skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like he confuses control with freedom. Sometimes I get a lot of freedom exactly by giving up control for someone else to worry about.

Now I then I see Amazon's Kindle incident mentioned. And in context like this
they conveniently forget to mention that Amazon made it possible to download the book again or get a refund. Nor do they quote Amazon spokesman: "We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances."

First don't use Word and iWorks, now don't use SaaS. Don't use this, don't use
that. I can now longer grasp Stallman's vision of freedom, but now I am pretty sure it scares me.

If RMS is willing to paint himself into the corner of his cave, all power to him.
False.

He paid people to make the Coming Soon page. It is "Powered By Launching Soon (v1.3)".
tinychat seems to let you host your own chatroom, whereas I was looking for a chat client that can connect to irc / xmpp (and possibly msn / facebook), somewhat more like meebo
Resource lists for Hackers. This would fit nicely next to "submit" above.

Over the last few days, I've looked for music/white noise that people listen to while coding, and this kind of discussion pops up now and again. It pisses off people who've commented on the older discussion, and possibly disenfranchises newer readers who see all the negativity on the repeat thread.

Net result: it's difficult to get a nice, complete list.

What's needed is a list of books/music/white noise sources/software tools/hardware/useful websites divided by topic/[insert stereotypical geeky obsession here] that people can upvote and comment their favourite.

My suggestion would be to scrape the past discussions on these topics and let the readers sort out the jumbled data, as a start. Crowdsourcing one of the brainiest audiences on the web, bound to work out.

Bonus for Paul Graham's wallet: more book sales.
Native apps still enjoy a pretty hefty UI advantage over web apps. I don't see that changing in the next few years.
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Who has time for meetings?
Imagine if Microsoft had come out with an App Store for Windows 7 and decreed that the only way to run apps on Windows 7 was to get them from the Microsoft App Atore. If you wanted to create apps for Windows 7, you'd have to use Visual Studio and a Microsoft compiler, you'd have to pay an annual fee to be a an accepted Microsoft App Store developer, and if you wanted to charge for your application, you'd have to pay Microsoft a 30% commission on the sale price.

People would lose their damn minds.

If you're the dominant OS in the smartphone market or in the desktop market, where's the difference?

Apple has to unlock the iPhone and let people get their apps from wherever they want.

If people want the security of knowing an app is Apple approved to work and play nice with others on their systems, they can go through the App Store.

It's not their rules, but the fact that they remove choice from the market for both consumers and developers by FORCING themselves into the consumer/developer relationship as a restrictive middleman.
Resources for Hackers
NOTE: I realise there is a link at the bottom of the page for this, I've submitted this there already; but I'd like to get some feedback on this.

Resource lists for Hackers. This would fit nicely next to "submit" above.

Over the last few days, I've looked for music/white noise that people listen to while coding, and this kind of discussion pops up now and again. It pisses off people who've commented on the older discussion, and possibly disenfranchises newer readers who see all the negativity on the repeat thread.

Net result: it's difficult to get a nice, complete list.

What's needed is a list of books/music/white noise sources/software tools/hardware/useful websites divided by topic/[insert stereotypical geeky obsession here] that people can upvote and comment their favourite.

I use Lifehacker.com as a way of discovering new, useful software, it would also be nice to get those kind of suggestions easily on HN.

My suggestion would be to scrape the past discussions on these topics and let the readers sort out the jumbled data, as a start. Crowdsourcing one of the brainiest audiences on the web, bound to work out.

Bonus for Paul Graham's wallet: more book sales.
Nothing new here. Basically women tend to send mixed signals and men tend to misinterpret those signals. Oh, and if you want to increase your success rate then having a shared interest with whoever you're trying to flirt with is a good idea.
Most ISPs earn much more from value-added products like anti-viruses and other security programs.
I prefer the Three C's to the SAS (Sociability,Alcohol,Shared Interest):

Conversation friendliness, Continuity, Community

http://www.thetaoofdating.com/sample1.php
Perhaps it's just me, but for an article about removing Google branding, wouldn't it make sense to show before and after screenshots for those of us without an iPhone?
Foursquare's game mechanics do get old, and they really haven't done much to change them since launch. I started playing Foursquare in March '09, was sick of the badges a month or two later, and haven't cared to check in much since.

Granted, I know plenty of people who still play Foursquare religiously, but I suspect they'll burn out on the gameplay too eventually. It's very hard to keep a game engaging over multiple years. I have nothing against Foursquare, I just hope they have some plans to mix things up.
I hope you're not implying that the speed of development is an indicator of bad quality.

Any environment where you're working with JavaScript (or Ruby, or Python...) is going to have faster dev time than working with a compiled language. It's not just having to type way less, but less brainless typing leads to better flow.

