skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much costal cities and islands in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Philippines.
Windows Mobile (CE exactly) had viruses as early as 2004 (http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=170773606), with many others available later on (for example: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/02/26/...)

Why didn't you think that would happen?
If Sun wasn't incompetent in this area, Java Web Start could have taken off.
The ITA Route Language
I use virtual machines and am happy with them. However to be fair to the grandparent poster there have been issues with USB devices and VMWare.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Vista64bitBlueScreensWithINTER...
Yes me too actually. The techcrunch article said it could take a few minutes, but I've been waiting for a while now. I don't have Vmware, so I guess I'll build from source tonight.
2010 Honda Fury Bike: Features, Specifications & Photos
The linked page appears to have nothing to do with the "title" given here. Looks and feels like link/blog spam. Totally misleading, and not appreciated.

Flagged.
Context: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-in-python-with....
These people have acquired millions if not billions of taxpayers' money

Millions I can imagine. That's several peoples salaries over several years. But billions? Surely he shouldn't be making such an extreme claim without detailing how he thinks that value is broken down. It seems obviously nonsense just by rough order of magnitude estimates.
I'm not defending Google or something. But still, isn't Apple disruptive? And most start-ups are disruptive too.

And Ads are the proper revenue model for Google, For apple, selling hardware is its revenue model. For, Microsoft selling software & related services is the revenue model. I don't see Google's behavior as monopolistic.

Also, monopolistic behavior by itself is not bad, but it becomes bad when combined with unfair trade practices. Finally, these kind of articles show up everyday. It's just the "News".
Wow, you seem to be building a lot of cool things. Why don't you sell your software? It can still be open source, but why not ask people to pay for it?
The thing everyone misses is that, commercially, the ONLY thing that matters is being on the App Store. It doesn't matter how draconian the rules are, it doesn't matter how long the wait is- these price points ONLY work if Apple is footing the marketing bill.

If you are in the Top 5 of any category then you have guaranteed impressions at a very high volume. That allows one to sell an app for 99 cents or $1.99. If you are promoting outside the App Store, your user acquisition cost will be too high to make that price point work, so you'll have to raise your prices. In raising your prices, you'll price yourself out of the Category Top 5's and the Overall Top 100- thus killing the upside.

If you're doing medical apps, no worries. If you're doing a book or a game app, however, publishing outside the App Store is suicide, 'free my device!' geekery aside.
It was posted twice, but that's a problem on HN. Unless something gets up-mud within an hour, it sinks without trace.

And yes, CWB and I met up and had a a very pleasant lunch. A great way to take a break in what turned out to be a very busy day.
Xbox modders unite in class action suit
Yea same for me. Nothing after 20 mins

Virtual Box 3,
Osx 10.5
Tell HN: 360 Voltage is out of Beta (10 PRO accounts to giveaway to HN)
360 Voltage is out of Beta, it's a set of online marketing tools that my agency envisioned for in-house use and decided to turn into a freemium web site along the way, which we now use in house (natch). To say that HN has been good to me is an understatement, it's an oasis of rational thought and discussion in a wasteland of online social media sites... (</digression>)<p>So I've got 10 yearly 360 Voltage PRO account subscriptions ($149/ea.) to give away here to some devs who would really dig into the site, use the tools, and then give us ongoing feedback as we iterate like mad and try to populate the blog with useful content. Obviously, that's all unenforceable, but you get the idea...<p>Once again, I'm giving away 10 yearly pro account subscriptions to HN users to help us prime the pump on our freemium web site, which is a search marketing tool set called 360 Voltage. If you're interested:<p>1) Create a free account on the site. (360voltage.com)
2) Leave an initial impression of the site in this thread
3) Shoot me an email via wade [at] voltagecreative [dot] com with a sentence or two about how you'd use the tools. Also include your 360 Voltage account name in the email so I can flip it to PRO status on the back end.<p>I'll post, "Thanks guys, they're all gone" in this thread once they've been spoken for. (If I get more than 10 requests, the PRO accounts will be awarded subjectively/pretty-much-randomly by me.)
360 Voltage is out of Beta, it's a set of online marketing tools that my agency envisioned for in-house use and decided to turn into a freemium web site along the way, which we now use in house (natch). To say that HN has been good to me is an understatement, it's an oasis of rational thought and discussion in a wasteland of online social media sites... (</digression>)

So I've got 10 yearly 360 Voltage PRO account subscriptions ($149/ea.) to give away here to some devs who would really dig into the site, use the tools, and then give us ongoing feedback as we iterate like mad and try to populate the blog with useful content. Obviously, that's all unenforceable, but you get the idea...

