skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving aside the misleading title, i am not sure how the $100k number was arrived at. Developer hours? cutting off one dedicated developer who fixed IE issues?

If you are catering to creative professionals, who are going to be using huge apple monitors and macs (66% of the site's users are on a mac), ignoring IE isn't going to be a big deal. Even many of those ~4.5% of IE visitors might be on IE9 /10 which are pretty decent browsers. I am not here to support IE, i hate it like every other developer who builds stuff for the web. Also, compete.com tells their approximate UVs for February was around 13k. Ignoring a small number of users here is not going to have a huge impact. If your are site/app with millions of users, then it will be a big deal.

PS: If you are building a hipster social network or a video post processing tool, ignoring IE is going to save you significant time but if you are catering to e-commerce/finance or any other common demographic even thinking about ignoring IE isn't wise at this point.
1) I don't understand why you're agreeing that you're using scary anecdotes to refute scary anecdotes and acting as if that is a defensible or valuable position. Decisions based upon fiction are not wise. See: Patriot Act, Iraq war, etc.

2) Being susceptible to or targeted by fear-based anecdotes does not make one more able to objectively evaluate them. Quite the opposite, in fact.

3) I don't know what you're talking about here. I was pointing out that your position is, in my opinion, fundamentally sexist, and that you likely wouldn't have batted an eye had I taken the more popular, sexist view.
I built HubStar: http://hubstar.me/

The missing "Star" feature for GitHub repositories.
IE8/9 are certainly much better but they still have a long way to go. Gradients are a pain in 9 and rounded corners behave in unpredictable ways in both 8 and 9. Font rendering in all versions of IE including the latest and greatest sucks too.

In general, though we do have to spend time tweaking things between Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, IE8 and 9 still account for a significant portion of time spent getting things to work cross browser. For me, that time is so significant that I too completely ignore IE unless someone specifically asks for support.

Point is, IE, even in its latest form, is still not at the same level as the competition. I'm aware of all the reasons why I shouldn't ignore it but I do so in protest, not laziness and I hope one day a significant portion of the design community gets on board with it. If the web breaks for IE users maybe then Microsoft will make it behave sanely and try to get people to upgrade. Though I must say that the one thing I applaud IE for is it's box model. It is far more intuitive than the official spec.
Launched http://www.thetaboard.com . Lots of great feedback from HN.
>> most things behave the same in IE8/IE9 as they do in Chome, Firefox and Safari

Having recently developed an HTML5 single page web app, I can assure you that this statement is utterly false.
Neuroinformatics Heads to School: The Future of Personalized Learning
Or subspace! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(video_game)
Yes. I have a fondness in my heart for manic armless lazy-eye shouting guy, but it really doesn't send the right signal.
Yeah... so one thing I love about being self taught was that I've learned because I wanted to do a project, and I learned the most simple tools to accomplish those projects. I'm sure I missed some stuff beacuse I was never forced to do it in a class. I think what would be most helpful is - what are the topics that made you most well rounded, that you would be a crappier coder without, that you took during a CS degree. Also, what are some important theoretical things that paradigm shifted your brain cells for the benefit of every following line of code.
A quick removal of your network cable proves it a hoax.

I almost want to learn JS and Node to build a real one. Just to spite the OP.
There is a good documentary about how SV came about called, "A Secret History of Silicon Valley", its available online to watch. (http://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo)

In my opinion it is a combination of the people are here along with the location, weather and honestly Stanford.

I also think there is a feedback loop. As more people come to SV it makes it a more attractive place which in turn brings more people.
Nah ... that's about right, I've been doing html/css for almost 9 years and hard core javascript/ui stuff for another 4 or so.

Almost without fail, fixing stuff for IE takes as long as it does to just build the feature in the first place (so 4 hours to do a layout then another 3 or 4 to get it working properly in IE), with CSS/html layout that number has dropped as IE6 has been phased out, but I find that its actually moved over into doing js stuff in IE8 and 7.
Publish your editions on Google Currents
I'm not clear if you are looking for books, links, or topics. If you are looking for topics or books, I'd suggest starting by taking a look at the syllabi from degree programs that you respect. You may want to pay particular attention to the courses that have the word "Theory" and "Computation" in them.

You are going to find topics like:

* Regular Languages/Expressions
* Automata
* Nonregular Languages
* Context Free Languages
* Turing Machines
* Decidable vs. Undecidable Problems
* Halting Problem

You can probably get a long ways just doing some searches for those topics.

