skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great way to see what's trending in my twitter feed. I'd like to see a browser plug-in with these features in the future. Nice Shave!
> Are you focusing just on ad revenue, or are you looking into other ways to bring in money (like subscriptions that remove ads, etc).

We'll be experimenting with revenue models a lot. Ad revenue is just the default.

> And, honestly, I also like that you are using Facebook Connect.

Glad people agree. I guess we'll see tomorrow how it goes.
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My apologies. For some reason I thought I had upvoted the comment as well.
I greatly prefer C# over Java. Luckily, JetBrain's Resharper makes VS almost as awesome as IDEA.
Apple don't want crap apps in the appstore? Have you /seen/ the appstore?

I'm sorry, but the undiluted denial-of-reality from the more extreme Apple apologists is making me dizzy.
I would add Support Engineers along with the devs in that list. I was an AASE back in the late 90s, and working with Apple behind the scenes in the retail chain was quite the different experience than being an end user.

Of course, I firmly believe this is as it should be.
Ah, just realized my comment was far from clear; I meant that I searched search.twitter.com for a term, it yielded the expected results, then searched the same term on this product and got "no results"
Yeah, it seems the sheet was just protected. Why?
With the Newton trumping the Palm in date, I would assume, barring Apple transferring those patents, that Apple would have some low level patents in this department, but given the age (and my age too) the Newton may have been over 20 years ago now so the patent period may be past.
Yeah, nothing's happened, but they just threw my several months worth of work and a lot of what I've told my investors into serious jeopardy. If they hold to this strictly, I'm going to have to put a lot of work just into making an iPhone app that integrates with the rest of my system, or do without altogether. Apple clearly didn't take that into account, so if I see a situation in which this backfires on Apple, I plan on laughing. Loudly.
Hacker General Warning: This iPad is not known to be a universal Turing machine.
"Please do not try to run arbitrary ARM code."<p>I hope some state requires some sort of similar label to be put on all iPhones + iPads.
I'd say that now that Apple has plenty of volume in the app store, they're focusing more on quality. I imagine they want to implement higher standards at a rate that still makes the number of apps grow. Like when they removed a bunch of basically web-browsers with a hard-coded link somewhere for 0.99. It's a process, ya know?
How do you figure that prevents slavery? It doesn't prevent slavery right now... buying a russian sex slave and making her work 12 hour days in a club seems to generate a lot more income than she would as a "consumer".
You can use JavaScript, PHP (or any other server side language), and JSON.

Each website in the network gets a unique ID and includes a script tag in their HTML with the src set to http://www.example.com/code/?id=12345 where 12345 is the unique ID.

You have your server side script look up that ID and pull the relevant ad data from your database and return JavaScript that writes this data in a JSON object and includes functions to write it to the browser.

When the visitor goes to the site, the browser renders the page with the JavaScript customized for that site, which displays the appropriate ad. Your server side code should track the number of impressions for each add and integrate with your billing/payment system.
Reminds me of old-school FrontPage sites.
> We still don't know how aspirin does what it does for chrissake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_action_of_aspirin

> The only difference between that and a shaman is clinical trials.

Yeah, man, totally. Well, that and safe dosage, drug interactions, toxicity profile, half-life, chemical formula, side-effects...

> Except, of course, that the shaman actually has an explanation for how his medicine works

This merely proves that anyone anywhere can invent a just-so story.
That's MSRP -- No one actually pays that.... at least I hope not...

However, Ultimate also includes a full MSDN license.
Well, valley or not, your idea needs to survive in the "real" world i.e. built and wanted by people. Do some homework on that and get crackin'. Be so good that they can't ignore you :-)

As about tech cofounders, that's a tricky one - it helps to have an intelligent tech friend who can perhaps help you find a good one. Like philwelch said, tech cofounders will have their own ideas and idiosyncrasies, but you have to clear from day one about what you bring to table. What can you offer them? Are you a sales genius? A kickass designer? Whatever it is, make sure your personal secret sauce is compelling enough.

"Should i move to the Valley for a while"
Unless you have a decent cushion to blow for a while or are going to work to support yourself (where you can potentially find co-founders), don't sweat it.
It's easy to optimize product to cut costs, or put more engineers on the project and add features.

What's truly difficult is reduction. Removing "features" and simplifying the product. The success of the iPad and iPhone is not about what it-- it's about all the things it doesn't do.
That yearly subscription upfront is a pretty blatant tell. I guess some people need a multi-hundred dollar lesson to learn that not everyone wants to sell you something you want to buy.

