skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her point still stands. I've been Facebooking since the start, so I don't necessarily alter my behavior much, I just use it to keep up with friends, post interesting tidbits about my life, and try to have real conversations happen.

I still see the same problems. When I talk to people, it's always "oh yeah, I saw on Facebook that you got a new job," etc. etc.

I went back and looked through my old e-mails from right before Facebook was becoming popular, early 2004. I once sent out one of those "My e-mail address is changing. Oh btw how are you?" e-mails to my whole list, and got back around 50 genuine responses that turned into conversations. Not "broadcast" style conversations, not public conversations, but real honest person-to-person human communication. It was brilliant.

I realized that I had completely lost that. If I was doing it today, I could send the same e-mail but people would send nothing back; it would just be "Thanks" because they already know everything else there is to know about my life, and I theirs.

It's a very strange and new way of connecting to people. On the one hand I have some deep insights into the lives of friends I might not otherwise talk to, or even those I do; on the other hand, I miss the humanity of one-on-one conversation.

I'm yet undecided if this is a good thing. But overall, I think the article overblows the affect this has on relationships. Personally, I sort of like it. All the trivial stuff is known already. No one cares where you work or what you're doing anymore, they want to hear how you're doing and how your life is really going. It negates some shallowness and small talk. Not necessarily bad.

But it is enormously complex. We still don't know how society will change as people become more connected in so many ways, but we do know it will change. Some might say it's the next level in our evolution; collaborative social evolution is the next step since biological evolution can't keep up. It'll be a fun ride.
Can someone clarify? I thought replacing the browser (actually even stronger: rendering web content using anything but the browser) was one of the items forbidden by the app store guidelines?
Anyone else just use visual mode for that kinna stuff?
>The first step you've linked there for PhoneGap Android is to install Eclipse

Uh huh? You've never used an IDE before? And that makes you think clicking next in an installer is hours of configuration?

>Trigger's web-based approach seems to have a huge advantage over all that installation/configuration

See, this is exactly what I mean. You are welcome to say "I prefer editing my code in a web browser", and I will certainly believe that (although I'll obviously assume you are insane). But trying to characterize the alternative of "using an editor" (which everyone already does for every other kind of development) as some arduous task is absurd.

>but it's a lot more work to get to the "it's easy now" stage which this blog gets to very quickly using Trigger.

No, it isn't. That's precisely the point. I just did it yesterday, that's why I know. It took 5 minutes to have a nicely documented example app up and running ready for me to edit it. I typed 0 commands. Deliberately misrepresenting software X is a bad way to sell people on software Y. It just makes you seem dishonest, and then your opinion isn't trusted.
Same here, and for some stuff, using iOS reminders works well. I've tried all of them - Things, Wunderlist, Asana, iOS Reminders (still use a bit), and can't get any of them to stick.
I don't understand. But then again, I've havent used a Mac recently. Does this do something that Eclipse can't?
Regardless, prosecuting someone in an illegal fashion for something that wasn't a crime is something a government shouldn't do.
Well personally I just swapped my smartphone (lumia 710) for a 10 year old Nokia 3310.

In the last two weeks since I disposed of it, I'm less stressed, considerably more alert, have slept better, feel like I'm slightly less thick, more productive and haven't had a single migrane.

The thing was a ball and chain.

EDIT: this move was motivated by Black Mirror. Thank you Mr Brooker.
I searched for it but couldn't recall the search terms. I tried a few to see if I got a bite but nada. I originally saw it a year or two ago.
Apparently the author turned down a job offer to work on this full time:

http://samsoff.es/posts/staying-strong

I applaud the effort and entrepreneurial spirit and even the quality of the UI work. I'd question the judgement when there are so many to-do apps out there already.
Apps on the store have to use UIWebView, which of course doesn't get the Nitro JavaScript engine.
The Miranda decision didn't lead people to change the law, and that literally lets people get away with murder, not this moral equivalent of mass jaywalking.
I agree with your point, but would you really trust sensible data to such a person, which is known as a liar? I think the risk is too high. Lying to customers can also be fraud in some cases.
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It's still the system rendering and JavaScript engines.

Edit: Which, from the vast majority of users' perspectives, are functionally identical.
You mean other than function well and not eat RAM?
But why do they add up to 100? What are they measuring to get the data -- traffic in the provider's networks?
It's also three times the price, which you will either pay in your phone bill or up front.
The gamblers visit the places with the best rules. If you're playing blackjack at $500 a hand, playing against a 1.1% house edge instead of a 1.2% house edge matters.
Google Launches Compute Engine To Take On Amazon Web Services
Marion Nestle of the Politics of Food, wrote about this study early this week (http://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/06/does-where-calories-come...)

