skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The misleading part is that (in at least one common usage path), the site sets itself up to look like every other online shopping site. The kind that people expect to use by putting stuff in their "shopping cart" and proceed to "checkout" and pay once.

Think of the people in your life not quite as tech-savvy as yourself, like maybe your next-door neighbour or your mother. Would you expect them not to be misled by this? Sure, I'd hope my mother would be critical enough to notice, but I can easily see it happen otherwise.

Another indication is, I assume that a lot of people who do notice will instead decide to bail out entirely and not buy anything, rather than (like I would do, if I really wanted the item) pay, log in, and cancel the account immediately. Because that's not really an obvious thing to do, given the set expectation of being a regular online shopping store.
This is from anonymous on Quora and is basically my point,

"They are much stingier than you might think. The true award amounts are much smaller than they would like the world to believe. It varies substantially depending on the impact the team and the individual have had, and it can be anywhere from $20K to $100K, with the occasional $1M reportedly given to very senior employees (e.g. the team's director). The awards are typically paid as RSUs and vest over 4 or 5 years."

i.e. not much makes it past the layers of VPs, directors, and front-line managers (all of whom like money very much) to the people who actually made it happen.
Density might be even more important--even with bike lanes, people won't bike if the distances are too far.
tl;dr

Users do not accept invites to new apps anymore.
Notifications can be used to increase the retention (with give-a-life, send-a-life feature).
I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, but… what's that? The web site looks like a HN clone, although I'm sure I didn't get it.
As an iPhone 3G user previously, this is probably a very good thing. The iOS 4.0 update basically bricked the phone because it just couldn't handle it. I recently found out how easy it was to revert to 3.1.3 and its actually a pleasure to use again (albeit still noticeably slower than my 4S).

If Apple released iOS6 for the iPad 1 you would probably be bagging them out for making the device so slow.
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Actually, it's the other way around. NFC is a superset of many different types of RFID standards that operate all under 13.56MHz - FeliCa, MiFARE, Topaz, ISO14443 etc in addition to include different communication protocols (SNEP for example) as well as payload standards (NDEF).
Also to prove you do have those basic technical skills, and to prove that the team is productive
(warning: tangential)

"Knowing Apple, that sounds like a far more plausible explanation than the most popular theory I’ve heard: that Apple just wants to force iPad 1 owners to buy new iPads."

I totally believe this is true on the iPad front, but I can't imagine any other reason that iOS 6 would support the iPhone 3GS but not the 3rd generation iPod Touch. They have very nearly the exact same specifications, except one has a GSM radio in it and the other doesn't. I wouldn't mind if it didn't get further updates (three years is pretty decent update-wise), but the disparity is slightly irritating.
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>I understand the historical struggle these resource allocation machines (how I think of them)

That might have been the case in the past, but I feel the current HFT driven market has little to do with resource allocation (or even funding companies for that matter).
Still runs as well? I'd love to know what set up you've got.

Since iOS 5 my iPad 1 has been utterly unusable - many multi second lags and endless application quits.

Even brand new out of the box the iPad 1 and also the original iPhone were incredibly unstable - particularly in safari.

Everyone turned a blind eye to it.
Just because the dimensions are similar doesn't mean the number of pixels is sufficiently similar – in fact, an iPad 1 has 28% more. This is a significant difference to a programmer.
In gaming this is the difference between a newbie and a noob.
The disappointment, to me, isn't with the iPad alone. It's with the new move in the industry to non-upgradable devices and internet-dependent software.

I've enjoyed my iPad 1 since the day I bought it, and I haven't seen any need to replace it with a newer model. Neither the Retina Display nor the camera were particularly important to me, and I didn't have much need for more storage or memory.

Would I like to use iOS 6 on my iPad? Certainly. Do I need to? Not right now.

Over the next year or two, though, I'm sure there will be plenty of software that I'd like to use, but won't be able to. It's possible that some apps, like Netflix or Spotify, or some games, will reach a point where older versions won't work anymore, as they roll out features that require some update or another to play nicely with their servers.

What will happen if I have to restore my iPad to factory settings, or just accidentally delete some app? Will I still be able to re-install the version I need in two years, or five, or more?

Every computer reaches a useful end to its life at some point in time. The acceleration of that process due to a closed system that allows no upgrade to RAM or storage, and no ability to install software except through a centrally-controlled repository, frankly sucks.

Windows 8 shows that it's more than just Apple headed for closed systems. If current trends prevail, how far out are we from the closed model of the iPad being the standard for the industry?

I hope there will be some consumer backlash, and a company with a commitment to great technical and experience design takes up the standard of more open hardware and software as a competitive differentiator. I'd vote for them with my dollars.
Apple are horrible for trying to make people upgrade - thats for sure, but really, what apps 'require ios 6'? I'm still using an iphone3 (last os upgrade was a stripped down version of ios4) and the only thing I haven't been able to download because it won't work on my phone was a some game once that was just a timewaster anyway.

