skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neal Stephenson was pretty critical of our use of smartphones in his novel Anathem. Most of the common people were glued to their "jeejahs" (smartphones) all the time in the book.

There was a good piece written by io9[1] where they interviewed Neal Stephenson to ask him his views on cellphone usage today. He had this to say:

"There is a larger question here . . . having to do with attention span and ability to focus on complex problems—or even non-complex ones, such as driving or having a civilized conversation with someone next to you. This is what the avout find so alarming about the cellphone-like devices used by people in the world of the book."

When asked if he felt that cell phones in our own world might represent a wrong turn, technologically speaking. He said:

"I couldn't live without mine. But the etiquette and the interface are lagging behind the technology. Introduction of new technology often leads to disruptions in manners that can take a generation or more to play out. We're in one of those awkward times now."

[1] http://io9.com/5046316/neal-stephenson-explains-whats-wrong-...
This is a great tool for API prototyping and testing.

However, I wouldn't use it for a full-blown app. It's like using Flask. You could do it in a single file, but it rarely makes sense to do so. By the time you organize your code, you end up with a basic MVC app structure anyway.

Relocateable by default is nice. But it's pretty simple in Django to design your settings file to be path-relative.
Annnnd on the flip side are bad PR dudes pissing a journalist off by offering to ghost write and ending up on Jim Romanesko's blog: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/02/19/pr-mans-jaw-dropping-offe...

Having spent a year and a half developing software for journalists, I'm certain that there are some lazy, careless journalists, but there are a whole lot more overworked and underpaid journalists, some of whom may not have the savvy to know when they're being duped (some due to ignorance, some due to lack of experience, some due to lack of resources).

PG notes that they were paying their PR firm 16k$ a month. Take a moment to ask yourself how much you think the starting salary for a reporter is, and then follow the link below:

http://gawker.com/5829589/average-starting-journalist-pay-30...
"Pics or it didn't happen." Doesn't bode well for integrity or imagination.
I speak to human beings daily. I've known dozens, or maybe hundreds, of human beings who have never been so rude as to pay more attention to their devices than to me when in the middle of a conversation.

I don't know you but, if you're not 20 years old, like the parent, you're talking apple and oranges.
You can find good php programmers (if you accept the premise that good php programmers can exist... some won't.) I don't think that's necessarily a limiting factor if you're willing to fish for them.

You've probably already considered this but it might help filtering to require experience with a proper framework like symfony or laravel, which will have handled most of the "good programming" work for you.
I'm not sure I agree with you but your dystopian vision is certainly vivid and reminds me of the novel Feed by M. T. Anderson [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_%28Anderson_novel%29.
I know this may not be appropriate but wow is she cute [1] and hot [2] at the same time. And on top of that she is brilliant, regardless of how her gig with Yahoo! turns out. Which makes her even more attractive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marissa_Mayer.jpg

[2] http://www.glamour.com/images/women-of-the-year/1103-marissa...
Wow you are a total shill. Obviously PSF is acting hostilely as you are insinuating, because they wanted to minimize confusion, or maybe they just wanted to minimize confusion.
That's true, there are good use cases for it, and similar technologies, in this domain. If the commenter to whom I was replying prefaced their excitement by explaining they were elderly or bedridden, I likely wouldn't have asked that (not-entirely-rhetorical) question -- it would have seemed reasonable to me. From the context I got the impression (possibly mistaken) that they were able-bodied, though.
It doesnt feel right, get a different name that ends in .com if not .co that people can work out how to say
Twitter to Open its Advertising API with Five Tech Partners
And Vim, :find, before TextMate.
Chinese Shipyard set to build Titanic II
Rotational velocity for one.

I surmise that 2.5" drives are less affected by vibration. I'm surprised they don't use a SDCard as the boot drive. I run our ESX servers from them.
API Business Models Deconstructed
Sure... If hotels advertised unlimited water and power. I similarly don't feel bad for a restaurant that loses money on an all you can eat buffet.
Their website?

