skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the first camp's worries are justified a bit by the second camp's perspective and mistake (at least the way you've phrased it). Yes, it may end up being the "computer for people who never use their computer," but by some estimates that is most people, which means it will take over for the content consumer majority and leave full-fledged computers to the content producers. It all depends on your definition of "use" since as netbook-crowd would argue, most people don't need beefy processor and lots of ram, just a way to get online and run some basic applications.
Yo dawg, I heard you like web 2.0 so I put a web 2.0 in your web 2.0 so you can web 2.0 while you web 2.0.
Anyone have experience with PRNewswire?
The reason I made that comment is that from what I see so far, it is rather trivial to implement. There's not a lot of detail in what I saw so far so maybe I am missing something. However, if all you have is a popup or tooltip to a FAQ - the cost to implement that is much, much less than the cost of writing effective documentation for each feature. I think the tough part is putting together some set of features that justifies not only the cost - but also the risk of adding an external dependency. I hate external dependencies, particularly those from unknown players that are not open source.
He also died just 5 years later.
So if I had a house painting business on the side, they could take it over if they wanted to? Seems a little far fetched. I don't think "The relationship between what you do at work and at home is irrelevant" is correct, from what I've been able to gather in my research. It definitely plays a role. It may be minor, but its not irrelevant.
Because the market doesn't do an even better job. How did the market do in the case of the fake bomb detector? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/head-of-bomb-dete...

Or how about preventing the Madoff scandal? The market isn't perfect, and simply "creating a good one" does not guarantee the market will embrace it. Markets work when consumers have (and want) the necessary information to make a good choice. Information overload makes this difficult to acquire.

Let's look at in an example in your world:
I want to buy a digital camera. There are many, so I'd like to know which one to pick. I go online to read reviews. Unfortunately, in this world, every single review is a paid review (because why not get something for it), or is a review that is essentially paid, because they get a cut from your purchase price. How am I supposed to make an intelligent choice?

That example isn't far from reality, by the way. Especially in the "Make money online" industry. Try finding a legitimate review of any of those programs. Every review is overly positive to try and sell you on it so they get paid. Even if you search for "So and so product scam" you'll find an article that is titled "Is so and so product a scam? Find out here", and then they immediately answer, "No. Buy it with my link!"
I don't know. I'm still just shy of 30 so I don't have any experience there. But if I got any that was recurring, hell yeah.
Awesome! I did something similar over the past 2 years - I bought a couple of motor bikes (one off-road and one dual sport) and decided to get back into riding since I enjoyed it so much as a kid. Just got back from a trip in the Baja an had a blast!

Last summer, I also took my Dad on a trip where we rented a couple of Harleys and rode the PCH from S.F. to L.A. and then back to S.F on a more inland route (btw I am so jealous of those of you living in CA!). I can’t believe I waited so long to get back into something I loved so much...should have done it years ago.
This 404s in my Droid; http://buzz.google.com works, though.
GR didn't incrementally get better, Paul B. joined the team and re-started it from scratch applying lessons learned and principles from GMail.
New Jersey, Home of the Data Servers
That link doesn't seem to work.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468063 : Tying a shoelace

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112715 : Folding a T-shirt
I must be in the control group...
I've been thinking that they should initially roll WAVE out as plumbing.

They could transplant GMail/Buzz/Google Talk/etc to run on Wave without forcing people to learn the interface up-front. Users would be building up content 'in' Wave and Google would be slowly integrating the features that Wave makes easy.

Then the Wave interface (the biggest stumbling block for most) can be introduced as an optional power-user interface; but wholly compatible in case people want to bounce back and forth as they ease in and backward-compatible with people who aren't ready to take the plunge. (fully backward compatible, in the case of other GMail users)

I just don't think Wave is there yet.
Q: Would you use today something like FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) for such systems?

He answers the question by basically saying, "No, if we started today, we'd never be able to compete with Nvidia and ATI." However, there is a group today trying to create a new graphics card from scratch, and it turns out their first step was indeed to create a big FPGA card:

http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php
I hope the US will join the rank of more enlightened nations, soon.
From the video it looks like it's a separate label, just under Inbox.

I have several friends that similarly could not care less about Facebook, but more that actually do care. To be honest, even with great integration, it will still take a critical mass of people in social groupings to actually care. And not everyone I know uses Gmail as their primary email. Although most do (which is impressive).
Yes to everything except for Wave and AppEngine.

I'm pretty sure Google didn't invent web based maps, e-mail and the web browser. Wave and AppEngine were good but useless...
One thing that just struck me, is that google/gmail will not be banned from workplace computers as often as fb/twitter have been. This alone will be a significant advantage.
I agree, I'd experience the exact same problems. I'm regularly emailing people who are complete strangers to me outside work, and many are complete strangers even when I'm at work. I don't want to be friends with these people, I've actively chosen not to be.

