skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but you should really read the Journalist Ethic Code. You should not express opinions but facts. That is your job as a journalist and I'm sick of people doing otherwise, especially engadget.
"Like any other citizen, the journalist has a right to political and other convictions. However, in his/her professional activity he/she should remain neutral and objective."
You present the facts undistorted and unbiased, not your own opinions and we form our own opinion! This is how it's supposed to work...
The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 12.10
>Once Google stuff gets working, most of it, so for example [Linus reaches for the phone we're using to record the interview]... "Oh, it's an iPhone... screw you! I'm not talking to you anymore".

Linus never ceases to be a source of entertainment.
I forget which, but there is some "uses compxchg" criteria for some certification levels in, for example CENELEC and other normatives that the JVM still has to maintain its foothold on. This is to assist with discovery mostly, because its an explicit instruction which can be traced.
its because the black spots on the sun lower your skill in programming due to cosmic radiation, so everybody program when the sun is on the other side of the earth! easy =^,^=
"It's only recently I've fully started to appreciate just how much money enterprise clients willing drop on "simple" products that meet their needs."

Not just enterprise clients - almost any business.

I run a tiny, cash-strapped film production company and do various bits of Internet Marketing stuff on the side. We're about the smallest entity you could imagine that can still be called a "company".

I'll cheerfully drop $100 or more per month on a service that will save me a day a month of work or increase profits on a project by 10% - because in both cases, I come out ahead.

Consumers are buying on "value", on gut feelings and emotion, and all sorts of other things. Businesses are buying on "will this make me more money than it costs?"
That's a really good way to put it.
Interesting how you can deduct from my comment the language I use.
That's why I mostly stick to C#.
Geo-redirected blogspot URLs are getting a bit out of hand on HN!

I submitted this as well (.au): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799685

And of course it was also submitted as .com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4800296

Have an upvote to try and get some discussion on this article, but I wonder how many others aren't making it to the front page because of diluted votes?
Looks like it's your browser: http://i.imgur.com/xsWgk.png (or maybe they are a/b-testing it?)
C++: Understanding The Switch Statement
Why is $49 for a copywriting ebook overpriced? Speaking personally, if I can get one useful idea from a book on copywriting, the chances are it's going to pay for that $49 somewhere between 10 and 100 times over, perhaps more.

And many copywriting books I've bought had 2 or even more useful ideas in them.
I thought you were describing me, right down to the sales numbers.

Agreed that the real cash here is in contracting. Use appstore apps as exemplars of your work, make your actual $ consulting.
Yup. Great language, awesome IDE.
It's a Webkit thing.
It's only C/C++/Java :(

I think I will solve them by myself for myself in Perl.
"by the way, weeText works better than Google Docs."

That sounds like the minimum viable product. If it in ran in my browser regardless of an internet connection, that might make it an alternative to many text editing tools.

Good luck.
Apple Purchases 1,024 Patents From Rockstar Consortium
Yes, the decorators. One of the problems of new web frameworks like bottle.py, too.
My only question is whether Faler switched to vi or emacs when he ditched Eclipse. If we're going to start flamewars with broad generalizations, perhaps we should do it properly (hmmm ... it appears I can troll effectively on HN without an IDE).

In the mean-time, I'd recommend the use of a good IDE and extensive test suite when you're refactoring. Use whatever you like (or are fastest in) when you're producing new code.
To me, it's not about how many devices they have and whether that makes sense, it's about the fact that they had spent $200,000, which then generated $5,000 (this year only, don't know how long they've been at it), they had to move to a smaller flat, the guy had to get another job, and then they just had to buy two new iPhone 5s (which are mentioned later on in the article). Why? Can you justify spending that if your income from iOS development is $5,000 a year? That what gives me the feeling it's an addiction.

Now, I assume the new iPhone 5 is so different to the ones before it (screen size) that you have to test for it separately. If I was down $195,000 in a year (or two) and I felt this, I'd buy a new generation iPod touch instead. Or two, if they really can't share the device.

