skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of the comments are missing the point that this isn't about the technology. It is about telling the user where they can and cannot go

Bingo!

It's like if an Italian suite maker somehow made it impossible for you to eat a hot dog while wearing the suite, because of the increased risk of getting mustard on the suite, thus ruining the experience of wearing the perfect suite. Look, I paid for the suite, I know that eating some foods will increase the probability that the suite will be soiled, and, I want to be allowed to make the decision whether or not to take that risk.
I am sure you're right, but I believe you're not taking the "learning how a mouse and keyboard works, what the difference between clicking and double-clicking is" into consideration, as most people have used computers enough to already know that. Give people the phone and help them with the basic gestures, and I'm sure they'll give someone who's never used a mouse/keyboard combo a run for their money.

I don't think the basic gain is that you don't have to learn anything to use the device, just that once you get the hang of the gestures, stuff works fairly intuitively.

I do believe, however, that once I show someone how to do a three-part call one time, they'll remember it the next time around... Which is the most important part. It's frustrating having to read the manual several times, just because the task you're trying to achieve just doesn't make sense.
Here's my old setup: http://jseliger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/workspace1.jpg

and my new one:

http://jseliger.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/imac_rig_2_big.j...
I worked on a startup in this space for about 6 months last year which might explain if my answer is a little cynical.

It's great that you've been able to build a business providing web services for NPO's. It can be a very rewarding experience.

From my time spent in the space I've found that few of the small to medium NPO's (which we call not-for-profits or NFP's in Australia)I've found that there is a heavy cost in terms of education to demonstrate the benefits of social media activities. Many times the benefits are medium to long term whereas these organisations need solutions which work a little faster than that in order to justify the expense to their boards.

It may be an obvious thing to say but I would be focusing on presenting solutions with a clear ROI for both yourselves and the non-profit.

After we shut up our startup I've since gone into the for-profit online marketing space. The returns are a lot greater and there are a lot more companies willing to spend money to test new ideas. I hope to come back to the non-profit space one day, but probably not until I've got some clout to make real change (ie networks or capital).
I'm pretty convinced MySpace will have a non-trivial comeback. They've made exceptional non-technical hiring decisions of late (Tony Adam, Sean Percival, etc.) and if they have any technical capabilities left, they're going to be OK.
Gnome: middle click a window's Maximize button (usually a square) will maximize in the vertical direction only. Right click it and it maxes in the horizontal direction.
Seattle could really use one of those Arizona-style harassment laws to keep Californian prop-13 refugees out.
Also, the reason some advertisers don't have success on the network is because they're not using Facebook ads correctly. This is really an education problem on our part. Facebook excels at "brand advertising" while Google excels at converting leads into sales.

Think infomercial ad vs superbowl ad. Pepsi is not trying to sell you a soda during the superbowl. They want to sell you on a lifestyle choice: the idea that you should be drinking Pepsi instead of Coke.

Those are the kind of ads that work well on Facebook.
Good: http://jseliger.com/2009/07/20/kinesis-advantage/ .
I've tried it a few times out of necessity in robotics pits ( http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/ ). I've always found it enjoyable (except for the noise) , but I was normally doing quick changes. I think my max time was an hour and I didn't feel any noticeable pain/discomfort.
When you first switched to a vertical orientation on your screens, did it take long to get used to? I loathe line-wrapping in my IDE, so I would imagine I'd prefer wider over taller, but then I loathe scrolling almost as much so maybe I'll have to try it someday. :)
According to insidefacebook.com the percentage of users under 25 years old is 39% (http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/04/02/facebook%E2%80%99s-...) and, judging by their numbers from previous months, falling.

Also, your conception of "real users" sure sounds an awful lot like a minority group of users who use it heavily.
Bumptop on an Android tablet would be sweet.
I don't think the iPad browser experience is going for the "leaning forward" kind of browsing. It's going for the "leaning back" approach to browsing you do while lounging in the couch. The tabs aren't as important there, although I would of course not mind if the leaning forward part of the equation worked better, too.

