skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, would very much like to read an article about the preparation of this document and the various tools used in the toolchain, as well as the workflow -- it could serve as a primer for 'how to do ebooks' for the future that I would enjoy greatly.

It looks like Inkscape for the SVG editor, and texinfo for the text, but I know enough to know it would be nice to know what if any special config was done to get the nice fonts, etc.
From the WSJ:

"Gordon Crovitz is a media and information industry advisor and executive, including former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, executive vice president of Dow Jones and president of its Consumer Media Group."

Not exactly a random stringer.
Sort by economic wealth, but really, why prioritize? It's only .07 per word to translate an app, less if you are creative.
Only for several minutes. What a fast respond!
How does one know?
I posted this not too long ago: http://technicalblogging.com/5-common-blogging-mistakes-made...

I cover the same two mistakes, plus a few more.
> Perfect. I'd add a link to the list of resources :)

done. :)
Naw, I like Henry's version better.
Personally, I believe that the Internet, as we know it, is a product of the ARPANET, the BBS communities, the UUCP communities, and the divestiture of AT&T.
> A joke that (if you are Chinese in China) can get you jailed, put under indefinite house arrest, fired from job, kicked out of school, banned from professional associations, removed from your home, have savings confiscated, beaten by security thugs or failing that and with over-exuberance by thugs killed.

This is both true and tragic, so much so that it reinforces my belief that it is preferable to drown in the Yangtze than to spend as little as a single day in such a poor excuse for a nation; that is, the "Sick man of Asia".
From the ISP perspective it's actually getting easier to accommodate these faster speeds. Very few customers can actually saturate a 100Mbit/sec connection for more than a few minutes. I suspect the usage on a 305Mbit/sec package would be nearly identical to the 50 or 100Mbit package for most customers. Once we got past this 15-20Mbit/sec mark usage stays about the same as you scale speeds upwards. The old model of oversubscription works again. There's a lot of gloom & doom about US broadband but the reality is we're actually in pretty good shape now that most cable operators have deployed DOCSIS3 equipment.
Shortcuts do basically the same thing, and my grandmother understands shortcuts.
Here's a document that goes in-depth about app sandboxing:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Securi...
In the article he says he did it for the purposes of convenience. I don't understand why anybody other than apple would be interesting in "helping" with lock-in.
I remember that the old site had links to torrents of the videos you could download. However, I can't find them in the new site...
Sparkle is amazing. For years and years, I thought it was actually part of the OS, as almost every app I had used it. That's how ubiquitous it is on the Mac!

Edit: Very interesting! The guy behind Sparkle (Andy Matuschak) is actually an Apple employee, working on UIKit! http://andymatuschak.org/

> By day, I work on UIKit to help other people make things.
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Google Launches Its New 3D Maps On iOS, Desktop Coming Later This Year
What the WSJ is trying to do here, and what you're doing by carrying their water is incredibly insidious.

You can claim that there would have been a global communications infrastructure anyway, but that ignores the vitally important question of what assumptions that network would rely upon, and who would push its growth, and to what (or whose) ends.

There's a Deep Space Nine episode which touches on an alternative to the universe we live in where global communications terminals in 2024 are locked down and require a license to publish to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Spa... ). What stopped that from being our internet, instead of the internet we have now?

I certainly do not take for granted the government's role in shaping what our network looks like.
The Results of my Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks Survey
I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc. I'd love to see a serious discussion about making it a community-owned standard on the same level with TCP/IP or SMTP. But I guess that could never happen in a free-enterprise-obsessed world -- unless, perhaps, Twitter proved itself to be such a bad steward that its users demanded some kind of "nationalization."
The article is a bit of a rant, but it resonates deeply with me. The single-level of nesting is obnoxious. The spotify app allows a flat list of playlists--just the one level of nesting. Now that I've got a couple hundred albums in there, it has basically become useless, and I just have to search to find everything, which is _not_ what I want to do.

Hierarchical structures are how we see the world. Tagging and search is not sufficient. File systems give us the illusion of a "place" that a file lives. A single place. Like my socks are in a drawer in my closet, they are always there. A given music file is always in /home/steve/Music/<artist>/<album>/track.foo. That's where it lives. I can find it, even if I have 10,000 albums. My tax documents are in /home/steve/Documents/personal/taxes/2011/ . They exist there. I can auto-backup /home/steve/Documents and I know that those documents are safely backed up. I won't lose those things.
New users who purchase the updated app would have to pay again to get the latest features.
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Who said it was limited to Murdoch-land? Nobody.
For the more curious, here are the video lectures on the First Edition of SICP presented by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
As a new user, how do you know that it's good enough to be worth logging in and investing the effort? The default front page is your initial impression, and it does not appear like it is likely to attract interesting people to talk to in its current state.
Nessfile is something like iCloud 2.0 & BUMP & Dropbox in one
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See diydrones.com -- lots of ordinary hackers making extraordinary things. By the way, the people at bump do it by choice I'm sure. No one's forcing them to make a photo sharing app. :)
Both licenses say "You can reproduce subject to these few restrictions, one of which is that you can't add any other restrictions to derivative works", but the "these few restrictions" is slightly different between the two licences.

