skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Vast majority" and "never" are extremely strong qualifiers. It must be nice living in a world where everything is constant and optimum. Granted, nobody is made to drive an iCar. But every so often, you are probably going to need a real car not designed for fantasyland.

Part of this is just a failing of the analogy; Apple has much tighter control over their platform than they ever could over roads networks.
Nice Tower of Babel logo. Will OOC be represented?
Most users of most websites probably fall into both - they neither understand nor care about the privacy implications, nor would they even if they were explained to them, as long as the site keeps them "in touch" with a lot of their friends.
Now Don’t Hear This
>Does that mean that we should throw the CEO of McDonald's in jail too because he knowingly sells junk food to customers? ... If these securities had worked out well, GS would be considered geniuses

The thing is, the securities were designed to fail so they could short them. That would be like McDonald's deliberately selling lethal food and taking life insurance out on its customers.

Society bears the costs of fallout from commerce that is damaging to society. The fraud of Goldman Sachs, and other companies engaged in, resulted in the bailouts. If a business model is dependent on incurring significant social costs then a society which allows it won't be sustainable.
Nerdfight: UK Election Model Methodology (FiveThirtyEight)
This was mine while I was back home in New Zealand. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/4362438614_5ee1c328fe_b....
I didn't notice it until I read this: http://sivers.org/zipit
Top Secret 'People-Powered' Search Engine Slangwho.com Launching Soon
So don't buy an iCar. But if the only driving I do is to work and back and I choose that the iCar is right for me, who cares?
...we've been acquired by Google...For the next week, we're keeping BumpTop Free available for download to give BumpTop fans one last chance to grab a copy.

That is one hell of a great way to get a huge boost in downloads :)

EDIT: link to download page http://eol.bumptop.com/download.php
It's not a binary thing. Facebook is more competent than MySpace; doesn't mean that someone can't be more competent than Facebook.
"Identifying and realizing "the easy way to quality" is impressive."

Except they aren't doing that. For 3 version multitasking was bad, and they told you why multitasking wasn't needed. Now, apparently, it's good.

As for others not being able to duplicate it, that's not true. Apple isn't the only place to find easy to us. Heck, half their stuff isn't easy to use. It's just as difficult and confusing as PC stuff. It just appears easier/cleaner. They have less wires. Just one look at iTunes and syncing Audiobooks with your iPod is a perfect example of how they dropped the ball.
I found that surprisingly useful. I'd be interested in developing that scale a little further since it's kind of weird that everything has different weights and, for example with point 7: The current code base can’t be used for anything. 1-20

what's the different between say a 15 and a 16? Seems very subjective, so maybe if everything was on a scale of 1 to 4 to make it easier to choose, then you used some multiplicative weighting for each issue...

This brings back memories, from university, of COCOMO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO)
I think you share more private data then you realize. Now that everybody is embedding iframes with Like buttons Facebook can keep a record of all the sites you visit. Are you ready to share this information with the world? What about the videos you watch? Sites like Pandora already know who you are when you arrive at their site, do you trust them as much as Facebook?
I see your point, but I personally use a regular wooden dining chair with the back removed, and I find it very easy to slouch into a "C" shape anyway. I have to continually remind myself to sit up.
Ah, but in that case the /seller/ is the only one with property on the line. Sellers in most markets are used to taking on risk (eBay and PayPal's policies are oriented around this pattern, for example) whereas buyers are not.
> To keep your arms parallel to your head

I don't do that. My arms/mouse/keyboard face the center LCD and I type/click without looking down. I turn my head slightly if needed but mostly it's enough to just turn my eyes. Like I said, sitting back helps.
Firefox 3.6.3, OS X 10.5.8
I had a similar experience and, in that time, it sure felt like a major headache. But right now, I think thanks to that I had way more motivation, someone to compete and a clear goal to beat. And yes, I eventually "won" like you say you did. Competition never hurts when you're in it to win.

