skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be companion pieces: "Why China didn't create the iPod" and "Why Europe (Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc.) didn't create the iPod". Japan and these places are all very tech-savy but their cultures are very different than that in the US, you can almost think of it as different solutions to the same equation.

Simplifying and summing up, I think the arguments go like this:
* In Japan, the conformity culture, bureaucracy in big companies, and lack of foreign brain power and venture capital is the problem (The Economist was saying that Japan has the lowest foreign technical investment in developed countries).
* In China, the lack of entrenched copyright culture is the problem, in fact, taking a product and hacking to add new features is prized. Also, good product design design and customer feedback is unknown.
* Europe does have excellent designers; however, it lacks a start-up worshiping culture, in fact they're given the cold shoulder in government-heavy countries like France. Their modus operandi is to proceed by government-funded huge projects, e.g. Galileo, Airbus. And the foreign brain power is there, too.

So, you see, it's not Japan's fault: US has a unique combination of cultural and other factors that produces things like the iPod. I don't think this is unrepeatable, though.
And load a Debian spin on it http://zipit.rootnexus.org
I wrote a similar thing into our project management system here at work. Whenever we receive notifications about a project or something, a little small quote like the ones you're publishing are added to the end of the e-mail...

It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).

So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}

It seems like an overkill, though :-)
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You think -4 is harsh? Man, it used to be unlimited...

I can remember a few situations when someone posted something particularly controversial, got mobbed, and ended up with -100 or worse.
It's obviously not for the people who fancy iPads. But hardware geeks might love to have one.
Relevant link: http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training/browse_thread/...

tl;dr: Rawson 2008 is a broad null result for healthy young omnivores who aren't idiots. Vegetarians, idiots, the sleep-deprived, and old people may benefit.
Well, the really simple example is the string "postmaster". It is a perfectly legitimate email address, and almost always deliverable. But rarely something you want to actually accept.
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In my case I've started working on WireframeSketcher roughly at the same time Peldi did. He just was much more successful than me :). You can see that my blog posts go way back to October 2008. So WireframeSketcher didn't start as Balsamiq's copycat but it certainly looks like it now.

To give credits where it's due, the original idea came to me after seeing MockupScreens. I thought that with my Eclipse experience it would be easy to do something like this but better for Eclipse. I was looking for a side project and this one seemed like a perfect candidate to me.
Anyone else feel like that is a really big team for the product? Maybe I've just been on really stretched teams but 15 people with 4 product manager types, wow. Though I've never use it, the product looks great as far as I can tell.
But comparing the products I've worked on I'd say we would have had half the head count.
Isn't it pretty much automated with domain squatters? Eg, they have a "buy domain" or "request price" button, and see what you get back?
Gah, my blood pressure.

The year is 1978. Microsoft is selling BASIC interpreters. Apple exists in a garage. A Japanese company creates this quirky little tape deck with headphones which -- get this -- you're supposed to actually carry with you, so you can listen to music while not at home. Hilariously stupid idea, right? The Walkman will be lucky to sell a thousand units, to say nothing of crossing over to the mainstream. The Japanese should just stick with what they're good at -- perfecting things made by white people.
While we're thinking outside the bun, let's consider not just the web server, but the whole stack. That includes load balancers, message queues, data stores, etc and of course all the network gear that we often forget about. A fancy web server benchmark isn't going to tell you squat about how all this stuff will perform together for you because there are too many variables.

The closest we can get to useful metrics is looking at large-scale sites that handle high load in the so-called "real-world". These usually take the form of experiential stories which, incidentally, is how most knowledge is shared.

The solution is more stories, not a fancier benchmark.
A small point, but this isn't $99, it's $136. It's 99 EUR not USD.

http://hackable-devices.com/shop/product/nanonote
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The fear is that if I do request the price that it will express cursory interest in the domain name and thus increase the price. That said, I really don't know how these things work and it may be harmless to click their "request a price" button.
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Sometimes, when Simon Cowell tells American Idol contestants that "you chose the wrong song" or "that was a bit indulgent", it makes me think of entrepreneurs I've seen jumping into the wrong business without enough thinking and preparation. Often, the Idol contestants will sheepishly nod in agreement or mutter some sort of wistful explanation such as "well, the song really spoke to me", or "I saw it and just started playing it in rehearsal". Simon, more so than the other judges then will often remind the contestants that they are actually participating in a competition.
1) WTF is podsender? I've never heard of it.

2) "Sponsor", not "Sponser".

