skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here's something intended to serve roughly the same purpose for iOS/Mac: http://www.getbeamapp.com/
That's an issue those people would need to take up with Microsoft if Microsoft decides to risk their business over this. If they don't pay, they will have assets frozen, just as any other company or individual that refuse to pay their fines. Simple as that.
They're conventions that work because you see them over and over in small functions, the "small functions" being key.

(go), type parameters, (x:xs) "\ds ->", "import qualified This as That".

I think it's just like a java programmer internalizes when to use HashSet, HashMap, TreeSet, ArrayList etc. After a while you just know what to do.

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yesterday's long debate about this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19mw7v/on_f_rea...

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APL and C, with some scheme and prolog thrown in, were my first languages, so maybe readability just isn't important to me ;-}
Use the 'hackernews' promo code to get a 29$ off on the Full UI + xCode project pack.
This is after they are exposed to the MVP. At this point the solution isn't hypothetical, only the premium version is.
Getting to decide by what means they pay it, rather than have EU courts order some of their assets confiscated.
Weak demand: Samsung will stop sale of Windows RT tablets in Germany
Being able to almost interact with an element to check whether it is interactive is not the "best" of both worlds, it's a compromise.
So...semantically, what does a link inside a link mean? It would seem to be non-sensical...an article is given an href but the article itself contains links elsewhere. What is a search engine supposed to think?
These presentations irk me significantly.

I get that you need to work on existing problems that have users that will pay.
I get that you need a business model.
I get that it needs to be a market that is open enough.

But they rarely address how to generate ideas to work through. Perhaps I'm not entrepreneurial enough...but I refuse to believe that's the case. I get that you have to talk/observe users, but I don't know what market I'd like to engage and what I'd find interesting.

In short, I know programming well, but it doesn't mean a damn thing for creating my own products because I don't know what needs people have.
> I'm thinking some ways of encrypted mobile-to-mobile communication, file storage, maybe even encrypted video.

There's a few good open source implementations out there already for phone calls and SMS. The two below were done by Moxie Marlinspike. They're built for Android, but I'm sure they can be ported elsewhere with the source being available.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure
True, I didn't consider that. I guess you could work around this placing all the links you want to be indexed in a hidden div or something similar though. This could be automated via javascript aswell.
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It's going to vary based on the duty cycle and size and age of the refrigerator, but a modern fridge might only average 60-70 watts.

A modern TV might be 100 or 200 watts.

Saving 80 watts in a 2 bulb fixture starts to compare to those numbers.

Heating and cooling, lighting does not compare to.
You should have put that question BEFORE quitting.
Last day - turning Parliamentary records into searchable db (boingboing.net)
This fine would only make sense if Microsoft prevented users from installing a different browser.

Consider an analogy: let's say there's a power company who runs a monopoly on generating electricity. They also provide natural gas services to their customers. There is, however, a bunch of other smaller natural gas companies just a phone call away that people can buy natural gas from; all you have to do is call them and have a technician come and flip a switch in your home. Is it really harmful to the consumer if the power company with the dominant market position doesn't give their customers the phone numbers of the companies competing with its natural gas division? No.
Upgrade or Die
TeleSound: a tangible sound messenger
A cross browser testing service with a twist going to private beta
Actually, Microsoft did contractually prohibit OEMs from pre-installing other browsers and making them the default instead.
Have you tried Adsense?
There was an explicit order in the previous anti-trust ruling that required it. The ruling stated they could be fined up to 10% of their revenue if they failed to comply. They did not comply. They were fined.

It's not like they weren't told about it first.
Kind of like Twitter Bootstrap but you have to pay for it.
This thing reads like it was generated by the html-nerd equivalent of http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/ . Does anyone understand his point? Is he saying that he'd like to be able to attach a link destination to all html elements, not just <a> elements?
I also created a chrome extension, without web requests :)

https://github.com/fabriceleal/chrome-extension-url-qr-encod...
This is exactly the kind of thing that Apple will likely implement one day as seamless integration is their speciality.
Thanks for your helpful comments. I will look into this.
Seven Habits... outdated advice
Dove releases rogue Photoshop action that undoes 'real beauty' manipulations
Google & ActiveSync, Microsoft & CalDav: Pure irony
I don't get what it is and don't want to make a twitter account to find out.

