skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it's a bad idea, it's not, but if you're doing it by email anyway, then you can just hang up, fire up the camera app, record your 'message', and email/MMS it to the recipient. In fact, you can do that today, without iOS 4, or even an iPhone 4 (with some dexterity).
jcrew does this. Make an appointment in store and let them get to know your style over time.

http://www.jcrew.com/AST/FooterNavigation/personalshopper.js...
this looks to me like one of those security things that can only work because it isn't used widely. Won't a carrot defeat this? If adoption becomes widespread, the trick will be known and therefore useless.
it appears pat now did an additional ninja edit and added scott g's project back in. i'm glad someone got that screen shot online forcing pat to give scott credit for the amazing work he did.

i implore anyone who is going to respond to this thread to do a trivial amount of research into the two code bases. i think if you actually look at the facts in play here, you'll see just how ridiculous this whole situation is.

on a bit of a tangent, you should know i didn't sockpuppet any accounts on any websites / forums / whatever. i have literally nothing that i would want to say about you or this situation that would require a fake account. everyone who has been posting is 100% real and unique, you should think about that for a minute.
And you are no longer there.
I've hated Microsoft as much as the next guy - but I hope they pull it together. Or more like throw it out.

They have the organization and the discipline to do it, but there's too much in Windows as it exists today to fit on current mobile devices effectively. (I could be wrong about that reason, but I'm sure its bloat doesn't help)
This article has a great set of examples.

I have a phone that is many years old. I have gone to web sites for U.S. carriers to try to find a replacement, and I often leave the entire site without finding a single worthwhile offering. If I didn't know better, I'd guess that they were trying not to sell any of their products.

Even if I forget the phones, and just look at the plans, all I see is overpriced garbage. While I could afford $99/month, I see no reason to pay that to keep a stupid phone working; $30/month is more than enough.

Not that you actually pay whatever they say. Here is a list of additional fees, verbatim, from my last bill:

- "Federal - Univ Serv Assess Non-LD" $1.15
- "State - Univ Serv Assessment" $0.80
- "State - Margin Fee Reimbursement" $0.34
- "Regulatory Charge" $0.40
- "Administrative Charge" $0.99.

In other words, $3.68 per month, or $44 more per year, of absolute crap that is not in the advertised cost of service. And that's not even counting things like charging for incoming text messages (which they do).

I couldn't agree with this article more; the wireless industry has lost its mind, and it needs to be fixed.
That's the thing, though, it really depends. $9.99 is a good price for a display adapter, a pretty spendy price for a wine key, and an absoludicrous price for a crappy Japanese hand fan. Among iPad apps, $9.99 is top-shelf.
It's completely doable, as Eucalyptus shows on the iPhone. There's absolutely no excuse for not doing proper typesetting, other than they simply don't notice the lack of it.

I expect that of Sony, but I'm surprised that Apple of all companies don't have people that really care about these details on the team.
I don't think I understand what you mean... Do you mean swapping the roles via inverting the sense of "giver of something of value" and "provider of service"? As in:

"I provide Google the service of access to my personal data, and they give me use of Gmail as a payment, therefore Google is my customer."

"I provide my vendor the service of access to currency, and they give me a product as a payment, therefore my vendor is my customer."

That seems like a stretch, so I must be missing something.
It's not just the trade unions. Here's a quote from a similar story in the Washington Post:

"Users complain that high-efficiency toilets, which use less water than traditional models, require two flushes to do the job. Behind such objections stands this truth: America remains a flush-oriented society, and the more powerful the flush, the better. "It was a morale issue," Anja S. Caldwell, green building chief for the Montgomery County public school system, said of initial resistance to the 50 waterless urinals introduced over the past year. "People thought that by taking the flush away, you're taking an entitlement."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06...
Apple, Give Us a "Freedom of Choice" Button
Especially because adding an "eid" has to be the stupidest way of manipulating a vote ever.