Once again, I'm giving away 10 yearly pro account subscriptions to HN users to help us prime the pump on our freemium web site, which is a search marketing tool set called 360 Voltage. If you're interested:

1) Create a free account on the site. (360voltage.com)

2) Leave an initial impression of the site in this thread

3) Shoot me an email via wade [at] voltagecreative [dot] com with a sentence or two about how you'd use the tools. Also include your 360 Voltage account name in the email so I can flip it to PRO status on the back end.

I'll post, "Thanks guys, they're all gone" in this thread once they've been spoken for. (If I get more than 10 requests, the PRO accounts will be awarded subjectively/pretty-much-randomly by me.)
Agreed, what these people have currently taken is likely only in the millions, maybe tens-of-millions. However the UK government has pledged to essentially 'do whatever it takes' to combat global warming, which the governments 'own' (IE private company they paid) estimates state that combating global warming will require billions of pounds for the UK alone.
Your link prompts me to download ITunes…
> Running unit tests has been so painful that we hacked Rails to run tests via Web interface.

If that's because of the warm-up problem, Groovy is much better since it doesn't start a new JVM for each test.

> Moreover, accessing Java classes from JRuby isn't nearly as smooth as using something like Closure. Ruby strings aren't Java strings and it applies to arrays, hash tables, everything.

With Groovy, it's about as seamless as you're going to get. That was very much a design goal of Groovy.

The down side is, if you already know Rails, you have to learn half a language (Groovy borrows a lot from Ruby, so you only have to learn the deltas.) And of course you can't use Ruby packages. But you do get all Java libraries for free.
I think reputation is a much more valuable way to evaluate software than approval by Apple. Just like now.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:cPIJwKQNOnsJ:task.fm/blo...
Nice, access to Microsoft Bizspark, the ultimate selling point.
Another possible reason for tuition increases is Baumol's Cost Disease ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumols_cost_disease ), in which the relative cost of providing a service grows rapidly because it hasn't had productivity improvements. When the amount of time needed to teach someone how to compose an essay hasn't changed since before 1960, it's not surprising that it's gotten more expensive compared to the price of microwave ovens.

Since most of our economic activities experience greater productivity growth than we've seen in education, it's not surprising that educational expenditures are growing faster than inflation. I'm hopeful that this will change as web-based education goes mainstream.
If I'm reading those two files correctly, he's trying to use BeautifulSoup, but doesn't ever import it from anywhere... I think the snotty kid/poor fool was right, this is poor code.
European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it
I prefer a simple "add new comments to the end of the page" system - if the comments are worth reading in the first place, then I like to check new comments off and on for a while, and these changeable order systems makes it hard and time-wasting to check up. (I do like nesting, because it helps understanding of comments more than it costs in updating).
> What is the pure copper supposed to help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-end_audio_cables

James Randi will give a million dollars to anyone who can tell the difference.

> electrons would be coming from a long ways

I know it was a joke, but electrons don't really move with alternating current.
As many comments say, with the right tweaks input is sortable - everything from the laser projected keyboard on a desk to the USB or bluetooth rollable keyboards, or a reworking of the aging Cykey ( http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/index.html ), the abandoned Twiddler ( http://www.handykey.com/ ) or the vaporware/endless prototype Senseboard ( http://www.senseboard.com/ ). Can't say I'm a fan of the thumboard, but... if the code was more like txt spk than Java it might be tolerable.

Also, output is achievable - either in small on screen, with a pocket projector up to around VGA on a nearby surface, or a head mounted display like the Vuzix ( no need to go all Steve Mann and use a head-mounted CRT these days http://wearcam.org/stevewearcomp6cropgrey.gif ), or a pluggable external small LCD might work.

Most of this is existing kit you could put together.

I wonder, though, if the best help would be a programming language that jointly minimizes typing, screen use, and encourages think-before-you-code. Sounds a bit like the brief for Arc to me.

So I think the sticking point is somewhat hardware, but mostly software - what software support would it need to make it usable? What auto-sync to the cloud dropbox style? What create-and-publish-in-one package like wordpress, twitter, posterous mobile clients?

So - what about a kind of twitter/posterous for code? Write/run and then upload for the world.

Also, make the normal phone/PDA functions simple and scriptable - with cron and with plugins/hooks/callbacks/events.
I would've said graham's number!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
"This source may be useful, although I'd prefer it to work dynamically rather than having a compile stage."

If you're making it "work dynamically" then that's an interpreter and you can typically expect a 10x slowdown. I'd go the compilation route personnally.
> How cute.

would you say that to my face?
There is a very obvious solution to that problem. Don't use Google services. I have seen that people who usually criticize Google the most (not saying there is anything wrong with criticizing) are also one of their bigest users.