I'm doing both right now, and I love Titanium because it gets me in the zone, whereas with ObjC, so often I have to turn on autopilot to get through the boring stuff when I create a new model or class or something.
The false dichotomy is the assumption that since Apple makes two portable devices, one that creates content (Macbook) and another that consumes it (iPhone/iPad), that there must be two kinds of people, content creators and content consumers.

There is no reason not to own a laptop and a tablet for much teh same reason that many people own an iPod and an iPhone and a laptop.

In my own case, I own a laptop for development, a mini for displaying media on my 37" display at home, an iPhone for calls and portable content consumption, and an iPod Classic for music in my car.

All of these together cost less than my first development system. I think that people who want to create content and programs will do so, and the iPad does nothing to hinder them.
Come on, can it really be so hard to build a serious iPad contender? You don’t have to differentiate yourself by adding loads of crap just because the iPad happens to not have it, why not something minimalist just like the iPad?

I don’t want Apple to get crazy so please buckle up!
while the #'s are a guessing game, the observation that there's a shitload of customer acquisition cost here isn't.

the main point is that lots of [mainstream] users + lots of [mostly offline] businesses are required to really make LBS services worth serious money.

this in turn requires lots of money to scale, and it's my assertion that the current players are wildly under-financed currently to achieve the necessary scale.

anyway, i might indeed be full of sh*t but the post isn't way out of bounds imho. your mileage may vary.
I just don't see the iPad as replacement for anything. And I was not talking about it specifically in my comment.

My personal and work accounts are both using GMail. I don't have the source of it, I cannot just login and change id, but I do not care.
You can get a bunch of programmable calculators in App Store, or just get Numbers and use all the formulas
it offers.
My car probably has a couple dozens of CPU which I have no interest to program for. My TV probably runs linux, but I am not going to hack it. Most likely I will program for iPad, but I'd hate to do it on iPad.
I love to eat soup with a spoon, but I'd hate to carve spoon with a spoon.
It's not a scientific study, it's a summary of a lot of studies, but you will probably not gain anything. Nearly everything it says is completely obvious. It doesn't say how to flirt effectively. It explains when flirting is acceptable.
Depends what you call a handheld device. The Osborne-1 from 1981, one of the first portable computers had an email program. Handheld computers started in the early 90s and some had email capabilities. For Apple's own Newton there was a bunch of email clients.
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I think the more general answer would be to designate certain topics as evergreen, and have a page listing those.
Lately, a number of my friends who are non-early adopters started signing up for Foursquare. Do they check-in? No.

I bet the only reason they signed up was because of the coverage by the mainstream media which picked up the hype from blogs like Techcrunch (or more specifically MG Siegler).
And, obviously, such a meta-platform would be out of Apple’s control. Consider a world where some other company’s cross-platform toolkit proved wildly popular. Then Apple releases major new features to iPhone OS, and that other company’s toolkit is slow to adopt them. At that point, it’s the other company that controls when third-party apps can make use of these features.

This has happened before. It's called the web, and it's beautiful. Slow to adopt? Hells yes. But I love it because it runs everywhere.
What's the vibe right now? SHDH goes til midnight... Should I consider heading down from SF, or will it be petering out by that time?
I like that. Here's one I just thought up:

Envy is not poverty.

Would you say that is analogous?
I respect what Ryan's trying to do here, and understand the frustration that is almost unavoidable when working on a community-driven open source project with a large number of users.

But at the same time, I'm frustrated. I've found bugs, worked around them, written up an incredibly detailed description of one. I wrote a patch, wrote tests for the patch, and mentioned that I was a first-time contributor and wanted to do it right. After a few positive comments, a member of Rails core came along, made a dismissive comment, and left.

If you're going to write blog posts calling community members "useless, pathetic bastards", you darn well better make sure that the community is one that welcomes patches, encourages positive discussion, and if the patches or contributions are inappropriate/applied at the wrong level of abstraction - work to get it there.

Otherwise, you'll end up with a community of users that maintain their own local patches, forking the core or components of it because the mental overhead of sponsoring a patch and pushing it through takes weeks, while just Getting it Done is a couple lines of code and push to your repo. Which is (sadly), kind of where I'm at.

I love Rails. I like many of the principles it rests on, and I love the flexibility it offers. I've learned at least half of what I know about software development and engineering while programming Ruby. But when it comes to dropping writing elegant code so that I can spend hours hammering through endless gut-wrenching arguments on a Lighthouse ticket - count me out.
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Perhaps even a wiki, usable by HN members. That way it wouldn't necessarily add to your administrative burden. I recall you mentioning how much of your time HN takes up in some video I saw recently.
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Nit, but he pointed out there isn't much in the way of software that's priced between $1,000 and $75,000:

"There's no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I'll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need to get serious corporate signoffs. [Etc. And to get that you need a salesforce and so on.] And with all this, the cost of making one successful sale is going to average about $50,000. If you're sending salespeople out to customers and charging less than $75,000, you're losing money."

