skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, these two are not mutually exclusive. You can store your files in a tree structure, yet unify various nodes by tags or index of concepts.

For example, if I store my photos by Year/Year-Month/Day/

and I'm interested in pictures of my son in the last year, it does not mean these pictures have to be all in the same flat one year folder. It is doable today in spotlight

$ mdfind -interpret "kind:image name date:>1/1/2012"
I hope the majority of users enjoy having their keystrokes logged, since that's the new trend among analytics engines.
Findbugs Warnings By Sample (Nonnull and CheckReturnValue of JSR-305)
JavaScript awesomeness: Set, Map, Default arguments
Get INTROduced to Ashton KUTCHER (Startup-INVESTOR)
I can connect to jabber.org with a third-party client just fine.
Astonishing Insect Life Photography
Never let a sense of humor get in the way of a good opportunity for pedantry & parochialism.
The Startup Life is Neither a Sprint nor a Marathon: How About a Sprinthon?
Service restored in Latvia (for some users).
The first generation of a technology is fueled by necessity. It's often a tiny project with only a few guys, and they portray it as "hey, I made this thing, if you wanna use it too, cool"

The second generation is often fueled by things which were lacking or missing in the first version. At this point, the first generation is widely adopted, and now everybody and their brother wants their say in it.

Design by committee is bad. Design by brainstorm is good. Formality breaks everything.
They probably use Google Fiber
I recommend excessive use of the <blink> tag around any product mentions to really hammer things home :)
> The big logo-y thing at the top of your blog page? Yes, the one that currently links to your blog? Right, that one. It shouldn't link to your damned blog! Link it to your product's home page instead.

Every time I have to manually cut the /blog/ out of the location bar I wonder how many users were lost by requiring that little bit of extra effort.
When someone dies in circumstances like this the people near to them are going to be very traumatised. Out of respect for them, you should keep your opinions to yourself. Using words like "unforgivable", "coward", and "duty" in the context of someone you appear not to have known is inappropriate and offensive.
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We should form a committee to discuss how to fix design by committee. Sound good?
Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.
What the analysis is missing, in my opinion, is sufficient emphasis on the age of the iOS App Store. Not only has the $5 billion has been paid out over four years - meaning even a 1% app won't necessarily replace a decent job in a Western European country or the US - but also that much of that 1% has probably gone to apps that are no longer in existence due to changes to the approval process, the developer agreement, the API, or simply the maturing marketplace - i.e. 650k represents the current number of apps in the marketplace not the total number of apps which have offered over the past four years.

That's not to say the analysis isn't a useful back of envelope calculation. Because what it shows is that the economics of the app store probably favor developing many lower quality apps in places with low cost of living - places where a few hundred dollars is significant income.
I like Rose. In a lot of ways he represents the best of my generation of entrepreneurs more than Zuckerberg and anyone else in that era. The fact that he keeps working, and seems to always have something new, is inspiring and in a way, motivates me to do the same.

Pownce was ahead of its time. Had it been released in 2011, it would be a viable twitter alternative. I guess that's what he was getting at with how he wants his legacy to be seen.
Essentially ...

"Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead. Firstly the kids out of the colleges know the platform agnostic stuff well. Secondly when half the computers leaving factories either run iOS or Android (that is are smart-phones) nobody sensible will write in a way that does not allow easy porting to these platforms."
From my experience, they've also made games unplayable. Take "Draw Something" for example. Ever since the Zynga acuisition you get the following

1) Automatic Facebook login checks. I'm fine with this since everyone I played with are on Facebook. The problem here is that sometimes the automatic login does not work leading me to constantly open, close, open, close, open the app just to get the the main screen.

2) The game is buggy as hell. Not only is the login bad, but the game constantly dies. Its not fun anymore. In the back of your mind you know that as soon as you click out of an ad, the application will close out causing you to reopen it to see ... more ads. Its ludicrous.

3) Speaking of ads, there's like 3 times the ads as before. Some ads don't even have a way to click out of it. You're just stuck looking at a 10-30 second ad to draw (if the app didn't close) for 10 seconds. It also seems as if every time you touch a screen, you get an advertisement. Its ridiculous.

It wasn't like this game was that fun to begin with. But turning a game into a chore just makes you not want to play it anymore. And I haven't.
Google Talk Suffers Majority Outage
Sounds like you should set up a local Git repository for your work ;-)
Dune (mentioned in the article) is one counter-example I can think of.
This site is not "half broken" without javascript, it just doesn't exist at all. I'd understand that if it did a bunch of fancy js tricks, but it doesn't, it doesn't even adjust the layout for small screens (which would be easy given their design).
Both very good points. I've even been guilty of it here and there... the trick is in making sure that the call to action is simple, present and not being deterred by anything else.

