skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was merely trying to illustrate that there is more to android than customers being fleeced at brick and mortar stores. As for why Android tablets might have a chance -

a) Part of what made the iPhone and the iPod touch such tough devices to compete against was the constraints imposed by the mobile form factor. Down at 600 Mhz on a 4 inch screen software efficiency and well designed software matter a lot more than on a 10 inch screen with a 1.6 Gig dual core chip with a large battery.

b) Form factors - Unless a smaller Ipad comes in.

c) Tablets are largely media consumption devices - either webpages, videos, music, pdfs etc. I dont reach out to my tablet the way I reach out to my phone to be my data connected interface in the real world. I switch it on when I have some time available and I would like to consume some media. At this point I find it easier to consume media on a Android device than I do on an iOS device ( dont need to transcode every single video out there ) and transferring files to the device is easy even on linux. Actually it would be interesting to hear from others if there are differences in app usage patterns between an ipad and an iphone of this is just a personal quirk on my part.

d) 4G - Unless Apple jumps onboard. I forgot to mention this on my earlier post - I use my phone as a data modem all the time and once you are used to 4G speeds, its really hard to go back to 3G.
How CityCliq.com doubled Web APP Sales with 1 line of text
The claim is that there are individuals who believe veganism is healthier, not that it is healthier. I am not a vegan.
I figure that it's probably that at 41MP, there's tons of noise, but using those 41 MP as oversampling and resampling it to 5 MP (which appears to be the default and suggested setting), it gives superior low-light performance (as he demos in the video with the pictures taken at midnight)

edit: at 2:30 he says "It's not about putting loads and loads of megapixels into a device, it's about how you use them"
Facebook's New OS-ignoring App Ecosystem
Those crap jobs are jobs that most people have to pay their bills. No everybody can live on Ramen noodles and the probability of success for a startup is fairly low. Honestly, anything that is not a startup is a crap job? Then once your startup actually gets off the ground, all your non-vested employees are basically working a crap job, right?

Most of us here are either involved in or want to be involved in a startup but that's not how it is for every programmer out there and we should remind ourselves of that.
Interview question about handshakes
It might force the developers to commit more in the granular Git way, but it doesn't force bug reporters and discussions to be more mindful. Looking at my timeline, and following Backbone.js and Handlebars, about half my feed on any given day is discussion from 2 or 3 bugs on each of those projects.

So even though the committers might be mindful, doesn't mean all the users of a project are.
Good point, really. I also wonder why Google censors the copyrighted content worldwide, if they only get DMCA complaints from the US...
That's not true. You can have complete understanding. You actually should have, if you want to be recognized in the industry. You need more than just learning, you need to live it.

Pick an Operating System, and an environment. I'm using Windows, for more than 10 years now. And that's why I'm not moving to OS X any time soon. I'm incredibly good with Windows, and it can handle all of my daily business work, and software development, as well as entertainment.

I'm on Web development for more than 4 years. It's an overwhelming field, if you ask me. Lots of stuff: Web servers (picked Abyss, played with Apache), HTTP, HTTPS (and SSL), Server Side (picked PHP), Database (picked mySql, played with Mongo), HTML5 (lots of new API), JavaScript (not that simple, and a new spec. is coming), CSS3, Photoshop (some skills to get by).

And then there are lots of other things: caching, optimization, patterns, ORM, CMS (WordPress, Drupal...), frameworks (CodeIgniter, Symphony...), libraries (jQuery, Prototype...), best-practices, security (SQL injections, encryption...), Unit Testing (Jasmin, PHPunit...), Code Inspection (JSlint), IDEs (Aptana, PHPstorm...), Mobiles (Titanium, Sencha...)

And certainly for business (you probably run your server on Ubuntu) there is Postfix, dovecot for email, SFTP for an FTP server, Mercurial or Git for Version Control and some other stuff to monitor your servers (and maybe services)

And then there is more stuff, if you run an online business like HN, SmashingMagazine, GitHub, Envato, AppStore and all social networks, magazines, markets...

