skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not QWERTY that's left-handed here, it's QWERTY used for English that is.
MemStash - Stop forgetting. Remember anything.
A blow-by-blow on our blog: http://blog.indee.tv/2012/09/indee-vs-amazon-withoutabox/
For the dozenth time: this is not some radical choice Apple made. Apple is, as a public company, responsible to act in its own interest within the current economic system. The system is screwed up, but that doesn't mean that any single company has a responsibility to unilaterally disarm.
> Unless government regulations get in the way, I would expect employers to start paying for their employees' drugs.

Well, every place I've worked at has offered free coffee, which is a well-studied (albeit minor?) nootropic.
The ratio of affected users and the profit received from reclaiming the whole platform aren't 1:1. That is to say I'm willing to bet twitter has gained more potential for revenue than 1% more revenue; while affecting 1% of their users.
True, but still better than killing people mine countries.

In the last two weeks at least two US bombs from WW2 exploded. None of them harmed people. One of then in the Danube, Vienna which caused tons of dead fish and could have also harmed people, if there was a ship there at that time. Nobody knew it was there. The other was in Germany, which took a lot of time and effort and had to be detonated (lots of people had to be evacuated and buildings began to burn (and of course tons of windows broke)). Lots of other bombs are regularly found, but gladly it is usually not causing such troubles.

Video from the one in Germany/Munich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSZ1WhTKfg

And these are two rich successful countries with lots of experts in that area, using high tech, like robots and stuff.

I agree, it's still an act of war, but I'd much rather have that than what wars could look like.
If Steve Jobs was still around, i'd predict that Apple would wait a few years after Google Goggles. They'd work to get it right, and the future smart phone wouldn't have a screen at all.

In post-jobs world though, its going to be a me-too game.
Canadian here, I've always heard infamous used in the negative context?
Tell us, how much do you pay for an oil change and around how much do you get paid per hour?
And in a couple years, while introducing them, "Here are our children, 1 and 3. 1 is 3 and 3 is 5."
Daisy, does this take into account costs such as maintenance, home repairs, etc or is it strictly financial in terms of rent payment v. mortgage payment?
Fed Undertakes QE3 With $40 Billion in MBS Purchases Each Month
Ah, I didn't try that button. I think I subconsciously assumed that the X would just close a single dialog, not the whole tutorial.

The automatic "what is your email address?" question seems a little weird to me. As a form creator, it's easy enough to add if I want to ask that question, and that lets me keep control over the experience. There could be cases where I may not want to ask for an email address, or maybe I want to put it in the middle or the end of the form. And as an aside--isn't the email address implied by the URL I clicked on, which was sent to my email?
It's not that bizarre. It's just an incidental psychological effect of the sunk cost fallacy. "I paid for this, so it must have been worth it, so if a scenario happens in which that-which-I-paid-for could have occurred, it must have occurred."
I think it's important to get an objective feedback on your newly gained knowledge. While nobody wants to hear that they are not getting better after putting in reasonable effort, it's important part of learning.

Now if you use that test score to punish students, that's different...
I think you mean Google Glass. Goggles is their app for scanning photos and identifying things.
You are correct. There is not a guarantee for the future, though I doubt this behavior will change for V8 (this is currently node only). If that scares you, you can use the combinator syntax (check out the readme towards the bottom). The object literal syntax is just sugar for using combinators.

edit: BTW, if you want some precedence in a major library relying on this behavior, look no further than Backbone's router, specifically the `_bindRoutes` method.
Very simple: what is the cost per year per user? app.net started with a number of users that keeps the lights on. As they grow, there is no reason the cost per user needs to go up. The price of the service guarantees profitability as long as they maintain a minimum number of users.

