skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. I'm not so interested in arguing about the nuances of what REST really is. Even Leonard Richardson gracefully sidesteps the arguments by talking about resource oriented architecture.

The part the interestes me most is documenting the parameters so that web services can better understand how to work with each other, instead of someone like me pouring over the docs and writing mundane glue code to tie Twitter search features into a service.
'Had a dream I was king, I woke up, still king' -Eminem
I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculous thing I've read on HN in a while. Those lyrics are hilarious and if they inspire you do do anything significant in your life then you need to step back and re-examine a few things in your life.
Best short-term reply is probably something agreeing that the quoted response from their representative, if accurate and complete, was dangerously vague for a matter as critical as account suspension for TOS violation, which they take very seriously for important reasons, yadda yadda. This matter will be investigated, and we hope to resolve to everyone's satisfaction. Love, CEO.
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Manage a website with git and mirror it on GitHub
qualifying would have been easy... the time the other rounds are at are not compatible.
In my experience, you can't really try to be good friends with someone - like with love, it's more about finding this special person (or a couple of them if you're lucky) with which the friendship seems effortless and just works naturally for both of you.

My advice is - in spite of previous dissapointments, you shouldn't give up on people, but keep on looking for this "natural" match. IMO, for most people, having a true friend [1] introduces more happiness than any professional/financial success, so it's definitely something worth pursuing.

[1] Bonus points if that true friend is also your spouse.
Most UK universities don't teach compilers for CS.
Thanks for sharing this, Josh!

I absolutely agree with Nikos' approach to teaching programming young learners without using an actual code. If we teach kids the idea of programming early - it will then be much more intuitive for them to pick up the language formalities later. Because by that time, such a fundamental question as "why" is already answered in practice.

In other words, the time for a real language comes as an actual need that has been experienced in practice and doing. And that makes all the difference in understanding what you need and why.

It's all over the web that more and more parents and teachers come to appreciate the idea of teaching kids to code. But the problem is that they don't know where to even begin or what tools to use. As a result, kids looking to learn programming today are faced with two main extremes:

(1) storytelling, game dev, and animation programs; and
(2) real-world languages or tools based on IDEs;

Programs in the first category are all fine, except for cases when the app is too compute-intensive, or 3D objects are clumsy or rough-looking (but these problems are just temporary).

But those using real-world IDEs to introduce programming are effectively training young pilots on real fighter jets. Such tools seem too complex and intimidating even for experienced computer users. What they really ought to be using is a "flight simulator", but currently there are too few tools that allow to do that and all pretty limited.

Even when we have something that useful it makes absolute sense to use physical games in the gym to introduce the notion of composing instructions for something/someone else (a parent-robot in Nikos' case :)

Nikos, thanks for sharing your work, and congrats on joining Knewton!

Hope you don't mind me including a link to videos of your class once again:

https://www.facebook.com/drtechniko
Are pets allowed?
November 2nd is Look for Circles Day
she uses Google+ to stay in touch with other family members online (< 10)

What I don't understand is if you want to stay in touch with a small group of close acquaintances/family why not use email? It's vastly easier to use than any "social network"
I'd personally like to see some form of JSON-RPC catch on, which could then be used here.
16,000 Dollars For 3 Exciting Weeks - Getting a Loan VS a Used Car
Google started their life with a simple UI that anyone could use. You simply entered keywords into a textbox and hit the enter key.

Suddenly all their new stuff is too complicated. Google+ and Google Listen are painful to use.
Our Heartquake back in '94 had a flyby sequence over a voxel landscape. The path was predesigned, but you could take control at any moment by pressing keys or the mouse. I thought more demos would incorporate such optional interactivity in more subtle ways and more types of effects (ours was kind of obvious), but it didn't happen.
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Why don't we spend effort on building an ES:Harmony -> ES3 compiler rather then a CoffeeScript -> ES3 compiler.

It's more worthwhile future facing project.
Probably the best comment I've ever read on YC. Very well said. Thank you.
It seems to work pretty well for my music library (where I have lists with artists and albums).

That said, I appreciate being able to instantly go to all artists or albums that start with a certain letter, either by pressing a key on the keyboard or by taping on the index on iOS devices.

I’m not sure how things like that can be improved to not make them a list. Search is always a possible alternative, but to me search is a fundamentally different way of looking at my music. If I search I already know what I want, if I scroll through the list I don’t and I’m looking for something.
Anyone know how this is working on iOS Mobile Safari?
>Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's partner) has kept a long-running list of psychological tendencies that commonly affect people's judgment. There's one item on this list that he's termed "Availability-Misweighing Tendency." In a nutshell, it's an observation that people tend to overweigh extra-vivid evidence, which (necessarily) means under-weighing evidence that isn't so vivid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

>a long-running list of psychological tendencies that commonly affect people's judgment.

