skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that no actual product was close to shipping didn't matter. That's right boss, I'm here to report at this project's conclusion that we ... got some hypeglow that dripped off the iPad. No, ... I'm not sure how much any tablet-future-legitimizing hype we did build only helped iPad's reception, ...that's ... a good point. ... Yes, that's correct, we ... have no revenue to report from this.
cringe
Any suggestions on what would be the best deals? I'm thinking "Beautiful Code" and "Beautiful Visualizations" (at least).
I will add that to my whitelist. You should be able to close the warning and continue.

I'm whitelisting OS/Browser combos, and I haven't added linux yet.
"at least a year away"

Where did you hear that?
It's simple: Power To The User.

If there is a choice to be made it should be up to the user. If they want to use flash, let them, if not allow them to disable it.

If they want to watch tiny movies on a tiny screen for only five hours instead of 10 hours at a stretch, let them.

Realize that when you make hardware it will be used for purposes other than the ones you intend, that's the whole idea of the power of the computer, it is a universal device.

To try to artificially limit what users can and can not do is a short term strategy, and a long term loss.
Sure, this tactic is similar to my view of the situation in Arizona, or drug laws.

The tactic is to hold up an example that people can't disagree with as being 'bad', and claim you need new powers to fight this scourge. Illegal immigration is bad, so we need to be able to stop and search anyone at anytime in case they are undocumented. Drugs are bad, so we need to be able to tap phones and search houses without warrants, and set up checkpoints to screen anyone driving within 20 minutes of the Mexican border. And, child porn is bad, so we need to monitor all internet communications constantly to screen for it.

In each case, it's simply an excuse to grant unheard of powers to authorities, which they will then be sure to use for various other purposes which they didn't see fit to mention at the time. The actual solution to any of the problems used as the wedges don't resemble the proposed solutions, either.
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"Correction: Phoenix P.D. Investigation Finds That Grindr iPhone App Not Involved in Yesterday's Murder"

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/04/correct...
How Google Energy Might Makes Its Data Centers Greener
Learning From Bad Situations

All of us will find ourselves in bad situations from time to time. Good intentions gone bad. Impossible tasks and goals. Hopeless projects. Even though you probably can’t perform well, the key is to at least take away some lessons and insights. Was there anything ironic, odd, or downright funny in all of this?

Trapped on the thirty-second floor of Microsoft Documentation Complex 27B/6, Will Burnham shuddered, silently, and wept.
But Windows only dominates on the desktop. On the mobile side, it's Opera and Safari, plus other WebKit browsers. That's impossible to ignore.
Agree that Mr. Narayan comment was not a great one but he has a point. Userland applications should not crash the operating system. If Mr. Jobs meant: "No. 1 cause of Safari crashes" then I would agree with Mr. Jobs because Flash does crashes Safari a lot. This means that both Safari and Flash have pending bugs to be fixed (I wonder which one has more bugs per line of code?)
What about business structure options? I may be wrong, but I've always thought of Japan as being a non-ideal start-up location as far as the onerous business regulatory environment and the high rate of corporate taxation. Is any progress being made on these fronts?
Maybe, but it unfortunately is the way life is in many places, and it serves to make the point pretty good. Selective enforcement of this policy is a real risk.
I was really hoping Microsoft shipped Courier, because I really don't want to buy an iPad (and I have a lot of personal reasons to do that). Have to wait and see what is going to do HP.

> ...show absolutely nothing until they have a shipping product...

Courier was a MSR project, and they were kind enough to make it public. (MSR) It's actually one of the good things MS does.
If Facebook allowed me to pay a subscription fee to keep my data and usage statistics private, I would do so. If I could trust them to keep that promise.
This reminds me of E. B. White's quote:

"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White

It's also reminiscent of Louis Armstrong's

"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know"

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong

Is it really possible to develop a sense of humour by reading a list of bullet points, action plans and self-help advice? I'm not really convinced that this isn't a really brilliant, very subtle joke on a completely higher level.

