skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another important aspect of websites that is overlooked in this article is SEO.

Google/Yahoo/Bing are still the jump-off point for most desktop web sessions. Because applications are sandboxed and don't play nice with crawlers, there's still a huge advantage for websites with efficiently structured and persistent information to capture user demand.

While applications do offer significantly improved performance and better payment workflows, an app's infrastructure / OS is unfortunately only as good as the restricted set of people (in the case of private companies, employees) who govern it.

Apple is an amazing company with extremely talented, passionate people and they have built an incredible ecosystem. But they will eventually fade into history, just like everything naturally does.

Luckily, the residue of their design will persist and drive future enterprises to continue to innovate on this front, which in turn will spawn the next generation of zuckerbergs and jobs'.

Essentially, we're witnessing the exact evolution of development ecosystems that we'd expect within our economic constructs. The only danger is that our legal constructs impede the ability for those outside of the walls to extend the technologies to accelerate innovation for the entire industry.
You realize you still pay for shipping, right?
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Short answer: NO.

I remember Jason Calacanis mentioning Kevin was only able to get his first million out of Digg about three or four years after their first round of funding (and well before the Digg 4 fiasco). How is he going to make a billion out of something that isn't even his property?
For me and my sons, mindlessly checking stuff while bored was rooted in health issues. In other words, we were both bored and too ill for something more challenging than passive entertainment. Working on underlying health issues did a lot to change that. Old habits return when we are somewhat under the weather but it isn't a big issue like it once was.

Best of luck.
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I'm not saying apps will kill websites, but we're 5 years into this thing now: Websites will not kill apps. It's not just about performance and hardware access, it's about UI toolkits. Web-based and cross-platform apps just feel different. Even PhoneGap, Titanium, etc. haven't been able to solve this problem. Mobile sites and web-based apps will continue to exist, because it's the right solution some of the time.. but native apps are here to stay.
This is a not-infrequent situation. We have an announcement over the PA system any time an exchange is having technical difficulties. It doesn't happen super often, but I'd say that it happens somewhere in the world one to two times a month.

The exchanges usually bust a bunch of trades that happened right before the outage, depending on the nature of the problem. One would hope that that would be sufficient to prevent abuse for low-risk profits, but I'd probably be the last to know... What happens in Mother Russia stays in Mother Russia.
Master's Degree or Startup?
I'm currently on year 4 of a 5 year bs/ms program a prestigious university in CS. I can graduate now with just an undergraduate degree. I am also part of a startup that has the potential to get seed funding from angels and eventually VCs.

I'm wondering what is the value of finishing up my master's degree compared to graduating early and pursuing my startup. Obviously my choice is highly dependent on the success potential of the startup, but does anyone know the added value of a masters in cs?
No it's not. Metallic Gallium is not considered poisonous.

I mean, I wouldn't eat it. But incidental handling is not going to hurt you.

There is some dispute on this, but if there is a dispute then that means it can't be very poisonous.

This is accurate: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/gallium+safety
This one is actually pretty good, slashdot has it moments... Both of these are good for general programming news bits not specific to particular languages.
Aviva Investors Accidentally Fires Entire Company Via Email
That's a fascinating idea I've been kicking around for a while now. What if a country recruited citizens?

The US almost did in a way at the end of WW2 and we more or less got a space program out of it.
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If I knew someone who was in a hard place, and they were stuck in a rut about how terrible their life was because of their parents/race/class background/asshole boss/whatever, I'd parrot your advice to them. When individuals believe they have the ability to effect change in their own life, they become more able to. This is borne out by statistics and experience.

I question, though, whether that spiel is appropriate here. Most people who haven't met success and are stuck in that blaming-external-factors rut don't post on Hacker News.

In an abstract sense, a sufficiently motivated person can accomplish nearly anything. But I use the phrase "sufficiently motivated" purposefully, because that kind of person bears a resemblance to the fabled compiler. It's true that there are a series of actions that can lead an unprivileged person to whatever level of success you imagine. More than that, such an unprivileged person exists, at least often enough to be relevant. But it passes over key structural issues by pushing all responsibility to the individuals who are stuck in some unhappy situation and ignores the reality that the average person can't be expected to have above-average judgment and motivation.

