skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you saved 9 seconds.

Think about how much time it takes to find the app, download the app, learn the app, remember the app and use the app. My guess is 100x longer than all of the times you will ever use QR codes put together.

That right there is your problem.
Even if the stories are taken literally ("199 out of 200 applicants can't program!"), that number is itself inflated by selection bias the other direction - people who can't program don't get the job and apply at the next place. It's obviously not going to be reflective of the programmers on the other side of that wall.
That depends on the conference. One way you can get around that... if the conference gives out a CD or anything, you can put a more "verbose" slide deck on the conference CD and suggest that people who are non-native speakers can load up the CD and follow along on their laptop. The verbose version is also useful for people to download who cannot make the talk, especially if they are reading it in an environment where they can't listen to audio.
Bejeweled Blitz No Longer Available on Google+
Microsoft's mystery launch event in Los Angeles Live
Couldn't find an official statement, that the Unity3D development software will run under Linux.
It sounds more like the new update will only allow to build _games_ that run under Linux [1].

I hope I'm wrong.
Deallocated Objects - The Case of Missing Podcasts in iOS 6
Meh, I don't know that I'd call Instagram an overnight success. It was Burbn pre-pivot.

A lot of people think Pinterest was an overnight success, too. Know how long they've been around?

Edit: That comment sounded snarkier than I meant it to. I guess in relative terms, Instagram is an overnight success when compared to Justin.tv.
Yeah, it was meant a joke, but either people didn't get it, or people don't like it. I should know better than to try to be funny.
Or more reasonably one of the people reviewing the apps had never heard of Cydia.

Remember the reviewers are the equivalent of tele-sales positions. They aren't necessarily from technical backgrounds.
I have had the misfortune of working with Q. It's a very clever little language that could be a great platform for numerical prototyping. Unfortunately, it's hobbled by a terrible programming culture. The interpreter gives cryptic single-character error messages and the C interface is written in a nightmarish soup of macros.
It's completely possible to _care_ about whether your code actually helps anyone without ever thinking or worrying about it yourself. All you have to do is trust someone else to make sure you're not wasting your time, whether it's your boss, CEO, or co-founder, and perhaps they can make this determination better than you. It sounds like you feel you have to be in charge of the business to know you're not wasting your time, but not everyone feels this way.

I support a world with strong organizations and separation of responsibility, where designers can design, programmers can program, and chefs can cook lunch, and if the company fails, well, at least lunch was delicious. It's not the back-end programmer's fault for not spending his shower time thinking about the business model. Most people aren't looking for a financially risky job; it's on the entrepreneur to take the risk.

Alternatively, let's just get rid of salaries and everyone can work for equity. Then they'll _really_ be thinking about how much their work is helping the customer.
Obviously no.

That's after the Mayapocolypse.
I hate this kind of "work hard, play hard" attitude.

I'm here to get work done, NOT make buddies.

Let me work hard and get my stuff done, then while you're out pounding the Jagerbombs maybe I can get some more stuff done. You know, because "getting stuff done" is my job. My job is not, "get sh*faced with my coworkers". The latter activity does not add (objectively measured) shareholder value.
Prototypes, sure, but people always mention it to say “You can write apps in Python on Android”. That’s simply not true.

SL4A is kinda like PhoneGap: you can use it, but you will not get a quality app out of it. That might be fine for your use case, but it’s definitely not on par to using the canonical platform.

Other quick notes: The last commit on the Scala for Android project is from two years ago and says “add 2.2 support”, the related blog post is from one year ago. Same deal with Android ObjC: last commit April 2010. I would never trust either of these for production development.

I’m sorry but languages other than Java and C++ for Android development are closer to vaporware than reality right now. The only good alternative is Mono http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid which is actually working and supported and not a forgotten weekend hack.

Please note: I’m perfectly fine with Java.
I'd like something physical I can feel and use muscle memory to remember. Having to search the screen, interpret some obscure glyph and make sure I touch the right spot requires far too much attention for most tasks.

Volume down + left swipe to save a file. Camera button + screen tap to go to the app's home screen. Something like that, so I don't have to look. I'm not entirely familiar with screen gestures, but I guess that's the closest analog, so long as they aren't too complicated or picky.
I appreciate your doubt, but am having a difficult time matching it up with the law. In specific, the DMCA safe harbor provisions only apply to entities that can be called "service providers", and Apple's prior-to-posting editorial control over the contents of their catalog then seems to be incompatible with the definitions that are laid out in USC § 512. Apple, playing the role of online retailer, thereby seems to be every bit as responsible for the content of their App Store as if they were to be hand-compiling printed catalogs of products for their own mail-order company for which they stocked their own inventory.

