skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geller's source seems like some kind of Windows Phone astroturfer: "The source went on to say, “Take on Windows Phone and negotiate with Microsoft. You need BBM on Windows Phone"

Wut? Windows phone is a non starter that Microsoft needed Nokia to save at all, and even that hasn't panned out positively yet for either of them.

RIM should have rallied around Android years ago, and still should today. Build the Blackberry ecosystem on top of Android and you'd be getting somewhere awesome.
Apple May Give Up "Thermonuclear War" With Android
State machines are excellent, but this comes up every so often on HN and I've come to respect the observation that state machines become very difficult to change.

They particularly rock for games, where the universe is unlikely to suddenly add new interactions or change fundamental laws, but in an evolving business application with requirements that perpetually jag, they can be a source of great pain.

EDIT: After thinking about this a bit more, I realize the state machine use is in reference to an API, which probably should be approached with a certain sense of immutability. I still think that in general, using them outside of games should be approached with serious fore-thought to the potential for change in your requirements.
I think it is. The trees are exactly the right height. I'm kidding :) There is a lot here, just not people, which is why I came. I wanted more trees, more rivers to canoe, more lakes to relax by. You can find that in upstate NY, too, but I already had family and friends back here, so upstate was out.
Reminds me a little of xkcd: http://xkcd.com/488/

[Use your real or fake name]

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(fake) (Real)

\/ \/

[You put your content on [You put your content on google+]

your wordpress blog] |

\/ \/

[Google G+ flags your account]

| |

\/ \/

[You create a new fake account] [You spend days desperately trying to get something back]

\/

[Google ignores you because you are not well-known.]

\/

[You create a new fake account]

Violet Blue had her account flagged as not being real.

First Name: "Violet" - well my niece is named Violet.
Last Name: "Blue" - as in Allen Blue (Co-founder of LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ablue )

This is why I refuse to use Google+ the flowchart only leads to account being banned. I am moving more and more content off of google systems simply because Google has this ban policy that puts content at risk.

On the other hand if you don't sign up to Google+ then your content hosted is less at risk. However, soon I am sure this will not be an option. Try to sign up for a gmail account now to see what I mean.
A country in South East Asia with 200 millions people and probably 10 millions of them are BB users would probably disagree with you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17521908
+1 - Nothing like being able to show a client who's got a billion dollar idea that his site can handle 10M users for $15/mo.

Just remember to explain all the caveats that are being discussed here. We're nothing without out integrity. Your client won't be listening to that point though, he'll only be excited he's going to be a billionaire for $15/mo.
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Having the talk is great, but don't forget that some people have latex allergy and latex condoms can be uncomfortable. Of course, there are a great many materials for condoms, so all is not lost.
Breaking the internet with your javascript sounds a little like the "IP-Tracking in VB-GUI" thing.. wish his blog was a little more stable.
I don't need to do that.. I just need to point out that by picking an example of what one or more communists did or said doesn't make their actions a part of communism.

Priceless! Where's my MasterCard?

For the record, Paul Graham kills hundreds of thousands of persons of color every year. All these capitalists are the same. Fred Wilson is walking down the street, sees some poor black homeless person he doesn't like... blam! He needs an extended magazine just to walk to work. And sells the organs, too - where do you think all this money comes from? But you never hear about it - our capitalist society is just so callous, you know, to the plight of the underprivileged.

I know there are communists out there who can spell "fascist." I just wish one of them would take my bait...
Pizza v. Pizza - Real Life UX:
Apple is an interesting case because they effectively threw away everything and started fresh with their newly acquired technology and people.

There are some parallels with RIM's QNX acquisition, but RIM seems to be afraid to throw away the old. You can't milk the cow and have it on the barbecue too.
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yes, the advantage is RIM's software establishes a private/public key encryption channel directly between your internal exchange servers and the BlackBerry devices, meaning nobody, be it the carrier or government can eavesdrop on the transferred data. Phones also store the data encrypted and can be remotely wiped, in case a device is lost.

The thing is, that is kinda paranoid and normal businesses don't really need that kind of security. But when BlackBerry's were one of the coolest devices out there and also the most "secure" ones, RIM's sales-reps had an easy time selling them to a lot of companies. Again, not that they needed that kind of security, but more security is always good, and the device is cool, so why not, right? :)

Nowadays, this doesn't work that well anymore, because the people working at companies are just like normal people and just want to use the coolest devices. CEOs and managers are usually the first ones to demand that their iPhone works on the internal network, and suddenly the whole BlackBerry advantage isn't all that important any more.

