skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the linked article: "If you’re developing software for the Windows platform, yes [you are a sharecropper]. Or for the Apple platform"
I just bought an iPad 3G last night for my in-laws for this exact purpose. They frequently spend time in their cabin which does not have an active internet connection. $15->$30 for the occasion when they needed the internet seemed like a fantastic solution for them.

I never imagined the pricing would change so drastically merely a month after the iPad 3G began shipping. At least in the US, you can't even order the 3G version and hope to have it in time to get the deal advertised on Apple's site anymore (estimated delivery is 7 to 10 days).

If nothing else this seems like a huge breach of trust between Apple and their customers, even if it is AT&T's fault.
Amen. My startup's too dependent on a single platform right now, and we're being burnt by it.

What platforms are for is speedy cash. The access you'll get to large numbers of people is a great help. Just keep your efforts cheap and dirty and put the money in your pocket as soon as you get it.
Ventrilo's popularity is a priori evidence of how fucking dumb gamers are.
If I had read this a year ago (which I think I did, but not going to waste time looking it up) it might have been interesting, but now this is really a non-story since Digg has been pretty much stagnant for a while now.
Seems like he's supporting idiots who don't think things through. Why not approve this app and warn him he's getting awfully desktop-ish?
I didn't think it was that hard to understand. Do you get what I'm saying now?
I don't think you can fix it. You take risks all along the continuum - if you are standalone you have more control but you need to get user buy in. If you go to a busy popular platform then you risk falling into the sinking sands caused by someone elses control.

in both cases people will fail from things out with their control - its just easier to point at if its someone else changing the rules. (and easier to grumble about)

edit: like the guy above says - you need to tailor your risk. On someone else's platform - look for quick rewards and work on the basis its only a matter of time until it goes away
Here's the original: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/page-images/26184-image...
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Mindshare is The foundation. Apple squanders it. Google gets this part right.
Have you tried going to an Apple store and just asking for the non-3G iPad + refund of the difference?

If enough people do that, Apple will need to respond to this.
I largely agree with the thesis, but can't seem to get my head around marketing on the open Internet without being tied body and soul to the Google platform.
Let me put it like this. If the market where predictable we would live in a very different world.

So the proof is in the pudding. No one predicts markets unless they somehow control them.
I share my excitement about what I'm working on with my close group of friends. I give them free gear (shirts) when possible, behind the scenes access as in stories about what I'm doing and seeing what I need to do. I ask them for favors and get them involved. They get as excited as I am and there you have the beginnings of word of mouth.
Stuck. I've obviously found the email it is referencing, but none of my answers seem to work.
Yes, true; I expressed myself wrongly in the above comment.

I hope somebody finds a publisher in Europe. I did a fast search, and it looks like there aren't a lot (or any) services like MagCloud here in Europe.

At least I got some hopeful bits from the MagCloud FAQ:

The MagCloud team is working hard on expanding to other European and Asia Pacific countries

Let's hope that working hard means they'll start to ship to other European countries in the next few weeks ;)
Send them a different email than the one that everyone else gets to send them in the wrong direction.
Fact: if you provide no documentation and use hand-wavy terms like "some non-US companies," your speculation can sound much more like factual information.
Where are the six sigma standards for this people? This post clearly isn't up to code.
I've always gotten what you've been saying. You seem to be completely incapable of getting what I'm saying. And I'm certain you have to ability to get what I'm saying, but I think you just really, really don't want to. Or you're trolling. Not really sure at this point.
After some brief digging, it appears there has been some published research on location diversity in path selection in Tor since I last worked on that problem. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~ed... has some good results, if anyone is interested.
Stop spreading FUD. iPhone devs would not have licensing issues. How about I point you to a number of frameworks that iPhone developers ship with today and have been shipping with since near day one.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_iPhone_SDK
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-objectivec-client/
http://github.com/facebook/three20
http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/
http://code.google.com/p/oolongengine/
http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-iphone/
> AT&T said that 98% of its customers will save money by switching to these plans.

When trying to overcome debt, many financial advisors recommend paying off the smallest debt first, even if it has relatively lower interest than other debts. This is because the psychological win of paying off an entire debt quickly has a much bigger impact upon the ability of people to stick with their payments, rather than the mathematically better path of paying down a higher-interest debt first.

So yes, people may be saving money. But that doesn't mean that it's necessarily better. I'd rather pay an extra $5/mo or whatever for the peace of mind.

> And, AT&T doesn't have the capacity to handle many people who would exceed these limits.

