skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple usually doesn't say they are sold out, you can just infer it from the availibility dates on the website (e.g. if the store says shipping in three to four weeks). If a product is successful (and all their big products everyone cares about have been, so they have always been reporting numbers on iPhones and iPads) they will usually report a nice round number after the opening weekend (like "We sold three million in three days!").

They will say when they are supply constrained, but that's during their quarterly calls when being supply constrained is properly interpreted as a more negative than positive thing.
EarnStreet Launches a Practical Online Coding School
Why do you only ask about "large points"? If you implement 'most of CSS, except for minute details', then you haven't implemented CSS, and web developers suffer because they have to add UA-specific hacks for your implementation.
OK, I've read it. Thanks for the recommendation. Yes, it is an extremely interesting thread: :http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/541627-Hello-and-an-MDPV-...

My impression is that McAfee is a brilliant fraud, trying his best to communicate something he feels is of great value but constantly tripped up by some innate compulsion to embellish. On the other hand, he's one of the most articulate and lucid characters in the thread. While there are a few other mentally intact and highly intelligent posters, I picture him as the hapless 35-year-old sixth-grader in Miss Mandible's classroom: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/barthelme-mandible.html

Is it more of a surprise that he's comes across as genuine, fully coherent, and rational, or that most of those consuming drugs made in their kitchen based on questionable mail-order supplies and loose online descriptions have to be reminded several times that baking powder is not the same as baking soda? My other main impression is that many of the journalists attempting to summarize the thread in various online venues share the reading comprehension level of the latter.
This is lovely.

I always get a special joy from seeing things like this. This is something I would never have thought of. It fills such an obvious hole in hindsight. It opens up a place where folk can suddenly experiment and play with something that they might have been afraid of previously. It opens things up.

This reminds me of when I helped out with some teacher training in my teens waaaaay back in 1986/87. We were showing some primary school teachers and primary school kids their first computers. Some simple paint programs. Some simple word processors. This is a mouse. Etc.

I remember this one eight or nine year old loving the delete key in the word processor "I can make the mistakes go away" he said.

We left some of the kids messing about with the machines as we talked to the teachers. 30m later that kid came back to drag us over to see this couple of hundred word story that he'd tapped out. The teacher said that, if she hadn't seen it herself, she wouldn't have believed the kid could have produced it. Grammar, spelling, plot, etc. were worlds above his normal standard.

Because he could make the mistakes go away.

The look on that lads face as he took that story away with him (we printed it out for him) still brings tears to the eye of this cynical old bastard.

I've always bit really terrible at poetry. I played with this for 30m.

Bravo.
Fair enough, if you have inside knowledge I'm happy to be corrected.

On a side note: Do you think the Wikipedia article is accurate?
Large datasets, mostly. Datasets with 20+ columns and millions of rows can be in the 2-60GB range as plain text files, uncompressed.
The ngx_lua solution is awesome, but Taobao runs mostly on Java, not Lua. The software stack is Nginx(Tengine)-Java-MySQL.
The fact that on one individual sale the damage is minimal is pretty irrelevant - you don't get to pick and choose what you pay tax on.

Google in the UK had sales of £2.5bn. It has a group wide profit margin of 33% so let's assume profits of £800m and yet paid £3.4m in corporation tax (as opposed to the £220m you'd expect at standard corporation tax rates).

As someone who does pay tax at the full rate in the UK, I'd quite like it if they did too.
I come to HN because I want to hear from programmers like you, many who are involved with startups or other interesting projects. Things that worked for you, things that went wrong.

I agree with what you said though, this is what it is now.
> We are no longer Apple’s target market

And even that would be ok; the problem is when developers are actively despised by Apple, or treated like digital peons.

But since I'm stuck with Android leaking file descriptors right now, even the peon option seems attractive...
Going against the HN grain here:

Stop assuming that the word 'start-up' makes you more appealing.

