skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fake but that's probably a reasonable amount for a rich person whose spouse has multiple sclerosis. Those are therapy dressage horses.
And even then, I'm pretty sure it's accessing the store in the background without the user opening it up.

Otherwise, how would it know to pop up a notification that app updates are available?
Apple: Volume Purchase Program for Apps
What was the most exciting/fun/interesting job listing you have ever seen in IT?
If he's getting a nexus only (like me) I suppose that means he always wants the latest version of the OS. Cyanogenmod doesn't solve the problem because they're always behind. By the time CM has stable builds for J, my phone will be on K.

If you want a phone with the latest version of the OS, then CM is a bandage, not a solution. The only solution is buying only nexuses.
Ask: I've been approached by a fortune 500 company. How much should I charge?
Quick consultation here, I need your help guys.
I've developed a Facebook application for pages.
It's been seeing some success. I've got a white label version that charges 19.99 yearly.

I've been approached by a big company (fortune 500 ) and am now setting a skype call with their social media department.

I am not sure what I should offer them, and what budget I should be aiming for. Should I offer them a white \ gray label solution? How much should I be charging.

Thanks!
I'm actually quite amazed by the adoption rate of iOS. Before iOS 5.0, it was very very hard for users to upgrade their OS. Android on the other hand is supposed to be easier to upgrade.

There was some statistics last year that shows only 50% of iOS users sync their iOS devices regularly, which means those people went out of their way to go and get the OS update. I still can't believe this fact.

Now that iOS does update over the air, of course more iOS users will update quicker. Especially when the update comes straight from Apple, but the fact that iOS users upgrade their OS very quickly before 5.0 still impressed me.
Mini-server at home, any good hardware options other than Mac Mini?
I'm looking to build a small server at home. Something physically small, yet powerful, like a Mac Mini. Is there any alternatives, probably cheaper? (depending on configuration, of course)
Well in reality the only people whom this data is useful for is app developers, so accessing the play store is a useful / fair metric.
What entrepreneurs can learn from stand-up comedians
Some Android device owners simply have not choice. Their devices aren't support/capable of running ICS.
Just require 80% support to make a new law and 20% support to remove any law currently on the books.

Then we would prevent most new useless laws.
This is great work. read the NYT article on the train home and then picked up a couple of the papers. The cool thing for me was the realization that when DNA is coiled, parts of the strand that are linearly very far apart end up adjacent in the coil. And further, that adjacency affects how the gene expresses proteins. That means that you not only need a decoded genome, you need to understand the relationship of the segments in 3D. For me at least it feels a lot more reasonable than the original numbers of genes. At least in terms of describing humans, as diverse and complex as we are.

Someone of course will do the same for chimps and bonobos, and then we'll know which of the switches are important as well as the genes. Very cool result and I am confident that several Nobel prizes will come out of it.
Hiiire.com

Lyricaly.com
"... In comedy, I actually took a class where we learned what to do if a waitress drops a tray in the middle of your set and how to move forward. Acknowledge what happened and then adjust. I think about this lesson on a daily basis. ..."

Improv is an underrated skill. The ability to be adaptable & flexible in real time.
Very interesting. Would you like to share how many users have you been able to sign up thus far?
If I remember correctly, Messages were already native. The news feed was the only major change.

But yes, I'm not saying that their app is fully HTML5. I'm saying that HTML5 still has a major role in their app.
That phrase is total and utter bullshit. Correlation does not prove correlation but it does make it significantly more likely.
For designers on the team maybe this is just useful practice.
Programmer mind, mathematician mind: expounded
Any mini-ITX motherboard will be that size; for PSU a pico-PSU or similar is good. Biggest advantage over a mac mini is not price, but options; you can get dual ethernet; you can add a ePCI or PCI card, etc.

Strangely enough I find the case to be the only part that is pricy. Finding an inexpensive ITX case can be hard.

I optimized for power consumption a bit more than performance, so I went with a Via SoC based board (18W at the wall). They have atom and Core based ones as well though.
Didn't they declare that Unicode ends at U+10FFFF, which is about 200x all characters we've allocated so far for all covered languages?
MD4 Password Hashing Problem
I agree. Amazon doesn't have much manufacturing experience, so they'll probably outsource it. It'll probably be a decent but average android phone. And Google has fast velocity with Android development, so I don't think Amazon forking Android will add much.
As someone who considers an s2 because htc fucked up on their commitment to update my desire to 2.3, I am very interested in how have samsung screwed you over?
For reference, iOS 5 adoption was 80% at WWDC
Loading Knowledge Modules (LKM)
An LKM is in charge of loading source data from a remote server to the staging area. It is used by
interfaces when some of the source datastores are not on the same data server as the staging area. The
LKM implements the declarative rules that need to be executed on the source server and retrieves a
single result set that it stores in a “C$” table in the staging area, as illustrated below.
With trigger.io you can use native titlebar and tabbar elements so you don't have to mess around with position:fixed
http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.4/modules/topbar.html#modules-t...