The FSF also thinks they're incompatible:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Who would pay the Apple tax in case of license transfers? I can't imagine Apple simply letting go of their cut.
> If the solar system’s structure were open for debate today, AI algorithms could successfully predict the planets’ motion without ever discovering Kepler’s laws, and Google could just store all the recorded positions of the stars and planets in a giant database

I'm sorry, but this bit is half wrong and simply numerically illiterate. We can store all of the recorded positions of the planets and other bodies in the solar system, but we need models to predict their future positions. This is an important distinction, since we might use such models to save the human race one day.
The missing piece in this story is when the registration for this sale was put out. It isn't like you can just 'decide' to sell this many shares, my guess is that it is mentioned in the original prospectus somewhere that some point after the IPO these additional shares would be sold. That it occurred in the same quarter that the stock melted down means that they better have solid documentation and there are going to be lawyers sniffing around for a potential shareholder suit. If the paper trail is solid though no suit will materialize.
And Al Gore invented the internet. Seriously, he sponsored the legislation that set up and funded the internet as a separate entity from NSFNET and (D)ARPANET. More government meddling that benefited no-one.
You didn't give a reason why you prefer duckduckgo, or why anybody else should. (I'm using that engine myself.)
Are functional languages inherently slow?
Maybe not. If you are a programmer the book may help you to understand music better and if you understand music better you may be able to play better. But to be a good performer you need to work on many other skills.
> I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc.

Yeah, what we really need is the same people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Post Office to take it away from the filthy profit-seekers who created it.

THAT will improve uptime AND innovation.
That's nice. The website seems to have a special case for when your browser-string is curl?
Wholehearted agreement with Owen's post.

On point #2: describe your product in clear, what-it-does language.

Mistakes I see are emphasizing: how it does it (C, Java, OO, Rails, REST, ...), where it does it (PC, mobile, Mac, Cloud, ...), "ecosystems" it integrates with (Social, FB, Oracle, ...), who your investors or team are (VC, founders, investors...) etc. All of which may or may not be particularly relevant, but ... they're not key to me understanding what you do. Tell me these things, but focus on the what first.

Use direct, actionable language, not vague or nebulous terms. It's a "NFS file security permissions auditor", not "Cloud information assets security tool".

Describe a workflow or workflows from the perspective of your users. Not developers. Not architects. Not

This doesn't just apply to startups. I use a lot of Free Software, and many of these projects also fail to describe themselves clearly (though most, especially over time, eventually get it right, if only because other people can come in and rewrite idiotic descriptions). Reading through a list of package descriptions from Debian or Ubuntu, where a pithy, one-line description is your shingle to the world, should give a sense of good and bad descriptions.

Even long-established technologies such as Java suffer from this.

At www.java.com we have "What is Java?": "Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It's also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing." Um. OK.
open http://www.java.com/en/download/whatis_java.jsp

At Oracle, we have a Java landing page with ... no description of the technology or its components (which aren't self-evident): http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html

One of the best succinct summaries I've seen in recent memory is from jwz's "Java Sucks" page:

there are four completely different things that go by the name "Java": 1. A [programming] language, 2. An enormous class library, 3. A virtual machine, 4. A security model.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html

Now that is something I can wrap my head around (he also goes on to describe strengths and weaknesses of each component, good essay, read it, it's still disappointingly relevant).

Note though: the best product description comes from a critic. If you fail to clearly define yourself, your critics will.
> hose who control or curate content (Google, NBC/Comcast, Facebook) should not control infrastructure.

And those who were granted a monopoly in order to build the infrastructure should not control the content.
Its unlikely he's fully vested. Its damn near standard to have 4 year vesting, with month-by-month vesting after the first year.
The claim to be the first acid compliant NoSQL database is wrong.

