skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 3rd-party developers add value for the users. If the users are customers, then this is a good thing for the business.

In Twitter's case, the 3rd-party developers add value for the users, but subtract value from advertisers. This is good for users, but since the advertisers are Twitter's customers, this is bad for Twitter's business.
Alternatively, if you want something that's always there, you could put it on the side.

One of the seldom talked about problems with floating headers/footers is that they break page up/down. Hitting space bar now takes you slightly too far to keep reading uninterrupted.
My first CS class in college was in Scheme. I had essentially the same experience as t Scheme made it far easier to learn than any other languages I had used then (like Java and Python). We learned everything we needed to know about the language itself in a single week--three lectures--and then spent the rest of the semester learning brilliant concepts.

This course has recently been replaced with a parody: the same text (SICP) but in Python. Of course, since Python lacks Scheme's simplicity and elegance, far more time is spent on the language itself rather than on important concepts.

Also, a bunch of things that are not too magical in Scheme, like mutation and object-oriented programming, are naked right into Python. One of my most important realizations from this class was that things like mutation and OOP are not just posts of the language and are not omnipresent. Coming from Jeans, this was quite the insight!

Another important thing I picked up from the course was an appreciation for functional programming. Python's design and philosophy are rather hostile to any nontrivial functional programming--it's not Pythonic!--which is very unfortunate for the new students' development.

In short, I think Scheme is a great introductory language and I am very sad to see it replaced with Python.
I am using it, but Georgify sometimes messes with thread child indentation.
Yeah you're right. An exclusive, face-to-face meeting with the senior vice president of marketing is nothing special. I'm sure things like that don't influence his writing about Apple at all.
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Even worse, it's 4 years for GPUs.
The company was founded by one of the most prominent developers in the C++ community, Bartosz Milewski.

His goal is that Haskell is a better tool to develop application that explore multicore programming, and plans to offer consulting services in this area.

Someone please correct me, in case this info is not correct.
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It'd be neat... but it would certainly be awkward to have to "empty" the toilet every week or so...

I wonder if it's possible to make it fertilizer but with a minty fresh smell...
The point being made was that it is a desktop-class machine. Generally, laptops have always been convenience and portability, and desktops have had power and price point.

Obviously there are exceptions to any rule, but in this case, the display is actually better than any desktop I've seen, and the SSD and CPU/GPU give it all the power necessary for 95% of users. The price point is definitely high, but otherwise it seems best of both worlds.
Edward Tufte's forum has some good discussions on type

This one is short

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

but see the collection of additional threads at the bottom of that thread.*

Also, Bringhurst: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...

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*I like the "local masters" concept Tufte has (full disclosure, I helped prototype it), and Wikipedia does something similar.
I'm probably just blind, but I have trouble seeing the difference in display quality based on resolution. And I don't think I'm alone.

When I was at the Apple Store after they launched the new iPad, there were several people who confused the iPad 2 for the new iPad. And even after being shown they were looking at the wrong one didn't go, "Oh... this one looks much better!", rather I heard from multiple people a line like, "Oh, what's the difference?"

I've looked at the HTC Titan side by side with an HTC Rezound (one of the lowest PPI versus probably the highest PPI phones) and it's really hard to tell the difference unless you're really looking hard. I think in part because even the worst PPI on phones is actually quite good.

I haven't seen the retina display on the Mac Book Retina Display, but I do hope that it lives up to the hype, as I was sorely disappointed by how incremental the iPad retina display was (versus the iPad 2).

(Note, the iPhone jump to Retina Display was a visibly dramatic improvement.)
> * OP text color is too uncontrasted from the background.

IIRC this was intentional - the low contrast was meant to make people keep their message to the point instead of posting screeds of text in "self posts". If you want to say something meaningful you should host it off-site, if you want to discuss something with the community you should follow up in the comment thread.

I don't have strong feelings either way, though I do tend to select the text for better contrast when it gets long.
I'm gonna go out there and say it: the money part is what really made the discussion explode.
There is nothing wrong with Verdana if used properly. Verdana was designed specifically for digital displays at small sizes, which is how it is used on daringfireball. And HN, actually.
EmacsLisp is also missing.
You are right, I don't believe that. I was exaggerating, and mostly thinking about how impossible it is to make a serif typeface that works on low dpi displays. TNR is the only serif face that is well hinted in my opinion.

There are much better options with sans typefaces, which often look nice on low dpi displays. My point was mainly that we are currently choosing among sans and TNR, rather than among all typefaces.
The keyword you're looking for is 'DirectWrite'. Here's a post from January this year indicating they're working on it:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/...
Didn't work on Safari 6.0.
Lucky Apple, always getting there first with the inevitable.
It was always called Chinese whispers in the UK too.
The manufacturer should make a commitment to open source all the code necessary for the community to get it working locally on a LAN without any of that cloudy goodness. Why?