:-D
Is the quest for immortality the only thing that drives research like this? The PI's interviewed in the promo video for ENCODE ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsV_sEDSE2o ) can only point to biomedical implications to justify their continued funding.
I have a little Lenovo IdeaCenter as well as a few minis. The Lenovo is smaller and can be used as a media pc as well, but it's nowhere near the Mini specs. They're not horrible though, you can upgrade the ram (I didn't) and throw an SSD in (I did) but at the end of the day it's still an Atom.

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Ideacentre-Series-40814AU-Deskt...
A lot more information is needed to understand the genome than just the linear sequence or 3D structure. There is phosphorylation and histone tags and RNA splicing and more (and that's just what has been discovered). All this information is needed to understand how the genome works. It is basic genetics.
egregious use of color (uses 256-color term support):

function hl() {
local R='';
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
R="$R|$1";
shift;
done;
env GREP_COLORS="mt=38;5;$((RANDOM%256))" egrep --color=always $R;
}

then do e.g.

whatever pipeline | hl foo bar baz | hl quux | hl '^.* frob.*$' | less -R

results in foo/bar/baz highlighted in one color, quux in another, and whole lines containing frob in another. hopefully the colors aren't indistinguishable from each other or from the terminal background :\

I use a somewhat similar setup in emacs, where a key binding adds the word under point to a syntax highlighting table, but the color is computed as the first 6 characters of the md5sum of the word.
I don't see why a programmer should care about his strength. I don't need to lift anything heavier than a laptop or a monitor.
While I agree with the parent, it is still worthwhile to distinguish places that judge you based on those preferences or activities and those that simply encourage you to have them. Sometimes a small part of your value is getting others to be more relaxed, social, or just half-engaged until the idea they've been searching for all week comes tumbling out mid-pingpong swat. Granted, there are environments and people who function better with a clear boundary between work and play, but I bet that a large number of people who decry the mix would have second thoughts if play meant a game of chess, word association (pictionary? more UX departments could probably benefit...), cards, or whatever. I don't mean to say that tossing a football and playing chess are the same thing, but when not explicitly working they can still have positive effects. And hey, while the techno-blast-developer floor may be an annoying fad, I don't see anything wrong from a management perspective to find people who, in general, appreciate similar things. If you look closely you can see this very clearly in design studios (though I believe it applies to virtually anything creative, programming included)– people collaborating on a project while one listens to delta blues and the other Vivaldi will may have very altered perspectives, however fleeting, than two others who share a love of Phillip Glass.
Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving
I work for a global start-up. Currently 350 people all over the world, incl. NZ and LT.

We have a mix, we do have offices in major markets but people scattered all over the place.

Located in Central Europe, I run a team of 3 people, all in different countries, one even one hour away (timezone wise). I report to someone in the SF bay area.

How do we pull it off:

- When going into a new region we establish ownership. One general manager who owns it, who most importantly from now on works in this timezone. No matter where he/she lives, it is the customers and team that matters

- We run on the Google App Stack. Google Chat is my second home. GoToMeeting my third.

- Scheduling things is important. Regular talks with your team, etc. If it is not in people´s calendar, you cannot assume to just "walk by to chat" for important topics.

- English is the corporate language, we do not hire anybody who is not capable of holding a conversation in English. Be it Europe, China or Japan. Our internal documentation is in English. Our customers operate in the same way.

- As a manager: very flexible work hours. a fine ear/eye for issues and conflicts. awareness of cultural differences on communication and perception.
Ajoutez Facebook dans le centre de notification sous Mac Os
OpenStack guy takes CloudStack on a date
The New Corporate Innovators And What They Mean For VCs
>But once it's done, it's done.

And I think that right there is the reason such a tool will never truly catch on. (Nearly) everyone who currently uses Vim wouldn't use it. It is why things like Cream never caught on I think; there really is not as much demand as some people think.
Not just practice: designing for co-workers will give you the most extensive feedback you'll ever get. When the guy in the next office can shout at you very time the contrast is a little funny or the spacing is kind of ugly, those details make their way into the public-facing side of the project as well.
> Cyanogenmod doesn't solve the problem because they're always behind. By the time CM has stable builds for J, my phone will be on K.

That depends on how you look at it. It's only an issue for me if the phone is never updated. It's fine if I'm lagging behind by a version, as long as I receive an update before I end up 2 versions behind.
I kind of assumed mobile browsers might already be doing this -- 'smudging' clicks a few pixels towards the nearest clickable region, whenever they land someplace neutral.