"Backup Windows and Mac
Backblaze backs up Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 8 and Intel-based Mac OSX 10.5 and newer."
They state they don't in the FAQ. What makes you think they do ?
This is why opening the portion of the spectrum no longer use for television brodcasting (known as White Space) is such a big deal.

Thanks to the accelerating bananafication of our republic, there's a very good chance that the most valuable applications are going to emerge outside the US. Whether or not this produces enough pressure to loosen the power of our wireless telcos remains to be seen.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spaces_(radio)
I've tried to use Gimp as a Photoshop replacement for some years now. Each attempt results with me getting frustrated with the interface or I eventually come across a feature it lacks. I'm sure Gimp is fine for basic photo editing but I really don't see it as a viable replacement for someone who depends on Photoshop.
How to backup The Piratebay and its content
It's hard to predict the course of an upcoming generation based on what they experience now. I've never been without a TV in my own room. When I was growing up, I read frantic posts on Usenet about how people my age were glued to the TV and video games, and how that would ruin social interaction.

It wasn't long before people said the same about the web, instant messaging, early social networks, and everything since.

I seem to get along with people without issue despite growing up immersed in these society killers. Why are smartphones a special case?
This is awesome, especially like the part around 48 seconds after changing something -"You'll notice this happens... IMMEDIATELY"
Maybe for $X/month you get the experience ad-free. As sad as that type of deal sounds.
Sheesh, that roach story makes the original "bug in the code" story sound tame.
I find the speed alone is worth it. Git lets me commit and branch without having to think about it, without having to enter the command and then pause for a while (even a couple of seconds is enough to break my flow) while it does its stuff.
I like the Services idea. Django's settings file is the weakest link in the framework. It's easy to roll your own settings apps if all you need to configure is your own code. But that just makes things more complicated when you are integrating other apps.

I've tried a few different apps designed to move settings into the database. None of them have worked very well. This area of Django is still ripe for some killer app to become a defacto standard.
Leaving your specific issues aside, anecdotally I've found "Do Not Disturb" on my iPhone to be a huge boon: it's a lot easier not to take your phone out of your pocket if you don't feel it vibrate every minute. And go full "Airplane Mode" if you're having dinner or are at an event or something. Ask whoever you're with to do the same, and you're done.

Manners have to be learnt, you're not born with them. Many of us didn't grow up with this kind of device, so we have to actively learn how to use them in a polite way. Some people find this easier than others...
Same, but I use http://www.keepassx.org/ as it works better with linux.
I hate blogs with Google ads at the top after the title and/or in the middle of the content and this particular blog is guilty of both.

I understand the need to earn some money, but seriously, this shit is awful.

(btw, I'm not using AdBlock because I want annoying websites to annoy me)
You can get them at Costco now for $180. It kinda blew my mind when I was there last weekend.
Cash? There aren't many stores that are "credit card only". You'd be turning away customers.
If you can turn it off when you're done, that sounds great.
That's... not much of an analogy.
Shoddy data collecting/telemetry? Seriously? Is that what you're suggesting? Because SpaceX (another Musk company) has rockets that dock with the space station.

Definitely not worshiping Musk here, but if you can get a rocket to dock with the ISS, I'm pretty sure you can collect charge state, speed, and cabin environment control settings pretty accurately.
Apple Hit by Same Java Exploit as Facebook
No tweaking, promise :) It's possible you hit an inconsistent server first time around, I'll have a dig on our end. Let me know if you have any other problems - toby@textrazor.com.
Mount your stand securely to any surface without drilling.

I wonder if "securely" just means my ipad won't fall over, or if it also somehow means customers can't run away with my ipad while my back is turned. That seems pretty important to me, and hard to achieve without drilling.
I am hovering between the generations in this regard, and I definitely see (or think I see) a strong gradient. I know vanishingly few adults over thirty who spend life buried in tech- even the tech-savvy ones. Then as you work backwards in age down to high school, you see progressively more and more absorption into technology.

