skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One nice potential for this is that people far away could join in over the internet.

Either one person with an iPhone playing remotely, or another couple of people with iPads/iPhones replicating the board and playing the same game.

I wonder if they've done anything like that.

And the board state could exist on a server somewhere and you could join and leave at any time and play a long running game, and then you open up the opportunity for the iPad to be a Google Maps stlye viewport into a single massively multiplayer game of the Red Alert / Populous / Sim City / Gods styles and the key bit being it's a small living room coffee table device with long battery life and App Store enabled low complexity of joining in.

Cross with Dropbox/Flickr and instead of video conferencing you get a virtual object/image store between you and your (parents/family/friends/whoever). Not in an 'email a picture' kind of way, but in a nearest-thing-to-teleportation way.

Open app on iPad, on iPhone, take picture with phone. Other end of the tunnel opens their app and there's a new picture. All you need then is that 'rebuild a few photos into a 3D model' technique that was going around a while ago and you have a great tech demo. Wonder if it would have any real world desirability... ahh, sometimes I wish I was a real programmer.
My girlfriend taught me a lot and then it was just by actually putting money out there and by talking to friends who were doing the same.
If that's all you bought them for. Extra capabilities don't count as value if you aren't benefiting from them.
I think your suggesting (as far as I can tell) is that GS forced the government to give out money (through their political connections).

This is very much the case. To open an account at Goldman Sachs, you must invest at least $10 million. Averages Joes are not investing with Goldman Sachs.

If they wanted to stabilize the market, the government could have chosen to invest it in banks that did not overextend themselves, or to directly purchase toxic assets instead of doing it through a middleman: letting GS skim a profit.

Instead, they predictably saved the assets of the super rich instead of mainstreet America.
Jeff Jarvis on How the iPad Destroys Creativity
It works but screws up iGoogle in Chrome.
Windows xp.
"The suggestion that the Spanish-American word gringo comes from the expression “hablar en griego”"

False. We say "está en chino" (it's in chinese).
> how long would it take you to whip up a near-trivial but feature-equivalent protocol from scratch?

Oh, about five years, I'd say.
He already has one at the office but it's chained to the desk.
Looks like death. I'd be surprised if he's around in five years.
The transcript is a great read if you don't want to watch the video.
I don't need to know why I don't listen! =P
Firefox: By the Numbers
One of the best books I've read about investing is Vitaliy Katsenelson's Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets.

Katsenelson argues that one should have a sell strategy in mind before purchasing a stock, instead of buying a stock and then holding forever, what he calls "buy and forget to sell".

His book is not about day trading, but he does advocate timing, what he calls pricing, a trade so that a stock purchase is made when it's a good value proposition and sold when it becomes more fully valued.

I hadn't heard the term Range-Bound markets before reading his book. He defines the term and uses it to help him make the argument that taking a more active approach to investing (i.e. buying and selling as opposed to buying and forgetting to sell) is a good strategy in bear markets and range-bound markets, and isn't a bad strategy in bull markets.

It's a very readable book. I'd suggest it to anyone.

Also, Katsenelson has his own suggested reading: http://contrarianedge.com/2009/10/28/books-that-will-help-ga...
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مشاهدة مباراة اهلي جدة والنصر بث مباشر
IPad & The Facebook App Kerfuffle
Just because Perl's object model from the late 90's was written in C, doesn't damn C to the unspeakable depths.

It's more accurate to say that "Just because Larry borrowed Perl 5's object model from Python doesn't mean that...." Yet there are many ways to end that sentence.
Moving to NYC from where?
When all the iPad apps launched on Friday I was surprised to see this. If you look at the screenshots you can tell it is not an official app but boy are they making bank from all the people who don't read reviews and don't pay too close of attention.
I'm not a trader, I do index funds. But, I'm a news hound, and I love reading economic an financial news, which is why I started http://Newsley.com.

I went out to NY last week and met with the guys from http://stocktwits.com. They're trying to revamp trading through social media. They have a really active twitter channel,and I follow a number of their twitter feeds.

They've also started streaming live video while the US market is open. They have a number of traders broadcast live while they are trading. It's a pretty cool concept. I wish them well.

If you looking for reviews of trading news, and companies, etc... there's http://www.investimonials.com/.
Shoaib Ayesha Hotel Stay Azharuddin Witness?
Perfect? Sounds awful to me. Few things will use up a SSD's wear cycles faster than active swap, and I doubt Apple wants to go out and buy good SSD's with many write cycles. That would eat into profits.