The problem with Twitter is that they grew to hundreds of millions of free users before figuring out a business model. At that scale, the only model that's proven to work is ads.
There was a time when there was a difference between engineers an soldiers. ;)
An entire article defending the Windows 8 start screen only to tell you how to disable it at the end? Win or fail? Saying you "only see the much-reviled start screen a handful of times so what's the big deal?" doesn't sound like much of a defense.
It amazes me that anyone can make any money on this. For grins, I've been monitoring new .com TLD registrations for the past 2 months. On any given day, you get roughly 50k to 100k new registrations. 99% of those seem to be ad-parked (or whatever the term is (see sexa1.com, registered yesterday -- textually NFSW)) or misconfigured (understandable, I suppose, for a day-old domain).

I'm guessing maybe 0.05% (half of that remaing 1%) are sex related: tube, cam, and image porn aggregation; escort sites.

I find it truly amazing that so much is built on 3rd party content. After watching these new domains for so long, I started thinking: What am I missing? Can I actually make a little bit of passive income with a $10 domain name and a little forum name-dropping? The OP seems to think that people can. Obviously people do.

EDIT: I meant to finish with, I wish the article gave some real revenue numbers. The dude states he has 200 sites, and I'd love to hear a ballpark figure of how much he earns (maybe even a single site), and a direct example to one such site.
Mirror: http://justinhileman.info.nyud.net/article/the-iphone-icon-c...
He founded Apple, created the Apple I/II, but Apple did a lot since then - and I know everyone disagrees and will vote me down - but e.g. for me the defining moment, the most important event was the Mac OS X 10.0 (a Cube for me, as a NeXT user).

Before that Apple was really really unattractive to me (at that time a C64/Amiga/i486 user) - I never found it inspiring or powerful in any way - and it was a pain when I needed to use it at the university.
The center may be whiter but they get that terrible grey circle on them.
I don't think Woz is in danger of getting forgotten anytime soon. In fact, given that the last technical contribution he made to Apple was, as far as I recall, about 30 years ago, it seems to me that is getting rather generous credit for Apple's success.
Yeah. I got a case on my Incredible 2 for two reasons: (1) I noticed I was holding it too lightly and kept dropping it, so case-friction was good and (2) it was too damn small.

It's like those tiny micro-sized dogs.
Show HN: symtree - Mirrored Folder Structure with Symbolic Linked Files
Quick Tutorial: Custom Tab Navigation with jQuery
> If you believe that our software systems are increasingly complex and that some aspect of the problems we're solving are essentially complex, then the strongest path towards simplicity lies in minimizing complexity incidental to the problems we're solving. One facet of programming which routinely introduces complexity is our tools, particularly our programming languages.

That is true, but I'm not sure the correlation you seem to be suggesting here — that complex tools breed complex programs — is realistic.

A lot of the time, complexity can either live in your tools or in your program. For example, garbage collection requires a more complicated toolset than manual memory management, but in return it removes the complexity of memory management from your code. Similarly, ASM is simpler than C, and Whitespace is simpler than Python, but most people will agree that a program written in the latter tends to be simpler than the same program written in the former.
I'll give one example of an activity that free people in free countries (employed by government agencies or not) could do to increase the prospect of world peace. Break down the great firewall of China and help everyone in China have full access to uncensored news.

I don't want to get into this much, but I'll just say this has been done for years by multiple independent groups.

For open source information, google "bronc buster", "hong kong blondes", and "hacktivismo" circa 1990s/early 2000s. Those search terms should lead you to applicable information. Also, Tor/proxies/VPNs are in widespread use by the Chinese.
I tend to use generics alongside reflection a lot, for example I might use a Mapper<TFrom, TTo> when mapping between different representations (an object and associated service contract being one example).

The mapper can take care of almost everything using a few conventions and reflection, and for anything where those conventions don't cover it you plug in a little custom code (inherit from Mapper<,> or use composition).

Not sure how you’d handle that sort of case in Go without generics?
> Meanwhile, Node.js is the new hotness, and many in the Node community have sought to build Node up by bringing Ruby and Rails down

This is exactly what the Rails community did to PHP when Rails was the new hotness.
Samsung may have copied the shapes and a few gestures like slide to unlock with the original galaxy s. But anyone who claims that it gave them a market advantage is being disingenuous.

