skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy that the media hypes the iPhone release and then bashes it for not living up to the hype.

What is the next thing on the hype horizon? The iPad mini?
Why Philippines Outsourcing is the Best Option than Other Countries
According to the CIA World Factbook5, The Philippines boasts of a 92.6% literacy rate, one of the highest ratings among other countries in the developing world6. This high rating is also one of the factors that bring about the second advantageous attribute of the Philippines – top-notch workforce.
I grew up in Kalamazoo. Living in other places makes me wish everywhere was like Kalamazoo.
Laggard? Maybe. But the thing Microsoft usually gets right is finding success in iterations.

I like WP7/8 myself, but my household is mostly Apple products for simplicity of integration and my preference for things based on Unix.
AWS Global Start-Up Challenge
Gruber is essentially arguing that those criticizing Apple's choice of Lightning over microUSB are wrong because Lightning is better FOR APPLE than microUSB is.

Of course Lightning is better for Apple. It's going to make them gobs of money. That doesn't make it better for the consumer than microUSB.
> Stock market indexes are generally forward-looking. We'll see QE3 "priced into" the market before we see its effects.

QE3 is pretty much already priced into the market.

However, the stock market won't help Obama. He needs employment.

The median income has gone down more during the "recovery" than it did during the recession. The only reason why unemployment is stable/creeping down is that folks are dropping out of the workforce; workforce participation is dropping.

Heck - compare the number of folks going on disability to the number finding work.
"...or you can write it in CS with a for loop which cleans up the syntax quite a bit"

For each loops are great, but there is certainly value in having $.each be a function as well as a statement. For example, if you want to pass it to another function in more functional style programming: do_something($.each);

"or it might be possible to reduce your input first so that you are only iterating over the things you actually want to iterate over..."

It seems you don't understand the point of returning false from $.each, it is not to filter, it is to stop early. For example, if you are doing a linear search for something, it is reasonable to want to stop after you find it. There is no way to "iterate over the things you actually want to iterate over".
i accidentally clicked the link when i was browsing HN newest section am i OK? is there anything i should do? i immediately closed the window
Iron ‘blueberries’ may be sign of microbial life on Mars
For now, Apple has the reputation and the following to guarantee the success of any phone they release. But the record sales of the 4S weren't enough to reverse their slide WRT Android and that's really what they need to be worried about.

If they become a niche market again, no matter how lucrative, they lose their power.
榮桉
As a UI pm on a consumer facing product at MS, I wasn't allowed a license of photoshop. I was told to use paint. (this was before paint.net)
> What's a Laffer curve?

How much will you work if the tax rate is 100%. If you're not working, how much tax will be collected from you?

> They can tax the rich at 100%

Actually, you can't. If you confiscate assets, you've got assets, not money. And there's no one to buy.
The political obstacles are large, since both pro and con sides involve a lot of near-religious thought. The reactions are almost reflex. Finding someway to short-circuit that would be key.

1,2, and 4 all depend on politics. 3 is relatively straight forward, but risks getting co-opted by politics.

Tricky. Hmmm.
Top phone manufacturer? Yes. Best apps? Arguably - no.

Because of the various resolutions, Android is a hell to maintain from a developer point of view. That's why apps on Android usually look (&work) like crap compared to those on iPhone or WP7. Even top-tier apps, like Facebook, look & feel worse on Android.
Not true, with a $1200 ($800 renewal) msdn subscription "Visual Studio Professional with MSDN" you should have access to 5 copies of every operating system and server software + professional versions of all Visual studio packages.
In Firefox and Chrome you can see all web passwords in plain text. It used to be the same in Safari but apparently not anymore. And that's when they don't leave their webmail logged in, which a lot of people do and they lend you their computer like nothing happened. This is often a master key to somebody's privacy, usually more critical than the kind of stuff have in their keychain most often (WLAN passwords and the like).

People around me are not the most security conscious, or they just know they can trust me.

I guess there's also the cultural bias to allow people "check their email" and stuff like that.

My keychain is always locked, I don't save sensitive web passwords in browsers, and I still don't let people use my computer unsupervised.
The EULA for MSDN subscriptions prohibits using them in a production environment: http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/MSDN%20Subs...
There's something of a culture of "our internal developers are smarter than our external developers" at Microsoft...

Interesting. I didn't get that impression across 4 teams, either as a PM intern or a FTE dev.
> While New York can be a very expensive city, it can also be reasonable if you plan correctly. You can certainly find a room for under $1,000/month.

I wonder how hard is to find such a room for someone who's not an US citizen and doesn't live there. Anyone who's been in that situation care to provide more info? Do you just go to craigslist/AirBnB and try to book a room for 3 months?

