skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "funny" thing here is that the guy didn't host his photos on the cloud, he hosted them on his Mac. It was a command to the cloud to remote wipe his Mac that caused his photos to disappear. If he had hosted them on the cloud somewhere, they would have likely been backed up at some point.
"The iPad and iPhone are not, in any significant way, unique. They are more marginal variations on existing technology and design than not. Capturing popular attention and leveraging inherent human desires is what garnered the devices and Apple so much fame and fortune, not the innovation or creativity."

Bullshit.

The iPhone may not be unique anymore, but when it was released, it was groundbreaking. It can be argued forever that Apple did not 'invent' multitouch [1, 2], didn't invent rounded rectangle, a grid of application icons ... etc. but they were the first ones to democratize it.
The iPhone was the first device to truly have 'thought through' how a touch-only device should work for a variety of tasks. There are lots of interesting projects that never move beyond research labs; I think Apple pushed the whole industry and research community forward with the iPhone.

To look at a product as a sum of its parts is often very very misleading. That's true for the iPhone. Of course other manufacturers had to start using similar technology, but that doesn't mean that they could or should copy interaction paradigms, design details (right down to the final retail packaging). AND most other manufacturers managed to use the same technology and NOT cross the line between inspiration and ripping-off. I cannot fathom how one can look at the Samsung products in question and not see that they were more than inspired.

"You are essentially trying to force complexity and inefficiency because you have hijacked simplicity and efficiency."

Bullshit.

Simple is hard. Yes, that's an official Apple line, but anyone who's ever written a piece of code will attest to this fact. Removing cruft, making things cleaner, starting over ... is often the most difficult step. Apple clearly did the same with its products, it's clear from the prototypes it presented in court.
Also, there are umpteen examples of how things can be made simpler and better than what Apple offers. At a software level, WebOS does (did) a great job of figuring out multi-tasking on mobile devices, Android is fantastic with notifications and cross-app communication (intents).

Without getting into lawyer-esque conversations, just take a look at the Samsung products in question ... you should get what this case is about (for now, just focus on things that meet the eye ... literally)

[1] Flexible Machine Interface (Nimish Mehta , University of Toronto). Published in 1982.
[2] Fingerworks (1998). A company founded by Wayne Westerman and John Elias. I think Westerman went on to work for Apple.
For multi-touch history, check this out http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
Thanks for the feedback! I think you're underestimating the value of some of the things we add to the process such as the work involved to get good art, as well as being the place where they can learn about fit and finish. We want to let developers focus on the coding / game-design while we handle the not so fun parts. Instead of having to worry about the not so fun parts you can spend that time building a second game and make even more money!!

For those who don't have money, we take all the risk out of making a successful game. While the developer in some ways ends up paying for some of the art costs (ignoring the fact that the process of getting the art done itself has cost to it), it is guaranteed he will not lose money on art and promotion, which we see as a big win.

We hope the overall package will be worth it, and we plan to add more and more tools / support to make it worthwhile, potentially features like allowing others to beta test your game and A/B testing logos etc. If you can think of more features that would make a revenue share worthwhile please let us know! We want to build things our developers / potential developers need.
Apple pulls "Genius" ads
Chances are the only ones who will try this are your users already using two-factor auth somewhere else, and it's most likely they got started with Google. Might as well use an app that's already on their phones, Google Authenticator (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4348475)
Your data is encrypted with the normal password, so it needs it to decrypt the sync data. The App-specific password is used to log in to the server to GET the sync data in the first place.
I LOVE Netflix. I have a 7.99 streaming account which is 90% used by my kids to stream movies to my iphone, play on the projector in the playroom, the blue-ray streamer upstairs and occasionally view on my laptop.

While the content isn't terribly recent - my 7 Year Old doesn't notice or mind.

One thing I am amazed at is how smooth and high quality Netflix streaming is over 3G to my phone.

Youtube buffers even on my full broadband at home. (Youtube is hands down the worst video experience online, at this time).

I will always have a netflix streaming account - I get so much value for my $7.99 a month. Also, I let me mom use my account to stream as well.

Netflix is like the tortoise from the tortoise and the hair. Slowly and steadily setting up a rock solid amazing service.

Youtube just raced forward as a video service got massive way too quickly now just has horrendous infrastructure and intrusive ads and totally broken keyboard controls.

It is actually time for youtube to be disrupted. I am surprised apple has not taken on youtube yet, actually.

(Again, I am comparing the streaming experience between youtube and netflix, not the content/business)
You will need to create your own opportunities. Simply taking courses in coding is not going to cut it. Take what you learned so far and apply it to something concrete. Studying Android? Build an app and put it in the market place. Blog about it. Get people to use it. You will soon discover larges gaps in your knowledge. Study those concepts on your own. You can't wait for a course to teach you.

