skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted on the previous article as well, and on RA's blog as "concerned bystander", lest you think I'm just stealing his ideas ;)

I've done some googling and found a reference saying AirPlay is supposedly licensed by Apple for $4 per instance to device makers.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/24/airplays-hidden-agend...

Assuming RA would have been able to license it for the same price, they would have to charge $7 for the feature to make up the difference, which is pretty steep on the App store. The bigger question is: Would Apple give them a license? My gut says no, not for an iOS application, but who can say?

I asked on the "under the microscope" blog if Apple mentioned licensing at all in what little communication they've had... I noticed RA never seems to mention licensing, not sure if it's an intentional omission or just coincidence. They had to know going into this that they were playing with fire using the leaked key.

If Apple does claim the removal was over non-public APIs, I think they're being disingenuous. I can't believe a developer like RA would be doing that knowingly or not.
If you're in Los Angeles, check out http://perl.la/. I know my employer (oversee.net) is hiring, and I'm pretty sure many of the others on there are as well.
Viewfinder. The depth of field preview just closes the shutter to the expected aperture while you're looking through the lens. It will darken significantly, but if it's reasonably lit where you're shooting, you'll be able to get an idea of the DOF.
So what? This is like a burger company giving out free samples on the street and then telling people that there are three stores they can go to in the area, but they're not sure if any of them have anything in stock.

Getting that business license is a small cost compared to getting customers engaged and then pushing them away.
This arrogant attitude may be one of the reasons why the press seems happy when RIM is failing, especially since the critics have been mostly right about RIM since the beginning.
That can't be the (only) reason bikes stay upright. The gyroscopic effect is way too weak to keep it upright. Here is an article explaining why bikes do stay upright: http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research/topics/bicycle_mechani...
can't you verify with google analytics account now? the verification key isn't necessary right?
Interesting information that I'm genuinely interested in but the execution and delivery leave me scratching my head.

The operating system and web server graphs make no sense.

mod_ssl? varnish? Makes me question what was asked and who was answering.

I'd also contend pie charts aren't the best way to represent this information, especially in the categories where there are only a small number of responses.
> "And marriage can only be good if the parents know and acknowledge that they together go first, kids come second. Period."

That's a terribly sad outlook. Your children are extensions of yourself. They should come first forever. They're not pets that you just take in and look after. They're your babies...

I don't know if you have kids or not, maybe you don't have very strong parental feelings :/
Thank you @colinwright! I have emailed in short to PG and sought his help with this matter.
The pie chart indicates that only 15% of companies use CSS? That's clearly the wrong way to display this data. Very few of the technologies covered are mutually exclusive.
The Atom Chromebooks are the first generation Chromebooks. Both the Series 5 550[1] and the Chromebox use Celeron processors, of which the current models are based off of Sandy Bridge[2]. There currently aren't any low-powered Ivy Bridge mobile processors, and the cheapest standard powered one is nearly three times what the Sandy Bridge Celerons cost[3] (and is probably overkill for just browsing the web).

1: http://amzn.com/B007Y8DJ22
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microproc...
3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture...
7-10 years ago, Perl was my daily bread and butter. It was the language I used the most, and not only did it supplant a lot of C code, but was the optimal scripting solution.

Now, for me, Ruby has supplanted Perl in nearly every conceivable way -- OO Perl was always painful, and I do not miss ever having to bless a refrent again…
I think you're quoting a rather old EULA. Here's the one I have for Lion:

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Standard and Preinstalled Apple Software License.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this
License, *unless you obtained the Apple Software from the
Mac App Store*, on Apple-branded
physical media (e.g., on an Apple-branded USB memory stick)
or under a volume license,
maintenance or other written agreement from Apple, you are
granted a limited, non-exclusive license
to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software
on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time. For
example, these standard single-copy license terms apply to
you if you obtained the Apple Software preinstalled on
Apple-branded hardware.
Two bits.

No, the strike likely isn't 38. But downward valuation on stocks or options decreases their value.

If options were granted (and apparently this isn't the case at FB, see the RSU comment -- restricted stock units), then there would be _some_ strike value. Often shares are granted at some price as well (though it's frequently at some nominal "par" value, typical $0.01).

With options, it's possible for employees to end up with no value at all. In some cases, companies have re-issued "above-water" grants, though this has been frowned on in recent years.

With stock, again, you have the situation of sitting on, say, a few hundred or thousand shares, and watching your paper worth drop from $40k to $20k to .... Now, according to Zuck, that's not cool money, but to your typical Valley engineer, it's still plenty green, and hurts to see it wash away.
Learning to hack, one month in
Are there really any compelling reasons to use Perl over Ruby for greenfield projects (i.e. not legacy maintenance)? I've written maybe a dozen medium-length Perl scripts (but nothing very large) before I got into Ruby, and I can't seem to think of anything that Perl does that can't be done at least as well in Ruby.

