skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between the Blackberry my work gives me and my personal iPod touch is staggering.

* Web browser is pathetic.
* Pandora and Tunein apps are wonky. They stall for no reason, and turn on after you pause them.
* Kindle app is a pale imitation.
* Facebook app is so bad, you're better off using the mobile facebook on the web browser.

The only thing I _like_ about my Blackberry is the physical keyboard and the email/text/bbm environment. It's clean, functional, and the best of breed... for 2005.

RIM might be a big player on the international scene for a cheap smartphone (especially if they do i18n right) but they're not going to recapture the iPhone/Droid market without a major overhaul.
In a hypothetical typical situation, you have the problem that up-front, before anybody has actually done any work, the assumption is that everyone will put in equal effort, so everyone gets equal share locked in from the beginning. Someone doesn't pull their weight, the shares suddenly look out of whack and people get annoyed.

So, you could try the simple fix: a grunt fund calculated on the simple assumption that all hours worked are made equal. Say one person does 60 hours, the another 40, and you get a 60/40 split. BUT: the person doing the 40 hours was working on a patent application, and the person who did 60 was just bashing out template HTML. Not only that, there's a third person who's fronted some cash for a lawyer, and they don't get anything because they're working 16-hour shifts at their day job and haven't put any actual hours in. The shares look out of whack, and people get annoyed.

Next - and this is where my impression of the grunt fund idea comes in - you define an exchange rate between the various types of input up-front, so a 1 hour working on a patent application gains equal share as 5 hours writing HTML, or $100 paid out of pocket. Everyone is happy, everyone gets a share they feel is proportionate to the value of their input, and everyone's working towards the same "pay-off" day. The question is, what happens when it turns out, say, that they don't need a patent after all? The patent-writer's work has no value at pay-off day, except in a certain nebulous "we had to go through that learning to get here" way. Not only that, but the HTML-wrangler now has an incentive to get the company to pivot into that situation so that there will be no more patent work, and lots more HTML work. That's a weird incentive.

That's what I mean by the trade-off: in the first case, you have total uncertainty over who's actually going to do what. In the second case, you have uncertainty over how many hours people are going to work. In the third case, you have uncertainty over the value of those hours at pay-off day or, to put it another way, you have uncertainty over the accuracy of the exchange rates you define at the start.
If he had said "we're aiming to be #1 in 2 years", he'd look completely out-of-touch with reality - employees deflate due to a clearly unattainable goal, investors get concerned about an unrealistic strategy, etc etc.

Picking an achievable goal vs. promising an unachievable one is better for morale of everyone involved IMO.
Every version of Windows has been much improved by the first service pack. I think the first point release will be where we start to see a better integration of the two halves of the UI.
Internet cafes aren't the only place. Our work doesn't allow access to external email - as one part of an attempt to avoid data leakage - but has no problem with a small amount of browsing sites like HN.
It's actively used in various institutions. Relatives working there asked for a little help a few years ago to set up Postgres and migrate their Access stuff over.
Compare with the marketing of Redis. Redis makes it obvious that persistence is a trade off you must make as a user.

http://redis.io/topics/persistence
If I ever need a grey or black background they're going to be my first choice.
Larry & the Cloud: Oracle czar Larry Ellison's evolving views on cloud computing
This seems to solidify that peer reviews are worthless.
Interactive Overview of Monetization Strategies
It implies an e-mail address and the expectation would probably be for the provider to receive an e-mail sent to that address. Not unlike @facebook.com addresses, so it may work.
This (updates of any kind) is 25% of why my Galaxy is sitting in my sock drawer (75% being the cost of the data plan and "being a hotspot" fee).

I discovered that I bought a computer that cannot be updated except by the whim of an intermediary, the telco. I watched for a year while my phone languished under its originally installed version of Android, while the update rolled out around the world and my carrier (Sprint) said "no shit really, soon, real soon now." That's too much bullshit for too much money.
If iOS has 17% of the market, having 12-15% is not something to be ashamed of. It still represents billions upon billions of business every year.

Sometimes its better to set realistic but achievable goals than to aim for the sky and flop.
Quinzee: Helping Consumers Save Money and Energy [video]
The original link is down.