Yet another reason to love okcupid. (Disclosure: I'm a user and not financially associated with okcupid.)
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It is automatic -- it crawls projects' bug trackers. That way, projects can mark bugs as "good for newcomers" without us forcing them to use new tools.

Having said that, the site does give projects a space to write about ways people can get involved beyond what's in the bug trackers. You can see at https://openhatch.org/+projects/Gally that a project maintainer requested something rather unique: a call for videos of people signing individual words in American Sign Language.
The author of the article says "wages represent the value that a worker provides to others". Do you really think Einstein's wage represented the value he provided to others?

People work for all kinds of reasons. Money is just one of them as you yourself allude to when you mention reputation. So wages representing the value a worker provides is clearly nonsense.

They just represent _expected_ value for those able to pay, and it includes all kinds of distortions like immigration controls.
Some kind of a practical advice I could use in my work. If I knew what it looked like I might not need it. Maybe "we tried this and users hated it, but then we tried that and they loved it and lessons here is that that sort of things works better in such and such circumstances".

First of all, for many/most users iPad is a part of a different workflow compared to iPhone, and if people are to use it differently we should design differently.

Each iPhone's screen should serve single purpose and unambiguously lead to the next action. That way you get an app that can be used on the go. My guess is that this is not true for iPad, as it's not likely to be used on the go, so there will be a bigger preference towards multi-purpose screens. I would like someone to talk about that.
ARM netbooks have an uphill battle. When most people see something that looks like a computer they expect it to run Windows.
yep, whole > sum
Why not use www.Justin.tv (A YC company)?
It will cost you an always on internet connection, a web browser and a webcam (video subjects nor included :-)
Caveat emptor, indeed. If only there were some sort of rational method of inquiry involving painstaking scrutiny and freely published libraries of results were available to help consumers decide.
In this I rely on my browser to filter deceptive characters in domain names.

When I hover over the link you gave (or click it and see it in the address bar), it looks like http://www.youtube.xn--combad-site-hx3f.com/something_else (which lets off plenty of flags for me).
Devs are not forced to develop for it. You can go develop for Android. You can go develop for RIM. You can go develop for non mobile phones. Devs develop for the iP* because they want to sell to that market. It wasn't too long ago though that we saw a whole bunch of articles on HN about the myth of the get rich quick AppStore apps. Apple is skating on thin ice because if the developers leave then the iPad loses big. The pain may not have crossed the average developers threshold yet but Apple still has to play a dicey game with how far they can go before they do cross the threshold.
I would say that adding terms to the document constitutes evidence of conscious weeding.

Come to think of it, so does every headline I've ever seen about an app store rejection.
Apple setting a bad precedent with this was my hope. I'm now 50% closer to my eventual wish - Apple exerting too much control and screwing up. The control part is done. The screw up... fingers crossed. That will discourage other companies (at least in this space) from doing it. Developers FTW... I'm hoping.
If the site costs $30/mo, or $360 for the year, why was her fee $800?
From what I've seen, the ban on interpreters is very much aimed at options that allow an end user to download and run scripts and if that is the case, expect Apple to clarify that, particularly if they are getting pushback from the larger grossing game houses. The ostensible reason for the ban on interpreters is that allowing third party scripts would be a security risk; which is true to a point. But, we all know that it functions to keep the App Store as the only source of software.
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Great photo of Jonas Salk!
buffet: "don't save sex for old age"
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I believe his point was that the research is more conclusive that alcohol leads to psychosis than hallucinogens.

And people (in general) aren't all that great at controlling alcohol dosages. If it wasn't for the bodies natural reaction (becoming incapacitated), people would die all the time. How many times have you seen people vomiting (in the bathroom, if we're lucky) or passed out due to drinking too much?

If you mean dosage per drink, I'd again they say that falls out naturally based on the amount of alcohol people can handle to taste, rather than proof of rational control.
FYI, it's not sporting e-ink but rather a transflective display. Not even close to what the kindle is using...
What part of the quote are you having trouble understanding, sir?
Yeah - What on earth about that page suggests that it should be done in Flash, other than "it's possible to?".

I love my flash games, but that page is a amazing fail - my credit-card auto completion didn't work, my two-finger scrolling failed to work - it's almost like they are trying to demonstrate how _not_ to create an order page.
Nothing much new here: selling sugar water (or point-of-sale or restaurant/garage/insurance agency/medical clinic/etc. management apps or whatever) > changing the world, at least from a stable, reliable income perspective.

But what of your soul, man?
This is really cool, here's hoping people add some more projects. It would be great to have a place where people can go to find projects and problems to work for a bit.

