skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has their own experiences, but from my view as a freelance web developer constantly working with new clients, I don't see much of this happening. All of this depends on who you are working with though.

SEO: You don't need to know any more here than what you have needed to know in the past. Just make sure that you are sticking with your part of the basic webmaster guidelines.

Design in general: Nobody is going to ask a developer who can't design to do design work. That includes UI / UX design. That would be quite silly. Though the developer should probably be able to code the front-end plumbing in addition to the back-end.

HTML / CSS: You should know all of this, but back-end developers generally don't have to do most of the heavy lifting here. It's very easy to hire someone to turn your PSD's into HTML / CSS and then the back-end devs can take it from there.

Build or join an open source project: There are a certain number of people who can benefit from this (you get paid for it by a company which benefits from the work or you are planning to offer paid support for your product) but I believe that projects outside of paid work should pull (or at least try) their own weight in paying for time that went into building that project. This could be money back or it could be utilities which make life easier for you.

Fast moving industry: Not really. Technology in general moves fast, but web development is painfully slow. Part of this has been browsers (and probably the standards groups) holding things back. We can't outrun the caboose.

Lots of people willing to take your job: Really? Where are they? We are supposedly competing on a global level (outsourcing) but I just don't see it. Even when I do have to compete with much lower cost developers, those developers are usually invisible and I never have to worry about them. I live in the Philippines and there is very little web development talent here (partially because all anyone cares about is sending texts.) I imagine much of the rest of the developing world is like that as well.

There are a lot of barriers to entry. Freelancing is difficult on the BUSINESS end, not the technical end. Good English and writing skills go a long way. Much of the technical side you can pick up quickly, but the really be functional enough to be worth much to a team requires a lot of time.

Most important is that you really only have to be good enough to stay a bit ahead of the masses. That's not hard.

One great way to nail all of this stuff is to build an app on the side and ship it. Monetize it, do the SEO, get traffic, etc. You will learn a lot from this process, and you will cover almost everything you need to know as a web developer. You might also make some money from it.
The Devengers
I did try this. I don't remember this exactly, but what was happening then is that only the visible part of the page came in to the F11 wrapper div. There no-scroll in the full-screen browser window.

In effect you're left with an option to introduce scrolls within content divs, and that looked worse. Chrome on the other hand manages this quite nicely.
Cool. http://showmystreet.com/ has been doing this for a couple of years.
Enterprise Project Management Software - ProjectVision
> People do not trust "Federal Reserve notes"

Really? There I was thinking foreign governments liked holding their reserves in US dollars...

> that at least some people realize that there is no such a thing like US dollar, only those "notes" printed by Ben Bernanke and his pals

Wake up, SHEEPLE!
pdf: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/05/Bitcoi...
Yes a small company called that were working on a CPU that would become the ARM cpu was happily demoing there new computer the archimedies and to demonstrate the new CPU they did something that had not been done in realtime. Yes the page turn effect, was also a waving flag surface and few other demonstrations of this great processing power.

Now If I watch a film on TV on a digital screen and in that film somebody turns a page of a book, then would I also technicaly be violating this digital patent.

Patents like this are fine, as long as there are in a common-sence pool of free use for all, anything else is well, just wrong.
AndroVM (Android in VirtualBox) released with Hardware OpenGL and ARM support
He robbed the bitcoinica customers and he'll rob you too

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95738.0
Interestingly botnets are probably a month away from being unprofitable for mining Bitcoins, in fact GPUs will be unprofitable for mining Bitcoins all-together. ASIC devices are being shipped over the next six months which will increase the mining difficulty substantially.
fuck you you scammer

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I suspect this is intended to address the case where someone creates a platform derived from the Android OS, and then modifies the SDK to use it for development on that platform, or for dual use to develop software for Android and NewForkedOS.

Edit: This may be an issue for Amazon. They have forked the OS, which is fine, but they also use the (separately licensed) SDK and now this is apparently not OK.
fucking scammer

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95738.0
fuckign scammer

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95738.0
2002 "This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer"

2012 "The film is optimised for viewing on Chrome."

Not interested in a browser-specific web experience.
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For the service they provide they can beg as much as they want, and I will help. Also, as the ad says if everyone would help they would need to keep it up just one hour.
I think an ad would be much much worse.
not quite - you can't make a circle with diameter smaller than the distance between the two dots. and for any given radius, at most two circles (two centre positions) are possible.
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Thesis 2.0 framework - video tutorials
You're actually discussing two different points.

1) Is is possible to take a known, existing invention and simply change the context a little and repatent?

The answer is yes, if the original existing invention had never been documented to be used in this new context.

