skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, for "general purpose apps", whatever that is, Android 2.2 (which was launched 2 years ago) is great. 2 years is ages in computer land and this is a huge issue

Brand new Windows apps work on Windows XP and are written to APIs that work on Windows XP, which is now 10 years old.

I'm not going to argue the Android fragmentation issue other than to say API stability > API age for installed "packaged"* software.

* - If there is such a thing anymore. I buy most of my Windows software online or through Steam.
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My workmate bought one for programming. Ubuntu 11.10 required a kernel compile for Bluetooth to work, otherwise everything seemed to work out of the box. Even going to sleep when closing the lid - the hardest test you can give to a Linux laptop.
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Engagement is meaningless without knowing the sentiment behind that engagement. It's easy to see how many people are talking about your product (and it's not just TV producers who care about their product in this way); what is harder is to find out if they like it or not.

You present it as creepy, but (as long as we are only talking about public data like Twitter) I welcome it. The better the analysis, the better product developers can do at creating products I actually want. The danger for product developers is always building products that are just slight tweaks of the previous product (see the movie industry for example).
This is interesting. Does anyone know of a way to play this game against a computer, besides the windows-only programs mentioned in WP? And how do you decide how many dots to start with?
But NIO, Location APIs, and in some cases the Bluetooth APIs are kind of important to the platform and used by most Android developers.
True, but he shouldn't blame Shay Pierce. Porter's the one who decided to do a deal with Zynga. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Further, Porter's the one who set up the retention process in a way that forced somebody out the door over a perfectly reasonable issue. A manager who's first instinct for a problem is to blame others has a big problem. One who does it publicly is a fool.
I had the same thought. His "explanation" read like spin to me. Which fits well with the Zynga style.
I've got a ThinkPad T410 running Arch Linux with Xmonad. I've been running Arch on the T410, and a T400 before it, for the last 2.5 years without a hitch. I think I've finally found a setup I can stick to indefinitely - when I tried to switch to Xfce, I found the hit using a non-tiling window manager had on my productivity to be unbearable.
From his article, Zynga isn't evil because of the minor detail in the contract. He gives a reason why he thinks zynga is evil and so not worth negotiating this minor detail.

"When an entity exists in an ecosystem, and acts within that ecosystem in a way that is short-sighted, behaving in a way that is actively destructive to the healthy functioning of that ecosystem and the other entities in it (including, in the long term, themselves) -- yes, I believe that that is evil. And I believe that Zynga does exactly that."
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Clojure vs Ruby & Scala
Here's the diff:

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/bb53aec4a302

Doesn't look too bad
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Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic
Understanding his frustration doesn't excuse his actions.
Today is a good day to promote any low-quality site, since everyone Clicks on everything expecting to get a quick laugh.

And then they find out there was no joke. But they still got FOOLED.
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It is worth being aware that contracts are either express or implied. An express contract is one where the terms of which are stated in words. An implied contract is one where the existence and terms of the contract are manifested by conduct of the involved parties. A contractual agreement can be oral and in many US states (for example California) and Countries (UK etc) it is enforceable - especially if there are witnesses or proof of joint activities etc. Your best bet to get out of the situation is follow Tzunamiton's good advice and find someone you both trust and that you can both agree as an impartial adjudicator. Then discuss with the adjudicator to either wind the company up or get a written termination agreement that you are both willing to sign. If you want to pursue the idea then the termination agreement between you and your former partner must set out the payment terms and limit or sign away any future claims against the idea/ip. hope this helps.
Doesn't work in FF 11.0/WinXP. Over-quota on google maps?
I have had serious hand pain in the past, and actually needed my wife to button the collars of shirts.

I did two things to get rid of the pain. First, I got an Advantage Kenesis keyboard, and a trackball mouse. I only use the mouse with my left hand (I am right-handed) and never touch a regular mouse. After several weeks, the hand pain completely subsided.

If you have even a minor amount of hand, wrist, forearm, or even shoulder pain, figure out what is causing it, whether it is keyboard, posture, table height and address it promptly.
I dunno. Reading his longer explanation in VentureBeat, I'm not sure that's an actual apology. Being sorry for what you said's a little vague. I'd rather see something like:

"I apologize unreservedly to Shay Pierce. What I said about him was untrue and unkind. I regret that we X", where X is the mistake he feels he made in handling Pierce's situation.
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Would like to see this functionality merged into Gon, https://github.com/gazay/gon. (and maybe Rails core someday).
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High-level tests and unit tests go hand in hand. Ideally you are striving for 100% coverage for both your high level tests and your unit tests. The value of that is that when a high-level test fails in some inscrutable way, in theory a corresponding unit test should also fail, which should make the actually point of breakage clear.
We're primarily a Java shop – show us your skills
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Steve Jobs: Designing Desire
Ask HN: Review our redesigned Landing Page
Hi, my team and I have been working on an employment solutions start-up.

Recently we've redesigned the landing page to give more information about what we are doing without revealing too much.

Link: http://eFolio.me

Any feedback would be much appreciated.
>MacBook Pro is the dream machine for a developer. But if you're not in a hurry, I suggest waiting for a while. Rumors say a 15" Air-ish MacBook Pro is on its way (with fast, quad core processors and 4-8 GB ram).

I have to oppose this. OS X's Mission Control is not at all good for a developer. Not at all as efficient as using some window manager with dedicated and numbered desktops, e.g. Xmonad.