Don't the votes get sent up with an ID? Why could you possibly need an extra field? Just program the server to do "stuff" to the ID you care about.

And did anyone try send up votes with varying EID fields for other candidates?
I will admit it would be nice to have a single list of "release notes" but there are like 30 various projects and some 20+ million lines of code getting released all at once. Keep track of all of that at once, let alone at detail fine enough to be useful would be difficult.

As a result they have been doing a "blogathon" where various community members are posting whats new, etc. On the main page of eclipse.org I clicked on blogathon.

On the page that comes up (http://eclipse.org/helios/blogathon/reviews.php):
Eclipse Helios: What’s New in JDT
Top 10 Eclipse Helios Features
Let’s See What’s New in Eclipse 3.6
Git Support, Top Eclipse Helios Feature #2
New and noteworthy in Helios (Eclipse 3.6)
etc, etc etc.

Just have to pick some and read them.
Please do. I don't know why people keep reposting my benchmark, its terrible and really only applied to what I'm doing with Comet. Memory, etc, isn't the biggest factor for us.
Blocked by James Moore?
I'm with Apple all the way here. If Mike got what he wanted, I'd have a much poorer user experience. There's no way I'm ploughing through a book set in some godawful sans. Apple's way allows me to choose the fonts I want in a book.

"Serif, ew!!" tells me everything I need to know about not letting designers like this control my eBooks.
GLEaMviz Simulator goes public (What has been keeping me busy for the last year)
To get where the author of this memo got (CEO of a publicly traded corporation), work essentially has to be your life. I mean, your #1 priority, ahead of friends, family, fun, and everything else. I have never seen an example of such a person at the helm of a large, multinational corporation, who does not, generally, appear to fit that description. This memo illustrates the total disconnect between that sort of person, and the other 97% of us for whom work ranks a distant 5th-10th on life's list of priorities.

So, in some sense, it's understandable. Inexcusable, but I at least get the place from where this sort of vitriol is coming from. He really thinks he can get people to care as much as he does. In some ways it's amazing that he made it so far while remaining so deluded.
It reminds me of the Times poll where moot won.

And guys, please don't feel bad if Zach loses for some absurdity. Remember that this contest is being rigged on 4chan's side too. There are tons of people using macros and I've even seen messages like "now that Zach is winning, let's DDoS the site."

Not that I don't find that fun, but don't hold your breath.
Those are very valid and true criticisms for current command lines and the way they interface to the larger computing environment on which they live (and you didn't even go into all of the problems you could have). But I want to point out the attack has a limited scope in an important way, command lines that have been built in the past, with roots that go quite far back for most of them.

Just as it isn't a full and knock-down criticism of GUI's to point out that people have done them badly, this attack doesn't go to the core idea of command lines, "type what you want to have happen." The available metaphors can and should be made more in line with how people think of what computers can do.
It’s there so you can inspect your poo. Kinda useless, though, and annoying. There is obviously no good reason for it to exist (anymore?) and I think it’s very much dying out. My parent’s house has one (out of four, built twenty years ago), if I should ever build a house or fit out my own bath room I most definitely won’t get one :)
Absolutely. Steam's model is great, and the ability to install a fresh new computer, whack on steam and have my whole game library available is a huge incentive for me to keep buying games this way. When I could recently install Steam on my Mac as well, and find games I already owned available cross-platform, well, it's icing on the cake.

Charging for re-downloads is just greedy, and smacks of the bad old Norton Antivirus days. The first time they pulled that on me, I decided I'd never buy one of their products again, and I didn't.
If I was CEO of Posterous
1. Please allow comments on your blog other than having to login with Facebook or Google

2. Please handle multi-lines in comments properly
Earlier and more scary take on the same idea by Swedes - http://www.femdefence.info/index2.html
I could see this being appealing; offering books as HTML5 'apps' behind a paywall. You could exploit local storage to cache them on various devices.
Scientists Crack Chemical Code that Controls Bacterial Swarms
As my soccer friend explained things to me. After playing regulation time and extra time, your body just can't take it anymore. Adding additional time until somebody scores would be futile in his opinion.
Yah, it will only work the first time, after that attackers will simply check first.