Bigcouch and Couchbase are around for a while. There is also CouchDB (without the scaling).
How will they buy software from the Mac App Store that is not available there?
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"render all previously purchased software irrelevant"

Remember how much business they lost last time they did this (the intel switch, or even the os x switch)? Oh wait...
APIs and a not audacious proposal
I believe app.net was recently pivoted to create this sort of a thing.
Yes. Irony is ironic.
How is this not verifiable? The US government still has the receipts for the equipment they ordered and paid for through Arpanet. Most of the companies (BBN, Level 3) went on to be the very first companies on the internet.

And determinism is like religion, you really have to suspend belief to say this was going to happen because __??__.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay and others to launch Internet Association
Android keeps getting better and better with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
The all new version of Android 4.1 is known to be the fastest and the most quick responding one which allows you to be on track with all your tasks in a much better way.
FYI, this is not true for Windows RT (the ARM version). That version will only support applications purchased through MS's store. Given that MS is clearly pushing for Metro to be the future of Windows, I think this is somewhat concerning.
Your comment seemed quite sarcastic, and looked to be trying to equivocate responsibility. Not that I'm above using sarcasm myself, obviously.

The fact is, that in this instance, a Murdoch owned media company is clearly distorting the truth to further a political agenda. So in this instance, it is perfectly reasonable to criticise Murdoch in particular, without having to resort to qualifications.

In my opinion of course.
Might OAuth WRAP make a comeback? Bret Taylor wrote about it years ago as a simpler approach:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lDQVFky...

(his blog seems to be defunct, hope that's not permanent)

Seems like OAuth WRAP has been officially deprecated in favor of OAuth2.0 but given these issues...
I have always maintained that reddit let the content shine, where digg tried to wrap too much UI around the content, in the same way that Quora is doing today.

The digg interface, while clean for the first few weeks of viewing it, became a hindrance from providing information density.

Reddit allowed much more information and content density thus allowing a faster and more free flowing consumption of content.

Look at Quora today: you see that they have a weird UI wrapped around their content that makes the wrong bits of information stand out, the worst method of finding topics and an annoying auto-refresh that makes content jump when trying to read it, zero comment threading and depth, and finally and most importantly far too active heavy moderation/censorship.

Quora is only successful because of the early adopters, but in time it will fall to the side as digg did, when the first generations of its users move on and the UI becomes far too obvious how bad it is for consuming lots of information quickly.
So it probably would have happened anyway, therefore what did happen didn't happen?
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Although having great marketing skills is invaluable, I have come to the conclusion that having a deeper understanding of design is crucial to modern developers; it seems to me that more and more developers are cropping up and the demand has shifted from them to people with great design capabilities.

I guess the morale of the story is to learn everything you can!
I really cannot emphasize enough how the intersection of these two fields is a) extraordinarily rare, b) extraordinarily capable of producing directly attributable, measurable improvements across an entire business and as a direct consequence c) very, very richly valued by the market right now.
Interesting to note that it was pretty well reported[0][1][2] that the bulk of this second Zynga offering would be for management and PE firms to get liquidity. This, though, is the money quote from the Reuters article that could have been a red flag (Though I'm honestly not sure how often it happens):

"Zynga waived a lock-up arrangement to facilitate the offering. Investors are typically expected to wait about six months after an initial public offering to sell their shares."

[0]:http://www.cnbc.com/id/46833267/Zynga_Shareholders_Selling_4...

[1]:http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/14/zynga-shareholders-to-...

[2]:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/net-us-zynga-idUSB...
what about wine? does performance suffer too much?
A decentralized twitter clone wouldn't be that hard; just mimic Email with subscriptions. The hard part is getting adoption.
First GTalk and now Twitter.
The company does have honest employees, including designers and engineers (I know a few personally).

Yes, it can be argued, "It's their fault for working at an evil company in the first place", but it's tough for me to see the 'regular folk' suffer as well :(
I agree with the advice, and I offer some in return about Habari: hire someone to make your demo video non-awful. The "muzak" and slow pacing alone were enough to send me running away from the whole project. A production that aesthetically displeasing is a sure sign of an unappealing product/environment.
Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

I hope this is true! I've been developing for 12+ years, and always had an interest in marketing, but never really studied marketing. Now, I'm one of three tech co-founders of a startup that does not yet have a dedicated marketing person. So, I've finally been diving into really trying to learn and understand marketing (and sales).

OK, wait, I did take "Marketing 101" at the local community college a couple of years ago, but that's the only formal education on the topic I've had.

Now, I have a huge stack of sales and marketing books I'm working through. So far I've mainly focused on the Jack Trout, Al Ries, et al. stuff... Positioning, Re-positioning, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, etc., and I've been going through a video series from Chet Holmes (of The Ultimate Sales Machine fame).