There are some incredibly talented developers working for start-ups across the UK and Europe. I have a significant amount of experience in trying to source the top talent in Europe and I can categorically state, the majority of 'top talent' don't work for, and have little interest in working for a start-up. They work for established organisations that offer legitimate career opportunities, stability and the financial backing to give them peace of mind.

...Europe has a shortage of talent

Debatable. I've been first hand witness to startups struggling to hire the best talent to the point where it almost cripples their business. I've also witnessed established organisations having a hard time filling their vacancies. There isn't a talent shortage. There is, however, a shortage of great developers.

Hiring well is hard. It's incredibly hard. That's why recruitment companies exist and that's why recruitment companies make billions annually. That's also why I'm convinced there is a ridiculous amount of money to be made in offering a solution that overshadows the corrupt and unethical business practices the recruitment industry perpetrates.
Peak Apple: Forstall was 'closest thing to Jobs they had left'
Interesting, so to rotate nginx logs do you have to restart nginx?

I always though piped logging was required to rotate logs without restart.

I love the graceful restart and even the replace the executable on the fly nginx has.
But by the very nature of making it public it's no longer vulnerable to blackmail. The problem as such lasts for a very brief time, and now it's gone. There's no more problem, and no more need to shame him (beyond the people actually involved, that is), and no longer any security threat.
Why is it such a big deal that it isn't in the app store? As far as I can see automatic updates is the only advantage that the app store brings... and even that has been handled for years without problems by third party updating systems like Sparkle.
Romney declared Tesla a failure last month.
Consider this before using Facebook's Promoted Posts
That dock showing favourites and applications that are open (with a dot below those that are) and that top notification bar are strangely familiar... Trying to place where I've seen them before.
I would say eHarmony relies on pyschology; okCupid on sociology or anthropology.

Was somewhat disappointed when okCupid was acquired by match.com.
He may of had a right to free speech, but there again so did those who's memories he was offending. It is also worth noting that free speech realy offers not extra right to utilise match's with regards to burning things to cause offence. Be him burning religious fiction or paper flowers, it is the way that free speech is expressed that is the crux of the issue and as a rule free speech does not advocate match's or fire. I feel that last point is important on many levels.
Well to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, "I knew Steve Jobs, and Scott Forstall you're no Steve Jobs..."

Forstall was like Jobs in three key ways Lopp said: he was an asshole, he was successful and no one was sure why. Apple would miss the presence of people who tended to blow up at departmental meetings and swear wildly about small design features, he said

I think most people had some sense of why Jobs was successful. Look at e.g. the early NEXT era videos floating around.
Actually, nginx recompiles very quickly from the couple times I've done it (at least compared to apache/php).

But I bet for developing modules, loading standalone is a huge help.
Apparently a lot of them have really horrible random read and especially random write performance. That probably doesn't matter too much for how most people use the drives (moving large files), but would make them less useful as a disk replacement.

I personally like the SanDisk Extreme (http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Flash-Drive-sSDCZ80-03...). Lexar Triton is also good.

The 32GB+ ones are the only drives with enough chips to have full write speed; the 16GB drives usually don't have the full number of chips, so write speeds are 50%.
Having seen this type of story debunked before, I feel the quotes in the post title should be around the word "communicates".

I'm not sure how conclusive the evidence is based on the article.
Anyone that works with videos, 3d models, images and music can easily fill up alot of space. I have been working on a short 15-minutes clip, so far I got 3 takes using about 70GB in total, just for that, and that isn't even in full HD, less than 30 fps and it's using frame compression. Not all content is available in netflix or spotify, and not everyone got access to those as well.
They isolated plugins (like Flash), but the project for tab process - called Electrolysis - was put on hold last year.

http://lawrencemandel.com/2011/11/15/update-on-multi-process...
Having used both extensively, I can say that I definitely prefer the BBC BASIC that comes with RISC OS.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/risc_os_for_raspberr...

