skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just that my mother raised me with the idea that you catch more flies with sugar. But, I don't think it's terribly reasonable to mail the CEO of a company with the tone they used, even if the product in question is defective. I think most people would not have expected a positive outpouring of help if they sent emails like that.

Jobs respectfully told him to shut up and, in not so many words, return the phone if he doesn't like it. Seems like a more than appropriate response.
What is your point? From your post, I'm going to assume you live in the US. If so, you should know that your broadband access is the result of heavy government regulation.
Is there data out there that most people (in the US) are getting Android phones because they don't want to switch to AT&T (for reasons other than price)?
Are there not cases where some event points out serious issues with the current laws or conditions, where prompt action is required?

I'm much less concerned with laws passed in haste than I am with laws passed for eternity. All laws should have a sunset clause, something very cumbersome to override, so that two years or so down the line, if there's no longer a strong case for a law, it goes off the books.

Having to constantly work to keep existing laws on the books would make it harder to add new laws as well. (The downside is you know this would lead to lawyers trying to craft new laws that combined multiple existing laws, using impenetrable language, leading to the point where we have just one law: "Sorry, whatever it is you're doing is illegal.")
http://refactormycode.com
I find it unbelievable that they would have a screen size minimum as opposed to a resolution minimum. Sort of casts doubt on the whole article, from my perspective.
I disagree. There are already many, many places to search for code and sites where code fragments are organized in that fashion. Here, each code submitter is making a claim that their submission is an example of beautiful code. User voting is an efficient way to vet those claims a bit.

UseTheSource strikes me as filling what is currently a void: How to be introduced to cool code and listen to people discuss it.
Girls waving large fans.
Can you make there be a way to expand the content while staying on the same page?
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Birthday! the most auspicious day in everyone's life. Birthdays are never complete until you've said 'Happy Birthday' to the birthday girl or boy! Its a nice feeling when you know that someone likes you,
Drive some initial traffic with these sites, in descending order of effectiveness:

http://feedmyapp.com

http://killerstartups.com

http://listio.com

http://saasdir.com

http://appuseful.com

http://netwebapp.com

http://getapp.com

The top two are the most effective by a long shot, but the others will get you some visits. Best of all, these tend to drive useful traffic, not garbage. All are free, but you need to have a legit site (which you do).
This is what I posted as a comment there. I have no idea whether or not it will be approved, so I'm putting it here as well.

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A key part of your opinion seems to be that "Art seeks to lead you to an inevitable conclusion, not a smorgasbord of choices."

However the most famous piece of artwork in the world is the Mona Lisa. The most distinctive feature of that painting is that it can be experienced in two very different ways. In one she is is happy, but not in the other. This is exactly the opposite of an "inevitable conclusion."

So this characterization of what art must do fails even when it comes to the most static of all possible media. The Mona Lisa has been sitting absolutely still for centuries. Yet only sometimes does she smile.
Opera is not open sourcing their engine as it doesn't fit in with their business model (they earn revenue by licensing their engine to companies like Adobe).
However, where ever possible Opera encourages open standards and openness. They have been amongst the strongest supporters of Ogg Theora and now WebM. Their DragonFly developers tool is open source.
Opera's Ogg Theora video player is based on open source gstreamer.
http://sourcecode.opera.com/gstreamer/

Also notable is Opera's opposition to software patents and their contribution to the W3C and WHATWG.
> the Geneva Convention. ... the US is signatory to it.

There are several "Geneva Conventions". The US has signed some of them.

In general, the Geneva conventions only apply when both parties are signatories. Since the Taliban and such orgs aren't signatories ....
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Personally, having my boss say thank you doesn't mean much to me. That's not because I don't want appreciation for my work, but because praise carries a more significant meaning when it comes from someone who you hold in high-enough regard.

For me, high-enough regard can mean someone whose work I know of and can appreciate on its merit, or it can mean someone who used my software by choice.

For example, if my boss' actions don't show that he's interested in my happiness at work and he thanks me for making his pet project happen, it means nothing to me. But, if a customer, or someone whose work I admire, tells me they like the software I created, they've just made my day.
I don't know that it makes such a big difference, but I'm trying to figure out what's going on in Ebert's brain. (Personally, I disagree with his thesis.)
There are twits of all ages.
Seems like formalizing a constitution would be a good place to start...

Finding out which laws violate your rights is pretty difficult if you don't have one.
I feel quite differently: after removing HTC Sense from my 9 month old Hero, I find myself liking the simpler-looking stock UI a lot more.
Well it's not as if Steve is being very helpful. But I agree Tom was being quite rash.
Anandtech had an interesting article where they showed both the 3GS and 4g having problems based on how you hold it. With the 4g's worst case being better than the 3GS's worst case, however the loss was more dramatic so the perception is worse even though the device is significantly improved.