I written about some of these topics in an article last year that might give you a very small introduction to finite state machines:
http://blog.markwshead.com/869/state-machines-computer-scien...
And if I were the acquirer I'd be wondering just how bad he thinks his team is, and why he didn't do anything about it before I made offers to all of them.
Just my opinion but there is nothing edgy about a QR code...

More generally what is the point of a QR code on a resume anyway?
Yeah, my description of the Monkeysphere is: "The Universal Theory of Human Behavior". I wish more people knew about it. Just doing my part. :-)
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We are currently hiring for many positions - front end, back end, QA and more - at all levels.

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Surprised there's no Wikipedia addition to Umwelt after today's xkcd. Or maybe there is but I just don't see it.
http://trackt.com - real-time collaboration using sticky notes
My first android app.
Added multithreaded ability to request slow network resource, ability to issue raw SSL connections + very nice looking GUI.

Actually that was a good month re: learning new, and cool stuff.
Animated_gif.js
April 1st – Are the “fooled jokes” a “necessary evil”?
As far as The Algorithm Design Manual and CLRS is concerned I would not say that they are comparable.

CLRS is about algorithm analysis and formally proving that they behave in certain ways - like proving that quicksort has a guaranteed worst case of O(n^2) and an average case of O(n log n). Being able to work with proofs such as those is fairly fundamental to being a Computer Scientist in the strict, academic, sense. That being said, it should not be used as book to teach data structures or algorithms without formal proofs having been taught first - without the maths background the book is going to be very hard going.

The Algorithm Design Manual on the other hand, is more like a literature review for a collection of algorithms/families of algorithms (75, claims the copy infront of me). For each of them it gives an overview of the class of problems you'd apply the algorithm to, a run through of the algorithm (some with pseudo code) and discussion about the algorithm and times when the author has used it, and then pointers to more in depth sources. CRLS and Knuth are cited considerably, which should give you an idea about the relative stature of the two books being compared here.

Ultimately, they're both good books but for different audiences. The Algorithm Design Manual is by far the easier read, not least of which because it's not trying to be an academic text and is replete with anecdotes from the author. It's an excellent overview of the techniques available to the practicing developer - the ones who work in fields where you might need to whip up a quick Bin Packing routine anyway. CLRS is a lot harder to get through, but it will teach you how to prove that your algorithms will do what they should.

When it comes down to it, I'd say that CLRS is for the Computer Scientist while TADM is for the practitioner and I'm glad I own both.
That's actually not a bad idea, particularly if you generalize it. You could make a device, or you could do some cool text analysis that predicted whether you are drunk.

I have the Thunderbird Confirm-Address addon installed, to give me one last chance to check if I'm sending a message to someone who probably shouldn't receive it. Like the boss. Which happened.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/confirm-a...

I remember once I sent some email to some friends, after a very hard night of drinking. I knew I was drunk while I wrote, and I tried my damnedest to write coherently, with no errors. I was very proud when I checked it over and clicked Send. I was astounded the next morning when I read it over, at how obviously drunk the writer was.
Mac OS X is Cmd+Tab to switch apps and Cmd+` to switch windows.
I signed up to say this:

This is the lowest quality article I have ever read for a product which virtually no-one knows (except the minute techcrunch ecosystem and out of pocket VCs) trying to trash a product which is actually used at least 5 orders of magnitude more often by 5 orders of magnitude more people.

Trashing IE was fun once, but the world has grown up in the last couple of years.

Also, that's a theoretical 100k saved now until the Windows tablet market and Windows v.next peak grows (which it will as it always does) at which point it'll cost 200k to sort it out. I worked at a Microsoft monoculture org for a number of years and that's what happened when other browsers had to be supported (Firefox, Chrome, Safari). Save now, pay later.

Welcome to the 2012 version of an IE6 only web site...
This is great. Pair programming quickly and easily over the web isn't exactly trivial right now. Good job.
A latex script? I think your analysis is missing a general understanding of the benefits of latex and how the process works.

On another not maybe you are assuming the resume is for screen display only?
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Engineer number one.

Interested in getting in on the ground floor of fundamentally changing the way people travel or, as one of our users said, "restoring people's faith in humanity"?

