skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does not work on OSX...what kind of browser is this? Wikipedia says this browser is proprietary (and they have a donation page on their website :P) and has been around since 2004, what makes it special now? It's a chinese company who makes this so I'm already worried that my data can be compromised.
UFC: Dana White says Ronda Rousey is a "Dude inside a Female Body"
That is way to pessimistic and fear mongering in a way.

There are some numbers available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql/benchmarks (eg getting it into EC2 in a day for ~30USD). Even just a week would be a pessimistic estimate.

I guess if all you want is geocoding, you could exclude a lot of data before importing it. Eg landuses without names, lots of single nodes that have nothing to do with addresses, etc.
This is why the "SQL Cookbook" is good, it has dozens and dozens of examples with permutations in Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Not quite the same. "Hey, this site is music but with a V instead of a U. Check it out." I go to http://www.mvsic.com/ and it's a Go Daddy parking page. Oh well. User lost.

You and I don't think like this, but many users do.
The most obvious difference is that I know who are the users of these sites.

Google+ might be popular in a geographic part of the world, or among a certain community I'm not part of, just like Baidu is in China, Rakuten is in Japan, Vkontakte is in Russia, Orkut in brazil, etc.

I just have no idea, and it seems I'm not the only one, what this demographic they have conquered is.
Exactly. I think we need to experiment and see where we're actually productive.

Too many times we "lie" to ourselves, and think that if we're at our desk, we're working (and being productive).
Encapsulation without Abstraction
No? Probably not?

I'm sure he has the equivalent a valet and I'm sure he has style consultants on tap to make sure that the two outfits he's narrowed his wardrobe down to won't look terrible on camera. But I imagine he gets to pick his own suits.

Anyways, the point is, he doesn't think about his wardrobe. He obviously has the opportunity to. He doesn't.
Is this just a new Google strategy lately to buy up awesome iOS apps and kill them off, death by a thousand aqui-hires? Let's hope they don't kill off Snapseed.app, I will be extremely annoyed if they 'Sparrow' or 'HTML5-crapify' it.
is it bad if i find it inconsistent, annoying to use, etc?

I mean, it is pretty (well, arguably, most of them are), but, the buttons are all over the place and everyone seems to have it's own UI plastered on top of more or less "android ui compliant" stuff.
If I had a processor that ran 1000x faster than current processors, would I be limited to selling it for $50?

Currently commoditized hardware is dead, perhaps.

There will come a hardware invention that offers something new, and there will huge profits there.
No, you're just making things up to try to make Google+ look bad. The only way that photos automatically upload to your account is if you download the Google+ app from the store, sign in, then enable that feature. That sounds like an engaged user to me and exactly the data that should count as an "active" user. I really don't understand the hostility that shows up every time Google+ announces some accomplishment. It seems like the old idea that eating an animal could give you its strength. On Hacker News, dumping on a project makes you better than its engineers, I suppose.
I think this is feasible. There's surely a 100m geeks in the world.

Also don't forget that goog.le links, open in the browser on Android phones.
Heh. Ya, I was going to put a few in around Linux audio drivers and Flash on 64-bit browsers.
My team is split up across two locations with 9 people in one office and two in another. How have people handled remote standups? Do you get the remote guys on speaker phone? Have a separate meeting with them? Are there any tips/suggestions for making standups with remote employees work well?
My dishwasher also cleans beautifully with no rinsing (thought I usually rinse the big particles). Now drying is another thing all together. I usually have to hand dry dishes (especially plastic) when I take them out before putting them away.
>>Are you a big enough fan of the free market that you want to take away existing prohibitions on child labor?

No. In fact I'm voting for Obama because I think we're at risk of losing the middle class.

I wrote what I did because I don't think comparing public teachers to private sector jobs is an apples to oranges comparison, and partly because I like to play the devil's advocate ;)
Performance is a huge bullet point for me. A language such as Python or Ruby requires you to make considerations (writing performance-sensitive code by shelling out to a native C extension, for example) that don't crop up in a natively compiled language such as Go.

In fact, for performance-sensitive things the difference is often staggering, even for things that scripting languages were originally invented for, such as text processing. Performance-sensitive doesn't always mean "DSP or graphics code". If you want to process huge log files in Ruby, for example, you can start as many threads you like to attempt to parallelize it without getting anywhere because of the global interpreter lock, and will find yourself resorting to things like forking off child processes. Ruby would be a bad fit because it does not perform well. I often end up writing such processing code in Lua (using LuaJIT) because of the dramatic difference in performance.

