skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the information Creately asks for is the minimum to operate your account. Creately asks for your email address to create a login, a password so you can be authenticated. Then asks for your name (first and last) so you can be addressed correctly - just being polite. Then you have to agree to the terms of service.

All pretty regular stuff really. I know though that there is a try before you register feature coming! Keep your eyes peeled.
With a long enough confirmation period that would probably work.
Desktop, because I love the 24in monitor, the big WACOM tablet, the 8 gigs of RAM, and the feel of coding on the giant tank of an IBM Model M keyboard with the buckling-spring keys from 1986.
GPUs (i.e. Nvidia and AMD/ATI) are the linear descendants of these supercomputers. Today's standard GPU's have vector processing units with fixed pipelines optimized for graphics operations.

Glen Miranker and Jon Rubenstein of Ardent made their way to Apple where they spec'd/designed the Velocity Engine that went into the PowerPC G4/5. It had a 128-bit vector execution unit that required the use of the AltiVec API.
It might be huge but it's all more than a bit scary coming from Google. Also I question the adoption rate of something like this. All my stuff in the cloud == EVIL as far I'm concerned.
Hi. I agree with everything you have written here. What I bring to the table is my recent experiences and network of contacts.
I set up a bare git repo in my dropbox folder so now I get a private github replacement. Works very well for 1 person projects (but it could work for several people as well)
A quick google

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Anews...

turns up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342635
Apple's actual reason for the approval process is quality control. And by quality control, I mean everything from ensuring a lack of bugs to a polished interface and, last but certainly not least, lack of malware.

Apple wants people to actually buy apps — imagine that. And how do you accomplish that? Make absolutely sure that users don't for even a second think that the app they're interested in might be crap or malware.

Nothing kills spontaneous app shopping like a fear of malware, that's what Apple wants to make sure stays out of their garden.
I got a Model M equivalent from Unicomp a few years ago. Still working like a champ: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/
"It's too complicated for a third party to act as an intermediary between developer and user"

That's a good summary of the situation.
How does he see out of it?
It has "hacker mode" to boot an unsigned OS. (Overall the security architecture looks quite similar to OLPC.)
QA is basically your testing framework. It's there to do all the tests to make sure the software actually does what you say it does.

No developer is good at testing their own code because deep down no developer wants to break the code they just lovingly crafted.
The web has allowed so many unknown artists to reach fans they would have never been able to reach before, but it has also made them more vulnerable.

3 thing's are for sure: 'People' love music, love the internet, and love sharing. If we can successfully incorporate these 3 things to a music service, the DIGITAL AGE OF MUSIC will rise to it's full potential.
Have you asked if they'll give you a grace period during which you can redirect people to a new domain, and/or allow you to bid on search keywords for 'ipodrip', so as not to destroy the goodwill built up by you product? If not, perhaps you should lawyer up and negotiate an orderly transfer. an IP lawyer might propose to Apple that they buy the offending domain off you, or that if you transfer ownership they will maintain a redirect to your website for a set period of time.

You are entitled to negotiate, since the letter you received from from Apple's lawyers, not from court whose decisions are final or limited to a narrow kind of appeal. IANAL, but this is basic common sense. In any case, you should be taking to an attorney to ensure that whatever action you do take protects you from future claims of liability.
I don't think a product X is better than a product Y just because it's open. That doesn't work for me.
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Very cynical.

It is more like there is a problem with an important application, everybody gets the blame. The developer, QA, PM.

So everybody wants to make sure it goes well. The developer. The QA.

The QA doesn't always understand all the contraints put on him, that he has to follow. For example, if this is a fortran program, the indenting will cause it to break. So rather than second guessing every step, he follow every step of the book. So if there is another problem, he doesn't take the blame.
The coolest software that I've used this decade is emacs.
Talk about it. I just got a rejection today for a major bugfix on my last update. The only change in the update is to use utf-8 encoding---one tiny change on one line of code. After 2 weeks, they tell me they can't approve the update because I'm using undocumented APIs in a couple places. Sure, OK, looks like I was using some methods that went from deprecated to undocumented... but that's exactly what's in the store right now... ugh. Meanwhile, users are, rightfully, pissed-off.

I'd say about 50% of the time my submissions get rejected, and always for a stupid reason like this; this is one of the better ones, actually. Will I stop developing? Probably not, because it's good money. But am I seriously considering moving to Android? You bet.
Front page is highlighting the reasons how TimeGT differs from other task managers. At least that would have been my first question. These items combined is something we have been looking for ourselves and haven't found at the market.

