skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are never old to do what we like. We just need to find the right environment. This environment exists but, of course, we must do something in order to find it. Going to conferences, meet the right people and address the issues of portuguese entrepreneuship. Without effort and some positive criticism we won't be able to change the panorama.

Although the scaling issues is due, in some part, to lack of investment (in other words green dollars) we could address it if professionals were willing to work on ideas they don't own. And many are. People are not motivated only by money but also by achievement.

Unfortunately we are transmitting that to do entrepreneuship you need your own idea and not joining someone and improve his idea, helping him to scale and turn it in our idea (and not only his idea). This may be the reason why there are so many ideas which are derivates of what exists is in the market.
...and it has severe bugs that wipe out past answers. I guess OP isn't much of a hacker himself :)
While I agree this sucks, and I'm personally not interested in Windows devices myself anyways, I'm not sure how you draw the conclusion that this is worse than Apple with iOS... It's exactly the same no?

MS is the old tyrant (continuing it's tyrannical ways). Apple is the new tyrant. If either of them are better than the other, it's pretty much irrelevant since they are both so far beyond what I would describe as acceptable behaviour.
It would be amazing if somebody could answer this too. If I turn a lamp on and off in a sealed room of mirrors, why doesn't the light just keep bouncing off the walls and illuminate the room?
Luck is very real. Luck not as in winning a lottery but the place you're born, the kind of people in your family who support you in your endeavors, the talented people you get to surround with - it's all luck.

Luck is not everything, but a lot of things depend on luck for a majority of people.
I understand now. So, that would be more of a management thing than a people thing, if the workers of Mediamarkt are still Spaniards...
Actually, Apple does distribute free tools to develop and run software it's in the distribution of the software that you need a license and only if you want to share it with people running Mountain Lion who don't understand how to open something unsigned.

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ 'Download Xcode 4 for free.'
... which shouldn't be "too complicated for a non-developer", rite?

i'd prefer schema.org (or json equivalent). and a gui editor for less technical person.
I've grown so dispassionate about the tech industry in Portugal that I've been thinking about quitting and doing something else (I'm 28 and I always wanted to be a software developer). I can't change countries (my girlfriend's profession doesn't make it easy to change) so I don't have that many options, so it's either put up it with or quit.

My advice is go and don't come back. The industry around here won't value your skills, you will be considered a tech janitor and after a few years you'll lose your passion and become jaded or just conform to the status quo.
Design Like Apple Using Touchpoints Framework
I think (no pun intended) that plants and some other species that lack central brains operate more like BEAM robots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics in that the behaviors they exhibit can be remarkably similar to intentional behavior.

If you believe that a Turing test is sufficient to judge an AI as "intelligent" then in the same way you'd have to conclude that the behavior is the measure, which seems to disallow certain assumptions regarding intent.

Then again, given the recent research into how the gut flora can affect all manner of processes in humans, it certainly looks like Me(tm) is a product of a whole host of complex systems whose interactions display an emergent "intentional" system.
There is something I've missed here... What is so funny about running TeX natively on iOS?
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It is a 32-bit architecture based on how people measure 32-bit architectures. It is not capable of addressing 64-bit either logically or physically. Having a wide bus to memory is not a qualifier for calling something 64-bit.

> "plus a 13.3 MHz 68000 and its 64-bit memory operations"

The 68000 does not have 64-bit memory operations. It has 32-bit addressing logically, but only had 24-bit physically which cause some problems with folks who did "clever" things on the Mac.

I'll go with the traditional definition of a GPU which means goes back to the Amiga for personal computers.

> Sure, Samsung copied Apple's look and feel. Why is this and why should this be illegal unless they literally slapped the word IPhone or IPad on their gadgets? Might as well have banned the Chevy Camaro for copying the Ford Mustang IMO.