One must always consider the domain, but performance is one important facet of Go: Go gives you high performance without sacrificing much of the expressiveness of dynamic languages such as Python and Ruby. (Conversely, C/C++ gives you high performance without the same expressiveness.) If Go had the same VM as Ruby I would probably never consider using it for anything, as I don't see any language-level benefits that outweigh the performance aspect.
Amusing concept but still hangs on to the print world by organizing articles into volumes and using PDF for the articles.
Honestly, I think a step in the right direction would be more people submitting bug reports. Get more people used to the idea that bugs do exist in software, and it's up to everybody to say "Hey, your software has issues. This is how you can replicate it. Please fix!". Also, let's stop implementing features, and fix bugs first. No use building upon software with known bugs in it.
What you're expecting from a recruiter who are trying to catch good writers by checking their spelling, punctuation and knowledge (but not the meaning) of long words?)

Writer could be measured only by (the value of) his texts. It is not about the knowledge of grammar, even if it is a relevant knowledge.

And, of course, appearance and manners of a potential writer have almost nothing to do with his talent.
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Also not that long ago it was way harder to quickly schedule meetings when you weren't at the same location.
Why I’m Buying A Nokia Lumia 920 Instead of the iPhone 5
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You're welcome. This is seriously an awesome idea. I wish I had something like this in high school, because I did so much work outside of school with jobs and collaborations I did with other people, but schools weren't interested in this information, but employers were.

If there was an easy way for those people writing scholarships were able to filter through candidates based on their merits and their connections, it would be an easy way to show the students dedication to their field, and the fact that they have done so much to move forward their goals.

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On another note, I really don't think it's necessary to highlight 'ful' in your logo. I understand the site is trying to be similar to LinkedIn, but it almost makes it look like it's part of the LinkedIn family when it's really not.

Look at the favicon, or app icon for LinkedIn. They only say 'in' distinctively, I believe that it's the focus is because you're 'in a network, in a circle, in with people'. On your site, you're highlighting 'ful', but your favicon is the 'M' for Merit. There is no branding in the 'M', it's very generic.

I suggest thinking of a simple avatar, or icon to use as a symbol and have that be highlighted. Some sort of representation of what your site is. That way, that can be highlighted, and that can be your favicon, app icon, etc. That will distinctively be your branding.

Just so you know I'm not talking out of my ass, I work in the web development section for a huge clothing retailer. I've learned more about branding on the web and how people perceive things than I'd think I would in a front-end web development gig.
the inconsistencies are usually defined by the developers. As you can see most these apps are available to the ios store as well. So its really not fair to judge the platform vs the developers.
Not at all. We have developed software as a true engineering discipline. It's only applied where it's really needed, and can be economically justified. For example, avionics and some safety-critical industrial control systems.
I don't think that's true. Some of these apps use elements from the Holo UI themes that are distinctly Android, and still look beautiful.
Please get them to have a web based signup to at least try it. "Please contact Global Sales Operations for access" is too much friction.
Hi, nice to meet you.

In all seriousness, I think Google+ is a massive force. If you play the SEO game at all (and let's face it, most web companies do at least a little bit), then you have to pay attention to Google+ because it's showing up on search results. That makes those web companies more invested in getting their users to use Google+ and encourages adoption. Circular, strategic, very interesting to watch.
Looks perfect to me.

Google Chrome Stable (official Ubuntu PPA)

Version 21.0.1180.89

Ubuntu 12.04 x64
whip up a nice html5 interface

This is one of the reason's I've spent so much time on Blossom[1], which brings iOS-style development to HTML 5 (Quartz drawing, Core Animation-style transitions, etc.).

Eventually, these devices will be everywhere, and all of them will need quick-to-build-and-deploy interfaces, that perform well and are consumer-friendly.

Blossom runs great on my iPad and Nexus 7 -- smooth, fluid -- and development and debugging is easy with Chrome.

Anyway, I think you hit the nail on the head on how these low-cost devices will be used in the very near future.

[1] https://github.com/erichocean/blossom
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries#Advance...

Regex queries ending with /i (case-insensitive flag) cannot efficiently use indexes, but must do full index scans.
Before Android 4.0, yes. The new UI is beautiful.
Android 2.3, never going to get updated, crappy resolution, slow single core processor...

Honestly, it's going to suck compared to a Nexus 7. Remember, Android 2.3 IS NOT a tablet operating system, the first of which was 3.0, so it's basically a 7" non-cellular Android phone.
Add me to the list. Last week, I wanted to upload a complete album of vacation photos to share with just my family (many of whom aren't on Facebook). G+ allows me to generate a unique link to that album without requiring anyone to sign up to view the photos.

Just last night a family member wouldn't Skype with me because the software "wasn't setup" on their computer. I initiated a hangout (since they use gmail) and everything worked perfectly.

