skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve jobs didn't do "better in everything" when he came back. He knew he couldn't win the race, so he changed the rules : a computer had to be "pretty" as well, and (re)introduced a very strong emphasis on design, with the marketing that goes with it (remember those dancing translucent imacs).

I guess that means you don't have to be absolutely better on everything, but just one thing that others underestimated and which could compensate for everything else you may be lacking (imacs were expensive, slow,and not compatible with windows).

In the case of blackberry that could mean restart from a niche, such as extra-strong security, beat everybody else on that market with science-fiction stuff such as retina authentication, ultra strong encryption everywhere, etc...
What I would be worried about, especially in the US, would be the FBI joining the Tor network, blasting around CP and then arresting some random person to make an example of them. Given that we presently have laws and executive orders being enforced that seem to contradict the constitution, etc., I don't have a lot of confidence in what a lawyer thinks might happen if this went to trial. Once it's a hot button issue, everything pretty much goes out the window.
Sure, you shouldn't use the most recent hardware as your target, but neither should you spend development time and code complexity to avoid overtaxing 10 year old hardware.
GPS extracts velocity data from the doppler shift of the signals, not by subtracting successive locations, so the 10ft accuracy doesn't come into play. My experience with GPS velocity data has been that it's more accurate than the average car's speedometer as long as you have a decent fix.

Of course, having poor signal in urban canyons or tunnels is the sort of thing I didn't think of, and that's where getting data from the car would really be handy.
A Must Know When Cleaning with Rubbing Alcohol?
Mathematical proofs with visualization
Good answer. Its a shame that a more cosmopolitan attitude does not prevail.
Ekiga 4.0 Released
To beat an incumbent, you have to be superior.
Big congrats to Ross. It's very impressive to build a company to $1MM in a year. I wish we heard more stories like this. It's far more interesting to me than reading about Xero raising a bunch of money.
Which doesn't include the image of the solution since the server hosting the image is down.
If you only look at screen resolution, then his argument held (some) water.

I've got to admit, 768 vertical is a bit poor for developing.
There's ton of WebOS influence in the recent Android versions, Google Now cards, swipe to delete or close etc. Also, the Nexus 4 has wireless charging. Nokia and HTC's recent flagships also have wireless charging.
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Is advertising a right? If so, I've certainly never heard of it.

Advertising is speech (tracking aside). On one's own site, yes, we have a right to advertise.

I think it is time to send congress a message that states that we DO NOT WANT forced advertising and we will not be silent until we get it.

If you don't want advertising, you're free not to use websites with ads. Please don't fuck with free speech just because you don't like them.

Now, tracking is (IMO) a different issue and yes, it should be opt-in.
The TSA as we know it is dead - here's why
Okay, I must be missing something...forget about sexual positions or suffocating infants for a second: how on earth do you keep this thing clean?
>you need to purposefully install Tor and route anonymous traffic to the internet. That entails being held accountable for what this traffic is used for.

This is utterly ridiculous. An ISP has to go to a hell of a lot more effort than that. Does that also entail being held accountable for what the traffic is used for?

The guy most likely installed Tor imagining helping groups like wikileaks, not Jimmy Savile.
Site is down, here's a PDF of the solution: https://nm-files.s3.amazonaws.com/clive-fizz-buzz.pdf
addlepate appears to be hellbanned.

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"Hate" is a weird concept to bring up. RIM went from practically defining this market to having a substandard product. That's why most of their users are unhappy, not because their brand is simply unfashionable or some other kind of perceptual issue.

If BB10 is good, then great, maybe RIM can right the ship and become a real competitor again. We both hope this will be the case.
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Yeah, I bought a new Thinkpad (great keyboard) to replace my broken laptop. But at 1366x768 resolution, I just couldn't be productive. 1600x900 on my new Samsung Series 9 does the trick. Keyboard isn't as awesome, but chuffed with the rest of it.
Using Local Libraries with CocoaPods
Yes that would work for losing your band, similar to a credit card, makes sense.

But with people walking around with the keys to their entire kingdom, I am perhaps more worried about the kidnapping sort of scenario.. Maybe I've just seen too many movies.
GitHub was founded in 2008. The spike is in 2010-01. That's what the question mentions too.
I'd love for there to be a Bob Ross style course on game programming

I'd certainly watch it and I already know how to program!
Game Developers, your lazy enemy design is ruining your awesome game
with storage and computing power reaching the levels it is, why are we still treating our enemy NPCs like sprites and calling them en masse, even when our game would be very well suited to fewer and more unique enemies? (looking at you bioshock).
Thanks for sharing that story. That's a big fear a lot of founders have when they are deciding if they should seek/take VC money.

