skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the "Y reasons why Z" formula works, but I'll give more respect to a writer who can express their ideas without it.

Most of the time it's a way of papering over the fact that the article isn't really saying that much. This article is no exception.

"Retention: A static website with quickly aging content is not particularly interesting for prospects or existing customers. In contrast, a site that provides new, engaging material on a regular basis is a real draw. If prospects visit your site regularly, they’re more likely to become customers. Furthermore, you’re more likely to retain existing customers if they find ongoing value by engaging with your company."

Talk about mailing that shit in. There's no substance there. No data. Nothing insightful. If you asked an intelligent person comfortable with the web to rattle of ideas about why content marketing might be useful, you'd get a list much like the one presented here.

Give me something new, surprising, and insightful please. Nobody will remember this article two months from now. Hell, I won't remember it tomorrow.

Edit: I'll add, I really do get why people write these articles. They work. They're easy to digest. They get tweeted, shared, voted up on sites like HN, and ranked well in search engines. It's a valid tactic, I just don't think it makes for writing that grips me by the balls, as it were.
Really, really dig the new sheets UI. If anything is going to be "stolen" from BCX, it'll be sheets. It seems odd, but only because we're so used to traversing views. Another big lesson is that the UI itself is feather light (the restraint is impressive). Excited to play with this, wish I had an invite now.
Operation Ajax. Look it up.
> Does it support prototypal inheritance? (also great)

No. Dart has classical inheritance, which by the large number of classical inheritance libraries for Javascript, is still very popular even when prototypal inheritance is available.

I personally abhor prototypal inheritance. It's aesthetically unappealing, hard to reason about, hard to optimise, and turns what is usually a declarative pattern into an imperative one. When most people are approximating classical inheritance anyway, that's a big sign.

It's sometimes nice that objects can differ structurally from their class, but I've never found it that useful.
Hi there. I'm one of the co-founders of Chute. We're not planning on making money off of this service, per se. We are planning on making money at some point from use of the broader Chute API as well as several other products we're launching, which we hope people will begin to discover with Photo Picker+. Photo Picker+ is something we built as part of the overall (forthcoming) product offering, but we thought it would be useful on its own so we released it first as a separate library.

The Chute API will always have a free tier as well.

You can't yet select multiple images or video, but they're both on the roadmap. Thanks a lot.
... you really object to users stating what they want to have?

So... Apple generally gets kudos for 'giving users what they want', but users are not allowed to say what they want?

Nice work.
Is there any specific reasons you wouldn't want AirPlay, Notes/Reminders/Messages, notifications, etc? It seems to me those are all very good features to add to OSX that happened to debut on iOS first.
Regardless of whether or not it drives itself (although it's an improvement), I still find the idea of owning a car very unappealing, and it still doesn't give the suburbs a soul.
JavaScript, Dart/Chrome and TIScript/Sciter comparison
Equally frustrating: when the no scale attribute is set for sites that are not optimized for viewing on mobile or tablet screens.
they wouldn't care because u're in the 1% of customers who would care about these things.
Is a Developer Pay Wall coming to OS X?
Facebook Asking Some Users To Upload Government Issued IDs
They do exist. I run a .NET developer tools company and had a customer purchase our data access products to use with several of their porn sites.

Never did manage to see the final product though!
How Piictu is balancing attracting users and earning revenue - with Jon Slimak
The Charlemagne Riddle
The article on Time was more explicit:

"Apple recently briefed me on the new features and loaned me a MacBook Air loaded with a beta version of Mountain Lion. I’ve been test-driving for the past week." http://techland.time.com/2012/02/16/apples-os-x-10-8-mountai...
> Oleg is an emissary from some advanced alien race. Working with him is both exhausting and enlightening.

