skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunate that the icon designer mentions iterating on handles for the cup and how difficult it was because he still got the perpective (and color) wrong.
I imagine the team behind Kinect feels the same way when lightsaber-anything gets made.
But he got to plug it on ScreenSavers because he worked his way up from being the IT guy on the show to cameo appearances onscreen to actually having his own show. Major props on the hustle there.
This is a major concern of postmodernist theory. This stuff mostly went above my head in my philosophy classes, but I recommend reading Baudrillard and Don Dellilo for their takes on our obsession with simulacra.
>"Even if Kevin Rose is nothing but a giant hype machine then he deserves credit for being a giant hype machine. Digg would have failed if he wasn't."

Right, but what's he going to do for Google? Make me want to use that +1 button?
There's another reason that this general mindset exists: think drug interactions are poorly understood? Try researching nutrition and food interactions.

People eat thousands of chemicals daily, and we still haven't figured out if something as superficially simple as, e.g., the "food pyramid" is a good thing or not. What you eat is massively more complex than the drugs you are prescribed. The biggest difference there is that (most of) the chemicals have been around and in our diet for quite a long time, so they're evidently not (very) dangerous (to most. see also Celiac / Coeliac disease for an example of how long problems can exist)

Holistic approaches may be good; they may even be the best approach. But due to the insane amount of variables, they're also about the furthest from science as it's possible to get, and the least actionable in a specific sense. Everyone knows they should "eat better". Well... define "better". And be sure it applies to everyone, or be able to know who to apply what advice to.
Google Flight Search: Find flights to destinations worldwide
> That's true but for the first part, it's mostly due to a lack of interest by other vendors.

The lack of interest by other vendors is because NaCl isn't an appropriate technology for the open web, not just random lack of interest. (First and foremost, because it is CPU-specific, while the web is supposed to run everywhere.)

> For the second part, isn't the nacl team working on a protable version of nacl?

A research project called PNaCl, yes. But it is a different technology than NaCl despite the similar name. One is based on gcc, the other llvm, one ships CPU-specific machine code, the other bitcode, etc. So it is at this point too early to tell if PNaCl will achieve good portability+speed, NaCl's speed doesn't mean PNaCl will be fast too. Adopting NaCl because of the promise of PNaCl doesn't make much sense.
For one, most Randroids won't shut up about it. For another, _why was just too whimsical, postmodern, and nonlinear to be a Rand devotee.
ChronoZoom takes you through 14 billion years of space-time via HTML5
Developers are unimportant. I'd rather hire bad developers than good ones as long as they're cheap; product quality rarely matters if you have the right market fit.
Take a look at the Apple weekly chart going back to 2004. ITs really impressive. There's some pain in the 2008 era, and its clear the angle shifted in 2009 (when people accepted the iPhone was a success).... and then it went completely vertical this quarter.

By that weekly chart, I think a good price for Apple would be $420.

I'd be much happier if it had gone up to $450 on earnings (like it did, those were fantastic earnings) and then settled down somewhere in $400-$450.
Relevant XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/382/
Looks like a move from GPL to LGPL.

I had assumed that zmq was BSD licensed to begin with - so I've learned something.
Why new programming languages succeed -- or fail
R3D Entertainment Inc.
They said that about Apple's Mac and iPod five years ago. Notice they introduced two entirely new product lines since then?

The company has proven over and over that it can branch out, and disrupt or define entire new markets... this is in addition to their incredible P/E ratio and unfathomably large cash hoard.

That and without stock splits, dividends, or stock buybacks.
is this a (bad) joke?
iPad 3 teardown: my god, it's full of lithium ions
* if the "ideas guy" doesn't have the skills to implement his ideas, he can hire/partner with someone who can.*

Right. A developer.
I don't think Java's generics have a "horrific" effect on readability and comprehensibility, except for the fact that they have use-site variance instead of definition-site variance. (The ? existential type is kind of screwy too.) But neither of us are going to be convinced otherwise.
Picture for clarification: http://o7.no/zjmjyf
Looks like they forgot to add those in before hitting "Publish"
American Tablet Owners Buy Entertainment; Europeans Buy News
Will PayPal's mobile efforts slow Square's progress?
I think those decisions are totally right. It is very clear that social network is important. It is very clear that google needs really good phone/tablet products that other manufactures can not provide.

Google+ is a new product. Don't make a judgement so early. It is getting better everyday.
people replace their phones,ipads,laptops,TVs, etc. did I mention NFC?
Do you really think that individuals will be able to make any money with this system? Farming versus INSERT INTO Loot (...) doesn't seem like a fair fight.

