skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our favorite charts of 2012 (Quartz)
Hey that's really cool. I'm from thinkrf.
As the WHATWG clearly states, HTML5 is a living standard, and evolving constantly.

W3C likes to have solid specs and therefore freezes it and gives it a name. Its nothing more than tagging a certain timepoint with a version number.

I prefer the living standard. However, giving it a version name makes it easier to comunicate about sometimes.

This blog posts makes it much clearer: http://blog.whatwg.org/html-and-html5
Honestly, I don't get it. While approach to usernames and privacy varies, participation in FB is voluntary.

And real names have some advantages (e.g. much harder time for trolls); sure, they have disadvantages as well...

...but I don't like the idea of a country saying about features a certain product needs to have (or even - thinking that they can say, because AFAIK in the current state Germany can make usage of FB illegal for their citizens, as it is no located in Germany).
Sure, why not? They're still up 100% y/y. Either you're long on Apple, in which case it's just a little bumpy right now or you were long on Jobs, in which case you closed your position out when he passed away.
What if they just spent the $5M on developing and working with the people who are in need of poaching for a living...
Blue chip firms back ARM Holdings' Trustonic joint venture
Sure, if you want to build it all yourself in JavaScript, but that's the point of a library isn't it?

And as far as "not targeting old browsers" there are plenty of places where modern browsers differ and jQuery normalizes their behavior. Chrome doesn't support mouseenter, Firefox doesn't support focusin, Safari's String.trim() doesn't trim zero-width spaces, their CSS uses prefixed properties, etc.

Also, talking about jQuery in isolation is like talking about C++ without its runtime library. One of the strengths of jQuery is its ecosystem such as plugins.
"Now I'm wondering why on earth would I lob files manually around? It's as old-fashioned as synching your phone via USB and iTunes. You did that 5 years ago. Not now. It's a stone-age solution created by stone-age approach to computing. We demand better now."

To keep the government from reading your files at will.
Red Bull had that problem, they created Red Bull Cola and everyone thought it is a mix of Red Bull and cola.

It actually is just a cola, and a pretty good one with 100% bio ingredients. People just didn't get that, the caffeine junkies were disappointed and other people didn't try it.

Such an obvious mistake, "Red Bull" is synonymous with the drink.
This is a practical use case for Bittorrent.
any sources or articles about it?
@rmc - not what I said. Regulating privacy, as in ensuring a company doesn't illegally share your personal information after you register, is perfectly fine. But regulating how a user registers up for an opt-in service is completely different. If you don't want to use your real name, choose another social network, that doesn't have this policy.
I hear you on the one-liners issue. Python is unhelpful when it gets to that - there are no -n, -p, -l switches or special variables like there are in Perl and Ruby.

It's a shame really, since all the building blocks needed to implement a useful mode for writing one-liners are there. In fact, I have a work in progress module that tries to address this issue: https://github.com/gvalkov/python-oneliner
Right, there's no way to take advantage of that $200 if they work with an existing carrier's plans. Their opportunity is by cutting the subsidies as well as the price, so that the monthly price is significantly reduced.
I hope we can save the Tigers there is around 3000-39000 left in the world by building up an sustainable tourist industry around them.
Certainly, it's all to easy to get swept up in the zeitgeist and forget about the apparent incompatibility of the word "open" with massive corporate entities like Google and Apple.

As far as "disruption" goes, I'm all for it. Why not mix things up and make them better?

I guess the idea to take out of the article is: beware the snake oil salespeople!
I have been curious about these things for a while. When is an internet company considered breaking the law, if all they do is put their product online and make it accessible on the internet (i.e. from everywhere)?