So how can you do it? First, it'll take years. Second, you must live it. When you live it, you'll forget about the quantity, and with time you'll keep all those things in your head.
The truth is, if you're a .NET programmer, you're going to find Clojure slightly painful because you're switching ecosystems. Using it for work will encounter the same problem and ClojureCLR is a second class citizen.

That's not to say it isn't great and useful, it is. I'm noticing a couple of trends in Clojure development: big data and esoteric. Take a look at Storm (twitter's data processing engine) and Overtone.
It's not about the price of oil? This chain of comments was sparked by yummyfajitas asking "does the US pay less to import oil or steel than Sweden or something?", which seems fairly focused on price. And he was replying to a comment that claimed that American prosperity was due, in part, to "military might abused to ensure cheap oil and resources". Which, again, seems awfully focused on price.

Now, you might want to change the subject to talk about oil company profits, but I'm not sure why you'd want to, because that makes even less sense. It's frankly ludicrous to suggest that American prosperity is in some way linked to the fact that ExxonMobil is headquartered in Texas rather than Canada or Europe. It's a publicly traded multinational corporation!

Sure it paid $15 billion in income tax in 2009, but none of it was in the US. Think that number would be higher if they were incorporated offshore? (Hint: No.) Yes, it pays dividends, but it does so regardless of whether those shareholders are citizens of the country it is headquartered in. Think the ratio of dividends paid to Americans versus Swedes would change if ExxonMobil moved offshore? (Hint: No.) And since this "isn't about the price of oil", we don't need to even ask if prices at the pump in the US would change if they moved offshore. (Although, obviously, they wouldn't.)

So I'm curious: The original post was talking about how America is richer than Sweden 'cause the American military is used to do something relating to oil. You say it's not about the price, but about oil company profits. Okay. Even if we accept that the US military has done wonders for the bottom line of ExxonMobil...how does Joe Bloggs become better off because a nominally American oil company is making a higher profit this year? Answer: He doesn't. So maybe we need to look a little further.

(And that's not even touching on the idea that military might is exogenous - this thing that some lucky countries have, and others don't.)
Ahh, thanks for the heads up, thewordis. It's nice to know that they're aware of the problem.
Like SCO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
Right, if it is something you actually want to be doing then that is one thing. But, I bet you are not married and have kids or if you do, they may not be as happy with you as you might think. It's just reality.

As for the Steve Jobs thing, yes I get that. But it's one thing to be Steve Jobs and have this legacy that they make documentaries about and it's another to have just been a cog, even if it's a popular company like Twitter, your whole life and not have any kind of family or life outside of your job. Perhaps everlasting glory is worth everything else but I doubt it's true for everyday programmers at Apple.
Tell that to the people cleaning after you in the office. The people picking up your trash or the millions of other jobs that pay the bill.

Now if we are only talking in the domain of information workers. There is still CRUD to be developed or the 1 millionth website designed or other boring business logic to be developed.

I got this questions many times if you win the lottery would you still be doing your job. Hell no and I love my job. But there are other things I enjoy even more...
Nobody is forbidding overtime work - they are exempting tech employees from receiving pay for the overtime they work. Much of this legislation was passed in the US through the lobbying of big tech corporations (Microsoft) to increase profit margins. I personally would like to revoke my right to work overtime for free.
Towards the end, he gets to the main point - the US health system is not set up for people who aren't wage slaves for a big company. The idea that a company should pay your pension is also kind of dumb.
First, he suggests that no one should work overtime, which isn't practical for people who can't afford to get fired. Second, he suggest that there's no benefit to working over time, while many would see keeping your job as a benefit.

I'm not sure if he realizes that refusal to work overtime can, in itself, be a reason to get fired, or if that consequence simply doesn't matter to him. Either way, saying that they shouldn't matter to any one else is incorrect.