These are usually called cognitive biases. Wikipedia has a long list, though Charlie's may be longer. (I haven't seen it.)
The post is missing the most important point.

Instagram would not be worth $1B to Facebook if it has not raised a large round. Without the resources to fuel the expansion, build out the product, develop an application platform, invest in revenue team and so on Instagram would be in no position to threaten Facebook. As soon as the funding closed Facebook was suddenly facing a viable threat in mobile vs. just another resource-starved startup hanging onto dear life.

So it is pretty questionable to assume that Instagram itself "pulled an Instagram". They raised Series B because that was the deal that could happen first. Once it happened the environment changed and Facebook saw the need to take Instagram off the table.

If anything, the point is to avoid trying to pull "uncertain multi-step transactions". Use various strategic alternatives to create urgency / better terms for other alternatives, choose between the options you can get and focus on optimizing your immediate next step.
Would love to see a new issue of hacktic.nl
The "rise" in multiple micro networks is a result of people becoming faster and more efficient in how they use their mobile devices. I think this will be an ongoing problem for all of them - it's hard to monetize eyeballs that are on your site or app for a few moments before they leave again.
Another point to consider is that you can rarely get away with building a native mobile app alone. Unless you create a beautiful utility that is a standalone experience, you'll want to be able to re-engage users via email and perhaps spread the word via Facebook or Twitter, and that requires that you have a regular website for people to land on, and perhaps interact with your app a little bit to increase the chances that they'll download it.
I had felt that the degradation of HN was overstated. Until now.
> With all due respect we're not talking about kids across the street here.

That was the only analogy I could think of when comparing guitarists. I didn't mean to equate both you and myself to famous programmers as children, but that's the best I could do in 5 min. My point was just to show that Yehuda isn't some average unknown panhandling for money. He's well known and he's already given a lot to the community and not to just Ruby.
> This growth is despite Android’s so-called fragmentation problems. Android’s share is growing because the carriers have flexibility in how they distribute it and end users could not care less about ‘fragmentation’. That is a problem for developers, sure, but it is not affecting adoption by end-users.

a) developers who develop on Android rarely develop for all fragmented versions (or skew releases to not support old versions - the fragmentation does take resources and the effect shrinks your market) so grouping them together is kind of a misnomer - though I get it, and b) android apps still tend to make much less money than iOS apps. So there are lot more dimensions missing to that analysis, especially if this is targeted to developers.

> But what about the next 5-10 years? Won’t all these native features be incorporated into HTML6? Perhaps current features like camera access will be, but I bet that by that time there’ll be a ton of new device types and underlying features that aren’t.

Web technologies have always been playing catch up, and I'll take that bet.

> It’s not possible to create Instagram with HTML5

But it was possible to create facebook with it, which is worth 100x Instagram. This point is irrelevant in every way except the recent news.

I agree with your overall point, but you overreach on a lot of your arguments. Seems like you just wrote it to write it.
Twitter want the data so they decided you have to wrap in t.co. They dont care about indirection. Though they could try to undo other shortners.
A big part of staying in touch is sharing photos, and video calling. Especially, if you live far away from your family.
"Amazon has the potential to be like that predatory big box retailer on a global scale."
Amazon is not so good at global (compared to other big internet businesses anyway)
It only really works in a selected few countries/languages (US + Canada China France Germany Italy Japan Spain United Kingdom, as the site tells us)

Another interesting question arising from that is: What are countries/languages which has no Amazon are going to do? They don't have monopoly, but they perhaps also lag behind in e-book sales, suffering from the lack of synergy and convenience provided by amazon website + readers + applications + 3rd party support.
haha, well, you might be right on that -- however, overdoing it might come across as insincere...
I added an option to keep the leaderboard window open.
rather more extensive and general, but somewhat related book (Producing Open Source Software): http://producingoss.com/a
At Iguana we even had a QA department!

But yeah it was nothing like a startup because there were no responsibilities or requirements, everyone just did whatever they wanted, when they wanted, how they wanted, and if it gelled into a demo, then great. It was all about exploring shared interests and having fun.
That might be a quite distant future. See:

"Unsupported features" at https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/FAQ

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/451

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/64

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/322
Afterparties have been great to me. I've made a lot of good connections and had a lot of doors opened for me that couldn't have happened during a lightning talk. Talking over drinks really makes it easier to speak confidently about oneself.
might I ask how you ended up on those travels? job related or free-time?
In either case: I'd be grateful for some details!
As far as I can tell, there are no more of these kinds of parties at conferences than there were 10 years ago.