Say, a web app X that shows a collections of cat pictures uploaded by the users, and country Y where cat pictures are banned in every media. How does this work?
Uhm, really? Surface availability is limited to some countries, so good luck with global rollout. Asus (not Google!) on other hand makes N7 available anywhere.
I'm an electrical engineer, working in wireless communications. Most programming I know is self taught, and I have no professional experience in any kind of software development sans MATLAB.
It's not necessarily a bad thing that DOM-manipulation functions are a bit annoying to type. Verbose names means that you are more likely to do:

var elem = document.getElementsByClassName('foo')[0];
elem.fooBar();
elem.foo = 'bar';

rather than

$('.foo').fooBar();
$('.foo').foo = 'bar';

even if you don't know anything about writing optimized JavaScript code.
Tools Matter
You have google docs on the ipad, in fact on anything with an internet connection, which let you import/export office files.
Making it a viable option would be simple, convincing people that they need it would be the trick.
Terrible for texting though. Only shows 12 letters on the screen.
Fun, but we lost all the boxes :(
That website is one dense concentration of crazy. Each of those links is to yet another article by the same guy where he does some ranting, then mostly misrepresents some aside in an article at another source, then "just asks some questions", then closes with some more ranting.
>They created a new account using the alternative e-mail address and set the address differently to the original account. //

You lost me.

So customer Andy Blogger has account ablogger@gmail.com.

Fraudster Bandy Logger creates account at Amazon using email address ab.logger@gmail.com and the verification email is sent to Andy's account (as gmail is dot blind in email addresses).

How does fraudster Bandy confirm ownership of the Amazon account so he can log in and change the accounts email address? Doesn't he have to create the account with the re-shippers postal address, then confirm the account with an email address they control, then change the email address to the one for the Gmail account ... doesn't that look pretty damn suspicious.

How about recording a short video on account creation, speaking/signing name or something similar. Then reps could confirm owner ship via video chat. Sure it would still be possible to abuse but would be a lot harder.
No offence meant, only intended as the gentlest of mockery.
Ask HN: IAMA advisor to utility executives. Help me help them
I have so often been impressed by the intelligent discussions and insights shared here, and thought I would attempt to tap into the “cognitive surplus” of HN for a customer experience advisory project I’m working on.

Based on my past experience in the energy space, I’ve been invited to be on an advisory team that is working with an electric utility consortium consisting of some of the largest utilities in the US. The purpose of the consortium is to envision a “day in the life” of a customer in the year 2020, and then to discuss strategies for providing the appropriate customer experience. There are to be a series of creation meetings that will be attended by senior executives of the member utilities, who are very open to hearing new ideas.

While some are better than others, utilities have often been criticized for the customer experience they provide, which is not entirely surprising given that they have traditionally referred to their customers as “rate payers”.

So, in terms of customer experience, both as it exists now and how it needs to improve, what would you suggest I tell them? In other words, if you were stuck in an elevator with the CEO of your utility, and he/she asked you how their organization’s customer experience needed to evolve over the next 8 years, what advice would you give? What needs to change? What needs to get better?
I'm a game programmer currently working at a small, boutique-like studio. I came from a casual gaming company , and before that from a big, "AAA" (whatever that means) studio. My work is mostly in C++, but increasingly involves middleware that uses Flash or web tech.
I've been part of startups, including a YC one. I'm no stranger to web programming, but I dont think I fit the picture you painted either :)

I'm doing some work on the side that involves web and mobile gaming, as well as some writing.
And asymmetric encryption.
The cost would be a huge factor. If it's free, I wouldn't build anything, because that's a recipe for "Oops, Google deprecated our business model."

If it's not free, there's still a concern that Google could borrow your business model.

Basing your business model entirely on the content from a third party service has shown, in recent years, to be a nearly complete disaster.
I didn't mention that I'm from Europe, that may be a factor in my "don't care about it" attitude.

Please explain why the second comment is of base. It's just a different perspective of looking at it.
The downside of doing that is that storage is more expensive

No, the downside is that there are zero social features when you put your photos on Dropbox. Flickr is better, but still not anywhere near Instagram.
Instagram backlash is Flickr’s gain
Today I wrote some crappy code
Yu.my – An easy way to share links locally
Where do you live. What are you buying.