It was a major push that really helped me.
Probably not. I had gum disease and cavities when I was 20 after brushing everyday and using Listerine. Maybe I sucked at brushing and didn't know it, either way my brain got screwed.
Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability
http://imgur.com/LCUE8.jpg

Almost all my stuff except the laptop is in there... sony reader, notebook, monitors, logitech keyboards, wrist rests it's even got the wowbot running and my weight lifting gloves.
It seems as though they're offering refunds by emailing refund@bumptop.com. If I had purchased it and then they closed shop, I would ask for a refund.
Pic: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102228/desktop.jpg

Had to switch back to Windows 7 after Ubuntu 10.4 decided it no longer wants to work with my video cards. I guess that's what I get for buying new hardware.

* Monitors: 30" Dell, 21" Samsung and a 20.1" Dell vertical

* Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage Pro

* Chair: Herman Miller Embody

Not featured is the Dell Latitude e4300, which was the perfect buy for mobile productivity.

PS: Moving to an apt with a view at the end of the month. The painting just doesn't cut it.
What? It was news to me from reading the article. I had assumed it would have about the 1gb which is a common spec on $300 netbooks now. I think people are overreacting a bit to the the title...it's just one of those headline cliches, like 'anatomy of a flame war'.
Custom ROMs for Android explained and why you want them
I used to have a MBP. After a few months of testing it out I gave it to my wife and gladly got her $200 netbook instead, on which I immediately installed Arch and felt like I could do something again. Ah, the freedom of customizing my OS!
Happy 1st Birthday, Wolfram Alpha
Samsung 22" (2243). No stands. The monitors can pivot. I got them from newegg for about $189 each. It's a pretty good deal for under $1k in cost. The resolution isn't bad, though if I had $2k to spare, I'd have bought 5 of 2443s (24") at 2560x1600.
yes it is. now it is just a little bit less horrible thanks to this.
Very nice monitor setup. The 30" Dells are wonderful.
Does that have a vertically oriented split keyboard?!?
in php, you can output the time it takes to complete a given task.
Unfortunately, you can't do this with HTML.

However, you could set the timer in php, and then compare having php build the html vs the php page outputting the html.

That way you are also only comparing the time it takes for php to load the difference, and not differences in how web servers deal with different mime-types, etc.

I suspect you are talking in the less than 1 millisecond range difference though.
Why would that annoy you? I’m always puzzled by that sentiment – it doesn’t hurt you in any way if others could download it for free, it doesn’t change anything for you. That’s pure jealousy, isn’t it?
Ooooh, Pizza.
I second this. I floss, but sometimes laziness wins and water pik works remarkably well, followed by brushing.
Two Ubuntu desktops, one running XFCE, the other Fluxbox.
Seriously, what would you have preferred?

"AOL, a web portal which was recently spun off from Time Warner, a media giant, but which a decade ago actually bought Time Warner."

Is that better? Does it make any difference?
I'm the creator of efene/ifene, any question or observation is really helpful.
It doesn't seem to be quite as easy to get a job as a tenured English professor these days as it was for this guy. Maybe that's why our generation is more nervous.
Apparently - Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel.
Josh, I'd love to talk more with you about what you are doing. I think what we have overlapping objectives. Please email me at glen at nixty dot com.
Who ever said Apple is a member of the patent pool? Jobs certainly didn't, and Apple is not the sort of company that would own that kind of patent.
Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) (video)
Apple vs Adobe - Who do you think is right?
I put in a request for a Wolfram Alpha API developer ID last year, but never heard back. Is anyone here using the API?
So last week, complain about the iPad? This week, complain about Facebook?
Ask HN: Good site to get freelancing projects,
Hi, I am planning to start work as a freelancer. Can you suggest me some sites where people post web projects looking for freelancers.
I don't think that is likely. It would be extremely difficult to be more innovative and more competent than Facebook. That's like saying you should worry about a company that could outmaneuver Apple. Sure, it's possible, but it's extremely unlikely.