Edit2: here it is: http://buzz.amaltas.org/story/anandtech-iphone4-gets-better-...
Well... the No 10 Petitions were very effective for the previous government in providing an conduit for rage which could be neatly ignored.

Except for that one about Alan Turing.
FWIW, i-mate was never a phone manufacturer, it just resold phones made by others. For most of its existence, the company sold HTC phones under licence in some of the territories where HTC did not have a brand presence. This ended once HTC started selling phones under its own brand.

And a minor nitpick, but Symbian was limited to Nokia's smart phone range, their low-to-mid-end phones run either Series 30 or Series 40 which are far more basic yet far more responsive software platforms that are not based on Symbian, unlike Series 60. To be honest, I've never been impressed with Nokia's smart phones, as I've found their implementation of Symbian to be slow and buggy with a clumsy UI. This is in sharp contrast to their S30 and S40 phones, which quite justifiably have a reputation for performance and no-nonsense ease of use.
During the last 2 weeks I was there, some high-level management guy came from Europe. He would gathered everybody to a room to do some sort of All-Hands meeting. In this meeting, he would announce some organization structure "roadmap". I find it strange; instead of talking about the products, this roadmap discussed the company's plan to expand to China and India (DING DING DING!). Of course the guy would immediately told us all that "there won't be any lay-off". But you get the idea...

That's how I imagine the Windows department at Microsoft when Vista and Windows Mobile 6 was in development
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Excellent! Thanks for the links I will definitely submit my site... hopefully other people will find them useful too :)
he who controls the browser controls the browsing of the internet
Rails is not about having less number of lines of code. well said.
That isn't actually what the author claims. Lots of other animals masturbate, and the author admits that monkeys are certainly prone to it. What he claims makes humans unusual is the we masturbate to orgasm.

Incidentally you chose fairly poor examples for animal homosexuality. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals for a list of other examples you could use. For instance I prefer to cite giraffes (9 out of 10 sexual encounters are homosexual) and black swans (1/4 preferentially homosexual).
Steve Jobs, “Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone.”
I never really considered myself a hardcore gamer. About 4.5 years ago, my co-workers game me a 10 trial on WoW. I played it obsessively for 3 years, but never to the point of end-game raiding, because I never wanted to commit to actually making arrangements to play a video game.

I quit for the Summer as a well-received birthday gift to my wife, and then started up again in the Winter, when it's much less convenient to do something outdoorsy in the evening.

Before WoW, I spent alot of time being social on the internet, maintained 2 blogs, wrote a bunch of plugins for various blogging platforms. This I don't really miss. I do miss reading in the evenings, but after interacting with text all day, it is very difficult to read for more than an hour in the evening.

Now I play a few evenings a week for a couple of hours. I generally spend my days intensively developing software, so I don't feel like I am being unproductive gaming in the evenings. In May, I, with the rest of my regional office, was let go, and I decided to learn iOS development and am developing an app for the iPad during "normal working hours."
My advice: Don't even mention the $.10 minimum. Your sell is only possibly "try paid apps for free." Paying nothing is better than paying out $.10 - it cheapens your service.

And this would be so much better if you could avoid cash transactions in the first place, and somehow just allow free app downloads.
Okay - here's a conspiracy theory for you.

The iPhone is no longer an immediately recognizable status symbol. It used to be that you could spot an Apple faithful from a mile away. But now, that guy may be holding a Droid or a Palm or a Blackberry or whatever. It's hard to say.

Apple obviously knew about the antenna issue. A couple days after the iPhone is released Jobs issues the strange suggestion "avoid holding it in that way". And boom - you can once again instantly recognize a thoroughbred iPhone user by his or her distinct grip on their phone. Phone away from face, fingers off the antenna. Either that or the blazing pastel band that is practically required unless you want to keep a stack of replacement glass on hand.

Apple has mastered social marketing.
Yeah, while they haven’t specifically laid out what they’re going to open-source, Marc said in that thread that it’ll be released under an Apache license and that accepting bank passwords is a security concern, so presumably they’re going to release the auto-updating code.

My app is called Iron Money: https://ironmoney.com/.
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Is it a mac application? Or cross platform? Web? Mobile?

Email replies? Email replies to what?

How does it integrate with Gmail?

