skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used both on apps that have been released to the various app stores. I've used jQuery for years so logically I thought jQuery Mobile would make the most sense. I used version 1.2 and it was just mediocre. It'll get the job done. There were definitely some hurdles. I liked being able to design my interface in HTML with CSS.

My experience with Sencha was completely different. It was very hard getting started as I had to relearn the Sencha/ExtJS way. I began to like the way each page/panel is "described" as JSON in a JS file. It's a completely different way of skinning a cat. Things like stores/models/views/controllers are baked into the framework. Support was absolutely abysmal. I think there were a couple of guys on their dev forums that actually knew their stuff. Quite a few "it works fine for me" type answers. Things blatantly left out of the docs which may be fine for normal users, but was extremely painful for a newbie.

In the end, I really liked the results from Sencha far more than anything I'd ever done in jQuery Mobile. I will say, my app in Sencha was extremely "templatey" which means it looked like a stock iPhone app... nothing custom at all.
There is nothing like remembering your first host controller.

Mine was a Adaptec 2940 (PCI bus, SCSI) that came out in 1994, it was so well made that you can still buy it today, almost after 20 years.
Why not focus on a market with actual demand.

Political campaign managers might use something like that to organize block walking and canvasing activities.
I find some fault here, as someone who's been self-learning Ruby on Rails for the past few months and having looked at Python/Django, I can say that Ruby isn't that hard to learn in fact Rails is pretty darn easy for newbies to learn. I'd say neither language is 'superior' -- one big thing to look at is which language has the most/best libraries and plugins - almost ALL apis have Ruby support through gems, and the ease of using gems in apps makes it a pleasure to use, especially with bundler.

Also if python is superior, then why are there more jobs for Ruby Devs?
>Rapid iteration: change the code, refresh the page, and see the change instantly.

I see the play people tout this all the time, and I assume it is in reaction to an assumption of dynamic language people that you have to manually compile every time you make a change. But it is really misleading. You make a change, refresh the page, and wait 10 seconds for it to compile and reload. Iteration speed was just as poor with play as it was with bloated J2EE monsters on jboss.
Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen
Also on ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/google-beefs-up-cloud-platform-support-...
That article is not good. Biased reporting based on a biased study. Yes, all writing is biased, but sometimes evidence suggests it's worse than usual, and this is one of those cases. From the cradle of the study to the grave of your mind, everything in the chain producing this article has a clear bias.

Study: Published by the "Post Carbon Institute". They're not even trying.

Article: Written by an author whose only credentials are a pretty face and a B.Sc. in biology. Can she spot bad stats? Probably not. Is she likely to take any damning claim about the oil sands the study makes at face value without a second thought? Yes.

Publisher: insideclimatenews.org. They're a little more cagey about revealing their biases than the Post Carbon Institute, which is to say they're still about as subtle as a club to the head.

Now, don't get me wrong. I live close to the oil sands and will pay a greater price than most reading this for that oil. I am not in the O&G industry, but I have deep concerns about how the oilsands are being extracted. Specifically, groundwater seepage from tailings ponds is probably one of the nastiest local consequences. Perhaps even more concerning is that accountability is going down as foreign ownership climbs. Just as no Hollywood blockbuster makes money on paper these days, my concern is that once the oilsands are no longer commercially viable, parent companies will quietly abscond with the profits while the oilsands companies go bankrupt and fail to follow through on the long-term cleanup that will be necessary.

However, all this is no excuse for giving a pass to blatantly biased articles. When we give attention to articles such as this it detracts attention from well-researched independent studies reported on by people who actually have the chops to spot bad stats and tease apart biased studies. It makes those who are against oilsands development look like a bunch of clueless tree-hugging hippies!
Discussion on an earlier item here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256808
Google announces Chromebook Pixel
Maybe it slides right from 3x to 5x ?-)
Also revolutionized (seen that long before) the street music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1dHCmcJzg
I wonder if it was on the record or off the record. If it is a leak then I wonder if LS would check all the emails of top employees to find the leaker (if they were dumb enough to send from company email).