As far as our team, we were small. CraftJack was owned by the first company I started, Tribe9 Interactive. I owned the majority of that, but I brought on a CTO a few months in to CraftJack and he has a share of Tribe9 and my first employee has a small share as well. But that was it. I was careful to get both of their approvals before taking the deal (although I didn't have to legally as I owned the majority), but I wanted everyone to be on board and would be happy with the move.

Also, the fact that they still own part of Tribe9 means they have equity in future companies we start or invest in (we already co-founded and invested in one called Mystery Tackle Box, http://mysterytacklebox.com, which is off to an amazing start growth wise). It was important to me to make sure everyone was game.
Having used ClearCase, CVS, Subversion, TFS, Git and Mercurial, I would have to say it's because not enough people have tried Mercurial. I have no interest in Git, but I think people like GitHub (or maybe don't know about BitBucket)
You sound like a happy couple ! :))) I wonder why hollywood never did a "Mr and Mrs smith" with geeks instead of the usual spy stuffs.
what how god how do you think corporations work? do they have magic money trees?

we, in conglomerate, purchase THQ, give their games away for free and then what, fire all their developers, close all their studios and sell all the buildings, revelling in our destruction of the future of gaming so everyone can gave some games today for free?

there was much better discussion on this topic on reddit.
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But then what would TC have to write about?!?!?! ;)
Dynamic typing and anti-lock brakes
What is this? Porn on HN? Not sure if this is allowed. Even if it is, tag it with NSFW. Gosh! This is not reddit!!!
Cellular automata and music
Ask HN: Would you exchange space in your email newsletter to get exposure?
Every business is looking for ways to achieve new users/customers. Making inroads using traditional/online advertising techniques can be pretty expensive, so what if you found another business willing to exchange space in their email newsletter for space in yours?

Of course, you probably wouldn't want them to be a competitor - that's fairly obvious. Taking the example of a classy restaurant, they might exchange newsletter space with a high end men's clothing store. They might even consider another restaurant with a different dining experience and/or in a nearby town, because as a restauranteur you know that people move between restaurants anyhow, so play that knowledge as an advantage.

You both gain exposure to a new audience and maybe website visits that you could convert into customers.

Would you do it? Why or why not?
> Windows devs are never going to use Obj-C for their web development

In the second half of the note there's a point about nearly 100% of web developers at major web companies using Macs. I'm not sure what percent of the web runs Windows (or was developed on Windows). The only major sites I know of that run Windows are the StackOverflow sites. Of course, that doesn't rule out Windows powering some reasonable percentage (including corporate backends), which I'm sure it does. It's just evidence that Windows isn't the pace setter.

> Ruby/Python/PHP/Java

PHP simply doesn't work for long-running processes. Java and Java-like languages tend to replace Ruby and Python for long-running processes on large sites, and that's the target here.

At one point Java was something Sun had to push to get people to use.
This is a good point, and one that I should have thought of in my original comment: an alternate strategy is to keep the company alive by retreating to a defensible position, a niche that you own in some way that makes you a compelling alternative for customers in that niche, and then focus all your energies on owning the shit out of that niche. It's less ambitious, and the upside is smaller, but the risk of total failure is smaller too.

That's essentially what Jobs did with Apple -- we think of Apple as a huge success under his leadership, but that didn't really happen until they entered a different market with the iPod. Before then he kept them alive by giving up their ambitions to compete with Microsoft for the PC business in general and focusing their business on a few strong, high-margin products distinguished by classy design. They weren't enough to make Apple dominant again, but they were enough to keep the company afloat.
> Abuse of children might still happen, but this promotes it. You're creating a 'market' for it, where as before it might not have existed.

Supply emerges to meet demand. There are people out there who want child porn, and others who provide it to them.

Governments clamping down on Tor exit nodes doesn't affect that demand, but it does have a harmful effect on our means of private communication online.

There's practically no privacy left on the Internet anymore. Everything we do is logged and analyzed somewhere somehow (Google, Facebook, NSA, local ISPs and governments etc), and we're being gradually stripped of our rights everywhere.

It really is important that there's at least some privacy-providing tool available to all of us online. Child porn being transferred through the same tool is not really even a "price to pay" for that privacy, because as long as there is demand, it will get transferred somehow in any case.
The music brings back memories, though :)
I don't know when that was, but at some point the rails (sexy) community pushed for git. That sure helped.

Edit: no pun intended ;)
I just tested at Panopticlick, and it told me my browser is completely unique. Just like it said the last 8 or so times I've been to Panopticlick.

So I question how meaningful that is. Yes, it's pulling enough info to uniquely identify a browser for now, but in a week I'll add a plugin, remove a plugin, change a setting, update Firefox, whatever and the tracking will be lost.