Then again, it's version 1.0 of the iPhone OS for iPad, and considering the strides of iPhone OS for the iPhone, I am sure we have plenty of UX refinements to look forward to.
I use paper and pen. This is my home office so it's just me.
Are Google Brand Links making it tougher for your online business to compete?
I would suggest that you build up a 'professional' social network around you. In Germany http://xing.com is very popular among business people. I do not know enough about other social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn to recommend something to you, but my point is: I do not get my contracts from 'project websites'. Since many years nearly all contracts are the result of recommendations of former clients or people that do what I do.
To get your first gig, I would suggest that you ask everybody you know, whether they could use your service, or know somebody who might be interested.

Best luck and have fun.
Are we talking about Flash crashing the browser or the OS? I took the Adobe CEO's comments to mean the latter especially since that was the general impression I'd gotten up to then.
Check out this accidental discovery, note how the graphs remain nearly parallel over years (!)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=violent+crime+in+seattl...

Weird coincidence?
I'm a fan of all these white desks I've been seeing. I like the shiny sheen on this one, it kind of reminds me of Milk (the desk, not the excretion).
Yeah, not sure which you were referring to, but it should both factor in the different tax rates in the different states/cities and the fact that when you're at that lower equivalent salary (the 90k instead of the 120k), you're paying a lower effective tax rate because a higher % of your income is in the lower brackets.
I unfortunately don't think so.

They have been stuck with a low-end image for a very long time and will not be able to take back the lost momentum from Facebook. Add this to the fact that it has been bought out by Murdock, which means there is very little incentive money-wise for those employees to put in the same amount of effort that went into pre-sale Myspace and Facebook.
Brand advertising efficacy is notoriously hard to measure. Where does the data come from to support the notion that FB excels at it?
Yeah, there may be ways to overcome RAM constraints but iPhone OS represents opinionated computing that apparently values single-tasking on the part of humans.

Of course, it will value human single-tasking until it no longer does, at which point Apple will go to great lengths to show how many more tabs iPhone OS can keep open than other mobile OSes.
Not sure about that myself. I think over time as any class of service matures and becomes widely used the waining fad effect becomes longer. Early social networking sites were small and died off easily. Myspace was larger and is dying a slow death (still a top 20 site) Facebook is even larger and still growing. I do think going forward people will interact with it less directly. Going to Facebook.com may be old fashion in 5 years but I suspect they'll still be the clogs behind the scene making the machine work.
I'd like to put in a good word for Portland (no sales tax, great food):

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+franc...
It doesn't actually seem to take the salary you put in into account at all: it gives the same 24% cheaper for $30,000 salary and $120,000 salary, even though the ratios of expenses shouldn't be the same for those two cases. At the very least, the weightings should change: someone who makes $20,000 is probably spending more than 12% on groceries, while someone who makes $10m is probably not spending 12% on groceries (or 10% on utilities). And the ratio of housing prices isn't constant across all types of housing, either.
No, you're right—arguments are always evaluated unless they're blocks in the full Smalltalk design we have today. However, like I said, this is a codified design pattern—the language could get away without doing it while still retaining the "core Smalltalk conceit" of everything being a message sent to an object. This is basically what the io language does—it's basically a Smalltalk at its core, but with less cruft.
OK, Wolfram Alpha kicks ass.

Here's the most interesting part:

| San Francisco, California | Seattle, Washington
total sales tax rate | 9.5% | 9.5%

When people from California tell me it must be nice to live in a state like Washington, that doesn't have a state income tax, I like to torture them by pointing out that the lack of a state income tax is made up for by a high sales tax. Then they ask what the sales tax is, and I tell them.
Stephen Hawking - How to Build a Time Machine
The vast majority of the difference in that particular comparison is housing- which must apply to buying houses, because comparing rents certainly doesn't give 45% difference. So... this data is meaningless unless you own your house here and plan on buying there, from what I can tell, which probably excludes most of us.