PrivCo saying they "...sent him a draft of the report with
a request for any needed corrections. When nothing came back four hours later.." they assumed everything is true is a weak though.

I guess I will send LS an email saying I am the new CEO, please email back if this needs to be corrected...

...I will let you guys know if they don't respond, in which case, D.C. here I come!
Isn't the standard metric $150,000 per infringement? AFAIR, that's the statutory rate they apply for MP3 pirating.
The Chromebook Pixel
But pg, don't you know? "Size Matters"?

All kidding aside, it seems almost criminal that a company would create such damaging news as a way of generating publicity (speaking, of course, about LivingSocial). I just can't fathom what would drive someone to do this, unless someone who was leaving LivingSocial wanting to spread a lot of damaging news about their old employer.
There is a Harvard study that analyses this issue. The cost is enormous: http://solar.gwu.edu/index_files/Resources_files/epstein_ful... (takeaway on page 91)

The public health burden in Appalachia alone is estimated at $75 billion per year.
That boat has long sailed. Anybody who wanted to short Groupon would have done it more than a year ago, when the stock was trading around $20-$25.
Agreed. But LivingSocial's response is also very damming of LivingSocial. They're fooked, to use a technical term.
Be sure to do it only if they don't respond within four hours.
I think the main problem with this business model is that it is not really beneficial for large number of advertisers. I heard so many times about local businesses that were screwed by Groupon, because they offered too many deals at too low prices (often below costs) and most people who bought deals did not return later. Groupon seemed not to care about providing a service that is really beneficial to advertisers, instead they concentrated on short term grow.

A lot of successful innovation today is about eliminating middlemen. Local deals companies do just the opposite. They are a new middleman that tries to cut a large percentage from local businesses income. I don't think this is sustainable.
Hey, what happened to SCTP?
But didn't he? I mean, quoting their cap number, it's obvious who he is talking about, so why not just say the name?
Brazilian lawsuit accuses Apple of 'planned obsolescence' with fourth-gen iPad
I think everyone is, or has been, short on GroupOn.
On my wimpy Macbook Air, most Java changes reload in < 3 seconds. Compared to redeploying an entire Tomcat/Jetty app, this is several orders of magnitude better. Combined with the scala console in sbt for interactive coding, the ~test command in sbt for automatically rerunning tests on each change, and the amazing error handling, this is a massive step forward for Java/Scala web development.
1 in 50 seems... very, very optimistic. On top of that, the investment is higher than the lottery. The lottery costs you $1. This costs you ~$10-20k in salary, and possibly more in lost opportunities and time you would've had elsewhere.
Was excited to check out Linkedin using Play but then the reasons highlighted in the article almost let me down.

I am comparing to Python frameworks and Node and everything mentioned there has been available in the Python stack for a while and now Node (extra points for realtime websockets stuff).

As per the post Play boasts of:

Rapid iteration, Reactive (only for the server not the client), Open, Supported, Flexible, Java & Scala

Maybe I would consider Java & Scala just for the enterprise community scale but definitely not the only one for functional paradigms or rapid iterations.

Everything else is there in other modern web frameworks in Python, Javascript & even perhaps Ruby.

Probably a new thing for Java but why the choice? Is LinkedIn constrained to use the JVM?
Not sure about that. Google is actually pretty bad at PR with idiots like Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin alienating users left and right. Eric 'creepy' Schmidt wasn't much better and said many stupid things while he was CEO.

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I'm the security master.
All scheme dialects are lisps, but Racket and the various scheme implementations are Lisp-1's, with the same namespace for functions and variables, while Common LISP is a lisp-2, which have separate function and variable namespaces.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp-1_vs._Lisp-2#The_function_...
I'm not here to judge you. If you think the gender of the author had no impact on you, that's great. I'm just suggesting that we keep our subconscious biases in mind as we evaluate arguments.

