skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this Quora thread, the answer is Not Yet.
http://www.quora.com/How-can-a-HTML5-web-app-access-Camera-i...
LoL - Fb could build that pos in 2 hours.
Yeah, in user interface design everything should be as non-geeky as possible, but not non-geekier. :)

Sometimes it is really hard to figure out how geeky your potential customers are. I am building a markdown editor, and while I am trying to make it as non-geeky as possible it is not completely clear how non-geeky a markdown editor user can be at all as the most non-geeky users just probably stick with WYSWYG editors.
All that sounds very nice, but that is what FB has all been about. This kind of non-quantitiave arguments won't validate a $100bn valuation.
I have serious doubts that this is an actual press photo, but don't rule out an aspect ratio change. If the display height (and only the height) changes, this won't result in the same type of fragmentation you see on Android. This is because iOS apps must already accomodate changes in vertical dimension. Gruber makes these same points in a relevant piece:

http://daringfireball.net/2012/05/bigger_display_iphone_thin...
I think the point is (certainly its my view) that I want customers who have their brain in - certainly for the first few iterations.

If its a no brainer at 30 and a difficulty at 500, clearly I am not fixing something really painful

I'll take your 30 when the product is just rolling along. Sign up here for the beta-2 release :-)
At this point you have to compensate the individual enough by, e.g. paying much and/or providing proper equipment[1].

[1] - I imagine a proliferation of cheap microwaves converted into portable battery-powered anti-electronics weapons. And how do you protect UAVs against that?
For quantities in that magnitude, you need to find a brokerage. You'll probably want to look into investing in futures to hedge prices and find multiple suppliers for a stable supply chain.

12,000,000 kg of sugar...yikes!
They said that this chip was manufactured in China and that the manufacturer had inserted this backdoor which "could be turned into an advanced Stuxnet weapon to attack potentially millions of systems."

By implication, and by selectively leaving out information about how this attack required the use of JTAG port the article intentionally implied that it was a Chinese attack, even if it didn't lay out that claim in so many words.
Messing With Fate
Exactly what Apple has been doing forever and they have piles of cash to show for it.
Working with XML Records and DataGrid with C# and ASP.NET
> Power users were happy with all the features and all the options, but the extra baggage made it harder for less technical people to use the product.

Poor design. Seriously. Simplicity is really really hard. Much harder than throwing a ton of settings, toggles, and switches at a user.

Your design has to be ridiculously simple, but be flexible enough to allow complexity when it is called for. It's hard to put into words, but I frequently spend months refining an interface to fit just right.

The best example of this is an operating system. Windows has to be simple enough for the least computer literate person to use, but flexible enough for you to configure anything you can imagine via the registry or command line. There is no link to the registry in the start menu. But every power user knows how to launch it. The complexity is possible, it's there, but it's hidden. It doesn't bother the new guy because he doesn't even know about it. Only the power use can find it.

If you prefer an example with Mac OS, the operating system by default is unbelievably limiting. There is very little you can configure via the settings. Pull out the terminal and you can change absolutely everything you can imagine. Again, the complexity and features are there ... but hidden. They don't interfere with the regular user experience, but they're there if needed by the power user.

Ditto for Linux.
I live in the northeast and own several guns. I would never even consider discharging them in an urban area. Even most suburban areas are unsafe. From my point of view, if I'm not at a gun range or on a giant expanse of rural/hunting land, the gun is locked up.

A gun locked up in a gun safe is surely safer than swimming pool. But a gun being shot in the backyard of a suburban home is definitely less safe than a swimming pool.

My neighbors live roughly 60 feet away from my house. If I went outside and shot a racoon that crossed my property, I'm pretty sure I would be in prison.
As a libertarian, I'm generally iffy about the expansion of surveillance, or of government activity in general.

But I try to be pragmatic about it. Gunshots fired in urban areas are one thing that really is the business of the police! There's always some tension between law and order versus liberty; the trick is to find ways to trade the latter for the former at as high an exchange rate as possible. This system strikes me as having a very good exchange rate indeed.
The Illusion of Self
Dutch parliament rejects ACTA definitely
Websites/domains should be allowed to rebut rbutr rebuttals and be highlighted/referenced like Talk.Origins and True.Origins do for each other.[1]

What are they going to do with all these rebuttals? This is like level two. We need to go up some more levels.[2]

[1]: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moonrec.html

[2]: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
I think you severely overestimate the resources of most criminals. The majority are not the criminal masterminds you make them out to be. If they were that smart they would be doing something else.

And most of the market for weapons flow South; drugs flow north.
Interesting. To me the problem seems to be that users are requesting features and making other requests because they don't understand that FeedDemon is indeed supposed to be a very simple application. It's like not understanding that MS Paint is entry level software and requesting it should have layers, advanced color management, etc.
Java remains at the top, just behind C, of the trusted TIOBE index: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

This is not a surprise at all.