I think the market of business who really need the kind of security RIM provides is a very small one.
Looks like this letter is 1973, the book 1981. His ultimate point is that he wasn't exploiting the letter for attention. 8 years after the incident, I think it's safe to claim the potential for exploitation is gone.

EDIT: Oh, you mean you took him literally, that he didn't even have his own copy. Well:

"And no copies of this letter have been sent to anybody else. You now hold the only copy in your hands."

It sounds like this could imply that he could be holding onto a copy himself. Interesting point, why would you do that if you didn't mean to exploit it, at least eventually? Or maybe he just likes to hold on to things for records.
Generally it's a description of a function missing a lot of details that make it useful. Consider, a waterbed needs to be close to persons body temperature and not room temperature to be comfortable. So if you actually built and patented a 'modern' waterbed for sale you would patent a temperature control system + plastic bag filled with water. So a description of a comfortable bed filled with water that allowed people to float to reduce the risk of bedsores would not include such issues.

However, Heinlein was not starting from scratch, people had been building them for 60 years and he actually described a lot of the details normally left out. Temperature control, safety, leaks, water level, floor load etc. So when someone tried to patent improvements their was prior art for both waterbeds and the obvious improvements to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed#Heinlein_descriptions
Some people argue that their keyboard is also one of the advantages.

For those who carries BB around and "on-call" would probably agree: productivity boost.
Nice bell curve there.
yes, i believe environment is a factor in how much things get done. simply having to show something weekly to your peers is an easy way to accomplish that.

i imagine something a little bit more structured, but not as formal as ycombinator, with the same group of startups coming each week. there exists other groups for regular gathering to talk code, eat, socialize, demo.

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.
While I agree that I hate interfaces with one method, what about interfaces that actually define several methods (e.g. - perhaps a driver for something that needs to do operations like "open", "close", "get", "put")?

Interfaces still serve a purpose bundling together related operations with replaceable implementations. They're just a nuisance for single-purpose functions/functors (e.g. - "run").
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I'm sure cabbage truck designers pay a lot of attention to the cabbage loss rate... Look how much effort was put into the design of shipping containers.
David Foster Wallace's take on this was that my own reality is so overpoweringly real, that it's hard to see you (or anyone else) as real.

everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self-centredness, because it's so socially repulsive.... Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real....

The remedy he proposed:

[Instead:] if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her little child in the checkout line - maybe she's not usually like this; maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of her husband who's dying of bone cancer, or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the Motor Vehicles Dept who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a nightmarish red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also not impossible - it just depends on what you want to consider.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/20/fiction?cat=books&...

What works for me sometimes in dealing with customer-service folk is to ask them what they would do in my position.
I suspect it is significant that Kip Hawley is former administrator. He is no longer being paid to stick to the party line in the face of reason and fact. A debate with the current administrator would be a display of colossal stupidity.
make sure to check out http://elm-lang.org

it's not what you are searching for but it might be fairly easy to turn it into what you describe.

the creator of elm-lang, Evan Czaplicki, told me he'll opensource it rather soon. of all functional-JS buzz out there, this one makes most sense to me.
"so I don't know what the latest, greatest is ... By terrible, I mean relative to 2012"

Might want to tweak that statement
I just asked a question on gamedev.stackexchange.com about the canvas tag and matrix rotation, care to take a crack at it for me? :)

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/26491/matrix-rota...
You need to relax, buddy!
Do you want to work on CS or software engineering?

I think you'll find many computational biology companies have software engineering job postings that don't require any biology background,
https://www.23andme.com/about/jobs/
http://www.nanoporetech.com/careers/job-centre/view/91

Since you're reading that textbook it seems like you want to work on new algorithms for computational biology. In that case, you'll want to get a higher degree in bioinformatics.
Looks like he won! https://twitter.com/#!/vaughanjones82/status/185734936509157...

"Case struck out and claimant to pay £75k"
While the sentiment is understandable, this solution is technical drivel. The concern is security, and could be solved by further restricting permissions in the browser. Anyone familiar with computabiliy would know that changing the language will not help. You could improve the situation today with a restrictive browser plugin.
America and Europe do at least. Use the "Report a Problem" link when looking at your house on Street View.
Who said that CS is the science where everything is solved with an extra level of indirection?

