skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think nobody "stepped up" on Android? There are a number of Instapaper clients for sale in the Android Market. I've only tried one (which sounded like the best from reviews I read), InstaFetch, and it's quite good. It has a couple of extra features beyond Marco's client: it can read articles to you (Android comes with a TTS library, I don't know if recent iOS versions let developers use Siri's TTS function from their code --of course, if Marco wanted to add TTS he could license a library or something like that, but it's definitely not as convenient for him as if he could just use a system API), and it updates your articles without you having to run the app (which I understand was not possible in iOS [1], but again, I wouldn't know if a recent version changed that). Plus, with Androids intent system, you don't need to install the send-to-instapaper bookmarklet in the browser: InstaFetch adds an add-to-instafetch intent that you appears in the browser's menu of ways to "share" the page .

The one thing Instapaper 3.0 did really better than InstaFetch is that it's option for changing from the light to dark theme is accessible right from the article view, while in InstaFetch you have to go to settings.

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2010/06/10/iphone-multitasking-and-back...
I use an HDMI splitter and have my second display connected directly to an input on my TV.
Apple doesn't do that kind of stuff. Most people will not be able to see the pixels (at their comfortable viewing distances). That’s good enough for them (also considering they are streets ahead of everyone else in the pixels department).
Newspaper sales slid to 1984 level in 2011
The author argues that high-density displays are a problem, because you have to download roughly twice as big pixel-images for apps and websites.

Use vector images instead! Pixel logos are necessary for small resolutions, but 300dpi are good enough for vector graphics.
Http://www.ltbutton.com/
Google is less about search than it is about adwords and the network of apps - but yes, there is much frustration over the search results these days so that is an opportunity for innovation.
:) Being the writer I would like to know more about why you find it attrocious!
Despite what IBM claims, COTS support for the mainframe is actually pretty limited (and often far more expensive), even if the MF is running zLinux. The mainframe is also a huge single point of failure and failover solutions to a second data centre are again, really frickin expensive. I'm not a mainframe expert, but I'm not convinced by this story.
Haha! Feel free to shoot me an email in case you get stuck somewhere (it's pretty simple but just in case.)

singh@diwank.name
One one hand I agree, on the other I sometimes feel like Indiana Jones outrunning the boulder -- I had a head start so I didn't get crushed, and they did. I don't have much quantitative reasoning for that feeling, I suppose, it's just that I started my career in 2004 when the economy had briefly recovered before going into the shitter for good. People I know who got out of school just a year before me had a noticeably harder time getting jobs because the economy was still rough in 2003, and it impacted their careers pretty seriously. And now it seems like everyone trying to start a career are in a battle royale for table scraps.

So, I agree that "woe is me" won't get you anywhere, but also everything is fucked-up and on fire. Thank goodness for software, though I doubt this ride will last much longer either. Someone will find a way to cut our cost out of the equation for good.
An electric bicycle?
It seems almost the opposite in the UK. Out of my original group of home town friends (from a pretty even mix of low and high income backgrounds), very few people haven't moved at least to another city. A large number of us have actually emigrated, at least temporarily.

The modern, British means of surviving an economic downturn without going crazy seems to be doing a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course somewhere far away and interesting.
This. I'm 26 and I had a decent paying software job in Florida. But I wanted to move up to New York so I convinced my job to let me work remotely. I made the move 2 months after they allowed me to work remotely. I sold a bunch of my possessions, made sure everything could fit into my car, gave away my furniture to my mom, and did the entire move for around $800 of my own money. (I had a place to stay when I got up here)

So I agree. These people sound foolish. It is entirely possible to move but that means getting rid of shit and people do not want to get rid of their shit. It's a bit sad really.
Thank you - I left the page, figuring that the large image with colored sentences was the content.
I would stop from applying after the 10th time. If you failed to get a job in 3-4 applications, something is wrong about your CV, presentation, or you. There is something wrong, it's your responsibility to fix it and try again.

Personally, I won't say to a candidate you SUCK or you did that thing the wrong way. I'll just apologize that another candidate took the position.

Advice from someone who was there: Go and build a network. Get the job from the network.
I appreciate and wanted to support the band, it's comfortable, and all my other shirts were in the laundry. You still haven't answered my question.
The best tweets from the #SXSW
I guess it's because everyone used to think that the social aspect will have such a huge impact on search that it will disrupt and replace Google's search model.

But I think they were wrong. The social aspect is a minor aspect at best regarding search, and it should be just one of Google's hundreds of other search signals, not 50% of the search algorithm.
Are You an Entrepreneur Who Can Make a Business Fly?
Sounds like the stock market.. "Microsoft's earnings only increased by 1% yoy!! Stock is tanking!!"