(1) As other posters have pointed out, there's no guarantee that they won't go out of business or drop support in the future. If open drivers are available, it's all good.

(2) As I've long said in relation to nVidia's dragging their feet on releasing open-source graphics drivers: IF YOU'RE A HARDWARE COMPANY, THERE'S NO REASON NOT TO OPEN-SOURCE YOUR SOFTWARE. If you're a company like MSFT and software is all you sell, obviously you can't open-source your products, because then why would anyone ever pay you anything? OTOH for a hardware maker, THE SOFTWARE IS USELESS WITHOUT THE HARDWARE. If this is even marginally popular, people will hack on the software, and the better the open software gets, the easier it is to sell hardware. Essentially the community is giving away their development resources for free.

(3) The above may not apply if they're selling the HW at cost or even a loss, expecting to make it up on subscriptions. That's simply a pricing/marketing problem: Merely increase the unit price until selling the HW is profitable, and include a code for a free year or two of the online service. Or give progressive discounts for people who sign up for quarter/half/one/two/three/five years when they buy, to encourage purchases.

(4) I hate it when my personal information's floating around out there in the cloud. Electricity usage data could be useful for burglars or stalkers to see what times nobody's home during the day, when you turn out the lights at night, if you might be on vacation because no appliances have run for days...I really hope the data feed uses SSL.
Using computers. And with computers, he means Mathematica.
I usually have a hard time ignoring the Joneses and feeling content with what I have, and I don't think that's a necessarily bad thing. Those who accomplish the most, from Thomas Edison to Bill Clinton, often do so because of this drive to be better than the rest of us and have it all. Progress depends on discontent, and it's easy to read feel good articles and exchange "happiness" with "laziness".
And yet there are still science programs canceled half way through development.
That meeting happened in 2012. Gruber's been writing Daring Fireball since 2002. http://daringfireball.net/archive/
This is the kind of rage-inducing stuff that makes you want to choke a flight attendant.

I cannot even imagine what it would feel like to be told over the phone that the company lost your child, and the baggage, and that they don't really care... or even think it's a big deal.
I know that. But if you want this to work on broader scale the system needs to support all the files regardless of their format. I'm not saying that what you are proposing is useless, it is just a more vertical solution for a specific needs. Not a general solution for file collaboration problems.
When people say that Facebook "sells your data," they're (charitably) engaging in hyperbole to strengthen their rhetorical point, or (less charitably) lying. Facebook shows ads to the users they're targeted to, without sharing the users' details or identities with advertisers.
The IDE is supposed to be integrated, and compilation is one of its main responsibilities. I don't really care how it's accomplished, but I can't write java without "new errors show up in my IDE whenever I hit save". If there's an easy way to set up this separate process malarky then I'm interested.
So would you be willing to go back to 9 pin dot matrix for print? That's kind of Grubers point. Printer scaled from 144 dpi to 1200 dpi quickly, while displays stagnated at 72-100 for a ver long time. We're finally seeing movement on that front, and eventually it will be really hard to go back to the blocky pixelated 100-130 dpi screens. I know I can't.
I never said the money is irrelevant, quite the contrary.

It's VERY relevant. Just not in the way that the other author I'd cited made it out to be, nor does money have the protective alignment that I think people have convinced themselves it brings.

That said, your fragmentation thesis is an interesting one for sure. Have you seen anything along those lines researched outside of this context, by chance?
Don't worry about it too much. Most people don't care. I am the kind of guy that walks into the Google offices and immediately thinks "What the fuck is this place, a daycare center?" Most people disagree, and think the Google decor is wonderful. My opinion is likely not mainstream.
How many of these journalists are known to be critics of Apple, or write about them in a more direct, non-ass-sucking way?
Why do I find it so funny that that question is being asked on Quora?
Without a doubt. Money makes everything more complicated, even "clear business models" aren't so clear.
I think it depends on the field and the person: in politics and business, probably.

Do you think Einstein or Gauss were driven by a desire to have it all? I suspect they'd still do what they did even if they'd "made it" and were the richest men on earth.
> Is kinda the point I've been trying to make. :)

OK fair enough. But I could have sworn I was just replying directly to something you said in your above comment. And I don't think I took it too far out of context. :)

> A big part of twitter's initial growth was due to 3rd party development. But the tides shifted there as well, not (just) because of advertisers but because of "normal people" joining as users.