(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...)
In the U.S., companies that want to use H-1 visa programs must release specific salaries for specific titles.

Warning: Look at these databases at your own risk. You may be shocked at what others at your company are probably earning. Google H1-B salary database.
Did they just remove the Google branding or did they remove the search engine branding? I use Yahoo as my search engine so my button says Yahoo! on it.
Hah, such bad replies.

http://www.highcharts.com/

No questions.
http://gizmodo.com/5053232/apple-rejects-mailwrangler-app-fo...

'… Your application duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion. …'
Yeah, I think that is what happened.

From wikipedia: Timms read Mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he gained an MA in Mathematics in 1977 and an MPhil in Operational Research in 1978. Before entering politics, Timms worked in the telecommunications industry for 15 years.

It sounds like he would have enough technical background and experience to know what he was talking about in this case.
You could try Khan's academy, it is very cool IMHO.
http://www.khanacademy.org/index.html#Pre-algebra

For teaching materials, try cnx

http://cnx.org/content/col10615/latest/

I would try out something in the LOGO philosophy also (scratch, etoys and so forth). The web is flowing with rich material, so get a shovel and dig up.

I Hope you find some gems.
Poverty is definitely a part of homelessness, but homelessness is a way bigger problem than poverty alone. It's not just poverty that creates persistent homelessness in America, it's often some combination of poverty, mental illness, addiction, and adaptation to the homeless lifestyle.

There was a story on here awhile ago about the last homeless man in Times Square--the city's social workers keep asking him day after day if he wants a place to sleep--they'll just give him one--and he always says no, he'd rather live on the street. That's an extreme case of adaptation, but other types of adaptation aren't necessarily conducive to living a normal life. One of my friends took in a homeless man for awhile and helped him look for work and the man ended up stealing from him, selling the loot, and living on the streets again. Apparently the guy goes back and forth between jail, the streets, and living with whoever will help him.
I'd like to see also: a web browser, an OS, a "spreadsheet" (term I've coined, I'll explain in a follow-up post), also some sort of FPS, also some sort of markup format that's like HTML but not presentation-specific...also, I'd like a language like C but with classes. And, a pony. Thank you.
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Dude, I know it feels like you are writing is brilliant when you are high on coke, but believe me it is just a bunch of incomprehensible drivel.
The title should have been "A report on.." rather than "A guide to.."

Am curious to know if this game would have the observer effect. I would guess that a lot to flirting lies in the fact that such "signals" are natural. If someone manages to study them and lay it out as steps, and many end up following it, wouldn't there be a shift in the trend?

i.e., If I know how you play the game to your advantage, I will adopt a different strategy.
From Europe/Estonia it was roughly 5--6MiB/s. They definitely have the width, it's just the distance that matters in this case.
In case that didn't make sense to you, it's a reference to: http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-eart...
In fairness to Ryan, he does include a link to the relevant information, but in fairness to you, the text of the link doesn't make clear what it leads to. (It's the link that says "Give back to the community" near the bottom of the post.)

Here's a straightforward version of the link: http://guides.rails.info/contributing_to_rails.html
I'd like a language like C but with classes

C already has classes. They're called structs. And methods are called function pointers.
yeah, working on adding a map now

EDIT: Added map. Not every tweet has coords, but a good portion of them do.
The Google branding being removed was to rename the "Google" button to "Search". They aren't actually removing Google search... at least not yet.

Here's a link with before and after
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/10/apple-removes-google-bra...
Sorry for the bad form. Working on it.
I think there is a connection, but there are important differences.

First, envy is a different issue than complaining. People are complaining every day, which is mostly a good thing, because it encourages improvement and self-critism. Think of inventors or human rights fighters. However, envy is almost always a bad thing that shouldn't happen too often. It causes anti-social behaviour and thus must be fighted against.

Second, poverty is not the opposite of wealth, it's the other extreme. Also, wealth means more than just material wealth, and this extended meaning is essential to the saying I cited above. In contrast, poverty means material poverty, which is kind of misleading in the context above.
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Here's a favorite of mine I loved visiting when I was in middle school: http://coolmath.com
This wasn't a normal hedge. They were actually creating the products that they were betting against.
Those are some awfully strong opinions.