I also look at the picture and I question if they really need 5 computers between them if they only work on the two laptops.

Anyway, my point is not that having X amount of devices (Apple or others) per person is an addiction, if you can afford it, go for it and enjoy yourself. My point is that this couple seem to be struggling financially and cannot stop themselves from buying more devices. I'm trying not to be judgemental, but to me it sounds like an addiction.
Well, there's lies, damn lies and benchmarks, but the Shootout has Go: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=go (only the standard compiler, though. No gccgo)
Managing multiple languages with Appcelerator Titanium
> In reliability planning, 2 is 1 and 1 is none. A single founder is a SPoF. They get cancer, get an unsupportive SO, get a needy family member, lose a rich uncle, etc., they kill the company. Having 2+ founders guards against these likelihoods (over the course of the company).

Not really true at all, as has been pointed out by other posters.

In the book "masters of doom" they relate that even though Id software had 4 founders when it came time for them to get key man insurance the only person they got it on was John Carmack.

I'd think that most companies are like this. There may be multiple co-founders but there is usually one signifcant one, who if they quit, would sink the company very quickly.
Steve Balmer, here's how to fix Windows 8
Give an option to permanently switch between the touch centric Metro UI and the traditional Windows UI. Preferably when I install. And on a per user basis.
This is strange "I like the Macbook Air, but I don't use OS X on it obviously; but they did stupid things, so it's more inconvenient than a PC."
In my experience as a merchant, disputes can be very time sensitive (i.e. travel cancellations). On one hand, finding out about a misunderstanding from you (rather than a chargeback fax two months later) may allow a much easier dispute resolution and be so be valuable to a merchant. But on the other hand, customers who cancel/complain by charging back instead of calling the merchant may therefore lose a chargeback because they miss an agreed deadline. Adding your service as a middleman could lead to further missed deadlines.

This is especially true since any good merchant privacy policy/PCI DSS would of course prevent them from discussing anything with you without direct approval from the customer first - and if they did that, they may as well discuss the issue direct anyway.

Lastly, the toughest chargebacks can take months to resolve. Help with that (as a merchant) would be very useful(and so I can imagine you providing a compelling service), but are you really committing to take on a potentially complex issue for the customer? And wouldn't it be a conflict to represent both parties? Still, a tool that eases the admin of chargebacks could be great for both sides...
Building Companies to Last- Jim Collins
This was clearly marked as an 'editorial' piece.

Editorials follow a different set of principles.
The question is, how solid is your data? Having that strong bias against single founder companies, do you think your data is still dependable?
That's very useful, thank you. I wish it had PyPy, though...
Database is Postgres.

File store remains an open question we've deferred on by not yet implementing file upload ;) The master is likely to be Riak and CloudFront as the CDN for it.

API is written in Go.

Front-end is Python and Django, though we have a number of volunteers who are asking for hackathons to help implement the front. Some of these know Ruby and Rails and not Django... so it may be that we actually offer two flavours of front-end... the official one which we will update in Django and an alternative one in Rails.

We've had people already ask things like, "Why not Mongo and Node?".

But we just don't go there. Such questions can be asked until the cows come home, and we prefer to just get things done today than engage in non-pragmatic debates.
World Changing Ideas 2012 - 10 radical innovations to alter our lives
Yes, 4.2 has far worse performance than prior releases. It's taken the shine off of an otherwise excellent piece of kit.

It's also disappointing that some longstanding Chrome issues have not been fixed.

If the option were available to go back, I would take it.
"If it is true that greater than 70% of all companies are started or owned by one person, you would be able to make the conclusion that more single founders fail than should on average."

