skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the Wikipedia article they linked to? It was experience fighting against rockets in India that led the British to develop the Congrave Rocket, which was made famous in the "Rocket's Red Glare" line in the US National Anthem. Britain might have had military rockets at some point before that, but they hadn't used them for at least a century before that point.

India wasn't as backwards as you might suppose, there were lots of areas of technology they were very good at such as chemistry and metalurgy. After the Battle of Plassey, I believe, the British captures a number of Indian cannons and found that they were better than the guns that the British had. Of course, they all had different bores and it was too logistically difficult to keep that many different kinds of ammunition, so the British just destroyed them. Which, I think, goes a long way towards illustrating the actual reasons the British ended up ruling India.
Apple isn't dominant like Microsoft was, though (though I'll be honest that it looked for a year or two like they would be -- I'm still wiping the sweat from my brow over that). It's not enough to be anticompetetive under antitrust law, you have to be a monopoly too. Apple's hobbled third party browser environment isn't hindering android adoption, basically.
Nope. Of course they'd like you to incorporate in Chile and hire Chileans, but it's far from a requirement. In fact, it's not even something they explicitly encourage you to do.
In macroeconomics, pi is commonly used to represent the rate of inflation. And, as in many fields, i is used as an iterator.

Which means that in your math, if you're assuming constant inflation, you need to deflate prices in year i by a factor of e^(i*pi).
Just terrible.
Not so much a circle. More like an arrow. Pointing downward. This isn't going to end pretty in the long term.
A better comparison would be against EC2.
Can someone put this in context? Is this an inkling of things to come? I'm curious about how the trend toward automation, away from human labor, will affect unemployment and disaffection in China.
This is a poor decision on Google's part. The end result is it tarnishes the Chrome brand.

Chrome's features like private browsing and tab/bookmark syncing are nice, but the defining feature of the brand IMO is that it is a very fast web browser. By linking the name to an app that will always be inherently slower than Safari on iOS, the brand is lessened with no significant upside.

I understand their desire to allow Chrome desktop users to have some meaningful interop between their desktop and mobile browsers, but I think they would have been much better served by not pretending this is an actual Chrome experience (much in the way Firefox allows some interop but keeps the distinction clear).
Because cloud.
I think, very clean and somewhat feminine, but very beautiful.
in a country of 1500 million people this is bad idea.
In which domains is pi better? And was there a discussion 2000 years ago that led to pi "winning"? (If so, it'd be really fun to read its reasoning.) [Both of these are honest questions; I'm not a mathematician.]
It's available now: http://itunes.apple.com/be/app/chrome/id535886823?l=nl&m...
Google launches new developer education programs
https://developers.google.com/academy/
Exactly. I agree that there's a grey area in there, but this isn't one. This is clearly data and not experience.
Meh, so did 2 * pi * r > 2 * pi * (r ^ 2) / 2 = pi * r ^ 2.

The great thing about math is it's it works out either way. So, it really comes down to which is easier to deal with and students seem to have an easier time remembering and understanding 2pir and pi*r^2, but in the end it's tau day so that's what people want to argue about.
I don't think most people say that. Tech geeks certainly do, but they're a minority. And in any case, most people don't have the money to buy a new smartphone every year.

If Apple had an opt-in program where you could upgrade the screen, battery and logic board of your phone for $100, most people would opt for that.
In the Future We Have No Privacy
As the other shave pointed out, it's just the Google Chrome UI wrapped around the iOS browser. I would hardy call that "the only real compelling reason to buy the Google tablet".
I don't have an ipad (had one in previous job), but my 7" galaxy tabs is worlds more comfortable to use than my phone. Can't even compare the two.
We were very surprised that this data was not already available some where ( I mean, it's just a list right? ) So we decided to post this to github and see if people would respond. Please let us know if you run into any trouble!
Radical Entertainment, Vancouver mainstay, shutting doors.
Sometimes random opportunities come knocking and some people call it luck, but I think a dedicated and thorough approaching to networking (more simply put: meeting people and being open to ideas) is transformative. And what goes around comes around too.
Question Startup
Copying a successful business model in Europe and implement it in South America. Is it profitable?, What are its pros and cons?
USA Shopping Style
USA Shopping Style Find top-brand you want online everyday Low prices now! USA Shopping Style
So, you're at an ultimate frisbee game. Everyone introduces themselves. You can then go home and find them on Facebook based on their name and mutual friends (since you probably know some other people on the team). No asking for contact info and all the associated social baggage. There's one benefit.