And, makes http://foursquare.grader.com look kind of silly. Oh well, at least I had a good time with it and you just never know.
heh looking back I should probably change the title, some of these I would like to see built because there isnt something available that satisfies me, others are just things I want to build because they would be fun.
dude the way i see it is there are already APIs available, so once someone gets sound->text, you can already break down video->sound, and you can translate text_inEnglish to text_inSwahili ..
That you don't want to program on the iPad does not mean others don't want that too. It does not even mean that you won't want it in the future.

But there is no choice. You are at the merci of Apple.

Other people want a different entertainment system in their car.

With Apple you can't - you can't replace iTunes on your phone.
Most or all of these already exist in some form. E.g., Campfire, ikiwiki, etc.
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Hi Dave,

Your comments on HN are clear, simply written, and to-the-point. When you defend your arguments here, you make perfect sense. I'm not sure why you write the way you do on your blog. Could it be that you're just looking for attention/linkbait?

Please, stop. You're famous enough in startup circles to be able to run on the strength of your ideas alone. I think people here are beginning to realize that - once we parse through your language we'll find some fantastic ideas. There are many more people who can't/won't get past the parsing (for instance, while I like your ideas, you're not in my feedreader). There's no reason not to write simply, and clearly, the way you write on HN now.

Right?
It goes till midnight, and there are a bunch of ppl here now...
WebKit is a framework not an application. Safari is the application. The UI layer is still Cocoa.
Reading all the comments posted on this thread, I'm
starting to change my mind. It's not the quality (Titanium mobile apps are nearly indistinguishable from most iPhone apps), the speed of development (like you said, not having to use Objective-C). Unfortunately it is probably protectionism. To protect the dominance of the AppStore. If you can simultaneously write an Android and iPhone app using the same Titanium/Kroll codebase, you're helping to weaken the AppStore (which is arguably the main tent pole of Apple's strategy to dominate computing in this century).

"When Apple’s SDK was introduced in July 2008, the company tried over a period of several months to get a basic app up and running. Notes Bart Johnston, Director of Interactive, “I thought that my web development experience would have prepared me for developing on the iPhone, but it felt like I was starting completely from scratch. The learning curve was very high."

Does Apple really want to officially allow Titanium to lower the barrier to entry? Premium brands cannot be premium if everyone has access.

http://www.appcelerator.com/partners/case-studies/lone-star-...
Simply because it's against the agreement doesn't mean people won't attempt to submit offending applications (especially considering we don't yet know what the limits are). Using private APIs is against the agreement too, but that hasn't stopped a lot of developers from using them and submitting to the store. Some have even made it by the App Store reviewers.
Linux distributions (Redhat and Ubuntu especially) have very much focused on being user friendly, even if their idealized users are more sophisticated than those of other consumer OS makers. Re Hurd -- umm, I was setting up a contrast...
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There are a few phones with Flash Lite, and plans announced for full Flash 10.1 in the browser. But as far as I know there is no AIR for Android, and no shipping phones with the full Flash runtime. There's no Android equivalent to the Adobe CS5's iPhone app compiler.
Whoops, thanks for telling me. It seems I forgot to test the site in any IE - in IE8 it's completely messed up, and I can only assume it's worse in IE7. I'll try to fix it soon.
A visual theme, or a content theme?
Mozilla is hiring for all sorts of different positions. Our headquarters is in Mountain View, CA, but we have people all over the world: http://www.mozilla.com/careers
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why do you think ebay is going away? the only real threat to them I see is amazon, and ebay has some advantages to amazon.

It's pretty much the only place to go for parts that are hard to find. (for example, most of the places that claimed to have my x60s battery in fact did not. the ebay seller, thanks to the ebay reputation system, did. I usually go to ebay over unknown resellers on the 'net simply because if an ebay seller says they have part X, they usually do.)
Wow. I don't think I've heard someone say they use Yahoo! in 5 years. Why do you prefer it?
And NSPR is written in C as a thin layer over the OS APIs. Just because it's C doesn't magically imbue whatever uses it with super-awesome-native qualities.
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if you are having trouble trying to decide on the correct length of the essay, it only proves that you are still groping around in the dark. You are probably trying to decipher what to write in your essay and how
This is a good demonstration of why the whole "private APIs" distinction is harmful. It allows Apple to continually be several steps ahead in application development, and it also makes the already capricious and arbitrary App Store approval process even worse.
Actually, I would prefer to put it the other way around: Once 3G will be reliable and truly unlimited, what would web apps offer that cross-platform app don't anyway? Give it some thought before answering.
I think Yahoo search is now Bing, and it's not all that bad I heard.
On a related note, there's a new sub-reddit called SomebodyMakeThis. (a sub-reddit being a user created subsection of the link aggregator Reddit)

http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/