Turns out they still made a billion in profits.

* not real numbers, just for example.
I wasn't an ass when I initially got downvoted, however, I refuse to stoop to you people and your imaginary points.
Yeah, but there is not much value in installing socket.io globally, as you can't require() it. It makes sense only for executables like coffee-script

http://npmjs.org/doc/faq.html#I-installed-something-globally...
Does anyone know how many "Ron Conway years" that is? 15K Euro is much larger than the YC "stipend", but the recent side-investments have eliminated that gap.

Yes, both are outliers, but there's more investment in the long-tail around them.

My point is that 15K euros to 100+ startups sounds big until you look at what the competition is doing.
Is there something that can be done to avoid this random skips while running .js graphic related demos, no matter what browser I try it in it always does this irritating "skip" action. Does it have to do with render timing no being properly fixed ? Either way, nice demo.
Not to mention the costs associated with beginning a business on your own. Of course this varies a lot depending on the business too.

Even for say doing some freelance programming which has low costs since all you need is a computer and some open source software. As soon as you start your business you will be cut off from government benefits so you will not have any income until you get your first payment.

Since most companies interested in hiring you for a job will not want to pay you up front since as a new business your going to be seen as pretty high risk your going to need a way of covering your living costs for at least 2-3 months most likely.

If your fresh out of college and already riddled with debt the chances that you have those kind of savings in the bank is pretty minimal.
(BTW - M-16s aren't "big scary".)

You know that, I now that. But to someone who rarely or never shoots an M16 is indeed big and scary.

Or just big. Two years ago we had an exchange student from mainland China. He'd never _seen_ a gun not carried by a soldier and never handled one not in a video game.

The idea that I had some pistols and rifles around the house was interesting to him ... but I thought he'd stroke out when I took him to a gun store and he was able to actually _handle_ an AR15.
it might not be amazing, but Apple is the first manufacture to put the screen into a real product. That is an accomplishment by itself. How long will it take android tabs to come out with similar screens? It's interesting that samsung is the manufacture of the screen, yet it's on an apple product, instead of samsung tablets!
Open Source Stack vs. The Microsoft Stack: The Endless Debate
They didn't ask me this face to face, they asked me to write it down after they had told me to sit down. If this was the case, I would have just copied it from my documents... yes, they had taken my passport, but I would have a photocopy in case it got lost right....?
Keyboard Shortcuts for Octopress Sites
These are some of our favorite tweets of the event.
Funnily enough, the Dow was a relatively unimportant indicator until the Great Depression, when the media seized upon it as something to watch on a daily basis. It was originally intended not to be checked more than a few times a month, and only as a brief snapshot of the economy.

It's importance in popular media and culture is vastly overblown. The rising and falling of the Dow on a daily basis is basically worthless from an economic point of view - it's just noise.
Goldman Sachs stock hit hard after opinion piece
I haven't seen this in a US airport either.

I DID see something similar in a British one, though. Soldiers (not guards or police) patrolling the terminal with (to my eyes) very large guns. They also seemed to be in "spread out"-formation, keeping their distance from each other. A measure I would have thought was reserved where more caution was needed, e.g. street patrolling in a war-zone.

A rather unnerving sight, actually.
It's also the only place that made me take my shoes off before the metal detector, which I found quite humiliating

I never thought about but ... that is sure a bonus for a TSA agent looking to be on top of a given interaction at the check point.
I made my first trip to the US this week, Austin via Houston from UK to sxsw.

I had read various reports on the state of entering America, but it was far worse than I expected.

I tried to find info about visas, but it said I didn't need one for what was practically a holiday. It was only when I got to the airport that I was told I needed a visa waiver. I fired up the iPhone and spent the best part of 30 minutes trying to fill out what is probably the worst multipart form I've seen since 2003.

On arrival at Houston it seems a couple of other planes turned up. The end result was a 3 hour wait in line to get through passport control (Americans were caught up in this equally). Fingerprints, photos, 3rd degree about my visit - if they don't want me here, they should have said before I booked my ticket.

After checking-in to the US, I had to go back through "security". That was another 1.5 hour queue. I opted out of the scanner, and they were pretty good about it a Houston. However, on the way back at Austin they make you stand in a ridiculous perspex shout it about the place and really make you pay for not going through the scanner.

Over all, the experience I had is summed up pretty well by this article. I felt totally unwelcome, kind of like an 18 year old trying to get into an over capacity nightclub past a couple of bored bouncers who already took a dislike to me...
Small business (or as call it "cottage industry") was the way many people survived in cities before the industrial revolution hit it stride.

I don't believe its beyond the capabilities of mere mortals today to do.

