skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The practical impact is the same, but the way I understand it is providing your own rendering engine isn't a problem, the problem is providing your own JavaScript engine.

iOS technically prohibits JITs, which would kneecap v8, but on top of that they also, as policy, disallow running arbitrary code downloaded to the device from the Internet unless Safari's JavaScript engine is the thing running that code.
President Obama Authorizes Secret Directive to Fight Cyberattacks
The only difference is that Google Now doesn't include a buffer. I set my appointments based on what time I want to be there instead of the starting time to resolve this.
- Export screen mockups from Photoshop

- Save images to Dropbox

- Open images in Dropbox app on your iPhone/iPad

- Save images to Photo Library

- Open images in POP

- Win!
> Now is an awesome time to be a software engineer (probably best time ever).

I don't agree with this statement at all, as it's getting harder and harder to find low-level work (e.g., C and *asm) and that's the __only__ kind of programming that I enjoy doing.

I'll start looking for another career when I have to consider putting words like ``full-stack'' or ``cloud'' on my resume in order to find work.
I'll try to do a follow up post, so far I've been really impressed with the emails I got. They raised a lot of great questions such as what it means to built a career when you aren't willing to relocate etc...
Download Qualcomms' Vuforia SDK and get cracking:

http://www.qualcomm.com/solutions/augmented-reality

https://ar.qualcomm.at/

These sure are interesting times. Its becoming too easy to go from sci-fi to just plain sci ..
Neuroscience and game theory are buzzwords in economics. Check out this lecture from Professor Ariel Rubinstein who argues that economics is a culture and not a science as espoused by his neuroeconomist colleagues. Link is here.. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/business/rubenstein/
Trevor Blackwell Updated on Quora
"We'll email out interview requests later today (Nov 15). People not invited to interview will also get an email."

http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/What-time-will-Y-Combinato...
I would love an invite. dntrkv(at)gmail(dot)com
ryan at ryanbrunner dot com.

Thanks!
Already 6:34pm my time (GMT). Looks like I could be waiting until midnight or later!
Skype deals with account hijacking exploit
It Pays to Live In A Startup Hub
I was interested he didn’t point out that having a hit free game != having a hit paid game and the conversion rate form free players to paid is like catastrophically small. additionally free games spread via word of mouth way more virulently because they are free, everyone can try. to spread a paid game you need EACH damn person to pay for it, the word of mouth won't even spread as far.
I think anyone who even thinks a 1% conversion rate of fans is insane based on no data.
Based on data I'd bet its much much less than 1%.
Which is why most paid games have to drop a metric fuck ton of $ on advertising.
Building sized 10 storey starcraft 2 poster ads aren't free nor are super bowl tv slots for WoW ads.
Same for books and media which is how we then end up in the publisher model system. Publishers front a ludicrous amount of money and pump ass loads into advertising to get the word out. That replaces all the free word of mouth and at least the idea of the game reaches a more optimal maximal audience. Still small conversion but yeah.
Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer by Duncan J. Watts

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars by Shankar Vedantam

The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy

Idea Man: A Memoir by Paul Allen

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
Ha-ha, I'm on it.
The core issue is actually JavaScript as I mentioned in another post. I doubt Google thinks this will ever change and they assume they'll never be able to deliver full Chrome on iOS. They provide the Chrome they do provide because one of the nice features of Chrome is universal syncing (of bookmarks, etc) between all your Chrome-running devices that you are signed into.

While Chrome on iOS isn't really Chrome, it does sync in to this so that your bookmarks, etc, work there just like on any real Chrome browser.
Chrome doesn't work on older versions of OS X either.

Developers don't like to develop for legacy systems.
This interferes with the original AdBlock for Opera, and in my case, prevents youtube ads from being blocked.

Beware, my friends.
Quoting from Quora
"The advice we received was that they really like them to be a minute or less because founders/partners only have a few minutes to read each application.

It could be that you gave enough information in that time or that because it was 1:30 they just watched some of it to get an understanding. I wouldn't worry about it though."

http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Our-YC-application-video-f...
Great Secret, Kelly! Thanks for sharing :)
Fun with LastPass
ahahaha - I would totally hire Vader
Philadelphia Police still use typewriters
Mozilla Open Badges Project
Because it increases engagement, page views, "stalking" (which is a natural part of all social sites) and it fosters a community. All of these things are important to sites that act a social network.

The specific problem with Grooveshark is that you sign up looking for music and what you get is a music player with a social component on top of it (that you usually weren't expecting).
Not sure what all the comments about the "amazing 3D" are about. Apple's 3D maps implementation is infinitely better (not that 3D maps are in the slightest bit useful...)
No publisher singlehandedly has the power to push prices up.

