skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short: It's not an inherent or technical difference so much as an ecosystem difference. Win8 developers think about Live Tiles differently than Android developers do about widgets. (Right?)
The relative terseness is a clue, I think ;)
That's one use for Tiles, but not the one I'm referring to. Pinning a map is great, but pinning a weather app makes it continuously update the local weather and forecast right on the app shortcut. Pinning a stock app makes your stock quotes show up right there on the app shortcut. There's many use cases for pinning a Live Tile, and the best part is they're all done using the same mechanism.
This is not the first BIOS source to leak (Award BIOS 6 code leaked 10 yrs ago, am sure still available in your fav torrent tracker). Opensource code will certainly not make use of this leaked implementation, it is asking for trouble.
IntelliSense/Browsing options in VC++ 2010
Please correct the syntax errors and poor logic in your job description.

Example 1:

Don't "HATE HATE HATE" anything, even IE6. Hating it is inefficient and wastes cycles. Deal with it or ignore it. Furthermore, practical people who find hatred inefficient will find your negativity offputting.

Frame it in a more positive light. "Would you like to be able to pretend IE doesn't exist and live in the joy of Chrome?" Essentially the same message as "Do you HATE HATE HATE Internet Explorer?? Do you love love love Chrome?" but way less negative.

Example 2:

"Lightening" is the gerund form of the verb "lighten," as in "lightening someone's load." While reducing someone's load will make them faster, I'm pretty sure it won't make them "lightning" fast.

Thanks.
I should also say: putting together a new screen (form or otherwise) in Vaadin is extremely fast. It's the fastest I've ever been able to develop web-based UIs, simply because all I'm forced to think about is Java.
If I could get all my apps to work with Google Now, I would love it. However, Facebook, for one, does not update Google Now. Is there a public API so apps can push data to Now?
To do something like this on Android, you'd need an API for an app to install a widget. I don't know if that's possible outside of the standard appstore download/install process.
I saw this link on Reddit, pretty cool that he shows how a few small fixes could have averted a huge financial loss.

This was a game I played as a small child, and was able to figure out the way to the ending. Also seem to remember it was my first encounter with a software bug.
Yes, essentially. Facebook has a good explanation: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/02/21/improvin...
I thought people had various games on Twitter around 2008 or so.
Rails is not great, IMO.

I use Spring every day as part of my day job, and I agree that a lot of the development time slowness is due to culture/enterprise. But that is a serious problem that can't be readily dismissed.
Rapper's Flow Encyclopedia - MF DOOM
This post merely highlights an important fact many entrepreneurs who are looking to raise capital ignore: you're not in control of your own destiny. If you can't move forward in building your business without investor money, you're forced to spend more time and energy on the fundraising game than product, sales, marketing, and business development.

The data presented here may or may not be accurate or interesting, and the conclusions drawn from it may or may not be valid, but regardless, worrying more about the state of VC firms than your own company is a losing proposition.
Everything you need to know about economics in 400 words, Part 3
If you can't afford to live in San Francisco, generally the advice I would offer would be: Move away from San Francisco.

Is it harsh? Not really. People move all the time for economic reasons, there is no basic human right to live in a neighborhood you can't afford, even if you are used to living there.

San Francisco is going to be expensive when the economy is up. It's very geographically constrained, and earthquakes drastically limit the kinds and density of housing you can build. We can pretend that there is some silver bullet, but any program that artificially subsidizes or restricts the cost of housing just displaces someone else who would live there and be able to afford it better. It produces a drastically inefficient and expensive mess.

I guess what I'm saying is, it's far better to help people adapt by finding a place they can afford and where their family can thrive without assistance.
Start decoupling functionality into stand alone module. Have the module serve data through a ReST API. Say you got the accounting part of the system. Take all of their operations, and move them over to an MVC pattern that serves pure data (no presentation). Then build the front-facing application around the APIs. This allows you to plug in/out functionality, handle complexity, and use of any language you may want. Problem is, if not handled correctly, you could have a lot of cross pollination with the APIs. But since the APIs will be stand alone services, all bad code will only rest on the front end app.
Widgets could do this on Android, if Widget makers chose to implement that.
For example Facebook's widget is your stream.

But most widgets are not very interactive, they are more like app preview snapshots, with a tap to launch the app.
"Even the labor laws in Italy are becoming more lenient in face of a down economy": Would you care to explain how this is related? Just curious, as an Italian.
Definitely. It's been super interesting developing a culture that thrives in both the world of the startup and the world of traveling. When you get it right, it's fantastic.
Seems like the author has only worked with iOS.