3) So you're basically sending out paid tweets? Aren't you worried that your followers will get turned off by the spam?
More importantly, why so many upvotes to this submission? Is there something that people get which I don't?

I think this story is getting gamed for votes.
Added the attribution and link to XKCD.

I don't consider it "stealing their bandwidth" though, as XKCD explicitly allows hotlinking - http://xkcd.com/license.html
Ask for the price from an anonymous email as a starting point....fairly easy.
not sure exactly what you mean, but i run the squeezebox server on a barebones machine that has a via-c7 chip (think early netbook) with a usb data disk, and it is very slow. the music streams just fine, but the web based server is noticeably sluggish. i guess it might be the usb disk, but i think the computer itself is underpowered (the server software is perl-based).

[edit: ah, no, i think you just want a client; you've got the sever on the eee? in which case ignore this. you know you can buy the little controller handset things?]
My honest opinion is that this is a more expensive version of SponsoredTweets (which won't fly because they have a mass of users and important value add features, which this is lacking) . Ad.ly also does this but I think they have a pretty high minimum budget.

SponsoredTweets also has performance tracking, which advertisers would want.

I'm also not clear on what brand means in this context - how is that different from a sponsored tweet?
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Founder's block on choosing a name? Try DARE.
We used a non-ideal domain name for about 3 years before buying our domain from a domain squatter. It cost us 3 times what it would've cost if we'd have bought it up front, but the money was needed for other things earlier on.

Our domain cost about US$1000 in the end, versus $370 if we'd have bought it at the start.
I consider it just a small leap in logic compared to your knee-jerk parallel regarding money in the wallet.

We know that increased oxygen in the blood speeds up healing of damaged tissue - this is why you get a tube up your nose blowing extra oxygen into your respiratory system when you come out of surgery. Does this by your logic mean that we're persistently oxygen deficient in our natural state, just because ADDING oxygen gives a higher effect?

What IS the nominal level of creatine in the body? Do you know? I don't. Pure creatine supplement from meat ingestion can so far only be proven to be an _added aid_, rather than going by the logic that vegetarians turn dumb when they stop eating red meat.
(honest question) what would you do these days with a screen and a keyboard that didn't have a ready interface to the outside world? I looked at this, and it seemed like another "almost, but not quite" sort of project platform.
podsender on Twitter has 140 followers. They aren't going to get any more by spamming.
Thanks! And nice collection.
Yea I mean, give it a shot, but don't stop looking for alternative names for now. Can't forget, it used to be "TheFacebook.com"
I find it interesting that in the majority of examples given in this article, the alleged honey trap didn’t actually gather any intelligence.
How much karma is required for one to get the downvote buttons?

Also, in the past there have been times that I have accidentally clicked the upvote button in an attempt to re-activate my browser window, and found that there was no way for me to undo that, whereas on reddit if I hit the upvote button again it cancels out!
You can buy it for USD99 at the other site they linked to:
http://sharism.cc/shop/
Agreed. Yesterday there was a segment on NPR regarding this issue. The article does not mention this, but the newly allocated spectrum will not be just handed out to the established big players. However, it will be auctioned off which is still a problem. Unless there is a way to ensure that smaller parties have a way to get at least a part of that spectrum, the auctions will be dominated by the large carriers who can pay more.
How does that make Feynman look better?
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Yes, I am manually adding the content.

I like the idea of integrating with twitter, facebook, buzz, etc. I will be looking into it.
These are 100 selected entries, if you want more, they've published four volumes, the fifth one is on the way. Some I thought were good: futz, pilancillo, pipjenny, schnibble, izzard (the really good ones, I'm keeping to myself!)
The author's been dead for a while.
Science itself isn't at fault, because science isn't really a thing. In this case, it was the institution of medical science that we trusted erroneously.

Actually, it's really amazing how many dangerously wrong ideas medicine has come up with over the years.
About skipping breakfast. The concept is Intermittent Fasting. Ideally if we consume less refined carbohydrates which are quick to deplete, getting energy from "slower" sources, the natural tendency would be to reduce the need for more frequent meals.

It doesn't have to be breakfast. If I'm going to skip anything, I'd rather it be dinner. That way half the time with less readily available energy, I'll be asleep, rather than thwart my cognitive abilities when they matter most, usually in the morning.
Oh god, that would be horribly slow.