Google's strategy reminds me a little bit of Microsoft's where they are the service that pops up first when people are looking to do things. As long as their product is equal to or better than their competitors, they should be able to win the slow race.
Distribution is usually via Hong Kong at something of middle man markups, but still cheap. The last time we ordered this way, the item arrived declared for customs as 'Contents: Gift'. I'm not sure what the preferred weight limit is for them.

There's a sea of knockoffs over there, some terrible, others very good.
Ask yourself a couple of questions.

Where are the 23% of high school students who aren't graduating?

Where are the children getting great early childhood education in the US?

Where did the top 5% of college students go to high school?
Really? You don't know anyone using G+? If so, you are missing out. The +1 feature alone is worth the non-price of pre-admission.

Of course, I feel a similar way about Facebook. I know a lot of people use Facebook avidly, but I almost never do. Every time I log onto that site I regret it. At least on G+ I can aggressively tune out the boneheads with some hope of success and without incurring a ton of social kickback.
Open Source complaining assholes apart, which can fall high on the disrespect scale sometimes, users have all and every right of complaining about the things that are not working, always. Users are not in debt of software developers in my view. If you think otherwise, then that's the key of our disagreement.

I do think that "don't care about UX bugs" is a prevalent attitude among software developers. I may be mistaken, but let's not forget you even used it as an argument: "those bugs are not that important", which is what compelled me to reply.

I believe that death by a thousand cuts is worse than death by a single blow, each time these bugs occur make a little cut.

And of course some of them might be devilishly complex or E_NOREPRODUCE, but I believe they are pervasive mostly due to the industry being focused on having more features before stabilizing old ones, because, you know, those bugs aren't that important.

(Hint: Multiply 5 minutes wasted by an annoying bug by 12000000 users and you have a million hours down the drain, each time)
Actually I think Obama is in the middle. He's got my vote. Earlier I was playing the devil's advocate a little, downvote me ;)
What do you mean by "the energy-star hoax"? (Curious.)
I would say it correlates more to household income and education. Folks need to "get" digital books and feel confident that they will still own them. I've gotten tired of looking at physical books that full up a half a room so I've moved to Kindles and Comixology and haven't looked back.
"But for anyone in the occupation of creating things, it's hell to end up in a calendared life that's completely interrupt driven."

PG wrote about this in an essay entitled, "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule." [1] You may have read it already, but if you haven't, I think it will really resonate with you.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
I'm curious what makes the good recruiters you have in mind, special? (I actually didn't know they existed)

Also any tips on locating a good recruiter next time I'm looking?
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So does that mean that you would sell access to the analytics data for a song listing to both the artist and the blogger? Would the blogger's data be limited to traffic on their own site? Does the artist control who gets access to their data?
To elaborate on your example: Apple's Mail.app has always been vaguely shit. Every major rev of OS-X always introduces a new way in which Mail.app fails.

> in Apple's case, they hate to admit anything can possibly be wrong in perfect-town Apple.

Bingo. And that's exactly what the article is talking about. Things that a company or programmer has the ability to fix _now_ just don't get done.
Being a mechanical engineer and a hardware guy myself, I may be biased, but I think hardware is alive and well. With rapid prototyping and open-sourcing of 3D printers, fabrications shops and the like, the opportunity to create new hardware devices is easier now than ever before.

The issue the article focuses on is commoditizing of hardware. Tablets all essentially have the same components and the economies of scale are exaggerated. When you have multiple manufacturers of very similar devices they all start reducing their margins to gain market share. This is a race to the bottom, and I believe the point the article is trying to make.

However, the innovators of hardware are the winners. New devices that create new markets, new functions, new possibilities for consumers have the potential to sell large volumes at high margins. This has the advantage of the added barrier of manufacturing. Competitors take longer to tool-up and compete, giving first-movers a larger advantage than software producers. The iPod, for example, still remains the leader to this day.

Hardware isn't dead, it just becomes a commodity over time. To avoid reaching the bottom, you have to be a company that's always innovating, just like software. Creating new products, vastly improving design, etc. Leave the copycats in China to turn it into a commodity, you should be onto your next big thing by the time that becomes an issue.
I think nobody would have a problem using any of these apps. Most of them even implement some kind of action bar so you totally know where to look for your user controls.
For me, what killed my enthusiasm for mongodb is the write locks. Yes they have been greatly improved in the 2.x release but it's still not good enough (for me).
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing this - since I can now cross of the "Write something comparing bandit & a/b" item from my to do list and point people to your post instead :-)
For what it's worth, there is a Kindle reader app that lets you read books w/o an actual Kindle. But I agree that lending restrictions (and the question of who really owns the copy of the book) do make things more difficult.
Missing from the list: Setup Twitter, Facebook etc for your website. What about developer checklist, what about how to set up Google Apps for business, emails, hosting account, domain setup correctly? SEO/SEM in little bit more detail.
People can sue their software vendors for damages right now. There's nothing stopping you. Of course most software licenses disclaim liability for defects, but if you purchased software with those license terms then you have no one but yourself to blame. Caveat emptor.
It's going to be amazing when you can buy a usable tablet for $20 at at the dollar store - or maybe even a vending machine.