(they can cut corners in data storage requirements right now because the drives are written-to/read-from much less often than on a PC, so both longevity and speed are much smaller concerns)
Agreed. Puerto Rico, Agricola, any game where you have your own board or 'plot' would be very cool. Anyone who's had to stop for a day or two and try to protect a game in progress would appreciate an autosave feature too.
Preaching User-Driven Design
It is definitely nice to see him looking healthier and that happy.
Most of the scenarios I envision for laptops involve typing without a desk (thus the need for the supporting base of your lap.) I don't think anything is really replacing them for these.
مشاهدة مباراة الهلال والنصر
مشاهدة مباراة الهلال والنصر
مشاهدة مباراة النصر والهلال بث مباشر
مشاهدة مباراة النصر والهلال بث مباشر
Good video, but can get slow at times as Arrington probes for info and the others try not to comment on ongoing negotiations.
Sell an HTML5 app instead of an iPhone app
A Deep Dive Into Toyota Sudden Acceleration Accident Stats
I'd recommend starting by reading this article about how Google approached educating its employees on investing:
http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll...

And this talk by Charlie Munger on stockpicking and the art of worldly wisdom:
http://ycombinator.com/munger.html

The two major mental models which I've found helpful in understanding the market are the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_market_hypothesis) which explains how the market acts under idealized conditions of rationality. Temper this with learning about Behavioral Economics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics) which covers issues of human perception and how us semi-rational beings actually act, such as perceiving a loss of $100 as twice as painful as a gain of $100.

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is a wonderful book, but reads densely. In more recent editions contains thoughtful side commentary by Jason Zweig which help break up the text and give a more modern perspective. A key idea is the separation between investing and speculation: set aside some percentage of your portfolio for speculating, and experiment with it, but investing for the long-term is the way to go in the absence of something which allows you to escape the financial gravity of the efficient market.

A Random Walk on Wall Street by Burton Malkiel covers efficient market theory thoroughly. The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein for approaches to constructing long-term portfolios.

Lots more to say on this issue, but hopefully some of these starting points will get you thinking.
start reading the financial news. the best way to learn about the stock market is to start paying attention to the financial news. there's a lot of data to be absorbed when you first start, but with time it'll become easy to read and understand the news articles and how they relate. also start paying attention to the major indexes, prices of commodities and currency. pay close attention to monetary policy set by the legislative body and find out how that may affect the general market or a specific market. pay close attention to the habits of the consumer - how she uses credit, her spending capacity, wages, etc.

just like most things in life, practice makes perfect. start practicing your trade/investment hunches. start with small wagers and increase them as you learn more and start to understand what works and what doesn't.
Is the photo squished, or is he really still that thin? Poor guy.
The poster needed to say that because there is no greater fear for the modern devotee of the religion Feminism than that of appearing 'sexist.' It's a bizarre word of recent origin, and one that their cult seems to use for any sort of recognition of the differences between the sexes.
AT&T's forgotten plot to hijack the US airwaves
IE9's support for border-radius is pretty good
Yes, it is possible. Use a mixture of various in app purchases and only display the appropriate ones to the end user based on their locale.

Note, it's not possible (afaik) to determine their country based on any hard data from iTunes, as you are not privy to any account information or sales receipts (for the initial download) from that user. That means you will have to rely on the user to choose their country.
The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham is a classic, and a good place to start. A Random Walk Down Wall Street is also a must read, even if you reject the efficient market hypothesis. Of course, there is a huge difference between trading and investing. These books are firmly about investing, not trading.
If you want to make money with apps, go BlackBerry
I read the transcript and this one made me chuckle:

Mr. ARRINGTON: Oh, I’m sorry, it was Quora who was with Elevation Partners. I got that wrong. Yeah. Who – I’m sorry, you told me before – but Blippy? Who was it that you were bidding again?

Mr. HORNIK: It’s always amazing to me that you – this obviously works sometimes.
There is plenty of blame to go around, but one of the biggest mistakes leading up to the financial crisis was significantly lowering the amount of cash reserves the investment banks needed to keep on hand. That happened on Bush's watch with Republicans in charge of every branch of government.

And the revoking of Glass-Steagall under Clinton? That was introduced by Republicans in both the House and Senate, with the Senate vote being almost entirely on party lines. Yes, Clinton signed it, but it was a Republican bill.
The ruby equivalent for it would be Sequel.
I learned enough to know it's a game not worth actively playing. Buy an index fund, do dollar cost averaging, and stay hands off. Why?

. Big shot fund managers can't consistently beat the market, and they do this 40+ hours a week -- why should you do better?

. Stocks should be a long term investment; the market has always had a positive return over any 20 year period. Index fund and don't worry about it.

. You'll do a lot better applying energy to your start-up or whatever you're working on than dwelling on ticker prices.

. You're probably not playing with enough money to make it worth worrying about

Ramit Sethi's "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" book is a great overview of personal finance. He convinced me to automate my investments and not worry about following the market day to day.