Taking the point to the extreme: Frederick Douglass was born a slave and worked himself up to the point where he was a world renowned intellectual. Diocletian was born a slave but eventually became Emperor of Rome.* Despite those facts, it's not controversial to say that we can't blame slaves for their misfortunes, even though through enough perseverance and skill it was theoretically possible for any slave to end up in a tolerable place.

For an individual seeking success, it's best to focus on yourself and self-improvement. But that fact doesn't change the reality that some people have to focus an exceptional (and unrealistic) amount on self-improvement in order to get what comes to other people with little effort.

* Interestingly enough, the ancient Romans practiced manumission for their best slaves with some regularity, holding up the freedman as an example of what a slave could achieve if he worked hard enough for his master.
I would love to read something about how this works.
This may sound crazy, but there are people drawn to accounting or insurance who are simply numerate, who love numbers and precision and carefully designing rules that accomodate the fascinating special cases of the real world, and who do enjoy that kind of work. It sounds dreary and gray, and we like to scoff at it as bean-counting, but it does appeal to a certain detail-oriented mindset that isn't all that far off from some forms of engineering.

Here's another view: Accounting is the instrumentation that lets you make sure the machine (the business) stays calibrated, and that the inputs match up to the outputs.
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No. Apps help complement the websites experience. Like couple of years ago I read that Facebook pages are going to kill business websites. Which will never happen. All these different tools help to complement the user experience.
Similar question asked previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752160

I thought you might be interested in the replies.

Best of luck.
Facebook's first-quarter finances underwhelm as IPO nears
I guess as a non programmer that buys software I am always shocked when programmers advocate that useful software shouldn't have a price.
I agree with this sentiment. There's a certain width in pixels you need before things start to degrade. Most sites are already designed for a vertical scrollbar and almost never for a horizontal one, so even if docking to the right is a better use of screen real estate, if you can't get a comfortable thousand horizontal pixels it's not worth it.
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A simple summary of what I think is going on here:

There is a bit of slight of hand here that makes this look like a CSS3 animation but I'm pretty sure it's not.

Upon initial page load there is a canvas that takes up the background that has the zipper, logo, split input's and buttons on it. On top of that they have real DOM input and buttons.

When you touch the zipper they hide the DOM elements and reveal the underlying canvas. The background page is loaded and the canvas animation proceeds and reveals the background page.
Many providers have customized the OS for the look and feel along with adding their custom apps and settings including locking out tethering. One of the big advantages of 3.0 was it was suppose to provide an easier way to separate out the look and feel out of the OS so the providers didn't need to create a custom OS. This make pushing out updates very difficult.

For example, I worked on an app to be included with the device by the OEM. The OEM had roll a custom OS and kernel to handle their hardware and replace/update the mail and calender app because they are very tied to Google by default. We needed hooks into the the mail and calendar app in ways that are not supported by Google so the OEM also had to add those hooks for us. At this point, we were deep into unsupported territory by Google, but supported by the OEM. These things change unexpectedly with minor OS updates from Google which make them brittle to maintain. An update to a newer OS would be a hell of a lot of work.

All that said, if we could have based off of 3.0 instead of 2.3, many of these issues would not exist because of some abstraction layers added just for this purpose. I expect 4.0 to make that even nicer.
My favorite is still the Les Paul doodle (http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html), closely followed by the Jules Verne doodle (http://www.google.com/logos/verne.html).
SpaceX space station launch on hold [for about a week]
hermes looks similar to fluent.io :) you might have some insight as to how they can improve their app (it's a great app btw)
The nice tone of comments on this thread are why I enjoy HN.

Compare to comments elsewhere (not the same article, but immigration related):

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/historic-wave-...
Yes, Korean is much more difficult to pronounce. Japanese pronunciation is extremely simple: 5 vowel sounds, no dipthongs, and a handful of consonants. The only struggle for me as an English speaker was learning not to blend the sounds together or slur. Otherwise it's a piece of cake.