Looks like David Wheeler made the statement that I think you're referring to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2057503/does-anybody-know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_%28computer_scien...
Next episode: Don't break your site with HN.
Which would harm outsiders and new creators while giving an advantage to corporations that knew the rules and could afford to play the game.

Publishers would be only too willing to pay registration rates that independent creators could never afford. It would allow them to never pay original authors for their copyrights in favor of simply waiting them out and plucking the work out of the public domain once the creator had given up.

If you thought "work for hire" was bad today, imagine what it would look like if publishers all knew that independent creators were likely only a year or two away from not even having that copyright with which they currently negotiate.
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Give us a second, the server running the blog was apparently queued for a rackspace migration. Should be golden soon.
I agree completely. First 14 years: free. Beyond that start raising the price. Registration only kicks in once you have to start paying...
6 Ways Spotify Could Improve Its Mobile User Experience
It's well known, of course, that two wrongs make a right.
It's also well known that all white people have rich, powerful parents. (Wasn't that a Dave Chappelle skit?)
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Second best is usually still damn good.
The comments seem to have degenerated into a debate about the merits of IQ tests, but I wanted to say thank you for a beautiful and uplifting story.
That's not even the story for most big companies. Consider Apple, Microsoft, Toyota, Honda and Ford.

In most cases "build great product first then focus on profit later" means you run out of money before anyone buys enough of your product for you to get back in the black.
This will still favor sophisticated creators/content owners.

I see the advantage of your system when coupled to an increasing price for maintaining registration (it would flatten the plot in the original submission). But I don't see the advantage over the solution of a short-term copyright: your system would basically keep out of the public domain important works that already benefited the content owners more than enough...
"The only way to win this game is not to play" - "Joshua" war games

The real route is to not use Google+
It doesn't seem condescending to me, I think the people being moderated are just taking it too personally and can't believe that they unwittingly committed a faux pas.
Burning a book (good or bad) is the lowest form of expression humans can stoop to. If people understood the fact that a book is simply a personification of ideas, and ideas good or bad, cannot perish in a fire, the will realize the folly of engaging in a futile act like burning a book.

One of the inevitable consequences of the digital revolution will be that, there will come a time, when a controversial book will be published exclusively in digital format with no physical copies to burn. I don't know if this necessarily good or bad, but the fact that idiots can't burn a book will provide me some amount of pleasure.
For sure :-), we've had many HN articles, I wonder what was up with wordpress.
Endless scroll design patterns
Still rather deceitful of Mr. Vonnegut.
it's definitely an advantage, and many people (like myself) prefer it. A lot people who suggest it's an advantage definitely over estimate it. It's not a make or break feature.
this is garbage... registration is disguised as a subscription for a hefty sum, if you register for free subscription you only get a "teaser" PDF ... don't bother
Number 2 is oddly specific. Who uses FTP anymore anyway? (btw, those of you downvoting, STOP using FTP. seriously. Just stop.)
What we need is music, music and diagrams...
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My blog is not that popular with millions of visits of a month but it's decent enough to choke and die under most shared hosting. Well, I once setup my Wordpress Blog to run on Linode's cheapest server with nginx, wp-cache, and all the jazz. But then I kinda remained tense most of the time and even minor instances at the wrong time give me the bumps.

Now, I use Page.ly and CloudFlare in the front (WPEngine is an equally good host and I'm considering for another Wordpress Setup of mine) and I don't even care about the host, I just care about my blog and how to update it with articles. It's costlier but it comes with it's reward.
Twitter Breaks Copy/Paste on tweet pages
Go to any individual tweet like the link below and try to copy the text. It won't let you. This behavior doesn't exist if you try to copy from the front page.

https://twitter.com/#!/fredwilson/status/185755195735687168

Why do sites break standard behavior? Is it really that unreasonable that users would want to quote a tweet? This is just as bad as news sites that alter the text copied.
As someone who has written apps for blackberry devices: they brought it on themselves.

Their platform is a nightmare to code for, and they are unwilling or unable to fix it.
April 1st in two days, but I guess some people can't wait ;)
I think it actually is a live counter. I fired up HTTPFox and the page keeps sending requests to a URL containing "stream.thenextweb.fyre.co/livecountping/" - it appears to be intermittently polling for a new count, but I didn't notice it actually increment when I read the site the first time, and I'm not interested in monitoring it now to be sure.
IIRC it's wasn't Knight Ridder per se; it was a one-person skunkworks inside Knight Ridder that the execs didn't listen to.
The bottom line is, if you are selling a paid app, iOS is the way to go.