(UPDATE: fixed formatting, thanks davidw)
I know it's easy, and even sensible to dimiss this as completely overpriced, but it's concepts like these that really get me excited. I see so much potential in this sort of device communication, it makes me anxious just thinking about it.
Most of the pseudo-science discussed in the article was some form of pop-feminism and most of them involved bogus claims of differences between the sexes.
Are you sure? I thought most non-enterprise SSDs are MLC.
Nice to see all you guys moving to the NYC area, shoot me an e-mail once you are all here and I'd love to show you guys around.

http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc
Our NYC HN / Hackers & Founders meetup, we usually meet the last thursday of each month.

Hope to see y'all soon!
Yes, in the context of the article talking about "men not listen", the clarification was useful.
> I wonder if they've done anything like that.

You just described Words with friends for the iPhone. You can also play up to 20 games simultaneously. But the problem with playing scrabble online is that it's way too easy to cheat. (www.scrabulizer.com for example). At least in person you can watch them.
I've recently started doing some investing (in both stocks and MF's) - in the Indian market. Over a 3 month period, I've had higher returns on my Growth MF's than on all the stocks I've bought.

I'm slowly starting to pull out of stocks and reinvesting that money into MF's - stocks take up too much time for it to be worth the effort.
Well, you don't see what you wouldn't want to see even if it's right in front of your face. And that works collectively in a society as well.

No matter how many people are yelling "soon, we're toast!", you won't hear it if you don't want to imagine such an outcome in the first place.

Boom.
Seconded on both index funds and http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/. If you have a job but haven't thought about retirement accounts, you owe it to yourself to read this today to take advantage of what is basically free money before April 15: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/the-worlds-easiest...
You can achieve function-like behavior for vertical or horizontal slicing of tables by using views - I use them all the time, and mine are updateable. Some vendors allow parametrized views, e.g. Table Valued Functions in MS SQL (sadly those aren't updateable I think?) and Common Table Subexpressions. Between these three spaghetti SQL doesn't have to exist.

I spent a lot of time writing SQL and the ordering of SELECT ... FROM doesn't bother me at all. Frankly, I find this argument silly and I do not want to entertain it - when buying offroad SUV I will only compare the color of door handles when all else is equal, which it isn't. The only serious part of it is intellisense problems which admittedly could use some work (this is why LINQ is the other way around - table name is always spelled first).

The other two points are entirely valid. The integration is a real pain. The opaqueness can be mitigated by vendors as well - MSSSQL allows hints to force desired behavior - but that doesn't so much drop down in abstraction level as it bastardizes the existing one.
I think for me this is the biggest question. Is it worth trying to get involved with something where there are N people who know more, move faster and have better connections that I do? I think the case for 'no' is pretty convincing.

BTW, your formatting is messed up, don't indent the points.
Green threads don't waste time on requests blocked on IO either. Both styles involve a software-level scheduler. The only difference between what most people call green threads and what most people call fibers is that one is preemptive and the other is cooperative. I actually prefer coding in the preemptive style.
The money is flowing again, folks. Investors aren't playing defense like they have the last year and a half. Angels and VC's are a lot more willing to put money on the table and take a gamble on your business.

Not only that, but companies in a lot of the country are flush with cash because their payroll costs are down, and their stock prices are up. There's going to be a lot more companies shopping around for startups in the next couple of years.

It's a good time to be an entrepreneur.
This is why I F*ING love hackers.
> Equally important, it does not include a simple (fucking) USB port

There's probably a name for this error, but it's something like "I'm not thinking of what's behind the scenes, therefore there is nothing behind the scenes".

1 simple (fucking) USB port. A tweak to the case to allow it to be somewhere. Out of the way when you are holding around the edges, but also connected internally to the right places. A tweak to the power supply to provide +5V to guest devices and allow more power when the iPad is being powered (except if it's being powered by weak USB itself). USB host IO controllers internally and kernel modules. USB drivers for common things you want to plug in, and an interface to manage and update them (internationalised). A way around the problem of poor 3rd party drivers crashing your iPad. A user interface to expose the 'safely remove USB device' option. A file manager and file related APIs for apps. A print interface if it is to support printing. Available to any app.

You still wouldn't get, say, a wired LAN controller because there's no interface for working with multiple network cards. You might get a USB TV tuner, but you'd probably struggle with an external monitor driven by the CPU.

I'm guessing what he really wants is just USB mass storage for moving files around - and putting a USB interface but limiting it to do only that is rather clunky. Especially when he could do it wirelessly with the right software (App or Apple tweak).

> See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!)

and which doesn't exist and has no price or estimated release date.
Disgree that this is inherent to the iPad -- but strongly agree about the first generation of media-outlet-specific apps. Many are "worse than the web" -- less content, idiosyncratic controls, no outlinks, no permalinks for inbound linking, no commenting.
The same way I learn most things: by making mistakes.
I'm aware of the release plugin -- I also was when I wrote it. I didn't see much of a difference between it and the SCM plugin.