The most important thing by far on a phone/tablet is the web. It doesn't care about your OS version... It was like this on the iphone1 and it will be on the ipad10.
I have wondered if the 5 hours of heavy coding maximum is psychological or physiological. Does productivity drop because your mind rebels against itself? Prolonged mental focus is an unnatural thing to do in the scheme of evolution. There might be some mental mechanism that automatically triggers feelings of despondency in order to make you do something else. Alternatively, hitting the wall might be an actual physical problem - the brain might be overheating, or have some build of chemicals, or something, that requires a recovery time.
Thanks, you just gave me some awesome thinking tools.
It seems pretty clear that something was broken with the old system, before the creation of the CAFC. Plaintiffs were only winning 20-40% of the time.

Considering that

1. the plaintiff is starting with a rebuttal presumption of patent validity,

2. it is the plaintiff who makes the decision whether or not to sue, which should weed out a lot of weak cases, and

3. this was before software patents, back when examiners actually had a deep understanding of the art in the fields whose patents they examined, so there was not a flood of bad patents being issues,

I'd expect in a fair system for plaintiffs to win the majority of cases.
Why do people insist on pretending all of Europe is full of bike lanes? In most inner cities there often isn't room for bike lanes, or the lane is just a line on the asphalt.

I bike to work every day in Amsterdam, not a single bike lane on my route, I have to share the road with cars, trams, buses, trucks and scooters. The only traffic that actually poses a regular challenge because of their erratic movements and tendency to step into the road without looking are American tourists on foot...

Bike lines are convenient, but no more than that, and just as much of a red herring as helmets when it comes to safety. Safety in urban traffic is a people problem.
Well, according to Uber's referral program copy, in theory, you're referring your "friends" to the service. Aka people you know, and people who probably wouldn't mind you knowing they signed up. So I can at least see why Uber (and other referral services in general) might not think twice about sharing small pieces of personal information with the referrer. Not saying you don't have a good point, though, because I agree.
"Heck those guy don't need to be told, they know the risk if they don't."

If only: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Required_helmet_.... I think culture in the peloton has changed a bit, though.
The Micropreneur Academy also has an active forum where current members can ask and answer questions, share their products, update each other on their successes and lessons learned, etc.

It's a great place to start if you're a developer looking to build a small software business (I was a member for a few months and highly recommend it).
The target audience may be slightly different. In London, the people I see wearing helmets while cycling tend to be that particular young male demographic, whereas people partaking in the bicycle sharing program tend to be commuters. As such, the speed at which both travel, and the roads that they take, tend to be completely different. If you're doing a high-speed bicycle-only commute into Central London then I'd say wear a helmet, but if you're doing a short-distance trip on a shared bike, there's really no need since you'll be travelling slower anyway.
You have to take into account the larger memory footprint of iPad apps as well. No doubt they could have run the base OS without much trouble but there wouldn't be a lot of memory left over for apps. So an iPad 1 with iOS5 and enough free RAM to run apps is better than an iPad 1 with iOS6 that can't do much more than run the OS. Apple learned their lesson from the iPhone4/3G thing.
I feel like this excludes all those teams that have a lot of experience but not specifically in startups. There are many moving parts to business and a prototype is just one of them.

I'd say modelling the entire business at low fidelity and getting started on all the activities: Marketing, Technology, Sales, Metrics, etc is a good way to show that you're a sound investment.
I bought the 1st gen iPad knowing it was only going to be a stop gap measure until a newer version with a Camera came out (which I thought was going to be the killer feature - turns out I rarely use it) so I only bought the baseline version. I found the $499 baseline price a steal which quickly turned into my most used device. The value of Apple's products go way down the higher up the range of models you go, so I can see why iPad 1 owners may be upset - but it shouldn't be unexpected that the resale value of top range models depreciate faster than the baseline.

So I can't complain, I've got a lot of utility out of the iPad1 whose experience led me to buy the top of the line Retina iPad 3 when it came out. I was keeping the old iPad 1 around for compatibility (as an iOS dev) but I guess this means I wont need to hold onto it for much longer :).
Android in general has a quite bad version update track record, but that doesn't include the Nexus line of devices
Read the API. I had the same problem and skimmed through the API in 2 minutes.
I think it was William Gibson who said, "the future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed...".
There was one, it was called BadCustomer. I don't think it's around any longer, since the people running were running shady rebill scams like Fab.
How hard can it be to retain this data upon registration? Site operators would be insane not to. It's one bit per user in a database: Checked box or not?
This is just far too cool. And creative too. I haven't really thought of using SSH for games.

It would be cool if X11/windowing/sharing code was just as simple as SSH. Then we could trivially do networked video games where someone hosts. That would be... neato.
> IRC channel #startups currently serves this purpose.