I don't know what forms of discrimination you do or don't condone. You point out that love of sports is not a protected class; from that, I infer that you might be OK with the idea of discriminating based on that; you are, in fact, (gently) sticking up for that behavior.

I also don't know what forms of discrimination you're aware of. It is clear to me that the operators of many tech startups are not aware of the impact their "culture" has on their inclusiveness. Most of those operators would claim not to be biased against e.g. mothers, but many would in fact be creating environments hostile to them anyways.

When we start to venture into this discussion, it's important for you to realize that we are also validating the post that you've dismissed. Perhaps we're using language that is more congenial to you; that's a fair thing to point out, but if so, again, I suggest you re-read and re-evaluate the post, because you may have missed other things in it.

It is all love† with me and this comment.

† And procrastination
It's amazing how many companies have tried to pull this little accounting trick, or variations of it. Most of them have failed or else fallen from glory.
FOUR HOURS. That's how much time they claim to have given LivingSocial before running the report. Horsewhip these clowns off the stage now.

It's actually even worse if underlying trend they're "reporting" on is true, because they've poisoned the well.
There are a couple disparate pieces to their earning puzzle that don't quite add up to me :

1. Many here seem to feel that taking 50% is unfair to their merchant partners. Yet, they are nonetheless struggling to turn a profit

2. Like any other coupon, LS deals run the risk of un-use. Speaking for myself, I have forgotten about at least 4 separate deals, and am not an active "daily deals" consumer.

How can LS ever be profitable? It feels like they are already absorbing as much net revenue as they can, and have the deck as reasonably stacked as possible. Is it a question of needing to run leaner (they do spend hand over fist, in my experience)?
Here's such music you don't need to ignore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA
When I first saw the 3doodler project I thought "modified glue gun."
Oh no, I didn't know about this reddit and now I do. Welp, there goes my productivity for the day!
So, a disclaimer: I don't do groupons, restaurant or otherwise. But...

> Because when you get the bill, it's reduced from the retail price.

So? When you get the cheapest meal, it's 'reduced' from the average meal price too.

If hypothetically a restaurant's management was going to permanently drop its meal prices by half, would you still tip on the old price?

> that could be why waiters don't like daily deal customers.

If the restaurant is running a groupon, waiters have much more reason to dislike the management than to dislike the customers.

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The tipping mechanism for paying restaurant staff semi-decent wages creates some really weird cases like this one. The dislike of discount shoppers would never be an issue in locations where meal prices pay for semi-decent staff wages - the financial risk would be taken up solely by the owners/management making the decision.
You couldn't use dot syntax here AFAIK, as these aren't declared properties.
SCTP is DOA since Windows doesn't implement it and it doesn't pass through NATs. WebRTC DataChannel is SCTP over DTLS over UDP, though.
So... Can I install Windows on it?
If it doesn't stand, wouldn't Microsoft's and Oracle's use of SQL be an infringement on IBM's 'copyright' of SQL?
shortcut:

gem 'apns', :github => 'jamesdaniels/APNS'
Your're right - it is a boring discussion. Python is good for some things, and Ruby is good for others. (Python just happens to be good at more things.)

Likewise, Django, web2py, TurboGears all have their place, just like Flask and Sinatra and Bottle. Hell, CGI Programming is still good for things.

The point of the article is why don't we have any Python Web Development Bootcamps. Why such a tremendous focus on Ruby and especially Ruby on Rails?

If Python is so superior then why the lack of web dev training. It's absurd.
1. There is some upfront fee and they get a percentage cut of the revenue we make.

2. You are right, craigslist doesn't have an API, so whether you are licensed or not, you have the same tools at your disposal. We did typical HTML scraping, but our amazing Dev team did some really smart tweaks to present the data in a beautiful way.
If Google restricted Android from the beginning, it won't even reach 10% market share.

Manufacturers would not adapt a platform that would not allow them to customize and differentiate from their competitors.

What would have happened is we'd get different OS for each manufacturer. That's a lot more painful than what we have now since it's different codebase/API.