This is also likely to enrage the attacker to the point where he kills his victim.

And walking around with plastic all day is likely to cause infections.
You can get that for free if you go to a good clothing store at a slow time of day.
It’s just that fair is not necessarily the same as good. The nerve wrecking, random and unfair nature of penalty shootouts is very much part of soccer.

This is not to say that every sport should have some sort of very arbitrary and unfair mechanism. I quite like tennis, it’s just to say that not everyone might think that fair is always a synonym for good.
The version in Snow Crash was better: it delivered a injection of total anesthesia, allowing safe escape for the victim and apprehension of the offender.

This risks getting the victim killed. It also may find its largest audience not among women freely choosing it for self-defense, but traditional fathers in some cultures forcing it on their daughters -- the same men who sometimes 'honor kill' their daughters or nieces who've had premarital sex, whether that sex was consensual or rape.
User interfaces can't take all of the blame, because there's only so much they can do - people have to want to learn as well. What other complex tool would you expect to pick up and use without any training?
The slideshow on the front page could be much more effective. With the speed of the transitions and smallness of everything in the pictures, I feel I didn't get a good representation of what the product does. I think it might be helpful to have a short product description (more than 'making work easier' - very ambiguous) in a large font above or below the slideshow.
Surely Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are the winners as the masters of the style. I saw them at a Usenix convention 20 years or so after the picture in the posting. Their beard were much fuller and much grayer, beer bellies of remarkable proportions and wearing shorts and Hawaiian shirts.

(Now, was that where I got my Digital Equipment eye-shades with the flashing lights. Think so.)
I'm curious to know, what do you think will happen to the safe harbor provision of the DMCA? Do you think they are at risk for being amended to more conservative terms? Or is there a growing tide within the legal community to preserve its current state due to the proliferation of online media?

It seems (recently) the line has been drawn on what is considered "direct financial benefit", with the verdicts going against LimeWire and for Google.
This lawsuit actually goes much further than just Google: if the judge had decided that the way YouTube was going about DMCA takedowns was incorrect, any website/service provider would have to moderate user submitted content before allowing it on the site since there was precedent in the interpretation of that law.
I saw some Pecha Kucha talks a month or two ago, and got the feeling that the extra length, as compared to the Ignite format, didn't help.

It seemed odd that an extra 1 minute and 40 seconds would make any difference, but Ignite talks seems to have more pep, perhaps because the slides advance 5 seconds faster.

But both formats are hard to do well. Too many presentations end up being a list of items matched to Flickr images and Helvetica-rendered slogans or quips.
AVC.com should do this. His new redesign lends itself perfectly to this type of implementation.
Congratulations and way to go YouTube!

Here is a video (with a cute girl) of some typical YouTube music pirates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh1nU7SeYg0
You tell us this story without saying why they invited you :-)?
Except Isner is not a low ranked player. He's no 23 in the world. Granted, his biggest weapon is his huge serve and this is his main advantage. I don't think all of the top players are as versatile as you propose. Even "versatile" players fall back to their strengths when they go through these five set marathon matches. Look no further than the 2008 Wimbeldon final where Nadal battled Federer for almost 5 hours and eeked out the fifth set 9-7. At the time, commentators were claiming this to be the greatest tennis match ever.
The problem now is that IE8 is going to be the new IE6. Failing to ship IE9 on XP is a huge blow to HTML5 and means all these cool things are going to be a long time coming to those of us who have to cater to as many users as possible.
Interesting. I always had a hard time squaring Dave Patterson's "grad students are the coin of the realm" comment with my friends' experiences in other disciplines, which were a lot more along the lines of what went on with this Carreira jerk.