Woz has always been rational about stuff and what he says. I hope the verdict gets overturned.
Kottke just picked this up.

http://kottke.org/12/09/the-scale-of-startup-ambition
Why Does Apple Announce Pricing And Availability But Other Phone Makers Don’t?
Refactoring CSS success story, or not?
IPhone 5: A confusing mess of network support
I think Apple is aware that they only make one phone and the trade offs that result.

iPhone Q3 sales lagged more than the year before because global rollout is faster and in 2011 they had the midyear CDMA and white iphone launches to buoy Q3.

The Galaxy S3 may have outsold the 4S some months and some devices surely will in the future but the claim that it did so in July/August was not supported by much data.
Sure, but again, recognize that your points are all the same stuff we've already heard. Moving from C++ to Java was like that (especially in the domain of debugging). Moving from PHP to Ruby was like that (especially in the domain of reuse). And these points were universally recognized by everyone writing Java or Ruby, and they weren't wrong.

And you aren't wrong. Go has made you more productive, and I don't argue with that. But how much of that is Go and how much of that is simply you becoming better after being tickled by your new toy?

Back the clock up to the '98 C++/PHP world, and you'll see all the same bad software. It's not that nothing has improved, but the improvements are mild. People "wrote code" really fast back then too, and that code was clean, and just like back then people spend most of their time evolving that now-much-less-clean code to work in new design domains. And that's the stuff that has barely changed at all.
UIWebView doesn't support JS JIT, as it's still running in your process space.
As a counter-point, I bought a Nexus S (4.3") when they were first available, I loved it and appreciated the screen size bump from my older Nexus One. But when my employer gave me a Galaxy Nexus (4.7"), I thought the screen was too large. I can still use the phone, but a lot of one-handed uses feel awkward or strained because my thumb can't reach the top of the phone without having to first reposition the phone in my hand. When I go back to my Nexus S, I miss the size and clarity of the larger screen, but I love having the smaller and lighter device in my hand, and it's so much easier to use.

While I still prefer the Android OS, I think Apple has struck a good balance in the iPhone 5 by making the screen larger and a proper widescreen resolution (I love being able to watch Netflix fullscreen on my GNex), and the hardware design looks amazingly good. I just wish I could run Android on it instead of iOS.
Blog seems to be down: http://thequeue.org/cr?id=http://justinhileman.info/article/...
Also, the Django docs is awesome. Nothing gets into master without proper documentation.
Back (hopefully for good?)
Magic cooling glove "better than steroids" for athletic performance improvement
I never liked SPDY to begin with. It always seemed to be gratuitously promoting a "new" protocol when many of the speed gains can be had from simply paying better attention to existing protocols, e.g. using pipelining for multiple resources from the same domain. A lot of the "slowness" of the web comes from ignorance and laziness, not lack of capable protocols. It was disturbing how much mindshare SPDY seemed to be getting just based on hype.

And TLS always seemed like a replacement for SSL, when what's really needed are _alternatives_ to the SSL model, not a GNU clone that proclaims it can do the same or better.

This is just my opinion. I apologise if it offends anyone.

Fortunately there are alternatives. You just have to look beyond the hype.
the page itself makes this look like a step forward for the web, but the video at the bottom makes it look like a step backward.
Who says you have to follow the school's curriculum. Send your 2nd grader to Kumon Math. It's relatively affordable and your child will be out achieving the other kids in no time.
finally - a "realistic" look at canada's tech sector. there is a lot of work to be done.
"the speed ... got slower over time"

Tell me about it. I'm still using a 3G, running iOS 4.2.1. Frankly, it's so slow as to be almost useless. But at least I can still make calls. (I guess it's time for an upgrade)
No, the iPhone isn't boring.
Guess the world record thus far is, 8.429 ghz.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4770/amd-sets-world-overclocki...