I'll take a fragmented Android than a fragmented mobile OS ecosystem any day.
Not a typical limit but can often be a limitation in certain areas. My parents have ~220kb/s down, 70kb/s up due to poor quality wiring and being far from the exchange. Most UK cities are reasonable, but go out to the smaller areas with only ADSL and it goes to all hell.
I disagree. The average user has no time, patience, or knowledge (nor should they) of how firewalls or bandwidth throttling works.
If anyone's interested, the multicolored group of buildings you see when first opening this page is one of Google's offices at Central St Giles. I've been there many times for training/meetings/the free lunch and it's amazing.

They have a 360 degree gym at the very top, along with multiple roof terraces, a huge cafeteria (of course) and soundproofed meeting rooms with funny names.

One of the office floors is styled like a submarine, complete with big metal doors with valves on them. They share the space with multiple Media Agencies and other companies, so you would never know it was there. It's quite surreal and invokes a ton of envy.
He's asking for something to "selectively limit upload (or download) speeds per-application?" not how to block an application from communicating at all. (Little Snitch)
Why cold weather gives you lower gas mileage
Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?
With the advent of touchscreen laptops, this method is becoming less reliable.
The trouble with this, ergonomically speaking, is that you spend all day with your head cocked to the left. In the long run, that's less than ideal for your neck and shoulders.

Of course, most window management schemes put people into that territory. Tiling WMs seem to optimize for maximizing occupied screen real estate, but I haven't seen one that optimizes around arguably more important factors, such as minimizing damage to the body (head, neck, eyes). Instead, you tend to see a lot of layouts that pretty much leave someone looking at the bottom left corner of a console window in the bottom left corner of a big screen 80% of their work hours. Not physically optimal, and in fact, an anti-pattern.
Correct, this design went live weeks ago (i.e. not within the past couple days).
you know, i remember being obsessed with this vid when it came out. i'm embarrassed i didn't work this into the essay. i might need to...
or Linux?
It's an existing investor solidifying a deal. Kind of like if you bought a stock at $40, and now it's down to $20. You look at the company and think "OK, maybe our initial investment was at a high valuation, but I think think there is a good chance we can at least get our initial money back if we keep you afloat for a while", so you buy more stock at $20, making your overall cost basis lower. Without that investment you are guaranteed to lose your money, but this way you are doubling down on your original bet, and giving the company some more runway to potentially at least break even on the exit.
Warning: autoplays sound.
And Larceny http://www.larcenists.org/
privco's sales people e-mailed the address on my company's domain and offered research services. when we declined, four days later an article ran on privco (an 'exclusive') reporting that we refused comment on something we had never seen which was an article full of made-up dire horseshit. so I was left explaining to my employees why this company was out to get us and no, I wasn't misleading them about our finances.

we do not have the resources to sue. wish livingsocial and the other companies targeted by these pieces of shit would. it's all a giant scam.

what hurts the most is the pubs that parrot the 'research', like cnn did this time around, which gives it credibility.

edit: a16z and google pay them for their research. sad. http://www.privco.com/testimonials
Into The Mystic
I think the biggest lesson learned here is to not co-locate in the first place. Almost everything they encountered could have been avoided by moving to a "cloud" provider (AWS, RackSpace, etc.)

While I get a kick out of a well wired rack, I think its a waste of time to do work you shouldn't be doing in the first place. And how much time did it take to do all the experimentation with different rack combinations? Purchasing the components, installing them, and then sending back when they don't fit. Those things don't matter and don't move your company forward, unless you're in the rack management business (like Rackspace or AWS).
The ~$500M number doesn’t consider that 50% of that goes to the merchant leaving ~$250M.

After that they have a "team of more than 4,500 employees includes LivingSocial professionals in every city where we offer deals"[1], 19 offices[2] plus another office/shop thing called 918F Street[3] and they have a 5 month training program[4] which adds costs to their hosting, software design etc.