Having friends review is great, but sitting an intelligent stranger down and asking them to perform certain actions is what most startups need.
Most computer scientists are fuming with rage when sociology majors pushing strings at Apple are telling them to hide the filesystem from the users.
He's pissed because he hasn't gotten an invite yet, either.
Snapshops / backups with MVCC isn't that complicated - you take a snapshot of the versions, and then backup the data at that version.
Get Mountain Lion and Homebrew to Be Happy
Microsoft provides virtual images of various windowses just for testing websites in various Internet Explorer versions.
The "Tell me what your product does on every blog page" is one that Atwood is great at. The SO byline is very unobtrusive, but I would also assume informative to anyone who doesn't know what SO is.

It was so simple, and it has probably brought SO a ton of first-time viewers.
I work for a GIS Services company and I know one of the major issues from
us not going full cloud is that we deal with really large data-sets. If we had access to a large fiber
pipe we could easily dump all our servers. I would imagine any engineering, graphics or video production office runs across the same problem. I see this as completing the cloud story and alleviating business of having to run there own data centers.
Berlin, Germany .. i can see my gtalk online.
I don't think it's a designer-snob thing. Taking the bootstrap provided website and a lot of overreaching claims of db goodness gives me an immediate sense of there being no there, there.
Simone Fortunini’s Creative Resume in the Form of Google Analytics
done
good luck guys
I would say you should not do that in almost any database. Do not never keep transactions open for much longer than necessary.
Anyone have a mirror or different URL? It seems to be down for me...
I think some people want to blog without it seeming like one big advertising. Sometimes I read articles on startup blogs and think "why are they even writing about this" until I get 2/3rds of the way through and realize I'm reading an infomercial.
Same goes for newsletters / emails that I joined via a splash page or holding page. At the very top of the email tell me:

1. You're receiving this email because you joined XXXX's beta waiting list on xx June 2012

2. XXXX is a product that helps you do ....

Basically remind me what you do and how you got my details.
It's funny that all people in my contact list were blaming their Internet connections. It never occurred to them this issue would be with Google Talk. I don't remember the last time this happened after using it for about 8 years now!
The basics of how Amazon Recommendations work
FoundationDB co-founder here.

As any ACID database must, we choose Consistency over Availability in the CAP theorem sense. This means that when a datacenter is disconnected or poorly connected to the internet, the database is not available for writes in that datacenter. If you are serving a web site to the internet, and need it to stay available if one Amazon AZ fails, this isn't too bad.

Some applications really do need disconnected operation, and thus 'AP' semantics. (For example, a grocery list for a mobile phone, or an application that must be available everywhere if the entire Internet partitions.)
That's your opinion. I don't think other people who are contemplating the same thing are helped by me (or anyone else) keeping things to myself.

Edit: changed my wording. I'm Dutch, we don't beat around the bush, but you have a point, I can say it differently. I will use those words for the people I did know. I do think that people should talk more; it is just strange how this happens if you actually HAVE people who care about you around you.
I like the design. On the sample profile, I like the timeline tab.

Your landing page seems a little confusing to me. Your tagline says "If life is a game, then level up..". ok so the product lets you create a profile and earn caps/points to represent career progression? Worth a shot but not sure how useful mixing the 2 will be. Just my 2 cents.
Down in Beijing, China.
All internal computer now run as virtual machines (not desktops) running on two mondo-powerful Linux servers. The virtualization platform is Citrix. Nobody has a functional box under their desk any more....The company has got rid of the desktop computers entirely (sorry Dell and HP)

What? How are they accessing these virtual machines? Mind meld? In most cases where companies use VDIs the desktop machines are the standard old Dells and HPs because they actually cost less than "dumb terminals" (aka thin-clients). And that's accepting the questionable notion that VDIs are the future.

Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead

We have been on a hiring binge lately and it is very difficult to find candidates who know anything but Microsoft tools. Sure they might know github, but there is a very substantial part of the workforce that stills crawls into Microsoft's bosom.

In general this blog post is completely detached from reality. There is the "startup" culture, of course, where everyone runs an iMac and develops iOS and Ruby/MongoDB apps for their EC2 cluster, and then there's the many magnitudes bigger general computing world that holds zero similarities.
It was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek, I like to poke fun at the mystical math connections as well. I will remember the smiley next time :)

I do prefer the 16:10 monitors though. I recently tried to get a warranty replacement on a 16:10 8-bit IPS monitor from dell, but they kept sending me a monitor with a 16:9 6-bit AFRC panel. Seems that everything Dell offers in the 22" range is a 16:9 now :(
There's a slight difference though. A tablet is meant to be carried around and an external keyboard kind of ruins this, though I admit there've been solutions to this which didn't completely suck.