Say what you will about Facebook's policies, the company is run extremely well.
I started university when I was 18, and at the same time I joined Facebook. I'm now 22, close to graduating, and Facebook chronicles my last 4 years of misadventure. Yet I have to agree with tptacek, it's not a big deal.

It's not hard to untag yourself from dodgy photos, leave silly groups, clean up your profile and put professional contacts in a restricted list. Most importantly though, I've come to the conclusion most people expect you to have dirt on Facebook. If your boss wants to be your friend on Facebook and doesn't get why you won't actually share any personal info with them... well, good luck to you, but my professional contacts all seem to understand (and often reciprocate for the same reasons).

That photo you untagged yourself from but your friend is in so mutual friends can still see it - I'll agree that's a problem, but not worth throwing a hissy about. We "lost our privacy" the day the camera was invented.
well, for the penny or so that it cost us to display our GroupSpaces ads to you, we've received coverage in a blog post that's hit Hacker News. so I guess I'm not feeling too unhappy with that. ;)

Sure it would be nice for some users if FB had a "don't show me this ad again" button. But I guess it's fair to allow them some control over their monetization..
That sounds like a solution but I like elegance. Hah.
Neither licenses nor patents work like you are describing them.
How to cut features and enjoy it.
Simpler products are easier to maintain and use. Finding the minimal design among more complex alternatives is a process of what-if questioning. Try asking these questions about your design and its features.
You mean BREW? Indeed, I don't see any BREW programs on github at a glance.
Wolfram Alpha was launched on the 15th. This post is about the launch of the blog.
Very interesting, but 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.

We wouldn't accept that in a car for any reason.

Wanna go to Yosemite, great! But that parking lot isn't paved, so you can't stop there.
You can drive by and see the rest of it from the highway though!

Oh, that highway is nice and paved, but it leads to google and some fancy voice technology they built. I'm sure as a driver you'd like to see it, but you'll just have to stick to our roads and roads that don't compete with us on any level.
Which is why I choose not to buy an iPhone or an iPad. When someone complains about an inadequacy of a product and you replay that they should buy something else, you are missing the point. The ability to buy a real car, does not make an iCar useful.

Many, many people live in areas where they could get away with using public transit only, most of them still own cars because sometimes they still need or want them. Only I can know whether I need to drive on gravel roads, and even I won't know whether I will need to in the future.

If I think Flash is a nuisance, (and I do) I am free to avoid it. But I don't want Steve Jobs or any company making such decisions for me. Jobs is free to sell his phones with whatever policy he wants, and I'm free to think that he sucks for it.
is there anything that can be taken away from this list of actions that can only be discovered by letting your customers use the product?
Damn sun
It could have something to do with bacteria. If you have poor dental hygiene or bleeding gums, you get bacteria in your blood. This is most known for causing endocarditis (infection of the heart), but who knows what else the bacteria, or the body's reaction to them, could cause?
Let me know how it works out. I did it initially for similar reasons. A surgery I had years ago leads disk degeneration. Mine is not bad, but my back did hurt at the end of the day sometimes. Now it does not.
I view it this way as well. There is a tipping point, a critical mass, where everything after will be viewed in terms of this dominant product/organization.

Google, World of Warcraft, Facebook, Windows... all of these things conquered their respective markets in such a massive way that every direct competitor is playing catch-up or giving up on reaching the same goals.

MySpace, like pre-Google search sites, was an obvious stepping stone on the path of social networking applications' evolution. It was terribly bad at almost everything and succeeded for a time purely due to demand for something of its general taxonomy.

Facebook, however, is a very thoughtfully realized effort that is largely an agreeable experience for users. As long as they continue to avoid introducing negative changes slowly and with minimal exposure to users, those users will continue to stick around and bring in others. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog]

And the big problem, one that I haven't seen addressed yet, is where people should go when they leave Facebook. There is no comparably-featured competitor, nor one even close. And of course, social networking applications are worthless without the people you want to interact with using them with you.
The desk of a physics grad student... (coffee induced blurrycam)

http://phy.duke.edu/~cec24/CIMG0120.jpg
I'm reminded of the quote: "for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."