There are a lot of reasons to not like MSFT's monopolistic business, they pulled (and still does) all types of dirty tricks, including buying out government official in third world countries so that they can sell MSFT's powered notebooks to children and one up "One laptop per child project". That's probably one of the least evil thing they did.

If you can provide just one example of Google doing anything remotely sinister like that I would love to listen to it.*

Google, in most cases, provides the best possible service with the best possible price (often free). Some of these services in all likelihood probably is not even profitable by any margin anytime soon - or if at all, ever. This causes companies that do provide similar services at a cost to improve what they do; otherwise they would do nothing and stay content with the way things are.

Google drives innovations to their competition.

IE9 and its improvements would not happen if there was no Chrome.

Firefox would not rethink its approach (their next release concept looks almost like chrome) and improve in performance at the pace they are now.

MSFT would not aggressively improve their OS performance with windows 7 to be functional on a netbook. (Some of us knew about Google OS way before it was officially announced, in all likelihood MSFT did too).

Bing would not exist.

While there are real concerns about privacy, in the days of online applications and services, privacy never existed in first place, regardless whose service you are using.

I think Google contribution far outweighs its negative points. However I can understand why some HN crowd can feel threatened by them.

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* There was one incident in China I can remember.
No, it is imported from htmlscrape.py

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/forgeplucker/trunk/forgeplucker/h...
Well...I haven't read the book, just skimmed through the chapters, but no, that looks more like a beginner book which focusses on the tools and the end goal rather than how to use the tools.
"appearance != content"

appearance ∈ content
The killer feature isn't that you can run lots of apps on it. The killer feature is that it has a market built into it.

The more I think about it, the more I think a QA review process is necessary to make the market work in the long run, and I think the idea of "rapid iteration" on mobile devices--while nice for the developers--is ultimately wrong for the users.

APIs are notoriously hard to get right without either committing yourself to support a broken implementation forever, or breaking thousands of apps. So access to the API is rolled out slowly and gradually to give engineers time to see what's working and what should be changed.

And the value of "don't have to think twice about buying" for the users is probably worth millions or billions of dollars to a large marketplace. I don't think you can get that with certifications, because it really hasn't been working for SSL certificates and "TRUST-e", etc.

A mobile phone is NOT the center of my world. I already hate the fact that the few apps I have installed on my iPhone keep coming out with updates that I keep having to install. I do _NOT_ want rapid iteration being performed on a phone with 10-20 apps on it. It's a chore to keep installing the new versions. Nor do I think they should auto-update, because that comes with its own can of worms, too.

Apple isn't handing an advantage to its competitors. The review process _is_ the advantage. We've been needing a good review process for the notoriously crap-assed QA problems in commercial software for a long time.
Just one thing I would like to point out: many quoted statements in the article are not in any way damning. At least not without further context.

To pick out just one quote: In what way is comment moderation on RealClimate problematic?
Most of these comments from the email don't seem to be that much of a problem really, unless you really believed that these people were not humans. And if people are offended that they had this idea of "bad hands" remember that their results existed for a long while and when opposition appeared it was financed by large corporations and interest groups withe the explicit goal of denying their findings.

Sadly that is what happens when you put people in a tough spot in terms of public relations, public relations concerns start to take over everything.
Perhaps "clutter" wasn't the right word; maybe "crap" would have been a better choice.
Yes, lying is always terrible. However, when I read that phrase I think about leaders who inspire a team to achieve better quality. Better design, better user experience, and so on.

Lots of people respond well to that kind of atmosphere.
Tragedy of the anti-commons
They're not saying it's just uninformative, they're saying is misleading.
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Beautiful webpage you've got there :)

What might work for open-source:
1. Once you have a couple users, announce new features that are requested by a lot of your users and tell them:"It takes me X hours to work on that, once I got donations worth Y $, I start developing that feature".

2. Distribute two builds: One build with new features that is commercial and another (older) build that is open-source, but doesn't have the newest features. The open-source build could be somewhat like 6-12 months behind the commercial release.
Directly it may only be in the millions, but think about how many research assistants that they've had, plus all of their computer equipment, plus the money it takes for their offices/labs, plus the conferences they go to. Billions might be off, but tens or hundreds of millions seems reasonable.

I also think the author is grouping in a lot of extra climate scientists in with this group, which isn't technically fair but I personally don't think it is so unreasonable to think that this is a somewhat common practice in any collegiate research (let alone climate research). You can't get grant money if you don't show results. I think the one area where you'd have less of this influence is academic medical research - because double blind studies is a standard practice in that field.
Not quite 10 but yes 3 weeks paid has been standard for me in all 3 big companies I've worked for most recently.
Hackers love open platforms but users flee them because the experience is painful.

