skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not poorly handled memory management, it's good handling. Poorly handled would be to give you an out of memory error, or make the other pages disappear completely as if you'd never opened them at all.
I think the title refers to cork's monopoly as a bottle seal rather than any particular producer's monopoly on cork.
We can be demanding, but we are also fiercely loyal. Firefly could've been a huge goldmine. It could've been even bigger than Buffy, becoming a franchise to rival Star Trek.
You could do CSS in a templating system, sure. First off, you'd want to cache it, but that's a solved problem. And you'd be well served to cook up some subtemplates/helpers/whatever that automated away some of the drudgery. Pretty soon you'd have more ideas on how to keep your CSS more maintainable, your subtemplates would become more general, etc.

At this point you have implemented most of Sass/Less/etc but you have a bunch of templating gunk, less documentation, and hundreds fewer eyeballs looking at the code. Or, you have not implemented most of Sass/Less/etc and you are still writing CSS like a chump.
There's also a PDF accompanying the article, with pictures of some of the chairs:

http://images.businessweek.com/mz/10/19/0509_chairs.pdf

Rant (stop reading if you're not interested): Posting it here, since we're all so obsessed with printer friendly versions of articles, because we can't stand clicking to view the second half of an article. Unfortunately, the printer friendly version doesn't contain links like this one.
I would have to disagree. My Droid also has 256 mb of memory, and I can have more pages open at once without it having to flush pages. This is still true with Pandora running in the background.

Overall I'm a fan of the iPad, it just falls short in this area.
I got kicked off. I was posting too many links. :-)
Is this because the iPhone OS doesn't use paging? It seems like this could be handled from the software side of things: the HD is solid state, and though sacrificing a second of time to switch to a web page that's been cached in the HD isn't Apple-gorgeous it's certainly faster and nicer to see than a blank white page and a twirling loading symbol.
A multi-company reward card exists in the UK:

http://www.nectar.com/collect-online/retailers-a-z.points
Microsoft in hot water over China factory conditions
This guy sounds so terrified of the inevitable
We can stop using it, and create or support alternatives.

We're used to the cost of a service being its monetary price, or more recently, the demands it makes on our attention. Perhaps a new type of model is being developed in which the price of a service we desire is not in the form of money or attention, but our data. And in this case the way a company uses our data is a real "cost", rather than a mutually beneficial outcome.

I think that threatening to withdraw and withdrawing payment, whether monetary or otherwise, will prove to be a significant balance on the actions of companies. If the changes are significantly detrimental, consumers will take the actions they consider necessary to address those concerns.
How Wavee Makes Money: The Math Behind The Startup
NYC Tunnel #3 - 60 miles long, $6B, 50 years
Talk about link bait.

Guy wants shiny toy, cleans up his act, thanks shiny toy.

No, the Mac Mini did definitely not save his life. Who knows what would have happened otherwise, he could have spent his last $ on a lottery ticket in that alternative universe and won the lottery.
>The categorized, hierarchical menus that have been around forever are really unhelpful.

Call me old-fashioned but I liked this way better. Search-based interfaces don't help when you know what you want to do but don't know what applications are available to do it. On Ubuntu for people coming from other OS's, this is probably a very common experience (e.g., "I want to listen to music, what media programs are on this OS?"). I like being able to get on an Ubuntu box and riffle through the hierarchical application menu to see what's installed and what I might need to add for my own use. The fact that the hierarchy is well-integrated with the package manager makes it all the more worthwhile.

By moving away from this format in e.g. Mac OS X, I have a hard time keeping track of what applications I have installed without riffling through my entire Applications folder from time to time. Unless you put your Applications folder as a stack on your dock (which is not the default), I have no idea how typical users on Mac OS X remember and launch apps that aren't pinned to their docks.
>There won’t be any Googles or Twitters showing up first as an iPhone app.

