skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow I do not feel confidant about correlating language popularity on stackoverflow to the actual popularity. For some languages (e.g. in my observation:, c#, objective c), there are only few tutorial/sample code outside of stackoverflow as compared to other languages (e.g. again in my observation Java). This makes more and more activity on stackoverflow for some languages as compared to the other languages which has more sample/tutorial on other place on internet.
In my observation, whenever I am writing code in c# and objective c, I almost always land to stackoverflow by google search but this is not the case whenever I write code in JAVA
Identifying good offshore Ruby and Rails vendors - a guide.
Honestly, this is somewhat odd/surprising since AT&T has been known not to allow access to the APN settings, as opposed to T-mobile for example.
The problem is that Apple is the one and only gatekeeper here. $99 for a lot of apps, like independent games made for a competition, is a very high barrier to entry. Were Apple to allow third party certificates, and/or use the existing ecosystem for software signing certificates, there would be a lot fewer issues with this.
Wish he had touched on the rate at which consumer-oriented startups are failing. My perception is that the success rate is going down, and we only have huge success stories (Pinterest, Kickstarter) and failures. I'm counting acquihires as failures because we just don't know. But my perception might be wrong. We do know that only a tiny minority of apps are making any money in the App Store, and the move from the web to phones must mean there are fewer successful web startups as well.
This will only let you change the settings for data, but won't work for MMS. This was the problem raised by the initial post by Nathan Anderson. (please correct me if I'm wrong though)
This is comparing against an MK802 II there is a recently released dual core version, newer models also have an extra full size USB port. http://store.cloudsto.com/dual-core-rikomagic-mk802-iii.html
Not if you're too scared to take the risks that lead to making them.
There really is not much more to say about this than that it is very, very cool.
Rails 4.0 Roundup
When I saw that sweylas's stuff has disappeared, I asked them in an email if it will be back again. I didn't get an answer so I implemented my own version: http://redditsnapshots.com/ (running since March 2012)
No, you are not alone. And I am sad to miffed at lack of support for Opera too.

There was a jquery fundamentals website that had the same problem. To compound matters, Chrome font rendering is godawfully bad on my machine.
You can also easily run unsigned apps by ctrl+clicking them and selecting "open". Once you do this once the app can be opened normally from that point.

Still I also worry that Apple may get rid of these workarounds in the future and wall off the garden further.
This post is extremely bad and is just a rehash of the original post by Nathan Anderson with added misunderstandings, errors and drama.
How Is Google Like Attila
who else should be the gatekeeper on their own platform? $99/year is not a lot.
Minor point - the quotation at the bottom of the page looks like it's being attributed to Matz.
London Removal service
Interesting:

-Argentina and Chile object to Patagonia Inc's attempt at .patagonia

-India objects to .bible

-Nigeria objects to Delta Airlines attempt at .delta

-China objects to .shangrila from some hotel chain by the same name

-Australia objects to most everything else including .sucks
This makes sense if employees are paid hourly. But if they are, the amount of time they are spending in meetings is far more limited than salaried employees.
The article is shallow. It starts by casting doubt on the current crop of MOOCs - “if the lecture was such a bad format in the industrial age, why does it suddenly get celebrated once digitized and streamed into a web browser in the information age?”

The problem was not the format, it was the accessibility: cost, geographical limitations, time spent going through a full 4 or 5 year program. But the article is worded in such a way as to make MOOCs seem just online versions of the old system.

They are not. There was no possibility to listen in small batches, replay, consult hundreds of forum topics on the subject and do it from any computer in the world for free before.

In my opinion the only missing thing is coaching. There is something to be said about the psychological impact of a person standing in front of you, giving you his/her full attention. Instead of teachers and TAs we need educational coaches - people who could help us carve a path through the jungle of courses, discover and encourage our strong points, and just plain watch our progress.
Consciousness is defined as the ability to experience things subjectively.

There are active paradigms to detect it in non-communicating subjects (playing tennis in one's head while in an FMRI, for example), and research is under way to find passive paradigms.

See for example: Preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21566197 , or this: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/a-tool-to-quantify-cons...
It's interesting to see someone claim the costs of starting up are rising. That's a monumental shift in the trend of the last 10(?) years.
Ok, lets create an article named "how those nerdy geeks can think just with their wands only when reading a women's sexuality related topic" ...

You are sexist. This article is not "excellent". It's good. Plus, it's been written by a woman. Maybe ovaries' smelling will push up its rank for you, weak person.
I don't rent cars all that of then so there may be all kinds of Pro Tips that I don't know.