I can't decide whether this is funnier if posted by someone in earnest, or if posted in total seriousness. I think that's the joke.
Outside the old post-2001 TIA/NSA efforts, what can this be used for?

Maybe for determining social hierarchies for mind share in product recommendations or advertising?

Yeah, I can't think of one noncreepy way to use this.
Haha, unfortunately I didn't know that. Reminds me of how I looked up "Bing" in a chinese dictionary and found that it means "disease."
Been looking at the UltraThin myself.
> Wow, when did HN become all Apple fanboys, all the time?

Not all the time, but I think it's quite telling that a gushing 'I love this, with a slight reservation' gets 150 upvotes and you are sitting here at the maximum downvotes for simply stating your opinion.

Yuck.
Google integrated virtual keyboards in search
I don't know, Lyons tends to be really hit or miss with these. The style just doesn't feel right on this one, at least compared to some of the razor-sharp classics such as the Randall Stephenson one: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/12/a-not-so-brief-chat-with-ra...

Still, the close was fantastic:

That is all for now. For a longer explanation of why these changes make sense, stay tuned to John Gruber.
Using Firefox 3.5.7 on Ubuntu (Karmic) and got the same popup.
Memory ballooning is basically a mechanism for hypervisor to steal pages from the guest and yes, so it allows for over-commitment. Memory balloon driver is present inside the guest and hypervisor communicates how many pages it needs back to the driver. The driver allocates pages and sends it back to the hypervisor.
That set of facts doesn't look good for Brian J. Hogan.

Once he suspected what it was he made no effort to return the device, but made a good deal of effort to sell it to a tech blog. Err... excuse me, his lawyer wants people to say share it with a tech blog.
It seems I was wrong about that. But still their activity was just a small part of the market at large and they only bought the safest tranches. Saying they were responsible for the mess is just wrong, imo.
> "[t]ry to persuade the creators of the binaries to rebuild against libjpeg-7."

Would a source-distribution like Gentoo get around those problems?
Revealed: The 21 Year Old Who Sold the iPhone 4G to Gizmodo
Reminds me of Microserfs.
> Mr. Murray likens the Apple-Adobe fight to that between reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin

... at that point I stopped and wondered why I am reading this crap.
The problem is he severely underestimated my tax estimates.
there was this one

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048800

And before that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

Given the karma inflation dfrankes is corrected for that probably still (justly) king.
BTW, I still had a copy in a browser tab and just saved it out. As for question, how about:

When can I try out some of your toys?

How much will that cost. How much will they cost when finished? ("Free" or "Not Free" or "If you have to ask..." are all acceptable answers.)

My interest in what you're doing is largely constrained by my ability to try out your stuff someday.
Thanks.

> Besides, free trade is a fairy tale: [...]

That's because politicians/diplomats are negotiating free-trade as if it was a prisoner's dilemma. But you can lower tariffs unilateral.

And there are people who regard fiscal competition (or other regulatory competition) as a good thing.

Could you please explain your argument about inflation? Couldn't each country decide on its own inflation, without harmonization nor a common currency?
Chrome 5.0.375.17 dev on OSX: I am unable to drag the button.
Do you know whether you can use something like bittorrent for the upgrade as well?
That's a nearly Reddit-level non-sequiter ;)

The "Picwing frame" is/was an actual photo frame - http://www.picwing.com/blog/?p=22; I don't think edawerd drilled into himself assembling a server.
It would be nice if you had a way to demo it without putting it on the bookmarks bar. Maybe already running on your site, or launchable from the installation button (instead of telling me to install it).
Here is my question on the open spec part of flash: "Which non-Adobe flash client can be used to play videos on Hulu?". I think the answer is none because of threats made by Adobe.
Unless you're super-human, there will still be someone willing to do exactly what you're doing but for more hours. But again, I agree with you.
Stevil is the best thing I've heard all week!
I love fakesteve and this one is pure gold.

