skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Memcached happily removes keys when it feels so

I know about memcache key eviction. For most of the applications, that is an acceptable compromise. For others, back up the sessions in the db every n seconds as mentioned in the article. Session is loaded every request and hitting the db every request is not something I want.
If you take the subtle details into account, no one is copying Apple's inventions either (just listen to any iOS enthusiast on Android scrolling, for example).
Weird to call the flagships products un-Apple-like. Do they not define Apple-like de facto?
* []byte and string aren't the same.

...and how could they be?
I do not speak officially from within H/Palm, but during my time as an intern there this summer, we rebuilt the Enyo website and used Lato as our typeface. This is subject to change, but I feel its a great fit if we cannot move forward with Prelude.

http://enyojs.com/ - Check out index.css, line 671. I apologize for the lengthy CSS, we used SASS (which I strongly recommend) and the original plan was to minify the CSS and keep the sass files available publicly, but it seems this has changed since my internship ended.
Imagine something completely different happened, based on that, something bad could then have come out of it?

I'd rather not, lets just stick to the facts and not build strawmen. It's bad enough to even discuss pinch-to-zoom or rounded rectangles when that's not what the trial was even about.

If we're discussing the Apple trial, lets figure out what really happened, not just repeat what we read from the press.
Ask HN: Are Bloggers Making Good Money These Days?
Or if you think it might be wrong to lie to strangers for money.
For charity non-profits it can be a double edged sword too as being seen as a business can negatively impact donations.
No problem, if you need any other tips or clarification, fee free to drop me a line... Good luck!
The one thing I really want to see is HD demos of the product in use to create truly amazing websites.

I think if you dial down the marketing drivel, and dial up the actual functionality, if it is impressive, people will start to notice and share it all by themselves.
wow, congrats. I'm sure a lot of hard work and energy went into this over the years!
Hmlee already explained what happened -- they were on a friends computer at the time, and it was easier to make a new account than to remember their login info.

They wrote up the question quickly in an editor, so that they could use spell check. Then, make account, paste the text, hit submit.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/31/3282911/reddit-obama-ama-p...
It gets added to the cart and it doesn't matter if they checkout then or not, as long as they don't remove it from the cart. If they come back within the next 89 days and end up purchasing it, you will get credit...
I'm using OS X 10.8 with Chrome.

Like johnpattiyson, I can't scroll the TOS.
Google's web history, with its toolbar, allows you to search the pages you've visited before (not just their titles, as in browser history). That is, you can search the subset of web that you've seen http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

NB: Google will then have all your base, and people on HN have recommended turning off google web history altogether (let alone the toolbar!). I mention it, because it is also a killer-solution to the common problem you mention.
"setting up and "using" SQLite is as easy as any other database"

That's exactly the problem. If it's easier, then maybe I'll use it. If it's just as easy, but does less, I have no reason to bother using it, for two reasons:

1. There is non-zero risk that I will need one of the other features.

2. Even if I don't, why would I want to spend time learning something if it isn't better (at something) than what I already know how to use?

I haven't seen any compelling reason to use SQLite outside of the mobile or embedded space.

"over-kill"

What do you mean by that, and why is it bad?
May be useful to add a secondary question to that about why you think the projects/ideas failed.
There are no such hidden features, but there are pre-installed Google-connected applications in most (all?) retail phones.
If you answer to yourself "none of them", there are two possibilities. No, three.

Third one first: you're young enough to not feel guilty about not taking enough risk. First one: you're not taking enough risk. Second one: you know who you are.
Equational Reasoning
And iOS has robbed Android blind (notifications).

Anyone can come out tomorrow and write their own search engine. Like Bing. Hell, Bing has even been caught red handed copying. Yet still Google makes money. Anyone remember Google suing Microsoft over that? Nope.

Maybe Apple needs to find a better business model whereby they can thrive and out-innovate before their competitors do so? That's what Google has to do, is Apple the special kid needing special treatment? What if Google started getting mad and suing every search engine competitor for infringing on their instant search patents, and other search patents? And without google, you'd be searching and hoping like you did in the 90's. Imagine that, a company that innovated, innovates, and doesn't try to sue their competition silly!!

If I hear one more primadonna talk about how Apple is getting ripped off, I'm going to explode. Please, get over yourself.
Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Eastern Island's Rapa Nui, not so mysterious anymore.
Is this only for fake likes going forward, or are they going to be retroactively be removing fake friends?
Reports of low 3GS stock surface ahead of new iPhone event
If previous reports hold true, Apple will unveil its next-generation smartphone at a media event on Wednesday, September 12. It’s expected to feature a larger screen, and a number of other improvements.
I am pretty sure this is a myth for the simple reason that the chairman would have heard it in the news within those four days and would have summon the execs
Is the hardware good? It looks clunky in the photos.
How can anyone be expected to be excited about your stealthy product then? Why bother posting? Why not just email people who look good on the "Who's looking for work" thread?
Not 100 times more than you'll ever be; just 100 times more than you now. This could be a comforting (or at least natural) fact because it means that you too (if you believe that desire and work is the determining factor) can improve your skills many times over than where you are now.
ErrorT is similar to EitherT, so I just used the latter to make the names less confusing.