I suspect that you'll have Blizzard not only taxing transactions, but being the counter-party in many of them anyway. If they can control the drop rate for farmers (and hence the perceived value), yet can materialize items at will what's to stop them from turning it into an infinite money machine?
I think the answer for this is different for fiction and non-fiction. If I don't finish a non-fiction book, I still sometimes consider it "read", if I have gotten the gest of it. This is especially true if the author goes into more detail towards the end of the book after making their point. Non-completed fiction books I usually don't recommend to friends.
I agree you shouldn't do fixed priced contracts for larger, long-term projects. But a fixed price for a 1-week long project seems to work out pretty well. That's why we developed the 1 week long sprint payouts.
اجمل لفات طرح عرائس بالفيديو
This would be funnier if it didn't violate Kickstarter's project guidelines.
* It's hard to get a job as a developer these days*

...uh, where exactly? Everywhere I know of is crying out for developers. The case for outsourcing is hugely overstated- having your entire development team half the world and a seven hour time difference away is a very real issue.
If I had to give a single tip, it would be "don't bill hourly".

The simplest fix for this: give clients proposals that quote an estimated price for the whole project in units of person/weeks, and have your SOW say "time beyond N weeks can be billed at a cost of $X/person/day".
This is one of the few things I've read on CNN in a long time I like. Lessig doesn't go into details about regulations, but I would think most people are familiar with the repeal of Glass-Steagal and the de-regulation that began under Reagan in the 80's.

GS has a conflict of interest, because it trades on both ends. It sells products to a client, but is often on the opposing side of those trades. That's why GS is so profitable, at least in the short term. The funny thing is all the people trying to defend GS, as though having undisclosed interest in the deals they do with clients is just fine. Looking back on the wreckage, bank bailouts and other things that have nearly brought the economy to a halt the last few years, I don't really understand how average people who don't have a vested interest in wall street banking can support any of those firms.
Off-topic but this single comment has generated more HN traffic than posting an actual submission about my site. Go figure.

:-D
Please stop your incessant self-promoting.
The Apple Store app is quite awesome and helps to minimize the need to be around (or even talk to) other people.

You can a) order and pickup b) order and have it delivered or c) browse the physical store, scan and pay ... all without talking to anyone. No paper receipt or bag either.
From my brief reading, I would tend to agree. This seems to be more about providing copyright holders with 1) a channel to spread their propaganda, 2) a method of getting notices to people they claim are pirating and 3) the ability to scale to termination of services for repeat offenses. I didn't read closely enough to see if they could ask the ISPs for contact information on repeat offenses. Ugly? Yes. SOPA-redux? Not so sure.

The "spying" would still be the RI/MPAA doing whatever they've done until now.
Similar, but I seem to remember the wording being somewhat different.

And after I had done a lot of searches, Google asked me how accurate the information was. As I recall, it seemed fairly reasonable for that particular query.
I'm not in love with any scheme that causes you to resist quoting prices your clients will understand. They want to know how much the project will cost. Tell them how much you think it will cost.

There is a huge premium to be captured by consultants simply by eliminating the appearance of uncertainty. Clients pay extra for perceived determinism.
It reminds me of The Triangle from The Office.

For reference: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/09/the-office-pyramid-ta...
Stop Yahoo: David Sacks Goes After Yahoo Again and I Love It
All wonderful advice and legally accurate. The best thing I can tell you is...start the business. If you have paying customers...everything else will fall into place automatically. Getting paying customers is the hardest part of starting any business. At worse, you will be able to run your company remotely from whatever country you are from. However, if your intent is to get the GC by way of starting a company, then there are lot of other easier options without suffering thru starting a company.
This is one of the very few moments that I wish a company (in this case, obviously Square) has a patent - PayPal sucks!
Kevin Rose worked his way up from being a behind the scenes IT guy to doing cameos to running the Screen Savers to founding Digg[1]. Is he a coder? No, but he's at least technical enough to find and recruit pretty good engineering talent. Moreover, he's also had strong angel investments and shown an ability to do it again with Oink (a solid product with good reviews on the App Store).

As a developer, I hate these kinds of people because more
often than not their ideas suck.

But Digg obviously did not suck as an idea. It did not achieve world domination, but it was pretty damn popular as a site for a while and the category (as exemplified by Reddit and even the Like Button) is still strong.

There are people out there to hate on, but Kevin Rose is not one of them. He would be a great product manager at Google.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rose
Samuel Clay's http://www.newsblur.com is excellent. It is also completely open source,

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
"Based on previous builds of similar applications you'll need at least <X>. When you have a better idea of your requirements let me know and I can give you a better idea of the hardware requirements"
He's going to need more than $19 million. Besides Kickstarter probably being worth more than that, he loses 5% to Kickstarter and another 5% to Amazon billing.

So the jokes on him!
In the Bay Area.