"Also: As of some other day really soon, certain phone numbers will not work on iPhone, both for incoming and outgoing calls. We won’t tell you which numbers these are, but trust us, they’re not numbers you should be calling, and definitely not numbers you want calling you. If you encounter a problem connecting a phone call, and call us to find out if this number is on our blocked list, we will tell you the following: “That information is not available.”"

It would be funny if it wasn't actually really scary. Actually, it's still pretty funny.
Thanks, I'll look into it. It's working for me on Chrome 5.0.342.9 on OSX.
Oh, ok. I hadn't heard of it and wasn't reading carefully, so I was thinking a server rack
I think what killed it was that it didn't run Windows 7 or Windows Phone 7. Which is really too bad, because the former was obviously inappropriate for it, and the latter was subtly inappropriate.

WP7's UI looks really promising as a phone interface, but the courier wasn't about any of the tasks that phones do. It was about one thing only, and that was information collection for creatives.

I don't think I'd have liked a courier that booted up to something that I had to "launch the Courier app" from as much as I would one that simply became Courier every time I woke it up.
I also do not understand how it's hypocritical unless you believe the idiot assumption that one has to commit fully to open or close standards exclusively. Jobs has a much more pragmatic view and I cannot recall any point in which he suggested otherwise. The one thing his open letter makes clear is that Apple is not very interested in advancing other companies closed platforms especially if it undermines their own. That's completely a completely rational approach. I'm not sure why people are so compelled to project these idealogical purity tests on others. It's childish.
People like apps because installing and opening an app doesn't make them feel stupid. Remember the ReadWriteWeb Facebook-login debacle? Even the users who didn't make the same mistakes as those folks still feel frustrated with all the steps and layers in between them and what they want. And don't get me started on URLs.

People don't want browsers - they want Facebook. They want YouTube. We don't need better browsers; we need the Cocoa API to be cross-platform (and stop sucking).
MobileMedia's Unusual Patent Infringement Campaign vs Apple and others
The whole article really has nothing to do with Flash. Did you even read it? It's about Jobs saying "this is bad for reasons X, Y, and Z", without acknowledging that Apple is guilty of the exact same BS.

Example - he basically says Adobe sucks because they just finally got around to releasing a full "Cocoa" binary for CS5. And yet Apple has the same problems. The Finder was Carbon until Snow Leopard was released, less than a year ago. And iTunes, arguably their biggest app, is still Carbon. Yet somehow because Adobe still had Carbon apps as of a few weeks ago, they are evil.
downvoted? Can someone explain how the QuickTime format isn't coming from the same principle as Flash?
Cinder - open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++
Ask HN: Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype
Strategic Agility and Innovation Management - http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/comp_strateg...

Really, Microsoft...
Frankly, to know whether this guy is blowing magenta [anti-green :)] smoke, or has a valid point, I'd have to look at KP's green portfolio, and see how the companies there are doing. He doesn't give any data points that I can see.
Brian Hogan is in serious trouble, but it's trouble he put himself into. He damn well could have walked into an Apple store, or even Apple HQ (he lives in the area), and dropped the phone off there, rather than looking for some skeezy way to milk essentially stolen goods. So if he really did the things that are written about him, he belongs in jail. Remember that ignorance of the law is no excuse in legal contexts.
At my day job, we put everything permanent in a wiki and everything temporary in Trac (our issue tracking software). It turns out that engineers spent most of their time in trac rather than the Wiki, so that gradually is becoming the authoritative option.

For my business, I have three things: I have a succession of paper notebooks for any idea that can get garbage collected in less than a week. This is good for, e.g., A/B tests. (Why am I doing an A/B test with the Dropbox style invites? Flips open notebook to last page. Oh, that's why.)

You're going to laugh at me for this, but for long-term, searchable business documentation... I use my blog. What the effity was I thinking when I launched this feature two years ago? Search for my blog post about it. (Issues too minor for the blog have commit notes in subversion.)

If I were more worried about exposing my ideas to the world, I'd use an internal wiki-style software instead of the blog.