See? It's not just us Haskellers!
So... what about my scripts? Should I have to load some specific manager - iScript - in order to access my creations? Just because 'the filesystem is dying'? What about my store of .iso files? Do I need iIso?
OK, added a sample APK file up here:
https://github.com/chute/photo-picker-plus/blob/master/Andro...
When people listen to each other, wonderful things happen. Thank you for listening, Apple.
Okay, but we're not talking about the machine - we're talking about the formula/algorithm/program here. Thus, does the defence still work?
Looks very promising. Keep going.
I could not believe they would use single DES (I would have expected AES), so I googled around. Apparently (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6312871/what-encryption-a...; it is (or at some time was) 3DES; the PDF linked from there states:

"All the password data in the keychain is protected using the
Triple Digital Encryption Standard (3DES)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES#Security states:

"NIST considers keying option 1 to be appropriate through 2030."

I am still surprised that it is not AES, but 3DES seems good enough. Also, I am not sure that PDF still describes the current situation.
Read closer - those goals are modeled around the 5 perceived problems enumerated below them. Those aren't the kinds of problems that CoffeeScript purports to address at all. CoffeeScript for better or worse is mostly "Just JavaScript"
Low signal strength will not be an issue with antenna spray in a can
Photo site programmer may be executed in Iran “at any moment”
Have sent an email, please add me to the alpha
The TED Talks: Silicon Valley Corporatism?
Yes, but will it automatically clean up the mess left by the scumbags who were inevitably in the car before you?
Device Administration:Remote Wipe and Remote Lock
Does anyone remember that Steve Jobs interview, in which he waxes lyrical about the benefits of putting your docs on a big iron server?
Device-To-Device Push Framework for Android
Depressed people are found to be more rational than the people who feel successful

This sounds to me like you took something wildly out of context. For example, is a depressed person more rational than someone who just won a hand of Blackjack? Probably. Is a depressed person more rational than the same person when not depressed? As someone who is currently helping a friend through a very bad bout of depression, I can say with confidence that the answer is no.

Doctors don't even know why these drugs work.

I know a lot of programmers who don't know how a transistor works. Does this invalidate their work?
The current trend with Apple is to radically drop features

Such as?
Device-To-Device Push framework allows two way communication between mobile devices using the Push architecture.

The linked article shows detailed instructions on how to integrate this framework into your Android mobile apps.

This framework can be used to build interesting communication oriented apps such as chat and instant messaging
Yep, http://blip.tv/clojure/dan-friedman-and-william-byrd-minikan...
Hey, congrats. Are you guys planning on releasing something for iOS also? (Also, I wonder if there's a way to have a hyperlink in your top comment. To make it easier to navigate to your site).
Avi Rubin  TEDx MidAtlantic 2011 - All your devices can be hacked
Something Up My Sleeve, An Essay by Teller of Penn and Teller
Indeed, this also gives me some confidence that there are still a few people around at Apple who don't like walls around their gardens :)
Ah, you are right, it doesn't support prototypal inheritance.

"When most people are approximating classical inheritance anyway, that's a big sign."

Two things on that:

1. Most people (vast majority) learned OOP in a classical style, so that's what they're going to be comfortable with and will try to implement. It doesn't automatically mean classical style is superior.

2. You may want to check out the Klass library[1]. It provides a "classical interface to prototypal inheritance." So perhaps classical style is easier to use, but prototypal is better to have in the background.

[1]https://github.com/ded/klass
Not as badly as you might think! Playing around with the new box model on a test site and on the bootstrap site (via firebug), I only found four noticeable changes in appearance:

- The search form was noticeably shorter and more cramped. I fixed this by adding height: 100% to the interior text input element

- Text inputs are less wide than they should be when you use bootstrap's span classes

- The navbar's vertical and horizontal dividers disappeared. I fixed this by adding 1px of padding to either the side or bottom of the divider, as the case required.

- Side tabs are a less wide than they should be
Unfortunately Apple's new Command Line Tools for Xcode doesn't include regular gcc, but Apple's gcc-compatible wrapper around LLVM (i.e. /usr/bin/gcc is a symlink that points to llvm-gcc).

llvm-gcc doesn't compile many projects correctly, including gcc itself (as of Xcode 4.2 there were reports that it's not possible to compile a gcc cross-compiler using llvm-gcc). Hopefully there have been improvements in this regard.