Agreed. But what would you think the split would be on tide shifting regarding 3rd party development due to advertisers vs. 'normal people' signing up? I'd still bet on the former being the more pressing issue.

> I wonder if that's who we're actually excited to keep out? Not the advertisers, but all of those totally mediocre people who make our trending topics embarrassingly dull ;)

For me personally, I'm more excited about losing the advertisers. But now that you mention it, maybe losing (at least for a while) the mediocre users you speak of is just an added bonus. :P

Of course, not I or anyone else knows how App.net is going to turn out at this point, but I'm approaching it with curiosity at this stage, I don't yet see a reson to add morbidity.
>I don't think any OEM can make battery life a differentiating feature.

Maybe not long term, but I think it's doable in the short term. The trend in smart phones the past few years has been that form factor drives the design. As phones get thinner and thinner, there's just plain less room for a high capacity battery.

Moto's current line up actually features both extremes here: the RAZR is the obsession with thinness, while the RAZR MAXX takes the same basic phone, and concedes size to stuffing it with a huge battery.

The MAXX seems to have been fairly well received, so Moto might dip their toes a bit deeper into these waters.
Not sure I understand. Is he going to provide some kind of commercial support for the companies willing to use Yesod? or maybe he is going to work on, as we call it here - yet another CRUD apps (but in Haskell/Yesod) for various clients?
Kouri left Canada for Silicon Valley in 1994 after earning a degree in business....
Son was diagnosed as autistic at age 2.5. Many developmental delays including speech, inconsolable screaming, waking up 8+ times a night, and on and on. Literally a day after receiving his first MB12/L5MTHF injection he started talking. In the year and a half since, along with other supplements (fish oils, B6, probiotics, TMG, Zinc, etc -- all over the counter), and cutting out soy/gluten/dairy/eggs etc he's basically a totally typical kid now - he has no therapies, goes to a normal school, is advanced in some areas.

For myself, I lived a long time with low-grade but chronic anxiety and depression and after all this went down finally had some testing done on myself and found out I am homozygous for the C677T mutation, which means my body can't make methyl-B12 or methyl-folate. (Homozygous is 60-70% reduced efficiency in the reaction). I started supplementing with the same (though I get my MB12/L5MTHF orally, not injected), and for the first time feel like a cloud has been lifted. It's been amazing.

Turns out my mom, her dad, and so on and so forth were all B-12 anemic. It took my son being severely impacted for ME to finally get tested to finally figure out for the whole family what the problem is.

The interesting part is when the methylation process is disrupted by this mutation one of things whose production suffers is glutathione. It's a very important antioxidant (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/glutathione-the-...). Thinking about one of the major detoxifiers of the body being broken is interesting in light of the seemingly tenuous links between "autism" and vaccines etc.

In short my armchair speculation is that there's likely a large overlap between undiagnosed 677T/1298C mutation sufferers and "autism" and when you think about injecting those kids with things that contain known irritants causing even more inflammation that the body can't clean out, it's not hard to imagine why it seems like they "cause" autism. To me it's simply more like pulling the trigger on a gun that's already been loaded and pointed to your head.

Homozygous 677T mutation rate is somewhere between 1-15% in the US.
This compatibility of HN is far superior than both of reddit's mobile versions. Please don't fix what isn't broke
Very misleading subject line. This is the expected restructuring of Motorola.
Who knew that Nazis were so good at keeping question and answer sites so well moderated? I doubt even Godwin
would have known.
The responsibility lies with the parents. What are they doing sending a child so young alone? United is not a baby-sitting service.
A great recent example that appeared on HN was the typeface designed for road signs, which the designers then put through Germany(?)'s test suite for legibility at distance in various road conditions and determined the new font was objectively legible at greater distance than all previous standard road-sign fonts with which it was compared.

[By request, I found the original article: http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/19/the-design-of-a-signag... ]
The main advantage that I see at first glance is that this library, unlike lots of others (including those two), doesn't use eval or "new Function" to build compiled templates, which meets it meets Chrome's new security requirements for extensions.
The diet ends up being pretty close to paleo. Other things that are commonly cut are soy and eggs. And no meat that is grain fed, so that mainly leaves grass fed beef, game, lamb, etc.

It can be a real pain in the f'in ass but once on the diet I've felt and looked the best I have in years.