Everyone claims to be crying out for developers, but they reject all the candidates they're presented with, so in practice it's hard to get a job as a developer.
I think a fair number of homeowners would be willing to pay a lot of money for a version of this system they didn't have to program themselves. And had more firepower, of course.
نانسي عجرم في عرب ايدول 
نانسي عجرم في عرب ايدول

http://video.qlbak.com/10334.html
I never said that TBL or Cerf were patent advocates. I am very familiar with their positions on the subject. Even though they released their work to the public with no restrictions, their work was built on top of a ton of prior art that was patented.

For example TCP IP was a derivative of prior communications protocols either developed for private for-profit enterprise or the defense industry (Xerox, Bell, IBM, etc). In nearly all cases they were patented and exploited, but not really for the public's use; TBL and the other forefathers did have access to (or even helped write) the published prior art though when they were inventing the internet.

So in this case it doesn't really matter whether they were for or against software patents; because without patented prior art they would have had nothing to build off of. The success of their invention did indeed come from their superior execution (releasing it to the public) but since then they have become more hypocritical than Steve Jobs in claiming that software patents would have been a hindrance to the internet.
let's give credit where credit is due.

Kevin is an successful angel investor and an influencer in the techs space. Not to mention that every company that he has worked with have nothing but good things to say about him.

Google currently employees more than 20,000 people. I'm sure at this point they have plenty of engineers. A couple guys with some sense of design will not hurt the bottom line but have huge potential to add some much needed polish to Google's social initiatives.

/2 cents
Wow... A hits driven business?

I had never thought of it like that before, but it makes so much sense and explains so many things...

Like why google is willing to pay 1-2 million per developer... But half of the bay area companies on careers.stackoverflow don't offer relocation.
By searching. Which we have done, and there isn't anything. The bigger the asteroid the easier it is to see. We would have certainly seen any large enough to kill everyone on the planet.

There are plenty of undetected asteroids, and while they could cause damage they are not big enough to wipe out all life.
I know it's just a demo, but try zooming in and out.
MinecraftEDU: Minecraft for the Classroom
I play minecraft with my son, who's 10, but it doesn't appeal to me that greatly beyond playing with him. Dwarf Fortress and Crawl, on the other hand, can end up sucking hours of my day if I'm not careful.
Last time i looked the Python bytecode was not considered stable. This means, Python devs might change syntax and semantics in minor version changes. This would be a major problem for clojure-py.
I attended the talk. It was pretty cool, especially the OpenCV part. Frankly I think he needs to upgrade the armaments. Hook that bad boy up to the hose with a nozzle.

Frankly, if you wanted to, you could hook such a system up to an automated sprinkler control system and just turn on the water for whatever area the squirrels happen to be in at the moment. It would only have to be on for a few moments. Soon they'd think your yard is some sort of special hell, where water follows them wherever they go.
Last time I watched for more than 5 minutes: 6AM September 11, 2001
So talented that they couldn't build a product that netted profit...
This is one of the pitfalls that hackers and engineers fall into, yes. But in good user experience, form still follows function, not the other way around. "Form follows function" is simply another way of saying "substance over style".
Since I first tried the Git GUI I can't see myself using Git Bash ever again (and this article reminds me of why).
One Developer’s Tale of Mac App Store Sadness
Not that abundant - Mars is 1.4 AUs from the sun and receives about half the solar energy we get on Earth. Also, keep in mind that, while the atmosphere is very thin, there are very intense sandstorms that can block the sun for months at a time.
And, there are plenty of languages that are first-class citizens with respect to tool support. The reality is that most engineers and teams are happy with Java and C++, and only those that really want to do something different do something different. It's decided at the team level what language to use; if everyone wants to write Haskell, congratulations, you're now on a Haskell project.

Java is unproductive when you are a startup with one developer, but it works rather well at Google. Each change has to be manually code reviewed before submission anyway, so you aren't saving much time by using Python instead of Java. Agreeing on one language means that it's easy to switch teams; if you did Haskell and another team used OCaml, it would be hard to switch. If you both use Java, though, the barrier to moving is smaller and that means you can switch projects without losing productivity. And that's a good thing.

(Remember: Java at Google is not the same as Java at Bank of America. The toolchain is better, the libraries are better, the culture is better, and the codebase is better. There's really very little I hate about Google-style Java, and that's after hating Java with a passion for about 10 years.)
Sony power outlets will charge you for charging
I think what you mean to say is "it's hard to get a job as a developer if you're not a good candidate".
I'd go one step further: don't hate. It's a negative feeling emotion that will do yourself more harm in the long run :) Be happy for people's success. Would you want people to hate you when you succeed?
I agree giving the project owner the appearance of certainty will make him feel safe and comfortable - however it is not good for them. The longer and more complicated the project the more likely your estimate will be wrong. So giving the customer a sense of overall effort is good - misleading them by telling them you know how much the overall project will cost is bad.
Here's a picture of what he's talking about: https://imgur.com/HBt5f

But I saw something different back then, because it had a little yes/no selection asking if I thought the information was accurate. I have not seen that question except for that one time.
Good, simple, practical article.