Now, once you're friends with them, Facebook passively (or actively, with minor communication such as comments) maintains familiarity. Basically what this means is if you happen to run into them six months later, it isn't like meeting them for the first time. Facebook can by no means fully maintain this sort of low-level relationship indefinitely. However, I've found it's very effective at increasing the half-life of such things.

Facebook automates the maintenance of my social network. That is valuable.
Download it and try it out -- to me, iOS Chrome seems much faster than Safari: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/chrome/id535886823?l=nl&m...
And now other countries start doing the same as the US did 100 years ago. Soon they'll be outsourcing jobs too, though IDK to whom. Soon there won't be any cheap labor as the rest of the world catches up!!

Or maybe super poor countries will start being better off .... hmmm
How memory works in Chess
A few years back, I was to go to Brazil on scholarship. Last minute, the US university mentioned they paid the money one month in...yet one has to pay at the start and Brazilian uni starts one month earlier than in US. Catch-22. Four months of prep, crossing T's and dotting I's and it all went down the drain.
I've been monitoring adoption for some time. There was a (roughly) three+ year period where Groovy was the fastest growing language in the world. Scala has seen more growth over the past year, but IMHO it will never challenge Groovy. Why? Functional languages have been around for years and have never owned more than a niche market due to their complexity. Groovy is more readable than Java, and much more readable then Scala or Closure.

Remember COBOL dominated the US for many years due to it's simplicity. PowerBuilder beat a more comprehensive competitor (SQL Windows) due to it's simplicity. It seems likely that functional languages may find a niche where they fit well (e.g. business rules) but languages like Groovy seem most likely to achieve wide adoption. IMHO of course!
That would be great, having a front end to upload and then having a choice of sites from which to consume the offers.

I wonder if someone hasn't got a site where you can submit on craigslist and use an addon to simultaneously submit to their site - basically letting the browser do a multicast of the data.
Apple's UI will respond in real time
If you brand yourself as a small company then the clients might get the feeling that you have an office. Hence, when you try to set up a meeting with them, they might be surprised.

I was always telling the truth and saying that I will be the only person working on the project. However, if you don't have an actual company it might be a good idea to say that you work as a collective - a few designers/developers working together and outsourcing the work between each other.
The Linux desktop, thanks to Chromebooks, goes retail
Correct, it's called sovereign immunity.
Stellar Blast Boils Away Earth's Atmosphere
The next destination for labor is Africa.

I'm really interested to see what happens after that though, when there is comparatively little wage arbitrage opportunities remaining.
I'd like to continue this discussion but it's verging on pointlessness. I don't know how to describe the immense value that talking to someone has over making a comment on a status update.

I guess, try to imagine yourself in a state where you cannot move any part of your body but your eyes. Your body is slumped into a mattress for so long that there's a permanent dent in it. You can not hear, you can not talk, but luckily technology has progressed to such a state that you can project text through some technological medium onto a computer. Facebook is your only connection to the world you knew.

After years and years of existing in this state, one day you are miraculously cured. Do you think you would still find a phone call to be an impediment to communication at all? Maybe, maybe not, depending how comfortable you had become with your new world. But I know what would be important to me. I'll take a human conversation over text, every time.
speak for yourself, infidel!
Which... I don't get.