Could someone explain what is and why it needs a twitter account.
was kinda interested - but first step being a twitter authorised killed curiosity right then and there..

suggest maybe linking to something of an explanation before jumping straight into auth-step
Why git? I store my .vim directory in dropbox and just have it symlinked into my home directory on each of my machines. I don't really see a need for version control, and I don't want to have to do anything to make sure a change on one machine is reflected on all the others.
According to Wikipedia, QR code is free of any license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code
The author couldn't be more wrong. Eating animals is always wrong. Would you eat your own dog? Or little brother? They are made of meat as well. I wouldn't eat my own dog and my little brother, well, if he was a gingerbread boy maybe.
Online Education and Jazz
The instant Twitter auth kills it for me, sorry.
>We've accepted browsers are part of the OS for a long time

Where? You're making that up.
You can be employed and still be entrepreneur, definitions from Wikipedia:

"1934: Schumpeter: Entrepreneurs are innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo of the existing products and services, to set up new products, new services."

"1983: G. Pinchot: Intrapreneur is an entrepreneur within an already established organization."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur
>school is necessary to function in society.

No it's not. An education is necessary to function in society, it's not necessary that it comes from school, or the type of school that forces the joy of learning out of children.
I find it useful, it just needs to be easier on phones to get to the qr code scanner. I use an iphone, and if it was as easy as just opening up the camera app, pointing at the code which it recognized and put a box around (similar to the focus box perhaps) that I could click on, it would go a long way to getting more people to use them.
Never heard of that. Source?
The illusion of simplicity
Screen moves with the snake. Chrome 25.0.1364.152.
Please please please if you are going to require a Facebook or twitter or google or MySpace or whatever new service-of-the-month login, please put a video or screenshots so we can see the offering first. It's like asking for a social security number without telling what you plan to do with it.
Looks awesome! Just bought the Full UI + xCode and started to play with it.

It seems to be missing a "Sharing" folder in "xCode Project/"
What enterprises do with Big Data- Part 2
Thanks for the heads up! I will email you that right away!
Yeah, I just embedded the jsfiddle iframe. It is a much better experience to open jsfiddle in its own tab:

Small: http://jsfiddle.net/zT7V4/7/embedded/result/

Large: http://jsfiddle.net/zT7V4/5/embedded/result/
Nobody is mentioning the multicore problem? Wide out-of-order CPU designs have hit diminishing returns a while ago in adding more instruction-level parallelism to the single thread of execution. Processor speedups haven't been coming dominated by faster transisitors for a while, it's been smarter OOO. You can see this now in ARM-land as they start climbing the OOO ladder.

Multicore has been the best "next step" they've come up with, but the required difficult software rewrites prevented consumers from seeing speedups.

Total on-chip exceution resources have essentially kept on the Moore's law path as CPU vendors punted to multicore designs. 99% of PC software is serial since parallel software is too hard to make.

Runing the same code faster was the reason that software used to become more hungry each CPU generation and forced people to upgrade their machines. New CPUs used to make the programmer more productive, not less.
>SQL server
The rest I can understand but please tell me this isn't true
Hootsuite doesn't support Pinterest yet. So what?
S/minutes/months/. Early on the prices might be at-current-cost or even a slight loss (to gain traction) and then creep later on.
It would be a lot simpler just to use a-elements though :-)
Concurrency in Rubinius
They haven't done anything with text yet but there's iCloud Tabs for URLs. Anything you have open in Safari is available on your iPhone/iPad too and anything on those devices is available by clicking the cloud icon in Safari.
What does the Internet look like? There's an app for that
detailed screenshots needed. can you email me at hi at davidkatz dot me?
So Cool. Thanks for the detailed, specific & well-designed contextual explanations!