Not really ... it only indications that more single founders fail to grow fast enough to make Deloitte's list.
Super cool stuff. :-)
The partial flags update stall to which INC is vulnerable is tiny -- on the order of 10 cycles -- and generally not a significant factor except in tiny loops with carried flag dependencies that are executed millions of times. Also, the stall has been largely eliminated on recent Intel µarchs (Sandybridge and later). That said, ADD is no worse and sometimes better, so there's really no good reason to use INC.
Kim Dotcom’s plan to give New Zealanders free Internet could just work
Internet censorship in Russia - Lurk no more
I used 100 elements per document since I plan on benchmarking support for parallel array indexes using two array fields with 10 elements each.
Conclusive proof: Sex is more enjoyable than Facebook
> In a sense, I already do disclose such data in a general way, because whenever I write or say anything about startups, I wouldn't contradict trends I know about.

That's a bit circular, if people would question the things you write or say about startups, you'd tell them they are backed by empirical data, then when someone asks for this data you tell them its implied by the things you write or say about startups.

I can totally understand why most of that data is hard or impossible to disclose, that's obvious. But you can't cite secrets as evidence, all you can do is say "trust me, I know what I'm talking about". You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Obviously no one is questioning the existence of that data, nobody's suggesting you're cooking it up, they're just wondering if they'd spot the same patterns in it as the ones you perceived to be there.

To sum it up, whenever you write or say anything about startups, the only thing you disclose about such data in a general way, is the conclusions that you drew from it, what you perceived (not "know") to be a trend, which is probably useful and very valuable, but is something entirely different than the data itself.
Database systems: why is it hard to scale a database, in layman's terms?
I did the same years back. Ported the entire win32 API to lua. Automatically generated the code. But the work was hard never the less.
He is a co-founder: http://www.tokutek.com/about/team/
I can't wait to see what demographic of gamers this ends up attracting.
Please. Killing the clones was the only choice Steve had.

The cloners e.g. Power Computing in particular weren't interested in the Mac platform at all. They were simply interested in making money. And the easiest way to do this was to target existing Mac prosumers which were the most profitable segment.

Which meant the overall Mac market didn't increase at all which was the whole point of the clones.
Asked on Quora: Why is Twitter adding so many restrictions on their API Usage?
"Eventually, though, the flywheels lost mass and the engine wore out."

Will we be reading this again in 10 years?
RiderOfGiraffes tried that (with jacquesm's posts); the results were as you described. (I was a great fan of RoG's attempts to make HN more efficient, but...)
I've used a wide variety of languages, and I've yet to encounter one that wouldn't have been better with good IDE support.

I like having the ability to refactor quickly, to hop to method definitions with ease, to have a quality integrated debugger, and blah blah blah. A good language might make some of that less required, but it doesn't stop it being useful. And, really, if an IDE is required for a language to be useful, but once that IDE is in place the language is useful, why would you not consider language + IDE an indivisible pair? What real relevance does it have that the language on its own is not that great?

Java + Eclipse is Perl + CPAN, or JS + jquery/dojo. Something you have no business criticising unless you've made the effort to use/understand it in its whole.

Java isn't a great language, but Java + Eclipse is really quite tolerable. The majority of people I've known who really hate it (as opposed to the usual sense of vague frustration that obvious improvements haven't been made...) are people who are unwilling to adapt themselves and their tooling to fit.
Thanks ;) It's rather a simple script, but I've always wanted to read PG essays on my Kindle.
Great to see a book about C that includes insights and best practices the community at large has found since the more traditional textbooks were published. I may pick up the ebook version for a rainy weekend.

The title makes me cringe though. It inevitably evokes a picture of a poor sod writing a book on "20th century warfare" in 1912.
I remember that -- Jacques (I like to think of him as "the other Jacques") turned up and made it clear he wasn't a fan of the practice.

