skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why not using GoodReader? http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html

I can easily justify myself to pay 99cents to save myself hassles on converting pdf files into ePub files.
Nope, I think the second design looks better as well.

The black and white header bar is hard to read, and the dark black color doesn't match anything else on the page, making it seem out of place. The light blue bar works much better.

The Twitter Buzz column also looks out of place since it doesn't match the other two columns.

The only drawback I see in the second design is with the font selection and text alignment.

I also find the workflow demonstrated by the author to be somewhat bizarre. Shouldn't you be working much more closely with the client, sending them various iterations and getting feedback?

This would have allowed the designer to find out what the web app interface looked like and whether the client even wanted a Twitter widget.
Well, with CouchDB, you have to pre-define all of your queries with "views". And the first time you call a view, it has to run your mapping function against -every- document in the database, which takes a ton of time.
Proof that Telstra Bigpond is Throttling Youtube Bandwidth in Australia (video)
I did hang-gliding and spent a year building wooden boats. It's interesting how doing a deep dive into something totally different helps giving perspective on things.
Very fascinating. I had never heard of Capital Factory. Since it is based in my hometown of Austin, TX, I may have to check it out, if I can get my startup in a competitive state by next years application deadline.
With sports, people at least have a chance of being on the winning side...

...cheering for the Cubs. You know you're never going to win

What you seem to be saying is that the Cubs aren't proper sports players... not that I disagree...
Redcar 0.3.5 is out
Trees can be responsibly planted and responsibly harvested, like any other plant. My understanding is that the majority of modern logging consists of harvesting trees that were planted specifically to be harvested later.
How many processes do you currently have running as you browse this?

Lots, but my CPU is over 95% idle so I don't quite see where the huge performance increase is going to come from. It just seems like you could get almost all the alleged benefits of Chrome OS with a simple shell for Windows or Linux that runs the browser and nothing else on login.
HN would be so much more enjoyable without all of the politics. At least on reddit it can be filtered out.
Ten One Design - Pogo Sketch Stylus for iPhone 3G, 3G S
I own the Pogo Sketch. Although I can write with it, I almost have to do it 90 degrees or else the iPad doesn't sense anything :/
I'm not sure if I agree with that assesement.

Considering that the lumber industry gets the bulk of their wood from farms and tracts that are continusouly replanted, they aren't cutting down old growth forests like "the old says". Compared to aluminum or steel, wood frame construction is fairly renewable and to be encouraged.

Google is creating new products and services that increase demand for energy. Everything they do requires more computers sucking up power, more devices to be made with crazy materials in them etc.
I have a few apps for Android. First few days you always get a lot of downloads (depending on what your app does). That was one year ago. I released another app a few weeks ago and the market has changed. Now, it's much more like the iPhone market where you fall into oblivion if you don't have some marketing strategy. Take a look at the 'just in' for all apps. It's filled with batches of 'hot babes' apps and skins apps so you fall down the list very quickly before anyone even has a chance to notice you.

I released a 'Sca', a spy camera app, a year ago and it's doing pretty well. Made $6,000 in 14 months. With the release of all the new phones this year, revenue has picked up to where I consistently get $30 per day after Google takes its cut. I tried $2.95, $9.95, and I settled on the current $5.95. Revenue is constant across all price points. There's no way to scoop up all price points, though, which is annoying. Anyone have any ideas for that?

Last I checked, you get bumped back to the top of the 'just in' list if you submit an update and it's been a few weeks since your last update, so it's a good way to spike up traffic.

I released a niche app for astronomy, Iridium Flares, that sells for $1.45 and makes one sale every few days.

I made sure my two paid apps have a free version. I have a few free apps that advertise my paid apps.

If you compare the top paid apps with the top paid games, it looks like there are more successful games than successful apps. People will pay for entertainment, but games usually require many more hours of work.
Sure it is. So is everything we run on our computers, as well as the computers themselves. We don't run dBase II on CP/M anymore. The same way msql was replaced by MySQL, MySQL will be replaced by superior software at some point of the future.

Just don't bet on these guys.

And, BTW, isn't this the Maureen O'Gara that wrote that "exposé" about Groklaw?
If you have problems with insomnia or even a tiny bit of seasonal depression: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-goLITE-BLU-Therapy-Device/dp/B...
but... I know a few guys who are absolutely awesome programmers; way smarter and way better than I hope to be ever... but some of them are working on things like the google IE toolbar.

I mean, I only have an outsiders view of google, but certainly, there are many very bright people working on what look to me like not very interesting problems.