I am honing my HTML5 skills, and this was very useful. I started playing with your code...
You can store WiFi access point credentials in a QR code:
http://www.qrzilla.com (click WiFi)
When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets
How about an Android version?
It is not just that 'old is good enough', in last years PCs are actually getting worse. I would love to spend money, but there is no stuff to buy.

My 7 years old laptop has higher display resolutions than anything on the market (except two new laptops). It is also impossible to buy laptop with 4:3 screen ratio.

My 2 years old desktop CPU overclocked at 5GHz is faster than anything on the market, last two CPU generations can not reach such performance.

And some newest SSD generation actually have worse performance characteristics than previous generation.
Speaking of docking stations, my thinkpad dock is one of the best purchases I've ever made.

It makes it my laptop essentially much more portable since I don't have to worry about disconnecting reconnecting a monitor, speakers keyboard, mouse external hdd, and power.
Am I right to understand that Dove is misleading people as to what this app does? This doesn't seem to be the best way to advance their cause.
Yeah, this is what I don't get. Also, why would I want to nest anchors? That doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, I was about to add that too. Sad, but fun to play with until it is gone ;)
How we partnered with a competitor to win a business.
This presentation suggests noticing problems that have inelegant solutions over "thinking up startup ideas", synonymous with [thinking of ideas for companies that have nothing to do with solving problems or providing value].

Either this presentation was given to an audience of posers and kids or the presenter thought the audience was a bunch of posers and kids. Both scenarios sound awful.
No idea what this is, I get a Twitter login page.

This is an IRC channel from just a URL:
irc://irc.efnet.org/HN

What's the difference?
I bought Dell Inspiron 14z for half that price ($574) last month: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0081YPUT8
My experience has been good so far.
Chrome Beta for Android now shipping with webcam capture via WebRTC flag
Sure, I wanted to "test the waters" before releasing other versions. But definitely will release an android version!
Is there a way for me to get access to a machine like this if I want to see how well my code runs? If I want to benchmark some code on a crazy i7, I can just fire up an instance on EC2 for a couple of hours.

I'm not aware of anything like that for the newer ARM processors. There's an Ubuntu ARM AMI which lets you ssh straight into an ARM image.. running on QEMU on top of EC2. Not ideal.
Awesome - and thanks for checking it out!

This is only my 2nd HTML5 game - and it was a blast to create. Best of luck to you, and don't hesitate to contact me when you get some code together. I'd like to help any way I can.
What's the point of all that computing power if there's no "killer app" to make use of it?

These days the devices that interest me are those that consume little power, have perpetual internet connectivity (WiFi or cell tower), and are instant on/off. It has to be portable and durable. Everything else is icing.
Can't do that with a password or other sensitive info.

I have a web server that only responds to requests from my LAN. I put sensitive info into an HTML file there, then point my phone's browser to it to copy/paste it; then I delete the info from the file. This way the data never leaves my LAN, which I believe is reasonably well protected.
I have the same problem.
Programming is the easy part for me, find ideas on the other hand is one of the hardest parts (after marketing a new product).

Most people I talk to, don't seem to have any problems. Or perhaps I (and they) just don't see them as problems that need to be solved.
The earlier startups ('76 and '87) gave me the experience of what a startup is like. I _was_ the warrior god. I worked 60, 70, 80 hours per week. I _knew_ I could overcome all. In one case it worked, and in another it failed.

By relfecting on those experiences, and many other experiences in companies large and small I have since learned a great deal about programming; and about human nature. One of my greatest realizations is that you cannot go fast by rushing. Every shortcut you take slows you down. Every attempt at cutting corners, adds more corners. And so I adopted the mantra: "The only way to go fast is to go well."