Just because my PC came with a modem 15 years ago didn't mean I was tied to AOL, Compuserve or the local ISP. I gasp bought my service from whoever I wanted.

Yes, a cell modem would add more to the cost, but a contract free 7" google-updated android tablet with 3g that I could use on multiple carriers, unlocked... what's not to like about that?
Apple will never allow a JIT Javascript engine on any app except their own, for security reasons.

(App Store apps can't allocate pages with the executable bit set, which is a good idea really.)
51° is the latitude of the city I'm living in, and I chose 1/7 τ because it comes pretty close.

I could have used 0.14 τ to make my point as well: If you want to avoid fractions in common cases, you'll need to multiply with an arbitrary number like, say 100 (which has obvious benefits in a base-10 system), but arguments could be made for something like 400 (in which case we end up with gon) or, say 360, which has the benefit that it's the established standard (even though it's not the most obvious choice).

Actual radians (ie not expressed as fractions of 2π) are pretty user-unfriendly in a base-10 system.
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet."
Internet egress is on the order of $.10/GB, so that can't be what you're talking about.

The $.01/GB rate for inter-zone egress is promotional. In the fine print, Google says they will eventually charge internet egress rates.
I wonder if the fourth dimension in this case might be the maximum internal surface area or something of the sort.

A fourth dimension perfect circle looks like a sphere at first glance, but has the maximum possible internal surface area upon closer inspection.
They're looking at the long term. What they announced today isn't going to make or break the business. They can always lower prices but undercutting and realizing later that they need to raise them to maintain the business model is not something they are going to flirt with again.

I don't think they expect people to migrate in waves but I think there will be a time when "we know AWS" isn't a sound argument. There are plenty of projects to come that can evaluate both on their own merits. It's what each does from today that will answer those questions.

Also, GAE no doubt will play a role. I'm interested to see what comes of Cloud Endpoints (REST APIs) and other integration we can get between the two. I think this opens up some very interesting possibilities but I won't get into that.

And let's not forget that not everyone is thrilled with AWS. It's a great service but it has flaws. Google can afford to make a long-term effort to build a solid product that goes head-to-head with AWS.
Don't confuse recyclable with reusable.

I think your mental timescale here is a bit too small. "Built to last" means what? 10 years, optimistically. That means that in 10 years, those products will still be sitting in a landfill...for hundreds of millions of years.

There are choices that hardware designers can make that will help mitigate this at least to some extent, but unfortunately, it appears as if we are moving further and further away from this (the glass glued to the display being one example).
The last section nails it in a nutshell:

...imagine we lived in a world where we used the letter h to represent “one half” and had no separate notation for 2h. We would then observe that h is ubiquitous in mathematics. In fact, 2h is the multiplicative identity, so how can one doubt the importance of h? But this is crazy: 2h is the fundamental number, not h. Let us therefore introduce a separate symbol for 2h; call it 1. We then see that h=1/2, and there is no longer any reason to use h at all.

Color me converted as well.
Very car centered.
That's true with differentiated products. Besides price, what is the differentiation of Google's service over AWS?
I'd be happy to help, but this is probably out of scope of an HN comment. Feel free to reach out to the email in my profile.
If the only real good use case for the 7" tablet is long-form reading, why not get an e-ink device? better to read on, weighs less, thinner, cheaper, better battery. My kindle 3 perfectly complements my smartphone and 10" tablet.
Its not JavaScriptCore, its webkit (UIWebView which is non-Nitro).