My personal life is where I have friends, my professional life is where I have colleagues. There's a line between the two that I don't cross, I've worked with family all my life and I don't let personal and professional cross.
When I go to buzz.google.com from an Android phone I get redirected to a Mobile Help page listing the supported phones. Is this happening to anyone else?

[edit]

It looks like only Android 2.0+ is supported and the HTC Hero still runs 1.5. Lame.
Why do the Chinese save so much?
Running amok
That is absolutely untrue. It's pretty clear that Buzz was inspired by Brightkite. I'm not going to pass judgement on the similarity, but the inspiration is clear.
I can hand around photos, movies, web pages.

This is a common enough use right now with the iPhone I recognize it immediately.

The fact that the screen is viewable from wide angles is not a coincidence me thinks.
Exactly what i need. Thanks.
But applying all that dark SEO is basically the point. Why else would a crappy $5 article written by an English-challenged Indian show up on the front page of any search result? It's all about gaming Google, Yahoo, and/or Bing. As has been described by others, since it's all about making ad-revenue, the article is SUPPOSED to be bad enough that they'll click on the ads to find what they are actually looking for.
Hotlink: http://done.io

You don't even sell me on your product before you attempt to get me to sign up.

How about

- a features page (ala http://gridspy.co.nz)

- a public demo todo list (perhaps anyone can make public todo lists)

- the ability to create a list using only cookies and no sign up

Suffice to say I didn't sign up. Do you really need my email?
I'm really not sure what makes it unstable for me. I've had issues across browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Safari) and OSes (Windows and Mac OS X). Something the page just stops responding, or clicks result in it's error message showing. Or clicks do nothing and I have to reload the entire thing. Nothing reproducible just lots of small issues that are basically crashes.

I use no labs features.
Because before 1949, life was hell. After 1949, life was better, but still struggle in poverty. Recent years has been the best for Chinese for a couple centuries. People learn to live with what they have and always save money to prepare for a rainy day.

Although, Chinese are willing to spend big bucks on education, especially for their children.
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That may be how it is, but it's not how it has to be.
A wedding gift for our co-founder became our startup's newest product.
I'm more excited to use this than Wave. =/
very cool! can we get a blog post on more of the back story?
What could possibly feel spammy about a shitty little site called ebooks-free-download.com?

This is by the same geniass who did that silly little website that pretends to generate PDFs from urls by secretly iframing a site that actually does it, the submission's been deleted but it was here -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1080755
http://html-pdf-convert.com/

This time he's just scraping google to get results.
That last sentence is the right question. If you think about _that_ for a few minutes instead, you will certainly come up with some arguments (positive or negative); but just saying "is G the next M?" is negative-content, really.
It's not Ebook like the URL said.. it has a lot of other PDF... a PDF and an Ebook is not the same!
What I got out of your post is that the journey matters, not each individual app. If someone strives to make 400 apps that will make $400/month he will learn a ton along the way and be forced not to fall in love with one idea. When people fall in love with an idea they stop trying other things.

Using this approach you can reflect on all the different little projects you worked on and then pick out different ones where getting the $1/day was easier than for others.
> That is absolutely untrue.

How come? Given that every UI element on the iPhone is standard. Apps having similar functionalities are bound to look alike.
Link doesn't work. "Sorry, we couldn't understand the date and time '11.00%2CFebruary-9-2010'."

Click the link under the video pane to get to the archives... archive for Feb 9 is 10 minutes of some guy with super-short hair looking into the camera and drinking from a cup... with wacky indian-ish background music. The picture almost completely obscures some kind of moving text... with an occasional glimpse of the phrase "Paul Graham" ... WTF?

Searching for "mixergy" in the justintv search box comes back with no results and a suggestion to watch a video about Bioshock 2
They're also going to take on yammer.com
When the iPod debuted it only worked on a small percentage of the world's computers and had no media store. It grew into a winner, but the first gen wasn't particularly special.
Hi Ycombinator.

This is Ben from Kwedit. You can email me via ben at kwedit com

If there are developers interested in using Kwedit, please reach out.

I did want to point out that our mission is to enable an entire group who presently cannot purchase something on the internet.

1)teens & other people without credit cards or bank accounts

2)people who prefer not to submit their banking or card information online

If you are working at a publisher or ecommerce site, please reach out cause we can improve your conversions at competitive rates with no chargebacks.