Also, the entire health care angle is weird. Both Canada and UK have public health care, but both work a lot of overtime:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4149835.stm
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Unpaid+overtime+grow...
Well explain to the your children that they can't get more food because daddy likes the work more over getting paid.

A bit harsh but understand that not all people live in the same context. Single, student, ...
One core difference that I notice between Africa and the West, irrespective of the current development stage, is that people in Africa are mostly optimistic that things are better than the were, and they are expecting things to get much better. So they see the future as being bright and full of opportunities.

People in the west seem to have the opposite viewpoint - the see the past as having been better, and the future bringing doom and gloom. So their outlook is pessimistic.

So there is much more of this lets-work-forward energy in Africa.
Real synthesis documents. Which, by the way, you should be really careful going looking for.
The Ruby Freelancers Show (podcast on being a freelancer)
Secunia PSI 3.0 : Automatic Patching Of Insecure Applications
Very quickly: Simplicity, Speed, Power.

Simplicity: it's easier to reason about a Clojure program.
Speed: Idiomatic Clojure tends to be as fast as Java when it matters.
Power: If an abstraction you need isn't present, you can write your own. Code reuse is insanely high.
I was going to disagree with you by saying that those layers are there for a reason; and they are there for a reason, mainly backwards compatibility. But thinking a bit more, I have to agree with you that still, those layers are the problem with C++. If you want to maintain old code, you would have to be conversant with loads of different idioms, it is as if you are maintaining multiple languages, starting from C and going on to the latest C++.

To write new code, C++ can be very clean, and C++11 is a huge step in the right direction for this. But to maintain code, especially code written by someone else, C++ can be a little bit hard. And it can never be easier than maintaining C code, because maintaining C code is a subset of maintaining C++ code.
Why do I have to compare my situation to that of a latin-american middle-aged lady that ran away from the crippling poverty of her country to pursue her version of the American dream? How does that put in perspective 300 grand I dumped into six years of education at two top 5 US institutions and years of experience at industry giants?

If I had unlimited money, I would still work in technology and with technology, I simply love learning and hacking too much. I would not be writing mindless Java CRUD though, unless perhaps if those were my customers and I somehow felt that someone's life somewhere will so greatly benefit from it that I HAVE to do it for their sake.
You are being told wrong and you are going to want a MS assuming you become an actual competent, code-breathing programmer. Yes, at some point you will reach a career defining moment where you realize that 95% of everything you've been told career-wise has been bullshit. Don't listen to anyone who has to pay programmers or anyone without the degrees. An MSCS is going to be worth several hundred thousand dollars if you manage your career correctly and change jobs frequently. Most programmers change jobs every couple years until they max out salary, and this has been normal going back to the 60s.

Ideally you can complete an MS while working so you don't lose out on salary.
This doesn't work when one works in a multi-national company. My colleagues in other locations will eat my lunch because they are less concerned about work/life balance and a lot more hungry.
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
Intrusion detection with Node.JS
only downside is when I look at a user's profile I like to see what their 'watching' to see what their interested in but if they shelve everything I wouldn't see that
NumPy on Google App Engine?
Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?
Kim Novak furieuse contre The Artist
I don't think that's what it's parodying...

Also, why would one need to be "really careful" looking up an organic synthesis of Sudafed?
I can't tell if this article is serious or satire. Of course Google could hash your tracks locally before "reencoding" them (do they really re-encode tracks? I thought they only transcoded FLAC to MP3, but didn't touch MP3s). Of course, iTunes and Amazon tag/watermark your purchased tracks, even if there's no DRM. Lastly, of course people use Google Music. In fact, I use it so much and it's so well integrated into Android that I didn't even realize I didn't transfer any files to my new phone until I travelled to Brazil and was without data connection for half a day.
For a big company at least, I feel that this is an ideal world solution rather than a real world one. The amount of hours tasks take are going to be really hard to estimate, meaning that your work hours will on part depend on the luck of tasks allocated. Also you will have plenty of people out to game this by setting low expectations of what can be achieved in the week and making those in less hours.
You pay 10% more on COBRA than your employer was paying on your behalf. But the gist of what your saying still stands.
First, he suggests that no one should work overtime, which isn't practical for people who can't afford to get fired. Second, he suggest that there's no benefit to working over time, while many would see keeping your job as a benefit.