But I dunno maybe we'll have a future where most people will speak Chinese and English....
I would wait on this until after May 26th, on the off chance they don't renew it.
I think it is an interesting idea, I think the execusion of this website needs a lot of work. One, who are you? Two, what benefit am I getting from this? There is no way that I am paying for a service that I know nothing about. Please explain what you are trying to do with an "about" or "faq" section showing examples of what my money is going to get...
You should also check some of the listing sites. We got the .com version of our domain via GoDaddy's "premium domains" rather than the squatting company directly. You can usually find the one you're really interested in by searching for a close match, and letting their suggestion engines select the real one for you without seeming keen.

(We got the domain out of GoDaddy as soon as we could. They're a nightmare, they couldn't even manage to send an email and required phoning them to sort out various problems. But at least we got it in the end.)
"And though some may be hesitant to accept the ever-increasing roles of robots in our world, I, for one, " welcome our new robot overlords.

(Sorry, but I couldn't resist that perfect segue.)
Yeah gimp does ugly resizing. Python image lib would probably be better, or if you have access to photoshop that works very well of course (bicubic sharpen setting). Or email me the file if you like. :)

Other ideas- I'd make the top blue gradient extend the whole width of the page. If you're going to make your signup buttons with fancy css shadows etc, might as well do the same for your logo text rather than having it in an image. Any reason for the lack of spaces in 'Wireframing&Prototyping'? You've got 'learn more' text in two different formatting styles on the landing page. No need for external links to open in new tabs, your users will be savvy enough to use their back button. I'd consider burying the 'get it free' in the footer rather than by the buying info - perceived value and all that.
BuyDomains is pretty good to deal with. They are a buy and sell domain company, not buy and hold.

Just make an offer on the low side of reasonable. (recent sales: http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm).

If I was prepared to pay $2K for a domain, I would start with an offer in the $800-$1.2 range.

If they have a fixed price, don't be afraid to offer 50% of their asking price.
I haven't seen any Mockup-products coming out recently, care to share some links?

Personally I'm not too interested in having IDE integration so...
Note that compositing is involved in nearly every graphical operation, which means that nearly everything benefits from the GPU acceleration.
Article (printable: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml...) is from 2006.

Does anyone know what Peter Lundblad is up to now? Would be interesting to know.
My $0.02 - the mock up on the front page looks like someone trying to design a clunky looking desktop app from the 90's (what's more, designing something that looks like it is at least partially subverting the standard OS File Save dialog) Maybe a more 'relevant' mockup would help (e.g. something suggestive of a webapp, or something abiding by more modern Windows/OSX interface guidelines). Even some of the some of the screenshots on the feature tour page I though were a little more relevant. Or perhaps a rotating carousel or video. A/B test it :) Other than that I think the product is good, I even have a vague recollection of downloading this a while ago when I was looking for wireframers for our team to use. (We ended up not using any tool, fwiw.)
"Every physical body that you see and say ohh man I wish I looked like that is probably a product of steroid use"

This is absolutely insane. I've been bodybuilding for 10 years. I workout 9 times a week. I have a crazy strict diet. I have abs, and consider myself someone with a good amount of mass. Spending this much time in the gym, I know plenty of people like myself. To say "they're all on roids" is something a lazy person would say as a reason why they can't accomplish that. I've never taken roids and I never plan to.

Nutrition, weight gain/loss, is all science. Roids are not needed. It's just hard work and commitment - something most people do not have.
I agree. This fits in very nicely with their release early and iterate model. If it works for software, why not hardware as well. I'm surprised they didn't call it Nexus Beta.
It's also hard to take seriously anyone who claims to be "paleo" but eats a lot of dairy. I start trying to picture a hunter-gatherer sneaking up on a wild bison for a quick teat squeeze.

Grains, on the other hand, they could do. I've taken courses on primitive hunting/gathering, and grass seed was one of their basic survival foods. Wild rice was a staple for some amerindian tribes.

He's not eating paleo, just plain ol' Atkins.
While you certainly have a point, one that might be particularly attractive to one of Rickover's nuclear engineers, I'd counter by pointing out the long and storied history of "spies" and how they made critical differences in war throughout the ages up into the Cold War in the '60s (at least).

On the other hand, ULTRA was officially declassified in 1974 and in 1977 one might still have the conceit that the NSA could break ComBlock ciphers.

All in all, though, I would suspect that the greater motivation was neutering the icky parts of the CIA that the Democratic party turned on post-1968. Insane on its face "satellites could do most anything a person could do" sounds more like a justification and/or rationalization.
No, the point is that sexism is still sexism, even when sexism was (more) socially acceptable.
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Your friends in Japan had never seen an iPod in 2005? Apple claimed the iPod had 60 percent of Japanese market share as early as November of that year.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/nov/16japan.html

It kept the lead until September of 2009, when Sony crowed that the Walkman had outsold the iPod the previous week... because the iPod's share had been cannibalized by the iPhone. Nice work, Sony!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...