That is so, so wrong. The ubiquity of smart phones means that a large portion of people have a networked, location-aware computing device with them at all times. If you can't think of a game changing app with that (especially adding background processes), then you aren't trying

Granted, most developers are just trying to turn a quick buck with a minimum viable product in the app store. Short-term utility maximization says that is what they should build. But there is room for ambitious projects that will change the way we live. All it takes is a developer with an idea and the guts to go big.
What are the chances of that story being told twice within 48 hours:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311428
After estimating the height I needed to raise my desk, I bought some cinder blocks and pavers from Home Depot for about $10 and just put them under my desk legs. I used some old books to prop up my monitors, but blocks of printer paper work well too.

An anti-fatigue mat is an excellent investment, but even with that be prepared for a few weeks of achy feet/legs. You get used to it eventually, but man, it feels nice to crash on the couch in the evening.
Pretty evil. I wouldn't be too surprised if they did, but that's a shitstorm waiting to happen, and Linkedin is still trying to uphold their 'professional' image.

Personally I don't have my Gmail address as my contact email... but I doubt many people own their TLDs with corresponding mailboxes.
I agree, a move like this is going to be seen as insulting to many fans. Perhaps not older fans, but especially younger fans. It's a bad idea to alienate your younger demographic before they move into your key demographic. Sure the 18+ might stick around, but the 15-17 year olds who live in a very clique orientated world are much more likely to leave and never return.
1.5 months ago I got rid of my chair and made my desk work at standing level. I love it. My body feels better. I can't ever foresee myself going back. I was originally going to buy a good chair but I didn't see the point when it seemed that standing would be better, cheaper, and allow me to be more flexible with my space.
It's just the problem with the interface design paradigm that says a user should be able to do anything immediately without instruction. If you want to cache, you need to have an understanding of how the Internet works, so it's "too hard" for "most people" to understand or care about.
Do you personally have a card? And if so, does it help?
What you say is true, but it's splitting hairs really. The fact is that unless actively deleted, every mac has video editing software installed from the day it was delivered. Still, I have to concede that although it is present, it was not actually shipped with the OS.

It's a pretty lame boast that has to be laden with so many caveats, though.
Definite upvote. That essay is insanely fascinating; I tend to re-read it every few months.
I'm actually happy then: I hate that they showed things I might want to watch on Friday night.
You're missing my point: the OS should be able to cache the (up to n) pages that haven't been explicitly closed by the user in the HD, and when there's a page fault in main memory when a user tries to access the ones the 256MB can hold, the OS should go to the disk and grab that page, and swap out another page that's currently in RAM with the requested page.

Bam, no re-downloading the page. Should be over in under a second (depending on the memory used in the iPad.)
I wonder if you could successfully apply an onion routing protocol to the distribution of physical objects, with an economy built-in around risk tolerance. Mundane shipping could then be subsidized by the more expensive contraband.

Distance yourself by connecting client & courier directly with a distributed P2P app (like Tor), and sell the authenticity and financial escrow services. Keep no knowledge or record of the actual transactions.
True, we can stop using it.

However, I think this idea presents a false dichotomy. We need other options which don't involve either remaining compliant or quitting.

While we're told we have freedom, because we can exit - we end up investing so much in a service, that quitting becomes very 'expensive' (in terms of human cost). Quitting becomes a unrealistic option for most.

I think the same can be said for Apple's POV re. the iPhone and competition. They like to say that users are free - and that if they're not happy with the way they do business (or change their terms) then they can go elsewhere.

In reality, users have spent a large amount money on their hardware - and are usually locked into 18-24 month phone contracts. The arguments are disingenuous.
It's more like

1) Move to Norway
2) Commit a crime
3) Get deported
I love it. I just made a few, and tbh there's some pretty funny stuff on there!