Still, anyone who needs the real gcc will have to install it through some other means.
That makes sense. Thanks so much for replying, looks like a great service!
Google has released Dartium, a Chromium build with a Dart VM
I use it. Sometimes I actually forgot what apps I have installed or forget the names of them if I don't use them frequently. If my hand is already on the trackpad I just have to pinch in and there they are. Quicker than going to the Applications folder.
Show HN: My first Android App - written after 14 days of learning how to code :)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wtfsoftware.wtfgeneratorfunnypics

I submit it as a proof that in 14 days anyone can become a (crappy) programmer :)

I'm 32, educated in humanities, I work in a bookstore and in my entire life I have never tried programming. Just a typical user, I knew basic HTML, like adding bold to text etc.

Few months ago I started lurking on hackernews, I read about CodeAcademy and decided to learn how to code JavaScript.

Fast-forward 14 days: Wow, it's easier than I thought;)

Here's my first app. It's written in Javascript and compiled in Appcelerator Titanium. It's, uhm, basic and it's a bit crappy, half of the code is copied from different sources found online (Titanium Q&A! love it!) - but it works! It downloads and shows random memes from a number of websites.

Probably it's not the best place to show that kind of stuff, but I'm proud enough to ignore it :)
Not for the time being. Stacker is specifically developed for this unique UI style that we're using for Next. We don't open source our UI elements.
Paul Vick made a new blog post about this today http://panopticoncentral.net/2012/02/16/software-patents-rev...
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I really love the idea of it and appreciate your effort that went into creating this SDK, however, forcing my users to hand over their FB/Instagram/Flickr/Picasa handles to a 3rd party I can't testify for is a no go for me. There also currently is no info to users that their data will be centrally stored by chute in the app GUI, I am no lawyer but after the recent privacy backlashes it might be a good idea to add a note regarding this.
From my point of view, as things stand today with the current focus on privacy, such a feature would need to be completely device based or at least on the servers of the developer of the particular app itself. In another comment a little further down it was also hinted that the chute API might get a price tag at some point (with a free tier), these two things combined unfortunately make it unusable for me at this point.

Really love the idea though, hope we get to see a purely device based version of this at some point (by chute or somebody else).
Game Center for Mountain Lion to offer cross-platform play between Mac, iOS
I sleep pretty well. 6-8hrs.
This is indeed great news. Thanks to everyone who was involved in making this happen, it's fantastic news.
"We will recommend you don't use Xcode from the App Store but instead the command-line-tools package"

Ok why? If you install all of Xcode, you're going to have everything included in this tools package as well, aren't you?
The original XBOX had a problem with a 007 game and with the right game save you could turn it into a FTP server. Once that was loaded, you where in.

Dave
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Looks good, but it won't respond to events until the animation finishes, which is pretty much guaranteed to annoy site users.
Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile
Oh, also, I don't know if you want to put your videos more prominently on the landing page.

http://youtu.be/CLeDDZYPLB0

http://youtu.be/OD2ZDUPLEhM

http://youtu.be/QP1e_kS5jmk

http://youtu.be/CLeDDZYPLB0
WallaBee: The Ultimate Location-Based Item Game
Post highlighting the newly launch location-based game WallaBee which is now on the App Store.
Bookmarks are a working solution, the problem is getting the user to locate those urls in the first place. I'm having many of the same problems that the OP mentions and explaining to the user how to locate folders and files correctly is a usability nightmare.

"Click the button below, locate file xyz and 'Open' it to proceed"

I would be perfectly ok with a system "Grant permission to xyz" dialog, but the open file dialog is a terrible way of requiring access to a file or folder.
Your credit card, along with a few before, during, and after pictures of you in the cab should solve that problem.
Can you explain plausible reasoning for not installing CLT by default? I'm willing to listen, I just don't get it.
Please don't do this.

