skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor bug with your ticker and negative numbers: http://cl.ly/3S1x1H3t1t1D22122A0z
Haven't there been something like on the order of 200million iOs devices sold? $2.4 billion to app developers in total doesn't seem so bad. Once you add in Android and the other platforms, that's a fairly big sector I'd say.
Seems to be an awful lot of asking and not a lot of answering.
Disappointing that the top voted 'questions' in these AMAs end up being scandalous statements and conjectures while the actual questions get pushed down to the bottom.
Given the events of this weekend, I couldn't help myself...

http://hatepaste.com/paste/0cb65712
He mentioned a mobile version, but I'm not seeing it.
Right! it may look stupid but it is the best thing to do. Take time compose yourself and your ideas
According to their forums, disabling sound (ie: turning the volume all the way down), fixes lag/stutter. In practice that seems to be mostly true. Still find the controls slightly unintuitive (but I imagine with an external mouse things would be better).
I will be interested to see if he answers any questions about reviews like this about ANKS:
http://www.amazon.com/review/RUGSCP3XBNBUV/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?...
Do we know each other? :-) I'm going to just take for granted in this response the common ground we obviously have.

FYI, I definitely think "people are not smart enough for democracy" is the wrong way to make the argument, because it misses the point; democracy is not the ideal to be striving for. But I'm not sure that it's wrong per se.

I usually take "dumb" and "smart" to really mean "ignorant" and "not ignorant" in a certain context. (Mabye I should not take them to mean that, but anyway.)

So, a democracy of people who were truly not ignorant about principles of government--i.e., they fully support individual rights--would work fine. Conversely, the reason democracy does not work is because people in general are ignorant of the proper principles of government and would trample individual rights.

I guess there is a key difference between the purpose of the government and the mechanism. Democracy can be thought of as either. In the former case, it's clearly wrong. In the latter case, it's just dangerous and suboptimal.
Couple of quick thoughts after installing:

1) It appears to be continuously getting GPS data. That will kill my battery. Dead battery = I'm late anyway I may need to uninstall until this is fixed.

2) I don't need to be reminded of everything on every calendar I have access to. Have it so I can select which calendar I need to bounce for.

3) Along the same lines of 2, allow me to ignore specific events. I subscribe to a couple general holiday calendars and I don't need to be told when to leave for "Memorial Day" or whatever.

Otherwise, great concept. I look forward to keeping up with your progress.
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How is this different from America or most other modern democracies?
The story of the Picasso and a 1.5 ton robot
Yes, Javascript the language is getting better support in browsers, but DOM manipulation without a framework (like jQuery) is still horrible.
Glad I was there to capture and share it.
The closest thing is now the bottom row under Network, which shows total requests and network transfer for the current page load.
Maybe the proprtions are screwed, but, shouldn't those entities be making more of the money? There are huge outlays involved in running a network and designing and building a mobile device. Also, I heard a rumor that Apple has a few software devs on campus.
FWIW my local coffee shop uses ShopKeep and Perka and they work great!

http://www.shopkeep.com/ipad-pos

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/perka/id428620381?mt=8
This comes off as very self-entitled.

1.) $12 is a lot more than $0 pre-smart phone era. The platform is the vehicle for selling software, not the income stream.

2.) App development (for your average iOS app) requires almost no capital investment, R&D, finance costs or marketing. Compared to the risk shouldered by hardware makers and network operators, the average app developer really is getting mostly a [mutually beneficial] free ride.

3.) Why is mobile app development special? Why does the same argument not apply to PCs. Or cars. Or any product with an after-market ecosystem?

EDIT: I'm not saying that the OP is self-entitled, and the numbers are interesting, to highlight where the treasure actually lives.
This idea is friggin awesome and definitely something I'd pay for. My apps are pretty evenly divided at this point between MySQL, Postgres, and MongoDB, and I don't see that trend going away any time soon (we always pick the db that makes the most sense for each particular project). Having them all available in the same app would be amazing.

With that in mind, just to warn everyone, this is very alpha-level software. It only supports postgres and redis right now. If you put the wrong credentials in, there's no feedback, it just seems like nothing happened. Also, trying to resize the window turned everything white for me and the app had to be rebooted.

If you decide to use it (and please do, because I want this to work), be sure to have your Mac's system log opened in console, so you can see what's going on.

UPDATE: Looks like someone has already submitted a pull request for the "no feedback on wrong credentials" bug I mentioned [1], and I created a ticket for the resize issue [2].

[1] https://github.com/Induction/Induction/pull/8

[2] https://github.com/Induction/Induction/issues/10
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> In reality, "a customer" is whoever pays the most money for something you are selling. In the modern world, this would be corporations and rich individuals, not "the people".