The third thing, which is perhaps less useful as an answer but still true, is that I have very, very good memory for the written word. (This is one reason I write so darn much. Anything I write and almost everything I read, I get to keep.)
"I'm not really convinced that this isn't a really brilliant, very subtle joke on a completely higher level."

It probably started out that way.
It's a chrome bug as far as I know. He'll just have to wait until the dev builds are updated to fix this problem.
You didn't actually read the article, did you? It makes a lot of very good and perfectly valid points.

Let me also guess - you own a Mac and an iPhone, and are mad because someone is saying bad things about your precious Apple. Correct?
Um, I don't think Israel "pulled out of their occupation." I'm pretty sure that Gaza's borders are completely sealed by the Israeli military as is their airspace. There might not be Israeli soldiers inside Gaza, but the occupation continues as long as Israel maintains complete control over airspace and borders.
I'm using Chromium 5.0.386.0 and it's not supported by your app. Is this right?
The article is atrociously written, but this is an interesting development.

One scenario that immediately comes to mind is misuse and detection of such, I'd imagine someone somewhere will try dosing a counterparty with this to get an edge in negotiations.
Hotmail leaked - Exchange ActiveSync, active view, SSL encryption and more
Check other stuffs LiveSino found.
Click on the "Translate this page" if you want to know more than just screenshots.
There are countries where the EULA clause that restricts what you can do with the software is void.

Brazil (where I live) is one example.
Also doesn't help that the screenshot on the page includes the words "Reverse Cowgirl"...
What Apple doesn’t do – at least not anymore since Jobs is back – is show concepts or prototypes (save those lost in bars :). They just don’t ever talk about future products. Or if they do, you will get what they announce no more than a few months later.

I’m pretty sure Apple had their own Courier, their own Origami. They could have produced the most beautiful and eye-popping concept videos you can imagine. Only they didn’t.

Concept videos are just a bad idea. Companies shouldn’t make them public. Only show me products you committed to producing. If you don’t do that you run the risk of looking like someone who can‘t keep promises.
Try closing the notification and using it anyways. I'm whitelisting browsers that work and I haven't gotten around to all of them.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released
And Adobe's position on Flash is like the Apple ][ zealots who mourned the advent of Macintosh.
California man proves that Bejeweled is not infinite
Rule #28941: When someone cracks a joke say "ha-ha-ha" out loud.
I think its important to note that this release does not work on Windows 7 x64. Link to known issues: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=30325

Otherwise, working great so far on Windows XP for me.
...he believed the payment was for allowing the site exclusive access to review the phone.

The attorney keeps stressing this like it's the cornerstone of their defense. Are they trying to say that he was paid for access to review, not in exchange for the (stolen) iPhone itself?
For anyone pondering upgrading their existing Linode to Lucid, we published an article in the Linode Library that explains a couple of thing you need to do for it to work.

http://library.linode.com/troubleshooting/upgrade-ubuntu-10....
Verizon Wireless is Being Like Verizon Wireless, Again
Shizzow: What I would have done differently
Gruber is fantastic when he's not in "scandal" mode.

The site quality degrades significantly, however, when he latches onto a "scandal", whether it be about stolen iphones or illegitimate wi-fi security claims.

With his recent ad nauseum stolen phone coverage, DF has felt more like an overwrought Entertainment Tonight scandal episode.

I've found the best Gruber reading algorithm is:

if (post < 2 paragraphs) { worth bookmarking } else { mark as read }
What browser are you using? I've tested it on Safari/OSX and Chrome/Windows, and it was perfectly fast and responsive, even on a three-year-old budget laptop.
all the health indexes (maternal death, infant mortality, etc) are very high

That statement seems to contradict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip#Health ; can you cite any published data justifying your claims?
OK, same question under Firefox. When do you launch the Javascript console? Could you give a brief example? Thanks!
Why Apple Doesn't Do Concept Products:

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/
>IANAL but this seems like a big "well, duh" concept to me. What if Chen had knifed the iPhone thief in an alley, rather than paying him $5,000? Would the shield laws be relevant then?