Very well said. The developers the app store is designed for are the boring, careful, professional developers who create polished, shiny, dependable apps. And that's what most users want. They want freedom from fear -- freedom to search the App Store and download whatever they find without without worrying about their level of sophistication. They want Disneyland, not a bazaar in Cairo. They want new Times Square, not old Times Square.

As a matter of pride, developers and early adopters refuse to acknowledge this factor. They pride themselves on their savoir faire and their ability to safely navigate an uncontrolled software ecosystem. The image of Apple users is carefree, self-assured, and adventuresome, and consumers can't feel that way in a place that is wild and unpredictable. They need Disneyland.
Indeed.

For example: As we all know, this isn't about truth at all, its about plausibly deniable accusations.

Well, whose fault is that it's not about truth but about perception. Of course it is the fault of those very well funded pressure groups who represent the vested interests of CO2 emission.
and pay you $0.99 for the privilege? No thanks.
When you're a skeptic looking for "evidence", you'll find plenty in there.

When you're a scientist looking for an informal discussion about thinking critically about the evidence and data interpretation, you'll also find plenty in there.
It's kind of amusing to see these guys froth at the mouth at the prospect of scouring through millions of lines of text to find a couple of scientists with less than absolutely pure motivations and research methods. When the witch-hunt succeeds, it of course invalidates everything we leftist propagandists try to convince the people that we know!!

It's exactly parallel to creationists taking some instance of one scientist mistaking some fossil early in the century and milking that for decades to disprove evolution.
> My preference is a full functioning OS with an optimized browser. Then I get the best of both worlds.

nope. if you lose that computer you have trouble. if you lose a chromeOS computer, you just get another one and log in.
"There is a very obvious solution to that problem. Don't use Google services."

Is it really that simple? Can you give me some "better" alternative. 60% of people out there uses google as search engine. So it's better to target them for business. You cannot remove that dependency so easily.
You can hardly accuse people of the theft of millions or billions if what they've done with it is buy research equipment and fund conferences.

They've appropriated it for their own ends, sure. But that's what academia everywhere does without having to give much of a justification.
Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within
I'm basically a skeptic on climate stuff, but I'd encourage people to wait a bit before jumping to conclusions. Some of the pull quotes in this article seem sort of damning, but I can easily come up with perfectly legitimate reasons for some of the others, and for all I know there are legitimate reasons for the ones that look damning out of context. The Golden Rule also dictates that I cut them the same slack that I would want given to me if my private emails got out; we all talk differently in private than we would if we were talking to the world, and there's nothing wrong with that.
This is spam. It is a link that asks me to spend money. Maybe you should have written a blog entry about the experience of writing the game instead. That way you could have done your advertising, have added something of value to the community, and not pissed off the people clicking on the link.
The ignorant VC
I strongly agree. Most of the time people base their first impressions on how an app looks, not what it does. That makes it pretty hard to be successful if you only know how to tweak the latter.

I would also argue that being able to design workflows is very important. If your app is simple to use and well thought out it's going to be much more sticky...
I'm not too surprised at this. I think this is a great case study on groupthink.

I've observed groupthink / "the outside is the enemy" behaviour in several groups that I've participated in. It can be caused by one person setting the tone of the group (e.g., by making jokes), and then everyone else follows along. In this case, I could imagine a joke about skeptics, or perhaps someone misguidedly suggesting it was the group's "mission" to convince people that climate change was a big problem to be fixed.

Setting that sort of tone, especially early in the group's formation, usually quickly blossoms into an us-vs.-them mentality. Sometimes that's ok, but if you are trying to claim that you are objective, it's highly counterproductive -- and the worst part is that it's hard to realize how harmful groupthink can be when you are genuinely trying to learn something.

Anyway, if you want to reduce this effect in groups you're in, you have to have a sharp groupthink detector and you have to be fearless about saying stuff that's counter to the group's tone. I've defused groupthink situations by visibly becoming offended when I recognize that groupthink is occurring: it's usually fairly easy to explain why you're offended, and (in most kinds of groups) people usually have social pressure to stay away from discussions which will offend others. The problem is that the groupthinky memes can be fun, so you may be seen as a captain buzzkill.
Because they say:

"RealClimate.org - A supposed neutral climate change website"

How is it neutral when these particular guys are running it? In addition, they're giving other people heads up that they can censor the material!
hah, thanks for the clarification
So far the site looks pretty decent, the tools are somewhat standard so far but show a good basis on which to expand. I haven' run all the tests yet so I will see how it does with the RANDAL and others.
The EXAMINER is an organization filled with political operatives, not anybody interested in telling any form of truth. They're about as bad as Fox news at choosing between facts and agenda.
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