Excluding academic conferences, I don't think programmers drink and more or less than other professionals at conferences.
By comparison to the music industry, Hell itself is populated by saints.

If the best you can say about an industry is that it's not as bad as the music business, well...
In my experience drinking hasn't been conducive to being a good programming/problem solver. I don't have the mental stamina to finish a program when I'm hungover.
> Instagram is used as an example in the deck itself. Thing is, Instagram kind of relies on you to be able to take photos using the camera on your mobile device, and you can’t do that in HTML5!

Must not have heard of Media Capture: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/

It won't be long before most browsers support this including mobile safari, it's just a matter of time.

I used to think this way but media capture, file API, location API, WebGL and toolkits like Sencha Touch, will narrow the gap so much most apps will just fine a chrome-less web-clip on iOS and indistinguishable from a native app.
Not everyone lives in cities surrounded by mega bookshop/cafes, prior to Amazon, if I wanted a book I had to order it from the library, pay $2 and pick it up after a 50 minute drive to town. ditto if I wanted to buy a book it was $15-$30 and a 50 minute drive and a really small choice unless I ordered and waited another 2 weeks. (Prices converted from NZ$ to US$) - Amazon delivered actual real books from the US to NZ for less than that and the kindle moves me now to a level playing field with the rest of the world and no trees cut down or gas guzzled in the process.

Seriously I've been stuffed ridged on price for the past 30 years by book sellers and publishers, and as much as I hate corporate evil, I dont consider amazon has done anything evil (yet), and if anything they have delivered payback in the form of a large kick in the nuts to the big publishing houses. If these people envy Amazons business model then make a better one and stop fucking whinging!
The meeting people part makes up for any lost money anytime!
The point with Android is that developers will follow what consumers adopt. They'll put up with Android fragmentation in the same way they put up with the App Store approval process - because they have to.

Facebook have listed mobile as a risk in their S-1. When they started they didn't have the mobile risk.

> I agree with your overall point, but you overreach on a lot of your arguments. Seems like you just wrote it to write it.

I don't think I'm over-reaching. What are the arguments that you would present resulting in the same conclusion that aren't over-reaching?
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http://www.robertacaro.com/NYer.html

A sample of Caro's writing. His work was unknown to me before reading the links here.
> it's just a matter of time

Sure. But if you're developing now you have to deal with what you've got - the Instagram founders did not say "we'll wait for this to become standardized".
The relevant question is not "what is Instagram worth" but rather "what should it be worth." That is, we already know that Facebook values Instagram at $1B; the question is whether that valuation makes sense.
this!!
I know this is a bit off in a tangent, but after spending a week with the Range API and contenteditable, the frustration is truly immense .. it is truly astounding that file upload and rich text editing, yes, two of the most basic things, are not really solved problems on the web.
It's amazing.
But also kind've exciting :)
Works well on my 4S, although sometimes it can get choppy.
Best job of 2012... Software engineer (is this really true?)
How to install mosh on Amazon EC2
Is that actually true? Are there more developers on Android than iOS right now? (Honestly don't know).

Should it be true? It seems like general consensus that the android app store is much harder to make money in than iOS.

Facebook did list mobile as a risk on their S1, but they listed THEIR mobile app as a risk. They are worried that if they put ads on it mobile use will drop significantly. If they listed other mobile stuff as well, I've forgotten and please point it out.
I second that. Sometimes we just forget how fortunate we are and how we take everything for granted. Congrats and a big thank you for sharing this with us, munyukim.
Here’s why: Twitter didn’t have the means.

hey Twitter, I am upset I can't buy you, I'm about $8-$10 billion short. I am really upset.
How most Flash games insert hiscores and why it's not smart (fixed broken link)
Thanks for sharing the link. :)
I don't know much about using that, because I mainly play in the FB app space. It certainly works for some people, I think pinterest is the poster child for that. On the other hand there is something to be said for letting users use as much of your app as possible before logging in, e.g. see reddit where they ask for an account only after you try to rate a link or post a comment.

If you got users already, then congrats! That means you have data, and with data you can make decisions on how to improve the app. The framework I use to evaluate what to do is based on three factors, UA/virals, retention, and monetization. Let's set aside monetization. I'd look at your metrics and see if where you are weak. If you don't have metrics, then that's the first place to start.

For UA/Virals, you want to know what your conversion funnel looks like, for example how many people that land on your app become users, what channels do you get users from, and from there a/b test to make those better. You can also try to have incentivized virals, for instance dropbox gave users more space if they referred a friend. In my world it is inviting the user to get some sort of benefit or unlocking some part of the app. Once you hit upon a strategy that seems like it work, you have to a/b test like crazy because even small changes can have a big impact. If your app monetizes really well, then paid UA can be workable, basically it becomes an arbitrage problem where you try to acquire paying users for a lower cost than they will spend in the app.