Please see Why TimeGT menubar link for more details about the features and benefits.
You indented with spaces instead of tabs!? Just kidding of course, but the QA team might have been on the other side of that holy war. I'm going to have to start using your TSA parallel though... it's so painfully true.
I think Paul dismisses Android a bit too quickly. Mobile may not be Google's core business (yet), but they are certainly investing a lot into seeing android succeed.

I also think that on a long enough timeline, the more open solution always ends up being dominant. Aside from being convenient for developers, open technologies are also more adaptable to different hardware platforms, which gives them a greater chance at achieving ubiquity. This isn't even the first time apple has made this mistake. Microsoft dominated the OS market in the 90's by not trying to lock their software down to particular hardware.
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I worked at the PSC when we sold that Cray on eBay. I was a student programmer in the facilities group. I used to sell Magic cars on eBay, so I was consulted on selling the computer on the internet. Some part of my brain says it was my idea to sell the computer on eBay, but I'm not sure that's true... probably isn't.We just were trying to recover some of the costs of getting rid of the thing when we sold it. They are massive edifices that need water cooling infrastructure.

These Crays are really quite beautiful things too - this one was done in Black and Gold to commemorate the Penguins as I recall. Each Cray had custom colors. The enormous platinum circuit boards in thm are absolutely fantastic, and they are worth a good bit of money each.

At the same time we were getting rid of this one, we were installing the new massively parallel PC system called Lemieux: http://www.psc.edu/machines/tcs/- the terascale machine. I did some manual labor to install Lemieux down at the Westinghouse Power company, where all the PSC computers were housed.

I guess Steve Blank was just ahead of his time at Ardent.
As amusing as that statement is (and I think you meant it jokingly), I definitely have to disagree. There's just too many different developer styles to say No developer. Personally I like to ship quality code and am pretty anal about it's quality as well as it's interface, so you can bet I refactor my code a lot... and I mean a lot.

(In fact I just refactored this comment to fix a spelling mistake... but I published it without writing any automated tests, or running it by QA... somehow I don't think many people noticed)
We are the big data problem
Hadoop solves the big data problem. Now, humans have to catch up.
Depends on the stage of development.

initial concept is pen and paper while out of office usually (i.e beach or cafe or somewhere casual)
Develop concept and initial code is usually on laptop
Final development and refinement on desktop
Somalian pirates have to play a careful game with opportunity cost: the ransoms they demand have to be less than the cost of eliminating them, and on top of that they have to not kill people. As long as they stay "reasonable", there's no reason for national governments to actually do anything about them.

The days of "millions for defense, but not a penny for tribute" are long gone.
Interesting idea -- using HN as a forum.

E-mail me if you'd like to start a conversation.
Desktop - Custom Built, Core-i7, 12 gigs of ram, Solid State Drives, Dual 21.5" monitors, Dual boot - Windows 7, Ubuntu

Laptops - Dual boot XPS 13 , Macbook Pro 13

Cloud - Windows Azure, AWS

Windows Home Server - Backup
Oh man, I had so many CodeWarrior shirts... "Blood, sweat, and code," "X Rated" for their OSX version...

I'm pretty sure that it was dominant at the time. I remember reading a lot of examples that used it.
Since I'm not going to make it myself in the near term, here's my idea:

+ Glove (or rings, or paint-onto-nails chips, for Pete's sake) motion sensors to sense hand, finger movement. Chording input, gesture interpretation, whatever you want. No more need for a keyboard and the real estate it demands.

The motion sensors are already ubiquitous. This is just a new form factor, plus probably wireless communication à la Bluetooth or similar.

+ Heads up in glasses (or contact lenses, or whatever) display. Again, eliminates the need for the real estate, and power consumption, of a traditional display. A side (or additional primary, to those who worry about these things) benefit is the recovery of privacy; shoulder surfing becomes much more difficult if not impossible, depending upon design.

+ Audio: Well, that's already solved as well. Just a matter of what you plug the earbuds into (wire-fully or wirelessly).

Goggles will also aid 3D display.

All of these elements are coming along nicely. All that's needed is for someone to put them together in an appropriate form factor.
Finally..! Anyone else hear the war drums? Microsoft should definitely be worried.. Very worried. In fact msft should have been on the ball with this years ago but they were too concerned about losing revenue from licensing fees and their dominance over the desktop. Just goes to show those afraid of change will be destroyed by it.

It's also interesting to note that this was the computing model used 'back in the day.' Everything was dumb terminals logging into a mainframe. Looks like we had it right the first time.

There's always been this kind of pull between putting more smarts at the end points vs having everyone login into one behemoth multivac (mainframe back then, the Internet now). It's obvious that Google is putting its stock in the latter approach. I would go out on a limb and say that computing has been heading in this direction for a long time and companies like msft have slowed it down as long as they can but the flood gates are about to burst open..