I'm interested in this topic, and might have spent some time reading the thread, but when I see stuff like this I just bail.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wtfsoftware.wtfgen... - Here's the clickable link
LiveReload.js - Reload page assets as you edit for faster web development
If you read the independent claims, they have not patented the formula by itself.

Claim 1: A system for determining if two operands point to different locations in memory, the ...
Claim 15: A method for producing executable code for performing ...
Claim 21: A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for ...

Dependent claims by definition include at least one of the above.

PS: I am not a lawyer. Never have been.
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One question though: reminds me of Google's App Inventor. What's the difference?
The eyes have it: Seeing ultraviolet, exploring color
Hi, it's breaking mine as well. I'm on Chrome 17.0/OSX 10.7.2
Thanks! We are planning to add all major platforms (like iOS, HTML/JS, MacOS, Win) to our portfolio. But this will need some more time ...
I wonder if they're using pre-fetching to get that insane level of speed, or they really can roundtrip DB-driven Ajax that quickly.
And if you type 'ssh-add' you'll only have to enter your passphrase once. I think this all got sorted out beginning with Leopard; before that, it may not have worked as expected (compared to other *NIX environments).
Good for you. Will you continue to build on this or start a new project entirely?
Why is it not possible to compile gcc with llvm-gcc? The last time I checked llvm-gcc compiles C and C++ with most GNU extensions.
No it doesn't. Xcode 4.3 is now a standalone .app package including only what is relevant to Xcode. These command line tools are a separate install even if you installed Xcode.
Heh, I noticed that guy, too - made me look up my earliest Usenet post, July 4, 1994, when I was 15 years old. I had other Usenet, Fido, and BBS identities before that, but I can't remember what they were.

So yeah, in 1994, a 15 year old and his 12 year old brother were definitely able to figure out their way onto the "Live Internet" (to differentiate from dialup relay like Fido or UUCP)

Then came the convincing of the parents to get a dedicated line so we could leave our SLIP connection up 24/7 so that others could check our finger status, etc....
New Apple patent filings stress need for user consent on data
It feels to me like the problem people have here is pretty much all in the marketing. You still have all the features and more from when you considered it a creative professionals machine, it's just the feel imparted by the focus and marketing is different.
I wish Ubuntu focused on Android
For similar reasons that automatic transmissions aren't used in racing cars
If a driverless car cuts me off, to whom do I direct my middle finger?

Seriously, though, good on them - I'd love to see this kind of thing during my lifetime. Hopefully it goes well - I'd hate to see this cause a rash of accidents no matter whose fault it ends up being.
Yes, but the current Xcode doesn't include non-llvm gcc, so it isn't really a surprise that the Command Line Tools for Xcode doesn't include it either.
Why is it better to have prototypal inheritance? What real problem does it solve?
Thanks! Do you think they are hidden to much in the pop-up?
I agree that the viewport-based rendering makes a lot of sense if you assume that all web sites are not designed for your device. Arguably, it even makes sense as the default behaviour.

My objection is only that if you have a team who are actually willing to go the extra mile and provide a customised UI that plays to each device's specific strengths, it's absurdly difficult for them to get it right.

CSS media queries actually aren't bad for this sort of work in either design or device support these days, give or take some absurdities involving scrollbars. All I want is for all those juicy features to actually tell me about real pixels. Then I can fix my font sizes and icon spacings and graphic dimensions to look pixel-perfect and still remain accessible and draw at a similar physical size on all devices.
Whose fault?

SEGFAULT
I'm curious to know if faded overlays increase bounce rate. I suppose if overall conversion rates are higher it can't affect things too much.
I'm inferring that they are saying this to the people that only need GCC for homebrew. I don't use Xcode for anything and I hate the idea of installing all of it on my small SSD just for GCC. I've used his OSX-GCC package before and can't wait to use the "official" version now. Kudos!
Though not quite in practice of course. I cannot substantiate my claim with data, but have come across several (approved) patents which are actually not even correct -- the described does not function as advertized.
Really hoping they integrate Siri into Spotlight in 10.8. It would be nice to be able to hit 'command-space' to bring up Spotlight, then just type, "remind me to call Fred at 5", and it would set a reminder, and sync it to your iPhone. Or maybe "set a timer for 5 minutes on my phone", or "add an appointment for dentist tomorrow at noon", "find a good thai restaurant nearby", etc.