I suppose Dijkstra wouldn't object, so long as I proved it was soundly programmed.
I run a branding, web design and social media marketing company called WebCreators.in (http://webcreators.in). as per my view you can use some platform like KickStarter to get crowdfunded
I read it along the lines of:

(eql yccompany astartup)
Nil
(equal yccompany startup)
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In the wake of the application cycle, it has a bit of the "you can still be awesome" about it.
Coffee overshoot = overspeccing the coffee requirements thruout the day causing you to stay awake longer than you had planned.
It doesn't surprise me a great deal - Mongo doesn't have a history of being a technologically strong database system. While it is/was perceived as high performance, it's always been clear that this performance was gained as a result of compromises rather than technical excellence.
I agree with the "vote of no confidence" being completely off base. If I have people wanting to be a cofounder than that means I probably am in a position where I do not need a cofounder (as my company is doing well enough that people are asking me for equity). There are many good arguments for why having a single cofounder might be bad, but this one seems just plain wrong.
Is it an online course?
I can't find the way to enroll in.
> Honestly, I doubt even large corporations spend $200,000 to create an iPhone app.

I just don't understand how you manage it. I develop apps for large corporations, and you're right: most of them aren't spending $200k - and the ones that are spending $200k are getting serious software and a full team (designers, PMs, developers, testers, etc).

Although the story is a little unclear: it talks about $200k in "lost income and savings", which is a little different to putting money up front.
Have they? I thought the only crash was when a person in a car crashed into the back of one? (pretty sure the self-driving car was being driven by a person at that point too).
Was this generated with Clang? I hope it was not written by hand...
Possibly with https://github.com/tjfontaine/node-libclang. I'm actually working on a node module that will automatically parse header files using libclang and make native dynamic libraries available with no configuration required on the end of the developer. It will eventually be part of https://github.com/olalonde/better-require if you're interested.
Experimental evidence seems to indicate otherwise[0]. Specifically outside observers punish insincerity (coerced or feigned apologies) more harshly than insensitivity (no apology) and in far greater degree than the wronged party punishes either.

So if there are third parties present, the best strategy is not to apologize unless you are fairly certain it will be viewed as sincere. In the absence of a 3rd party, apology is the winning strategy regardless of sincerity.

I found it interesting that the recipient of the apology is made to feel better not because the wrongdoer cares enough to apologize but because it is an opportunity to be seen by others and affirm one's self-image as magnanimous and gracious by accepting. We are such odd creatures.

The best course of action is to express regret without accepting responsibility unless you actually believe you were at fault.

[0] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/92/3/418/
There's not a single line in the interview that confirms this title. In fact he says he does not code anymore today. WTF?
Republicans Flame Romney’s Digital Team
You didn't really give a good reason as to why you uninstalled it.

Did you switch to 9 or 8, and why are either of them better in your opinion?
An exit is not the only way for a company to return money to investors. If it makes money it can pay the a steady stream of dividends.
Groundhog day
This is why like in most lines of business, the best technique is to reach a "sale" (or at least a lead) as soon as possible and then fill in the blanks. Spending ages perfecting something you "want" to build and then trying to find a market for it is incredibly risky whether it's an app or a startup. Perhaps build a quick prototype, build up demand, find buyers, then build the app.
ActiveRecord style Android ORM. Open sourced.
When I started playing I saw that Resistance had more global control. I just checked, they still have (55% R to 45% E).

Anyway, in my case, the decision had several reasons. As far as the narrative goes I sided with Resistance, but thougth to myself: hell, it's time for a change. There was also a little bit of "transhumanists vs. bioconservatives" orangecat mentioned, and then maybe a little bit of: a) I got an invitation from a Resistance guy so I thougth going to the other team will be more fun, and b) I have small negative feelings toward Ada (because of the overblown popularity of A. Lovelace) and small positive feelings for Jarvis (AI from Iron Man movies!) :).
This article highlights how most app developers try to enter the App Store without any kind of business plan. To buy that many Apple devices when you are only making $20/day is plain stupid.