In 2002, when I started the FitNesse (fitnesse.org) project, TDD was the rule. I didn't know how well it would work, because I was very new to TDD at the time. But since the risk was low, I gave it a shot. It succeeded beyond my expectations, both as a programming discipline, and also as an open source project. The power TDD gave us (and still gives us) to keep the code clean and under control is something I'd never experienced in any other project. It was profound. It was powerful. It allowed us to go fast, and _keep_ going fast because the code stayed clean. I have come to view it as a moral imperative. No project team should ever lose control of their code; and any slowdown represents that loss of control.

I have since consulted on many projects using TDD, and have helped many others to adopt it. My son, Micah, who was the lead programmer on the FitNesse project, continued to practice TDD in other projects for clients of my company, with great success. When he founded his own company, 8thLight.com, TDD was a founding principle.

When it came time for me to start another company, (cleancoders.com) TDD was, and has remained, a founding principle. TDD keeps the code under control. That control keeps me going fast. I can't imagine surrendering control of the code ever again.

There's an old saying: "Your true beliefs are exposed under pressure." I'm glad your AgileZen story had a happy ending; but I think you got lucky. When the pressure came, your true beliefs came out, and they did not include TDD. You abandoned the discipline because you thought it was slowing you down. And now you are communicating that meme to the world at large. That's a shame.

As long as someone thinks TDD will slow them down, they will abandon it whenever the pressure is high enough. I, on the other hand, know that TDD speeds me up. So when the pressure comes, I hold to my discipline.

I know I can't convince people that TDD will speed them up. But as I look out over the industry from my rather long perspective, I see the change rolling across it. TDD was unknown in 1999. It has gained in awareness and adoption every year since that time. The momentum continues to build.

In another 10 or 15 years TDD will likely be as prevalent and important to programmers as hand-washing is to surgeons or double-entry bookkeeping is to accountants. I stand a good chance of seeing that happen.
Minimalist Drupal Development
It's probably a great testament to its good design that I failed to notice how well it works when browsing Amazon. Everyone notices awful dropdown menus (and I really don't like Bootstrap's), but good ones like this often pass un-noticed because they work so well.
There's also the small matter of liquidity. If you sell enough BTC to crash the price, you're still likely to get killed buying them all back to cover the short because:

a) There's a lot more bids than asks. It's a lot easier to ratchet the price up than it is to lower it. If Mr Shark sold 50k BTC in one hit right now, he would move the price from $46 to $31. If he tried to buy 50k BTC in one hit, BTC would shoot up to $100 USD.

b) Since the last crash and subsequent boom, there are lots of people now who yearn for the days of $5, $10 or even $15 BTC and will happily buy at those prices[1]. Mr Shark will be competing with their orders during his buyback.

Strangely I think the first crash made bitcoin stronger.

c) I'm not sure Mr Shark appreciates the psychology of the current bitcoin market. I think he assumes there are people sitting on a ton of BTC who are going to panic and sell at $5. Even a cursory reading of the bitcoin forums would show that this is not the case.

[1] I sadly confess that the kool aid is delicious and I am one of them.
> beautiful

For some values of beautiful that is.
I'm in exactly the same situation as you. I have asked about it here before and the replies are "do A/B testing to figure out which idea is best" which is fine but only if you already have ideas.

There is really two problems: Creating ideas, and knowing which ideas are "stupid" and which you should try.

While it is easy to say "A/B test them all" that just isn't realistic with any level of time, cost, or personal constraints.

I'm yet to have any idea that passes the "would I pay money for that?" test. That's kind of a massive problem.
I gloss over many problems because I put up with a lot due to programming.

Sometimes I think the best thing to do is walk away from it all and forget about the SaaS gold rush, trusting that a problem will find you. Feels like giving up, though.
> As gjulianm stated, Android is a monopoly in EU.

Android is — at best — in a dominant position, but Android also isn't a monolithic entity.