Discussed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752741

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712241
Personal photos and HD videos (Netflix is good, but they tend not to feature films of my kids!). Also software ISOs, either for transfer/burning to DVD/CD or as Linux "live" sticks for booting and running from. Individually these don't usually add up to the capacity we're talking about, but in aggregate they can start reaching that kind of figure fairly easily.
My machine is full of VMs that I use for testing software. It would be great if I can offload that to an SSD-in-a-pocket.
Attempt to get NDK on Google TV
Tuner.io - Musixmatch Lyric API + Sentiment API = automatic chart music analysis
You can send a USR1 signal to nginx.
http://wiki.nginx.org/LogRotation
I wonder if a kickstarter could convince him to look at a Ruby VM ;)
Google engineer designs a $1500 page-turning book scanner
On typical screens made only to display movies, sure. On the 10 inch retina iPad the article page fits perfectly the screen in portrait mode and everything is perfectly readable. If there's a perfect use case for that 10 inch device it's this.
Vista is what was salvaged from Longhorn.

That is very true. Re-reading cookingrobot's original comment I can know see that I misinterpreted his comment. I was thrown by the part where he wrote "don't remember Longhorn?" which made me think he was under the impression that Longhorn was a version of Windows released to consumers.

it seems that cookingrobot knows what he's talking about here a lot more than you do

This seems a bit rude? I can't quite put my finger on the reason why as it is a true statement - cookingrobot does sound like he knows the truth of the matter.
Yeah, that's the CreateJS Toolkit for CS6: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flash-to-html5.html

It is an exporter from the Flash tool to a separate format, not a SWF file interpreter, so it has a different set of tradeoffs.
It's even more funny to re-watch Burn After Reading after having played Portal 2, as J.K. Simmons voiced the character Cave Johnson.
The title is somewhat misleading. It's really about marketing yourself, which has nothing to do with how you picked up your development skills.

Web developer is an over-used term. Not all web developers are going to get something out of a comp sci educational background. You won't pick up anything for design, a lot of the front-end work, marketing, etc. from comp sci classes.

ALL developers are self taught. You are being self taught as soon as you start banging away in the editor and taking regular breaks to Google things you don't know. Does comp sci even teach you to be a developer at all? I don't have a comp sci background, but it's not vo-tech. If you want to get even more picky, you could say the instructor doesn't teach you the material, rather the instructor guides you and you learn the material yourself. Either way, it's all about learning to learn.

Landing a job / gig is knowing how to sell. Sure, some jobs have an HR department acting as a blocker, but there are enough jobs / gigs out there that you don't have to worry about that. Will yourself into the job, convince the decision maker that you are everything that person is looking for. You aren't selling bullet points on a resume / cover letter. Rather, you are building a vision / experience.

Learn how to write well and communicate effectively. Screw the web development classes, take technical writing courses. Be good with people.

Doing work for free, open source work and pointless apps are all a waste of time for most people. Your time is valuable, every project you do should pull its own weight. Build something that you can monetize. It will probably fail, so add that to your portfolio and try again. Shipping is a hugely valuable skill that even a lot of employed web developers don't have. If you can ship something that's modestly successful, then your value to clients as a web developer sky-rockets. Alternatively, build a utility that's highly valuable to you that has functionality you can't duplicate in existing applications (personal dashboard for example.)
This is hearsay.

Poisoning is way too slow. If you need to neutralize animals, just shoot them!

"Special operations" always go for the most simple and efficient path.
iTunes Libraries - Just a few television series subscriptions will wipe out a 256 GB disk instantly - meaning you are constantly juggling files offline. I carry a lot of 64 GB SD cards.

My "Online Local" Aperture Vault is currently 75 GB. The EOS 7D pictures are 10MB each. I spend a _lot_ of time deleting/moving photos offline, but the CF Flash I put in my camera is 64 GB, So just filling that one up (which I can do in a weekend, without much trouble) would be half of my Aperture Photo collection. Aperture has the ability to store your photos "Offline" on a secondary storage - which is where the majority of my photos are (only thumbnails are kept local)

I've taken some 2 GB Videos with my iPhone. Having a Video SD Card is nice.