Tab syncing is one heck of a benefit, I can't wait to switch. Now I'm definitely going to stick with Chrome on my desktop, even though I'd been considering going back to Firefox. Quite disappointing on Apple's part that its only in iOS 6 that Notes and Calendar will be synced with OS X, still not Safari tabs.
Per the Wired quote, Apple will recycle products you take to the store (edit: or mail to them), and offers either a gift card or 10% discount if you do so.
We don't need no stinking badges
Consider the Frenet-Serret apparatus. We use tau to represent torsion. The Tau Manifesto proposes we replace it with N - that not only breaks the "scalars are lower-case Greek, vectors are capital Latin" pattern, but N is already used to represent the normal vector. And this is somewhere the circle constant (in whichever form) comes up frequently.
Unfortunately not that I've found. Apparently, despite the existence of many, many todo apps, not a single one is made by people who think, "we can innovate the market by going the tried and true 'make it easy for developers to build on' route".
I'm sorry, at what point did I tell people to blindly do something? I'm offering ideas, suggestions, help to those who are and who've been in the same situations I keep finding myself in (utterly painful Rails code). It's unfortunate that you feel no-one should even attempt to contribute to the community unless they've already contributed to the community, and that you feel that every bit of code should immediately be complete and perfect.

In case you weren't aware, samples that don't require a ton of context are a particularly hard problem for informational posts like this. If you have feedback on the ideas I presented I'd be glad to hear them but I still fail to see how nit-picking an obviously early in-progress application proves anything.
I hope all the people who were so critical of Foxconn are prepared for the consequences. From what we've seen Foxconn were so rattled by it that they are investing massively in robotic automation. To the detriment of hundreds of thousands of poorer workers and the millions that they impact.

This ignorance and arrogance on the part of mainly Western countries to judge places they've never visited really needs to stop. Yes we need to maintain basic human rights. But we also need to be mindful that one man's exploitation is another man's livelihood.
Big IT and "new-age" databases
Can big IT (enterprise IT - let's say 100K PCs and upwards) be convinced to deploy "non-standard" databases - not Oracle or MSSQL (or even mySql or PostgresSql) - but mongoDB and voltDB and neo4j? What hurdles are there to overcome and how one is to do that?

Would also love to hear success (or failure) stories and see blogs and articles - not from the DB vendors though, I take that as marketing material, not facts.
Ex employee spills 'sex, sleaze and secrets' of Facebook
$50 is equal to about 20 minutes-60 minutes of your time. Chocolat has easily saved me that much frustration and time. So it's worth it for me.
Words of wisdom on building an API
I have to agree. The app itself feels very native (gestures, smooth animations) and browsing is fast too. It could be the absence of the blue bar on Mobile Safari, but webpages render instantly.
Funny, I had not thought of that (funny since I live without a car). Just repeating what I recalled from the book, not reccommending it as a method. :-)
still native client is open source and could easily be integrated into every brother, just like chrome does it. This would eliminate the need for every other plugin.
While that does, technically, "matter", it doesn't really matter to users. I've been using it for a few minutes and I too can confirm that it feels very, very fast. Which is all that matters. In fact, a few years ago, Mozilla confirmed that seeming faster is much nicer than actually being faster:

http://www.johnwaynehill.com/blog/2010/06/16/perceived-speed...

The point is, the Chrome guys executed well enough on their iOS app that the inherent performance issues really don't seem to be a problem (though I've only been using the app for about 5 minutes so my opinion is limited). And it's quite a pretty app. It brings just enough of the Holographic UI to look nice without looking alien on iOS. They did well.
Just because my PC came with a modem 15 years ago didn't mean I was tied to AOL, Compuserve or the local ISP. I gasp bought my service from whoever I wanted.

You do realize that there were laws protecting your right and ability to do that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture
A Facebook Page That Iran's Authorities Don't 'Like'
Your old modem-based ISPs all used the same plug.

Cell carriers each have slightly differing radio frequencies. They would have to sell "Works with AT&T", "Works with Sprint", "Works with T-Mobile" versions all separately, as they all use different radio frequencies.