Either doesn't have to be "stringly typed" per se thanks to sum types. You can write a type like:

data ErrorType = SomeError
| OtherError String
| ...

The compiler can now check that you handle all possible errors and will give you a warning if you don't, so it's strictly better than using strings.

Coincidentally, this is one place where some sort of sub-typing would be nice, I think. This sort of type would be perfect using OCaml's polymorphic variants because then you could share different error cases around while specifying a very specific type for each computation.
I guess I still need some time for that, I never was the early adopter... :-)
I typed this post on an MBA while looking down at my screen at approximately 30 degrees from vertical.

What is wrong with the MBA viewing angle? I just notice the colors are a bit off when I sit in this ridiculous position.
You're drawing a valid but subtle distinction, and I think it's the same one I dug into by asking whether we feel Apple should have some expectation of patent protection for this sort of innovation, of all kinds. Superficially, promoting innovation means making the activity of innovation advantageous (i.e. rewarding R&D).
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

-- Damon Runyon
I love Xfce myself, but Unity on 12.04 feels really snappy on my System76 laptop.
Which goes on to say that it has fallen out of use. It's a ridiculous title.
Did Samsung not cite the Domino in the Prior Art? WTF "a hand-held computing device with a rectangular shape, rounded corners, and devoid of buttons" etc. "it has a touch-enabled surface communication technology called "Braille..."and"infite power supply"[1] <pls excuse: sarcasm>

[but if anyone knows?]

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Dom...
What's the time Mr. Browser?
> If you want to build a Reddit, use Mongo/Cassandra or something like that.

Can they handle terabyte-scale data loads these days?
"Overnight success is an exception, not a rule. For every “Angry Birds” there are thousands of game studios who never made it."

Angry Birds is the maker's 52nd game. Overnight that.
Bruce Willis To Sue Apple Over Right To Bequeath His iTunes Library
That's awesome! You said it's a free app. What's your business model? Free+ads, In app purchase, freemium? And how do you market, do you use CPI/CPC networks?
Vegas has a great and growing food truck culture, and I'd dig a site like this for the area. Not sure what's involved in expanding to new cities, but I figure I'll throw this out there anyway.
I would love to learn more about the types of sensors on these aircraft. I'm wrapping up majors in systems engineering and physics, so reading about things like Synthetic aperture radar [1] makes me foam at the mouth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_Aperture_Radar
Maybe you're forgetting the whole "why does Angry Birds need to know my phone number and have access to my contacts etc". The iPhone NEEDS a firewall so we can selectively block apps from calling home and sending usage data back every time you use them, and other data that we otherwise did NOT grant permission to do so when we installed the app.
This is not fair. Certainly didn't invented anything, but they improved patent trolling as to make it a way of life. Who needs to invent, when you can patent, sue and win? Let's others do the work.
David Hemler: 28 years on the run
Copy the competition, just don't plagiarize the competition.

Competition means there are customers who think X is worth paying money for. Competition means there are customers who already think X is the solution to their problem.

But design your own solution. Do your own research. Figure out how the competition is letting down specific segments of the market, why people are still arguing about which solution is the best X for Y. Figure out how your target customers are different, then build something that does a better job of satisfying their needs.
Maybe for you but these maps can be very useful for urban planners.
Long Live Silicon Valley
They're almost interchangeable. If I wasn't reading carefully I probably wouldn't notice the difference.

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
@extend is one of the killer features of Sass that other preprocessors don't have: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...

It's true selector inheritance that will change the way you author styles.
Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good
Realistically, you have to have some assembly in every operating system to do things like service interrupts and enter protected mode (in the case of x86).

However I agree that as/if they expand this tutorial, it would be useful to introduce some C or C++
The lack of generators in javascript really kills it for me.
Ignore it. This is just PR. Not even good one too... But what would you do? They had to react somehow on that investigation from BBC news.
The thorium and nuclear advocates. In the 1950s, during the 'Atomic Age', we heard over and over that nuclear power plants were safe, and the power source of the future. The Atomic Energy Commission said that nuclear power would soon be as cheap as power from other sources. We said 'go ahead!'