If this were true, corporations and rich individuals would own everything. They don't. Also, if it were true, nobody but corporations and rich individuals would be able to buy anything. Are you having trouble buying groceries because corporations and rich individuals have snapped them all up?

The correct definition of "customer" is "anyone who pays any price for what you are selling, that you are willing to sell it for". As long as the item is worth less to you and more to the customer than a price you can both agree on, the transaction is a mutual gain for both of you.

In a true free market, if there are no such customers--because what you're selling isn't worth enough to any of them to pay a price you are willing to accept--then you go out of business. Since in such a market you can't force anyone to buy your product--they only will if it's worth more to them than what they pay--you can only stay in business by providing mutual gain. That principle would apply just as well to services like law enforcement, if they were provided in a true free market.
Yes I don't understand what he was getting at by putting these numbers together. The prices and profit are controlled by markets, not by "fairness". The deal app developers sign up to is an easy-to-use platform with built-in payment and distribution infrastructure. If you don't like it you don't need to play ball, but many do because actually it's not a bad bet as an indie dev. Plus, even if you want to talk "fair", I'd say the cost of developing the iPhone is well more than 30 times the cost of developing the average app.

Tim's assertion that smart phones "exist mostly to run apps" ignores that Apple supplies all the apps the average user needs out of the box. If he's angry that users are only buying 20 apps on average instead of 1000 apps, or that apps cost $0.99 instead of $50.00, well, neither of those things are Apple's fault.
Did I just get trolled? "Error establishing a database connection"
Working forwards we see that more 'minorities', such as slaves, women, and homosexuals have had their rights protected over time.

So working backwards you can see that the system failed to protect the rights of minorities.
"global warming"

You can't just include global warming with something like evolution. Global warming (isn't it Global climate change now ;-)) may be happening, but I'm still not convinced it's as man-made as supports would like us to believe. Especially when there is so much money involved in it (many scientists will lose government funding if they don't support it) and all of those emails that came out that were immediately denied were just too suspicious to discount completely. Oh, and if you look at the climate of earth for many thousands of years, there are patterns of cooling and warming periods.

Global warming for the most part has all been about punishing people by forcing them to pay enormous amounts of money in taxes.

If there was evidence that it was not man-made, I can't see any of the supports (including governments) ever supporting it. Mostly because it would cut their funding. It reminds me of religious nuts. If you could prove that Jesus didn't exist, they would continue to deny this evidence.

"I could start a debate by multiplying examples of widespread misconception on both sides"

Oh? Then why did it seem like your rant was for the sole purpose of Republican bashing.

"That person might run the country very well, but will never, ever be selected by a democratic process."

My problem is that "smart" people want to force their views on the rest of us, even if it's only an opinion. I want someone who has not only is intelligent, but has good people smarts. This most likely won't be someone with a very high IQ..it will be someone above average.
What is Lean-Kanban?
The premise isn't exactly bulletproof.

My modern internet-connected phone exists mostly for web, email, SMS/iMessage, books, music, and tethering to my laptop. I don't use many other apps much, the ones I do use are mostly just optimized substitutes for a web interface (e.g. my banks' apps).

There are a lot of people that play games or use other substantive apps on their phones, but I'd say there's also a lot like me that really don't spend much time in third-party apps to begin with.
I had my tumblr Cloudflare-enabled, when without warning it got dropped as non-valid.

This had the effect of dropping the url of tumblr.mydomain.com right off of Google's index.

After some WTH moments, I ended up having to use the regular IP provided by Tumblr to get things back to normal.

I was not happy with things changing without warning but it's a free service so I guess it's YMMV.
One question I have is the cold start problem. How can I ensure dropping in a new peer is not going to have a large negative effect on response times? With memcache, you can just prewarm a new node or have clients only round-robin it a few times per request to warm it up. It seems like pre-warming here is going to be more cumbersome since it's not a simple k-v store but will require you to pre-emptively run queries to get there. (Similar to Lucene.)

Edit: Rich's response here:

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/05/datomic/comment-page-1/#comm...

Seems to imply that non-cached performance won't be so bad anyway. Looking forward to seeing some benchmarks.
Concept seems awesome! Hopefully iPhone or web version to come soon.
Great points...I especially like "I'm sure most business managers/owners could name 3 or 4 things they wish they could make better. However starting that conversation with them is difficult."
Still need verification as a practicing lawyer who is licensed is sometimes different from just getting a JD..

It could be used as a selling point in letting those who get verified add to it telling what specialties they handle, etc.
Did you read the story? 3pm-5pm ET is when it happens.
This is a very old argument against democracy. It's also divisive in the sense that you have the "competent" folks on one side and the "incompetent" ones on the other. Who decides who is "competent" to vote? About a century ago it was believed that women were not competent to vote. Before then it was thought that people who didn't own land couldn't possibly be responsible enough to vote. Also, there is no such thing as an objectively "best leader". That way lies tyranny and ruin.