My biggest gripe with car rentals is not the experience at the counter but the schlep from the terminal to the rental car district. First there is the wait for the shuttle bus, then the tour of the other terminals, then the drive to the rental lost. By the time you get to the counter you've lost 30 minutes of your life to waiting and ferrying.

So for me the core problem is that the car is not somewhere extremely convenient at the terminal when I need it. I do recall some uber-statused folks at my work having the rental car company meet them at the curb with the car but this seemed to be an arcane and rarified perk.

It's kinda like the last mile problem. Once you actually get to the rental hub then it's pretty painless and quick but getting from the plane to the rental lot is a slow mess.
My parents have run a bookstore for 30 years, and I spent most of my late elementary school years and all of high school running it after school and on the weekends. It was and still is a very large (100,000 books) bookstore and now also a full restaurant (restaurant downstairs, bookstore upstairs -- in a 6,000 square foot space). Now, I work in tech.

Like your store, they also sell on Amazon, ABE Books, Alibris, etc. however, the majority of their revenue comes from people browsing in-store.

I'm not from Boston and haven't been to Lorem Ipsum but I have read that it's a great store based on reviews online.

But before thinking about fresh ideas, I'm curious to know where the problem stems from: are you not able to get enough people through your doors? are they browsing but not buying? what type of profit margin do you have on books generally (obviously this will differ depending on the type of book, etc)? Also, what is the demographic like where your store is located -- are there readers who will come in and buy a stack of books?

I truly believe there will continue to be a market for physical books, especially used, out-of-print, rare and aesthetically beautiful books that you crave to touch (ie. photography, cooking, art, etc.).

Despite working in tech, being 26, and having 3 iPads in my possession, I will continue to buy tangible books for that immersive, tangible experience.

What is dying, in my opinion, is this concept of going to a bookstore to find a particular item. The future of bookstores lies in the serendipitous discovery, particularly of books that offer some sort of aesthetic value, out-of-print, rare, etc. rather than rushing out to a local bookstore to buy the latest Stephen King, which will be consumed over a weekend.

Anyway, my point is that while yes, fresh ideas can tweak the ability to drive traffic, I think it's worth investigating those fundamental questions and whether you're well located to attract those with the disposable income who can spend $100 impulsively, that you're maximizing your profit margin, and whether you have the right stock that will covert browsers into buyers and attract people to come back.

Also think about opening up a coffee shop or something else that people will come to regularly to serve as a sort of lead generator to get people in the door. It could also be a book club, event, musician, etc. It doesn't need to generate much profit -- it needs to get people in the door who will then browse and buy books which, if planned properly, should have a VERY high profit margin (even while offering what look like bargain prices to customers).

Good luck and please hang in there! I hope next time I'm in Boston to be able to come and visit.
Can someone cross reference this to the list of gTLD that were initially submitted? To see what ones weren't objected to?
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You re in troubles ... Probably a perv ...
It seems like they fit a different need -- the differing number of USB ports and wired/wireless Ethernet are what most users are going to care about.

(Sure, you can use a USB hub, but then you're into another rats nest of cabling.)
how do you recover your applications?

You mean google apps? Well, you could keep a local copy of office around, it's not exactly rocket science.

When someone else hosts it, you're at their mercy.

And when you host it, you're at your own mercy.

Matching the availability of google tends to cost a little more than a hypothetical day of downtime would.

There are plenty valid concerns about hosting your office in the cloud. However, availability and TCO are normally the main arguments for google apps, not the other way round. Those infrastructure costs really add up when you're talking thousands of seats.
The manufacturer of the MK802 claims a processor speed of 1.5 GHz. The CPU runs at 1.0 GHz, the GPU at 500 MHz. They add this to get 1.5 GHz. LOL
> When most people think "education", they aren't talking about learning, but the complete package of learning, social activities, and making connections. That is expensive. You need a nice campus with plenty of green space to lie about and play frisbee.

Unfortunately this expensive-frisbee-throwing-star-gazing-social-networking-package is a requirement to just get past the front door of most places.

Some of us really don't need or want the social aspect of college. I'd like to get a BSStat degree and a BMath degree, and I'd like to do this without having to throw a frisbee at someone. At the same time I don't want to get a print-out from <insert shady fly-by-night internet college>.