It's easy to be optimistic about thorium and nuclear energy. The problem is that our optimism has burned us before, and in big, easily obvious ways at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, but also in the difficulties of radioactive waste management. And we don't have practical evidence that thorium power really will be useful, only assurances from the same sorts of people that said, back in the 1950s, that fission power was safe and would soon be as cheap as that from conventional sources.

Reread the letter from the Telegraph. It doesn't want to deal with the decades of lying "self-serving opponents of anything nuclear science", and the "waste" that is the Blue Ribbon Commission on nuclear waste, nor the effort to "convince the anti-nuclear voters that their thinking has been wrong." Instead, the author wants to make an end-run around to entire system: bypass the legislative system and the popular vote, and appeal directly to the executive, almost as if the executive were tzar.

That's why the letter sounds desperate. It's thrown its hands up at democracy.

The obvious, and mentioned, analogy is to Kennedy and the moon program, but there was already popular support for the moon program; at the very least from pulp novels and TV shows. There was also no existing wide-spread concern about the public dangers of rockets. Therefore I don't see how they really are comparable.
Yippe-ki-yay, motherfucker
Fair enough! I'm writing a Stripe page to allow food truck owners to buy a 'priority listing.' It's currently set at $100/month and you are put in the top row. I'm thinking of dropping it to $20/mo. Any input on pricing?
I think there's definitely a market for this type of tool if you target it correctly. I'm only a casual golfer, but my dad's a golfing nut. He plays everyday with likeminded golf nut friends, and they all track and talk about their stats to varying degrees. They also watch golf on TV and play fantasy golf leagues. I could see my dad and his friends getting utterly obsessive about a tool like this if it was done right. I could also see them paying for it if they liked it. Golfers tend to be pretty well off on average. I don't think they're likely to be very price conscious about a <$20/month service if it brings them any value or enjoyment at all.

That said, I think you need to work on your presentation and design. It doesn't inspire much excitement. Instead of listing features and talking about the app, I would focus more on capturing the user's imagination. Don't tell them what the app does. Tell them why they should care. Communicate more on an emotional level. That's where the decision to use/buy will be made.

The screenshots also look a bit dull. I know it's just an analytics dashboard, but I think a shiny interface is going to be important. You don't want someone's subconscious visual impression to be 'glorified excel spreadsheet', you want it to be 'futuristic intelligent stat crunching engine that magically improves your score'. Regardless of what the app does, the way it looks will deeply influence how powerful it is perceived to be. Imagine a golfing scene from some sci-fi movie set 100 years in the future. What's the interface on their super advanced tablet going to look like? That's what to aim for.

Last piece of advice: I would look at the ads in golf magazines or on TV for guidance on design and language. Selling equipment, gadgets, and media to golf nuts is a huge industry. The companies that have been around for awhile are experts at marketing to this demographic. The same techniques that convince someone to buy a new $500 driver or instructional dvds or some useless magnetic bracelet could definitely convince them to buy software that provides useful statistics if you present it right.
There is also a similar site for marine traffic:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

The technology behind the system is the same as in FlightRadar (on principle). The ships have AIS[1] transponders which transmit the position and velocity. This information is received through receivers run by army of volunteers and then submitted to the central site.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System
You might find some information on Northrop Grumman's site, but don't get too hopeful as the Global Hawk is purposed as being a truck, where the sensors are the good stuff that no one talks about.

I'd recommend looking into Northrop and Raytheon if you foam at the mouth when thinking about sensors.
And? Why should they. They have an eternal shelf life and it's not like their functionality becomes obsolete every two years.

For ref I paid 25GBP for an NSpire CAS - just don't buy new.
It's not a 20 year monopoly. Many Android manufacturers are paying Microsoft for their patents. What prevents them from licensing Apple's patents?

I don't care which phone I use, because they're (mostly) all pretty good now. But wow, I remember the Microsoft WM5 heap that I had just before my iPhone. It was a testament to terrible UI. It had more widgets than my old Palm5 but was somehow far less usable. Not some rubbish knock-off, the premier phone from HTC running the software from the world's software monopoly, and it was terrible. I made vows never to use another Windows phone again after that. Version 5 and it was still crap. With the iPhone, Apple's first version knocked it out of the park. First try. And changed the industry, yet everyone thinks it was all obvious or people should be able to use their ideas freely.

There is obviously a balance between Apple-owns-all and everything-goes. Apple should benefit from their patents like every other company does, but others should be able to license them under reasonable terms. Until we finally dump all software patents, this seems like a reasonable compromise.

PS. - pharmaceuticals usually get a full-on monopoly for the full period. Software makers usually cross-license, so there is a difference.

PPS. - Apple's 100bn in the bank just show how far behind everyone else was at the time. Took ages to catch up.
Secondly, you have to declare the valuation of the patent. This is then taxed by the government, similarly to property tax. If you decide to value your patent at $0, then you pay $0 tax.