Java is huge. Sorry to everyone who doesn't like it. It's just a current fact of the industry.
Congratulations, great stuff!

A quick tip regarding running Twitter contests: always make use of an @reply or @mention in the text people should tweet. As Twitter's guidelines mention, otherwise you run the risk of not finding all of the entries:

https://support.twitter.com/articles/68877-guidelines-for-co...
I'm fairly certain this has been said before, but... What if Apple officially supported installing Mac OS X on a regular PC? I mean, it's already possible to do this ("hackintosh" or "OSx86"), but it requires some mucking around... if Apple added support for popular non-mac hardware and just let people buy and install it on any machine, wouldn't that become serious competition to Windows?

Because let's face it, a lot of people that stay away from Macintosh do so because of the price of the hardware...

Edit: Well that settles it for me, then. Thanks for the replies :)
For me, this is the strongest case yet for niche social networks being the future of social media. FB is too broad and demographics tell you little about the people you are speaking too unless you can inject some sort of context.

If (via a Distributed Social Networking Protocol) people were subscribed to several social networks focused on their hobbies and interests, then I believe Social Media Advertising would be more viable, and more useful to the audience.

I also think that when you look past all the fanfare and hyperbole surrounding social networking, what you're left with is really sophisticated bulletin boards and forums.

I can see that from a marketing point of view, having one point of access to that many people might seem like a dream come true, but the numbers are suggesting that's not the case at all. Facebook is not the answer to an online advertisers dream. I don't think it ever will be.
Run naked; Noone likes your best behavior
Indeed - I've no idea what the revenues would be - was just an idle thought.

Right now the problem is getting people to believe in Facebook's revenue to get some confidence back in the market.

Not saying it's is a silver bullet by any means.
I'm very happy to have found your blog. I'm also happy to see a company focusing on what's important... gaining that elusive talent.

I am currently just starting to use treehouse to train a group of new grads for the company I work at. I'm very impressed with the site.

@Ryan : if I was in your region, I would so be applying for a job ;)
I see value in this. I have seen many people frustrated because their camera's automatic functions did not produce the image they wanted, and they have no idea how to change the settings to get a better image. It almost always boils down to an understanding between shutter speed, aperture, and simple settings such as exposure compensation.

For these people, this kind of simulator could be really helpful. It might be a little better if there was more explanatory text after you press the shutter. For example, I saw "overexposed" once; maybe that message could be more along the lines of "Your image is overexposed. Try decreasing your aperture, decreasing your shutterspeed, or adjusting exposure compensation."
DevOps Django - Choosing Heroku
I'm not sure how sustainable this 4day work week will be. Will it last the acquisition? Imagine buying a company that either makes your existing employee unhappy, make you lose the talent you just got, or forces you to convert the entire company into a 4 day week operation.
I agree the TV image is a bit NSFW. It disqualifies the site from me ever showing my daughters.

I'm not sure why (as I'm a heterosexual guy) but these kind of photos seem to dumb the content down and I feel like I should have a Coors Light in my hand.
No, WebIntents are just plain Links:

<intent
action="http://webintents.org/share
type="image/"
href="share.html"
disposition="window|inline"
/>

<link
rel="http://webintents.org/share
type="image/"
href="share.html"
disposition="window|inline"
/>
It doesn't really make sense that I have more and better equipment than ESR. You would think in his field he would spend more money on technology.
As a power user myself, and the free tech guy for a family of casual users, I totally agree with this approach.

An application for power users doesn't just have a few advanced features or configuration switches. It has to be fully designed with different goals in mind.

Ease of learning vs efficiency, non-intimidating UI vs configurability, prettiness vs speed of usage; they're often at odds with each other, and while I'm sure some great examples of applications sitting comfortably in the fence can be found, most end up as a shitty experience for everyone.
Do Irish news organisations link from articles on their sites to content out on the net? What sort of license/permission do they obtain before linking to Youtube, a blog, etc?
perfect reply,
definitely agree with the points stated...

For a scrappy startup, it may not mean much since it is verbose and idioms are a bit ugly-ish at first.

But as startups grow into real businesses, the developer productivity and maintainability versus performance makes Java one of the best options available today. JVM is really one good piece of software and against all the preconceptions, java is a really nice language to build large scale systems...

// been a java developer for around 10 years, and any other language i have used (a lot of them) disappointed me in one way (productivity) or another (performance)
In iTunes, just click the Advanced menu, click Subscribe to Podcast, and paste the RSS feed url into the box.
Or just be smart: hide power options under power user tab/button/whatever. Not-power-users gets simply design and most useful tools (for them). Power-users gets powerful tools.
One problem is that we might not know (what) it's sending to facebook, as we don't have access to the code to review it. Sure there's tools to analyze/reverse engineer the client, but that isn't really a practical option.