What did you build this in btw?
Google's Dashboard seems like a step in the right direction. Maybe not much more than that, but it's better than nothing.
NY Gaming Meetup: A Study of Iteration and Hockey Sticks
If you're looking for startup ideas this might help
The difficulty with this (and any other sites it resembles - quibids, for example) is that there is absolutely no good reason to believe that there aren't bots behind the scenes driving up the bids.

As an exercise in curiosity one day I watched a few auctions on quibids for about 45 minutes - with a number of them, immediately after a bid was placed by what may have been a "real" user, nearly instantly another user - always the same one - placed another bid.

After a time watching this, I began counting the number of bids placed (at 60 cents per bid, which is quibids rate), the questionable bidder placed over 300 bids in the span of 45 minutes - each time in immediate response to someone else's bid.

The item in question was a $100 gift card from Target. At 300 bids (60 cents each), that was $180.00 - grossly in excess of the value of the card itself.

Yes, it could be claimed that this was just a very dumb bidder, but the speed and rate at which they were entering bids was nearly unbelievable.

The auction ended at $15.40. At one cent increments, that was 1540 bids - at 60 cents each. Quibids made 924 + 15.40 - $100 for that card. Sick.
Hell, it still could. It's not like Fox is ever going to use it.
What Makes Groupon Tick
In essence a sniper auction where only one person who paid to bid actually gets the item. Is this still legal?
I have a Lenovo T61. There is no suspend option in the power management menu, but from the command line, pm-suspend-hibernate seems to do the right thing.
Instapaper solves your reading later problem nicely. I'd give it a try - a simple bookmarklet and you can read whenever, wherever you want.
Bilförsäkring Billigast
So your trying to say quality scifi is an unsustainable business model?
That the iPad got the same amount of RAM as the existing iPhone defintely seems weak.
Rentzsch (developer of Click To Flash) posted his thoughts on this a bit ago. http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/382362022/persistent-mobiles...

I agree it is very frustrating though. Hopefully it will be addressed in the next update.
I would be interested to know if sports like cycling also have some kind of the negative health impact caused by the long periods of "sitting down".
This type of auction model is really just a brilliant scam. It's 100 people subsidizing the cost of the item for one person. So, one person gets a great deal, 100 people throw their money away, and Wavee brings in profits that may be even greater than selling the item at MSRP.
I agree; I'd rather look for a task than have to search for an application by name. Of course, there's no reason it couldn't be hierarchical and have a search box.
Thinking about potential situations which might involve FB users showing discontent, brings striking factory workers to mind.

I suppose when we use FB - we are actually participating in a kind of factory, so perhaps the analogy is apt.
That's why Hulu is wonderful! Sure half the time the shows are on a week delay, but you get through that week of no TV and then you've got it for one week longer at the end of the season :)
Emergency Response 2.0 : Solutions to Respond to Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
I love the Pro version, well worth the price. But if you need convincing there is a free version too. I can't imagine not having it after using it for the last few months. I actually read lots of long articles I would typically skim to save time.
Asteroid ice hints at rocky start to life on Earth
I remember SpikeTV catering to that ground, though I don't have traditional TV or cable anymore, so I don't know whether they still do.
Perhaps greater than you'd expect, if lsb had read the other post.
Original paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/full/nature0...
On a side note: The author makes the assertion that anyone can be tossed an iPad and figure out the interface on their own... I challenge that assertion. I've taken a few relatives through the process of getting iPhones up and running, and I would claim that the interface is more difficult than the standard desktop metaphor.

At some point an article floated through here suggesting that the iPhone interface isn't simple. Rather, the author argued, it's the fact that it's very fun to use that contributes to its success.

I can't find the article right now, but I do agree with the author. The iPhone/iPad lacks affordances and all sorts of cues about what the hell you're supposed to DO with the thing. Again, my experience is that folks find it incredibly unintuitive (although they enjoyed it immensely when they 'got it').