You are in a difficult spot. It is not so much that younger developers are better, but developers that start young shows that they have passion, and are not simply chasing a paycheck. You need to prove that you are not only a competent developer but also that you are passionate about the field. Start reading ... A LOT.
Because it seems unsustainable. Sooner or later international trade has to reach an equilibrium where everyone exports as much as they import (just as everyone in town must ultimately sell the same amount of value as they buy). Obviously someone who's buying more than they're selling has a problem, since sooner or later they'll run out. But someone who's selling more than they're buying should not expect this to go on forever either, and if their internal economy depends on a constant influx of money from outside then there will be trouble when it stops. To stretch the analogy to its limits, a shopkeeper who's got in the habit of having the extra money on hand from being able to sell more than they buy in the market is living dangerously.

(More specifically for Germany I'd say there's a risk of a deflationary spiral - if exports fall then companies will reduce domestic prices and take losses (leading to reduced pay in real terms). Consumers see that prices and salaries are falling, so they hold onto their money and spend less, which only makes it worse).

But you're right in that it's not so much having high exports that's a problem, as the risk of seeing a sudden drop in your exports.
I think you are looking at a very different use case here. The systems that I think you are referring to analyze a static graph representation. The Graph500 benchmark in particular loads one big static, unlabeled, undirected, property-free graph and then runs extensive (BFS) analysis algorithms on it. The fact that the graph is not changing allows significant investment into building locality optimizing data structures (which is essentially what space decomposition is all about).

Titan on the other hand is a transactional database system to handle large, multi-relational (labeled) graphs with heterogeneous properties. A Titan graph is constantly evolving (as in the posted benchmark).
For graphs (unlike geo-spatial domains), applying space decomposition techniques first requires a metric space embedding which is a non-trivial and computationally expensive process. For changing graphs, this embedding will change as well making this very difficult to use in practice. The best approaches I know of for achieving locality therefore use adaptive graph partitioning techniques instead. However, for the types of OLTP workloads that Titan is optimized for, this would be overkill in the sense that the time spend on partitioning will likely exceed the time saved at runtime. At very large scale, it is most important for OLTP systems to focus on access path optimization based on the ACTUAL query load experienced by the system and not some perceived sense of locality based on connectedness. I published a paper a while ago suggesting one approach to do so:
http://www.knowledgefrominformation.com/2010/08/01/cosi-clou...
The Graph500 benchmark explicitly prohibits this optimization ("The first kernel constructs an undirected graph in a format usable by all subsequent kernels. No subsequent modifications are permitted to benefit specific kernels").
These people misunderstand the principle at its basis. Good design isn't about stripping away features, it's about making products simple to use. Those sound like the same thing to some people, but they're not.
AWS supports two factor auth among other ways to secure your account.
I don't think you could ever be too old to work as a programmer.

When people say they would rather hire junior programmers it is because of their drive to learn new stuff and their use of the most modern techniques, not their age.

Java is a great basis to work off, and I bet you'll get a fine job with it, but also consider learning a more dynamic language like Python, perhaps learn it at codecadamy.

I don't personally have any experience with being 37 and looking for a job, but I don't see a reason why someone should turn a fine developer down because of his age.

Also, 37 is not very old at all..
Ok. I'll admit that I got carried away and failed to actually respond to your 170 economists.

I'm a physicist and one thing that I have learned throughout the crisis is that macroeconomics is plagued by an inflated importance of "schools of thought". Current mainstream macroeconomists disagree on ridiculously many things that a layman would expect to be basic facts. In that regard, it is a huge problem that what you are referencing to is "the majority of German economists".

"The majority of German economists" belong to only one school of thought which has not really proven to be "the" school of thought.

For me personally, the most striking thing about this crisis is that what may ultimately break our neck (our as in we the informed public, having our destiny in our hands) is the existence of language barriers. Believe it or not, but the intellectual frame of reference that is taken by the German press and many German economists (and of course all of the politicians) is very different from that of most of the rest of the world. Several things that should urgently be debated in Germany are not debated, since _everyone just knows_ that they are wrong.

For instance, have you ever read an argument for higher inflation from a German economist (not Munchau) in an important German newspaper? Why not? Why is the hyperinflation of Weimar mentioned every now and then but no one publicly gives thought to why there were (and are) many countries that manage to live with inflation higher than 2% (the long term italian rate was around 4-5% throughout the eighties and nineties)?

Why is there no discussions of historical occurences of deflation and the problems/catastrophes they caused?

But let us add something more useful:

How should a non-economist judge if a text written by an economist is trustworthy?

Exclusion criteria:

* Claiming things without citing historical examples or adequatly discussing historical counterexamples. Believe it or not, most things out there have happened before.