Honestly not trying to start a religious war here - just curious - and I think it's fair to compare the two languages as they are both runtime interpreted and have relatively similar characteristics (and obviously Ruby took a good dose of inspiration from Perl, anyway).
kill it - with fire!

It reminds me of my now aged mother shouting at me down the phone "how do I get rid of that little bastard paper clip that pops up and tells me what I should be doing every 2 seconds".
Anybody know of a Udacity like course for learning Ruby? Would like to tackle that next.
Please stop. We don’t always have to ask for data to prove one’s opinion. Opinions are opinions, you can have them without data to back them up, basing them on your own experience, they are still valid. If you have a different opinion discuss that instead of just dropping the stupid [citation needed].

I’m not saying whether I agree or not with the OP, but I certainly disagree with your way of having a discussion by not having one.

Also certainly Chromebooks are somewhat puzzling because of their overlap with Android tablets, especially ones like the Asus Transformer to which you can attach a keyboard and have basically the same thing with a slightly different OS that sync your data everywhere anyway.

Having a discussion on how they are different and why both would be useful is an interesting conversation to have, shutting it down with “where’s your data” is stupid.

So, if you want to discuss, provide your reasons why they are useful instead of trying to shut off people with petty arguments.
Isn't that basically what Aperture Priority mode does?
I understand the history behind it, but It's not 1787 anymore. I find it amusing that pro-gun people point out Mexico and Colombia have stricter gun control laws but worse violence problems. Look at Somalia and Afghanistan for counter-examples. Armed societies are polite societies? Realy?

Anyway, as a Brit really not my problem except for on my occasional visit states-side.
Yeah, they're splitting hairs on the Ruby count (not sure why). But I'm assuming that at least the number of PHP installs is somewhat accurate which is still a good number of the sites. Once you add the two Ruby counts together it does win out over PHP (which is more in line with what people would expect from SV types).
Why Won't Facebook Just Give GM The "Flashy" Ads They Want
Microsoft plans to use license agreements to prevent class action lawsuits
If you are not saving the world, don't pretend you are. You might be saving the internet, or the american youth, or New York's elderly. You might be worried for smartphone ecosystem or smartphone users and all of these are very valid things to do. These are interesting things to do and to read about and I fully support that.

But when I see an article about "the destruction of the world", and really, it's about push notifications reducing the ability to concentrate for some workers (too many, by the article/speaker argument) well I feel that the author either wants self gratification (I do have an impact on the world after all!) or that it is a misleading/linkbaiting operation.
This is sure starting to sound like GM's VP of Marketing is throwing some press punches to get it's way.
The real problem is Nintendo's retail partners will get upset.

At that point just setting up a kiosk can either lead to "we just won't do sales" or spirals into "lets get our partners involved too" which gives you a kiosk designed by committee.
I thought about this too - but concluded that even without a test, its reasonable.

A caring parent wouldn't keep such a thing secret when its causing (continued) suffering for their child. I'm sure there are psychopaths out there where this is not true, but given that they are married, a judgement call is acceptable in my view - even if not ideal.
I cannot believe the pricing fail here. It's insanely overpriced for what it is -- and the reality is -- from someone who has tested one of these new Chromebooks -- the thing STILL has major usability issues. Chrome OS has too many bugs to depend on even if you live in a Google-fied cloud-centric world.

Still, on what planet does $330 for a desktop and up to $550 for a netbook make sense, especially when you don't get a Windows license (assuming you're selling to schools and businesses here)?

The netbook is dead and the iPad is the product that Chrome OS's target customers are actually buying in droves.
TheSearchEngine
I recently discovered a new search engine for direct downloading : TheSearchEngine.
It's a small search engine for direct downloading. It allows to search links from rapidshare, hotfiles, mediafire....
How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier
You need to calm down dude.
If all they need is a web browser, how does an iPad/Fire/etc not solve that problem?
Iirc, PHP still leads Python and Ruby in general, so the YC numbers merely reflect the greater programming language ecosystem.

Additionally, Facebook has made PHP scalable with the HipHop compiler and other open source tools, so that's no longer a major reason not to use it.
I'll get back to you on that in 50 million years.
You're making a lot of assumptions that aren't true. I regularly instruct doctors on my condition in detail, they do usually listen and are reasonable. However, I am often disappointed by the lack of depth of the research they do in advance of meeting (and billing me exorbitantly).

Recently, my sister (same condition) drove a couple hours to see a specialist who had obviously not read her file or done any research and made some truly awful suggestions (one that could certainly have lead to her death if she had followed it). He billed her for the time.