Opera users instead trust Opera on the security and privacy they claim to offer. This tends to work fine, as Opera have a good reputation for privacy, and they have not abused the trust of their users.

Facebook have, multiple times. Anyone who cares about privacy will avoid it purely because facebook cannot be trusted. Trust must be earned, and facebook have much work to do before they will earn the trust of many (if ever).

I'm not quite sure what it is, but when companies are large enough, people tend to be forgiving, as if their past sins have been cleansed without any good reason. People tend to misplace popularity with trust - if so many people are using it, can't be bad for you right?
> It's hard to find any language that has better online documentation than Java.

I don't see how http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/ this is better documentation than http://docs.python.org/library/random.html or http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html

Java docs are mostly a dump of class hierarchies with some comments documenting the functions. Python and Perl docs are written as user guides compared to Java api dumps.
The targeting goes all the way down. Gabriel Weinberg (who runs DuckDuckGo) targeted an ad to one person! http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/a-fb-ad-targeted...
Found these by coincidence, might be interesting to some of you.. (can't speak to the content)

http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2011/12/05/choosing-a-goo...
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2011/12/29/choosing-a-goo...
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/02/02/choosing-a-goo...
Most people should abandon their blogs
Five Ways a Minimum Viable Audience Helps You Create a Successful Startup
That's about as relevant as saying that Cisco is defining the future of the internet.

Facebook (or any user anywhere in the world) don't care whether their packets are routed on Cisco hardware and just because Cisco has a hand in the game doesn't mean that they have anything to say when it comes to defining the future of the internet. The best they can do is be prepared and hope that the future of the internet works well on their hardware (talking services now, of course Cisco has a larger role in the technical side of the internet but that's beside the point - unless somehow Cisco hardware is so unique that the "next facebook" or whatever wouldn't be able to exist without Cisco hardware (hardly likely for either Cisco or Amazon)).
Seems as though there is some truth and some doubt. Perhaps not "Bogus" but rather "Over-Hyped" --

http://www.securityweek.com/china-wrongfully-accused-over-ba...
There are two books we recommend to every developer:

Effective Java: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/

Java Concurrency in Practice: http://www.javapuzzlers.com/

Everything else is covered by the excellent online documentation, including the language and VM specification books: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

Java Puzzlers (http://www.javapuzzlers.com/) is a fun read that highlights many corner cases of the language and might be helpful for code reviews and debugging.
It does fit my particular case. The languages I like the most and even use the most, I haven't bought any books about them.

Languages I despise, like Java and Javascript, I have bought the most books. I guess I wanted a streamlined experience to make it easier to swallow.
Doesn't the ongoing creation of jailbreaks make this difference mostly hypothetical?
Thanks for the kind words :)

We've been doing a 4-day week since 2007, so it's been five years and thankfully we've been successful.
It's possible, but extremely hard. The OSes are a good example: despite many years of development, those 'divides' still leak immensely.

As a user, I prefer a good UI that's firmly for one audience than one that manages to be both confusing and limiting, like oh-so-many are.
Thanks for letting me know that... I had no clue about the search filters. I have a script that collects them, but I guess there is a chance it won't see all of them so I will work on some new text now!
That is the trouble with allowing multitude of choices that they in the end break the "experience" one would come to expect from the device. Apple is an experience company and that is what they are selling. And people do like and vote with their money.

Just because some a subset of mindful users think that they should do otherwise, they should start a company and sell their own product - if they think that what people would want in the end. Most people's lives are complicated already and adding some geewhiz feature into their phone that would make them pause and think for a second - would not win any favours.

Liberty is great but when I am tired and going back home last thing I want to do I trying to figure out a best way to look up directions to a restaurant, make call or check messages. I've had android and iOS devices previous one android now an iPad. It is just that much easier to work with these devices when on the road. Perhaps if google will get their act together and tighten the leash on OEMs and make them use a uniform and usable interface across the board - that would be a step in the right direction. There's just too much dissonance in Android community it seems to me.
And also Java is very popular in large corporations (at least in my experience in the Financial Services sector). These companies have large staffs and lots of money. They'll send whole teams to training classes (which includes books).

While working for these large companies I thought the whole world was Java/Spring/Hibernate. Now that I work on my own (and have started spending more time on HN) I see there is a totally different picture for the startup/consulting world.

BTW, scanning GitHub to determine language popularity seems ridiculous to me. What percent of larger corporations use GitHub (less then 5% I would guess).
China Wrongfully Accused Over Backdoor Found on Chip Used by U.S. Military?
AGPL no more
Is there anything I can show you to convince you otherwise? You make a lot of gut claims that I'm worried we're straying away from what can be conveniently falsifiable.