Looks like some good resources in the linked article, so looking forward to chewing through some of that as well. And here's a pre-emptive "+1" for more good startup marketing related links on HN!
don't really believe this - It's not just you! http://google.com looks down from here.
I think that that's what the chapter on primitives -- introducing csound is for. Also, I think that experimenting with musical conventions and the like is really interesting. If you want to talk about this sort of thing further, my email's in my profile.
"You can use Microsoft developer tools to create platform agnostic code" at least someone gets it. I'm (just) 30 and I yet have to find an IDE that pleases me as much, and handles most of the languages I use (to make money, amongst other reasons) daily. I know it's cool and such to say MS sucks and does everything bad, but calling users demented? Ha, I almost stopped reading there.
I think Google is not showing this to all countries, at least in my country I'm not seeing, but DDG shows it.
That's a completely different argument, though an interesting one to have. The WSJ editorial was not arguing that hypothetically the private sector could have created the internet, even though in actual fact it didn't. That's at least a plausible claim. But the WSJ instead argued, incorrectly, that the private sector did create the internet, without significant government involvement. The main justification seems to be a claim that Ethernet is an internetworking technology and was created by Xerox, and that ARPANET shouldn't be considered significant to this history. The article is very confused, and more or less just wrong, not making any sort of interesting point about historical contingency.
> what you're doing by carrying their water is incredibly insidious.

You lost points for assuming the worst possible motivation of my actions.

"Carry their water"? Meaning "To do someone's bidding; to serve someone's interests."

PLEASE!

First, this is tremendously insulting; it's not saying "you're wrong", but "I distrust you so much as a human being that I don't even trust that the words coming out of your mouth are your own - I ASSUME that you're on someone else's payroll".

Second, if you project this sort of thing on anyone who disagrees with you, you're committing a harm against yourself - you're assuming that you're on the force of good and light and those who disagree with your are not just wrong but are EVIL.

How likely are you to EVER correct an erroneous opinion of yours if you assume that everyone who disagrees with you is evil?

I've changed my opinions on tons of things (to ones that I think are more correct than my old ones), and a central tool to do that is not immediately assuming that the other side is made up of liars and stooges.

I've got an actual opinion, based on actual reading.

It happens to agree with something the WSJ says.

Go jump in a pond.
This is also nice:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho

Check the sidebar...
Looks like it's back up now. Google did a good job with this!

Starting from 'investigating reports Google Talk down' and following right through till service is restored with hourly updates is something that Amazon (and others) could learn from.
It has no implications for Instapaper at all.

His complaints are entirely from the Mac user perspective. (And are complaints that I share.) Tons of great apps can't be sold via the app store unless they degrade themselves to comply.
Bounces me to a Sign Up (not Sign In) page.
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If it wer chicken feed, why would they bother selling?
Note that their wealth that is tied up in zynga stock is not wealth if it destined to be worthless before liquidation.
I'm seeing this. http://cl.ly/IMLf
Correlation is not causality.

If it rains this afternoon, and you later tell me that you did a rain dance outside ten minutes before hand, why should I assume that you caused the rain?
"to live completely as you want for as long as you want"

Money doesn't make you immortal yet :)
Kopied him: St. Ignucius.
> What? Did you ever see deploying to Windows servers? There's a reason AppHarbor's documentation pages are so much smaller than Heroku's: Deploying a .NET web app is peanuts. Through Microsoft-only-means, it's done with a single buttonclick from Visual Studio. This works really great. There's a convention as to how web applications are structured that is very widespread and supported by all relevant tooling.

Sorry but in a realistic production environment, not just a dev test environment, this is not true. Even Scott Hanselman pointed out ASP.NET has a terrible "deployment story"[1] compared to other options. I'm currently working as an ASP.NET MVC 3 developer and I've been really disappointed in Microsoft's stack in this regard. Life was a lot less stressful back when I was doing Python and PHP deployments on LAMP stacks.

To do it right you'll probably end up rolling our own Powershell scripts to do 1-shot deployments. These work great - but again - it's essentially the same story you have in the Linux world.

[1]: http://www.quora.com/Chandra-Sekhar-2/Posts/Excellent-unbias...
Good question. When I teach programming to musicians I find that they can learn programming from a functional perspective very quickly and they take a long time to "get" object oriented programming (or maybe I'm not good at teaching OOP ;-).

Usually I start with a SICP-like [1] approach, but focused on musical, instead of mathematical problems. I show them some basics of the language and ask them to implement musical operations they already know, such as transposition and inversion. Then, I show how they can simplify their code.

If you want to learn programming, I suggest SICP [1]. The videos [2] are also very good.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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