She's skeptical. Basically, she says you cannot really draw any reliable conclusions becuase of the short, highly controlled conditions of the study.
While Chrome for iOS will include a number of key features, including incognito mode and tab syncing across devices, the browser will still use Apple's WebKit-based engine required by the App Store developer guidelines. It also will lack the Nitro JavaScript engine that Apple uses to speed Safari's performance.
This is timely for me as we get ready to launch matchist.com in the next few months. Gonna bookmark this.

Thanks for the great tips!
Google launches Compute Engine
Class D amps are enormously efficient and have good clipping characteristics, so 12.5W is plenty for most speakers and rooms.

Fun fact: 95% of your music stays within 1W of your amplifier's capability at comfortable listening levels.
$10 more bucks gets you Sublime Text 2 :)
There are so many ways to look at this. Here's a dumb and imperfect example: You hire me to help you find a really good CFO. I charge you $40,000 to get that job done. After several weeks and two dozen interviews we find a candidate that is a great fit. You agree to pay her a very competitive salary, one that is certainly within the top level of what CFO's are getting paid in your industry. Everyone is happy. You pay me my $40K and she comes onboard.

Six month later I get pinged by a large corporation looking for a CFO. I remember the candidate I placed with you. She is definitely qualified. I email her directly and get her to jump ship. She didn't get paid any more. I simply convinced her that the large corporation was a better bet than your startup. I, of course, get to collect a fee from the large corp as well.

This is wrong. You hired me to help you build your team and paid me handsomely to do my job. If I then turn around and actually become your enemy, why am I serving? An even such as the one I just described is incredibly disruptive and costly beyond the obvious (I covered some of the costs in my prior post).

That why I will not work with any head-hunter who will not guarantee that they will not approach new hires with new opportunities for a reasonable period of time. As a business you don't derive a financial benefit out of hiring a new employee for months but there's a ton of upfront and ongoing investment.
I went as a Monbusho scholar in the period 2004 - 2009 and this is not the case anymore. Nowadays you spend a lot of time filling forms and getting access to basic services like cellphones or Internet. They do give you around ¥160K these days...
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I got this email from Arun this morning:

Hello WakeMaters!

MiLife+

Many of you received an email this morning concerning a new product called MiLife+. I want to make it clear that WakeMate is not affiliated with this product in any way.

Today was the first time I have heard of this product and I am shocked at the way it was promoted to WakeMate customers. Our mailing list was used without our knowledge by a former WakeMate employee, Greg. Fortunately no other user information was compromised and I am deleting the mailing list.

For those of you who have donated to the Indiegogo project I have contacted Greg and Indiegogo and it is being taken down. You will all receive your money back.

What’s Next?

I poured my heart and soul into this company and though we stumbled along the way I believe that we provided something of value to our customers. However, as many of you have guessed, we have exhausted our capital and will no longer be making any more WakeMates.

Currently our plan is to keep the service going while we work on open sourcing the technology. Hopefully this will ensure that you can continue to enjoy the product and its benefits even after the company no longer exists.

I am very sorry for the unsolicited emails. This email list will not be used again.

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Is there some sort of secret to getting Eclipse to work without being really slow? Someone once mentioned using the latest Java, but I've yet to give that a try. Frankly it's the only thing that demotivates me from writing Android apps.
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So the only real compelling reason to buy the Google tablet is being released on iOS. We knew it was coming, but I expected it to be staggered by six months or something at least. As a desktop Google Chrome user I am happy, but it is sure a puzzling move by Google.

sidenote: is the name of the browser 'Google Chrome', or 'Chrome'? Both are trademarked by Google.
But, Chrome on iOS will still be a "second class citizen" the way Opera mini and the other browsers on the AppStore. If you want to open a link in Chrome, you will need to copy/paste the URL, no "Open in Chrome" functionality like Safari has. For better or for worse, Apple has not opened up system-wide integration of third party apps, and I don't seem them allowing you to change your default browser anytime soon.
That's true and the USA also did a lot of things wrong. I just dislike that he get that much support now and people see him as a star, just because of megaupload. I doubt that the guy changed his mindset and he will stay a criminal.
any info on an API to the events?
I've swapped to Chocolat as my full time text editor. I find it to be a really good cross between a plain+powerful text editor like Vim, but still with some of the pleasant UI touches of Espresso and such.

Its speed of development is great as well. It seems to get updates every week or two in the past few months. Compared to Textmate/Espresso/Coda etc, that's a real breath of fresh air.

That said, I haven't used Sublime 2 yet, and it seems to aim for similar goals, so no calls on which is best.

PS - You have to like the release notes:

"Feature – Major improvements to the version number. "
I would just like to note, that as a human I can only store a finite number of passwords in my brain and would love if web apps like these would at least provide OAuth with another identity provider (gmail, etc.) as an option.
I don't think pg is to blame for this... todo list apps are inherently simple to design and build. If anything, they're a great 'first app' for new or aspiring developers, so a marketplace flooded with (many shitty) todo apps is not surprising.
Jamie, what experience or research backs your claim that mobile development is an order of magnitude slower than web development?