I'd love to apply to Hacker School, but currently I don't think I could afford 3 months in NY without any income.
And I still have mine from 3 years ago (a 3GS). I have never used a case; carry it around everywhere; and have never broken it.

16? Really? Then you must really, REALLY love the iPhone. At what point does one say 'enough is enough' and switch to some other phone?
Ask HN: How to create a Web crawler?
I am creating a website for price comparison. I want to fetch the price of a single product from multiple shopping carts.
I have some questions regarding this.
1) What is the best way to fetch price form different websites?
2) Sometime a single product have different name on different shopping carts. How to handle this problem?
3) When I will send multiple requests on a website (shopping cart) using my created web crawler (or web spider) will they block me or can they take a legal action against me?
4) How can I make the process automated to omit manual error.

I will start with 3 shopping carts initially. Most of the shopping carts are not providing any type of API or other type of access to their products.
Currently my approach is to tear down the HTML and find required information from HTML.

I want to go with C# & .Net technology because I am good in it (this is what I thought).

Please suggest what is the best way of doing this.
Life is the Event
That's a pretty awesome hack.
[they would]…care about people, not percentages..

Right, so they'd magically stop caring about money? They may understand UX perfectly well, but also understand that prioritising it isn't good for profits.

I wish we lived in a world where everything would survive or die based on the merits of it's contribution to the world. We do not.
Color was pictures plus location, that's true. Instagram is also just pictures and filters, which is equally dumb but turned out pretty well from an investor's point of view.

However, you make a good point. Neither Color nor Instagram were/are "sustainable businesses". Sequoia just wants a return. Google is a sustainable business, and if you build one, Sequoia will get their return. You can also just get a bunch of users and flip it to Facebook. They'll get their return then too. And I'd bet Sequoia doesn't really give a crap which way you do it.
I don't quite understand the gradient descent section. How do you parallelize stochastic gradient descent? Each iteration changes theta, so any parallel computations will be computing the wrong gradient. His citation for that section doesn't seem to address this, but I only skimmed that paper so I could be wrong.
This. None of the later iphone releases were revolution or amazing. The press is just bored of steady progress.

3G- new case, 3G, gps

3GS- faster. Better camera?

4- retina display

4s - Siri.

5- taller screen, thinner, faster.
Cool. How old were you when you did this? At some point I may do a sabbatical, and decide for hacker school than a more traditional school
What’s Wrong With Spam?
How to add a new developer to the team
You can just pre-process them with node and then use the generated template functions in whatever app you want. It's just client-side JS at that point. This isn't unlike pre-process SASS, or SCSS, etc.
I wonder if Anonymous is taking credit for this.
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Right, totally agree, in the Enterprise Java world (love Java, can't stand the enterprise connotation) things ran a muck and we ended up with J2EE. Spring isn't better only different. Too loud voices in any camp just mess things up, then they move on and we are left to sort things out.
Entertaining but I disagree with most of the article. It's about time we stop comparing Canada to America. Canada is about the size of California in terms of population. This is like comparing a small tech company to Apple.

Canada is great, but easier access to capital in America.
“How big a deal is this static typing thing??” - Barb Darrow (author of the article)

wow
Um, that would be to vote for one of the parties that "doesn't quite represent" him.

Instead, he must choose the party that, while not quite representing him, does the least to harm him and the country.

That's the situation, at least until we come up with a better electoral system than what we have in the US.
Perhaps I should have been a bit more specific. I don't really care so much about how you do it whether it's with jade or handlebars + grunt or whatnot (I happen to like jade). The main point is that pre-compiling and sending JS functions instead of strings is way faster and makes more sense.
I think you're missing the point - Onity locks don't usually have this "big old manual separate bolt" as they're sold as "deadbolt inclusive".
> If they become a niche market again, no matter how
> lucrative, they lose their power.

But they keep the money. And you think money gives no power? Interesting world you are living in.

Btw, to expect single model of the phone to outsell the all the models of Android… well…
Related TED Talk

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq7QPnqLoUk
Does anyone actually assume hotels are secure (in a sense other than good faith) though? There are so many points for allocation errors on the cards themselves, dozens of "all-access" cards available to both internal and contracted staff, and different people in every room most nights (e.g. no neighbour familiarity about an issue).
You were planning to do a Reddit AMA on reversing in General.

Did that ever happen? Have you written anything on that?
I think you're stretching here. Passing $.each to a function makes no sense when it is effectively a global anyway. Please give me a real world example of why you would do something like that (not in the functional aspect, that I understand... I am talking specifically about $.each).

I also wouldn't use something called $.each to do a linear search. I'd use underscore.js _.find(), which has a sane api, you return true when you want to stop. This thing I'm looking for has been found.

Array.forEach and _.each() chose not to support returning false. I can only assume that is @jashkenas being wise.
> iPhones have been predictable, incremental upgrades

So Samsung Galaxy SIII was amazingly revolutionary compared to
Galaxy SII?