In terms of your counterexample, perhaps a look at the historical growth of each: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=amazon+dell+stock+price.... But I'd like to move away from Dell, because what I'm addressing is the notion that Amazon is not a "player" comparable to Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft. Dell is a hardware company. Similar, but not enough in my opinion to make such a comparison.

I think we can agree that Amazon is apparently not as recognizable to an end-user as those other companies. I don't think that diminishes their role in the landscape, and I don't totally trust your opinion that they are so conveniently replaceable.
Guess that always helps :)
Two things struck me as particularly surprising: He's still running a (high quality) 21" CRT. And he's using Ubuntu (considering switching to Arch). Somehow I expected him to be using some sort of insane manual install maintained since the nineties.
Thank you! :) We're working really hard to improve the service as fast as we can.
If ESR is able to be productive with the gear he has, I don't see why he would need to spend more money. Tools are necessary, but the marginal utility of upgrades drops off pretty quickly. I'm reminded of this comic strip: http://whattheduck.com/strip/95
It seems like there's a balance between the different settings on a camera that can't really be captured well with independent sliders.

I imagine a control that indicates the trade-offs (and when they're ok) as you tweak it would educate users in a better way than experimentation. Stay "inside the envelope" and your picture is probably ok. You can get outside it if you know what you're doing.
You sell cars.

I listen to Donovan, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Mozart, Au, REM, Dj Shadow, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Chopin, Ludovico Einaudi and Daft Punk (to name but a few).

I've liked pages for five star greek hotels, the burger place on the corner, the guy who sells awesome falafel's on Hoxton market. You know I saw this video of a talking dog that I thought was totally awesome.

Just this month, I read an article on the Greek debt crisis in the economist, an article on David Beckham in the Daily mail website, I shared a wikipedia page about Rommel, I liked an article about continuous integration with node.js and Jenkins.

Now sell me a car.

I actually like Volkswagens and Volvos, but you won't find that anywhere in my Facebook data.
Reminds me of the BMW C1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1
Illegal Movie Downloading Is Already Dead In France, Authorities Claim
New bit.ly launching with 'bitmarks' feature
PlanGrid (YC W12) Raises $1.1M to Transform Construction with Mobile
What do you recommend if all of my pages require a user to be logged in, and the pages each have user specific stuff on each page's header, e.g., a my account link, an icon showing the number of items in your cart, etc.
Since there's no details in the article at all, I'm going to guess that the charity was hotlinking content from the archive's servers into the middle of their own webpage. This is generally bad manners on the internet.
I am so glad that email didn't depend on advertising to eventually support itself "sometime in the future." Email is useful to me as email, and useful to my providers as a billed service.

Yes, they're different things.
I don't think there is any reason for Apple to do this. They make their money from hardware, not software. In years/decades past, people could make the argument that growing their market share by supporting PCs might somehow make them more profitable in the long run... but these days I think it's quite obvious they are doing just fine on the profitability front.
Richard Branson on Office Ties and the Company Dress Code
Is There A Purity Test for Innovators?
Does anyone here actually trust Zuckerberg?
Working with Text and Text Effects with JavaFX 2
Stuck due to “knowing too much”
But the important question here is: How big is the mug market? Every developer, I know, has a MongoDB mug already. This makes me question, how their mug strategy is going to be with this new investment?
This is one of the coolest sites I ever saw (I don't mean only Raymond, just go to the whole interviews list).

Thanks for the link.
Minority? It almost half of all Google ad profits.
Our experience using Clojure to speed up Beanstalk
If only Adobe and Autodesk supported linux I would make the full transition to Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't have the learning curve that Linux is known for anymore but still manages to let you have full control of your system when you need it.

There are so many open source options that I don't think it's worth jumping through the hoops microsoft lays out anymore. Office tools aren't windows specific anymore because of software like Google docs and libreOffice. Gimp has all of the features of photoshop although a little less intuitive. Qt creator is an excellent replacement for visual studio for c++ developers. Unix command lines make life so much easier. For the average user that only browses the internet and uses microsoft office I really don't think there is a reason to stick to windows other than for autodesk and adobe applications. Thousands of dollars can be saved by people if they just switched to linux.
Given how big the upside could be (10 million people buying your book?), one almost has to do something like this to prevent the imagination running wild and having a massive let down later on.
I assume that regular Opera users lean toward the geeky side of the spectrum. The same demographic has a pretty sour taste for facebook and Zuckerberg. There's no way Opera usage will remain what it is if FB is running the show.
clickable: http://beta.holdership.com

It's a twitter for your belongings. I built this last summer as my first coffee-script project (backend using Clojure), still not finished. What do you think?