(Obviously, there are also people at google working on very interesting problems; Living near Mountain View, I know quite a few people who work at google, and most of them seem to like it quite a lot. I'm just saying, it's possible to be at google and get stuck working on things many of us would, ah, rather not work on. Google also has a very strong, ah, company culture. it's not a place, I think, that I would fit in or do well, even though many of my friends work there.)
gPad?
He's married to his blackberry. Not remotely surprising that he's not into i* products.
Sorry, you don't get to be all prescriptivist in telling someone what "brave" doesn't mean, then suddenly produce a descriptivist defence when you're called on it; they're incompatible.
So this is going to be write once run once? Or in other words run just on Apple hardware? Or run as speedily as iTunes or QuickTime does on the PC? Good luck with that!
If Mark Cuban thinks the market is now all about exotic derivatives rather than buying stock in companies you believe in, he's listening to the wrong people. Commission-based brokers talk about exotic derivatives; Warren Buffet still talks about buy-and-hold.

The biggest wins and losses in day trading will come from exotic derivatives simply by their nature: they're highly leveraged bets. Those firms that create the vehicles to make those bets aren't "hackers", they're "Vegas". You ask for a bet against the housing market or for cattle, they set up a structure to let you make that bet, and you play the odds -- and you might beat the other betters in the market over the short term, but it's the house (taking its percentage off the top) that always wins long term. Mark Cuban is right to be uncomfortable playing that game.

Meanwhile, people like Warren Buffet continue to look for healthy companies that are underpriced and buy into them for the long term. Day-to-day the market might be driven by short-term bets, but over the course of 3 decades it's still driven by the fundamental health of companies. If anything, those who care about "the performance of specific companies and their returns" benefit from the fact that occasionally, as a result of day traders' bets, healthy companies' stocks get sold at bargain prices.

If you try to play Vegas' game, you'll probably get burned. But if you stand back, watch the game, and buy when their game creates a bargain price on good long-term stocks, you stand to get very solid returns.
Yeah, Google strikes me as first and foremost an advertising agency. They make their revenue from ads, and ads are not really the sexiest thing out there IMO. They do a lot of interesting research and large-scale implementations in the pursuit of advertising revenue but the bottom line is still going to be the bottom line, and other types of work are going to be better for a lot of people.
It is? Well then what the hell are we doing wasting our time on this damn board, then? We should be looking into Build-a-Bear and 10-minute oil change franchises.

I guess Sam's 5&10 shop was just as much BS as Betty Crocker, too.

I noticed you left out Dell's story. Did his orthodontist dad brace up all the kids in his hometown to afford the million to put down on Michael's computer-makin' biz?

Sometimes a businessman starts out with squat. If there is no "there" there, then what are we doing here?
I was having some back pains while sitting, but after I started running, and lost some weight (205 lbs -> 180 lbs) they stopped. And they stopped more, I think, from the running than from the weight loss.
John Resig on Advanced Javascript to Improve Your Webapp
A few more observations: I kept detailed stats on the download patterns for my paid spy camera app. The rate of downloads is constant between 8am and 2am. I did not see any 'rush hour' effect. It's also constant but slower at night, between 2am and 8am. Given that sales come from all over the world, that would tend to flatten any bumps in the graph. I'm not sure what time zone Google is using for these stats.

More interestingly, weekends see up to two times the traffic, so I release my updates Saturday morning so they can have the most possible traffic through the 'just in' list.
How does ChromeOS handle swapping?

To me, swapping to disk (virtual memory) is the bane of operating systems.
Just looked up this company on Glassdoor. As I suspected this jerk has created a company culture of suspicion and hate. He himself is not respected by his team as is proved by his abysmal rating. As a potential employee I'd take one look at this review and head for the hills. An example -

"“Lord of The Flies Meet Corporate America.”

Pros

Product works well and is fully supported by a highly skilled team. Some positions offer work from home.

Cons

Management plays favorites for their friends and plays immature games. Nothing you shouldn't expect from a company that had a fight club. Overall the upper management doesn't seem to care about their employees rather tech support or sales. Constant turn over in the sales department lead by myopic management team. You will love the atmosphere with your coworkers but despise the management for their lack of respect and unethical conduct.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with respect. You can not expect your customers and channel to respect you when you constantly cut good people from your team. I would advise the executive team to seriously look at their management who has regular turnover. Sometimes its the process not the person."
I wish there were a non-saving demo account or something.
"Live" is that the best they could do, copying Microsoft ?
You left out that the promise of reuse doesn't seem to be borne out and is perhaps harder when doing OO than in other domains. Probably because side effects are more pervasive and it's damned hard to design good object hierarchies (and heaven help those who don't have the discipline to keep their class relationships in a directed acyclic graph).