(I forgot to mention, in addition to being diagnosed with the 677T mutation I also found out that I had severe IgG food sensitivities to gluten, oats, dairy, soy, all eggs, all fowl meat, almonds, peanuts, cranberries... shudder to think the 10 years I spent being vegan eating tofu and seitan full-time...)
Is Plivo hosted on AWS like Twilio?
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See my response below but I'll also throw out this link here that I found recently:

http://drneubrander.com/blog/2011/08/why-is-methyl-b12-stres...
Why didn't the parents give the kid a cellphone? There's no way I'd just leave my kid to travel alone on a flight, let alone without a cell phone.
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You've always been able to get a laptop that was as good as the desktops of 2-3 years ago, and never one that's as good as the current ones. Saying "desktop-class" is a nonsense; this is no different from previous efforts.

Now, if you're saying we've reached the point where the extra CPU etc. of a desktop are not worth it for most users, then I agree with you. But again that's nothing specific to the macbook air; any modern laptop will have the same properties.
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Not really surprising, in my opinion once these organizations become large enough that diffusion of responsibility become institutionalized. It doesn't necessarily indicate that the individuals don't care, just that they feel that it isn't their responsibility to do so.
The child was going to camp. Is it reasonable to expect the parents to spend the money and time to fly to and from the destination? When I was eight years old I flew unaccompanied between Butte, MT and Los Angeles. It involved two different airlines (including United) and stops in Spokane, Portland and San Francisco. I got there and back without a hitch. My parents couldn't afford the extra tickets or the time off from work. Airlines have been dealing with unaccompanied minors for a long time. It's really not hard.
Not at all. AWS is a bad technology choice for Voice/Media servers. We run on 100% dedicated boxes for our Voice /Media servers which span multiple Data centers to ensure uptime.

And we can still scale as its needed.
but still, i could go some degree low level, right?
His blog is nearly unreadable on my non-retina display. I can only imagine how small the font looks on a Macbook Pro.
I have WiFi, 3D gyro/accelerometer, Bluetooth, SD card. I'd also like GPS, compass, 3G/4G, and NFC at a reasonable prices. We know what these chip(set(s)) are, and what they cost, and there's plenty of room in 7" tablets to leave stuffing options, so what's the optioning holdup?
I ended up not using Twilio because they didn't support SIP (I mean, JFC, that's like building a mail product which doesn't support SMTP, just because SMTP is kind of crappy).

Plivo supporting SIP out of the box means I'm a lot more interested, independent of price. Supporting wideband (G.722) would be my other requirement.
Agreed. Instilling a price tag for users legitimizes its utility (to a certain degree).

However, what bothers me most about this article is that it's so black-and-white, alluding to the existence of only two pricing models out there: Ads or money up-front. No where does this article mention the possibility for a VRM-based (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page) revenue model, attribution-licensing model, etc.

[sad panda]
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United has a service where someone acts as a baby-sitter for the child. The story is about how that service failed and how United Airlines recovered from that failure.
Clickable: http://www.hypejar.com

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And you know you're in the minority. It's not even apathy, either. It takes effort to prove to a site you're not a spammer, astro-turfer etc. so most people don't bother because the barrier is too high.

I could care less about a bunch of unwanted emails in my inbox, but the pollution of the online community review and advice spheres is what really pisses me off about cnuts who try and game stuff.

They're polluting our collective consciousness quite literally.
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That's useful. I was thinking mainly of the actual server-side app server and not what would count as its payload.
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That's true but I've always thought of it because serif generally feels warm and historic, while sans-serif can often feel modern and emotionally detached.

For quite a number of European and American fashion sites, most use sans-serif because they want to appear bold, but emotionally subdued from the user, letting the photos of the products and models do more of the talking.
Microsoft invented XMLHTTP, an ActiveX object, not XMLHttpRequest, that is similar but not proprietary, and a part of Ajax. And Ajax is a term invented by Garrett - and not Microsoft - that includes several W3C formats.
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Yeah there's been a bit of talk about them with the olympics and what not.

Obviously there are too many gifs out there to catalogue all of them, but what i'm doing is serving more and more off S3 through in-app purchases (that was a bit finicky to work out. I'll post up a good IAP tutorial in a sec). I figure that way i'll put in the time to maintain, curate and update images if people are interested and want to get more images.
This is...fascinating...and something I really need to study more. Given I have a family history of colon cancer, leukemia, and schizophrenia (all of which show up in the wikipedia article that is a top DDG result of "C677T mutation"[1]), there might be something more I have to care about here.

Do you have other references I could follow up on?
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTHFR
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Chrome Web Store changes URLs - all apps lose their +1 counts
Youtube has only 2 +1s...
Actually, ceol spent most of the comment providing a specific, layered example.
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Can't go past the Apple doco; gold mine!
In App Purchases how-to: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
I have had the same experience. I got a mail from them saying they deleted my account, but the questions I posted are still there.