On Android push notifications are done through GCM (Google Cloud Messaging), when it's sent your application gets a callback (Intent). So it is up to the application to decide what to do with it, whether it is to show a notification or do something else entirely. So on Android you have a pretty good idea that the the user is actually getting a notification. Jelly Bean and up you can also do very rich notifications with images and actions built right into it.

On iOS when a remote push notification is received there is no indication sent to the application at all. The only way the application knows something has happened is if the user actually opens the notification.

I haven't programmed on windows phone, so I am not sure how much an app developer knows that a user is viewing a live tile or not. Maybe someone who's built one can chime in.

Overall it seems to me, that what the author is describing is Android, where the app developer has at least some feedback as to whether a user is seeing the notification (albeit not an exact: user has seen x notif).

Edit: Wording
> and let the operating system do all the complex scheduling.

So Heroku could spawn workers with a $FD environment variable instead of $PORT and the "complex scheduling" done by the OS _is_ the second routing layer.

But really, they could still do a second level routing even outside a single OS as the scale of the distribution is much smaller, so having the routing mesh be aware of the worker availability seems feasible again.
Kudos to Danielle for trying to pierce the veil. Feel free to challenge her data and analysis with better data and better analysis.
These are great points, thank you. We've actually been working on a very big redesign that will cover off some of what you're asking about; it's a couple months away, but it is on the horizon.
Computer scientists have proven themselves capable of going into completely unrelated areas (advertising, video, audio, hotels, taxis, airplanes, and most notably payments) and completely disrupting the status quo of the "experts".

And those experts were at least operating profitable legacy businesses, so had _some_ empirical proof of their claims (to wit: their products worked, even if not as well as the Valley's).

Now, lo and behold, we have a direct test of open source software vs. Krugmanesque proclamations. Krugman is simply not qualified to evaluate Bitcoin. You think he knows SHA-256 from a hole in the ground? He'll say it won't work just like legacy payment providers thought Paypal wouldn't work. And then he'll start advocating that it be prosecuted once it does threaten him, and then he will lose.
Unrelated, but you have an error on your page:

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What permissions apps & websites ask for when you connect
There will be separate jitcode generated for each page. It's hard to share this kind of code because during generation we often bake-in immediate pointers to various things (like global objects, etc.) into the generated jitcode.

The jitcode itself isn't that big of a memory issue, though. The collected type info is more heavyweight, but that's really hard to share across different pages. There are security concerns, concurrency concerns, and just complexity.
and here we all thought meteor was web-scale.
Chrome has a hideously awful alternative though: The tab icon throbs when AJAX updates a page (Gmail, etc), regardless of the web developer or user's preferences.
I don't have the right to intervene by force in the face of a genuine sustained desire to die rather than admit to failure. I do, however, have the right to express my opinion that such an action is a grave mistake. As evidence backing my opinion: how often does someone say "oh that time a few years ago when I was feeling suicidally depressed but I finally gritted my teeth and admitted to failure, I wish I had gone ahead and killed myself instead"? Not very!
Have you ever worked on search?
The comments seem to be justified that this is deep linking. The better question would be are we going to get flooded with tweets doing this deep linking in twitter.
Show HN: Pinry, a self-hosted Pinterest
Spamming ads to the notification bar is a popular technique on Android. Zynga loves to do it, as do others.
I think you are right. A universal healthcare system would dramatically help here.

However, the lack of a universal healthcare system isn't social injustice either.

Even if something universally good, efficient, wise, and improves everyone's life, that doesn't imply that it's unjust to not have that thing. Decisions can be foolish without being unjust.
Kurt Cobain was homeless during a period of his life and was a drug addict and arguably also had mental issues; what I want to say is that is not "social justice" what many of them need but help finding passions that can provide at least for their basics needs (of course also some level of help with their addictions and mental issues)
I chose that number because of this anecdote:

I worked at a start-up a few years ago. I worked on a PHP-powered website that spoke to a Java-powered (Spring/Hibernate) service layer. The PHP team consisted of one: me. The Java team consisted of over 10 engineers. I outpaced them easily and consistently.

In other projects with similar divisions, I've had similar experiences, though not always so dramatic.
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Also different sites use different versions of jQuery
As we've seen from a screenshot leak on HN, Heroku is working on a cheaper tier of service that would presumably meet whatever need requires more than one but less than two dynos. I believe the price was something like $12 or $18 per month for one of these units.
This is why I fundamentally disagree with the 'friendly' URLs approach. URLs are meant to be unique and permanent resources. Injecting your information architecture or page title etc into this is a horribly leaky abstraction - and those things are meant to be able to change. Mixing them up either adds brittleness to them or means that your URLs are going to require constant grooming to keep in sync.
I think you mean Roger Ebert.