Personally I believe there are more people like me (just give me the degree and keep social networking at the bar) but I don't know if there has been any studies to prove either way.
Gotta say I have to give props to Australia for objecting to most of these. Some relevant reading:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120613/12491719310/rip-of...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121116/02455021073/domain...
Both you and gvb seem to perhaps lack first-hand experience of machine shops.

It's not just "repairing code"... Oftentimes, small job shops will be taking a dimensioned drawing and write their own G code to actually generate the objects.

This will probably involve some back-and-forth with the machine stepping through the part manufacture, and must be done carefully to guarantee that both the machining is done efficiently by the machine and that the program doesn't result in a catastrophic failure damaging the workpiece, the tool, the machine, the operator, or some combination of the above.

This is, in fact, skilled work. Moreover, experienced operators know how to check parts for proper dimensioning (QC at the bench), perform maintenance on their machines and change tools, and watch a part in progress to make sure something really dumb isn't about to happen.

Moreover, the job doesn't stop at the machining center--you may still have to go and clean things up manually, do welding, do polishing, or any number of finishing touches.

Keeping this all working together is not something to laugh at.

I haven't even touched on the logistical challenges of retooling or upgrading equipment, or operating with machines that (unironically) still accept paper tape.
Yes, but the reasons are somewhat different. If anything, startup costs have gone down with technology costs and as access to technology increases. The problem now is that with the great saturation of these consumer web startups, and the "startup-gold-rush" mentality of everyone trying to start a company, the "bar" has been set much higher for an acceptable product. It's no longer good enough to have an app that works, it must work, and be beautiful, and be cross-platform, and use the cloud, and have social integration, and ...
I'll go to Google. Googler is much better sound than Facebook staff :D
Except when you buy an explicitly unlocked phone, you expect to be able to use different SIM cards, and some carrier SIM cards don't work in the unlocked phone because you can't set the MVNO setting in iOS 6.x (you could prior to that)

My guess is that its just a 'bug' and it only affects a 'minority' of the users, so its not on the stop ship list. But I have no insights into Apple or their process.
This reminds me of this book I purchased on Kindle a while ago. Every time the author made a remark that he felt was "quote-worthy," he would highlight it and add a link to share it on Twitter or Facebook (hashtags and all).

I returned the book.
My interpretation of this is that Common Lisp is a computer scientist's language (lots of code written in it, very few questions, presumably these are very advanced level questions).

On the other hand, C# and Visual Basic are weekend coders' languages (reasonable amounts of code, massive amounts of very basic level questions).
It's not called JAVA. It's called Java. Why do you write it in all-caps?
This whole gLTD thing is stupid and will cause horrible confusion and scamming.

There should be .global or .world and each country should pick a translation or two of "global", and they should all be aliases for each other. Basically just make non-US-specific version .com for all uses.
Automated sub-sub conscious processors in the brain are mostly responsible for how little information the higher mind has to deal with. If there is a tree in a movie, the visual cortex will say "It's a tree, what next?". If there is an abstract tree symbol, the visual cortex will say "What is this giant solid color block sitting in the middle of my field of view?" and send it up to your conscious mind for processing, resulting in a more taxing experience for the audience. Of course, if we knew how the brain worked, we could maybe somehow send signals directly to whatever ball of neurons handles abstract concepts...
There is actually something else going on here. I have never seen the 'this app is damaged' error and I think it is because Flash creates those 'Projectors' in some incompatible way.

Unsigned binaries are really not an issue. People who know what they are doing can completely turn the check off, or you can leave it on simply 'command-click and choose open' once to add the app to the whitelist. I do this all the time.

But really 'this app is damaged' is something different. I think the apps start working as a side-effect of code signing that masks the real issue here.
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I love this, but I would like to be able to return to my solved puzzles after I've done them (assumed that's what the "Save" button did).

Quite happy to finally get level 11 done.
I agree - single-purpose applications are only necessary if you want to take advantage of functionality beyond what a typical browser provides... which is a very small fraction of apps on the market. News publications tend to be the worst with this - if all I want to do is read your content, I'd rather just visit your mobile site, especially if you put all your resources into iOS/Android/etc. solely behind designing a good site.

Sometimes, it seems like we're back in the 90s, developing for three different platforms (browsers) simultaneously... except we've regressed even more, because even less code is shared between the platforms (and now the server logic may even need to be tweaked to support all clients).

The more things change, the more things stay the same....
...so my knowledge of Abstract Algebra and Category Theory could actually have practical applications if I learn Haskell?

Edit: I phrased this flippantly, but it's a serious question. My educational background is in Math, specifically Abstract Algebra. Would learning Haskell actually help me use those concepts for practical purposes?
> I'm counting acquihires as failures because we just don't know.

