skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could use the same gamification app that Pinax uses:
Django Brabeion
https://github.com/eldarion/brabeion

I just started using it, so I can't tell you much about it. But it was the only gamification app with a decent amount of people watching and forking it on Github....
Not upgrading is always an immediate option. You think Windows 7 will still look great 5 years from now? 10 years?
It's not a lot of work to get a Windows/IE virtual environment up and running on a Mac, I use Virtualbox daily in combination with https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

This shell script automatically downloads Windows virtual machine images from Microsoft, so that testing can be done in IE6/7/8/9. You don't even need to use separate machines, if you get a Windows 7 virtual machine set up you can use IE Tester to run IE5.5-9 http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
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voice search.
Hi,

I've done exactly this (although my full time job is great, and I love it).

I think it is a really great way of dipping your toes in the water while keeping your risk low.

Time management:

I get up at 6, allowing me an hour and a half's work before the day job. I also work in the evenings for maybe an hour or two, and often at weekends. I'm lucky in that my fiancee is a medical student, who also needs to work evenings and weekends, so we tend to work together.

It is important to give yourself a day or two off now and then, or you'll burn out.

Focus:

I think the 'Lean Startup' lessons apply even more when you're working in your spare time on your product. Limited time means you have to be ruthless with your feature-set, find your market and users early, and don't waste time on unnecessary stuff.

Things you shouldn't be doing include Billing Systems, Automated Support, anything that isn't a key feature that is going to sell your service.

I'd also recommend not trying to use a new technology which you're not familiar with. Although there're huge benefits to using new languages etc, this isn't the time- you have very limited time, so any non-productive time looking up language/library features really eats into your time.
Just the Mathematics department, not the whole university.
Perhaps to you. But a lot of icons you never really look carefully at and realise what they are. They are merely coloured shapes which you use to interact.
You're referring to Tamarin, the engine open-sourced by Adobe in 2006.

The part that's used in Firefox now is NanoJIT, extracted from Tamarin, which is a module for generating native code when doing JIT compilation.

Read this older post from 2010 for some notes on it: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/a-quick-note-on-javascript-...
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- If it's time wasted... then I'm sure it's not Minesweeper either.

Do you have any data for it or should we just trust you because you are also gazillion percent sure? Lot more people play minesweeper and solitaire than WoW..
No, and it was slower even in 2008, which was well before the JS arms race V8 started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(software)
But Apple also thinks the browser is the single most important piece of software on iOS. Because of that, they don't want to be dependent on a third party. They want to have their own optimized webkit engine used, so the users have the best experience. And it worked at least for the last 5 years, I greatly preferred Safari or iCab on iOS to the Android browsers.
I think this guy "don't get" many things about ORM like:
- They insert a great deal of incidental complexity in your solution.
- Most DBAs are specialists in SQL and relational databases not OO or JPQL, etc.
- If you have to read a 880 pages book to really understand your ORM framework there's something wrong with it (java overengineering probably).
Not entirely true. Opera has its own rendering and JS engines (nothing to do with Webkit). Opera Mobile (which has both client-side) is banned from the app store, but Opera Mini (which does the JS server-side, and renders a compressed format delivered by the server on the client) is OK.
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ORM offers robustness to a subset of relational database abilities, at the cost of simplicity. That's philosophically wrong IMHO - it's too great a loss of functionality, time and attention for replacing something I don't yet have any need to replace.

Whilst I dare say there're applications where ORM is the only sensible choice, I've yet to see any trace of them in my (fairly) varied experience.
So, if they throw you out of your city, you wont "whine" and go build your own?
Aren't "all other browsers" on Ipads just apps that use a webview e.g. just a wrapper for Safari?

Except Opera maybe.
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Since the first example given is about wearing a T-shirt with the Dutch flag on it and getting Gmail adds about Holland, I think this is a offhand post about coincidences rather than something suggesting Google is monitoring voice calls to give more relevant advertising.
I think this post was written mostly as a joke, right?

First of all, it was written in 2009, secondly it starts:

Now this is really really eerie stuff. Today I came to office wearing my “Holland” T-shirt. I normally never wear this shirt to office.

I fired up my Gmail in the browser, and see a “Study in Holland” Google ad!

Now, maybe my sense of humour is way off, but I think the guy wasn't being serious about Google looking at his shirt and serving adverts based on it...
XP has looked like shit for years already but people still cling to it like a tree in a hurricane.