Once they've paid out for its 4,500 employees, offices, hosting, software design, training programme, legal costs etc they also have significant marketing costs as well. Although companies like Ampush have helped them to lower it recently[5]

[1] http://corporate.livingsocial.com/bythenumbers

[2] http://corporate.livingsocial.com/ourcompany

[3] http://www.918fstreet.com

[4] http://hungryacademy.com/

[5] http://ampush.com/ampush-lowers-livingsocials-cpa-costs-on-f...
No it wasn't. They drily pointed out material falsehoods in a report. The onus is not on them to publish a counter-report that tells the opposite story. The PrivCo report is now a dead letter. It doesn't warrant a detailed response. If PrivCo is stopped-clock-twice-a-day right, well, they just fucked us all by poisoning the well.
The David Miller Police Mystery
Does it run Android apps?

What use is the touchscreen apart from scrolling or tapping on links in the browser?

The Verge calls it a hair thicker than the Air, am I the only one that feels that it's a lot thicker? Comparison photo: http://cdn0.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/7732773/theverge...
I'm glad Google is going to offer a high-end Chromebook, but I'd really like to see a $400 model that improves on screen quality and size. A 15" IPS Chromebook would be the sweet spot for me.

Also, I can't help but think that making a chromebook touch screen is a waste of money. Gorilla arm, anyone?
Hi, it looks like I can't reply directly to your nested comment below. Probably a spam reduction thing.

My answer to what proof I have claiming Buddha said that he didn't teach anything of his own is in scriptures, but it's in numerous ones. When Gautama was passing away, a disciple asked Buddha from whom he should learn and Buddha replied that he should learn from himself. Gautama also advised a great number of people to confirm everything directly, and not to jump into believing words without confirmation. Verification is the way that people can save themselves from a lie. So I don't know Buddha's words since I never heard from him directly but I can tell that he taught that to people since it's found consistently throughout all accounts of him.
> delivering fast connectivity across Verizon's network, the largest, fastest 4G LTE network in the U.S

Will the Pixel be locked? I doubt that Google would make this arrangement, but it is a question worth asking.
Really, I'd take anything but Chrome OS... But with 32 GB of storage I doubt Windows would even fit.
"Unlike previous Chromebook versions, the Pixel is aimed at power users who fully live in the cloud."

I thought that was always the point.
They have 4000 employees. If they cost (salary + benefits + taxes + etc.) $100k a year each, on average, then that'd be $400m.
With 32GB of storage, you probably wouldn't want to.
The same story over and over - supporting the sickest copyright approaches in the style of the evil empire. Microsoft is really a lost case.
Can you wipe it and install Android?
How do we know LivingSocial is the truthful one? Companies in their death throes have published bigger lies.
http://pansentient.com/2011/04/spotify-technology-some-stats...
> Once you wrap your head around d3

Key point here. Highcharts' customers are companies and website builders that don't have, get, or take the time to wrap their heads around D3, they just need to chuck a graph or two on their site(s), then move on to the next thing. It's not idealistic, but it's the reality.

I'm personally surprised there's not a lot more commercial JS libraries like Highcharts out there, seems to me there's a big market for those.
Actually, I mostly agree, despite going in thinking I wouldn't. Girl Talk is terribly boring live. There are many better, more creative artists in the EDM world. Araabmuzik as mentioned, RJD2 is a genre bending turntablist/synth junky/live performer, Pretty Lights mashes buttons on a monome and plays live with a drummer, and I think The Hood Internet does much better mash ups and has a better live show than Girl Talk (though they don't do the instrumachine thing so much).

I don't think I fully agree with 'the assumption that electronic music is the future'. It will be part of the future, but analog/traditional instruments will always be around, and will always be a significant portion of what music is created and what music is listened to.

Instrumachines aren't necessarily new, I'd even say the original electronic synthesizers of the 60s and 70s fall into the category. The just evolved into things with keyboards so they kind of got lumped into the 'instrument' category. I was glad you brought up turntablism, another example.