If they raise the prices, they'll sell fewer copies. Given that the number of downloads is the primary way to get exposure on the app store, free games have an edge over paid games, and cheap games have an edge over expensive games.

It's my belief that you'll sell more than 4x the copies at $1 than $4. This higher revenue coupled with the increased chance of exposure in the app store makes it a no-brainer.
...what's left?

Where do I begin?

- Drilling down multiple levels for greater understanding. Being the "anti-poser" by knowing what's really going on under the hood. Sharing this insight with others. Amazing what a difference maker this often is.

- Subject matter expertise. Can you stay two steps ahead of your customers by getting behind their eyes and seeing what they need before they do?

- Continuous improvement. (I know, a B.S. term if there ever was one, but it's true...): "Good enough" is never good enough any more. Get better or someone will eventually eat your lunch.

- Communication skills. We all suck at them so much that this is often a bigger speedbump than technical shortcomings. We have much to learn from ants.

- Vision. Another nebulous term, but one that often makes a difference between arithmetric and geometric growth.

- Determining priorities. (Are we really working on the best thing?)

I can go on and on, but you kinda get the idea.
More subtly, passing around objects at all couples the program to the object
system — the rules for looking up the objects’ data and behavior is an
implicit global context. If the modules communicate by passing around
self-contained textual data, or a simple structured format like JSON,
then they impose fewer assumptions on each other. Different parts can be
written using different platforms or languages, allowing access to far more
libraries. (They can also be on physically separate computers.)

I may be mis-reading this, but is the author advocating this sort of serialized message passing within local environments, not just between them?

Passing around data bags within local systems seems kinda odd given they have to be deserialized and mapped to a local object anyway. At that point you introduce an overhead of converting objects in the sender context, sending the data bag, converting that message to a an object usable in the receiver context and reverse the process when the method returns.

If you are passing around literal values in strings, then this doesn't matter, but if you are passing around JSON in strings, you end up with a general container that probably has to be inspected and categorized which seems contrary to the whole point of the article.

This is like an American company opening offices in multiple foreign countries and then requiring english to be the only language that can be spoken in those offices.
>> This has to stop. There has to be a setting to turn this shit off.

You can put a stop to all of this by deleting your Facebook account. It is the nuclear option, but it's one that more and more of my friends (tech geeks - so who cares, right?) are doing.

I think the real problem here is headlines like this. OP's blog post title says "I don't like NEST" this is a problem for their brand and all the other companies that support Facebook's business model. If they start leaving because Facebook's UX opacity hurts their brand more than it helps, then it's lights out.
There are fundamental issues here.

For a sales guy, you can say he brought in $X in revenue that led to $Y in profits, so the value he creates is visible. It's a lot more complex than that, but at least there is a theoretical basis to value his work.

I spent five years working on a non-profit web site that was used by more than 80k people a day. We estimated the site produced $250M a year in value for end users. We also had no real plan for capturing that value or funding it so there wasn't a pie I could claim a piece of at all, just what they said they could pay me.

I've worked at a number of places where the model was spend $X to develop something with Y developers over Z months and maybe we can sell it. These often are fun jobs. This includes a lot of Y Combinator kind of companies but also stodgy companies you'll find in midwestern towns.

I think the median project of this type either (i) doesn't ship a product in the end or (ii) gets revenue that is a small fraction of $X. Again, there's no pie to split.

This of course begs the question. Does working on a project like Colors make you a negative net productivity programmer whatever you do?

I guess in theory a place like this could pay you heavily in equity or bonuses, but with the odds of getting no payout that's really not fair if you have to develop your skills, be highly responsible in so many ways and maybe even support a family.

The companies where the revenue is more obvious are job shops, but these tend to be horrible places to work. Of 5 that I had some involvement with, 4 of them were outright failing businesses because the business plan made no sense or they spent 12 years building web sites with an obscure language that is now eol. The last one is profitable and growing but they had no benefits, low base pay, but they might pay a bonus into your 401k at the end of the year based on "the value of your contributions to the company." Well, the principles of the company never got tried of yakking about the high value of the sales work they do so you know who is #1 and #2 when bonus time comes around at the end of the year.

So in all my years as a pro programmer, I can say I only worked for three months at a place where my work had a clear connection to revenue it was creating and compensation wise it was the worst job I've ever had.
It's less significant if you consider that the Capacity Factor of a wind farm is around 20-40% (wikipedia).