Edit: OK, I'm finding some cheaper rents, but I think my main analysis stands.
A shorter move: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+fra...
Well, yeah, but you're not allowed to exploit this turing equivalence.
Just to be snide: there are plenty of VNC clients for the iPhone OS, which let you view the screen of a full-powered computer, and click and type into it. This would be the same workaround you'd use if you had to run, say, an industrial control system on your iPad. It's also a pretty good idea, UI-wise: since it overlays the mouse metaphor onto your touchpad, the resulting Flash doesn't require adaptation to be used.
Crime is not zero sum.
I'm running OSX, so many of the advantages don't really work for me.

* Socks on Mac is a tickbox which is pretty much system-wide. I can turn on or off in two clicks anywhere in my system. UNIX socket programming isn't wrapped, so curl and wget don't follow the rules, but all mac apps do. If that wasn't enough, Socks rules are both per-host and per-subnet configurable.

* I've never done UDP over ssh -D, but I do use ssh for the majority of my traffic and haven't had any trouble.

That said, this does look useful for those rare cases when I can't muck about with the GatewayPorts sshd config on a system. That's a really rare case though, as typically I will just pay Amazon $.08/hr to bring up something with root access.
Apple, Flash, and The Truth
Facebook users will be more open to Facebook app ads.
Compiler theory, quantum physics and Fermat’s theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_State...

"At 8.25%, California has the highest state sales tax, which can total up to 10.75% with local sales tax included."

"Washington has a 6.5% statewide sales tax."

What am I missing???
Oh man, I didn't wanna say it before, but like, I have the same freaking idea. I mean the webapp thing... I think we should totally team up.
Apple vs Adobe - Post your opinion
Hi, I'm from 1971. Is "faster, smaller, cheaper" really all we're going to accomplish in hardware architecture in the next forty years? We're pretty bored with the Von Neumann architecture and can't imagine it lasting much longer.

P.S. I told Vint Cerf about Facebook and he drilled a hole in his skull to "let the evil out." Hope that doesn't screw anything up for you guys. Ciao!
did everyone just miss the point where Jobs said that Apple wanted to be able to be free to release new hardware features and not have to wait for some 3rd party to support development for them?
Tell HN: Joe Hewitt is at it again
There's also the fact that Washington has no state income tax; that's 10% in Seattle's favor that isn't even accounted for (I looked up ACCRA cost of living indices and they are after-tax).
Hmmm, there are issues. I messed up the captcha, got the captcha error page, clicked the inviting link there, which brought me back to my comment editing box, but now there's no captcha, just a submit button. Of course clicking the button gives me the same captcha error page.

Here's my attempted comment:
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"So now whenever I read anything involving research and walking outside, I get to "climate change" at some point in the article. I'm willing to bet a huge number of news stories, papers and research reports will continue mention "climate change". After all, it's so poorly defined it works for anything. Simply drop it in there towards the end with the rest of the factors."

Also, be sure to include favorable comments from Researcher X, who "was not part of the study," to shore up credibility.

Wave comment: I didn't see any "write your comment in the box" box the first time through. Then I clicked on this article's link that was in the wave area, and got stuck on a redirection page. I clicked the article link there, which brought me back here, and now I'm typing in the "write your comment in the box" box. Maybe it was random cosmic rays.

Cool idea though.
A post by Ben Ward seems to have kicked off this round:

http://benward.me/blog/understand-the-web

The Ward post is up on HN, but so far without much discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312650
IMHO, this fits nicely under Eric Schmidt's philosophy that "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." After all, it's the morally questionable act of profiting from someone's mistake that's the ultimate cause of his troubles.
All 'cars' are compromises. Any low-riding sports car would be damaged by riding on a rutted road, that's the tradeoff inherent in purchasing one.