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I launched Indie Intern (http://www.indieintern.com) which is a project manager for movie productions. It takes a script and will automatically start the budget, schedule, production board, and call sheet creation process. Saves filmmakers a lot of time and money over competing products which is important for low-budget productions.
"This leads to a ‘hit driven’ market which really turns me off as a developer. I’d love to release an iOS application, but I fear it would be so hard to get found that it wouldn’t be worth the investment."

If you create a web app, how do you get found on the internet today?

The App Store's top lists are, by their very definition, hit driven. Games (and most entertainment) in particular, are (and for the foreseeable future, will be) hit driven.

If you want to make an iOS app that provides real value for people. Go for it. The existence of Apple's App Store doesn't absolve you from advertising and marketing.

I've seen a bunch of startups trying to solve the "app discoverability problem", but the only only people this is a problem for is app developers. Consumers download the top games from the list, the apps they hear about from their friends, and the rare app they stumble across by name. You can't rely on "if you build it, they will come".

There are real problems with the app store. Mainly around search and naming. However any problems with discoverability are problems with your business' reliance on someone else's shelf space.
Anyone else only realise this was fake when they eventually opened the Network tab in developer tools to find out how it worked? After that, I double-realised when I noticed that none of the other ships ever idled while everyone else attempted to figure it out simultaneously.
Visual Basic, PHP, Rails. Is Node.js next?
I really like Quantum Memory Power by Dominic O'Brien:
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Memory-Power-Improve-Champion/...

I listened to it while working out over the course of several weeks and, despite not putting much effort into it, was able to improve my ability to remember short lists (e.g. groceries) and names. With more focused practice, I'm sure it would lead to excellent results.

The only flaw in it is that some of his social references are a bit dated. In the imagery exercises, you'll probably want to substitute your own, updated names and faces. :-)
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Webkit rendering is not the web, true. That's sad though. I'd rather it WAS the web, and we could go on and improve on it (new image apis, sound apis, acceleration, etc), instead of reinventing various variations of the wheel (ie. basic html rendering).

As for Opera, should they support any oddball browser engine out there with it's particular quirks?

Two words for you: "opportunity cost".
I dislike developing for IE as much as the next guy, but does selectively supporting browsers, even when reasonable IE versions exist, bring us back to the "best viewed in Internet Explorer" days? Is this a step back for web standards?
Not just a danger for girls. Anyone sharing this kind of info inherently has some kind of smartphone and therefore is a target for mugging / robbery
Err. The video is about other stuff?
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782462
Subspace is exactly what I had in mind when I saw the OP. It even has a bot API, though unfortunately no one has made a fully-playable one yet.
I built Write.app (https://writeapp.me), a replacement for the Notes app on my iPhone that works across devices (desktop, tablet, and mobile versions all in one using responsive design). It supports Markdown and will soon save to/read from your Dropbox account. It's also open source if you want to help. I could really use help with UI and Dropbox features (http://github.com/billpatrianakos/Write.app)
Some good April 1st jokes become real eventually though.
"I would argue that the fine-grained formatting control you can get with HTML/CSS is basically unsurpassed, especially with rendering tools like wkhtmltopdf available."

Best April Fools Day joke ever...
IE9 works fine with one caveat:

Live with the features that work properly. Don't jump on every new bandwagon like gradients and then go ape shit when it doesn't work.

To be honest, it's not like all that shit really improves a product if it does something useful already. TBH IE6 can shift out a product that improves lives and earns money fine without being a pain in the arse if you accept its feature set.
Has there ever been a business case for supporting Opera?
http://axgl.org/ - Wrote and launched an open source, hardware accelerated 2D flash game library
Continuation-Passing why JavaScript developers might be interested in it
Hell yes this is what I've been looking for! so i can use this on my clients sites with out root access to compile assets?
My first hackathon project ever
This is the first app I have ever put together. Made it in a hackathon this weekend.
Cmd-` only switches windows of the current app. So, even if you see your window, you can't switch to it with Cmd-`.
I think x86 is pretty strongly targeted to C, actually.
They have opened up the database and you can receive affiliate commission for install referrals.

Here are the relevant links:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...
Mostly worked on Kippt:

* New landing page design https://kippt.com

* Readability integration

* Extensions for Firefox and Opera

* Preview feature for public lists https://kippt.com/karrisaarinen/yc-application
What about the Enterprise Partner Feed that Apple has provided since '07?

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...
Really amazing, I haven't seen something this interesting on Hacker News in a long time. Pair programming and mentorship are only a couple of low-hanging fruits this could be used for. Awesome to see socket.io at work and kudos to the team at LearnBoost.
Something has always bothered me about the type of memory technique mentioned in the article.