Doctors are like coders, some are orders of magnitude better than others. Some are so bad, they have a net negative impact on your health.
Does ruby not have the same level of both?
Are you saying that in general people work more than 32 hours a week? What is the average number of hours you work each week?
openSUSE is a RPM distro and it's package manager (zypper) has a --no-recommends when installing packages.

But everyone forgets about use opensuse guys :)
That's a rather contrived complaint. The idea of the simulator is to quickly show how the different settings affect the outcome. The simulator isn't designed to simulate your exact lens configuration.

Your complaint is like if you were teaching someone to drive and they kept cutting in too much in corners. You tell them to steer wider and they complain that they'll go too fast if they do so. What? It turns out that their car is FWD and, in order to steer wider, they were flooring the throttle to in order to cause understeer (i.e. cause the front end to slide). Well, the two (accelerate:turn or zoom:aperture) are completely unrelated functions that happen to have a certain incidental overlap in their output.
That's true. There's actually four ways to verify a site (meta tag, upload a file, DNS, or Google Analytics): http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Lots of people use the meta tag method though.
Heh ;)

So, you're goofing off on chat, a discussion oriented medium, and not on Stack Exchange, a platform that's feverishly against discussions.

But on more than one occasion you've asked for Stack Exchange to change it's stance on discussion oriented questions and become more discussion friendly. Assuming that happens, how soon do you think it'll be before you dismiss Stack Exchange as goofing off?
3 part series on HTML5 game development tips
> They do this all the while looking at you as a hero

Not all people make great parents. I've hated my parents for as long as I can remember. They didn't appear to enjoy being parents either. The daily beatings were really annoying. I'm glad you're happy, but the world isn't a Disney movie.
Link to SpaceX press announcement submitted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4039313

No discussion as of this time.
Cached version for those getting the 509: http://tinyurl.com/c7ozldn
Oldest Musical Instruments Are Even Older Than First Thought
Sounds fun. I wonder if the demand will be large enough to overcome the number of tiny difficulties in getting involved, such as location and application process.
Which is why you don't go through HR. Every piece of hiring advice from a reputable source will tell you to find out who the person is making the decision and go to them rather than firing a resume to jobs@example.com. As patio11 said, "resumes are an institution created to mean that no one has to read resumes." [1]

[1]: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Good luck with this!

I can't commute downtown right now (trying to get back into the swing of things after having our first child) but would consider future sessions.
RIM hires J.P. Morgan For “Strategic Review”
It's targeted at companies that already use Google Apps. Imagine cheap laptops that do email and word processing, but never need updates and can't get viruses. And that are fully-encrypted and backed up by default, so losing a laptop doesn't leak information or lose data. That's what a Chromebook is. It makes giving employees computers simple and inexpensive.

It's also a good machine for people that don't know how to use computers. There's so little you can do with them, you can become an expert very quickly. In that sense, it is very much like an iPad, but with Chrome apps and a keyboard instead of iOS apps and a touchscreen. I personally find both unusable, but that doesn't mean they're not good devices.
It does have an h264 chip which might make HTML5 video usable.
Or as an IE6-8 only "feature" ;)
Of course, a queue is correct.
Oracle NoSQL is simply a key/value store.

It's different from a product like MongoDB et al which support far richer data models.
But who is monetizing mobile banner ads?
I'm pretty sure that's just sites using paypal/google checkout, and not including other payment processing methods.
Project to examine 'Yeti' DNA
Show HN: Page design for SixthSense augmented reality
I want one.

I have an iPad at work and I absolutely hate it. I also have an iMac at work and I absolutely hate it (typing this on the Windows PC that sits next to the idle iMac).

My personal laptop is a Thinkpad T61 with Xubuntu 12.04 and I love it, except that it's pretty bulky. I used to have an HP netbook and it was a generally positive experience, but the touchpad was terrible.

I am seriously considering a Chromebook (have been for a couple months now) as an ultra-portable machine.

Of course there's on obvious concession I have to make: I'm clearly not "normal". First, I hate OS X (most people love it) and the iPad (most people love it). Second, I don't own a smartphone (most geeks seem to). Third, I spend nearly all my time (when I'm not at work) in a web browser or a terminal emulator so I have no need for "apps" on a Chromebook.
Cut a hole in the bottom. You can put tons of stuff in there now! ;)

note: be sure to hold it over the sink while 'filling'
Not true. Copyright includes the right to control how a work may be performed publicly. I presume this allows the AGPL to enter a "You may only make this work available publically if you do X, Y and Z."

Software that is no actually distributed externally, but is interacted by the public is the express target of the AGPL licence. They would have thought of how to cover the "non-distribution" case.
Most large companies have a side channel where managers can say to HR, this is a viable candidate. HR still does the background check etc but they are verifying the resume not evaluating it.
I can't possibly understand the deepness of knowledge you had to acquire to deal with your condition. No way.