This conclusion from a single app is very weak at best.

Otherwise, thank you for the write-up from your experience.
Covers and remixes are no different than derivative works of books, plays or film. Copyright should be universally applied to all creative works.

That said I do like the idea of a potentially staggered coverage. Perhaps 0-X: monopoly. X-Y: compulsory licensing. Y+: attribution

Particularly because music already enjoys compulsory licensing and it seems to work fine. And attribution seems like the right thing to do, regardless of the age of the work.
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I think you may be confused on the meaning of 'perpendicular'
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xcode photo was just removed, and intern probably fired. stolen background image still in use.
Do you mean like Cyberduck or something?

http://cyberduck.ch/
Yeah I considered PUB/SUB as another alternative, and it makes sense to use it for realtime applications, but I'm not sure what else (due to my ignorance, not necessarily PUB/SUB limitations). As for RPC, isn't SOAP the successor to that?
How long did it take you to learn how to program?
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There is a lot of issues. Maybe not so much UI related, but a lot of menus, workflows, etc., are just too complicated. The BlackBerry key is essential to the UX and so are shortcuts for powerusers. But for the average end user consumer, this is a poor UX. I don't have any problem with using BlackBerry, but there are definitely some issues. And even if you don't think the BlackBerry UX is horrible, the iPhone in many people's minds is superior - and that's all that matters.

UX is actually an interesting story at RIM. They made some interesting strides and had a nice empirically based approach towards improving the UX. Upon the acquisition of TaT, though, it appears they've ditched that approach and are giving the designers free reigns - very similar to what Google did with their recent redesign IMO.
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You want tech, diversity, ideas, women? Come to LA! The startup culture in Southern California is very strong now.
How to get 200+ comments without saying anything: ask people about their favorite food

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Firefox 12.0
Safari Version 5.1.4 (7534.54.16)

They must have fixed it.
If your stomach lining cells stop dividing for a few weeks, you digest yourself and bleed out through an ulcer. If your bone marrow cells stop dividing for a few weeks, you bleed to death or die of infections. Location matters.
As a young person in their early 20s, I think it makes sense for him to try his luck in NYC or SF and live that life for a while when his skills are in demand there. Once he's ready to settle down, move somewhere more friendly to that way of life. Better to do it now than regret not doing it later.

Austin, Boston, Boulder, Seattle, or Portland are all towns where one can settle down and raise a family without having to settle for a corporate 9-5 gig since there's vibrant startup/tech communities in these cities too. The option is always there and is especially attractive once you've got the Bay Area or NYC experience under your belt.
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Thanks very much for this. Great stuff.
I know personally I keep copies of every letter I send, simply to refer back to if and when the recipient responds to me; it's useful to know what questions I asked when the answers come in.
Finally a unified Python solution for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 (oh and Ofly) consumers
I worked in a FAMOUS PRIVATE BANK once. We used to get the business heads to come and speak to us about their area. One week it was the head of fund management.

"We do this type of fund, and that type of fund... But that's just for the clients. If it's your own money buy Index Trackers."
The version I heard here:

http://www.radiolab.org/2008/dec/29/how-to-cure-what-ails-yo...

linked the practice to doctors' misunderstanding of the cause of SIDS (crib death). It's interesting to learn where they came up with that misunderstanding.

Edit: In this case, they were actually irradiating the thymus gland.
Why do creators create..?

The same reason:

- Why painters paint.

- Why writers write.

It's nice to see some science behind this, I hope though it doesn't feed a habit of wanting to understand our own desire and need to create in lieu of creating.
wow, you think engineers don't date? hahahah how naive can you get.
This is an interesting take that I had not expected to read when going to this comments section, but you're absolutely right. But this applies to almost everything. Every time I read a report of a sanctioned (non-criminal) or poorly evaluated public school teacher, I think of my friends who are teachers: how they've had to juggle everything in their personal lives in addition to the emotional and physical drain that comes from being passionate about teaching children, especially if the school's administration is terrible.

After that, it's harder to judge the teacher in question, knowing that there could've been any number of strains that led to a troublesome incident or poor performance report.
> Well, actually, in C# struct instances ARE objects allocated on the stack, instead of the heap.

You have it backwards, they're not value types because they're allocated on the stack, structs are allocated on the stack because they're value types.

See Eric Lippert's article "The Stack is an Implementation Detail": http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/04/27/the-s...
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