My impression regarding this divide is that major discoveries in math, physics, CS etc. tend to be the result of very original, creative thinking--ah-ha! moments--and that is not the sort of thing that can be stimulated by simply doubling the amount of time you spend working. Whereas big papers in chem and bio appear to result, in large part, from a tremendous amount of trial-and-error gruntwork spent on the bench. Certainly, somebody's inspiration (the PI's) is driving the overall research program, but you need a huge amount of manual labor to bring it to fruition. Whereas, in the theory fields, you can just sort of stare off into space until it comes to you.

My experience is definitely on the theory side, so I would love to hear what the other sides's thoughts are...
corollary: if everyone complains your prices are too high, find a new market
Arq: Amazon S3 Backups Made Easy for Mac
http://www.bounceapp.com
No. Pretend otherwise if you want by saying 'well what if it is this kind of work' but consistently working more than 40 hours per week is counter-productive. Every study shows this.

And there's no need to put in obscene hours, or expect it. As it's counter-productive... See where this is going...
I watched a Midwife trying to enter my partners test results into what I believe was a CERNER system at my local hospital. It was painful. The UI is text based, looks pre windows 3.1 and breaks all the basic rules of UI design. Evidently, they also had more serious technical issues under the hood: http://bit.ly/4vLPtE http://bit.ly/9NQKi8
It took them months to sort this out and wasted a huge amount of the medical staff's time. I personally experienced the problems with appointments disappearing. Also, the nurses were having to print out test requests and give them to patients to take to appointments with instructions about what they information they needed to bring back because they couldn't make the requests through the system or access the results of the tests they had requested.

In short, I don't think the success of this company is based on the quality of its software or the timeliness of its delivery. Maybe this is always a problem where the end users are not the customer. The company that builds the system is chosen based on tenders from a few suppliers. As a consumer of a system like this it's hard to identify what you are actually buying. The purchasing of such a system will be managed by a senior executive who will have little experience of the pitfalls of the system in use before they are contractually committed to paying out significant sums of money. There is no market connection between the quality of the software and the end users. I suspect that companies make money in these markets by gaming the bidding process and milking every loophole in the contract to add extra time and cost, not by actually producing a better quality product than their competitors. It's not just a public sector purchasing problem either. Just look at any large construction project, these are also typically be late and over budget. Is there some kind of 'complexity threshold' at which point the market is not driving the quality or cost of the product because you are not sure what you are buying and for how much?
It's quite simple -- you can choose not to buy an iPhone.
Widgetbox in SF is hiring a solid Java Back-end engineer:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/1804056878.html

Contact either the address on CL or mine in my profile and I'll forward your resume along.
FSB is just KGB with a smiley face :)
This form-factor/resolution is in the range that I'm not sure I'd ever use it over my phone. I'm really waiting for something like the Notion Ink is supposed to be - especially with the Pixel Qi screen (if that turns out to be as good as they claim, anyway).

The price is decent, but not as impressively amazing as the blog / title makes it sound like. It's about in line with a the similarly spec'ed phones if you assume it's probably a little bit cheaper to build bigger.
What was also interesting and (probably more relevant to HN) were the scoreboard failures. The on-court scoreboard stopped at 47-47 and had to be shut down. The MatchTracker on the official website reset at 50-50 and at the end displayed 9-9 instead of 59-59. I wonder how many other online scoreboards failed and how many were equal to the task.

Those edge cases that you never expect to occur sometimes do occur. On the online scoreboard, you would think that they should have at least successfully gone to 99-99 (after that, they'd run out of physical space on the flash UI). But I suspect that for whatever reason, somebody set a hard limit at 50. I'd be curious to see if they fix it by tomorrow when play resumes.
Tumblr does have a business model, or at least the start of one: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium
Eucalyptus does not look particularly great to me. Is it using a custom algorithm?
I write off Gruber precisely because he's so hyper-politicized that there's no need to actually read him and because he's so tragically wrong about so many things that really matter. That he disallows comments on his blog just happens to fit with the rest of his M.O. Good job mischaracterizing my post though.