Democracy isn't about voting for candidates anyway. In general it's about having some say in decisions which affect your life, and as such I think it's still more of an aspiration than a reality.
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Great concept. I would love to see a video demonstration on the landing page. How easy is it to use? How much data entry does it take? How does it determine where my calendar events are geographically? What if I put "Building 51, Room 4115"? Can it learn where that is?

As I said, it's a great concept. I just need a little more before I take the plunge.
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Given I live in NYC and have an iPhone, I won't be able to test it, but I love the concept. Wish there was something like this that use subway data to do the same thing and worked on iPhone
"Democracy" is a fairly amorphous term. We don't have anything like a democracy in the United States. We have elements of democracy mixed with elements of republicanism mixed with elements of rule by a technocracy. Mediating all of these elements is a system of referees (the legal system) that is anything but democratic.

If you look at how hard governance is, and how badly most countries do it, it's actually a pretty great system. Baroque, complex, inefficient, sure, but there is little to suggest that any system of governance for 300 million people would be anything other than those things.
Does anyone have some alternatives? Someone already mentioned cbs sports.
But some API that have access too football (soccer for Americans) league tables, match times, scores etc.
I used the exact same approach, except I went with Django and DotCloud. I think Rails people have it even easier with better guides - and possibly documentation.
Debugging The Entrepreneurship Myth
Right. Agree.
This is probably woefully inaccurate for driving. It would be great for public transport, but I hear thats not too big with you americans.
I think all of the gripes in this article are based around the Metro UI, which was designed to be touch-friendly at its core. Pretty much every single point in this article becomes moot if you actually use the standard Windows desktop.

I think what a lot of people are assuming is that you have to use this new Metro UI exclusively, and the truth is, you don't. If you just treat it as a glorified start menu instead of a replacement to the Windows desktop, suddenly it becomes a lot less scary.
Facebook Warns Brands that Scale in Social Won't Come For Free
What/where is the pricing? Can't find it.
you're kidding me right? Obviously you filter your queries to the closest node. Are you testing your code on ie6 running on a 486? Even a 486 could parse out a handful of nodes from a dom sub tree in max double digit milliseconds.

Those 'Frankenstein' queries are ridiculously easy to read and to type.

'massive speed losses from parsing'

Nobody is searching the entire dom for matching nodes.

The single biggest performance killer... far more important than tree traversal is event overhead. As long as you think long and hard before applying a new event handler (and use delegation whenever possible) you'll be fine even with those 'Frankenstein' queries hehe :P

The DOM is not CSS.

What does that even mean in this context?? How does it further your point?

illustrates a continued ignorance of the DOM

enlighten us then...
What about the social capital graph?
Dynamic Screenshots on the Server with PhantomJS
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First I've seen on completion stats for the Stanford online courses:

"Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed)."
Just added Quick Reference, thanks for the feedback!
I don't like the gist of your post. You are giving Rails way too much of a pass and assigning too much blame to GitHub. A framework should not be "insecure by design". Period. GitHub engineers are likely about as good as they get and still missed it. That's less an indictment of GitHub engineering and more so poor decision-making on the Rails side.
I'm not saying that with our vote we don't select our leaders - I'm saying that the reason why we have democracies isn't to ensure the selection of the best leaders (as the article was implying) but to freely express our self determination in legislative and governmental matters by way of choosing our leaders, using whatever criterium, reason, justification we please, just as we do with our personal matters.
True, but not all developer days are created equally :D
What does focusing tell us about language design?
Thanks for pointing that out. The ticker came from some work I did while interning at Khan Academy, and was not originally meant for negative numbers. If I get some time, I may make it into a jQuery plugin and make it work for more cases and be configurable.
> What if it's a way for them to stay connected with what their creation

Exactly. In Hackers and Painters [1] pg suggests "saving up" software bugs, because "it's the one time that hacking is as straightforward as people think it is". I think this transfers pretty well to things like tech support in relation to running a startup, in that menial tasks are quickly rewarding and keep you in the "zone".

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Lent Reflections:What about God?
A child of the 90s, the music from that era will always have a special place in my music library. Just as now, I wasn’t into that many Christian bands back then but DC Talk was at its height. I still have two of their cds. Their Jesus Freak album has some particularly powerful lyrics. Today I’ve been thinking about how appropriate these words from “What Have We Become?” are for Lent...
Has anyone on HN used the H&F-J webfont service? There are probably NDAs involved with the private beta, but I'd love to hear more about it, in terms of performance, rendering, available fonts, etc.
So I need some sort of storage area network of clients.
Okay, so I'm chopping up my database server somewhat, Making it easier to scale horizontally. I can live with this, but I wish it were stated explicitly.