Modularity is a win and OO only superficially encourages it.
Semantic's now turned on with (semantic-mode 1). See the Semantic manual included in Emacs for details.
thank you. the example that you give could fall under "play" (changing the reward structure to improve valence). tantalization is even more subtle because one simply convinces the horse that a carrot exists, but need not ever show the carrot :)
82-year-old Indian Yogi has been fasting (food+water) since last 65 yrs.
Quite difficult UI for Calibre.
I'm also interested in Mac app revenue. Anyone willing to share?
One friend of mine did the same, here in France: high level degree, but only one year working in front of a desk. He totally switched to a sailing instructor job. As a computer engineer and sailor, that's really appealing me, but my skin wouldn't bear it. I know he's 100% living during the day, I know I'm making mouldy on my chair...
That would be more convincing with evidence that you live without wood or paper.
Use preview.app with the sidebar pulled out and you can just drag and drop pages around. Also you can delete pages from there and add in pages from other preview.app instances. You can also rotate pages from there too.
Bike and Run Adventure Racing on a Budget
Americans consume enormously wasteful amounts of medical care. Kaiser Permenante seems to have excelled by reducing not medical care in general but specifically that care which does not improve outcomes, as its record as having the best outcomes in the regions it serves proves.

The quote above was considered a "smoking gun" illustrating the depravity of the health insurance industry by Michael Moore in SiCKO but now is an incomplete summary of how KP has become a model of success.
First, You can believe anything you want, but I'm surprised you're making such claims since even you admit you have no data to back them up.

Second, All "high frequency traders" are not the same. In fact, using the term doesn't really mean anything apart from some time oriented description of trading. Some will profit from volatility, others won't. In fact, Tradebot has already said they stopped trading for the day because of losses.

You're assumptions about "Average Joe Investor" and institutional investors are quaint. That's about it.
Lifehacker: Five Best Personal Landing Pages
Ggplot2, plotting library for R
> But if you stand back, watch the game, and buy when their game creates a bargain price on good long-term stocks, you stand to get very solid returns.

Why? There are oodles of people doing the same thing, who have access to better information, have more experience, have better search/screening systems, and so on. To me it just seems like you're going to be the 'greater fool', unless you really go at it more or less as a job, with the associated time commitments.
There will be no performance increase, but computers might cost just 5% of what they cost now (probably not quite, because of the display).
The Internet is going down the drain: Gmail is Slow; Delicious is Spammed
The DOS deal was not the beginning of Microsoft. It was already a well-established company.
On the other hand, it would sound just as perverse if they said "the more care we offer, the more money we make" (as opposed to trying to actually heal the patient).
14-year-old who voted in the general election, tells why he did it
Allies Join Russians in Victory Day
I can only talk about Germany, and any change in VAT, be it the raise from 16 to 19% in 2007, or a recent cut to 7% for restaurants and hotels, generally gets a lot of publicity.

People may not be reminded about it constantly, but they are definitely aware of it.
Why the downvotes?

Rmc is right. Go to Apple store, take a look at any Apple product and see for yourself.

For example, the 13" 2.4 GHz MBP is 1200 USD in US. In Europe, it is cca 1050 EUR _without_ VAT (cca 1250 EUR with VAT), which makes it around 1350 USD (and 1600 USD with VAT!). Nice 10% pre-tax price increase.
Jailbroken iPad Supports External Hard Drives
Well I'll tell you what deserves to die: that website with popup ad so huge that its close button is out of bounds of netbook screen.

Text obstructed; didn't read.
It's mostly inarticulable and learned through experience. If you're having trouble in this area, you'd probably benefit more from someone who can function as a coach to motivate you when you're down and to talk things over with, as opposed to looking for some kind of purely theoretical explanation.
I have my e-mail hosted on a prgmr.com VPS. How do I check for deliverability issues? (I have noticed none.)
The Productivity Myth
Yes. Glycogen is branched, polymerized glucose, and has a strong affinity for water. When you go low-carb, you reduce your glycogen stores, and thus your water stores. This type of weight loss is rapid but temporary (insofar as it's not a reduction in what most people want to lose: fat).
It just seems like you could get almost all the alleged benefits of Chrome OS with a simple shell for Windows or Linux that runs the browser and nothing else on login.

It does seem so. And indeed, that's what Chromium OS is. Essentially a new distro with their own browser-based desktop manager.

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/s...
More recently (from Wikipedia):

"In 1999, a number of groups successfully sued Kaiser Permanente in regard to its In the Hands of Doctors advertising campaign. The lawsuit revealed that doctors at the organization were not fully in control of decision-making and that there may have been persuasion to limit care with financial bonuses."
Sounds very similar to the Gumstix boards. They also use a very small core board, with breakout boards for whatever connectors you need.
At least I haven't.