This being said, unfortunately, for every awesome, smart and knowledgable person, there are tens and hundreds of people researching their cough on the internet and wasting everybody's time.

That being said, yes, the system could certainly be improved in most countries. A hard part is managing responsibilities. The doctor you go to has the responsibility of giving you sound advice to the best of his (and hopefully the scientific community's) knowledge.

If he did not follow the methods laid out by standard care, he would not be doing that. He would be irresponsible. Of course, there are always things that are on the fringe but would be beneficial, but then again, who knows, he might just kill a group of people down the road because he gave a fringe treatment to the wrong crowd.

Now to the point you rose for your own situation: it seems that your GP seems to be making it fairly simple for you (in a good way). Or was that a hypothetical scenario with the quick rubber stamp and so on?
Fair enough. I've always known I wanted children eventually. I don't want to just live in a house, I want to live in a home. I want grandchildren. I want people who love me around me when I'm old and grey. Sure that comes at a price, but in the context of a whole life, not an enormous one. For me.
The OP seems to think it's a good idea to upgrade his production code to the newest stable interpreter just because it was released.

You're putting words in my mouth and knocking down the resulting strawman. I upgraded for Unicode and performance improvements.
Are you confusing libertarianism with anarchism?

Not necessarily. When you get to the most radical edges of libertarianism, you find the anarcho-capitalist types who are (depending on who you ask) a type of anarchist. Libertarians who hold to a strict adherence to the "NIF Principle"[1] are opposed to most of what passes for law enforcement in contemporary society since it largely involves initiation of force and isn't for self-defense.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
I wouldn't be surprised if it was part of preparation to acquisition by Facebook.
Not really. I have a Macbook Air, and the main reason I don't use it more often is the lack of those keys.

Notice that all the replacements for those keys in the Mac world require a two-key combo. Two keys from two separate hands in most cases (fn + arrows accounting for 4 of them and fn+delete being the fifth).

That means you can't poke at it with one hand while walking past with a cup of coffee, use it while keeping a mouse in one hand, or otherwise interact with it casually. It's a small annoyance, but one that simply doesn't exist in the Windows experience.

All other things being roughly equal between those two worlds, I find myself using the old XP box in favor of the Mac most of the time. Mostly for the reason the grandparent mentions.
The Buried Life are actually a group of guys from my hometown Victoria B.C. This was written by Julian Smith, but was reposted by them. It highlights many things we already know, but #13:learn to program shows how important software is becoming.
Dude you're too late, Finkle is Einhorn and Einhorn is Finkle.
Someone who has no history of running a successful tech/game business is usually not the best person to give millions in investment money to.

It's the government's fault not because they didn't do the stuff the article is claiming, but because they got involved in this at all to start with.

This is so simple it's impossible to argue against.

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

Mr. Schilling went from being a Major League baseball star directly to being the founder and chairman of a computer game company, with absolutely no experience relevant to IT, games or even running a company in the middle. Does there not seem to be anything wrong with this?

Private investors lose their shirts every day. But they are risking their own money (or their clients). That means having some skin in the gambling game, so they are motivated to proceed cautiously and sensibly, or accept the consequences to themselves if they don't. When government gambles with the taxpayer's money, they don't have skin in the game. They also don't have experience investing or running companies and are not able to evaluate fundamentals of what are good ideas, as this entire boneheaded venture makes abundantly clear.

Blaming Schilling for his certain predictable failure is like blaming a dog for not being able to drive your kids to school. The person to blame for the crash is the parent that put the kids in the car with a dog as driver!
Ask HN: How do you come up with interesting new projects?
Like many of you, I'm a hacker and I code for fun and as a way to relax.

Recently I've been having trouble coming up with ideas for neat stuff to work on. I've tried to create products in the past, but since I have a full time job + freelance clients, this creates a massive amount of stress and demotivation after a while. I think it's time for me to focus on projects that I find "fun" rather than pressuring myself to make money with.

I could start an open source project, but most of those are never used. Perhaps I could join an existing open source project, but that leads to new kinds of stress.

I'd like to hear from you on how you generate new ideas to have 'fun' working on projects. If you have a project that you'd like to team up on, I'd love to hear about it too.
The Strong Demand for Charlatans
Cool! Since the startup I work for has been acquired I've been working downtown and lamenting the lack of such things. I'd like to check out your spot sometime!

There's also an interesting group of folks over in silverlake at the "silverlake headquarters (SLHQ)", which is also decidedly non west side. :)
I wish that they had also shown what hosting they were using. That would have been the most interesting to me.
There is already a Chrome client.