Thanks, Ben
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They already have a namespace clash http://buzz.blogger.com
I think in most corporates (outside the software industry) it's the other way around. I can't access gmail/hotmail but can access social networks at work (in finance).
In hindsight I thought OK, just having kids probably is easier for men. As others commented, it's easy if the spouse stays at home to take care of the kids. It seems kind of equivalent to employing nannies - except it is probably not easy to find adequate nannies?

And the man working long hours also might not benefit from his children much. Except maybe later in life, when they are older and he works less?

I didn't want to come across as harsh. I just suspect that in hindsight it is common to wonder what for did one sacrifice family and children? I am 37 (male) now, and I don't really have a strong inbuilt desire to have children. But one could just go for it and see what happens? If not now, then when? Other things are probably more easy to delay.

I admit that I am also becoming cynical about the traditional roles. I am not that thrilled about having to provide as much money as possible to compete for child rearing women. It may still look as if men have the better position in society, but it doesn't really make much sense. Men don't have any bargaining position at all. They are 100% replaceable (sperm is cheap) - so struggling to be as successful as possible financially is pretty much the only option. Men have to take the risks - women pretty much can opt to take them for fun, or not. More or less, at least...
I'd love to hear more, too. I wish I had thought of this!
I would be up for building some StackScripts myself but I hate to have to buy a complete plan to do it. I really wish Linode would offer a more fine grained billing.
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In the picture on the website, why is the Nexus One being covered by the iPhone?

It should be the other way around.
Only one of those screenshots is from the iPhone.
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I'm not the biggest fan of these essays, to be frank, but if anyone's interested in philosophy as much as I am then they might enjoy these 2 sites:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/
http://www.philosophersnet.com/
Whether this is just stupid or a convenience arranged for law enforcement (see comment below about bigger punishment), my guess is that the definition of 'subversive activity' in the legislation is impractically broad. The SC legislature doesn't have the mandate to convict people of crimes (excepting impeachment of elected officials). Its members are not judges.

Besides treason, which by necessity has a very low rate of conviction (the last being CIA mole Robert Hanssen last decade), I don't see how wording like "overthrowing the government of the United State" could be upheld when there is no parallel in whatever offense one was actually convicted for.

Otherwise, levying fines like this is pretty blatant extrajudicial punishment.
economics will forever be burdened with idiotic politics until people get it through their heads that ethics is SEPARATE.

people like Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman seem eternally trying to hammer this point across to people in their essays and interviews. economics tells you that if you do A, B will happen. this is a value free statement. it could be cake or nazis. there are millions of permutations of the following idiocy: "B is efficient! therefore B is good!". libertarians are often equally as guilty of this as others I'm sad to say. I see this as another manifestation of trying to create a magic system that removes human judgment from the equation of governing human affairs. If we can just use X to judge things it will remove corruption! X can be: religious rules, mathematical models (the idea of 'utility' hides value judgments behind math), even an AI. In this case we simply have 'economic efficiency'. I'm sure there's more examples. we will never get anything done until we start seeing these types of things as engineering problems rather than moral ones.
> My guess is that this particular piece of legislation violates first amendment rights

They've got that one covered.

> Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize, require or establish censorship or to limit in any way or infringe upon freedom of the press or of speech as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and no regulation shall be promulgated hereunder having that effect.

Fortunately I don't live in S. C., so I'm free to construe it any way I want.

What a cynical piece of legislation.
Google: Wait.. Don't Be Evil. Naw we'll just steal it.
I think it comes down to what it is that you're announcing and how big you are. I wouldn't bother if it is isn't a big deal outside your company.
1905 was an amazing year for Einstein and physics; Wikipedia puts it better than I can (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers):

The Annus Mirabilis papers (from Latin annus mīrābilis, "extraordinary year") are the papers of Albert Einstein published in the Annalen der Physik scientific journal in 1905. These four articles contributed substantially to the foundation of modern physics and changed views on space, time, and matter. The Annus Mirabilis is often called the "Miracle Year" in English or Wunderjahr in German.
Maybe they shouldn't, but should or shouldn't, they still need to honor their commitments.
make it work for Windows?
Here's the announcement blog post:

http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2010/02/07/thrilled-for-you-...

Basically, a year and a half ago we decided to focus more on software we could charge for (vs. ad/sponsorhsip supported). At the top of our list was a storytelling app called A Story Before Bed (www.astorybeforebed.com) which we shipped this past November. But Jenny (our co-founder) was getting married last August so we paused our development on our primary product and spent some time developing Thrilled for You - a video guestbook for Jenny's wedding reception.