Also, link doesn't work.

http://www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice.html
Pg_activity - top like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring.
This looks excellent!

It's interesting that they focus on developing resilience for people who hear voices. CBT often tends to focus on mood or anxiety disorders. (And it'd be great if these people developed an alternative site for mood or anxiety disorders.)
The difference between innovating at pace, and losing in spite of the fact you had met new technical challenges is an interesting way to see incumbents in tech.

Unfortunately, I can't read the two papers linked at the bottom of this article, as they're behind paywalls.

http://orgsci.journal.informs.org/content/14/3/227.full.pdf

http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/54/7/1237.full.pdf
And do you cache jitcode of the same page between different visits?
Not rails. I've never used rails in a serious production application.
Unfortunately it would appear Unicorn on Heroku may not be a good choice, because apparently Heroku doesn't buffer request bodies properly. http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-unicorn/2013-April/00...
> On iOS when a remote push notification is received it there is not indication sent to the application at all.

I'm not well versed in push notifications, but I thought this was part of the value that a company like Urban Airship would provide?
If it impacts your ability to read it, here's a copy: http://pastebin.com/uwKn6NUr
How are you supposed to afford a move when you can barely pay your bills?
this is coming up 404 now : even when you click the link to the article on the front page of the listed domain.

Anyone have a cache of the content?
> The business impact is that companies are evaluated and funded on the basis of metrics like Daily Active Use, Monthly Active Use, Impressions, Visits. Notifications happen prior to all of these metrics.

These are all vanity metrics, not revenue metrics. There is no problem in adding a new one to the list: "Notifications served" and assuming they are received by engaged users. Just like page views and visits, as good and as bad.
Of complicacy of programming, or won't C# save us?
I don't really want to add it to the user's history, though. Breaking the back button is bad.
I think this is the most important question in politics right now. Politicians seem to think that our current woes can be fixed by tweaking tax codes and interest rates and hoping that the private sector will pick up the slack eventually.

However I don't think that this is a foregone conclusion. With such high unemployment I would have expected services to have gotten worse due to business being understaffed. In fact the opposite seems to have happened, I can access services and products much more easily and conveniently than ever before. Apart from essentials like energy and housing which have become proprietorially more expensive.

I'm not even sure programmers are safe, salaries at SV startups may be high now but I wonder how much of that is because of companies desperately making a landgrab for digital space.

For developers not wanting to play the high stakes game and simply wanting a middle class income from writing enterprise java code it's going to become increasingly hard to compete with growing numbers of skilled developers in countries with lower costs of living.
I don't use those services and I have no obligation to provide you with proof.

>You'll need to cite something to show that that occurred.

See TFA. Remember, this game is always online.
I think what twitter announced is not related to what he is writing about.

- Twitter : They are going to have a nice display of your app in their twitter feed if you put the right meta tag, with rating, pricing, and description (App Card https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/types/app-card)

- Post : You can do deep linking on Twitter with native apps, about specific content of the app (which is the opposite of App Card that looks like a generic promotion of your app).

Deep linking is already possible, and used. But usually apps are sending you first to the browser, because you might be on desktop, and then redirect you to the right part of the app if it's installed.

In any case, I wouldn't call twitter a games platform. And by the way, there have been several twitter games in the past, without much success.
The implication is not that the FDIC is simpler than bitcoin. The implication is that there's little in the way of security with bitcoin. Which is as per the design. You lose your wallet/key, you lose your money. There's no way to insure against that loss (at least not 100%), otherwise half of all circulating BTC would be in an insurer's accounts.
Thank u everyone for ur kind rply.
I see. I found it to be a little difficult in terms of dealing with data, especially messing around with the Table object. Best of luck to your project.
For something like the query tests where you're IO-bound, Puma is going to annihilate the competition. For CPU-bound tests like JSON generation, unicorn with multiple workers is going to perform better.

It's worth noting that Rails' default JSON solution is the compatible-everywhere pure-Ruby JSON generator. Using a drop-in replacement like the oj gem will drastically improve throughput there.

I didn't get to the pull request for this round, but tweaking the GC parameters for the Ruby install should dramatically improve the general performance of the non-JRuby Ruby tests, as well. I'll see if I can get a PR in. :)
It's a good thing nobody actually reads seventeen.com... except advertisers who are trying to figure out what people much younger than them are supposed to like. Which of course is all wrong because it's created by older people.
Thanks Renee, my email is in my profile and in the post and I'd love to get more updated in on OATV's recent Series A activity
This is my whole problem with Bitcoin. Too many people see it through an "investment lens". Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency not an investment at it's heart:

"Used as a medium of exchange for goods and services, currency is the basis for trade."

