skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...~89% of all web usage NOW (I'm not sure about the number though, but it seems legit and I take your word for it).

What about 2 years from now?
Maybe if it stopped crashing and freezing all the time...
Qt ? No thank you... Maybe in a 64bit standalone version.

BTW:
* How this will work in some Window Manager like dwm ?
* What if I have no file manager installed ?
* Can I use without using the mouse ?
Sweet! I'll give it a try.
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Well I won't be pigheaded. I too would pay triple for everything to be on Netflix and don't buy DVDs. If you can buy it but choose to get it free that's your call, it's when you can't buy it anywhere that copyright really fails.
This is impressive. Maybe the programmers who did this can speak to the financial charting side so their charts will plot a moving average using data that is actually off the left side of the chart, instead of omitting those points as if the data does not exist.
Have you noticed the problem: there's already something like ten places every artist wants to be: google play, itunes, magnatune, etc, etc.

Then there is this problem when you want some music and you have to figure out who carries it first.
It is very widely deployed and will work on almost all client devices.
Apple had a big hand in this, Whilst there was plenty of negative sentiment towards flash before the iPhone etc I don't remember too many people talking about killing it.

Indeed many website owners liked having flash content on their site, it is only in the last few years that developers can point to a growing and lucrative demographic or users/devices that can't consume flash content.
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Nice idea of drag-dropping onto face icons.

You defo need to change the name ASAP to avoid any trademark infringement issues though.
It depends on what it's controlling for. The vaccine could be completely successful in preventing plaque buildup but have no impact on heart attack rates whatsoever. This could be construed as an overall success.
If you're getting a password request when you hit the back button, you've got some funky browser plugins.
Why is that "fantastic" considering everyone could get into iTunes roughly on the same terms for years? And various independent music stores too. Where's the innovation?

And there are a lot of countries where neither iTunes or Google Play are available, and maybe aren't going to in observable future.
It would need to have a vibrant app market, the ability to sideload apps with no hacking, powerful apis and be easy to develop for.

And I would need faith that there is going to be a RIM in 5 years, which is not at all a given.
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Somehow I got the map to split-screen with street view, and all the street view's in 8-bit, too.
Nice expressivity, mostly functional, fun to use, etc.
I like the UI. Pretty innovative. But the product pitch sounds identical to the YC funded Kicksend (http://kicksend.com) and very similar to the existing DropSend (which someone else has already linked) and a number of others.

I always hate telling that to people trying to put a product out the door (I have competitors for the things I'm working on, too), but I don't see any differentiation here other than the UI of your client? Or am I missing something?
Yeah, i think so.
Which book? Could you edit in a link? Thanks!
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But still it isn't. A lot of entities benefiting from things in public domain but refusing to let their derivative works go, forever. They want to both use what the previous generations done and tax the future generations out their nose.

That's the true source of the problem, and the true source of copyright crimes: entities thinking they are entitled to many things for free, but still that everybody have to pay. There's no place for compromise.

If something is anti-social, that's what.
You're not the only one.

What's a bit silly is the idea that there's someone sitting at home wishing to perform a stalking or rape, but is prevented from doing so by the lack of an app for that.
Fantastic because just about anything is better than the record labels right now.

Just because Apple already did it doesn't mean there isn't room for something else.
Now these content creators have to worry about their clients on Linux platform.

I don't thing many content creators worry that much about clients on the Linux platform.

Some don't even care about OS X clients (like those that rushed to adopt Silverlight back in the day), and that platform has 10x the Linux desktop share.
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friend of mine recently asked "do you do rails?", I answered something like "nope, going to learn it only if it will be paid well". "well, you can get $150/hr on the project I am working on"...

After this conversation I became really interested :) My question - having no background in ruby or rails, should I just start from latest one? I.e. how compatible it with all code deployed already?
Sure you can. Introverts make up a large fraction of the population (just have a look at this poll[1]). If Agile is reduces the quality of their work, then the "pack" may well be better off without it.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722
You show Nob Hill, San Francisco as a part of the Presidio:

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That's very much the wrong neighborhood.
I refuse to work anywhere there is an open office. Every time I've been forced into that, my productivity drops through the floor and my misery sky rockets.

Employers need to understand different people work differently. Want a truly efficient knowledge worker staff? Do try to cookie-cutter their environment. Give people the environment they need to succeed, which for some may be open collaboration and others quiet reserve. When the brain is really the only limiter on productivity, optimize for that.
The thing I miss most from my BlackBerry after switching to andriod is the track ball/pad. That made one handed navigation extremely easy.
Well, on the positive side all the reviews for the new Photoshop CS6 have been quite glowing. A major new version, indeed.