Things have calmed down a little since we shipped A Story Before Bed, and we realized we still have the app we wrote for Jenny. With wedding season coming in a few months we did some more testing, tweaked the UI, came up with a bunch of themes, and put together the website for Thrilled for You (www.thrilledforyou.com) and offered it for sale as of yesterday. :)

There are so many things we love about having our own startup... the ability to do things like this is definitely one of them. We feel the software we make is so personal when it comes out of a need we had ourselves.

Thanks for asking for more details. :)
It's not a native app either, it's a web app that doesn't have standard controls. They could design it however they wanted as long as they could build it in HTML.
Might have been inspired indeed. I doubt it's a large issue though if the code for each is unique. If the code were not unique then I'd be offended.
Interesting post. But it doesn't make the case that the title promises.
Google wants you to catch a Buzz
If there are enough requests we'll definitely consider making a Windows version. :)
Would you rather just have documentation of APIs? Having the source code is better than not, at least it gives people the option to expand/correct/port anything if they wish to.
I agree! Maybe they're trying to "not be evil".
Like all powerful things, when used properly implicits add rather than detract from the code. In Scala's case, you can limit the scope of the implications which is just so nice. I'm not a fan-boy but it sure beats the heck out of Java.
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Font size is huuuuge for me: http://i50.tinypic.com/cp06h.jpg

Or at least, not the most readable. Pressing ctrl+- from that is much better.

On a side note, I feel the front page lacks structure. What are the links? Do they follow on from each other? Or can I just read each "block". Why are they separated into blocks?
I never understood why people consider consulting to be a "treadmill". For me, a consulting gig is an instantaneous injection of capital and another 6-9 months runway for the entrepreneurial stuff.

I mean, a 1-month gig will pay your rent for the year. Another one will pay for your servers, hosting, dev machine and food. The rest of the time is yours to spend as you like.

Is it possible that people are doing "consulting" work for <$50/hr and mistaking it for the real thing? That, in my mind, is not consulting but rather "being taken advantage of." Especially if you do it in an office surrounded by other employees in a similar position.
Well don't you have the same split in the form of a private email address and a personal one? If not then you should...
That's like saying Toyota steals from Ford because it puts four tires on its cars in roughly the same position. Sometimes design happens just because it makes sense. I see no theft here.
nice read. other interesting links to read http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LifePatterns and http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ReallyValuablePages
I can't make the link work. I get the error "Sorry, we couldn't understand the date and time '11.00%252CFebruary-9-2010'"
Thing is, if you wan to beef up the number of casual cyclists, you need to give them a bike network.

I used to be opposed to bike lanes (and I ride daily in mixed traffic) for the reasons you cite; but bike lanes are net far safer because the main effect of dramatically increasing the number of cyclists is that you dramatically decrease the number (not just the rate but the actual count) of casualties.

Just having more cyclists on the road makes it much safer. This seems to scale - Copenhagen is up to 50% trips by bike and their casualty rate is still falling.
Related to the above, but not really covered in the submitted article, is the 4-2-1 problem. The old model of having your children take care of you when you're elderly breaks down when 4 grandparents have 2 parents who have 1 child.
The "location" element that shows the bakery info ("X" on the left, text, then ">" on the right) is non-standard and seems pretty blatantly... "inspired".

Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that.
Cash?
If it where me, I would rebuild a 74 ford Bronco from the frame up, with my son. Then, I would rebuild a 44 ft. Sportfisher and start competition sport fishing in the Florida Keys.

More importantly though, when my kids where a little older, I would disappear for a year, roaming as a drifter, I would find individuals and families in need, not broke people, but people who have a tragic life story to tell. I would personally help them one by one to overcome their adversity by becoming their true friend as well as helping them financially and psychologically repair their and their families life.

When I returned from my travels I would use my journal to write a novel and then produce a film titled "the man who purchased friends" or "buying friends" I can't decide. Obviously I would change my friends names as well as my own so that it could be construed as potentially fictitious accounts, leaving people to wonder always makes for a better tale.
i don't really see how you can complain about someone doing a good job at providing a valuable service to users. if they do a bad job, i can compete - if they don't, i can't add value.

it's not like we're gonna run out of problems to solve, because google is solving all of them for us.
How well would you say you know South?

I felt that way at first but once I got to know South I found it to be much better than custom queries.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to get search engine traffic?
I don't want to become a spammer.
That argument would be the same as both have buttons they must be the same.

We are not talking about elements that make up the design. We are talking about how these elements were set on the screen. Same buttons in the EXACT same places. Almost the exact same wording, same functionality. Same thing.

Google owns a patent on its home page design. Why is it ok for them to patent that then make a design that is so blatantly like another site and expect it to be ok?
That's the sense I get—that they are laying the framework for more advanced database functionality like sharding.
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