Edit: Also, browsers could be patched to randomize some of the information Panopticlick is using, like the exact way the HTTP Accept header is written, and the order in which plugins are reported.
Which tool do you prefer the most?
It should be noted that journaling on the HFS volume should be off or the Raspberry pi will not be able to write to it. When I set this up @ home, I formatted the disk in OS X first with journaling off, and then connected it to the RSBPi. Very effective, cheap backup solution. You can also then use crashplan to upload your backups to the cloud as the RSBPi receives them.
I don't agree with this argument.

When I want to socialise with people, I'll go to a bar, my friend's house, a coffee shop, etc. If I want a burger, I want to get issued with that burger ASAP, without having to deal with someone who you may consider to be a nice person, but I may consider to be a douche-bag.

If that well-paid smiling person didn't have to work at the burger place, she might have something more interesting to talk about when we meet in a proper social environment.
Since DNS (usually) uses udp, does anyone have access to information showing that syrian lookups are coming out?
I'd argue that GitHub became really good 2010-01. It takes a certain number of early adopters to group together before the social features finally become useful for everyone.
It's dead. It never really got legs; similar projects are proposed pretty much monthly on emacs-devel only to die quietly.
Just remember when it comes to your code, there are no exceptions, only 'happy accidents.'
Wow. Front page of Hacker News and it's still up. (granted, it's only been 19 minutes...)
Personally (i.e. not speaking on behalf of my employer) I'm not terribly keen on SPDY being HTTP 2.0. It fixes HTTP/1.1 pipelining by adding a layer of binary complexity to a protocol that has succeeded by being simple and textual.

Also, it's a sort-of-layer because it really is dependent on details of HTTP (such as the existence of headers) to operate so it is not an independent layer. In networking I'm much happier when layers are independently specified.

Also, I think the implementation of header compression is poor because it uses a fixed dictionary that is based on current HTTP headers. There's no provision for negotiation of this going forward. It would be better if the compression dictionary were negotiated on session creation. Notice how the dictionary has been updated between standard drafts. Once it's in the standard updates will not be possible.

And SPDY requires TLS which means that if it were HTTP 2.0 it would require the deployment of certificates everywhere. That's an added expense for a web site operator. Unless SSL certificates are suddenly free and trivial to deploy then that would make HTTP 2.0 complex.

I would much rather see a proposal to change HTTP so that pipelining works, using textual headers and not require TLS.
Setting your prompt to ";" can be useful, because then if you want to select a command with the mouse and paste it into another window, it's still valid even if you select the whole line--you don't have to worry about stopping at the prompt character, just triple-click the line (in X).
To be fair, BitBucket was way uglier than GitHub until very recently (latest redesign). That's a turn-off for most people (unfortunately).

The new BitBucket is awesome, though.
> I am starting to fear one-person projects no matter how great.

Never rely on a one-person project unless you can support the code yourself if you find significant bugs. If that one person is busy or just plain unavailable and you can't investigate and possibly fix the problem yourself, you are out of luck.

Obviously there are a few exceptions to that, for instance if the project is very widely used then you will get good support from the wider community (though in most cases like that the official devloper pool has grown beyond one by this point too).

I'm not saying the above to put down single-person projects or their creators: there are some brilliant people out there working on them. But brilliant people are often busy and are not immune to illness, needing to work on other things to pay the bills, family matters, or just have other interests that sap their time, and sod's law says they will be otherwise occupied just when you need their attention most!
Be warned. I used my Raspi with netatalk3 for a while, and it kept corrupting. I reverted to using an external drive on my Mac.
cross-posting my answer here:

The package "gnuit" (GNU Interactive Tools, a file browser/viewer and process viewer) was called "git" in Debian up until 2009-09-09, while git was called "git-core".

Therefore, a better graph to look at is:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-png.php?packages=git-core%20git&...

Which shows that the popularity did not rise dramatically (take the green line for the left part until they cross, then take the red line).
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A regular memory foam mattress solves this problem more cleanly, comfortably, and safely.
I started off that way as an affiliate, but eventually, when I launched LocalPainterQuotes.com, which a year later became CraftJack, we started selling direct to service providers and built a lot of technology that other companies were/are not providing to their customers. The revenue increase really came over 2 years as we had some revenue before we launched CraftJack, but it was still pretty quick growth and all bootstrapped. That's one of the things you can do in LeadGen easier than other sectors (bootstrapping).
We assume ClearCase is the worst, right?
Can't help, but think of...

they lied to us
this was supposed to be
the future
where is my jetpack,
where is my robotic companion,
where is my dinner in pill form,
where is my hydrogen fueled automobile,
where is my nuclear-powered levitating home,
where is my cure for this disease
Apple vetting operators on LTE network performance
Or, How to Draw A Helicopter:

1) Draw some rectangles

2) Draw the rest of the fucking helicopter
Minor quibble - the Nexus 4 has inductive charging.
Christmas lights programmed to Gangnam Style
Whether you're adding software to physical items or replacing physical supply chains with software, I think Andreessens point is that software is a high value activity.