It's embarrassing how much faster these kinds of tasks are on the iPhone than the Mac now, though network issues can still be a problem inside buildings, and the voice recognition isn't perfect. If I could just type my requests to my Mac, I think I'd find myself using it a lot more often. It would be like a realization of Jef Raskin's (and maybe even more his son Aza's) ideas on 'humane' and command-line interfaces as the ultimate UI.
Because of bugs and age, the gcc-gcc that Apple shipped when it shipped gcc-gcc couldn't compile the latest gcc either.

(And llvm-gcc is based on that version, which is 4.2.1 or something, about 5 years old)
tks very much. I love London too, but I wish the cultural stuff about failure wasn't such a big deal.
I'm unclear why Canada hasn't granted him citizenship while in Iranian custody, just to escalate matters. Although I don't think Iran recognizes dual nationality for its citizens, so even with Canadian (or US) citizenship, he'd still be an Iranian national to them.
Use Your Landing Page To User Test A Problem
If the accident involves a bus, does that make it a SIGBUS?
It's the default supplied by my host for my particular configuration.
Does clang compile these projects correctly?
If not, have you filed a bug? (http://llvm.org/docs/HowToSubmitABug.html)
Yes! I hope this will snowball!
When I think of all the articles that have passed through the HN front page about mobile developers' terrible experience with the app store, I can't imagine why a desktop software developer would voluntarily subject themselves to it.

Sure, iDevice developers have no choice. But for desktop software there's this handy thing called the Internet. Why kick up revenue to apple, subject myself to submission rules and arbitrary rejection, absurd technical limitations and switcheroos like the one described in this article, and all the rest?
Why would it be an "artificial" advantage? Chrome exists because Google wanted to push the web as a platform forward and encourage other browsers to evolve. That's what happened with Javascript and SPDY (_very_ rapidly with SPDY, it seems to me).

If Chrome is faster at running Dart it will only really matter if 1) Dart is also faster than Javascript and 2) Dart is better for building complex web apps. That would validate the "clean break" approach as an alternative to the evolution approach. I don't see what makes that "artificial".
"It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures." - http://instagr.am/ Think twitter but with pictures.
HackerNews, HackerNews, LetsLunch all about it
> "The Keychain application ... using a encryption algorithm that is too weak for what it is used - namely: DES"

Source? This is relevant to my interests. Namely, I'm trying to figure out if using something like 1password or other services would be worth it. Thanks!
There is another strategy - just publish your invention for all to see rendering it un-patentable.

IBM of all people used to do this for ideas they did not think were worth patenting. By publishing them they stopped anyone else from getting a patent on those ideas. IBM published a magazine for 40 years that is a treasure trove of prior art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bullet...

Now anyone can do defensive publication on this site

http://priorartdatabase.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_publication

I used this strategy with some GPS cell phone ideas I had in 2003 and I "published" them myself

http://web.archive.org/web/20031211124028/http://www.gadgete...
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Interesting, I interpreted it the opposite way. One of the big problems with depression, bipolar and other physically manifesting mental health issues is that seems to be a large portion of society which says "you just need to snap out of it" (or variations on that theme). With an actual blood test to say "look, this is a physical thing" it becomes easier to ignore those who say such crap -- they can be classified with those who say "oh you have cancer, just pray your way out of it, it's not a real problem". Basically, and objectively measurable way of proving a problem gives the sufferer a chance to not blame themselves (potentially making the problem worse, or at least recovery harder).
Agreed.

I'm sure it's beautiful, but it looks basically like what I'd expect a GitHub repo to look like. :D