As a consumer, I don't care what AT&T has the capacity to do. They're supposed to figure out how to serve me and give me what I want. It's obviously possible, as they were doing it before, and other companies still have unlimited bandwidth plans. Innovate or die. But I guess I'm expecting too much out of the telecom industry...
PLEASE REFRAIN FROM COMMENT POSTING
unless your post has been approved by committee and submitted in triplicate, color coded forms.
See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sdl/archive/2010/05/13/visual-c-2010... and the articles it links to for Microsoft's approach to the same problem. I think Microsoft's approach is nicer because the annotations are inline with the C/C++ program text.
I use about 100 to 150 megs a month on my iPhone. My wife uses half that. This is going to save us $30 a month, so I'm happy about it.
I'm at 1.1GB sent, 5.6GB received since I got it around the same time. I attribute much of this to emailing photos to my flickr and tumblr accounts, as well as attaching images to tweets with twitpic
Yes, I'm not suggesting that the iPad isn't an unlocked device. Just pointing out that there is "effective" lock-in in terms of high speed data service.
Seven was where I got stuck as well.
I was on the same boat - I didn't see any added value nor did I think people would give him permission to reprint. After reading the PDF though I stand corrected on both. Great job putting the material in a very readable format. I was actually fun reading through each article again, even though I think I had read most of them online.

It makes me think that the limitations of printed material, both the delay and content limits (# of pages) is really not a big deal when it comes to the stuff we enjoy here on HN. In fact, it really was nice to only have a small number of articles in front of me so I didn't get distracted with all the noise.

Lastly, I thought not having comments would be huge... but I didn't think about that once as I was reading the PDF. I guess the context of how you consume something defines what you expect.
I think the 2GB isn't so bad if they charged half the original price instead of only $4 less. If it cost $15 for 2GB/month this may not be as big a deal.

This does look to me like bait and switch. People should not stand for this and show their displeasure by keeping their money in their pockets.
VMKit "Runs any Java and .Net applications on MacOSX and Unix-based systems."
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Then perhaps they shouldn't have used that word.
Just because there are rogue firms doesn't mean we should lower our standards ... especially on a site like Hacker News which emphasizes quality of the submissions.

However, I agree that this is complaining on a high level.
jrockway, how do you distinguish careless reading of the article from reading the comments? I did read the article! Are you being careless with inferences, or intentionally attributing bad behavior on me with no evidence?
Some sort of AT&T's policy. To enable tethering, it used to be a single MobilConfig installation until Apple required them to be signed on 3.1.2, presumably to enforce AT&T's policy, which also result in tethering being unusable outside any "Apple-certified carriers" even in the unlocked countries.
As someone who grew up in DFW, this is a great resource. The area was a tech hotbed for a while and seems to have cooled off lately.

I worked at the Infomart throughout highschool for a small ISP (Psybernet? I think?) and it was a great experience.

Dallas needs more startups.
This seems like as good a place as any to ask this: Can only some people down vote? B/c I have seen posts with negative scores and as I am only allowed to up vote, I have wondered how someone gets a negative score next to a comment?
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Yeah, I forgot to mention organic SEO (it's almost always the first thing you can do).

>> twitter, facebook, flickr, youtube, this kind of services

> Do you find that that actually gets results?

Yes, if the tech industry isn't the only industry :) . I mean, it's not always about web applications, like this time I have to advertise a series of books (not mine).

Till, there is a company that centralizes this process (like a product recommendation service/device in every ones homes; like a Google TV with Google Tv Ad :P), we'll have to do things like this manually.

EDIT: If you're pretty much always responding on twitter/other service about the bugs on your OSS project, then it might be considered a bit of customer satisfaction, I guess.
Only once one gets over a certain karma threshold can they downvote.
How about a SWF -> JS Compiler for added performance?
As someone who recently discovered HN as an alternative to digg/reddit I am thankful as well.

Things I love:
1) People downvote trolling and negative/witty comments
2) The interface gets out of your way
3) It updates constantly
4) The content is exactly what I'm looking for... and exactly what I couldn't find anywhere else
5) People are genuinely here to help. I am eagerly anticipating launching my startup so I can post an "Ask HN: Review my launch" here!

Ok I wanted it to be 'three things I like' but it turned into 5 :) Thanks to Paul and the community!
In what way am I bullying you? Relentlessly or otherwise?
I don't think these types of stories are scaring off anybody since we've been reading about App Store rejections for the last two years and it seems that companies and developers continue to want to make apps for iPad/iPod/iPhone.

It sounds to me like these developers didn't read the app store guidelines. Don't make apps that do what Apple devices can already do natively. They made an app that was too much like a desktop and got rejected. That seems entirely reasonable.
IPad-ify your video site with 1 line of Javascript
Add just 1 line of JS to your site containing Flash videos.
Panda will extract all the videos, convert them to be streamed on the iPad.
(using Apple’s Segmented HTTP Streaming format)
Your old Flash videos will be automatically replaced.
Apple's thesis is that supply-side economics don't work. Get a ton of buyers in one place, and the supply will work itself out.