"Better spec'ed" devices that didn't involve a computer necessarily cram more user interface onto a limited surface, which is why almost by definition, those devices were harder to use.

The iPod won not just because its interface was better, but because there was so much less of it. Offloading complex functionality to a general-purpose computing device made the iPod a better music device. There's really no getting around this point, even if the iPod's successors are becoming general-purpose computing devices themselves.
Probably not the solution you are looking for, but you can always use your browser to zoom out or make the text smaller.
"In the future, the biggest land animals will be smaller than they are now"
Not slow with a server solution and next generation upload speed. (Most of the OCR could be implemented on a hardware chip, so not a full image has to be sent.)
How do these ad companies that target small businesses scale their business model? Will it involve having a large telemarketing or on the ground sales force?
I was just taking a look at the Openmoko dev progress yesterday, been wanting one for a while, but like with software it's always best to check up on the issue queue and the pace of developments. I've not been so impressed recently. This looks like an interesting contender, and along with the Pandora Handheld (linked by nathan82) it's looking like some healthy competition is finally entering this market. I can't wait to see how this unfolds.
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The team is worrying about itself. The management have to worry about themselves, the team, the rest of the staff, the stockholders, the continued existence of the company. They are being responsible and making what is likely an incredibly hard decision. The team? Looking out for themselves, while harming further the company that put up the resources and took the risks (and maybe came up with the ideas) for creating Garmin Connect.
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Actually, I used my own app, PhoneFinger:
http://wonderwarp.com/phonefinger
Wanted to do more than upvote this - after a quick read, the linked paper seems an unusually useful resource on this subject, and I certainly recommend others take a look. Thanks for the link!
I would really appreciate it if you helped seed the data. All comments are welcome.
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Also, unless your name is Sam Beau you should change your handle.

Sounds like:
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This gives me that really excited feeling in my gut that I get when I see something cool. I've always wanted to learn how to play piano, but I was always overwhelmed by diving right in. This is why the iPad is going to be so cool.

Do you have plans to do this for other instruments? I can see it being enormously popular for guitar tab, especially if you can add your own tabs to it.

EDIT: Additionally, I think $3 is a perfect introductory price. If you've built a large enough following, you can leverage that to increase the price (perhaps by offering updates/large additional music libraries?) at a later date.
They don't focus on UIs? That's what makes the iPod special. Japanese cell phones are know for their terrible UIs (yet awesome features).
I have a personal theory about this. I think it is a personality type.

I had a friend who later in life became a free loader (and drug addict). I tried to help him and his family out by letting them stay a while while he tried to kick his habit.

Anyway long story short, from the moment they walked through the door, there was an attitude of entitlement because they where being victimized (in their mind).

When you confronted them about things, they would become very hostile like you where the one victimizing them.

I believe that this is a learned behavior that a certain segment of the population uses as a survival mechanism. It preys on the fact that a larger portion of society likes to avoid conflict and therefore will seek to sooth the situation.

The worst part about my personal situation was that his kids where also learning this behavior, and where actively being used against me by playing up the putting kids on the street argument. Which I eventually had to do for the sake my own family.

Anyway, I think the non-paying complaining assholes are a lesser form of this personality type.
Here is some interesing read about how to snatch an expiring domain :
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-sn...
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You're leaving out the storied concept of spies, double agents, etc., who can provide unique windows into a foreign country. Plus help the propagation of disinformation (e.g. it's a lot more effective when you know what your enemy fears). If there's a place for them in our national intelligence infrastructure, where should that be?

On the other hand I'll certainly agree that CIA analysis is poor at best, and note that it's particularly subject to politics (e.g. see the 2007 "Iran stopped their nuclear weapons program" analysis (not sure if it was from the CIA but the point holds)).

I'd close with noting that covert ops have their place. E.g. in denying the Soviets effective natural gas compressors (and therefore foreign exchange) for their pipelines to Western Europe. Technology embargoes forced them to roll their own, and we fed them bogus info which resulted in very poor results (as I recall a lot of failures and only being able to ship 1/2 the gas they'd intended).
So What's With All This Talk of (Startup) Failure?
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I really don't understand the braile parte. What's the cool side of reading code using braile?
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Are you suggesting that it is all right for a charming man to be sexist, but not an uncharming man?