> that in some important ways are actually playing catch-up
> to the competition. Good, but not good enough.

Oh, believe me, it is more than good enough. Of course you can choose some line for the spec sheet and proclaim that Apple is over, but in that case you are jus missing forest for the tree.
You need to pursue a Mussolini solution.

By which I mean, not what Mussolini did to Italy, but what the Italians did to Mussolini after Patton liberated them.
Judging by the response, it appears to not be basic knowledge. But, I'm glad to hear that you and others are taking a similar approach as I think it just makes a lot more sense as a concept.
You mean like one of these, right? http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/87800053-deadbolt-lock-and-...
First, iCrakced (YC alum) and iFixit are profitable for a reason... Its nice to hear you took care of your device - but its clear it is an overly fragile design.

Also, no it isn't that I REALLY like the iPhone - I have had other devices - but I have chosen to have a policy of NOT paying for my phone.

My work pays for my phone and plan. I don't have a choice on the phone in some cases. (some companies refuse android devices due to perceived security risks, RIM is dead..)
It parses java source code.

http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/wiki/Motivation?tm=6
dust looks neat, for sure.
Apple provides an easy way to lock your desktop when you go for coffee. To set it up:

1. Launch "Keychain Access".
2. Open Preferences from the "Keychain Access" menu
3. Check the option labeled "Show keychain status in menu bar"
4. (optional) While holding the cmd-key, click and drag the menu item over to the far right of the menu bar for easy access.

Enjoy!
I did indeed -- http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yeiac/iama_reverse_eng...

It went better than I could've ever imagined; it was topping the front page for a while! Seriously awesome experience.
Yeah, I remember. Dreamless was a truly ad-hoc institution though, and the tools people used to participate were all freely available and took some effort to use and understand. The aesthetic is similar, but I think the sentiment here is really different.
While true, "the PM may not prioritize fixes", a big aspect you are missing is, someone internally with a problem has access to a direct communication line with said PM, his peers, superiors, etc.

For most day to day usage issues, dogfooding is a great way to hammer out issues. Will they find issues with every use case? No, but they will find some. Also, generally, the more diverse and large the organization, the more use cases will be dogfooded (assuming the bulk of the org is encouraged/required to do so).

When you are talking a company of 90k+, encouraged dogfooding will hit a lot of different use cases.
Few people assume hotels are truly secure, but generally when something goes wrong, you have an accurate audit trail. That is, if someone breaks into room 413 using a legitimate card, I can go back and say "ok, Michael was the one who encoded this card for him, after the guest had already checked in". You can't do that with the opening device.
Moving the Dial
So Samsung Galaxy SIII was amazingly revolutionary compared to Galaxy SII?

Actually, the combination of new hardware + ICS was really a huge step forward and the first phone I'd really consider an overal better phone than the iPhone. And thanks to the diversity of the Android ecosystem we also have things like the note or the 7" tablets to choose from today.

If Apple wants to play one-size-fits-all then that size has to be in a different class.
> just about everything they have developed since DOS has been something they could use in house.

Not to rain on the parade, but most Microsoft employees I know use Google.

Not a lot of them used Microsoft Bob.

Or Zune.

Or the Kin.
Try webcontrolroom.com
For those rare non-calgarians: the stampede is a large local rodeo. It is a very big thing here, about the closest thing possible to a city wide festival. All week businesses provide pancake breakfasts and people wear cowboy hats. There is about a 0% chance that "Have you been to the stampede?" was a euphemism for "Give me all your money, eh".
If your grand, quixotic fantasy is for VCs to understand UX, imagine how wild it is when programmers wish that VCs understood technology!
No worries. I understand that it is hard to communicate or see both sides of something through this medium.

Legal action is a funny thing. I get the sense that people think that it's easy, that in the US it's as easy as making a phone call and you've got a lawsuit.

The reality, in my experience, is quite different. In business at least, it's part of the arms race. Can you sue a multi-billion dollar corporation for violating an NDA? Absolutely. The very first thing you lawyer will require is a $250,000 "war chest" and a demonstrable means to be in it for twice that much. It's a game you cannot win even if the truth is on your side.

That's another misconception of my youth that got washed away with a bucket of ice-cold water. You don't necessarily win because you are on the right side of an argument.

I'll give you another example. I had a case where my most valuable reseller, a company with great standing in the industry, was effectively bribed by said multinational corporation to exclude our products from their exhibit at a trade show. I have copies of the emails between employees of the company and the CEO of the reseller outfit. Could I sue? Sure. Was there potential for federal antitrust action. Very likely. Was I on the right side of the issue? Without a doubt. Was I guaranteed a win? Absolutely not. The more likely outcome would have been that seeking legal action would have ruined my business in more ways than one.