I've been coding iOS apps for the past 6 months now (after coding web apps for years before that). If anything, I think iOS development is easier and faster than web development.
Farmville made me hate my friends on Facebook.
If I was using a Mac, this would seem to have the same features as Sublime and more. Not sure though, haven't tried this one out obviously.
Don't see how it can, as it's just a UIWebView.
If I've never written any C, does that mean that I have no proficiency in any language?
maybe it's me but, with the exclusion of the sports scores "Google Now" really seems more like "Google Here".
Coming from a web development and Python background, and starting to really learn C about a year ago, I know the exact feeling you're talking about. As many cool Python programs I had written, I just didn't feel like it was a "real" program until I programmed and compiled an application in C. And I love how C has made my Python so much more powerful, both through ctypes and Cython. Finally, C was the gateway to Lua, which I'm now enthralled with: a tiny, extraordinarily fast and flexible scripting language that is easily compiled into a C program, thus giving me that single-file binary executable I cherish so much. I know I could do the same with Python, but LuaJIT is just so easy to embed, and yet so incredibly fast. Learning C has opened a lot of doors.
Let me guess, you're American.

Not that cheddar can't be a good cheese, but on the other side of the pond, cheddar is really the most basic cheese.
The office spaces don’t have decent lighting and it’s not safe - you can’t leave your stuff on the table even for 5 minutes, a lot of it might get stolen - This sounds kind of crazy to be honest. As I'm front some deep places in eastern europe I wouldn't leave any of my stuff in any places. Especially considering the fact that the work on the laptop is probably more valuable than the machine itself. But this is a shared office space. You just wouldn't expect something like that to happen. And from my point of view - Startup Chile team helped me get it back - is not really much of an excuse. Did they just leave the door open? Or were the participants of the program just nicking stuff from each other?
Promoting your project with a podcast
Amazon has free microinstance for 1st year. Looks like there's no free 1st year here?
What's pretty nauseating about it is that it's exactly the kind of anti-competitive crap that Microsoft pulled in the first browser war, only more so.
Seems to me that Google won the 7" race to the bottom, I wonder if we'll see a 10" race to the bottom.
Un-reality (why you can't find talent)
Without them your app is a wafer in the wind: on data models and persistence
+1 it drives me crazy too. Calories are a unit of stored energy. Wood has plenty of calories (great for fires) but if you eat a bunch of bark you're not going to store that weight, you're just going to make yourself sick.
"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps."

"Ok, you're now a rain-dear caught in the headlights."
There are 14 competing text editors.
I know, I'll make the best one and end this dispute once and for all!
There are 15 competing text editors.
IMHO I think this phrase is part of the reason behind downvotes
"Sweet, it's completely useless!"
It is a strong statement and it is probably subjective. What it is useless for you might not be for someone else. You did fixed after... " is mostly useless to me." but I think was too late.

"I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. ". The post itself feels like a lot of hatred behind him. Maybe it is getting the same medicine?
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Google Enterprise - Just announced : Google Compute Engine (IaaS)
I think you need to dial up your humor level a bit when reading this.
Which is why I still like Android as a mobile platform. Google gives users a choice, Apple makes you live within their walled garden.
Yet another editor with a half-baked Vim mode!
I always end up falling back to a combination of Google Tasks (because it's on iGoogle, which is my homepage) and just writing stuff on a legal pad. If I'm out and about, I'll just text it to Google Calendar.
Does this mean it will be slow as molasses on JavaScript-heavy sites?
Thanks for a nice post. However, I'm still wondering about the networking part of this program. Where were most of the participants from? Was it Latin America? Also, were there any interesting people to connect with from Europe/US?
Still, breaking the law to prove someone is breaking the law taints your claims; and these claims have taint all over them.
cross-platform wins everything
I'm very reluctant to consider any editor that's not scriptable. Or if it is, it doesn't seem to be mentioned on the website...
The headline should read Google Chrome Skin now works on iOS. For all intents and purposes, the heart of the browser, i.e the rendering and scripting engines are not running on the iPad or iPhone.

Would it be accurate to state that IE now works on the iPad if Microsoft ported the IE browser chrome(UI) to the iPad?
That's great! I'm trying this now. Hopefully Google isn't too clever here, though... I know that of the people I e-mailed use Google Apps, so perhaps Google detects that it's an Google Apps address and enforces Google+ account creation.
The revenue stream is also more mature for web than it is for mobile. So you have a better chance of reaching profitability faster, giving you more time/money to invest in the mobile platform in the future.
You're actually wrong. This is a bastardisation of the command pattern. LogUserIn is a command. The verb/noun thing applies to a different class of object (your domain).