This is a highly contentious area of patent law and I personally disagree with it.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/patently-obvious...

2) Design patents are not the same as regular patents.

This Apple patent is a design patent, not a normal patent. It protects a very specific visual design in a specific use case. Design patents are very narrow in scope. The same design in a different context is not protected by this patent nor does it affect the patentability (it might affect the obviousness but obviousness is a frustratingly rare objection in patent reviews).
Students: are you living for your CV?
Huge win? It will just make them change it. And we'll all be better off for it, frankly - there's few things I loathe more in e-readers than page turn animations that often can't be turned off.
I always figure that if I found another startup, I'll print up 2 sets of business cards. One will have the title "Founder & CEO" for people who are impressed by that stuff. The other will have the title "Disruptive Influence" for everyone who's cool.
Grappelli is a full app, and you end up tying your project to it if, for example, you use the inline sorting functionality.

Mine is just a theme, you can turn it off whenever you want.

It really just depend on what you need :)
There's no chance it will hold up in any court if they try to use it to sue because of the vast amount of previous art. Not a chance at all.
If they prove they had it implemented before the patent they couldn't.
What are those packages that will cost a lot to move to Windows 7? I am curious because I work on legacy application integration.
Technically WINE provides more than just Win32 APIs, but essentially you're right. WINE is more a compatibility layer / wrapper for PEs than an emulator.

In fact, I often make the container distinction: you have containers (Zones / Jails / OpenVZ) and you have virtual machines (VMWare / Vbox / Qemu / etc). WINE falls more into the containers category because it runs Windows PE natively on the host but in a sandboxed environment (and in an approximate sense of the term, chrooted) but with hooks that go between the host and client.

But, like with WINE, many lump containers into the virtualisation pigeon-hole as the full hardware emulation suites even though you're not actually emulating any hardware with containers.
Opinionated Game framework like Rails?
Is there any opinionated Game engine/framework like rails?

Preferably for web based games, but its ok if its not so.
The problem with capping highly funded projects ("hits") is that they make up a pretty small percentage of the Kickstarter project space, but they get a ton of press. It varies by category, but in most of the categories, the projects doing better than 3x their goal are less than 5%.[0]

The real problem (alluded to by both the article author and other comments) is that project creators don't ask themselves hard questions about how their project will scale. Unfortunately, this is more of a problem in the Technology and Design categories, which tend to have a higher hit rate than others. Many project creators envision doing the work themselves, or using hard to source parts. The Open Locksport guy even planned his reward tiers so that he was operating at a loss for each pledge. That's just poor planning.

[0] http://tachycline.com/index.php/kickstarter-funding-rates/
Whats coming up in PHP 5.5
Lessons learnt from publishing my first eBook
Combine this with Crispy Forms on the user side and you get a good looking app in minutes!

http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.org/en/d-0/
I couldn't agree more.

I'd actually be happier paying $3.99 a MONTH if the tool was in any way important to me.

If you're feeling guilty about charging, a) don't - it's your time you're using up to make this thing! and b) spend, say, 50% of the money you make on improving the tool.
The original statement is generally correct. Employee handbooks don't have contractual status (i.e. they can be amended at the company's discretion) but do have legal status insofar as employee's will be expected and, in most cases be contractually bound, to abide by the terms of the handbook.
I'm not even sure if this analogy is sarcastic or serious.

We invented books and page-turning 500 years ago. This is just an animation.
> It's very easy to hire someone to turn your PSD's into HTML / CSS

This is definitely true, however things are a little more complicated ... it's not the actual writing of the HTML/CSS that bugs me, but the fact that a PSD is static and often is not accompanied with guidelines on how it should be used.

So for instance if the width of the design is 960px, what are you going to do? Keep it static while centering it on page? What background color should you use? (ever noticed that many designers simply forget about the background around the page?) And also, it's much better to make it dynamic, especially in this age of mobile browsers - so what should you resize? Should the side-bar also resize? By how much? Should it be capped at a max width? Should it fall at the bottom if the total width is too small?

The big problem is that the dynamic parts should also be part of the design. I mean, sure, give me the PSDs because I can do a better job at writing clean and optimized HTML5 and I'm pretty efficient at it too, but I also want an HTML to see it live. It makes my work easier and also it shows me that you've thought about the dynamics at play, so I don't have to fill in.
Sarcasm?

I'm having a hard to time understanding how this comparison makes any kind of sense.
Javascript cookies wtf
Not that this needs to turn into an exercise in finding prior art, but here's one from 2002:

http://www.actionscript.org/showMovie.php?id=459

Over a decade ago I was a moderator on the FlashKit forums[1], and this page turning effect was all over the place.