Could you give an example of something you bought local to you that was ~4 times the price of Amazon and broke soon after you purchase it? Presumably you got your money back; I wonder how the store is staying open if they have to refund all their customers.
Interesting.

That _might_ (if enforced and extended) make G+ useable for me again. I understand that the controversy around the decision, but I've to admit that I'm very happy about this move.
Using nodejs to embed any user gists in Github Gists
I was thinking of something like this. Maybe a book that takes you through the process of just signing up for a blog and describes each part of the process.
It could also show a bunch of other things to do too, like joining up with social media, posting videos on youtube and vimeo, even setting up your own site.
Anyway, I will continue my search and report back with details later.
Programmer analyst at a Fortune 250, mainly prototyping and iterating on re-writes from legacy platforms to .NET.

Sounds a little boring, but it's fun to consider design decisions that were made in the past and how to improve upon them. My first job out of school, and I've learned mountains about working with large legacy codebases in an environment with hundreds of systems.
Optional features tend to be broken in practice. So HTTP/2 is trying to have far fewer of them so that implementations will be more robust.

Chunked requests and pipelines are good examples. They are rarely used but absolutely supported by the spec. But because they are rarely used they break a lot in practice and are not realistically deployable on Internet scale.
Ember Data Record Lifecycle
"Do you really think your measly $25/year cover for their expenses with you?"

Actually, yes. Hard drive space is incredibly cheap, especially at their scale. My photos aren't terribly popular, so they aren't using much bandwidth either. I probably cost them $5-10/year, tops. In fact, I'm probably one of the majority, the ones who subsidize the heavy, uber-popular users with tens of thousands of followers who upload hundreds of photos a year.
Show HN: Heavy html5/phonegap based iOS App with lot of content
Because Instagram has a huge audience. Google+ might be a better place for the photos, but it doesn't have an audience.
Until Google decides to kill it. Or kill the features you find useful...
For me the main selling point would be that it's less dangerous that a candle I think. But yeah, not exactly vital.

It was still interesting to see their approach on "how to make something feel like real candlelight" with the timelapse image.

EDIT: I now see that they're asking for $700,000 on kickstarter. They probably won't reach their goal (they'd need to get 450k in 67 hours) but I wonder why they ask for so much money to create something like that.
That old TOS is pretty standard language required for any online service to show photos that you upload. Flickr, Google, etc are all pretty similar. A few times a year a bunch of FUD springs up among more old-school photographers who become terrified that such language means that Flickr (or Google) wants to steal and own all of their images.

These new TOS however - absolutely appalling. In the past year we've seen professionals flock to instagram to help promote their craft - with the new language I'd imagine you'll see a mass exodus from those folks pretty quickly.
The way he put it is not exactly rushing to judgment. It was more like saying that "perhaps if there was greater gun control, this wouldn't happen".

Also, probability that his sentence affects anyone is basically zero.
Comments like this:
"It is unacceptable that a US portal like Facebook violates German data protection law unopposed and with no prospect of an end"

Make me realize that there are still people who do not understand how the Internet works. There are no boarders on the Internet. German people are under no obligation whatsoever to use "a US portal".
The link emailing sounds like a nice idea. To be honest I'm kind of fishing for a Christmas present too. I think a book would be a good way of introducing it to him. It actually seems quite odd that there isn't a book that performs this function, or even a website that gives you a guide to getting set up on the net from the ground up.
There must be thousands (millions?) of people out there who'd like to get involved, but are stuck outside of the net.
Why do you need to protect yourself from trolls on facebook? Those are your friends. Unless you add every stranger that send you a friend request.

I'm not in favor of Germany on this one but sometimes the law/government should interfere to ensure people freedom. Just because it's a private company doesn't mean they can do whatever they want with our data even if we were the ones providing the data.
I doubt this policy is going to last long - the biggest and most important Instagram users as far as I can tell are celebrities (incl. professionals and other popular persons), and they sure as hell will do something if Instagram starts selling/licensing the photos to anyone who wants them.