VMware Images - at 20+ GB a pop, they start to add up very quickly. And, you rarely need them in your system.

256 GB is painfully small. 512 GB would be filled up quickly. I could probably get by with 1 TB, with the 3TB Drive on my desk to shuffle off less frequently viewed Video seasons.

The nice thing about SD/USB Flash drives is you can stick them into your laptop, _and leave them there_ without having to futz around with a cable and a separate spinning hard drive. Then, when you don't need the photos/VMware/Video/TV Season - you just swap another one in.

I'd love to have a 128 GB _Fast_ USB Flash drive - those would be awesome.
The syllable count fails on some words. For example "naïve". If you can't trust the program to count syllables at least as reliably as the writer using it, what use is it?

Interesting idea though.
Ugh. I hate these websites where you have to hover over things to get at any useful information.
What is the status in the U.S.?
The Biggest Election Issue No One's Talking About
Compiling nginx is generally very fast (especially if you compare to other server).

Also, you can upgrade nginx binary without any downtime, see: http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine
Actually the biggest problem is coming from the bottom of the 1st column to the top of the 2nd column (and even on paper this can be bothersome sometimes, well, it's their standart)

If the pages fits entirely on the iPad screen, great!
The Arab world is a blooming market for venture capitalists
It seems to me that there's more to being an effective visionary than just constantly being a dick to people.

The people who think that Apple isn't a model of collaboration have no idea what is actually involved in Building Things.
"Any process that doesn’t take use of our minds capabilities." I think machines will be smarter than us... so in the far (or not) future machines will do everything...
Personally i my self don't want the I'm Feeling Lucky result to be my default. +1.
> Well, you can get around it with TOR, but that has its own problems.

I'm curious. What are the problems with TOR?
Google helps finance Berlin based startups (German)
One Year with Solar Energy at Home
Not everybody develops web apps that they deploy on servers they control. If 97% of my target audience is running Windows then developing on Linux isn't going to do me any favours.
No really, agentzh and chaoslawful developed the nginx_lua module. It's included in Tengine.

Tengine is maintained by many other developers (in Chinese): https://github.com/taobao/tengine/wiki/%E7%A4%BE%E5%8C%BA%E5...
Woman of 51 has first baby...
Jensen harris is the man who brought ribbon to office.
Thanks for answering! I really appreciate it!

What would be a good way for me to get to know people? Striking up a conversation with people next to me during lunch? Would it be ok for me to go around the office to talk to people outside the cafe/lunch room?
Ironically, the diaeresis which it probably ignored is essentially an indication that the two adjacent vowels do not form a digraph and hence form parts of two syllables. (Admittedly, umlauts and diaereses are represented by the same characters on a computer, but their placement with respect to other vowels gives them away most of the time.)
Yes, it's immoral and in an ideal world would not be legal. But the decision to sell the Nexus 4 from Ireland clearly has nothing to do with dodging taxes, so it's ridiculous to use the Nexus 4 as an example of this kind of operation. The fact of the matter is that for a Nexus 4 sold to the UK there's about 40GBP of VAT being paid to the UK, and about 0EUR of actual profit for Ireland to tax (or for the Bahamas, or whatever the domicile of the appropriate sleazy holding company is).
Yup, run by the same folks - TechBreakfast is in three cities (so far) - DC, Columbia (MD), and Baltimore. They are all once a month. Baltimore gets between 200-240 people, Columbia between 100-150 and DC around 150.
Steven Sinofsky's letter to Microsoft employees explaining his departure
I need to investigate the Wallet API (and whether the Play Store is using it) but I'm pretty sure it was the Google Wallet checkout popup that actually kicked the bucket. The Play Store site was really snappy, actually.

The order that visibly went through was redirected to the full Wallet site. I say "visibly" cause apparently one of the popup ones went through as well. Oh, well, I'm sure one of my friends would appreciate it.
Very little. Even less with the acceptance and inevitable legality of same-sex marriage.