[1] I'm surprised this is still here (in all its cringeworth glory) after 12 years: http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?243303-NETbre...
Benchmarking the cost of try/catch in Javascript
Writing in Medium
> Since Bitcoin does not have a centralized authority, law enforcement faces difficulties detecting suspicious activity, identifying users, and obtaining transaction records

Yeah. Difficulty obtaining bitcoin transaction records. Good on you, FBI.
I love that idea!!!
Not at all. This isn't about forking Android.

People who fork Android wouldn't really benefit from offering a separate SDK anyway. They would want to take advantage of the existing app ecosystem and preserve compatibility, just like Amazon is doing with Kindle Fire.
> The older I get, the harder I have to work to remain
> relevant.

No. I will be 40 in a few weeks and I consider myself more relevant than many many web developers half my age, even if web development currently is not my main activity (it was however for the last 14 years).

The more you know the easier it gets to grasp new stuff — because it is rarely fundamentally different and you can easily see patterns and where it fits.

Just like with languages—the more you know the easier it gets to learn a new one.
Microsoft hasn't bothered to touch WebGL, clearly more interested in their own proprietary Direct3D and Xbox ecosystem.

Apple has had partial WebGL support for years now (started with iAds), but has never switched it on by default, not on OS X or iOS.

What exactly do you expect web developers to do? Keep making the same shitty sites?
Apples and oranges. They address different areas, and so you'll combine them with different other code to fill in the gaps.

Then can even be used together (see, e.g., knockback.js which combines Knockout data binding with Backbone) to complement each other.

All you're really complaining about seems to be lack of data binding in Backbone. So you pick your preferred data binding mechanism and plug it in.
Think of a "design patent" as being a subclass of "trademark", rather than a subclass of "patent". Do you think companies should be able to get trademarks? If so, then you believe most of the case for design patents.
>Then there are many small web developers who make a good living installing, customising, and maintaining CMS systems like wordpress for a wide variety of clients. They don't need to change technologies every month [...]

I've done a little work in this space.

WP changes, plugins rise and fall, UA's come and go, devices spawn ever more variants, SEs adjust algos, design moves to a new focus, customer expectations alter. The technology changes constantly, if you sit still then offering a quality service becomes impossible.

The background is the commoditisation of web site creation using massive web hosts with automated installation and templating systems. Add in the availability of off-shoring of design and coding, eg via 99designs and similar systems. You have a price squeeze, massively increased competition and a continuously rolling variation in the tech.

Personally I don't think it's possible for a single dev to address all the necessary issues any more. Keeping pace with the changes needed to produce optimised and efficient sites is no longer possible as it has been in the recent past.

The field is maturing, this is an expected effect. I'm looking, as I re-enter the field, to pivot in to site optimisation as a bespoke B2B service
>People do not trust "Federal Reserve notes"

I trust Federal Reserve notes. US currency has high barriers to counterfeiting and can be exchanged for goods and/or services with actual rather than virtual anonymity. I may be a cave man, but I'm not alone. US banknotes are the 'gold standard' of black and grey markets around the world.
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He. I am thinking about founding CocoaHeads here in the area... Do you know if CocoaHeads Hamburg is still active?
Then get some other kind of account with a Visa/Mastercard number?
Yes they would be performing a useful function for the bitcoin ecosystem.

No, it's not acceptable to hijack thousands of computers through malware and use their processing power and electricity to mine bitcoin for you. That's why they're malicious, the computers they're using aren't theirs.
Roadcrew.js - Page switching like a Boss
Regexp-based RFC822 email address validation
It's about this sort of fragmentation (vendor incompatibility):
http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-benefits-imp...
I suppose you also believe the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was murder.
People do not trust "Federal Reserve notes" (or any other official currency) - they are forced to use it, since they must pay taxes in it.

That doesn't explain why people continue to accept official currency in excess of their anticipated tax bill, or why criminals who aren't expecting to pay tax at all still deal in official currency.
I do not agree with the overall point. In order to stay relevant you have to build stuff and in building it, you have to constantly improve your techniques, while dealing with scalability (of development, of features, of a bigger consumer base, of growth in general).

If you do that, the other stuff will come naturally. I hate learning new tools. That hasn't stopped me from hitting every single bullet on his list and my list of technologies I worked with is probably bigger than his ... but I learned in response to challenges I faced, not because I feared that I'm no longer relevant (what an awkward notion btw). I couldn't give a damn about what the popular du-jour tools are - I only read about them in passing, then later if I have a concrete problem, maybe I'll remember something about tool X and then I'll go check out if it solves my problem or not.