I'd be a lot more impressed with the rest of the HN Apple mafia if they'd stop modding down anything critical of Apple and take the time to post some reasoned, articulate rebuttals.
iPhone 4 loses signal if held
EBay Acquires RedLaser
CM has Eclair builds that perform quite well.
This headline is begging for the old joke:

Man goes to a doctor. Says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." (Holds up arm as he explains.)

Doctor responds, "Simple cure: Don't do that."
Profitable sweet spot for startups
"Like all of the graphics in IE9, canvas is hardware accelerated through Windows and the GPU. Hardware accelerated canvas support in IE9 illustrates the power of native HTML5 in a browser." [1]

They have a demo linked on that page where I get 1 fps when I run in it chrome. Their screenshot of IE9 running the demo shows 60 fps. I suppose hardware can make a difference, but thats its a really impressive.

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/06/23/html5-native-t...
Drupal: Create Advanced ddblock Tutorial
It is, yes, even down to adding typographer's quotes where the original lacks them (another iBooks oversight).

It's not as good at H&J as you would be doing it by hand, but I've yet to see a river anything like those that snake through iBooks pages.
The Oblique Strategies
TV Sets every 2-3 years? Are you serious?
Mobile Phones I'll give you in the 1-2 year range -- but normal people are not upgrading their TV every 3 years.
That doesn't change the fact that Apple is ignoring the published standard.

If that's what they want to do, then they should call it a proprietary format and let people choose whether they want to use it, not have their cake and eat it too.
I'm not going to buy this thing but I don't get why people are so upset over the price. They can charge $100 if they want, you are owed nothing.

And they'll sell a bunch at $10 anyways.
Awesome news! I'm shocked...
Cross-platform support for cool canvas apps! Maybe this will encourage more canvas development!
I’m reasonably sure that this wasn’t submitted so you can critique the font choice. The font has not a damn thing to do with the fluid layout – I think? You could use freaking Verdana!
How do you deal with sans in a web browser? Custom stylesheets? Why not allow custom stylesheets in your ebook reader? Better yet, why have this separate ebook reader at all and put the books in the browser (potentially with extended UI elements and support like PDFs) where they belong.

If I buy a book, I want to get the book how the publisher, editor, author, and designer intended. It is wrong for Apple to intentionally change the display of the book from the design that was intended. If you want to override the styling in your books, fine, but this shouldn't be mandated.
So that's why iPhone 4 failed at WWDC. Steve was holding it.

Simple explanations are always the best. Now, time to sell my 3GS.
That is one ugly mascot.
2 colors... Are you kidding me? Are more than 2 colors really too complex for our small brains? This app is lazy passed off as "simple".
Safari use Quicktime to playback H.264 on OS X all the time. If Microsoft is halfhearted they could have used WMPlayer control for all <video> and <audio> tags.
> Most people don't want to spend $700 on a mobile phone

Until quite recently, Apple hasn't been in the "most people want" business. Their marketshare has been going up, but I'm not convinced that they've totally changed direction from high-end.

The carrier locking has always struck me as a bit of a detour. If you look at Jobs statements circa the original iPhone he's clearly aiming at crushing the subsidized market. They've experienced a setback since then, but I don't think they're defeated.

The real story here is that all this time, we thought the renegotiations surrounding VOIP were about getting Skype et al in the app store. In reality, they probably really slipped terms in to allow Apple to do VOIP calling (even if it's only over WiFi, I doubt they were allowed to under the old noncompete clause...)

Suddenly, AT&T's rapid reversal on iPad pricing makes sense. AT&T must have gotten wind of FaceTime.
Someone's Paypal account must be looking stuffed this morning... congrats guys!

There is a bit more detail here:

http://occipital.com/blog/2010/06/23/2010-at-occipital/
Guys like this win @ life. By doing this kind of shit.

It's likely that, no matter what else he does with his life, this memo will always be the one thing he's most well known for, and just about everyone who reads it will judge him for writing it.

That just doesn't sound like "winning" to me.