In comparison, Google pulls some ludicrous stunts to maintain separation: developers sign up separately for a payment merchant account (yes, also from Google ;P) and are legally responsible for things like their own sales tax collection (yes, this is insane). Google, then, attempts to claim that they are just a mechanism to allow direct-from-developer-to-user sales of products, and that their catalog is nothing more than web hosting. (This also has the horrible side effect, of course, that even if someone at Google has reason to believe something is sketch in their store, they have to not touch it and wait for something to come through channels.)
I can't keep over-emphasizing the "Results Only Work Environment" (http://www.gorowe.com/). Everyone at my company is evaluated on results - ONLY. Not hours. Just whether or not you're getting your work done, awesomely.

If you get a whole week's worth of tasks done in 20 minutes you're done for the rest of the week. Obviously we did a bad job of estimating (a silly case of course) but - you're done. You don't get more work shoved on your stack. Sit on the beach if you want.

Sure, you can work more, but you're not expected to.
Wait a minute. Is it the CPU and memory factor on the router that causes the "internet is slow, somebody close your torrents" nuisance? I always thought it was the bandwidth getting choked. Could someone expand on this topic?
Sending e-mails with Node and NodeMailer
A law (or other professional) firm might be a better analog for YC than a university - each partner may be responsible for one portion of the firm's portfolio and support resources may be shared while benefiting from economies of scale. As the firm adds to its portfolio additional partners may be recruited to maintain the ratio of projects to partners and by adding partners with expertise in different areas, the firm my diversify its business interests.
To be true, this mockup movie was not much worse than the "original".
I am confused why several people called this an article - it's a comic.

Which, mind, is not to say that it can't be correct or insightful, and it's certainly amusing, but... I'm just confused.
She didn't write this article to complain about not getting to play games. The point is that there is a common problem amongst male game employees, and people should know about it. I'm saying that it's legit to want to take on the macro over the micro, and that she has no obligation to address the latter. I believe in picking your battles.
You aren't, or at least they haven't published any information about it yet.
On their website they state "Publish to Linux", not "develop on linux", and their "introducing Unity 4" video[1] show Os X compiling for Linux.
I hope to be wrong too, but anyway it's still better than nothing.

[1] http://youtu.be/Bpi4J11ZE1o
The difference is that these experiments involved NEW controls, not NO controls. This fad of hiding everything and leaving users to guess what they're supposed to do defies common sense.

I'm trying to get stuff done; I shouldn't be forced to play Myst with the UI.
China's first manned docking in orbit is a success
Cool. And for fun there should be a game of hopscotch appended with the ad.
As a reporter, you deal with unsavory people all the time. The writer should use the experience as a way to devise her own methods of creating contacts/breaking the ice at this sort of thing. Or if the game/PR was indeed that bad, write a scathing review.

Contacts don't make themselves - cub reporters have to wear out shoe leather walking the beat, talking to the right cops and the right people on the street. Clueless PR people should be the least of their worries.
Seems like image search is getting to the point where you can scan in a logo, or take a photo of it, and plug that into a search to get to the product/web site etc.

1) The recognition is less reliable

2) It depends on another service which might be unavailable, slow, not have the logo in its database or have it associated with a different URL.

3) It's limited to products that have their own logos, which are a small minority.

4) It can't support different URLs for the same service or product, losing context.

5) As ugly as they are, QRCodes are identifiable as a link, logos aren't.

How about OCR on the URL?

OCR in real world conditions, using camera phones (not everyone has a 4S or similar) at widely different angles and distances and on the outdoors doesn't work that well. There's a reason why QR Codes where invented, and it was not just to offend people's aesthetic senses.

They have those big squares to detect the distortion, extra bits using Reed-Solomon for error-correction, they're much more compact and immediately identifiable.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I think, the logo is somewhat ambiguous and reminds me a bit of this brand of toothpaste in SEAsia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie where they were either ignorant or dismissive of the implications of their brand. (sadly, in the Chinese language, the name of the product is still insensitive.

I know the mirrored and ligatured G's are a nice typographical feature, but I think they should think about changing it to avoid misperception. In this world, perception sometimes is more important than reality.

EDIT: Not to say it resembles the toothpaste logo, but rather reminds me of blackface/Golliwog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwogg). It's an unfortunate coincidence, though, as I said, maybe it's just me making it up to be more than it is.
This is really good for coderdojo!
Has anyone had experience with Grails? It looked pretty neat, but I didn't want to start delving into it just to find out that it is something that is not being used or developed all that much.
You have provided no support for the idea that MOST scientists don't understand statistics. You link to criticism made about one reporter. I am much more prepared to believe that reporters don't understand statistics than scientists. Still, you have provided an anecdote in support of broad sweeping statements.
Microsoft Tablet Reveal Live Blog
The Ars Technica live blog of the Microsoft (tablet) reveal in Los Angeles.
Basically the results from this year agree with the results from last year i.e. Higgs Boson exists at roughly 125 GeV.