A workstation is stationary, so mobility isn't an issue and usually the keyboard comes with the workstation anyway.

And on a sidenote, what you're basically saying is that it's easier to be productive when you have any means of I/O at all than when you haven't.

Doesn't change a thing about what those devices are focused on though.
Newry Council issue community alert notice
Don't worry, with the magic of symlinks anything is possible!
They used to have something similar back in the days of Orkut. The Orkut name would get set as the Google Talk name. People used to change their Orkut names a lot to say something "cool". Then suddenly they stopped syncing the accounts with Orkut and the name that you had on Orkut stuck.
Remember, Mac OS X a brand new OS in 2001, slow and full of bugs. It was also sorely lacking in features. So of course development proceeded very quickly then. Later when the OS became mature, development slowed.
JustFab Adds $76M in Funding, On Track for $100M in Sales
Yes indeed :D.
I need an explanation for this. I don't read the GPL as incompatible with CC-BY-SA. However, IANAL, so help a brother out?

EDIT: Please state where in the legalese of the CC-BY-SA license that such would be disallowed.
Lose in the sense where the user comes to me and says "I lost my file!" and I move the window aside and there it is. The same way people "lose" their files by saving them in the wrong folder.
No Credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf disagrees
Money isn't everything. If games are art, and many indie games certainly fit that description, then these figures may well be a more profitable and rewarding path for an artist than, say, making paintings.
Nairobi down.
Reply link just appeared; we agree, the moment itself definitely not rational (that's probably why so many people actually change their minds during the fall from the Golden Gate; there is a good documentary about that), however during the years and years of getting to that point there are rational moments. Your friend went to seek help ; that was rational. It does not have to be continues; it's just sad to see how many people do this without ANYONE actually knowing they even had anything like that on their minds. My cousin was an upbeat, happy guy; he was always the most cheerful and nicest person you could have around. He had tons of girls around him and a steady girlfriend. He went for a drive, cheerful as ever, from his house, left a note + a tape for the funeral. No-one had a clue. A forest ranger found him in his car. That's just weak, really, especially considering his note explained the years he spent coping with this and that he couldn't take it. The moment itself was not rational by any means, however the YEARS before and the show he put up was.
This is not how that works -- if you buy a game for windows on steam, the mac version is free. I've tried this personally, and I expect the same will be true for linux as well. In other words, pay once, get the game for all OS', updating automatically, and all connected to the same account so you can chat to windows and mac players through the steam client
The variance on a salaried job is basically zero. You at least have a chance of making it into the top 1% with app development. Unfortunately, you have a much greater chance of making it into the bottom 80%. Probably not the surest path to entrepreneurship but then what is, really? Also, if you are working for a company that is trying to make a profit primarily from app development, that zero variance proposition is pretty well off the table. There are certain advantages to working for yourself, regardless of the nature of the work.
OpenBSD's de Raadt slams Red Hat, Canonical over 'secure' boot
Nairobi down
FoundationDB co-founder here.

Yes, we provide the strongest level of ACID semantics. Although proving things about large computer programs is pretty hard, we have spent much of the past three years building testing and validations systems to ensure this is true. We run tens-of-thousands of nightly simulations to check system correctness and properties in the face of machine failures, partitions, etc. We also run long-running tests on real-world clusters using programmable network and power switches to simulate these same cases in the real world.

So, we've convinced ourselves. What would you like to see on the site to help provide the kind of incredible evidence you're looking for?
Another point, which trails from yours, is the percentage of spending over time. I would estimate the the iPhone/iPad early adopters were more apt to pay for an app than your average user today.
Pluginitis is the most terrifying disease of large software systems.
Unfortunately, Chrome disregards the Vary header :(

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94369
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I couldn't agree with this more.

In a corporate environment it would be an absolute nightmare to organise files without a well maintained hierarchical directory structure. Folders often need to contain files that are used in a variety of programs (spreadsheets, text documents, presentations), so trying to tie the directories and files to each application would ruin this system.

It would also be a disaster for sharing files with other people. If someone gives me a usb stick with 1000 badly named files, with 1 level of folders – what do I do? If I dump them in directly with mine, it’s a huge mess. And I can’t nest it inside a folder.

I can see many disadvantages to taking away folders, and can’t think of a single benefit to me.
Great, another photo sharing app. AS IF the world needs them. -1
Fair enough. It's a statement i can not prove.