Then comes the second problem: ignoring the non-monolithic nature of Android where e.g. Samsung and HTC — while all using the same base system — compete with one another) being a natural monopoly (or even in a dominant position) is not illegal, abusing such a position to distort other markets is.

If you are an EU citizen and can make such a case, you should feel free to bring it up to EU competition courts. But you have to make the case first.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but this seems like the kind of thing they would have patented (not that it deserves a patent, just that they would have applied for one).
An Open Source Hardware dedicated Jam/Hackathon in New York in April
my first experience was writing a call back verification program for WWIV BBS systems. I do not recall how much I made, but it was a substantial amount. I think it was named CBVWWIV, I forget as the code is long lost. It was written in Turbo Pascal and supported ASCII, ANSI, and AVATAR, output.

That was an interesting time to be involved in and at times I think it was more fun and entertaining that the net today.
QR sounds useful for some minor applications, but for anything serious placed in a public place on a physical medium (like a billboard) its a phishers dream: just put a sticker with your phishing url over the original one and noone will ever realise.
I too would like more screen shots before I make a purchase.
Thanks
So who's going to submit the pull request to Bootstrap?
Kenyan election failing to full manual after tech failures
So you value your time away from work at $0/hour? Personally, I value my free time at a higher amount than my salary divided by hours worked.
I'm sorry but what about the ipod, iPad, iPhone.... Can't remember them giving me the choice of where I want to buy media. This must be a joke?
No, Intel is doing it out of the goodness of its heart.

It might be a business but they never cared about money. The push these technologies to people out of pure love of new technology.
Would Google index attributes in XLink namespace? E.g.:

<img src="pic.jpg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="about.html" />

I know they index SVG documents, and there’s no @href in SVG namespace… Would that work for (X)HTML5 documents, either served as HTML or XML document?

You’d still need JS polyfill, but at least the semantics remain intact.
Why is replycam all QR codes? What am I missing?
Thanks for this and I'm looking forward to trying it out!

I've long been annoyed by delayed menu dropdowns, but also having to maintain fine mouse control to get the dropdown to behave how I want it to behave. I don't know why the delay bothers me as much as it does, but I think I'd rather take the finicky preciseness of dropdowns over delayed dropdowns. Amazon's solution is really the elegant winner. There are still some tradeoffs, but I think their solution makes the most sense for delivering expected results to users.
As of the core duo generation, people don't need to upgrade their computers in order to browse the web or use Microsoft Office. Office is the eternal killer app for the masses IMHO (excluding the browser), and it doesn't need the latest generation intel chip. As we know so many apps have moved to the browser.
If everyone listens to the same problems that people have and listens to similar customer views and uses the same MVP techniques, all startups become the same. Well, we're there - millions of graduates from business schools are coming up with the very same MVPs. In fact we're getting drowned by all these vertical startups. They are single-purpose tools that want to be the toothpick, the tweezer, the tiny saw of the Swiss Army knife.

I actually think we'll be heading for consolidation and eventually people will want broader tools that are more like universal knives that can be used in many different ways.

Uniqueness stands out and I think the next eye-opening startups we're going to see will have to break out of the limited MVP to scale mindset. MVPs are great tools, especially to determine the right technology and to gain early customer insight, but true product visions have to go far beyond them.
> less turds like Mark Pincus

Does that sound like the sort of thing Woz would say?
I seem to recall this same technique being used in the pre-OS X era of the Mac OS. Not sure exactly how far back, but I'd say at least into System 8 if not System 7.
I have a Roku and like it but really wish it had better support for playing off of USB and network shares - this is the one reason I still use my WDTV Live as often as I do. Oh, not to mention the WDTV supports every format under the sun and streams my 3DTV with zero issues too.

I know there is a USB app for Roku but it sucks and doesn't work consistently.

I know I could use Plex to retrieve files from my shares but I don't care for navigation in this app much.

Anyway, glad to see Roku continues to make nice updates, I just wish there was a single solution at this point.
Oh interesting...back button.