That comes out to more than 3 dollars per watt.
The Altsie Report: Summary Of A Startup That Didn't Quite Work Out (Part I)
And, of course, you can use multiple different dj.FileFields for that in one model, if you need only a limited number of images.
I thought the author sounded familiar. He's the person who gave this blatantly sexist and offensive presentation, CouchDB: Perform Like A Pr0n Star, at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference in 2009: http://ompldr.org/vZ2I1cA/gogaruco-couchdb-090418194027-phpa...
Simulation is overkill; the Matrix approach is cheaper - run the simulation within the brain.
Fast Rails Tests Through Behavior Verification
800 full time devs? No, maybe 800 full time employees (I would say less when you account for much higher salaries at the top as well as costs like benefits, pension contributions, etc.). In a software development organization of that size how many do you think are actually writing code? Maybe half?

Engineering management, sysadmins, quality assurance, release management, support staff at each location, etc. all go into that $100m figure.
Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil, and what does that say about MBA's?
Ok, lets have round two of would I ever hire an MBA.
Just so everyone's clear, the reason that Google (along with Chevron, Wells Fargo, and a number of other big companies with large tax liabilities) are investing in renewable energy is to take advantage of the massive tax credits that come with the investment. There simply aren't that many companies with tax liabilities large enough to make investments in tax equity like this attractive, and Google is one of them.

So, good for Google. It makes a lot of sense for them to do this and I'm glad to see it happening.
Ask HN: What is the greatest pain point you feel when hiring someone?
I'm interested in what the worst part of the hiring process is, from the employer's side. What's something you wish could be changed?

I've recently heard about how finding talent is one of the most important, yet difficult things a startup has to face. I'd like to investigate how technology might be leveraged to help this. So...

What pain points do you need alleviated to make your hiring life easier?
Scroll your iphone by dragging your finger on the back of it
Wealth or Value is Not Created Through Debt
On the other hand how I can differentiate myself without using "senior" from others developers of my age, who took this job as a result of additional course during their college time and who as result produce quite ad-hoc code without any interest in technology and what lies below job they do?

That's the only reason I am using senior in title. Because I do not agree that all 20-something devs bring same value to the team.
Everything he says is spot-on, but what's unfortunate is I'm not sure how applicable it is to Triple Town.

I adore Triple Town. It's the perfect combination of casual "pick up and play"-ness with meaningful and deep gameplay, layered with a fantastic visual aesthetic on top. It's one of the only F2P games I've happily spent real money on.

That being said, it doesn't strike me as an evergreen, "I want people to be active players for ten years" game. Its match-3 mechanic is fantastic, but once you get tired of it you stop playing. When it first came out a lot of my friends were spending hours a day on it for a solid week or two, but I don't know a single person who didn't essentially lose interest and completely give it up within a month.

Spry Fox is clearly trying to combat this fatigue by adding in new gameplay modes, but anecdotally that hasn't done anything to overcome the fundamental problem of people getting tired of the core mechanic. It's still a great game, and I still recommend it zealously to friends asking for iOS game recommendations, but I find it hard to believe that it'll be able to accumulate and sustain a highly-engaged userbase in the long term.
How does this relate to Flow Based Programming?
A Twitter button next to the Facebook button at the top would probably help them reach their goal a lot faster.
It is helpful to check in with anything PG has said every now and then.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
This looks like a lot of fun. I hope the designers from Gowalla get involved. They had some awesome badges back in the day. Are there any good designers involved already?
The thing is Mozilla exists to promote the open web and open source and yet you have Android which is open source and WebKit which is open source both basically supplanting Mozilla on mobile and people act surprised somehow. FirefoxOS is interesting, but gosh, why would a company push a Firefox phone when there's already Android?
Why is turning on the TV still so hard?
Well, I've wanted to make a lightweight JSON-superset language with some sort of piping or message-passing ability. Perhaps this is my chance.
I tried this game out when it was in pre-beta too. I found it novel and refreshing that there was an MMO aspect to a flash-based game, but I didn't find myself going back to the game. I have no recollection of what the aspiration was supposed to be, and like you, all I remember about the core mechanic of the game is clicking on things I see and performing various actions on them.
Yes... I am checking my emails non stop...
Lawyer sues Microsoft over its surface tablet
Social Warfare: Israel Live-Tweets Its Military Campaign Against Hamas
Titles were more about pay bands then skill.

I know several hundred Vice Presidents at JP Morgan Chase.