When we started FIPLAB, we didn't even buy a single Apple device (other than the iMac I already had for personal use). We used my friend's 1st Gen iPod Touch to test our app on and did everything possible to not waste money without first seeing whether we could make it in this business. 3 years on, and everyone in our team is making a good living doing what they love.

The App Store today is a totally different beast and unless you are very lucky, you won't make it big without a proper strategy that involves at least a few of the following (1. securing press coverage on popular websites/blogs, 2. Having a budget to spend tens of thousands EACH DAY on generating downloads (or a cross promo network to leverage your current userbase), 3. Developing a viral app that quickly propels itself up the starts.
This is a zombie game. You are the zombies. ;-)
Why do you need a cofounder for any of this? Just yesterday a friend of mine sat down and we both talked database architecture. We talked about it for his company (that I have no equity in) and my company (which he has no equity in).
... and the Cloud Broker Tapp.in keeps on growing
Modern logging for Linux: The Systemd Journal [video, talk]
How Airbnb is turning into Craigslist:
Yes. See League of Legends and Team fortress 2 on PC and all the top grossing games on iOS and android. Developers follow the money.
I doubt it. Tim Cook may not have Jobs' charisma or vision, but he's eminently competent and Apple is nowhere near as dysfunctional a company as it was in the 90s. They'll probably peter off a bit, but I can't see Apple returning to the verge of bankruptcy with its current leadership group.
I'm glad that you and your co-founder help each other do that. Some people can self motivate, have enough self confidence to avoid startup depression, talk to other company owners in the industry on a daily basis, and have enough cash to hire employees from the beginning to do work that the single founder isn't as good at.

This "everyone should do it this way" attitude is stupid. For some people having a co-founder is necessary and for some it isn't.
Of course the line is existent and it is clearly visible: the browser as a general sucks in UX compared to what can you easily do with native API of your platform.
This fix is very recent. Not sure whether it's in the stable builds of JDK 7.
Not really. For example, "I think broccoli tastes delicious" is a legitimate opinion. On the other hand, "I think broccoli tastes like sulfuric acid" is not a valid opinion because it is absurd. Namely ingesting sulfuric acid in any real quantity to make a determination of flavor would have killed me.
This has been fixed very recently: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7023898
This is the primary reason I am a single founder. I am extremely passionate about the company I run and have a very clear vision for what I want this company to accomplish and I do not want to have to fight for this vision with a cofounder or a board.
The reason is that it's a possessive apostrophe, not a contraction.
Yeah, the interview is better than the linkbait headline imo. I'm not sure what HN etiquette is on that these days. I used to try to come up with better titles if I thought the original was poor, but they always get changed back by moderators, so it seems the de-facto rule is to use the original?
It really exploded with the iPod; it took several years but Steve was ultimately able to check off Searls' list.
8G with plenty of free space.
"Having a budget to spend tens of thousands EACH DAY on generating downloads" implies that you are probably generating more than that from your apps.

Do you have tips on each of the mentioned points? Details would be very interesting. Also how do you evaluate app ideas for example to come to apps like "Ghost for G+", the "Menu Tab" series and "Ask A Girl"?
How Free Speech Died on Campus
Introverts can still be authorities in their field and have a big influence over others. And they can capitalize on this influence. A small company doesn't need to be doing all of its biz dev at parties or social gatherings.
Designing Services: The Customer Journey Canvas
The Customer Journey Canvas has been developed to support you when designing services. You can use it not only to give yourself a quick overview of certain service processes, but also with providers for a self-portrayal and with customers and other stakeholders to explore and evaluate services.
oh dear - wake locks not wake clocks

but the best version i have heard is wave locks
So What’s Wrong With The States?
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Which of what you mentioned is rhetoric and which of what you mentioned reflects itself in policy? Social issues are almost never decided by Federal Government, while economic policies are. So if you are a libertarian (which it sounds like you are) you will likely be better off voting for a conservative over a liberal for President/Senate/Congress.
The point of breaking down