Most everyone I know along the "scale" is sharp enough to use whatever the latest tech is. The different is not savvy, it is usage patterns.

/anecdote
MonoDevelop, MonoMac, and Mono itself are still all open source.

http://github.com/mono/monodevelop

http://github.com/mono/monomac

http://github.com/mono/maccore

http://github.com/mono/mono

Xamarin also has a number of open source modules on github: https://github.com/xamarin
Perhaps emergency surgery actually? Or it not at least CPR help, or a tracheomtoy?
A YC company buying a 500 company, YC is always on top =)
Spot on.

This sort of technology is actually doing a fuck ton of damage to society. It's why I have a shit Nokia.
PaaS Under The Hood, Episode 6: How to Optimize the Memory Usage of Your Apps
I was thinking the same thing when I was reading the article. This is just another shift in technology, and the companies need to adapt or get left behind.

Maybe part of that shift is selling designs for a reasonable price. Allow the consumer to become the manufacturer and the internet to become the distribution chain.
Referrals - Referrals tend to be a really fantastic way to bring people in and should be the first place you go. If you leverage each of your first ten hires’ networks, chances are you’ll meet some excellent candidates. When done right, internal and external referrals can scale your company pretty efficiently. Sit down and get your engineers to physically list out the best and smartest people they’ve ever worked with and then go after them with crazy intensity. As an added bonus, referral candidates might be easier to close because a friend’s recommendation goes a long way.

Does anyone here (besides Stripe) do this? Systematically meet with team members to get lists of recruiting targets? What does "go after them with crazy intensity" mean?

This is Stripe's most successful recruiting channel so I'd definitely like to understand it better!
Facebook is perhaps  the worst thing happened to Internet
Free Speech in the Era of Its Technological Amplification
or Kate
You sound like you'd like Mercurial. Give it a try.
Coattails are beyond retro, at this point.
Ah, yes -- instead of being willing to work on improving one of the existing scientific Python front ends and/or libraries (Sage, IPython, SciPy, etc.), let's invent a new one that will end up competing for time and resources with those that already exist.

Even though most of these choices are free, they still possess a strong component of not-invented-here (typical of paid software), and the Balkanization of technical Python options and environments.

Having said all that, and just to make this interesting, the features page shows some pretty nice stuff:

http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/Features
I don't think it means anything in English. But maybe writers (your target market) find names with non-obvious or hidden meanings appealing? Ask them, not us.
So making the switch to Ubuntu is worth HN front page ?

Dont want to hate, but this article has so little useful information and mostly consists of rambling about some personal computing edge cases that i dont see the value.
Tesla vs. New York Times: Epilogue
You raise some solid points - however don't you think that Google Glass will actually improve the experience? Instead of people walking down the sidewalk with their head's down staring at their phones, they can actually take in and enjoy more of their surroundings and live more in the moment.

Along the same lines, the ability to record and snap pictures on demand based on what you are actually in the midst of experiencing is a pretty powerful thing! Much more immersive and authentic than the hordes of people watching sporting events and concerts thru their 3.5in iPhone screens!
When A Bad Economy Means Working 'Forever'
.org is for organizations. Try to get .com
rabiscaria seems ok to me, I can not make any relation between the word "rabiscaria" and what u planning to do.
Seems like the next step is to put the scrollbar under programmatic control.
If you're hearing the same point made from a lot of quarters, then maybe there's an actual phenomenon behind it.

But more than that, Glass is fundamentally different.

It's designed, from the concept up, to always be in your awareness. That's what it is. That's the entire appeal of it.

That's not a book, and it's not even a smartphone that spends most of its time in your pocket.

It's something that always demands some fraction of your attention.

It's different.
She probably smelled way better than her avatar.