Lotus (say) isn't saying you can't drive here or there, they just build cars that happen not to be suitable for a given activity. A passable analogy since car manufacturers have far less ongoing control might be Lotus voiding the warranty for your Elise if you took it on a rough track.

In any case, if that choice is not one you're comfortable with don't buy $PRODUCT, problem solved.
If the iCar is truly revolutionary (for instance, it can guarantee you will NEVER get into a fatal car accident) then I'd say the "full road" is a small sacrifice.

People who want the full road can still buy traditional cars, right?

Vote with your dollar.
King County also levies a sales tax.
For desktops/offices:
http://www.deskography.org/
http://wherewedowhatwedo.com/
Seems reasonably prevalent in Australia and the UK.
And a great music scene...
Or smoking cough.
Also note that many "limitations" of the web should instead be viewed as constraints.

The right constraints are a good thing, because they allow you to sacrifice flexibility in exchange for useful guarantees. In programming languages, constraints like "no shared mutable state" offer guarantees like referential transparency and thread safety. In user interface design, constraints can offer consistency and interoperability. In network architecture, constraints like "no connection state" offer guarantees that benefit horizontal scalability.
Ergonomic chair recommendations for daily use with a computer?
I am trying to decide between the Swopper and a variety of Hag models (Capisco, Futu, H04, ...).
And funny enough, I don't miss not having a modem on my macbook, not in the least. I also have a thinkpad which I never use the modem either, and my now long in the tooth Palm TX which doesn't have one (yeah, its a PDA, so we normally don't expect it to have one, but then why do we expect a notepbook to have a modem, because they have? That is the same argument as "It was good enough for my daddy so it is good enough for me."

And as another poster wrote, we can always vote with our dollars.
Yeah I think using Wave as a blog commenting tool could be the killer app for wave. Lots of bugs left to work out, though.

Thanks for the feedback. Need to tweak some more :)

EDIT: One of the interesting features of Wave is that, as people show up and comment, their icons appear at the top of the wave. Also you can get all the updates to your conversations right in your wave inbox.
If you are asking about this because you are concerned about processor load affecting the number of clients that can connect, in Apache 2.2 the amount of memory and the Apache settings will have some bearing on this also.

For instance, the Apache MaxClients setting formula many follow is, MaxClients = Total RAM dedicated to the web server / Max child process size.

Child process size for serving static file is about 2-3M. For dynamic content such as PHP, it may be around 15M. More memory = more connections.

Apache server performance can be improved by adding additional hardware resources such as RAM, faster CPU etc. but you might be able to achieve the same results with some simple custom Apache configurations on your current setup.

Here is a link for Apache 2.2.3 if you are interested:
http://cloudservers.rackspacecloud.com/index.php/Configuring...
So yesterday I said, "who cares" about these articles. But today, I deleted my account.

The main reason is that I don't use it, and people that friend me might feel bad because I never reply. Now that won't be a problem -- I won't even exist there. Follow me on Twitter instead.
Hi I'm that intern.

No lies involved. We got an email at Wired about the phone (pre-Gizmodo story) and ignored it. After the story we came back to the email, I looked it up on Google, found his real name associated to a post on a forum, searched it on Facebook and, for some very odd reason, he accepted a friends request from me.

I guess the lesson here is not to talk (or accept friends requests) from strangers.
Eh, people eat Bhut Jolokia peppers all the time on dares, I haven't heard of anyone dying from it. I spent 30 seconds googling and couldn't find any instances of anyone dying from hot sauce, save one fellow who died after a hot-sauce eating dare; but the article doesn't say what the cause of death was.

Anyways, it might not be a bad idea for some viral videos assuming the OP spends more than 30 seconds researching, involves a lawyer, draws up liability waivers, etc...
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It's an Ikea Bestå Burs. The only disadvantage is that it is not height-adjustable, and it needs a mousepad. (Actually, I like the mousepad, but I did feel strange buying one from Amazon. I was worried that they would throw in some five-and-a-quarter inch floppies, too.)