The other thing which annoyed me when I worked with OS X machine was the absence of a good package manager for every application. I had to use my Macbook for work when I was working from home. I had to install GCC and MySQL, which took almost an hour of my precious time. Never had that kind of problems with Arch or Ubuntu.
I agree with you. Hard work drastically improves your chances. But there are indeed times when people hit the silicon valley lottery. I suspect marc andreessen's secretary's peers were just as hard working as she was.

Maybe he is indeed an exceptional CEO. If you rank CEO's by quality, I suspect the top half of the list has better things to do than fumble around on twitter Saturday afternoon.
Moving the mouse to the left (I am right-handed) alleviated about half the pain I had in my right shoulder and hand.
The problem with encryption is that, as far as I'm aware, it doesn't hide the sender/recipient information. You might not be able to read the content, but intelligence agencies are just as interested in who is communicating with whom as they are in the content of the messages.

Oh, and we have a law in the UK which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by 2-5 years in prison, to refuse to hand over the private key so that your data can be decrypted. :(
Terminal emulators that rely only on copy-on-select to copy terminal text.
Pierce branded a potential employer "evil" because of a minor detail in his contract

That's not true. This is the reason he gave:

An evil company is trying to get rich quick, and has no regard for the harm they're doing along the way. It's not making things of value, it's chasing a gold rush. An evil game company isn't really interested in making games, it's too busy playing a game -- a game with the stock market, usually. It views players as weak-minded cash cows; and it views its developers as expendable, replaceable tools to create the machines that milk those cows.
Is there anywhere I can look at that has actual events just to get an idea of the UI?

You seem to have a pretty massive chicken and egg problem going on, I'm not seeing any events for my home city Nottingham nor London, New York or San Francisco.

If you want feedback on the UI, give us somewhere to go with events. If you're trying to get users (seeing as this is the 5th time you've posted it here), focus on a city and promote to them directly. At the very least if you're posting it here packing events in the bay area is your best shot as the most users of HN come from there from the last poll I remember.
You know, this guy just sold his company for ~$200MM -- I'm going to believe that he took several thousand and bought a shitload of coke and was high as a kite when he tweeted this - while saying to himself "There it is, my tweet. There is NO WAY this was a bad idea!"
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Logout functionality in Java web applications
Really like the use of page visibility API for putting the game on pause. Wasn't sure of a good use case for it but this definitely counts.

Nicely done!
Running a SaaS business while employed?
I'm trying to get a basic idea of what the legal situation would be here.

If I started a SaaS business (i.e, monthly subscription for a web application), and later got a job, would the employer have rights to code updates to the web application? (and thus partial rights to the application)

How can I continue to run a web application business that I developed previously, if I become employed? Thanks for any advice.
Thanks! I will take a look. Another goal was to reduce the barrier to entry. I wanted it to be easy to use even for non developers or non technical people. That's why I was trying to build it purely in html/css/javascript and without any backend support. Modify resume.json and upload the files to any webhost and you have your portlio site up.
I'd be afraid that letting a kid hammer away with a modal editor might accidentally reformat the hard drive or something.... But seriously, wouldn't you get better results with a plain, non-modal editor?

Any interesting results so far? Any interest in publishing his ``commits''?
This is especially useful if you're on a laptop, especially a ThinkPad with the pointing stick. If you're doing something like Photoshop, it's nice to have one pointer near the tools and another near the work surface - it makes switching tools much faster (especially if you don't know the keyboard shortcuts that well.)
In case anyone else was wondering why it is still "is" and not "iz" in Simpel Fonetik, and how they justify "sh" as being composed of "s" and "h", the FAQ actually answers that.

I disagree about the 's', but otherwise I like it.

German's most newbie-ish computer magazine, Computer Bild, actually uses a pretty system to explain the pronunciation of IT terms to the layman.
Ask HN: Admob practices
I have been using admob ads in both ways: inserted into my android app and to advertise the app itself. After launching an update to my app, I wanted to run some ads again to drive traffic. I had noticed that people would actually download the app after clicking to it before, and I had wanted to drive the downloads up to over 500 from the 350 it was at now.

One of the things I had done in the update was to remove ads from the free version of the app and to stop feature updates to the free version. I was making no money on the ads ($1.47 in total) and as it was slowing down the loading of the screen, I decided to remove it altogether.

Funnily enough, the new ads never got approved. I suspect that this has to do with me removing the ads from the app and claiming as much in my "what's new" section, but of course I can't substantiate this. All ads were copied from an older ad that had successfully run and had itself been a copy of a previous one. None of the new ads were run and no info was given to me. The ads has at least 3 days notice (4 in one case). The approval time is said to be a max of two days.

None of my emails seem to be registering on the admob site, and I can't get in touch with anyone.

Does anyone have any recommendations or similar experiences with admob? I have had no problems in the past, but now I am irritated that the ads did not run and there is no way for me to get a refund or to get in touch with anyone there at all.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have used Location without a problem, I don't know why you would ask the GPS for the time anyway.
Anyone out there with tips for arthritis?

My mother has it in her fingers and now that I'm approaching 30 I can feel it starting to develop, especially after a long day or when the office gets cold.
Maybe because it's effectively free to duplicate said property without depriving the original owner of it? Intellectual property to physical property is apples to uranium. Our economic system is out of date in many aspects and needs an overhaul.
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Of course, editors should be using the ligature (unicode character LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ). But having said that: I'm Dutch and a) I have never used that character and b) I have no idea how to write it on a keyboard.
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