* Inability to understand the frame of reference/underlying assumptions of the people whose opinion is _opposite_ to yours. If you think that "they" are all idiots, then you have not understood them or the problem.

* Not having a model. By model I mean that assertions of the type "When X happens, then Y should follow and Z should be impossible." or such are made.

Tldr: At this point there is no reason to just trust economists, no matter how great their number.
Take a look at realtime device identification and shared reputation services. This allows you to uniquely identify the end user devices accessing your site and assess their reputation and fraud history across a shared network of intelligence. Services like http://www.iovation.com are massively effective at fighting fraud.
"...fears that immigrants are going to eat away local jobs. This is SO wrong." I am not sure you successfully explained why you think they are wrong. I'm an immigrant from Europe and in my opinion it is easy math. There is 1 job and if you fill it it's gone. So you can either fill it with Americans or an immigrant (like me). It's kinda foolish to think all you have to do is open the gates and expect all these foreigners to come in and build companies that hire more Americans. But maybe I'm missing something?!
It seems idealistic, but a service like this would be incredibly insightful. I only "read" (read: skim) the TOS of a select few companies (Apple, for one), so the high-level summaries shown on this landing page are immensely valuable (though the scoring system seems obtuse). Of course, now one has to worry about the objectivity of the summarizers.
I don't want to discuss gambling addictions, this was obviously a sarcastic comment.

Do you think this is an appropriate market for a so called technology company who wants to "connect the world"?
"Hadopi, the body charged with hunting down freetards under France’s three-strikes law, has sent a million warning e-mails and 99,000 registered letters."

Did The Register really just say "freetards?"
I have more or less the opposite opinion. Netflix's UI is terrible. Trying to decide what you want to see involves a full-text random search of your unindexed brain, followed by a title-only search on Netflix, followed by finding out the title you want isn't there. Repeat ad infinitum.

Quick! Say out loud, right now, the name of a movie you want to see! Say it! Not one in theaters! Not one that came out within the last year! Something older than a year, that you didn't see but want to. Come on, clock's ticking.

I'll bet you didn't say a name. That's a HARD task for humans, dredging up some movie name that you've only seen a few times in your life.

You certainly can't use, say, advertising or current events to find a movie, because Netflix doesn't have any current movies.

For anyone outside the U.S. there isn't even a queue feature, so there's absolutely no way to save a movie idea that you have now for later watching except by writing it down on a post-it note and sticking it to the television.

Oh, and don't think about using it to watch porn or anything, since you can't disable or get rid of the RECENTLY WATCHED section which will reveal your TV-watching habits to anyone who might ever sit down at your TV or computer.

And don't bother to make it compatible with Linux; people who are technically inclined enough to use this new-fangled "streaming" only use Windows or Mac.

Several websites offer better experiences than Netflix (combining Rotten Tomatoes ratings; showing lists of new stuff Netflix just got in; that sort of thing). Netflix does not seem interested in stealing their ideas.
I know that a HD version will eventually make its way from Mars to Earth, but I have read in a couple of places that the Descent Imager only operates at 5 fps. That could have been a mis-statement though.
I attempted a similar feat in 2010 with the now defunct tosgrok.com. This is a very needed service!

Edit: Take the domain and put it to good use, I no longer own it and it beats tos;dr!
Seems like Tahoe-LAFS deserves mention here. I haven't gotten around to trying it myself, but as I understand, it stores encrypted shards of your data on multiple cloud providers, so your data can't be compromised and no one provider can cause it to be lost.

EDITED to add link: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
Great post. Growth hacking I believe includes behavior hacking, both ultimately leading to creating a strong scalable sales funnel. In essence every startup out there has to be good at creating a solid pitch (pre-sell), then building a solid product (feedback/refine) and then incentivizing users (hacking behavior) to convert. Rewarding users may involve some level of gamification built into the product.

I am excited to see how this new interest in Growth Hacking is allowing a lot of in-depth thinking around combining marketing and coding to create dramatically better results.
Whats it going to do for the cost of living, though? The valley's housing is WAY too expensive - and having an influx of more engineers/talent is not going to make the cost or quality of life here any better.
You sure?

It might motivate vendors to, for instance, sell Ubuntu PCs. It's quite user-friendly. Who knows. I don't think it's likely, though.
Estimating from this picture (image 7), they weren't quite that good: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/NASA-Curiosity-rover-...
I agree with you (and I use Linux, and have recently converted my girlfriend). I saw a really interesting device in a shop over the weekend. flatscreen touch TV's running Windows. Now currently, they are running Win7, but Win8 will be a hit in that market. I don't know how big that market will end up being (they were too expensive for my taste), but if people are economising and purchasing a combined tv computer, then Win8 could do really well there.
I do agree that the next four years will be fun to watch.
I don't understand why bandwidth needs to be such a problem.