Coupled with the other big mistake of separating themselves from Twitter, I'd say Instagram is well on their way of becoming the next MySpace.
Old news. Downvoted ;)

Just kidding. This is a really interesting lunchtime article.
> With Flickr you're still the product unfortunately, although Flickr is much better than other similar services in this regard. Do you really think your measly $25/year cover for their expenses with you?

Oh, absolutely. I store a backup copy of my entire Flickr library for something like $5/year on Amazon S3, and the service hasn't exactly had insane development costs the past few years - design and feature set have stayed pretty steady.
Things That Make You Go WTF
Samsung withdraws Apple suit in Europe
They were tasty...

Muhahahahaaa
Dispelling the Myth of Violence and Mental Illness
multipe vendors have multiple interests , especially those who ship standards on proprietary plateforms.
I'm actually the reverse. I went to perl from python. I usually use it for system scripting and what I like about it is that it replaces bash nicely without removing the power of specialized syntax. I find it much easier to type open("program -args |") than to construct a subprocess object in python and manually extract lines from its output. On the other hand, python is pretty handy for larger programs, more than a few screens of dense perl syntax starts getting hard on the eyes.
It's not popular on HN for a reason. Even if you run everything on Mono, for practical reasons you are tied to Windows as a development platform and that's a major issue for just about anyone who does their development on other platforms.
While this isn't reddit, this would probably be a good time for that "That escalated quickly" picture.

I'm surprised Facebook is moving so quickly to try and monetize Instagram. I wonder if they're using it for experimentation of what their user base will accept. Regardless, I think this is probably a step too far in the wrong direction.

Will Facebook and Instagram be able to clamp down on users with the right acrobatics to keep their userbase and increase their ARPU? Either way, these seem like shady tactics.
No, only idiots whine about it.
Show HN (redesign) - Startup Threads Monthly: Startup Tshirt Subscription
Nothing, web is great. Just wanted to get a feel for the diversity of the readership.
John Hagel On Rethinking Race Against The Machines
How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account
No Instagram, I am Not your product.
Isn't is curious when OS's don't keep track of non-system software ... when it's installed, what process installed it, whether that process was under local control, any other info to indentify the source ... and to list that information on demand any time any user wants it?

What's up with that? It's as though we're happy that we can be infiltrated at any time. It's not like people don't put weeks and months into "me-too" websites ... but there's never been any major motion in the direction of making the existence of surreptitious mods available at a key-click?

Such apps may exist, but I've never run across one for any platform explicitly designed to help anyone root out what's been installed without their knowledge. It CAN'T be that hard. Link it up to an open online knowledge-base that will nix false flags ...
And Samsung are demonstrably taking other peoples work and using it to gain market share. This is no way to behave. It is theft.
There is a spreadsheet publically available. The short answer is that the way kickstarter works, 65% of whatever you take goes back out as rewards,fees,etc and It takes ~250k to tool up for manufacture. Other kickstarter hardware projects try to strategise by asking low, hoping to overshoot the goal. In truth, a lot of Kickstarter projects ask for much less than they really need to succeed and deliver. We took a risk and decided to be totally honest.
Game and app developer. A small company, not necessarily a start-up - just 7 people.

Previously I have worked on 'AAA' games and database/financial software.

I do find all the web stuff provides background noise rather than value for me on HN - however I do believe most readers live in the web world, so for them the articles I get value from are probably noise.
I backed because I want one for my 3 month old baby's nursery. She's fascinated by light and motion and she'll love this. (Knowing Kickstarter it'll probably arrive in time for her to go to college, but it probably goes well with marijuana too.)

I broadly agree with you about not needing more crap, but there is a place for delightful whimsy.
I'd argue that we should listen very carefully to what Germany has to say on the matter, historically, they know and have learned from past mistakes.