Trade-dress has a long history of protection in the US. It was part of consumer fraud protection. http://corporate.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/trade-dre...
That is an impressive feat of emulation, but it's worth noting that there are some good online alternatives, if you really want to write LaTeX on your iPad (from somewhere with an Internet connection).

Here's one that I wrote:
http://www.writelatex.com
(At least I think it works on iPad... I haven't tested it recently.)

And there's also
http://www.scribtex.com
and
http://www.sharelatex.com
No, the satellite is usually the expensive part.

Also, the reasons for not making launches cheaper has been "why is it important to make launches cheap? Isn't the total cost dominated by the cost of the satellite anyway?"

Also, ground processing and all can get very expensive because it requires so many people and clean rooms etc and can be delayed. It depends if you think it's part of the satellite or the launch cost.

Overall you need to start somewhere if you want cheaper spaceflight. If there are cheaper satellites, then that's a big incentive for developing cheaper means of launching (and launching much more often too!).

It's partly a chicken and egg style thing. Launches are extremely expensive and far between and the big standing armies and facilities sit unused but have to be trained, maintained and paid. It's hard to break that circle, but it will be done, probably through some totally new technology that is first seen as just toys.
What JS devs seem to care about
$1.1B MS Patent Deal Done, AOL Buys Back $600M In Stock. Dividend: $5.15/Share
I meant in the video. I'm a special case, my laptop's too slow for flash video so I wget the .mkv thus didnt read the blog entry.

Do you think that a video with TOC/intro and content is a good idea ?
Nice experiment.

There's an issue with curly braces { }. When typing in Russian (and in other Cyrillic languages) you need to switch keyboard layout before and after each curly brace. It quickly becomes tiresome to do: type-in-russian, switch-layout, type-{, switch-layout, type-in-russian etc.

This problem also exist in Markdown too: square brackets [ ] and curly braces { } both live on the same keys as Russian 'Х' and 'Ъ'. Typing Russian Markdown with links is tiresome. Curiously, the only easy to type characters in Cyrillic layout are parens ( ).

Update. I wrote about JCUKEN layout above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCUKEN. But on some keyboards the layout is extended. E.g. Mac keyboard allows you to enter square brackets [ ] with `~ key in default Russian layout [1, 2]

[1]: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/2544/as-images.apple....

[2]: http://store.apple.com/ie-business/product/MC184RS/B/apple-w...
Motion Control Fun with Kinesis.io and Javascript
Well, both taxes and salaries are higher in Northern Europe and our companies are still competitive so that is not the reason why the Spanish IT companies are not competitive.
I almost went with the 11", but it just felt too small after playing around in the terminal for a bit (talk about weird looks from the Mac Store kids). Maybe in a couple years I'll give it a try again. Such an amazing little box.
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I believe they must be planning on using using a dual-license. Quoting, "the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed source." Source: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers...
> Joe didn't care whether his kid was in Princeton or Harvard, > as long as it was one of them.

And oddly enough, JFK went to both Princeton and Harvard. He attended Princeton for six weeks before getting ill and withdrawing and then going to Harvard the next year.
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I'm not sure if expecting the programmer to know all HTML tags but not how they are used is the right way to go :P

Either you say "ok, i want to get rid of HTML and make it really easy to build a website" or not. This approach is neither, in my opinion.

In my opinion, that's a problem of most of those "fancy" markup languages. Why should i bother using this (or haml for that matter), if it only adds another layer of complexity and yet another "language" to learn (for me and far more important for every other person that may join a project in the future)? It may look prettier but it introduces overhead and potential other problems. Is it worth it? For me, it's not.
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Apple v. Samsung juror: we “wanted to send a message”
I recently redesigned the pages promoting the website[1], the iOS app[2], and the Mac app[3], in an effort to make it clear what Iron Money is and how it helps you manage your personal finances. I’m looking for any suggestions in how the copy, screenshots, or overall design can be improved. Thanks!