Even if the employee receives proper benefits from those extra working hours (in Argentina, extra hours should be paid double what a regular hour costs), how is his point invalid? He's arguing that your life is worth much more than that. Near the end, he mentions people in China who have no option to refuse working extra hours, and yet that's wrong. It's wrong because those people SHOULD have an option to say no to being f over each day by their employers. Their lives are worth much more than those iPhones.

Of course, if you need to put food on your family's table and there's no other job on sight.. well, you'll do it no matter what. But it's not what we should strive for.
You said so yourself, the US and Sweden pay the same rates. What's left is who's making the profit on the sales for the next 30 years. No wonder the guys drilling works for an American company. Somebody has to lobby right?

I wasn't suggesting that this was about American prosperity. I was suggesting that this is about who's lobbying Congress to do what and with what money.
Solving Patient Adherence Through Design
I'm glad someone is at least noticing this.

I hope he has people around him who are helping him, but I suspect he doesn't.

His whois lists him as living in Las Vegas. Does anyone live there who can at least check that he has someone taking care of him?
Why not combine the two? Robots all year round and then hire short term laborers for the seasonal peak times.
First, Balsamiq has been around for awhile. I don't think that was the worst choice ever. In fact, it was probably the best decision to make it 1) work and 2) work and 3) work across browsers and 4) SHIP. OMG YouTube uses Flash, what are they thinking OH NOOOS.

Next, whether it works on an iPhone or Android is not necessarily the most important thing for that audience. It is a mockup/sketch application for user interfaces. Perhaps they will create a HTML5 version but I think the guy did a great job and made a good choice for his business. I first heard about it on, I think, the Startup Success podcast some years ago.
It’s a great pity that Objective-C doesn’t get more attention in this regard. It’s C, so it features all the simplicity, elegance and existing APIs. And at the same time it offers a good, simple and flexible object model with almost no surprises. The performance can be very good, too, as proved by the Apple runtime, and you can always drop to lower-level tricks or plain C when you need it. The syntax takes some getting used to, but then turns into another advantage, since it’s very self-descriptive. Again, it’s a shame it gets so little attention outside the Apple world, because it would be a perfect match for many use cases.
I signed up very early, but Amazon wouldn't let me buy an album from Amazon.com and wouldn't count albums from Amazon.de. Internet without borders, please..?
I was expecting that author would want to literally fix the button. It always bugs me like it is designed:

[watch] [fork] [watchers] [forks]

With this I often click "watchers" when I want to watch a repository. To me, much better solution would be something like this:

[watch | watchers] [ fork | forks]
I was talking about REST websites, A.K.A web 1.0 websites.

What do I mean? Well, a 1.0 website generally follows REST. REST means representational state transfer, which means that each application state should have a representation on the server. Another way of expressing this is that each possible state on the website should have an URL. No more "go to example.com and click X, then Y then scroll then Z". Instead, every possible state has a link, so you just give the link. HTTP was designed to enforce linkability.

Enter AJAX. Suddenly the server is out of control. You can now deviate from the linkability principle, and a lot of apps do.

When the linkability constraint is lifted, the client state is allowed to deviate from the server state. This gives less responsibility to the server. No wonder that it gets less to do.

That is what I meant.