Except rewrite that statement with a trillion: may, allegedly, perhaps, could, maybe, might etc. Until the certainty level is very high nobody is going to make any definitive statements.
Re: 3, it depends on the kind of demo. Recording a video demo is a great backup, especially if your demo needs internet and the conference has flakey internet. However, if you rely too much on demos, it can give people the impression you don't have faith in your project.

Re: 8, one trick, depending on the size of the audience, is to ask someone to tell you when 20 minutes (or however long) have passed. People are happy to help, and timing like that can help you speed up or slow down your talk if needed.
There are a lot of situations where people talking on the phone to other people is annoying and rude. I expect there's substantial overlap with the situations where people talking out loud to Siri is annoying and rude.
There are plenty of companies who don't know that, or haven't been audited yet. When they are audited, they can be out of compliance for months before anything final is done.
Stop using anecdotes to support extremely broad statements about all of science.
Two words: URL shorteners.

That still introduces the problem of surprise, but with the space saved by not posting the QR code, you can provide context about what the URL does provide.

And riddle me: why can't your phone to OCR on a legibly-presented URL any better than it can read a QR code (yes, I know, redundancy and all that, but still).
I think there's a pretty substantial difference between being offered a play-through of a game and having your house robbed. That analogy just doesn't apply here. He wasn't violating her civil rights, he was just treating her like she was something that she wasn't (which, yes, was 100% his fault).

And once again, I did not say she deserves "some of the blame" for his dickish behavior. You're still conflating the two issues I tried to separate out there. I said she deserves some of the blame for not getting to play the game. If I had a reporter, male or female, who told me they couldn't get a story because the first person they talked to was uncooperative, I would ream them. And this guy wasn't exactly uncooperative (after all, she hadn't given him any direction to cooperate with), he was just dumb and in possession of a backwards worldview.

If you have trouble buying the second point, ask yourself: Was there any way, without a truly exceptional degree of effort, that she could have played the game? I think the answer is yes — she could have asked. If you agree with this assessment, then you agree with my second point.

To be clear: This doesn't make his behavior more appropriate, and it also doesn't mean that women don't have legitimate gripes both in the tech world and in video games specifically. Sadly, those are both very much the case.
Looks more like Facebook bought the company for the domain name. What's next? book.com?
Smartdecofurniture.com is looking for a Web Designer 
Email shane@smartdecofurniture.com if you are interested in joining the team! Salary will be in the form of cash and equity.
I'm pretty sure you are reading too much into it.

Even with the reference I have to try hard to make the association.
how can your favorite tumblr be empty?
Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. I can only speak to the fact that based on how it was described (the reporter may have misrepresented what it was like for dramatic effect) I would find it stifling. Even if the description is 100% spot on and it's not for me, it could be that everyone there enjoys it and it becomes a good filter for finding employees who are into that kind of culture. I never stated that it can never work. Only that it would only work for me if it's a no-pressure, opt-in, spontaneous thing.
Live from Microsoft's mystery press conference in Los Angeles
Now that you're out of Private Beta, how about changing the big logo on the front page to reflect the change :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar is my personal favorite when it comes to the transition to gregorian.
If you haven't read "Great unsolved problems in computer science", I'd highly recommend it: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-com...

TL;DR: calendaring is hard. really hard.
Instructables.com infected with Malware
Google chrome wouldn't let me visit it, thought someone here might know of a way to let the management team know
Ask HN: Pro's and con's of Joomla with quantifiable data/information?
I'm doing a bit of research about Joomla, partially because a client asked me to though also because I'm having trouble finding qualitative data for or against it. Instead what I mostly find are useless posts simply ranting about how they hate it because of XYZ but never back up their claims; in other words, to me they seem to talk trash about Joomla without any evidence to back it up. The other side of the coin: I see articles saying how great it is, but all they tell me are the feature set in layman's and sales like terms; all I can think of when I read those are: well, there is nothing here that tells me how it is different, better or unique when compared to other platforms on the interwebz (yes, with Z!).<p>One popular article mentions the difficultly of upgrading from Joomla 1.0 to 1.7(?? or some version like that). Though it seems rather silly to assume a completely re-written CORE would be 100% compatible with old stuff. Stuff from Apple OS 8/9 does not and will not work with OS X. It's just too different of a system.<p>That said, my current bias is to just say "I don't see any reason to use Joomla over what we use now," though the technology does interest me. So, can someone please shed some light for me on how or why Joomla may (or may not) be a great system with proper data to backup their claims. Simply saying "it sucks" or "it's great" will not help this conversation since it's just favourtism at that point.<p>Thoughts?
Not sure I know what this product is by reading the announcement.