Lightroom 4 was also a very good update.

Oh, and Premiere is in the right track.

Killing Flash is best for Adobe in the long term. That, more refinement for their CS suite, and some new HTML5 tools like Edge will keep them afloat for many years to come.
I had a similar experience at my first job (while I was still going to uni). The funny thing is the CEO would often take me to his office and show me how much money they were making with the work I was doing. He would brag that the last change request made them xyz amounts of money. I was being paid very little for my work. It was a great learning experience for me and pushed me to try my own things.
I was wondering what everyone was talking about. Thanks for the tip.

Incognito mode to the rescue!
If they stripped down their OS so it wasn't so clunky and unstable. If they had a web browser that wasn't sub-IE5 quality. (As a developer) if development wasn't Windows-only/massively fragmented/difficult to set up.

Apple's got "cool", Android's got "cheap/open". Nobody owns "reliable". BB did for a while but seem to be trying to play catch-up with Apple and failing. They don't stand for anything any more.

BB are well positioned to be the Thinkpad/Toughbook/Model-M Keyboard of mobile devices - minimalist, under-designed and ultra-reliable.

Ask anyone who had a Nokia 3310 phone about it and they'll rave about how indestructible and reliable it was. Ask a business nerd about their Thinkpad and they'll tell you that they don't care it's not as cool as a frou-frou Macbook, it's a machine for getting serious work done. A few years ago you'd get a similar response from a BB user, now they just look mildly embarrassed and say "work pays for it, I don't get a choice. I hear we're going to be able to bring our own iPhones in soon though."
Everyone knows the Internet only work in California.
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Youtube announcement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
How are Linux desktop users a "customer" base?

For one, they are a very small niche. All "web stats" reports (the most accurate way of measuring such things) put them somewhere around 1%.

Plus, they are not paying for Flash. Flash, the paid-for tool, doesn't even run on Linux.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It's a helpful comment. I know I'd rather be corrected once than continue spelling it incorrectly.

Reading the blog I cringed every time I read 'to' and I'm sure I'm not the only one. It was distracting and hurt the author's credibility when he was telling the story about his attempts to 'improve the company emails'.

To me it's a big red flag when someone hasn't been able to pick up the correct usage of to/too in 20+ years(assuming they were educated in an english speaking country).
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These projects and the changing Google logo can be thought of as marketing expenses to maintain Google's brand, which helps them continue to attract users and developers.

G+ is built for strategic reasons (and not something they're just doing because they don't know have 'enough useful ideas'.) You can debate whether G+ is the right thing for them to do, but they're building it because Google leadership thinks they should.
But today we have Swype, which is massively faster than a BlackBerry keyboard for typing emails and texts. I honestly can't imagine ever switching to a BlackBerry, unless I really needed battery life.
It worked find for me. Awesome!
It doesn't, but think about it from their perspective. Do you base performance on number of A's given? On scoring on standardized tests that only show how well you taught students to take tests? Where do you include "opening a student's eyes to the power of reason and science" or "planting a seed of a deep love for literature" or even just "being a person a student wants to be like"?

It isn't much different than how've question of how to evaluate coders. Any mechanism that can be easily proscribed can be easily gamed or is meaningless. Any mechanism that truly measures worth is extremely complex, doesn't scale, and may have issues with labor laws.

I wouldn't want that crap legislated by state legislatures, either.
Your comment ironically reveals why we need to have stories like this.

"The key difference is that most of tech news is about a group of 10 people who happen to be men...."

It's not a group of 10 people who happen to be men. It's more like 8 or 9 of them happen to be men and 1 of them happens to be a woman. If the community keeps perceiving and portraying itself as so homogeneous, how will young women recognize that they can have a place here too?
This seems flawed in that it arbitrarily translates regular symbols into what looks like a graphic error soup. I feel like letter and di/tri-graph frequencies should have been considered, as well as conventional expectations (m looks thicker than i, f.i.).
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This would be it: http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala
On this[1] recent podcast[2] fogus had some amazing insights on Pair Programming, as Relevance also has a pairing policy.

[1] http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2012/03/28/thinkrelevance-the...