Invest in a ring of small satellites in mars orbit, have them broadcast to earth satellites using line of sight transmitters for whatever mars satellite is facing the earth. Once you build such a system you can reuse it for each future mars/deep space mission.

Nasa was actually doing this but the program got canceled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Telecommunications_Orbiter

Use open standards so other nations can expand the network.
How much would it cost to cover the inner core of the solar system with 100 Mbit/s bandwidth using a mesh network of satellites?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

Also does anyone want to do an off-planet backup solution startup?
This is an interesting question and one I've thought about a lot too. I'm 37 and an experienced developer/entrepreneur. I've been self-employed for 12+ years but if I ever had to "get a real job", it's something to think about.

First off, remember that it's not legal for a US employer to ask your age. They can only ask if you're over 18. Of course, if you want to be sly about it, you'll need to craft your resume carefully (putting the year you graduated from high-school or college can tip off). Also, your looks may or may not belie your age (I have no gray hair and can look late-20s if I shave my beard).

Also, I think the biggest (perceived) issues are that either (a) employers don't want to hire older developers because their experience demands higher pay or (b) they want younger developers who can work insane hours. I must say, I don't know if these are generally true (they aren't when I hire people).

But for you, (a) shouldn't be an issue. You're a new developer so you probably are fine with a entry-level salary.
Use a different account for cloud services (which most companies would already do) and use two factor auth. Easy breezy.
"Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?[1] Some employers and psychologists say[2] staying away from social media is 'suspicious'", asks the Daily Mail[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weasel#Unsupported_a....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
I'm not much into the clearances part, only the buying side.

You need to submit the type test reports and submittals to the Energy Board and then they approve the equipment. This takes around a month or so. Once you've got the parts, you can install it and then a government certified technician/engineer is required to be present when you energize it.
I use a bevy of various brands and sizes. Mnemosyne grid pads, Caslons, as well as stuff I've picked up at various stores like Utrecht and Amsterdam Art.
+1 on this notebook. i get the largest ("master") format, which can fit a full 8x11 sheet of paper in between pages.

http://www.amazon.com/Kikkerland-Leuchtturm-Notebook-0-5-Inc...
Very little about the economy is zero sum. A good employee can help grow a company to the point where more people need to be hired.
The logo and share icons don't move with the horizontal scrollbar. Ouch.

Edit: The colouring of the column headers messes with my eyes. They ignore the white and focus on the gray.

Edit 2: position: fixed is hardly HTML5, even if it's something quite a few mobile browsers didn't support in the past.
Let's hope microsoft becomes a team player with webRTC specs: http://gigaom.com/2012/08/06/microsoft-webrtc-w3c/
Please don't. I need to secure my gmail because it can be used to request password resets from any account and so is in some way the master key to my online life.
I got a decent programming job only at 28. Though I coded a few programs since I was 17, only at 26 I was assumed at a "developer" position, as PHP junior dev. Then learned Python and used it wherever possible, and at 28 got full-time Python developer job, now I'm 30 and work as Python Team Leader.

Several years ago things like lambda functions, scope and closures were weird and hard to comprehend for me. It took time, but after all you can become fluent.

As I see now, it doesn't take as much brilliant mind as it takes just "flight log hours" to handle complex problems. A guy who won a national programming olympiad (Russia) told me he won by "outsitting" the others, ie. he took more time to prepare and knew more cases. Although it was a disappointment for him (that problems became all the same and boring), it's a nice surprise for us: we (not-CS-graduates) can eventually cover the "flight hours" gap.
Fantastic to have. It is really hard for companies to offer simply legal terms, since any simplification starts to undermine the actual detailed terms. Awesome to have this from a third party.

I imagine this would be particularly valuable as a browser extension.
If I'm going to trust some expert to certify that other websites are following specific best practices, I'd prefer the expert simply implement those best practices, and I'd log into everywhere else by their OpenID.
I'm sure more people read celebrity news than read Shakespeare, but which has a bigger influence on culture?
if you freelance and do remote work no one need know how old you are. the surest way to get started freelancing is to build something of your own and just start showing it off. If it's good people will ask you to build things for them. So as you learn you should be hacking together something tangible and useful. When you're done you'll have become competent and you'll have a portfolio project to show.
With the 1.2 release, the Riak Enterprise docs are public for the first time.

http://wiki.basho.com/Multi-Data-Center-Replication-Concepts...
Good point. Every piece of information is remembered a lot better and fits into your brain if you have a problem for it to solve.
Portland TriMet just launched their new site using OpenTripPlanner: http://ride.trimet.org/ Looking forward to seeing this in other cities and on the iPhone!