New link: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38331.html
Of course Otellini is saying that. He's becoming desperate about PC sales, and he wants something to boost the sales as soon as possible, and because Windows 8 is probably the only chance Intel has to enter the tablet market, although even that isn't guaranteed. That doesn't mean Microsoft should make the whole mass-market beta-testers.
Improving The App Store Experience
It annoys me that folks with a poverty of imagination are creating clones of existing apps that have already solved the problem. Another Twitter but open or Facebook with proper privacy..etc. Fail!.
A video of Chris Anderson - Makers: The New Industrial Revolution talk from a few weeks back

http://www.watershed.co.uk/dshed/chris-anderson-makers-new-i...
I'm really glad that everything posted on the internet is both truthful, and also good advice. Life without critical thinking is much easier.
The Business of Fraud: What I Learned Tracking A Credit Card Fraud Ring
Excellent job... I think a second article in which you give specific examples of how Context-aware caching would work for a simple application would be helpful. Maybe a group chat service would be a great example. Also, adding HTTP requests within Varnish allows for a much more useful cache invalidation scheme... for example, incoming requests could have an content_token and timestamp. An internal HTTP service that records whether a given piece of content has expired (through user action rather than TTL) could then be checked before serving up a cached copy.
And because of this, people were already predicting what would end up happening as a result of implementers rushing out features

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0198.ht...

Wait a minute -- let's temporarily forget about MIME, if it clouds the
issue. My objection was to the discussion of "how are we going to
support embedded images" rather than "how are we going to support
embedded objections in various media".
Otherwise, next week someone is going to suggest 'lets put in a new
tag <AUD SRC="file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.snd">' for audio.
There shouldn't be much cost in going with something that generalizes.
Sure it's not just faster because it's a clean install?
I think this a good place to mention the Pullman riots - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike)

and George Pullman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pullman
It is marketing speak because marketing people use these kinds of phrases to stop readers thinking about the merits of different choices they have, and instead focus their minds on the idea that old technologies are superseded by new ones. Other popular phrases are "legacy" or "conventional".

The original Xbox is no longer available in the stores. That's because it has been superseded by the new model, which does everything the old one did, only better! Poor me who just doesn't have "the capital" to get myself the shiny new one just yet.

Apparently, that's the way you want me to think about immutability versus mutability in data structures. Makes no sense.
Slightly off topic, but i've only just seen these Twitter API usage changes now, how are they going to enforce these new display requirements? It's surely not feasible to manually check the display of tweets in all apps?
How do you deal with "Every two weeks for the next 20 years" ?
Link text should have said 'Many' stars are born as two separate stars. That is consistent - it's not clear to me what proportion of single stars started off as binaries - probably not 'most', I admit. The implication of the paper, though, is that many stars around now that we think of as 'single stars' started life as binaries.
Chrome 22
Problem is were are they now and I take it he means globaly. It is not about volume but more so about margins, both is nice. Over the years RIM's margins have got smaller and smaller and it is that which has help maintain its overall market share with regards to number of devices sold. So when a CEO makes a albeit pragmatic statement about acheiving a goal of being number 3, then you have to look at were they are now and that is 3rd from what I can tell. Though it does vary survey to survey and which market you look at as well, so not that easy to get a true picture. Also the margins in profit per device is a bigger issue that tends not to factor in alot of surveys and then RIM's margin is not just on the device but the onrunning use of its services indirectly via a telco on way or another.

But just keeping the footing they have now, is not a bad plan of attack. But as you say, he is being realistic and that is something refreshing and reasuring for a CEO and in that I wish them well.
Agreed. Still, it might have been stronger to frame the conversation in terms of resegementation. "For users who want X we will have the best phone, and this will mean that we can grow and build as the third largest platform."
This should be an app
I agree except for the "cell towers covers more" statement. Cell tower coverage is actually greatest in areas like Iowa. Cell towers could in theory cover more people in a dense city, but you end up putting in more towers for both capacity and RF reasons.

- Channel capacity remains approximately the same per user, so in high density areas, you need more towers.

- RF signals are heavily reflected and/or shielded by the vast "concrete canyons" of a modern city, so more towers are needed to eliminate shadows.
Unfortunate the way it was said. Jobs said something similar but it sounds so different:

"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

Where the BMW/Mercedes could have been RIM's analogy to something in the enterprise world.
Hope this goes viral on the Internet and gets prime-time TV coverage across the world!
Google Maps now has underwater 'Street View'
I think general expectation is that as Twitter turns up the heat on developers there eventually won't be any apps to worry about.
Your ideas will work very well for small data, big storage.
eg daily stock price histories

They will not always work for big data, which often means
"max out our storage with crap, don't worry disk is cheap"
eg web metrics

When a decision maker goes "don't worry disk is unlimited", the resulting application is prone to maxing out storage.