Also, Facebook has a data center in Finland, which is under EU-jurisdiction. Germany has a lot of say internally in EU, so Facebook could very quickly be subject to such laws - as they should!
BBC story posted on HN earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937073
I was definitely long on Google during their Baidu incident. That was painful to weather!
Facebook operates in Germany, therefore it is bound by the regulations of that country. In the same manner that it would break German law if it openly promoted antisemitism.

Facebook can chose not to operate and offer services to German customers within Germany if it doesn't like the laws of that country.

Every country has the right to define its own laws that (in general) are there to protect its citizens. Companies who operate in a country are bound by those laws, whether they like them or not.

Privacy is very important to Germans. They have learnt from experience that it is very dangerous to centralize identifying information within the hands of a single ruling entity.
Sounds like a fascinating topic, but all I see is a strange slideshow.
Maybe if you're only building a simple app, but I suspect most people at some point need other components like date pickers, format masks, form validation, table filtering/sorting etc. of which many require jQuery anyway.
Seems that I have to build thicker walls so the boxes can not escape!
Those two requirements are because the Predator is a weapon. It can't land or be controlled from existing networks because it's in enemy territory.
It seems to me, if Instagram could really only chose one metric to track it would be an app visit, not a photo upload. Instagram must have users who are primarily content creators and another larger group (probably a superset) that are content consumers. Not focusing on the actions of the content consumers would seem really bad for business since what early-stage Instagram's investors care about is eyeballs not photographs and what late-stage Instagram's advertisers care about is eyeballs not photographs.

Really Instagram probably has a few OKMs (visits, uploads, hearts, comments, follows). All of those are important and should be tracked. In their documentation and educational videos, I've not seen Mixpanel focus on visits as a key metric. I'm not sure why.
I taught High Performance Python covering the tools you mention at PyCon 2012 (and EuroPython last year), maybe my videos+write-up will be helpful. I also cover profiling, shedskin, pyCUDA etc:

http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/18/high-performance-python-1-f...
I've found that one of the most difficult parts of programming with an EE background is translating control theory into usable code.
2013: Meeting Cloud Growth Forecasts Demands Innovation
Innovation does not only bring, it requires!
EBS Snapshot Copy (Between Regions)
LinkedIn Launches An Incubator To Turn Employees Into Entrepreneurs
As infuriating as I find this, I am afraid that many people won't care.

Worse, I feel that FB/Instagram will backtrack from this, and nearly everyone will forgive them. Not me. They have shown their true colors. I'm out. I won't let them sell me down the river.

Classic negotiating tactic - ask for WAY too much, then backtrack a bit, and you get more than people would have possibly let you have, had you asked only for that in the first place.
> Can we get at least one positive article about Microsoft on HN?

No we cannot. Anything non-critical of Microsoft(even a product announcement) usually gets flagged off the front page if it manages to reach it. Same with many articles critical of Google. I agree MS has dropped the ball in regards to Windows RT branding but the HN front page is a joke when it comes to Microsoft related stories.
Some of my findings:

The Internet for Dummies: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Internet-Dummies-Computers/dp/111809...

Wading The World Wide Web: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/keith+kyk...

This is what I'll go for: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/john+naug...
Facebook has quite a few offices in Europe. However most are probably just selling ads and doing localization.

Dublin, Ireland;
Hamburg, Germany;
London, UK;
Madrid, Spain;
Milan, Italy;
Paris, France;
Stockholm, Sweden
LOL. I was wondering why this might be coming up now...

Always an interesting topic to read about though, especially as this does seem to be the really big one of the known events.
True, but it can make it a lot harder for facebook to sell ads in Germany. While the userbase is international and can move between borders at will, the same is not true of the monetization flows.
Link to the same post on his blog, for the Google+ averse: http://wilwheaton.net/2012/12/regarding-instagrams-new-tos/