Ten years is way too far in the future to place any bets.
Google isn't in the search business.
MS need to be prevented from doing this because of their domination of the tablet market. (tablets are PCs you see).
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How are roles different from mixins?

The only difference that I can think of is that mixins are declared at class declaration, is that what you mean?
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In Inkscape I think you have to apply a pixel grid (which can be hidden) and turn on grid snapping.
If this is correct, then this matters much, much more than the sensationalism surrounding browsers on WoA being unable to run as desktop apps.

The entire focus of WoA is pretty much Metro-style apps, with Office on the desktop as something on the aside, so why would it matter that another browser can't place itself into the desktop? But if other browsers are actually going to be disadvantaged backend-wise, then that's something to worry about.
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The copy writing in that tech note is so disingenuous it makes my head spin.
I am the guy who wrote the blog post. None of this is a joke. It is all true. I guess you guys will have to take my word for it.
I do think Windows will seriously decline because of Windows 8, especially when you take into account all the other devices that now run Android or iOS. "PC's" or not, the fact remains that people are spending a lot of time on those "other" devices now, and as for what will replace it, I think a combination of all of those.

I see Ubuntu becoming more popular and more consumerized, with popular games arriving for it. I see ChromeOS and Android gaining a bit of laptop market share. I see Macs gaining more market share, too. Governments and enterprises will increasingly use Linux or cloud alternatives.

The point is, Windows will not have the monopoly it had for 15 years, and that's a great thing. We've been waiting for that for a very long time.
How do I opt out of interest-based advertising?
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Please stop comparing software with real world objects.

While popular the comparison between cars and computer programs are not well chosen. Actually comparing software to any physical object is point-less. These two only have anything in common on the surface.

If you were to make software require the rigorous testing that physical products like cars undergo you would likely never be able to ship anything. If you did the customer would not be willing to pay the price.

Software is infinitely more complex than even space shuttles. The number of possible combinations which you program can traverse is so big it doesn't make any sense.

You could of course start proving mathematically that your software will always behave correctly. This would require you to use a language which facilitates such a method like erlang. No more web development in PHP, Ruby, JavaScript or anything else which relies on probabilistic garbage collection.

I guarantee you that once you spend the money having your code proven your costs are so high that no one will buy your software. In stead they'll turn to the competitor who wrote it in VB and accept their EULA and live with any errors.

The nature of software is not the same as of physical objects. You can either accept this and plan accordingly or you can betray yourself and keep getting angry about bugs.
Yeah, try building a Javascript interpreter on top of the CLR. Compare that with V8.
On a related note, a friend was recently telling me they think Apples big strategy is in being able to mine the Siri data stream of a user. So to me this doesn't seem as far fetched when considered from that perspective.
This seems like it could be automated algorithmically — it looks like an optimization problem where you want to minimize the number of partially-filled (e.g. "gray") pixels, especially along vertical and horizontal lines.

For rectangular shapes, even a simple repositioning could do a lot.
This might actually be cool, but if you do not watch the video (read: RTFM) you will most likely think something like "This is an april's fool, right?" and immediately close the window. At least that's what happened to me until I saw the comments in here.
Anyways, watching the video was fun. Doing it myself is rather boring. :-/
Getting Siri data and recording phone calls are totally different things. Siri using your data to improve itself isn't a big deal, in my opinion. That's because you're talking directly to a service, you shouldn't expect it to be totally private.

Phone calls are different, they're meant to be private.
Feels a bit like The Verge or is it just my perception?
If you don't have any real options other than IE, you cannot imagine a Firefox is possible.

Microsoft : IE :: Apple : Safari
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It is possible to do it though. I was in bangalore when that happened (and carried a non-Android phone at that time). Google already knows what I look like, and Banaglore is full of surveillance cameras everywhere. It also knew where my office was based on my GMail login co-ordinates. So if you stitch up all of that you can produce that sort of advertisements. (I am the author of the blog post)
"Your are easily replaceable

Only thing you have is your network. As a “business guy” in startup I expect you to have Barack Obama as 2. level LinkedIn connection and Zuckys number on speed dial. Well, anyway much wider network than I have. If you don’t – I probably don’t need you."