This should definitely raise some eyebrows over at W3C.. This is a huge development.
I do something similar, largely because enough of the stuff we do requires two-way interaction with other services that I need a public IP for callbacks, etc.

Sucks when you have flaky connectivity, though, and I've been gradually investing in stubbing out other services so I can "run" them locally/offline.

I also prefer a desktop so I can use more than 2 screens (my current config is 4, although the 4th is "just because"--3 is really helpful).
I would give that award to Mozilla/Firefox because they made Tabs go mainstream; I don't think they were the first / but they pushed others to build a better browser.
I only had that kind of experience with my macbook, never on linux unfortunatly.
It may not have started out as central to the experience, but I think that it's starting to quickly become just that and Apple knows this or at least they want it to be. So far all the recent iPhone commercials I've seen only focus on the thousands of apps you can get for the iphone - not the iphone's "awesome" feature set. I was looking at a friend's iphone the other day and I saw page after page of 3rd party applications. My wife wanted an iPod Touch because she saw some applications she wanted. Another person I know bought an iPod Touch just so they can run a bird identification program. I don't think these are unusual cases. What's funny is that in the beginning, Apple didn't even want to provide an API for native applications. They wanted all developers to use the Web API. When developers balked at that idea Apple reluctantly laid out plans for native applications.
Cool, thanks Andrew!
Learning to program, again
It's completely changed my approach to open source software. Before GitHub, open sourcing something was a bit of a drag - you were committing yourself to setting up a mailing list, accepting patches etc - the administrative overhead was enough to put me off releasing a lot of my code.

GitHub is ideal for the "fire and forget" method of open source. I can knock out a bit of code that might be useful to someone, throw it up there and forget about it. If someone likes it and wants to improve it they can go ahead and fork it without me ever having to think about it again. If I /do/ want to maintain it, it's really easy to keep track of the modifications people make and merge them back in to my version.

The amount of high quality code coming out of GitHub projects these days is astounding, and I'm willing to bet a LOT of it wouldn't ever have been released using the older systems like Sourceforge and Google code.
Well it presupposes you have an environment where it actually works consistently.

I cannot remember the exact number & types of machines I've used or had provided to me at customer premises over the last few years, but I'm pretty sure its > 10. Its only ever been my MBP that wakes up consistently with everything still intact. <= 10% is a pretty poor success rate...
This whole endeavor still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. If you want to make an idiot-proof OS for Grandma, fine, that's a great idea. But why shoehorn the whole cloud-computing philosophy into it? Most people that a very simple OS would appeal to are not going to know or care what cloud computing even is. And furthermore I don't really see much value-add in that anyway, seeing as how the device is MOBILE and you can already take your applications and information with you...
The 17" MacBook has resolution >= 24" desktop displays. Don't see why anyone would need one, unless they find 17" too much to carry around (I don't).
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Yosefk described why it's pointless to make CIL CPUs and the like:
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/high-level-cpu-follow-up.html
Used to develop on a laptop for years, but a year ago switched to a desktop with a dual monitor setup. . .and basically got hooked to the . . . well I wanna say "flexibility" (I don;t mean in terms of portability) it gives me. I mean I have 3 HDDs, one where i keep stuff i develop + some backups, one with windows on in and the other one with "my precious" - Ubuntu :) Also use the laptop every now and then because (and it may sound weird) I miss the keyboard. . .
All available evidence suggests that OSX developers love the technology. Fully agree with that.
You're thinking of ActiveX.
Oldtimers have told me that they liked PCs better than Apples in the early 80s because they were more hackable: you could mix and match and tinker and make them do your own thing, while Apple's stuff was closed. Users loved Apple, but hackers didn't like their we-know-best mentality. If that's true, it may not be the first time Apple has made this mistake. Perhaps losing hackers was what caused them to lose to PCs the first time around.
Ok, in the first hour since posting this....

I've received about 15 emails so far from founders. All full of passion and belief in their ideas. 3-4 are definitely products I'm interested in exploring more.
Seems like we should wait till we have some kind of actual confirmation of whether the UK government is planning on doing something like this before we jump to conclusions. Actual confirmation, not just someone on the internet syaing they know someone who says they're planning something. I don't think this would pass muster with Labour back benches.
Dropbox? I love Dropbox but coolest software of the decade..??