[1] https://ironmoney.com/
[2] https://ironmoney.com/ios/
[3] https://ironmoney.com/mac/
weird why not just use openembedded ? i forgot what the other one was called.
Learn SQLI - SQL Injection Tutorial
I'm running 14pt Monaco in iTerm. It's perfect for me, and it still feels like I have more than enough screen space.

Only thing I miss is the matte screen...
Harvester ants use an algorithm similar to TCP
The "Dear Sir" and "Mr." built into the form letter on page 7 caught my eye. That's not something you see anymore.
True. But the thing with that is (i don't know how it works out for you of course); I don't want people to turn up on my doorstep expecting help because I advised that product. With Apple I had that 0 times. My Macbook with which i'm typing this right now, is on top of a Windows laptop and next to another Windows laptop which I (in a moment of craziness?) advised. I'm fixing them; reinstalling Windows 7 because they messed it up by installing a trillion illegal games/apps and now 'its so slow' 'its broken' etc. I know you can do this on Mac OS X easily as well, but people just, well, don't. I think it's the price point (cheap cars dent easily not because they dent easier, but because people don't care as the cars are cheap) and the OS which just doesn't have the quadrillion shit apps coming out for it. Limiting even the illegal installs.
Math model: Urban wind flows deposit pollutants in repetitive patterns
> PS: Lumberjack ? Are you the one who wrote the Cocoa Lumberjac logging API by any chance ?

Nope, though I wish I could say I did.
I am terribly sorry for the bugs, which are caused by the coding on the University side :(

As for the question regarding the compensation, the survey attempts to find out whether you (would) do it for money or just for the sake of programming.
I think the first agents did not do it that way round :-)

Can you tell me more about differential privacy - if the London Underground releases data about journeys from my start point to my end point, surely at some point enough data is released to determine which anonymous ID is me.

I just would like to know are there determined upper and lower bounds on how much can be released before it is explotable?
"n-day" refers to the number of days since a fix was released. So a vulnerability can be "0-day" indefinitely if the software maker never patches it - and in those circumstances it would make sense to talk about an "old 0-day".
Apple-Samsung Case Muddies the Future of Innovation
If you already have the tasks, prioritizing them should be fairly easy. Then just scan down the list until you find the first non-essential feature and there you draw the line. Anything after that goes into version two.
The rounded joke is the easy one to make, of course. However, Apple did lose against Samsung on that count. There must be some sort of herding mentality that people go through, where people in general grab onto sound bites, instead of taking the time to do a deep dive into the issues. It usually happens in politics. On HN, I would hope for more.
I couldn't agree more. And some of us are doing that. Changing the career paths in order to build something different and interesting.
To answer several comments who suggest to use Free software:

You can't run GPLed software on iOS. The App store has its own license with term incompatible with the "no other restrictions" of the GPL, and Apple, who is the distributor, is not willing to provide the source anyway.

This means No FreeDos, no Linux, no DOSBox, no QEMU(which is has no interpreter, only a dynamic compiler, which also rules it out), no BOCHS...

I don't think that there are non-native, non-GPL, non-proprietary solution to run TeX on iOS.

To run TeX on iOS, you'd have to port the WEB/Pascal compiler (the language in which TeX is written) to ARM+iOS...
Microsoft Release New REST API Framework as Part of .NET 4.5
Reading about the 1920s stock market crash recently it struck me that many men ruined themselves because they were unaware that their previous success owed more to luck than to their mastery of the situation.
Now you sir have blown my mind! I've been to Kiev and the Crimea in the summer... very lovely country, with even more lovely girls, not to mention great food/beer. If it wasn't for the dreadful winter I'd call it paradise lol

And apparently ML/AI skills are in high demand everywhere.
In a word: yes.

I'm subcontracted, so even if my salary is half what it would be in UK, Germany, the cost for the company I work in is not so different. Their fault anyway, why don't they contract me directly?

Add to that that rotation is wild. They hire the cheapest people: those who are unemployed and would take any offer. As soon as you're employed, it's orders of magnitude easier to get a job, so hasta luego, Lucas!