I've contributed to a few open source projects before, but the problem is always with finding a good project, seeing if there are any bugs that are reproducible and easy enough to fix without knowing the entire architecture like the back of your hand. Having all that work done and easily searchable is great.
Just want to congratulate them! It's a thankless enough job as it is and those writers don't get often get rich... let alone any exposure on main stream media which is all too focussed on the enormous importance of balloon-boys and octo-moms.
Yeah, in this case the page is rendered by ColdFusion. Which i'm guessing is the root of the issue!
This result is pretty much well known for ANY economist, even people with only econ 101. For instance, check the first graph of this link: http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Labour-market

The logic is the following:

1) More educated people earn higher wages (if not, then why spend so much time and money on education?).

2) Higher wages gives you more money for consumption

3) As people fill their consumption needs, they now want more leisure. For that, they work less hours.
I could turn the question around and ask you how the government prevents this, as the foundation of your question assumes that it's not doing so.
Glad to hear it's in the pipeline. :)

Could you clarify the distinction between having a Ruby API and having Ruby 80apps?
since your page basically shows nothing until you authenticate against twitter (i didn't) you should show a grayed out image or something of some example data of what it looks like once the user logs in.
>one variable explaining 40% of the variation in another is pretty good in social sciences, where you expect all sorts of confounding variables, but quite bad in, say, (well designed) physics experiments.

I think this is part of the answer to your question, nhebb, but also I think we might have some confusion about r. In my understanding, (which is also limited to only AP Statistics) r is the value representing how well correlated the two categories are, and r squared represents how much of the correlation the categories you're using at that time accounts for. Does that sound right?
This sounds like a gussied up Wordpress-MU installation with a bunch of plugins (social media, SEO, etc), adsense api (so they can switch between showing their ads and their authors' ads).

Or, rather, it sounds like this idea could be recreated with all that and hiring a designer to make a nice theme.

The only difference is that they vet the writers beforehand, unlike Squidoo or Hubpages or Buzzle.

I'm genuinely curious, how is this different than any other online journalism endeavor?
I'd feel pretty confident saying that a low dosage isn't going to cause a bad trip capable of long-term damage. At high-dosages, sure, there's some danger there, although even then, there is a huge difference between a bad trip and an unenjoyable trip. Sometimes the most important trips long-term are those that were uncomfortable at the time (facing unpleasant truths).

Also, going back to alcohol, with 2 beers, I'll give you that the risk is low. But as that goes up, not only does the potential damage from the alcohol go up, but also your behavior. Increased aggression, etc. I know a guy who broke his hand because he punched a wall while drunk, etc.

Also... do you know any true alcoholics? I mean the real dysfunctional kind? They are worse than any e-head I know. Waiting outside the liquor store at 11 am til it opens, drinking the entire bottle the moment they leave, etc... They are right up there with the worst of drug addicts. I've never even heard of that happening from mushrooms.
His voice sounds a lot like Paul Graham's.
Ultimate also includes a full MSDN license

So does the professional version at $1,199
iPad Human Interface Guide is an in-depth exploration on iPad app UX and is now publicly available:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Gene...
I don't know if I'm reading it wrong or techcrunch missed some details but this just sounds like wordpress/blogger + "for journalists"...
"Man, I have so much to tell you guys, but I'm just too tired..." ;)
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Don't forget the cult of personality. Find someone you like more than yourself. Analyse. Imitate. -- prophet-oriented religion in a nutshell.
I don't have time to respond to each point, but I will say that it's well thought out. I don't agree with many points, but you've clearly thought about it. =)

"They're putting up rules, if you follow them you should be fine."

The big issue is that they are changing rules. They are. There isn't anything you can say that changes this. So even if you did follow the rules, you are still stuck with an unsure situation.
I wonder how long it will take for these phones to get support for 3rd party apps. While it would really be great to see more affordable (think non-luxury) smart phones, the iphone and nexus one both demonstrate that people need and want apps to enrich the experience.

Why bother having a camera and browser if you can't take that data (pictures, web pages, etc) and send it via email or twitter, or an edit it with an app?
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I read it as she was being sued for that amount, not that it was the annual fee. I'd guess the extra dollars would be administrative fees etc etc.
I think it also exludes psuedo-code scribbled on the backs of envelopes or napkins, code sketches sent via e-mail from the shop guru, anything appearing originally in Knuth, and your own boss's idiotic missives if they contain anything explcit.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I embellished too much by saying it _is_ e-ink
Does being poor change how much of a child's IQ is inherited?
How does hours per week top out at 37? 37? Thirty seven? Three-Seven? I can't really figure out how the average is that low except as an assumption that almost no one who works puts in overtime.