While the Internet of Things is about connecting physical objects, the cool thing is that they're connected, and integrated, which requires software to handle the complexity.
That's one of the most sad realizations I've ever had, but I found it to be true, as well.
The particular application would be for the export of fungible goods from the vicinity of Mercury to the rest of the solar system. Solar sails could be used to enter a solar orbit with a low pedigree to maximize thrust from the solar sail. This would still involve very long transit times and either the use of gravitational slingshots or multiple passes by the sun. It might make more economic sense to export energy as beams of microwaves.
The administration is really focusing on improving the immigration process by bringing folks from the private sector to work on the practical issue of immigration and this is one of the steps as we move forward toward passing Startup Visa. Welcome any direct feedback on the website and other things the team could address.

Disclosure: I work with the Obama Administration on ways to make the government cater to startups, not on the USCIS team, but I'm helping collect feedback for them.
Good riddance. Glad to see Congress is finally starting to realize what a mess and waste the TSA is.
BitBucket is not even close to being as popular as GitHub, and it's not as nice for just browsing around, so the network effect is against it: you don't put code on BitBucket to be seen really.

Free private repos are great, of course.
Do you know this guy? Great Ad for IE Haters :)
And if you prefer to not leave your browser, here's a Google Viewer-rendered version of that PDF: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://nm-files.s3.amazo...
This is sad - I don't know Stefan but have met him a few times, and can attest to the fact that he is a decent guy.

Obviously his behaviour here is way out of line - it should act as a wake up call for him to sort stuff out.

I hope, given time, he can be given a second chance though - everyone does stuff they regret, and no-one should be completely beyond the pale.
But to make money you must pressure and bullshit people, because it is only by cheating you could get above-average returns.

Wow. Someone's projecting, it sounds like.
LOVE the video on the Mystery Tackle Box site!

"Or you can stick with the baseball bat approach..."
amen. i think it's important for stories like this to make the rounds so people see that they have options rather then LETS RAISE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS RIGHT NOW OR FAILURE
My favorite part about it is that everything will be encrypted by default in the future.
I tried playing Dwarf Fortress over and over. I really want to love the game, but the UI is just miserable.

Different keyboard shortcuts for different types of buildings, that really aren't all that different. No easy way to manage your dwarves, or get vital statistics. I still have no idea how to actually get the little guys to get out there and beat something with a sword. I couldn't figure out how to trade with the damn caravan until I googled for it.

Aren't there any people out there as monomaniacally dedicated to crafting good UIs as whats-his-face is dedicated to building this huge world simulator?
To be fair when doing front end work you sometimes need to make pretty patterns that do something like "print this table but apply this css class to every other row and one of these other classes to this row if a certain flag is set depending on what the previous class was".
Elm: Making the Web Functional [video/slides]
Well, there's many ways to mean the word "art" or "artist", aren't there. Of course something that is skillfully crafted is art "on some level".

On another, the motivation and goal of the creation, at least to me, outweighs such considerations by order of magnitude. And on that level I don't consider that, or much anything really, "art" by any stretch of my imagination.

Which means yes, I would consider the exact same thing art or not art depending on by whom, why and how it was created and presented.

That may not be fair, but it's my firm opinion anyway. Yeah yeah, people gotta eat. I know that. (I do think that technically even that is a decision, but I'll accept that in this in context.) But what people do NOT "absolutely have to" is to consider themselves as artists, or to be considered by me as such. They'll have to settle with mediocre.
This contains the answer for why git won: Mercurial people have "no interest" in it. What that tells me is that you have no interest in working with the community and contributing to other peoples' projects, most of which use git these days. Sure, if you want a SCM for your own team or your own private use, you can make a strong case for hg being "better". But that's not what SCM is for.

Using it in your own ivory tower isn't going to impress anyone for the simple reason that no one sees it. Instead, people look at the broader world of all the interconnected git archives in the linux and web development communities, get excited, pull repos and learn git. There's just no equivalent in the hg community that I see. You guys have walled yourselves off, and it's killing your software.
On iOS, you can use Launch Center for that. You can make an Action, which when you tap on it creates a pre-populated email to your wife asking how her day is going.

http://appcubby.com/launch-center/
> OTOH, the robots will ignore your complaints and never try to be friendly for a higher tip ...

No worries, my credit card company listens to complaints. And you know, those are the best kind of complaints, because they get your money back.

In the end, robots will be extremely friendly ... because they have no sense of "fairness" or self-interest ... only a programmed instruction to make the customer happy or if things really get out of hand, to call the cops.
> Just to make clear, this graph show the installation of git on debian systems. Around the time the spike happens the Debian package was renamed from git-core to git. Maybe people found the package easier now that the name reflected the software.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/177892