Companies also have a huge burden treating with other companies or government that work terribly and terribly slow, pay when they will and often simply don't answer the phone.

There is little competitive spirit. Virtually all the big companies are there because some concession or "too big to fail" (utilities, banks) so their way to raise profit is to exploit customers and employees.

Beware! There are exceptions to all of these traits! There are good innovative companies, competitive people and internationally successful ventures. But not enough to sustain a disgruntled IT workforce that are treated as spoiled clerks.
If rewards could then be converted into real world prizes or money, even if the games are based on "skill" (read: poker), wouldn't these new games be subject to the same regulation as on-line casinos?
UK kids' charity lobbies hard for 'opt-in' web smut access
Nice try. If you are successful, you won't need me to pay you. The world will.
Acqui-hire Is Just Another Way to Spell Failure
Out of curiosity, do Russian developers permanently use an English layout, or just map these keys elsewhere?
Severance pay has been cut in half in Spain some months ago.
Not to mention that the text file is invisible to the business owner, who inevitably would forget about it.
You're right. Minecraft for Xbox is codeine while the PC version is clearly oxycodone. PvP and Raid servers is like using an IV.
That's funny, I've always felt that we Portuguese are more eager to avoid conflicts than the Spaniards, who always seem to be more assertive and self-confident than us.

This even seems (to me) to be mirrored in your politics, where the left-right divide is way more polarised than in Portugal
> "Then you should support them when you make them."

I do. At least, I tried. Anything that couldn't be found in the thread, I quoted.

You, on the other hand, make unfounded and untrue claims.

> But extrapolating all of this from one single statement is irrational, ridiculous and frankly delusional.

I didn't do that. You can reread my comment, and you'll see that your statement is incorrect.

Also, by extrapolating all of what?

* That they skipped the question, which they admitted to? You cannot deny this.
* That they did not follow the instructions as prescribed? They admitted to this as well.
* That context is important? Something even you agree to.

All of this backed up with quotes above.
There was an article on HN last year:

The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX for the iPad

http://vallettaventures.tumblr.com/post/13124883568/the-pric...
I'm sorry, what's scary meat?
Moscow Court Finds Kasparov Not Guilty of Illegal Protest
Ask HN: Any NE Ohio iPhone developers out there?
iPhone dev? web dev? Based in Massillon/Canton/Akron/Cleveland/etc? I'd love to meet some other local hackers.

@ryanschmidt
Ported iOS Game 30% Faster on Blackberry Playbook
I think the nuance is that opium and weed in small amounts won't kill you (and there is evidence to suggest that weed can't kill you at all, ever. I'm not entirely sure though).

Poision dart frogs on the other hand, you don't really get a "second try". Didn't realize they were illegal but I suppose it makes sense. Its poison after all.
XML also has the advantage of declaring the character set of the content.
In addition, I wanted to point out another chief reason for building the API in-house. Based on my understanding of the pricing models of 3rd party API providers, our recurring expenses would almost have been a double-digit percentage of our revenue in the long run. This is excluding server costs, marketing costs etc. For the high volume traffic that we aim for, the numbers just didn't add up.
As a parent, I find these kind of books, well, silly. They generally leverage a series of small studies and then provide a handful of examples to reinforce their thesis. Now, maybe this book uses larger studies, but they are pretty hard to come by.

So what we're left with is essentially nothing new - poor children don't succeed, and rich kids can go off the tracks. Is this news? Is it news that perseverance matters?

I would love a book on parenting that is based on a large enough data set to make it relevant, and then provide some suggestions based on those studies - anyone know of any?