The SaaS model they're offering won't work for the sorts of things I'm interested in.
Is this new? To offset this somewhat, many democracies have few to no directly elected officials, just elected representatives. Officials are then appointed by those representatives, to ensure a better process of vetting and appointing public officials.

It's by far not a perfect solution (in fact, it sometimes leads to a serious democratic deficit), but it prevents ridiculous popularity contests like the US presidential elections.
Wow, the risks of putting your own blog post on HN :-)

If you're reading edawerd, One Password and other tools like it are real lifesavers in this sort of situation.
Written to what API? Gnome, X, Qt? You'll be addressing a slice of a fraction of potential users. It'd be great if it weren't the case, but the diversity that makes linux interesting to hackers also makes it really tough to roll out GUI apps like this and have it 'just work'. I get the sense that's a good part of the appeal of OS X for the developer community lately - mostly Linux-ish when you need it, but a unified GUI experience for the pretty tools (e.g. TextMate, Base, and so on)
Well, maybe that's the market saying they don't really want or need your app. A tough lesson to learn, but there's no reason to assume that the world wants something just because you took the time to build it.
Disgusting, yes, but it follows reason.

Cuba may or may not be as bad as you claim--go look at their life expectancies and number of doctors.

The Soviet Union really seemed to run into issues when they'd integrated enough other nations to create a non-unified block; today Russia has the same issues with Chechnya. So, that underlines my point: uniform culture promotes strength.

North Korea is a shitshow, but that has little to do with unification and more to do with abominable management.

Nazi Germany... well, that's an interesting datapoint, right? Their government was most effective and popular support greatest when dissenting factions had been integrated. Germany is doing quite well nowadays, whereas when you look at the broader amalgamation of the EU you see strife and disagreement.

From the standpoint of government, and democracy, it is a lot easier to govern/be governed by a homogeneous group than it is to handle dissenting views in an acceptable fashion.

The fact that the US has done as well as it has--or the UK for that matter--without devolving to purges is quite impressive.
It's not a lot of money earned per app but good apps have been able to achieve decent success.

There's no reason why the hardware manufacturers should ensure every single developer that signs up makes a decent living. Make an app, market it well and you may well be rewarded.
Another +1 for the concept. Get it up on the apple store as soon as possible.
Thanks for the video! dmr is a personal hero of mine.
Viewtext [1] provides an API that gives you clean(er) HTML. It still contains some markup but is vastly simplified. You can also roll your own with tools like HtmlCleaner [2] or lxml [3]

[1] http://viewtext.org/

[2] http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://lxml.de/
Apple’s iOS runs HTML5 games three times faster than Android
Try http://m.twitter.com , it's the dressed-down mobile version of Twitter.

It doesn't have all the features, but easily makes up for that by the fact that you can actually click around as much as you like without your browser getting all slumpy from loading huge pages or doing javascript.

You'd expect caching to help, but there's a lot of truth in the jQuery tax article[1]: even if you got the code cached, executing it all takes a significant amount of time, and the sluggishness is made worse by the fact that during this time your CPU is busy, unlike with data transfers which at most cost some memory.

I don't use the m.twitter.com site all the time, but I switch often enough whenever I get too annoyed by default Twitter's slowness.

The only real downside (for me) is that you can't click through to a full resolution version of a profile picture. Otherwise all the basic features are in there.

[1] http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/02/17/stop-paying-your-jq...
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1. You're correct, however, the architecture does allow you to run a hot backup for fast failover.

2. The database is oriented around 'datoms', which are an entity/attribute/value/time. Each of these has its own (hierarchical) indexes, so you only end up pulling the index segments you need to fulfill a given query. You'd only pull 1TB if your query actually encompassed all the data you had.
"Democracy" just means "majority rule." In a democracy, the majority can trample the rights of the minorities. In a constitutional republic, those rights are protected by a constitution that is very difficult to amend.

America today is somewhere between a true democracy and a true constitutional republic. Officially, it is a constitutional republic, and most of the key individual rights are protected (free speech, etc.). Unfortunately, there is no separation of state and economy, and your wealth can (and is) seized arbitrarily.

There is also a very large spate of regulations that severely curtail your proper right to act as long as you don't violate the rights of others.

So basically, the mechanism of a constitutional republic still exists in America, but its actual purpose has been sundered.
Destined to “rot” on testing server?
You can spend a lot of time digging a hole in the ground. Spending a lot of time on a project is not sufficient in and of itself to create wealth.