And really, if your business card tells me that you're a Programmer/Analyst 3, then you're either doing something wrong, or you're a robot, and you probably work between Programmer/Analysts 2 and 4.
IIRC, Microsoft took active steps to cripple the Windows platform if your application happened to be Netscape.
Be sure to click the Plans button in the toolbar. You can get 5 to 20 free projects.
Speeding up our test suite in development
Awkward 3 or 4 different interfaces with different ways to transition between them in each one. Links that go nowhere / don't really work / leave UI that doesn't move when you zoom. A decent effort, but less finished than even Apple's result.
How Dropbox messed up conversion rates but had a secret weapon
It really is an exciting time for software engineers. I'm a soon-to-graduate student and have gotten so many job offers that I had to pretty much stop talking about it with friends/family. Does anyone else feel awkward admitting how easy we have it in tech right now when there are so many people struggling to find jobs?
I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable.

There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality.

The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functionality with virtual pets and software as "magic". The kids lead a life based upon this augmented reality laid over the real reality. If you like anime this show is worth tracking down a torrent for.

It's also worth checking out the Halting State series from Charles Stross if you're up for some reading.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
This is an article similar to the "Microsoft has missed the Internet Boat" articles announcing MS is a dead-man-walking since they were caught behind in the Internet boom of the mid-late 90's. Then they dominated the market and won.
That is good to know; mine was watched for < 1 min as well.
Good post, as someone who occasionally uses promoted posts, it made me realize it is a little weird to target friends of fans, which I believe is the FB default.
I'm going to be the token annoyingly overeager Go supporter and post that Go channels fit nicely into rank 3.
Less naggy? I find Firefox to be one of the most naggy browsers about upgrades. Or have they changed this recently? With Chrome you just see a notification on the settings menu, and a restart brings you up to the next version. I really hope IE adopts this model.
Matt's a fairly prominent member of the Ruby community. I've seen him at conferences with his little boy, and chatted with him myself. This doesn't mean that presentation wasn't sexist (I was there, I was horrified), but he's not a sexist monster without regard for ethical behavior.

He's a pretty decent guy for the most part, and I believe him when he says he wants to help.
Whenever an article with price/inflation implications hits HN, it's like the gold-bug bat signal goes off.
I should clarify. I am not old enough, you're absolutely right. But I had old staff teaching me and everyone in my age group. Some teachers in my school were same ones who taught my parents. Most of these people have since retired and if you walk into almost any school now they comprise maybe 10% of the staff. I guess what i should have said is we're the last generation to receive soviet-era education.
Moustache Mo Bros Wine
I couldn't find global stats, but at 2.72 billion[1] and 3 billion[2] USD respectively, the apple and orange industries have revenues far in excess of Mozilla's.

[1] http://www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/fruits/apples/com...

[2] http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=23
I'm not convinced our atmosphere would freeze at all; it would be winter but the stable temperature is hard to calculate as you say. Antarctica hasn't gotten appreciable heat in millennia and the air isn't freezing there. I know, convection brings some warm but still.
How're they defining "cyberattacks directed at major U.S. networks"? Are we talking a sophisticated attempt to take down trading on the NYSE? Industrial espionage from China? Anonymous running LOIC?

This is the problem with sealed executive orders: the only people who know what's up are those issuing or receiving said orders. There's absolutely no oversight or checks and balances against government overreach.
Anyone have invites?
The article mentions "Matthew Prince protected his Google Apps account with a second code that would be sent to his phone—so the hackers got his cell account". It means the phone was not secure enough to protect these codes. A dedicated hardware token is more secure, but if you have to carry 10 devices on your keychain, this is not very elegant and annoying.
Corona Improves Hadoop Scalability At Facebook
Great App! Just tried it with UI Stencils and it really helps with testing of usability with an actual device.

Sadly there seems to be a bug with image alignment. Even if I get it right in cropping tool it looks like its shifting all images up and to the right by that looks like 10 to 15px. Other than that fantastic.
U.S. Postal Service on a ‘Tightrope’ Lost $15.9 Billion
That is incorrect. Inflation is defined as the expansion of the money supply, CPI is measured as the change in price of a basket of goods minus volatile things like energy and food.
Think it must use the magnetometer.

It's interesting that compatibility is iOS5+ and Android 4+
> Thieves find email convenient as well.

No need to toss in a man of straw here. Anyone who's been aware of text-sharing sites since such things existed, knows that the abuse (copyrighted, illegal, ill-gotten material) far exceeds "legitimate" use. In fact, one could argue rather easily that MegaUpload had several magnitudes more legitimate use than pastebin.com (and similar).

The typical structure of an mysql dump is a rather easy thing to automatically sense. A not-complicated regex could easily sense the pasting of alternative formats. Mr. Vader could easily reduce his workload in dealing with takedowns by simply injecting a little code that preemptively enforces his terms of service.

Long text with reporter bylines, also easy to sense.

Really long text with bibliographies, also easy to sense.

I could go on. ;)