So basically I consider it far more valuable being able to recognize pain-points, being able to say "this sucks, I need something better" and then act on it. Being able to say NO to certain tools, paradigms and platforms is also a valuable trait. I'm pretty sure that right now developers that worked with and invested time in learning ASP (the original) regret making that choice, especially since far healthier alternatives were available and that are still relevant today. Common sense and good taste should reign supreme (not mentioning a general preference for open-source, but that's another topic for another day).

And that's the healthy attitude. Learning tools and protocols for staying relevant will ensure that you will end up outdated, while the developers that focus on learning about algorithms, design and business will be with us for a really long time.
Isn't it my attention that's the product?
LOL.

Most people do trust cash, within certain limits, because they're not crazy libertarians. The value of bitcoin is every bit as illusory and consensual as paper money.

That it's not under central control and has a fixed supply is interesting, but doesn't give it intrinsic value.
YC is amazing because you have the time to just build, saying that it doesn't make all of the companies but if you give up after not getting in then they made the right decision. Drew Wilson would still have done well. Keep building and as you say once you have traction talk to angels or other incubators like 500Startups.
Dyson hand vacuums and their funny-shaped air circulators have been using reluctance motors for a few years. Are they using the same material or do they also rely on neodynium magnets as well?
There's too much prior art for this. Back around 97-99 there were plenty of shareware apps shipped on magazine cover CDs for reading ebooks.

They mostly adopted a quasi-skeuomorphic presentation, complete with (crappy) page turn animations in response to the user clicking next. It was often labelled along the lines of "Now With 3D Page Turning!"
As far as I am aware, they are not completely useless computations. Isn't the model supposed to be that transactions are verified using calculations of effectively a tuned brute force method where the brute force needed is tuned to the power of the network. Tuning the difficulty means that no-one else can beat it to the brute force goal without having comparable computational power.

In that sense the computation no less useless than any other cryptographic technique that has complexity to thwart brute force attacks.

[I may be completely off base here, I wouldn't call myself a bitcoin expert, but this is how I perceived it]
Hang on, aren't the transaction records public and stored by the whole network?
Screencasting Like a Pro : Beginning, Middle, and End
> Do you think companies should be able to get trademarks? If so, then you believe most of the case for design patents.

BS. see fashion - strongly enforced trademarks, no design patents.
A Tale of Two [Vendor] Lock-ins
For China-based accelerator Haxlr8r, ‘hardware is the new software’
The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers.

What does a botnet cost?
My point is that you're focusing on low level kernels only, which obviously need to be simple and highly optimized. However, the number of people actually writing lowlevel HPC code (the super-optimized number crunching inner loops, usually embarrassingly parallel), compared to highlevel code is very small, and certainly isn't the only focus of "the future". It's safe to say that the number of platforms that support more advanced programming features (be it object orientation or closures or message passing or...) will only increase, not decrease. Of course no one wise will be calling virtual functions in inner loops, but they are perfectly fine to use for control flow, configurability, modularity, etc.
Doesn't Germany hold a huge amount of gold? Additionally, the only euro country not collapsing on itself?
Lisp inside HTML looks prettier than I have expected. a HAML templating for LISP would make things better maybe.
The noob who thought programming was easy
There are two obvious ways in which expanding the money supply can go wrong.

1) Bernake et al. are feckless idiots and will leave the money presses running long after inflation rears its head, a la Zimbabwe, causing hyper inflation and the destruction of the world economy

2) The economy picks up a bit and they stop printing. However, that huge pool of money they have created is enough to drive inflation so high that they are either faced with allowing a period of high inflation 70's style or breaking the economy again with restrictive monetary policy.

Outside wild conspiracy theories I don't think 1 is plausible and 2 is hardly likely to lead to the huddled masses attempting to warm themselves around a pile of burning trillion dollar notes. So I think confidence in the dollar is safe for the interim.
Stop unaccountable, censor-friendly ITU from taking control of the Internet
"history repeats itself"

like when sun was worried that googles dalvik might fragment the installationbase vor javaME-based stuff

only that they remained quiet and let them proceed because in the end it might result in smth. good?
This could be easily circumvented by animating a page ripped out of the book, made into a ball, and tossed in the general direction of an Apple-looking product.
1) is not plausible unless it happens. Hyperinflations tend to happen only once in a history of a fiat currency.

It sounds a little bit crazy to propose that hyperinflation would happen to one of the really big world currencies (euro, dollar, yen...). But I don't see any technical reasons why it couldn't happen at some point in the future.
Publish HTML5 animations to the cloud
The US Dollar area (i.e. the US) has come closer to default than the Eurozone.
I think that's standard for SCSS, it does it when I'm creating Rails web applications, but i'm new to Rails and there's probably a setting to toggle somewhere.
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