I recognize my sample size is extremely small. However these constant assertions that Apple has managed to create an instantly usable and discoverable user experience are based on even more tenuous science. Does anyone have any hard data or usability testing they'd like to share? :)
Education 2.0: The Importance of Ownership
There is no reason to think that the bots are from the site itself (though, no reason to think they are not, either). It seems to me that it would be almost trivial to bot this up...but then you have a bot war trying to get the last possible profitable bid -- or at least one that the bot programmer is comfortable with.
The biggest companies in the video encoding industry, the ones with vast expertise in video patents, have a significant financial interest in making sure that no one else has a patent claim on their cash cow.

It's a lot like buying mob protection.
I was really hoping to see more about the legal applications of BitTorrent, all that pirating information is old (probably inaccurate) and in my opinion not interesting.

A history of BitTorrent should involve how it was developed, how it has changed since it's release and what kind of application it sees, not only the pirating (and WoW) application.
The worst part is the constant refresh on Back and Forward buttons.
I'm really hoping there is a fix for this in 4.0. After all, 4.0 does allow apps to 'state save' - I can't imagine a cached webpage would use much more ram than a cached app.

The Safari refresh thing has always bugged me on my iPhone, but I think it's slightly more acceptable since I have an always-on connection and just have to wait 10 seconds for a page to reload.

Perhaps Apple's way of getting me to cough up the extra $130 for the 3G...
Bah, there's no need to use cork to seal wine anyway. A few years ago the entire Australian wine industry moved en masse to screw-top bottles and you know what? It's better. Sure, it felt a bit cheap at first, but there's no spoilage, you don't need a corkscrew, and the bottle is easily resealable. Give me a screw top any day. We don't use cork to seal anything else, and for good reason; it's an antiquated, inferior option which exists now only for marketing purposes.
Apple is a big company and Steve Jobs is the CEO and he is doing this - no need to imagine. And Apple seem to be doing ok with it, particularly compared to the last time they didn't have him as the boss.
We tried out Kohana, a php framework based off of CodeIgniter. Worked like a charm, really fast dev time.
I just can't get over the casting for Universe. It's a cross between a CW soap and the CSI clone of the week.
Pitting the Web's Users Against Its Gatekeepers
This is FUD. The multitasking to be introduced in the next iteration of the ipad OS will almost certainly allow for the presence of tabs. I agree that right now it's somewhat annoying to have tabs lose state once and a while when I'm browsing, but since I only use my ipad at home where I have a persistent and fast wifi connection it's not an issue to wait a second for the page to reload.

The author gushes about how awesome it is to browse the web on the ipad and then pigeonholes it because he couldn't recall a tab while he was away from an Internet connection, a closet case if there ever was one. It seems self defeating to focus on such a minor annoyance. This thing is an amazing piece of hardware, and no it's not perfect.
I do, and writing experience, and they didn't.
"AOL, a web portal which was recently spun off from Time Warner, a media giant"

Quite the grasp of history there...
Markup and Gusto: Early previews of Code Editors for the iPad
If you are looking for startup ideas, start talking to customers, basically.
This came up on HN a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585693 .

The short answer: no. Chairs appear to be one of these products in which you get what you pay for.
"Also the chair came with a 12 year warranty. A couple months ago the pneumatic cylinder went out. I called a local Aeron deal and since I bought the chair from a authorized dealer, they sent somebody to my house and fixed it for free."

The seat pan on my Dad's chair (which he bought around 1997) broke a couple of times, at which point they simply replaced the entire chair.

He's been using it without complaint ever since.
Science of Simplicity
Here are the two paragraphs that jumped out at me:

I was hiking with my son yesterday. It was a long hike for a boy his age and he asked me, “Dad, do your feet hurt?” I turned my head as we walked and said, “Yeah. They hurt. But not all hurting is bad and you wanted to get to the top of the hill. Do you want to stop?” He thought about it for a long while, ten, maybe twenty steps and said, “no, but my feet hurt too. I’ll be glad when we get to the top.” Ed 2.0 won’t make our feet not hurt. We’ll just be hiking to more wonderous places.

and...