For those unfamiliar with IRC:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23startups

or pick up an actual IRC client:

http://irssi.org/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chatzilla/

http://codeux.com/textual/

The server is "irc.freenode.net".
> But let's face it, that's not going to improve their bottom line, whereas telling everyone to buy a new iPad every 24 months is.

That kind of short-term thinking is what gets companies into trouble. No, it won't help the bottom line now, but when the next purchase rolls around, don't you think premature obsolescence (or the lack thereof) of the device being upgraded will factor into what replacement to get? It's certainly a major reason I won't buy an android device (at least one not made by google, which tend to get long term support like apple)
The RAM thing is a nice theory until you consider the 4th gen iPod touch has a similar number of pixels as iPad 1

4th generation iPod touch is 960 x 640 = 614,400

1st generation iPad is 1024 × 768 = 786,432

Those extra 172,032 pixels could have been enough to prevent something from performing adequately.
To Encourage Biking, Cities should do two things, and two things only:

- Bike lanes. Physically separated bike lanes. This is not rocket science. Trains have rails, airplanes have a nice bit of tarmac and bikes should have a space tailored to their specific needs as well. Typically in the Netherlands, bikes are banned from roads that are 50km/h and up. And they don't need to battle it out with fast traffic, for there are bike lanes. And the limited space in this country means that something truly has to give when adding them.

This how the dutch design an intersection. Note the absence of the ridiculous ASL boxes, and most important, no crossing of lanes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA

- Traffic laws that protect the weaker participant in traffic. Again, case in point, the Netherlands where in a (civil) dispute after a bike-car accident the burden of proof lies with the car. Not to mention the dreaded article 5 that broadly states that endangering traffic is a felony.

This helmet discussion imho is just a way to deviate from arguably more costly and difficult choices when it comes to embracing the bicycle. And while we are are at it. I am convinced that making helmets, 4 point harnesses and leathers mandatory in cars for all occupants would save lives as well.

What perhaps surprises me the most in the car-bike entanglement is the seemingly bad engineering. Cities like Londen, Geneva, all (claim) to cater for bikes, have rental programs, paint the odd lane, but their intersections tell a different story. In the information age, it just baffles me.
Different strokes for different folks. I thrive in the noise of the Tea Lounge. I also second the Ace Hotel, which includes a Stumptown for you coffee fiends.
Android? You knew about your iPad being closed, why did you buy it in the first place?
Any language can be enjoyable -- if done right!
It takes a while to figure out the traffic flow in Berkeley, but basically most streets except for main arterial roads have some form of periodic traffic calming. So some of the bicycle boulevards have speed bumps, some have traffic circles, some go do not enter after 3 or 4 blocks. Basically just a marginal annoyance to try and get non-local drivers onto other roads.
timesheets?
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The passcode is free for the asking, requiring no purchase. You can get coffee at Stumptown.
I just stopped there to have a conversation. I'm never going there again.

eduardordm: 20mi to spend in a 18 month period

seanstickle: If anyone wants to help me out and give me $20MM, that'd be swell

eduardordm: seanstickle: have you ever asked?

seanstickle: eduardordm: asked what?

eduardordm: seanstickle: 20mm from someone

seanstickle: eduardordm: nope.

seanstickle: eduardordm: because I'm mostly not a dipshit.
Truncated SVD has been a wonderful tool for "cleaning up" pairwise cosine similarity data for text document comparisons, graph/network building (for a visual representation of entities represented by documents, embedded in something like Gephi/Sigma.js/D3), and for item-based recommendation systems.

The biggest problems I then run into involves choosing a "k" (the dimensions allowed in your truncation). Have had some thoughts about training this unsupervised method (providing labeled data for what "oughta" be the top nearest neighbors for this particular entity, and optimizing toward that) or building an ensemble method on top of many SVD'd truncated vector spaces (though the combination method is unclear to me-- pick kNN from a linear combination of each model's outcomes? Pick the intersection of each method's k nearest neighbors?)

To novices looking at this tutorial: NumPy's a wonderful tool for small toy examples, but at a certain scale you will depend heavily on the sparse matrix formats provided for you by SciPy. (That and random projections should curb any memory problems you'll run into for many vector space-based problems, short of operating at a Google/Yahoo scale, or if your target's TBs of logging data).
What's self-clearing BD?
The research in this paper does not result in any conclusive evidence that says TDD is better, it merely showed that TDD encourages developers to work longer until a higher code quality is attained. If I read it correctly.
For some reason, I had expected this to be default in Bootstrap. Thanks for posting this
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Interesting idea.
How would you implement this in a real world setting?
Not so sure about that. What happens if you need to restore your iPad 1 and redownload all the Apps? Do you get the latest version, or the latest compatible version of the App, even if the developer dropped support for your iOS version?
>Why do people insist on pretending all of Europe is full of bike lanes?