There's a sense, in which it is a 'junk' association, to associate 'zero' with Ozzy Ozbourne eating a bat's head.
Do I really want to have many such associations in my mind?

Is there a cost? Our brains are bounded in volume, energy, complexity; there have to be limits and costs? I've always been wary about such mnemonic techniques, on these grounds - but I don't know if this caution makes any sense.
Anyone?
Remove Serialization
Backbone based Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] extensions for our time tracking and invoicing app, Paydirt[3]. They prompt you to start a timer when they spot keywords related to your clients on the pages you visit.

This is our MVP into intelligent time tracking, seems to work well for people that spend all day in the browser. We'd love some feedback!

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time-...

2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabde...

3. https://paydirtapp.com
Windows 8 Preview | The Windows Action Show Review
Filevault 2 is pretty good. It's built into the OS, so it's a lot more likely people will use it than to install another package.

Obviously you need to make sure you have a good backup scheme in place, and escrow the decryption key somewhere (ideally, printed).

There are some functionality advantages to Truecrypt (deniable volumes, etc.), but Filevault is pretty good. I'd feel equally comfortable with either one. (I'd prefer OPEL, the drive encryption on-controller, for performance reasons, but Mac OS X doesn't support that.)

Once you do that, you have a lot of other things to worry about before "which widely accepted disk crypto package should I use for FDE" becomes the biggest question.
How is any of this an argument against "opening up the App Store Database"? If search is a problem, wouldn't allowing other people to build their own search engine for the App Store be beneficial?
My personal favorite flying oddities are the lawnmowers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNWfqVWC2KI

The reason that the SR-71 surprised me is that it seems like it doesn't have that much wing area (which is probably somewhat counterintuitive given the length), and it wasn't flying at a significant upward angle like those foamies.
The author must not be aware of the Apple Enterprise Partner Feed, which is precisely what he wants. It is a massive dump of a highly normalized relational database describing all artists, songs, videos, applications, etc. I've dealt a lot with it: it's a bit of a pain because of how much data there is and now normalized it is, but it's extremely useful. I'm not sure what the requirements are for getting access to it, but you have to apply manually via email.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...
PingFS: Living in the Rain
Fun, but crowded.
I doubt it matters, really. Ada is still laughed at rather than adopted widely (too bad, since it is not that bad as a language).
Does microtype do anything constructive with sloppy on?
I don't see a strong pattern. There are others named after female first names that aren't particularly popular (most, really), though the set of popular languages is small enough that it's not clear there's enough data to draw any conclusions.

Apart from Ada, which is probably the most popular language in the category, there are two named Alice (http://www.alice.org/, http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/), and others named Claire (http://www.claire-language.com/), Mary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(programming_language)), and Miranda (http://miranda.org.uk/). If you allow ancient Greek names, there's also Io (http://iolanguage.com/) and Ioke (http://ioke.org/).
Ask HN: I want to write a book. Need help for some information.
I want to write a book and have the following questions.

1) How much budget I should prepare. I do not care it sells well or not, so I do not want to spend money for marketing. Just want to write it and publish it.

2) English is not my native language. It is nice if I can find someone to review it first.

Thanks a lot in advance.
1) is more important than 2). I basically want to know how much it will need for this.
Apple has made some progress on protecting from DMA attacks -- when the screen locker is enabled, you can't do it. The kernel uses Intel VT-d for this; I'm not sure if Linux or Windows do the same yet.

I knocked Apple a bit for security issues 2006-2009, but they've made a serious effort to fix things starting sometime in 2010 or 2011. I mean, iOS and the iPhone platform is probably one of the most secure mobile OSes now (RIM edges it out, but RIM sucks). OS X has added other security features as well, starting with 10.6.
Yeah. I think this might be interesting for tutelage and education, though. It makes live-programming more viable for long-distance learning and helps globalize programming.
I built a crank calling app using twilio and sendgrid at a hackathon this weekend. Its nothing special but its the first thing I've really ever made.

http://cranksomeone.webs.com/
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Desired Skills/Experience: Software architecture, cross-platform APIs, C/C++, parallel processing (GPU/CPU), computer graphics (openGL/DirectX), real-time systems. This is a great opportunity to work on and take ownership of bleeding edge technology at a early stage. We offer very competitive compensation, great benefits and an office near the Caltrain.
Can you apply it to mathematical formulae et al. as well?