Whenever your application maxes out your storage, you have no space for previous versions of the data.
How about adding context (e.g. similar to wordpress's category tags). People can then filter the streams they subscribe to.
For example were YouTube to post an OStatus message when a new video were uploaded I could subscribe to GeekAndSundry@youtube.com's messages, then filter that subscription so that only those posts with categories TableTop and TheFlog came through, without seeing posts tagged DarkStarComics.
Equally, if a user posts about their two hobbies, say Technology and Cycling, I could filter to only see their Technology posts, reducing a lot of the clutter in my feed.
Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new line of worry for Microsoft
I think he meant VM as in emulator (e.g. vmware), not as in the Java runtime.
It's a nice idea, better than their mighty OpenOffice Firewall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4LofqPCQew

(yes, this is an ex French Ministrer of Culture talking about open source)
Apple are arrogant enough to believe that cutting bootcamp won't significantly affect sales.
I'm amazed this is getting downvoted. I didn't expect LibreOffice's lack of quality to be a controversial fact. I though it was accepted as the status quo. After all, everyone agrees that Gimp is inferior to Photoshop, although it can be used fine in certain scenarios if you are willing to fight with it. LibreOffice is absolutely dreadful, much worse in comparison to Word than Gimp in comparison with Photoshop.
I've contemplated doing a similar thing but in a different domain (may take advantage of your library). I had an idea for seeding the recommendations by scraping reviews from review sites and mapping their ratings onto likes/dislikes. Not sure how easy that would be though.
SATIRE folks... satire. There's a tag to that effect at the top of the post.
I wonder if it's a culture thing. I had an American boss a few years ago who loved to call meetings and give 'inspiring' speeches a long the lines of:
"Who here wants to be bigger than Microsoft? Who here wants to beat Microsoft? If we really work on hard this we can take on Microsoft at their own game! And Win! So Go Team Go And Let's Kick Ass!!!"

The end result was a room full of people scratching their heads and thinking "wow that was stupid", and being generally demotivated because they'd just been set and obviously impossible task by a boss who obviously had no clue. Had he given a speech along the lines of "we have a really unique and interesting product here with strong potential of craving out a significant piece of the market in a small but growing niche" people would probably have left the meeting thinking "yea, we can really make that happen" and been much more inspired.
This alone is why I didn't hold much hope for Diaspora. If you want mass open-source installations, LAMP.
>Isn't this what denotes an era or school of design/architecture/art though, like realism, romanticism, bauhaus, modernism, industrialism, etc? Changes in the approach and visual style.

Yes, only those were major art movements, this "flat" thing is this month's design fad...
Interesting as I'm not too familiar with Varnish. However it seems to me like it would be easier in many cases to pull out the session ID and then have a simple script which uses that to set the X-Auth-User header since most sites using authentication do so with session cookies.
Interestingly Android does use system users to isolate applications. The android vm, Dalvik, is completely different however.
Yeah, it depends on the scenario, green is like a very peaceful-ish color, red is like something to relate with urgency (In a negative way). Red in real life means danger, stop, error..etc.

I wanted to recommend red too initially, but I think for his use case blue or green would go well because of the background image (and also for the reasons above).
This is great thanks. We use Varnish with our current site iteration and it is a life saver. It keeps us running without any significant re-architecting on the backend.

Currently, new directions do not include Varnish but I was starting to re-consider that position and this article was a nice reminder. Thanks!
Decent VCs will let entrepreneurs cash out partially in order to have their incentives more aligned. Not all VCs are decent, though. It is pretty ridiculous when people who make $1-million salaries working 9-to-5 object to a founder taking out enough to buy a house.

It reflects really badly on our society how much pitching and pain an entrepreneur has to endure just for a sliver of a chance at basic autonomy. Four decades ago, it was slightly harder to get extremely rich and solve "the money problem" outright (note: there is no such thing; when people get $5 million, most start wanting to compete with the $50-million crowd) but if you were smart you could get an R&D job with complete autonomy over what you worked on, how and when. That's gone now.

I think that if VC-istan is where you want to be, however, starting as an entrepreneur is the wrong way to go (although it's better than being a non-founder employee). You're better off doing everything you can to become a VC, getting established enough that you always have a VC job as a backup, and building enough connections that you can raise money, and then starting a business if that's your inclination.
This is more a protocol than an app. In the early days of computer networking lots of companies had their own proprietary email systems that couldn't talk to each other. Then an open email protocol was created and email became so much more than an interdepartmental communications tool.

This is much the same. Who knows the types of exciting tools it might spawn?

existing apps that have already solved the problem

Obviously Twitter doesn't solve it for everyone, otherwise you wouldn't see these sort of efforts.
Version your RESTful API responses
This is spam. Here's the original source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-25/windows-8-bugs-plag...

Can we somehow vote cnet off the planet? And ZDNet, and the other ones my mind has blocked out from the trauma.
I'm the same, but if you look at the most listened to lists they tend to match the charts pretty closely. There's probably some kind of long-tail effect with Spotify, but a lot of people use Spotify to listen to what's popular right now, and I'd probably lump deadmau5 in the "popular" category.
Tesla shares tank; here’s one more reason why
I used to work in a civil engineering company and ran the intranet. The most secure part was the company wiki, which held all of the organisation's collective wealth about how to make things that wouldn't fall down, explode etc. They used this knowledge to help architects make buildings that would be safe, but were equally careful to ensure that none of this knowledge was ever transferred to other civil engineers.