Because as a tourists only stick to the main roads which often have bike lanes.
Anyway, in my experience the situation in Europe is much better than in the US.

My datapoints: Munich, Kopenhagen, Zurich
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As opposed to getting people to buy it? I thought leasing makes more sense for much more expensive electronics.
Totally didn't see this coming. I was actually looking into Settings to see if it detects the iOS 6 release and only afterwards I bothered searching the net and finding out there will be no iOS 6 update!

But this is not the biggest disappointment about the iPad1.

The big one was how iPad1 doesn't have a camera and not long after I bought it (when it finally arrived in the EU) Apple released the iPad 2 which had a camera!

How hard could it have been to engineer an external camera for the iPad1 that could be plugged in via a docking connector? This way I could use the iPad upside-down and actually have is usable as a video conferencing device.

I can't even give it to my parents as a laptop replacement (what people imagine it could be) since Skype video won't work on it!
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1. That's like saying a law against speeding is valid, so the defendant is probably guilty of speeding. That a patent is valid says absolutely nothing about whether a defendant is infringing it.

2. Sorry, all I can do is laugh. Do you actually follow the US legal system?

3. Again, whether a patent is bad or not has nothing to do with whether it's infringed in any particular case.
Mostly browsing (new Chrome works well), Netflix, LogMeIn Ignition for remote desktop, photo viewing, Skype.

Compared to my new MacBook Air it does seems a little slow starting apps, etc, but the thing is almost 2 1/2 years old, still has good battery life, and basically does everything I want. I think I've got my money's worth already, and expect to keep using it in the future. BTW, cost of those iOS upgrades - $0. Not a bad deal compared to the $50 that software like Parallels keeps asking for every year.
It should be pretty well known by now that upgradable components in hand-held devices is a losing strategy. The mass populace of Consumers just don't care, they wan't something that Just Works, that's simple, pretty and light with a long battery life. Which appears to align with Apple's focus perfectly.

I think it's safe to assume that iOS devices aren't going to come with upgradeable internal components. They've got models at different price points and their 3rd party hardware ecosystems - which they plan satisfying the consumers use-cases until the next version rolls around again.
How did you get this? It's not even on http://www.marco.org/ ?
Un-disablable? Un-true:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app_notifications/

You can turn off notifications from any app very easily.
This is great! I think I'll start using this, I'm tired of putting prettyprint statements everywhere :P
I wouldn't say they're widespread in Europe, but I moved from the SF Bay Area to Copenhagen, and they're certainly a big factor here. The "bicycle highways", completely separated and wide lanes that form major arteries through the city, make it much easier to bike to work from most places, without danger of car interference, or of being "doored" by parked cars opening their doors.

Some other efforts: 1) the traffic lights on several major arteries have been synchronized to typical bike speeds, rather than car speeds, so in good circumstances you can ride their whole length without hitting a red light (they call this a "green wave"), and 2) of the three bridges over the central harbor, one is bicycle/pedestrian-only (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryggebroen), with another no-car bridge under construction.

Obviously other aspects also matter, such as a compact and flat city, but I think all these help considerably as well.
Uh oh. I understand Europe is planning on introducing a specialist patent court. That could go similarly badly as it is even more likely to be full of patent specialists.
Perhaps in your line of work, but in scientific computing, it's quite common. Scientific codes have parallelism at multiple levels, but loop-level parallelism is extremely common. Simply, you have large vectors or matrices that are operated on by a loop. The iterations of the loop are (mostly) independent, so you can use multiple threads to do them in parallel. Assuming shared memory, of course; the communication cost of transferring the vectors or matrices to another process over typical IPC mechanisms would kill the benefit of the parallelism.

OpenMP (http://openmp.org/wp/) for C, C++ and Fortran is the most common means of exploiting such parallelism in the high performance computing world.
Decentralized repositories aren't completely better, either. It's all about hybrids, being able to switch between the better and worse of different designs.

Steam is a centralized game store, but it doesn't necessarily lock you in. You can buy individual games from retail or from competitors. But you come to Steam, and it's comforting at least to know the choice is there if you choose to exercise it.
Even that line which you say comes up when you don't check the box is likely to be misread by users who are used to having to check a terms of service box on most of everything.
Hum right, I was thinking of the mountain bike kind of descent, not the road riders. Although since the helmet helps with drag, I guess most wear it there now.
Check out http://geekli.st/ it is a community for developers and you can post what you are working on and your accomplishments.
First, Android tablets did not exist back then.

Second, the same problem is true for Android. How many smartphones sold last year will never see jelly bean? If my Atrix wasn't rooted, Id still be on gingerbread. These devices have a one-year, two-max "relevant life expectancy".

That's a shame. Both ecologically and ethically.