The article sucks pretty badly to be honest but the foundations are solid.

A much better solution is to use the command pattern over a rigid domain model. The rigid domain model encapsulates your business domain and logic and your commands describe different ways to mutate the domain.

This could be classified as CQS or if you use a bus to deliver your commands CQRS.

Unfortunately, and I'll probably get flamed for it, by rails is a stinking turd when it comes to architecture. I've never seen anything which isn't trivial CRUD done without causing uber spaghetti. Also to do proper domain modelling, you need a more powerful ORM such as sqlalchemy or hibernate.
>A neo-liberalist wouldn't necesseraly make the two a difference

A (neo-)liberalist would not approve the difference, as long as money is made, but the patent system is government regulation of trade, so he would not approve of the patent system itself if he took his conviction to the logical end.
Well, yes, but with a liberal interpretation of the word "cruise", that would be 100% accurate. Indians were indeed the first to employ self-propelled artillery in a truly effective military capacity. Probably not in Vedic days, but certainly against the British: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets.

It's interesting to note that much of the tradition of western rocketry is descended from captured and reverse-engineered Mysorean rockets. And most of the rest of the western tradition of rocketry is descended from half-crazed Russian mystics and Egyptian ceremonial magicians. But that's another story entirely...
Neat, but, why not vim, which does all of these things? What differentiates it and justifies $50?
While I suspected as much, I figure it's worth asking in case there is a nobler reason that I'm simply unaware of. I don't want to presume too much.
Stop shipping hardware products that are only “beautifully designed”
Google Compute Engine challenges Amazon with thousands of cores - SlashGear
>Am I going to stumble upon Steensgard's pointer analysis by accident?

Yes! Yes, you could stumble on Steensgard's algorithm. Like convergent evolution in nature, it's easy for requirements to shape implementation, and for multiple implementations to naturally overlap. There are so many software patents out there- it is a minefield.

Additionally, engineers at large companies are discouraged from doing their own patent research, because of the risk of losing a "sorry, we created this organically in good faith" defense in litigation.

Publication of patents does not offset the chilling effect and legal overhead on our industry.
Taking on Amazon, Google launches EC2 rival Compute Engine
FWIW, the fashion induatry works this way on purpose, in order to drive product. The factories that put out the knockoffs are often the ones that produced the original. Knockoffs saturate the market making, last season's product unfashionable, so haute couture consumers have to buy new stuff again.

As a corollary, the knockoffs subsidize the genuine article's production runs, so both the manufacturers and the design companies benefit from this.

Source: my wife, working in manufacturing in Shenzhen right.now.
Why I use Foursquare (hint: often times, it’s not to check-in)
Because it's not in estonian.
Am I reading this right? $.14 per hour for the cheapest tier of instance? That's over $100 a month.

The cheapest tier on Amazon is less than $15 a month.
And while Mozilla made really loud noises with threats of complaints and legal action about Windows RT and Microsoft, they completely ignored Apple and made Firefox Sync which just syncs bookmarks etc.
Believe it or not, a _lot_ of people don't like vim.
Cost-wise how effective it is? Of all the services out there EC2 seems to be the cheapest with so many services. Its like mini swiss knife for cloud computing.
I know what you meant, but I don't think this strategy works, mostly because "eating less calories" has to be a side-effect of a healthy diet not the goal, otherwise it isn't sustainable.

I tried it myself and it didn't work. The mental pressure, the guilt when you go wrong, the bad moods you have when you can't satisfy some urge - all of these are culminating with depression, until finally you give up because being overweight suddenly doesn't seem so bad.

Besides I've seen some statistics with the growth of the average caloric intake in the past couple of decades, compared with the growth of sugar intake and the growth of sugar in our daily diet has a much, much better correlation with the rise of obesity and diabetes.

People should be encouraged to stop eating crap that they don't even like and start eating good and healthy food.
They're basically just Hello World apps for persistent data.
Perhaps, but this once feels a lot more OSX native than ST2.
I checked-out your company. It seems really cool. And, I think that it is really awesome that you are commercializing this tech and advocating it so much on HN (seriously). But, the part I am having trouble understanding, as an amateur, is what I do with the DNA once I order it.

With software, I double-click an executable or go to a web address, and BAM! I can share pictures of kittens with my friends. How do I turn that DNA into a bio-luminescent kitten, for example, that I can show off to my friends?
Somehow... with the Google product price changes (price hikes!) in maps and app engine, I am not sure if they have enough credibility left to pull this off.
yeah I couldn't stop reading that text. I was wondering wtf the text was all about ^_^ ( http://i.imgur.com/IhOXd.png )
Throw LOTS of RAM at it. 8gb seems to be a good starting point.