People's perception coupled with the deflationary nature of Bitcoin makes me not want to participate.
Krugman's Baby-Sitting Co-op Explains The Design Flaw At The Heart Of Bitcoin
Just to chime in: I use this all the time in testing, and it's never failed on me. You have to do the right thing in your app to watch for these changes and gracefully reset and all, but I've nuked the container (from Settings->iCloud, on Mac and iOS) dozens of times now and never had permanent breakage of any kind.

Occasionally, after doing this, it'll appear to take much longer to provision a new ubiquity store (sometimes minutes, which is unacceptable), but never actually broken.
Have they participated in any more? It seems like one off investments by giant PE firms probably aren't helpful to any startup that doesn't already have a personal connection to those firms.
No. We however had several ideas over the years to cache bytecode together with the JavaScript code. But that never really went anywhere. Caching JIT-code is difficult, because addresses (like jumps) change unless you malloc at the exact same location or manually fix up everything.
I don't understand this. I haven't quite raised 10MM in a round at a company I actually cofounded, but I came close to that number, and that 'dmor sentence didn't so much ring true as seem banal and obvious. Associates are who you talk to when VC's want to blow you off. And VC's rarely say no.
... which finally adds support for a common bytecode format, usable as a compilation target for various languages.

Oh wait, that would actually be useful.

Better just design yet-another JIT compiler to speed up that language design train wreck that is Java Script.
Yes, and the people who own the "mountains" and cabins will love having you around, and they are even better armed than most city-dwellers. And don't think the National Forest Service will take kindly to squatters either. In our modern-day society, "dropping out" is not an option.
I have just changed that - thanks. The user who posted it thought his name was Robert, and therefore unfortunately so did I!
To Find Good Problems, Trace the Supply Chain
If in real life that was the typical behavior of a vending machine, I doubt I would notice.

There probably needs to be a way to address the situation where someone knows the data they are accessing ought to be restricted, but your analogy throws away an awful lot of the context that is important to that discussion.
Would the same library generate the same jitcode on different websites? Does how the library is used account for this. At a high level, if I never used jQuery animation code on my site, but another site does, with the same jQuery version, would the jitcode for my site have removed the unnecessary animation stuff?
Also, the generated JIT code isn't static and does not simply map source to native like in statically compiled languages. A lot of JS JITs, including Firefox'es, dynamically rewrite the emitted code as it executes to add support for newly-seen types. So not only will the code be different environment to environment, it will also be different within the same script execution.
While the great sunspider battles will be great for the future, practically does this really matter? Does it really have any impact at all for an average user, where, I suspect, the up-front costs of JIT never actually pay themselves off.

This isn't intended to be Luddism, and these improvements will benefit future apps, but so much is made about JavaScript performance (see the hoopla about JIT being disabled for embedded browsers on iOS), yet I seriously doubt it makes an ounce of difference in the real world, where the overwhelming majority of the performance limitations exist in the DOM.
I've been an entrepreneur. And I've been the low man on the VC totem pole. If I'm the only one from my firm at an event or conference, you want to see me. If you're coming to our offices, you don't.
Agreed with the mention of Jonathan Rosenbaum, the best critic I've read yet (but then again I am not familiar with the works of the others you mention).
Yes, but you'd expect the key (Keys/FW/.priKey) to be accompanied by some useful metadata (naming the entity the key belongs to, and a certificate from microsoft validating the key) to be added to the firmware image, wouldn't you? And if there's only certificates containing "DO NOT USE" text?

But certainly, I have no idea about all that. If someone could post commands how to verify (or at least dump) connection between DER encoded RSA keys and the PK/KEK/db/dbx files (which seem to have a 40byte header, then, again DER data)... that could shed some additional light on these matters.
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I'd like to know this as well. For example, is a lot of time overlap with NY hours expected?
Some of my wife's projects have been featured on Cable TV shows and in large national magazines (Food and Wine, Brides magazine, Martha Stewart).

The amount of traffic she got from these was minuscule in comparison to popular online sources (Design Sponge).

The magazines in particular do tend to get put online and feed a small amount of views over time.
But why would you want them to be "difficult to scrape" then? It should either be "not available" or "easily available". If I'm a merchant, wouldn't I want my info to be as easily available as possible?