I don't think i'm wrong, but it's hard to argue about alternative history, right? It's all pure speculation. You are right about that.
Give it another try.. it was down for me too but seems to be back now. Or try http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sugexp=chrome,m...
Not sure about 4.4, but at least the 4.5 preview works fine.
forward in time?
Break ALL the causality.
Still down in London...
http://asymptomatic.net.nyud.net/2012/07/26/2969/why-do-star...
牛初乳副作用
Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe
Yes there are long and short term interests but maximization of current smartphone/tablet market share is likely to have a long term beneficial impact as people get locked into the eco-system. I don't see a persuasive argument that making life expensive for Android isn't a good play, and that there shouldn't be a wish to different either. They also need to draw a line (with some help from the courts about where imitation stops being flattery and becomes infringement.

Fair point on influence of the rules although I don't recall any of the tech giants opposing software patents or patent exclusivity. That certainly includes Google. If you can point me to a smartphone manufacturer that opposes software patents or design patents (registered designs in the UK) I would be very interested although I doubt I'll actually become their customer as I'm already locked into an eco-system!
If you're looking for a LAMP developer with boatloads of client and startup experience after August 15th, get ahold of me via my profile :)
if someone want invite to beta please leave us you mail in survey
Is Simple available outside of the United States?
hmmmm, is the secret Valve tv/games console Linux based?
Flock was a web browser until last year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)

I know there are only so many names, but in this case both flocks are social apps, tracking updated photos between friends.

I wonder if Zynga (the owners of flock.com now) will have anything to say about this, though I find it hard to imagine it hasn't already been discussed.
Shoes are simple. But where did you put the backup debit bank card? To the "finance" stuff? Or to the "plastic card" pile?
Where to put spare photos for documents - near the foreign passport cause you'll surely need both of them next time? Or to the unsorted photos pile?
Where should we put spare screws from a new shelf - on that shelf or in the toolbox with other screws?
Etc. etc.

This is why directories are getting old - they allow only one tag for a file - the folder name. New systems, like iTunes and others are introducing concept of advanced tags - you can find the same file in the Author "dir" in the Genre "dir" in the Type "dir" etc. They aren't perfect yet but they are being refined all will be dominant in the future.
China mainland OK now.
Great way to insult your audience.
TLDR: Windows RT lock-down move is what forced Valve to go to Linux.

It was previously discussed here:
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4253887

PS: why is hackerne.ws better indexed by Google than news.ycombinator.com ?
> I have honestly never seen a single person have any issues with directories, nested or no...

This is completely off. I've seen people not being able to "get" the concept of folders and files even after months of demonstrations... They simply forget, don't understand, can't use. Especially in the context of drives, devices, memory cards, etc.

And those people are large in numbers, the non-computer crowd. Probably at least 30% of the general population.
no, the site validation AND the second link do NOT include the company name in the SSL cert when you click on the cert details. You need an EV cert for that.

The site seal with a popup that includes the company details is not what me nor the op are referring to.
These require 2 DVI connectors, right? Is there a similar one with HDMI? [E: ok.. it seems like 1 dual-link DVI, so-- can you simply use a basic HDMI-DVI socket converter as used on many video cards if you want to plug in an HDMI source?]

Also appear to be glossy, care to comment on your impressions of that aspect?
Just wanted to add another item which is that HDCP is completely broken now anyway. The remaining security is mostly the fact that it is bloody hard to handle the massive datarate of the the uncompressed video without custom hardware.

And why bother; almost everything is available in the compressed form (e.g. Blu-ray) more easily accessible if you are trying to access the content.
> Touch screens replaced mice with something that feels more natural.

Oh, yeah? Show me the data you have that supports your statement.
What happened to good manners?
How do you like the anti-glare on the ZR2740w?

I've found it to be rather intrusive and annoying, especially compared to the ZR2440w's coating.
Tradestation software. http://www.tradestation.com/
Who thought it might be a good idea to break -r (most likely the most often used option) and use the old behaviour for -R?

Wouldn't it be better to atleast let -r behave like ever and change -R?

Anyone ever used -R here? :)
Oh. I also got a network error on XMPP in Beijing, China.
done, good luck
How much progress have you made on this?
Am curious, what is the mathematical sense here mean? Not snarky, really curious.
It also doesn't account for the breakdown of free apps vs paid apps.
(MLP: Mindless Link Passing, a term that I think originates from kuro5hin)
Could not agree more.

Using something like Wordpress, it's not difficult to put a little box at the bottom of every post explaining what your product is and where I can learn more.
probably we will launch our product this summer
Seriously, just put your product link at the top-left (like OP says) and throw the tagline right next to it. I'm not going to be offended that I'm reading a branded blog.
Is fine to be angry.. but please try to maintain the discussion in a good level... your comment would be more appreciated without the vulgarities.
HTML5: Motion controlled space invaders using webrtc, webcam and canvas
Let's kill the UX department