This comment belies a stunning lack of understanding and respect for what actually goes into the business side of typical tech startups - the sales, marketing, user acquisition, hiring/team building, negotiations and every other thing that business co-founders actually do.

A very irritating blight on an article that otherwise had some good points.
Yes, we're talking about mobile here. I thought that was obvious, but still made it clear when I said iOS, not OS X.
Mixpanel's "Jobs" page says they write C, Python, and JavaScript heavily.
No it doesn't. Adobe did open-source their JIT and partnered with Mozilla for further development. But Mozilla could not make it fit Javascript well enough, and eventually their own JITs became faster, so they concentrated on them.
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Do you have a blog? I found this really interesting and would like to read more.

Also, I'm curious - what are the legal reasons for not working with full black or white in broadcast video?
> Is this any different from on iOS?

No.

> Are you allowed to create native code-generators on iOS?

Absolutely not (unless you jailbreak of course). In fact, due to this UIWebView are not JITed either and in-application browsers have significantly worse performances than the standalone Safari application or pinned "offline web applications": the latter two are "opted out" of sandbox restrictions and can generate executable code at runtime.
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Misleading title. Should be "Zuckerberg's hoodie rankles Michael Pachter".
This is going on like a broken record; No flack to the author, he got all rights to have his grievances. On the other hand, it feels like I've read this post before.

One thing that always comes up in these posts is:
> If we fail fast you have lost almost nothing whereas I have lost months of intense work.

I don't get that...? Presumably, the guy you jump in a boat with will also have invested 6 months of his life in to this, and presuposing he, even the abstract random business guy he in this post, can't contribute anything of value seems inflammatory at best?

Finally, I think that we should recognize that this is a fantastic problem to have. If you're approached weekly about new business ventures, you've probably made a good name and good game for yourself. Which is fantastic.
A factor, from the Latin "he who does" (from Latin facit, to do, parallel to agent, from Latin agens), is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual -- also from Wikipaedia.

Looks like it was (English-speaking) mathematicians that borrowed the term.
Are Microsoft actively trying to lose customers? Why would we use this OS when there are open alternatives around?
Totally agree, there's a difference between the 'idea' people that add no value and the experienced guys that do everything you're talking about. No businesses aren't as easy as release a product and profit, even if they do have early traction because of the product, it doesn't mean they'll be able to make any money from it. Not if you want to build a medium - large sized company or one that doesn't sell after a few months. He had some good points but has obviously never started a profitable startup before.
"And without the intent to do something along those lines, it is hard to see a business case under which Google could justify devoting resources to Voice."

I agree. They offer Google Voice, and it's easy to assume they apply the same type of analysis to voice communications like they do with other forms of communication.

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
You talk like you already have a successful startup of your own. Do you?

Do you know how many great products backed by an amazing development team fail because they lack the skills in sales/marketing/design and/or strategy?

If programming was the only thing that mattered, then why aren't all competent programmers millionaires?
Did anyone try to look at this patent (mentioned in the original blog-post):-

http://www.google.com/patents/US20040083101

And the blog-post wasn't talking about "Google Voice". It was regular phone conversation (pre-android). The author believes (and I sort of agree with him) that Google perhaps has a deal with service providers (in India) that allows them to mine voice conversations and use the information to provide targeted content.
I honestly think a lot of hacker types really do live in a bubble where they think it's still 2000, Microsoft is still the same evil company they were, Apple still can do no wrong, most people now use Macs "if they know what's good for them", RoR, node.js and Python are really the only valid technologies for back end development and so forth.

Certainly plenty of folks out there using the aforementioned technologies are more worldly than my previous statement would suggest, but there are still an irritating number of developers living in the past who haven't really got a realistic view of the technology landscape as it exists today, in 2012.

I also notice this on various high profile podcasts that from time to time downplay anything from Microsoft as having any value these days, despite not really having had recent first hand experience of what's available.

I prefer Chrome myself, but supporting IE9 really isn't that hard, and suggesting otherwise is FUD.

The landscape has changed in the last five years. Hopefully over time, especially as the landscape continues to change, the antifanboys will realise this and update their views.
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Native code, that is trusted on the basis of having been signed by a special editor cert which the user has to accept. You may have encountered it if you've ever used windows update. Not sandboxed at all, unlike Java.
It's actually much more work to test on a Mac when developing on a Windows machine since Apple is so protective of OS X that they don't allow it to run in a vm.