Everything eventually comes to an end; Google, Facebook, etc will be no different. It's just a matter of time.
Its the same feeling I get when I buy something and the next day its on sale for 50% off or when steam has one of its mega sales when I just bought the damn game..

or pretty much anytime I buy an apple product.
I agree - I never post private data to Facebook. But now it doesn't matter if I post private data to Facebook or not. They can start hoarding data from my visits to yelp or pandora or whatever else in the future if I merely forgot to log out of Facebook before going to yelp.
And yes, I can change my privacy settings to make them not, but today, I missed the tiny blue banner in Yelp that gave me the option to opt-out, and then it was kind of a pain to figure out how to opt out of whatever I just accidentally opted into. It's turning into a real hassle for me to keep facebook from creeping into the non-facebook parts of my internet experience.
Thats not a fork, it doesn't use any firefox code, it's based on webkit.

At best you could say that it's a fork of khtml.
Altavista faded out really quickly. Myspace? Not so much. Remember, Myspace was far more competitive than Friendster.
> I have too many ideas to tell the good ones from the bad ones anymore.

It seems having good ideas is actually just a combination of two things: having lots of ideas (including bad ones), but then putting them through a really good filter to separate the good from the bad. I think both parts are skills that can be deliberately developed over time.
Boards of United Airlines and Continental approved a merger
You must be getting quite a tan!

Do you not feel the need for a marker board of some kind though? As in, what if you need to sketch something out?
Try to get your product used in bbq or cooking competitions. I saw something like that on the Food Network where the whole show was about different Hot Sauces and how they were judged.
I think if you have an idea whose execution is complex, its much harder for someone else to grasp, let alone copy. And that's a challenge for the entrepreneur, but you are more likely to build something defensible.

Now just explain in 5 words why I can't live without it and you got it.
The latter is what raises your baseline level of happiness, while the former is mostly temporary and fleeting. I like them both, of course, so don't think that I'm knocking vanilla fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
I'm perfectly comfortable condemning someone who acts against the ethical principles I and many others believe in, however much they were paid to do so. That's why they're called "principles". It doesn't matter whether it's a schoolboy violating them for a chocolate bar or a multi-gazillionaire CEO doing it for his bonus.
Some people just have weak teeth.

You might also have a dietary problem -- or calcium deficiency.

There were no women in the study, which is interesting, because women often have huge teeth problems during and after pregnancy. (And breaking small bones!) This happens if their calcium is not managed effectively.
There are quite a few of us: Arch, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Solaris.
I give in: http://devgrow.com/desk.jpg

Desktop runs: XP (90% of the time), Ubuntu and OS X (hackintosh from my retail Leopard disc)

15" Macbook Pro for travel and for making music

Desk also has a slide-out tray for keyboard & mouse
> There's a difference between saying "what John did is wrong" and "John is a bad person."

I disagree. As the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words. If John repeatedly does bad things, then John is a bad person. How are we to judge a person fairly, if not by how they conduct themselves?
And speaking of which - I just tried to opt out of their instant personalization "feature" for Yelp. I missed the blue banner initially, so now I'm trying to change things the very hard way. I get the message on top of yelp that says "Yelp is using Facebook to personalize your experience." I click on Options next to it and then go to "How to turn this off". There, I click the big red button that says "Disconnect Yelp and Facebook". This button tells me I have to do more at my privacy page at facebook and links me to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/connect.php . At this page, I hunt for the link to the actual Privacy settings. I click on this link and then click "Edit Setting next to "Instant Personalization Pilot Program." I then uncheck "Allow select partners to instantly personalize their features with my public information when I first arrive on their websites." I go back to Yelp and I see "Yelp is using Facebook to personalize your experience" still at the top of Yelp. Why was this so hard to do, and how come after all that, I can't even opt out?
Why not use the built in dynamic port forwarding / proxy feature (-D switch) which pretty much makes your ssh client a socks proxy allowing you to connect to any arbitrary number of hosts:ports on the server side?