For retention, you want to know what the second day retention for your app is. If I have over 10% second day retention I find that workable, above 20% is really great. The retention curve seems to be that 14th day retention is about half of second day retention, so if you get 100 users on day 0 and have a 10% 2nd day retention then you can expect to keep 5 users from that cohort 14 days later.

To boost retention you could improve your app, but that's usually not the low hanging fruit so to speak. Do you do anything to try an reengage your users, such as sending them welcome emails, or other bacon-y emails. If it is a FB app, do you send app-to-user notifications or post stories on their wall? Basically, you need to find a way to reach out to them and get them to come back to the app. It depends on your comfort level, but I don't mind pissing off 80% of my day 0 users if I can get 20% of them to come back, because without being aggressive hardly anyone will come back anyway.
Before I even looked at the comment I could already see the back lash against this article. Hip Hop even the most simplistic is inspirational not so if you ideal life is different from those that make up the core demographic of hip hop. I for one am a entrepreneur, a start up owner, and a programmer who doesn't listen to rock or pop for the same reason some people don't listen to hip hop. Because the songs aren't relatable to me or my life. It's a good article just maybe the wrong dmemographic for it.
How does the Lumia 900 hold up under the magnifying glass of the Ars OpenForums?
The LBJ bios are among my favorite political bios ever. Classics of American History.
Product is King, Long Live the King
Ok, I can respond to this, but what about your agreement with the conclusion, and the arguments that you would make to support it?

No, I would bet that there are not more developers on Android than iOS right now, and more money is being made on iOS. Do you think the gap is widening or getting smaller? Given that Android as an app market didn't exist 2 years ago, I'm betting the latter.
Wikipedia's list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases) is indeed longer. Charlie claims to have about 100 models that he makes use of, but he's only published the ones he finds the most useful, and only a handful of those are cognitive biases.
I'm not sure why that's relevant. Should we not try to improve things just because it's 'always been like this'?
I once thought this but not again. Your family, at least the elders, would more appreciate that you pick up the phone or send postal mail than use technology.

You think it's a big part but you are in fact making that personal connection weaker.

At the very most in the world technology, email would suffice for your family.
There are two ways to make large datasets useful
The Pirate Party is the most digitally-advanced political party in the world. If any entrepreneurs want to fight anti-Internet laws (SOPA, Internet filter, etc) or injustice like this article (surveillance, etc), they're the best party to do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_party

I'm sorry if it's a bit off-topic.
I don't think it is quite fair to call Xcode crashes an Objective-C wart. It has nigh-unto absolutely nothing to do with the language, and you can of course execute the compiler directly.

I'd be interested to know what other things you consider warts - of the language, not the utilities. Apart from blocks (which seem to have a clear, concise syntax: certainly cleaner and more concise than lambdas in C++11.)
Basically what you're saying is that Instagram actually does have the potential to make $1B. Care to ballpark some numbers as to what income your suggested methods of monetization would actually have to produce to make Instagram be actually worth $1B?
Health Care System in India and US
Fake Angry Birds Space game for Android has malware
Sharp rolls out high-res IGZO LCDs destined for tablets, laptops and monitors
A friend of mine beat a speeding ticket once by demonstrating that it was physically impossible for him to have slowed down from the claimed speed and stopped in the location where the officer wrote the ticket.
You certainly can compile iOS apps, with full access to Objective-C and Cocoa, on Linux. The platform does not make a lick of difference when you bring a cross-compiler into the mix.

That is somewhat like saying that OS X being written in Objective-C somehow makes it possible/easier to write iPhone apps (which again, are not at all tied to the runtime or architecture of the host compiler's system).
I noticed before that some times the Safari in iOS (5.1) will send OPTIONS requests. In Rails, the router will simply route them, so they are definitely easy to use, however, the issue is that most apps will handle them as GETs, so it may break things. I rebooted the iPad when it was doing this and the behavior stopped, never finding out why this was taking place. I have not noticed it again.
definitely.

(actually, of the four types of companies i look at as an angel, my two favorite are "markets" and "networks")
LobbyCon is the best action for data ...it's all about the hallways. I will say that lots of folks know each other online so meeting face 2 face is a fun time to bond and party rather than info gathering which conferences are not good for anyway (due to the real time web)

-john furrier
palo alto
They sponsor many of the 5by5 podcasts- Merlin Mann's Back To Work in particular.
Hmm, is this backed by data?

I mean that is it known that in current social networks a life-time value of a person that with 5 strong relationship ties is less valuable over time than a person who has 50 very very weak ties (like most of my Google+ followers, people who I don't know)
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