Which is sad because I like to have all kinds of users but it's really really difficult to accommodate for all you guys browsing on a mac.

Please hit me with hints to make life easier for myself if you have some...
That's exactly the way culture gets built, there are always traces left from past generations - not only in icons, more so in the software and technology they assist.
These traces, sources forgotten, slowly turn into obscure quotes, then become alive with their own new meaning, and act as channels for the transfer of knowledge from one generation to another.

And a little OT remark about the so called "dead tree format" - it helps hide the fact that e-books might actually be more harmful to the planet than "dead tree" ones (think carbon imprint).
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So far, all the people who've approached me for startups have been "idea people". Those are the ones who think they'll get rich quick with a iPhone/iPad application/whatever, they just need someone to build it for them. Every single one of them, when asked what their contribution was going to be, gave me a blank stare. And naturally, they want you to do it for free ("You'll get a share of the profits!") while they're off chasing their next idea.

The few truly interesting, reliable startup idea's I've seen are from real businessmen. Men with the network, contacts, funding, good ideas and commitment. Those kind of businessmen, the kind you are talking about if I understand correctly, are indispensable in a startup. Unfortunately, they seem to be somewhat more rare than the "idea people".
"Software is infinitely more complex than even space shuttles"

Hardly.

I write software for fun, everything from low level drivers up the stack to web apps. My job is engineering mechanical systems more complex than the space shuttle - and with more lives at stake.

The two are not even remotely comparable.
The TVM (Time Value of Money) aspect here is the one most often issues under valued by "business types".

That said it goes both ways, I've been a serial entrepreneur and a big corporate type. And it's clear that on the business side people work hard too if they are going to be successful and they too have a TVM problem.

The biggest failure I see tech people make is not properly communicating the real level of effort a project takes. In a room full of techs if we talk about a problem we all have a reasonable understanding of how hard it is. We might be off a bit in our estimates but in general we understand the difference in effort of various proposals.

When in a room of business people with no domain expertise we assume they understand what it's like to spend 100's if not 1,000's of hours working on a technical project. They don't understand it any more then most techs understand how hard it is to setup a company, get the business registered, shareholder agreements written, contracts developed, taxes handled etc.

That issue however is a failure on both parties part, techs have to learn to own their half of the "assumption" problem. They need to clearly articulate how much work something is going to take and convert that effort into real dollars and timelines.

True story a very famous musician friend of mine and I were talking one day and I asked him "How long did it take you to write that song XXX" (very famous song) and he said "Hmm a couple days here and there then in the studio.." we both agreed it must have been maybe a 60 hour commitment. Then he asked me about a project I had just finished with a major car manufacturer and I said "Oh that was 6 man years of effort". He asked me "What is a man year?" and of course I tried to explain in lay terms what it's like to have someone at a keyboard for 2,000 hours and do that with six people. He was blown away at the effort he literally would bring it up in future conversations for years when we would chat on various topics.

In tech we take for granted that we work on labor scales that are massive and our failure to explain that to other people only makes the "startup conundrum" worse.
Interesting article from the BBC, especially the idea of the Beijing startup and the fact I haven't heard of this company despite it raising 100MM USD.
Yes, this is the exact same situation as on iOS.

But 1. the mobile app market was even more locked down before Apple entered it and 2. Apple is the media's darling.
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Well, horsepower has absolutely something to do with horses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower
"Horsepower was originally defined to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses in continuous operation."
I work neck deep with cross browser "stuff" frequently, frankly, IE9 is a breeze & imho Paydirt made themselves look really quite daft!
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> This would require you to use a language which facilitates such a method like erlang

What's wrong with that?
Another reason to support and use opensource software whenever it is possible. Thus even if the software doesn't provide any update you can easily fix and close the security hole. Adobe did the same for 64bit flash player in the past. They did update the 32bit flash player on Linux, but the 64bit one just waited ~1-1.5 year for an update.
What were the misaligned incentives in the GAE model?
Right. And I'm saying that there's no better way to chase away the "real businessmen, men with the network, contacts, funding, good ideas and commitment", than by saying, "you are easily replaceable", and if I don't judge your network of people to be valuable then "I probably don’t need you".

For anyone with the experience of working 20 hour days on the business side of a tech startup, this kind of statement is somewhat infuriating.
It also looks like the WebGL version is anti-aliased; the Flash version isn't.