What people dislike about entrepreneurship is the search for something to sell to people. On the otherhand, many would prefer working for themselves if it could pay, and they had a clearly defined role to slip into.
That barriers are "built by the schooling system into our minds" is exactly what I meant by my "social barriers". Sorry for not being clearer, we agree on that point. I still think there are very real financial barriers to education, perhaps not for the true autodidacts who can learn everything from a book, but for everyone else who requires some structured instruction.
Something I found while working on my dissertation (that's already known) is that performance is pretty poor for aggregate functions (MAX, MIN, AVG) - wish I'd known that before as I use a lot of them!

On a similarly sized dataset (although I'm yet to test on the same data) MySQL performed a lot better.
Cyclope
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> Deep Packet Inspection.

I have a problem with this whether a court was involved or not.
>If it's at-will employment, then by definition it's not slavery.

I don't think it's possible to convey how hard I just rolled my eyes over text.

This is utterly false. "At will" for the great majority of people refers not to their right to go work elsewhere at a moment's notice, but at their employer's right to fire the employee for no reason whatsoever. Considering the still poor shape of the job market, and with the rising cost of living, it is very possible for an unscrupulous employer to basically blackmail you into staying at a bad or abusive job.
your browser is out-dated? do you use IE?

give the webpage some times to load, and try again.

I tried on my Macbook with Chrome and Firefox, it works perfectly! =)
Hm, interesting. Going by this and the other reply it appears that maybe they put up a different show depending on if you're foreign?

For me it was JFK airport in New York btw.

As for Germany, yes I suppose you could say they had some "changes" near the end of the 80s ... ;)

And I suppose guns are about as big and scary as how threatened you're feeling. For example, UK police generally also tend to wear funny hats.
I post this link every time this topic comes up:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/11/kaplan_on_the_i.htm...

EconTalk interviewed Kaplan about this very subject. His research shows that CEO's pay has _not_ risen faster than any other "highly skilled labor", such as doctors, lawyers, etc. If you listen to the podcast, it is a very convincing set of data backing up his conclusion.

Instead, hedge fund managers are the ones that have absolutely rocketed out of the stratosphere in terms of inflating pay.
I travelled through Frankfurt in 1999, and was just as surprised at the very-well-armed airport security.

In the US and Canada, I can't recall ever seeing anything more than a holstered pistol.
This is why Google is losing the future
Exploit code published for RDP worm hole; Does Microsoft have a leak?
The new iPad is a beautiful reminder of how stupid data plans are
Anyone use a "smart TV" or whatever the internet enabled TVs are called?

I don't currently stream to my TV in a sensible manner and I can't work out whether an Apple TV + a TV will be worth the extra cost over a TV with streaming built in?
Most IT professionals are on salary, and therefore don't get overtime anyway. Of all professions in the US, IT is one of the most underpopulated. Even at the height of unemployment rates in the last few years, I could walk off my current job and probably get a new job in a couple weeks. Pass whatever laws you want, I'll still get paid well with good benefits, because my employer knows if they don't treat me well, someone else will, and they'll have to find someone else, who will probably be at least as expensive as me, but without all the institutional knowledge that I have.

People who need laws protecting them are the ones that are in menial labor jobs that can be replaced by any schmoe off the street. IT professionals are not those people. For some reason, there just aren't enough people going into IT/Software... which is bad for the country, but good for those in that field.
it's not that bad but I hope the EU charges them a fee as retribution. Brasil does it right. Make life difficult for people from countries that make it difficult for their citizens.
> Let's face it, being an entrepreneur is not for everyone. > It's a lot of work and responsibility; something the
> majority of 20-somethings can't handle.

It's easy to forget that software is probably the least capital intensive industry that's open to a lone entrepreneur. Think about someone wanting to start, say, a basic small bakery operation. My wife did this, and the capital costs necessary to just get started and make that first batch of sales - ingredients, packaging materials, special implements like decorating tips - could easily be enough to deter someone who has little capital to work with. (And we already had a good kitchen with the majority of tools one would need). It's one thing to risk a month of time when you're otherwise idle, it's another to risk next month's rent payment as well.
Lloyd Shepherd: My parley with ebook pirates
Totally disagree. Faster HSPA+ (DC-HSPA+) / LTE are here today. No reason to wait on improving the end user experience. We also have DOCSIS3 and FTTH on the residential broadband side. In any event bursty traffic like web browsing isn't the problem causing congestion. It's the constant bit rate stuff like video & audio streaming that puts a heavy constant load on networks. (I would agree at least that we should have a browser option to prefer SD web sites)
RDP Exploit Found, Researchers Say Code May Have Leaked From Security Vendor
I'd be very willing to delve into the OS more if there was more readily available help to transition people from the Windows interface we know to the new Metro style. Right now it's mainly an OS only for people who already know how to use it, but that includes virtually nobody outside of Microsoft.
Java is by-value, by-reference or by-sharing? Illustrated with C++
For those who want to read the current Fair Labor Standards Act and the new Bill, here are the links:

FLSA: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/statutes/FairLaborStandAct.pdf

Bill:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1747is/pdf/BILLS-112s...
That was just one aspect of SOPA. The most important SOPA aspect was the DNS-based blocking.
Is the resolution not revolutionary? I don’t think you can seriously argue with that.
I must have rewritten my CV countless times during my job hunt at that point as well as having many people proof read it with me, I'm sure it was never perfect but I can be fairly confident that it was better put together than the majority of CVs floating around from unemployed people at the time.