Doesn't really seem practical to run a datacenter using the methods in the video however. But, it's still possible.
The Virtues of Kick Starting Your Data Governance Program
"Are you trying to say, that Apple was not aware about the thing called turn-by-turn navigation before Android?"

Are you trying to say that Google was not aware of universal search?

http://www.google.com/patents/US8086604
[So, if I understand you correctly now], [your argument does not claim that...] [Instead your claim is that ...]
[I might certainly buy that claim.]

[As to ... your claim is ...?] [I find that a bit hard to believe.] [A long exposure or a polarizing filter on the camera can do that.]

The combination of self-referential straw-man-building and false-false hypthesis rejection is priceless.

Polarizing filters and long lenses? Really now.

I'm very intrigued by your description of Gursky's photo being full of mind-bending and subtle tricks. What is unnatural about the space? I see what looks like compression, possibly by the use of a long lens.

Now you're like a drunk at the bar talking-shit. In over his head. Talking to someone with real experience. Not imaginary, illusory braggadocio.

Last call for you.

For other HN readers of this thread, there is real information presented here. Ideas that might benefit them. Provding an increased understanding of the world.

Fore nessus42, your false dichotomies and outdated academic modalities, are just the opposite. They are not enlightening or powerful. Nor even intimidating. Just sad and dull.

We leave them behind.
Fab.com No Longer for Members Only, as it Opens Up Site to All Visitors
On that note, why can't we change the icon size already? I think I've clicked enough 1 hour ago | flag | 23 comments links by now to handle at least twice as many icons on screen...
Ask HN: Anyone have information about elisp customer support app 'mailman'?
Some of Steve Yegge's posts talk about a customer service app written in C and emacs lisp. I'd love to know more about it but I haven't been able to find any details apart from those in Yegge's posts. It was written by 'Shel Kaphan'. See this post for example :
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel

I see that skaphan is a user on here too :)
Ask HN: What does an AT&T Enterprise Data plan buy you?
IT person says Enterprise Data plan is needed to access corporate email on iPhone. I can't figure out from the AT&T web site what the Enterprise Data plan provides. Doesn't seem like a special data plan should be needed unless they are blocking email protocols or something, which seems unlikely. Or maybe they are blocking VPN protocols in the standard data plans?
Wise man. The way I see it, Apple had a case regarding "trade dress". Some Samsung devices, for example the Galaxy Tab 10.1, do look too much like Apple products. However, the rest of the patents were ridiculous. If the bar for patent validity is going to be this low, most software developers will not be able to do a day's work without accidentally infringing on something. Every piece of software I've seen being built most certainly uses methods that are described somewhere in patents, especially if it is leading edge in terms of communicating, collecting, syncing or displaying information through the web or mobile devices. If court decisions keep going this way, it is going to become impossible to code legally without the costly burden of acquiring a patent war chest and a team of layers to defend your organisation. We might as well shut down the industry to newcomers.
Perhaps people are tired of hearing the "HN is full of Apple haters" shit.
>If a company is going to do advertising - they should do it well.

You seem convinced that this ad being targeted to you was some massive failure of Twitter's ad product. I am not sure that is the case.

Premium Twitter advertisers (of which the Sun is surely one) have a variety of targeting options that could explain why you saw this ad.

The Sun may have simply targeted all accounts in the UK. Or, they may have targeted accounts that follow other UK publication accounts (it looks like you follow a few Guardian accounts for example).

It is clear that you didn't want to be targeted by The Sun, but that doesn't mean that The Sun didn't want to target you.
I was working at PayPal when they changed the logo and thought that it was indeed more modern, definitely not bad ... but ... slightly not right.

I still think of it that way today and feel the same thing of that new eBay logo.