Now I feel like a chump for putting in so much overtime.
Since the apps were approved by the previous terms they still can be sold, i guess...
Now if the developer submits an update then it must comply with the new terms...
Any suggested vendors for charging users micropayments?
I want to charge users between 25¢-$1 for occasionally-used functions rather than a subscription fee for permanent access to those features. Any advice?
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"One example that came up during the roundtable was to give developers access to Google’s automated translation services, which can translate Email and webpages with a fair amount of accuracy almost instantly." and "another could focus on location/geo services."

Combine that with Google Goggles and what an explosively useful app that could be while traveling!
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This is not about calling Jobs out for not adding more features to the iPhone. This is akin to if I had said you couldn't use any other editor than TextMate to program in Rails. Or that you had to run it on OS X server. That would have been some lame, fascist shit.
In my opinion, not uncommon, they are behaving unethically

So let me see if I understand this: you are tired of people complaining and refusing to accept Apple's, by your admission, unethical behaviour?

Apple had no trouble empowering people to create, when it was other people's monopolies on the line (Remember "Rip, Mix Burn"?) But when people demand the right to hack, and contribute back to the "platform", Apple shuts the door on their face and you're irked that people complain?
There are lots of people hard at work on security, but does anyone really think about trustworthiness or authenticity w.r.t. websites? It seems to me that doing a quick google search for one of these 'elite' sites would turn up a few reviews and complaints of shady business practices, but has anyone put forth any thought on how to alert users that a website may be malicious, even though they aren't a source of malware?

...or is this something that we, as web designers/developers, expect users to be able to do on their own?
Bray has been an opponent of the extraneity and cruft that has accreted around XML and its satellite formats; for example, promoting his own XML-RPC over the competing (and considerably more complicated) SOAP.
I'm not an expert on this, but here is a link to one of the studies:

http://csp.org/experience/docs/hood_dimensions.html

If you went and searched Google Scholar or JSTOR I'm sure you could find the rest of the papers based on that. I'm pretty sure that Roland Griffiths also mentions it here:

http://premium.gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2009-01-11T2...
It doesn't. I was just curious why you thought the market was any different.

That said: the government does make an effort to prevent it, which I'm not sure can be said for the free market.
To answer your original question, look at Microsoft BizSpark which is a program from MS to encourage startups to use the .NET stack. Plenty of companies that have been successful with it.

But I wouldn't pick it unless there is a large pool of .net talent you can pick into - as startups I have worked with here in the US who have been .net based have found it hard to hire top-quality folk into a .net stack.
James Gosling leaves Oracle... what does that mean for Java?
https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devfps/agg...

With Amazon Payments you can either have your customers prepay a set amount and deduct from that as they go, or pay with credit, and you charge them when they reach a certain threshold.

That way you can avoid paying a transaction fee on each small purchase.
Internet security, like any kind of security can never be absolute (as is pointed out in a couple of comments).

So it's really a question of achieving whatever level of security is practicable in relation to its costs in time, money and energy and as for the rest...

Well read David Brin's novel "Earth" as well as his work on transparency.

The war against an Orwellian world may be better won by making EVERYBODY a potential 'big brother'... which gives no oppressor an edge.

Not sure how it'll work out, but I'd rather have everyone on a level playing field.

Should put quite a crimp in hypocrisy though... which is already happening.
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that's more or less the case for most dating sites
Ah, that's probably what the author meant to say. As written ("She was being sued by the dating website for not paying the fee of a bit more than $800."), it says the fee was $800.
Sounds much more hands-on than that to me, almost like a record label or book publisher.
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I've had good results with POF.

I signed up for a JDate profile (you gotta go after the low hanging fruit) and started getting messages from users with VERY suspiciously generated usernames. They fit the pattern of {phrase}{number}{letter}. I emailed their tech support and asked if I could sign up but then get a 30day refund if I "didn't meet anyone nice" but they don't have any refund policy.
Yes I've heard lots of people toe the Apple company line on simplifying before. But I thought we were talking about whether or not there is smartphone competition.

If you want to believe there is nothing that can truly compete with the iPhone because of its magical UI or lack of features or whatever I can't prevent that. Yes, it's true, the iPhone is the only iPhone in existence. But in that sense nothing can compete with Android either. Nobody else is producing an open-source smartphone os even close to its quality. If you get specific enough, everything is in a category of its own without any competition.

My original comment has nothing to do with whether Apple has produced the perfect mobile os by reducing and removing features. It has to do with the statement that Apple has no real competition.
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The speed of creating functionality in Rails makes the move to iPhone development feel like a real slap in the face. Anything that will speed things up for me is very welcome.