We'll see how it ends up.
According to the FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

> Why don't I see down arrows?

> There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
Users with points 200+ can downvote.
While we are complaining about AT&T, has anyone else noticed that if you use an unlimited plan, AT&T refuses to let you track usage?

So even if you wanted to switch to a lower plan you can't b/c you have no idea how much voice/data/texts you are using.
Indeed. How can they advertise "unlimited" when it clearly is not? How have telcos not been sued for this bs?
clue is in the colours and image name.
There are lots of complaints about how Android version incompatibilities makes it a pain for developers. The iPhone is a joy to program for, but the app store policy sucks. Android is a bitch to program for, but the app story policy is great.

I'd say they're about neck and neck.
When you participate enough with quality articles and comments (measured with upvotes) you get a higher karma and at some point this will grant you the ability to downvote.

I am mostly passively participating here (although I see myself commenting and submitting a bit more now) so I didn't reach such a karma yet...
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How is Clipper doing these days? COBOL is making a resurgence as people realise it works!
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Chrome is aiming for something close to the iPad niche, I think. An always-connected instant-on fundamentally simple internet appliance. Something that hides the local machine, makes it merely a terminal.
You are correct. When you reach a certain karma level, you gain the ability to downvote comments to a threshold.
Agreed.

Plus, it's something they use themselves and is crucial to their project management process. Their clients are encouraged to communicate tasks with the engineers through the Tracker.

It's a utility (for us and them). I'm not concerned.
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i'll answer this, although this probably isn't a good place to have asked.

HN is filled with karma-based features. one of those is down-voting. you're not given access to down-voting comments until you reach a certain level of karma yourself.

if you've contributed enough to the community to reach a certain karma score, then you are trusted with more features.

see: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I guess Mars doesn't need women...
Yeah, but they need to make votes non permanent. It's a crapshoot if you'll hit the up or down arrow on a mobile device or iPad when you try to rate stuff.
also, think of the old calculator tricks where you spell with numbers
I don't think there's any SWF to compile - the idea is to replace Flash using WebM content and a great HTML player instead, not (like the other project posted today) a replacement that uses the existing content with a great HTML player.
Heh, similar, except it wasn't voluntary. The man had balls.
I think the puzzle demonstrates they are idots, and the fact they are idiots is why they use ASP.

http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/step1.aspx
obvious ?
http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/step2.aspx
looking at the source it uses: Assets/Images/step3.png
Change that to Assets/Images/step2.png
stepthree.asp
http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/stepthree.aspx
hey it's Morse code !!! ...

This has next to nothing to do with being a developer. But it's easy to create and far harder to solve so hey why not...
Yeah, and http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
Actually I had no problem going in to see how much data I was using. Macrumors has a post on it if you're having trouble: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/02/checking-atandt-iphone-d...
How I sped up my server by 6x (with 1 linux cmd)
Greed vs. Privacy, aka, Van Valin and Mertz vs. Google
I'm in pretty much the same boat as the author for most of the points he makes. Reminds me of Finding Nemo (my kids love that movie) "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
Not where I work. We have approved devices and insanely secure wi-fi that, even when you are connected, has surf-block implemented. Which is why I bought an iPad with an unlimited plan.
I've really been impressed with previous editions of their magazine. If you want a little more info before checking the link, here are the table of contents:

* Agile Microsoft
* Why ASP.NET MVC?
* The Mikado Method
* When Did That Happen?
* Better Tools and Training
* The Indispensable Developer

Plus: Up Front, Choice Bits, The Working Geek, Swaine’s World, The Quiz, Calendar, Shady Illuminations
> Ah, you might be setting yourself up for a fall there :)

No, I'm not. Give your example.

> Python doesn't even begin to match it's abilities in this arena.

Sure it does. Give your example. To quote your (useless) link: "TODO an example and discussion of 'high-level' self-modifying code such as in LISP."
From the article: “I thought people would say, ‘That’s cool,’ but they didn’t. They said, ‘Wow, you’re an idiot.'"

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that ...
> So, a defendant could claim "At the time you caught me downloading it, an authorized representative of the copyright holder was publishing the content on BitTorrent".

They could be publishing data, but you'd have to prove that they weren't just uploading bogus data into the stream. BitTorrent hashes all of the chunks it downloads, but that doesn't prevent someone from constantly uploading bogus data that is only rejected once you've downloaded it. [IIRC, there are clients that will blacklist peers that consistently send corrupt chunks though.] They could just claim that they were uploading random data, and you would have to have some way to refute that (which you wouldn't unless you keep an audit trail of all peers you connect to over BitTorrent).
Well I agree, bad service in key markets like SF and NYC is just disgraceful.
I've actually been working on a Scheme to Python bridge, but it's currently very primitive and exists mainly to allow embedding the Python interpreter in PLT Scheme.

http://github.com/jasonbaker/pyscheme
>Dallas needs more startups.