I hadn't seen nor used the Google start page for... years?
There will be another crash, because there are too many players looking for the trillion dollar score. They can’t all win, yet how many do you think wouldn’t risk everything, even what is not theirs, for that remote chance to score big ? Put another way, there is zero moral hazard attached to any trade. So why wouldn’t traders take the biggest risk possible ?

well I'm sorry, but that also applies to VC/angel funded startups game nowadays, which Cuban participates in.
This speech should not be taken seriously - not because Obama (a) has no idea how to play X Box, or (b) spends all day on his Blackberry, but because his administration has thrown its full weight behind the most toxic aspects of ACTA. Even the name of the treaty is a fraud. So why is he supporting it so aggressively?

In this speech, Obama says the world is experiencing a moment of "breathtaking change", and goes on to say "we can't stop these changes... but we can adapt to them."

How? By exporting laws that call for $1.92 million fines in response to 24 privately downloaded .mp3s? By allowing the USTA to bully Canada over 'laxity' when the IP laws in question are stricter than our own? (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4997/125/). By threatening Indonesia with the same kind of psychotic economic violence in 'retaliation' for their government's formal support of Open Source? (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/openso...).

If this is "adaptation", what was the Opium War? A humanitarian relief mission?

I promise you, iPads and X-Boxes are not the problem.
I think the reason we don't have more alignment of the interests of caregivers and patients is the insurance model our government has chosen to subsidize.

Can you imagine if government subsidized employer-provided housing or food by 25%? What limited options would you have then? What more do you then have to worry about when you lose your job?

Can you trade affordability for convenience and safety? No, but you can pick between housing option A or housing option B. And be ready to move if you get laid off.

That's just one among many issues subsidizing things creates.
That sounds good, but I worked hard enough to get a job in my field that pays me enough to live comfortably and have a good college savings plan for my daughter. What advice for those of us who did not have outstanding early success, good savings and obviously immense talent?
But how many people were questioning as a percentage of their entire userbase?
Although you might not want to get stuck working on certain projects, that does not imply that the people on these projects are unhappy with their assignments.

Your IE Toolbar example is a good one. The team working on the IE toolbar is probably very small (how many devs are needed, one or two?), but it's used by a very large number of people. I think it might be interesting to work on a project with this very large user/developer ratio.

Google engineers to have some degree of mobility. If they get stuck on a project that they don't like, then they can eventually move on to something of their choosing.
Niacin has toxicities, just like statins. Except for niacin's flush (which is not indicative of any harm, but can be quite uncomfortable), I think the absolute risk of dangerous toxicity for both statins and niacin is very low. Taking both, in supervised fashion, is reasonable.

As an aside, I agree with you re: getting prescription niacin. If you do go with the over-the-counter stuff, make sure it is not "no-flush". The evidence is not consistent with the notion that no-flush niacin has any lipid-modifying effect.
Mind Controlled Spy Robot - Emotiv EEG headset pilots Rovio using Skype
All of these different ports you don't want serve a specific purpose. Designing a universal electrical interface and connector that satisfy every purpose would be difficult to impossible, not to mention that having separate interfaces for separate purposes reduces confusion. I'll agree it could be potentially awesome, though. Each design in use has tradeoffs between latency, throughput, distance, resilience to interference, etc.

Ethernet is designed for low-ish latency, moderate bandwidth, and long distances. It does not have enough bandwidth to replace HDMI, and Ethernet routing and addressing is not well-suited to the problems solved by USB. My own testing has shown that 802.11g will not often exceed ~15mbit/s, even with a device sitting right next to the access point. All devices on a wireless network have to share the same 54mbit/s with each other and with any other noise that happens to interfere. Switched Ethernet gives the full bandwidth to all devices, all the time.

HDMI and DVI are designed for direct, zero-latency, high-bandwidth links over medium distances. The current iteration of HDMI specifies a bit rate of 10.2 gigabits per second, over distances up to ~50 feet. It's a one-way interface (for now). Since it's mostly unidirectional, and doesn't have any kind of routing, it could not replace USB. If you added USB-like bus features, it would likely not be fast enough for displays.

USB is designed with a simple master/slave hierarchical bus topology, which is ideal for desktop peripherals. Even USB3 at 5gbit/s isn't enough to replace HDMI, and that 5gbit/s is used for control as well as data, and shared across all devices on a particular interface. Plus, USB cannot exceed 15 feet without repeaters.

USB is also not well-suited to replace PCI(e) for graphics adapters, because PCI(e) allows for very-low-latency communication, DMA, etc.
Very constructive.
They never really found the way to make Friends work. It was always cumbersome.

I suspect what's really happened here is that whatever internal group was responsible for Friends as decided to hide their failure to make it work behind a screen of "no one wants it".
I'd pay the price of the iPad for a pressure-sensitive pen for it.