Still, if/when they don't, this seems helpful. In particular, if the HN up/down triangles had this, biased in the direction opposite each other, there'd be fewer mistaken votes on touch screens.
Money Can Buy You Love
While a funny piece of satire typical of Jon Stewart & The Daily Show, I don't see what that has anything to do with how the amount of money a man makes compares to his ability to lead the country. Perhaps rather than just posting a link to a funny video, you could put some thought into a response that means something to the comment to which you are responding.
I agree. Last November, when I bought a Nexus S on AT&T. They said ICS was coming in January. Then March. Then Jelly Bean came out in June and an upgrade was slated for July. Then "late August". I'm still running Ginger Bread

I am tired of waiting for updates. I'm not sure if it's AT&T or Google or what, but my faith has been shaken in the Nexus line. In 14 months I think I will be getting an iPhone.

</rant>
This is the reality of biomedical research today. With NIH funding level flatlining in recent years and congress leery of more spending in anything other than military, medical utility is the mantra now within NIH. The irony is that most of ENCODE people are not medical researchers and are less qualified and less experienced than human genetics researchers. This is all about money. Scientists need to eat too. And reputation, and power. It is a very high-stakes game.
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> Maybe if google took the same route and forced all the OEMs to upgrade to the latest firmware, those 21% of android phones that are on ICS would be android's total market share.

Judging from the Nexus phone sales, I'd say it'd be a lot lower than that.
Messages in the main app weren't native until the latest update. I guess I disagree and see HTML5 as taking a much lesser role for them.
Las radiaciones de tu smartphone más elevadas que nunca
Try very hard to have them put out a range of what they are expecting to pay. If they approached you then you should have some leverage in the situation.
Agreed those cables are a joke I brought a non apple one and it is protected from exactly that kind of damages that always kills apples official cables.
There are a lot of different situations. Some common ones:

1) When people come to me and say "I need someone to build X for me," I usually say "I can help you make sure X gets done right." If the person contacting me isn't especially technical, that means I remove the weight from their shoulders of verifying that they actually got what they paid for when they hire another freelancer/contractor to do the job.

2) Sometimes people already have devs either hired internally or managed externally, and they're having trouble and just need someone to come in and tell them how to get back on track. This might involve some code but it wouldn't actually be my job to write the code, just more of a training thing / someone to call.

3) Sometimes startups with non-technical founders in particular just need guidance on what they should actually be doing with technology. They don't know how it could improve their business, but they do know that they like what my software says it can do, and they're not sure what to do next. Usually these people are trying to compensate for a lack of a technical co-founder.

4) A lot of the time the initial email to me isn't looking for a consultant, and the business may not even have considered the idea; but sometimes especially larger institutions know that they want a consultant with intimate knowledge of the software they're working with. You can't get that by hiring a consulting firm.

Transitioning was easy -- I just started telling people I would do consulting instead of development work when they contacted me. I had intentionally not take development work that involved maintenance agreements for some time (I rarely built complete sites; I just built components or additions to my own open-source software). It also helped that I had spent a lot of time meeting with entrepreneurs and hearing about the businesses of people who had previously hired me. But there is a lot to know about consulting just like there is a lot to know about development and it takes some research and experimenting to deliver good experiences.
If Apple were to do this (again) people would probably be upset, but when Nokia does it, I'm just disappointed. Nokia is bringing real innovation to the mobile market and unlike most android releases I see, it actually pairs it with awesome device design. I can just imagine the video accompanying the release of the new iPhone in a few days:

"We added an all new faster processor (the change won't even be noticeable but we will pay through the roof for it). It's running a new version of iOS (that is already old). We redesigned the fan to make it 2dB quiter (it wasn't loud to begin with but ok). We changed the connecting cable (so our old ones don't work then?). We made the screen even bigger (awesome, devs need to adjust their old apps for a new aspect ratio). We even added 4G (only the last company to do it). It's the best iPhone yet!"

Of course, people will still hail that announcement as some sort of revolution. Nokia may have bs'd their ad but I can't help but ignore it and hope people see that these features are really quite cool without being exaggerated. It's refreshing to not only hear about screen size or processor speed in a new phone but also: a new photo technology, a more clear screen you can use gloves on, wireless charging, and a music functionality that seems a lot like a Nexus Q...

If people didn't have their brand loyalties - any sensible person would realize how fucking awesome that list is. I still could be very likely getting an iPhone when it comes out but considering Apple literally hasn't done anything moderately interesting since Jobs died (besides troll Samsung), I can't imagine it's long before their stagnant innovation catches up to them. When the day comes that buying the phone with the best experience doesn't mean supporting a joke of a company, I'm going to be a really happy dude.
Anywhere that you can use TOR, or a VPN that doesn't keep logs.
"It is basic genetics."