My guess is that anyone that reads this kind of book is already likely a decent parent - but I would need to look at the data. :)
If I were to apply, I'd use my senior year in high school (oh, so long ago). I registered for 7 college-level courses that I knew were all going to be taught during the same 2 blocks of time. That meant that I only had to "go to class" for two hours a day, and could spend the rest of my time doing whatever I wanted so long as I kept up with the material on my own time and agreed that my performance on the AP exams would be my entire grade. My result was a year of college credit, better grades than I'd ever gotten before and maybe a third of the workload of those in class.
Oh it's definitely management. There is a great 'beach club' here ran by a guy I know. The first time I met him, he reminded me of a friend from NL. Unlike other 'clubs/bars/etc', this place is insanely good. He does what the others don't do; you get almost american service; everyone is nice, if there is something wrong they'll replace it without even blinking (I know a Thai restaurant on the coast; if you complain about the food, they'll throw you out and you can never return) and they are fast. If they don't deliver in time , your drink is free etc. With standard Spanish waiters, however they are actually trained. What both the Dutch friend and this guy do is the following; in their first place they work day+night to make it work, but after that, the process is 'simple' (it's not but he, you don't become a miljonair that easy); you take the people from the previous place and have them train the new people in that place. Then you take the people you KNOW who are good to the new place and the new people working the 'old place' (it's already a hit so you can have a few mistakes). He stays on top (there EVERY day it's open) for 1 year and then he leaves to open the next one. The staff in all his places is great and he does (surprise surprise) better than all others in this crisis. Places left and right of him are closing and he thrives. It's one of the great examples that it's a) not the people b) tourists want nice, pampering waiters.
Cook's 'values' memo shows Apple has lost its soul
The levels of agility
The schema is rather US-centric. For instance, many countries don't have "states". They may have other divisions, in the 0..N level range, with other names. It would be better to research and use a current, established format for international addresses.
[How To] What's APP on the Android Tablet Without 3G
TeX is an interpreter. It can interpret the user supplied scripts.

Interpreters than can run code supplied by user or downloaded from internet are verboten on iOS.
*herding. On HN, I would hope for better spelling.
Coming from Greece and currently working in Australia, I see what you mean. Nevertheless, even if there is opportunity for creation there is no such opportunity for survival. When you are in a market with shallow liquidity, the best intentions will not get you far. The near-shoring of course (absorbing liquidity from outside your country) is a potential solution, an attractive one too, but there are significant obstacles still. E.g. the fact that Northerners have attributed all woes to the mentality of Southerners is such an obstacle.

Therefore, you may find opportunities as a Dutch with Portuguese or Spanish employees but I would not expect the same access to market for a purely Greek, Spanish or Portuguese entrepreneur. I assure you that as a Greek I hear derogatory comments even by people who can see and witness the quality of my work. The best case scenario is when they consider me an exception amongst the Greeks. I am not one.

Accusing those who leave that they do it selfishly is not very nice. I can assume you selfishly want the best developers (those who can find work abroad) work for the 500 euros or whatever you offer. It is a crisis and the best anyone can make of it is to survive and in the process work to get the necessary experiences to go back when the conditions are better.

It is a crisis, and the 200-300 euro slavery northerners envision for us is not the solution. It is the problem. If as the "Dean" told you, people avoided risk, they would not risk moving either. The grass is not greener. The money is more. After all, EU is supposedly encouraging mobility. It is a free market, or is it not? Are only companies supposed to move?
Ask HN: Why don't websites use svg?
I really wonder why almost all websites use raster images like png, jpg instead of svg format. Is it a performance issue or anything else? I'm starting a project fully working with vector images and planning as much as flexible it can be.
About the Lack of Updates
They're not meant for gaming, but they're good-enough for gaming. My '11 MBP (13", Intel HD 3000) runs Portal 2, Diablo 3 and, really, most of the new games I throw at it surprisingly well.
Nahh, not everyone needs to play the latest games in the highes details on a FullHD screen.

I remember playing CS and UT years ago on centrino notebook with intel graphics and it was all i needed.
Now those chpis can do a lot more, so i'm looking forward to get away with that horrible dual-graphics setup in my notebook in the future :)