I'd rather just see software patents thrown out entirely but I think this is the most reasonable suggestion I've seen for fixing the current system. If that tax were rolled back into funding real scrutiny of incoming patents the whole system might not be the cancer it's become now.
They talk about servers with "128, 256 and 512 processor cores" but how effectively can that be leveraged given ARM's weakly consistent memory model? Wouldn't systems like the JVM which have the technology to utilize this many cores struggle on such a CPU?
Don't most browser history systems support this on their own?
Oracle's recent Java patch is broken
That depends entirely on what you call minor. A lot of people on HN think that it's absolutely essential that a page loads and responds within a few milliseconds, because somehow subconsciously to users, it will make the site feel snappier, and thus better, and thus more worth paying for / sticking around on.

Compiling and running LESS on the fly in production might, besides the extended load time, increase the chances for a flash of unstyled content. If this makes you nervous, don't run LESS on the fly in production.
Matt Brown is a good guy.
http://decisiverobot.com
Looking at the stats it averages zero views per day. It was only a fun throwaway idea to experiment and extend my web development skills, but I thought it might least get some traffic.
GNU is not really relevant, except may be to say that free software philosophy can't build something for the mass market, since it takes money to pay workers to slave away for the benefit of the plebes.

The UI layers (GNOME/KDE/Canonical) may be relevant. Linux desktop doesn't have a giant company funding massive ad campaigns and retail outlets and spit-and-polish and OEM integration, and all that is needed to launch a successful product for the mass market.

Linux desktop is very successful in the developer workstation and server markets, where the users are more tech savvy.
Where would they fly to from Adelaide? Are they just testing them there or could they actually fly missions?

For those who don't know AU that city's pretty much as far as you could be from... anywhere really.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=adelaide&ll=-35.173808,13...
I keep hearing about this "passport kept hostage" problem. What keeps you from going to your embassy and reporting the passport missing or stolen? As the passport is not your property but is actually the property of the issuing country, a company or even another country's government cannot hold the passport without causing trouble.

That hostage-passport can only hold if there is something else going on, like working without a permit (when the workers know their status and fear the punishment if they go to the embassy).
As CPU counts continue to rise and Flash support continues to get dropped from more pltforms, that comic will become more ironic.
I agree, that's a good book.
apparently they are doing it wrong
> Mint -> latest Ubuntu HATED IT! -

Why this step? Most people go in the reverse direction.
Apple hasn't offered to license their patents, they want to kill Android.

BTW, I liked my WM5 phone.
How do you collect them, just in a directory or do you use some tool? I also collect sites and web-apps who's UI/design I really like on my personal wiki system, but it has a lot of flaws, i.e. they're not screenshots so if the site changes I lose the UI. Would love to hear how other people manage this.
You can add new features without adding interface complexity, but its harder to differential products if the user do not have any visible difference between ones old product now going for 15$, the competitors new 30-99$ products, and ones own new product going for 100$. Abstract arguments like "its faster!, more feature than before!" is much harder sell when the two devices look and feel the same.

One way is to sue all competitors and have the only store available presenting exclusive the new product, but that only goes so far.

As for the johnsphones, it has buttons. As interface goes, it still look complex compared to a smartphone. The most simplistic phone design is one with only one or zero buttons, like the Third generation iPod Shuffle if it had been a phone.
if you need a tldr, reddit is that-a-way.
Awesome, I'll do Vegas next! Kansas City is set for release this week - the data is already loaded, just need to do some aesthetic tweaks.
Why Does Canada Have A Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve?
Control, safety and building a brand.
I have several ideas I never started working on. I guess they don't count. Then I had some others that I never finished/validated.

http://gclimbing.com is not really a failed idea, more like a failed project. Some years ago, I administered a shared climbing blog in Austria. After some time, nobody was using it anymore (It was quite complicated to use). I wrote a new software and put it online, which is gclimbing.com - but it didn't really take off. Everybody was on facebook by that time.

Another idea I tried was http://scribblingspree.com - A player would draw a picture, the next would describe it, the next one draw something based on the description. This started as a project to practice wicket and javascript. It was just not that much fun to play after a couple of rounds. Note that I did not know DrawSomething when I wrote it.

I leave both projects online so I can link to them from my CV, but otherwise both are pretty much dead.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot: http://davidtanzer.net/node/82
I can choose option 4? I don't have the time and/or financial support to even give it a real shot.

Or is that the same as not taking enough risks?
That's not government meddling in private business. That is private business meddling in government.
Note this: Apple spends substantially less (as a fraction of revenue) on R&D, and gets substantially more, in terms of outstanding products, compared to every other tech company. What is it that they're doing so well?