It's probably better to present this as a story.
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I did not get it - is this a desktop or webapp?
I hear where you're coming from, in my teens I competed in FPS leagues and travelled to meatspace tourneys and had a riot doing so. To continue enjoying the competition aspect I had to conciously cultivate a mentality of responsible gaming similar to one of responsible drinking. IE, don't do it alone (physically, online is alone), don't do it to excess, and don't let it be the center of your life. Now when I'm feeling competitive I have friends over for a Rock Band/Halo/GoW night, or plan a LAN party for some oldschool FPS action. Also for quick and dirty LAN action on a whim, grab some buddies and take over a net cafe. You could be doing the same at home but it's the social aspect that helps keep it balanced.

I guess the short answer is, like djhworld says, budget your time. Fun and work are both important, make time for each and enjoy!
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Very possibly it has - there is no way to know the answer to this kind of what-if, because you either have one or you have the other, you can't let the two alternatives compete with each other over the same time scale and then measure the outcomes. Very similar to the question of whether software patents help or hurt software innovation. There has been innovation in engineering with the PE system in place, and there has been innovation in software with the patent system in place, but there is no way to know if there would have been more or less over the same time period without those controls.
Except it only tells you their carrier and general location. Kind of useful I guess, though I wouldn't say 'finally.'
How have NASA's Mars robots lasted 24 times longer than expected (so far)?
Microsoft to kill off Kin messaging phones
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After some 8 arduous years of dicking around with the horribly broken Symbian/S60, Nokia finally realized in 2008 that their software process sucks and is fundamentally unable to deliver a competitive mobile app platform. Their solution was to purchase a smaller, nimbler company with a ready product, and let the subsidiary produce the user-visible framework more or less independently of the suffocating Nokia structure.

After two years, they've finally shipped the first SDK which targets existing devices with the new framework. It's actually pretty nice: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt

However, these transitions simply take a long time. Apple purchased NeXT in late 1996, and the first usable Mac OS X release appeared almost five years later.

Nokia has split their "OS X moment" into two separate operating systems: Symbian^4 and MeeGo. But neither is ready yet. Meanwhile Nokia investors are getting very antsy: over the past decade, Nokia's stock has lost over 80% of its value, or something like $200 billion in market cap... If the Qt transition stumbles, heads will roll in Espoo.
Doesn't provide anything more than a google search does.
But this way you get to decide which rights you think you should have, without being bound by what someone thought 200 years ago.
"Rash"?

This writing style may be considered "rash" when it's coming from a 5yr old.

Reading that from a (supposed?) adult made me feel embarrassed for my species.
Not as scary as if the Tsar Bomb was detonated in space above North America. It would wipe out the entire power grid of the continent.
It told me my name, carrier, and location - but the location was of my "rate center". I haven't changed my phone number since moving to northern California, so someone using this service to find me would think I'm in La Jolla.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/02/gentle-...

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Britain, of course, is famous for its unwritten constitution - a phrase which strikes the worm-gnawed American brain as oxymoronic. In fact, unwritten constitution is a tautology. It is our written constitution - or large-C Constitution - which is a concept comical, impossible, and fundamentally fraudulent. Please allow me to explain.

England had a constitution well before America had a Constitution, and De Quincey (whose political journalism is remarkably underrated) defines the concept succinctly:

...the equilibrium of forces in a political system, as recognised and fixed by distinct political acts...

In other words, a government's constitution (small c) is its actual structure of power. The constitution is the process by which the government formulates its decisions. When we ask why government G made decision D1 to take action A1, or decision D2 not to take action A2, we inquire as to its constitution.
"""
They wouldn't get Google's apps if they did that. No Gmail, Maps, Navigation and more importantly, they would be locked out of the Market. I think it's fair to say that Google is working with it's partners and want to keep them around.
Not ssh.

*Dr Evil pinky smile*
I assumed it was about some well known designer or technical writer whom I hadn't heard of.
I had mixed results, my number only showed the carrier, but my wife's showed her name.
Hmmm, seems like the appropriate role model to take from this may be "mass production". Perhaps that is the right and proper end game for any craft. But I tend to think that computers can't take all our jobs in this society, because once computers are fully capable of programming themselves our society will cease to exist in its present form.
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Usually the system catches when I submit a dup and counts my submission as an upvote. Didn't happen this time.
I'd pay for an iPhone app that automatically did this when I receive a call.
Application developers need official releases. A few people using an unofficial upgrade doesn't help the platform.

Here are the versions developers are going to need to support by the end of 2010: 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, and 3.0.
some rules of art taken from an Art Appreciation class last semester:

1) Art is what the artist says it is. If the artist (developers/designers/game team/whatever) decides it's art, who could claim otherwise and qualify their statements.

2) Art is what the patron says it is. If a user says it's art, then, at least to some person it is now art.