The alternative is to build a mega-radio (or perhaps cluster of radios) to support all the carriers, but that adds weight and significant cost, and won't work with whatever new carrier comes out tomorrow anyway.
Why I can't stand AirBnB
sigh

i'm so sick of seeing this come up every time google introduces anything new. they have, at the very least, adequate customer service, as long as you're their customer. as a gmail user you aren't paying them any money and are therefore not a customer. If you pay for google apps, you get customer service. I'm sure that this product will include customer service at least on par with AWS (which, as far as i'm aware, is basically zilch).

you're not going to 'loose' any servers that you are paying for.
Yes, I wish the numbering was 1-indexed. But by now, I have trained my brain to automatically add one. I would definitely prefer a fix where I don't have to do +1.
I haven't used Chocolat, but I did use Vim for ~10 years and switched to ST2 some months ago. Still, both ST2 and Chocolat ship with a bunch of commonly used features without having to install and configure N plugins by hand.

Three things:

1. I'm supporting an independent developer. I want to live in a world where someone can make money off of writing great software, especially something I use day in and day out.

2. I amortize the cost ($60 for ST2) across all the time I spend coding. That's a small amount of money in the end, especially if I feel my overall quality of life has improved.

3. The time spent configuring, tweaking, and troubleshooting Vim configs and plugins is time spent not doing work. This made sense to me when I used to value my time at $0. Now that I want to spend less time tweaking and more time working, though, time is all the more precious and it's zero sum.

Now, I am willing to spend some time configuring my tools, but these days I am much more receptive to something that ships with a bevy of useful features where configuration is mostly optional, as opposed to necessary.

YMMV, etc.
I second Flask, it's a very simple & easy-to-use framework. Just by following the tutorial, http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/tutorial/, you will be fine. Also, the IRC channel is pretty active.
It's attractive and clean, which is refreshing compared to JIRA. I like your Office Space demo.

Maybe your problem is your market. Established development firms use JIRA or something else. They may be hooked on some of the big features that are part of the tool's complexity.

There are still businesses out there that have never heard of things like agile, or source control, and who manage projects by sending emails back and forth. Identify them and go after them. This may be all the tool they need.

My not totally practical advice? Get a job at a temp agency. You'll find your customers.

I'm speaking from experience. I have temped a few times in between jobs. Stapling and filing papers and all that. For small and medium sized companies that we tech people just don't think about - chinese graphite importers, freight forwarders, etc.

After a few days I'd start noticing things that I couldn't believe they were doing or using. "Why do they do it like that? Haven't they ever heard of process X, tool Y, technology Z?" Once in awhile I would even suggest something and help them out. It even landed me a bit of contract work on the side once.

I think there's a world of customers we're just blind to that aren't prejudiced to the existing tools, who might be persuaded into trying your software.
> If you pay for google apps, you get customer service.

This has come up many times in past discussions, and many paying Google Apps customers have explicitly said that they receive little more service than free gmail users.
The language has matured and so has the implementation. Static type checking will reassure those "programming in the large".
Static compilation will help those "programming for the fast lane".
A bunch of syntactic simplifications will help those creating DSL for the so called "business user".
Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, all on playing well in the JVM ecosystem : this is exciting !
I don't know if that's the case.

One of the big reasons Asian countries are so popular is because of their proximity to other members of the supply chain. This is vital for maximizing JIT inventory management.

It might just end up moving to Asian countries that still have pockets of cheap labour e.g. Philippines.
Tau versus Pi
How to Diversify the Anchor Text of Links to Your Site
Eh, people's skill in stuff is all over the place. I think android, especially UI based android, IS slower currently than iOS to make, however I am guessing your iOS app was done by people who were better at their type of apps in general
I'm sure Microsoft could've used 10 excuses like that for IE back in 2000.
My fave todo app is still todo.txt. Simple. Effective. Writable and readable anywhere.
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha released
App store reviews sound like they've been solicited.
For what it's worth, if you jailbreak you can change the default browser. Though having done that and used Atomic Browser for awhile as the default, I can say that the performance hit isn't compensated for by the nicer tabs, user agent switching etc.
Think Before You Incubate: How Incubators Can Hurt Your Startup
Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for sharing.

Link to the program for anyone interested: http://www.apple.com/recycling/