According to the NYT [1] it's 'new' basic genetics. Basically all the 'junk' DNA isn't junk, and the reason the function of that DNA was not appreciated before the ENCODE effort is that these bits appeared 'far away' from the genes which it turns out they affect.

[1] "There is another sort of hairball as well: the complex three-dimensional structure of DNA. Human DNA is such a long strand — about 10 feet of DNA stuffed into a microscopic nucleus of a cell — that it fits only because it is tightly wound and coiled around itself. When they looked at the three-dimensional structure — the hairball — Encode researchers discovered that small segments of dark-matter DNA are often quite close to genes they control. In the past, when they analyzed only the uncoiled length of DNA, those controlling regions appeared to be far from the genes they affect." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/science/far-from-junk-dna-...
Well, fortunately, corn is technically (botanically) a fruit. A dry fruit consisting of one fused seed.
Growth 101: Momentum is not growth.
I would still use Cyanogenmod with a Nexus. Besides, Cyanogenmod isn't lagging behind that much. It took a little too long from Gingerbread to ICS but we probably will have Stable Cyanogenmod 10 very soon.
Not frantically keeping up with all the blogs/sites that I would read, and not force myself to comment regularly.

I eventually realized that it's impossible for me to be a catalogue/archive of the latest news (it's like swimming upstream), and I realized that forcing myself to comment is very unnatural.
I can't offer any absolutes, but I would recommend that you continue a conversation with them before quoting a price.

Try to determine (estimate) their budget. You'd be surprised at how easily corporate employees will reveal budget.

Then charge a percentage of that budget.

Alternatively, try to figure out their internal cost estimates/budget for your component. Then double that.

You have a ton of negotiating room, but always do it as a percentage of what they were expecting to spend on the project/your component.

In my (light) experience, I've always at least doubled the amount of money coming in. Working with a corporation is a different beast than directly estimating value delivered / standard consumer stuff.
then it's still skewed. i have froyo and turn off background stuff to conserve battery. i'm pretty sure many people do this for the same reason.
I agree with this. The "price shock" reaction that causes consumers to recoil and not listen to your value prop is significantly less likely in a corporate situation. They're spending the company's money, not theirs; your price will not offend them (like it would if it were their money).
Agreed. While I think what ENCODE is doing is important, I feel that they oversold the value of their work. In my opinion, they obviously wanted to ensure continued funding.

It is not a bad thing that every once in a recession less fruitful areas of research are trimmed from funding to make room for more important work. To often scientist lose sight of why their research is important, and forget about trying to solve real problems. That said, too much money is poured into military research and not enough into basic science, which is what pays off in the long run.
A while back I made a drastic recovery from pretty bad RSI. Here are some tips based on my experience and fairly extensive research, including many conversations with doctors and chiropractors.

* Use a REAL ergonomic keyboard, such as the SafeType (http://safetype.com/), which addresses 3 major causes of wrist pain: extension, deviation, and pronation. The slanted keyboards, such as the one mentioned in the article do not really help all that much, as they do not properly address the 3 major causes.

* Work standing up. This contributes to better blood flow, and improved posture, which can alleviate RSI.

* Decrease caffeine consumption.

* Decrease alcohol consumption.

* Get proper sleep

* Eat healthy. Avoid junk food.

* Exercise at least 30 minutes per day.
http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure
Reflashing a phone is scary and weird when you do it the first time, but it's really not hard and the community support is quite good.

You're right -- it's not hard. Just annoying and possibly risky. A lot of these ROMs are alpha/beta quality and not fully tested. For example I installed a JB ROM on my Galaxy Nexus 4G that broke my GPS. I didn't even realize it until I was lost and needed GPS to find my way back to the highway. Most of these ROMs (none yet?) have OTA updating so once you flash you are committing yourself to maintaining it going forward. So for example if there's some horrible security problem you may never get patched unless you seek it out yourself. This brings up the issue of installing software from untrusted sources. Cyanogenmod is fine but what about all the others? Call me old fashion but I don't enjoy flashing random ROMS I find on web forums. Seems like that could end really poorly.

The final annoyance that gets me every time is these different ROM releases often require you to wipe system data. So you have to use something like Titanium Backup, which has a UI similar to the cockpit of a 747, to back things up yourself. On my first attempt to do this I accidentally restored 'system data' or something like that which borked my phone up really well. I had to repeat the whole process of wiping and starting over. The other gripe is when TB reinstalls apps you have to sit there and hit install/done about a million times.

Even as a technical user I just don't want to deal with it but I still do want the latest OS release. I even foolishly bought a Galaxy Nexus thinking I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore but I didn't buy the right Galaxy Nexus that gets updates from Google. Silly me.
Made me think of the Trachtenberg Speed System:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.trachten.html