I cringe whenever it happens but this is one of those things the social right wing seems to be correct on. Marriage should be about giving legal protection to the relationship that best serves the raising of healthy children. How it gets twisted into a debate about equality I have never understood.

We should just abolish the institution altogether.
Why dissonant music strikes the wrong chord in the brain
Many large Chinese video sites have used Tengine: tudou.com, 56.com, pptv.com etc.
Cute, but this interface is terrible.
Restricting it to Github is also annoying, if not slightly stupid.
I see you applied to Y combinator, what is your startup?
Halo 4 takes in $220 million on day one
Good luck to all. When did most people apply? We applied a few days before the 30th.
I am no dog trainer, but I've lived with them all my life. The dog would needs trust in order to take food from a stranger, even if you threw it to them at a distance. Some dogs are more trusting than others. And some dogs are fussy eaters too. They may not even be hungry and decide to bury it for later.

Basically, if you want it dead, its simpler to shoot it. Less elaborate planning required.
VMware Images - at 20+ GB a pop, they start to add up very quickly.

This. I tend to make many snapshots, especially of Windows VMs, since they cannot be reconstructed as quickly as a Linux VM. Virtual machines plus snapshot get big quickly.
Who is subsidizing whom?
Tengine is developed on github. Anyone who is interested in can follow it. URL: https://github.com/taobao/tengine
Permutation Engine: looping and skipping permutations in nodeJS
Unfortunately, it is around that, my maths was a little off, it's £4,100 per year.
Startup Lessons Learned in 12 Months
Some interesting stats in the article:

iOS = 75% of company revenue

Mac OS = 14% of company revenue

Unlike the early days of Apple when the company embraced and found refuge in the hacker mentality, Apple has emerged as a consumer company thanks to the wide reach and accessibility of its iOS products.

The thesis is that Mac OS and being hacker friendly are becoming increasingly less relevant to Apple, and consumers are now the focus. That's broadly true, however as a long-time user I'd say the focus on consumers (not developers/hackers) has been there since at least the late 90s, and possibly the 80s (with a gap in the middle where they floundered).

Re Mac OS, I fully expect them to migrate desktops to iOS completely at some point and just have a few interface tweaks for the mouse/window paradigm. The move of AppleTV to iOS foreshadows this, and the numbers above make it almost inevitable, given the cost of maintaining two ecosystems, and the fact they now have an operations guy in charge. It'll be interesting to see just how far they take developer restrictions and sandboxing on the desktop, and whether that affects their market share at all. I suspect as they are a consumer company that it won't matter to them if they lose the hackers/developers to some extent, and they will continue to attract enough developers to survive at least in the short term, while pulling them ever closer into the Apple orbit. There is a great and growing tension there though between the interests of developers (who ideally would like a cross platform solution and the flexibility to use any tools) and Apple (who want lock-in to their ecosystem).

The broader problem of developing for an ecosystem like this is that it is in the control of one vendor, and you must play by their rules - the Amazon, Google, Microsoft and even Twitter platforms come with similar problems - either you adopt their chosen technology this year, and accept the restrictions they wish to impose, or you're suddenly frozen out and may fail as a result. It's a lesson for anyone building a business on someone else's ecosystem - it's hard to avoid, but does come with dangers.

I'll be interested to see if the open web has a second renaissance as people recognise the deep difficulties of controlled ecosystems - its one great advantage is that it sidesteps the question of control by one platform owner, which sets it apart from all the binary or closed web platforms currently being touted as the future.
The same way you would go about getting back cash that was stolen from your wallet when you left it lying around in an unsecure area.

to be honest, if someone is handling BTC then as long as they password protect their wallet then the only way the BTC can be stolen is if someone gains access to their password. as with any online banking facility, or debit card facility, if your password or PIN becomes compromised and money stolen from your account you have no automatic right to restitution.
This..is..awesome.