Ed 2.0 is about encouraging ownership - genuine heartfelt ownership of one’s own educational destiny. The institutions will transform faster than we can keep pace. Between the cracks of our existing educational infrastructure will grow varied species of educational delivery the likes of which we have never seen and cannot possibly forecast. What our students will need is a love of learning but we should not mistake this for an easy love affair. A love of learning is a hard relationship. Learning hurts sometimes. Learning is scary most of the time. It’s impact is all-too-often proportional to its agony. As Benjamin Franklin described it, “Those things that hurt, instruct.”

I'm spending my professional life teaching business to adult learners. There seems to be a very significant and visible difference between people who understand that learning is sometimes difficult (but that's okay), and people who believe that everything should be easy or simple. The former inevitably grow, and the latter give up or stagnate.

I'm also competing, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, with MBA programs. Compared with self-education, many of my readers consider MBA programs a form of "easy mode" as if it's a good thing - they know they probably won't learn anything practical, but the structure is handed to them, but at least they'll "complete" it and get a sheepskin at the end. Some choose the safe, predictable path instead of taking ownership for their own learning - even if it's more expensive and less valuable. (Most individuals who take ownership for their own learning in MBA programs are the people who don't need them in the first place.)

I really wonder if "ownership" can be taught. If so, I'd like to teach it.
Idea: ProxyPC: A seamless integration between Tablets and PCs
That graph amuses me. Notice the benefit to users continues to climb, even if the benefit to "facebook and other companies" happens to climb faster. So even though it benefits you more and more, you will deny yourself that benefit because it happens to help facebook too?

Of course, it's just a made-up graph, and his very first sentence implies the line is really trending downward in his opinion, but I'm always intrigued when an instance of the Ultimatum Game happens in real life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
This isn't the most well thought out post. I can admit that having only 9 open tabs is annoying and it uses an arbitrary method of closing previously opened tabs (or lets call them new windows, because they're not exactly tabs). But I guess this is something we'll just have to live with.

Instapaper is an app that's about $5. It solves all my offline reading needs for me. I've never looked back since.
The iPad OS is perfectly capable of multitasking since version 1.0, this is just not exposed to the user, so there are no current technical limitations related to multitasking in order to implement tabs in Safari.
But I wasn't saying it was risk free, just that it isn't fair to blame LSD for "damaging the mind" when the mind may already be damaged.
Star Wars – The Force Unleashed 2: New facts on action plus scope
I remember that the iPod's dirty secret was that you had to pay big money for a battery replacement since it wasn't user serviceable. Other dirty secrets for popular consumer products include things like child labour being used to build sneakers or unsafe factory/dormitory combinations that kill hundreds of people when the factories catch fire.

I get the sense that the phrase "dirty secret" is being watered down in the same sense that the word "evil" is being watered down to simply mean "something I disagree with."
Well yeah, I mean you don't necessarily have customers per se but get out and talk to people with real problems.

People who have money at stake in some way is probably best.

My 2 cents anyway.
I think most people would like to see page/tab management and caching improved in mobile Safari. It's hardly a "dirty secret". Depite that, I still love browsing the web on the iPad. It's like you're flying over your web pages.
It passes the Golden Rule test. :)
Also I like the idea of non-glamorous businesses. There is an English saying "Where there's muck there's brass".
Look for Canon 5D Mark II, it uses h264 and is used for commercial film production
I prefer something like Markdown, which is:

a) Dead-easy to write;

b) Dead-easy to read; and

c) Dead-easy to 'compile' into HTML whenever you're ready (e.g. at runtime).
Really great explanation of the code... almost made me get out my linear algebra textbook.

But seriously, anyone who actually juggles could tell you that the person you rendered isn't doing it right. The balls should cross in an X pattern, not go around in a circle.