Yes, the way the law is written (which is how it usually has to be interpreted). They're not to protect Chen. The people whom he's talked to STILL need protection if he happens to be a suspect in a stabbing.

If the legislature of California wants to FIX the law, then by all means do so. But the law as written doesn't have that feature.

Exceptions USUALLY are only granted to make criminal based laws more lenient, not usually less.
Surface is just mocked up? That's going to come as a big surprise to the many establishments that have them installed and are using them.
A sticky point is the value of the phone. If he sold it for $5000, then he stole $5000. If he didn't sell it, but was paid $5000 by Gizmodo to not tell anyone else about it, then the value of the phone is in question. If the value of the phone is less than $400 (and if you add up the cost of each component, and take into account that it was remotely bricked, that is easy to argue), then there is no particularly severe crime involved. A slap on the wrist, at worst. If it's $5000, though, then jail time could become involved.

This defense is also good for Gizmodo. It's not illegal to pay someone $5000 to not talk about something to the media. It's the basis for pretty much every employment contract in existence.

Like most high-profile cases, this is not particularly clear-cut. He didn't walk into Apple headquarters, gun down a few guards under the watchful eye of a security camera, take the iPhone, and sell it to the highest bidder. That would be clear-cut "grand theft" (not to mention, murder). Instead, he found it lying around in a bar, asked everyone in the bar if it was theirs, was told no, the excitement and curiosity went to his head, and he ended up with $5000 for letting Gizmodo take some pictures of the thing. A crime? Maybe. But not obviously.

(There is a lot of hate for this guy, but think about it. If you found a cool electronic gadget laying around in a bar, wouldn't you play with it? And when you found out it was a fucking top-secret prototype of one of the most secretive companies in existence, wouldn't you be a little excited? And when you're excited, do you always make the best decisions? If not, you don't belong on HN.

Sure, the guy is a sleaze-bag for pocketing the five grand. But Apple is a sleaze-bag for paying slave children build the phones in the first place. Two wrongs don't make a right, of course, but it is helpful to treat both parties with the same scrutiny; at least when we are using words like "sleaze-bag".)
This is ridiculous (and I think you agree, right?) I doubt that many jurors will find this convicing. People that possess stolen property have no right to sell access to the stolen good.
I'm just curious what sites people visit that flash is constantly crashing for them? I visit a fair amount of flash video content sites on a daily basis and I get a flash crash maybe once every two months? Firefox on Vista, latest versions.
I didn't want to link to the homepage of ubuntu.com but still wanted to let you know, that ubuntu 10.4 LTS has been released.

Is this the year of Linux on the desktop? :D
If you didn't have GSEs in the market, interest rates on mortgages would have been higher. That is the role they played, but it was quite small on a relative scale.
Is it a clone of Quix? Right?? http://quixapp.com/
Steve Jobs on Flash: Astoundingly Hypocritical
Most of this feedback is technical; can someone comment on whether they would use this or some future iteration of this project?
I don't think you understand what 'control the conversation' means...
Shame the $5000 he made will now be eaten up in attorney fees
You seriously, truly believe a person belongs in prison for selling something he found? I don't understand the blood lust some people around here have for this guy or gizmodo. Say what you will about ethics, this is certainly no reason to put a person in prison. What a bizarre perspective you have.
As far as I know, we are still interested in hearing from people who believe they have interesting pilot projects that could strongly benefit from our our tools. Magnus Christerson would be the one to talk to about that. Generally speaking: "not free". :)
I would argue that it was even sooner that that. The Steve has probably hated Flash for a long, long time.
The only thing I'd do differently here is put the comments and author links as <link rel/> tags as well. No reason not to standardize the representation of links. Optionally you could list inline the entire contents of the sub-resources. Doc types should allow composition in this way and it allows you as a designer to reduce unnecessary traffic and latency.
When I see headlines like this I think "So, long euro."