It touches on most of the problems I have seen.
"if I build they will come"[1] mentality end up basically degenerating into non-profits or open-source (when their intent was to become the next big for-profit company).

I get your point and mostly agree, but just want to stress that "open source" and "for profit" are not mutually exclusive. There are a handful of companies out there making a nice profit specifically by focusing on open source.

That said, clearly it (building an "open source company") should be a conscious decision, and you have to understand the subtleties that go along with it.
A lot of developers work really, really hard on their
startups for years bootstrapping, just scraping by, and
being ignored by investors because they're not famous.

Their startups have no users and they are just scraping by because they are terrible at marketing, or at knowing what people want. Achieving a low cost-of-customer-acquisition is a real, quantifiable skill.

There are basically zero hot startups that have problems raising money. Getting to "hot" is the hard part, and it is not just making something, but making something people want. Good promotion is just as much of a skill as good UI design.
I pretty much read HN, Quora and Reddit. I am trying really hard to drop reddit completely - which makes me have F5-ism on HN and Quora :(
Space is just a place. All that it takes is people who want to go there and the technology to do so being within their grasp. As technology advances and people grow wealthier colonization of space will become possible, and then it will happen. And once there are people living in space then the entire equation changes again, because once there is an economy in space there will be more reasons to go than just adventure.

Edit: In terms of technology/wealth, imagine a future in, say, 2100 when we have mastered things like automation, 3D printing, etc. When we can fill out a form on a web app, upload a few files and not just have, say, a fully reusable rocket ship pop out the end of a factory but actually a rocket ship producing factory pop out. Such things are technologically possible, and within our grasp. What happens when we have such power? Do we sit at home?
There's a weekend project for someone.
I watch the news at 10 every night here in the UK while I'm getting ready to call it a day.
Canidu: an electronics learning play set
I do this, but I don't do anything special. I just take a snapshot, enter and exit the view, say 5 times, then take another snapshot. Switch over to showing deltas and look for your objects in the list.
Wow. I've written about how powerful revision control tools become not just a place to stash diffs, but a full-on code editing tool (http://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2010/09/mercurial-is-teh-a...), but this is very impressive.

I think he mentions that he does test these new commits that he creates as he goes about re-arranging history, but I think that should be emphasized more. I'd rather have a messy looking commit that passes tests than some nice looking commit that doesn't. bisect is powerful command that shouldn't be broken.
That can't be it, as 0mq is also LGPL. From the footer of zeromq.org:

ØMQ is free software licensed under the LGPL

And in every source file:

0MQ is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

As I have some investment in the 0mq ecosystem, it would be nice to know what this means in the long run for that project.
Because all designers use macs.
I'd like to help. Email me (it's in my profile).
"Most folks have iPads"

They've sold about ~60M so far worldwide in 2 years. I'm a tech nerd in a rich part of Chicago and I know more people that want iPads than have them.

Every event, every earnings call includes some version of "We're in the Post PC world. We only sell 1/4 of smartphones. We only sell 1-2% of phones. We only sell ~8-10% of computers. Even though we're the biggest company in the world, we have a ton of room and our growth rate isn't even slowing yet."

Apple is not close to saturating its market, except iPods, which it is cannibalizing itself with iPhones.
You think Apple ignores the cheapskate customer? Hmmm, not sure about that. What of the entry-level iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle during the 2005-2008 era? This crushed the competition. And what of Apple TVs? How will this affect the way people watch the boobtube? Gonna be interesting to see that play out...
PyData 2012: Guido van Rossum discusses Python w/ the scientific community
Hybrid Cloud Emigration will Drive Data Center Adoption
Very well protected? The danger specifically from viruses might be somewhat less (though if we're allowing people to travel there, it doesn't seem like much less of a concern), but any other danger you can imagine would be much greater. The remote colony would be no more protected from disaster than one on Earth. On the contrary, since the surrounding environment would be irreconcilably hostile, it would be constantly at risk of one little mistake wiping it out.
he is a comedian, after all
So provide a conservative estimate billed in week-long increments. You come in way under the wire, they get a week or two deducted from the final cost of the project. Customer dicks around with requirements, you get to say "I am happy to do whatever you'd like and make whatever changes you'd like but I need to remind you that we have a fixed schedule for this project".

All this stuff about "what's best for the customer" tends to be an elaborate justification for complicated pricing schemes that alienate customers while ironically undercharging them for the services you provide.

Avoid customers for whom a week's worth of your time is a make- or- break- the- business decision.
I found that with Diablo II, you could click a lot less than was intuitive. Click-and-hold would be as effective as click mashing, and a lot easier on the hands.
According to [1] ZeroMQ is licensed under LGPL with static linking exception.

[1] http://www.zeromq.org/area:licensing