EDIT: The first sentence of your product launch blog should tell me what it is and why I should give a damn about it. I don't care about how lean you have been, how many people you had in your private beta or how many people want into it. Sell me on why I need what you just broke your backs building.
It isn't? Can you explain that in a bit more detail?
Ok, this one is just great. We had the Microsoft 'stickers on the street' fiasco, we had the 'chalk goes into the bay' fiasco, this however, hard to argue with. And well cleanup is kind of part of the city's job in the first place.

Genius.

Now we need to do this for dusty windshields. Put the stencil across the back window of a dirty car, wipe with damp cloth, done.
Is Quora Driving Away All Its Best Users?
There appears to be a mass exodus of all the best members of late. Anyone know what's happening?
It Is Possible To Increase Brain Power And Memory Capacity?
Have you asked yourself, what makes a person smarter than you? His intelligence, her memory capacity, are there genetic factors? Education maybe? The trick is how to use your brain more efficiently! Each new thing you learn it creates neural pathways that help us to process information more quickly. How to stimulate this and increase your memory capacity? Read more...
N+9.1: Non leap years will never contain a leap day.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214326
> and are creating a new library to solve those.

Now they have N+1 problems.
Please consider posting this whole thread on your blog, or somewhere more accessible/searchable. Lots of interesting stuff that I'm certain have never been stated anywhere in a coherent manner, and would literally rot here, with just a handful people reading them.
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft is a big customer of IDC. While IDC isn't strictly pay-to-play, many of these "independent" analysts essentially make money recommending products produced by their customers. I'd consider it likely that Microsoft's cash is a factor in IDC's coverage.

Also worth noting is that IDC's track record here is pretty bad. From the article you linked:

"IDC predicted that Windows Phone would become the number two smartphone OS in terms of shipments back in March 2011"

Oops.
So, this is true of the CLR as well. The moral of the story is that you shouldn't assume that hashes are one-size-fits-all. Instead, design your own scheme fit for your own requirements (and no, I'm not suggesting that you write your own hash algorithm).
What a nightmare. How do small fries defend themselves? What happens if some loony decides to drag a very small business into a frivolous lawsuit? Sinking $100k into trying (and not even necessarily succeeding!) to defend against ridiculous claims is utterly outside of financial reality for many. But what's the alternative? Lose everything?

How do the little guys defend themselves against this garbage?
great to see this open sourced - sorry to hear you closed neoinvoice though

the web based invoicing market is extremely crowded and very hard to complete against the likes of freshbooks.com

though i went the opposite route to you and its working $ for me

created the open source app http://simpleinvoices.org first, got large user based, then offered premium hosting at http://smarterinvoices.com
Thank you for the replies so far (both of you). debacle: What did you mean by "depending on the size of the company"? I read the article you linked to. Is bigger worse in this case? Or is smaller? Please clarify for me :)
Congrats Kirsty and Carolynn!
s/heroku/cloudflare
> 32. A time stamp of sufficient precision can safely be considered unique.

I'm so guilty of that one.
Out of curiosity what are you doing in PHP where memory usage is an issue? PHP's standard life cycle, while having numerous disadvantages, avoids a lot of problems with memory usage.

It's a rather different beat, but you might checkout Propel (http://propelorm.org) for a different take on a PHP ORM. It has a static build phase unlike Doctrine which turns some people off, but if you can get past that it's a rather nice ORM.
Apparently a lot of it is forced via banning.
Costa Developers | Take advantage of Green Season and Travel to Costa Rica
I like the idea of QR codes, but I've never seen anyone scan them in public.

In fact, the only thing I keep hearing about QR codes is how stupid they are and how they should be obliterated from the face of the earth.
This sort of stuff is why I scream "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" when people store date/time as integers (i.e. "unix timestamps") when almost every database and programming language has a proper date or datetime data type, and a boatload of library functions that correctly compute differences between dates, handle leap years and time zones, etc. Well maybe not always correctly, but it's more likely that YOU will screw up your date math than it is that the well-tested date library will.
Cool, the more competition, the better for the entire world! Hopefully, humanity is back on track to finally go out there and start the next stage of human civilization. :)
What % of business cards got scanned?
A salt means you have to brute force one password at a time. This is way slower than brute forcing all passwords at once, and you can't do it in advance (like with a rainbow table). Of course, bad passwords will still be crackable, but it slows it way, way down on any given amount of hardware. So yes, it would have helped.
He missed the myth that "Time always moves forward"
I suppose you're not free to show us? ;)
The Promise of the Web & the Challenge of APIs
First thing I was expecting from a site called "Geeklist" was "Sign in with Github"... a little disappointed..