Or am I missing something obvious here...?
Great post, I pretty much have the same reasoning and though I used to be hyper-active facebook user, I quit over 3 months ago and it feels great.

my post is here, slacktivism and why i quit facebook: http://www.jonathanbrun.com/2010/04/slacktivism-and-why-i-qu...

glad to hear the mouvement is growing.
Hack: iPad 3G Runs on T-Mobile, Sends Texts [video]
People made the same arguments when Jobs killed the floppy. And serial ports.

And OS 9.

And built-in modems.

Surprisingly, nobody misses them.

Yawn. More histrionic nerd-posturing. It will be forgotten soon enough.
http://www.elance.com
'Break even' doesn't mean they aren't making money, right? All we can conclude is that they have structured their accounting to say that the amount they're spending on the stores (whatever that means) is almost as much as the stores bring in.
Migrate - db migrations for nodejs
Thanks for the awesome suggestion. At that price, AppleCare seems like a no brainer.
Oh really? That wikipedia page says that Microsoft won on the MP3 related patents (on appeal), in part specifically because they had licensed MP3 technology from Fraunhofer's MP3 pool. (Getting your $1.5B damages dropped because you spent $16M on licenses is a terrific bargain too). The parts where Microsoft has lost are on user interface patents unrelated to MP3 coding.
That's a heck of a misleading headline.
I second (third?) this. You can also use a ViaJet (some people prefer it).

You can use salt and/or baking soda as antibacterials in the water you use for irrigation.

If you add irrigation to your routine, you may want to switch out dental floss with dental tape and "buff" your teeth (floss:tape as thread:ribbon - buffing with a thread doesn't work too well). Makes a huge difference in the buildup of plaque.

Lastly, disclosing tablets or solution (picking one at random from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W6LW6I) is not just for kids. Using it for a few weeks or months could help you see where your tooth brushing technique is a bit weak.
Wow, that is some truly masterful backing away from the "the best web browsing experience you’ve ever had" claim without appearing to notice doing it. Humpty Dumpty skill level, at least, the word "best" means just what you want it to.
First step, you get lucky. I mean, once you have a name and a social group, you're already 99% of the way there.
Antisocial Networking?
A cheap standing desk option:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00115992

This can be setup with the desk surface at standing height. The smaller shelves become under-desk storage or monitor stands.

There is also a wider model of the same desk that currently goes for $159.
You're claiming inadequacy on your own perspective. I'm sure off-roaders think compact cars are inadequate for their needs. They may choose gas milage or design over off-roading capabilities. As such I think the don't like it? don't buy it argument is a good way to be a consumer.
Nope, never had a bad experience sharing an idea. I do it on purpose to see if anyone will ever give me a run for my money... but no. Nobody I've met could execute with the dilligence I do, nor do they have the marketing savvy.

I talk about how I'm going to revolutionize email, with user interface enhancements, make it very step-by-step explaining the logic behind them, at conferences where I speak in front of several hundred people -- and so far as I can tell, nobody has lifted a finger.

My ideas aren't revolutionary, either, and they could make a lot of money.

Last week I met a person in my city (Vienna), who was excited to meet me cuz of my reputation, and was worried that it turned out we were going to compete. I told him, no problem. We talked about our different approaches to the same problem. I said maybe he should look at selling his technology to people like me, instead of the end users.

That's about the extent of it. :)
http://subfocal.net:81/~mike/desk.jpg

Looks a little different today, but not much.
The whole facebook thing is just fundamentally wrong. Facebook doesn't have users, it has statistics. Any company that treats its users as just numbers does not have my support.
Tools in this photo:

Homebrew PC with Windows 7, 20" and 17" Dell Ultrasharps

Lenovo R61

TI 83+

Leatherman

http://www.thefoxes.ws/wp-content/uploads/2010/fox-workstati...
Is there a phone on the market today that runs Flash?