Regarding presentation, I was always washed, wore the best suit I could afford and paid attention to body language what I was saying to people. Not sure what else I could have done, it's not like you can suddenly become a handsome , charismatic person on a whim.

There was also the issue that many jobs wouldn't accept a CV and would simply direct you to an online or paper application where everything had to be filled into discreet boxes and provided little opportunity to make yourself stand out.

Of course the networking advice is good, most of the jobs I have had have been through networking with people I knew and getting in that way.
This is easier in some places than others of course, since I was living in an industrial town in england there was not exactly a thriving tech scene. More a small collection of freelancers and satellite offices from larger companies.

The majority of people there worked for the government in one way or anther too, where the only way to get those jobs is to fill out the application form.

It is not always obvious as to how to get an "in" if you don't already know people.
more often than none, the "step aside" lane is far less crowded than the regular one, which means that despite the intensive search, it's still takes me less time.

Strange. In my experience, all the queueing time is before you hit the border agent, there's very little queuing after that, apart from picking up your luggage and that guy glancing at your customs form.
Rediscovering New & Used
Job centers are damaging themselves with high cost of living. It easily offsets the increase in wage. They valley is a great example of this, if you're moving there for the first time you might get, what, 80k, which is equivalent to 55 or 60k in anywhere that's not California or New York. It's hard to justify a move when you see your standard of living dipping a little until you can establish a reputation that warrants higher wage.
Summer Founders Program: the original announcement of Y Combinator
You can just start working anywhere inside the Schengen area without needing any permit or working visa. Its more like the US States rather than different countries.
Nothing you say is wrong, but neither is any of it an argument against instruction. It is incredibly helpful to hear and forget before you see and remember before you do and understand.
In both Germany and the UK, I saw ordinary police carrying submachine guns outside the airport. (The UK surprised me.) Again, the 80s.

Has that changed?

No. At least at Munich airport, there are one or two policemen with submachine guns right behind the security checkpoints.
I think I have seen one at Heathrow recently, too.

This actually makes me feel safer.
I didn't realize the ESTA was mandatory. I don't have to fill one out and thought, because you pay a fee, it gave you some sort of priority. I see now this is for travellers on the VFW visa.
Basics of API 682 Mechanical Seals (3 PDHs)
At least 3 of my UK friends have TEFLed in Japan or South Korea, and I had it as a fallback plan at one point too.
I have this one on my wall, good reminder to look at every day.
Yeah, generally you don't have time for a full-time job on top. The idea is to save up what you can before the hacker school. Part time consulting gigs during the hacker school may also be an option.
Personally, I'm thinking that if people knew they couldn't incur permanent damage to themselves or their futures, they would take more risks.

Surely if people knew they couldn't incur permanent damage, it wouldn't be much of a risk? I don't think people's risk aversion has changed, I just think things are (or at least seem) more risky at the moment.
Word on if this is American netflix only? This interests me a lot but I'm a foreign subscriber
That's assuming you are young ,(presumably) have no kids and have a job that will let you will let you work remotely (the vast majority , like 95%+ will not).
If this were such a problem, we'd already have seen it. The iPhone 4 with its retina display came out nearly two years ago, so it's safe to assume that if there already was some kind of retina optimization, it would already have begun.

Most sites I visit don't do anything like that and look perfectly fine: Because the resolution doubled in both sides, upscaling in a good-looking way is trivial to do.
Any suggestions for a good cheap digital microscope? The author doesn't mention what she or he uses...
Ralph Baer: the first home video game inventor still inventing at 90 years old
The (hypothetical) way to access Rdio from South Africa
For me the lightbulb moment was seeing the data model explained (in "Git for computer scientists" for example). I'm not sure this can be conveyed in game form, and githug doesn't seem to go there. With close to a hundred commands that can be composed in various ways, teaching tasks isn't as worthwhile as teaching the principles.
This site is in Russian.

It might look like a spam, but in reality this is an example of [mini/funny/humorous] Russian website from some members of local start-up community.

Highly recommended if you want to take a brake from coding!

Enjoy :-))