I replied to such criticism on my post, so I'll just paste that response here:

I'm aware of the release plugin. It adds automation to the stuff I said I didn't like in "My Build System is Not My SCM"

I do not want "make" tagging my releases. That's not its job and it does not have the information required to do it correctly.

My tags look like this: http://pastebin.com/1vQnC78C

Note the following:

* List of changes
* List of contributors
* List of bugs fixed
* GPG signature on the tag ensuring cryptographic certainty of the source

The maven release plugin cannot do that. It is worse than what I have now.
I am not trying to be facetious, but a better question would be "how can I learn trading without making expensive mistakes?".
I hope Facebook sues them for unauthorized use of the Facebook name/logo.
Visiting this site causes my browser to immediately crash and close itself.
HttpUtility.UrlEncode considered harmful
Google is missing an Android opportunity on non-smartphones
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Couldn't view this on my iPad
Dude tries to sell car on eBay, auction goes viral 450k views and gets fan page
Watch Two killed, 100 injured in Mexican earthquake
CSS Techniques
It also has links to Javascript techniques
It's way too early for this type of hand-wringing. It's not like native apps are fundamentally less capable of UGC than web apps, it's just that the iPad was released, uh, 1 day ago.

Media companies don't have anything against interactivity, they're just excited about the fact that Apple has had some success creating markets where people actually pay for a la carte content. The true old-world of limited distribution is certainly not going to come out of the app store—Apple is a gatekeeper yes, but they don't have any interest in enforcing an artificial scarcity on behalf of old media.

The hardware limitations are just v1 stuff. Remember when the iPhone launched without an SDK? People were shitting cinderblocks all over the blogosphere, but Apple took its time and came out with a killer product in due course.

I'm all for open platforms, but the way some of this stuff reads it's like Apple already has achieved a monopoly on general purpose computing with the iPad. Yes, it's too bad that Apple couldn't have been a little more open with the iPad, but realistically they are innovating more than anyone else in the market. We should be glad just to have them injecting ideas into the marketplace even if their platform remains fully closed. It's still better than Microsoft buying and killing anyone with a promising idea, or free software's inability to create a compelling end-user experience. When Internet usage starts to approach 50% iPad then maybe we have something to worry about, but for now it's just rabid punditry desperate to cash in on the hype.
1. A bit more ram.
2. A camera
3. Lower price.
4. Time to mature.
A source of mine says that the next version of the iPhone OS may ship with very tight social network integration and social features built in. Perhaps Facebook is putting off writing an iPad app because they're working directly with Apple on integrating with the 4.0 OS? It wouldn't be that unlike Apple to do something like this -- look at the Google Maps app as an example. Just a hunch.
If you have to do your own memory management the first thing people reach for is reference counting. Reference counting means maintaining state and directly contradicts immutable objects.

So immutable objects only really work if you've got some kind of garbage collection available.
Yes to everything the parent said. You can learn most of what you need to know from these two books:

"The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between" - William J. Bernstein

"The Random Walk Guide To Investing" - Burton Malkiel

Do I believe that the market is completely efficient, and that it's impossible to beat it over the long term? Absolutely not. But I do believe that there are very few people in this world that can, and I'm darn sure I'm not one of them.

Take 80% or 90% of your portfolio, whatever suits you, and follow an index-based approach to investing. Have as much fun as you want with the other 10% or 20%. Best of both worlds.
But using a random version of Linux that they found on the Internet was probably cheaper than developing their own custom OS and DRM scheme. Cheap product development == more profit. And happier users, in this case.

The WRT54G shows that an inexpensive product that meets everyone's needs will sell better than an overpriced product that intentionally limits its own functionality.
I guess I wasn't clear enough. I meant having to learn the existing code and building on top of it. Whereas to make models... you just make them.

I'm not saying it's easy or requires any less talent than coding - just that it doesn't have as many "prerequisites" as modifying Blender would.
In depth discussion about MongoDB and noSQL with Michael Dirolf of 10gen
Hindi is not 'incomprehensible' to Arabic speakers. I reckon more of them can get by in Hindi than Farsi or Turkish. Urdu and Hindi are everywhere.

Arabs use Chinese ("Sini") as the archetype incomprehensible language.
I wonder if there is a connection between English as the 'international language of business' and how the graph shows that no one finds it incomprehensible.
Immutability and OO certainly feels mutually exclusive. :-/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240110
How would this be better than an infinite resolution analog one?
Above Ground Swimming Pool - Data You Ought To Know
Swimming in cool water may be a nice approach to beat the heat.
Sample size?

If they just had one weird Blackberry user that said $6 and 10,000 iPhone users that said $1... well, you are going to make more money from the iPhone.