And it drives me crazy that I can't really pinpoint what and why :)
It shouldn't take to much skill with knot-tying to make a rather useful die out of the undies. Mark faces with embedded, bitten-off fingernails or bodily fluids. Roll to heart's content.
I think most of the people interested in that are already working on Mono.
I just want to chime in and say that you guys at NYT Interactive always inspire/blow-my-mind. Thank you for doing dataviz right.
Android != Google Apps. Amazon seems to be doing just fine with it, just as all the ROM developers have.
How do you know "just the right time" to send reminders? Do I have to tell you when to send it?
justin bieber has 4, the largest I found
Very good point - objective feedback is important. How can we provide students with objective feedback without putting them through that intimidating testing environment?
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Justin Bieber (4) - admittedly an edge case, but a popular candidate without close ties (yet). It also includes the "classical baby i ' m grown up now the poetry show" link, with which I wasn't previously familiar.
The heart wants what it wants. You can't run from that!
One look at it and I thought: whoopity-doo-dah-day

Nothing to see here.
That is quite the rant Nathan. I'm not a fan of iPhone, but I think the things you're picking on won't in the long-term stand up to the fury I expect RIM will take with BB10.

I've got an WP7, Android and iPhone (preferences in that order), but I don't see BB making a comeback based on your anti-iPhone arguments. As a Canadian, I'd love to see RIM do something really great, but it all seems very copy-cat at the moment.

I went and read your post about BBJam, but you haven't really convinced me that BB is going to be a breakout OS.
One could sort of satisfy naturalethic's wish by choosing a numeral system with pi as basis. Then pi would have digit representation '1' in this system. And yes, mathematicians have studied transcendental bases for numeral systems (Knuth in particular, see the short paragraph on http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Base.html which explicitly mentions pi as basis).

Of course it's not a good idea to base your day-to-day numeral system on pi, but I know that at least for irrational bases there are actual applications.
Since azakai is too humble to mention his own qualifications, I want to point out that is the author of the Emscripten LLVM-to-JS compiler, and the BananaBread first-person-shooter demo linked above, so when he talks about the limits of JS performance compared to C, he really knows what he's talking about. :)
I'd dropped my 3GS on every surface possible with not even so much as a dent. It wasn't until I was crossing the street and it fell and hit at the right angle that the screen finally shattered.
Think of it as declarative nested if statements. Concise like a switch but generalized to typed values.
> article = Article.objects.get(pk=int(article_id,36))

You (assuming op is the maintainer of the site) should really handle any django "get" with a try/except block.

That, and you should also set debug to False on a production server.

Once the article exists again, it might be worth reading.
http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/b...
What do you mean, 'work'?

There are a few characteristics that code review has-

- it brings more eyeballs on the code

- it brings to light strange practices

- the author must explain himself to others, and a Teddy Bear effect can transpire

- it standardizes practices and approaches

- knowledge is shared

- it slows deployment

- it promotes egoless coding (and big egos can't take it)

> I've heard it argued that quality scales proportionally to the number of reviewers a patch must go through before being accepted.

Each reviewer brings his own practices and understanding to the table, so the more reviewers, the more experience in the review. I'd reckon that it scales logarithmically though... after enough reviewers, the marginal value is slight.

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That's not research, it's just my personal experience.
See the link i posted above :)
It says so in the footer on that page.
Yeah...that's silly. If that were the case, you'd see a lot more patent trolls and Captain-Planet-villain-style polluting, for just a start.

Being a public company means there is pressure on you to be profitable (and pressure for other dumb things...see: minority shareholder demands when Steve Jobs was sick), yes, but the power shareholders and charters wield aren't that strong. People actually talk about this wrt Apple all the time when they talk about all the crap products Apple doesn't release and markets Apple doesn't enter to make sure they do right by what they do release and serve the markets they do enter.

Even if you take a simplistic view of "businesses exist to maximize profit", there are a ton of secondary effects you need to worry about (dilution of brand, perception by the public, narrative for the media, the momentum your workforce feels, alienation of partners, etc, etc, etc). You're basically talking "maximize short term profits", which Apple has already shown they're willing to somewhat forgo in exchange for (massive) longterm gains.
The comment I was replying to was about Google touting openness. I was merely saying that this move was entirely based on parts of Android that were never touted as open.