Now for my opinion:
When it comes to fringe cases of "art," it's still art if the creator says so. However, as is the case with modern art, art is an expression. And when artist reproduces somebody else's expression, I loose respect for that work. Like Jackson Pullock's spray paintings, when people do the same thing, I'm like, "Really? Wow, you are great at expressing yourself like Jackson Pullock!"

As for video games, as a whole, it depends. But aspects of video games like level design, UX, UI, they are definitely art forms. Especially when done well.
A million times yes. I am convinced many of the issues with systems everywhere in America could be fixed by less frivolous litigation.
Huh... I don't know whether I should tell you about the rest of the internet.
Hype is just marketing. The actual device is really nice. Just because the reality isn't quite at the level of "revolution", is it really necessary to discount the platform in its entirety?

I had a friend who refused to get an iPod. They were then stricken with using stuff by Creative, which were plagued with hardware issues. Getting them serviced was a chore that took months at a time without the player. They still refused to get an iPod. Even if the iPod was as problematic (in my experience it wouldn't be) she would have gotten replacements so easily by going into the Apple store.
An unlisted landline number with Verizon returned full name, carrier, and cost center location within 10 miles.

A Sprint cell number gave correct name, carrier, and city as well.

Trying a Google Voice number, though, gives only an unrelated cost center and "Level 3" as the provider.

Pretty impressive, overall. Now I can finally figure out all my phone contacts with completely useless names!
While perhaps not inspiring of "entrepreneurial productivity" my favorite/most inspiring movie has to be...

Rocky!
I guess it's not as explanatory as I intended.

It's three things:
* A cross platform desktop app
* Gmail plugin
* iPhone app

If you create a task for someone not using the system, it'll send them an email instead. Any replies to that email will get turned into comments in Taskforce.

I think you're right about representing it as a story, perhaps a life cycle of a particular task.
I find it really annoying that the iPhone doesn't tell you what area code an incoming call is from, but it does show you on the missed call page.
Why? Is evolutionary psychology not HN material? If it had been an almost identical article but about a topic other than masturbation (grooming, social rituals, etc), would that have made it more HN worthy? Why or why not?
I like the idea. Too bad they aren't running it in my area. I reusable tote would save a lot of boxes.
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I have a somewhat related idea. For every law now on the books, and every individual paragraph of those laws, I'd like a site where citizens and politicians, under their true names, can log their support or opposition to that clause.

Obsolete clauses, and those that exist only for the narrow interest of just one or a few campaign donors, should then stick out like sore thumbs -- with either no one supporting them, or only obvious stooges (eg paid lobbyists). Those without a certain baseline of continuing support would automatically expire after a certain period. (Clauses wouldn't individually require majority support -- just some support so that some true person is accountable for explaining why such handouts exist/persist.)

The same process could also be applied to bills under consideration.
They seem reluctant to give cases away, which is a bizarre move, imho. A few thousand or tens of thousands of cases would sweep this ongoing PR bleed under the rug, simple-dimple. That is, until the lawyers get into it. Then it gets legs of its own, can go on for eons, and there is the very real possibility of a document subpoena revealing some mention of the possibility of the problem by an engineer which can be spun up into punitive fines.
I don't think this works nearly as well as the 37s version for a couple of reasons. The biggest one is that Taskforce isn't as inherently visual as Draft is, so you're going to have to work harder to make it visually interesting. There are a bunch of others, though: the Draft page shows Draft in context: pictured on an iPad rendering. That helps to explain what it is. The Draft images are scaled down and at a more normal aspect ratio. Yours are full size and cut off at an awkward aspect ratio to save space. They look really really wide. The Draft page includes a line at the top that says what it is and where to get it in two lines. You don't have either of those.

I think the idea has promise (and I really like the Draft page), but there are things that need to be changed for this to work. Add a tagline at the top that says what Taskforce is, what platforms it runs on, and where to get it. People should know there's a beta before they get all the way down the page. Scale the screenshots down, and move them to a more normal 16:10 or 4:3 aspect ratio. Also consider focusing in for some of the screenshots rather than putting the whole thing there: the 'drag and drop to share' screenshot, for example, doesn't focus nearly enough on the dragging and dropping and that gets lost. 37s had an easy time in this respect because their app is very very simple visually, and is a fundamentally visual application. You're going to have to do a bit more work to make your screenshots as interesting. Make sure you have an obvious link back to your site. The 'Taskforce' header at the top isn't very obviously clickable. (And there should be a link back from the bottom of the page, too.)

Also, personalize it a bit. There are two lines that really make the Draft page work, in my opinion:

"See, there it is in Campfire. That took 3 seconds."

"We use it every day. We hope you will too."

The Taskforce page is a lot more formal and a lot more boring. And that makes it a lot less memorable in comparison.