Don't get me wrong, I've taken legal action when justified and, more importantly, the "army's" were reasonably matched. In other cases you sometimes have to lick your wounds and move on.

This is the kind of stuff they don't teach you about in school. I can't say that I am grateful to have learned it this way because it is a shitty way to learn things, but sometimes there's no other way. I am still a very enthusiastic entrepreneur with multiple projects cooking. Life is good.
Why you cannot link to Quora answers? There seems to be a way to 'include' them by the way of some javascript - but I am way more careful when pasting javascript then when just using the anchor tag.
A large part of the value of the web is in creating _structured_ data. I would be amenable to a proposition that gave people more creative tools for publishing on those terms, but I think you're missing the point of the medium.
Sorry, I meant the part about the requirement to precompile templates in order to have the fastest possible experience.
If you're at all interested in starting an ed tech startup, you should apply.

I'm in the current cohort, and it's a really great program. You get access to people who really know education as well as people who are really influential in the space.
"a subsidized higher education experience for a expanded pool of people is a long-term net gain"

I agree with this. Some of the benefits of an individual's education accrue to society at large. However, the vast majority of the benefits of an individual's education accrue to the individual. Why not split the funding in a similar way? If the benefits aren't worth the cost to the individual, that's a good signal that the benefits may not be worth the cost for society to subsidize.
But dremel...
Not sure why this was downvoted (was in the grey a moment ago). This is dead on.
>> And I'd bet Sequoia doesn't really give a crap which way you do it.

Very succint and clear explanation of the venture industry. All start-up teams shall print this in big letters and read daily.
Punctuated Gradualism and iPhone 5
Hi!

I live in California, but will happen to be in Osaka that week. I will try to drop by the meetup for a bit to say hi. :-)

One question about the venue. Was the place picked because it is where you had previous meetups? If there is no specific reason, would it be possible to move the venue closer to the metro (say, Shijō station, or even Kyoto Eki)?

It would make it much easier for folks who are not living in Kyoto to find.

Anyways, if that is not possible, I understand. I'll still try to drop by to say hi to folks.

Ron
Here's an idea: avoid funding 1 company per year and blanket fund with minimal due diligence a whole batch for <$30,000 each so long as they have a business plan (as seen in article) meeting those objectives (as seen in article.)
For a multiple page website, it seems like it is a waste to serve up all of the templates for the entire site. I try to serve the template that is specific for the page.
It's not that UNIX is so great. It's that everything else is so much worse. When things suck bad enough, someone does something about it. (As it was with Multics... after all these years, people are still pushing more crap systems on us, forcing us to retreat to UNIX.) When you delve into this OS you break free from all of the crap and, if you stick with it, you can actually see that things can be made simple. Quite refreshing, I think.

Beware the complexifiers, people who want to make simple things complex. They are like the Snark. Lurking in every tree.
>Steve's most successful keynotes were noticeably devoid of this kind of Las Vegas showroom trickery

Uhh what ? How many Steve Jobs keynotes have you seen ? Most of them had these idiotic things. The one most ridiculous moment which instantly comes to mind is the Intel CEO appearing in that suit. You know Intel chips that every otehr laptop manufacturer made but the move was made a bigger show of ?

"This would never have happened under Steve Jobs" is not the same as "I don't like this".

Steve Jobs is gone, Apple will not be the same but is not doomed without him either. His single biggest accomplishment was having left in the state that it can continue without him.
No, it didn't prevent daeken and probably others from discovering it, but we can be sure it did prevent a lot of less competent people from exploiting it. "Security through obscurity" is still better than a big door with a sign saying "hack me!"
We could not find the page you requested.

That's what I'm getting from clicking that link. (They have "China" left of the search bar at the top - maybe because I'm in Australia, they think I'm in China, and so don't show the /about.) Also, their "Meebo Bar" almost completely obscures their links at the bottom of the page.

Most of the ideas advice is obvious-but-good-to-be-reminded-of, apart from "Rich Customers". That is one legitimate approach (and fair enough if that's what Sequoia wants) - but it's not appropriate for all startups.

Another approach is to target (1) a niche market (2) with no money (3) to do something that doesn't matter. pg argues that's how Facebook, Microsoft and Apple began
http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

It seems likely that most revolutionary startups began this way (especially when the customer doesn't feel pain); whereas incremental startups address rich people's problems.
The threshold requirements for unknown entrepreneurs submitting business plans from the public are a lot higher than it is for entrepreneurs who have been previously funded and have had success.

No real surprise there.
I think what he means is that its pre-compiled on the server, but is forgetting that is it client side templating because you are inflating your templates with data and adding them into the dom in the client as opposed to doing it on the server. pre-compiled doesn't mean server side.