[2] http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/29/fogus-on-think-relevance-pod...
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Further, if your job is somewhere that you have fun and are free to occasionally make interesting-but-useless things, you're less likely to quit.
I Guess its no to all of those questions. Maybe you're not our target :/
I can't see switching ecosystems because of a hardware feature of one of the units. So BBs have great keyboards; I'll take your word at face value and assume that they do. But if any of Android's manufacturers came out with a good keyboard - which is certainly likely if there proves to be a market for it - then what?

I know on some level that you could make the same argument about any feature. I think it's especially true on something as relatively common as an input device, though. Which would be easier: BB seamlessly running Android's 700,000 apps, or Samsung adding a high-quality keyboard to a phone?
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I surely have respect for the problem of making a backup securely while the system is running, but this is of course something that all backup vendors have had to do regardless of their featureset. Or they could just use the inbuilt service from Microsoft and be done ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy , right?). It should be a solved problem by now.

But there is no excuse in having a poor UI or neglecting important aspects of backups. I've always have had the feeling that "no one that developed this tool has ever used it for themselves for other than testing purposes". None of them I've tried have the option of deleting backups that are old automatically and everyone that has ever used a backup program will think of this when, after a year, their backups are getting somewhat big. It's so obvious it hurts my soul, and I'm about to trust them with my data? And perhaps even pay them to handle my data?

Just compare with all the numerous rsync scripts people do. Automatic deletion is among the first features you implement. And that isn't a weekend project, that is a coffee-break project.

In Microsofts backup tool you can get a list of old backups in order to delete one if you like, the list in which they list your backups isn't even sorted - not by date or size, just random (with no way to sort it). They have put no effort in it at all (I first thought that the backups for a few months was missing), the attention to detail (in all the software I've tried) is just nonexistent.
I use some of this advice: http://sanziro.com/2011/01/practical-guide-for-data-backup-o...
You are right a lot of companies are already trying to tackle this problem. The thing is we approached Startup Weekend more like a Hackaton. We wanted to create a product from A to Z in 48h. Right now we are on track and I'll definitely post an update with the "final" product tomorrow :)
Ah right, you have to be at the startup for 18 hours a day to be "intense" or "dedicated."

Its ok if you roll in at 10am, spend an hour horsing around on Hacker News, another hour drinking company beer at 7:30pm, and another hour at lunch running with folks, you are "dedicated" and "intense".

Nevermind that you spent less time working that the OP - you have to have no life outside of the startup to be "intense" and "startup worthy."

For me, I'd rather have the poster - he sounds like a great employee - works hard, contributes outside his area, and seemingly has a life outside of work that probably rests his brain such that he isn't constantly exhausted like you.

If you don't get into Y-Combinator, contact me.
The Harmony project (named differently in the past) existed long long before Coffeescript.
the key to get a good deal is to just use email..contact 30 dealerships and ask whats the lowest they'd be willing to go on X.

then just go back and forth with the lowest #...until you are left with one dealer
Well.. I'll bite.. care to explain the downvote on my comment, dear <comments.current.parent.downvotes[0].author> ? Thanks
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there are a lot more of these than you'd think. especially at startup founded by big-co people from Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft. watch out for that profile.
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It's a law intended to help reduce violations of another law.

It has succeeded in doing so.
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I'm not following your argument. Because the alphabet is free, Harry Potter should be free?

And I'm having a hard time seeing 15 dollar books and movies and 99 cent songs as "taxing through the nose".
This has been the opposite from my experience with Scala. Rather than build a single system with a large codebase, it allows us to build small, compartmentalized systems and compose them together. Then again, we don't use maven, instead using ant for building and git submodules to handle dependencies.
Done and done, thanks!
It'd be neat to see a version of this similar to the Windmap posted earlier.

http://hint.fm/wind/
Hahaha, the Dragonlord transformation is awesome!!
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You know, it just occurred to me.

One benefit of Adobe abandoning Flash in the medium-term, will be a push for improvements on the functionality and speed of SVG.

Google (Chrome) seems to mostly care about the canvas, re acceleration and all, whereas Adobe has much more interest in SVG because it needs it as a vector replacement for Flash.

Case in point, this just came in today:
http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2012/03/30/svg-animations...
yield has been in Mozilla for ages, like, Firefox 2.x. The inspiration was python's yield.
Hi everyone. Chris here from Postmark.

I would say that MongoDB durability used to be an issue, but now with journaling and replica sets it's not as much of a concern.