I'd add: During tech bubble v1, the acquihire deals stopped as the many failures put significant amounts of talent on the market. For example: Salaries for IC designers quickly rationalized.
I always wonder about headlines like this, schools exist to educate students, if they provide value to the students they will exist. Its the nature of the market. If they don't provide value they will cease to exist (unless maintained by an unholy subsidiary of tax payer money)
so there should be an audio compression algorithm that can reduce 5min tracks to 5k files (and still sound equivalent to uncompressed tracks)? that seems a little optimistic to me.
Augmented reality for 3D printing
That's something I've been thinking about lately. I personally don't learn any better from MOOCs than I do from working my way through a good textbook. So if universities were going to be obsoleted, the printing press is what should've done it, if most people learned like me. However, MOOC advocates are, I presume, betting that for most people a good series of video lectures is a more compelling way of learning than a good textbook. I wonder if it's the modality (visual vs. aural learners, etc.), the social pressure of people "taking a class" together, or something else.

edit: For me personally, the biggest advance the internet has brought in autodidacticism is actually mainly on the textual front too: Wikipedia makes it much easier to find and navigate bodies of knowledge, and nicely complements the linear style of learning that you get by working through a textbook. There have long been encyclopedias of course, but Wikipedia is much bigger than most, always at hand, and somehow much easier to get engrossed in.
I see meetme groups forming around MOOC courses. It's not "The College Experience" but it carries much of the same value.
So, the proper argument here would be in support of something like CoffeeScript which compiles to JS, much as we would expect C compilers to generate our MIPS code for us.

My concern is basically born out of my background using C++; a lot of very well-meaning additions have been made over time to that language, and now it's so sprawly that using it at different shops is annoying. C++ these days is basically begging to be replaced by C with bindings to a scripting engine, because it's too damned unwieldy for most other purposes (the joke goes, everybody uses a different 90% of the features).

I'm just concerned that JavaScript, an elegant if flawed little language, is going to get enterprisified by well-meaning developers who lack foresight and who haven't learned from others.
It's the Holy Spirit.

God says...

the remembrance of them from the earth.

34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out
of all their troubles.

34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all.

34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
shall be desolate.

34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
that trust in him shall be desolate.
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If the FCC wanted to improve competition they could mandate sim cards for phones. It's your phone that keeps you tied to a network.
Does that matter? Are Java and JAVA so different? I am not a native English speaker.
I have seen this screwed up time and time again. People who don't know how all this works shouldn't be writing C++, but they do and I have to deal with the things they break. Most of my code isn't broken by incompetent colleagues, it's incompetent clients that use the code. Maybe the experience is different when you're writing commercial libraries which is what I've been doing for the past few years.

I guess you and I have had vastly different experiences. boost has improved my code immeasurably. I cannot stand the "C with classes" approach. All the code I've come across the uses that approach is always broken in subtle ways the could be avoided by using the simple utilities in boost. I think in the end it is probably just personal preference.

I'll agree with you about Bjork. But I am a serious musician and the best musician I have every been in the presence of loved Bjork.
This is a pretty poor comparison given that the RPi has full linux, hardware accel, etc. The MK802 is not nearly as open. No results about XBMC playback, etc :(
Useful, thank you for posting. Obviously, this isn't a user interaction that you want to use everywhere, but there are plenty of situations where editing individual fields via mini-modals like this will make lots of sense.

For one thing, I can see where having this in the toolbox might enable one to bang out a fast admin-type view quickly--and sometimes being able to implement some relatively "utilitarian" view quickly is what lets you spend the proper amount of time on views that you want to implement more traditionally/fancily.

The use of "links" to launch the little dialogs doesn't personally bother me for whatever reason. (Though I get that sometimes it's just preference--for instance I have always disliked the use of drop-downs as navigation controls, but re-purposing the link element as shown in these x-editable demos doesn't--not sure I can defend why).
Producing Code for Machines and Humans: DSLs and Bits
Moleskin notebook for iPhones
Even absent government policy, it's quite possible for contingent organizations to exist long past their sell-by date, because of the ravine their existence has sketched in the market landscape.

And with government subsidies--and imagining the American education market as moving toward existing without them is a flight of fancy--they can be disastrously harmful and still continue forever.
I agree, touch devices are the problem. I think there may be some apps out there for HN and the like, but a mobile-designed site would suit me better.
For some people (students, hobbyists), it is.