How about Gmail/Maps, iPhone OS, iTunes, Firefox, TextMate.. etc..
Not saying a Skype web app is impossible, but I haven't seen a web apps that can effectively do p2p, which is essential to Skype.
I could really use some advice, but don't really need money at the moment.
I thought the same thing actually. If you're going to make a plugin then it might as well be a full-blown app. I thought this post was going to be about a better uploader made in JS/HTML5 or something. Dropbox has a very good uploader. Now that Facebook runs the entire site on Ajax, they could relatively easily make a Flash/JS uploader like Dropbox while making sure the user can surf around the site.
Your theory cannot be true, because legal writing is equally dry and opaque in non-adversarial settings:

- litigation, where the aim is to persuade a judge

- court opinions, where the aim is to persuade the parties and other judges

- I'd add law journals as well, which are written for peers

I'd say that the reason legal writing gets singled out is that people are expected to read and understand it, while people are not expected to read and understand equally difficult writings from different fields, such as something from a medical journal.
No, but openness has a lot of advantages. It means that it's free, it's guaranteed to be supported by someone even if the founders all go away, you can trust it more since everyone can look at the source, and so on.
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I used to use a MBP + screen to develop with, but found the relatively anemic power, lack of expandability and screen mismatch annoying. (not to mention the constant unplugging/plugging in) I like my desktop quad core + dual screens & x5 HD space much better now.
@davidw: ask HN, or email me directly
What makes you think he doesn't care either way? It seems pretty clear that he doesn't care about the costs you'll incur by changing your name, but I don't see any reason to think he doesn't care about you infringing on his company's trademark.
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... every investor says this.
They should post their projects. A lot of VCs and investors read HN.
The lesser evil would have been to allow everyone an update at least once a month.

The current app store policies encourage developers to iterate apps i.e develop a bunch of apps in a month or two and hope one or two of them shoot to the top.

Developing compelling desktop level full featured apps over the long run are discouraged.
@joshu: I agree. We should create a simple way for HN readers to post their projects.
My argument was about incentives. Better equipment would mean learning a new skill set (how to operate the new gear), being responsible for more productive activity per unit time (managing more flights per hour instead of wrestling with antiquated gear), and being downsized (need fewer people to manage the new gear). Tell me again what the incentives are for the union to adopt the new systems?

I don't think the union workers want to make their jobs harder, I think they have no reason at all to support using additional automation and technology to help do their jobs.

You haven't explained how government-run ATC is safer than private ATC, either inherently or de-facto. Did you watch the video? Canada has the second-busiest ATC system in the world and it's run by a private for-profit company. Do you think the US's ATC needs are so vastly different than those of Canada that there is nothing to be learned here?

Is your concern that the airlines would essentially capture the private firm and have it do their bidding? Require almost no dues from the airlines and push things too far such that safety is compromised? _Everything_ gets out. If there were a crash and it came to light that the airlines behaved this way they would be facing the mother of all lawsuits that would totally ruin their businesses.
No, it looks like I was wrong but there's no link to delete it.
think skype is splitting the linux gui from backend. so maybe when that come to fruition a web app would be easier.
My suggestion would be to make the post generic so that the answers can benefit others, in addition to yourself, but this could be apparent (and I'm stating the obvious like an idiot).
Ask HN: How do you deal with continuous requests for cooperation?
I get requests for cooperations and meetings day-in and day-out (mostly also for another business I am working on) and I don't really know how to handle these situations. That is also the reason why I have stopped networking because I simply don't want to deal with all the people that send me mails that "we should do something together".

My problem:

1. I don't want to "close the door" on a potential deal or cooperation because what might not be an opportunity now, could turn into something interesting later on.

2. I can't (and don't want to) spend time meeting people when I actually should work on my products.

What is your approach to deal with this dilemma of keeping people interested and open but at the same time staying focused on your current tasks and goals?

Any recommendations to filter out the promising ones from the not-promising ones?
Privatizing the air traffic control system isn't going to make delays go away. Most of the delays are from lack of runway capacity, and using electronic flight strips or allowing Free Flight, etc, is not going to change that. I would rather not see a private monopoly of the sky. With our current system, if you don't like it, at least you can complain to your representative, and ultimately the FAA answers to Congress and the President. Under a privatized system, that accountability does not exist.

Also, let's not get so down on our ATC system. While some of its methods are old, it is a very reliable system from a safety standpoint, and has good failure modes. When a creaky center computer goes down, the controllers keep right on with their flight strips and get everyone on the ground safely. The fact that there is a paper record of at least approximately where everyone is adds real reliability.
Apple doesn't need the AppStore, they didn't even want it. Lets stop complaining and better ourselves instead.

[ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=951384 ]
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I constantly hear this over and over, what's funny is that some of the hottest websites out there are built with php.
Since we have threaded conversations, you don't need to @ like in twitter.

There's already a way for HN readers to post their projects. It's called "submit" and it's in the orange bar at the top.
Why would we expect Google to fix Flash Player? Fundamentally it's Adobe's problem.

It should be easier for Adobe to make Flash work on Chrome OS than on Linux, though, because Chrome OS doesn't have the diversity of duplicate APIs in normal Linux.
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