping me with them, just drop me a line. I would like to have at least nicer star-schema browser and perhaps the mongo DB backend.
Weirdly enough, wrote about something like this, back in 2008 : http://www.vijayanand.name/2008/10/the-future-of-living-how-...

It was still a very Nokia Centric world, back then.
This is how my previous company (a great bunch) implemented SCRUM. My CEO came to me and asked me this:

"Thomas, we want to increase our revenue so we need to differenciate ourselves from other consulting firms. We need our services to be top-notch. Our customers don't know anything about Agility and processes such as SCRUM but I think I can sell them that. What can you guys do to help sell this?"

To which I suggested: "we can pretend we're doing a variant of SCRUM and label it '{{nameofcompany}}scrum'. I think a board in the middle of the openspace with neatly arranged coloured post-its will do the trick."

He said: "Great, thanks", then proceeded to increase our average daily rate by 20%.

Once a cowboy, always a cowboy... Oh and by the way, it worked.

Agility, as in the Agile Manifesto, simply works on its own. It might not define good practices, but at least it defines a set of good intentions and it's a working strategy that's simple to explain to team members. Everything around is nothing but ways to make more money, not ways to make projects work. My philosophy would be to sign the Manifesto (because it's good) and pretend to implement one of those methodologies (because it's cash), while you keep doing your job well in the way that best suits you (because that's what makes you happy).
ROFL this is awesome! Not sure why my buddy comes up when I type in my name though...
Hah, me too. Made me laugh... thx
If I read correctly, the article says that of the top 10000 sites 95% do have a valid P3P header. Does that make a decision any simpler for an aspiring startup?
"Ubuntu is the killer app for multi-core phones in 2012"

This text is displayed as if it's a quote, but as far as I can tell, it's not: http://goo.gl/vKHOI (link is to a Google search for the above text). If there's anyone from Canonical here, can you comment on why that is presented as a quote, or what/where it's a quote from, if it is in fact a quote?
How to pin photos from Instagram to Pinterest?
Both blogs (mailinator and paultyma) are awesome. I need more stuff like this than a typical Web 2.0, how we use NoSQL, and Cache-Everything (without a clue how to do cache properly, but 37Signals cache solution is by far in line with mailinator techniques: smart and elegant).
the most interesting part of the article is:
...webOS...been hurt by HP’s incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own.
I'm not sure this data is meaningful. I recall searching for several real symptoms that I had, and the step 2 options were so far off that I decided to just try the suggested searches to see the sample results.
AtomizeJS: Distributed Software Transactional Memory
Run Chrome not Safari.
Startups (And Angel Investors) are a Girl's Best Friend
Applications for Tech Wildcatters due Friday, Feb 24th
Canonical may not have the resources or funds of Apple or Microsoft but they are innovating better than both at the moment. Unity is daring to be different on the desktop, and Ubuntu on Android is a simple idea that could really change the way people think about the PC. The ideas might not all work out in the long term but for sheer creative thinking you have got to applaud what they are doing.
I agree with fragsworth -- the back button is almost a necessity and double-clicking the home button and clicking the first task switcher icon is a poor substitute.

It's missing so much that I find myself expecting the in-app back button to go back to the previous app if I click it enough. BTW, I've never owned an Android phone so my expectations aren't carried over from another OS -- it just seems natural and it's jarring when it's missing.
There's lots of reasons for the menu to stay open; the simplest example is clicking File, then Open, to open a new file.

As far as the menu disappearing when you close both documents, that's confusing and directly contradicts what you typed earlier. I can open Preview.app, and it'll just show me the menu. I can close it by alt-tabbing to it and hitting Cmd-Q - no windows required.
I absolutely love the way webOS does task switching. It's so easy and simple to switch between apps. Even ICS's new task switch requires pressing and holding, then scrolling through a list of apps. WebOS needs only a single quick press and swipe left or right. It's fast and easy. I love it.
Miss (Firefox) Aurora's "New Tab" window? Here's how to get it back
Thanks. You can catch them(16GB) on eBay for around $220 used in good shape or around $250 new, in my opinion for the price, this is the best Android tablet at the moment, the next best thing is probably the Asus Transformer Prime @ about $550.
I'm listening to my own radio station "Waka Flocka Flame ..."
If lots of people are more than happy to do something for free, then just how important is it for those people to get paid to do that activity.

This isn't metal mining or oil drilling, making music is something humans do because they enjoy it. I would assume that 99% of music makers/creators/producers not only make no money from it, but pay money to do it. Thus, we could argue that when that 1% ceases to make money from the activity society, as a whole, is better off because that capital is now re-allocated somewhere else -- be it another leisure activity, healthcare, food, investment, etc.
I strongly believe, this would be just the beginning. Mobile phones give you three things - (recently, Horsepower), Mobility and Identity. And there are a plethora of things that could be powered with a combination of the three.

Weirdly, wrote about something like this, back in 2008. http://www.vijayanand.name/2008/10/the-future-of-living-how-...

... in a nokia centric world, be it.
If that's the case, I'd assume I can use this without a dock, ie. just by connecting HDMI; all other connections being more-or-less optional. But I get the feeling that's not true.