But otherwise, the long and narrow form factor keeps my room nice and open, but gives me enough room to use 2 computers at once. This is also my first desk with drawers, which keeps all the clutter out of sight. Recommended.
Maybe, maybe not. People may have so much data invested in Facebook, like photos, friends, that it is hard to move away. With the integration we see now, on mobile phones, facebook may be the one way we end up maintaining our contacts list.

When you get a new phone, put in your facebook details, it will pull down all the info you need to phone your friends, email, etc.

You get access to all your photos, games, etc...

Maybe even your web bookmarks with the latest facebook effort.

You no longer need an email address, you just use facebook - this cuts out so much spam.

Facebook could become the internet for a lot of people.
I think it's the most useful thing that I've seen WA do so far. I just wish it worked for Canadian cities.
Turing equivalence guarantees there's a way to write a program in some other language that produces exactly the same results as a program in ObjC. This deep compatibility made it feasible for the industry to adopt better and better languages. But now Apple wants to put a stop to it and enshrine a few decrepit languages with flaws most of us escaped a decade ago.

(As I understand it, JavaScript doesn't belong on the list. It's permitted, but some of the Cocoa Touch API isn't accessible, so it's not really a substitute for the others.)
I know, it is almost as if we are trying to express out opinions on different things. Weird, isn't it.
I find the other extreme of this satire -- the idea that every car would have to be as fully capable as a military grade Hummer, to be far more off putting. The market will decide what it wants. Hopefully that includes a wide variety of options.
Fun conversion, convert carrots / Hr to Horsepower:#

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=((1+carrot+calories+in+...)
The brain is fueled by glucose, so probably not.
Haskell and the Software Design Process
Does it only work for your terminal windows or can you tile any window? Any details on how you set it up, I can't seem to find a lot of info about it.
when a tooth is lost, what gets put in its place

Gold or ceramic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_bridge
Um, for some values of "parallel."
I once worked for a product company that started out charging a lot for its product. They began to struggle finding new customers for their product because it cost so much. I said, "Why can't you just decrease the price?"

The reason was because they didn't want to anger their existing customer base who had already paid a lot.
Welcome to the Future - A Student's perspective on a month of iPad usage
If your site is slow look at the logs and see if your server is paging memory.

Also you might want to configure your Apache server for maximimum performance.

Here is a link about optimizing Apache 2.2.3 if that helps:
http://cloudservers.rackspacecloud.com/index.php/Configuring...
Nice! I'm moving to New Zealand in about six months.
I would expect the crime levels to sort of coincide over the nation. In fact, they don't: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=violent+crime+in+seattl... but it does seem that they do between these two cities. It is weird.

Here's something else:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=violent+crime+in+washin...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=violent+crime+in+washin...

Hypothesis: the country at large has a crime rate. In addition there is a magic variable which only affects cities, but affects all cities:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=violent+crime+in+san+fr...
Ok, let's say they track each other.
This kind of attitude inevitably leads someone to cynicism and misanthropy: the Milgram experiment suggests that nearly every human being is worthy of moral condemnation under your reasoning, or would be if given nothing more than explicit instructions from an obvious authority figure to do something wrong.
http://twitter.com/hettinga/status/13275902872

Inside, outside, and the, heh... view.

Actually, my passport stamp says "employment prohibited", and I'm certainly not earning any money, so "workspace" may not be the proper word to use...
Since we don't know what the price is, Google might have paid a sum for the product that is simply less than it would cost them to rebuild it themselves. Plus, they get the press for the acquisition and a talented, happy new member of the team.

If it would take them 3 engineers and a year to build bumptop and they paid $200,000 for it, then everyone wins.
Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships
Here's mine:

http://i40.tinypic.com/15yum0x.jpg