Going to do my best to help that.
The fact is, people -- real people -- are beginning to tire.

Maybe. But that doesn't automatically mean that everyone is going to give up on all social sites, or that people will stop going to Digg just because it wants your actions. It means we, the tired, will focus on sites that are useful and comfortable.

I used to love Digg, and could love it again. It's the inane community that made me tire of it, not the clicking.
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OP says "your browser will crash frequently". Most of the replies (including yours) to my question only points to crash logs that cant be reproduced .Your answer is a very generic explanation on software development.

And that is exactly what i am saying. I keep seeing all these people complaining about Flash , but no one has a proof that actually works.

As i mentioned before, Flash is a complete resource hog on the mac but no one here has a solid reproducible proof for "frequent crashes".

I choose not to believe in Apple's claims and numbers, as they are in open war with Adobe now on the issue. Opening up Flash on iPad and iPhone is lost business for app store(if you own an iPad/iPhone, you already know that currently there is no decent html5 application that work properly on these devices.)
Merlin Experiences the Magic of iPad
Hint on the calculator words one? I think I solved them all but it won't let me past.
This may seem like an oversimplification but like the article says all web apps are built on browsers and all browsers are built on an OS and all OSes are built on hardware, all hardware is built on a chip set etc, etc, etc, till you get down to the fact that all of it runs on electricity.

It seems like it's turtles all the way down.
I agree completely, I'm working on a startup that is in 'stealth' right now not by choice but just because we haven't launched yet :) We've held off from posting screenshots until we have something that people can click on, but at that point our jackets will be completely open and all secrets revealed.

It's scary, but honestly... it will take people 2x as long to implement anything and once they do, you need the confidence that you can do it better.

There are alot of great articles on 'first mover' advantage and that being the 'first' to do something isn't important. It's doing it right!
Likewise interested, particularly if PyPy can support multicore concurrency.
This seems to me like a confirmation that video chatting will be a big part of the new iPhone.
The riddle was given in a certain way. The answer is expected in the same manner.
Tabbed browsing should remember my history
How many times does this happen to you? You read a couple of articles from HN, opening interesting-looking links in background tabs. Then you read through the tabs, and run across one that looks interesting, but you don't remember clicking on it and want to know how you got there.

We have a feature for browsing hypertext, it's called the "back button." But it doesn't work with opening links in new tabs. Can someone explain why? The browser knows how I got to this page, and the complete history before that. Why does it deliberately forget?

Anyone know of a Chrome extension that does this, or the chances of getting it in as a serious feature request?
I can see why they are permanent; it makes your votes feel like they mean something. But please, can we at least get an allotted number of "vote revokes" per week or something? I agree, it's too easy to misclick on an arrow on a touchscreen, and there's nothing that can be done.
Agreed. If anybody has some good ideas/links about this, please share.
You haven't had problems but how much of that is because a developer, like this one, put the effort into making sure you haven't had problem?

OpenGL itself exists to offer platform independence.
1. I did.
2. There is a life outside US. =)
3. Try to google 'Tibetan medicine bon tradition' or something like that.

btw, The root (or the trunk) of Tibetan tree of the causes of diseases is ignorance.
I posted this on your blog but it seems that you are checking this more regularly so I'll post it here:

The reason people (myself included) click Pricing is because they want to know what they’re getting themselves into before starting a free trial. I suspect that if you added the pricing clearly on the homepage, the # of clicks on your ‘free trial’ button would increase and pricing would decrease dramatically.

This is covered in the book ‘Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion’ where the author describes a man refusing a flower from a little girl because he’s “on to her game.” The idea being that people have become conditioned NOT to accept free things without understanding the ramifications of signing up – “What if I like it? What happens then? Do I have to pay $600?”

I have noticed this affecting my signups for web apps lately. For example, ZenDesk looks great but the 30 day trial won’t help my company in its infancy. I would love to use a ‘free single user’ version and would gladly pay eventually, but I click pricing and see that after my 30 day trial expires, I’m stuck paying much more than I’m comfortable with. So I haven’t signed up yet. Again, GetSatisfaction is similar. I would like to use their service but before clicking ‘Signup’ I click Pricing to see what I’m getting myself into. What happens if I get hooked? Am I going to be out $200/month?

This is the question I asked myself with your software and your pricing is reasonable. I will definitely sign up when my company launches our product.