You can still use a REST API from a web 2.0 website, that is another question. But a web 2.0 webpage plus an REST API to fetch data makes the total app non-REST (at least if you don't actively try to make it such).
Well, everyone's an engineer nowadays. My company has "custom service engineers." =)
He means be careful looking up the synthesis of meth from Sudafed.
I imagine he had some help with that. And a lot of what he's been talking about recently is about tools for keeping code quality high; he obviously places a premium on good code over working code.
Samsung copies "Smoked by windows phone" marketing campaign.
They don't need everyone to work overtime as long as there are people like you that do.
I don't see it as if Wikileaks were fooled

I do - Assange branded this leak as far more momentous and STRATFOR as much more insidious than it is. The "secret cash bribes" are his wording, after all.

I was a corporate subscriber of STRATFOR's. The Atlantic is a bit harsh here, but it's harsh on STRATFOR promoting its brand as a "shadow CIA". That specific complaint is fair.

We never commissioned investigation from them, but I was quite happy with analysis we had them write up for us on how the US was likely to react to various situations. For example, they were the first source to bring it to my attention that for all the wailing about Putin messing with the Russian elections, the "true" winners were the right nationalist parties. CIA intel? No. But potentially worth knowing to judge the region's investment climate stability? Probably.

For deep digging I'd go to Kroll, IGI, Dilligence, etc. If Anonymous and pals could get into their servers I'd be legitimately impressed.
I recently wrote a template for jquery plugins which uses many of the ideas in the article, it's based on the Twitter Bootstrap 2 jQuery templates:

https://github.com/c4urself/jQuery-Plugin-Template/blob/mast...
He delivers personally but Linux as a kernel is a pile of crap, mass duplication mdadm vs dm posix capabilities vs actual unretarded capabilities... Linus is good at coding but absolutely horrible at direction and that's exactly what Linux needs a direction for the better instead of evolution of substandard abstractions.
Indian startup launches iTunes like store to end piracy in India
A certification may teach you the how, a Masters or even a solid Bachelors (but you should get a Masters if you can) will teach you the why. It's the difference between having the ability (if not the resources) to build a car versus the limited ability to fix that car.

Note your journey doesn't end when you're done with the Masters, but you should be able to carry on on your own after this. Also, if you can do some research while you're there, you should.
Content is expensive, depreciates after publish time and the majority of its value is realized within moments of publication.

I don't know if that's always true. I've never paid for an article and we only use 100% original content (ie was written for us first and foremost).

Also, no one says the content has to depreciate. I just looked through some back issues, and there's lots of stuff I would want to (re-)read again. For example:

Cyberpunk tribes: From networks to phyles

Picking up girls with the 8 circuit model

Self Development Ninja Style

On the awesome meaninglessness of life

Mind hacking: 3 ways to increase your intelligence

How to not fail at New year’s resolutions

The Hackerspace as bat-cave and lifestyle-lab

How to arouse a woman

Designing your life and living your dreams

The Memory palace: A venerable technique for remembering historic dates, your shopping list and phone numbers of random girls

You just gotta focus on timeless topics like, uh, personal development, ninjas, and picking up girls :p
His twitter too indicates he's in las Vegas[1].

You can find more information about him and his location on the OS's website[2]:

> Terry A. Davis

> 8144 Sickle Lane

> Las Vegas, NV 89128

> (702)254-4223

1: https://twitter.com/#!/losethos

2: http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/Doc/TrivialSolutions.html
#include <map> is hardly going to work at the first insertion that will call the allocator.

The argument "let's use a castrated language to avoid mistakes" falls short. What about communication within the team?

Properly used and tailored, the STL is extremely adequate to kernel development. The power of the template engine enables the compiler to do some very clever optimizations.

More information: http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=490
There are a lot of... unusual chemistry papers out there which could lead to difficult questions being asked at certain borders I imagine.

Although to be fair I guess every chemistry student goes though a phase of looking these things up when they find out they exist.
Bingo. What to do about it though? Would meaningful reform of the current system be possible? Where could one start?