The biggest difficulty in speaking Japanese, after wrapping your head around the grammar, is learning "The right way" to say something according to your standing with the person you're talking to. There's several layers of social cues that you have to navigate to speak fluently.
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Operation and Hungry Hungry Hippos don't really belong on this list as they are not board games per se, they are games of skill. By this rationale quite a lot of video games are "bad" because they don't fit the criteria for a good board game; of course it doesn't make sense to judge them by that rubric.

It should be noted that they both we created in a time before video games were widely available, so perhaps they are rather quaint in some respects today, but I think the fact that the skill required is different from that required by most video games today causes them to retain enough novelty to still be entertaining.

The author says that without the theme, Operation would be nothing but picking stuff up with tweezers. In fact, that is a game my siblings and I (all firmly in the Nintendo generation) enjoyed very much and spent many many hours doing (in a version called "pick up sticks").
This has so much potential. Could this be the proper bootstrapping of us up there? (Thanks NASA for all the early scouting!)
Definitely. And I suppose I should have clarified; the 'advancing your skill-set' bit was a joke. Or at-least meant to have humour behind it. Sadly the internets doesn't pass off the jovial nature of my voice. :D
Mozilla is just in an unfortunate situation, where Firebug's ground-breaking functionality was duplicated as a first-party feature of other browsers. So now as Chrome Inspector continues to add more and more deep functionality, Firebug is hampered both by being third party code and subsisting on Firefox's addon API.
Nope, not at all! Keep it up. The JavaScript world is blowing up at an increasing rate lately. You'll do well to stick with it for a bit.
"The situation has been recognized as an emergency. Further actions will be announced shortly."

You couldn't pay me enough to be in that war room right now
I believe this is all the code for it: https://gist.github.com/2476246. Line 343 (the $ function declaration) initialized the script and line 363 initialized the canvas element. You're right, not CSS3.

The two image sprites are http://www.google.com.au/logos/2012/sundback12-hp-l.jpg and http://www.google.com.au/logos/2012/sundback12-hp-s.png.
If you get no replies, you might want to elaborate on what you are bringing to the table in terms of skills. Also, e-lance and similar sites come to mind but I am not qualified to say if they would meet your needs. I have done some freelance work online but only as a writer, not a coder, and I have never hired anyone.

Best of luck.
How do I get a job as a space miner?
I didn't realize that when posting the title. There is now a comment clarifying the tabs etc, but that wasn't there (I don't think) when I posted it.
Get the Most Out of Your Board
This NY Times article has a lot more information: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/science/space/in-pursuit-o....

It's wonderful to see people spending huge amounts of money to expand the reach of humanity instead of our capacity for narcissism. Startups like these give me hope for the future.
Go for the masters - it'll be harder to get it later, and if you put in the work, benefits are guaranteed. A startup can go wrong in innumerable ways, so don't get hung up on a particular one.

"Opportunities are like trains - there's always another one coming." - Richard Branson
I can't help but feel that Asimov would be proud.
Well, that's what you get when you hamstring yourself to developing in a daily build of your browser.

Don't get me wrong, I do the same thing, but you have to admit there is a certain dry humor in the fact that you recommended as a best practice to develop exclusively in a cutting edge build of a standards-based browser, only to find that your website is broken in every browser except your development one.
"I suppose I could have used the iframe querystring parameter trick."

How's that work? Pass whatever data you want to process with your web service as URL parameters to the web service src URL of your iframe and it circumvents cross-site-scripting protections?
>> I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism).

I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration. I know lots of them who are opposed to illegal immigration. Interestingly, the people I know most ferociously opposed to the illegals are themselves immigrants, three from China, one from India, and one from France.

And racism has nothing to do with it. They just hate the fact that they came here legally, went thru a lot of trouble to do so, add a lot of value to this country, and then see others who drain the welfare system, etc., get a free pass because they can be expected to vote the "correct" way when they become citizens.

My wife is from China and there's never a week that goes by that she doesn't tell me how wonderful America is. I've lived overseas enough to get a sense of why she says that, but it's still interesting to see the U.S. through her eyes at times.
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I agree with this, but I think we're closer to Pharaonic Egypt than the Enlightenment in terms of code literacy. We're going to be the scribes for a long, long time.
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No Favicon in Address bar of Firefox
... would be nice if I could read the poster. "Account has been suspended" error message.