(And if you think this is just being crude, then something essential and primal has been lost for you.)
You may like this short film called Sight http://vimeo.com/46304267 . The ending isn't great, but pretty much everything else is neat.
Step-by-step: Get 90% of peak FLOPS on a matrix-matrix product
Their search looks like Google looked some years ago. Not bad, though. The design is now a bit more clear to navigate. But I still don't know what Yahoo is about. Is it a search engine? Is it a news page? Is it for email? What is it? Too much stuff at the same time is confusing. I have been using Yahoo since 1997 (I think), and I still can't answer that question. Its like AOL.
How do you work around their suggested API limits of one request every 2 seconds and one request per-page every 30 seconds?

Edit: I see this is a history. Though the question still stands for many reddit clients. I want to use the API, but find the terms too limiting for what I want to do.
Kinect 2.0 specs allegedly leak: 1920×1080 color stream, 60ms latency, USB 3.0
Wine is much nicer than virtualization, when it works flawlessly.
I wasn't looking for an explanation of how the site was built at all. I really think she could have came up with an explanation of the goals of the redesign that actually meant something. For example:

"We wanted the site to feel fresh, intuitive, and beautiful which why we put a lot of work into the new real-time news feed, gave the homepage a simpler, less cluttered design, and took inspiration from designs that are both modern and timeless".

What was really lacking in the original quote was substance. She could have used the very same first half the quote then pointed at one thing that qualified the redesign as being each of those adjectives and it would have went from buzzword soup to a meaningful statement.
may not be appropriate???
What?

> Books are intentional - you've committed to a topic, and there's a finite amount of information to digest. When you're checking social media, you don't know what you're going to get, but it'll probably keep you occupied.

This is a bizarre argument.
1. In what way is a book more intentional than Facebook? How is visiting Facebook an unintentional act? I don't think you're using the common definition of 'intentional'.
2. "You've committed to a topic." How is this a substantial difference? What if I don't know the topic of the book before I start reading it? And when I read a newspaper, do I know the topic any more than when I browse social media?
3. "There's a finite amount of information to digest." Even admitting this is true (which is sort of a stretch), again, how is this a substantial difference? The fact that the information is infinite doesn't imply the amount of time I choose to spend on the information is infinite.
4. "You're consuming mostly trivial information." By what standard? What you're consuming is information about the people you know. How is this more trivial than reading 50 Shades of Gray?
5. "it's probably something best kept in moderation." Sure.. so is reading books for leisure. So is reading books for school. So is working. So is eating. So is everything you do, regardless of its nature.

You two aren't saying anything substantial.

The OP doesn't like social media, online shopping, or horoscopes, and he doesn't like people who spend lots of time engaged in them. Fine, we get it. I don't happen to like those things either. But I don't act as if that means anything.
This is open to everyone, right? So what was the point of signing up for Glass at last year's I/O? The only thing that came out of that were:

1) A hangout that confused everyone involved because nobody was leading it

2) An API training event that had extremely limited places

My block of etched glass appears to stand for very little.
Square introduces “Business in a Box” to set stores up with hardware
Who really wants a self-driving car?
After I spend weeks creating this nonsense compiler what am I going to do with my Grand Master Certification? I've asked around my office and no-one here either recognizes it nor would they hire anyone based on them having it.

Just do a an MSc in computer science instead, if you haven't already.
> They are great utilities to have but some of the applications on them people can't help but be addicted to

It's worth remembering that much of the addictiveness of consumer oriented services is informed by the work of BJ Fogg, a professor a Stanford [1]. While it's hard to lay the burden for Instagram/Facebook/Twitter etc. entirely at his door; it is the simple minded application of his ideas to the urgent necessity to grow and hold an audience that has created the recent plague of attention sinks that do little to make people's lives better.