I suppose this made perfect financial sense, but it does mean that there is no "collective knowledge pot" that people can pull against to ensure they don't make the same mistakes.

BTW in the wiki there were countless pages about concrete. Concrete pipes, concrete under water, concrete in a desert, concrete under stress, you name it. Ever tried tuning a search engine results page for concrete pipes?
Reach for the stars, RIM. Reach for the stars!
It's being worked on:

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive...
Well it seems to go against my values. I want my kids to think for themselves, not merely be executors of my authoritarian commands. I am not their boss.
Which defeats the purpose of P2P, that is centralization..
Vista's service pack was Windows 7.
Monetization - You could do sponsored event postings or affiliate sales of tickets.

I think what he means is that I as an event host will periodically hold events. If I could notify you via the API when I have a new event that would get me listed faster.
Yes. I wish we could use the JIT – it would make computational heavy stuff way faster. Most games however aren't performance bound by computation, but by drawing. Not having the JIT isn't as bad as it may seem.

Also, JavaScriptCore recently features a new "low level interpreter" – still not as fast as the JIT, but way faster than it was a few month ago: http://wingolog.org/archives/2012/06/27/inside-javascriptcor...
Django Middleware - Remote USSD Exploit
"I wonder if it is because its big brother Perl, which it used to tease, is no longer around to tease."

Excuse me?

Perl is doing just fine.

The Python community doesn't really need a whipping boy, does it? It was quite offputting to me when Python texts, when promoting the features of the language, were essentially reduced to "It's more readable than Perl!"

Is it as powerful and expressive as Perl or is anything sacrificed for this supposed readability? (I never saw it myself).
“[…] VCs have a different vision than founders. Founders are like parents, saying "keep my baby alive!" VCs swing for the fences, and hit alot of outs along with the homers. To the VC it's not a baby, it's just another baseball.” — Lee Campbell, http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
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What do great programmers know that average programmers don't?
Ok, I took the bait and signed up. I went to the home page, and was presented with a spartan and VERY pretentious pricing/signup/(ad copy? description of the service?) layout.

After trying to figure out what a Tent is (still had no idea after reading), I signed up with blind faith that the Tent will tell me what to do next.

The next page was where I was expected to make a status update. Ok, so I enter some gibberish. Click the post button.

Yay, I made a post.

Have you ever showed up way to early to a sporting event or large classroom, and there is nobody there. I mean nobody. No sound, just you. You look around and think "am I supposed to be here?". "Is it Saturday?".

Looking at the post I made made me feel like that. Now that I wasted 10 minutes of my life on this, good luck with pitching your Tent.
Java's security problems won't kill the platform
The RIM service/backbone is as you say there email/bbm enviroment and why they have not tried pushing those services out onto other platforms like iOS and Android and WM7-8 is too me one of the biggest mistakes RIM has made in the past 6 years. Competing is after all more than about going head on upon all fronts, especialy when there skills and niche were in area's were they could of competed per service upon those platforms and be earning alot more on the service front than they are now and have kept the company at the forfront of peoples minds publicly as well as fiscaly. They could of also made more money by selling dedicated box's for corporate companies instead of offering software than ran upon others as the only option, a whole area of expansion they missed out upon and another area were they could of made great grounds and added another foothold into company affairs. I do wonder that if RIM had released nothing new over the past 6 years if they would be any worse of than they are now and that in itself is perhaps the most worrying aspect about were they are now. Maybe now they plan to attain a position which is were they already currently are from what I can tell, then perhaps things can start looking up. They will survive, but in what form over time is upto them. They may start becoming a cheap option for Facebook to move into other mobile revenues and that in itself for most Blackberry users would probably be recieved by mixed feelings.

In a World were a qwerty keyboard is needed RIM do the job, but we live in a World that has moved on from the calculator device mentality and today a pocket calculator has to make phone clalls organise the shopping and take the picture for the front cover of Times magazine and if it does not then the fact that it can still add and subtract and the like is completely ignored. But RIM had and still have the opertunity to move there great email system as a application onto other platforms and flourish nomater how well there handsets sell and how small there margins upon those handsets get. There reliance upon there own handsets to sell there services is one they need to break away from and whilst it is late in the day they still have that opertunity, how much of a risk would it be for them to take it.
5 Reasons Why Responsive Design is Worth it
Good point about re-segmentation. They have to define the category in which they compete such that they are #1 (classic '22 Immutable Laws of Marketing').

Part of the problem in the "we're aiming for #3" statement is that it's not clear what is being measured. Profits/margin? Product leadership? Handsets shipped?