Sometime after I loaded the landing page but before I could click a link, the account/site went "poof".
Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction
Biometric authentication can be a way out of this difficulty. A fingerprint scanner at the back of a smartphone will be a painless way of logging into anything you want.
Nothing has to kill anything. Sheesh.
Because Google is an advertising company (so is Facebook). It shouldn't be a surprise that advertising is their main source of income. But at least you can point to a multitude of products within which Google places ads, as well as devices and software to provide places to put ads. Facebook, not so much. Yet?
Recently I've been using this method to inject JQuery into pages that may not already have it available, then executing some custom javascript to extract the page contents:

http://www.guru.net.nz/blog/2009/06/screen-scraping-with-jqu...
Radiohead Was Right
"She's obviously incredibly motivated."

I first met Yasmine at StartupWeekend Baltimore. She'd come down from Philly to try and recruit help for her project. She'd been working on an existing startup already, and her idea was an extension of that (but new, so as to fit within the constraints of SW).

Not finding a lot of help, she sat in a corner, by herself, for what appeared to be the entire weekend, plugging away. She would occasionally ask some of us how to get something done in Python or whatever, but single-handedly turned her project into something that was later acquired.

In short, for all the talk about 'not enough women in tech', all I can say is that they're out there, and they're awesome. Hell, half the men I know in tech can't get as much as she does.
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Ramit sethi of I will teach you to be rich once wrote he has a betting label in his email with friends. Bet money with friends about breaking bad habits or forming/maintaining new good ones. Ex. He betted friends who could lose 10 pounds first (or something like that). Good friends hold you accountable and betting money keeps you serious...

Obviously you don't bet the bank....
I certainly don't think it's anyone's place to judge something as a "ripoff" versus "inspired." That is in the heart of the creator. And I think it's ridiculous to judge something on such an extreme binary scale - as either a soul-less copy or an inspired innovation.

Look at Android - it's a "ripoff" of iPhone, and copied much of the design and function. Except it's entirely different. It has created a new, more open and more dangerous ecosystem for applications. It has made iPhone-like functionality available to different markets and fulfilled different requirements. It has lighted the fire of competition under Apple.

While it may annoy you to have "copies" out there, I can guarantee you there was a reason those copies were developed. Nobody spends their hours reproducing existing functionally without some idea of how they will be better in product or distribution, regardless of their ultimate success. They may have been inspired by your work, but almost certainly they saw a need for something better in some way.
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It looks like a neat feat, but it is not really interactive, I think. When I pull it somewhat down and then all the way up again, all while keeping mouse1 pressed, it will still unzip.
Maybe Sergey Brin knows something we don't know and they are trying to stop it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/15/web-freedom...
Not sure how I feel about Google asking me to take its pants off.
Have you considered varying the annotations on your map to help differentiate apartments? Hipmunk did a blog post explaining their approach to this, I think it helps you to read data from the map and makes it more visually interesting.
http://blog.hipmunk.com/1/post/2012/01/the-making-of-hotel-s...
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Kindness: A nice way to bootstrap your box (with chef)
Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?
You're the first one to report a back button issue. Can you give me details on what browser and OS you are using so I can try to duplicate the problem?

Thanks.
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I was going to post a joke about Amazon customer reviews of their favorite alloys, but the review forms are actually a real thing!
May be its also because the rich remain rich only when someone is poor.

Being rich is not just comfortable but also a social status, not everyone likes everybody to be their equals.
Get Bruce Willis involved and put up the Kickstarter page. Take my money.
Too late to edit anyways, but we're both right on this one. SCSS is a Sass syntax. ".scss" and ".sass" are both Sass files. Their docs tend to name the languages in titlecase, and the formats in all caps. That surely won't confuse anyone!
Filtering through news noise
Can someone break it down for me?

Should I use Trigger.io, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, or Sencha for my next app? Also, how much gaming performance might I lose with Trigger.io?

Thanks
Many of those most strongly opposed to illegal immigration also strongly favor a streamlined legal process, for many of the reasons you allude to. This country benefits greatly from immigrants who come to add value (including many illegals). We need a policy that makes it straightforward for immigrants who are doing positive things to get into the system.