I remember when desktop calculators were more than that.

Don't we have Google to thank for this in large part?
Bad code is bad code, in any language.

I'm a little disappointed how any post about moving from X to Y (especially if X is Mongo) makes the top of the front page on HN. This is not really a very good or insightful post. It's one persons experience and anecdotes of the pain points of learning a new technology. Mildly interesting, but not really expository in any way.
Apple has a way of hiding new web tech in plain sight. Otherwise very good write-up. Thumbs up.
The last sentence makes it clear that he is not living without time; he's living with time defined by organic rhythms of his body and the environment instead of time defined by the rhythms of machines. It sounds like something I would like to try.
I'm not seeing how DTMF or speech would translate to the punctuation usually required for that type of attack.

You're letting the user specify an index for an array pointer. There may be direct memory access involved (C code shudder somebody get Thomas, that stuff scares me). This combination has been proven to get a lot of people to any input they want and a whole lot they don't.
Nice website and service. +1 for providing desktop version as well. I'd hope to see Firefox add-on too!
To qualify for 'Energy Star' in the US, you have to use 10% less energy/resources (water) as last year. No standard; no other goal.

Result: clothes washers that don't wash (my washer at least has a button to override Energy Star, obliquely named Extra Rinse or Heavy Duty), dishwashers that don't get dishes clean; water heaters that deliver luke-warm water.

The goal cannot have been "Use less energy, even if it means sucking". The goal was actually "Get a sticker on your product, for marketing reasons." Thus, a hoax.
How did stocks get so high?
Has anyone found the software yet? All the source links appear to be dead-ends.
This is a complaint about Mobile in general, not Android. People bitch about fragmentation (and it is a bit painful), but in the regard of "everyone has their own UX on top of the system default" iOS is in exactly as bad a boat, if not worse. Some of the most popular iOS apps take their UX off in crazy directions (a common example: Tweetbot).

Look closely though. You'll notice the ActionBar is extremely prevalent in these. The ActionBar is actually one of those few Android teachable moments; I wish Apple did this as well, as consistently, or as themably. I've used a lot of these apps (and I am sad to not see Pattrn up there!) and it's very much the case that they have a fairly consistent set of "touch semantics" that screenshots don't reveal. E.g., Tap upper right corner to configure; long press for edit; swipe horizontally to navigate; long press on text fields to engage c/p editor bar.

For better or worse, Android's toolkits offer a lot more guidance to the programmer on "the right way" than Apple's do (a great example of this that bleeds into UI is how Android has a ton of Loader patterns and iOS doesn't have anything nearly so sophisticated in its core lib). So in some respects, Android is actually slightly better off; the bigger toolkit means you get some superior consistency. The recent iterations (and backported support) framework strongly encourages you to do things like support long presses and swipe navigation and backpane navigation.
If you're after something that does one job and does it well, is there a reason why you've chosen those phones over a very basic Nokia model (or something similar)?
These seem really inconsistent to me. Feedly looks almost like a metro (sorry, "Windows 8-style") app. doubleTwist looks like an iOS app, as do Square Card Reader and Tumblr. Reddit Sync Pro seems to fit in with Google+, so I assume that's what modern Android apps are supposed to look like.

None of these general aesthetics are bad, but the inconsistency seems to be an issue. (Actually, a few of them do look bad to me, like Rdio, with the very dated "app home screen" that looks like it was copied from the old Facebook iOS app.)
Looks somewhat inspired by Metro... not that that's a bad thing. ICS made a huge stride in the Android UI, and Google was even talking up the new font during the announcement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f92ptAjm3I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f...
> Nobody is actionably upset.

Love this.
Some more themes are on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidthemes/
I am using Simplenote for my todo list using Markdown. nvPY on Ubuntu and Flick Note on Android. It is nice and simple setup.
Good Advice - do you do anything for making sure people are on time/present during standoffs?
Every facebook album has a unique URL you can share with non-Facebook people.

(just checked, yes that feature is still there. It's on the bottom of every photo album that you own)
DayZ is also not "competitive" at its core (and Arma2 even has anti-cheat measures built in -> BattleEye)... this doesnt stop script kiddies from server-hopping and killing/teleporting every one (even though they have no benefit from it beside the "lulz")..
I really tried to use it but the disrupted work flow caused by the necessity for pixel perfect mouse aiming was headache inducing.
Works fine on Firefox on Ubuntu.
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Maybe you know something about Android, but I doubt you know as much about iOS.