There were two reasons why the secondary was less capable than the primary. First, the data had become very fragmented due to our frequent purging. And second, we were in the middle of an upgrade to our servers and that one had not been tackled yet. The primary failure came at a bad time. I could have clarified that better in the post.

Regarding capped collections, yes they are faster. The problem is that they can't be sharded. With our dataset that would not allow us to scale.
Why can't FG reply here?
Add poll option: If the device was physically better.
Ask HN: Would your startup die if your Google traffic disappeared?
Imagine your Google traffic disappeared overnight, due to a penalty that you can never get lifted.

Would your startup/side-business die?
8% of women have been stalked in their life. http://www.musc.edu/vawprevention/research/stalking.shtml

Between 15 and 20% of women have been raped in their lifetimes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States - (now, this gets complicated due to under reporting, and that most rape is done by someone known my the attacker.)

I would say it is a legitimate concern.
You don't need to shrink a database to get a smaller backup
If I'm going to invest my time and money into a hardware platform I'd rather go with the company that is on the leading edge. Blackberry's offer no advantage over Android or iPhone for me, they're old-fashioned. It appears that RIM still hasn't caught up to the iPhone v1 released in 2007.

At this point I think RIM would require a paradigm shifting new technology or something radically new to get me to buy a Blackberry. And Apple is already pushing forward with voice-activated controls with Siri. Why isn't there that type of innovation happening at RIM?
Currently working in an open plan office and I hate it. The open plan office seeks to solve the problem of knowledge silos where people hole up and wait for people to come to them. Unfortunately, once that knowledge is distributed the constant interruptions leads to an environment where no one can focus and formulate new ideas during the 9-6 time frame. So work starts to seep into personal time which leads to a far larger problem where people become resentful on a regular basis and burnout. Meanwhile, the CTOs and VPs who also sit in the open plan floor can be seen leaving on a regular basis at 6:00 sharp. I have not achieved a state of mental flow in over a year. If a place I'm interviewing at has adopted the open floor plan, it's a deal breaker.

I've worked in cubicle farms, private rooms, shared rooms, and clustered team cubicle rooms. Cubicle farms are equally abhorred to open plan. I think the best mixture is shared rooms with private meeting rooms on a reservation basis, preferably with the private rooms along the windows and meeting rooms in the middle of the building.
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8bit city with map tiles have been for awhile now using Openstreetmap as the source. An example that has been arou d for years is this http://8bitcity.com/map?New%20York
Perhaps. It's still not the point of laws in general to reduce crime, as I said.
Direct link: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sll=0,0&t=8. Zoom out to see the alternate view.
In a very long work career, I've spent time in just about every office configuration you can imagine. As I read this article and the comments here I thought back over where I was most productive and most comfortable. And surprised myself! As it turns out I find that a sort of compromise between open office and cubical space seems to work best for me---large cubical with 4 work spaces, each placed in a corner. They are far enough away so that I can ignore them as need be, yet near enough for conversations/questions about the current project. In the two instances where that was the situation, I was both productive and comfortable---hard to argue with that. It never occured to me to ask whose idea the setup was, but it was a good one in my estimation.
The last time I bought a car I got to screw one dealer and made another dealer's day. This was last year right after the Japanese tsunami when used Priuses skyrocketed in value. In one week my model-one (with no cruise control, which I HATED) shot up by about 6 grand, to a full 2 grand more than I even paid on it. I decided right then to throw it on Craigslist at KBB, and if someone wanted it for exactly KBB, it's theirs.

So, I immediately get like 5 calls and take the ad. The first guy to show up says he owns an RV dealership, but he really just works at a used-car dealership. They all sit on CL during their downtime looking for cars to buy. The guy tried for about an hour to talk me down, but I had other people literally lined up to buy for my asking price, so I wasn't going to budge a penny. He finally bought for what I was asking, but wasn't too happy about it. In fact, I'm not sure he even noticed that it didn't have cruise. That could have ended up being tricky to sell..

But, the other end of that is that I then needed a new car. I was going to buy a non-hybrid, but after calling a couple dealerships (at 8 in the morning, the benefits of having a 2-year-old son) one had one new Prius on the lot from a sale that had been backed out of the night before. So, I just went in and paid sticker. I got way too much for my used car, probably paid way to much for the new car, but on balance, I'd say I was even. Plus, I got a new car with cruise control, so I was happy.
This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Baidu on the other hand does the maps right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start.
On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty.

[0] http://map.baidu.com/?newmap=1&l=15&tn=B_DIMENSIONAL...