1. http://captology.stanford.edu/projects/behaviordesign.html
Firefox introduces PDF viewer
I second that. This way if pirate bay got down everyone will have the last version of the site, not the 3/4/5 months ago version.
Wow, that was rude =p... I'm pretty sure there are lots of writers (technical, fiction, etc) here on HN. I already bought some books of writers I've met here. But thanks anyway.
How much is empowerment, and how much is noise?
We've got some abstractions that build on top of the native APIs as well such as Xamarin.Mobile.
I think you're right - it only prevents the iPad from falling over. They probably use suction cups of some sort. If someone is determined though - they'll just rip it off and run out the door.
I wonder how Glass will handle other people randomly shouting out instructions.
Curation is the Future
The benefits of DCVS, and Git in particular, are pretty clear, specially as you scale the team size.

Git's command line is a UX train-wreck though. Poor consistency, learnability and leakage about how the internals work. I think Git gets a lot of unnecessary flak because even though people realize it's superior, they are always fighting it into doing what they want.

My pet project is giving it a saner command line.
I work with one at work: these things are bulletproof.
Custom Python Environments in Wakari
I wonder what they'll do about implants.
The different shades of purple are quite annoying between the logo and the lighter purple used elsewhere.

Also, surely they could've made it more coherent and made the actual search results page have the same design as the new home page?
When a mobile network terminal (which is really what these phones are) is seen as a logical extension of you brain (google is always at hand, stored notes, etc) and perceptions (a text message can be likened to a friendly wave from across the room, you get to choose your own interaction level from that point), it's natural to have it always at hand, and ready.

If others perceive you to be inattentive because you check your phone, that's old-world thinking. I'm sure many people have attention problems, and may not apply the correct amount of attention to local stimuli, but then again, maybe they just don't find what happening immediately around them all that interesting at the time.

A phone can enhance a conversation. One participant can take a few moments to research something that was just discussed while listening in on further conversation, and then re-enter the active portion of the conversation with new, and useful, information.

Is short, we are in a transition period. There's learning to be done about the best way to deal with all the new capabilities we have (because that's what they are, enhancements to us), as well as social norms that need to adapt.
Dear Yahoo/Mayer,

I like purple too, but how about SSL-always and TOTP 2-factor auth?
Thanks! Rabiscaria is a derivative of the verb "rabiscar" wich is something like "to scribble" in english.
Who is Ruchira Sahan?
I disagree. I think around the home and at family gatherings it would be really cool. I can just wear the glasses as my kids do things, without worry that I might miss the "perfect" timing of an event. No more reaching for my Canon Rebel/iPhone/etc--it's just on. How many parents knew that their kids were about to take their first steps, only to miss the opportunity to record it. Yes, it's silly, but parents are very sentimental and the idea of preserving family memories like this is very attractive. Or even video conferencing with grandma, etc. I see the attraction to this product coming from private people rather than public. I.e. they'll want to use it as a way to record their private lives, share memories, etc.
Ask HN: If we Open Source our platform, would you use it?
Visions of Today, 13 years ago
I feel like someone should invent a directed emp pulse weapon so I can disable these permanently whenever I see them. What a horrible future awaits us. I hope Google glass fails. I realize this is inevitable, but I'm not ready, and neither is my family.
When I was in my teens and 20's, if it was acceptable for you to kiss someone, it was just as acceptable for you to take off their glasses and remove whatever they were holding in their hand then kiss them. Is that still true?
It's also exactly how they started with Android.
> Try to convince me that most of the time you spend on your phone is time well spent. It's probably not. Well, not too long from now that shit is going right in front of your eye, wrapped around your cranium.

Most of my time spent on my smart phone: texting, emails, weather, Google Nav, music, looking up random junk, checking weather, snapping a quick picture, etc.

Some of these things are for pleasure (music, random facts) and others have varying utility.

None of this means I whip out my smart phone in the middle of a conversation with someone else.
I use LastPass with the Google 2-factor authentication app. I also keep some secure notes in it.